Comments on: Australia Gets Ten Times Bigger Solar Farm Following Carbon Tax

By: Will Rose

Will Rose — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

It has some good effects and some bad effects. But i think that it will going to change something and create new.

By: Australian Desalination Plant to be Powered by Solar Farm – ecomagination

Australian Desalination Plant to be Powered by Solar Farm – ecomagination — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:53:45 +0000

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By: Australia’s 1st Utility-Scale Solar Farm Now Under Construction | CleanTechnica

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:44:34 +0000

[…] 1, GE Energy Financial Services, Verve Energy, and First Solar have teamed up to build a large (“utility-scale”) solar farm in Australia. The farm will be 10 times larger than any other solar farm in Australia to date. Construction on […]

By: It’s Not All Doom and Gloom Here on Planet Earth « BATSHITE

It’s Not All Doom and Gloom Here on Planet Earth « BATSHITE — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:41:57 +0000

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By: Electric38

Electric38 — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:42:00 +0000

GE is doing great work overseas…. duh, doesn’t he head up the US Jobs Council? also see.. Jeff Immelt, Moves GE’s Health Care Unit to China.

While GE could be promoting the installation of rooftop solar (consumer owned) which would create plenty of jobs in the US, and lower the power bills of American consumers, they are busy in other countries. How much did they pay in taxes?

On another note, Australia has been the test grounds for several companies checking desert solar efficiencies. Any word on how this is going? Is this why a well known Wall Street investment firm bogged the BLM down with (public land in our desert areas) development applications that were never used?

On another note, its a shame to see that Australians are so gullible. Go big business! Go corporate monopolies! Sorry consumers…

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Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:00:49 +0000

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Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:31:07 +0000

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By: Sonofdadska

Sonofdadska — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:34:00 +0000

10MW is actually only about enough to supply around 2000 homes. That’s based on each kWp producing an average of 4 kWh per day and an average house consuming 20kWh per day. Still, a great way to go. The desal plant here in Adelaide has a 200kWp system on there, a bit of a token effort really.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:03:00 +0000

I would say it’s probably a reverse-osmosis desalination plant, using electric pumps to force water through membranes which won’t allow the salt to go with it.

By: Johnr

Johnr — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:02:00 +0000

This sounds like a terribly inefficient use of solar energy. Why not just concentrate the heat from the sun and use it directly. Solar thermal systems such a parabolic trough or solar tower sounds much more logical for this application. Converting sunlight into electricity and then electricity to heat is very wasteful.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:37:00 +0000

10 MW is enough to supply 10,000 homes!