Thread: Big storm and no power in SA

Originally Posted by Eevo

would you look at that.


wind is producing a measly 28MW

good thing we have FF to back up the wind farms

Lucky thing the sun is out too, all those houses giving their excess power to the grid for a pittance. The bigger boys are getting in on the act, too.

How to use sunshine and salt water to grow tomatoes.

Sun's energy to be collected in Tailem Bend.

What some people are currently doing about sunshine collecting in the Riverland.

solar, 339MW

its a good start but got a long way to go.


im doing my part.

Eevo Home 4.995kW | Live Output

Originally Posted by Eevo

im doing my part.

Eevo Home 4.995kW | Live Output

Your not working hard enough

Originally Posted by Ferret

Your not working hard enough

feel free to install more panels for me.

Originally Posted by Eevo

feel free to install more panels for me.

You want more panels eh? Damn eastern staters get first bite at sucking all the energy from the sun as it is before it eventually struggles to get over to the west. And stop taking all our GST as well.

Originally Posted by Ferret

You want more panels eh? Damn eastern staters get first bite at sucking all the energy from the sun as it is before it eventually struggles to get over to the west. And stop taking all our GST as well.

i'm not in the eastern states. haha

all my afternoon sun is blocked by a tree down the street.
half my panels face north and half face west

Originally Posted by Eevo

i'm not in the eastern states. haha

all my afternoon sun is blocked by a tree down the street.
half my panels face north and half face west

Just about everything is east of us mate.

Yeah, I split mine that way too but we are 100% shade free except on the west panels in the winter months only from about 3:00pm. Blows like hell at night where we live, should get myself a windmill too.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

ummm Philip A, no I can't.

Up until recently, no one gave a rats arse about cost/kw , until people started using it as an argument against renewables.

My post was really to simply illustrate that we are doing nothing new that our forefathers didn't do....ie not relying upon one source for our energy.

It worked perfectly then, it works better now.

Now, let's get on with it and stop blocking the road.

Actually a LOT of industries have given a Rats for a significant amount of time about SA power costs...

And when it shuts big industry down because power cost exceeds production benefits it costs business dearly...