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Big Gav on February 10, 2008 - 7:38am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

King Island is in a great location to harness both wave and ocean current energy (as well as the copious wind) and there seems to be action on that front too.

With some solar and good energy storage, they may yet become the first fully renewable locale in Oz.

I'm glad they are trying graphite as well as the flow batteries - it will be good to see a like for like comparison.

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Phil Hart on February 12, 2008 - 2:59am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I was discussing King Island with an ASPO colleague a few days ago. It'd be great to see them set a target to become Australia's first 100% renewable locale. When people see what can be done, they can envisage it being done on larger scale. King Island today, Tasmania tomorrow, then we'll takeover the whole globe!

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Big Gav on February 12, 2008 - 6:25am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Yep - start at the disconnected pieces, then move to the ends of the grid (places like Cloncurry) and slowly move inwards until everything has renewables backed by large scale storage and then we can just switch the coal fired stuff off.

I like the way that some of these out of the way places are prepared to experiment in order to rid themselves of diesel generators.

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