The events of the past few weeks have brought Australia’s energy future into sharp focus – we won’t have one. Green enthusiasts who dominate the public debate have insisted that much of the east coast’s reliable power supply must cease operating by about the middle of next decade, but there may not be anything to put in its place.
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Mark Lawson’s ‘Dark Ages: the destruction of Australia’s power grid’, will be published by Connor Court this year.
markslawson@optusnet.com.au
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