GregLocock
Automotive
- Apr 10, 2001
- 23,653
Basic plan is to build a very big solar farm in the Northern Territory of Australia, where land is cheap and sun is somewhat plentiful most of the year round, and then supply power to Darwin, and also to Singapore via a 4000 km long undersea cable.
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Basic plan is to get as much upfront taxpayer money from 3 governments into the developers pockets as possible
These two plans are not mutually exclusive.
Details
So, 1.75GW more or less to Singapore, 24/7, and 4 GW to Darwin (not necessarily 24/7). 20GW of panels, 40 GWh of storage. As you can see the numbers don't add up, 20 GW of panels might average 120 GWh of energy per day (i've got irradinace data for a few years from there, and I'll have a look in detail later on), but for days at a time there are monsoon related storms that kill the solar, and they've got less than a day's storage for Singapore never mind Darwin.
Or
Basic plan is to get as much upfront taxpayer money from 3 governments into the developers pockets as possible
These two plans are not mutually exclusive.
Details
So, 1.75GW more or less to Singapore, 24/7, and 4 GW to Darwin (not necessarily 24/7). 20GW of panels, 40 GWh of storage. As you can see the numbers don't add up, 20 GW of panels might average 120 GWh of energy per day (i've got irradinace data for a few years from there, and I'll have a look in detail later on), but for days at a time there are monsoon related storms that kill the solar, and they've got less than a day's storage for Singapore never mind Darwin.
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