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Originally Posted by andyc
You appear to be comparing apples to oranges here: the data for Solar PV generation in NSW is 1.178GWh, or about 1.3% of total electricity consumption, or to put it another way, 1000x your figure, and much more relevant to the demand figures. And you'd need to do a lot less than cover the country with turbines or panels to generate an awful lot more (see Clive's info as a mere starter). After all, you have to look fairly hard to find the wind turbines over NSW's 800,000sq km, the wind and solar power resource has hardly been tapped compared to many countries!
As for subsidies, don't make me laugh, quite apart from financial support, the thermal power stations get to use the atmosphere and ocean as a free dustbin with well-known physical consequences that they are unwilling to pay for... that is a subsidy paid for by everybody, now and into the future. |
It really is amazing how all the sins of coal generation are just swept under the carpet. People like our treasurer don't like the look of wind turbines, but I guess big open pit mines are just fine. Then there are the subsidies mining gets and all the excess deaths that occur in the community as a result of pollution generated by coal generators. But who cares? Lets make up fake diseases like wind turbine disease....
And then there is carbon dioxide....