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    A good watch, takes approx 30 min, debunks a lot of crap written on this site
    There is a fine line between "Hobby" and "Madness"

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    Disruption is something probably the most conservative country in the world doesn't handle well: Australia.
    Yet without it we wouldn't have smart phones, not even PC's.
    Progress always comes at the cost of those who live yesterday and it is often very hard for them to perceive any good in change.
    Yet I can not see any history of new technologies ending up making everybody's life worse off and I certainly can not see self sustainable energy going to become the first time it happens.

    Like mentioned in the presentation the development of renewable energy systems has been going on for a very long time and have proven
    very now reliable and inexpensive and it's introduction will not continue to proceed linear but exponentially!

    It could be likely that the time it would take to construct new coal power stations, 2-3 years maybe more, the high capacity battery technology could take huge steps to make those power stations more or less obsolete.
    This outdated 'base load' powerplant thinking is past it's due date, when more and more renewables take over this role.
    We need 'Power on Demand' systems to complement renewable energy at least in the mean time, which can only be supplied economically with gas
    that can respond immediately to the varying load.

    Elon Musk's '' in South Australia is just a drop in our electricity pool, but it is an infected one.
    It is infected with a disruptive Virus that will spread very fast as copy cats see many billions of income.

    And of all things Australia could soon become the number one 'safe and reliable' source(not war torn countries) of the one mineral nobody was looking at
    that is required to make these batteries: Cobalt!

    So it should go without saying that I am invested in explorers like , ready for the big battery boom.
    But I did, all IMO and DYOR.
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    Thanks for sharing that, he was very convincing, though for me he's preaching to the already converted.

    A lot of those predictions I've been reading about for quite a while & watching them change for the positive growth of renewables at lower prices.

    He had a very well put together presentation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by allover View Post
    A good watch, takes approx 30 min, debunks a lot of crap written on this site
    Have been to 4 of the those wind power sites he mentions in the last 3 years
    All new construction from Vestas
    Then local government sends in the cloning crew, so they can copy Europe's hard work for much less coin, this mostly happens in South Korea and Thailand
    So no wonder its get cheaper!
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