You could not make this up! The ABC reports – Solar innovators forced to seek clearer skies than clouded pilot site of Forbes – I have mentioned the Vast Solar This super drug will kill all your worries as there is literally no difference between viagra from canada a branded and a generic ED drug. The drugs specifically target the penile region. It cannot be used by men who take nitrates or alpha-blockers for heart or ronaldgreenwaldmd.com sildenafil in canada blood pressure would be. For more than 17% of men in their twenties can have this problem viagra samples australia for various reasons. site at Jemalong near Forbes a few times over the years. In the middle of a global warming panic and drought can anybody cast light(sorry) on data showing Forbes is lacking its due sunshine?
Just as well there is a bit more sunshine just down the Lachlan River at Lake Cargelligo. Otherwise that one would be buggered too.
Something has to pump the water back up the hill to recharge the “Big Battery”of Snowy v2.0 .
You have to wonder if revelations of a lack of sunshine for photosynthesis will decrease the agricultural land values in the prime cropping country around Forbes.
/sarc.
As I pick myself up off the floor. I am asking, is there other evidence of this increasing cloudiness to be found in Forbes? Are curtains not fading as fast? Are Forbes houses brighter and more colourful as external house paint retains colour for longer? Are people suffering Vitamin deficiencies as sunshine decreases? Will the BoM be asked to reveal what they know about trends in Forbes solar exposure at the next Senate Estimates hearings?
Maybe put it on the Sunshine coast.
Why not the South Pole. Then the solar power can be generated ALL day (in mid summer).
Best I can find re Forbes sunlight.
www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_065016_All.shtml
Scroll down to ‘other daily elements’.
Is it contagious? Will this lack of sunshine in “drought stricken” places become a global epidemic. Perhaps if we get school children to go on strike to “raise awareness” about this issue, funding could be sought to search for a cure.
Oh wait. Money to find a cure is rolling in already.
“He recently received $1.2 million in funding from ARENA’s Advanced Renewables Program to conduct research to improve short-term solar forecasts.”
Vast wanted to build a solar thermal plant rather than a cheaper photovoltaic one. Even in the sunniest part of Australia I doubt that this technology is financially viable, even with storage, without further government assistance. Large Scale Technology certificates are predicted to fall to $20/MWh by about 2023. Vast might have been hoping for a Labor government.
The siting of renewable resources has become critical because if too much is being produced in any one remote area the Australian Energy Market Operator can restrict the output and also pays a smaller proportion of the market price to account for energy losses on lower voltage lines and the distance from use.
Thanks John for reminding us that our shock election result probably played a part in all this. The widely expected GreenLabor Govt in Canberra could have loosened the pursestrings for the various Fed orgs and QUANGOS dishing out taxpayer funded largesse to renooables. In March 2018 I blogged on the ARENA finding that “thermal solar might be viable in a decade”. Translation for taxpayers is “thermal solar is not viable now”. Then in May 2018 I noted Vast saying they were building PV at Forbes which rang a clear bell that their long played with solar thermal concept was experiencing a rocky road. Two months ago I blogged on the failure of the hugely media touted and larger than Forbes – Port Augusta solar thermal proposals. Re your final sentence – we can be sure that the NIMBY impulse that lurks in most of us will act to force renewables infrastructure further into remote areas.
Lank, solar PV or thermal has its maximum output when the sun is overhead in the summer and that lasts for around two hours around noon (depending on location with respect to AEST). The Sunshine Coast has a subtropical climate where rain occurs in summer. The wettest months are Jan, Feb, & Mar The average rain in those months is about 250mm with the maximum rain for each month about seven times that. It is possible that it could rain every day in the month. The winter months are the drier but then the sun is lower in the sky.
From the article, this may be the key point:
‘Mr Wood said the decision not to build in the drought-ravaged town of Forbes was influenced by a number of factors in addition to climate.
‘”It’s also partly determined by the amount of support that will be available from State Governments, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, and also the Clean Energy Finance Corporation,” he said.’
Translation: subsidies required, from multiple taxpayer pockets, to even think about it…
Did you see where “fast moving clouds” were blamed a couple of years ago for the failure of the Kogan Creek Solar Boost project near Chinchilla.
‘Fast-moving clouds’: How CS Energy’s Kogan Creek Solar Boost project failed
www.smh.com.au/business/fastmoving-clouds-how-cs-energys-kogan-creek-solar-boost-project-failed-20170516-gw5p2u.html