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So now this expensive battery/stabiliser is a Waratah battery not a Munmorah one (CCN 380)?
The name does not change the reality anyway.
We all want reliable electricity at an affordable price and with minimum environmental damage.
If we employ reliable energy sources we do not need super batteries and this significantly reduces the real cost of electricity.
In (the article) we are told that renewable energy storage projects will lower prices …. spoken by a politician who has to rely on whomever he listens to, as he does not have the expertise himself to have a valid opinion on such matters.
I challenge anyone to show me dispassionate proof or even calculations that support this (and also that they do not have a vested interest in support of renewables).
Renewables are not cheap because of their capital cost, surely that is obvious?
With intermittent renewables the technological constraints dictate that solar and wind only work when the sun shines and when the wind blows.
This is not a political statement.
It is an irrefutable fact.
It is an inconvenient truth to those who want to take advantage, either monetary or political, from renewables, that there has to be massive economic storage of electricity if we are to be completely dependent on renewables.
The great obstacle of sole reliance on renewables is the cost of massive storage which is always passed over by those with something to gain from this disinformation and the economics of renewables without consideration of storage is questionable anyway.
Assume: If we are to become totally reliant on solar – on average in NSW, the sun only shines for four hours a day.
That means that the amount of electricity gained by solar in that four hours must, on average, be six times as much as required on average – without considering peak demand to be satisfied which means more panels and more storage….more cost.
From this simple observation it is crystal clear that total reliance on renewables is prohibitively expensive.
It is not rocket science, just primary school arithmetic.
The super battery is just another nibble at trying to convince the tax paying public that renewables are the holy grail…..when things get ugly, which they will (costs and blackouts), the people who promoted it and profited from it are gone.
There are four words that sum up Australia’s view on energy: hope, ignorance, greed and lethargy.
The Waratah/Munmorah super battery takes the taxpayers’ attention away from the basic reality that the type of electricity generation determines actual user cost.
The super battery is not super, just another super waste of taxpayers’ money, given the authorities are not looking at all at the all the possible options for electricity generation guided by cost/benefit analysis and technological limitation without greenhouse emissions, through ideology and ignorance.
It would seem to be far more cost effective and useful if sheep were allowed to peacefully graze there but we have no cost/benefit data on that either.
Email, Mar 3
Charles Hemmings, Woy Woy