Ohbse said:
New Zealands generation is currently about 80% renewable by GWh consumed, with about 57% coming from Hydro, the rest being geothermal, wind and a tiny amount of solar. Despite this we are ripe for disruption of the ~20% that's still produced by largely gas and a little coal.
According to Wikipedia, quote
"Approximately 80% of electricity comes from renewable energy, primarily hydropower and geothermal power."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectric_power_in_New_Zealand#Generation
A tiny percentage comes from wind, so much of its power comes from hydroelectric due to its spectacular mountains as shown off as the core scenery shooting sites in the Lord of the Rings movies.
NZ has got most of its electricity from Hydro for over 100 years, and like I said before its a no-brainer, not worth talking about if you have the option you do it https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=89002&p=1325526#p1325526
Unfortunately for Australia media groups and political groups like the ABC (maybe they should be called the Australian Brainwashing Corporation) have taken full advantage of NZs huge use of Hydro to manipulate Aussie folks.
Often during upcoming elections, the Australian public gets pounded with this videos of NZ 90% renewables claims and
purely with pictures of
windfarms, absolutely ZERO pictures of Hydro or geothermal electricity.
Scientists and academics then come on TV and parrot this point of view that NZ is purely powered by windfarms.
This is the reason why I want to see all main-stream TV media be forced to be on the internet only because folks will at least have a chance to look at real-world information themselves instead of being plugged into "The Matrix" type situation where they just get injected with misleading garbage and never have the chance to think for themselves, another "fact" would always be a click away. It will also help save whats left of our news papers and help them transition into the digital world in a better and fairer fashion.
If the TV spectrum in Australia was amalgamated into the NBN wireless division then Australia would be a much saner place. The TV spectrum is given to the TV stations for free and they just abuse it, its also the best spectrum for high-speed reliable data transfer. Currently, all rural areas often chop down the trees around their house to get NBN wireless because the spectrum they use can't penetrate trees.
This is the speed I get on my mobile phone now, its is partially due to the fact that when digital TV came in and replaced analog there was some TV spectrum left over due to the spectrum restack and it was auction off to the major mobile phone carriers, this is the result 230mbits/sec inside my house, another dirty fact main-stream media wont tell you.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/3259935402
https://www.communications.gov.au/what-we-do/spectrum/digital-dividend-spectrum
This is the typical view Australians have of NZ electricity source.
Most people decide and vote on easily absorbable simple "facts" and memes, they will never understand any of the depths of generation and are completely at the mercy of the Chewbacca attack routine https://youtu.be/clKi92j6eLE
One of the ironic twists for all this extreme media exposure for gas in Australia is that its the crucial ingredient when you want to go on a large amount of "renewables" and don't have other sources. Aside from South Australia and to a lesser extent WA the major states don't need gas unless its an emergency type situation as they could just ramp up coal burning.
The local media has basically told Victoria, Queensland and NSW that you wont have electricity without gas but these states largely rely on coal for electricity generation.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1b82d16037e87974c70f8c6b8a8122c72e5d4b26d9dd5b2a865fde023b7031cb.jpg
One of the reasons why SA has hit all new highs in electricity prices is because they are being forced to use their wind and solar more than ever before because gas (their secret real local generation non-farming energy source) has become increasingly expensive due to over-use of it and its low availability. Sometimes SA can go for a week with very little wind so it becomes almost entirely dependant on its own gas generators or coal generation from the interstate electricity grid lines from Victoria.
SA then complain the Victoria generators are gouging them on spot prices, but if you're not willing to generate your own power then what do you expect, if the right-minded Victoria state premier leader comes along he will just pull down that interstate grid connection between Victoria and South Australia and save Victorians millions of dollars a day in electricity costs.
I still can't get over the craziness of it all as the CO2 PPM levels in the southern hemisphere are considerably lower than the co2 PPM in the northern hemisphere putting aside the fact that everyone merely breathing in the world puts out x18 times more co2 each year than all of Australias coal-powerstations combined each year. Believing its such an emergency to quickly faze out co2 emissions in Australia to the point that almost all recycling of glass and plastics has stopped due to energy now being too expensive is silly. All this recyclable material is dumped as landfill garbage instead, that's being less green than just letting plants and sea-weed grow by sucking up all that extra co2.
Global population is at 7.5billion and each human breaths out 0.365tons of co2 annually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Human_physiology "The body produces approximately 2.3 pounds (1.0 kg) of carbon dioxide per day per person"
So its 7,500,000,000 x 0.365 = 2,737,500,000. So 2.7billion tons of co2 per year just from human breathing! A fraction of Australian coal emissions which are about 151 million tons of co2 annually.
2,700,000,000 / 151,000,000 = 18
Most grow-rooms that have co2 generators bring up the CO2 levels to 1500PPM to send plants into a growing frenzy instead of normal average atmosphere CO2 400PPM levels and its fact it only takes 60minutes of the lights being on and the co2 generator being turned off for most of the elevated co2 ppm level turns back to normal ppm levels. Its another way of putting it that there is plenty of time to plan these things more properly.
How about a meme to finish this post.
Going by the general science (not linked to co2 emissions) it would be about 1,000 years, but the debate will only end when every single dollar has been milked from those who mostly go on the most easily absorbable information and every ounce of political power from it all has been extracted.
And that was fairly recent..... But the latest had Zero 
