Pity that even combined with Tassie 2.0 these pumped storage...

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    Pity that even combined with Tassie 2.0 these pumped storage schemes just a small fraction of the amount of storage needed to create dispatchable power from Solar and wind.

    The ANU inventory of off-river PHES sites is a joke.

    Depends on the dearth of public numeracy and basic knowledge of physics for this mass delusion to be sustained.

    The few who know better are too often compromised by the rivers of cash being diverted from more useful purposes, in this well-intended but purposeless exercise in virtue signalling.

    The only financially viable dispatchable power source for our remnant mineral processing industry is coal from our 60GW of existing (still operating) steam plants. These are some of the cleanest in the world thanks to bag filters in NSW and all are located away from population centres.

    We crazily chose to adopt a policy that says we officially don't think nuclear is safe, (and it's a bit late to start now as it takes 10 years to permit a simple coal mine) whereas we happily take the revenue from exporting 1.3Mt/yr of Uranium Oxide from our reserves of 30% of world supply, to countries that use it safely.

    To build more combined cycle gas turbine plant does not make sense since we are in a transition, and other countries can use our abundant gas to provide intermediate response dispachable power to complement their nuclear base load.

    Expect gas and distillate fuedled peaking gas turbine and Internal combustion engines to be purchased such as AGL Barker Inlet and all those 1MW boxes that AEMO rents to get us through the summers for past 4 years.


    Last edited by acwmr: 24/05/19
 
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