OPINION
Does anyone still seriously believe in the meritocratic claims of politicians and their pet ‘expert’ class? I mean, who seriously could, after the last five years? We’ve all seen for ourselves just how hopelessly, utterly, disastrously wrong the ‘experts’ and politicians were.
So, why would anyone believe them again? The so-called best and brightest minds on the planet were given practically unchallenged power during the pandemic – and screwed everything they touched.
Physicist Murray Gell-Mann coined the phrase “Gell-Mann Amnesia” after he read a media story about physics that he knew was hopelessly wrong. Yet, when he read another story, on a subject he didn’t know as well as physics, he instinctively took it as true. But, he realised, if I know they’re hopelessly wrong about one thing, why should I take their word on anything else?
Knowing that the political-bureaucratic, ‘expert’ class were so stupidly hamfisted when it came to Covid, why on earth would we let them anywhere near energy policy?
And yet, here we are. And it’s happening all over again.
Australia faces an increased risk of blackouts in Victoria and South Australia this summer with delays in delivering new generation and transmission sparking an urgent call from the market operator to plug the supply shortage or face a decade where power supplies cannot be guaranteed.
And yet, despite the clear failure of their cretinous “Net Zero” policies, what’s the solution from the political-expert class?
More of the same!
The stark forecast underscores growing alarm within the Australian Energy Market Operator and piles new pressure on the Albanese government to deliver its ambitious pledge to more than double the level of renewable energy in the system to 82 per cent by 2030 that it said would slash $275 a year from household power bills within years.
But it hasn’t, and it won’t. The stark evidence from around the world is that, everywhere, the greater the reliance on “renewables”, the higher the power costs.
Yet, somehow, the idiots in charge of Australia’s energy systems think they can do the same stupid things and somehow get different results.
“The story for Australia is becoming more and more clear, but also more and more urgent,” [Daniel Westerman, chief executive of AEMO] told the Australian.
“Quite simply, Australia’s energy transition is happening at pace. Our coal fired power stations are closing down at the same time as demand for electricity is increasing and without urgent and ongoing investment in new sources of electricity, and the transmission that we need to connect it to consumers – there are significant risks to reliability.”
The answer is obvious: don’t close down reliable coal-fired stations.
Alas, the obvious is far too obvious for an ‘expert’. The ‘experts’ are blaming a “transmission bottleneck”, when it’s obvious that renewables simply aren’t up to even the job of generating enough electricity to keep the grid running.
Even if Australia avoids blackouts, supply shortfalls will drive higher wholesale prices that eventually flow through to households and businesses.
Australia has already endured two consecutive years of price rises about 20 per cent, straining households and businesses already grappling with high inflation and soaring interest rates […]
While South Australia and Victoria face the biggest imminent threat, all the remaining states in the National Electricity Market will face periods when electricity supply cannot be assured over the coming decade, with Tasmania the lone exception.
The Australian
Is it any wonder we’re in such trouble, with idiots like Boofhead Bowen at the helm?
The AEMO report reflects the inevitable crunch that results from the loss of spare capacity in Victoria to backstop SA’s renewables-heavy grid. Equally alarming is the concession by AEMO that new and improved weather data and modelling have identified a higher forecast occurrence of low wind and high-demand conditions in Victoria, resulting in a higher forecast reliability risk for SA and Victoria. This is a serious development given the experience in Europe, where extended periods of wind drought have led to energy market chaos.
The Australian
It’s beyond belief that any reasonable person could survey the disaster that has been “Net Zero” in Europe, and still think it’s a good idea.
Unfortunately, we don’t have reasonable people running the place. We have politicians and ‘experts’, instead.