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Originally Posted by Stonius
Free markets are deciding in favor of renewables all over the world, except here for some reason.
Markus
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I don't reckon even that is right.
Despite all the noise in Canberra the free market is deserting coal fired power like rats from a sinking ship. The generator owners are putting their money where they see the future lying and coal fired generators are dropping off one by one. Meanwhile I work for one of a large number of companies that are madly building decently large scale renewables and/or storage technologies. The federal government may be wringing their hands and decrying the "Loss" of generation capacity with Lidell closes, but AEMO does not agree with them at all what the potential shortfall is, and I bet you the hole is filled by the time Lidell actually closes. Remember the predictions about massive price rises and blackouts in Vic when Hazlewood closed?
Regards Teslas and being glued together, quite apart from what Peter wrote above, what about it? Plenty of modern cars are bonded with adhesives in lots of places rather than welded. A friend had to fill the sunroof of a rally car he was building as openings like that in the roof were not allowed. He had a panel formed with a rolled edge to fit the hole precisely and fitted it with a metal adhesive. Prior tests showed that (As the seller advised him would be the case) the metal would tear before the adhesive gave away.
We are just waiting for delivery of what I am quite sure will be our last new purely fossil fueled car. EV is not quite there yet for our use scenarios and there are no suitable hybrids for now, but I am pretty sure that an EV will fit the bill by the time we need to replace our next car in five or six years.