Malcolm Turnbull’s downfall resulted from stratospheric power prices, sent into orbit by unreliable and intermittent wind and solar. His fate was sealed when he started spinning the line that his National Energy Guarantee (which would have effectively doubled wind and solar capacity) would result in power being delivered at 1970s prices. The same line is currently being spun by wind and solar outfits and their propaganda wings, in an effort to forestall the end of the world as they know it. The problem for that line of argument is that everyone, almost everywhere, has heard of South Australia. SA is the place renowned for setting and then meeting its own ludicrous 50% Renewable Energy Target – blowing up a perfectly good coal-fired power plant along the way- and, funnily enough, equally renowned for routine load shedding, statewide blackouts and the world’s highest power prices. Large swathes of Adelaide (the city that never sleeps) were powerless last week, when the State was hit with some inclement spring weather, giving its long-suffering residents a literally chilling reminder of September 2016 and ‘Black Wednesday’; the day that saw a whole state freezing in the dark, in part without power for more than a […]
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September 2, 2018 at 02:31AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 