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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 25-May-2009 At 10:42:16 AM lacto

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whilst not quite your age R JAMES I am nearly there and cant ever recall running into you anywhere whilst climbing exactly who and where did you climb or have you just taken up sport climbing at the ripe age of 60 . The climbing community when you most likely took up the sport was very small if you were a climber .
Wind and solar straight do provide variable power however if you look at the demand curves 8000 Mw of "day time energy would nicely fit into the east coast power grid. Solar can also use storage to carry energy over to non sunlight times. Thermal coal at its absolute best is 33% efficient in converting heat to power and cannot adjust loads quickly .Wind & solar operate about 40 % of the time . The east coast of australia has massive potential to store power in the Snowy scheme . If it is ecomonic to build a link power station between McKay creek amd bogong village, then a new reversible power station betweeen Ecumbene and Jindabyne would be a boomer (the tunnel already rxists ). The whole of the tumut could also have pumps which store huge amounts of power without consuming water. Power is available below $20 nearly every night and sells for more than double later .