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Originally Posted by acropolite
Not correct Kearn, wind power is alive and doing very well in Tasmania and has been for years.
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I don't think you read my words very carefully Phil, I said it might be viable in cold places like tassie and scandinavia were the turbines dont burnout if the weather gets too hot like it does here (over 35C), and they have to shut them down to avoid this happening. If thats not classed as patchy and unreliable I dont know what is?
We in SA apparently have 51% of australia's total windpower - and I think we have the highest electricity costs in the nation oddly? and we have to import a lot of out power from other states.
Anyway glad to see that bass strait power line from tassie plugged into the national grid recently
thanks very much tassie!
Funny i wonder how much greehouse emissions were created making those enviroment destroying hydro-electricity dams? I actually toured one of them when i lived there as a kid, down the tunnel and saw the turbines (do they need replacing occasionally? might produce some greenhouse gasses?)
Glad we didnt have this attitude in the 50's!, the snowy ect. would NEVER of been built, australia would of been stuffed by this nanny state crap.
Actually does CO2 emissions during construction ect. get factored into all those pretty sky scrapers and public works in the eastern capital cities - and would they then be veteod coz of this? how much pollution is created when you build a coal/gas fired station/wind or solar farm/ - does anyone care? funny only care when it is created when you build a nuke plant!
How do you heat that shack on those cold nights Phil - solar power?
and re coal/gas power being cheapest - they wont be for much longer once they start adding pollution taxes to them and enforcing expensive emission controls onto the power stations
and thats not far off now.