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Re: SA election
Reply #15 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 9:13am

Re: SA election
Reply #10 - Yesterday at 11:20pm Quote Ven you consider the class of people's that inhabits zee middle of Australia, it vos always going to be tough for a decent hardvorking party to win zee election. After all, zis is where zey managed to scrape ze bottom of the barrel and find one of zee last labor prime ministers. It's a gene pool zat is as shallow as it is narrow

At last some one that understands

South Australia gave us Snowtown its no great leap to go from that to electing a Labor government.

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Re: SA election
Reply #16 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 9:26am

skippy. wrote on Mar 16^th, 2014 at 8:52am:

True Blue... wrote on Mar 16^th, 2014 at 8:50am:

skippy. wrote on Mar 15^th, 2014 at 9:55pm:

Why did the Liberal do so bad?
Labor were expected to get flogged, but they could well keep government.
I believe most people are smart enough to distinguish between federal and state issue, sure there are some fools( hi progs and co) but all in all the fact we often have different govs at state and federal level shows most do distinguish.
So the question needs to be asked, why did the Libs do so bad?

polls before the election showed a Hung Parliament...

not sure what you were looking at...

Really? Not according to all the news services. But really ,who cares about pissant states like Tassy or SA? Wonder what happened to Mellie? Grin

Ah yes Squippy.... in the last week the polls showed quite a distinct tightening and even Abbott stated quite correctly that SA was going to be very close. Wink

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Re: SA election
Reply #17 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 9:53am

ANYONE with the slightest concern for the environment would epitomise

"HYPOCRITE"

- were they not praying for a clear Labor Government return to control and power

South Australia and the ACT - under Labor - are the country's last enclaves and hopes for a chance and future for SUSTAINABLE, RENEWABLE ENERGY

Wind farms churn out more than half SA's electricity during wild weather

27 Aug 2013

A record amount of wind energy generated in southern Australia last week demonstrates the need for more investment in renewable technology.

In recent wild weather, wind turbines produced almost half of South Australia's electricity, while 10 per cent of Victoria's energy was delivered by wind farms.

The Clean Energy Council says wind farms powered the equivalent of 2.3 million homes nationwide.

Conservation council chief executive Tim Kelly says South Australia is on track to achieve its 2020 renewable energy target of 33 per cent.

Mr Kelly says wind farms are a proven power source and the recent result should prompt more ambitious renewable energy targets.

"South Australia can make electricity when the wind blows. We can also make electricity when the sun shines and we can also expand in hot rocks and other renewable supplies but we've got so much wind electricity established now that during these periods at this time of the year in particular we're generating lots of wind power," he said.

"Where will the next 30 per cent of renewable electricity come from in South Australia by say 2030?

"That's going to take a different thinking where we connect to the great wind resources on Eyre Peninsula and we've also got these great solar resources and projects like the Repower Port Augusta large-scale concentrated solar thermal power plant."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-27/wind-energy-generation-record/4914266

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Re: SA election
Reply #18 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 5:14pm

buzzanddidj wrote on Mar 16^th, 2014 at 9:53am:

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"Where will the next 30 per cent of renewable electricity come from in South Australia by say 2030?

"That's going to take a different thinking where we connect to the great wind resources on Eyre Peninsula and we've also got these great solar resources and projects like the Repower Port Augusta large-scale concentrated solar thermal power plant."

Geothermal - South Australia has enough geothermal energy to power that state for thousands of years, if only they can tap it and ship it.

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Re: SA election
Reply #19 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 5:18pm

Bam wrote on Mar 16^th, 2014 at 5:14pm:

buzzanddidj wrote on Mar 16^th, 2014 at 9:53am:

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"Where will the next 30 per cent of renewable electricity come from in South Australia by say 2030?

"That's going to take a different thinking where we connect to the great wind resources on Eyre Peninsula and we've also got these great solar resources and projects like the Repower Port Augusta large-scale concentrated solar thermal power plant."

Geothermal - South Australia has enough geothermal energy to power that state for thousands of years, if only they can tap it and ship it.

the technological problems are continually defeating it. a 4km hole is hardly a cheap exercise and you need 9 for a pilot plant. and you can drill them and find... nothing.

geothermal has great potential but is is to date an extensive failure. oh and the billion dollar cost of a 500Mw transmission line is not helping the viability question.

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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #20 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 9:15pm Not technological problems—just finding unfractured rock has bedevilled geo in Qld.
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miketrees Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6490 Gender:	Re: SA election Reply #21 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 9:38pm Wind farms churn out more than half SA's electricity during wild weather Probably because any industry in SA using power has left. We should have had managed investment schemes in renewables instead of all the dodgy timber, grape and agricultural schemes.
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Re: SA election
Reply #22 - Mar 16^th, 2014 at 9:47pm

miketrees wrote on Mar 16^th, 2014 at 9:38pm:

Wind farms churn out more than half SA's electricity during wild weather

Probably because any industry in SA using power has left.

We should have had managed investment schemes in renewables instead of all the dodgy timber, grape and agricultural schemes.

You want dodgy managed investment schemes in renewables?

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