Comments by "ElephantInTheRoom " (@elephantintheroom5678) on "German economists say entire country is economically u0026 politically paralysed" video.

The last point is the real problem,
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@NoiserToo One in every five cars sold, worldwide, is electric. The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2035, every second new car sold, worldwide, will be electric.
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@changingplacestoiletfinder8061 Chinese make many excellent products these days.
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@bunsw2070 Only to the simpleminded.
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Why the heck didn't they just go electric earlier, for heaven's sake? And go solar and battery earlier?
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@softwarephil1709 That was in 2023. In 2024 they reduced new coal plant construction by 85%. Furthermore, they installed as much new solar and wind generation as the entire UK electricity generation capacity.
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@nvanderhoff Not on a large enough scale! They were too slow. Too under the thumb of vested coal interests, and too loyal (on the Eastern German side) to Russia, and its gas interests.
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@NoiserToo But China is 80% of the new car market.
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Solar and batteries are the cheapest form of energy by far. Some people cite France, and its government owned nuclear plants...but French electricity is substantially more expensive than Australian electricity. Nuclear is the most expensive form of electricity generation of all.
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@apexdrift1 What a spin-doctor you are! Coal has literally polluted our atmosphere to the extent that it has destabilised the ocean's currents, is melting the Poles, and has warmed the planet irreversibly for at least a thousand years, and here you are talking about renewables causing environmental damage! What a bad joke! As for batteries, they have come down in price by over 90% since 2020. That makes renewables plus batteries much cheaper than nuclear energy. As for the transmission point, the transmission lines from old coal plants in Australia are already being used by solar energy. Dutton would have to turn off already cheaper solar energy to plug in his expensive nuclear energy. It's a fools errand, and only fools will be fooled by it.
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@apexdrift1 Coal, gas and nuclear do far more ongoing damage from mining than the one-off mining to produce a large battery installation. Furthermore, solar with batteries are way cheaper than nuclear and coal, not only in the short, but also the long term. And finally, in Australia, the transmission lines coming from old coal plants are already being used by solar farms, so silly old Dutton would have to turn off the cheapest power (solar) in order to transmit the most expensive power (nuclear) on those lines. It's a Fool's Errand.
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Very astute analysis, actually.
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