8 November

I share renewables stuff because it saddens me that we’re all living through the greatest revolution in centuries, and many aren’t even noticing. Take this, the other night, those with a battery could sell energy back to the grid for a price that netted them up to $100, in one evening. We pay nothing for electricity every year now. The grid pays us, we make money. You’d wonder why our retailer (Origin) would allow it, what’s in it for them? They do very well out of it too, they take our exported energy at 10c/kWh, and sell it back to other homes for 2 to 3 times that amount. Everybody wins. Except those homes and people clinging to really quite sad and pathetic slogans created by fossil fuel companies, about how wonderful the shithouse energy system we’re replacing is. The same for cars, where those who shift to EVs and suddenly have zero fuel and maintenance bills, in luxury comfort with supercar performance, wonder why the hell they didn’t do this years earlier.