Chinese renewables ‘garbage’ being ‘dumped’ onto Australian farmers

[@nicethings2070]

Australia can't afford fools like Bowen.

[@echelonrank3927]

worse than albo

[@Martin_Priesthood]

😢😢👍

[@holden3083]

The government is 99% idiots, seat warmers & hot air balloons. That 1% are the cleaners. After all the government needs someone to clean up their BS they dribble all day!

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

Rupert Murdoch junk

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

I trust china over Rupert Murdoch crap

[@MatthewElies]

Shouldn't Bowen have taken an electric jet? What a hypocrite!

[@batmanlives6456]

He couldn’t find an extension cord long enough….

[@chrisg8321]

Would take a week to charge 😂

[@donaldwayne4219]

What if the battery went flat?

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

I trust china over Rupert Murdoch crap

[@hl5910]

🤣

[@rockk9753]

They could have put it somewhere desolate instead of a fertile place just so it can look good with the grass, humans are getting dumber by the second

[@Wolfcamp555]

Who are "they?" Is the government forcing land owners to build solar farms on their land?

[@snellavision]

No, they can't because then they will have to rip up the land to install the power lines so that the energy produced by the solar panels can be transferred to the grids in the city, etc... many myths have been perpetuated in selling everyone on this "no-cost" renewable energy transition.

[@rockk9753]

@@orionbetelgeuse1937 of course it is

[@rockk9753]

@@orionbetelgeuse1937 that's what makes it so dumb because it was intentional

[@georgesutter2256]

Just plain evil. Traitor’s carrying out their orders

[@romeomifsud9124]

Part of the Labor destruction

[@d.tr6176]

It's not only Labor. It's not only Australia. But it seems to be only Christian countries.

[@Georgina-l4p]

@@d.tr6176spot on.

[@terencejay8845]

'We're fully aware that absolutely no one likes it, needs it, or wants it, but we're doing it anyway..' should Never be uttered by any Politician to the Citizenry.

[@plainnone2657]

IDIOT

[@paulgriffiths9824]

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but if there’s large areas in Australia that are empty ie deserts etc why carry on fucking farmers etc to build them

[@paulveenings6861]

Huge distances are the problem

[@DJ-yj1vg]

Because the cost of transmission lines goes up. You're right though. Farmers are being tucked over

[@pwillis1589.]

Farms are perfect because the land is already cleared. Liebor believes Australia does not need farms for 2 very important reasons. 1, farmers overwhelmingly vote for the coalition. 2, reducing farm produce will increase demand on chinese imports. Which supports their CCP masters.

[@rattusfinkus]

You lot whinge about transmission lines but you want the put the panels further away????

[@WitchDoctor-m9s]

​@rattusfinkus Don't want the Panels At All.

[@heytam7162]

Back the Farmers !!

[@TomTomicMic]

....into an electrified solar fence!?!

[@LazarusUnwrapped]

100%👍

[@JennySmith-r8j]

What a total joke . Australia is going down the toilet and fast

[@Antonio-uw6ue]

They do all over the world,they not try to protect the environment,that’s is the excuse they use for the mayor plan

[@RS-ls7mm]

Seems whenever the left is control for a long time everything turns to p!ss. They promise more than they can deliver.

[@derekmoore2779]

What a wast of good productive land

[@ancietman]

Same in Britain.

[@defeqel6537]

Remember how pasture animals were evil because they land that could be used for farming?

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

I trust china over Rupert Murdoch crap

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

I trust china over Rupert Murdoch crap

[@bushranger7646]

There's a strong need to investigate politicians personal financial interests in all of this. Australia is being sold out

[@tinkingtinking2134]

Being, more like has already.

[@superkas]

Anybody can buy a land in Australia, since day one the Brits occupied it. Why act like it's a new thing.

[@advanceaustralia3321]

@@superkasnot true. The Foreign Investment Review Board must approve all foreign purchase of land.

[@voxac30withstrat]

The unions have HEAVILY invested their members superfunds in renewables and its those unions who also financially support Labor

[@PissedoffAussi]

When are the adults in the room going to grow some balls and put a stop to it

[@nicasa78]

They took away their guns

[@d.tr6176]

I may be wrong, but I think they have to wait for the population to have seen enough damage to wake up themselves and become alarmed.

[@random2829]

The balls went away with Crocodile Dundee. I think he was the last to be born with a pair.

[@Defensive_Wounds]

When we all nut/ovary up and stop voting Labor or Liberal and vote ONE NATION!!!!!

[@Defensive_Wounds]

@@d.tr6176 I am awake, definitely not a woketard! Surrounded by them though.....drowning in fact!

[@jonkirk1309]

Labor hypocrites - what is new? Meet the new boss same as the old boss... We need Pauline or Katter to change the face of politics in our country...

[@plainnone2657]

IDIOT

[@CHUNKYNUGGET666]

Ian Plimer is such a genuine guy! Much respect gd sir👍

[@evelyngott2056]

Why didn't they get in their electric cars or busses and drive there. Or better yet get on their bikes and start peddling.

[@davannaleah]

well, you don't look as important if you don't travel by private jet....legends in their own minds...

[@tomcat3070]

china said exclude ASIO from the security council Labor said yes boss china said build OUR solar panel in AU Labor said yes boss china is the hand behind labor

[@alexmilne9251]

Destroying millions of trees and plants in the name of renewable energy that's gotta be an oxymoron

[@IANREA]

So why not look at all those large commercial buildings with no solar.

[@gingertom56]

Up here in qld most of the big shopping centres are putting on panels.

[@ladybug591]

Because we have a perfectly efficient and clean coal powered electricity system - that's the best way to go. Incredibly expensive glass solar panels are extremely toxic - hailstorms here are common - renewables cause problems to the power grid, unbalance the supplies - inefficient, no sun no workie, no wind no workie. Co2 is no problem so there is no need to reduce it - human caused catastrophic global warming is a scam so that's another reason NOT to go along with this madness. Regards.

[@tonrotterdam]

Looks indeed like they had to clear tons of wineries, jungle or farmland for these panels. 😂

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

I trust china over Rupert Murdoch crap

[@pookeyhutchison7838]

Electrical principles and physics tell you that solar is the most inefficient generation possible.

[@bikingcat3283]

Not sure what you are trying to say. I think you are completely wrong on this. Over the lifetime of the solar panel, it will produce more energy that the energy that was used to create it. That statement does not break the law of Entropy.

[@pookeyhutchison7838]

@@bikingcat3283 Absolute BS . So what you are saying is you produce a panel from elements mined in Australia shipped to China and where they have no environmental controls to speak of and then ship it back to Australia and you come up with this process of thought that I m wrong. Look when your IQ hits 20 please sell.

[@leofortey7561]

@@bikingcat3283 That was proven false, by the way. It was measured in a 'controlled situation' for 12hrs(Under lights with no angular movement), then guesstimated for 25 year life. Not even a 1% degradation in production was included in the results, as what occurs in places that have snow which gently fog the face of it over time. (Let alone sand abrasion). Besides, I doubt they even took into account the amount of diesel needed to mine all the minerals. That could have been used for something more productive like tractor fuel in a field... oh wait, there are toxic glass panels which are now in the way.

[@bikingcat3283]

@@leofortey7561 Go recheck that.

[@workdevice7808]

​@@bikingcat3283I just did. Leoforty is 100% correct.

[@martinsigley3957]

I cannot imagine destroying fertile land in Australia. Surely there are other more arid places that could be used? After all, just what percentage of Australia is actually farmable??

[@margaretarmstrong2445]

Australia has a total of only 6% agricultural land.

[@KT-bb1tb]

Labor Couldn't Care Less, About the Regions ! No Power or Money for Them ?

[@ReimerGodt]

Hasn't Australia a reputation for sheep, eating the greener grasses elsewhere ?

[@albatross5466]

I forget where it was but forests were being clear cut to put up PV panels. WHY would you cut down trees to mitigate CO2? It makes no sense.

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

I trust china over Rupert Murdoch crap

[@ladybug591]

Lol...especially when you do not need to mitigate CO2.......anyway...

[@forevershining]

Why would someone want a picture either of those idiots

[@nomyafiftyonefifty8081]

You mean " forced " onto farmers.

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

Ahhh yes how dare energy being produced Let's go back to medieval ages .

[@nomyafiftyonefifty8081]

@@JonySmith-bb4gx yeah use farm land. What will you be eating.

[@roobiiin9768]

@@nomyafiftyonefifty8081 Wine is a beverage not food

[@barrysylvester3613]

In this case yes​@@roobiiin9768

[@patrickdoolan4553]

These climate change zealots somehow need to be held accountable for this crap. environmental vanadium.

[@greghunter5703]

Ian PLIMER is the man

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

No she isn't

[@wdp7128]

My take away after watching this video is, Somebody is trying very hard to convince us that the leading country in the world on renewal energy knows nothing about their core business.. Very weird.

[@dominicgalante7501]

WHAT A MESS BOWEN IS IN

[@janlesinski4719]

A disaster waiting to happen

[@johangouws8855]

Time to get rid of governments and get sensible local folk to just run the day to day business. Government has now become the people’s biggest enemy.

[@kirkboivin4357]

Government and religion, the curse of mankind throughout history.

[@ClaytonMillington]

Why didn't Bowen take his electric car and show the country how good it is? Good enough for everyone else but not for the privileged that we the tax payers get to pay for! The only answer is to call for a resignation of Bowen someone so out of touch with what he is preaching!

[@peterolsen9131]

" we have so much waste land , we will never use prime ag land for renewables" as soon as the roll-out started they started to put them on ag land and annoy farmers with transmission routes , to hell with them , build some small footprint , no carbon emmissions , nuclear plants , some large ones for each city , and as the smr's roll-out , a few of them for smaller towns like emerald, cairns or maybe charliville? the grid would be so resilient and solar and wind can suppliment , like its best used , on homes , for smaller applications , farms /small towns?

[@kaynine31]

Wait for ths HAIL. What utter clowns.

[@DontFearAnything]

Why didn't they drive there in a EV if they think there so good !!

[@millerwtf]

Haha Rita your guest says it so well " when I got the job you can kiss my ..." Leaders all over the world have this kind of arrogance when they get power , like school bullies"

[@luisdarcy7693]

I added roof top solar and I was surprised to find out my electricity provider (powercore) limits my export to 5kw/h!! It’s all BS

[@lyndabignell9660]

Ian Plimer you are a legend.

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

No she isn't . China best nation

[@margaretarmstrong2445]

A Chinese solar company in China, which also happens to be the largest company in the world is in serious trouble. They had a fall of its net income of 44% in the third quarter of 2023. It has been suggested that they will be forced to lay off 30% of them employees. The company's shares have fallen about 70% from their peak in 2021. There is currently a glut of over supplied panels and I suspect that this is why China has dropped its tariffs on wind and solar. Our market may be about to be flooded with cheap renewables.

[@kamsunleong6648]

Cheap renewable. Sounds like a good opportunity to go green

[@margaretarmstrong2445]

@@kamsunleong6648 Cheap or otherwise, renewables do not equate to cheap electricity. The more solar panels and wind turbines the higher the bill. We are paying for this infrastructure, the Australian taxpayers. Our money is going to greedy developers and to China for a source of energy that is not fit for purpose. Australians do not want wind turbines, solar panels, backup batteries or EV's. We want reliable electricity and we want to be self sufficient. We want to bring back manufacturing in our own country. Renewables are destroying our economy, our environment and our way of life.

[@RS-ls7mm]

Selling out to China rarely yields positive results. They don't have your best interests in mind.

[@seantomo]

Cheap solar panels from china dont last very long. Even the good imported ones will not last longer than 30 years. And petro chemicals are used in their production. They are about as green as copper oxide. Dumb as!

[@CunningLinguistics-k7b]

Panels can't be recycled hence using them as toxic fence panels...

[@silafaupaulmeredith7251]

Build these in the desert. I see China doing that in the Gobi desert 450GW and pumping water to regenerate the landscape instead of using valuable farm lands

[@o.0.DTL.0.o]

Exports The top exports of Australia are Coal Briquettes ($109B), Iron Ore ($87.9B), Petroleum Gas ($67.3B), Gold ($17.8B), and Wheat ($10.2B), exporting mostly to China ($123B), Japan ($80.1B), South Korea ($41B), India ($31.5B), and Chinese Taipei ($24.1B). Solid evidences of Aussie are good at destroying their lands for mining as much as what chinese and all other countries are doing around the world anyways. 😂

[@herp_derpingson]

The coal lobby is behind this. They want to make solar look bad by building it in hailstorm areas.

[@MeredithBell-v3f]

Notice it's only in Victoria

[@margaretarmstrong2445]

Nooo....it's happening from Northern Queensland right down to Tasmania. Where have you been?

[@iknownutting]

vic is a shithole

[@MrLocobloke]

Why is it EVERY time I hear Bowen talk I reach for a shovel??

[@terryrussel523]

That HUGE disaster in Texas speaks for itself. The levels of in-your-face criminal aiding and abetting, disastrous acts of stupidity, bribery, favoritism and hypocrisy in politics everywhere these days just boggles the mind.

[@risinbison1106]

So I don’t live in Australia but the last time I looked, Australia had a whole lot of places with nobody on it. Me thinks this is being done on purpose. Also, why didn’t they drive one of these EVs on this trip? We all know, because they’d still be out in the middle of nowhere pushing.

[@philipdamask2279]

Electric transmission costs money and requires right of way permits.

[@risinbison1106]

@@philipdamask2279 so get rid of a profitable vineyard for solar panels…lol…sure.

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

I trust china over Rupert Murdoch crap

[@bikingcat3283]

How cheap are these panels? How toxic are these panels? How sturdy are these panels and do the leach toxins? What are the particulars with the land use agreement. They should be decent for 20 years and another 10 years of 50% output. After that, they are unrecyclable E-waste.

[@MrMcawesomeface]

Look at what happened in Texas, with the large solar farm, after a hail storm all these panels were destroyed and toxins leaking into the soil. Its by design, they are making the land toxic, to destroy people and their futures. This is by design, the fight of good and evil is upon us.

[@jamesderiter4370]

Solar panels don't last that long. All current solar panels are only estimated to last that long, it's an estimation based on no data.when Australia started putting solar panels on homes originally the panel manufacturers said the same things they are now, not a single one of those panels lasted more than 10 years

[@randomaccount53793]

They should set up CSP farms in the desert. It's just mirrors, liquid, and a turbine.

[@RS-ls7mm]

And absolutely no one talks about the massive infrastructure needed to connect the solar farm. Power lines, DC to AC converters, regulation, heat control, ... In my case that was way more expensive than the panels.

[@bikingcat3283]

@@RS-ls7mm Absolutely, expensive vulnerable equipment. DC is actually more efficient at transmission. The drawbacks as you know are changing voltage and galvanic damage at junction points of dissimilar conductors. They have got the efficiency of voltage and AC working well, but it only makes sense in 500MW , 500 mile interconnects. Also everybody that wants to save the planet from CO2 wants to do it for a profit. Lots of cheaper, less toxic batteries are held under patents. Anything sold with be at the highest price. They can steal land for CO2 why not steal the patents; cause it is all a scam.

[@cregw4148]

It's hierarchy, not hypocrisy. They don't care what you think.

[@jamesderiter4370]

It's both. Telling people they pollute too much and then using a private jet which produces more carbon than any single person can in their lifetime is spot on the hypocrisy definition do as I say not as I do

[@ladybug591]

Hierarchy's are natural - Labor is just a bad group of men and women in our politics - that's what it is. Vote for people who love their country and are not commies, socialists or budding totalitarians.

[@user-Rocket-Fest]

always follow the Moolah.

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

Rita moolah comes from Murdoch

[@dduckman1423]

Remember at the end of "Animal Farm" the pigs are sitting up at the table dinning with the humans bosses.

[@seantomo]

Every animal is equal! "But some are more equal than others"

[@coolhandluke2310]

Love you Rita ❤.

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

Never . Shes a tinfoil

[@callak_9974]

Why don't they build these things in the areas where nobody lives/works?

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

And we’re paying for Elbow’s and Bowen’s green wet dream! And for power on top!

[@jonathoncalabrese2035]

God help this country if labor stays in power 🫠

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

😂I trust china over Rupert Murdoch crap

[@LazarusUnwrapped]

@@JonySmith-bb4gxi wouldnt trust China with anything.

[@winstonsmith7801]

Green Nightmare.

[@Wombat-y7t]

I suspect Chris Bowen will be retiring from politics in a different country.

[@woudytreez2755]

Australia is still in tow to China.

[@Jkl62200]

Bro... Why you blame China? You don't have to buy anything you don't want to!

[@random2829]

The farmers get some "money" for allowing the land to be used exclusively for a "solar panel farm". The farmers may be responsible for removing the solar panels when the lease expires.

[@lindenwatson846]

The one at Winton just east of Benalla is massive! I would hate to see what they have planned for Heathcote if it is going to be bigger than that.

[@janlesinski4719]

Hail and toxic solar panels don't mix

[@BrainfromSpain]

Follow the money!

[@philipc2025]

What sort of runways do you have there?😂 What a load of BS.

[@rickwalden7022]

Solar panels raises temperature and creates different weather patern.

[@louistan7560]

A good point. Australia has plenty of land. Why install solar panels in wine growing areas when the Australian desert would be the most ideal spot. Do government officials really care for the people or is it just a job with occasional purchase value benefits?

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

I trust china over Rupert Murdoch crap

[@JohnWilliams-iw6oq]

Ian has a great sense of humour. Labor and especially the two men mentioned are not about achieving, they are about posturing and have never learned life's lesson that if you want to grand stand and strut then you'd better be able to back it up and frankly these two couldn't back up a dinky!

[@0401412740]

Majority of solar panels are made in China

[@kamsunleong6648]

Is this something new that you just found out?

[@stewartread4235]

The climativists have forecasted starvation in the future, no farms ....job done.! Ideological Apocalypse not climate.!

[@bloodlove93]

it's no longer "pick your poison" its you get all now,alcohol and various chemical and metal and plastic etc etc

[@chopperking007]

Labor get kick backs from crap Chinese solar and wind

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

I trust china over Rupert Murdoch crap

[@Gordan19758]

What we all need in this world is biodiversity farming and foodforests and reforestation projects. Let's make it happen so that all life forms can live freely in nature

[@raclark2730]

I agree that's the real green deal.

[@anitacohen8753]

Even primary producers won't vote for the Coalition!!!!

[@johnmcdermott6753]

Politicians never leave me amazed, two sides of the coin

[@smartgoku9048]

why something that is clearly not green or helpful to the environment is called green is beyond me.

[@patrickjohnson8741]

This is catastrophic!!! LABOR GOVT - Wake up.!!!!!

[@helenmachelen4200]

It's a solar POWER PLANT, not a farm ffs!

[@mikeanderson7549]

You Australian?

[@Stan-b3v]

Building fences with solar panels is probably the best way to use them in conjunction with any type of agriculture. They apparently even produce more energy when installed vertical.

[@robertproietti-ricci6403]

if jets or any aircraft had batteries ALBANESE BOWEN OR ANY GOVERNMENT MINISTERS WOULD NOT RISK FLYING

[@SyntheticHuman01]

ZOOM MEETINGS FOR GLOBAL WARMING CONFERENCES!!!!!!!

[@wonkyspider2429]

Destroying the planet surface to “save” the atmosphere. That doesn’t make any sense.

[@wildthrift3741]

You dont need solar farm.. if solar can just be part of the building code.. roof is a free space rather than waisting an acre of a good land to put solar panels

[@MrGuru666999]

Oh a climate change denier. Using farmland for solar (not) farms is already bad, and having a climate change denier denounce this is worse.

[@Stretch-xd3ed]

The price of labor! 😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒

[@rickfromhove3324]

By the time they finish the last row of panels they’ll be pulling the first row up and the cheap shit panels and going to landfill.

[@dduckman1423]

A real mess at end of life.

[@aaronvallejo8220]

Solar PV operate for 25 years.

[@user-no5mw3so1b]

Australia used to kick arse, now all we do is lick arse.

[@pks15032]

First i heard of anyone in the UK making fences out of panels. Got to wonder whats wrong with all of us these days, A. for electing them in the first place and B. Not kicking them out immediately irrespective of 'elections'.

[@JOSEPHDANCE75]

It has never been about the weather and the environment.

[@marsbearmcw3050]

The biggest hypocrite in the country.

[@jasminetutt7631]

This is a complete joke!

[@ogasdiaz]

Is it bad that solar panels are now so cheap that people build fences with them? I can now get a 550w panel for 100 us which is incredible

[@waynemanning3262]

I’ve never been to Australia but isn’t the middle of the country large and relatively empty? Why not put solar out there if you have to.

[@kamsunleong6648]

Think how will a solar farm that's located in a remote place in the middle of the country, be able to transmit the stored energy to the end users in far away cities. Without having to build high voltage transmission lines stretching thousands of km as well.

[@glenmcneill1675]

There are many examples of solar farms and traditional farming working well together. This political attitude that they can’t coexist is BS, another agricultural product

[@petertiang71]

You can always buy "expensive" solar panels from US or Europe.... then it will not be "garbage"..... lol

[@manwingchi9156]

Most Countries put solar panels in their farm nowadays. What wrong with it. 😂😂😂

[@danyleon4870]

Really?. Indonesian put so;ar panel in their highway and-last time I remember-floating in the water.

[@rayfletcher3683]

What’s wrong with it is it destroys farmland and farmers. Food is the most important need of humans as well as all other life. 🇨🇦😢💁

[@sigmister]

Bowen will buy any garbage😂

[@gregmallitt]

only needs a large security squad as he is such a flog

[@8023120SL]

Dont forget the fleet of government ICE cars that were driven to Scone to transport the entourage to and from the photo op and then back again!

[@markmedia8252]

Why dot the go by there electric cars

[@rickman2267]

So where are the Greens on this? Crickets!

[@michasosnowski5918]

Surely getting drunk is more important than electicity! For Sky News.

[@MelbourneHandyman]

Farmers and citizens need to stop and block any construction of cheap replacables

[@TOOTSWEET61]

Can't EAT solar panels

[@jumboegg5845]

Sounds like a stupid location, but they must have some reason for building it there. Do some real journalism and find out why they want to build it there.

[@malck234]

The same crap is happening here in the uk...