{"id":55155,"date":"2020-09-25T07:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55155"},"modified":"2020-09-25T07:01:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:01:45","slug":"the-insanity-continues-massive-diesel-engines-used-to-balance-australias-renewable-energy-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55155","title":{"rendered":"THE INSANITY CONTINUES: Massive Diesel Engines Used To Balance Australia\u2019s Renewable Energy Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE INSANITY CONTINUES: Massive Diesel Engines Used To Balance Australia\u2019s Renewable Energy Fiasco<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

How does Australia deal with the terrible and chaotic wind and solar power intermittency problem in its electric grid?\u00a0 How about with massive diesel engines used to power large ships??\u00a0 Sound crazy?\u00a0 Not in Australia.\u00a0 If a country is going to ramp up power generation with insanely erratic wind and solar power, then we shouldn\u2019t be surprised to see these enormous diesel ship engines used to try and fix the problem.<\/p>\n

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Thus, if we have stupid solutions then we must use stupid bandaids.\u00a0 Again, the insanity continues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The credit for the information in this brief article goes to StopTheseThings.com, which focuses on the problems associated with wind and solar power generation.\u00a0 The article,\u00a0Ships Ahoy! Giant Diesel-Fuelled Ship Engines \u2018Solution\u2019 For Australia\u2019s Renewable Energy Crisis<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, provided me a few good laughs and the desire to share it on the SRSroccoReport.com.<\/p>\n

Here is a picture of the Wartsila 50DF Diesel Ship Engine:<\/p>\n

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Notice the two workers next to the engine?\u00a0 That should give you an idea of the size of this beast.\u00a0 According to the article linked above, AGL Energy Limited has installed 12 of these engines at the\u00a0Barker Inlet Power Station<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in Torres Island, Australia.\u00a0 The total output from these dozen ship engines is rated at 210 MW (MegaWatts).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another picture of Wartsila\u2019s 50DF Diesel Ship Engine at the factory plant.<\/p>\n

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These Wartsila engines can run on diesel, natural gas, and bunker oil.\u00a0 Can you imagine how much fuel a dozen of these engines consume to balance the power lost from wind and solar generation??\u00a0\u00a0If you read the article linked above, which I highly recommend, wind power generated in Southern Australia can see drops of 3,000 MWs!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE INSANITY CONTINUES: Massive Diesel Engines Used To Balance Australia\u2019s Renewable Energy Fiasco How does Australia deal with the terrible and chaotic wind and solar power intermittency problem in its electric grid?\u00a0 How about with massive diesel engines used to power large ships??\u00a0 Sound crazy?\u00a0 Not in Australia.\u00a0 If a country is going to ramp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[41,328,674,12073,30360],"class_list":["post-55155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-renewable-energy","tag-srsrocco-report","tag-stop-these-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55156,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55155\/revisions\/55156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}