While it might sound absurd, the Port of Newcastle is run by a consortium of mining companies and is a separate Profit and Loss, with a separate management team. They don’t mine or process coal. It’s literally just a rock moving facility from the trains to boat. They are doing what is profitable – minimising energy costs to achieve that.
What this does tell you is that private industry is choosing renewables because it’s cheaper, which is counter to the conservative narrative that renewables are being pushed on the grid and cost too much without subsidies.
PewPewFingerGunz says
Man, they are so close to getting it.
wwarnout says
Using the world’s cleanest energy to process and distribute the world’s dirtiest.
astrosunmoon says
Greenwashing at its finest.
zoonose99 says
idk what everyone’s upset about, coal *is* renewable via mass extinctions over geological time.
Renewing energy is thermodynamically
impossible, anyhow — existence is one long, unidirectional, entropic slog from big bang to heat death.
But good job going green!
NewCastleIndiana83 says
But is it renewable trees?
CanuckianOz says
While it might sound absurd, the Port of Newcastle is run by a consortium of mining companies and is a separate Profit and Loss, with a separate management team. They don’t mine or process coal. It’s literally just a rock moving facility from the trains to boat. They are doing what is profitable – minimising energy costs to achieve that.
What this does tell you is that private industry is choosing renewables because it’s cheaper, which is counter to the conservative narrative that renewables are being pushed on the grid and cost too much without subsidies.
_weiz says
Def oniony, but it is also still a step in a good direction.