SACA has confirmed there was an internal switching issue last night and not a supply issue. No other business in the area was affected.
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Posted this before but the yanks delivered enough battery storage to store energy equivalent to 20 nuclear power plants in 4 years.
I mean just build the bloody things we have all the ingredients and a stack of excess power generated dying to be stored FFS.
Thats an energy policy Dutton.
And it satisfies your mining masters.
We dont need Nuclear,Gas,Coal or even any more hydro.
Store wind and solar. Especially solar
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With the amount of solar literally sitting on peoples roofs we all could pretty much have free electricity.
Or very cheap.
That battery capacity in the US has been built mainly by 2 states. Texas and California.
We could build even a quarter of that here and be enjoying cheap electricity for all.
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I reckon zero chance ever.
A government that controlled your hot water and aircon would be booted out in the biggest landslide of all time.
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if you think this has all happened on 18 months or 2 years you’re dreaming and just showing how biased your are . it’s ok to admit that instead of pretending to be centre or ignoring logic. world events and world economy change so called promises that you seem to frantically cling to as a means to justify your blind and obvious bias. lol every country in the world has the same exact issues and you somehow seem to see it as an australian Labor thing .
hahahah it’s so funny . I’d love to dive into housing affordability scaled to before and after world economic factors but I dead set can’t be bothered . I’d be willing to wager this is the same in almost all western economies . and I’d also be willing to wager that every conservative government or opposition is blaming it on immigration
I’m not hiding the fact my politics is on the conservative side, there’s never been doubt about that on here. My points are irrefutable facts, like it or not. You can blame everyone and anyone (except the government) but that would be simply wrong.
I suspect your views might be slightly blinded by your bias to the left of centre politics. That comes through clear as day. Perhaps we’re both showing our bias 
The electorate will decide in about 6 months what they think of the governments performance. I suspect my inkling that the mob are dissatisfied will be confirmed on ejection night with healthy swings away from incumbents across a swag of seats.
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absolute knee slapper right here
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Hahaaaaaa!
hilarious mate . it’s ok really .
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It’s all just a bit of lively debate and fun Tezza 
Wow
of course . no problem
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I think best Liberal policy would be.
Build 1 nuclear reactor. Just so we have technology, going to cost a lot and be over time.if SMRs become a thing then we can roll them out later, but unlikely cost efficient anyway. Put it in Canberra 
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Keep investing in renewables and batteries storage. Community storage hubs in high solar generating areas. Upgrade transmission lines.
Keep existing coal power stations open for useful life. And then transition to natural gas if possible.
Gas is easy to turn on off/ unlike nuclear which runs all the time and coal takes day to go online/offline. So gas best for managing baseload power to come online when rain/cloudy or. Not windy. Would aim for more natural gas being used locally and less exported for free.
Having a state owned provider in the market would also help in reducing electricity costs.
Liberal policy is to extend the life of some coal power plants and do nothing.
I dont get why we cant just build battery farms and just keep doing so.
We have the generation already.
And if batteries arent there yet well heck they will keep getting better so just build more.
15 plus years to build that. waste of time and money . the world and business is moving on
the time and waste of time is more a problem than the cost . gotta get on with what is the future
You realise we already have that reactor, it’s literally in Sydney
It doesn’t produce electricity. Used for medical purposes.