On: Australia has the most expensive energy bills

[andy_ppp]

I find it strange that a huge number of governments aren't falling over themselves to get Tesla to build one of the roughly 100 needed giga factories in their country.

Pay for it to be built, give crazy good loan deals etc. whatever it costs really to have energy independance has got to be worth it.

[dagw → andy_ppp]

How does building a giga factory in your country lead to energy independence?

[andy_ppp → dagw]

By having a means of producing batteries you'll be able to rely on renewables won't you? I thought that was the whole idea?

[vkou → andy_ppp]

Unless you have very limited supply of lithium, you will not be energy-independent.

The real reason for it though is that, unlike what HN thinks, Tesla is also not the only company in the world capable of building a battery.

That, and batteries are a terrible solution to long and medium-term energy storage.

[andy_ppp → vkou]

Yes, we could choose to solve a lot of these problems by pushing water higher.