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Originally Posted by KenGee
Oh dear come on people do a bit of research. Maybe it's something about you coast huggers :-) .
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Problem is Ken, the current Hot dry rock generators don't produce anything like what is required (about 30 megawatts, with "proposed" projects, still in the drilling phase, of, maybe, providing another 500 Mw.
Hazelwood (brown coal) provides about 2000Mw...so we are two
orders of magnitude short on supply right now, but according to today's Australian Financial Review it is being shut down within 8 years!!
I think I read a figure of $94 billion to re-configure the Oz energy industry....but no detail on just what will replace it...
Closure of two Yallorn plants would wipe out 50% of Victoria's energy production in one fell swoop.
Perhaps, we'll be cooking by candle light and log fires
