9 May

$2 billion for green hydrogen in last night's budget. Hydrogen is a dead-end for Australia I think. With our vast renewable energy resources of sunshine and wind, and spare land, we're crazy to invest too much in hydrogen. It takes huge amounts of energy to make, energy that could be used directly to do things like create steel for export, from renewables. It's a last-gasp from the fossil fuel industry. Also the thing climate deniers back for one simple reason - it isn't solar or wind or batteries. They wouldn't know a thing about any of these technologies, it just gives them something to oppose those other technologies with, in their social media arguments.