Victoria is the most densely populated state in Australia and, therefore, produces the nuttiest ideas. Most of them undoubtedly come out of Melbourne, a city of 4.9 million people that represents most of the Victoria citizenry. That’s the way things work, it seems to me. The closer people live to each other, the more they think alike, and the more susceptible they are to the demonstrably false idea government knows best. That’s why I’ve always liked Robert Frost’s “good fences make good neighbors” line; it captures the necessity of thinking for yourself, which apparently doesn’t happen in Victoria where green political correctness is the rule of the day.
Another example of clean energy thinking that shows proof of concept and scalability are formidable barriers to theoretical clean energy deployment.