Premier should buy tanks with the $1.8b from Traveston Dam.

Candidate argues Bligh should buy everybody a water tank with $1.8bn saved from Traveston Dam.

On an electrical grid, supply must always exactly equal demand or the voltage goes unstable. Our utility laws very effectively encourage building of power plants to meet an ever-growing demand. This seemed like wise policy in the days of almost free energy but today it encourages gross investment inefficiencies. Power utilities maximize profits by spending as much as possible on expansion of …

Even the testing process should go back to the drawing board, Des Pearson says.

In reply to Is Geothermal The Baseload Alternative? : njsharp, Yes the typical rate of heat flow from deep in the Earth is about 0.1 W/m2, but we don’t sit around waiting for it to trickle up at that rate, slowly conducting through rocks that are actually moderately good thermal insulators. The point of hot rock geothermal is to find places where high temperatures occur relatively close to the …