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Flat White

Bowen’s sabotage

28 January 2025

9:22 AM

28 January 2025

9:22 AM

A bloke called Arthur from Camp Mountain, a community of less that 1,500 people some 20kms northwest of Brisbane, has a clear view all the way to reality. He wrote a short but sharp letter to the Editor, published in The Australian (January 21, 2025):

‘Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers have come up with $2bn for aluminium smelters to use renewables when the core problem is that physics and the science of energy tell us renewables cannot provide the energy required for smelters to be competitive in the world market; that not one major aluminium smelter in the world runs on...

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