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Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla
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Re: Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
> perversely enough the subsidy increases the more you earn and the higher your taxes Isn't this because those who are going to buy EVs today (which are premium if not luxury vehicle prices) are those who have more money to do so? There is not yet a widely available entry level priced EV that is broadly popular.
no, its because in a higher tax braket you pay more tax its the sane in britain - if you earn $200,000 income-tax-free means 50% off, but if you earn $20,000. it means like 5% off Also in Uk id you want to buy a e car, you get a grant of a few grand, if you want an e motorbike you get like $300, and if you want an ebike, the most wco friwndly option, you fuck right off
>>and if you want an ebike, the most wco friwndly option, you fuck right off
That's absolutely not correct, the tax subsidy for buying bikes and ebikes in this country is bonkers and better than pretty much anywhere else. If you have any job you can always buy any bike(including an ebike) through the cycle to work scheme meaning it's deducted from your salary pre-tax (meaning that effectively it's a deduction from your own income tax).
Re: Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla
#143It struck me that all of the battery big "white boxes" of the Victorian Big Battery are gathered at the same facility.
Shouldn't they be spread over a larger area, even possibly over several towns?
Else, it looks like very vulnerable to accidents, fire, or even wartime attacks.
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#144Australia is also undergoing something of an energy crisis where our quality of life is at risk. I would not recommend our grid management policies to anyone. SA, famous for installing the Big Battery, is leading the charge with retail prices at ~35c/kWh [0]. These are policies that could very well mean that we have less energy available for use; mainly for ideological reasons. Someone is going to bear the brunt of t…
We have exactly the same policies in Europe. In fact it was the directing line explained by Klaus Schwab, the West should consume less energy and let the rest of the world prosper. The danger is, when you have less energy, your industries move to countries where they can consume/emit, and you become a vassal state of those countries. If I were China, I would fund the hell of decarbonation and anti-nuclear groups.
> ...and you become a vassal state of those countries.
As an interesting aside, I would like to see Australia opening negotiations with India in case the US pulls back from the Pacific. If it turns out the US can't afford to fight China and Russia at the same time, I think signing up with India is probably the most workable path. Either as some sort of inferior ally or maybe trying to sign up as a full Indian state.
Re: Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and if you want an ebike, the most wco friwndly option, you fuck right off The most eco friendly option is still a bike. Not an ebike.
An ebike ridden 10,000 km a year beats a bike ridden 2000 though.
10k km a year on a bike means riding it for more than an hour every workday. Not a lot of people willing to do that, i think. If that were truly the breakeven distance (i know you didn't really say that) ebikes would be screwed in terms of ecological impact.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an Australian living in Canada, I want to say unalike Canada, the term "Province" feels weird to be used here. Australia refers to its divided regions as "States".
As wrong-sounding as saying "the province of California ..."
Im glad someone else agrees. I expected more from Bloomberg.
Re: Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla
#147Australia is also undergoing something of an energy crisis where our quality of life is at risk. I would not recommend our grid management policies to anyone. SA, famous for installing the Big Battery, is leading the charge with retail prices at ~35c/kWh [0]. These are policies that could very well mean that we have less energy available for use; mainly for ideological reasons. Someone is going to bear the brunt of t…
Hopefully it will mean more local solar off grid setups, more heat pumps and better thermal insulation. People need to start being more efficient with the energy they use. The increase in cost will help with that in some cases.
Should the message to poor people, who are getting destroyed with very high energy costs, be "just spend $10,000 on solar"?
Environmentalists are pretty out of touch when they throw poor people under the bus and tell them to just buy a $50,000 entry-level Tesla or a $10,000 entry-level solar system.
They'll simply vote for populism if they are bled further, and price rises are a certainty with expensive renewable 'solutions'. Our grid can't even support a large expansion of solar, nor a large expansion of EVs. Costs will grow exponentially if the grid is gold-plated to handle EVs and further solar, along with expensive renewables.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
An ebike ridden 10,000 km a year beats a bike ridden 2000 though.
10k km a year on a bike means riding it for more than an hour every workday. Not a lot of people willing to do that, i think. If that were truly the breakeven distance (i know you didn't really say that) ebikes would be screwed in terms of ecological impact.
That’s half an hour to work, half an hour back. Not outlandish, if you compare normal commutes.
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#149RE "South Australia’s last coal-fired power plant had closed, leaving the province of 1.8 million heavily reliant on wind farms and power imports from a neighboring region. " So - now they import power from places that use coal fired power stations and they have grid stability problems. NOT quitting coal at all. Id ask what is the price of their power KWh?
If you keep reading, that was the situation seven years ago before the giant Tesla battery that solved their stability problems.
South Australia is building brand new natural gas plants. Basically, doubling down on fossil fuels.
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#150TLDR battery storage can replace grid inertia (“ancillary services”) historically provided by thermal generators (coal and various forms of fossil gas). This is a distinct service/capability from energy arbitrage and has its own revenue stream. South Australia (where the Hornsdale Power Reserve was installed) runs a minimum of 80MW of fossil gas generation to provide these services (in concert with synchronous conden…
South Australia is building brand new gas peaking plants. Seems like fossil fuels continue to be a core pillar of their energy strategy.