Tasmanian undersea cable not to be repaired until late March

Devil's Arch - One of Tassie's Hydro Dams

Devil's Arch - One of Tassie's Hydro Dams Source: Flickr - Vern

The undersea cable linking Tasmania with the mainland has been broken since before Christmas and is not expected to be repaired until late March.Before the outage, low dam storage levels had forced Hydro to import about 40 per cent of the state's power needs.Gar Foong also discuss the technology a mushroom farm in Tasmania used to produce a variety of mushrooms including the Shiitake mushroom.



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