Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale discuss the week’s news with Cathrine Dyer on climate & Robert Patman on geopolitics, plus guests Dr Jamie Shea from Chatham House and MEUG's John Harbor
Fantastic Bernard, great to have John on, sharing the reality of our energy situation. You summed it up well: this is a wicked problem. Carbon built the standard of living we take for granted, we don't have a direct substitute, and meanwhile atmospheric CO2 shows no sign of slowing. And meanwhile we sleepwalk towards the net energy 'cliff', where we have to run as fast as possible, just to stay in place. Would love for you to get Dr Krumdieck on to really zoom out on energy, the wicked problem, and what our options are :)
Bernard, could you please ask John about microgrids and the role of home solar and local capture. I see such promise with it reducing peaking in Australia. Could it not mean we reduce our national draw with microgrids and use the hydro for peaking?
Hi Bernard, I'm pretty suspect of many of John's arguments. His background is as a partner with PR firm SenateSHJ, and if you listen to his key talking points, for example the "sovereign risk" they're near word-for-word with the framing used by John Carnegie, who is Chief Executive of Energy Resources Aotearoa (aka the oil and gas lobby). Electricity is indeed an incredibly challenging problem, but this narrative is one that's very convenient to vested interests.
There's gas in the ground, we just need more extractive permits to find what we didn't find for the past 20 years, is, in my humble opinion, a talking point of the oil & gas industry.
Fantastic Bernard, great to have John on, sharing the reality of our energy situation. You summed it up well: this is a wicked problem. Carbon built the standard of living we take for granted, we don't have a direct substitute, and meanwhile atmospheric CO2 shows no sign of slowing. And meanwhile we sleepwalk towards the net energy 'cliff', where we have to run as fast as possible, just to stay in place. Would love for you to get Dr Krumdieck on to really zoom out on energy, the wicked problem, and what our options are :)
Bernard, could you please ask John about microgrids and the role of home solar and local capture. I see such promise with it reducing peaking in Australia. Could it not mean we reduce our national draw with microgrids and use the hydro for peaking?
Hi Bernard, I'm pretty suspect of many of John's arguments. His background is as a partner with PR firm SenateSHJ, and if you listen to his key talking points, for example the "sovereign risk" they're near word-for-word with the framing used by John Carnegie, who is Chief Executive of Energy Resources Aotearoa (aka the oil and gas lobby). Electricity is indeed an incredibly challenging problem, but this narrative is one that's very convenient to vested interests.
There's gas in the ground, we just need more extractive permits to find what we didn't find for the past 20 years, is, in my humble opinion, a talking point of the oil & gas industry.