GEOS2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Renewable Energy, Market Failure, Sustainable Energy
14 Nov 2018
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Growing dependence on a single source of oil raises concerns, as this over reliance puts. Australia at risks in considering conflicts in syria, political disagreements and large price shocks. Energy and renewables in australia: brief introduction to chaos. Consider solar: should we all go off grid, technical and environment challenges, economic challenges, social and spatial challenges. Understand some of the limitations of renewable energies in addressing climate crises. Apparent that rapid decarbonisation is needed, especially necessary in australia (because. Australia relies more on coal for electricity than any other country in the world + infrastructures to convert coal into energy are rapidly aging and deteriorating) Majority of coal power stations is coming to decommission, or the end of their lifespan by. If government previously committed to the clean energy target (which encourages the expansion of renewable energies), energy security would not be a problem even if liddell went offline: thus, government is thinking about buying liddell.
