Bobby. wrote on Oct 12
th, 2017 at 5:55am:
I repeat.
Surely the power could be stored from wind energy & solar panels?
You only have to use the power to pump water uphill to a lake
or some sort of covered reservoir and then recover the energy
by using a hydro electric turbine when it comes back down.
I think the renewable effort has been very poor in Australia.
It has to be a deep lake to get the 'head' high enough to run turbines for that you need some decent mountains.
Work has it the the QLD government is going to lift the Burdekin Dam another 9 metres to just 50 metres deep and fit out hydro power.
The Lake behind the dam in 220 km2 and the catchment is 115 000 km2
And all of that will power only 30 000 homes in the north, or about 80 000 people. We have a population of well over half a million in that area.
How big of a dam will Melbourne need or dams more likely and where will they go?
What happens when the greenies find out about them, they will only allow intermittent power from intermittent sources like solar and wind and NOTHING else
Thanks to stupid environmentalists and an even more stupid public, Australia will continue to be the laughing stock of the world when is come to providing safe, reliable and cheap energy to its population.
higher elevation close by and it will work.
As I said Greenies would love it as it would prove that renewables have baseload power.