Dear Team members,
We are in deep trouble, in that our politicians, their advisors and the bureaucrats who are planning and running our energy systems, have no real life experience with working with a variety of electrical generators and particularly are illiterate when it comes to understanding how electricity grids work. It appears that they have no understanding of electrical terms, such as the difference between AC v DC currents. Other examples are, what synchronisation means, what invertor’s do, what is meant by base load, what actually does firming or gap filling mean, and the huge problems of trying to replace base load coal and gas fired generators with Stone aged fuel starved Solar Farms and Medieval intermittently generating Wind Farms.
A classic example is a statement from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) website.“We're aiming to enable 100% renewable energy at any point in time Our goal is to co-design and co-engineer the NEM and the WEM to manage 100% instantaneous penetration of renewables at any moment on any day by 2025”. To me this is a ridiculous claim to make, and will lead to a new electrical term ‘A SYSTEM BLACK EVENT’ happening.
I have just become aware of the new term, A SYSTEM BLACK EVENT, by reading an article in the Cairns News, by Peter Campion, titled Queensland, now one of the most expensive power supplies in the world will suffer ‘system black events’
An excerpt from the article “Tap water won’t be available as city water reticulation relies on pumps. Drinking water will only be available as bottled water on hand as shops won’t be open. No piped water means no toilet flushing, and hygiene issues will emerge within 24 hours. No rubbish collection will see waste accumulating on the streets by day two. The insect and rodent populations will flourish and contribute to health issues.
Refrigerated food will be spoiled by day two and food supplies will be limited to tinned or dried food on hand.
Health services can be expected to collapse on day two and hospitals will descend into chaos. Those reliant on prescription drugs will have only their on-hand stocks.
On day three, city residents will be desperate for water and urgently in need of food. Those who have not become victims of crime will be evacuating outwards from the city centre on foot, hoping to find water and food in the suburbs.
Please read the full article (and circulate it widely), because it highlights the terrifying path that we are on if our coal fired power stations are closed and then demolished. And makes our campaign to stop this happening, vitally important
Please promote our petition https://www.change.org/p/blackouts-will-be-devastating-they-must-be-avoided-at-all-costs I would value it if you are able to donate $20 or $50 Change.org and also promote it on Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp or Email.
KEEP INFORMED BY DAILY MONITORING THE AEMO DATA DASHBOARD. And alert your friends to watch the AEMO dashboard, the more know what's happening the better.
Particularly at 7pm and 7am (Or a time that suits you?) watch (and record) the mix of coal, gas hydro, batteries, solar and wind generation and the prices per MWh for each State on the AEMO dashboard.
We are up to 1,913 signatures, let’s increase it by many more, everyone’s future depends on it. Continue to spread the word, to all family, friends, anyone you meet, particularly discuss it with shop and business owners. Ask the question, “How do you plan to cope when the blackouts come? Caused by this senseless transition to RUINABLES.