A balanced Perspective: Power costs should come down Electronics News

We found the article of Ray Keefe on the load the distribution system imposes upon us of great interest.

A very relevant point on which a lot of people appear to have given up is cleaning up the emissions, from brown coal in particular, for it can be the best coal to have.

Relating to correspondence on producing emissions free electricity at current or lower electricity prices, please see the attached "Aide Memoire" document.

Put simply, the price of electricity, as charged by NEMCO should reduce by at least $3.0 per MWh, after allowing the full costs of carbon capture, by thermoacoustic refrigeration of the greenhouse gases to liquefy all of them (CO2, NOx & SOx) and storage in the liquid state under the sub-sea silts with a pressure blanket of 3,000 metres of seawater on top of the silts.
There is no interface with the seawater, no acidification of the seawater which currently occurs with disastrous consequences for our fishery.

See the work by Harvard University, attached as “Nat. Academy CO2 storage”. Storage volume is huge, it is safe for thousands of years.

Dr. Brown wishes to ban coal, Labor is going along with this madness. The job is to clean it up for which we have the proven technology, the need is to scale it up to power station size. Such scale ups rarely fail, usual result is an improvement in efficiency as you get away from keyhole surgery.

The $100 per MWH the Greens aspire to is so renewables become a possibility. Even at $100 that is unlikely.

The two main strengths of Victoria are cheap power and cheap clean water. To lose either would be disastrous and we are doing a good job of losing both.

In our system the coal is gasified and you burn the gas, through pulse combustion, to obtain 99% heat release. Hence there is no advantage in burning natural gas for “peaking stations” as you can instantly adjust the rate of burning to power demand and inputs of solar, etc., if desired.

Our gas cost from brown coal (you get more gas with brown coal) is some 77 cents per gigajoule (GJ) versus $3.00+ per GJ from Bass Strait.

Best to keep the natural gas for domestic use.A balanced Perspective: Power costs should come down Electronics News