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Oh @AngusTaylorMP 🤦🏼‍♂️

A thread (of gold)!⚡️#auspoI

Here’s you - 6 months ago, as our Energy Minister! - launching an off grid, solar powered, battery powered school. Yup. You!

dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/…

If the video doesn’t jog your memory, here’s your own quote from it...
“Put simply, this is a classroom that has solar cells on its roof. It’s got a battery and that means it doesn’t have to connect up to the grid.
The reason this is so important is it delivers very significant savings.”

Couldn’t agree more, and apparently...
So do you, as you issued this press release on your own website as Minister environment.gov.au/minister/taylo…

You even quantified the savings as $3k/classroom/year and a $30k connection fee!

And then you went and stole @ScottMorrisonMP’s favourite line about the sun not shining...
And I quote you Minister @AngusTaylorMP

“This project highlights the benefits of combining renewable energy and storage to ensure energy is available when it is needed, not just when the sun shines.”

We’re again in total agreement...
So was @australian apparently ... theaustralian.com.au/search-results… although their article and video are now strangely 404s for me. Perhaps they changed their mind? Like you did? ...
Oh & like your EV charger investment about face... your government supported them with our taxpayer dollars. Your PR says you paid for half of it!

You literally “turned a school into a power station.”

Was that a bad use of government funds or a good one? Which is it Minister?
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Mike Cannon-Brookes 👨🏼‍💻🧢
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The most important thing about solar + wind that everyone has to understand is the learning rate. Here’s a good example. These are both technology + scale driven (like chips or phone cameras). Their input costs are $0, so all manufacturing improvements directly drive down $...
This makes them radically different in their cost structure to fossil fuel based energy sources (that require trucks / trains / ships / fuel / people to run a plant).

They _will_ continue to get cheaper. It’s a certainty. For many years (more likely many decades) to come.
The factories that generate the panels or turbines get bigger & better, so the source cost goes down.

The companies that build the farm or plant get more experienced & quicker, so the build cost goes down.

The entire ecosystem learns so the build time (cost of money) goes down.
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Mike Cannon-Brookes 👨🏼‍💻🧢
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⚡️Taking Australia 100% onto renewables eventually? Been asked a few times - so I’ve tried to write up some logic off top of my head, I hope others can bring the maths & fact check my thinking paths. apologies for typos - it’s late. We can do this 🇦🇺. More… (1/8)
Most important issue to grok? Time shifting. We need to shift the time energy is captured to when it is used. Multiple techniques like batteries and time zones (continent wide grid). (2/8)
1. Massive amounts of consistent sun & wind - far, far more each day than we can use. Forget the brown, polluting stuff - this is our biggest natural resource. LCOE of both ☀️&💨 is below coal today or will 100% be within a year or two (irrelevant the data set you choose) (3/8)
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