Three months after blaming the blackout of Texas' gas-fired grid on wind power, Global Cooling Investment advisatrix Jo Nova
is trying to link a coal plant crack-up to the Sun:
May 30th, 2021
Did a short sharp Geomagnetic storm contribute to the Callide Coal plant explosion?
Ben Davidson speaks from Spaceweathernews.com and claims that there was a short sharp geomagnetic storm over the East Coast of Australia around the time the Queensland Callide Power plant exploded.
The CME that flew past Earth didn’t do much around the world, causing a small 1% deviation in magnetometers. But there was a burst of activity in the Southern Hemisphere that appears to have hit the east coast of Australia. Magnetometers there saw a 300 – 500% change* between noon and 3pm on the same day as the Callide Coal Power Plant blew up...
We don’t know if this tipped something over the edge at Callide, but the timing is highly coincidental. If Earth’s magnetic field is weakening it would seem urgent, to say the least, to understand the risks these spaceweather events pose to our critical infrastructure.
Perhaps an engineer who knows the design of (hydrogen cooled) supercritical coal reactors might be able to explain if or how a geomagnetic storm might contribute to an explosion, or even if that is possible?
NOT A WORD FROM JO ON THE PLANT'S SEVEN OTHER BREAKDOWNS IN THE LAST YEAR :
Coal-fired power plant that caused Queensland blackouts broke down eight times in past year
Explosion and fire that caused widespread power outages occurred in one of the state’s youngest coal-fired plants, CS Energy’s Callide power station, which is expected to be closed for a year
The power plant explosion and fire that caused widespread blackouts in Queensland occurred in one of the state’s youngest coal-fired generators, which broke down eight separate times last year.
Queensland government-owned power company CS Energy says one of two units at the Callide C power station – a “supercritical” plant built in 2001 that is often championed as newer and cleaner than older stations – suffered “major damage” from the fire.
