A reality check on solar and wind

T. A. Gardner

T. A. Gardner

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Australia, a major user of solar and wind has been experiencing regular disruptions of their grid and resulting blackouts because of the high percentage of solar and wind in use.

South Australians could face further blackouts
South Australia's energy supply has been back in the spotlight in recent days, after 163,000 homes and businesses had supply cut as a result of Saturday's storms.

Professor Bruce Mountain from Victoria University’s Victoria Energy Policy Centre said the state remained vulnerable while the interconnector was down.

"The risk to the system would be in South Australia some level of load shedding," Professor Mountain said.

"It is possible that suburbs and areas could be switched off for at least some period.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11...-on-the-cards-as-sa-remains-cut-off/101653744

Wind and solar energy generation will help protect Australians from electricity blackouts this summer.

According to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), Victoria and South Australia face a high risk of blackouts if no action is taken.

AEMO’s Summer 2018-19 Readiness Plan aims to minimise the risk of customer supply disruption.

To do this, AEMO has sourced emergency energy reserves. These expensive resources are only accessed when supply is not keeping up with demand, such as when air-conditioners are ramped up.
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https://www.energymatters.com.au/re...nimise the risk of customer supply disruption.

Southern Australia gets as much as 70% of their energy from solar and wind and the problem is they are nearly isolated from other portions of the Australian grid. This means they can produce too much power forcing much of the solar and wind production offline. Or, they get a no wind, lots of cloud day and don't have any conventional generation capacity to make up for the shortfall.

Australia was the first casualty of the big blackout lie blaming wind power – the US could be next
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https://www.theguardian.com/environ...t-lie-blaming-wind-power-the-us-could-be-next

Australian East Coast to face severe blackouts. Here's why that is happening
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https://interestingengineering.com/culture/australian-east-coast-severe-blackouts-heres-why

By the way, solar and wind have made Australian electrical prices skyrocket, not get cheaper...

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Primavera said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1592386614311129093
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Education has certainly been dumbed down. We have a nation of illiterates. They can't read properly, can't write properly, don't understand even simple mathematics, don't understand even simple theories of science such as the laws of thermodynamics, and have been trained to believe any BS that comes along.

Science has no politics. It simply doesn't go there.
Science has no religion. It simply doesn't go there.
There is no temperature record of Earth. It is not possible to measure the temperature of the Earth. It is not possible to measure the global atmospheric CO2 concentration either, nor the global sea level, nor the total snow and ice on Earth's surface, nor the global precipitation, nor the global pH of the oceans.

Climates can't be modeled. A climate has no value associated with it. There is nothing to model and nothing that can change. The Church of Global Warming uses this phrase to try to disguise what they are, and to describe changes in weather (which of course changes all the time). A climate is a subjective description. It has no temperature. It has no wind speed. It has no precipitation. It has no humidity. It has no value associated with it at all. Earth has many climates. There is no such thing as a global climate.

So while the comic you presented certainly has the right attitude, the tweet accompanying it is also highly inaccurate.
 
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