Aboriginees are going to have something to say about wasteland.
If you have the electricity I cant see making hydrogen from it has any value perhaps only for shipping?
I think the solar mirrors to heat liquid is the only renewable with backup so skip PV panels and all the pollution they create to manufacture, saying that I dont know the inputs of making a curved mirror. Spain is big in this so hence with a similar environment Australia must be looking at this as well?
Nuclear is todays only carbon neutral source that has a known long life so wont be thrown away in 10 or so years like many other solutions. and a life time of byproducts can easily be stored on site. Technology could fix that one day?
If you look at the USA model that is fast adding wind and some solar it is also adding gas gen plants at a large rate to cover dark still periods.
Pollution from power generation is going down but I doubt the other issues the manufacturing and disposal of the new technologies are helping GHG’s or total carbon emissions.
It might just be a transfer of pollution location?
Thats going to be the same for batteries
Investing in the future has lots to do with the capitalist model that there will be growth.
Lets see if the new airport and port keep going at the rate pre lockdown?
Singapore working hard to get more self sufficiency in food and water but is that possible in a city state to be self sufficient?
Only nuclear would allow that from the power point of view.
Desalination is a massive power drain so unless you have nuclear you shouldnt touch it
The Wuhan is showing that less economic activity is saving the planet more than anything we have ever done hence it means the world needs less people to survive with the current scare you models.