"I don't think this is going to work": Professor Stephen Wilson speaks out on renewables rollout
2024-03-19に共有
Think of endless arrays of solar panels disappearing like a mirage into the desert,” …to quote Australia’s former chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel.
As the early stages of the ‘renewable energy transition’ come to their local area, a growing number of people in the Far North Queensland community have begun to ask: What on earth are we doing? Are we destroying our local environments and communities in a vain attempt to save the planet from climate change? How did we get to this point? Where are we heading? Do we need a Plan B? Stephen is the kind of person who will stop and question the meaning of those little words “we” and “need.” Stephen will discuss what a power system is, how it works, and why he thinks Australia’s current ‘Plan A’ is destructive and dangerous. In his brief talk, Stephen will share some insights from his professional and academic experience in the worlds of university research, commercial strategy, and government policy.
ABOUT: Stephen has a tendency to challenge listeners. He is on the public record as saying that we are testing the market to destruction (House of Reps inquiry, 2019) and that our current energy policy and plans for our electricity systems is “a perpetual recession machine” (CIS event, Sydney, Jun 2023).
Talk lifted from Transition to Extinction JCU Tess Seminar, held on 6 March 2024 by Rainforest Reserves Australia. Watch the full seminar: • Transition to extinction forum at Jam...
コメント (21)
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Would like to shake your hand, thanks for saying what has to be said to the practical people.
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I am a 50+year veteran of electricity transmission and distribution industry. My take from this video is to understand our current situation and how we get off fossil fuels. This video presents a very balanced view and realization solar/wind/batteries is not a complete solution. It's called realism and owning a calculator doesn't hurt.
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Thanks for a lucid explanation. It would be great to see you as a guest on Canada's Decouple Media, hosted by an emergency doctor who promotes nuclear power.
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My brother-in-law was a controller before he retired and he often said that the addition of intermittent solar and wind made the task of keeping the grid stable was an absolute nightmare.
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What worries me is that, whatever we do, we d... better do it right. Because everyone's livelihood depends on electricity. Ideology, wishful thinking and good intentions are no substitute for getting it right. Reality does not care about these concepts.
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Tesla PowerPack grid storage batteries: "Hello... We're over here 👋"
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Not questioning the professor's credentials but this needs to looked at through the lense of his involvement with the Centre of Indendendant Studies which is a part of the Atlas network, a chain of global think tanks representing the views of the fossil fuel and like industries. He is also telling a one sided story based on an old system mindset, not the opportunity to move to a move distributed and participant focused system. The current guard are desperate to lock in the current central control of power generation and distribution.
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The speaker mentioned Tesla, Westinghouse and Edison, a name that can not be left out is Charles (Proteus) Steinmetz. His contribution to electrical science is equal or greater than the before mentioned. The comments section has revealed some ignorance of science and engineering by laypeople on this subject.
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Once synchronized, the generators tend to stay in sync. With inverters that natural feedback does not exist.
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Trends need to be considered. Australia has been spiralling in ever decreasing circles, since Menzies was elected by promising to end petrol rationing. ENIGINEERS ARE NOT SCIENTISTS.
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Any chance you could approach the guys from the Energy Insiders podcast for a discussion. I would love to see where the debate goes. I just want to know the truth and facts. I don’t know who advises the government on planning but I am 100% sure politicians aren’t engineers, and they should be finding the most reasonable balance between what is cost effective and achievable whilst still maintaining a reliable system to provide cheap power and the least environmental damage over the lifecycle. Wind and solar farms are environmental vandalism in my opinion.
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With Nuclear Energy we all have to TRUST the company building and running it, then trust that they will store the waste appropriately for the next thousand years. No. Just no. Let’s overbuild renewables.
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"you need to understand" is not a coherent argument.
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The people at Net Zero Australia must be nuts!
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Where did you get the $90/MWh cost for nuclear? New build nuclear is no way near this price, it's closer to $160/MWh. Why did you not provide a source for this claim?
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So Edison was right but he didn't have the DC voltage boosting and bucking capability we have now.
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Great simple explanation - but something most would have guessed is fairytale
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Hear! Hear! Been saying it for many years.
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Remember that supplying baseload energy requires batteries or other stotage mediums PLUS the installation of renewables like solar or wind to charge the batteries when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. You cannot count that capacity as available to serve peak loads, too. This truth is what makes net zero electric systems very expensive for the middle class to afford. Can it be done? Yes. Do we want our citizens to pay for it when we are trying to compete with China? Maybe not! Maybe we should make crypto mining an interruptible load or only allow it when surplus renewable energy is available.
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Its about time an Electrical Engineer is speaking up, there should be more doing the same, unfortunely, many are profiting from renewable Projects and don't give a rats about the impossability of powering a nation with wind and Solar
