Via rutan around:
Did you ever stop to think that the dirty Pt Augusta power station and thousands of others like it may be a contributing factor to these weather events.
The problem of fluctuating power from renewables will be solved. The renewable industry is still in its infancy.
All those naysayers should hark back to early electricity production where the usual handbrakes predicted it would never be much use because the then DC current was only good for a couple of miles. .Then along came Nikola Tesla.
Where would we be today if the Luddites against electricity back then had not been ignored?
When the DC-AC industry were in its infancy it were private industry, not tax payer subsidies, that solved the mater. I note at the time of the DC-AC 'debate' there were no screaming AC zealots running around saying we needed to destroy all candles and gas lights as AC has arrived..
...then along came Nikola Tesla.
"The only method compatible with our notions of civilisation and race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilisation and..."
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PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning: A Machine to End War
...so,
rutan around, are yer a eugenics true believer or is yer a Luddite..
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