Bazz, "Hasbeen, read a comment from the Electricity Reliability Board that the developers installing renewables are not placing them near the best points on the grid. It seems that the solar in some locations".

That has been one of Germany's problems Bazz. Much of their wind power is far remover from the Ruhr Valley where it is needed. They have been using parts of other countries grids to get it to their industry, & those countries are jacking up.

Transmission lines are expensive to build, & even more expensive in resources, particularly steel & copper. Even Germany can't economically justify the expenditure involved, just as we can't afford the inter connectors keeping the failed state, SA alive.

Wind has a few major problems, other than it's expense & intermittency.

It has to be cited where wind is as reliable as possible, it causes major problems if too close to any habitation, & combined this means it mostly has to be cited far from the major demand for the power. Add to this the fact that it has to have reliable back up in the form of dispatchable power generation to support it when not available.

Even Turnbull's white elephant of Snowy 2.0 will not have the capacity to take the load for a regularly wind drought in cloudy periods.

While nuclear could replace fossil fuels for power generation, it is unlikely to gain acceptance any time soon. I'm sure a reliable & acceptable generation system will be found, but it is not possible before 2050. We are going to be using fossil fuels for a long time still, even without the sensible voice of Barnaby

Looking at the time it seems to take to build nuclear stations if they
started tomorrow we would still get a lot of blackouts.
If the stations have not been completely dismantlement they will have
to remove the rule that gives the w/s priority over coal stations
otherwise they will close them instead of going broke.
Of course Germany was too small to use w/s. Australia might just be
big enough but I doubt our maximum load would justify the expense.

I just do not see why the powers that be and the greenies cannot see that !

Foxy
I just thought that you might have made a comparison between a politician like Joyce who is interested in Australians having jobs and a traitor like Bandt who asked foreign governments to cut trade with us, thus destroying local jobs.

Joyce will be re-elected because he is a good local representative and is popular as a person as well; I didn’t vote for him.

Is Mise,

Predicting anything in politics is risky at the
best of times as Mr Shorten learned at the last
election. You like Barnaby Joyce. Fair enough.
I don't. He's a grub.

As for Adam Bandt? He's your interest.
Not mine.

Howdy Issy,

How's them gunnies of yours hanging?

"In October 2017, Robert Borsak (Shooters and Hooters Party leader) told the Herald that he wants to see AUSTRALIA'S GUN LAWS SCRAPPED and lamented the fact there was no national gun lobby like the NRA in Australia." This party owes its existence to a far right foreign extremist organisation, the US National Rifleman's Association which controls them from afar. How disloyal can you get when it comes to supporting Australia.

Issy, don't bang on about Adam Bandt, when you have shown support for a party that would be happy to see loaded guns in the hands of school children, and is happy to train child killers, as they did with John Edwards. A party that views the Port Arthur massacre as a bit of bad luck, a storm in a tea cup to them.

Issy
Nothing to say about the shooters and Hooters?