[Peakoil] further to Alex's posting on nuclear and Peak Oil

[Alex P]

I went to the Geodynamics presentation. Initially they plan to set up a 
plant to power the Moomba gas processing facility, which provides gas to 
the east coast. Presently they use 15% of their gas to process and compress 
the remainder. So Geodynamics could increase effectively Australia's 
domestic gas reserves without increasing the greenhouse impact.

Then Geodynamics wants to connect to the Qld and SA grids in part using 
long distance very high voltage DC lines. This would complete a loop in the 
grid allowing for better load balancing. It would cost many many millions 
of dollars. The use of very high voltage lines would be to reduce 
transmission losses.

They have applied for grants for this under various Commonwealth renewables 
schemes.

Alex
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ACT Peak Oil
http://act-peakoil.org

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:49:30 +1000, "Jenny Goldie" <jgoldie at snowy.net.au> 
wrote :

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> 
> This article is from today's Australian. By the way, did anyone go to 
the "hot rocks" lecture last week? How viable really is it as an 
alternative to coal? Aren't all the potential spots too far away from the 
grid?  Jenny
> Iran threatens Gulf oil supplies
> Correspondents in Tehran 
> June 05, 2006
> IRAN'S supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned the US yesterday 
that his country would disrupt Gulf oil supplies if Washington made 
a "single mistake" over Iran.
> Insisting that Tehran would never give up its "scientific goals" in the 
face of "threats and bribes", Ayatollah Khamenei said the US and its allies 
would not be able to provide security to all the oil shipments that cross 
the strategic Hormuz Strait - within close range of Iran - in the event of 
a disruption. 
> 
> "You threaten Iran," he said in a speech marking the 17th anniversary of 
the death of Iran's Islamic revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah 
Khomeini. "You say you want to direct energy in the region. If you make a 
single mistake about Iran, the supply of energy will definitely be put in 
serious risk." 
> 
> The ayatollah's provocative remarks came as EU foreign policy chief 
Javier Solana prepared to travel to Iran in the next few days to hand-
deliver a carrot-and-sticks package that aims to convince Tehran to stop 
enriching uranium. 
> 
> The package, agreed last week by the five permanent members of the UN 
Security Council and Germany, carries the threat of UN sanctions if Tehran 
remains defiant over its nuclear program, which the West fears is a cover 
for producing nuclear weapons. 
> 
> It includes an offer by the Bush administration to involve US officials 
in direct talks with Iran for the first time in 27 years, if it halts 
nuclear fuel production. 
> 
> In a day of mixed signals from Tehran, Iran's state-run television said 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had told UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that 
a deal on the Islamic republic's nuclear program was possible, if the 
International Atomic Energy Agency - the UN's nuclear watchdog - agreed to 
Tehran's right to atomic energy. 
> 
> Later, Mr Ahmadinejad said Tehran would not be "in haste to judge" the 
Western incentives package. 
> 
> "A breakthrough to overcome world problems, including Iran's nuclear 
case, would be the equal implementation of the law for all," Mr Ahmadinejad 
reportedly told Mr Annan during a telephone conversation. 
> 
> Speaking to thousands of people in the capital at the tomb of Ayatollah 
Ruhollah Khomeini, Mr Ahmadinejad said: "We won't make any prejudgment 
about the proposal to be presented to us ... we won't be in haste to judge 
it. 
> 
> "We are after negotiations but fair and just negotiations. They must be 
without any conditions." 
> 
> Ayatollah Khamenei declared that Iran's scientific achievements were 
a "resource that our late imam had saved for us". 
> 
> "It represents our political independence and national self-confidence," 
he said. "We should not sell out this precious resource because of the 
enemies' threats and we should not be fooled by enemy bribes." 
> 
> Despite the deal on the incentives package, the ayatollah said there was 
no consensus against Iran and reiterated his country's denial that it was 
developing nuclear weapons. Iran's Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, 
also said it was open to a negotiated solution. 
> 
> "We think that if there is goodwill, a breakthrough to get out of a 
situation they (the EU and US) have created for themselves ... is 
possible," he said. 
> 
> "We are waiting to officially receive the proposals. We will make our 
views known after studying the package. We will also mention if any part of 
the package is not in Iran's interests." 
> 
> At an Asian security conference, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld 
said Washington was still hoping for a positive Iranian response to the new 
incentives package. 
> 
> "The information has just been communicated to them, and it seems to me 
the appropriate thing now to do is to wait and see which path the Iranian 
Government will take," Mr Rumsfeld said. 
> 
> The Vatican, meanwhile, insisted diplomacy was the way to resolve the 
crisis. 
> 
> The Holy See "is firmly convinced that even the present difficulties can 
and must be overcome through the diplomatic path, using all means which 
diplomacy can avail itself of," Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls 
said in a statement. 
> 
> Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and insists 
that guarantees it the right to nuclear research for peaceful purposes. 
> 
>