Step right up, generators going cheap!

SOUTHEAST Queensland's 2.5million residents are facing power blackouts and level-five water restrictions as the region's two main power stations are forced to cut production because of the worsening drought.
As unions warned of possible job losses in the power sector, the Queensland Water Commission announced yesterday that water supplies for cooling the Tarong and Swanbank stations would be slashed from April 10 as part of the level-five restrictions.

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The talk going around is that NSW faces similar problems, and those in power (both types) have been told to keep the ship steady until after the election.
Now, wheres that ALDI generator.......

The mismanagement of water resources in this country is nothing short of an outright disaster. When will somebody wake up and realise that we need to BUILD MORE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE or we're going to keep having progressively worse problems as population rises and climate changes?

Keep up the recent nonsense and we'll end up shivering in the dark (well, shivering might not be a problem in Qld...), driving cars that are falling apart from rust whilst we all stink because we haven't showered or washed our clothes for months.

HI Smurf,
I assume you are in the industry, going by your pic of the control panel? Have you heard anything about how critical the situation is? My info is that NSW WILL have power rationing by September, unless we get monsoon type rains to fill the storages. It's a quality problem at the moment, high conductivity cooling water from stagnant & recycled water. I am seriously looking at buying a generator soon.

DD

Dr Doom said:

HI Smurf,
I assume you are in the industry, going by your pic of the control panel? Have you heard anything about how critical the situation is? My info is that NSW WILL have power rationing by September, unless we get monsoon type rains to fill the storages. It's a quality problem at the moment, high conductivity cooling water from stagnant & recycled water. I am seriously looking at buying a generator soon.

DD

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Where did you hear that from Dr?
From my limited understanding on electricity generation in NSW, I understood that most of the power for you folk down in Sydney came from us folk up in the Newcastle/Hunter. The upper hunter is a little dry at the moment, which could have some effect on Bayswater, but there is rain galore in the lower hunter, so Eraring, Munmorah, etc should be fine.