• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    16 days ago

    Meanwhile Australia is like MORE COAL even though we're mostly A WINDY SUNNY DESERT that would be great for renewables

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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      15 days ago

      There's also a relatively gentle mountain range that straddles the most inhabited strip of the country that would be excellent for pumped hydro, and the national electricity grid is one of the largest in the world, with

      an end-to-end distance of more than 5,000 kilometres, and 45,000 kilometres of high voltage transmissions line