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I worked in the industry for nearly 14 years and still have close ties to it. I am also thinking of getting back into it. SA wants to build another 13GWs of intermittent generation (for a 3.5GW max demand grid) So not from the Murdoch press. As you can see in the photo I shared earlier the turbines rotor are well above any turbulance, shading from buildings. Most of the shadowing comes from the turbine next door. See the attached photo for how far the turbulence lasts. (Hornes Reef) Surprised me considering how efficent the blade is. When we use to hang glide, you would hardly feel the wake of a sailplane but a hanglider would give you a fair old thump. Realistically apart from Nimbyism it makes sence to build them in the citys or in really close vicinity. Low line losses and less transmission from the actual windfarms. The people that want them tend to live in electorates in the citys where WTGs and large solar farms arent situated. Adelaide parklands would be the ideal spot for a solar farm. Again, close to load centre. Doze all the trees and there you have it.

So you are an expert on wind turbine placement now, You said before they site them in high wind which is wrong,constant wind is what is needed. Turbines in Aust are starting to sit on 150m towers, they would be higher than most industrial buildings. As far as city slickers go,we cant even get decent height buildings in SA without North adelaide or the city council kicking up a stink. It is already ugly being a city. So yes a lot of city slickers have yhe old not in my back yard syndrome!

yep. About time they started jailing CEO sif they want to stop it. Will never happen though, to many politicians looking after their post politics jobs.

get better advice saying they will lose less seats if they dont build them in city slickers view

They really are an ebarrassing couple of d*cks.

How many jobs can you go into like they do without being accused of conflicts of interest or maybe insider trading. I also don't believe they are overpaid. Corporate type positions aren't really known for job security. My last 2 employers had several "clean outs ". A lot of wandering about weather people left or were pushed. I never said Snowy 2 is not a good concept. Who would have thought that that digging tunnels wouldn't have had issues.

Not so much high wind areas but consistent wind. The turbine is then sized with rotor diameter and power output to suit. Could use the plains north of Adelaide as they get a sea breeze most summer evenings when the peak is. I would say that to many votes to lose though. Could see a V47? type size turbine from the London Eye. Several V90 3MW and what look like a Vestas 4MW (112 to 115m rotor) or Enventus (162-182m) platform in Amsterdam. Turnbull is slimy because as with all politicians they go and get cushy jobs with company's that they work with during their time in politics. He was a big influence on the snowy 2 project. In the real world away from politics this would be a conflict of interest. I know some people will say they need to do something when they leave politics which is fair enough but maybe the could lose their politicians pension if they do. I believe the pensions were when people use to put their lives/ careers on hold during their time in politics. People use to stay in the same job their whole lives.

Link to AEMO page where the previous image came from. https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem Openelectricity page for those that are interested. may need to tick the curtailment boxes as they don't seem to in the charts when using the link sometimes. Open Electricity: South Australia PEC (NSW interconnector) has been energised since early October and they have just lifted maximum capacity from 150MW to over 300. Has a price and demand tab as well.

SA's power has just got cleaner. We are importing black coal power as well as brown coal. Really weird how the prices are a lot cheaper in SA verses Vic and NSW.Normally power should run from cheapest to more expensive. At the moment NSW is $47 and SA $-53. A difference of over $100.

Trust me it happens. We ended up having to dig a large hole 6m x 6m, trifurcating the cables and mounting the phases to a frame and reburying. Cost the customer 1000s.

like any thermal generator, you just open the steam/gas valves like we have with coal plants for the last 100 years. If you have several plants on line they all only need to increase one a small amount. The generator doesn't actually need to accelerate, just need to keep it running at the same speed and increase the power coming out of it. What ids the going price for the alternative. Nobody knows!

What biased in that. That is the way it is. Thing failing are not just limited to coal and gas. 450MW of wind tripped off after seeing too many grid drops in a certain amount of time causing SA to go black. Underground feeders fail at wind farms because they cycle between full load and no load causing thermal cycling and making the joints fail. We replaced every joint twice before we got them more reliable. Just as well we did because we ended up with twice as many joints. Inverters fail at battery facilities. That is one of the advantages of wind and solar how quick you can turn them on and off IF the fuel is available. When we get nuclear we will be able to use them to turn off when there is to much power on the grid.

This was for grid stability. Something the synchronous generators don't have to worry about. No trying to discredit them at all. Just a reality for the situation. Having to turn the "cheapest" form of electricity of is just another cost they indirectly cause. The price probably went to over $20,000MWh if they were that short. Price cap in NSW is $23,200. Would have had to bring underutilised gas on line.

Interesting, Windfarms in Victoria shutdown for grid stability. https://wattclarity.com.au/articles/2026/10/wind-farm-disconnections-for-system-strength/

looks like they sent some delegates, pity they didn't pay there way. Why was it put on Australia

China, India, US, EU

Don't go to summits when the main players don't turn up.

The old politics gets people going!😁

Do you really believe they weren't planning to do anything with this before the election. Like I said I expect a lot out of politicians. Sounds like you are just accepting it. The total promises tracked. That sounds like a way of picking and choosing what promises we will look at. Maybe they got Albo to choose the ones they looked at. This would be a good thing https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8n99727lvo Yep you are right, but the government should not be spending money it doesn't have to. The climate talks they just had in the Philippines for example. None of the major polluters rocked up and it ended up by the Pacific Islanders telling us Australia has to do more. Who didn't know that's what they would say! What a waste of taxpayers money yet we have young people who need to choose between eating, paying rent or paying bills. As I said in my post, we haven't had good politicians for 30 odd years. I also said Albo is the current prime minister so at the moment the buck stops with him. I am pretty sick of politicians from all party's blaming the last governments. FFS who cares, I want to know what they are going to do about it in the future. N0-one said it was made up by labor but they are currently saying how good it is. Misleading. Again it is not just this party but they are the ones currently in power. Remember they were going to be transparent. Looks like they lied about that as well. If ON does alright at the next election, labor and the coalition only have themselves to blame.

Who mentioned the libs. I expect a lot from politicians and the last 30 years or so they have been below par. Albo is in power at the moment so he is the one that needs to lead by example. We are also told how good the unemployment figures are at the moment. From the ABS- employed persons (aged 15 and over) during the reference week as employed persons (aged 15 and over) during the reference week as those in paid work for at least one hour, unpaid family workers working one hour or more, or individuals temporarily away from their job or business under specific conditions. What a joke and misleading.

Make shit up like $275 off power bills, we won't touch negative gearing or CGT. Standby what I said, conman. He isn't the only one.

or somebody everyone try's to avoid,

So basically he is a shonky con artist.

There's your problem!

I think there is more than just a few older then 5 years on the road in SA at least. My direct family-4 of us, the newest vehicle is 2016, 4 vehicles. Maybe in the city, definitely not out in the country. All of us employed with average to good paying jobs.