Australia: State-wide power loss raises 'serious questions' (Climate Changers Get their Due)

ABCNews Australia ^ | 9/29/16 | Matthew Doran and Alexandra Beech

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Mr Frydenberg said more than 40 per cent of South Australia's energy supply comes from renewable energy, but emphasised that was not the cause for the blackout.

"That does raise questions for the stability of the system — not just for supply, because when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining, electricity is not being generated — but also for the stability of the system because of the frequency that is generated as opposed to base-load power which has historically been more coal and more gas," Mr Frydenberg said.

"So questions are raised by the virtue of the increasing amount of renewables, but it has to be underlined that this was a weather event which led to this occurrence."

South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon disagreed, and described the incident as unprecedented.

( FR take note: Nick Xenophon is a vocal proponent of Climate Change and 'green power')

"This is a disgrace. How did this happen? How is an entire state blacked out?" Senator Xenophon told the ABC.

"This is unprecedented in this nation. We need answers. There needs to be an independent inquiry, independent of government, because this is a disgrace.

"The generators don't work when the wind is blowing too hard. This is one of the great paradoxes in relation to this."

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That system not only has more wind then we can use, it's also got more water than we can handle. Reservors currently near full - and we were supposed to have perpetual drought by now!

Glowball warming is acting oddly

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That system not only has more wind then we can use, it's also got more water than we can handle. Reservors currently near full - and we were supposed to have perpetual drought by now!

You would think the government would be all over this, passing laws about rainfall and so on...

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The Premier of our State is quite clever in that he keeps answering the questions that nobody is asking and not answering the ones that the media is not bright enough (or complicit in) to ask. As he is a lefty he will get away with it - deny deny deny!