Comment on European countries and Australia top the world for per capita solar and wind generation capacity
Salvo@aussie.zone 4 days ago
We need to have local manufacturing of Solar Panels and Home Batteries.
Not do economic or political reasons; purely for environmental reasons.
The problem is that environmentalism is disrupting manufacturing.
We used to. BPSolar used to manufacture panels in Sydney - I’ve got some of them on my roof. But they closed the plant and moved manufacturing to…
anyone? Moved to…
anyone?
China. Yes, and some of the local ex-BP middle management tried to buy the plant and get manufacturing happening again. Last I heard, they were unsuccessful, but I don’t recall why.
Probably the same reason why the Ammonia Plant in Brisbane closed down (and had to reopen to prevent transport industry from crashing due to the AdBlue shortage).
mtpender@aussie.zone 4 days ago
That’s what the “Future made in Australia” plan is! It’s a plan to turn Australia into the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy and renewable tech (Solar panals, wind turbines, batteries and more)