Robert Goes Solo Down Under!
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week's podcast is verging on a classic Robert rant! Sharing his thoughts on Dunkelflaute, energy intermittency and sovereign wealth funds, Robert also covers the shocking 'estimated' cost of the UK's North Sea oil fields clear up operation.
Tempering these stories with good news about ENORMOUS wind turbines, Hertz Rental Cars global EV investment and renewable power solutions for Australia's outback farmers, Robert wraps up with a final thought on his prediction for Toyota's future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged podcast. Now I'm currently sitting |
| 0:14.0 | in a Nissan Leaf that belongs to the good car company in Australia. So I'm in Australia |
| 0:20.5 | as well, I think I should point that out. And I'm sitting here early in the morning, |
| 0:25.0 | it's about 6-15 in the morning, while I'm charging the car. So there is about four kilometres |
| 0:31.6 | from where we're staying at the moment in Brisbane, is the University of Queensland and they |
| 0:37.2 | have a Tritium Electric Vehicle Fast Charge Station here and it works and it's free. |
| 0:45.0 | So what is not to love? So I've tickled down here, plugged the car and I'm just topping |
| 0:49.0 | it up now. And I thought what should I do while I'm sitting waiting for a car to charge, |
| 0:55.8 | which I very rarely do. And I thought what I'm going to do, some of the podcast. So there we go. |
| 1:01.6 | So happy new year to all our lovely listeners on the fully charged show and has always |
| 1:07.9 | let us hope that collectively in the grand scheme of things, 2023 is a little bit better |
| 1:13.4 | than 2022 and hopefully in the year after that will be fractionally better than 2023. |
| 1:19.5 | You know, that's what you've got to hope to. Not just in the UK, but all around the world. |
| 1:24.7 | I say this because I'm obviously not in the UK at the moment. I'm in Australia. I've been here |
| 1:29.5 | for three and a half weeks now, nearly four weeks and I'm very aware, very aware. I've written |
| 1:36.0 | a little blog about this, but you know, as someone who is advocating very publicly that we should |
| 1:43.9 | strive towards burning less. I'm going in my lawns for some criticism because I burnt quite a lot |
| 1:49.9 | of fuel in an aircraft to get here. It's going to annoy some people and there's nothing I can do |
| 1:55.6 | about it because it's a really big topic that we're dealing with. The transition that we barely |
| 2:03.1 | started, the transition away from relying 100% on fossil fuels, which is how we live at the moment. |
| 2:10.2 | I think, I mean, the only way I don't even want to talk about that much, but one way I can explain |
| 2:14.2 | things is I've never, never in my life had a proper job. I don't even know what it would be like where |
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