Tasmania battles to keep lights on with cloud-seeding and diesel generators

By Adam Morton
Updated March 7 2016 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
A dam bust? Gordon Dam on Lake Gordon in Tasmania's south-west in better times. Photo: Peter Mathew
A dam bust? Gordon Dam on Lake Gordon in Tasmania's south-west in better times. Photo: Peter Mathew
With Basslink broken, Loy Yang brown coal power station is no longer exporting electricity to Tasmania. Photo: Phil Carrick
With Basslink broken, Loy Yang brown coal power station is no longer exporting electricity to Tasmania. Photo: Phil Carrick
Temco has agreed to limit power use.
Temco has agreed to limit power use.

What if an entire state in one of the world's wealthiest countries was to run out of electricity?

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