Renewable energy rocks

Hypothetically every person in Australia can be powered with renewable electricity

3 main tiers/scales
- grid
- microgrids
- standalone
    - stationary
    - mobile

10 main barriers
- politics

  - positive = 'do something' or 'do a lot'

  - negative = 'do nothing' or 'a baseload power argument distraction' to wind back years of progress
- a sense of urgency in a climate emergency

- plastic straw executive orders
- mining 'critical' minerals for renewable energy materials
- grid and microgrid transmission lines and electronics
- R&D
    - seed funding
    - engineering
    - materials
        - green chemistry
- commercialisation
    - seed funding
    - grants
- manufacturing
    - solar PV panels
    - wind turbines
    - batteries
    - bioelectricity/Biochar kilns

    - wave or wave/solar PV/wind

    - solar thermal 'Green Hydrogen' production with a special catalyst eg.activated biochar
    - ? manufacturing credits for 'critical' renewable energy infrastructure
- affordability
    - incentives/subsidies
    - project grants
    - pensioner discounts
- deployment
    - red tape/approvals
    - logistics
    - installation