Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest
Mike Cannon-Brookes
These two Australian billionaires are the men behind the Sun Cable project meant to suck up the plentiful solar energy available in Northern Australia, convert it into electricity, push it along to Darwin from where it would move farther west and then travel by the longest undersea electrical cable ever to Singapore, 4200 km and about $30 billion away. Big news when it was announced, it's disappeared from the top of the business page.
This proposed enterprise seems to resemble a brain-storming session by a couple of slightly inebriated jokers at a barbecue. But their intention is to remain billionaires so unless they can get their history of expertise in financial success to attract significant investment from others it won't happen. Such seems to be the case.
The solar farm's electricity could be sent to southern Australia but that won't require anything other than typical transmission lines so a smaller project could still result.
This is just more evidence of the decline in financial interest in "renewable" energy. While the climate anxious remain committed to eliminating atmospheric CO2 those who can afford to engage in the Quixotic task, both business and government, are becoming less interested.
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