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OLD ROCK STAR WILL GIVE YOU $8000 30-Apr-2009 At 10:05:13 PM Cranky

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On 30/04/2009 evanbb wrote:
>On 30/04/2009 Cranky wrote:
>
>>I believe there is only a very insignificant amount of green power available.
>>There would not be green generators sitting around waiting for people
>>to buy green power, so that these generators could be used.
>>When you buy green power you are donating to research, but still getting
>>your power from coal.
>
>Sorry Cranky, you're 100% wrong. Check my post from the previous page.

Evan, I'm not against green power, I don't like the way the figures are 'glossed up' to make it seem that there is more green power being generated than there is.
I have only skimmed through a few pages of the report you mentioned.
To try to give an example, on page 14 the report mentioned that sales during the reporting period (12 months) were 1,202,079 Mega Watt Hours. That is sales from green generators over a 12 month period Australia wide.

The Energy Australia substation that feeds the lower North Shore in Sydney, has three 120 Mega Volt Amp transformers feeding that comparitively small area. This is a capability of 360 MVA at any one instant. It is only at times of light load (during the night) that the load on the substation is reduced to 200MVA. So if you multiply this coal fed capability to a 12 month period, it may put the total of 1,202,079MWh into perspective.
For the purposes of this discussion we can assume that 1 MWh =1 MVA.