Correct Phil, power lines went down thus isolating sa from grid. Not enough generating capacity in sa maintain supply because the feds wouldn't allow extra generators to kick in.........absolutely nothing to do with renewables as peddled by the rightard retards.

juliar wrote on Feb 17^th, 2017 at 7:44am:


He never really explained why the gas fired station at Pelican Point was not ordered online if that is possible.

If it is not, the law needs changing to allow AEMO the ability to demand all available plants be bought online at the current market $ rate, in other words remove their ability to take profit based decisions which seems to have been the case in the most recent outage

Redmond Neck wrote on Feb 17^th, 2017 at 10:08am:



Apparently they were.

But they refused. 

Redmond Neck wrote on Feb 17^th, 2017 at 3:12pm:

not from you guys....

its all about trust you see!

juliar wrote on Feb 17^th, 2017 at 4:58pm:


So would you like to explain how something not producing power can become overloaded .?


Its easy to see who has a better grasp of technology and it certainly not you , you lying dumb c nt.

Geez Scope you have just provided an example of what I stated that Lefties are basically technically obtuse.

You clearly have very little understanding of how the power system works.

Sth Aust basically has an unstable system that can fall over at the drop of a hat.

The windymills in this latest blackout stopped because the wind stopped as the 2GB interview stated.

so suddenly the whole load swung onto the transmission line from Vic which was in danger of overload and so load shedding was ordered which means another blackout and fridges full of food as rotten as the Labor Govt.

For various reasons of Labor incompetence the gas fired backup generators could not be started and so the whole useless shemozzle collapsed AGAIN.

So a useless windymill setup MUST have a coal or gas fired backup gene capable of supplying the WHOLE load.

The catch that a non-technical Lefty would NEVER understand is that large thermal power stations CANNOT be quickly brought up to speed and supply the whole load because the boiler temp must become stable and the actual generators can only be SLOWLY brought up to speed to avoid tearing the blades off the turbines.

Of course some non-technical Lefty will pipe up and say, "Why not keep the coal/gas genes running all the time in case the useless windymills stop ?"

This rather defeats the purpose of having the useless windymills in the first place doesn't it ?

Hence Malcolm has VERY WISELY said clean coal is the way to go and stop wasting money on useless windymills that NEVER pay for themselves.