my delight at this nice news

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is almost entirely washed away by my awareness that straya seems to have decided the cookers get to make policy, ergo, offshore windfarm projects keep getting attacked & disincentivised... compared to many other countries where some sanity exists.

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Offshore wind turbines create all-you-can-eat havens where some fish can double in size

New study shows offshore wind turbines create different marine environments that accommodate more groups and more complexity in the oceanic food chain.

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Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill resigns to run global oil giant BP

Meg O’Neill is leaving Australia’s largest oil and gas producer to take up a new job as boss of global energy major BP.

The Sydney Morning Herald
The giant heat pumps designed to warm whole districts

Across Europe huge heat pumps are being installed that can heat tens of thousands of homes.

minns had the gall to go on-camera only days ago, feigning po-faced sympathy & empathy with the latest victims of the latest climate-crisis destructive storm. i yelled at the screen, coz i knew full well they continue to support the climate criminals accelerating this escalating disaster chain.

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Forget the Med: I’d rather travel Europe’s other great sea

This is Europe without fuss, and yet with everything going for it.

The Sydney Morning Herald

morning thunderstorms in once-temperate latitudes, really offend me as being unjust, on principle, given by definition it's usually the cooler part of the day, ostensibly thus being contraindicative of the right conditions being available for the thunder cells to form.

and yet, in recent years, they do.

it's so demoralising, as it's just more evidence of the accelerating climate crisis. the atmosphere now simply holds so much latent heat, thanks to us, the human stain, that "the old diurnal rules" are becoming rapidly obsolete.

well done, humans.

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From flare to flow as Beetaloo wins final NT gas approval

Beetaloo Energy has landed final NT Government approval to sell test gas in the NT, clearing the way for inaugural pilot production from the massive Beetaloo onshore basin.

The Sydney Morning Herald

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AEMO is concerned about system strength. It does not yet agree with battery technology providers that grid forming inverters can provide all the system strength services traditionally provides by coal and gas, and synchronous condensers are hard to obtain, and expensive to boot.


if... IF... we do happen to solve this real problem:

the lack of replacement wind and solar capacity


then what are the engineering problems needing to be overcome, to adapt at least some of the large steam turbine generators as defacto synchronous condensers?

in principle at least, generators & motors are just the same in reverse, so, pending adequate upstream green electricity, supply it to these generators so that they become motors that drive the coupled steam turbines. use the existing lube & seal systems, but no boilers are needed, hence none of the coal processing & usage is required [all that can indeed then be scrapped]. take advantage of the huge rotating masses to provide the important frequency stability to the network, which for all these decades they've been doing in their historical role... just now do it "in reverse", as defacto synchronous condensers.

ofc there will be engineering matters to be observed, but even so, as a stop gap til straya finally has full green energy, why is nobody publicly canvassing this possibility?

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Australia's biggest coal generator may be phased out, unit by unit, rather than a hard exit

Origin says a phased closure of the country's biggest coal generator is a "reasonable" assumption. "It's not straightforward," says CEO Frank Calabria.

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While the rest of the world rushes to hire US scientists that Trump has cut, Australia follows in his footsteps

"They’re choosing to do less science at the very time when we should be doing more science, when we’re talking about productivity.”