Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Climate Realists of Five Dock, JoNova; “… you were being realistic and they didn’t want to hear it. …” – Aussie climate and energy minister Chris Bowen has been accused of ignoring criticism of his green energy fantasies.
From the transcript;
… We can’t make this transition to we absolutely convinced we what we’ve got. The alternative is going to work. There’s going to be at a price point that it won’t kill the economy. At the moment, we’ve got neither of those.
Mark Colvin: you say the idea of getting to 80% renewables by 2030 is complete BS. You say closer to 80 years?
Yeah, well, you’ve got to build these things. You know, transmissionlines.
They say their own reports say you’ll need 82.0 or their equivalents12.1, 2.8, eight, ten years. So get eight. I can do my math. It’s got tobe 80, 70. So you’ll be another generation before anything like.
Anything like.
What they’re talking about occurs.
We know it’s never too late to learn a lesson. What would you say to Chris Bowen if he’s listening this morning?
Oh, take a big good and take.
A big, deep breath. You know, you’re a minister now. You’ve got responsibilities. You’ve got to you’ve got to put it all on the line and you’ve got to be you’ve got you’ve got to be honest to everybody about it. …
Listen to the interview or read the transcript: https://omny.fm/shows/ben-fordham-full-show/it-s-bullshit-former-snowy-2-0-boss-sprays-chris-b#description
WUWT recently reported on the timetable and budget blowouts, but what this reveals is far worse.
Paul Broad, the man who ran the Snowy 2 project from 2013 to 2022, has accused the Australian Government of basing their entire green energy transition plan on fantasies.
Australia’s Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen appears to be the chief fantasist. Bowen has repeatedly revealed his terrifying ignorance of energy matters, like when he told Australians we can store electricity like water.
If Paul Broad is right, and someone who managed a major energy project for 10 years probably knows a few things about electricity and engineering, the future of the Australian electricity grid is in the hands of headstrong and ignorant fools. I believe the Aussie energy grid, or at least the East Coast side of the grid, is now headed for an inevitable crash.
The real world, the laws of physics, the vagaries of renewables, they don’t care about the fantasies of politicians. The trail of economic wreckage, from forced power cutbacks and factory power cuts due to grid shortfalls, has only just begun. Sooner or later, one fossil fuel plant closure too many will bring down the grid.
Resign, walk away, leave politics now before you completely destroy the country.
“Paul Broad, the man who ran the Snowy 2 project from 2013 to 2022”
Wonderful, isn’t it? Just yesterday, this was the Green project that was in all kinds of mess, stuck borer etc. Today the man who got us there is a hero, because he said something WUWT likes.
What happened to Mark Steyn and Jo Nova on submarine volcanoes?
It’s still on her website.
Does that transcript make any sense ? Indicates a politician devoid of any clue.
Sounds like Chris Bowen and the UK’s Chris Stark were cast in the same mould.
I’ve ‘been in the same room’ as Stark, he’s becoming a regular feature of ‘Green Eco Energy’ presentations at the Uni of Leeds and I, as an alumni, get first dibs on tickets to go.
To describe him you need actual experience of people who are actively miles-high on Cocaine – they are so equally full of themselves and full of BS.
They talk rapidly and have what appears to be masses of self-confidence but, because you/anybody cannot ever get a word in edgewise, it is diametrically opposite.
The relentless/unstoppable high-speed flow of verbiage & BS is a shield to protect something that is quite devoid of all it claims to be.
They are empty and fake – it’s entirely obvious that The Drug is doing the talking. But there is only one real drug (Dopamine) and everything we call ‘drugs’ are merely Dopamine Release Agents
After a while those release agents destroy their user, physically and mentally,- (hence BoJo and Brandon) but they always leave a trail of destruction in their wake
Story Tip — I’m sure this will make it to WUWT.
Australia to possibly post its first budget surplus in 15 years == on the back of surging tax revenues from iron ore — coal and gas. Plenty of story links out there.
I’ve posted links here before relating to massive profits by Woodside eta al. As a result, billions of dollars in revenue to the federal government.
You gotta love fossil fuels.!!
……….of course the greens would shut down all FF industries today if they could..
“ We can’t make this transition to we absolutely convinced we what we’ve got.”
Can someone translate that into English?
The modern conception of the historical Green energy alternative requires environmental arbitrage before and after the fact, and to spread a blight near, far, and through blue water.
That said, we should, narrowly, distinguish between Green Blight and distributed Green with hydrocarbon and nuclear backup.
Don’t forget, they haven’t even costed the upgrades to the Transmission Lines that they plan to have completed by 2030. They don’t even know how many kms of transmission lines they need to build:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN7PXJnXntg
This being government, I would be surprised if they had got as far as scoping the work, let alone costing it by 2030. Then, the costs will triple (because government).
To be fair to Chris Bowen, his performance in this portfolio matches his efforts in every other area he’s been responsible for.
In the 2019 election after helping “architect” one of the dumbest changes to the taxation of share income and housing investment Mr Bowen responded to the electorate with “If you don’t like our policies, don’t vote for us”, and the electorate took his advice and rejected him and his party.
He is as dumb as rocks.
When there is a ministry of ‘climate change and energy’ it will be stacked with activists and shills for wind and solar investors, there’s nothing surer.
Bowen Minister for Climate Change and Energy does not know what he is doing, he is driven by his department and those driving his department are pushing Australia into the sunk cost trap where Germany and UK now find themselves.
Nut-zero writ large-
Snowy 2.0 an ‘absolute disaster’: Chris Kenny | Snowy hydro an absolute disaster, says Sky News host Chris Kenny. Watch the full episode at http://www.skynews.com.au/flash | By Sky News Australia | Facebook (workplace.com)
It’s an international competition to see who can be the most stupid ignorant Gretahead.
Climate clown announces more net-zero jobs-
Energy Minister Chris Bowen announces new Net Zero Authority to help transition from coal-fired generation (msn.com)
Here’s some Transition101 pretty flow charts from Wendy the tax Farmer for the prosumers among you-
Voices of the Valley (votv.org.au)
“Sooner or later, one fossil fuel plant closure too many will bring down the grid.”
I suspect what they’ll do to not bring down the grid is keeping raising the price until people drastically cut back their demand for electricity. Send the nation’s use of electricity back a century.
Umm. Is that interview some kind of special language used in Australia?