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From: To: Subject: Date: Attachments: Wilson Tuckey Committee, EC (SEN) Rehabilitation of decommissioned Electricity generators Friday, 4 May 2018 20 0r 40%.pdf The Secretary Having read in today’s Australian Newspaper coverage of a Submission you have received from the Port Augusta City Council and located your website which indicated a process of extensions of this inquiry to accommodate additional issues with the Latest date for submissions in April I am writing to inquire whether the Committee might give approval to accept a submission from myself which I believe approaches the problems it is considering from the perspective of extending the life of hyrdro carbon based power stations by halving AT THE POINT OF CONSUMPTION the present emissions associated with the burning of say a tonne of coal by simply applying worlds efficiency best practice across the entire Australian electrical system AND RAISING THE EXISTING 20% RATIO TO SOMEWHERE AROUND 40% ( I attach a graph prepared by a worlds leading Electrical Equipment Manufacturer the ABB company ) Put simply were our existing electrical system to be upgraded to worlds best efficiency practice it could deliver somewhere near twice as many units of electricity to consumers from the same quantity of fuel and consequently achieve an emission reduction which arguably must also have downwards effect on unit prices ( which in purely economic terms would be some what eroded by the financing costs of the efficiency upgrade ) As a substantial amount of the gain comes from the reordering of the National transmission system these gains also apply to the consumer price of electricity generated by so called Renewable Energy Generators but it is now patently obvious that as has been portrayed in numerous popular songs over the centuries any thing “that is written on the wind “ is a promise not kept and they must therefore find partners that actually produce energy on demand and in this instance both batteries and pumped storage fail the test because they are both energy
 negative AND IF IT IS THE INTENTION OF THE COMMITTEE TO PRODUCE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE THEN PLEASE INCLUDE THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR DISPOSING OF THE MORE UNDESIRABLE OF THEIR COMPONENTS SUCH AS COBALT (A TESLA CAR BATTERY CONSISTS OF 6,850 INDIVIDUAL COMPUTER LAP TOP BATTERIES CONNECTED IN SERIES “WIKIPEDIA”) However were the various items of Government and cross subsidy funding redirected to a national efficiency upgrade there could be a positive effect upon pricing To clarify in some detail where gas is to be utilised in electricity generation the process of its delivery by pipeline from well to generator requires the emission of many thousands of tonnes of CO2 expelled by the compressors along its length , The initial Dampier/ Bunbury pipeline has continuously operated with the equivalent emissions of a 225MW gas fired generator but electric two wire High Voltage DC (HVDC ) transmission lines could transmit the energy equivalent at a loss of only 3% per 1000 Km An LNG compressor station consumes the equivalent of 20%of its LNG production in the liquification process which questions the quality of advice that the CEO of the AGL company has provided his directors in obtaining the approval to proceed with development of an LNG hub in Port Phillip bay and a gas fired power station in Newcastle Quite clearly to achieve best practice all generators of electricity must be located as close as practical to their energy resource (as has been the practice to some extent with coal ) and the electricity delivered along HVDC transmission Further more there are significant energy and emission savings in locating large industrial gas consuming Industries as close as possible to available Gas and Coal supplies which I note is the intention of a proposed Ammonia producer in the WA Pilbara and in an international sense the super Main frame computer operators who have moved their energy hungry Mainframes to Iceland to benefit from the available Hydro and Geo thermal energy available
 there Considering the energy demand and massive capital costs involved in the LNG industry The question must arise as to the feasibility of diverting surplus or undeveloped Natural Gas reserves to the direct generation of electricity for domestic consumption and export and thus relieving the eastern gas services from generation demand and thus improving supply to the residential market Rehabilitation of mining and resources projects as it relates to Commonwealth responsibilitiesSubmission 91 With the exception of some recently commissioned ‘Interconnectors' and the Bass link connection to Tasmania Australia has ignored the best practises of HVDC and opted to save infrastructure capital by wasting energy through HVAC transmission systems and poorly designed AC connections all of which should be redesigned around an HVDC Trunk line system feeding directly into AC hubs In some cases existing HVAC Towers and wires can be reengineered for HVDC operation An excellent HVDC trial could be implemented utilising Pilbara offshore gas or preferably a big ticket Browse Gas /2000 MW dual cycle Gas generator near Broome with a direct 2400Km say 5000MW HVDC line to Port Augusta to save the SA system and feed into the ES Grid which allows for expansion and Energy, both Gas fired and Renewable, could be exported by under sea HVDC to Indonesia and from an LNG energy loss comparison onto Hong Kong The Broome Connection will also open the best RET available which is the Kimberley tides All the above would deliver Electricity’s share of Emission reduction and the development of Hydrogen as the Fuel of mobility would do the rest and existing RET could continue to supply the Grid but will be proven more compatible with the production of Hydrogen through electrolysis with additional solar panels ideal in a residential situation to fuel the soon to be available house hold electrolysers designed to fuel the family car As this has practically become my submission and should it be acceptable
 I am more than willing for it to be published as such However I am prepared to add any detail or explanation that is requested Hon.
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