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Subject: [OT]:: Australian example of real world cost of replacing coal
 power	stations with Wind Power + Pumped hydro storage.
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I thought the following was technically interesting enough to be worth
noting.
The article is on a site which is much disapproved on by some due to its
questioning of the current climate change message.
Hopefully this will not dissuade people liable to be interested in the
subject from "either side" from looking at what APPEARS to be a well
researched and informative presentation. There may be flaws in it but at a
quick look through it seemed OK.

This is an Australian based example of the (calculated) real world cost of
replacing retiring coal power stations with 'Wind Power + Pumped hydro
storage.'
The result is (to me) sobering. I'd like the various "cleaner greener"
technologies to be economically viable, but it seems to be challenging.

The article page may be a little hard to follow but does make sense. The
related web page where the data comes from is somewhat hard to extract good
information from but is the source of the analysis.
Article <- read me first
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/08/12/energy-storage-an-estimate-using-act=
ual-data/
  Source data https://www.spasmodicenergy.com/Pages/Home.aspx

             Russell
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