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Renewable Energy To Power Aussie SKA
schliz writes "New solar and geothermal energy facilities are being built in Australia to provide sustainable energy for the region's Square Kilometer Array (SKA) bid. The Australian Government yesterday announced A$47.3m in funding for a full-scale, hybrid solar and diesel plant for the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, and geothermal energy facilities for the Pawsey High-Performance Computing Centre, where data from SKA radio telescopes would be processed. ASKAP is part of the Australasian bid to host the $2.5 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which involves 20 countries and will investigate galaxy evolution, dark matter, and the existence of life. IBM expects the whole of the SKA to produce an exabyte of data per day."
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The unfortunate side effects:
1. A massive amount of hardware has been required to filter all the content from the SKA to the data-centre, just in case it has any "NC" information in it.
2. All pictures of "Uranus" will be blocked.
3. Attempting to focus in on a picture of a "Black Hole" will have the whole thing disabled for upto a year.
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One exabyte per day? Holy shit, that's a -lot- of data!
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
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ASS CAP is part of the Australasian bid to host the $2.5 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA)...
Or is it just me?
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Could it be? Could there really be something even remotely positive coming from the Australian government? I don't get it. In what way can they use the SKA to further rape the freedoms and liberties of the Australian public? What's their agenda? Why are they spending money on this when they could be out kicking babies for fun and profit?
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Way, way out in the middle of the desert you can either truck in a pile of fuel forever, run a very long, very expensive and very lossy power line, or try to use a power source that is already there.
Solar will suck on the two or three cloudy days each year but otherwise has potential, it's about an obvious solution for solar as you can get because getting conventional power out there is likely to cost more.
As for geothermal, drilling deep holes is very expensive but there is some pretty hot rock down there and some of it is also wet with a lot of fractures - thus drill holes and get a lot of steam without having to bring any more water.
They put out a surprisingly high number of top-notch astronomers and astrophysicists for a country of their size. Must be something about the ability to drive 50 miles outside any town and have crystal-clear desert skies free of moisture and pollution. It is a real shame that the US has been on a decline for R&D for at least a decade for the "Big Science" projects. That is not to say the US is not producing some interesting research nowadays but it a large amount of that is increasingly being done under DARPA directives which in whole or part makes any paper or discovery subject to review by an intelligence agency for release to the public.
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In the Mallee, out around Hattah, I would go waking at night, using Venus to light my way and the Magellanic clouds would be easy to see. But if you want to do optical astronomy you need to do it at altitude and with clear skies. We don't have that.
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So, in ~700 years, they could fill a ZFS zpool. Awesome!
They will probably need Skatalites for some exiting soundbites each day...
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Sorry to be pedantic about this but the complete miss-use of the term 'renewable energy source' is getting out of hand. Geothermal is most certainly NOT renewable. Current neutrino models and measurements, using just expected composition within the Earth indicate there is no source of energy within the Earth, there is latent energy. Geothermal is a green source of energy in that it does not pollute and doesn't have a large impact on the surrounding environment when tapped.
Recent (1 week old) photographs of the site, the first dish, and the array can be found here http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/data/Boolardy/ This includes movies showing the three rotational axes of the dish, some gigapixel panoramas, and ladyBug footage.
That is a lot of hard drives per day, every day, day in and day out......
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Sorry, Australia, but South Africa will finally get the SKA! We already have captured the first images with our seven dish proof-of-concept installation.
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