That’s interesting. I keep hearing “we need gas for the transition” but never understood, guess I was right and it was just gas companies lobbying the public.
It’s just another attempt to slow down renewables by taking up all the funding doing something else. It doesn’t need to be useful or practical, so long as it drains the carbon reduction budget.
See also: the coalition’s nuclear energy policy
Some gas is needed for firming and “last resort” purposes, but I don’t even think we need any additional supply beyond what we have (especially if we cut some of our exports).
Been seeing quite a few advertisements lately that are basically, “Gas is used for stuff”. Companies trying to make sure that governments (and the people who vote from them) keep gas infrastructure around for them, I guess.
Link to the report itself which was missing from the article: https://ieefa.org/resources/how-much-gas-does-future-grid-need
It’s really annoying that journalists don’t do in-text referencing or even a bibliography. I had to do those in year 6, they need to do it now
I’ll include non-fiction books that are based on academic works but aren’t aimed at an academic audience. They can use footnotes so they are not too distracting, but some of us do want those sources.
I’ve come to like notes that are at the end of the book. I find myself irresistibly drawn to read all available footnotes in a book, especially the ones where theres some extra context, but by switching topics like that i lose the thread of the main text, which slows down my already glacial reading :o
This is why we need nuclear as main green power source.
