Thats insane. I suppose in Oz we have geographical distance and transmission loss to consider, but only ~1/3rd of your population and 300 more days of sunshine per year.
You put us to shame. We do too.
"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness." ― Terry Pratchett
In fairness, it's wind that makes up the bulk of that rather than solar.
We have the largest offshore wind power generation in the world, and there is still a ton of untapped potential. The Government has brought back the subsidies that they stupidly cancelled, so hopefully progress won't be derailed there.
Coal will be gone in 4 years, hopefully the pace of development of renewables means that this isn't just replace with gas, and we can actually decrease gas as well.
Huzzah! Trufax Death Valley is so hot because it's below sea level. Up is cold and down is hot because the sheer weight of the air above adds to the pressure and hence temp.
Death Valley hit a temp of 54.4ºC over the weekend. Highest ever reliably human-recorded temperature on our planet.
We got 56+ on a few occasions on the wet bulb globe test when I was in Iraq in 2004. Obviously not recorded as reliable as it wasn't captured by a meteorological org but it was incredibly hot (in the middle of nowhere in between Basra and Baghdad).
Yeah, there are definitely places in the Middle East (and probably Central Australia) that are regularly hotter than Death Valley and just don’t get counted as ‘proper temp recordings’.
Don't we hear about injuries at gender reveal parties because news organisations know that gender in a headline gets clicks?
The blue or pink smoke might very slightly raise the chance of a fire or an explosion, but the sort of people who DIY that sort of thing have to be almost as likely to cause a disaster at any other large social gathering.