lee wrote on Dec 24^th, 2021 at 8:46pm:


With sufficient storages (plural - ie different localities) and PVs/wind farms (again different localities), plus smart grid, demand will always be met, by design (Nuclear might be needed to clinch the deal in some countries).

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Hmm.. not too sure about that, I see...?   

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100 of the top climate scientists in the world is a fair bet....but either way, we should be closing down filthy, poisonous, exorbitantly expensive fossil ASAP.

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Right or wrong, see above.

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Yes, since WW2 the US has overthrown democratically elected governments who wanted to eradicate poverty eg in the M.E.: Iran in 1953, the CIA overthrew popularly elected  Iranian government who wanted to nationalize the oil industry, to retain profits previously going to overseas investors in the UK and the US. In South America; CIA- backed installation of fascist Right wing governments, destroying the conditions for steady shared economic development in those nations.   


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Of course; it was invented in the US, and  the US rejected the possibility of shared national development after WW2,  using the cold war as an excuse to destroy any nation who dared to break the US rules.

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Since the end of the Cold war, the US has been on good terms with S Arabia, but Iran and Irag are different stories, both destroyed by the US. And of course the US is resisting Nord Stream 2, because relations with Russia are deteriorating again, after a brief thaw 1990 -2005.

So yes, since WW2,  dysfunctional economies in Central America and the ME, and "never ending wars"  - and the massive refugee problem  - are the consequences of US imperialism.    

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 25^th, 2021 at 12:30am:


The IPCC is an Inter GOVERNMENTAL body. Not a scientific body. Or the only scientific body that follows the diktats of of the Policy Makers.

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 25^th, 2021 at 12:30am:


So now it is exorbitantly expensive? Compared to when? have you taken GDP into account? We have already covered poisonous. You couldn't even show that.

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 25^th, 2021 at 12:30am:


No. Right matters.Wrong leads to mental problems.

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 25^th, 2021 at 12:30am:



So no link for your claim. How many deaths was Mao responsible for? Stalin?

[thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 25^th, 2021 at 12:30am:


You really are that stupid.

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 25^th, 2021 at 12:30am:


really, really delusional.

So tell us about Xi and Putin. your lovely heroes.

Bye.

https://www.energy-storage.news/worlds-largest-pumped-hydro-plant-project-progre...



World’s largest pumped hydro plant project progresses in Queensland, Australia
ByAndy Colthorpe. June 2023.

Key contracts have been awarded in Queensland, Australia, to work on what would be the world’s largest pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant.

As the state works towards ending its historical dependency on coal, the state government is behind the plan to build the 5GW Pioneer-Burdekin Pumped Hydro Project, which would offer long-duration energy storage (LDES) over a 24-hour discharge duration.

When announced last year, the project was hailed as an “ambitious plan” by the International Hydropower Association,  which could be “an example to policy-makers around the world that we do not need to seek out new technology to bring the climate crisis under control, nor do we need to fall back on fossil fuels,” according to the association’s chief executive Eddie Rich.

Wow, more than twice the size of Snowy 2. ...some engineering vision in Oz?

lee wrote on Mar 15^th, 2024 at 2:38pm:


More than a  day without sun or wind in Queensland?

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An interconnected grid will draw on other PVs, wind and storage, not just the Burdekin project.

lee wrote on Mar 16^th, 2024 at 2:03pm:


Hence the need for interconnectors with the rest of the Oz grid.

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Five signicant energy producing regions? What about the rest which haven't even been  developed yet.


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Widespread cloud cover and no wind, over and around all of Oz? Then we will need sufficient green hydrogen  storage,  to cover power generation on those days, if the nation's pumped-hydro-storage capacity is insufficient. 

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Waffle.

Massive onshore/offshore wind,  massive PV rollout including rooftop solar,  all interconnected will account for  "drought frequencies varying by more than ten days per season between positive and negative phases of climate modes in some regions."

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In some regions - see high-lighted above.

lee wrote on Mar 17^th, 2024 at 2:39pm:


Many more are required.

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Not "overbuild". every roof-top solar needs to be connected in the national grid (plus home batteries).

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Refuted above.

https://youtu.be/s3Tfxiuo-oM?si=rLZ_4ICw_DP8i4sD



Climate  - The Movie.
This film exposes the climate alarm as an invented scare without any basis in science. It shows that mainstream studies and official data do not support the claim that we are witnessing an increase in extreme weather events – hurricanes, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and all the rest. It emphatically counters the claim that current temperatures and levels of atmospheric CO2 are unusually and worryingly high. On the contrary, compared to the last half billion years of earth’s history, both current temperatures and CO2 levels are extremely and unusually low. We are currently in an ice age. It also shows that there is no evidence that changing levels of CO2 (it has changed many times) has ever ‘driven’ climate change in the past.