Time to stop the free kicks.

used to pump their fields/ desalinate the waters etc, contributed further to reseting electricity prices across the NEM. In combination, the rise in gas prices and the tightening of electricity supply increased electricity costs by around $14 billion pa across the NEM (all before Hazelwood closed).

by the way - extraordinary overnight wind* resources in that country (@ 2x daytime production with night-time capacity factors well in excess of 60%**)

* low level nocturnal jets
** amazingly complimentary with daytime solar

the clue is the diameter of the 'big circle'. @ ~120 kms it is at the flexural wavelength of the lithosphere, but how you create this bemused me for many years until I talked with a Spanish colleague who showed me simulations of drainage of large shallow megaiakes ...

Brief summary
*nb. Lake Capricornia better reserved for the lake that formed in the gulf during LGM times- so this one needs a new name :)

needs a different name* - but the existence and destruction of the lake explains the most enigmatic features of the Lake Eyre Basin rivers including the semi-circular pattern of the upper reaches of the Diamantina.

wonderful geomorphology with an amazing story involving Australia's largest palaeolake, probably around 43 million years ago - lake Capricornia (should have written it up years ago, but haven't, not yet anyway).

Small world - such fond memories birdwatching with Chris and Anita in what now seems so many lifetimes ago

hmmm - should read "wind farm distance from coastline."

to simplify - it says "go inland, go north for best returns on wind farm investment."

all about inland nocturnal wind intensification associated with the development of heat toughs (aka drylines).

No reason to suspect we have anywhere near the best sites to pick up low level nocturnal jets!

as documented - Howell, Jackson, England, Higham, Synolakis, Late Holocene uplift of Rhodes, Greece: evidence for a large tsunamigenic earthquake and the implications for the tectonics of the eastern Hellenic Trench System, GJI, 203, Issue 1, 2015, 459–474, doi.org/10.1093/gji/...

so would appear Rhodos is tilting north down, south up - which is not at all surprising given it sits above the eastern end of the Aegean slab. (Nice earthquake record on the south coast)

which contrasts inland wind which has a prominent nocturnal peak*, and therefore will suffer less economic curtailment (but currently lacks transmission ...) *best exemplified by QLD but is true also of inland NSW and VIC

partly because southern coast wind production shows little diurnal variability ...

presumably - also reflecting the increases in economic curtailment of wind, which is an emerging issue especially for southern coast wind farms ...

cf. north coast Rhodos, where solution notches are at, and below, sea level- eg. Kopria Beach

and Agathi Beach

Agathi Beach