Here's to hoping mate!A little insight into the electric smelter...

Here's to hoping mate!
A little insight into the electric smelter this article speaks of in nz.
The smelter is named Tiwai Point Smelter and is located in bluff southland. The southern coast of the south Island.
It is powered from Manapouri power station some 200kms as the crow flies over the mountains. The power station is 230m below lake Manapouri inside the heart of a mountain. 7 hydro electric generators were built inside the mountain using lake Manapouri's 400m water depth pressure to turn the generators. This site was built solely to power tiwai power station. Construction was in the 60's and is something my family is rather proud of being apart of.
The genorators at full flow of water genorate 800MW of power daily which tiwai uses close to 600MW of that. I will add tiwai is old, it's probable a modern smelter uses less energy to heat. Il also add Tiwai is constantly on the brink of closure as they struggle to keep up with the aluminium price of Asia (even though the power source is free)

Looking at gas power turbines it seems only a few in the world are capable of keeping up with this power draw. They are capable of using 100% hydrogen as the input gas!

It will be interesting how this one turns out. Hopefully Hazer catches a piece of the pie. Possibly using Hazer hydrogen to power the genorator or the project swapping to hydrogen gas direct for heating the smelter. Either way hazer is in WA and fingers crossed they take a local tech approach to this.

good luck team