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@GreenTyler27 SA moved faster, yes but high prices aren’t just “renewables.” Gas dependence, coal closure, weak interconnection and market settings matter too. If leadership failed, criticise that, but the causes are broader than “green energy bad.”

South Australia has become the test lab for the fastest transition away from stable baseload generation and households are now paying for the complexity and instability that this hideously expensive transition has created. Consumers don’t just pay for the wind turbine or the solar panel. They pay for the entire balancing system that has to be built behind it. Other states are now getting temporary relief partly because they still retain larger amounts of coal baseload, hydro capacity, or broader generation diversity while adding renewables more slowly. South Australia went hardest and earliest so South Australians became the first people forced to absorb the full cost of the transition experiment. We’ve got the worse leadership in the country in SA.

@lmkifiwin No point banning them then. Make it open slather.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED AT THE ENHANCED GAMES.. Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr. spent millions to create a steroid Olympics. They promised to "redefine human limits" and put up $25M in prize money. After 5 hours in Las Vegas, here’s the scoreboard: - 1 world record (not recognized by anyone) - Thor Björnsson failed his 515kg deadlift (managed only 475kg) - olympic sprinter Fred Kerley missed the 100m WR by 0.4s - without even taking drugs - the only "record" came from a Greek swimmer who finished 5th at Paris 2024. He wore a supersuit banned since 2009 and beat the clean record by just 0.07s the whole pitch was that drugs would shatter the limits of clean sport. instead they proved the gap between juiced and clean is now 7 hundredths of a second - in a suit banned 17 years ago. the only thing they actually proved was how good the clean athletes already are. You think the Enhanced Games exposed anything or just embarrassed themselves?

@anika_climate Cheap generation. Expensive (old) grids, storage, backup and stabilisation.

“Renewables are cheaper.” Then why do countries with the biggest renewable buildouts also have some of the highest electricity prices?

@richardwilson68 Understand what “global” means?

So why isn’t China boiling as it emits more CO2 in a year then UK in 50?

@GreenTyler27 It’s increasingly not the “net zero” crowd driving renewables, it’s the “we want cheap energy” crowd. AI & industry will follow the lowest cost reliable power. The real challenge now is grid engineering, storage and firming, not ideology.

People in the know must look on at what’s happening down here in Australia and laugh quite heartily. The uncomfortable reality for the “100% renewables only” crowd is that AI data centres don’t just need power, they need constant, industrial-scale baseload power with zero tolerance for outages. Modern AI data centres can consume as much electricity as an entire regional city and they need that power 24 hours a day, not just when the weather cooperates. You cannot run an AI future for Australia built on “hopefully the wind blows tomorrow.” Data centres require: - 24/7 reliability - grid stability - cooling capacity - huge continuous energy loads That’s why the net zero narrative is starting to collide with engineering reality. South Australia already has some of the world’s highest renewable penetration, yet households and businesses are still paying enormous power prices because intermittent generation requires expensive firming, storage and grid stabilisation. If Australia wants AI, advanced industry and economic competitiveness, we need serious dispatchable generation again, not slogans, subsidies and wishful thinking.

@Spreebabylon SF6 is a real issue and should absolutely be phased out. (Alternatives exist) But it’s used across the entire electrical grid, not just wind turbines. A rare leak doesn’t compare to the ongoing millions of tonnes of CO2 emitted by coal every year.

Im Video entweicht grad SF₆. Es ist das stärkste bekannte Treibhausgas. Ein Kilogramm SF₆ entspricht in seiner Klimaschädlichkeit etwa 23.000 bis 25.000 Kilogramm CO. Entweicht die gesamte Menge ca. 3 bis 8 kg, entspricht das einem CO-Äquivalent von rund 70 bis 200 Tonnen. Die atmosphärische Halbwertszeit Verweildauer von Schwefelhexafluorid beträgt etwa 3200 Jahre. Warum sind die Links-Grün-Versifften denn hier so verdammt ruhig?

Why the opposition to renewables? You want cheaper energy? They must be part of the mix.

@RebelHQ Scientists absolutely account for the Sun and solar cycles. The problem is recent warming doesn’t track solar output, but it does track greenhouse gases. And seasons come from Earth’s tilt, not changing distance from the Sun.

Over a decade, the Sun’s radius oscillates by up to 2km. This expansion and contraction is driven by the 11-year solar cycle of magnetic activity, where the Sun shrinks when magnetic activity is at its highest (solar maximum) and expands again as it declines. This has far more effect on our temperature than a few cows farting. Strange how scientists who get paid to research 'global warming' never mention the giver of life, when over the course of just one year we 'tilt' enough to turn Britain from a frozen ice shelf to a burning desert, in just 6 months.

@GreenTyler27 I listed gas and coal did I not? Reliable grids need a diversity of sources. Just like your diet, and even your portfolio needs diversity, so do grids.

@jobkeepblog Gas is fine also*

Liddell is gone. It’s extremely hazardous for Australia to replace continuous industrial baseload generation with intermittent generation plus short-duration storage, while expecting an advanced industrial economy to remain globally competitive. Liddell was producing roughly 18,000 MWh of dispatchable energy per day. The replacement battery stores about 1,000 MWh. Who thinks that is appropriate? Now batteries can to help stabilise energy grids but they do not and can not replace continuous industrial baseload power. Australia cannot hope to remain globally competitive on intermittent energy alone.

@GreenTyler27 Reliable grids can use solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, gas, coal, storage and distributed energy together. Why so protective of coal?

@jobkeepblog Candles or coal mate? Let’s keep the coal please.

@JarvisAeneas I’m right wing on most issues, which is why I question massive centralised grids and dependence on a handful of generators. Distributed energy, EVs, rooftop solar and home batteries increase resilience, competition and energy independence.

I’m starting to think that I’m the only right-winger on this platform who believes that climate change is a real phenomenon. Not saying it hasn’t been exaggerated in the media, but I just don’t see how you can wholesale reject it.

@WEschenbach Texas added huge amounts of wind and solar and now often has some of the cheapest wholesale electricity in the US. Retail prices depend on networks, regulation and gas too, but the idea renewables automatically make power expensive just isn’t true.

OK, here's my challenge to climate alarmists. Name one country or state where the adoption of grid-scale renewable energy has led to cheaper electricity for the masses. I'll wait … w. wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/06/why…

@GreenTyler27 AI needs reliable power, not just “baseload” in the old coal era sense. Modern grids use flexible generation, storage, hydro, gas and interconnection. Reliability matters, but inflexible ageing coal isn’t the only way to achieve it.

@jobkeepblog AI needs baseload. We’ve got even more issues coming up.

@Labitajeanmich Yes and at a rate far faster than most natural changes seen in the geological record. That’s the concern.

Les températures de la terre depuis 500 millions d'années, alors les bouffons, ça monte ?

@NicholasKWolf @Richard01357064 But even on price coal is not the cheapest

@Richard01357064 You seem to be under the impression we should only focus on price. Also important is reducing carbon emissions.

⚡️ The energy regulator has already scaled BACK the promised electricity bill cuts for Australians. Why? Because the real costs of the energy transition are colliding with political spin. Queenslanders are told renewables are making power cheaper… …but at the same time: 💥 network costs are rising 💥 daily supply charges keep climbing 💥 billions are being poured into poles, wires & transmission corridors 💥 monopoly operators receive guaranteed returns on spending Meanwhile Queensland’s actual baseload power still overwhelmingly comes from BLACK COAL — and prices ease when generators return online from maintenance and stabilise supply. The libertarian solution is simple: ✅ End subsidies ✅ End political favouritism ✅ Let ALL energy technologies compete fairly If renewables are truly cheapest, they’ll win without handouts. #auspol #PowerPrices #EnergyCrisis #Queensland #Renewables #Coal #CostOfLiving #Libertarian

@Richard01357064 Coal hasn’t been “cheap” for years once outages, maintenance and price spikes are factored in. Wind and solar are the cheapest new generation sources. The challenge is building enough storage and transmission to make the grid reliable as old coal plants retire..

@PaulineHansonOz But you want cheap power don’t you? Cheapest is wind and solar.

Australia had some of the cheapest electricity in the world in the 2000's when Liddell Power Station was in the prime of its life. Today, this government is celebrating literally blowing up Liddell with nothing to replace it and deliver cheap electricity. This madness has to end. This destruction of productive infrastructure is a national shame not something to celebrate. End Net-Zero. Withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Build Coal.

@Blue_Collar_Dog @simonmaechling That it’s fresh simply makes it easier. It’s the temperature that is the reason. Cooling loops heat the water and need more cool water to extract more heat.

@simonmaechling They mean, why are the cooling loops open and not closed? Why do they need constant freshwater?

Data centres don’t “burn” water. They obey the Second Law of Thermodynamics. A high-energy system generates heat. That heat has to go somewhere. Water is simply one of the most efficient ways to move it. And the water itself is not destroyed. It returns to the water cycle.

@simonmaechling Cold water in, hot (warm) water out. Heated water brings about its own environmental issues. Yes, it’s just water, but on a large enough scale and the effects can be severe