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    I think it's inevitable that Victoria will close down the mudburners in the Latrobe and increases reliance on low emissions. I wonder if S.A has factored in availability of base load with their reliance on interconnects.

    Surely it's immoral to spruik low emission whilst paying someone to generate high emission power
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    Its supposed to be a nationally interconnected grid with each state contributing what it can from its local advantages.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    Its supposed to be a nationally interconnected grid with each state contributing what it can from its local advantages.

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    Victoria's advantage is reliable brown coal thermal power.

    It's windy here. The power lines are swinging in the breeze. When this happens, we get power failures. Had one late this morning. Didn't bring down the state though. Just the local area. The grid protection systems operated just as the were designed to.

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    Queensland's advantage is the amount of power generated using coal seam gas, to underpin the viability of the CSG industry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    Its supposed to be a nationally interconnected grid with each state contributing what it can from its local advantages.

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    Nationally interconnected?????
    Its a long way to run a power cord from WA
    Then again,when they build a great big nuclear power station in the outback WA could power the country
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    Ah, yes. Gas is not a renewable. It is a thermal unit that produces green house gases.
    CSG is also damaging to the aquifers. Just ask the cow cockeys and greenies. The ones that were around when I was working on Queensland CSG projects.

    As said before, gas power stations are stable thermal power generation systems. They supply constant stable energy, like coal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LandyAndy View Post
    Nationally interconnected?????
    Its a long way to run a power cord from WA
    Then again,when they build a great big nuclear power station in the outback WA could power the country
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    Yep. A few thorium reactors dotted about the country in stable areas would be good. They could put one at Point Henry on the old smelter site. A lot of the infrastructure is already there. They just back feed it into the grid.

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    It's interesting how NSW can have storms with high winds and power outages and yet the whole state grid does not go down.
    NSW weather: Damaging winds cause power cuts to thousands of homes, businesses - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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    I guess they didn't have 23 large towers fall over.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    I guess they didn't have 23 large towers fall over.
    The large towers that fell over were north of the state.
    Why did the south of the state lose power? Their towers were still standing.

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