All this talk of coal being the only one that can provide "baseload" power is a lie. Put out by the coal loving RWNJ's in the gov to convince people that we need more coal fired power stations.
Unlike their far right mantra of the market supposedly sorting everything out, they want to fund these coal fired power stations with tax payers money. This is despite energy supply companies (in the market themselves) saying renewables are a much more effective and cheaper way to deliver cheaper and reliable electricity to the grid.
In fact coal fired power stations in Australia are very unreliable and coal is now more expensive than renewable energy. Building a big battery is way faster and cheaper than the years it takes to build a coal fired power station, and by the time it was built renewables would beat it hands down in price, even more than now.
Why has this gov politicised such a simple thing as providing electricity? Commercially coal is on it's last legs and not viable. Renewables are the new way to go to both save the planet and deliver Australia from some of the most expensive electricity prices in the world.
Yet this gov clings to coal for dear life. It's become an ideology to them, against all science, market forces, and just plane logic.
Australia should be switching to renewables as a big new industry here, which would create a huge amount of jobs across the country. Instead we have these Canberra dinosaurs pushing energy policy.
TURNBULL: energy prices are hard— Van Badham (@vanbadham) August 19, 2018
DANIEL ANDREWS: we just cut power bills by $800 a year to 600,000+ Victorian homes, seeya #auspol #springst https://t.co/8TmVa0PQdu
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