13 responses to “SA the wind-leader!”

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   billie

   Nov 23, 2022 11:45 AM

   Good info mate, thanks for the sites too .. there used to be a site with a map showiing the flow between states, it was a very effective visual aid (?)

   I mentioned this to a mate, his response, “nah, that can’t be right!”

   no one seems to have any idea what energy really costs or how much of their taxes are just being p*ssed away supporting the green fantasy (apart for a few that is)

   when will the reality hit? probably when everyone is trying to get an electrician to wire up their home car charger, then the one at the workplace, for every car. Car parks are going to eventually resemble old drive-in theatres with a post beside every spot with charging cables. Then people will hit the posts, get elecrocuted .. ahhh, the times we will have eh! Who gets to pay to have every supermarket car park, every public car park every parking spot in Australia wired up and then who pays for the electricity?

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   V

   Nov 23, 2022 11:47 AM

   Imagine supporting the development of an energy sector where you literally have thousands of megawatts of supply just evaporate or appear out of thin air and thinking this is somehow a good solution.

   We are going to get more and more frequency events creating islanding like SA saw last week because of the unreliability of renewables.

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   wal1957

   Nov 23, 2022 12:12 PM

   I think the advocates for ‘unreliable nirvana’ should wake up to themselves
   and get the BOM to homogenise that data…or at least get some
   ‘super dooper’ computer modelling- (of Dan Andrews fame),done.

   BTW…I was talking to some people who were on a ‘green’ plan with their electricity provider.
   They very proudly stated that all their power was coming from ‘unreliables’….because ‘green plan’.
   They obviously didn’t believe me when I stated otherwise.
   Oh well, at least I may have given them reason to do a little bit of research and educate themselves.
   But then again, it might just be wishful thinking on my part.

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   rickw

   Nov 23, 2022 12:34 PM

   This is an idiocracy.

   Then everyone starts running diesel gensets. This pushes up diesel price. This increase then flows into all goods and food.

   A spiral of stupidity.

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   Tony Taylor

   Nov 23, 2022 1:00 PM

   Wait until Andrews disinters the SEC and makes the situation even worse.

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   Nelson_Kidd-Players

   Nov 23, 2022 1:16 PM

   It’s not a true green power plan unless someone gets cut off if the Intermittents’ power is insufficient to supply all plan customers.

   Finally a beneficial application for smart meters.

   #Dreaming

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   Rafe Champion

   Nov 23, 2022 1:34 PM

   The narrative is about to change. A lot of people will wake up as their power bills get bigger, the cost of the massive buildout of infrastructure blows out, nothing gets finished on time and more rural communities get in the way.

   Just keep building wind literacy and encourage people to monitor the key sources of information – the AEMO data dashboard, the NemWatch widget and the Aneroid Energy site.

   Be sure that you can clearly explain that green progress is not indicated by the high levels of wind and solar power on sunny afternoons, it is limited by the amount of wind and solar that is available on windless nights.
   And show that SA is importing between dinner and mid-morning when the CP of the wind is a bit less less than average (29%). And often enough it is below 10% that I use as the formal definition of a wind drought. Actually I think 15% might be more realistic (half of the average) and that will dramatically increase the number of droughts.

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   Bruce

   Nov 23, 2022 6:27 PM

   Breaking Wind Leader?

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   Perfidious Albino

   Nov 23, 2022 6:39 PM

   The only real Green Leader was Rhodesian…
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    Gabor

    Nov 24, 2022 1:22 AM

    All well and true, but if this is the state of affairs now, and knowing this, the politicians still pushing for more EVs and renewables, who is advising them and why?

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    H B Bear

    Nov 24, 2022 9:52 AM

    Every time you see someone quote installed wind capacity or nameplate capacity figures know that you are being conned.

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    Forester

    Nov 24, 2022 2:03 PM

    Be sure that you can clearly explain that green progress is not indicated by the high levels of wind and solar power on sunny afternoons, it is limited by the amount of wind and solar that is available on windless nights.

    Imagine competing on price with the CCP when domestic business can’t run anything on night shift.
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    mem

    Nov 24, 2022 6:37 PM

    Willie Soon knows his stuff and is on top of the climate change fraud.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/19/willie-soon-speaks-at-the-university-of-chicago/
    Soon’s key points:

    Given the daily, seasonal, and annual range of temperatures around the Earth, the warming of the past 125 years is trivial.
    Except for ENSO variations, the global average surface temperature has hardly changed in over 20 years.
    Willie humorously dismantles the article on him in Wikipedia and Gavin Schmidt’s criticisms, these slides are worth the download!
    Willie plugs the article he wrote with 23 co-authors entitled: “How much has the Sun influenced Northern Hemisphere Temperature trends? An ongoing debate.” Seriously, this is probably the best climate change article written in the last thirty years in my humble opinion, I refer to it all the time. The bibliography alone is worth it. If you never read another climate article in your life, you should read this one. Download it here.
    He destroys the Mercury pollution nonsense that is permeating the media. Possible spoiler, don’t drink Coca Cola!
    Is it air pollution or weather?