Thursday 19 September
Murali Nathan & Chitrani Perez
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Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan
A plan to repower Australia with 100% renewable energy in 10 years
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Climate change is a problem of unprecedented scale and consequence Use of fossil fuels is the biggest cause of the problem The ZCA Stationary Energy Plan provides easy solutions to the problem of increasing need for energy from a growing population while eliminating GHG emissions
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2Guardrail Limit
A business as usual policy could see a 4 degree rise in temperatures by 2060. On the hottest days, the temperatures could be : 6-8 degrees higher than the mean in China 8-10 degrees in Europe and 10-12 degrees in New York Such unprecedented increases would give rise to a host of issues about how the ageing infrastructure of our cities could deliver even survival-level services. By 2100 the planet would become unliveable in most places.
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...if Australia builds up its coal exports as currently planned, it would produce 30% of the carbon needed to push global warming beyond two degrees. By 2020 the countrys coal burnt abroad will be producing three times as much CO2 as all the countrys cars and factories and homes; by 2025, four times. And so on.
Bill McKibben Do the math 2013
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Germany
China
Burkina Faso
India
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Head of the Inter governmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC in 2008, European Union and other bodies talked about a 350 ppm atmospheric carbon as a desirable target to aim for. In 2013 the levels breached 400ppm More carbon in the atmosphere creates a negative feedback loop A vast expanse of permafrost in Siberia and Alaska has started to thaw for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago, marked in dark blue on the map. It is caused by the recent warming in local temperature. Peat bogs cover an area of a million square miles (or almost a quarter of the earth's land surface) to a depth of 25 meters. Started to melt in the last 4 years with the potential to release vast quantities of methane trapped by ice below the surface - billions of tonnes of methane. World-wide, peat bogs store at least two trillion tons of CO2. This is equivalent to a century of emissions from fossil fuels. This is one of the most feared tipping points
http://www.planetextinction.com
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Intro Slide
Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan
A plan to repower Australia with 100% renewable energy in 10 years
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Stationary Energy
Stationary energy is the supply of electricity to fixed outlet points; it is what we plug our appliances into and run our industry from. The ZCA Stationary Energy Plan is a detailed, fully costed, resourced model to repower Australia with 100% renewable energy in 10 years
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565oC 290oC
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Heliostat
Heliostat Field
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Solid salt
Thermal Storage
Spain 2011 Torresol Gemasolar 20MW. 15h storage Only the beginning
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Brightsource and Abengoa are currently working on a 500 megawatts concentrated solar project in California that would be composed of twin 250-megawatt units with what should be the tallest solar towers in the world
Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a major exporter of oil and gas. Abu Dhabi is also a leader in renewables. Their Shams Power Company in early 2013 started operating the 100MW Shams 1 concentrated solar power (CSP) station bze.org.au
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Target:
150,000 MW by 2020
~ 28% annual growth ~ 7.5% annual growth ~ ~ 25% annual growth ~ 13% annual growth tripled since 2007
Germany 31,000 MW
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In July 2013 the world's biggest offshore wind farm opened in the UK (175 turbines, 630MW) The UK targets 16GW of offshore wind power by 2020, a huge increase from the 3.3GW of installed capacity that they have now
- London Array
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"GWEC Global Wind Statistics 2011" Global Wind Energy Commission. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
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Wind power
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Module 220MW
Sunlab 220
3500MW capacity
Wind power
Module 7.5MW
Enercon E-126
Turbine
~60%
Concentrated Solar Thermal with storage
~40%
Large scale wind farms
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Existing grid Solar Region Renewable Australias Wind region New HVDC line New HVAC line
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BUSINESS AS USUAL
ZCA
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What about the jobs lost in the mining and oil industries?
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Labour Requirements
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30 years
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ZCA $37Bn for 10 years Australian Gambling 2009 $20Bn Australian Insurance 2009 $38Bn
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BUSINESS AS USUAL
ZCA
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2.Leakages from extraction, processing, transport and delivery to point of use can be as much as 12%
3.Extraction involves potentially hazardous methods such as fracking Fracking is the process of pumping water, sand and a cocktail of different chemicals, underground at huge pressure in order to fracture open the coal seam and allow the gas to escape. Fracking uses massive amounts of water a scarce resource in Australia. 11 million litres per well. Queensland alone has issued licences for 40,000 wells. Nationwide nearly a 100,000 wells could be in operation by 2020. CSG extraction damages prime agricultural land beyond repair
Fracking creates micro-seismic events (mini earthquakes), which cause the connection of naturally separated geological layers. This process can contaminate ground water with hazardous chemicals.
Australia does not require companies to list the chemicals they use in fracking fluids. However, experience in the USA, Queensland and NSW shows the use of known carcinogens as well as other chemicals including: ethylene glycol, which affects kidney function, the lungs and heart; the BTEX group (Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl Benzene and Xylene), which affect bone marrow, the blood system and cause leukaemia; and other toxins that affect hormone regulation and the reproductive system-http://quitcoal.org.au/fracking-in-victoria/
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Fully Resourced
We have the materials Jobs rich
Fully Costed
3% of GDP for 10 years & 60% saving over BAU in 30 years
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