The wheels are falling off the Net Zero Bandwagon 2025 edition 1

[GregLocock]

Rather a good summary from Dr Sabine. She is a true believer in climate change, but seems rather more astute than your average doom and gloomer. She seems to think that a certain president implementing what his voters want to happen is somehow poor behavior.

Here'a funny video when she looks at the climate models.

My prediction from a few years back (which I thought was optimistic) was that the wheels would fall off in 2027, as that is when poor old Australia's reliable generators can no longer supply sufficient base-load due to plant closures. As it happens state governments have started subsidising coal plants to stay open. While also subsidising the renewables that make the coal plants uneconomic. And subsidising the resulting high bills to consumers. Good thing every garden has a money tree growing in it.

 

[LittleInch]

well they learned in the UK from the 2019 blackout that they needed to modify a whole bunch of settings.

And also how loosing some elements or getting a "wobble" also dropped out a significant amount of domestic solar, which took time to re-instate.

There is no doubt that all the grid normalities from before 10 years ago now needs some other systems to maintain frequency and grid capacity and also make sure the big wind farms and solar farms don't trip unless they really need to.