Comment Re:An entity in the US of A won't entertain this.. (Score 2) 42
Wrong Austria. This is the one that lost Hungary in a war, not the Kangaroo one.
Submission + - Australia Is Quitting Coal in Record Time Thanks to Tesla (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Like so much in our modern era, Australia’s high-stakes gamble on renewable energy starts with an Elon Musk Twitter brag. South Australia’s last coal-fired power plant had closed, leaving the province of 1.8 million heavily reliant on wind farms and power imports from a neighboring region. When an unprecedented blackout caused much of the country to question the state’s dependence on clean power, Tesla boasted — on Twitter, of course — that it had a solution: It could build the world’s biggest battery, and fast. “@Elonmusk, how serious are you about this,” replied Australian software billionaire and climate activist Mike Cannon-Brookes. “Can you guarantee 100MW in 100 days?” Musk responded: “Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free. That serious enough for you?”
To the astonishment of many, Tesla succeeded, and today, almost seven years later, that battery and more like it have become central to a shockingly rapid energy transition. By the middle of the next decade, major coal-fired power stations that generate about half of Australia’s electricity will shut down. Gas-fired plants are being retired, too, and nuclear power is banned. That leaves solar, wind and hydro as the major options in the country’s post-coal future. “It’s really a remarkable story,” said Audrey Zibelman, the former head of the Australian Energy Market Operator, or AEMO, the agency that runs the grid, and now an adviser to Alphabet’s X. “Because we’re not interconnected, we’ve had to learn to do it in a much more sophisticated way, where a lot of other countries will go once they’ve shut down their fossils.”
It may be Australia’s biggest power buildout since electrification in the 1920s and 30s. And, if successful, could be replicated across the 80% of the world’s population that lives in the so-called sun belt — which includes Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, India, southern China and Southeast Asia, says Professor Andrew Blakers, an expert in renewable energy and solar technology at Australian National University. That, in turn, would go a long way to halting climate change. Building battery storage is just one critical piece of the national project, and AEMO and others are worried coal plants will shut before there’s enough additional electricity supply. Australia needs to increase its grid-scale wind and solar capacity ninefold by 2050. Connecting all that generation and storage into the grid will require more investment. Overall, the cost could be a staggering A$320 billion ($215 billion), and the money is starting to flow: Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., Macquarie Group Ltd., and billionaires Andrew Forrest and Cannon-Brookes have all been involved in headline-grabbing energy deals in recent months. New government support for renewables has also improved investor sentiment, according to the Clean Energy Investor Group, which includes project developers and financiers.
To the astonishment of many, Tesla succeeded, and today, almost seven years later, that battery and more like it have become central to a shockingly rapid energy transition. By the middle of the next decade, major coal-fired power stations that generate about half of Australia’s electricity will shut down. Gas-fired plants are being retired, too, and nuclear power is banned. That leaves solar, wind and hydro as the major options in the country’s post-coal future. “It’s really a remarkable story,” said Audrey Zibelman, the former head of the Australian Energy Market Operator, or AEMO, the agency that runs the grid, and now an adviser to Alphabet’s X. “Because we’re not interconnected, we’ve had to learn to do it in a much more sophisticated way, where a lot of other countries will go once they’ve shut down their fossils.”
It may be Australia’s biggest power buildout since electrification in the 1920s and 30s. And, if successful, could be replicated across the 80% of the world’s population that lives in the so-called sun belt — which includes Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, India, southern China and Southeast Asia, says Professor Andrew Blakers, an expert in renewable energy and solar technology at Australian National University. That, in turn, would go a long way to halting climate change. Building battery storage is just one critical piece of the national project, and AEMO and others are worried coal plants will shut before there’s enough additional electricity supply. Australia needs to increase its grid-scale wind and solar capacity ninefold by 2050. Connecting all that generation and storage into the grid will require more investment. Overall, the cost could be a staggering A$320 billion ($215 billion), and the money is starting to flow: Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., Macquarie Group Ltd., and billionaires Andrew Forrest and Cannon-Brookes have all been involved in headline-grabbing energy deals in recent months. New government support for renewables has also improved investor sentiment, according to the Clean Energy Investor Group, which includes project developers and financiers.
Comment Re: No chance at all (Score 1) 298
I worry more about the possibility of mass produced (cheaper but competent) enemy aircraft with well trained pilots.
Like the Iranians
Comment Re: Insecurity (Score 1) 226
You are NOT your body. You are a spiritual being in a physical body having a human experience. NO amount of ignorance or belief will ever change this fact.
That's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...">Gnosticism, Patrick.
Comment Re: Pushing the boundaries? (Score 1) 63
Legend says that Skylab killed a cow
Comment Re: First derivative of the polls? (Score 1) 308
...but we should have special accommodation for people who have higher priorities than eating (e.g. like drug addicts).
Bought food on the 10th of the month and the EBT reffils on the 14th. Not everything is drugs.
Comment Re: You are an idiot. (Score 1) 116
16:00-23:59, 0:00-11:59, 12:00-23:59, 0:00-8:00.
At least that's how they would do at my workplace.
Comment Re: Never doubted it (Score 1) 64
Funny enough, AT&T's network was the first to come back after Maria., An we like our rice with beans.
Comment Re: Absolutely, but .... (Score 1) 267
Keep a copy of CS2 on a VM with Windows.
Comment Re:Has The Whole World Gone Topsy Turvy? (Score 1) 83
When I worked at Sam's I noticed that a lot of the applications we used were made in-house. I'm surprised they actually released something so publicly.
Comment Re: Yes, they are employees (Score 1) 367
Coding is hard, coding a robot that can mimic human instincts is even harder.
Comment Re: The Fanboi's Tunnel Vision. (Score 1) 65
I remember when i could ctrl+wheel to zoom in with gnome 2 and compiz
Comment Re:Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Score 1) 703
Luther just told everyone still Catholic to suck It.
Comment Re:Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Score 1) 703
Not to mention that when asked to reconcile his Ideas to the Magisterium, he simply disregarded that and attempted to make private interpretation of scripture along with his explanations(a big no-no in Catholic doctrine).
Gotta admire Galileo tough. He decided that although not agreeing with the decision of the tribunal, he obeyed it nonetheless. Unlike many in his time who just became protestants.
Comment Re:How About (Score 1) 224
You keep finding uses for this until someone decides that everyone should have it.
