Tag: Mark Diesendorf - article author
It’ll be impossible to replace fossil fuels with renewables by 2050, unless we cut our energy consumption
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Energy consumption – whether its heating your home, driving, oil refining or liquefying natural gas – is responsible for around 82% of Australia’s greenhouse...
Net zero by 2050 will hit a major timing problem technology can’t solve. We need to talk about cutting consumption
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Many climate activists, scientists, engineers and politicians are trying to reassure us the climate crisis can be solved rapidly without any changes to lifestyle,...
Angus Taylor’s tech roadmap is fundamentally flawed — renewables are doable almost everywhere
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The Morrison government on Tuesday revealed the five low-emissions technologies it will prioritise for investment. The so called “technology roadmap”...
The government’s electricity shortlist rightly features pumped hydro (and wrongly includes coal)
Energy Minister Angus Taylor has six pumped hydro
projects on his list, and most are better taxpayer investments than the
already announced Snowy...