WRITTEN BY JUDITH SLOAN ON FEB 6, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
More Green Fairy Tales: Hydrogen To The Rescue?
sun cable projectI love a good fairy tale as much as the next person: Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, Sun Cable. The really tragic part of this list is that it’s only Sun Cable that doesn’t have a happy ending.
Who would have thought that a project that involved hundreds of solar panels located in the middle of nowhere, a raft of gigantic batteries, and over 4,000 kilometers of underwater cables could fail? [emphasis, links added]
The answer is pretty much everyone, but when there are two bulls – OK, billionaires – in the same paddock, the initial response by the aggressive beasts is to believe in the fairy tale.
It just sounded so good: Australia as an energy superpower. We were going to supply 15 percent of Singapore’s electricity – this bit was actually news to Singapore – and at a mere $35 billion, at least, it was a complete steal.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/more-green-fairy-tales-hydrogen-to-the-rescue/
