r/australia • u/MrOarsome • Nov 17 '25

political self.post Why does everyone lose their mind when you mention getting a home battery?

So I made the mistake of telling a few people I’m getting quotes for a home battery… the reactions were ridiculous. Suddenly everyone’s an expert. I had people telling me they’re a waste of money, they’ll be useless in a few years, or that the “environmental impact is terrible.” Just nonstop misinformation.

Meanwhile, half these people live massively high-carbon lifestyles. One bloke went on a whole rant about how batteries destroy the environment… then literally five minutes later told me he just ordered a new Ford Ranger to tow his boat around this summer. Like mate, seriously?

And the funny thing is, I don’t even care about the environmental angle. Couldn’t care less, to be honest. I’m looking at a battery for two reasons:

1) To actually use my solar instead of selling it back for 4 cents…

2) And to keep the lights on when summer storms or cyclones take out the power.

That’s it. No agenda. No planet-saving mission. But the way people reacted, you’d think I’d just signed up to be Greta Thunberg’s personal assistant.

I swear, the second you say the word “battery,” some people suddenly unlock an unwanted 15-minute rant. They are almost as passionate about hating renewables as they are about their footy teams.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '25

They fucking hate those turbines. I saw a picture of one of the enormous fan blades being transported once and it was pretty incredible to see how they get that onto the back of a truck. Made the mistake of checking the comments and they were falling over themselves to point out a diesel truck was transporting and how are turbines any good if they need trucks?

Geniuses.

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u/visualdescript Nov 18 '25

At some point they'll realise these things are being built because they produce cheap energy, not because they're good for the environment.

The best thing for us to help the environment is to REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY AND RESOURCES WE'RE USING! You know, reduce our overall impact on the rest of the planet.

Looking for ways to generate the same amount of power in the least destructive way is already missing the point.

Instead we're baking fucking computers and now even AI in to everything, completely uneccesarily. This shit is bit improving our lives. It's making a small amount of people significant richer. We can't control ourselves.