stunspore wrote on Sep 29^th, 2016 at 7:02pm:


How could the PM get it so wrong....Turnbull blamed renewable energy despite the transmission line coming down....Electricity could be generated but it could not be transmitted....Turnbull has certainly been a disapointment???

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Sep 29^th, 2016 at 7:22pm:


It was the powerline that supplies coal fired electricity from Vic which they use when renewables don't work.

Sth Aust is an absolute disgrace.

Such poor standard of engineering design is surely criminal neglect. When will the court cases start ?

Their network was so poorly designed that it fell over at the first weather event as it had no essential redundancy built in.

Typical technically obtuse Greenie incompetence.

Mal is on the warpath incensed at being embarrassed on the international stage by such abject Greenie utter stupidity.

Greenies are just a sick disease.

Disgraced Jay Wetherill should resign immediately and call a new state election.

Good question, and a wake-up call for all of us complacent 21st century power junkies.

It would seem that off-grid battery powered ..is the way to go. Just hoping of course that a storm doesn't take you out.!

The political bull that has followed this 1 in 50 year storm is just shite. You'd need a much tougher pile of towers to prevent this from happening again. It is a matter of the expectation of profit from power generators, and how little they can get away with minimal investment in $ terms.. now we can see what we have is not good enough to face the future of bigger and more frequent storms, so it is time to get serious about what is realistic.  I know, from experience, here in QLD, what it is like to be without power for 4days straight, so all the whinging just makes me feel sorry for all the ignorant fools out there who think things will never change. WAKE UP PEOPLE, and stop blaming renewable energy supplies.  Hey.. if I didn't value my old trees and bush I'd be off-grid solar. As it is though, I hang in for conservation of the bio-diversity I have here, rather than cut down the trees for power. 

Bobby. wrote on Sep 29^th, 2016 at 5:03pm:


Jay will never resign, he'll hang in there as long as he can.
Unfortunately his government is stacked with people who have no qualification for the job; Jack Snelling, minister for health, the minister for transport, Steven Mullighan,  he has a senior adviser for transport who has no more qualification than I,because we did the same work, and so it goes on.
That the generator failed at Flinders, is probably the result of the Australian behaviour; she'll be alright mate; as there was clear weather warnings, the generator should have been thoroughly checked.

Here is how Australian politicians are rated:
Have the politicians of Australia the know-how and will to change the tax and social system to be more egalitarian, or was the late Professor A.J.Marshall right when he wrote, as quoted in the book “Equality and Authority” by S Encel on page212: “Most Australian politicians, he wrote, aspire to parliamentary seats ‘to better their salary, to inflate their egos and feather their nests’.

Baronvonrort wrote on Sep 29^th, 2016 at 7:29pm:



The wankers are sort of right when the say don't blame renewables; simple because renewables are not base load power and SA gets their base load from victoria and the duel powerlines that transmit their power sh1ts itself then it is is the fault of the power lines not renewables; sort of.

The real cause of their problems id that they relied on renewables instead of maintaining base load power close to where they need it, not being transmitted hundreds of kilometers from another state

It is lies and obfuscation, but SA made a stupid decision going green and they are sticking to it.

juliar wrote on Sep 29^th, 2016 at 7:57pm:



One of the many benefits of privatisation .

John Smith wrote on Sep 30^th, 2016 at 4:08pm:



exaccarry

privatisation means three things and three things only.

1) Higher cost.
2) Lower service and deteriorating infrastructure.
3) Brown paper bags for Politicians and Public serve us.

Id love to see the bank balance of the ones who did the deal on the lottery.
Ill bet they are swimming in brown paper bags full of cash.