When you consider the sun is still shining 3 hours after sunset in the west and they are building a solar wind farm on the Nullaboor as big as the requirements of the entire nation now , it’s just a matter of wires & batteries
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Actually on reconsideration after the fact that they plan to transmit a tenth of this energy from the NT to Singapore via an 3500km expensive under sea cable it’s totally Ludicrous to think this power can’t be transmitted over land at an economic price
Absolutely. It may have been uneconomic in the past but with the latest technology (i.e. high voltage DC transmission = very low line losses) it is very feasible and would give solar to the west before their dawn and power to the east after sunset. The power flow can be either direction.
Just because it could be done doesn't make it viable. The market needs to be able to support it. Singapore has triple the demand of SWIS and there's no guarantee that project is going ahead/viable.
We could create a spanish like hot house garden across the nullaboor with Desalination plant. I’m sure those building this Colossal project have Transmission in mind for the future for the eastern sea board. It’s much less waste ofmoney than nuclear
Forty years ago, there was talk of building a high-tech city in Australia, it never happened. Instead of desal plants, we could stop pumping our wastewater into the ocean. A pipeline under the Blue Mountains from Sydney out west would probably cost less than a nuclear plant.
In Western Australia they have 3 desalination plants operating or commissioned for more. One at cockburn sound ,one at Bunbury and another one in the northern suburbs near Alkimos
Yes, and Tas exports a bit as well. My point wasn't to say it's bad, just pointing out that some TAS and SA power does in fact still come from coal generators, they just happen to be interstate. Coal will end eventually.
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