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Aussies to Plant $1.8B Wind Farm in Outback
Epuron's plans to construct what it calls the world's largest wind farm in Australia's outback include between 400 and 500 turbines. The $1.8 billion project, which is expected to begin in late 2009, could reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by up to 3.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Safe, clean and cheap. Nuclear power for the win.
but it's certainly not clean. Low level waste (clothes, etc) gets buried, destroying habitat, medium and high level waste are then dumped in the ocean. Contrary to popular belief, radiation does seep out of the containers due to cracks and the like.
Wind power has little to no disadvantages. The land under them is not harmed, sheep can still be grazed and wildlife thrive. They also create no waste.
Originally posted by Rilence
As far as nuclear goes, as long as we are enriching it ourselves and not paying other countries to turn our raw uranium into fuel, I'm all for it on a relative scale...
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Australian scientists have developed a new way of producing electricity, which could provide all of Australia's electricity needs in 2020.
It has been developed by mixing solar energy, heat and natural gas.
In the search to find a cleaner, more efficient form of power, scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have developed what is called solar-thermal energy.
Two hundred mirrors track the sun, and focus the sun's rays towards a tower.
The heat can reach temperatures of more than 1000 degrees Celsius, producing 500 kilowatts of power.
This is then mixed with natural gas and water to produce a renewable energy.
Wes Stein from the CSIRO says the new development could provide for Australia's future energy needs.
"It would only require about 50 kilometres by 50 kilometres in the centre of Australia somewhere to provide all of Australia's electricity needs in 2020," he said.
"That's not very much of Australia."
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The project will involve building the world’s tallest structure, shown in Fig. 1, a 1000 metre high tower, fitted with a 3.5 km radius greenhouse “skirt’ around its base, below which trapped air is warmed to ~15° above ambient. A further natural temperature differential of 10° exists between the bottom and top of the tower. The column of hot air rising up the tower will achieve a velocity of 45 kph. The wind thus created turns 32 turbines distributed around the base of the 120 metre diameter tower. Each turbine can produce over 6 MW of power, giving a total output of 200 MW.
Originally posted by Essan
Or people in the cities could just switch their lights off at night: thereby reducing GHG emissions, saving money, and removing any need to build useless windfarms .....
To the nuclear, cheer squad, where's the water going to come from??? Walter??? For 50 reactors?? In a permanent drought????