In today's Advertiser: a Korean firm has shown interest in taking over the Whyalla steel works and also building a power station.

ttbn the proposed Whyalla mill could maybe send 110 MW to the grid generated from coke oven gas. The hard coal for the ovens mostly comes by ship from Newcastle I believe. That's 'dirtier' than natural gas. The natgas fired 400 MW Torrens Island A is supposed to close while the 485 MW Pelican Pt was mothballed until recently. If 885 MW natgas retires and 110 MW of coke oven gas comes online SA goes backwards for dispatchable electricity and unit emissions.

Given the proven unreliability of SA's power generation system, and its expected further deterioration through switching to more unreliable, higher-cost renewables, who in their right mind would set up a subs production operation in that third-world state known as South Australia?

In any case, it is irrational to settle for subs powered by obsolete fossil fuel engines, given that the nuclear powered version of the French sub is already available and in service.

I should add that SA has been made a third-world state by virtue of the proved unreliability of its power system.

Is there a Fourth World? Looks as though we Third Worlders in SA will be going down further with the closure of Hazelwood in Vic. Prices are now expected to rise $100 pa - when there is power to buy!

Think of this, the first brown out! Emergency! Buggerlugs Andrews has to explain this and we know it will be all Tony Abbot's fault lol.
He will be another one term wonder for Victoria.
Seriously this author just carries on spouting the same nonsense. As the Nazi's proved, keep repeating a lie and people think it must be true. The Greens party are first cousins of the Nazi's.