The Original Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living Portal (since 2009)
grids, Tag
- South Africa grid struggling with national rolling blackouts: Strikes, corruption and no respect for coal power Mon, 4 Jul 22, 4:23amThis is Fall of Rome type stuff — everything is coming undone National rolling blackouts have been occurring for days in South Africa and are forecast to continue for another week at least...
- Electricity Hunger Games downunder — potential sighting of four hour price bonfire Thu, 2 Jun 22, 4:14amIt’s a grid on the edge Like a meteor-shower, the dinner time performance today may or may not be a spectator event. The fun may start at 4:30pm in Qld, NSW, Vic, SA and Tasmania — a full quinfecta at $15,000...
- Shocking electricity price rises starting in Australia — so bad that small retailers ask customers to leave Fri, 20 May 22, 5:33amIt’s the day before the election and all through the house, electricity bills are doubling…
- Mayhem on the Australian Grid continues — Record prices, factory shutdowns, emergency warnings Tue, 10 May 22, 1:35amGeneration tonight…. Just another week in the Transition we (Don’t) have to have With 65 Glorious Gigawatts the Australian grid system has a vast excess (theoretically) of generation capacity, yet it’s so...
- Jo Nova — “Australia – Crash Test Dummy of Renewable Energy”: Monday night US. Tuesday morning AU Tue, 10 May 22, 12:21amI’ll be discussing the absurdity of Destroying Perfectly good Electricity Grids in Australia with the Friends of Science in Calgary, Canada with a presentation then Q&A...
- Scorching electricity price spikes in NSW and Queensland Wed, 4 May 22, 5:32amBrisbane on May 3rd was a glorious 15 to 25C (or 60F – 77F) and yet the price of electricity was shocking.
- Presentations from Ian Plimer and Jo Nova — “Net Zero and the The Great Regret” Mon, 2 May 22, 3:16pmI’m delighted to announce that Friends of Science in Calgary Canada have organized speeches and online panel sessions from Ian Plimer tomorrow Tuesday 3rd May, and myself the following week Tuesday May 9th...
- More Confirmation Of The Infeasibility Of A Fully Wind/Solar/Storage Electricity System Wed, 23 Mar 22, 12:00pmAlthough Ruhnau and Qvist do not say it explicitly, my conclusion from their paper is that it is a further demonstration of the complete infeasibility — indeed the complete absurdity — of attempting in the short term...
- Deaths from 1 degree of warming nothing compared to an Electricity Grid collapse for a year Sat, 8 Jan 22, 5:27amEven the worst imaginary scenarios for global warming are nothing compared to a year without electricity. Bunky Mortimer III thinks US priorities are screwed.
- Did a short sharp Geomagnetic storm contribute to the Callide Coal plant explosion? Sat, 29 May 21, 2:22pmBen Davidson speaks from Spaceweathernews.com mentions that there was a short sharp geomagnetic storm over the East Coast of Australia around the time the Queensland Callide Power plant exploded.
- Queensland’s Near Miss: hydrogen may have exploded at a coal plant (and renewables don’t save the day) Thu, 27 May 21, 5:43amTuesday was a wild day for Queensland Electricity. An explosion struck the Callide C Power Plant triggering a cascade of other plants to switch off within seconds. The massive 2.5GW fall in supply took the grid frequency...
- NSW power so erratically expensive an aluminium smelter powered down three times in a week Sat, 22 May 21, 4:01amThe Tomago smelter uses more than 10% of the entire New South Wales electricity grid supply. But the price spikes in electricity are so crippling the industrial giant could not afford to keep running on three occasions in...
- France threatens UK electricity supply again, Navies called in Wed, 12 May 21, 4:45pmThe island of Jersey gets 95% of its electricity via cables from France. The latest post-Brexit fishing dispute got so hot so fast, that a French minister even suggested cutting off the electricity if they didn’t get...
- Green energy “an existential threat to German economy” declares Supreme Auditors Fri, 2 Apr 21, 5:16amEmden, Germany by Gritte The supreme auditors of Germany warned about the costs of Green energy a few years ago, but now they are paying attention to energy security too, and with sudden alarm they’ve announced that...
- In a fluke moment SA and Vic have got cheap electricity (but only thanks to Black coal, and a screwed market) Fri, 19 Mar 21, 6:12pmYesterdays free advertisement for the Renewables Industry comes from Peter Martin, ANU, and was swallowed whole by The Conversation, and then repeated by The ABC...