Quarterly Essay 66 the Long Goodbye by Anna Krien

Author:Anna Krien
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Schwartz Books Pty. Ltd.

To complicate matters further, there are many people who are strongly motivated to exploit these ever-widening gaps in public knowledge.

After the “black system” in South Australia, these gaps in knowledge became apparent – and it didn’t take long for the Coalition to take advantage of this.

It started, unexpectedly, with the ABC. Just an hour after South Australia was without power, the chief political correspondent, Chris Uhlmann, was on television and radio surmising that the cause of the blackout was the wind generators.

Forty per cent of South Australia’s power is wind-generated, and that has the problem of being intermittent – and what we understand at the moment is that those turbines aren’t turning because the wind is blowing too fast.

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