No, I think you are a dull little plod with no idea about technical/scientific matters but terrified by AGW.

Good orderly room clerk maybe.

Are you able to answer any question with actual numbers?

Or will you admit defeat, utter and total, by simply waffling on about crap?

Numbers, dollars, statistics, Lee. Anything less and you admit you're a total failure.

Note that the same storms that caused wind turbines to shut down and lock in, also smashed the transmission grid in SA recently thereby cutting off the coal and gas powered gen.

which had surrounded the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm. The UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has been trying valiantly to prevent the construction of as much as 2.3 gigawatts (GW) worth of offshore wind off the coast of Scotland, due to concerns over the impact on migratory seabirds. In July of 2016, a judge in the Outer Court of Session in Scotland revoked consent for four separate wind farms — the 600-megawatt (MW) Inch Cape Offshore wind farm, the 450 MW Neart Na Gaoithe offshore wind farm, and the 525 MW (each) Seagreen Alpha and Bravo projects. This May, however, the Inner House at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Scotland, overturned the July revocation. . . .

“It will create more than 500 direct jobs during construction and over 100 direct permanent jobs once operational.  £540 million will be directly invested in Scotland during the construction phase with a further £610m during the operational phase.”

Sorry Lees but 1971 there I was in gown and cap getting my BSc from some notables at Adelaide University.

even tried to help you with theory and null hypotheses e

I have a BSc

Moriaty wrote on Aug 21^st, 2017 at 9:36pm:



Yeah. The wind turbines shut down, put excessive load on the grid. Heywood interconnector broke. The SA grid couldn't cope and THEN the transmission lines went down. Read the AEMO report.

On Wednesday 28 September 2016, tornadoes with wind speeds in the range of 190–260 km/h occurred in areas of South Australia. Two tornadoes almost simultaneously damaged a single circuit 275 kilovolt (kV) transmission line and a double circuit 275 kV transmission line, some 170 km apart. The damage to these three transmission lines caused them to trip, and a sequence of faults in quick succession resulted in six voltage dips on the SA grid over a two-minute period at around 4.16 pm.

As the number of faults on the transmission network grew, nine wind farms in the mid north of SA exhibited a sustained reduction in power as a protection feature activated. For eight of these wind farms, the protection settings of their wind turbines allowed them to withstand a pre-set number of voltage dips within a two-minute period. Activation of this protection feature resulted in a significant sustained power reduction for these wind farms.

A sustained generation reduction of 456 megawatts (MW) occurred over a period of less than seven seconds. The reduction in wind farm output caused a significant increase in imported power flowing through the Heywood Interconnector. Approximately 700 milliseconds (ms) after the reduction of output from the last of the wind farms, the flow on the Victoria–SA Heywood Interconnector reached such a level that it activated a special protection scheme that tripped the interconnector offline.

The SA power system then became separated (“islanded”) from the rest of the NEM. Without any substantial load shedding following the system separation, the remaining generation was much less than the connected load and unable to maintain the islanded system frequency. As a result, all supply to the SA region was lost at 4.18 pm (the Black System).

AEMO’s analysis shows that following system separation, frequency collapse and the consequent Black System was inevitable.