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Ben Beattie is an electrical engineer in the Australian energy sector.
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Punter’s algorithm test (opens the original)
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If you pay attention to social media of any type you’ll be subject to content supposedly curated to your taste by the algorithms. Since I’m always paying attention to energy stuff the algorithm sends me energy stuff. It’s a positive feedback loop.As a human being my strongest primal instinct is pattern recognition, and recently I have noticed a pattern emerging in the content served up by the algorithms. Some might call them influencers, I am going to call them pale moustached dudes or PMDs.<a c
The state of things (opens the original)
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It constantly surprises me that the Australian electricity system can generate so much coverage from mainstream media and commentators like myself. The National Electricity Market’s (NEM) 35 GW of peak summer demand, calmly unfolding in a similar manner for the last two decades, belies the almost daily headlines proclaiming a new report from a bureaucracy or thinktank, a statement from an energy minister, lobby group or large industrial consumer. Electricity should be boring. So why isn’t it?<a
The approaching inevitable energy dystopia (opens the original)
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Summary version first published in The Spectator Australia.It’s GenCost season again, where outrageous claims are made, seemingly cemented in fact and buttressed against criticism by the historical good name of the CSIRO. Every year the circus reconvenes to push the narrative that a high renewables system is the cheapest possible option, and every year the realisation dawns on more people that this is wrong.I’ve been involved in reviewing and discussing GenCost since its first edition back in 20
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