And to think the idiot running our state (Vic) is sending us down the same path. Despite the overwhelming evidence SCREAMING at him that the power supply in SA is a shambles, he's going to adopt the same ludicrous mantra. We want to be 'clean & green' as well. That's more important than providing reliable power to keep industry ticking over, and lighting/heating etc to the masses!!
Sheer folly to think that wind & solar alone is a viable alternative.
After he decimates the Latrobe Valley, we won't be able to power our own state let alone provide a back-up to SA. Its looking like not just industry that will be needing a back-up generator. I can see it now, every house in the street with a back-up generator chugging away in the evening, so they can cook their dinner, and watch the nightly news, with the premier crapping on about how he's saving the planet from all those dirty coal-fired power stations he's shutting down, while the rumble of the generators and the smell of the diesel fumes continue into the night....
Meanwhile, in India & China, as they build another couple of hundred new coal-fired power stations to supply cheap & reliable power to their booming economies, what must they be thinking when they see us shutting ours down, leaving the resource we are fortunate to have, buried in the ground, and going with an alternative that is much more expensive and a lot less reliable.
As my grandfather used to say.. 'Wake up Australia'..!!
