About GroundSwell Bass Coast

Posted on June 1, 2016 by groundswellbasscoast

Escalator500We’re a community group concerned with understanding the many dimensions of climate change, located 120km SE of Melbourne. We meet at San Remo pub, at 7.30PM on alternate Tuesdays, everybody welcome. Please click Climate Emergency Petition to help make climate a big election issue.

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AEMO’s coal power retirement plans under fire from AER

Posted on January 13, 2022 by groundswellbasscoast

The Australian Energy Regulator is locking horns with the Australian Energy Market Operator over phasing out coal-powered electricity.
— Read on www.afr.com/companies/energy/aemo-told-to-reassess-death-of-coal-power-20220109-p59mvd

Blah, blah, blah, why does this endless sermon disregard that big old coal fired power can only be run at 100%? Reduced power means low pressure steam danger if condensed water droplets preening turbine blades. Especially with brown coal, quality variations do cause danger of reduced output. Boilers are the height of 20 storey buildings. Conflict between more steam tubes and ash build up and bridging, corrected by shutdown, cool down scaffolding and jack hammers. Corrosion inside as well as outside of boiler tubes, leaks causing ash set like concrete. With Hazelwood, 8 x 200MW turbines, possible to reduce some to idle but newer 500MW are all or nothing.

Does AER not understand nature of problem, ever worse beyond 40 year use by date.

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Ultra-low cost solar “stretch goal” gets federal funding boost

Posted on January 10, 2022 by groundswellbasscoast

ARENA opens up to $40m in funding to expressions of interest from projects that promise to materially reduce the levelised cost of solar.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/ultra-low-cost-solar-stretch-goal-gets-federal-funding-boost/

“ARENA said the R&D funding program would be aligned with the Agency’s own ambitious target of ‘Solar 30 30 30’, to improve solar cell efficiency to 30 per cent and reduce the total cost of construction of utility scale solar farms to 30 cents per watt by 2030.” Not good news for fossils.

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Forest people offer the best hope of saving them

Posted on January 5, 2022 by groundswellbasscoast

23 August, 2021 − Trees are vital for solving the climate crisis. But there’s nothing simple about the forested world, as forest people know.
— Read on www.theenergymix.com/2021/08/23/forest-people-offer-the-best-hope-of-saving-them/

A must read, extra context, next time drought in Murray Darling is news, reflect on 18 to 24Billion trees now down to 8Billion and tree farming not much help compared with way Nature can make recovery

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Climate reality: A realistic path to a brighter future

Posted on January 5, 2022 by groundswellbasscoast

Climate reality: A realistic path to a brighter future
— Read on johnmenadue.com/climate-reality-a-realistic-path-to-a-brighter-future/

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PMs gigs rort$

Posted on January 4, 2022 by groundswellbasscoast

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His handout priorities which prevent free RATs…

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Shipping Liquid Hydrogen Would Be At Least 5 Times As Expensive As LNG Per Unit Of Energy – CleanTechnica

Posted on December 22, 2021 by groundswellbasscoast

Projects proposing to make hydrogen where sunshine and wind are constant & ship it to where energy is needed are based on hand-waving, ignorance or larceny. 
— Read on cleantechnica.com/2021/12/20/shipping-liquid-hydrogen-would-be-at-least-5-times-as-expensive-as-lng-per-unit-of-energy/

Originally, advantage here was so much land space for onshore wind farms. But now offshore proven to be competitive. Boris and little old UK boasting they’re set to be Saudi for hydrogen. Same again for any country adjacent to ocean.

Pity so much H2 obsession with Scomo.

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WA gas supply worries as 2025 shortfall looms

Posted on December 21, 2021 by groundswellbasscoast

Western Australia is facing potential shortages of domestic gas starting in 2025 due to downgrades to reserves at fields, the Australian Energy Market Operator warns.
— Read on www.afr.com/companies/energy/fresh-alarm-on-wa-gas-as-2025-shortfall-looms-20211214-p59hc2

“prices of about $7 a gigajoule, up from about $4.50/GJ last year.

The WA gas price index surged 7 per cent in the September quarter, its biggest percentage jump since 2015″

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Biden Tax Credit Could Boost America’s Budding E-Bike Industry – The Energy Mix

Posted on December 20, 2021 by groundswellbasscoast

Biden Tax Credit Could Boost America’s Budding E-Bike Industry – The Energy Mix
— Read on www.theenergymix.com/2021/12/15/biden-tax-credit-could-boost-americas-budding-e-bike-industry/

“United States may soon offer tax credits for e-bikes, “the world’s best-selling and fastest-growing form of electric vehicle” that is “a dynamic people-mover more efficient than any Tesla or Nissan Leaf,” Bloomberg Green reports.

Tucked among the more than 2,000 pages of the federal government’s Build Back Better spending bill is a tax credit of up to $90United States may soon offer tax credits for e-bikes, “the world’s best-selling and fastest-growing form of electric vehicle” that is “a dynamic people-mover more efficient than any Tesla or Nissan Leaf,” Bloomberg Green reports.

Tucked among the more than 2,000 pages of the federal government’s Build Back Better spending bill is a tax credit of up to $900 for e-bikes, “

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New ARENA funding round to help plug one of last gaps to 100% renewables grid

Posted on December 19, 2021 by groundswellbasscoast

Grid forming inverters – mostly likely hosted in battery storage installations – are seen as crucial to supply the system strength and other key grid services traditionally delivered by coal, gas and other spinning machinery.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/new-arena-fund-to-help-plug-one-of-last-gaps-to-100-pct-renewables-grid/

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Scott Morrison says there are only four countries in the G20 with a better emissions record than Australia. Is that correct? – ABC News

Posted on December 15, 2021 by groundswellbasscoast

Coal is likely to be completely gone from Victoria’s electricity system by 2032 with most other parts of Australia not far behindPrime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia’s emissions have come down 20 per cent, a record he says is beaten by only four other countries in the G20. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
— Read on www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-08/fact-check-scott-morrison-emissions-in-the-g20/100676322

looks like so much insistence emission reduction success is proverbial “last refuge of a scoundrel”

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