The countries committed to permanently ending fossil fuel use now far outnumber those against. Their problem? Their chief organising conference, the 30-year-old COP conferences, comes with vetoes from the petro-states. This year, 1,600 fossil industry lobbyists attended, and they managed to get any mention of fossil fuels scrubbed from the final agreement.

This ridiculous state of affairs can’t continue, and this is a classic move to break the deadlock. Sideline COP & the petrostates, by creating an alternative, they don’t have power in.

The first ever International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels, scheduled for April 2026.

  • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    22·
    19 hours ago

    Negative our coal use is trending downwards:

    https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=all&interval=1M&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed

    We are a bit similar to Norway in that domestically we’re doing great at pushing forward with renewables but we export most of our crap:

    The main sources of domestic energy production from natural sources were:

    • Black coal (11,092 PJ of which 89% was exported)
    • Natural gas (5,724 PJ of which 78% was exported as LNG)
    • Uranium (2,725 PJ of which 99% was exported)
    • Crude oil, condensates and other petroleum products (750 PJ of which 79% was exported)

    https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/energy/energy-account-australia/2023-24

    So we export fossil fuels but at home we’re number one in the world:

    Australia has the highest per capita solar capacity, now over 1.4kW.

    We also I’m pretty certain (thanks to the Labor governments home battery subsidises) number one in the world with home battery installs:

    “Based on the success of the program to date, we anticipate around 175,000 valid batteries to be installed by the end of 2025, representing around 3.9 GWh of useable capacity.

    https://reneweconomy.com.au/households-on-track-to-add-five-biggest-batteries-in-six-months-as-rebate-installs-rocket-towards-175000/

    When you can get a 40kwh home battery for 7000 AUD (~4500 USD) to hook up to your solar panels (which are getting bugger all for sending solar to the grid because we now have too much solar being generated now) and just about go off grid, why wouldn’t you?

    Sorry for long reply :X

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Aside from all else, if you have enough solar to consider never using the grid, you’ll want the grid to soak up your excess. My planned solar would be producing excess most winter days (in order to create enough power to charge the car any time of year)

    • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      Where can you get 40kWh for 7k? Thats off by a factor of about 4 in my experience. Parents just spent ~$1k/kWh for their battery earlier this year.

        • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          14 hours ago

          Those prices just seem too good to be true, but if real, thats incredible.

          Quick search of voltx, and their site is offering 30kWh for $7k, so thats already a downgrade, but that could be just out of date info.