Battery a giant con job

Originally posted by It investor: ↑

please don't call me somebody else's puppet, I certainly am not. Please refrain from name calling as I haven't called you names, I use logic, to demonstrate what I think of you. I thought the same as you until a year ago, when I stopped believing the propaganda we are being fed.

If you want to understand the cartoon and graph. The wind power collapsed into the afternoon, prices in South Australia surged to $14,500 Mwh (they averaged around $40 Mwh before all these ‘cheap’ renewables flooded into the grid) at around 4.30pm ‘’the world’s biggest battery’’ started to dribble in 30MW to the grid.The 30MW was less than 1% of South Australia’s total demand, and less than 0.1% of the National grid’s demand.The world’s biggest battery continued to dribble out around 30MW until 7.30pm, then it ran flat, rendering it completely useless as peak demand hit at 7.30pm.Meanwhile the emergency diesel generators (chewing through a reported 80,000 litres of diesel an hour) were doing the real work in SA, pumping out over 400MW at a time on demand - and they continued to so as demand peaked at 7.30pm, when the world’s largest battery had given up the ghost. So at peak demand, in the renewables paradise of South Australia, 97% of their electricity was coming from fossil fuels. Over the afternoon, I estimate the ‘’world’s biggest battery’’ delivered only around 100 Mwh of electricity - compared to 2000Mwh by the diesel generators.

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If you choose to post fake cartoons with no reference links then I can only assume you are not here for a genuine discussion. Obviously you are here to promote a biased agenda. Hence, if the puppet hat fits.....

" The 30MW was less than 1% of South Australia’s total demand, and less than 0.1% of the National grid’s demand. "

" I estimate the ‘’world’s biggest battery’’ delivered only around 100 Mwh of electricity - compared to 2000Mwh by the diesel generators. "

Your words, not mine.

As you have demonstrated, the Hornsdale Power Reserve battery is tiny compared to the total demand of SA. Therefore, there is no way the battery could ever be considered back up for the state. Thus demonstrating how false and dumb the cartoon that you posted is.
The battery made available 30mwh ( not it's total capacity ) most probably because it could make pretty good money in the short term spot market. Just like all the peaking plants and even the big generators would have done.

In summary, you have posted fake news and I'm calling you out on it. I notice you still haven't posted a link to the source of the cartoon.

Now, why would that be ?