Guru
Joined: 02/02/2017
Location: AustraliaPosts: 1476
| Posted: 09:33am 10 May 2026 |
Grodoh:
I expect we will see off-grid becoming a reason to condemn a house, in the suburbs.
no chance for this in the sticks.
but once you choose off-grid in the 'burbs, you get increasingly angry letters from the local council, until the sheriff turns up in his Hilux.
I see this as part of end-stage capitalism, where all stops are pulled out to "just get all the money from the little people, and fast, too. move it to our owners fast."
Not local council fault, they are just following orders. from state and federal govt.
And those 2 can also say "it's just the way it has to be now", as directed by our owners (vis a vis USA/UK/OThers creditors and what not)
I read recently that the 4 or 5x increase in connection charges thing was
"consulted with community expressions of interest and submissions"
and about 85% was against it. But it's locked in and they are just doing what they have to do which is ask interested parties what they think.
and then ignore them and go ahead with the plan.
so here we are in AUS:
huge build out of roof-top solar
huge build out of batteries in most of the new ones
so much chatter from our leadership about renewable energy seeming to be making some progress to get off the FF teat
but clearly it's not that simple for many opaque reasons.
some clear ones too. just read The Australian and the AFR for guidance on
what our owners would prefer us to do.
I despair at this failure of public policy, political courage and nation building.
we failed with this in the recent past and are failing worse now with this crap.