Energy giant AGL has announced it will close the Loy Yang A power
station in Victoria's Latrobe Valley up to 10 years earlier than planned,
targeting the end of 2035 financial year. Loy Yang A provides around
30% of Victoria's electricity needs.    Presumably B will continue to
operate until 2048, the original closure date of both A and B.

But...

A planned solar farm in Mudgee, NSW, population 12,000, has the town
divided with many fiercely opposed.  The proposal is to install 25,000
photovoltaic panels, which has pitted the company against the town.
The mayor, local businesses and ordinary residents all oppose the proposal,
which has already been knocked back three times by the Mid-Western
Regional Council.

So...

Everybody's screaming for green rather than black, but when it comes
to putting that into practice, all the NIMBYs start wailing and gnashing
their teeth with all sorts of vacuous excuses against wind and solar.

Ilee wrote on Sep 29^th, 2022 at 2:36pm:



On prime agricultural land, in the heart of wine, cheese, honey country and a tourist hub.

Useless energy - wise but a massive success uglification - wise.

AusGeoff wrote on Sep 29^th, 2022 at 7:48pm:



Which pollutants? Aerosols, most of the pollutants, cause cooling.

John Smith wrote on Sep 29^th, 2022 at 8:12pm:



As I said aerosols. Which those are not. And modern coal plants have traps to trap the heavy metals. But thanks for showing the level of your knowledge.

John Smith wrote on Sep 29^th, 2022 at 8:20pm:



And modern power plants don't have that problem as I said. Do try to keep up.

AusGeoff wrote on Sep 29^th, 2022 at 7:48pm:

Just so.

Water vapour.

CO2 is invisible.

John Smith wrote on Sep 29^th, 2022 at 8:28pm:



Dagos repainting cars = CLIMATE CHANGE!!!... no, wait.....er..... = GLOBAL WARMING!!!... er, no wait...... it's dagos repainting cars.

Forza Italia!!!

John Smith wrote on Sep 29^th, 2022 at 8:28pm:


Yes.  Water samples from the Darcy Road drain running directly
downstream from nearby heavy industries at the outer harbour of
Port Kembla showed arsenic, lead, copper, zinc, strontium, selenium,
uranium and other heavy metals were all dangerously elevated.

—New Bush Telegraph, 9 April 2021.

Incidentally, Loy Yang A emitted 16.6 million tonnes of greenhouse
gas in 2019-20, according to most recent data. Australia in total
emitted 513.4 million tonnes during the same period.  Or only 3%
of that from Loy Yang A.

Frank wrote on Sep 29^th, 2022 at 10:08pm:



don't you ever gets sick of embarrassing yourself?

John Smith wrote on Sep 30^th, 2022 at 7:40pm:


What was it? Or don't you know and are willing to make assumptions.

Frank wrote on Sep 30^th, 2022 at 7:49pm:



I'll repeat, don't you ever get sick of embarrassing yourself?

The two wheels of the climate change cart – the scientifically unprovable words ‘catastrophic’ and ‘irreversible’ – that is carrying the democratic world to economic subjugation under a Putin-Xi authoritarian axis, are looking increasingly wobbly.

These two words, the key to the climate debate, have never been the subject of empirical, observed scientific proof. There is little disagreement that there is climate change; the climate has always been changing. But ‘catastrophic’ and ‘irreversible’ (beyond a computer-generated ‘tipping point’) that occupy the central role as drivers of the claimed climate crisis, exist only in computer modelling of what many scientists, in good faith, believe to be the likely outcome of observable current trends. The dogma that ‘the science is settled’ on climate change requires a belief not in proven scientific facts but in the accuracy of scientists’ computer projections of the yet-to-be-demonstrated future consequences of observable facts.

So why should these scientists be believed? The traditional ‘scientific method’ of examining a theory provides the best, but by no means certain, prospect of believable outcomes. This involves surviving the ‘falsification’ principle of rigorous endeavours to refute the theory, so that the scientific consensus eventually accepts it as truth. That is the rock on which the climate change crisis rests. But as an article in last week’s Conversation noted, ‘even if scientists have repeatedly tried, but failed, to refute a given theory, the history of science suggests at some point in the future it may still turn out to be false when new evidence comes to light.’

After decades of  steadily increasing support for the ‘climate crisis’ theory, evidence to the contrary is raising its head. This is in addition to the negative impact of repeated failures of a multitude of past official forecasts of impending climate disaster. Earlier this year, four leading Italian scientists from universities in Milan, Verona and Padua and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, published a review of historical climate data, finding no clear positive trend of extreme events and concluding that the current fear of a ‘climate emergency’ is not supported by the scientific data.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/10/business-robbery-etc-101/

John Smith wrote on Sep 30^th, 2022 at 7:40pm:


Probably metallic particulates or ash, which can be acidic under rainfall,
when combined with sulphur and nitrogen oxides.

John Smith wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2022 at 7:55pm:


That's right. Thanks.

WA flags years of coal imports as power station shuts down
Brad Thompson
Reporter
Oct 3, 2022 – 6.36pm

The West Australian government is facing a coal spply crisis and could follow South32’s lead and turn to Indonesia for imports of the fossil fuel.

A coal shortage in WA has forced the shutdown of a major power station supplying Perth and major towns from Geraldton to Albany, and increased the risk of outages at times of peak demand.

The WA government has flagged importing coal to meet what could become a prolonged shortfall in local supply, the issue behind state-owned Synergy shutting down the Collie Power Station.

WA energy minister Bill Johnston said Synergy could need to import coal over the next seven years.

“There may be occasions that Synergy needs to take emergency action to bring in small amounts of coal, whether that’s imported coal or there’s some other solution that’s up to Synergy,” he said.

Mr Johnston said on Monday that the WA government had given South32 its blessing to import coal from Indonesia to the port of Bunbury, where many of the thousands of workers at WA’s remaining coal mines and coal-fired power stations live.

He said the government was supporting South32’s imports because it wanted to protect jobs at the Worsley alumina refinery and local mines were unable to supply enough coal to meet all the company’s requirements.

The Australian Energy Market Operator, which co-ordinates power generation on what is known as the South West Interconnected Grid, listed Collie Power Station as a “forced outage” from mid-September.

The power station, supplied by Yancoal’s nearby Premier Coal mine, is not scheduled to re-open until January 1 in a state that suffered blackouts during a heat wave last summer.

Mr Johnston said the state’s coal industry is in a period of transition with Synergy planning to shut the Collie plant in 2027 and the state’s only other coal-fired power station, Muja, in 2029.

Life in a tanking and struggling Britain is enormously frustrating. Rents have skyrocketed, mortgages have soared, essential food ­prices doubled. In some supermarkets, everyday items such as butter, cheese and milk have become the targets of desperate theft so staff tag them with magnetic security labels.

While the pulsating energy of the city is returning to something like before the pandemic, social unrest is stirring. Police turn up to only half of the burglaries reported, and just 5 per cent result in charges: Instead, the local bobby on the beat is consumed with countering gang knife crime.

Worker unhappiness about the cost of living is seeing an uptick in transport strikes and protests. The National Health Service is so dysfunctional that waiting times at hospitals often extend beyond a four-hour target. There is a backlog of more than six million patients waiting for treatment and face-to-face doctor appointments are almost non-existent.

A Sunday night roast has become a thing of the past with $10 too much to pay to run an oven for an hour when energy bills soar towards $10,000 for a two-bedroom home.

No one dares to speak of the colder months to come or the inevitable further price hikes for energy in the new year.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/british-citizens-battle-to-keep-warm-and-...