Aussies Go 100% Coal!!! Imagining life out of the Climate Cloud
The world’s largest coal-fired power stations, Inner Mongolia’s 6,720 Megawatt (MW) Tuoketuo Station and South Korea’s 6,100 MW Taean Station, were built in stages as additional generators were needed.
Tuoketuo now sports a motley array of 12 steam turbines ranging in size from 300 to 660 MW. Taean’s managers topped-up their eight original 500 MW turbines with two Hitachi 1,050s.
Australian electricity demand peaks at 35,000ish MW; therefore, 8 Tuoketuo-sized plants (operating at two-thirds capacity) could meet national needs.
Nature’s most coal-rich tribe, the Aussies, own 165 billion tonnes of recoverable black coal and 433 billion tonnes of brown.
Australia’s 94 coal mines yield a mere half-billion tonnes annually. With centuries of supply, Aussies should consider coal inexhaustible.
The Stone Age didn’t end when we ran out of rocks. Uranium will dethrone coal before Australians exhaust their seams; but right now 9,000 coal-fired power plants adorn Earth; a quantum blossoming by hundreds every year.
When life throws you lemons, …make lemonade. Pre-2002 Australians drew 80+ percent of their electricity from coal. In 2002, decades into the climate hooey, wind power finally captured
measurable portions of Australia’s electricity market. Solar surfaced in 2005. Australia’s electricity-by-source scorecard now reads: coal 51 percent, gas 18 percent, solar 12 percent, wind 10 percent, hydro six percent, and oil two percent.
Net Zero dictates 90 percent reductions in global coal-burning by 2050. The climate oligarchy’s sacrificial lamb, Australia, must surrender coal-power long before then. On command, Australia’s top toadies tumble over one another, beckoning the coal-apocalypse closer. PM Albanese recently increased renewable quotas 15 percent, proclaiming:
“Our new ambitious target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 will put Australia on track to achieve Net Zero by 2050.” (1)
Queensland Premier Palaschuk demands 70 percent renewable electricity by 2032; …80 percent by 2035. Given (non-renewable) gas’s role in planned electricity mixes, Palaschuk’s demands spell death for coal-power.
Australians added 5 units to their coal-power fleet post-1999; none since 2009. Several closures are slated for the 2020s. Other closures are being brought forward. Between 2002 and 2022 generating capacity grew from 36,900 MW to 53,400 MW; however much new capacity is aspirational nameplate capacity configured by solar panel and wind turbine salesmen.
Australia’s coal-plants consistently deliver 66 percent of advertised max capacity, while wind typically delivers 30 percent; and solar: 10 percent.
Australia’s 19 coal-plants continue to supply baseload power with 59 aging steam turbines. Bayswater Station draws water from the Hunter River to operate four 660 MW generators.
Saltwater-cooled Eraring Station’s four 720 MW Toshibas are fed by local mines. Brown coal monsters, Lon Yang A and B’s 6 generators electrify Melbourne; …also with locally-mined coal.
Ubiquitous deposits incentivize many Australian cities, like Melbourne, to tap adjacent brown coalfields. Strides in ultra-high-voltage long-distance transmission render this strategy obsolete. The Belo Monte-Rio de Janeiro transmission line carries 4,000 MW a distance of 2,543 kilometres. The Siberia-Ural line carries 5,500 MW 2,344 kilometres. The UHV (1.1 million volt) Changi-Guquan carries 12,000 MW 3,250 kilometres.
Nine major Australian cities lay within 1,200 kilometres of Queensland’s humongous, high-volatility black coalfields. Australians should visualize next-gen (15,000+ MW) coal-stations. Imagine robotized arrays of Arabelle 1900’s, fed by supercritical boilers, nestled into Queensland’s richest coalfields, and swirling the world’s cheapest electricity across Australia.
GE, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Toshiba et al will gladly sell Australia the machinery; the manufacturing of which Aussies should master. 30,000 industrializing South Pacific and Indian Ocean islands, thirsting for electricity, makes a ready market.
There’s also coal-to-oil; or, “carbon-to-x,” as coal is now re-constructable into a myriad of commodities, not just gasoline.
South Africa has been exploiting this tech at grand scale since 1950.
China is undergoing a coal-to-x boom. Why not Australia?
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Tom
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The only thing governments are great at is wasting money. Too many social programs to buy votes. Useless, destructive wars. Recently, trillions wasted on green energy.
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T. C. Clark
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I am going to move to Aussie Land….it has energy independence….and thus should have food independence….just needs enough freedom loving independent minded anti-Left Wing citizens.
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VOWG
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Aussies are fascists, look at what the fools did about “covid” the fraud of the decade, century , millennium, I would look more than once before considering Aussiland as a place to live.
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Len Winokur
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Did you really mean “Aussies”? Or did you really mean, more specifically, “Aussie government”?
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Tom O
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I think he means “Aussies,” because believe it or not, if they wanted a better government, they could force it. Same here in the US. We don’t give a shit either, or we would force the government that would support us. It’s “the people” that allow their governments to walk on them. They don’t have to capitulate.
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K Kaiser
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Even Germany and Britain (the “green” Garden of Europe) are re-discovering coal.
Unfortunately, they have shut down their hard coal mines years ago, just like France, etc. So, now they are importing that from other places, like Russia and the USA.
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Brian James
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December 28, 2022 Aussies Go 100% Coal! Imagining Life Out from Under the Climate Cloud
The real tragedy is what we don’t see. We see billions squandered on wind and solar. Tragic enough, but we don’t see the magnificent electrical infrastructures coal might create if similarly furnished with funds.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/aussies-go-100-coal-imagining-life-out-from-under-climate-cloud/5802548
https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/coal-plant.jpg
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Brian James
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December 28, 2022 Aussies Go 100% Coal! Imagining Life Out from Under the Climate Cloud
The real tragedy is what we don’t see. We see billions squandered on wind and solar. Tragic enough, but we don’t see the magnificent electrical infrastructures coal might create if similarly furnished with funds.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/aussies-go-100-coal-imagining-life-out-from-under-climate-cloud/5802548
https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/coal-plant.jpg
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Robert Beatty
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As a retired mining executive with a ring side seat during the Marxist take over of the Australian economy, I conclude that this malaise has been instigated through the various United Nations ‘agenda’ programs. Australia, as a lightly populated continental island with enormous natural resources, is the perfect nation to start ‘World Government’ from. My prediction is once Australia falls other nations will follow in domino order.
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MattH
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Disarming of the populace is a multi faceted program but essential before the burial of the charade of democracy.
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Robert Beatty
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Hi MattH,
IMO The best form of national defence against Marxism is to unlock the intelligence of the entire nation. As we discussed previously, this can be accomplished by inviting the population to contribute through CIR. If the population choose to defend themselves through force of arms – then so be it. Given a choice, I doubt that option would dominate.
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