Post by NFA on Jun 11, 2023 4:38:06 GMT 8
RE: Renewables policy and solar flares will inevitably kill the electricity grid
The Editor
The Cairns Post
Everything that 26.5 million Australians rely on – food, water, sewerage, waste disposal, communications, etcetera – relies on electricity as a dependable and continual service.
Taking electricity away for a few minutes is a mere inconvenience. Taking it away for a few days will cause very serious problems, particularly in the high-rise cities.
A “grid black” event would result in a mass die-off of city-dwelling Australians after about four days.
The two major threats to electricity as a continual service are large solar flares and government energy policies.
Solar flares the size of the 1859 Carrington Event, which burnt out the telegraph system of the time, occur every 150-200 years. 1859 was 164 years ago. Larger flares occur on longer timescales.
Attempting to “transition to renewables” which can’t provide electricity as a dependable and continual service while pricing reliable generators out of business is a policy solar flare.
The primary responsibility of policymakers must be to ensure electricity remains a dependable and continual service to prevent a mass die-off of Australians.
Policymakers have enacted legislation that ratchets renewables content up over time, which will inevitably lead to a “grid-black” event. They aren’t considering solar flares at all.
A mass die-off of Australians is now inevitable because staggeringly negligent policymakers failed to learn enough about basic electrical engineering and astrophysics.
(217 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga
The Cairns Post
Everything that 26.5 million Australians rely on – food, water, sewerage, waste disposal, communications, etcetera – relies on electricity as a dependable and continual service.
Taking electricity away for a few minutes is a mere inconvenience. Taking it away for a few days will cause very serious problems, particularly in the high-rise cities.
A “grid black” event would result in a mass die-off of city-dwelling Australians after about four days.
The two major threats to electricity as a continual service are large solar flares and government energy policies.
Solar flares the size of the 1859 Carrington Event, which burnt out the telegraph system of the time, occur every 150-200 years. 1859 was 164 years ago. Larger flares occur on longer timescales.
Attempting to “transition to renewables” which can’t provide electricity as a dependable and continual service while pricing reliable generators out of business is a policy solar flare.
The primary responsibility of policymakers must be to ensure electricity remains a dependable and continual service to prevent a mass die-off of Australians.
Policymakers have enacted legislation that ratchets renewables content up over time, which will inevitably lead to a “grid-black” event. They aren’t considering solar flares at all.
A mass die-off of Australians is now inevitable because staggeringly negligent policymakers failed to learn enough about basic electrical engineering and astrophysics.
(217 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga
