Energy costs are rising so fast in Australia, it’s less expensive to dig up rocks, put them on ships, and send them 6,000 kilometers to China to smelt the steel with our own coal, and then ship the widgets right back to us.
Both sides talk a big game about working together for the good of New Zealand, but, when push comes to shove, it’s all about the gotcha moments and protecting their patch.
If a doctor went about breaking the legs of patients on the basis that it might prevent people in other countries from being injured while crossing the road against the lights, it couldn’t be much more stupid. Hippocrates would be rolling in his grave.
To lead in the AI age, America will need more than chips and capital. It needs clearer rules, faster transactions between energy producers and AI developers, and a system that rewards coordination just as much as production.
This article is corruption. I don’t mean local corruption, but irresponsible foreigners with their own agendas, pushing their ‘climate breakdown’ political narrative whilst pretending to care. Shame on you, Guardian, using suffering people for your own ends like this.
Why we must stand up to anti-human activists.
We know what’s at stake: a thriving economy or a return to Labour’s dark ages. The coalition’s got it right – now they just need to see it through.
How New Zealand’s taxpayer-owned refinery was lost to global neoliberalism.
The Steve Miller Band chose to stop taking its Big Jet Airliner to Keep on Rockin’ Me because of global warming.
The scope of AI’s energy demand has significant implications for environmentalists’ dreams of hitting net-zero, especially when you consider the factors at play.
That battery backup cannot make wind and solar powered grids possible is obvious given these incredible numbers. The electric power industry must know this, but their silence is deafening.
Gen Z wants global peace, environmental renewal, low prices, and high-paying jobs. They’ll find all of those rely on a sector they want to “phase out.”
New Zealand has the resources, the workforce, and the engineering talent. What it has lacked is leadership willing to cut through the ideological fog. Now, that leadership has arrived.
Labor’s ideological derangement is crippling its state’s energy grid.
