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18/04/15

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Originally posted by coalboy ↑

From ABC Rural media :
"A solar farm in western New South Wales, the southern hemisphere's biggest, has taken its place on the world stage.
Energy company AGL has installed the last of more than 1.3 million solar panels on what used to be the flat red earth of a sheep paddock.
The Nyngan farm will generate 102 megawatts of power, putting it at the forefront of Australian solar power generation when it is fully operational in July 2015."

Not so sure if solar is the ultimate answer . Using the above as an example , it would require over 50 million solar panels to generate about 4,500 MW of electricity and I have no idea how you "store away" that sort of power.

The transition away from coal "burning" will probably be a mixture of many forms of power generation but by far coal seam gas is the most logical large scale and cleanest solution IMO. By using mini power generation units for domestic usage (like the Bluegen unit) , the public can generate their own power and some , and sell the surplus back to the grid. The gas is bought by the consumer and the power is bought by the energy supplier who then only has to generate a lot less power themselves for industrial users.

The public will embrace it because their power bills will be less , it is green , and tremendously more efficient than generating power at one or two locations. It unfortunately requires some visionary leading pollies on board backed by business and tax incentives for such change to occur.

Are you there Tony and Joe ?

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No one is there.'turn of the whole power grid on the eastern seaboard for 3 months and watch everyone piss and moan, greens included.
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