Despite the compact florescent bulbs in the shops and homes of Australia; Chinchilla, in Peter Beattie's, Kevin Rudd's and now Anna Bligh's Queensland, is about to become home to the Kogan Creek power station with the following statistics from the CS Energy and CARMA websites:
Generation capacity: 750 MW (about the same as a medium size nuclear power station, or maybe about 300* large wind turbines). Kogan will be the largest single generating unit in Australia!!
*[NOTE: To actually 'produce' the equivalent of a 750 MW coal station, one would require approximately 1,250 large [2 MW] wind turbines to account for the fact that the wind doesn't always blow as well as the limitations of existing storage technology].
Cost: $1.2 billion
Anticipated commissioning date: late 2007. Construction and commissioning timeline has been about three and a half years.
Anticipated operation: 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, devouring coal at a whopping rate of 2.8 million t/yr [or nearly 7,700 t/day].
CO2 emissions: 4,339,799 tons [imperial] per year
This one station will INCREASE Australian emissions from electricity generation by nearly 2%.
Generation capacity: 750 MW (about the same as a medium size nuclear power station, or maybe about 300* large wind turbines). Kogan will be the largest single generating unit in Australia!!
*[NOTE: To actually 'produce' the equivalent of a 750 MW coal station, one would require approximately 1,250 large [2 MW] wind turbines to account for the fact that the wind doesn't always blow as well as the limitations of existing storage technology].
Cost: $1.2 billion
Anticipated commissioning date: late 2007. Construction and commissioning timeline has been about three and a half years.
Anticipated operation: 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, devouring coal at a whopping rate of 2.8 million t/yr [or nearly 7,700 t/day].
CO2 emissions: 4,339,799 tons [imperial] per year
This one station will INCREASE Australian emissions from electricity generation by nearly 2%.
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Does anybody on this page has an idea how to stop the lies on www.votenuclearfree.net ? I would like to have more nuclear plants all around the world, how can we stop those anti-guys?
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