groundswell bass coast climate change renewable energy

This is electrolysis, so makes you wonder where SA will find plenty surplus of fresh water .

FuelCellWorks

Will Angus Taylor be coming to the rescue, or….?

RenewEconomy

If he bid for escape from Penrith/Sydney to western plains and affirdabke real estate, Musk quoted $1Billion, dual tunnels, 50km.

So Southern Cross to Tullamarine, 23km $0.5B, rapid install, small tunnels, below other infrastructure, will Australia ever look beyond 19th century style rail? 4,400 people per hour and proving trial already under LA.

NewAtlas

Such a pity that what passes for mainstream media in Australia makes it difficult, even for an enlightened soul like Angus Taylor, to just drop the nuclear (not)question once and for all. It was only ever justified as feed for enrichment beyond power grade fuel to real end product of nuke weapons.

CleanTechnica

To respect Minister Angus Taylor, surely he needs to change his broken record repeats that coal fired power is the solution.

But coal is actually the problem.

It’s only on heat wave days that demand for electricity peaks. Obviously there’s plenty solar, also no shortage of wind. For the big fossil fuel generators, they bid high prices for gas but make most money by supplying as much as possible from coal power stations.

Unfortunately, 50 year old coal plants are fragile when cranked to 100% in hot weather. When they fail, cause if failure is rupture of steam tubes, inside as well as outside of the boiler, the size of 20 storey building for brown coal. The only option is then to shut down.

Size of most steam turbine generators is 500MW(megawatts). When demand on the grid is 20,000MW, from north QLD to SA, when 500MW drops out, somewhere, without warning, big power surges ricochet back and forth around the grid until other generators can fill the gap, as some parts of the grid trip out, black outs, here, there and everywhere, not easy to reset.

The best result to stabilise surges is the Tesla big battery in SA, ramping many MW, both up and down, in milliseconds, so that other generators, fossil or renewable, can provide longer term supply.

When will we see leadership to shutdown these old dinosaur coal generators so that faster investment in renewables is more certainly viable?

“Coal fired” and “baseload” are such hopelessly old fashioned notions that Angus Taylor can only try to make them convincing by shouting, again and again. Of course, the COALition do understand, it’s just that they’re paid to not do so.

Please click to read AFR review below:

AFR

Words are important, price and tax are the problem. When first conceived, words were “fee and dividend”. This means fee charged to company as % of fossil fuel extracted which is then included in prices from service providers to end users. It’s easy to do this, data already provided to Tax Office.

As end users submit annual tax return, Tax Office reimburses dividend for carbon fee paid, also easy, already in place. Super simple and crystal clear.

If money is kept separate from general tax revenue then it’s not a tax. As you get dividend, you’re motivated to spend it on ways of reducing energy consumption, for future savings.

FriendsOfEarth

NewAtlas

So much concrete is poured for a new nuclear station that it adds to climate change before construction is complete. By the time any reactors financed by this scheme are up and running, the battle to avoid the atmosphere overheating could well be lost, according to scientists. A similar idea was tried in the US – getting consumers to pay up front for two nuclear power reactors in South Carolina – but it was abandoned when $9bn had already been spent.

Climate News Network

DIW Berlin calculated that for every 1,000 Megawatts of nuclear power capacity that has been built since 1951, there were average economic losses of between 1.5 to 8.9 billion Euros ($A2.4 to $A14.3 Billion).

“Nuclear power was never designed for commercial electricity generation; it was aimed at nuclear weapons.

RenewEconomy

Prof Ross Garnaut paints a picture of Australia as a superpower of the post-carbon world economy. Our world-leading wind and solar resources can and should be harnessed into making the world’s lowest-emissions steel, aluminium and lithium, instead of just exporting ore. Our cheap clean energy can be turned into hydrogen, the “God molecule” of the post-carbon industrial era, and the economics are shifting such that it may soon make sense to export electricity by subsea cable to our south-east Asian neighbours.

Has Angus Taylor ever set out a vision for Australia’s energy future that’s even remotely compelling?

TheGuardian