hydroelectricity, Tag

There are lots of reasons to constrain the galloping growth of wind and solar. Issues like unreliability, excessive cost and environmental destruction. None of them is funny. But the idea that one form of renewables (wind...

The hydroelectric dams in question are not just sources of renewable energy; they are also vital contributors to grid inertia.

By Jo Nova A second big Australian “Pumped Hydro” scheme is crashing on economic rocks… The Marinus Link cable was meant to spark a glorious renewables boom and make Tasmania “The Battery of the Nation”,...

Supplied by Snowy Hydro By Jo Nova Australia’s star “Renewables BackUp” the Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme has been delayed another two years. The pumped storage mammoth looks more like a ghost elephant every day....

By Jo Nova Tantangara Resevoir: A whole ecosystem to fill with invasive feral fish and a necrosis virus too. The Snowy 2.0 Pumped hydro scheme will cost families big money, spread pests, endanger fish, and kill trees but...

The new hole in the ground in the Snowy 2.0 scheme. By Jo Nova Complexity has a price, and a renewables grid is a bit like a 240 volt moving Rubiks cube. Here we see an unnecessary project hit by a random factor that in turn...

Would you like blackouts or floods with your Green Burger? Tumut Generation Station No. 3 Snowy scheme | Joe “velojo” A Here in Weather-Dependent Renewable World the chief crash test dummy is struggling because of...

Here in Weather-Dependent Renewable World the chief crash test dummy is struggling for yet another bit of terrible luck. We desperately need the only reliable renewable energy we have to generate — while reliable but-badly-maintained-coal...

The Snowy 2.0 Scheme is a $10 billion bandaid to make up for Wind and Solar’s unreliability. Hydro storage is an anti-generator that destroys 20-30% of the electricity fed into it. It turns out it also destroys three...

From The Financial Post Terence Corcoran June 21, 2019 1:59 PM EDT To produce the power needed to offset fossil fuels, Canada would have to build two and a half $13-billion hydro dams every year Judging from the headlines,...

Guest no schist Sherlock by David Middleton From the AGU’s “bleeding obvious” files… Where Did All the Free-Flowing Rivers Go? A map of the world’s free-flowing rivers shows a shrinking number can...

They’re running our largest Hydro Lake down The large Hazelwood Coal Units closed a year ago,  so the Snowy Mountain Hydro Scheme has been working hard to fill the holes in the unreliable generation that replaced it...

We’re planning to spend $5,000 million on something to smooth out the bumps from unreliable generators. It is entirely unnecessary in a system where coal supplies the baseload and we have not created artificial rules...

Spot the vested interest The biggest competitor for hydro in Australia is cheap old coal power. Surprise me, Snowy Hydro jumped into the national energy debate a few days ago on behalf of taxpayers themselves. With Turnbull...

Every like and tweet costs energy, which isn't great for climate change. That's why the American-Norwegian data company Kolos is building a new data center in northern Norway. Designed to be the largest in the world, it will...