Ships Ahoy! Giant Diesel-Fuelled Ship Engines ‘Solution’ For Australia’s Renewable Energy Crisis

Stop These Things ^ | 09/20/20 | Stop These Things

[Pining_4_TX]

Australia’s obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar has left it with a power pricing and supply calamity. It’s a disaster that was as predictable, as it was avoidable.

To date, the Federal Liberal/National Coalition’s feeble attempts to resolve it provide a study in practised inertia, mixed with a series of pointless Band-Aid ‘solutions’.

Last week, the PM, Scott Morrison announced a raft of policy initiatives aimed at purportedly unlocking Australia’s gas reserves (locked up by recalcitrant State Premiers) and using that gas to fuel new power plants.

[curious7]

With all that desert, they really ought to consider LFTR or at least pebble bed reactors. Would solve their water and power problems at the same time.

[TexasGator]

“the benefit of which is that they can reach their peak load within about five minutes of start-up.”

Not the best for reliability.

[rktman]

Surely they meant wind or solar right? 😂🙌📴

[jpsb]

3rd generation nukes are reliable and safe. We should build a few here too.

[MSF BU]

Canada is doing it in the Maritimes.

[Rockingham]

Neither of those designs are in commercial use.

[Hootowl99]

If the Aussie government really wanted a reasonable backup they would get a package power plant (example General Electric). This is as easy as it gets for plug and play.

Aussie voters are nuts for putting up with the BS from their politicians.

[elcid1970]

But they’ll always lecture us about our “lax gun laws”.

Oz is going fascist over COVID anyway. Look up Victoria State.

[marktwain]

Aussie voters are nuts for putting up with the BS from their politicians.

The politicians are just going along with what the Media/Academy/Leftist/green complex has been indoctrinating the whole country with for two generations.

The politicians are just a symptom of the lack of opposition to the complex.

[fluorescence]

Last week, the PM, Scott Morrison announced a raft of policy initiatives aimed at purportedly unlocking Australia’s gas reserves (locked up by recalcitrant State Premiers) and using that gas to fuel new power plants.

Australia is the world’s largest exporter of LNG so the claim that its gas is or has been ‘locked up’ is a hard sell.

However, their situation is absurd: companies exporting gas from Australia sell it to countries like China and Japan cheaply but charge domestic customers several times more, enough to send them out of business, and there are/were plans by foreign investors to build LNG import terminals in Australia to supply its domestic market with cheap imported gas.

IMO they need to fix the severe mismanagement of their resources before worrying about increasing the supply, otherwise any extra will also be diverted offshore to benefit others while they send themselves broke.

[curious7]

Somebody’s gotta be first. Why not Aussies?

[Rockingham]

Expense and technical risk are the usual reasons for not being first. And Australia would be better served by a conventional nuclear power program so as to develop the basis for quick nuclear weapons if they get in a bind and suddenly need them.