White elephant? Hardly – Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and work with batteries to push out gas
- Written by Andrew Blakers, Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
Talbingo reservoir.Thennicke/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-NDWhen Snowy 2.0 is in the news, it’s usually about money. The cost of the huge project has gone well beyond the initial A$6 billion estimate and will now cost more than $12 billion.
But cost overruns don’t affect the real value of this pumped hydro project. When it comes online –...




