[LINK] South Australia uses 100% solar and wind power for full week

[Roger Clarke]

Agreed on all of those things Stephen.

And it's also good that the success of that project generates media
coverage from time to time, to reinforce the message.

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On 1/2/22 11:34 am, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Roger writes,
> 
> 
>>>> And so, with smarter gov sci-tech investments, we can expect free
> electricity?
>>> So South Australia can get by for a week on ‘free’ solar & wind
> power? Then if the
>>> Government owns the necessary infrastructure (which is surely mostly
> paid for by
>>> now) then free electricity is a no-brainer. Imagine the rush to
> migrate and to build
>>> industry in South Australia when this was announced. Come on,
> Aussie.. come on!!
>>
> 
>> 
> 
>> Great as all of these developments are, it's best not to lapse into
> marketing-spruik.
> 
>> It *might* be zero-marginal-cost. But I'd be surprised if there aren't
> a few variable
> 
>> costs in there. And of course original investment in infrastructure
> has to be 'paid off'
>> in one sense or another, and that means that there are fixed interest
> costs to be
> 
>> contributed to.  And there's physical and electronic wear-and-tear
> resulting in
>> progressive infrastructure deterioration and hence the need for
> depreciation
> 
>> / amortisation to be funded. And the infrastructure needs to be
> maintained,
> 
>> which means a workforce plus contractors plus parts.
> 
> 
> Yes, all sensible points of course Roger. Thanks. And of course our
> governments
> 
> aren’t a free-power-generation charity organization. So let me modify my
> beliefs.
> 
>  
> 
> We all agree that the people of SA have made a truly great achievement.
> To build
> 
> an almost completely emissions-free state-wide energy generation
> resource from
> 
> simply free sunlight & wind is world news.  As you say, a truly great
> development.
> 
>  
> 
> Thus, SA people should be rewarded with cheap electricity. Surely
> they’ve earnt it,
> 
> also the rights to stick it to the federal government criticism for
> their false political criticism of the State and their system during
> development. Way cheap, if not free.
> 
>  
> 
> And also to build upon the State’s green reputation in world-wide terms,
> with the financial savings the systems will be making in future, perhaps
> the SA government
> 
> will offer subsidies for solar-water-heating for domestic and industrial
> installations?
> 
>  
> 
> With such developments SA might surely be one green-envy of the whole
> planet?
> 
>  
> 
> And our whole world can take encouragement from these stunning achievements.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
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