Over the past few days, SA has again been scrabbling for power - with help from coal-powered Victoria -to get enough warmth to cope with the coldest start to Winter in 128 years.

The windmills don't like the cold, either, and have been producing diddly squat. No good in the heat and wind; no good in the cold. And still the die hards are defending them and their enormous cost.

All states are going to suffer power outages in the future as these idiots in power phase out coal fired power stations. We have nothing of any viable alternative to coal to cover base load power requirements.

There is nothing wrong with burning coal and there is absolutely nothing wrong with CO2 going into the atmosphere, according to all the eminent scientists who are not on the govt payroll and who are not involved in the man made any bloody thing scam that is currently running.

It is time we start forcing govts to stop playing around with our power, follow the US and pull out of the French extortion racket on global warming.

Excellent, Pete - Bravo!

It's nothing to do with windmills not liking the cold. It just hasn't been very windy lately, as over the past few days the air pressure in SA's been quite high. This means there's not much cloud, so SA's also been cold, particularly at night. It's been quite sunny in the daytime, though. Had we invested properly in solar thermal, it would be quite productive at the moment. But we didn't so we're having to import power from Victoria. But there's no scrabbling involved; the electricity market's simply working as it was designed to.

That's right. it's working as designed, generating more money!!

Thanks Aidan, Victoria to the rescue again! Now Dan is going to pay for the largest wind farm ever off the Victorian coast, how can that fail?
Of course it will not fail the flim flam renewable crowd will walk away with literally millions of our dollars.
Here is an idea. Bundle up all these green debts and attach them to the pollies and Public Servants super. If they lose money well there will be no super for some people.
Yes put our money where their mouths are and make them pay.

China and India just laugh at the stupidity of the alarmist religion. They can't wait until the renewable fools make us totally uncompetitive.

runner, India would never laugh at the stupidity of any religion - doing so would highlight the stupidity of their own religion.

Besides, there is no "alarmist religion". Alarmists can be of any religion or none.

Windmills!
Ugly.
Useless.
Expensive.

Some politician's brother's wife's uncle's cousin probably owns the windmill company.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/after-trumps-withdrawal-from-paris-nukes-are-more-crucial-than-ever/

The crux of the problem is that politicians and AGW faithful cannot
accept one simple fact;
That at sundown on a still day & evening the backup power system has
to be able to carry the FULL LOAD !

Once you get you head around that you can then understand that you
have to build TWO power supply systems.
This will cost at least twice as much, probably a lot more.
So next time you hear talk of 25%, 50% or electricity Bill's 75%
then just give a big yawn and roll over and go back to sleep.

Our windmills, betweenGlen Innes and Inverell, have to have 700 wide load escorted trips from Newcastle docks to the sites; rumour has it that the companies involved offered to restore the rail line from Armidale to Glen Innes and bring all the gear up by rail and then a short 20 km or so haul to the sites.
The State Govt. refused the offer.
Rumour says the refusal was based on the supposition that the locals would want the passenger services restored as the railway would be serviceable.
Only rumour of course.

Mise, sorry to hear that report about the rail line.
At some time not too far in the future there will be a big program
to restore many abandoned branch lines.
It will be driven by grain haulage mainly but other parcel traffic also.