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You call it a black out ...


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what a bloody beauty



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Yep. Goodun, twisted just like they twisted the "tax breaks" after dumping the $1,500 low income offset and plunging many on the borderline of poverty into tears in tax agent's offices.
Sorry, I just tell the truth and cal it as it is. Factual.

I still pose the question. Last week joyrider Elon Musk shot another rocket into space. How much damage does the emissions from those things do and what damage do they do leaving and re-entering the stratosphere?
These billionaire show pony's are put on a pedestal as heroes, yet the climate change mob stay silent every time they let off a rocket???


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Yesterday we had a blackout in Sydney. Running off coal as few as I am aware.

 

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there ya go, black coal, blackout. No coal a blackout for sure

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There are 2 sources overlooked Hydrogen and Nuclear.

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Go Nuclear, and I am NOT joking. Only way to go.

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Aussie1 wrote:

Go Nuclear, and I am NOT joking. Only way to go.


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If a massive storm knocks out the grid, what does it matter what kind of power station is supplying the grid? How will more capacity overcome a problem with the grid?

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If a massive storm knocks out the grid, what does it matter what kind of power station is supplying the grid? How will more capacity overcome a problem with the grid?


 I think thats a bit of a furphy, why would towers in Western Vic knock out a Power station in Eastern Vic. 

Think back a few years when SA had a major blackout because HT towers collapsed, sure the towers were made from cheap steel from China.

There was a suggestion that these towers had a design flaw that wasnt rectified, yet some had been fix but others remain to be serviced.

 



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Gundog wrote:
 Think back a few years when SA had a major blackout because HT towers collapsed, sure the towers were made from cheap steel from China. 

 Low carbon steel? Must be those pesky climate whingers again.



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My Dad was designing arc steel furnaces back in the 1960 & 70ies. A tried & tested technology run off some form of electricity. 

 

Coal, solar or methane from one's a--- makes no difference for the electricity generation.



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Gundog wrote:
dorian wrote:

If a massive storm knocks out the grid, what does it matter what kind of power station is supplying the grid? How will more capacity overcome a problem with the grid?


 I think thats a bit of a furphy, why would towers in Western Vic knock out a Power station in Eastern Vic. 

Think back a few years when SA had a major blackout because HT towers collapsed, sure the towers were made from cheap steel from China.

There was a suggestion that these towers had a design flaw that wasnt rectified, yet some had been fix but others remain to be serviced.

 


 Because where were only 5 spare towers in all of Australia for simple backup emergency situations in any one State where all the States agreed to lend (as such) each other State, towers for emergency situations, amortising inventory costs across all States.

 

At about a $1,000,000 a tower the State Governments thought it was poor investment to have spare towers sitting on the shelf for emergencies & thought they could pop down to Bunning & buy as many towers as needed!... what was the bar code?

 

States couldn't even do exchanges to help each other out. 

 

No spare stock of towers across Australia. One State needed 23 tower kits for one storm.

 

What's it called. 'Just In Time'... but the dunny was out of paper... cistern broken... broken seat... & cracked bowl... not to forget the broken door & rusty hinges with pins on the floor & the lock missing.

 

Oh, almost forget that the artichokes failed to grow. That's how failed the system was.

 

I am sure you would run your own "simple" caravan electrical system with more backup.

 

Multiple batteries, multiple solar input, other charging options (DC-DC), multiple controllers, spare cables & plugs... or life would not be worth living... Wifey wise!



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