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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 day agoHas renewable energy really lost its social license? Farmers don’t like wind because all their neighbours are putting up noisy turbines. Meanwhile every house in my street has solar because it’s a no-brainer.
minus-squareCurlyWurlies4AlllinkfedilinkEnglish4•14 hours agoAdvance Australia has been committing millions to whipping up a frothing frenzy against wind, solar and batteries in rural communities. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/renewables-tensions-federal-election-divided-communities/105062600 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-20/victorian-government-renewable-energy-plan-farmers-opposition/105309810 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-10/regional-australia-grapples-with-renewable-energy-projects/105155280 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/canberra-reckless-renewables-rally-donald-trump-conspiracy-theories
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•7 hours ago Advance Australia I’m not familiar with them so I looked them up. First sentence on the ‘Our Story’ page: “In 2018, woke politicians and elitist activist groups …” That’s enough. [close tab] Fucking bigots.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 hours agoBakers Delight donated to them. Probably more companies to, but Bakers Delight has been the most inconvenient. I haven’t been able to find good bread anywhere else (or indeed, even at Bakers Delight these days).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-27 hours agoI don’t know why solar isn’t mandatory for all new constructions.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 hours agoRooftop solar causes some issues for the grid and especially with every person getting their own battery it’s not very efficient. On rural properties it would make sense to mandate them, but it would also be political suicide.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 hours agoAren’t the issues it causes mostly because the grid was designed to deliver power from plants? I mean, aren’t they solvable problems?
Has renewable energy really lost its social license?
Farmers don’t like wind because all their neighbours are putting up noisy turbines.
Meanwhile every house in my street has solar because it’s a no-brainer.
Advance Australia has been committing millions to whipping up a frothing frenzy against wind, solar and batteries in rural communities.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/renewables-tensions-federal-election-divided-communities/105062600
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-20/victorian-government-renewable-energy-plan-farmers-opposition/105309810
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-10/regional-australia-grapples-with-renewable-energy-projects/105155280
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/canberra-reckless-renewables-rally-donald-trump-conspiracy-theories
I’m not familiar with them so I looked them up. First sentence on the ‘Our Story’ page: “In 2018, woke politicians and elitist activist groups …”
That’s enough. [close tab] Fucking bigots.
Bakers Delight donated to them.
Probably more companies to, but Bakers Delight has been the most inconvenient. I haven’t been able to find good bread anywhere else (or indeed, even at Bakers Delight these days).
I don’t know why solar isn’t mandatory for all new constructions.
Rooftop solar causes some issues for the grid and especially with every person getting their own battery it’s not very efficient.
On rural properties it would make sense to mandate them, but it would also be political suicide.
Aren’t the issues it causes mostly because the grid was designed to deliver power from plants?
I mean, aren’t they solvable problems?