As China has 1,100 coal fired power plants and Australia has only 24 it can easily be seen that we are doing our bit to save the planet.

We are also the world’s fourth largest producer of coal so it can easily be seen that we are doing our bit to keep the world’s coal fired plants going.

Hypocrisy anyone?

Poor petal. Never wanting to quantify anything, but it will be cheaper.

thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 6^th, 2025 at 4:32pm:


Gawd you're wanker..... so you want to go back to living in the dark? Have you stocked up on candles and invested in a Ice Box?

And knobjockey it's the private sector old fossil fuel energy companies that are going down the so called renewables path ....... because they can and are make more money!!!!

That however has nothing to do with the provision of reliable/consistent power across the country or to power industry ..... if we have any left that is.

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No-one seemed to think it was a problem when a large chuck of QLD lost power for a long time because a coal fired power station threw a rotor. We will have rolling blackouts by the time the coalition get their first nuclear plant built, if they don't come to their senses.

BTW, we also have gas, conventional hydro, pumped storage systems, electric cars and various other grid-connected batteries.

freediver wrote on Mar 8^th, 2025 at 10:40am:


Callide C caused 500,000 out of 5.69 million QLDers  to be without power only for a short time -

as Callide B (700 mw) was still operating  & the QLD grid still had Gladstone(1,680mw), Stanwell(1,445mw), Tarong(1,400 mw), Tarong North(443 mw), Kogan Creek(750 mw),Darling Downs Power Station(630 mw), Millmerran(850 mw) with total capacity of 9,343 mw.

& Wivenhoe pumped hydro(570 mw) operating.

The 7 "run of river" hydro stations in QLD only produce between 1.6 mw to 88 mw of power.

The largest being Wivenhoe which is also pumped hydro as well as a smaller river run system . It can generate 570 mw but is only capable of 10 hours generation before the top dam has to be refilled. It takes 14 hrs to pump water back up with the generator becoming a 240 mw pump motor.

7 hydro stations with only 650 mw capacity if that.

Don't even mention batteries or electric cars at home as grid suppliers - it's a nonsense.

freediver wrote on Mar 8^th, 2025 at 10:40am:


The rotor is on the steam driven turbine, the coal fired plant would have still been available. If the generator fails it would not matter if the plant was driven by coal, wind, solar or hydro the plant will shut down.

freediver wrote on Mar 8^th, 2025 at 12:33pm:


The reason you haven't had a blackout because of them is because while you have coal you can cover any shortfall caused by a failure of Renewables (renewables cannot cover for coal or gas.). Without coal or gas as the main source then you are going to have more blackouts than you expect.