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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by BLKNSLVR on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:01PM (#23471438)
Australians know. The government, however, behaves as if beholden to the fossil fuel lobby.

South Australia installed the largest lithium ion battery in the world[0], and the federal government rubbished it as not fit for purpose and to small too make any difference.

Have you ever known the government of any country to play down the installation of the biggest X in the world, in their own country, rather than using it as an advertising opportunity for how technologically progressive and advanced the country is?

Australia's Prime Minister compared the usefulness of the battery to "the big banana" in Coffs Harbor, a tourist attraction[1], and the Energy Minister, of all people, compared it to Kim Kardashian.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Power_Reserve

[1]https://m.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/news/scott-morrison-mock...

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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by LilBytes on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @09:09PM (#23472792)
Australian and former ex-pat of the UK here. I'm happy to see our Government getting rightly ridiculed on an increasing basis in more and more of these types of conversations.
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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by stan_rogers on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:17AM (#23474467)
Is there anything like Clarke and Dawe anymore? [1] I'd have thought they'd have a broad chorus started by now.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/ClarkeAndDawe

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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by BLKNSLVR on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:53AM (#23475425)
There are these guys, which are pretty sharp, but totally different style of delivery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CMUtKWubxg

Vale John Clarke, yet another great Australian who happened to have been born in New Zealand.

and in reply to LilBytes, I think, unfortunately, the increasing ridicule of our Government still resides within an echo chamber. There's a fair way to go before critical mass. The opposition just don't hold them to public account on much other than trivialities.

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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by LockAndLol on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:32AM (#23476816)
Well, the government might be making mistakes but so remind me, who voted them in again?
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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by BLKNSLVR on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:47AM (#23476961)
Low blow friend, don't think I'm not reminded of this many times a day ;)
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