Is Australia's clean energy policy practical?

The Australian government has legislated carbon emission reduction targets of 43% by 2023 and net zero by 2050. The Victorian government has pioneered the federal policy by phasing out the gas that, from Jan 1 2024, prohibits new gas connections for new houses. It reminds me of Communist China's Great Leap Forward, in which people threw their steel fry-pans into the furnace to create a record high of steel production regardless of how poor the steel quality was. However, later, people felt the pain of life being inconvenient and costly. Has the Australian government's energy strategy well researched upon considering the following reasons:

1. Will drastically phasing out gas and coal energy increase the power cost and affect people's lives? Since 2008, the government has actively promoted solar power, but the power prices have risen 117%, four times more than the average price increase. Why? It means the government's energy policy has failed to improve people's lives but increased stress. And now the Labour government is to review and implement the policy before taking a GREAT LEAP FORWARD.

2. With solar power, we still have gas hot water service as a backup for rainy days. Has the policymaker thought about the people's lives affected when we change to the electrical hot water service and stove? Can the current power supply sufficiently cover rainy days without sun and wind? Or is it inhumane to cut off the gas supply before establishing an adequate green energy supply network?

3. What is the carbon emission to produce and recycle solar panels? Is it environmental?

4. What is the environmental impact of wind & solar power?

Thomas Jefferson said, "The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Is the Australian government's energy policy serving its people in the best form?
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Published on December 16, 2023 15:34
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