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has no shortage of hot rocks, but it turns out to be harder to capture
than people expected: Click to enlarge | ABC Seven years ago everyone
was excited in Winton Queensland. The new Geothermal project would only
cost $3.5 million but it would save “$15 million” in electricity bills
over the next twenty years and “should be operational by the end of
2016”. Now in 2022: Council launches l
Shh.
The Renewable Crash Test Dummy is at work Another coal fired turbine
blew this weekend and will be out for a month, adding to the problems
facing the Australian grid, where gas was the main filler-of-gaps in the
forced transition but gas now costs a fortune, and we don’t have much
else to fall back on. If only we had vast reserves of brown coal that
was close to power stations? If only we loo
Once,
when the West could build things, problems got solved Back in 2007 at
least a few people still remembered that golden era. Here’s Dr Ziggy
Switkowski, who at the time was head of the Prime Minister’s nuclear
task force: The French in 15 years went from zero reactors to 59
reactors and 80% of their electricity is nuclear. — ABC Now we don’t
even dream of success. If we had started in 2007, Au
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The Great Realignment in politics has been coming a long time but it is
now starkly lined up as a Class War in most of The Western World, just
that quite a lot of voters don’t know it yet, and they are ripe for
flipping. In Australia the tables were turned on a hundred years of
history. The poorer half of the country voted for the conservatives, the
richer half for the Labor Party, and the Riches
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Jun 02
Children
won’t know what a cyclone is Hurricane activity, after human emissions
and CO2 levels reach highest ever recorded, is now close to lowest ever
recorded. Based on a trend starting in 2019 major hurricanes may
disappear entirely by 2035. What if Net Zero means “no cyclones”? h/t
ClimateDepot and NotalotofPeopleKnowthat Spot the effect of Chinese coal
plants on global hurricane frequency. @R
Jun 01
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It’s
a cult: Another Woke Dilemma Should women in childbirth be warned that
their anesthetic might heat the climate a hundred years from now? You
know, toss it around, will I or won’t I? On the one hand, there’s hours
of what some consider the worst pain they’ll ever feel, or there are
other pain-killers which might not be as safe (but it’s only a baby
right?). On the other hand, it’s possible tha
It’s
a grid on the edge Like a meteor-shower, the dinner time performance
today may or may not be a spectator event. The fun may start at 4:30pm
in Qld, NSW, Vic, SA and Tasmania — a full quinfecta at $15,000 per
MW/h. The first wave of winter cold is about to wash over the grid, and
those solar panels will fail just as people plug in their heaters,
ovens, dryers and kettles and there is a four ho
May 31
Strategically, this seems like it matters. The French nuclear power
plants are the backbone of the EU grid, but this winter, just when
Europe is trying to not-buy-Russian-Gas, the French might need to import
power instead of export it. France runs off 70% nuclear power — it’s
highest proportion in the world, and the second largest fleet — after
the USA. For some reason, known only to internationa
May 30
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In
Australia a Woke tech-billionaire has decided to “keep” the coal assets
in AGL in order to destroy them (like that’s the “free market” at work)
. But in the rest of the world, coal is $400 a ton and everybody wants
it. Maybe Australians will get so rich selling coal they can afford to
use electricity from unreliable generators instead? Not behaving like a
stranded asset. Trading Economics Brita
We can hear the angst and confusion — Another “nasty La Nina?”,
“Something weird is going on”, “They (La Ninas) don’t know when to
leave”. Oh no! These are not the words we’d expect to hear from experts
who can 97% predict the climate a century from now. The bad news for the
modelers is that the climate on Earth seems to be controlled more by
the Pacific Oscillation than anything else and they ha
May 29
In Germany, praise be to Gaia, it’s Green to knock down a forest that
has sat undisturbed for a thousand years to put wind farms in, and then
plant saplings in a fake forest somewhere else as a carbon sink. When
will the environmentalists realize they have been taken for a ride by
investment bankers and the renewables industry? Let’s help them speed up
that “transition”. There’s a Red-pill moment
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May 28
It’s the usual apocalyptic headline, hyped from a press release smoked
out of a Nature paper, which was pumped from a climate model: “Climate
change already causing storm levels only expected in 2080” An Israeli
study published on Thursday found that climate change is already causing
a “considerable intensification” of winter storms in the Southern
Hemisphere to a level not anticipated until 2080
May 27
We can all use some good news Tedros Adhanom In the latest installment
of Big Government Badness the WHO is meeting right now to consider some
amendments suggested by the US and largely agreed by about 47 rich
nations for no real benefit. The US suggested these changes in January
and for months almost no politician anywhere said a thing. The changes
give broader powers to the head honcho of the W
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May 26
Baseload futures for electricity on the Australian market used to sell
for $60 a megawatt hour last year. Now prices are rising by $30 in a
single day. Paul McArdle at WattClarity calls it “staggering”. Prices
rose from $260/MWh at the end of Tuesday 24th May to $291.20/MWh at the
end of Wednesday 25th May 2022. …. Click to enlarge It’s a bloodbath. It
appears that no one wants to provide a guara
May 25
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A radio journalist was at the Jan 6 riots and thought the FBI would
want his detailed footage showing men smashing windows and trying to
incite others to join in. The odd actors dress strangely, act
differently, have radio’s strapped on, and push people into the Capitol
Building at times, and Bobby Powell has 29 minutes of high definition
video, on the terrace, up close, but the FBI don’t want to
May 24
Last week small electricity retailers were bleeding so badly they
doubled their prices and asked their customers to leave. This week it’s a
big gas retailer, as Australia belatedly faces the same pain that hit
and wiped out UK energy retailers: Gas retailer Weston Energy’s collapse
stirs call for Labor intervention Perry Williams, The Australian Weston
Energy, which provides gas to more than 400
Conrad Black does a summary of the situation in the US that other media
outlets forgot to mention: The Epoch Times Whatever anyone thinks of
Trump, he’s the first president since Franklin D. Roosevelt for whom
people in any part of the country will stand outside in falling snow for
hours to see and hear him. No one who saw the immense ovation given
Trump at the Kentucky Derby of Churchill Downs e
May 23
9 out of 10 based on 11 ratings
Hopefully Elon Musk will give him a job. Stuart Kirk, head of
“responsible investing” for HSBC let rip at the doommongers of finance
with a speech called “Why investors need not worry about climate risk”.
He was speaking at A Moral Money Europe Summit, held by the Financial
Times and is clearly fed up with listening to hyperbole and being told
to analyze and worry about trivial long term future e
May 22
The
only way Climate elections are won is by keeping it a secret or telling
lies. Today we wake up to find out it was a climate election. Who knew?
Photo Phillip Barrington There was not one word, barely, about climate
change in the public square in Australia the last six weeks, yet today
suddenly it was “a Green-slide” and a climate election post hoc. But the
whole reason the Greeny-Teals did wel
May 21
If the Liberals stop trying to pander to the wealthy Woke electorates
and focus on what most Australians want they can reinvent themselves to
speak for mainstream Australia by the next election. The dismal election
result for the Liberals and Nationals in Australia may yet set them
free. By shifting to the left on issues like Climate Change the Liberals
were hobbled. They tried to be Labor -lite,
For all the other topics… 7.7 out of 10 based on 14 ratings
A thread to discuss those results Tallyroom Twitter #Ausvotes ABC Live Results 10 out of 10 based on 6 ratings
May 20
The
only Party that is rising fast is the Anti-Party The Majors and the
media ignored the biggest protests in decades, but all those voters are
out there somewhere… The system is broken and more and more people know
it. Both major parties are facing very low primary votes in Australia.
Fully 29% of voters are wandering around in the political wilderness
looking for another option — a record in Aus
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May 19
With both major parties being two sides of the same UniParty, and the
media afraid to ask real questions, this election campaign has been a
vacuum — more like a personality quiz in Dolly magazine than a National
Debate. The Conservative government, which hasn’t conserved much, looks
likely to lose to the Makeover Man from the Labor Party who wears
designer black shirts and fancy rims because a ma
May 18
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Failure
is Success! Like a cancer, big-government begets bigger-government —
and failure is not something that gets in the way, it’s an essential
ingredient. Failure is success, because if the bureaucrats accidentally
solved the problem there would be no need for more funds, more staff and
more rules, geddit? The WHO is the greatest failed bureaucracy in the
world The World Health Organisation had
May 17
Another Project Veritas operation exposes what’s going on behind the
lines at Twitter and the most astonishing thing is not the political
censorship but how Twitter is run like a Day Care centre for student
activists. It’s not a profit making business, so much as a university
club with salaries for people who may only work 4 hours a week and brag
about being “left left left” and as “commie as f**
May 16
8 out of 10 based on 6 ratings
Bless Craig Kelly for saying the obvious that hardly anyone else will
say* The faster Australia gets to Net Zero the more we surrender to
China. | Photo by Christels China is too poor to rush to Net Zero but it
cheers us on. It calls itself a developing nation while it develops a
nuclear fusion plant, launches hypersonic weapons, runs a shadow war in
space “every day”, and landed a rover on the f
May 15
Not the kind of article we’d expect to see in Time Magazine. A 100%
endorsement of the inescapable need for fossil fuels? The Modern World
Can’t Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil
Fuels By Vaclav Smil, Time Magazine Cyron Ray Macey Four materials rank
highest on the scale of necessity, forming what I have called the four
pillars of modern civilization: cement, steel, pl
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May 14
The
Swamp is not even hiding the corruption, just the exact dollar figure
Anthony Fauci is effectively King of the National Institute of Health.
He gets paid $450,000 a year — the highest paid public servant in the
United States. In just one year alone the NIH dished out $30 billion to
more than 50,000 recipients. And there are royalty payments that flow
back the other way, which amounted to $350
What
are they on? About twenty years of government funded propaganda and
guilt. Most Australian voters don’t have a clue — half of the nation
thinks we make 10% of global emissions when the truth is more like 1%.
Climate change might be the greatest moral challenge of our lifetimes
but most Australians are in the dark about what the real numbers are.
They probably assumed that if we were only maki
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May 12
Stick with this — step over the cheap shots at Trump and predictable
hits on conservatives — Bill Maher is doing a cracker job on a soft left
audience. He’s packaged up a dose of medicine about how important free
speech is. His is a rare voice on the left pointing out the hypocrisy
and stupidity of censorship. “Keeping you safe and sorting out the lies
is your job” (not Twitters) We always focus
Ron DeSantis announces that November 7th will be a day to honor the
Victims of Communism A true leader: “I notice, that people who escape
communism for free societies never choose to go back…” “There are
probably more Marxists on college faculties in the United States than
there are in all of Eastern Europe combined.” “The body-count of Mao is
something that everybody needs to understand.” The ke
May 11
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Market traders will be sweating. Today in the green-star renewable
state of South Australia there won’t be much wind blowing, they’re weeks
away from the lowest solar insolation of the year, and the extension
cord to the coal plants in Victoria is limited for some reason. This
below is the remarkable AEMO prediction for South Australian for
wholesale electricity today. Note the scale on the left
Everyone is going to want one of these. And he’d only six lessons!
Record Jet Suit Mountain Ascent From the Youtube: We proved you can
scale a Lake District Mountain (3100ft Helveylln) in 3mins 30 seconds,
despite very poor visibility that would have grounded a HEMS Helicopter.
The Mountain Rescue foot response is over 70 minutes typically. The
route was 1.2 miles and 2200ft of height gain. The G
China has already announced it will dig up another 300m tons of coal
next year, and now India is planning to boost its own production by 500m
extra tons in the next two years. Coal mine in Dhanbad, India. | Flikr
Amazing what a strong market signal can do TradingEconomics India
increasing domestic coal production, cuts environmental green tape India
needs a billion tons of coal a year, and digs u
May 10
The
Wheels Slowly Turn on the Shifting Sands of The Narrative After years
of saying the Little Ice Age was just a European, or Northern Hemisphere
event, now apparently it was more global. It’s just that it was caused
by volcanoes and white guys. Climate crisis: what lessons can we learn
from the last great cooling-off period? Michael Marshall, The Guardian
The ‘little ice age’ of the 14th to the
May 09
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Generation tonight…. Just another week in the Transition we (Don’t)
have to have With 65 Glorious Gigawatts the Australian grid system has a
vast excess (theoretically) of generation capacity, yet it’s so fragile
that the loss of an interconnector, normal maintenance and a few coal
turbines down — has triggered $100 million dollar price spikes. These
burning pyres of money are so savage the avera
I’ll be discussing the absurdity of Destroying Perfectly good
Electricity Grids in Australia with the Friends of Science in Calgary,
Canada with a presentation then Q&A. It will be live 7pm MDT Monday
evening in Canada/USA and Tuesday 10th morning in Australia (11am EST,
9am WST). It will be available to watch afterwards as the wonderful Ian
Plimer’s is now from last week. “Australia – Crash Test
May 07
This is a remarkably prescient piece on the fourth quarter of 2020
written by Goehring & Rozencwajg Natural Resource Investors. Don’t
ask me how to pronounce their names. The really interesting part is
about food rather than energy. There is a lot of dense information about
the impediments to the green transition and the first part is a warning
to green investors who are flooding the market to ge
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May 06
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JudicialWatch has obtained 466 pages of information through FOIA, which
should have been available to everyone all along — what is “Informed
Consent”? Not only does the vaccine take much longer to be degraded and
removed from our bodies but it spreads far from the injection site and
concentrates in the liver, spleen, adrenal glands and ovaries. And
Pfizer knew
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