Cannon-Brookes and the new climate guard

You don’t often see people smiling when they talk about climate change.

Mike Cannon-Brookes.

But Mike Cannon-Brookes couldn’t help it as he quoted the responses of certain small-vision politicians to the plan he cooked up two years ago with fellow tech billionaire Elon Musk to help fix South Australia’s electricity crisis.

One of them, he recalled, derided the idea of installing the world’s biggest battery to store renewable energy and stabilise the state’s power grid as akin to building “the Big Banana of energy”. Another scoffed that it was the “Kim Kardashian of the energy world”.

“Oh, it got a whole bunch of rude names,” Cannon-Brookes told former United States vice-president and renewable energy campaigner Al Gore, and an audience of 700 or so figures from the worlds of business and civil society, gathered in a cavernous hall at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre last week.

Read the story from The Saturday Paper by Mike Seccombe - “Cannon-Brookes and the new climate guard.”