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MG4 EV undergoing engineering testing in Sydney.
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Bloody warm today, got the shorts out! All par for the course of a Tasmanian winter
Somehow the isolation of WA in the electricity market must be overcome. It operates under the WEM (Wholesale Electricity Market; basically WA) while the eastern states Tasmania, ACT and SA are coordinated via the NEM (National Electricity Market). The NEM basically plays roulette to make sure supply = demand. It's hairy due to the variability of renewables to date.
The desired inclusion of WA is obvious and based on geography. That 2 - 3 hr time lag between east and west is going to be important in bolstering peak hour usage in the eastern states and vice versa. Maybe not so much the other way!
Inclusion of WA will take a bucket load of cash.
The abundance of sunlight/ wind in that state, and its obvious potential, is enticing. To date the West Australians have been tardy because they are flush with gas, but they are finally firing up.
Energy is being shipped all around the NEM now. SA to Qld and between are all interlaced over very large distances.Its not just a matter of building transmission lines.
There are losses associated with distance, and you end up with greenhouse emissions associated with simply maintaining a link.
A link with New Zealand is nearly as viable as a link with W.A.
A DC link can be done with less losses, but you can't tap into it along the way.
Energy is being shipped all around the NEM now. SA to Qld and between are all interlaced over very large distances.
Electric cars that are useful still aren't affordable for most people, who can barely even manage their weekly grocery shop any more.Sometimes I find it hard to reconcile the fact we're on a planet in the middle of a mass extinction crisis where lots of places will become unliveable in the next 50 years, with the fact that for the most part we're still doing * all about it and if even the slightest change is proposed that inconveniences people just a little bit, people are absolutely up in arms.
Changing to electric cars? Not on my watch m8 I'd rather die than give up me V8.
Humans are a weird lot.
Feel like anyone bringing kids into the world these days is handing them a massive s**t sandwich.
One of the best moves the Federal government made is agreeing to let public servants work from home if they want (and it's applicable). Less cars on the road. All state governments need to do the same thing, for non public facing staff and **** the whingers who complain it'll wreck inner cities. The best car on the road, is no car on the road. Taking out both it's emissions and any in it's construction and the extra roads/road maintenance each one adds (Ie. EV's are MUCH better, but still contribute).Electric cars that are useful still aren't affordable for most people, who can barely even manage their weekly grocery shop any more.
If we really wanted to treat this as a crisis, we would just ban stuff - like private jets, yachts, cigarettes, soft drinks, North Melbourne. Completely unnecessary crap that has a large global footprint.
V8 cars have never been less popular, and the world's climate situation has never been worse.
Weird place to focus on.
Electric cars that are useful still aren't affordable for most people, who can barely even manage their weekly grocery shop any more.
If we really wanted to treat this as a crisis, we would just ban stuff - like private jets, yachts, cigarettes, soft drinks, North Melbourne. Completely unnecessary crap that has a large global footprint.
There's other stuff we could have done decades ago too, but...
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It's stuffed by human nature. Those in smaller (population) countries like Australia, wonder what's the point of them suffering, when whether we all started driving V8's or decided the agricultural revolution was a bad idea and everyone became hunter-gathers, it's barely going to shift the dial either way. Developing countries populations think why should they have to cut emissions and not get all the benefits of development.Ugh I didn't actually want to talk about electric cars, that was just the most obvious example that came to mind.
And yes, we should just flat out ban stuff. we should have done it 20 years ago but now would be better than never.
There would probably be a massive contraction/disruption in the global economy. But we can't do that because neoliberal capitalism is god and growth must always be unlimited.
The economic costs of not doing things properly will end up in the quadrillions, not to mention the mass extinction, loss of so much that we love about the planet.... But we'd as a species rather than cop that so that some rich campaigners now can keep on getting richer.
It's stuffed by human nature. Those in smaller (population) countries like Australia, wonder what's the point of them suffering, when whether we all started driving V8's or decided the agricultural revolution was a bad idea and everyone became hunter-gathers, it's barely going to shift the dial either way. Developing countries populations think why should they have to cut emissions and not get all the benefits of development.
China is by far the biggest cause of climate change, at more than a quarter of the worlds emissions, more than double the next (US). If they do nothing, we're pissing in the wind. In reality, the best climate change action countries could do, is slapping CO2 tariffs on them until they get their figures down, whether that's 'fair to a developing (ha!) country' or not.