Rio Tinto’s criticism of Australia’s solar power ambition could be answered by using old and new systems to go green.
The mining giant’s CEO Jakob Stausholm told business heavyweights at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos “we’re fooling ourselves” on the timeline to switch to clean energy.
Using huge solar farms to run Queensland’s aluminium smelters was “not that easy”, Stausholm said.
“People say, ‘Oh Australia, perfect, lots of sun, lots of space,’” he said.
“You actually first have to acquire the land, you have to get working with Indigenous people, you have to go through the cultural clearance of sites.”…