With India out and emitter number one China playing the world on climate the entire time, it certainly underscores how ridiculously futile painful climate policies in Europe, America, Australia, or Japan continue to be.
Buying into the notion of “extreme event attribution” is a slippery slope leading to quicksand.
The water and energy demand of coming AI data centres in New Zealand is presently getting considerable attention. The supply of cooling water for the centres is actually a distraction because it is just a matter of having suitable locations. […] The real issue is about energy. The already-consented Datagrid
At the end of the day, excuse the pun, it is the consumer who pays for all the mismatches.
We vote for it. And we pay for it. Over and over.
The time has come to stop treating climate policy as a religion and start treating it as every sensible tradesman would treat any major project. With scepticism. With humility. With evidence. And above all else, with a tape measure in hand.
Fantasy speculation is well and good. But then you need real-world evidence to show whether the fantasy speculation is true or false.
This is not the same as the ‘waste’ of having spare gas or coal generators because they are despatchable and wind and solar are not.
Small modular reactors are available now and offer a very constructive way to meet our energy needs. Our energy future is bright. No unreliable wind and solar required.
“It also means we can step up the work we’re doing to explore opportunities to add more storage and generation to this scheme,” Meridian Chief Executive Mike Roan said.
Chris Penk asked for a conversation. The adult answer is to have one.
If we really want to make energy more affordable, perhaps it is time to look at alternatives like nuclear energy.
