Hi Team members,
Rural Australia is being covered by the rushed roll out of unreliable Solar farms, Wind farms, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and connecting High Voltage (HV) Transmission Lines. I believe the rollout is spreading a Renewable Factory Blight (RFB) across Rural Australia (and also along our Coastline) with devastating consequences.
The consequences are: A. Permanently removing, millions of hectares of agricultural land from production. B. Hugely increasing the risk of uncontrollable wildfires, which will threaten the safety of Country living. C. Slaughtering our unique wildlife in numbers leading to extinction. D. Permanently polluting land, along with surface and underground water runoff. E. Blighting the renowned scenic beauty and peacefulness of the landscape, along with despoiling tourism attractions”. F. Devaluing land values and country lifestyles.
2. To explain B. Renewable Factories, create a huge incendiary risk of starting multiple Bushfires/Wildfires right across Rural Australia
This bushfire risk is because tens of thousands of wind turbines on 180m to 300m towers, have been scattered across Rural Australia. Add tens of millions of electrified, solar panels on solar farms. Include thousands of large lithium batteries. Electrify them all and pack them tightly together and surround them with 2m high security fences. Making access slow and unsafe.
EVERY RESIDENT IN RURAL AUSTRALIA IS NOW FACED WITH A HUGE PROBLEM.
There is now a large number of solar and wind farms all across rural Australia. They are sited amongst highly combustible grassy, grazing land, bone dry wheat and other grain producing paddocks or highly combustible eucalypt forests which create the situation where wide-scale disasters are waiting to happen. On a total fire ban day, with a 43dC temperature and a 70km NW wind and there only needs to be one wind turbine or one solar panel to catch fire and a disaster is likely to occur. Multiply that by ten or twenty and a nightmare scenario is not hard to imagine.
It is exacerbated because, in regards to firefighting, solar farms are a “no-go area” for firefighters, because of the risk of getting trapped. And burning batteries give off toxic smoke and require a lot of water and special treatment. With wind farms, aerial water bombers keep several kilometers away from wind turbines, because of the turbulence they create Stopping fires when they are small, is the no one priority of current firefighting protocol. But with solar and wind farms that is out of the question.
(More explanations of the other consequences of RFBs, will be explained in future updates.)
I see these consequences of the RFBs, as being so serious, that the TRANSISTION TO RENEWABLES will have to be stopped and consequentially fail. It then becomes more important that our current coal fired power stations be kept running and the closed ones restarted.
Please promote our petition as widely as possible. 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 to promote the petition on 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.
Example:11th Oct 3.00pm EDST. Batteries 0%, Biomass 0%, Black Coal 40%, Brown Coal 17%, Gas 2%, Hydro 4% Diesel 0% Solar 19%, Wind 17% (Solar and Wind 36%, on a very sunny day, still leaving the reliables to provide 64%). But what really counts is over a 24hr period. Renewables can be cheap for a few hours. But it is the average over 24hrs, that matters on your electricity bill.
We are up to 2,251 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? Are you thinking of buying a generator?