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"There has been some extraordinary and harrowing testimony given in the past
week to the Senate inquiry into misinformation about climate and energy, but
you didn’t have to travel far to hear some real-life examples – from the
country’s would be federal government.
As a bushfire survivor was sharing her experience with the Senate committee,
federal opposition leader Sussan Ley and energy spokesman Dan Tehan popped up
at Parliament House to sprout some staggering nonsense about the intent of the
Paris climate treaty and some complete claptrap about energy.
Chief among them was this pearler from Ley: “So one faulty photovoltaic
inverter in an entire grid had a cascading effect that shut down the entire
Iberian peninsula, which had previously the market operator there had been
saying, ‘Look, we can run this on renewables’.”
The chances of a country-wide blackout being triggered by a single PV inverter
are probably about the same as a blackout being triggered by dropped catch in
the slips cordon in a cricket game.
And although a favoured meme by long established renewable critics, and now the
federal Coalition, such claims have been rejected out of hand by authorities in
Spain and experts across Europe.
Ley and Tehan, though, are now singing from the same song book as the growing
number of fossil fuel sponsored right wing “think tanks” and “grass-root”
organisations who infest their thinking."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
