How long can Australia pretend electric vehicles don’t count, spending up big on low cost high emission vehicles?
https://reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-biggest-oil-exporter-bets-2-billion-electric-cars-53563/

How long can smugly PM Morrison last, unless he reprograms himself to know, or not, what he’s talking about and not make silly declarations at all about electricity?
https://reneweconomy.com.au/on-first-day-as-pm-morrison-learns-difference-between-big-battery-and-big-banana-84075/

Nuclear power takes a hit as European heatwave rolls on

Can sCOALmo really only imagine excess generation by coal power? What sense cheap, dirty power now when it means 20x more clean power later for Drawdown? Isn’t “his God a vengeful God and he will smite thee”?

https://reneweconomy.com.au/3-lessons-to-help-australia-boost-grid-reliability-flexibility-with-storage-41796/

The petroleum industry is pushing for the construction of a massive coastal “spine,” 60 miles of concrete sea wall that will essentially protect the world’s largest concentration of petrochemical facilities from the effects of climate change. “Texas is seeking at least $12 billion for the full coastal spine, with nearly all of it coming from public funds,” the Associated Press reports. “But the idea of taxpayers around the country paying to protect refineries worth billions, and in a state where top politicians still dispute climate change’s validity, doesn’t sit well with some.”

Read all about it…latest renewables ravaging in Murdoch miasma.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/the-anti-wind-and-anti-solar-garbage-fit-to-print-in-murdoch-media-70668/

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/18/nissan-leaf-vs-tesla-model-3-vs-chevy-bolt/

“However, when I say that these are the three highest selling semi-affordable electric cars on the US market, I’m perhaps not providing enough perspective. The Tesla Model 3 sees something like 10–20 times more sales. Suffice it to say, there are some solid reasons why the Model 3 scores so many more sales. At Tesla, the salespeople seem to feel lucky just to be there and have enthusiasm for the vehicles oozing out of their eyes — and yet, I don’t feel at all that they’re pushing a car on me.”

Debunking LNP obsession with need for bad old fashioned “baseload”

https://reneweconomy.com.au/is-coal-power-dispatchable-71095/

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/20/arcimoto-on-track-to-deliver-first-production-vehicles-to-customers-by-end-of-2018/