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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.

The country may be doing well internationally but feel there is a lot more homeless people around. Have seen tents set up in places that normally don't have them that have been there for a while. I think people at the lower end of earnings are doing it tougher.

Bristol Hercules sleeve valve. don't know if he has finished it.

https://www.rotecaerosport.com/motorcycles

We had 6 people for a 140MW windfarm plus an admin. They always seem to exaggerate the amount of people it will employ. Better publicity I suppose

Looks like the data centre at Bundy in SA is going to be close looped cooled. Going to use about 800MW of which is about a quarter of the states Maximum demand. Bundy is half way between Morgan and Burra in station country. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-19/proposed-data-centre-in-south-australia-dividing-locals/106810776

Maybe you should accept that other people may know stuff you don't. Heaven forbid.

These manufacturers really aren't doing the planet any good, yet I bet most of them have a page on their webpage saying how green they are.

right back at ya, google it! Common knowledge for anyone that has looked into a bit.

I tend to disagree. NPPs use a lot of stainless steel and the newer technology will probably be using Hastelloy to handle the heat. It is also used in the pressure vessels as well. If I was designing a 100 year plant, I would be using it for a lot of the general fittings around the plant as well.