Fig 1: 7 days power generation in Victoria (screenshot from the Open NEM website) https://opennem.org.au/#/regions/vic In order to understand the above graph we have to know how Excel is dealing with negative…
Tag: Melbourne
Melbourne’s East West Link tunnel proposal has low benefit cost ratio and high oil price risk
According to the State government of Victoria’s “short form business case” a proposed road tunnel in Melbourne has only a benefit cost ratio of 1.4, a number which is classified as “low”…
Australian intercity rail run-down and unprepared to replace domestic flights after peak oil
On 22/11/2011 I tested the XPT train from Sydney to Melbourne on my way to the conference Building Community Resilience and Minimising Risk http://www.mav.asn.au/events/Pages/Building-Community-Resilience-and-Minimizing-Risk-23112011.aspx organised by the Municipal Association of Victoria, for…
Australia’s debating club on transport fantasies after global crude oil exports peaked 2005
While armed conflicts about OPEC’s remaining oil are spreading like cancer in MENA countries and an accumulated debt crisis triggers money printing which drives up oil prices sky high, the media and…
Report Card 2009 (Part 2) Aviation and Airport Master Plans – Pies in the skies
In 2009, the Federal government released both an aviation green and white paper. At the same time airports around Australia published their master plans, all assuming a doubling of air traffic within…