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013 | 100 Mike Cannon-Brookes: Investing in carbon neutral Australia

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The Story of a Tweet to Elon Musk

You tweeted to Elon Musk in 2017, can you tell me the story of that tweet? South Australia had just had a series of blackouts. They were being blamed on renewables - which turned out to be not true. It was largely due to interconnectors failing in the grid between Victoria and South Australia. And now we have gigawatt batteries in some cable looking at 20 gigawatt hours of storage. That'll be 10 years later but still shows the pace of technological change as well as everything else.

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