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here's a road map of coal fired power plants, capacity and their lifespans and announced closure date. Looking at this you can expect Australia will be 100% coal free in our lifetimes, which is a great step forward

You need a second pair of hands when working with some aircraft bits and pieces, even just having someone to pass you the right sized spanner when you are inside a fuselage is a big time saver. The Bushcat shows how well tube and fabric when using modern design and manufacturing technologies is capable of.

US gas companies developed the techniques used in Australia

But I know you are only truly happy reading quacks

I would say that the folks at Armidale were inspired by Wellcamp but its missing a 0

I don't do your research Solar power eclipsed fossil fuels in new 2017 generating capacity: U.N. Nina Chestney, Alister Doyle 4 MIN READ LONDON/OSLO (Reuters) - Chinese solar power led a record 157 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity added worldwide last year, more than double the amount of new generation capacity from fossil fuels, a U.N.-backed report showed on Thursday. Employees check solar panels, as they work on a grid-connected photovoltaic power generation project, at a power plant in Changxing County, Zhejiang Province, China June 13, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo Globally, a record 98 GW of solar power capacity was installed last year with China contributing more than half, or 53 GW, according to U.N. Environment, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre and Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The new renewable energy generating capacity, also including wind, biofuels and geothermal energy, dwarfed the 70 GW of net new capacity from fossil fuels in 2017, it said. “We are at a turning point ... from fossil fuels to the renewable world,” Erik Solheim, head of U.N. Environment, told Reuters. “The markets are there and renewables can take on coal, they can take on oil and gas.” Fossil fuels, however, still dominate existing capacity. Solar, wind, biomass and other renewables generated 12.1 percent of world electricity in 2017, up from 5.2 percent a decade earlier, it said. Climate scientists have advised governments that renewables should be the world’s dominant source of energy by mid-century if they want to achieve the toughest goals set under the 2015 Paris climate agreement to combat global warming. Global investment in renewable energy rose by two percent to $279.8 billion in 2017 from a year earlier. China invested the most in renewables at $126.6 billion - its largest amount ever and 45 percent of the global total. “Much lower costs ... are the driver of solar investment worldwide,” said Angus McCrone, chief editor of Bloomberg New Energy Finance and lead author of the report, told Reuters. And solar power in China benefited from government policies to help industry, reduce air pollution and slow climate change, he said. The report said the cost of generating electricity from large-scale solar photovoltaic technology fell by 15 percent last year to $86 per megawatt hour. In the United States, renewable energy investment fell by six percent in 2017 to $40.5 billion. However, it was relatively resilient to policy uncertainties under President Donald Trump, who wants to promote fossil fuels, the report said. “Trump can no more brake this than those who opposed the Industrial Revolution could stop the Industrial Revolution,” said Solheim, a former Norwegian environment minister. Still, Trump’s decision in January to slap tariffs on imported solar panels could dent U.S. solar power in the short term, McCrone said. But there was no sign the U.S. Congress would scrap tax credits for renewables that are a bigger driver of long-term investment, he said. Europe’s investment in renewables plunged by 36 percent to $40.9 billion due to factors including the end of subsidies in some countries for solar and wind and lower technology costs. “In Europe the fall in investment is strongly driven by Germany and the UK,” said Ulf Moslener, lead editor of the report at the Frankfurt School.

start here http://www.lockthegate.org.au/about_us

You are comparing natural gas that leaks out via natural buoyancy from rotting vegetable matter a few metres under ground compared to blasting thousands of litres down as far as 4 kms then the corrosive chemicals that they use to turn to turn coal into gas is pumped into the well. there are plenty documented cases in the US of CSG workers falling sick after inhaling the fracking powder

you know a website with the title "no trick zone" is run by quacks right? you know weather forecasting is pretty good these days especially in the 2-3 hour range power grids need to plan supply

solar is going in everywhere ASX-listed retail asset manager Vicinity Centres has announced the roll-out of more than 11MW of commercial solar in a $28 million project that will incorporate five shopping centres across two states. Vicinity said on Tuesday that the $28 million project would install a total of 11.2MW of solar on the rooftops and as car park shading at shopping centres in Western Australia and South Australia – enough to generate 17.4GWh of energy a year. The first stage of the massive commercial solar project, set to begin next month, will see panels installed at Castle Plaza, Elizabeth City Centre and Kurralta Park in SA and Ellenbrook Central and Currambine Central in WA. And according to Vicinity, the project will gather a few new records for the Australian commercial solar and storage industry. The 5.8MW array at Elizabeth City Centre is claiming to be Australia’s largest single solar installation, while the Castle Plaza system (2.2MW) will add 500kWh of battery storage – the “largest battery installation” at a shopping centre nationally. The Kurralta Park (SA) and Currambine Central systems will both be 100kW, while the Ellenbrook Central system will be 2.9MW. As noted, much of the solar will be installed as car park shading across four of the sites, with more than 2400 covered bays in all. And Vicinity says it will also trial zones of double-sided solar panels, cloud tracking technology and fast-charging stations for electric vehicles. “This project will create shared value for our customers, retailers and investors, as well as the communities where we live and operate,” said Vicinity CEO Grant Kelley. According to Adelaide Now, Melbourne-based Beon Energy Solutions has been contracted to install the first phase of solar installs for Vicinity. A second phase across another round of Vicinity shopping centres is expected to be completed by 2020. The move to solar by Vicinity adds to a nation-wide commercial solar boom that some analysts are predicting could add a power station worth of new PV capacity this year alone. Retail outlets have been a major part of the commercial solar market already, however, with companies like Stockland making steady progress on plans to install a total of 12.3MW of rooftop solar across its portfolio

Australia has installed more than 100MW of rooftop solar for the seventh consecutive month as households and businesses accelerate their uptake of the technology to stave off the soaring cost of grid electricity. New data from Green Energy Markets shows 109MW was installed in April, down from March but this was expected given the Easter and Anzac Day holidays. “This is the seventh month in a row that capacity has exceeded 100MW. While April was down on the prior month (March was an all-time record for capacity) it is up 63% on April last year,” says GEM analyst Tristan Edis.

Industry feedback for the latest round of security upgrades being forced onto regional airports Rex slams 'irresponsible and grandiose' spending on regional airports by governments David Fitzsimons Local News CONCERN: Rex. Regional Express [Rex] airline has delivered a major attack on government funding of regional airports. In a statement released on Monday the airline slammed the amount of money spent on upgrades which it said was making regional air travel more expensive. While not naming any particular airport it has called on the federal and state governments to be more vigilant with future funding. Rex said it had kept its ticket price rises to only 1.1 per cent per year since 2002/03 but was having to meet significant increases in operating costs, particularly those imposed by local government to use the airports. “The most significant factor contributing to the escalating airport charges has come about by irresponsible and grandiose spending on regional airports to construct excessive facilities that provide no meaningful improvement to the air service,” it said. Rex said the funding added to operating costs and increased the annual depreciation expense which was then charged back to the airline through increased airport charges. “Rex calls on the federal and state governments to be discerning in funding to regional airports and play close consideration to the economic justification,” it said. Orange mayor Reg Kidd said Rex was only presenting one side of the story. “That is a gross understatement of how airports apply,” he said. “To be fair and reasonable with it, they are a business.” Cr Kidd said Orange had not undertaken a major upgrade for some time. He said he supported Rex’s call for discerning funding. “I have no trouble with that whatsoever so long as the airline is playing by the same hymn book,” he said.

Two more solar farms have joined the grid in New South Wales and Queensland, joining the rush of connections of new solar farms across the country. These two graphs above and below – courtesy of Paul McArdle at WattClarity – show that both the 41MW Manildra solar farm in NSW and the 15MW Longreach solar farm in Queensland have begun exporting to the grid, albeit in small quantities. This is no doubt part of the commissioning phase for both projects, which join new connections in Griffith and Parkes in NSW, in Barcaldine and at Sun Metals in Queensland, in Peterborough in South Australia, and Ganawarra in Victoria. They are among a group of solar projects that began construction last year as the renewable energy target finally started to take hold, with some 2GW of solar capacity expected to be completed and connected this year. Both Manildra and Longreach were among the winning project in the large scale solar round funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. The Longreach project, located near the iconic town that is regarded as the birthplace of Qantas, was proposed by Canadian Solar and received a $1.3 million grant, while Infigen Energy’s Manildra project was allocated $10.9 million. Both projects are using single axis tracking technology. The key data set for the Manildra solar farm, located between Orange and Parkes in central west NSW, and which is using First Solar thin film panels, is shown to the right. The completion of the two solar farms means that nearly half of the 12 solar farms funded by ARENA are now complete, with the rest well under construction.

but poisoning is OK if the land is poor?

the Australian Bushcat distributor put his kit together in 17 days, so it should be a straight forward build

Bingi, you are very observant.

the quality of the land doesn't diminish the poisoning of the land, that's a criminal conviction. You seem to be advocating poisoning of the country as being a good thing, is that your intention?

sweet what are you building?

Once your groundwater is polluted the land is basically worthless, farmers are starting to realise this, the land around Chinchilla is an example. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-09/court-linc-energy-guilty-serious-environmental-harm-ucg-plant/9632964

I feel like bingi is getting some a lot more value out of this than anyone else, reading the crackpots, ignoring facts, reading more crackpot theories, ignoring facts

weren't you drinking Oakey's bore water to prove it safe?

I would like proof that wind turbine syndrome exists, you keep telling me that its real but I think its made up to fool gullible people. I feel like you are anti-common sense to avoid admitting you were wrong. Lock the gate alliance can take you to sites and you can met farmers who have they farms polluted by gas and oil companies. But why would you want to listen to them?

More crackpot sources? Do you know who owns stop these things

search for Dr John Bates and this is the 4th link, another quack http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/news/more-fake-news-in-the-mail-on-sunday/

the case is still ongoing isn't it? latest research is pretty clear