Climate control gone wrong: Tasmanian Hydro seeded clouds before disastrous...
Greedy Green Hubris gone wrong? It took months of bad choices to achieve this Gold-Star Moment in Bad Management: Tasmania’s state-owned Hydro-electric power generator could face legal action for...
View ArticleWelcome to renewables world: Australia plans for blackouts, throws billions...
The fear is palpable How much fun can you have living in a global experiment? In Australia, peak summer is about to hit in a post-Hazelwood-electricity-grid. There’s a suite of committee reports as...
View ArticleReport on Aug 25 blackouts shows how fragile our grid is (and the real cost...
When cheap solar is expensive Badly installed solar PV makes Australia’s grid fragile On August 25 last year there was nearly a system blackout when, improbably, three states of Australia were...
View ArticleBasslink cable out again, costing Victorians more as prices rise
The Basslink cable has gone down again, and is expected to be out of action til mid-October. Luckily for Tasmania, the dams are at 45% full. However in Victoria, which sits on one of the largest brown...
View ArticleFailing underwater cables “pose global threat to offshore wind”
They’re not much use without a lot of cabling. | Image by Norbert Pietsch from Pixabay By Jo Nova Thanks to Oldbrew at Tallblokes Talkshop Who knew high voltage cables running for kilometers in a deep...
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