New study on renewables should make for 'sombre reading' for Chris Bowen 

A handful of 'lucky' people making a truckload of money on the taxpayers dollar. Unsustainable!

Renewables a way of "shifting" more of taxpayers money ..

As if, he's too stubborn and hell bent on pushing this BS through. There must be a nice little bonus on offer waiting for him.

After over 100 years of continuous failure all around the world, who could have possibly thought that Socialism would also disastrously fail in Australia?

Finally reality has caught up with ideology.

Even if Labor specimens could read...they don't listen 😂

82% Green by 2030??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and they say pigs fly...............

Big wind = Bowen.

A five year old could tell you it’s insane madness. Irresponsible to the max it’s just soo silly!! We will be building new coal and gas power stations in Australia in the mot too distant future FACT!

A friend of mine is a engineer and energy specialist now retired we spent a day together 10 days ago he stated net 0 is a joke unachievable and EV situation is laughable I can see why solar would be a benefit in Australia for home energy but my friend and I definitely think we have gone down the wrong path fortunately for us both we are both in a senior years and will not see the disaster we are heading for another generation will have to deal with it .

We still should be pursuing good clean, very reliable and economical coal power that generate beautiful sine wave power. No the rubbish power the so called renewables generate.

We need nuclear power wind turbines and solar panels are just a eyesore

Can anyone tell me how snowy pumped hydro is going? Election PLEASE. Let's get rid of this 1 term disaster Green-labor.

How much do these solars panels cost us to put on? It’s not value for money. Time they sewed the labour and greens politics pockets down. That way they can’t fill their pockets. The tailors need to charge them heaps for that.

Finally, big money has worked out that a failing economy, will not be able to pay for the promised ROI, for environment destroying wind and solar factories. 🤣🤣🤣

The tough will be refilled by the taxpayer.

Renewables have a high upfront cost and we are moving into higher cost of capital world.

Thailand population 70+ million Power generation capacity in1000 gigawatt hours Natural gas 129.4 Coal 30.43 Imported fuel 32.81 Renewable En 23.18 Hydro 6.59 Diesel 0.88 Fuel oil 0.01 So with a population of 25 million.is Australia going down the renewable track Taxpayer funded??

Can Chris read?

Building costs have gone up a lot

Hope Bowen will eat more beans to give us more wind when needed 😂

Money talks BS walks.

Pushing a disposable economy/society doesn't affect billionaires one bit, your the zero their looking for. Wake up to the BS..!

Are government going to add to the shortfall from taxes?

Big wind big disaster. Folly of gas bags.

There is no emergency. Its a fairy tale

No problem, they will just use taxpayer funds.

I live in Texas: In 2022, Texas produced the equivalent of 31% of the electricity it consumes from solar, wind and geothermal power. Dr. Taylor Collins is an energy economics researcher at the University of Incarnate Word, and the chair of the Economics & Management department. He says the process to get renewable energy across Texas isn’t flawless. “There’s occasional bottlenecks where we don’t really have the transmission lines to distribute from West Texas through the entirety of the state as reliably as we need to through some of the peak energy hours,” Collins said. Solar energy has become efficient, bringing down the cost per kilowatt hour. But when it’s not sunny, solar’s reliability gets shaky. “At least in the short term, the biggest problem with the renewable approach is that the battery storage isn’t there to support it,” Collins said. Batteries and the aging electrical grid are huge roadblocks right now.

Sombre or sober? There is a difference.

Do they think they will still be in power after the next election

Can Chris Bowen read? I was told he is illiterate.

Australia ...always a dollar short and a day late.I was warning people about this months ago exactly the same thing has happened in the UK and USA .The writing is on the wall

Clueless Chris is at it again.

Investment in wind power in UK has also dried up, up, and solar in UK during October to March is all but invisible ( HINT, lawns in UK stop growing in October and start again in March ). The windfarm owners claim they are making no money, and want much higher prices for their intermittent electricity situated a long way from the main grid in isolated places, making it expensive to get power actually into the grid anyway. I am fed up of hearing from greenies how cheap wind power is, maybe the wind is cheap but the the infrastructure to tap into the weak and unreliable energy stream is very expensive.

Remember nearly 5, 6 years ago on radio saying don't go down this track. As Germany had done same thing before us and it had failed miserably. Did the politicians listen.

Banal Bowen

"Big Wind" is a good way to describe the labor government

Aluminium smelters who are Australia’s largest user of electricity will launch a tender soon for wind and solar generated electricity. The majority owner is saying nuclear is out of the question because it is too slow and too expensive. The majority owner has sold their coal operations and closed their uranium mine in the Northern Territory. If hard-nosed resource companies are not supporting nuclear power - Toxic Ted and Plutonium Pete have a significant marketing problem.

Wait a minute..........HE CAN READ??!!

Problems relate to the variability of frequency of wind will corrupt the grid . A free for all on turbines could result in a very reduced supplies. Batteries that stabilise will cost £30 trillion .

Steve, Here in Central QLD We are Somehow, Building the Rudd Solar Power Station, Minimum 2500 Square Kilometres on Mined Out Coal Land. Steve Price this is Urgently Needed, Somehow ?.

My, my, my. Thats why socialism is a massive, dangerous whit elephant. But lets not let the coalition off the hook. Net zero policies are fools gold. The job is there if you want it mr Dutton.

Albo and Bowen is driving Australia off the cliff thinking to go green you need all you tax money to do it not market forces or choices.

Meanwhile, in California, where we have been putting up wind turbines since the 1980s, wind is supplying 5.8% of the electrical capacity in the grid. Grid Capacity: 37,445 MW, wind supplying 2200 MW.

Wow ABC insiders have a different opinion but that’s nothing to worry about 😂

Can you imagine the amount of unplanned days off people would get if 82% "renewables" energy was reached? That's until all the businesses folded and then the work/ life balance would be a lovely 100% life. Just no money to live it.

2030 .Brownouts Blackouts. load sharing and loss of major industry in Australia, unless we wake up before then and either build coal fired power stations or nuclear.

Renewables up to 39.4% of energy up 10% in a single year. Impressive.

I'm walking my battery daily, just to drop my power bill. It's stupid. The costs of battery should be far above grid power.

What is wrong with Sky News Australia, surely they must know Chris Bowen can't read!

Hot tip, start investing in candles. Mint option for future wealth, it time to corner the market.

Ideology over common sense always fails.

Follow the money

It's never been about the cost, its about the idealology, look at me look what I did when I was in politics narcissism 101

The only renewables that make any kind of sense are hydro, pumped hydro and possibly tidal hydro. Geo thermal has potential if there’s places with suitable geology near enough to population centres to make it affordable and practical.

WE ARE DOOMED WITH ALBOZZZZZZZZZO & BONEHEAD BOWHEN DOING THIS SHYT..

Say no to renewables

South australia has shown it can be done. The road to any major change is never smooth

Eliminate emissions from govt and this would solve all problems.

What going to happen when all the windmill and solar panels come to end of life, Bowen will have a big rubbish dump across Australia because they are not recyclables

Why is Bowen still in the job, worse still why is Albo still in the job???

Bowen is an ideologue so he doesn't need to read anything.

A compact high output power supply is the best Oh wait we already have them

Note aside :- The refining of quartz sand into solar panel grade silicon metal inevitable releases half again carbon dioxide by weight than the metal achieved. The laws of chemical reaction are a confounded nuisance. Also, some 95% of solar panels come from China, so, even though the sand refining takes place in electric arc furnaces, the electricity is probably coal-based. It is this combination, plus all the diesel-powered transport costs, that leads many people to reflect that it takes some 20 years for a solar panel to repay its "carbon-dioxide debt".

Wind has a low energy density and wind power is centuries out of date. Wind farms only exist due to massive taxpayer funded subsidies. They make no economic sense. They are a colossal waste of taxpayers money and resources (including coal and oil). Solar panels are only economical as a supplement in sunny areas between the 35th parallels. Even in favourable areas there is a major mismatch between peak supply and peak demand. Inclement weather can render them useless for prolonged periods. We should withdraw from the Paris Accord, repeal the renewable energy targets legislation and use the most economical energy, transportation and agricultural resources available. Nuclear power plants should be legalised. India tested the atomic bomb and had nuclear power plants in the early 1970s. Luddites are ruling the roost in this country and making it a laughing stock.

Interesting fact; most of Alice Springs and Tennant Creeks electricity, comes from Diesel and Gas generators! Get an EV in the red centre, and charge it at night, and you're buring much more Diesel, than if you were running a V8 Diesel vehicle! 🤣🤣🤣

Umm has anyone told blackout Bowen that on a good day in summer the sun only powers the solar panels from 8am till roughly 7pm , then do they have enough battery backup (like hills full of them) to power Australia, wind turbines alone wont be enough and what about cloudy days and winter, yes bad call Bowen and Albo (AKA Elmer Fudd) is even worse

Sombre reading? can casanova bowen actually read?

Our kids will pay for all this mal investment for a generation.

If renewables are mean to be cheaper for all of us then why are my electricity bills going up?

"It was a strong year for rooftop solar and utility scale storage in 2023, and overall figures for capacity added are up on 2022, though there has been a significant slowdown in new financial commitments to large- scale generation."...."A new-record 5.9 GW of renewable capacity was added to the grid in 2023, up from 5 GW in 2022." Clean Energy Council... It's clear that renewable energy will continue to grow and the ordinary Australian shows this when 3.5 million of them have added solar panels on their houses... the highest per capita in the WORLD! Sadly Steve doesn't understand the great majority of Australians have brains. The best solar panels can generate 400+ watts and last 40 years and you just have to put it in front on the only and MASSIVE nuclear reactor that we need, the SUN... and collect an enormous amount of electricity for free! Its a no-brainer!

When the people that came late to the pyramid scheme figure out there aren't enough suckers left to make them rich.

GOING GREEN 💚💚🌱🌱 So many little drops makes an OCEAN or SEA

So, it looks a though Australia is largely continuing its pathetic and irresponsible response to the climate crisis, whilst the rest of the world continues to transition to cleaner energy sources. Australia isn't exactly short of solar energy and has large areas of semi-desert land that could be used for solar farms, but the misinformation from the fossil fuel lobby seems determined to keep Australia using dirty 19th century technology for its energy supply. Per capita carbon emissions have at least begun to fall in Australia, but it still has amongst the highest per capita emissions of large countries in the world 15.0 Tonnes/person/year (along with the USA (14.9) and Canada (14.2)) compared with 8 T/p/y for China, 4.7 T/p/y for UK and 2.0T/p/y for India).

Should we put a halt to building massive Solar Farms? There has not enough research being done on the effects of building these farms. Solar panel farms are giant heat producers. They produce 85% heat and only 15% electricity. The heat which is produced continuously hour after hour cannot be seen because it is above the solar farm and this heat can travel. Scientist refer to it as ‘The Photovoltaic Heat Island Effect: The University of Arizona School of Geography and Development is doing research to determine just how far away from solar power plants the temperature increase reach’s. Scientist believe exposing the large black surface to the sun and the amount of heat they produce could change weather patterns and produce heat waves, increased flooding, severe storms and drought.

Five story tall wind turbines? Well, they’re not going to work if they’re that small.

Bowen won't read it for two reasons: 1. He is not open to scientific reason on renewables 2. If its more than one page Labour politicians don't read it, ask Albosleezy about the Uluru statement. Its the vibe don't you know..

Nyet zero !

old adage, watch out for low flying pigs

I'm voting with my $ and putting up solar panels to harness some of the nuclear energy being discharged by the sun😁. Paying my tax upfront.

Renewables don't renew very much. They will leave us with a severe power shortage.

Have a look at Tesla plants lol they have 4 solar panels and none work they run off the grid.

But can bowan read?

But what about "green " jobs??? Millions of them. For all the jobs lost in aluminum industry

Bowen and Labor are engaged in a war against the true costs of their transition to net zero They are relying on an AEMO Report that quotes a $12 billion figure But this cost does not include the transitioning of the grid upgrades to cope with the electrification they expect to occur This grid expansion will be expensive because of the cost involved due to the unstable nature of renewables ANEMO and Bowen refuse to acknowledge the unstable nature of renewables and the implications for the grid They refuse to acknowledge that Nuclear is only expensive to build but in the long run, it becomes the cheapest for consumers and industry They refuse to include the blowout costs of Snowy Hydro Two and everything else, catering for network transport, the costs of consumer owners' home battery systems feeding into the grid, consumers are buying in huge numbers to avoid energy costs and event-increasing State power blackouts Bowen and Labor are engaged in a deceitful campaign of avoiding the true costs of network integration costs in their campaign against Nuclear and the fact that Australians are paying the world's highest power bills in the world

Labor will tap into the industry superannuation funds for the net zero folly. Don’t be surprised if the “higher” ladder and escalator industry super adverts don’t get shown. 💵🕳

The Russians who are fighting Ukaine came through Chernobyl and many have died from the effects of radiation.

Same chit happening in Canada!

Explain to the people what a Fabian Marxist is.

Well Bowens a dummy & has access to our money !!

AUSTRALIA WILL NOT BE GOING NUCLEAR - FORGET IT !

So one newspaper in the group reports a problem that the other picks up on. Have you seen the latest report on coral bleaching? I’d say that’s far more concerning than anything about renewables to support dinosaur fuels

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