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The latest explicit support for *more* renewable energy from Europe's top representative body for the nuclear energy sector. Exemplary collegiality!
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John Bennetts
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John Bennetts
@RotaryBloke
Retired civil engineer. Recommends NP+Hydro+PV+Batteries+PHS, on a level playing field. Wind power destroys forests & wildlife & is not needed.
NSW, Australia Katılım Kasım 2014
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@CaptainAdvance1 @LLBiggers Gotta love that Google link. It comes with an assessment that the target site is spammy & unsafe.
Nothing gained.
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@RotaryBloke @LLBiggers Rewiring the Nation set aside $20 billion in the 2022-23 budget for transmission line additions. google.com/url?sa=i&sourc…
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Spain’s nationwide blackout was caused by wind and solar losing capacity too fast for the back up generation to turn on. If you think these technologies are the future you’re living in a fantasy world.
Electroverse@Electroversenet
Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last year. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear. Wind and solar triggered the collapse. Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every MW of that early loss coming from renewables. Gas and hydro remained stable until the cascade was already underway. The report calls it an unprecedented speed of blackout. This was a textbook inverter chain failure, with renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react. By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady. But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was... A systemic failure of weather-dependent power.
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@Qldaah Let the EV owners and sellers who want more public fast chargers pay for them. Problem solved.
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Initiated by the Palaszczuk government, Queensland's current EV network of 54 fast charging locations. The Crisafulli government has made no new committments to its extension. #qldpol qld.gov.au/transport/proj…
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@The__Unyielding 500?
I wouldn't give them 50 before they're all speaking Arabic
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"We cant do nuclear power because what if 500 years from now the people here speak a different language and cant reed the sign?"
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@MtotheShacks @Peter_Fitz Or details of on-the-air operating changes. Or data ownership and history. And more.
The manufacturers' overall control remains unbroken.
That is one reason for my daily drive being a 17 years old diesel ute.
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@RotaryBloke @Peter_Fitz No manufacturer is obliged to make available their servicing and repair manuals. That's why Bentley and Haynes books exist.
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I'd agree with that, and think it is likely something that the market doesn't appreciate.
My EV is as good today as the day I bought it, less a few tiny dings. I daresay it is the same for most EVs?
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@clarkes @Ispeek4me @Peter_Fitz I reckon the best deal is on 5 year old EVs - there are bargains to be had, depreciation is huge, if the car is cosmetically sound, unlikely to be other issues. batteries are lasting longer than the manufacturers originally expected.
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@CaptainAdvance1 @LLBiggers The government money was not budgeted. It was primarily shifted to retail bills via green levies, Dx costs and more. Pretty much entirely OFF budget, as what I call Reverse Robin Hood Taxation; taking from the poor to provide benefits for those with PV and batteries.
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@RotaryBloke @LLBiggers Great! The fossil fuel industry gets $11 billion a year of subsidies we should stop. We do pay for powerlines through our bills. Public ownership of monopoly infrastructure is cheaper than getting privatised companies to build it. The govt money needed was budgeted 4 yrs ago.
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@MtotheShacks @Peter_Fitz That is only one step on a long road, not a panacea.
Let me know when Elon publishes all of the information required to properly repair and maintain his fleets of electronic toys.
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@RotaryBloke @Peter_Fitz The EU has made locking out like you describe illegal under right to repair laws. You own the vehicle, you're entitled to fix it how you want.
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@liamlibertarian Primary vote swing against Labor was 2% not 20%. On estimated 2PP they have a swing to them.
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@DavidShoebridge @ajphelo @Greens I suggest a different approach, David. This demonstrates clearly one of the strongest reasons for Green being stuck permanently at single digit percentages.
In short: Try not being an aggressive ar5e.
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Old Spotty, on Yuin country, down the beautiful South Coast of NSW. If you want to know why so many of us Marched for Forests today this is why.
Old Spotty, 500 years proud, is in unprotected State Forest and all round is up for logging any day.
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It looks as if @AlHendiify muted replies to his crushingly ratio'd take, considering the countless unanswered attempts to inform him and assuage his concerns.
"Us" is mainly us people who are confident this issue is manageable David, not whoever you think you mean.
David AttenBruh@AlHendiify
Now show us 10,000 years worth of safely stored waste and how you communicate to a society 500 years into the future that no longer speaks the same language that this is an incredibly dangerous material.
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@MtotheShacks @Peter_Fitz Yes, but. Increasing complexity eg lock-out of maintenance by owners & private service companies limits benefits accrued from screens, auto-updating etc.
Then there is the Qld EV Ute start-up in Qld that folded last week when locked out by Ford.
+ Planned obsolescence.
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@RotaryBloke @Peter_Fitz My EV does software updates over the air, no dealer intervention required. And even if the updates stopped, the car would still drive. As to the screen dying, that's no different to components the the EMS on a modern car dying - if it dies you won't be able to drive the car
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@CaptainAdvance1 @LLBiggers If your asset needs development of additional transmission (grid) assets, then the cost should be on you.
Stop complaining that public money has not feathered your nest. The federal and state budgets are already tight.
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@RotaryBloke @LLBiggers #Astroturfing political opposition to needed transmission lines has slowed us from meeting the pace needed to replace retiring coal. The existing powerlines for the coal grid are 4 X what is needed now & were championed by the Coalition in the 60s & 70s. google.com/amp/s/reneweco…
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@rbowr17 @AntonyGreenElec They already need to wait for a week or two for the last of the mail to be delivered to those doing the counting.
That leaves a window of time to get started on the exclusions and the Upper House.
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@AntonyGreenElec why doesn’t the actual counting just following the explained theory - a full first preference count, and then a count of excluded candidates starting from the bottom
people can wait a few days
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I've written a post about where to with the further counting of votes for the South Australian election. You can find it on my personal blog or you can find the link in a response post below.
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@MissConnieBroo1 @Peter_Fitz Start with energy.
PV+W are not going to carry the primary load when it comes to frequency control, ramping up, ramping down & transmission extentions, etc.
Speaking of Tx upgrades... we were OK with what we had. The Tx & battery add-ons are to meet weaknesses in the Green Plan.
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Have not followed the Greens closely, but my reckoning is that while many people support their environmental thrust, they are scared off by other policies which they regard as too extreme.
Jill Dalton@jilldlovinglife
@Peter_Fitz @AnthChristo Why do you think the Greens don’t fair better? Genuine question.
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@matthewmusing @Peter_Fitz We aren't in Britain and the two nation's election processes are miles apart.
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@Peter_Fitz The reverse... look at current Greens Leader in UK. He is claiming the progressive space and winning votes from all.
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@CaptainAdvance1 @LLBiggers Empty wishes. Progress is nowhere near the plan, especially when total energy is considered (ie 4x AEMO GWH load/y plus annual growth) and massive current transmission construction costs escalation.
Why assume that policies will all be met w/o need for accounting, as sunk costs.
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@RotaryBloke @LLBiggers Victoria is reducing the brown coal share & upping battery capacity. The plan is to continue to have significant has backup. energycouncil.com.au/analysis/a-tal…
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@MtotheShacks @Peter_Fitz And the screens. Without proper controls the car is bricked as my son discovered multiple times.
Then comes undocumented software updates & eventual abandonment by the supplier... after how many years? 5? maybe 10?
EV reliance has not earned my trust yet, due to human factors.
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@Peter_Fitz Yes and the sorts of things that do wear out are things like steering and suspension components, lower control arms. They are easy things for a tyre place to identify when you do regular wheel alignments and rotations.
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@EcoAdvocateHR @xiaowang1984 @TomMoyerUT Do not assume that dull calm is negligible. Dunkelflaute is very much real. There's not enough money in the game to provide adequate battery storage, now or ever.
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@xiaowang1984 @TomMoyerUT Correcto. No es problema de las renovables, es gestión deficiente. España tiene el recurso solar pero sin inversión en control de red inteligente, estos fallos son inevitables. Otros países demuestran que se puede hacer bien.
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I'm blocked by Auke but all you need to look at is this root cause tree and see how much of this touches renewables. Hint, generators with "fixed power factors" or voltage dominantly are the issue. Not a *fundamental problem* of renewables sure but definitely mismanagement
If you can't manage that level safely don't dispatch to that point until you fix it.
Kevin Sheppard 🇺🇸@climatetechkev
@AukeHoekstra Any thoughts on this @xiaowang1984 @JesseJenkins?
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@BenJu92386989 @AlHendiify @LaserDiscChris Not me, but that is beside the point. The goal must be to return to background radiation levels, perhaps those that existed when mammals (eg humans) arrived on the planet.
That will be way less than a thousand years.
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@AlHendiify @LaserDiscChris We fully understand anything written by Shakespear...
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Now show us 10,000 years worth of safely stored waste and how you communicate to a society 500 years into the future that no longer speaks the same language that this is an incredibly dangerous material.
𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕊𝕪𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕟 💾@reset_by_peer
FYI, this is what 20 years worth of safely stored nuclear waste looks like. You can fit it in a third of an average convenience store parking lot.
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@AlHendiify @LaserDiscChris There's also those things called asbestos, arsenic, lead, "forever chemicals" & a host more. They are way more common & less securely disposed of than used nuclear fuels are - and they decay naturally to safe background levels at known rates - typically way less than 1000 years.
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