Adelaide in for a storm!
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At the moment they is living the greeny dream
Many warnings were given apparently but the Govt. refused to listen it seems.
This will be good. Pilots telling us how to fix our HV transmission problems. Fact is the storm blew over 22 towers near Melrose. This trunk main supplies pretty well everything north and west of pt Pirie. Makes no difference how that power was generated it took out the system. The real issue is why it took out the rest of the state with it. The pollies and bureacrats are now covering there arses saying the system self protected itself. It shouldnt have. With auto reclosers,and a multitude of protection devises the system should have detected the line with the fault,dropped it off then re energised. It didnt. My personel opinion this is what you get when you sell off the assett and have multiple suppliers and distrubution networks all with there finger in the pie.The left hand doesnt know what the right hand is doing. Good luck NSW with your sell off.
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Facts at last. Nought to do with generation, all to do with distribution.
Funny thing is that a decent decentralised system fed by a generation in a multitude of decentralised locations (think rooftops, farms) would not rely on one point of failure. Think internet design.
Funny thing is that a decent decentralised system fed by a generation in a multitude of decentralised locations (think rooftops, farms) would not rely on one point of failure. Think internet design.
In fact if Pt Augusta was still on line the eyre peninsula would be supplied today. It used to supply all that and back up Torrens Is in Adelaide. But what would I know.I not smart like our pollies and snakeoil salesmen.
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In fact if Pt Augusta was still on line the eyre peninsula would be supplied today.
The problem of fluctuating power from renewables will be solved. The renewable industry is still in its infancy.
All those naysayers should hark back to early electricity production where the usual handbrakes predicted it would never be much use because the then DC current was only good for a couple of miles. .Then along came Nikola Tesla.
Where would we be today if the Luddites against electricity back then had not been ignored?
It was a 1 in 50 year event. Not a new manifestation of human induced climate change.
I'd be asking why 20+ transmission towers weren't engineered to withstand what is not an uncommon event.
I'd be asking why 20+ transmission towers weren't engineered to withstand what is not an uncommon event.
Did you ever stop to think that the dirty Pt Augusta power station and thousands of others like it may be a contributing factor to these weather events.
By the way, back to aviation, how did Parafield and ADL go?
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It was a 1 in 50 year event. Not a new manifestation of human induced climate change.
If one or more occur before then you may be induced to think you CoodaWooda Shooda been less skeptical about human induced climate change.
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Australia contributes less than 1% of global emissions.
As I understood the Bureau of Meteorology, the last time there was an event of this nature was in the 1960's. This appears to have been more cyclone than tornado.
Those towers look rather flimsy, in any event.
(When the proponent of a position uses exaggerated claims and character assassination, rather than basic facts, as its tools of trade, I can be nothing but skeptical.
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Those towers look rather flimsy, in any event.
(When the proponent of a position uses exaggerated claims and character assassination, rather than basic facts, as its tools of trade, I can be nothing but skeptical.
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Via rutan around:
Did you ever stop to think that the dirty Pt Augusta power station and thousands of others like it may be a contributing factor to these weather events.
The problem of fluctuating power from renewables will be solved. The renewable industry is still in its infancy.
All those naysayers should hark back to early electricity production where the usual handbrakes predicted it would never be much use because the then DC current was only good for a couple of miles. .Then along came Nikola Tesla.
Where would we be today if the Luddites against electricity back then had not been ignored?
Did you ever stop to think that the dirty Pt Augusta power station and thousands of others like it may be a contributing factor to these weather events.
The problem of fluctuating power from renewables will be solved. The renewable industry is still in its infancy.
All those naysayers should hark back to early electricity production where the usual handbrakes predicted it would never be much use because the then DC current was only good for a couple of miles. .Then along came Nikola Tesla.
Where would we be today if the Luddites against electricity back then had not been ignored?
...then along came Nikola Tesla.
"The only method compatible with our notions of civilisation and race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilisation and..."
continues PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning: A Machine to End War
...so, rutan around, are yer a eugenics true believer or is yer a Luddite..
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This appears to have been more cyclone than tornado.
News reports say tornados took out the power towers. Before you become too skeptical it might be wise to check whether the claims are exaggerated.
A 'tornado' filmed in South Australia - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Binghi,
Do I take it from this that you are advocating the removal of all taxpayer subsidies from the coal industry and the power distribution industry. If so you and I are on a unity ticket.
Humans are rarely (never?) flawless . Do we ignore Tesla's electrical genius because his outdated views re eugenics? Do we ignore Einstein's theories because he was a womaniser?
not tax payer subsidies,
Humans are rarely (never?) flawless . Do we ignore Tesla's electrical genius because his outdated views re eugenics? Do we ignore Einstein's theories because he was a womaniser?
Hmmm... I see most of South Australia's big power stations ain't working at the movement..
Plenty of coal around Oz, why ain't the S.A. Power stations working.......
Having a look-see at S.A's current wind map I see's quiet a bit of it:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#curren...27,-33.53,3000
The big S.A. power stations are wind. Now they got too much wind..
Hense, at the moment practically no wind power in S.A. Wind Energy in Australia | Aneroid
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Plenty of coal around Oz, why ain't the S.A. Power stations working.......Having a look-see at S.A's current wind map I see's quiet a bit of it:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#curren...27,-33.53,3000
The big S.A. power stations are wind. Now they got too much wind..
Hense, at the moment practically no wind power in S.A. Wind Energy in Australia | Aneroid
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