It looks like I tossed a grenade into this thread last weekend, then stepped back. That wasn't my intent. This is the trains thread. Adelaide's train network currently is set up to move people in and out of the CBD for 9-5ish jobs, so that's what people do from those outer suburbs near the train lin...

I like the integration of the heritage façade and like the idea of a cafe/restaurant behind it. The rest of the building doesn't seem offensive. It's an apartment block, it could look a lot worse. We have a housing crisis and people who want/need to work in the CBD. This seems ideal for young people...

'cos there's sooo many people living at Sellicks... There weren’t that many people living at Seaford or Aldinga until they started building houses either. :wink: Sensible to aim for a safeguarded corridor to Sellicks even if the railway will only go as far as Aldinga in the foreseeable future. Save...

But there is no single concept of the battery. It's not just a monolith. You have batteries of different sizes per application from industrial/grid scale to household/car scale to the battery in your phone. The engineering and economic paramaters are completely different for their use cases. Also, ...

What's the significant difference between a student accommodation block, and an apartment block of four bedroom apartments with en suite bathrooms for each bedroom? Why would the latter add more vibrancy to the city than the former? I'm an outer suburbanite for most of my adult life (live and work),...

There's another thread about a data centre in Pirie Street. Microsoft have data centres in the Canberra area. "Sovereign risk" requires Australian government data to be held on Australian territory. If a power station can only run at full speed, and a commensurate load is created to consu...

“ If batteries can be made more efficient and economic”.. that’s a big if. The lifespan of the batteries is a big issue. Also I’m not sure how we’ve gone full circle from nuclear won’t / can’t / will never be feasible, to.. maybe they will work with a battery backed energy system. Back in the day, ...

https://www.burgessrawson.com.au/property/561-567-port-road-west-croydon-sa-5008/ The whole site is for lease and Krispy Kreme HQ stays put. Viva Energy is listed as the head lessee, meaning that although the property may change ownership, Viva Energy will still be responsible for the lease, mainte...

A LOT of Shell reps at Port Road/Rosetta Street OTR, looked as though they were scoping for the OTR rebrand. Following on from this, big 'For Lease' sign out the front of the Krispy Kreme's on this site, citing an exciting opportunity to be next door to a Viva Energy owned service station. So it wo...

I think soon almost every Electranet substation will have a battery farm next to it. The mid north is already spanned by a number of 275kV lines using different routes established to connect the former Port Augusta power stations to Adelaide. These now connect the northern wind and solar farms inste...

I have also heard that South Australian transmission charges (the price to move electricity from one part of the state to another) are higher than all the other states (including WA which actually has 3 separate grids). This has been justified by SAPN because of SA's small population base and the l...

why would you want to open a business in South Australia? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GaUOA1GbUAQw01C?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 Obviously, people selling electricity. According to the last report by the Australian Energy Regulator, the highest wholesale price for power was NSW...not SA. So, if ...

wind turbines and solar panels wont cut it for critical infrastructure Amazon follows Google in taking the nuclear option to power data centres https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/10/17/amazon-follows-google-in-taking-the-nuclear-option-to-power-data-centres No costings for Google's small nuclea...

I haven't been through the area in a while, but in hindsight you would think that when they decided to turn the area into residential, that this sort of work was undertaken then, not when there's hundreds of residents living in the area. This. Not to mention the on-going road closures near this sit...

The other positive thing about these small modular reactors is that battery technology is now good enough to make them practical. Larger, grid scale, reactors have a huge problem in that they need to run 24/7 to be economic. When prices are already zero or negative during the day, how could a nucle...