“Europe has installed roughly 1,500 offshore wind turbines”
That’s all nice and every thing but our main problem is storing all this energy, many Australians have solar (due to our rebates), much like other countries. We feed it back into the grid, but most of that is lost. Our government continues to increase the amount of coal burnt each year, i fear we in Australia will never overcome to strength and ‘money’ in the mining industry, as you might know we have quiet the boom over here with the mining. I myself am just a 1st year  university student (Environment Science and Management) i want to work under mining not for the money but for habitat rehabilitation, many mining operation still have decades of old problems with their environments, however this is not what i wish to argue (just a little about myself).
perhaps you might know someone to contact about Australia’s hope, or the global hope for energy storage, i’m only 20 years old and i worked in electrics for a year full time (40 hours weeks) I know our battery technology is crap, even at its best and we really need to push for better battery technology…