Lee 🌏Mar 15, 2023
This is how much space we need to power all Australia with solar.
Yes, the little black dot.
While 6000 km² isn't insignificant, most of that could be done using rooftop solar. We will also have wind power, and the rest could be Agrivoltaics (solar designed to work in tandem with farming)
And all for the price of one submarine.
#Auspol #Solar #ClimateCrisis
Show threadFabian Laasch ⚡️🔋Mar 15, 2023
@MrLee me: Looks up how much a submarine is. 🤔
Show threadLee 🌏Mar 15, 2023
@FabianLaasch
Perhaps I got that a bit wrong!
https://reneweconomy.com.au/for-100-billion-australia-could-have-a-low-cost-and-reliable-zero-emissions-grid/
For $100 billion, Australia could have a low cost and reliable zero emissions grid

An investment in major transmission lines linking Australia’s best wind and solar resources could deliver reliable and cheap and clean electricity.

RenewEconomy
Show threadFabian Laasch ⚡️🔋
@MrLee to be honest, I still have no clue at all how much a submarine is. 😂
Mar 15, 2023 at 7:08pmWeb
Show threadAljoscha Rittner (beandev)Mar 15, 2023

@FabianLaasch
Me2, but we have numbers for the next three centuries.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-nuclear-submarine-plan-cost-up-245-bln-by-2055-defence-official-2023-03-13/

@MrLee

Australia's nuclear submarine plan to cost up to $245 billion by 2055 -defence official

Australia's nuclear-powered submarine programme with the United States and Britain will cost up to A$368 billion ($245 billion) over the next three decades, a defence official said on Tuesday, the country's biggest single defence project in history.

Reuters