Battery baloney, hydrogen hype and green fairy tales

The same remorseless equations apply to all the pumped hydro schemes being dreamed up – EVERY ONE is a net consumer of power once losses are covered and the water is pumped back up the hill.

Yet AEMO hopes we will install 16 times our current capacity of batteries and pumped hydro by 2050 – sounds like the backyard steel plans of Chairman Mao or the Soviet Gosplan that constipated initiative in USSR for 70 years. Who needs several Snowy 2 fiascos running simultaneously? All taxpayer funded, AEMO planned, ABC supported and union run – what could possibly go wrong?

Mother Nature has created the perfect solar battery which holds the energy of sunlight for millions of years. When it releases that energy for enterprising humans, it returns CO2 for plants to the atmosphere from whence it came. It is called "Coal".

"Hydrogen" gets a lot of hype, but it is an elusive and dangerous gas that is rarely found naturally. To use solar energy to generate hydrogen and to then use that hydrogen as a power source is just another silly scheme to waste water and solar energy. It always takes more energy to produce hydrogen than it gives back. Let green billionaires, not taxpayers, spend their money on this merry-go-round.

Who is counting the energy and capital consumed, and the emissions generated, to manufacture, transport and install a continent being covered by ugly solar panels, bird slicers, high voltage power lines, access roads and hydro schemes? Now they want to invade our shallow seas. Who is going to clean up this mess in a few years' time?

As Jo Nova says: "No one wants industrial plants in their backyard, but when we have to build 10,000 km of high voltage towers, 40 million solar panels and 2,500 bird killing turbines – it's in everyone's backyard."

With all of this planned and managed by the same people who gave us Pink Batts, Snowy 2 hydro and the NBN/NDIS fiascos, what could possibly go wrong?

Another big problem is emerging – country people don't want powerlines across their paddocks, whining wind turbines on their hills and glittering solar panels smothering their flats. And seaside dwellers don't want to hear or see wind turbines off their beaches. Even whales are confused.

The solution is obvious – build all wind and solar facilities in electorates that vote Green/Teal/Labor. Those good citizens can then listen to the turbines turning in the night breezes and look out their windows to see shiny solar panels on every roof. This will make them feel good that they are preventing man-made global warming. Those electorates who oppose this silly green agenda should get their electricity from local coal, gas or nuclear plants.

What about the net/zero targets?

At the same time as Australia struggles to generate enough reliable power for today, governments keep welcoming more migrants, more tourists, more foreign students and planning yet more stadiums, games and circuses. All of this generates MORE emissions and is compatible with their demand for NET ZERO EMISSIONS.

Unlike Europe, the Americas and Asia, Australia has no extension cords to neighbours with reliable power from nuclear, hydro, coal or gas – we are on our own.