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BlueE said:
Can only read 4 lines before hitting a paywall!! Anyone know what it says?
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Andrew Forrest is in Glasgow saving the world while, next door, the world’s leaders have gathered for COP26.
The mining billionaire has emitted more carbon from his own gob in the past three weeks than Fortescue’s Solomon hub pumps out in a year, even announcing a “multibillion-pound” output deal to supply a fuel that has yet to be produced at scale. At least when he vowed to become the third force in iron ore, iron ore actually existed.
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Andrew Forrest in London ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Domenico Pugliese
The wilful credulity of the entire Australian media in this blaze of headlines is contemptible. Not a single word to slide off Forrest’s forked tongue has been treated with any scepticism or afforded any scrutiny. Right now, if he unveiled his own excrement on a plate, my colleagues would call it eye fillet.
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has not returned to the bar but has plainly reverted to advocacy on retainer. Hosting a reception in London last week in his capacity as chairman of Fortescue Metals subsidiary Fortescue Future Industries, Turnbull lamented government subsidies “as a means to keep on doing what they have been doing, which is burning fossil fuels”.
In financial 2021, Fortescue consumed 700 million litres of diesel fuel, up 9 per cent on 2020, and for this disservice to the atmosphere Fortescue received $300 million in the Australian government’s Fuel Tax Credit for Heavy Diesel Vehicles. When, then, will Fortescue cease accepting this fossil fuel subsidy?
In financial 2021, Fortescue cracked 2 million tonnes of Scope 1 carbon emissions, up 8 per cent on 2020. Fortescue’s direct emissions are well ahead of those generated by Centennial Coal and Whitehaven Coal.
It is a relevant fact, as Forrest is feted in the Scottish Lowlands, that Fortescue’s emissions and fossil fuel consumption are both rising. This is the gulf between what he says and what he does.
Forrest’s ambitions for the future are laudable, yet his company declines to spend a single dollar ameliorating the massive environmental damage it is causing today. “We think offsets will become less and less popular as people realise how very unreliable they are,” he said in September. It is certainly true that junk offsets are ubiquitous, but carbon offsets are like any other product in that you get what you pay for.
Forrest delivered a Boyer lecture in January entitled “Confessions of a Carbon Emitter”. Confessing to a crime does not buy you permission to keep offending.
The epic free ride enjoyed by Dr Forrest pales beside the media’s dozy lionisation of his fellow billionaire (20 times over) Mike Cannon-Brookes.
The supreme Tech Dude Bro savaged the Morrison government’s net zero commitment last week as “just more bullshit”, particularly for its lack of detail. “I read all 129 pages of the pamphlet. It’s not worth the paper I didn’t print it on.”
A week earlier, he had pledged $1.5 billion towards “climate initiatives” yet $1 billion of that money will be unspecified green investments. The risible press release – passing off the future private ownership of fashionable assets as some kind of public service – wasn’t worth the paper we didn’t print it on, yet was reproduced adoringly.
On Sunday, Cannon-Brookes sat for a typically vomitous interview with Peter FitzSimons. There are two people who belong together.
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Gratuitous consumption
“What have you done in your own life to limit your carbon footprint?” Fitzy asked.
“Everything I can,” said the hatted one. “I drive an electric vehicle. I live on a farm that runs almost entirely on sunlight, electricity. I have electric farm vehicles up the wazoo.”
He lives on several farms, having built a personal property empire to rival the Duke of Westminster’s. His is a whole other plane of gratuitous consumption. But how grateful we should be that his colossal estate is tended by enough electric vehicles to run a state’s ambulance fleet. Can you bear it?
The original version of this article contained a reference to Mike Cannon-Brookes driving a Range Rover. Mr Cannon-Brookes says he has never driven a Range Rover.
 

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Wallaby said:
If you drive an electric car in Australia, (or bus, or tractor), you are probably driving a coal-fired vehicle. About 90% of commercial energy in Australia is still generated by burning fossil fuels.
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Not quite 90, its 76% according to this , but your point remains. ( and probably more fossil fuels at night when most cars will be charged ).

Electricity generation | energy.gov.au

In 2019-20 total electricity generation in Australia was nearly steady at around 265 TWh (955 PJ), the highest total generation on record for Australia. COVID-19 affected sectoral usage and time of demand, but had limited impact on overall demand for electricity for the year as a whole. Fossil...
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Hybrids, or even something like a Mazda with Skyactive engine probably don't emit more CO2 than a Tesla charged off the grid.
 
That's why I said 'commercial energy'. Quoting your link, about 16% of the total energy produced in Australia was produced outside the enrgy sector (solar panels etc). But if you purchase energy off the grid, - it's about 90% coal, oil, gas. and about 6% Hydro).

If you want your electric car to be good for the environment, you need to charge it from your own solar panels. And it's tricky and expensive up front.
 
Wallaby said:
That's why I said 'commercial energy'. Quoting your link, about 16% of the total energy produced in Australia was produced outside the enrgy sector (solar panels etc). But if you purchase energy off the grid, - it's about 90% coal, oil, gas. and about 6% Hydro).

If you want your electric car to be good for the environment, you need to charge it from your own solar panels. And it's tricky and expensive up front.
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This is the data the energy provider to the business i work for stated was applicable. ( click on fuel mix ).

NEM data dashboard

The NEM's key data points including price and demand, dispatch, and short and medium-term outlooks.
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It gets skewed though.
Corporations purchase "green energy" , so they can advertise that they are sustainable.
So they remove the virtual sustainable component from the electricity, so that others can't claim to be using it.

Perhaps that's why the official carbon factor is so high.
 
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Solar installations on houses are typically not bigger than around 20Kw. Going bigger could be tricky and you might have trouble getting approval.
That would produce around 70kwh per day in melbourne ( more on sunny days , less on dark winter days ).

To charge a 75kwh from flat takes close to 80kwh but that gives you 500km range.
Most people would travel maybe 50km per day, and top up the charge daily, so thats around 8kwh.

Powerwalls are normally around 13.5kwh.

So if you wanted to charge your Tesla with it, you'd pretty much need one for your house and one for your Tesla, and top up daily.
If you went on a long trip...you'll struggle to charge it with Solar.

Tesla themselves don't really intend them to be a primary charging source.
electrek.co

Tesla releases new feature to charge your car with Powerwall during power outages

Tesla has released a new Powerwall feature to allow Tesla owners to charge their cars efficiently during power outages using the home battery pack. Powerwall owners with the backup gateway unit could already charge their electric car during a power outage, but it was done as part of the normal...
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The reason Tesla developed the batteries for charging, was actually due to brownouts in California.
They have brownouts because Solar and Wind don't always make enough electricity for everyone at night.
 
Burning coal or grazing cattle are both net–zero on different time scales.
Grass extracts CO2 from the atmosphere. Cattle and sheep convert grass into wool, leather, energy, protein, fat, bone and milk for human use - all part of the natural global food chain. Some of the carbon compounds consumed by cattle are quickly returned to the atmosphere in burps and farts. Some of the carbon in milk and meat is recycled quickly via human emissions, but most is sequestered into human bodies or in wool and leather products.
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Real red meat is green - it lives on grasses and sequesters carbon dioxide.


More Trees, Less Grass, No Food - Australian Climate Sceptics blog

by Saltbush Club's Viv Forbes. Media Release/Opinion PieceAustralian Climate Sceptics BlogFeel free to pass on. 7 November 2021 More Trees, Less Grass, No Food Trying to bury carbon dioxide deep underground is another fashionable green fantasy. It consumes big dollars for taxpayer subsidies but...
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