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21 comments on The Bullroarer - Tuesday 18 March 2008
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There's a few of us ex-croweaters here but we reminisce about pie floaters not crows. A recurring reason for the move is a preference for cooler weather except it was 37C in Hobart last week. The suggestion of Georgetown is spooky since they reckon there is uranium near there, actually one of the sites touted for HFR geothermal...nukular-lite.
True that if Whyalla had a 1000MW nuke then there would be major transmission losses due to remoteness. Also the current transmission lines are 130 and 275kv and would need beefing up. However if Roxby Downs needs another 120MW and the talk is of 400ML/day desal it's logical to locate the plant there. Other factors are security and lack of nimbyism.
Why not do both. Send the excess power back through Basslink to Victoria rather than all the way from Whyalla?
Works for me, especially seeing as how Prof Garnaut wants to tighten the screws on on dirty damp La Trobe brown coal which is near the mainland connector for Basslink.
However Whyalla is the spot nearest to the expanding Olympic Dam
http://odx.bhpbilliton.com/expansion/index.asp
that has good sea currents. They also could turn off the pipeline from the Murray ..I've used the image before but Gav told me off for hogging bandwidth. That saves river water for Adelaide. That region will end up supplying 40% of the world's primary uranium, so I think they should have first dibs if charity begins at home. The people around there are battle hardened, think Baxter and Woomera riots.
Hey - I was just feeling sorry for those with dialup connections - it doesn't worry me how big the images are personally.
Anyway - I did suggest a solution - load your pickie up to Flickr, which converts it to a range of sizes automatically - embed a smaller one and link back to the original - easy...
37C ? You should have moved to Sydney - we haven't gone over 30 all "summer" :-)
I still say (in my broken record way) we're better off building a 1GW CSP plant in the South Aussie Desert than a nuke plant.
Georgetown obviously isn't as suitable for CSP - so Boof can have his cooling towers and occasional heavily guarded trans-shipments of fuel rods and waste passing by if he really must...
My reference to George Town was becuase this is
1) where the Gunn a ment of Tassie is going to build there pulp factory
2) the location of an Aluminium smelter and
3) close to Basslink.
... so a little nuclear power plant should feel right at home ;-)