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Sabtu, 29 Februari 2020

Australian Superbike: Race Two Results From Phillip Island - RoadracingWorld.com

Race Lap Record: 1:31.881, Michael Jones, 2019

mi-bike Motorcycle Insurance Australian Superbike Championship

Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit

Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia

February 29, 2020

Race Two Results:

Wayne Maxwell (Duc Panigale V4 R), 12 laps, Total Race Time 18:42.496, Best Lap Time 1:32.677
Cru Halliday (Yam YZF-R1), -1.178 seconds, 1:32.784
Mike Jones (Duc Panigale V4 R), -10.087, 1:33.270
Bryan Staring (Kaw ZX-10R), -10.133, 1:33.418
Troy Herfoss (Hon CBR1000RR), -10.175, 1:33.081
Josh Waters (Suz GSX-R1000), -10.319, 1:33.423
Daniel Falzon (Yam YZF-R1), -10.724, 1:33.144
Matt Walters (Kaw ZX-10RR), -13.789, 1:33.459
Glenn Allerton (BMW S1000RR), -22.095, 1:33.901
Jed Metcher (Suz GSX-R1000), -22.145, 1:34.250
Arthur Sissis (Suz GSX-R1000), -22.275, 1:33.954
Aiden Wagner (Yam YZF-R1), -29.815, 1:33.299
Glenn Scott (Kaw ZX-10R), -37.854, 1:35.577
Max Crocker (Suz GSX-R1000), -38.105, 1:35.507
Linden Magee (BMW S1000RR), -38.458, 1:35.450
Sloan Frost (Suz GSX-R1000), -38.672, 1:35.329
Beau Beaton (Duc Panigale V4 R), -46.199, 1:35.617
Brendan McIntyre (Suz GSX-R1000), -56.295, 1:36.787
Giuseppe Scarcella (Duc Panigale), -65.829, 1:37.968
Matthew Tooley (Yam YZF-R1), -68.587, 1:38.020

28. Josh Hayes (Yam YZF-R1), -11 laps, DNF, crash/mechanical, 1:41.943

More, from a press release issued by Motorcycling Australia:

Wayne Maxwell Takes Win 2 In Superbike Race 2 Thriller

Wayne Maxwell (47) leads Cru Halliday (65) during Race Two at Phillip Island. Photo by Russell Colvin, courtesy Motorcycling Australia.

What a blockbuster finish to race 2 of the mi-bike Motorcycle Insurance Australian Superbike Championship, presented by Motul, Kawasaki Superbike class, at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit today, with Boost Mobile K-Tech Wayne Maxwell scoring a back to back win.

We knew 2020 was going to be an epic season and the Kawasaki Superbike field certainly didn’t disappoint today with bar banging battles right throughout the field.

While Maxwell snuck away to an early lead Yamaha Racing Team’s Cru Halliday stalked him all the way to the finish and threatened a serious challenge.

Despite being within striking distance, Halliday admitted after the race he was on the edge and didn’t want push it too hard and crash.

The real battle of the race was for third position with a cavalcade of riders dicing including Desmosport Ducati Mike Jones, Penrite Honda’s Troy Herfoss, JW Racing Josh Waters, Kawasaki BC Performance Bryan Staring, 2019 ASBK Ironman Award Winner – Kawasaki Australia’s Matt Walters, and William Adams Cat Yamaha of Daniel Falzon.

Herfoss, Staring and Jones swapped third spot on every lap, leaving fans salivating at the action, while the Walters, Falzon and Waters no doubt were hoping for them to push each other wide to open up a gap.

It wasn’t to be with Jones snatching third gaining some solid points after he failed to start in the first race.

Staring took 4th, Herfoss 5th, Waters 6th, Falzon 7th, Walters 8th, Yamaha Racing Teams’s Aiden Wagner 9th and Maxima BMW’s Glenn Allerton 10th.

“Fantastic start for everyone at the Boost Mobile K-Tech team, there is so much effort that goes in behind the scenes, for the first round, infrastructure everything has to be organised and trying to piece all the partners and sponsors together,” said Maxwell after his win.

“We’ve managed to do it and not only do it but win two races.”

Halliday was pleased with his result.

“I pushed so hard to get to Wayne then the tyre started to get hot,” he said after the race.

“Wayne is so fast at the first part of the track and it’s hard to make up time.

“I was going to make a pass around Lukey but I’d wash the front out, in the end it was good racing at the end of the day.”

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Jumat, 28 Februari 2020

New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern takes Australian prime minister to task over deportations - Fox News

New Zealand’s prime minister lashed out at her Australian counterpart Friday, accusing him of “testing” the friendship between the two nations and accusing his country of deporting “your people and your problems.”

Jacinda Ardern took Scott Morrison to task during an extraordinarily testy joint news conference over his country’s rigid policy of deporting foreign criminals to homelands they left as children.

She called the policy unfair and corrosive, and warned that she did not wish to see the allies engage in a tit-for-tat “race to the bottom."

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, stands with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison during the signing of the Indigenous Collaboration Arrangement at Admiralty House in Sydney, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. (Bianca De Marchi/Pool Photo via AP)

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“Australia is well within its rights to deport individuals who break your laws. New Zealand does the same. But we have a simple request: Send back Kiwis – genuine Kiwis,” Ardern said, according to the Guardian. “Do not deport your people and your problems.”

She said her nation takes into account a person’s ties to the nation and does not deport those “considered for all intents and purposes to have established themselves as New Zealanders.”

Australia needed to do the same, she argued.

New Zealand and Britain receive many felons under the policy, but long-time Australian residents are sent to countries where they don’t speak the language, and have no family or community ties.

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, talks with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a meeting at Admiralty House in Sydney, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. (Bianca De Marchi/Pool Photo via AP)

Ardern said many of the 2,600 New Zealand citizens Australia deported in recent years had no “home” in New Zealand because they left years ago. New Zealand courts were dealing with these long-term Australian residents who were failing to rehabilitate because they lacked the necessary family and social networks, she said.

“We will own our people. We ask that Australia stops exporting theirs,” she added.

Morrison publicly held firm, saying Australia has no plans to abandon the policy.

“The Australian government’s policy is very clear,” he said. “We deport non-citizens who have committed crimes in Australia against our community.

“This policy is applied not specific to one country, but to any country whose citizens are here. You commit a crime here, if convicted, once you have done your time, we send you home,” Morrison added. “And we have no objection to any country – anywhere – who would apply the same rule in terms of Australian citizens who commit crimes in other places.”

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The issue has been a point of tension between the two nations for several years, however, it has heated up recently as Ardern has made it an election issue.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Tesla “big battery” in Australia is becoming a bigger nightmare for fossil fuel power generators - Teslarati

By Randell Suba

Posted on February 28, 2020

Tesla’s “big battery” utility-scale Powerpack system at the Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia has yielded more than doubled the savings to consumers in 2019 than the year prior as it dominates fossil fuel generators on quicker demand response for the grid.

Hornsdale Power Reserve saved consumers AUD116 million ($75.78 million) in 2019, a big jump from AUD40 million ($26.14 million) savings in 2018.

The Hornsdale Power Reserve, owned and operated by French renewable energy producer Neoen, is home to the largest lithium-ion battery energy storage system in the world with a 100 MW/129 MWh. Tesla Powerpack has been playing a significant role in grid stability since its installation in 2017, a function previously dominated by fossil fuel generators that bring energy prices high during system faults of planned maintenance.

“Hornsdale has just been the best asset for the state, and for us as well, it’s a real success story,” head of development at Neoen Australia Garth Heron said in an interview with RenewEconomy. We have shown that these kinds of systems can work. It saves consumers a lot of money, and it’s something we should be rolling out right across the market.”

Tesla big batteries at Hornsdale Power Reserve South Australia (Source: Hornsdale Power Reserve | Facebook)

The system that covers approximately one hectare of land at the Hornsdale Wind Farm provides grid stability to consumers, storing excess energy during off-peak periods and supplying the grid when renewable outputs are low. When a power plant goes down or when there is greater demand for energy, it is practically a race to meet that demand. Tesla battery-powered HPR beats power providers dependent on fossil fuel and gives consumers a win-win scenario. Consumers benefit from the lower prices of HPR and blackouts that can disrupt businesses or daily household activities are avoided. As South Australia shifts to renewable energy, fossil fuel power generators that did not have potent competition before in the market are now forced to bring their prices down back from the orbit.

A report by Australian consulting firm Aurecon analyzed the impact of the Tesla big battery at Hornsdale Power Reserve in its role in the Frequency Control and Ancillary Services (FCAS) markets. These are basically events that require quick reactions when there are sudden changes in demand or supply.

For example, when the Australian Energy Market Operator called for 35MW of FCAS in January, the Tesla big battery was quick to respond and kept prices reasonable. The prices were as low as AUD270 ($176)/MW instead of hitting AUD11,500($7,511)/MW to AUD14,000($9,143)/MW if supplied by the fossil fuel-dependent generators. When South Australia was “islanded” because of a major outage in Victoria, the HPR was able to save consumers AUD14 million in five hours.

According to Aurecon, the biggest savings came from the raised FCAS and amounted to more than AUD50 million ($32.65 million).

The Hornsdale Power Reserve also has a significant impact on FCAS market regulation. Tesla battery use has pushed the average prices from AUD450 ($294)/MWh two years before the installation of HPR to just over AUD20 ($13)/MWH. With lower prices, battery-generated power practically brought fossil fuel power plants, that ruled the region like cartels, to their knees.

Tesla battery has demonstrated how lithium-ion battery power reserves can play a big role in the security of the overall grid. While fuel fossil-powered generators will take several minutes to feed power to the grid in need, the HPR’s fast-discharge capability beat these options and give consumers access to more affordable energy. This also bodes well for owner and operator Neoen to make most of the potential returns, and of course, for Tesla’s energy business.

Tesla’s big battery has proven that battery storage is a practical option on a grid-scale. And it’s very profitable. The state government only injected AUD4 million ($2.61 million) into the multi-million project.

During the final quarter of 2019, the revenue of the Hornsdale Power Reserve jumped by 56%.

The HPR also announced plans to expand its capacity by 50%, boosting it by 50MW/64.5MWh. The project is expected to be completed in the first half of 2020 and will provide stabilizing inertia services critical to the shift to renewable energy in the region, and help push Australia closer to its goal of being net 100% renewable by 2030.

With the numbers clearly showing the benefits of Tesla’s big battery, it is not just a big banana as Australian prime minister Scott Morrison once said.

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Rabu, 26 Februari 2020

Australia's Wildfires: 'Unprecedented' May be an Understatement - The Weather Channel

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Selasa, 25 Februari 2020

Great Australian Bight: Equinor abandons controversial oil drilling plans - BBC News

Oil giant Equinor has abandoned controversial plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight in a move hailed by environmentalists as a "huge win".

The Norwegian firm was granted approval last December to begin exploratory drills in seas off South Australia.

But on Tuesday it told regulators the plan was "not commercially competitive" compared to options elsewhere.

Australia's government said the withdrawal was disappointing.

The Great Australian Bight is said to be one of the most unspoiled marine environments in the world.

The shareholders fighting to make oil firms greener

Green groups have sought for decades to protect it, but Canberra has been open to extracting the possible oil riches there.

Equinor is now the latest oil and gas company to have abandoned proposals for drilling in the area since 2016, following competitors BP, Chevron and Karoon Energy.

The decision has been welcomed by activists and some lawmakers who had argued that oil and gas extraction would threaten wildlife and the climate.

Thousands of people protested in Australia and Norway in the past year, while activist shareholders had also raised the project with the company's board.

On Tuesday, Equinor said a review of its global exploration portfolio showed better opportunities for new fields elsewhere.

"Equinor has decided to discontinue its plans to drill the Stromlo-1 exploration well, as the opportunity is not commercially competitive," it said in a statement.

Wildlife refuge

Phil Mercer, BBC News in Sydney

The Great Australian Bight is a large open bay, roughly in the middle of the continent's vast southern edge. Whales come to give birth, and it's a refuge for sea lions, dolphins and penguins.

It was, until Tuesday's decision, also a frontline in another battle between the global resources sector and an alliance of anti-drilling protesters.

Equinor was expected to start work later this year on an exploratory well about 400km (248 miles) out to sea at a depth of around 3km.

Industry representatives had called the site "an internationally significant frontier" in the search for oil, comparing it to the Niger Delta and the Gulf of Mexico.

But campaigners had feared the threat of an oil spill and ecological disaster.

"There are more unique species there than on the Great Barrier Reef," Greenpeace activist Jamie Hanson told me recently. He added that Australia would be helpless to contain an oil spill.

That risk has now abated, but campaigners are still pushing for permanent protections.

Australia's government said many people would see the company's withdrawal as "extremely disappointing" for economic reasons.

One legislator said the nation "desperately" needed to improve its own oil security.

"We used to be self-sufficient but now we rely heavily on imported oil," tweeted Senator Matthew Canavan.

Resources Minister Keith Pitt said the nation remained committed to encouraging new drilling proposals in its waters.

"The Bight basin remains one of Australia's frontier basins and any proposals for new oil and gas fields in this area will be assessed fairly and independently," he said.

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Great Australian Bight: Equinor abandons controversial oil drilling plans - BBC News

Oil giant Equinor has abandoned controversial plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight in a move hailed by environmentalists as a "huge win".

The Norwegian firm was granted approval last December to begin exploratory drills in seas off South Australia.

But on Tuesday it told regulators the plan was "not commercially competitive" compared to options elsewhere.

Australia's government said the withdrawal was disappointing.

The Great Australian Bight is said to be one of the most unspoiled marine environments in the world.

The shareholders fighting to make oil firms greener

Green groups have sought for decades to protect it, but Canberra has been open to extracting the possible oil riches there.

Equinor is now the latest oil and gas company to have abandoned proposals for drilling in the area since 2016, following competitors BP, Chevron and Karoon Energy.

The decision has been welcomed by activists and some lawmakers who had argued that oil and gas extraction would threaten wildlife and the climate.