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Dubbo NSW -1C overnight, right now 13C at 1.52
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war is peace
freedom is slavery
warming causes cooling
2+2=5
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I’m from the Government. I am here to help”?
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Future to be avoided: I’m from ATSIV and I am here to help the Government and they dare not ignore me/us according to the Prime Minister.
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It’s even old here. Got down to 17 deg this morn.
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Only a major hail storm in Newcastle yesterday.
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According to the temp indicator in my hire car, it was -3C at 6:30am here in Canberra today.
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On the Central Tablelands we are getting subzero temps because of our elevation and a cold air outbreak from Antarctica, on the underbelly of strong high pressure.
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf
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“I think this is one of those climate surprises,” said a surprised climate scientist, Dr Crimp from ANU, via TheirABC today whilst looking for word on your present coldwave situation.
There appears to be quite a few surprises for those who believe in mass-hysteria consensus, including frost days increasing in number in NSW and S.A. and beginning earlier… SURPRISE!
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Indeed, and they are still projecting a short snow season.
‘Modelling by CSIRO predicts that under a low-risk scenario, the average snow season across Victoria and some of NSW will become 20 to 55 days shorter and, under a worst-case scenario, 30 to 80 days shorter.’ (SMH)
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I guess they’ll get a surprise as we know their models are running hot because they’ve not acknowledged that CO2 is a plant food, doesn’t cause any warming, and there’s an equilibrium between its concentration in the atmosphere and in the ocean. Nor do they acknowledge that that equilibrium is dependent on temperature.
Apart from that, they’ve probably had fun running their models.
Cheers
Dave B
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Have you heard of what I guess would be called mycophobia but in this case the irrational fear of mould is based on its entirely imagined presence?
I know of someone -long story- but who has basically abandoned two homes and everything in them, including her husband due to the imagined presence of mould which is claimed to be making her sick. The husband is not allowed to see her unless he goes through a ten day decontamination procedure.
Needless to say, this has cost the husband vast amounts of money.
Multiple unuversity experts have found no significant presence of mould and others have said the mould is delusional.
Looking on social media, the imaginary presence of mould seems to be coming a trend.
NOTE, I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT ACTUAL REAL MOULD WITH an obvious physical presence, which may indeed be harmful.
Have you heard of such a phenomenon?
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Think of something. There’s a phobia for it.
An A-Z list:
https://www.verywellmind.com/list-of-phobias-2795453
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It’s enough to give you phobophobia.
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In my very long career in the pest management industry, both here in Oz and in the UK, it was not uncommon to come across people with entomophobia – a fear of insects that were not actually there. I remember vividly my first such case in London when I was called to the home of a music teacher who was convinced that insects were coming out of the timber in his piano. They were not. And a lady who said that she had insects in her bed, that irritated her all night. What she showed me were just small deposits of cream that had rubbed off her legs during the night. Very hard to deal with, as no treatment is justified and it is almost impossible to convince them otherwise.
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Bizarre, you learn something new every day.
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This may be of interest to some…. The subject is CO2 levels for maximising plant yield.
In my current line of work as a NSW Fire Brigades employee, I will share my (forensic HAZMAT) experience investigating one type of suburban farmer.
These farmer/entreprenuers grow plants hydroponically, for illegal commercial use. (NSW Australia)
The plants suck a lot of CO2 out of the air. If the CO2 level drops to 150 ppm they won’t grow well at all.
That will happen in a confined area (large bedroom sized) with 80-90 plants. A window locked open 2-3 inches won’t help.
Some will use an exhaust fan for greater air flow. It is still not enough tho, for increasing yield.
So they learn, adapt, experiment, share learnings and they are very good at it.
So for the best crop yields….
They have learnt to supplementary maintain the level of CO2 in the atmosphere at around 1500 ppm.
I will say that again… 1500 ppm, CO2..
Temperature is kept between 25C – 30C. Humidity is kept between 40 to 60%.
The crop grows 24/7 due to numerous 1000w “Grow” lamps.
And… by also supplementary increasing CO2, they will expect a further 25 -30% increase in crop yield… Brilliant!
Except….. Some get caught and some others are crap at understanding that older house circuits are mostly rated at around 15 amps.
Run eight 1000 watt lamps from the one power point/curcuit, without (or bypassing) a safety switch and you may try to draw 33 amps.
Ok. What happens? The wires may overheat, melt their plastic shields, short and cause a fire….
And we respond, investigate and write another report… and… then try to explain why we may have THC in our next random drug test. (Note, THC can remain up to 28 days in your system after exposure)
Remember that these brilliant suburban flora scientists, (Which they are) have worked out that they need 1500 ppm of CO2 to maximise their yield. Not the current 420 ppm….
I am seriously impressed, sincere Kudos to them.
CO2 is their friend. They know it and their plants love it..
Maybe some scientists, bureauracrats and politicians can learn from this…. CO2 is not a pollutant.. Plants love CO2!.. CO2 is our friend!
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Just for you. 🙂
https://ibb.co/Y4SZKQD
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How are they measuring the CO2 – enquiring minds would like to know?
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It was interesting to watch a modern FLIR infra-red camewra mounted in a chopper, find the power lines going into some homes that were using a lot of groww lamps. Could be clearly seen from a couple of km away. Think about that and feel restless, you leeches who are growing drugs and killing our children.
I suspect there is government pressure to avoid the frequent use of these cameras because our jails would fill too fast. The solution should be to build more jails and to look at places like Singapore for drug crime punishments.
Now, talking about graffiti, Singapore has none. Melbourne has much.
When will they ever learn?
Geoff S
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We don’t need more jails. What we need is some good old fashioned chain gangs, working on the roads.
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“you leeches who are growing drugs and killing our children.”
“We don’t need more jails. What we need is some good old fashioned chain gangs, working on the roads.”
What we need is better parenting of the children I’d say. If your kids turn out to be keen on drugs I’d say you failed as a parent, so don’t blame the people selling stuff that other people want to buy.
This morning there is a link to how successful the Govt has been in changing the public’s views on smoking. I’d use the example of alcohol as the first drug to outlaw if you want to ban shit, but I’m sure the Govt will turn its smoking gun on booze next!
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Kp,
I’d venture that your reply is a typical thought bubble from someone who has never had to deal with youngsters on drugs.
You learn from expewrience that the strength of addiction is so geat that it overrides common sense and remedial suggestions from others like doctors and parents. They just do not respond to help because they have one dominant factor in mind, “Where can I get my next hit?”
Geoff S
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‘Got Wood,’ A fascinatin’ essay by E.M.Smith, (Chiefio,)
in which he ponders and explores how much wood sucks ALL the co2
in the air out of given area of surface and how long does it take
a given type of plant to do this?
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/got-wood/
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Good article on real energy suppliers just pulling back
Contains the sentence “The only people who think renewables are capable of replacing conventional energy are either uninformed, innumerate, or corrupt. Period.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/corruption-climate-science
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That description is way too kind.
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Yes David – they are F_ckw_ts! – you buy the vowels as necessary!
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“Renewables” can provide the energy but can’t produce products unlike oil.
So what then?
Back to a stone-age existence?
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That’s the plan…
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Morning J C II,
I think you forgot the “sometimes”, or “occasionally” as your third word.
Cheers
Dave B
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The power of wishful thinking will see us through
a quote from the Wisdom of Chris Bowen
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““The only people who think renewables are capable of replacing conventional energy are either uninformed, innumerate, or corrupt. ””
A Venn diagram would undoubtedly show a strong intersection of all three.
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Budweiser teams up with Harley-Davidson for VERY manly new advert.
Budweiser has teamed up with Harley-Davidson for a macho commercial that includes beer cans emblazoned with the motorcycle-maker’s logo – as company executives try to win back customers following the Dylan Mulvaney debacle.
The commercial features a gray-haired, male mechanic working on a Harley bike before three men are shown drinking the beer.
Speaking over a rock instrumental, a male narrator says: ‘The greatest legacies are built with grit and resilience, one detail at a time. Limited edition Budweiser Harley-Davidson cans – for those who give everything to their craft. This Bud’s for you.’
The masculine tone is in stark contrast to Bud Light’s ill-fated partnership with Mulvaney, 26, which saw the trans influencer receive a can of beer with her face on it to celebrate 365 days of ‘womanhood’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12128811/Budweiser-teams-Harley-Davidson-manly-ad-Bud-Light-backlash.html
HD manly?
Old, scruffy, bad attitudes, social misfits, extremely loud annoying underpowered bikes, with no road skills.
From one unpopular crowd to another. 😆
Too late anyway methinks.
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“Her” face on it. “She” is a “he” – I just wish people would admit it.
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In our local car club there is a sub group of guys that also have bikes and they get together once a week for a ride and lunch somewhere. I was talking to one of the group and they noted a new member had a HD. I asked him what it was like. His response was “oh, you know, loud and slow”
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They are like opposite ends of the MALE spectrum.!
Oh and “trans” has absolutely nothing to do with real womanhood. !
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Tesla Whistleblower Leaks 100GB of Data, Revealing Safety Complaints
German newspaper Handelsbatt reported today that it received 100GB of data from informants at Tesla, containing information on the thousands of complaints the car manufacturer has received throughout the past years regarding its Autopilot self-driving feature.
The collection of data contains 23,000 internal files spanning from 2015 to 2022, detailing how Tesla allegedly received 3,900 reports of self-acceleration and brake function issues, including involuntary emergency braking and phantom stops due to false collision warnings. In addition to this, the files also contain more than 1,000 crash reports and “a table of 3,000 incidents wherein drivers expressed safety concerns about Tesla’s driver assistance system.”
These incidents primarily occurred in the United States, though some complaints also came from Tesla owners in Europe and Asia.
https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/tesla-probed-germany-data-protection-breach
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If “they” believe men can have babies it is reasonable to believe cars can drive themselves.
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Well, does the American Govt pursue the whistleblower with the same vigour they’ve hunted Assange? Does the informant have to flee to Russia? Are some whistles more dangerous to blow than others?
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Big gap between trade secrets possibly hinting at negligence than exposing the massacre of civilians and journalists. Although the later seems passé these days as the powers that be just shrug at “collateral damage”
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And now the weather: Cloudy with scattered showers of plastic
PARIS – Diplomats from 175 countries gathering in Paris for plastics treaty talks on Monday may want to pack an umbrella, but not just because there is a chance of rain.
France’s capital will also be showered during the five-day talks by billions of microplastic particles falling from the sky, according to the first-ever plastics pollution weather forecast.
The predicted downpour will range between 40kg and 48kg of free-floating plastic bits blanketing greater Paris every 24 hours, the scientists involved told AFP.
If the weather delivers heavy rain, the “plastic fall” is likely to increase up to tenfold.
“This should sharpen the focus of negotiators,” said Dr Marcus Gover, head of plastics research at the Minderoo Foundation, which is based in Perth, Australia.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/and-now-the-weather-cloudy-with-scattered-showers-of-plastic
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Umbrellas are 97% plastic these days anyway aren’t they? I’d be more concerned about a whale falling from the sky, or stray fireworks from eastern Europe.
Charles Fort documented all sorts of critters & fishies falling from the sky back in the 1800s, long before plastic ever learned to fly. Unless –
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The umbrella kids in Jakarta use bamboo umbrellas. The lacquer may be petrochemical.
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Ah Jakarta… built in a swamp, at sea level, in the tropics… surely those intrepid vendors would be making bamboo floaties, or flippers, or small boats, what with all this talk of runaway rising sea-levels and calamity for one-and-all.
There was a fair whack of plastic floating in the harbour when the ship I was on departed for Sumatra 40 years ago: maybe it’s now full of bamboo umbrellas and empty lacquer cans?
Jalan-jalan!
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Petunias, p e t u n i a s. Everyone ALWAYS forget the petunias and go straight to the whale. Greenpeace has a lot to answer for.
(The movie clip)
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““This should sharpen the focus of negotiators,” ”
meaning.. “This is political and has the same science behind it as global warming.”
Dr Marcus Gover is digging himself into a pleasant hole full of money for something he knows is crap while using the excess soil to try and bury the real scientists studying the bacteria that break down plastic.
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Ah yes, the Minderoo foundation – founded by old mate Twiggy and his chief cook and bottle washer Nicola. Still saving the planet.
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Some possible good news.
But remember, this is Victoria. Charging these protestors, if indeed they were and this isn’t a lie by police or government, was probably just an exercise in pretending to do something.
Even if they were really charged, they’ll likely go up against a Far Left judge who will let them off with no charges or fines
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Hopefully not a “Forest Grump” Greta Thunberg style PR stunt.
But it is Victoria…
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Cholesterol: It’s All Good
You’ve heard it repeatedly, there are two kinds of cholesterol: the “good” high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and the “bad” low density lipoprotein (LDL)
Now, a researcher at Texas A&M University has come to the defense of LDL, saying it may not be so bad after all. In fact, it may help build muscle.
According to Steve Riechman, a researcher in the Department of Health and Kinesiology, the study reveals that “LDL is not the evil Darth Vader of health it has been made out to be in recent years.”
In a study published in the Journal of Gerontology, Riechman and colleagues from several universities and the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center examined 52 adults from age 60 to 69. The participants were generally in good health, but not physically active, and none of them were participating in a training program.
To the researchers’ surprise, after the subjects completed fairly vigorous workouts, the participants who had the highest levels of LDL cholesterol had gained the most muscle mass.
According to Riechman, the study shows that we need a certain amount of LDL to gain more muscle mass. “There’s no doubt you need both the LDL and the HDL—and the truth is, it (cholesterol) is all good,” said Reichman.
https://principia-scientific.com/cholesterol-its-all-good/
This is o-l-d news to me. Cholesterol has been known to have anabolic steroidal properties for decades.
Like fat, it’s been incorrectly and massively demonised by the media and doctors who should know better.
Inflammation is your real enemy.
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Yes. I think the studies showing LDL are bad are based on junk science.
Even the now-woke BMJ admits it, never one to go against the Official Narrative.
https://junkscience.com/2020/08/study-no-obvious-benefit-from-lowering-bad-cholesterol-levels/
https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/doubt-cast-on-wisdom-of-targeting-bad-cholesterol-to-curb-heart-disease-risk/
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Amazing video.
This kid solves three Rubik’s cubes while juggl8ng them.
https://youtu.be/njKW8t0aAF8
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I am sitting here with a case of vertigo, my first. so staying upright is a chore so how that fellow can keep track of the cubes is amazing in the true sense of the word. I noted he was left handed, the hand of innovation, and that he solved them one at a time. Thanks.
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Saturday freebies: deleted and hard to find videos
Saw this site mentioned elsewhere and it looks interesting but I have yet to go through it, but I’m grabbing a few doco’s now.
Worth a good look.
eg Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics.
Being publicised now but the Tubi link is dead.
Direct link:
https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/2/B/_/C/2B_Ch.haa.rec.mp4
https://odysee.com/@DontObey:c
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From an essay by Renee Hannon at wuwt.
‘Climate change is routinely claimed to be largely controlled by greenhouse gases, especially CO2. This was concluded, in part, by the strong relationship between CO2 from Antarctic ice core bubbles and local Antarctic temperature trends.
‘While CO2 mimics Antarctic temperatures very well, ninety percent of Earth’s surface temperature trends do not demonstrate a positive correlation to CO2 during the Holocene. Arctic and Northern Hemisphere temperatures become cooler during increasing CO2 levels. Tropical proxy temperatures don’t seem to be influenced by CO2.’
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The US debt ceiling.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202305/26/WS647005aea310b6054fad52d6.html
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International Covid Summit: an interesting video
Covid-19 was an act of biological warfare perpetrated on the human race. It was a financial heist. Nature was hijacked. Science was hijacked.”
The evidence suggests that Covid-19 was intentionally released by the US Govt in Wuhan, China with the goal to trigger a global pandemic to raise public acceptance of US Pharma vaccines. Every nation should condemn the bio-terrorist, pipeline terrorist Govt of the United States
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1660092750258118656/vid/1280×720/UEBGcWof9wFu9rM3.mp4
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I don’t know how the electricity prices work from state to state, but a few mins ago (Approx 5:25pm eastern Aus time) QLD and NSW were both at above $14,000 while Vic, SA, and Tas were each less than $50.
What’s up with that?
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When stating a figure please give all relevant units.$14,000/??.
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Its pretty well know its MWh , even the AEMO doesnt endlessly repeat MWh against every price notation
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Hi all,
I am getting sick of arguments where renewables are seen as cheap, even though we know the comparisons are invalid (levelised costing, etc).
Is anyone aware of any work done for total system costs for individual types of generation, where those systems have to include the support, infrastructure, firming, etc required?
Much appreciated
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Grant, that would give the wrong answer for our masters who regularly chant that “renewables” are cheaper.
The CSIRO is part of the misdirection with their reports on levelised costs of electricity in Australia.
“The 2022-23 report found that renewables (onshore wind and solar PV) are the lowest cost technologies, despite cost increases averaging 20 per cent for new-build electricity generation in Australia.”
“This confirms past years’ findings that wind and solar are the cheapest, even when considering additional integration costs arising due to the variable output of renewables, such as energy storage and transmission.”
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Unfortunately, GenCost is at the heart of many other documents. However, the CSIRO appears to have obtained a lot of the faulty data for GenCost from Aurecon, and it’s difficult to establish exactly where Aurecon obtained its data from. Some faulty data was obtained from EIA. It’s amazing how many govt and non-govt organisations continue to use the faulty GenCost data as a basis for their reports to the federal govt, and thus all these reports should be binned.
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Yes. I think the best summary was done by SMR Nuclear ( will look up the link shortly), but you need to go back to GenCost to remove the CCS component from their coal and gas figures. Also this organisation didn’t provide any info on how long their battery backup ran for – I suspect only 24 hours, and I believe 48 hours are required. Also gas in the east has increased cost since their calcs were done.
I have generated FCOE/Total cost comparison figures based on the SMR Nuclear data, but not sure how to post them here.
A good starter is “Full cost of electricity and energy ‘FCOE’ and energy returns ‘eROI’. Also look at “The Cost of Net Zero Electrification of the U.S.A. By Ken Gregory, and “The True Cost of Wind and Solar Electricity in Alberta”. Both these papers are from the Friends of Science. And look for papers by Francis Menton on the WUWT site.
I think Rafe Champion’s group also has a lot of data for Australia.
That’s just a starter.
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As a summary, the end figures that I calculated, using the SMR Nuclear data but removing the CCS from coal and gas, Costs per kW over the longest energy source lifetime, are:
CCGT gas: $4112
USC coal: $4800
Nuclear SMR: $5596
Wind: >$12,372
Large-scale Solar: >$14,882
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The link to the SMR Nuclear costs comparison is: https://www.smrnuclear.com.au/_files/ugd/c733f6_0c0c5f0cccbb459c8c1de1da21d1bbf2.pdf
The title of the document is: “Corrected Overnight Capital Cost in Australia of Nuclear Power, Renewables and Fossil Fuels with CCS (figures in AUD)”.
I removed the CCS cost by consulting GenCost and changing the “Basic overnight cost” of CCGT to $1,542, USC Coal to $3,600. Then re-calculate the figures for gas and coal using these two new starting figures.
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Whatever fake costings they come up with, there is no known exceptions to the fundamental law of unreliables:
The more unreliables you have polluting your grid, the more expensive is electricity to the consumer.
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This is the way
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The notion that unreliables are cheaper than proper power generation when it is obvious to everyone, even their proponents, that they are more expensive, is a classic case of Orwellian Doublethink.
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They are working from the “official “ documents supplied to the federal govt. I only wish the folks that generated these faulty docs were being subjected to intense questioning as to how they calculated their data. I just looked at the Aurecon figures again, as there are zero links to data sources.
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A study was done by IEEJ, (Institute of Energy Economics, Japan), on the cost of implementing VRE (Variable renewable energy) into the Vietnam grid
https://ibb.co/mhYbG87
This cost did not include Efficiency loss, Material cost, ROEI cost and recycling /disposal costs.
https://ibb.co/fvX6h8N
A great illustration of the MASSIVE COST of VRE to the community.
And explains that wherever there is a higher penetration of VRE, the more expensive the electricity is.
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I just watched another booring SpaceX launch. This is over 70 successes and the 14th trip, landing on the barge, for the booster stage.
Musk may one day be thankful for SpaceX, his boring company, Tesla and twitter may turn to dust but he is in a league of his own in space. The other billionaires, in it for the prestige, are dropping off. Branson has just been wound up and NASA was never this good.
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NASA was never this good? they had 160+ manned missions and are the shoulders Space X is standing on. It was a different era with different capabilities and much was learned.
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The remnants of NASA that are SLS are not doing well, their four contracts for launches have gone from $7billion over 14years to $13billion and taking 25years! The whole Starship system including launch facilities has cost Elon $3 billion…
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/05/sls-project-is-an-out-of-control-waste-of-money.html
Meanwhile Elon’s new Raptor 3 engines should lift 300tons in Starship, a lot of Tesla Roadsters! Extend Starship itself and launch two that you join together, and there’s a far bigger space station in orbit! Now he’s talking lifting 6000tons.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/05/improved-spacex-starship-should-lift-300-tons-expendable-and-180-tons-reusable-spacex.html
I imagine the NASA spending on SLS is just extra bonuses for the execs who provide a vital military supply chain for the Yanks. They should just drop them and let Elon go for it, keeping space exploration away from people building jet fighters and missiles would be far cheaper.
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A treatise on curry recommending a bigger treatise on curry –
“Saturday Snippet: Currying favor”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/05/saturday-snippet-currying-favor.html
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I read today at Yahoo that the China made MG EV can be used to provide electricity for various purposes.
After reading that I rushed outside to see if my 4WD Diesel SUV has an EV logo on it.
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Why ?……..did you not know the answer before ?
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I can charge my phone, inflate my tyres on my 13 year old Hyundai.
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I have a Ram for holidaying, towing the van and a 20 YO Suzuki Liana for taking my grandson to school. The Liana weighs 50% of the Ram and averages 12 to 12.5 km/litre. The Ram averages 8.5 km/litre making it more fuel efficient than the Suzuki. Both are more fuel efficient than an EV especially when they pay for charging. A kWh of petrol is 18 cents here and the cheapest price for electricity (off peak) is 23 cents. Electricity is about to increase by 24% so how on earth can Bowen or any of the climate clowns claim EVs are cheaper to run?
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Err? ….Since when is going less distance per litre MORE fuel efficient ?
But maybe your numbers should read as “ltr/100km” ?
If so, that Ram is impressive.
What motor is the Ram ?.. 3.0 diesel ?
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With an ICE car you can use the air-con or heating whenever it is needed, with basically no impact on the range you can travel with a “full tank”
Try using heating or air-con in an EV, and the range is often severely degraded.
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Funny how EV owners accept that they effectively lose the fuel they paid for if the weather is bad. Still I suppose “renewables” fans also happily accept the lack of power in nil winds or night time, and have little clue what the impact of that is. One has to compromise I guess.
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“Still I suppose “renewables” fans also happily accept the lack of power in nil winds or night time”
No, they don’t “happily accept”…
They switch to relying totally on fossil fuels.
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EV recharge points at the motel I stayed in and not one used for three nights/days, at the other I was there twice for meals and not one used.
Then again, I only observed one EV in Dubbo.
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While Germany suffers from their renewables nightmare, Finland has to throttle back their new Nuke plant as the spot price for electricity went below zero.
Finnish Nuclear Plant Throttles Output After Electricity Prices “Become Too Cheap”
https://gellerreport.com/2023/05/finland-electricity-prices-drops-to-below-zero-due-to-efficiency-of-nuclear-power-plants.html
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NOTE The above quote at the start of the article. This is the standard argument in favour of unreliables that they are incredibly cheap or even free.
Of course, it’s a regulated distortion of the market mechanism.
The fundamental law of unreliables still applies:
The more unreliables you have polluting your grid, the more expensive is electricity to the consumer.
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Ah, middle of summer for them, endless sunshine.. They will make that money up in 6months!
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As I type this.
King Island power station currently 97% diesel.
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/hybrid-energy-solutions/success-stories/king-island
Flinders Island – either dashboard not working or power station not working. 0% power output.
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/hybrid-energy-solutions/success-stories/flinders-island
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There’s something going on at Flinders Is, their wind turbine appears to have been out of action or just there was no wind for weeks, then their windspeed meter broke and hasn’t worked since, now the whole thing is offline, either it’s just the software link or the whole station isn’t generating.
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Well fancy thst.
The Lancet journal reports that the covid lockups did nothing to alter covid death rates.
As reported by The Hill.
https://youtu.be/DnlsZQ8ZJV0
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Dr Aseem Malhotra is visiting Australia.
I am surprised he was allowed in. He doesn’t follow the Official Narrative.
https://amps.redunion.com.au/malhotra_tour2023
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Dr. Malhotra was interviewed in the studio on Outsiders this morning. I wish we could go to his presentation in Melbourne but we are not in a position to do so.
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FWIW
Covid vaccines and cancer –
In there –
“A vaccine that lowers your risk of dying from covid a little, but increases your risk of dying from cancer a lot, isn’t any kind of vaccine that anybody should be taking.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/holopharmakon-saturday-may-27-2023?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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That’s a nice essay- The paper shows three different pathways that Covid proteins can cause cancer, explaining the excess deaths.
“The hastily approved, quickly peer-reviewed Biochimie study on covid’s oncogenic properties offers covidians a handy-dandy explanation for both the excess deaths and the timing problems. If they can show covid causes cancer — and I believe it can — then they can attribute the excess deaths to the virus. And the lag making the excess deaths LOOK attributable to the vaccines can also be attributed to the lag time required for cancer to develop and be diagnosed — and remember, the hospitals were deferring cancer screenings. It all makes sense.
But the giveaway is that the Biochimie study never once mentioned the spike protein, instead generically referring to “covid proteins.”
Why obscure the role of spike? It’s literally unbelievable that a highly-accurate, peer-reviewed article like this one, which goes into mind-numbing detail about all the specific genes and microscopic components of the oncogenic EFFECTS of the covid proteins, never actually gets around to any particular specificity about which genetic parts of the “covid proteins” are oncogenic.
It’s like they’re not even curious. Why not mention the spike?”
The other nice touch is the rate of cancers explained by the shortages of chemotherapy drugs and the volume of those drugs being used. The medical establishment may not be talking about any increase in cancer, but the products to treat it are flying off the shelves.
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A description to be aware of –
“Not the dietary result I’m wanting…”
“However, I’m NOT grateful to Eaton Rapids Joe for pointing out that “the adjective that best describes my physique is ‘sculpted’ “.”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0XtUlD8vZNP8Z-mpFWKcL7g_rr71I6azc0DVZ4S40BMpNpFIn36RXgixUr9EBpUUkWyjpLeO2pSAihR1rjarweO-oZZVbH3-Mxk3GbXyX7eBdDo7okRSwUUbH6QjmhedBN2pUKxpgSkUkfIYWrhtymHLYXZYbhRQVFQ1mOMusbTLVYBBUhC_lwQ/w400-h400/STA-BUD20–.jpg
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/05/not-dietary-result-im-wanting.html
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More “Get Woke, Go Broke”
“Bud Light, Target Bleeding Money As Conservatives Boycott. The Dollar Amount Is Staggering”
“Target and Bud Light have lost a whopping $28 billion combined amid marketing decisions geared toward transgender individuals, according to a report from Fox Business.”
More at
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/26/bud-light-target-trans-pride-backlash-revenue-loss/
I guess you could call that a noticeable amount?
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You’d think Target would have learned it’s lesson from Bud Light?
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Its the socialist mentality. Sure they failed, but they just didn’t do it right, just watch us!
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The failure of Bud Light is interesting.
The Left keep telling us of the vast numbers of transgenders who exist, you would think fifty percent of the population…
Now that’s it’s firmly repositioned as the transgender brand, surely the supposedly huge transgender community can take over from Bud’s traditional but unwanted heterosexual consumers?
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Not sure the numbers are meaningful. They appear to be talking about share value rather than revenue. Share value may or may not be real or permanent depending on what happens next. Lost revenue is truly lost.
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For once the fact checkers were right … when they denied that going woke had cost Anheuser-Busch 5 billion dollars. Coz it’s more like 15 billion and counting. So funny.
Yet, still AB has not sacked this marketing ‘genius’, nor apologised for her implication that their clientele were ‘fratty’.
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$28 Billion, that’s a substantial amount alright, serves them right, Harley Davidson and Bud Light, two products I would cross the street to partake of a freeby.
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Almost makes me wish Target was in NZ so I could boycott them.
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FWIW
“Their Voice”
https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/31774/stan-grant-the-voice-of-treason/
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It’s hard to have any respect for Grant when you see the progressive darkening of his skin tone over the years, who does he think he’s kidding.
I liked him better when he was a ‘white blackfella’.
That’s a huge chip on your shoulder Stan, better get some professional help with that.
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An example of a perfectly balanced Australian – a chip on each shoulder?
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one should careful
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there was supposed to be a link there about the risks of tanning beds, but it never made it
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“The prospect of how these people will behave once given real, tangible power is terrifying.”
You can see how the prospect turns out, just look at Africa! Every time a white Govt handed power over it became a bloodbath for a decade or two until the most powerful mob had sorted out their competitors.
A- Establish yourself in a river of money and power
B- Crush the whites with the help of the other minorities.
C- Crush the other minority groups to leave yourself unchallenged.
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FWIW
“The Thirst For Truth – Big Picture Explanation of What Happened in the Past 15 Years That Flipped the Social, Cultural, Media, Leftist and Govt Relationship
May 27, 2023 | Sundance | 421 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/27/the-thirst-for-truth-big-picture-explanation-of-what-happened-in-the-past-15-years-that-flipped-the-social-cultural-media-leftist-and-govt-relationship/
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All in one line-
“The activists went from being outside government to being inside government.”
They hated Govt when it was a Right-wing Govt, now they have their Left-wing Govt they love Big Brother. Getting rid of them might take a couple of decades, or a massive collapse of the world.. Something that makes what sex you want to be completely irrelevant to staying alive.
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The timing of the shift was the twin towers. That is when it became OK to lock people up in western countries for no verifiable reason. If you are a suspected terrorist then you can be locked away for good. Trump was presumed guilty of all manner of crimes.
Osama bin Laden changed the western world. He won. English law has presumed innocence for almost 300 years while US law embraced it in the late 1800s. Presumption of innocence is a fundamental right in the UN charter of human rights.
The Patriot act in the USA and similar acts in other countries are based on a presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is on the presumed guilty.
CO2 has been presumed guilty of causing “global warming”. No amount of evidence will alter that belief.
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High pressure block not in the AGW models, what a surprise.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/nation-shivers-through-coldest-may-morning-in-decades/1295094
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Have been reding about likely demand management in Arizona.
Apparently Phoenix is the fastest growing city in the USA but utilities are struggling to keep up with the power demand. Most power comes from gas but they are now spending on solar farms and these do not provide power at the right time of day. Hence a looming supply/demand dilemma.
Phoenix is reasonably dependent on summer power supply because the population are accustomed to refrigeration and air-conditioning. July average temperature is 35C so reasonably warm. The escapees from California must not be too concerned about “global warming”.
The risk is serious enough that the City publish blackout preparation advice:
https://www.phoenix.gov/fire/safety-information/home/powerout
Other interesting aspects like having fuel in the car and being able to open the garage door without power.
So Pheonix could be headed for summer blackout while Sydney is heading for winter blackouts. NSW demand forecast to hit 11374MW on May 31.
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Phoenix would ordinarily get a swathe of power from the Hoover Dam, but seeing as how it is nearly empty, generation is at nearly zero, so the power has to come from elsewhere.
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Even watching NSW today has been interesting. 2GW underdone and constrained interconnects running around 1GW on both sides this morning at some times. Wont take much to go wrong to upset the house of cards. I hope that butterfly lands carefully Beijing.
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FWIW
“BIG TECH, CENSORSHIP, AND SOCIALISM
IN-DEPTH: Transgender Movement Has ʻDangerousʼ Hidden Motivations, Says Former LGBT Activist”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-depth-transgender-movement-has-dangerous-hidden-motivations-says-former-lgbt-activist_5279272.html
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I had on my to do list to service my small machines over winter. I wheeled out the mulcher which we don’t use much anymore as we tend to take green waste to the tip (sorry, resource centre) I was about to start it up and looked at the maintenance record I keep. The fuel in it was 18months old. Time flies when your having fun. First job , drain the fuel.
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Strong spikes in galactic radiation since the beginning of 2023 show an unusually abrupt course of the 25th solar cycle. This brings anomalies in the circulation of the jet stream.
https://i.ibb.co/CmKTc9n/onlinequery.png
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