Is this true?  Australians can’t afford to pay for electricity?  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: DougSpindler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2020, 11:09:49 am
content: How true is this story? Electricity prices are so high in Australia people can’t pay their bills and power is being shut-off to them? And I thought things were bad here in Califonia.https://youtu.be/PZz2r9j1Lfo

author: greenpossum
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2020, 12:24:09 pm
content: You realise that episode is from 2017, and that battery is already in operation?

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2020, 12:43:10 pm
content: That Tesla battery has recently been expanded by 50% and is considered to be of significant benefit to the stability of the grid in South Australia (SA) because it can make rapid adjustments to stabilize grid frequency and voltage.It is the sort of technology that really should have been implemented much earlier than as a panicked response to statewide blackouts. Mostly as a result of extreme weather but nevertheless it fueled ill-informed comment about renewable energy at the time.I recently read a news item that it is estimated to have saved SA A$150 million.The real energy problem Australia faces is high east coast gas prices because unlike Western Australia (state) which established a cheap reserved domestic supply the east coast states didn't and we now don't have that cheap gas supply guaranteed. Much better to sell all of it to China,Japan and Korea and compete on the international market to buy it back.

author: SilverSolder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2020, 02:09:51 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on September 04, 2020, 12:43:10 pmFollow the money - someone, somewhere is getting rich off the lamentable situation.

author: DougSpindler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2020, 04:07:54 pm
content: Sorry my bad for not realizing it was from 3 years ago. So this is even better because we know how the story ends.News story was true.Your politicians aren’t any better than the ones we have in the US and elsewhere in the world.You are true capitalists... You sell you natural resources to people in a foreign county at a higher price sacrificing your own.Elon’s calculations were correct.Politicians who said this will never work were wrong.Elon should be a national hero, because not only did he provide grid stability, he saved you a bundle of money.Your politicians rewarded Elon by charging enormous taxes/government regulations on Tesla cars making it difficult for locals to buy the cars and install EV chargers.Elon being Elon doesn’t care and went to smoke some weed somewhere watching his rockets take off.Sounds like Elon’s fix worked so well you politicians (that didn’t believe Elon, bought another one.More or less is that what’ happensSo no more blackouts, but electrical energy prices are still way to high and people, like in the video, are struggling to pay the bill or having their power disconnected.Lesson I learned. You are no better off politically than we are..... Or maybe just slightly better as we have a leader who won’t tell everyone to wear a mask.Elon is the messiah.Thank you for the replies, I learned something.

author: voltsandjolts
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 04, 2020, 04:22:52 pm
content: Hmm. Elon Musk certainly isn't the only one smoking weed.

author: DougSpindler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2020, 04:58:18 pm
content: Quote from: voltsandjolts on September 04, 2020, 04:22:52 pmYou got that one right. With all of the wild fires there's a lot of weed being burned.What do Elon, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and all of the Beatles all have in common? They all became billionaires afters smoking weed.

author: SilverSolder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2020, 05:03:29 pm
content: Quote from: DougSpindler on September 04, 2020, 04:58:18 pmAh, that's all you needed to do? I've been doing the wrong things all these years!

author: DougSpindler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 04, 2020, 06:02:18 pm
content: Quote from: SilverSolder on September 04, 2020, 05:03:29 pm