pmccarthy

Nah, it’s Whitby.

He runs all the way to Whitby.

Out is not a letter.

I just tried again to make a booking at my "local" Telstra store to sort out my account. The next available booking is tomorrow week. They really don't want our business.

He's the half-yearly prophet.

Clamp

The proctologist went on holiday to look up his relatives.

I was surprised to learn that Ireland is such a wind energy resource.

Same thing happened to me a decade earlier with a mainframe and the Melbourne cup.

A genealogist looks up the family tree. A gynecologist looks up the family bush.

Robert Redford?

If the Aeronca was a person it would be dyslexic too.

I have had balls dragging in the mud and I didn’t invent anything.

igonre the title. This is a really good explanation of how wind turbines work.

Great story Onetrack, thanks for brightening my morning.

Same thing happened to my wife. It took a lot of undoing.

Decommissioning a mine takes years to decades. There are hundreds of mines in Australia. A nuclear plant would be no different in the time required.

I agree nuclear will be only part of the mix (say 30% eventually). Then say 50% renewable (in 30-50 years from now) and 20% gas.

Keeping the nuclear power debate alive... 33 other countries have nuclear power Snowy 2.0 will take at least as long as a nuclear plant from inception to become operational Renewable energy is being subsidised through renewable energy certificates at about $3 billion a year Energy minister Chris Bowen says Labor's target will require 40 large wind type turbines every month and 22,000 solar panels every day for eight years plus 28,000 kilometres of new transmission lines The cost of the transmission lines alone will be $80 billion According to Labor at about $3 M each the wind turbines will cost about $12 billion The 4 million new 9 kW home solar systems will cost about $32 billion at $8000 each Together that's $44 billion to provide 54,000 megawatts of installed power which due to intermittency is only about 1/3 of that at any one time say 18,000 megawatts A Net Zero Australia study involving three universities says that the cost of going to renewables without nuclear is about $1.5 trillion by 2030 The cost of nuclear power looks quite good in comparison

I sent in for a free Julian Assange but didn't get one.

Thou darest to question that word?

I grew up in Broken Hill, where the town of 32,000 people and the mines were run entirely on diesel generators in three power stations. We could hear them humming at night. Trains full of diesel seemed to arrive every day. The town was not connected to the grid until 1986. Now it has a 53 MW solar farm.

I looked up the Yackandandah story. If the battery itself cost $200,000 as reported, then the installed cost would be around $300,000. It is a 274 kWH battery. It would keep ten houses going for a day, or 20 houses going for 12 hours. Yackandandah has 1800 people, say 450 houses, so a 12-hour supply would require 22.5 of those batteries at a cost of $6.75M. I guess it can be done but a diesel generator would keep going as long as you kept the fuel up to it.

Grid batteries last minutes not hours or half a day. They are for smoothing.

In Vic there are protest against power lines and offshore wind in particular, which have stalled development. I believe this is true in farming zones generally and hobby farms particularly and probably in the green part of Australia generally. To get anywhere near the renewable uptake needed to meet demand they will need to bring in draconian laws.