Unfortunately Australians are being lied to about the cost and reliability of the wind and solar transition.

https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/video/is-australia-building-the-lowest-cost-energy-system/

I have a query for which I do not know the answer.
There has been a lot of talk about the generation system and its need
for inertia. I know what they are referring to, it is the rotating mass in conventional steam turbine alternators.
This helps to iron out small variations in rotation rate and so small
changes in frequency away fro 50 cycles per second are resisted..
This problem arises because solar panels and indeed wind turbines
produce Direct Current and so cannot knudge other generators to adjust
their speed.
I cannot see why the choppers that change the DC into AC cannot drive
other choppers into phase locked frequency as they all should be crystal locked ?
It really puzzles me.
onto 50 cycles.

This forum is a prime example how clueless people can pontificate on a subject they know absolutely nothing about, except for what they have seen on Sky After Dark, the ravings of a far right lunatic, or read in old man Murdoch's gutter press, or been "reliably" informed by the Dangerous Doctor Donald in America. An amazing bunch of ignorant fools they be.

Hi Paul,

I take the view that the reason we enjoy civilisation and technological development is because people have differing opinions and argue with one another.

We might be a bunch of stupid plebs here, but we have every right to think and argue about the civilization we are all a part of.

Hi Fester,

I was once reliably informed that 95% of human development is down to 5% of human kind, and 5% is the work of the other 95%. The observation is that the vast majority of people are basically followers and rely on a very small minority to provide the necessary leadership in all areas of human endeavor to advance the species. Basically if it wasn't for the 5% existing the other 95% would still be living in caves and fighting each other with sticks and stones. Nearly everything we do is based on learned experience from past generations.

The threat of blackouts this summer (barely believable in  21st. Century Australia) began when a Coalition government signed up to Net Zero. Blackout Bowen and the Albanese government are putting the finishing touches to the amazing stupidity. 

We are now being told that the relatively low summer temperatures of 30-32 degrees constitute a “heat wave” to fool us into using less electricity in case the now scarce resource isn't available.

That's in NSW. In SA, the energy minister is  calling for the recommissioning of two diesel generators before summer  so mistrustful of his  own government's ideology on electricity generation is he. SA is getting ready for another interconnector from NSW to keep  the dreaded  carbon dioxide out of the state. It's like letting  China use as much of Australia's  coal as possible while saying we are so good because of lower ( maybe) emissions. 

What a disgrace!