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The Net Zero lemmings rush

By Viv Forbes - posted Tuesday, 28 November 2023


6. No Subsidies for Hydrogen

In this unplanned rush to all-green energy some extol the coming of hydrogen powered vehicles. To produce green hydrogen requires large amounts of electricity plus nine tonnes of water for every tonne of hydrogen produced by electrolysis. Some even think that it makes sense to use large amounts of electricity to desalinate sea water to make green hydrogen. Such a process is not even "net zero". It is hugely energy negative. Obviously the main goal is to harvest green subsidies or votes.

7. No Subsidies for "Pumped Hydro"

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Greens think taxpayers should fund giant dams and turbines to generate electricity when green energy is on strike – at night, on cloudy days and during wind droughts.

Does that mean that Greens believe we can steal water from every river system for green energy stabilisation while reducing the water stored for towns, farms, and orchards?

Let's have the first dam on the Franklyn River in Tasmania (they want to be "the battery of the nation").

8. Full Accounting of all Emissions

Who is counting all the emissions being generated to manufacture, transport and erect an ugly intrusive spider-web of roads and power lines to collect intermittent solar and wind energy from mountains, flats, seas and roof-tops? Where is the carbon and dollar accounting for the metals, concrete and hydrocarbon fuels that are needed?

We must also count the emissions to manufacture and erect all their planned green energy stabilisation schemes involving pumped hydro and giant batteries. All of this is a dash into the unknown without a coherent plan of how it will all work, or its full cost.

9. We need a Climate-Exit Referendum.

We are locked into never-ending climate conferences and all the costs and eco-babel generated by Paris Climate Agreement.

They want us locked into 15 minute cities with bicycles, walking shoes, oat-milk coffee and fake meat burgers while they jet off to a new well-fed tourist destination every year. We have copped these annual climate-fests for 26 years now. The last one catered for about 40,000 delegates and hangers-on for 2 weeks of talk-fest that achieved NOTHING useful (as usual). Even Saint Greta Thunberg said that COP27 was a scam.

Let's have a Clexit (Climate Exit) Referendum and abandon all liabilities under the Kyoto and Paris Climate Agreements.

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10. The Net Zero Prize

Our reward for reaching our 2030 Net Zero Emissions targets will be a precarious population with industry operating on the whims of the weather and an angry, urbanised, locked-down population faced with food, fuel and electricity rationing.

There is no global warming crisis, but Blackouts Bowen (Australia's Minister for Climate Panics and Zero Energy) is determined to create an electricity crisis. Power grid failure will be followed quickly by failure of food and water supplies to cities. Hopefully Canberra, (Australia's Green Capital) will be the first to suffer.

The rest of Australia must vote NO to this dangerous Net Zero delusion.

 

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Viv Forbes is a geologist and farmer who lives on a farm on the Bremer River.

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