Post by NFA on May 10, 2023 7:45:11 GMT 8
RE: The ever-amusing Mt Louisa Al
The Editor
The Townsville Bulletin
The ever-amusing Mt Louisa Al reckons I should check the renewables situation in Tasmania, (TB, TTE, 10/05). Let’s do that.
Tasmania has four industrial wind-electricity installations with a total potential maximum output of 568.4 MW, but on 04/05 their output (and the output of the other 75 other wind installations across Australia) collapsed to almost nothing.
At 11 am on 04/05, Tasmania’s wind installations were supplying no electricity and were actually drawing power from the grid to slowly rotate their blades to relieve bearing stress.
Tasmania has no solar-electricity industrial installations, but it does have some rooftop solar totalling an estimated (because it’s “behind the meter”) 137.8 MW.
At 11 am on 04/05, Tasmania’s rooftop solar was producing 123.7 MW.
Tasmania’s peak demand hovers around 1400 MW, so there’s no way it can ever supply its own power needs with its weak, intermittent renewables.
I suspect that Mt Louisa Al is using an extreme-left sleight-of-hand to include large hydro as “renewables” when we all know the extreme left block new hydro dam proposals.
In 1981, Tasmania held a referendum on options for a new dam on the Gordon River. 55% voted for one of two dam options, 45% voted informally as a “no dams” vote – and the government caved-in to that minority.
(Full disclosure: I was a dopey young greenie who rode his motorcycle to Tasmania in 1983 to participate in the final Gordon-below-Franklin anti-dam protest blockade. Thankfully, I learned a lot over the next 40 years and realised that greenies are just communists in disguise.)
Tasmania has 54 hydro dams and 30 hydro power plants capable of producing up to 9,000 MW of electricity and it capitalises on the “renewables” obsession by selling expensive power from antique dams to the mainland via the Basslink cable when water is available.
When Basslink broke in December 2015, Tasmania ran its dams down to 13% of capacity before it panic-bought large diesel generators to keep its lights on.
“Fossil fuels” to the rescue once again!
So, like most greenies, Mt Louisa Al has been brainwashed: Tasmania isn’t powered solely by contemporary renewables (wind and solar) or antique renewables (large hydro) – it relies on diesel, gas, and coal-fired power imported from the mainland when there’s no wind, no sunlight, and no water in its antique dams.
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Peter Campion
Tolga
The Townsville Bulletin
The ever-amusing Mt Louisa Al reckons I should check the renewables situation in Tasmania, (TB, TTE, 10/05). Let’s do that.
Tasmania has four industrial wind-electricity installations with a total potential maximum output of 568.4 MW, but on 04/05 their output (and the output of the other 75 other wind installations across Australia) collapsed to almost nothing.
At 11 am on 04/05, Tasmania’s wind installations were supplying no electricity and were actually drawing power from the grid to slowly rotate their blades to relieve bearing stress.
Tasmania has no solar-electricity industrial installations, but it does have some rooftop solar totalling an estimated (because it’s “behind the meter”) 137.8 MW.
At 11 am on 04/05, Tasmania’s rooftop solar was producing 123.7 MW.
Tasmania’s peak demand hovers around 1400 MW, so there’s no way it can ever supply its own power needs with its weak, intermittent renewables.
I suspect that Mt Louisa Al is using an extreme-left sleight-of-hand to include large hydro as “renewables” when we all know the extreme left block new hydro dam proposals.
In 1981, Tasmania held a referendum on options for a new dam on the Gordon River. 55% voted for one of two dam options, 45% voted informally as a “no dams” vote – and the government caved-in to that minority.
(Full disclosure: I was a dopey young greenie who rode his motorcycle to Tasmania in 1983 to participate in the final Gordon-below-Franklin anti-dam protest blockade. Thankfully, I learned a lot over the next 40 years and realised that greenies are just communists in disguise.)
Tasmania has 54 hydro dams and 30 hydro power plants capable of producing up to 9,000 MW of electricity and it capitalises on the “renewables” obsession by selling expensive power from antique dams to the mainland via the Basslink cable when water is available.
When Basslink broke in December 2015, Tasmania ran its dams down to 13% of capacity before it panic-bought large diesel generators to keep its lights on.
“Fossil fuels” to the rescue once again!
So, like most greenies, Mt Louisa Al has been brainwashed: Tasmania isn’t powered solely by contemporary renewables (wind and solar) or antique renewables (large hydro) – it relies on diesel, gas, and coal-fired power imported from the mainland when there’s no wind, no sunlight, and no water in its antique dams.
(383 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga