Comment on Australia will fall well short of 82 per cent renewable energy by 2030, analysts predict, as problems mount

sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Moc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unfortunately industrial scale renewable energy is probably many times more efficient than whatever alternative there is.

  People just gotta accept some wind turbines and solar farms.

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  • Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll accept them, I think they look fucking sick as.

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    • Moc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not everyone appreciates a solarpunk aesthetic, but I certainly do as well.

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  • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It depends.

    Up in Canada where I live, we tried that experiment with respect to solar, and it is a failed experiment. You can build a one gigawatt solar farm, and for the most part it's going to be getting a trivial percentage of nameplate capacity basically all the time. Check the ieso and you'll see that fact manifest. Wind does ok, hydroelectric works great, solar doesn't make any sense in places without much sun.