Australia’s infrastructure needs development—although solar and wind are useful resources in the clean energy transition, they produce considerable waste.
‘If you want to talk about bad optics, I don’t see how they could be any worse than right here,’ said Michael Chamberlain of Protect the Public’s Trust.
Wind power and solar power are ways to reduce carbon emissions, but these generation sources are dependent on the vagaries of the weather, which means neither wind nor solar can produce electricity on-demand at all hours of the day.