Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Coal power plant approvals in China crash as China adds 210GW of renewables" video.

  1. I'm an engineer who's worked in both our manufacturing and mining industries. I left manufacturing because I could see it was doomed. As far as electric Viking goes. I hate to slam someone but this guy gets a lot of his basic technical facts wrong. I have tried helping him out and found he's like most YouTubers only interested in clicks. I consider him just another clown in a field of clowns. While the thermal coal industry is doomed because we just can't keep burning the stuff the coking coal industry isn't going anywhere because we still need steel. No matter what you've heard the green steel thing is mostly myth. You can't use hydrogen instead of coal because you end up with garbage that's too brittle to use for anything. But that's NOT Australia's real problem. I did a small consulting job in 2016 and was stunned to find out how bad our energy plans were. 8 years later they are still a joke. The source of the problem is AEMO and that pack of clowns (mostly economists) need to be sacked and I am serious on that. The actual problem is we need to replace our older power stations and upgrade the grid anyway. The whole energy transition was always going to happen for the very simple reason that THINGS WEAR OUT. No matter how well anything is built and no matter how good the maintenance is eventually everything wears out. Power stations and energy grids are no different. It took me a couple of years listening to some fairly smart people to work out why economists have this insane need to be involved in things they have no training in or understanding of and its quite simple. Economists consider everyone else is a problem that they have to manage. They really do see you, me and everyone else as a problem. Even crazier is they have done it all across the developed world and until we can get them out of the road NOTHING anyone wants to do can happen. And its not just energy they have gotten into health care, education and everything else they can get into. That's why there's so much frustration with governments. No matter who anyone elects the economists step in and interfere because in their minds we only elect problems and they have to manage them. In Australia we need to replace over 30GW of older power BECAUSE ITS OLD with new and more power to feed a growing population as well as upgrade the grid to handle that new power. Unfortunately we have this group of clowns who wont get out of the way and clowns like Electric Viking who add to the noise and confusion.
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