by Graham Palmer | Jun 17, 2017 | Electricity, Uncategorized
Synchronous grids and inertia The Australian NEM spans five states and 4,500 km and has around 260 registered generators, all of which, when online, are synchronous machines spinning in near-exact synchronization at close to 50 Hz across the network (the island state...
by Graham Palmer | May 23, 2017 | EROI, Technology, Uncategorized
The competitive struggle between technology and resource depletion The study of EROI may be of little more than academic interest except for two factors. Energy extraction has conformed to Ricardo’s ‘best first’ principle, meaning that the easiest resources to extract...
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