The World’s Largest Renewable Energy Project is being built in Australia

[@electricviking]

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[@hollywiley5668]

The Citizens Solar Power Plant is a solar power plant being built in Chicago. The plant will be the largest urban solar power plant in the nation and will be built on an abandoned industrial field.

[@rodsmyth]

West Australia is actually almost 3 times the size of Texas. It helps to get the basic facts right.

[@richardvivian3665]

3.5 times bigger

[@paulc6766]

New South Wales is bigger than Texas.

[@Mauricio17-x1p]

Queensland is more than twice the size of Texas. Texas is larger than the Australian state of Victoria but smaller than every other Australian mainland state

[@dimiberberu]

@@richardvivian3665 3.63x (2,527,013/695,662 km2)

[@therealnatevp]

He said South Australia

[@PropanePete]

This is a great idea, a massive power generation plant out near Kalgoorlie where the sun shines most days and it’s quite windy, but don’t get too excited people. This is just a proposal on a piece of paper and several of the “interested groups” are just venture capital shelf companies trying to generate investment. There are numerous other similar proposals for various areas of Australia floating around.

[@Design_no]

The Australian government recently tried to introduce legislation to have misinformation and disinformation banned from the internet. Maybe they used this channel as an example.

[@yohannb5910]

would it be possible to use the excess capacity to desalinate water and turn Australian midlands in a green oasis ?

[@mabehall7667]

@@yohannb5910 WA won’t even let someone bring non-WA indigenous plants from eastern Australia. Do you really think they’ll want to destroy the ecology of the outback by growing wheat.

[@VelvetRiot-hz5mp]

Ord River Scheme has already been tried over there along these lines.

[@yohannb5910]

@@mabehall7667 I mean completely remove the desert and create a forest there everywhere where there is desert today, it should also be possible in other desert in the world when electricity will become free

[@tsubadaikhan6332]

Desalinating the water is energy intensive, and so is pumping it inland. Western Australia already pioneered one of the longest, most voluminous freshwater pipelines in the world to our goldfields over 100 years ago. We have looked at it, but so far the economic mathematics just don't make sense, not to mention how it would change the ecosystems currently in place. The State's Premier about 12 years ago was keen on a plan to dig a canal from the North of the State, where we experience cyclones, towards the South, but nothing came of it. Population is a real issue here. Western Australia is 3 times the size of Texas, with about 10% of Texas's population. Currently we don't NEED to irrigate the interior, but that might not always be the case.

[@scottwilliams1623]

I am not sure if you have been to Australia, it is a very large nation. The vast majority of the country is desert, only a very slim margin around the edges is realistically inhabitable and therefore only a small portion of the nation is suitable for agriculture. There is so much desert in WA you would only be able to green a small part and they tried it with the Ord River Scheme in the North of Western Australia decades ago, mostly failed due to the remoteness of the country, there was not community and few people realistically want to live in such a remote area.

[@neildolan7177]

Mines usually generate their own power. It makes more sense for the mines to have their own solar farm.

[@beautifulandtoolate]

Why in WA? Hardly anyone lives there. Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast.

[@incognitotorpedo42]

No NIMBYs?

[@bob100079]

WA 3.5x Texas

[@repairman2be250]

Bottom line I think will be we still pay more for energy in Australia. Just like with gas it gets sold overseas virtually for free and we pay extra just to get some.

[@Design_no]

We are already paying for Bowen's stuff ups with his netzero bs.

[@robri87-hh4gr]

It's the same with everything exported from Australia. The country we export our products to they can buy them cheap while they put up the price for the Australia customers to make up the difference.

[@icykool21]

If you haven't figured it out. Our politicians are lining up their pockets and career first. Selling our resources to get a ceo or high management position lined up for when they retired from politics in the near future. Just remember, if our politicians are going to work in the renewable resources industry as a CEO, the CEO is more focus on profits than serving the Australians. That's why Australia doesn't tax these big international corporation. We get no royalty from any big international corporations.

[@garylovesbeer]

Thanks for your positivity and information. Tony Seba is, as usual, ahead of his own schedule.

[@mikemars5984]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@robertfonovic3551]

Seba has his own head up his butt.

[@criticalthinkersrule]

WA is about 4 times the size of Texas.

[@patrickbeck4062]

Not the first time he's gotten than wrong. Must be too hard to spend an extra 12 seconds googling it before saying false things all the time.

[@paulc6766]

@@patrickbeck4062 He rushes to get the videos out.

[@daverobert7927]

Sam you are dreaming on this one...

[@original_poster]

What will happen to all of those solar panels in 20 years? And how will you store the power?

[@TomMcinerney-g9b]

The transformation of the electric to hydrogen, while inefficient, becomes storage ... and the subsequent transformation into ammonia enables transportation of an energy-dense liquid fuel which may power engines now being built by Mann (diesel) in Denmark/Germany for use by Maersk shipping lines (among others). Hydrogen burnt in earth's atmosphere creates nitrogen oxides which need catalytic scrubbing, and some such remediation may be required for the diesel engines converted to ammonia. It is thought that Australia will be the cheapest source of solar/wind => ammonia ... thus this project may indeed supplant coal exports. I think some newer solar PV are expected to endure more than 20 years, but maintenance will be an issue.

[@David-l2u6m]

🤯 my hope is that the US pull it's head out of its butt. Way to go Australia 🦘 form 🇺🇸

[@aoeuuaoaou]

There’s regions of the US that are very active in renewable s. Not quite this scale but Iowa is very high % wind power, Nebraska & Kansas, too. Wyoming does use coal for some local power, now mixing NG, but has lots of renewables they export to California (that has high solar & wind, too). Biggest renewable state is actually Texas, which now has pushed fossil fuel below 50%, wind+solar matches NG.

[@Design_no]

Dude, most of us don't want it. Netzero is bs.

[@Ben-r9b2j]

Sam, this project will face a long environmental approval process that may take 5 years or longer. The desert is i fact highly endowed with unique ecosystems both on the surface and underground, I see a troubled road ahead for the project.

[@Dollarbill-g1l]

You are very very very correct.

[@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV]

Yep, bury the innovations in red tape and keep the status quo, change is a dirty word.....

[@Kerbezena]

Ecosystems that will be lost anyway if we sleep around on climate change any longer.

[@robri87-hh4gr]

@@Kerbezena True

[@robertfonovic3551]

​@@Kerbezenarubbish

[@GlennMatheson-x3c]

Problem is that approximately zero environmental impact study has been carried out. If it goes ahead as planned, it will destroy some pristine and priceless natural environment.

[@incognitotorpedo42]

Fossil fuels destroy ALL natural environments.

[@lindsaysmith8119]

No, its not being built, it is planned. There is a lot water to "flow under the bridge" before gets the go ahead, if ever.

[@TomZanetic]

Thanks EV, this video energised me by giving me false hope for the future for a few minutes. (Puns intended) I genuinely felt good, but alas, back to my normal realistic sceptic old self.

[@northernouthouse]

I've gotta visit Australia! It used to be such a Luddite but not anymore.

[@philwelling7172]

Why not green steel ? Either directly using the electricity or anytime using the Hydrogen. Sure it will cost more, but watch climate conscious countries lineup.

[@seanlander9321]

There’s no market for green steel. Just look at how the Europeans treat Australian green nickel, they walked away to ruin that industry because they want cheaper dirty nickel from Indonesia.

[@aoeuuaoaou]

Once electricity reaches about 25 USD/MWh it’s not even more expensive, and renewables are approaching that tipping point in optimal regions like this

[@philwelling7172]

@ Or free once curtailing of electricity becomes the norm.

[@phillipanderson9925]

Green steel power structure is going to be announced shortly Hbi plant with posco underway Green ammonia for shipping to reduce the cost and also used in the mines Challenge is how to use hematite resources instead of using the magnetite resources yet. I want the cleaning contract

[@malnic100]

I believe they have plans for exactly that

[@GauntletKI]

Wow that looks awful. Don't denature the land! Peace the panels up higher so shrubs can grow beneath.

[@garymiller8287]

Thanks!

[@electricviking]

Welcome!

[@Kevin07-w9l]

What happened to the grid being able to handle everyone’s EVs???? 2 days after your video the power grid collapses because people put the ac on How can you sit there and brain wash people to think this is all good and dandy ???

[@TerryHickey-xt4mf]

I thought ac's were not evs.

[@serpserpserp]

The question remains: Where does all the energy generated go if it is not transmitted to the east coast? That is more than enough power to fill as many batteries that you could install in WA. WA will not grow at a rate that would require anywhere near that amount of power for 100+ years. The energy generated will need somewhere to be transferred to.

[@JohnJ469]

It doesn't go anywhere. And the company running it gets the green groups to demand subsidies to "protect Green jobs".

[@TomMcinerney-g9b]

Yes - batteries too expensive for long term. Transform electric to hydrogen then ammonia, then transportable liquid fuels shipping/mining, etc.

[@bobsmith3983]

HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) power transmission is the most efficient way to deliver electrical power over long distances. HVAC power transmission has a distance limit due to the skin effect and inductance. The only down side to HVDC is the delivered power will have to be converted from DC to AC (for a solar farm) for local distribution which is more costly that AC power conversion. However the efficiency of HVDC transmission will more than compensate for the higher cost due DC to AC conversion. As far as storage there are many options e.g. pumped hydro, sodium ion batteries, etc..

[@joshuawinterson1851]

You say that W.A. is similar in size to Texas. In fact, you could drop 3 copies of Texas into W.A., and then add in the entire countries of Belgium, Germany, and Denmark, and still not have filled the state. The size of Australia is something most people have trouble wrapping their minds around.

[@Kerbezena]

00:20 the entire country 😦 of Australia? 😯🤯 I recently heard that Perth will soon be entirely energy self-sufficient. Exciting news from Down Under. 🙃 Much love from Austria!

[@Design_no]

Lol, you certainly heard wrong.

[@avotreemansanders3289]

Solar and wind is the best and most economical way to harness the sun’s nuclear energy! Good on you Australia for doing this instead of expensive and dangerous nuclear power stations!😊🐝🐞🍀

[@mikemars5984]

😂😂😂 you people are sick. We need to drill drill drill. There is nothing wrong with nuclear. Get your facts right.

[@avotreemansanders3289]

@ the nuclear energy from our Sun is good! You are wrong big Mike!

[@beyondfossil]

​@@mikemars5984 You must be joking, but just in case... Nuclear, constantly over-budget by billions and over-schedule by years. Nuclear has got *zero chance* of even making a small dent in the amount of energy needed to displace fossil. The United Nations states the next 10- to 20-years will be critical to mitigate the worsts effect of global warming, yet it takes 10- to 20-years to launch a single utility scale nuclear power plant! In its long 70+years of operation, utility scale nuclear only powers some 10% of the world's grids and falling. Meanwhile renewables are growing at exponential rate while costs are still falling, especially solar. Much less than 1% of all the world's land surface area in just current generation photovoltaics is enough to power al the world's grids. For reference, the sun provides the Earth a massive celestial 173,000-terawatts which could power all the world's 620-exajoules of annual energy usage in just 1 hours' time. The spent nuclear fuel waste emits lethal amounts of gamma radiation containing radionuclides that have half-lives ranging from 30 years to millions of years. The spent fuel is so dangerous, its kept on-site for a few years just to let it cool down a little. That increases the local danger actually. One thing that needs more attention with nuclear: It takes billions of dollars and 10+ years just to de-commission an old nuclear power plant. All while it produces *zero watts* of power. When this is considered, nuclear power's much touted capacity factor drops dramatically down to like 72%. This should be considered because decommissioning is part of the power plant's lifecycle. Meanwhile, renewables like solar and wind can renewed & rejuvenated in-place even as its still producing energy so the land can be used indefinitely. There is a good chance the land formerly occupied by a nuclear power plant will never be productive again. There are so many other problems with nuclear... it's just not worth the risk or cost. Utility-scale nuclear will be mostly gone from the grids in about 50 years. It will continue in smalls-scale scenarios where it excels: military, scientific, and deep-space exploration. Utility scale nuclear is simply to the wrong tool for the job on the grid: too expensive, too collectively small, too risky. N IPCC

[@beyondfossil]

@@avotreemansanders3289 Yes, I say the truest nuclear fans should be on their hands and knees each morning worshipping the free, clean, celestially massive nuclear *fusion* energy we get from the sky. It's very energy flows through their bodies and minds each second of everyday their entire lives.

[@beyondfossil]

@@mikemars5984 You must be joking, but just in case... Nuclear, constantly over-budget by billions and over-schedule by years. Nuclear has got *zero chance* of even making a small dent in the amount of energy needed to displace fossil. The United Nations states the next 10- to 20-years will be critical to mitigate the worsts effect of global warming, yet it takes 10- to 20-years to launch a single utility scale nuclear power plant! In its long 70+years of operation, utility scale nuclear only powers some 10% of the world's grids and falling. Meanwhile renewables are growing at exponential rate while costs are still falling, especially solar. Much less than 1% of all the world's land surface area in just current generation photovoltaics is enough to power al the world's grids. For reference, the sun provides the Earth a massive celestial 173,000-terawatts which could power all the world's 620-exajoules of annual energy usage in just 1 hours' time.

[@rodneyblackwell7477]

This might start construction but will never be the full size

[@repairman2be250]

Hey Viking keep on dreaming for a while for your energy. Meanwhile Australia can't even build a proper home without defects.

[@TerryHickey-xt4mf]

nor can any one else.

[@robertfonovic3551]

​@@TerryHickey-xt4mf I can. But people can't afford it.

[@stopscammingman]

This looks like a dramatic breakthrough!

[@VelvetRiot-hz5mp]

Free electricity will change the game. Unfortunately that will never happen in Australia. Reality is it will end up costing us more than ever before. The aboriginal groups will be looking for a 'tribute' for starters, call it whatever you like.

[@bigrobsydney]

Energy security for Australia. Build a few more, and we can then tell the world "no thanks" to their supply of energy. World leader. Leverage add on technologies.

[@TerryHickey-xt4mf]

it sure is a nice thought.

[@accountfake1070]

Australia is already an net exporter of energy. Oil, liquefied nature gas, coal and uranium. Are you talking about another Australia?

[@bigrobsydney]

@@accountfake1070 Australia imports oil to be refined. Our stores have been allowed to run down to (if I remember correctly) about 3 weeks. Should something happen to impact inbound oil cargo ships, Australia would be in serious trouble. I would suggest that energy security, and energy usage patterns, become entirely internally serviceable. We COULD do that by moving to an EV based transport network, given enough planning. But for now, while we may be a net exporter (and thank you for mentioning that), the fact is that our entire road haulage industry is relying on the kindness of strangers for our society to continue functioning. That is not strategically where we should be.

[@mattyb1624]

Gott alove the 3000 wind turbines that are replacing our natural rainforst all along the great dividing range in QLD. Yeah, "green".

[@williamball5477]

Let me know when it is done, I am thinking Snow River 2.0

[@richardwinzor2961]

Lot simpler build despite its size. No tunnelling and less complicated engineering than building a pumped hydro system in the mountains.

[@BrentonSmythesfieldsaye]

I didn't know we had a second Snowy River. Where is that located? 😏

[@williamball5477]

@@BrentonSmythesfieldsaye In the snow river area.... google, nice idea, but huge cost over run, more than a few cockups, especially with the boring rig...

[@williamball5477]

@@richardwinzor2961 Still, there are many a slip between cup and lip.... but we will see...

[@BrentonSmythesfieldsaye]

@@williamball5477 I think you missed my tongue in cheek mischief. The project you refer to is called "Snowy Hydro 2" or just "Snowy 2", not "Snowy River 2". The original post WW2 hydro project in NSW, which the current Snowy 2 project is being integrated into, was called the Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme. Not the Snowy River Hydro scheme. FYI, the only part of the Snowy River that is involved in the hydro scheme, is a relatively short stretch from the Mt Kosiuszko headwaters of the river to Lake Jindabyne. Well over 90% of the Snowy River is actually outside the boundaries of the project and it's catchment. "huge cost over run" - So the usual as with any large nation building infrastucture project that has gone before Snowy 2 and that will come after it "more than a few cockups" - So the usual as with any large nation building infrastucture project that has gone before Snowy 2 and that will come after it "especially with the boring rig" - It's not a perfect world. The project is either worth the effort and expense or it isn't. Apparently the powers to be are pushing on with the project so..........

[@Julian_Wang-pai]

I really, really hope this is about right, at least.

[@blazegarbo6884]

Ships & aircraft will need to build fuel tanks 3 times the size than current. Energy density of ammonia is about 1/2 that of LPG (natural gas), & about 1/3 diesel. Maybe OK for use in industry i.e. steel, fertilizer, industrial processing. Questionable the use in aircraft or ships.

[@TomMcinerney-g9b]

Thanks for energy density data. Mann diesel and Maersk shipping are building engines/ships to purpose presently; larger tanks probably OK for shipping.

[@RARDingo]

Sorry to be "that guy" but you are WAY wrong in you size comparrison of Texas & Western Australia. They are not even slightly comparable colloquially. Even Queensland is almost 3 times the size of Texas. Texas is 695,662 square kilometers in area. Western Australia is 2,527,013 square kilometers. The second largest state/province in the world.

[@TerryHickey-xt4mf]

and with endless amounts of natural resources that are vital in the modern world, shame they do not process them more before shipping them overseas.

[@aussie405]

There is no grid to connect to in that part of WA. There is no way for mines to connect to a non existent grid.

[@petermarsh4993]

Big dreams, big problems. It will never deliver stable, reliable 24/7 electricity. If your business only needs electricity for five hours a day then fine, but that certainly is not the case with most electricity customers like businesses and homes.

[@TwoShoedDude]

It’s for the production of ammonia. Ammonia can be stored. Expect around 50% round trip efficiency.

[@trishanchetty5791]

Peter Dutton will try and nuke this idea.

[@JohnJ469]

So he should. Why have such a huge project in a State with less population than Sydney? Transmission losses would be far too high to even try sending power across the Nullabor. It all makes no sense.

[@Kerbezena]

@@JohnJ469 Did you even watch the video?

[@JohnJ469]

@@Kerbezena Yes I did. And he said the same thing, the power can't be sent East. So what's the point? Why build something to power 15 million homes when it can only practically supply power to at best, 1 million?

[@malcolmrickarby2313]

@@JohnJ469the 20 million households is the way they pull the wool over your eyes. They aren’t doing this for people who want cheaper reliable electricity. This is to make industrial energy products. Like hydrogen,ammonia,ammonium nitrate fertiliser and other products with high energy requirements ! Big export dollars for multinational corporations. We are just supposed to supply cheap land and free sunshine.🌞

[@malcolmrickarby2313]

It might nuke his chances of getting elected.😢😅😂

[@gerbre1]

China is building 455 GW renewable capacity.

[@JohnJ469]

And 3 times as much in Coal, Gas and nukes. They're still bringing a coal power plant online every week or so.

[@gerbre1]

@ China probably reached CO2 peak now, 6 years earlier than planned.

[@Design_no]

​@@gerbre1incorrect.

[@gerbre1]

@@Design_no Then correct me if you can.

[@cmw3737]

This seems like an odd location in the far south rather than in the north. I can see these all along desert coastal shipping routes though the Arabian gulf states, India and coasts of Africa, producing ammonia and hydrogen for shipping.

[@TerryHickey-xt4mf]

ever been to port headland? perhaps they should build one there.

[@TomMcinerney-g9b]

maybe so ... but some studies indicate Australia best solar PV location

[@johndavid9418]

NBN !!

[@AbdulDsouza]

Could we not fig trenches alongside and,place and position ungljszed, yet fired terracota pipes from nearest estuary to the farthest, parcel of land in order to convey fresh water and prevent dischay into ocean do that, land all along gets irrigated, by water oixing out of the pores at places of major interest we could as well have sprinlers to say wash and cool panels, and urfifate the adjacent parcel of land by the by?

[@spikeyflo]

I really want this to happen. It would be great if it did. EISs' will need to be done and I'm hoping the benefits outweigh the perceived loss of habitat etc. Ill believe it when i see it.... sadly.

[@Dollarbill-g1l]

Hope it never happens.

[@michaelfink64]

Actually, WA is almost 4x the area of TX.

[@AbdulDsouza]

This is what is called progress, the day, it happens in india, the would be success?

[@Andrew-1974]

WA is 3.8 times bigger than Texas WA 2.65 million square kilometres Texas 0.69 million square kilometres

[@graemetunbridge1738]

Area of Texas = =695,662 km² Area of WA = 2.646 million km² Area of NSW = 801,150 km² even NSW is bigger than Texas

[@Froggability]

4:03 looks alot like Ivanpah solar thermal Arizona, is WA including this type?

[@Design_no]

Just what we want. Crappy solar panels and wind turbines as far as the eye can see. Go to Scotland to see what an eyesore looks like. Not to mention these things are not netzero either.

[@peteralflat281]

I wouldn't call Scotland an eyesore, most of it is quite picturesque.

[@TerryHickey-xt4mf]

I have just visited Scotland from NZ and did not see hardly any, too busy admiring the fantastic scenery.

[@robertfonovic3551]

​@@peteralflat281if you can see it through the fog and rain. LOL

[@bastianleejones]

Awesome!

[@paolopetrozzi2213]

22 thousand and seven hundred km... I suppose you got some number wrong there...

[@EZ.EV.2035]

It’s amazing to see a project this ambitious being built somewhere other than China!

[@protagonist9716]

It's great if it goes through. IF. Cos It's not China. It's aus

[@bxm61]

"Is being built" or "Is about to be built" are both false. The correct term is "Proposed". If and when the project reaches FID (final investment decision) - maybe after about 5 years of detailed assessment by MANY government authorities and public debate - you can use that headline.

[@IouiS82]

West Australia is 4 times the size of Texas... lost me 🥱

[@ala-hc4rx]

Australia has some of the most expensive power in the world.i see you have warnings of power blackouts due to a heatwave of ONLYy 35,degrees . While the goal for solar is great,you need backup base load power !!!

[@PeterBrasso]

A huge wind turbine farm is included in the proposal Batteries and a small diesel generator in case of emergencies would take care of the rest No need for fossil fuel power stations

[@aussie405]

Australia is about the same size as the contiguous US. Some parts are cheaper, some parts more expensive. Like many parts of the world, we are in a time of transition. Before 7am today, the SWIS (South West Interconnected System) was running at around 50% renewables. It will get up to around 80% renewables, mostly solar on private homes, for most of the day. The large scale batteries already connected are over 100MW and will be increasing to over 400MW by the end of 2025. At this time 43% of homes in the system have solar panels. As more people get home batteries the need for base load power goes down. You want me to be charged for building some sort of new base load power system to produce unnecessary power? Do you think that will reduce my non existent power bills? Getting batteries into more homes is what is needed now.

[@BrentonSmythesfieldsaye]

"Australia has some of the most expensive power in the world." - Do we? How so and relative to what? "i see you have warnings of power blackouts due to a heatwave of ONLYy 35,degrees ." - We have more than enough generation capacity by a long way during hot weather. Can you provide an examples of when these supposed "warnings of power blackouts due to a heatwave of ONLYy 35,degrees" occured. Plus if they did occur do you actually know why they would be neccessary. Here is a hint, coal fired power station limitations and grid stability leading to renewable energy curtailment. "While the goal for solar is great,you need backup base load power !!!" - The concpet of "base load power" is becoming redundant and hails from 20th century grids. With evolving 21st century SMART grids, the concept of "base load power" is dispensed with. The "base load power" narrative is from a bygone era! Read some energy industry publications to find out what this is all about.

[@willm5814]

@@BrentonSmythesfieldsayeprobably an oil troll, trying slow things down

[@BrentonSmythesfieldsaye]

@@willm5814 You could be right. What is obvious at least, is that the narratives presented are either born of ignorance or mischief, even possibly both.

[@peterbrown4943]

This is the stupidest waste of money anyone has done. Obviously it will not work. I am an expert and I know this is bankrupting us.

[@TwoShoedDude]

Are you certain? Have you run the calcs? I did some rough ones - included 24hr storage (refrigerated) and threw in a 1000km pipeline, both with 200% SF, assumed 50% efficiency and 20yr life. The largest cost, by an order of magnitude, seems to be the solar panels themselves. Regardless, around AU$0.05/kWh looks possible. Piqued my interest.

[@peterbrown4943]

@ yes I am certain. And you didn’t run the calculations. Hydrogen has to be cooled to around minus 270deg. Which is very cold. Do not try to tell me or anyone hydrogen is a viable alternative to anything. People who try to say otherwise will one day be prosecuted for treason.

[@stevenmcmaster8219]

Western Australia (Australia) is 3.7 times larger than Texas (USA)

[@incognitotorpedo42]

That's quite a proposal. I'm not sure how far along it actually is, or if it will ultimately be built. I like the concept, but worry about the hydrogen. Any hydrogen leaked into the atmosphere (and hydrogen ALWAYS leaks) will reduce the amount of hydroxyl radicals in the air. This in turn will make methane, with its very high Global Warming Potential, stay in the air longer. The net result is that hydrogen is effectively a "greenhouse gas", due to its effect on methane lifetime.

[@Rex-V12-x3w]

You're crossing bridges that don't exist. And never will exist. This is a scam. Click bait if you like. There is no proposal, quite or otherwise. Speaking of bridges - I have this low emissions bridge for sale ... Sydney Harbour won't miss it!

[@kelvinapted7032]

Very good news that i didnt know about.I am not sure if ihave his name correct but Steve Cannon brookes.Is this his project ?

[@JohnJ469]

So how much are Australian taxpayers going to pay for this white elephant? It makes (supposedly) a huge amount of power in an area that doesn't need anywhere near that amount and it can't send the excess anywhere. The population isn't even 3 million people so this project makes no logical or economic sense. And sorry, but if you have no clue as to the size of things in Australia I'm forced to doubt everything else. Queensland is more than twice the size of Texas and Western Australia is twice the size of Queensland.

[@lengould9262]

Good luck to them. Seems wierd to announce installs of solar 20+ years ahead of installs. ??

[@DenfordBerriman]

Why are your videos cut at the end to mimick a new video playing? Seems a bit odd and was wondering if intentional?

[@JuliusFawcett]

Great news! Nice work Aussies

[@malcolmrickarby2313]

They are looking at building this across the Nullarbor Plain which is described as a desert but it is actually a limestone karst that is globally unique. The South Australian side of the border is protected for its biodiversity. The coast is a unique whale 🐳 birth place that is a key part of the lifecycle of globally threatened species.😢

[@5nowChain5]

Has anyone calculated how much Lithium power could be crammed into a Super Tanker/EverGreen 1km+ long Cargo Ship. with over 1,000+ containers on board. could that size ship be used to transfer power between countries or between coastal cites 2000km+ apart ???

[@viskovandermerwe3947]

Why on earth are they not building these extremely large energy projects in other countries all over the rest of the world? Why are they wasting their time with nuclear energy? Some countries are buying our coal for their energy generation!!! I would never understand this.

[@LloydHill-k2p]

You won't understand anything if you do not do your research, solar panels, Lion batteries and wind turbine are the biggest environmental issues in the World . Proven Fact.

[@Design_no]

You clearly don't understand that we are being scammed by renewables.

[@TomMcinerney-g9b]

Australia may be the most efficient location for solar PV. Better resource than Antarctica!

[@robertfonovic3551]

Because " other " governments are smarter than ours. Simple.

[@robsengahay5614]

Why do you show pictures of mirrors directly sunlight rather than solar panels?

[@TomMcinerney-g9b]

the 'concentrated' solar heaters are less efficient than PV, but can be coupled with thermal storage which facilitates electric generation during nightime

[@Ramacat66]

Any plans for UHF transmission lines to connect to East Australia?

[@Design_no]

Yes, I heard they will be using Telstra mobilenet 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@edgybikercop]

It's so kind of the Mining industry to pay for 6 million solar panels and windmills for their green agenda. Well done guys

[@jeffjwatts]

This is good news. I think storing the excess power using batteries or pumped hydro would be more efficient than green hydrogen though.

[@TerryHickey-xt4mf]

pumped hydro needs hills.

[@jeffjwatts]

@@TerryHickey-xt4mf This is true.

[@frostcb2]

A few videos ago “ Met God in wilderness” drone flight check out 1:48 for the Tesla they’re scrapping that looks like the new body style uncovered

[@AbdulDsouza]

Could we not have one solar panel for each, citizen especially tax payer and preferably for each and every installed or proposed, electric meter?

[@johnflynn110]

There's nothing there but "Careful of Animals" road signs

[@seanlander9321]

What a load of effluent. Do you possibly have any idea how puny the scale of this plant is? It’s precisely a poofteenth the area of the State.

[@BrentonSmythesfieldsaye]

@@seanlander9321 At last someone employing suitably technical and descriptive terminology. Effluent - Common dialect used by nuffies. puny - up to or smaller than a bees dick poofteenth - graduations on a bees dick.

[@robertfonovic3551]

​@seanlander9321 dead people do not know that they are dead. It only affects others. The same applies to stupid people.😊

[@TheHsan22]

It's a proposal. It's not being built any day soon. EPA hasnt looked at it yet. To think all of that will be ripped out and replaced over 10-20 year periods, forever... then everything safely recycled, hopefully.

[@lkrnpk]

Everyone wants to make green hydrogen and ammonia now but who needs them in those quantities, is there a market ir will there be? I suppose un cold climate for heating...or some industries perhaps

[@Harrythehun]

Transportation industry wants every drop of fossil free fuel. Those trucks, boats and aero needs them badly

[@aoeuuaoaou]

Steel Agriculture

[@lkrnpk]

@@aoeuuaoaou sure, I guess for fertilizer... Green steel?

[@warheadsnation]

If synthetic fuels could ever be made from electricity at a reasonable cost, the airline industry could sure buy it all. Any airliner reaching Australia from anywhere will need a lot of it to get home. But that's a big if.

[@aoeuuaoaou]

@lkrnpk Somewhere around 25 USD/MWh “green steel” becomes just steel. I know China will play as dirty in the market to kill an Australian steel industry in the cradle, but with the massive iron ore reserves building steel mills to forge near the source of energy & raw material is a natural fit, could help break Australia out of being a resource commodity economy

[@johnnyjet3.1412]

I had camping solar at my first Burning Man in ‘98

[@duncancairncross]

Clean Hydrogen is a scam Sounds like a great idea IF some HVDC power lines are installed to take the surplus power to customers in Asia

[@fryske.tynster]

this only wurks if energy web foundation is involved

[@petehoney1]

blue hydrogen powering ships and big machinery ?

[@jedics1]

Is this the sun cable project reborn?

[@robertfonovic3551]

That's dead and buried. Already.

[@jackfrost2146]

Let's see if this abomination goes ahead when Albo and Blackout Bowen get kicked out....

[@markrowland1366]

Golf carts?

[@fredkroh6576]

Western Australia produces half the world's iron ore, clean steel using hydrogen to reduce it to steel, instead of coal, produces no greenhouse gases and value adds to our major export 10-fold, all you need is a lot of electricity?

[@JohnJ469]

Actually, to make steel from iron ore you have to add carbon. Smelting iron with hydrogen just gives you iron. Please learn something about the process before making false claims.

[@fredkroh6576]

@@JohnJ469 The processes of making steel from iron ore is a reduction process - removing the oxygen, this can be done by adding metallurgical coal, which produces a large amount of CO2, or hydrogen which produces water and almost no CO2. You can add carbon to change the properties of the steel, as well as many other additives, Maybe you need to do more research.

[@JohnJ469]

@@fredkroh6576 Um, no. Reduce Iron ore in any method you want but you won't get steel. Steel by definition has carbon in it. Try reading up on weapon development. The Iron Age brought new swords that could bend and destroy Bronze swords. But the development of steel, adding carbon to the Iron created weapons that shatter Iron. It's thought that the adding of Lion and Bear bones to the Iron would magically make the mix stronger. In an odd way they were correct. Certainly additives change the properties of the steel but there is no "Steel" without Carbon. But don't mind me, I've only been smelting and forging for 40 years, what would I know?

[@AbdulDsouza]

Why not invite the prime minister's of Pakistan, india and Ceylon,and Afghanistan to review the implementation?

[@petehoney1]

what a great project .. lets see ..

[@ctsb5838]

It's only a proposal at the moment. Most of these (unfortunately) do not go ahead ...

[@JohnJ469]

Why would you want it to go ahead? It's a white elephant.

[@Design_no]

You mean FORTUNATELY.

[@lkrnpk]

200 TwH is massive... no wonder it is so massive land wise but also Australia has a fuckton of land

[@richardvivian3665]

And this location is totally flat for thousands of kilometers in every direction and soaked in sun and it’s windy.

[@robertfonovic3551]

And 2 fuktons of debt.

[@keirenle]

Let's hope that it s not just talks

[@dominicwild3189]

All I see is an ad to get solar and nothing about a large solar project??

[@brucewrandol]

My question is: is Australia going to to install batteries to contain the electricity that is produced during the daylight hours?

[@stevennelson7518]

Australia installed Teslas first megapak battery when Tesla offered to guarantee it would help the grid and work or it would be free. Since that time many more grid batteries are already in place.

[@julianskinner3697]

Yes they are called evs

[@enighostmaster]

@@julianskinner3697 EVs are generally on the road when solar is being generated...you still need load-leveling batteries to provide overnight charging for EVs, or some other form of energy storage

[@simond7582]

someone didn't watch the video...

[@udishomer5852]

They already are installing batteries, many projects are on the way.

[@cathyhaynes2903]

Is this project wildlife safe?

[@TerryHickey-xt4mf]

do you drive?

[@peterbrown4943]

Hydrogen doesn’t work either.

[@Muppetkeeper]

"Hello, Australia calling, is this TW-Solar? we'd like 6 million 550W panels please"

[@ChinchillaBONK]

Where's your sources?

[@EliteRock]

Free energy. Amazing - the stupidity, that is.

[@MichaelCuthbertson-zl6in]

There will be no coal in Australia in 10 years. Don't hold your breath, mate. Until we get some nuclear energy, we WILL have to use coal!

[@Dollarbill-g1l]

Right.

[@stanmitchell3375]

People should avoid using power when sun is down

[@Harrythehun]

Yeah, we want to live like in the medieval times!

[@aoeuuaoaou]

Because the wind doesn’t blow at night? Power usage has long been lower at night, that’s a sizable portion of why BEV night charging increases grid efficiency

[@philborer877]

We won't need to because of battery storage.

[@TerryHickey-xt4mf]

and miss the news!

[@John-gm8ty]

thats nice, and the entire country is teetering on rolling blackouts because of lack of stable blaseload. with state governments asking people to turn things off to save the grid. this is the biggest looming failure in history. oh, and they're brining in, state by state, time of use where mornings and evenings as solar kicks in and off, special fee rates driving prices up and up and up. this is turning into a total shit storm.

[@TomMcinerney-g9b]

Grid stability IS a significant issue. Transforming PV/wind electric to ammonia creates a transportable/storable liquid fuel... the solar-thermal plants can be coupled to thermal storage (hot sand, or molten salt) which can generate steam-electric when dark and windless.

[@John-gm8ty]

@@TomMcinerney-g9b uh-huh and where has this happened in Australia anywhere?

[@robertfonovic3551]

​@@TomMcinerney-g9bDream on

[@TwoShoedDude]

@John-gm8ty where is your spirit of innovation? Because if we only ever did what has been done before, nothing would change. Just a suggestion: if you have the skills, do the work, apply first principles and some financial calculations. Maybe a simple spreadsheet first. And then answer: does it make sense? At what price for solar panels, steel, labour, equipment, maintenance, interest rates etc etc does such a project become competitive?

[@John-gm8ty]

​@@TwoShoedDude this reply has no merit and is meaningless in regards to my comment.