The war against renewable energy
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The liberals simply cannot be elected. Australia will be destroyed if they get in.
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And here is the reality
“There is not one jurisdiction on the plant with a renewable energy strategy based on solar or wind the has clean energy. Unless of course it has significant access to hydro or nuclear”
So perhaps those anti technologies that work are what you suggest? Are you one of them?
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If a country has nuclear already, by all means use it in transition, much as we are using coal and gas
But stop telling us it will be cheaper in australia, it most certainly won’t
Hinkley C: UK nuclear plant price tag could rocket by a third
EDF says final costs could soar by about a third as it faces a delayed completion date.
www.bbc.com
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If a country has nuclear already, by all means use it in transition, much as we are using coal and gas
But stop telling us it will be cheaper in australia, it most certainly won’t
Hinkley C: UK nuclear plant price tag could rocket by a third
EDF says final costs could soar by about a third as it faces a delayed completion date.
I do not advocate we should build a Gen 3.5 reactor
Truth and reality are important in debates
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Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom are trying to blame climate change for their incompetence. Don't be fooled. They are evil pieces of shit.
I still think Gas is the best transition for us, because its a quarter the CO2 of Brown Coal ( if done right ) and can switch on and off pretty well with renewables .
If we just had the gas generation NOW instead of coal we'd be one of the cleanest countries on the planet but.
BUT :
Victoria ran themselves out of gas.
We run decrepit old gas turbines ( 2nd hand from NZ ffs ) that aren't very efficient.
If anyone suggests building a new one purists scream about it not being renewable.
If we just had the gas generation NOW instead of coal we'd be one of the cleanest countries on the planet but.
BUT :
Victoria ran themselves out of gas.
We run decrepit old gas turbines ( 2nd hand from NZ ffs ) that aren't very efficient.
If anyone suggests building a new one purists scream about it not being renewable.
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You keep parroting this crap over and over …. Large scale batteries are only 7 years in the making.
We will have a mix including Hydro… but there is no obstacle in the way of 100% Solar wind and battery …. It just takes time.
Technologies improving everyday…. Prices continue to fall. Battery life continues to get better…
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I know our battery capacity is increasing at an amazing rate… I also know that a high % of demand at night can be met by wind, with batteries backing it up.
It’s the peak demand at the moment that battery storage is having an enormous impact and smashing the need for gas… basically no large spikes in December and so far in Jan.. where I am. The need for gas will non existent 95% of the time. That’s the plan.
The crap Power Raid keeps parroting is just DUMB… we aren’t going to be 100% wind and solar but it is possible… it’s just mathematics.
It’s always sunny or windy somewhere… and solar still works when’s it’s cloudy.
Most of the new solar farms are being built now include storage like the one at Wangaratta…
Snowy 2, plus the Hydro we already have won’t even be needed most of the time.
There is so much solar presently being wasted with curtailment, this wasted generation will be absorbed more and more by batteries and EVs.
Using EVs for power to load and power to grid will also have a massive impact on house hold demand.
Large batteries now approaching $200 a KWh including installation… which is 5c a Kilowatt with 4000 cycles (conservative figure).
Sodium batteries will decrease storage costs by another 30%.
The only hurdle is the time it takes to build the capacity up.
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Well id make more money and get a better return on my Solar and battery if Dutton wins and slows down the transition and we have more spikes from old coal ..
