Kamikuza said..Mr Milk said..OK. I had a bit of a look to see if I could find the source data.
And I found that AEMO, the company that operates the grid, makes lots of stuff publicly available. You can even see where they think they might have problems to deal with in real time. A couple of hours ago they were worried about lightning strikes tripping a HV line in Qld.
Anyway, average spot prices by state and month are in this table
www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nemThat data good enough for you, or do you still want to claim that The Guardian was making facts up?
No, I want to claim that The Guardian published a worthless propaganda piece that contained no related data to back up their proposition.
Why should you -- or I -- have to go hunting for and the mine through data to confirm or deny their thesis?! Journalism these days /rolleyes
Perhaps I misunderstood their point: I read that article as a proposition that "South Australia has the lowest price for electricity due to all the solar and wind they have".
Clearly, that's not the case:
www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nemVIC and occasionally QLD still cheaper on average, and that isn't really even a stunning difference. And who has all their power from hydro again, wasn't that Tasmania?
Kamikuza said..Mr Milk said..OK. I had a bit of a look to see if I could find the source data.
And I found that AEMO, the company that operates the grid, makes lots of stuff publicly available. You can even see where they think they might have problems to deal with in real time. A couple of hours ago they were worried about lightning strikes tripping a HV line in Qld.
Anyway, average spot prices by state and month are in this table
www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nemThat data good enough for you, or do you still want to claim that The Guardian was making facts up?
No, I want to claim that The Guardian published a worthless propaganda piece that contained no related data to back up their proposition.
Why should you -- or I -- have to go hunting for and the mine through data to confirm or deny their thesis?! Journalism these days /rolleyes
Perhaps I misunderstood their point: I read that article as a proposition that "South Australia has the lowest price for electricity due to all the solar and wind they have".
Clearly, that's not the case:
www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nemVIC and occasionally QLD still cheaper on average, and that isn't really even a stunning difference. And who has all their power from hydro again, wasn't that Tasmania?
And the rationale behind this whole "nuclear, not as bad as you think campaign", is basically to prove that people that care about the environment are frauds.
I'm so not interested in this smoke screen. Basically, nuclear is a dead duck and it's only the dead beats of right wing politics, who think there's some culture war point to win, that waste their time trying to flog some dead horse.