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Re:South Australia teams with Tesla, Neoen to build world's ... by Lxr on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:09AM (#14716227)
Examples?
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Re:South Australia teams with Tesla, Neoen to build world's ... by Untit1ed on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:10AM (#14716426)
Allowing women to both vote and stand in parliament is the classic example.
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Re:South Australia teams with Tesla, Neoen to build world's ... by bigger_cheese on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:49AM (#14716367)
I'm not from SA but I think the Desalination plant they built to supply drinking water to Adelaide was a pretty infamous example.
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Re:South Australia teams with Tesla, Neoen to build world's ... by mphillips on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:30AM (#14716509)
SA certainly wasn't the first to build a desalination plant, and it appears to have been working as designed for quite a while now ("Water production to date (to end of June 2017) = approximately 138 billion litres" [1]).

I think the infamy was unearned, and mainly due to people not understanding that it was never intended to run all the time, but is insurance for a time of crisis (which we will certainly have again at some point).

So, not a good example.

[1] https://www.sawater.com.au/community-and-environment/our-wat...

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