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If Climate Change is Knocking Down Power Pylons, Why Build More Renewables?
« on: February 29, 2024, 05:05:23 am »
If Climate Change is Knocking Down Power Pylons, Why Build More Renewables?
16 hours ago Eric Worrall 62 Comments

Essay by Eric Worrall

If storms are getting worse, how can fragile renewable energy infrastructure survive the superstorms of the future?

After a weird summer of floods and heatwaves, scientists explain why weather extremes are ‘on steroids’

By climate reporter Jess Davis

When winds as high as 260 kilometres per hour tore down transmission towers in South Australia in 2016 and plunged the state into an electricity void, it took people by surprise.

The sight of high-voltage transmission lines, crumpled on the ground was almost surreal.

Eight years later, as fierce storms broke over Victoria, images of wilted towers were again causing consternation.

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