Readit NewsSee: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/big-swings-in-austral...
How do domestic battery installations help with the retail price of electricity?
They’re not really adding value in the same way a farm & associated agribusiness > harvest > global storage and distribution > mill > commercial scale bakery > distribution > retail outlet does.
This reminds me of an amusing comment I read or heard the other day: eggs are now more expensive than chickens. Somethings not right there. And it’s mostly higher costs of energy, and extremely stupid egg production regulations.
Here the wholesale prices are far more relevant economically.
Still, what good is free energy to anyone if the retail price has only one trajectory.
If politics is a significant cost factor, no amount of technology is going to fix that.
Or, as Jimmy Carr put it: But you go, yeah, you can have net zero, as long as you don't give a fuck about poor people, right? If you don't give a fuck about poor people, of course we can do net zero. - https://youtu.be/H3FwqPkPSHE
They seem like big numbers until you compare it with the enormity of what we already do.
Or about 30 million acres if you’re in to that sort of thing.
https://www.wri.org/insights/increased-biofuel-production-im...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/big-swings-in-austral...
So at least one continent in this picture is making great progress to achieving this.
Who cares?
No one pays the wholesale price.
What price does the retail customer pay?
For UK in particular look up triple lock pension.
I think the elderly former tax payers can have all the taxi vouchers they can reasonably use.
They just need to mutter “asylum seeker” occasionally.
My grandma is 90 and drives 5 miles to the grocery store, a slow road. I don't think she'd pass a driving test but she drives during the day when barely anyone is on the road, chances of serious injury are nil.
Is it worth it to spend large amounts of money on testing these people, taking their license away if they fail? Getting rid of their car will force them to replace it with someone else driving or cycling which could be a problem in many places. Worst case scenario they'll need to go in a retirement home.
Australia could be a manufacturing powerhouse off the back of very steeply subsidised energy. China does it.
But instead we seem to be bent on whatever the fuck this is supped to be?
Energy so expensive ya can’t use it.