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» 12/10/2016 11:17:56 AM Craig, wind turbines are asynchronous generators as expressed by the author. This limits t.....
» 12/10/2016 10:56:36 AM Excellent explanation of the issues of the need for synchronous generators to run a 50 her.....
» 23/08/2016 10:47:25 AM Well Noel, what is your problem here. You seem to be violently against nuclear energy but .....
» 23/06/2016 10:41:47 AM Well done Keith. You are brave enough to be very clear about the shortfalls of renewable e.....
» 12/11/2015 2:06:37 PM Rhrosty, let us know when you get the battery system you need for your 4.2kW solar system......
» 12/11/2015 12:37:34 PM Thanks Taswegian. I hadn't thought of the Li-ion batteries issue being known to have overh.....
» 2/07/2015 11:14:19 AM I live in far north NSW in Byron Shire. The shire is so small in terms of rate payers comp.....
» 12/05/2015 8:52:04 AM The problem is Spencer, doing any performance analysis on generators should never be done .....
» 7/05/2015 9:41:23 AM Having reviewed the figures above, it seems that the article's author may not understand t.....
» 7/05/2015 9:17:19 AM We may need a fact check here. The Macarthur Wind Farm at 420MW could generate about 1000 .....
» 13/04/2015 10:21:02 AM I live in northern NSW, in Byron Shire, so I am surrounded by signs that state what percen.....
» 7/01/2015 9:03:40 AM Whereas I believe our atmospheric scientists when they tell us about the impact of CO2 on .....
» 20/11/2014 10:15:20 AM I would have expected that a Nuclear Free Campaigner would have a better understanding of .....
» 30/10/2014 10:12:44 AM Alas Ben Rose, the world is full of contradictory studies. BREE's 2013 study was very diff.....
» 29/10/2014 5:53:25 PM Thanks for the link to the BREE report Mark. BREE seems to recognise the use of RE in Chin.....
» 29/10/2014 1:00:32 PM Perhaps we need to re-frame the problem in a form that doesn't rely on reducing CO2 to red.....
» 20/10/2014 9:23:28 AM Excellently argued Geoff. Get ready for the denials......
» 15/02/2014 3:18:05 PM Alas JBowyer. I fear you are correct. Disappointing though......
» 23/12/2013 1:26:00 PM Goodness Jim. Every comment so far seems to pour scorn on your assessment of the nuclear p.....
» 9/05/2013 10:06:59 AM John, thank you for your confidence in my veracity but to be fair to AEMO, it wasn’t them .....
» 8/05/2013 12:23:21 PM Augh come on Mark. Have a bit more faith in your fellow Australians :). They will see the .....
» 8/12/2012 9:05:34 AM @ Foyle – you may have got it wrong. Interesting article in Nature this week titled: “Thor.....
» 24/10/2012 1:50:31 PM There is no doubt that if there is any evidence to link birth defects with ionising radiat.....
» 31/08/2012 9:33:43 AM It's called "confirmation bias". We all do it. Even me sometimes :)......
» 17/08/2012 9:07:54 AM Congratulations Ethan on a reasonably balanced article about coal seam gas without the hys.....
» 27/07/2012 1:42:54 PM Daffy, they already did. It’s called (today) the integral fast reactor based on US develop.....
» 12/06/2012 12:57:00 PM Miss Wauchope does not claim to be an expert in nuclear energy. She has sort the expertise.....
» 3/05/2012 1:55:26 PM Very relevant for this piece but left unmentioned by Christina is the 25 new nuclear plant.....
» 25/02/2012 4:03:10 PM Having read Charlton’s essay, I believe Max’s summary here covers the issues well. I can o.....
» 14/02/2012 4:26:32 PM 579 – answers below: Tsunamis and running out of coolant – don’t put the backup power sup.....
» 14/02/2012 3:32:33 PM Most of the comments here seem to accept that all fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) are finite.....
» 4/02/2012 1:59:19 PM Ted, I just want to correct an error in your article. You state that “The Federal Governme.....
» 25/01/2012 10:32:03 AM The answer to Kurt’s opening question is correct. None of the above. The astonishing thin.....
» 9/12/2011 7:51:18 AM “The intention of the Clean Development Mechanism was to provide flexibility in how nation.....
» 8/12/2011 1:04:58 PM Sorry Kenny. We use about 240 TWh per year for 22 million people (look it up on Google). T.....
» 8/12/2011 11:07:38 AM I’m not sure how the Australian Strategic Policy Institute did their calculations but the .....
» 21/11/2011 9:03:36 AM This is an interesting site which monitors the levels of radiation dose in Japan. http://.....
» 24/10/2011 10:27:11 AM I see the German strategy as a wonderful opportunity for the world to field test whether r.....
» 8/09/2011 5:08:58 PM If Desertec in Europe/Africa ever does see the light of day - once it has solved the many .....
» 11/08/2011 9:48:19 AM Antiseptic is absolutely right. I have grid connected solar panels and an uninterruptible .....
» 29/07/2011 10:00:01 AM There is no doubt that shale gas (and coal seam gas) will improve energy security for thos.....
» 11/07/2011 9:38:30 AM My main concern with the Greens is not their environmental bias but their myopic views abo.....
» 15/06/2011 10:08:49 AM I seriously doubt that withholding uranium supply would ever be a deterrent to proliferati.....
» 14/06/2011 2:12:42 PM I also support Tombee’s eyeball analysis. It can be a bit like looking at Rorschach chart......
» 9/06/2011 1:11:23 PM I'm sorry Mark but the vast majority of true Y2K experts were not wrong they called it alm.....
» 8/06/2011 10:48:47 AM Climate change could potentially have a far larger impact on society than Y2K ever would. .....
» 8/06/2011 10:46:14 AM Mark, I won’t comment on climate change because it is not my area of expertise. What I do .....
» 2/06/2011 2:02:52 PM I agree with your argument Agnostic, but Merkel is walking away from the one technology be.....
» 2/06/2011 12:28:47 PM What I find hard to believe is that Merkel once said “Opponents of nuclear energy were ‘ba.....
» 1/06/2011 4:12:49 PM For once Mark, I find myself largely agreeing with you. Biomass will not replace our coal .....
» 26/05/2011 11:54:28 AM Unlike some of the comments so far, I do support Mike Pope’s tenet. We do need to reduce g.....
» 22/05/2011 9:51:10 AM Matt, the University of Melbourne Energy Research material you refer to didn't use the EPR.....
» 21/05/2011 1:22:00 PM Matt the issue isn’t with the science. It’s with the economics. ABARE data (http://www.a.....
» 18/05/2011 9:42:13 AM Well Everald, from the comments so far, it looks like the negativity continues from both s.....
» 12/05/2011 9:31:05 AM Sure we can make progress towards reducing GHG emissions without a price on carbon but it .....
» 6/05/2011 9:56:17 AM Jennifer, I sincerely hope you are right. We know with a great deal of certainty that CO2 .....
» 5/04/2011 5:45:12 PM Perhaps the test should not be "cheaper than current fossil fuel technologies" b.....
» 22/02/2011 12:55:35 PM Well Mark we have to start the screaming at some time, tiresome or not :) Andasol 1, 2 an.....
» 22/02/2011 11:19:26 AM Curmudgeon (Mark) better off advocating a switch to nuclear power. It's a way more concent.....
» 17/02/2011 2:25:12 PM Forrest there is a pumped hydro facility in the Snowy scheme but it’s at Tumut 3. It can h.....
» 17/02/2011 1:09:00 PM Jennifer, what makes you think that hydro electricity is non-essential? Snowy Hydro was on.....
» 25/11/2010 9:06:59 AM If I understand the original MRET scheme properly, it was primarily designed to reduce GHG.....
» 28/10/2010 11:00:05 AM Jedimaster, assuming I have understood your point, you are correct that the carbon price w.....
» 28/10/2010 9:25:32 AM What is lost in this debate is the effectiveness of a carbon price to reduce emissions in .....
» 15/10/2010 7:48:06 AM I guess by now, John Le Mesurier has got the message that he probably needs to do a bit mo.....
» 9/09/2010 9:08:57 AM OK Stephen you win. I didn't even graduate until 1970......
» 8/09/2010 10:17:13 AM Sorry to disappoint you Steven but there are many who claim the discovery of your constant.....
» 6/07/2010 3:49:03 PM Curmudgeon, thanks for your comments. I am, of course, aware of all the points you have ma.....
» 8/06/2010 10:38:46 AM The reason wind can upset the merit order is that wind has no fuel cost and low marginal o.....
» 8/06/2010 10:32:19 AM Forrest, The merit order effect is neither particularly sophisticated or sophistry. It is.....
» 29/05/2010 5:21:23 PM Forrest, I think what Jerome is referring to is discussed in this document: EWEA – Wind E.....
» 27/05/2010 9:36:35 AM Thank you Forrest for your very generous plug for my book (order from Amazon or your favou.....
» 23/05/2010 11:15:22 AM On the issue of wind costs it seems to me that the most telling evidence comes from the wi.....
» 16/04/2010 6:11:30 PM "There is no element of indoctrinated belief about atheism." In my youth I was .....
» 1/02/2010 1:42:07 PM I rarely post comments but I must congratulate Chris on a well balanced article. I would .....
» 18/11/2009 9:56:39 AM It is not true that this "scandal" has not been reported in any Australian media.....
» 22/10/2009 10:35:15 AM Paul, I admire your confidence that, at last, things might be heading politically in the r.....
» 15/10/2009 4:36:09 PM Eclipse Now, I think it would be wonderful if wave power proved to be able to produce base.....
» 3/10/2009 9:07:03 AM Excellent article Geoff. It interesting that your forensic analysis of the meta-study was.....
» 1/09/2009 4:25:32 PM Spindoc I think you would find there are those that would disagree with you about your com.....
» 28/08/2009 8:27:43 AM I agree with Peter. I expected to get more criticism for this article than I have received.....
» 14/08/2009 11:05:01 AM Helen has the same problem that the climate change skeptics like Ian Plimer have. They pas.....
» 5/08/2009 4:19:46 PM I might as well add my two pennies worth. Not only is "rock power" not yet comme.....
» 4/08/2009 3:35:58 PM Of course Australia has its own 'magical solutions' in the 20% RET scheme and even the 15%.....
» 3/08/2009 11:02:50 AM I admire Jon's optimism about electricity storage being "within reach". Industry.....
» 27/07/2009 10:46:46 AM History is repeating itself. Two centuries ago there were those who fought against mechan.....
» 18/07/2009 10:13:57 AM Juel don't blame the ETS for a carbon price of A$225. It has nothing to do with the ETS. I.....
» 1/07/2009 10:20:03 AM Bill there is something important missing in your article that (unfortunately for the sola.....
» 25/06/2009 11:36:55 AM The most concerning aspect of Cameron's review of the liquid fuels part of the NESA report.....
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