For transmission (at least in NSW) there’s a fair bit of bad blood because transgrid has a history of building unnecessary powerlines. They get paid on their asset base and were building a lot of powerlines that had no use in any reasonable projections, only in bullshit projections from transgrid.
That’s now made it very hard for these projects to be done as there’s a history of the bad projects that’s pretty recent.
I’m not saying that these aren’t necessary now, but it’s no surprise people are opposing them with the history transgrid has.
For example they dumped a proposed Stroud to landsdowne powerline around 2012 after it was shown to be just the trying to increase their regulated asset base
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The ABC has a mandate to deliver “accurate, impartial, and independent news”. It’s a government agency and failing deliver that would likely result in serious consequences for anyone who decided not to publish this content.
ABC is a critical component of the way democracy works in this country. Keeping people informed of progress on mitigating climate change is absolutely critical.
That gets a bit more tricky. Nexa is a research organisation that does research into whatever someone pays them to research. They’re not unbiased - I don’t think they’ve said who funded them for this paper?
Um. No. Obviously not. But they’re a big one.
Again, obviously, there are more.
… yes?
I think the world doesn’t have the capacity to produce batteries in the quantities required even if nobody every uses one in a home, so, no. If anything batteries at home should be heavily discouraged. We need those batteries for electric vehicles, not houses.
Nowhere near quickly enough.