The war against renewable energy

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

Base load is bullocks… 11 year old article..

Baseload power is a myth: even intermittent renewables will work

www.unsw.edu.au

Baseload is defined as the minimum level of DEMAND. It is real and exists and will always exist.

NSW, for example, has a baseload demand of 6,500MW.

 

[nut]

Agree. Money would be better spent on a huge decentralised battery network rather than large hydro storage.

There is definitely a place for pumped hydro.
Gas turbines that can eventually use hydrogen is also a great option.
To make hydrogen you currently need a lot of energy… something we will have with excess solar and wind 90% of the time.. So the idea would be to make hydrogen while sun shines and wind blows.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Agree. Money would be better spent on a huge decentralised battery network rather than large hydro storage.

To me it gets tricky to know what electricity will be available at any given time.

 

[swingdog]

‘Rising star’: Europe made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024

Report reveals solar power generated 11% of Europe’s electricity, surpassing coal at 10%

www.theguardian.com

 

[SaintsSeptember]

‘Rising star’: Europe made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024

Report reveals solar power generated 11% of Europe’s electricity, surpassing coal at 10%

www.theguardian.com

Oh and more Nuclear than Coal and Solar combined. Wind making inroads on Gas.

 

[nut]

Oh and more Nuclear than Coal and Solar combined. Wind making inroads on Gas.

And solar and wind combined producing more than nuclear.
Storage will see this trend continuing.

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

There is definitely a place for pumped hydro.
Gas turbines that can eventually use hydrogen is also a great option.
To make hydrogen you currently need a lot of energy… something we will have with excess solar and wind 90% of the time.. So the idea would be to make hydrogen while sun shines and wind blows.

Given the cost of hydro only goes up, I'd scrap the idea of hydro and pump that money into wind, solar and storage and new gas turbines (replace the aging crap ones we have)

 

[nut]

Given the cost of hydro only goes up, I'd scrap the idea of hydro and pump that money into wind, solar and storage and new gas turbines (replace the aging crap ones we have)

That’s pretty much labor’s plan.
Snowy 2 was an LNP policy