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Statistics
I thought I was going to be the first to
click on the rating stars but alas alas
Alfred
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10 stars based on only 4 opinions seems more like statistical malpractice than the truth.
This free-for-all-thread has just gotten started and it’s already a 10? Very unusual to say the least. The green thumbs do not bear witness to such popularity. 😉
And what do I know anyway. Opinions are something near and dear to the holder and I shouldn’t be too critical.
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Whoa up there buddy – I calculate out that statistic as 97%.
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You beat me to it. At least we have consensus
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Are you basing that on the 6 opinions now or the 4 when I first saw it?
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A fine example of the flaw of averages. 😉
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Gavin Schmidt calculates it as 117% or 1.2345%, depending on the figure he needs at the time.
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I have always liked 64%. It seems like a sensible percentage to me. And who wants to associate themselves with a nasty percentage that can’t be divided by a whole range of whole numbers?
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I thought I might check that! How many numbers can 64 be divided by?
This is one answer by Charles M.
My question is (and I hope that you can answer this Rereke). How is 64 divisible by 5!
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I thought that the answer to everything was 42!
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“My question is (and I hope that you can answer this Rereke). How is 64 divisible by 5!”
Well according to post-normal physics and new-math, by long division 5 gasinta 6 oncet with the leftover one added to the 4 or 5. 5 gasinta 5 oncet again so 64 divided by 5 equals 11!
In checking; 5 times 11 must be 55, but one is borrowed from the rightmost 5 and added to the leftmost 5 resulting in the correct 64! See how much fun Climate Science can be!
All the best! -will-
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I knew someone could do it. Well done.
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Numberwang!
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But, but, but is not 63%, 3²×7 or (1-1/e); (e-1)/e, in percent much more ‘scientific’, looking? Is such not the wideband thermal emissivity of everything?
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“much more ‘scientific’, looking?
“Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos (CVPR 2016 Oral) ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk
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Mike April 25, 2016 at 12:45 am
“much more ‘scientific’, looking?”
Yes What else jew guys gots?
Hey guys we gots another Mike hooked!! What now to do? Cooked, veggimented, boiled, parboiled, skewered, roasted, braised, perhaps even evaporated or ‘spolded!
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So now we can become the “talking” from the mouth of some other talking head? Just think of the fun we could have with, say John Cook and others. Mind boggling, both the technology and the possibility for mischief.
Unfortunately what you could do to someone else with this, that person could do to you in reprisal — something to think about when you can do something like this Face2Face thing appears to allow. 🙁
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Mr Jorgan.
I remember you being on the blog a week or so back.
At that time , as I recall, you had a first name but it no longer seems to be in use.
?
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Rereke et al,
If you mean divisible with no remainder, an integer result, then…
Since 64 is a power of 2 it’s obvious without even checking it that it is divisible only by powers of 2, n = 1, 2, 4, 8, …32; n < 64. No other divisors produce an integer result.
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n <= 64, not n < 64.
Where some of the numbers posted by Peter C come from is a question I can't answer. But a quick check on most of them will tell you they don't produce integer results.
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“Since 64 is a power of 2 it’s obvious without even checking it that it is divisible only by powers of 2, n = 1, 2, 4, 8, …32; n < 64. No other divisors produce an integer result."
Roy, you seem to be deliberately ignoring Post modern physics, new math,, and Climatology! shame, shame, see:
http://joannenova.com.au/2016/04/weekend-unthreaded-115/#comment-1800473.
Is it 04-01-20something yet? 🙂
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Yes, I’ve seen Post Modern Math before. It’s too bad computers have never seen it.
In the meantime, it’s not nice to try to fool your resident computer know-it-all and pain in the bit. 😉
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I think powers of 2 are unique in that way. Powers of any other base don’t follow such a simple rule as far as I’ve tested them.
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Depends on where he “centres” the data (see Climate Audit https://climateaudit.org/2016/04/19/gavin-schmidt-and-reference-period-trickery/#comments)
As far as I can tell (and it’s not really statistically difficult at all), if once centres time-dependent data on today, then tomorrow’s data will not look much different. But if one centres it earlier (say, 1979, the start of the satellite data era), then tomorrow’s data is in a different galaxy to any “predictive” attempt from 1979.
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Yes, well, it seems that I owe all of you good folks an apology.
I get bored easily, and yesterday (my time) was a particularly boring day, so I took the largest positive square below one hundred, and did a play on words with the word, “whole”.
I never expected a thred to be created because of it. But I guess you guys must have been bored too.
Now, where I am, and in my time, we are commemorating ANZAC Day. The mass suicide/extermination of millions of young able-bodied men, in the first significant war in one hundred years.
Stefan Molyneux, over at Freedom Radio, has a perspective of what the First World War meant at the time, and how it still impacts, and indeed directs to some extent, the political decisions of today, one hundred years later.
The current hype about climate change, and the conservation of resources, et al, are all part of trying to put the genie, that was released in the first world war, back in the bottle.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to name the genie.
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Well, if you know of a better whole, go to it.
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The link is here:
It runs for a little over an hour.
[Extraneous quote marks removed] -Fly
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The Genie is now called the United Nations. Following WW1 they had a different name. League of something (borrowed something blue)……..
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The powers that be use war to shape society…. Now we have a communist UN…. Work it out…..
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From the US; please accept my strongest appreciation for what ANZAC constituents sacrificed. They are heroes.
Keeping civilization on a safe and sane course is not easy nor for the faint of heart.
Cheers!
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Mark D.
Today is the most solemn day on the Australian calendar as we remember.
I have a Post of my own you might like to read. At that Post from today, I also have a number of links to other events around Australia as well.
The link at the bottom is about LtGen Sir John Monash, and that one would be of interest to you as an American, because it mentions how the U.S. has a special association with Australia from that First Great War.
ANZAC Day – 25th April 2016
Tony.
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I heard an interview of Peter Cundle, who did the Gardening Show on Oz’s ABCTV, about the time he retired in 2009 aged 82. He was born in Manchester in 1927, his father rarely worked. The Great Depression. He said as kids they were very poor, but didn’t know they were poor. He had a wonderful childhood.
He reached conscription age after the fighting had ended in Europe, but was called up and trained anyway. He was sent to Germany and later Palestine, after spending six months in solitary in one of Tito’s jails after escorting a young lady too far at the border. in 1948 he was demobilised, leaving him in a queue of millions of other unemployed people wanting to get to Australia. Then he discovered that if you joined the Australian army you could get straight to Australia.
So he joined up, and was sent to Egypt for a few months, then on to Australia. Six weeks later, as a fully trained soldier, he found himself in the trenches in Korea with a lot of other Poms who thought they were getting a quick trip to Australia.
In Korea the Australians, including those Poms and the Kiwis, again performed heroic deeds, and again in Viet Nam. It was notable that in the great battles that the Australians were involved in, their success relied very heavily on the Kiwi artillery.
I wasn’t at all involved, but it seemed to me that the Australians, lacking the huge industrial base of the old world and the US, were forced to rely more on their manpower, their ingenuity, and each other. A friend who was in Viet Nam told me that the Americans did not look after their men well, they were not well trained. We seemed to see this again in Iraq more recently, where, after making too many mistakes in a heavy handed approach, the US sought advice from the Australians.
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Tony, thank you for the history. It is important that we do not forget.
I especially liked to read that LtGen Sir John Monash, upon his death had such a large funeral turnout. He truly must have been a worthy leader to gain such respect and admiration.
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Indeed Mark D as TonyfromOz said the U.S. forces in WW1 were not really involved until the end. The Germans launched about a one million man push, the English and French started running, the Ozzies had recently told the English to F off and allow us to command our own forces, as they were using us as cannon fodder.
Our blokes dug in to stop the germans and a call went out to all our troops to head to our front. The yanks saw our troops heading to the front and asked what was going on, when our boys told them they asked [ without orders ] if they could join us, our blokes told them OK but they had to were our hats, so they joined in.
Strange as it may seem our little band of ozzies and a few yanks stopped a million strong german army. To this day there are primary schools in rural France that run up the ozzie flag and the tricolour every morning for what we and some of you Yanks did.
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What history!
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Wayne Job,
as patriotic as what you say might sound, it didn’t really happen much like that at all.
The main turning point where the Americans actually joined the fight was on July 4th 1918 at the Battle Of Hamel, and the main planning for that Battle was all done by the Australian, LtGen John Monash. It was all over in 93 Minutes, and a mammoth success. 1000 Americans joined the Battle, at Monash’s request, and on that particular day.
With the success of that, Monash was then tasked for the huge Battle of Amiens, again a huge victory, and again with the Americans as well.
At the end of that Battle, the German, Ludendorff called it the blackest day in the German War effort, realised that the War was lost and began the retreat, chased now by Monash, who at the Hindenburg line had 210,000 Australian troops at his command as well as others from other Countries, and also commanding 50,000 Americans.
This is just a small fraction of what happened, taken from the Roland Perry bio on Monash.
Further detailed at this link, my own Post on Monash.
Remembrance Day And The Importance Of Australia’s General Sir John Monash
Tony
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Thanks Tony for the follow up, my comment was about what happened on the very first days of the German push, we did stop and surprise them. Your good history lesson was about what followed. Cheers
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You have reminded me of a very funny comment made by former PM Gillard when she was in office. She told a media gathering that Treasurer Swan had just advised her that Australia had retained the “three gold star rating” (credit rating), she was very happy.
But what the Treasurer had advised was that Australia had retained its Triple A rating.
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Dennis, the thought of being happy about 3 gold stars gave me a flashback to early primary school, then I considered the irony of your comment in that context 🙂
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R.I.P
Prince Rogers Nelson
1958-2016
http://40.media.tumblr.com/299edbaeccd78fb4a7689276457f303d/tumblr_o60dc3w1I41tegjg4o1_500.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8BMm6Jn6oU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEsfU-imLCA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_%28musician%29
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Quite a loss.
I didn’t care for his music that I was exposed to when he first became popular and hardly ever heard his name because of that lack of interest. And yet his popularity and the comments of his fans make me wonder, if I had known his music better would my life have been the richer for it? But he leaves a large recorded heritage so it’s not too late to get to know him and his music.
Rest in Peace, Prince Rogers Nelson.
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Like you Roy, I was never a fan. However, as a music lover I can appreciate his talent as a singer song writer and a musician competent with multiple instruments. He has made a significant contribution to contemporary music and no doubt will be sorely missed.
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Try
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6KUTL0PXl0#action=share
as a requiem. I find the black spiritual wailing far better music than Prince ever made
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And your 4th link in the list says it has been removed.
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Here’s one link that works – at least for now, (with lyrics – some misspelled):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbC7tsI_R4
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Well, Prince took it down. He must be alive somewhere like Elvis…
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“But life is just a party and parties weren’t meant to last”
RIP Prince
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TonyFromOz
Grist for your mill.
An appraisal of the British energy situation.
And…
A Monty Pythonesque clip from Radio New Zealand where an ex-Meridian Power CEO predicts the demise of coal and gas due to the more ubiquitous use of wind and solar.
Now wonder our electricity costs are high!
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South Australians in particular need to worry about the demise of coal and gas, more on this here: https://climanrecon.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/early-warning-system-for-south-australia/
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How will they build those submarines?
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Only on sunny days and when the wind is not blowing too hard or too softly.
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FijiDave:
Just the usual waffle from a confused mind. In this case he is comparing the wholesale selling price of solar with the retail price of conventional generation. A rough list of wholesale costs to produce (without subsidies etc.) in dollars per MWh
Coal………………30
Gas..CCGT…….65
Nuclear………….95
Solar PV………120
Wind(onshore)140
Gas..OCGT…..160 (rough, but producers in SA only supply at over $200)
Solar Heat…….275 (e.g. solar towers)
to convert to cents per kWh divide the figure by 10 and call it cents.
So solar PV getting down to 3 would only make it competitive with coal, without the advantages of regularity or working at night.
What he also doesn’t realize is that adding batteries INCREASES the cost. Take the example of pumped storage (hydro) which is the only large scale storage currently used, even at 75% efficiency. 4 units of solar in, 3 units out…4 by $120 in, 3 by $160 out. These new Green Unicorn batteries, when developed, will be more efficient but will still lose some. Assuming that the new solar panels are re-engineered to deliver low voltage DC, the in-out and through the inverter will strip about 20% off. $120 in, $150 out.
He also assumes increased efficiency, hence lower cost, from the solar panels but any improvement will be marginal. Currently the most efficient panels being installed are 17-19% efficient. There are 25-27% in the laboratory, but the quantum limit is about 32%, so the cost won’t drop below $75-80. (I know there are multilayer cells with higher efficiency, but their cost rules them out). Flat panel types are less efficient (~10%) but progress on boosting efficiency is slow.
At least he avoided the usual mistake of comparing renewables dumped onto the market when there is a glut, and benefiting on subsidies regardless of selling price, compared with coal etc. saddled with extra costs of maintaining supply and paying those ‘carbon taxes”.
The cost of Solar PV has been dropping for decades, but still hasn’t met the prediction in 1987 that it would be cheaper than coal by 1993.
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Graeme
More “sleight of figures” detailed here on a different subject
http://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/topic/100932-emissions-compliance-dirty-little-numbers-cheat-they-dont-tell-you/
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The following is taken from the Fisher and Paykel website:
Dr Turner was appointed Chairman of the Company in February 2011 and has been a Director since November 2010. Dr Turner is a professional director and is the Deputy Chairman of Auckland International Airport, a Director of Spark Infrastructure, South Australian Power Networks and Victoria Power Networks (in Australia) and a Director of Chorus, the newly established NZ telecommunications network operator. He is also currently Chairman of Solar City NZ Limited. Dr Turner possesses extensive experience in the New Zealand energy sector. He served for 9 years as Chief Executive Officer of Meridian Energy Limited from 1999 to 2008. Prior to that, he worked as a private energy expert advising a range of large corporate clients and Government. He has previously served in a number of industry reform functions that established the current New Zealand industry structure and has had many years in senior industry operations and planning roles.
He has a PhD in Engineering and is a Distinguished Fellow of IPENZ.
Comments:
My emphasis in italics.
I have not been able to determine which branch of Engineering, Dr Turner’s PhD relates to, but given his employment history I would guess it relates to communications, and not to power generation.
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Member number 85837 registration “current”.
Membership class “Distinguished Fellow”
Search reveals nothing in terms of the register.
Does not appear in the registers Chartered Professional Engineer, Electrical, Management,International Professional Engineer etc.
Dr. Turner is a “DISTFIPENZ”.
“Distinguished Fellows – as a Fellow of IPENZ, you’ve made an eminent contribution to leadership in engineering, technology or science over an extended period”.
I can find no other information regarding this member on our URL.
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A former MD of DesignPower, I rather suspect the discipline is electrical.
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One need only follow the money.
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I mentioned in the earlier Thread that when it comes to Australian electrical power generation, of the total generation, CO2 emitting sources make up 86% of that overall total.
The U.S. has Nuclear Power as part of the mix for its power generation, and Australia does not. The only form of power generation that can deliver power on the same scale as Nuclear power is large scale coal fired power.
In the U.S. add on the Nuclear Power (large scale coal fired equivalent) to the CO2 emitting total for power generation, and it comes to, umm, wait for it ….. 86%.
The overall whole of World total for power generation has CO2 emitting fossil fuel power sources making up, umm, 86% of the whole World Total.
Odd how things correlate eh!
Incidentally, the whole of World total for renewables of choice, wind and solar power, well that comes in at a whoppingly monumenatally humungous ….. 2.4%.
After so many years and so much money, so much money, a tiny 2.4%
And do you know what?
Come the target dates for emissions reduction, that total for wind and solar will still not manage to crack 3%, and most probably will still be hovering around that 2.4%.
Why?
With China, and soon India, and other Developing Countries roaring ahead with large scale coal fired power, renewables of choice, wind and solar will struggle to keep up, let alone rise by any considerable amount. For every ONE large scale coal fired plant of 2000MW (just in China alone, just in one week alone) they would need to bring on line a Nameplate of 6000MW of wind and solar, and that’s at least 10 mega sized wind plants, just to deliver the same power to grids as that ONE coal fired plant.
Tony.
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Yeah, wind and solar are old news. All the cool kids want Wave Power now.
Only works in a handful of places, massive maintenance from sea corrosion, but at least they don’t chop birds.
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The leaders of Australia’s major political parties have vision. One of them wants 50% of our energy to come from renewables, whilst the other wants a 2000 kilometre long high speed train running between Melbourne and Brisbane.
I also have a vision, and that is one of a high speed train, filled with stupid politicians and their equally stupid advisors, staring ruefully out of the window of their motionless train, as they sit, becalmed in a sea of similarly motionless windmills.
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It will never happen the second a real project (not just one of these trough feeding feasibility studies) starts every Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything (BANANA) group will find every unknown sacred site, unvisitable beauty spot, endangered soil mite, or hairy ar$ed budgie that they can use as a delaying tactic or negotiating point. It is guaranteed employment for activists for the next few decades while taxpayer money is burned by the truckload.
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Greg S
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/zealots.htm
and
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/BIG.htm
Can’t go wrong!
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Please, please, please read each of the above! Reject if that is your wont, but please consider!
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Yes, agree. Worth taking the time to read.
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Indeed.
Absolute experience supports that.
Who is going to sell the land easements needed; who will guarantee noise levels; where will such a train actually stop; who will put up with hugely increased council rates when the train stops nowhere near you; what exactly does a Very Fast Train mean – 400km/hr or a re-pianted XPT ?
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For 50% renewable by 2030 requires, say, 15,000 GW equivalent of 24/7 power.
So its a line of 4 MW turbines 9,000 km. long with a 25% capacity factor, or roughly 2 rows of turbines on each side of the train from Melbourne to Brisbane. Not sure what happens when they are mainly idle which has happened frequently to the 37 current farms over March and April this year.
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Sort of like the image at this link from three years ago, when California was debating their own high speed rail link.
Tony.
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aussiepete mentions this:
They may think that they have vision, but they carefully select advisors who will only tell them what they want to actually hear.
They have their serious faces on when they say that they want a VFT, and then with their faces looking just as serious, they mention it will be powered by renewables.
Then they also look serious when they tell us that they have their Desalination plants running full bore, and again, with faces just as serious, they tell us they also are powered by renewables.
Then, again with the serious faces, they say that we need to replace those coal fired power plants with renewables.
The earlier ones, the VFT and desal are incompatible with the latter, closing down coal fired power.
If they seriously do want a VFT and to be able to run those desal plants at their capacity, then they are stuck with coal fired power. There is just no alternative. They have to have them, no matter what they say. Backing down from that is not their option, so they just press on regardless with whatever they want to say, what they think that the public wants to hear.
Both of the former need power that is ABSOLUTELY reliable, and available ALL the time, so the intermittent nature of renewables of any type immediately negates the constant use of VFT and Desal.
Until these people actually have advisors who will tell them the brutal truth, and with enough conviction to make these politicians tell the public the truth, then I’m afraid we are destined to be led by what can only be termed as pathologic@lly mendacious leaders, of any political persuasion.
Tony.
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Tony
“The leaders of Australia’s major political parties have vision.”
So does a race horse with blinkers on – of a sort.
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Addition to # 4.3.1
And I forgot to mention that “government enthusiasms” make more sense IMO than “government wisdom”
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On the current status of the turbines, the 37 windfarms are producing 150 MW, or 4 % of capacity. Wouldn’t even get the TGV out of the station, perhaps tommorrow.
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The Ill-fated King Island Wind Project
This was proposed by Hydro Tasmania in 2012 to build Australia’s largest Windfarm using 200 x 3 MW wind turbines. It received the support of about 60 % of the residents, but was opposed by the rest.
It was to be connected to Victoria by undersea cable and the electricity sold to the national grid. Anyhow the project was abandonned in 2014 as it was deemed to uneconomic at that time (a change in government?) and perhaps due to the considerable hostility of some islanders.
It is curious inasmuch if ever there was a productive site for a windfarm King Island is the place due to winds from all directions, but the projected yields from the farm seemed to be much higher than normal: 2,400 GW h annually from 600 MW of turbines is a capacity factor of 45% which is very high. For the past 2 months the current turbines on King Is. have been operating at around 23% capacity!
The other salient point was the large amount of land that would have been required, about 8,000 ha. or 80 sq. km. which was a little under 10% of the whole island. Problems such as low frequency noise on the locals and their dairy cattle, the large amount of bird kill and the fact the turbines would have been seen from all parts of the island probably contributed to its demise.
In the light of the fate of this proposal being cancelled due economics, and probably local concerns, where are all the windfarms going to be put as part of Australia’s commitment to the Paris agreement signed off by Minister Hunt the other day? If this proposal for 600 MW was uneconomic what future proposal will be economic without massive subsidy from the electricity users?
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Bass Strait is an excellent place for wind turbines.
Can’t you see that the problems of area and sporadic availability of wind power are easily solved? 😉
It just takes a little time and money. What’s the difference between just one to two trillion dollars on such a project compared to the FORTY BILLION spent on the 4 nuclear power for the equivalent amount of electrical power production?
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Oh yeah! Look at the date.
Cue Curly
Tony.
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It’s just as credible as BZE publications.
Deliberately 😉
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Vattenfall translates to Waterfall. Don’t the coincidences just keep on popping up?
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Bernd Felsche @ #5.1
Turbine nacelles would be ideal for marine applications!
Just weld a chain onto them and use them as boat anchors
Placed end to end the towers would be an excellent armoured protective tube to run the Tasmanian / Victorian Basslink power connector through.
And some REAL big sharks could take up residence in those upended deep Bass Strait wind turbine towers so satisfying the environmental concerns about the tower’s placement.
The blades being hollow and veeeeerry long would probably float heavy end down. So they could be used as a very cheap subsurface ARGO supplementary buoy to drift over the oceans.
With sensors down at the heavy ended bottom and transmitters at the top, they could provide surface and sub surface ocean conditions over the worlds’ oceans until thankfully, they finally sank, probably spearing a few completely innocent whales, who were just doing what whales do down there, on their way down.
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“thankfully, they finally sank, probably spearing a few completely innocent whales, who were just doing what whales do down there, on their way down.”
Naa! The ocean has way to much viscosity for such! However A small pod of adolescent whales might collect 4-6 of such and fashion a warp7 submarine! That would attract the girlie whales better’n a pickup truck! 🙂
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+more nesting sites for the hairy-ar#ed budgie. win-win!
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The real money will be in disposing of nuclear spent fuel. Currently, spent nuclear fuel is removed/disposed sporadically by earthquakes like the one in Japan.
One must be patient and store the spent nuclear fuel on site to wait for earthquakes and fortunately people are patient.
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In response to: “compared to the FORTY BILLION spent on the 4 nuclear power for the equivalent amount of electrical power production?“
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Reply to Mike 5.1.4 – http://joannenova.com.au/2016/04/weekend-unthreaded-115/#comment-1800479
When governments come to their senses, the spent fuel rods will be reprocessed and burnt in generation 4 reactors. Meanwhile, most are safely stored on site, avoiding transport difficulties.
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It costs nothing to transport nuclear fuel using earthquakes. No human intervention is required whatsoever.
At hartford high level nuclear waste is transprted using corrosion which also costs nothing. The storage facilities simply corrode and the waste transports itself, all by itself.
The answer to pollution is dilution.
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With respect to this now failed Wind Plant proposed for King Island.
That 45% Capacity Factor (CF) is a modelled CF based on almost perfect conditions. Not once, anywhere on Planet Earth has a new wind plant ever delivered it’s proposed modelled CF, and that CF only decreases over time, by way more than a coal fired plant will decrease over time.
And very few people were ever willing to mention the cost for this one wind plant.
$2.2 Billion.
And this was at a time when people were saying that wind was getting cheaper all the time, and was even cheaper than new coal fired power.
HELE (UltraSuperCritical) coal fired power is ….. NEW coal fired power.
We cannot base costs on what happens in China, as they can construct them far cheaper than in our already Developed World. In China they can build them for an AUD equivalent $2 Billion, but for a real World cost we need to look elsewhere, actually in the Developed World.
So then, Germany is now constructing them. One of the first was the Neurath Plant, and the cost for that plant was an equivalent AUD cost of $3.5 Billion.
So, far and away more expensive than this King Island Wind Plant, but hey with King Island delivering a (modelled) 2,400GWH of power to the grid, then parity in dollar terms would mean that the Coal fired plant would have to deliver 1.5 times that King Island power, eh!
So King Island Power multiplied by 1.5 comes in at 3600GWH.
Actual power delivery from Neurath (actual, not modelled here) is 17,900GWH, or King Island multiplied by 7.45.
But costs aren’t everything eh! They have to buy their coal.
Even so, that multiplier would still never even come down to be be even remotely close to the wind power equivalent.
And the coal fired plant has double the life span, so now that multiplier is up to just on 15 times the delivered power.
So now, that’s 15 times the actual delivered life span power. The Nameplate is only a multiplier of 3.66, and that power delivery is based on their much overstated CF for their wind plant.
So for King Island to be cost effective with new coal fired power, then the cost for King Island would need to be $146 Million ….. not $2.2 Billion.
Tony.
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Tony, the goal is not to minimise cost.
Th ideology has something far more sinister in mind.
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Rod
Second link in #4.1.1 seems to fit
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Ian
That reminds me of the New Zealand Government of Robert Muldoon, 1975 to 1984 “THINK BIG“.
It always ends in tears.
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I think the race horse of that name did OK?
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Well Robert certainly put on a bit of weight, towards the end of his life.
And he was never what you might call “slim”.
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That’s pretty poor if the Neurath HELE Plant only has a 30 year lifespan
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Gurdjieff: “Man is given a definite number of experiences—economizing them, he prolongs his life.”
Or in other words, it is “efficiency” that prolongs the life of almost anything at all this includes the life span of resources, and even coal plants.
In nature, the real world, all is done efficiently.
Consider how efficient a Lilly is.
Or consider the Lilly’s in general.
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In New York, preaching to the orchestra in their concert hall, he announces the solution to the problem they composed.
And to think inzest is considered illegal.
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DeCaprio and the UN, a marriage made in hell.
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The 2016 GBR Coral Bleaching Event.
Prof. Terry Hughes
tweetstwits: “The first bleaching on the #GreatBarrierReef was in 1998. There is no “cycle”Wait. What?
BoM: “Bleaching has been observed on the Great Barrier Reef since 1982 …”
Prof. Terry Hughes
tweetstwits:“I showed the results of aerial surveys of #bleaching on the #GreatBarrierReef to my students, And then we wept.”
. . .
Q. What did the students weep about?
The cost of the aerial surveys:
“A return flight from Sydney to Perth per-person emits about one tonne of CO2, of which 400 kg will still remain in the atmosphere after 100 years, and about 200 kg will still be airborne in 1,000 years.” – Pep Candell, Executive director, Global Carbon Project at CSIRO
Or …
The quality of the teaching when the Professor fails to quote the correct history of the subject being taught. Twice.
He repeats the fail again further down the tweets in second link.
. . .
A. Hopefully the students were weeping about the 97% standard of science being taught to them.
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Any mention of the Crown Of Thorns Starfish attacking the GBR?
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Tourism operators are not happy with the green hysteria about the reef
http://www.couriermail.com.au/business/great-barrier-reef-operators-hit-back-at-green/news-story/e50603a241cbd258a242eb7470f5f539
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Scientists just discovered a 1,000-km-long coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon
“Yager wasn’t even there to look for the reefs.
She was using the RV Atlantis to look into how Amazonian plume was affecting carbon dioxide absorption in the ocean.
The discovery makes the reef the most northernmost known in Brazil.”
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reported in the media.
GBR Marine Authority claims 50%bleaching in 1998 with 5% damage.
Its all a sad joke.
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I watched the last of three programs on the Barrier Reef by David Attenborough on the ABC (I know!) last night. From a cinematographic point of view the programs have been terrific, and David his usual competent self. However, as expected, last night’s program was about the “threats” to the reef. All the usual stuff was brought out. There were some measured comments by some scientist interviewed, but David kept on insisting that the “rapid” change to sea levels and temperatures in the last 40 years (no actual facts quoted) have signed the death warrant for the reef. He compounded this misinformation by exhorting his viewers to “take action now” to save the Reef. Sigh. The film was shot last year sometime – presumably before the Reef was declared to be no longer in danger – or perhaps not. Who cares about the facts when there is a good story to be made.
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The gasses that steamed coal dust can expel,
Make power cheaper through an oxide cell.
Some countries set a strict emissions goal,
Which they ignore,then buy up all the coal.
The naive Greens think China might come ’round,
To leaving coal forever underground.
Those surveys that suggest the end is nigh,
Make less folk fearful of a falling sky.
Let’s hope that climate science can break free,
From warmist chains in recent history.
They search in vain,all those who hope to meet,
The average man and woman in the street.
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Does anyone remember the 97% Doomsday climate scientists saying this during the 1976-98 warming?:
“Oceans control the planet’s temperature”
. . .
Originally published: February 1, 1976 – Stephen Schneider: The Genesis Strategy
[ http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/schneider-genesis.html ]
“State-of-the-art climate models unequivocally predict that such a doubling of CO2 would raise the surface temperature of the earth.”
~ ~ ~
NASA, April, 2016:
“There is far too much focus on surface temperatures.
They are but one measure of warming.
All other measures . . . continue unabated.”
. . .
After 40 years of surface air temperatures to measure Doomsday Global Warming, why would NASA then say that?
Perhaps because there has been a “*non-significant warming trend over 1998–2012”
(*quote UN-IPCC WG1 AR5, chapter 2, page 192)
http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_Chapter02_FINAL.pdf
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Video, youtube: Schneider vs. Schneider
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Mildly entertaining story in The Telegraph.
Australian PM Malcolm T (Resistance in Futile), coincidentally with the middle name Bligh, poised to take kontrol of Norfolk Island, historical resettlement home of some of the Bounty mutineers, in spite of the majority of the locals (68%) opposing direct rule from Australia.
It seems Australia may face the wrath United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation …and perhaps a slap with a wet fish? Bligh is after all the UN’s prodigal son of sorts.
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Mine too, it is what it is.
I put this new Scafetta abstract up on the other thread and you will notice the cycle years 6.6, 7.4, 14, 20 and 60.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117716300084
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By Ed Caryl
There have been several reports of temperature data fudging by the authorities, the most recent by Paul Homewood on several stations in Paraguay.
While exploring long temperature records in Australia, I discovered a particularly egregious example of temperature changing at Adelaide Airport. GISS now offers easy access to their several sets of data for each station: unadjusted (I assume this is the raw data.), adjusted (I assume this is after TOBs, time of observation, and moving adjustments), adjusted after cleaning (whatever that is), and the final step, after adjustments, cleaning, and homogenization.
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Ed,
Your GISS temperature series shows a continuous record at Adelaide Airport since 1900!
Our Bureau of Meteorology gives records from Adelaide Airport since 1955. Temperatures were recorded at Adelaide West Terrace form 1887 to 1979.
I suspect that GISS may have stitched the two records together. Adelaide Airport is further inland from the sea and is hotter on average. It may that GISS achieved almost 2 degrees C of warming by that sleight of hand.
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Scaper is hinting that the government is going to do some heavy borrowing from the China Infrastructure Bank and begin a trans continental railway system for freight and passengers.
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24 Apr: Bolt Blog: Seeming good, achieving dark
Brendan Pearson, chief executive of the Minerals Council, points out the harsh consequences of dreamy green demands that we ban coal and switch to renewable power:
“Let’s do the maths. Last year wind and solar energy produced the equivalent of nine days of global primary energy needs. Coal produced 109 days and fossil fuels combined produced 313 days of the world’s annual primary needs. Despite all these power sources, 1.3 billion people still missed out on electricity and a further 1.7 billion only had partial access…
“Halting or limiting coal or fossil fuels output will simply mean that those with no or partial access to electricity would have to wait much longer in the dark.
“That is an uncomfortable but incontrovertible fact. If you limit something or make it more expensive to the poor then you are delaying or denying that access. Not just for weeks, months or years, but generations. Hundreds of millions of people will live shorter, more miserable lives as a result of the choices of the comfortable and warm.”…ETC
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/seeming_good_achieving_dark/
23 Apr: UK Independent: £18bn Hinkley Point nuclear power station plan could be ‘coming to a grinding halt’
Controversial power station is a key part of the Government’s plan to ‘make sure the lights stay on’
by John Lichfield, Ian Johnston
The French electricity giant EDF has thrown the British government’s energy strategy into disarray by reportedly delaying – possibly until next year – a decision on whether it will build a new £18bn nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
Jean-Bernard Lévy, the head of EDF, has bowed to pressure from unions and senior company engineers and agreed to seek a fresh opinion from the company’s union-management consultative council, the respected French newspaper Le Figaro reported…
However senior engineers and unions at the largely state-owned French company fear the project could destroy the struggling business. They have demanded a delay of at least two years to allow uncertainties about the experimental high-pressure water reactors planned for Hinkley to be resolved…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/18bn-hinkley-point-nuclear-power-station-plan-could-be-coming-to-a-grinding-halt-a6997131.html
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According to this (and numerous other reports), EDF is facing increasing financial difficulties, as is Areva, and will receive a 3 billion euro handout from the French government. (not sure where the other billion euros is going from)
http://en.rfi.fr/france/20160423-france-lead-4-bn-euro-injection-energy-giant-edf
If I was being cynical, I wonder how much of this is to do with the apparently successful demonisation of any energy sources which are not ‘green’, and how much this limits the willingness of financiers to become involved in such projects.
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23 Apr: UK Telegraph: Christopher Booker: Does the Committee on Climate Change want to blow us all up?
Some publicity has alighted on the latest brilliant idea from the “greenies” as to how we can comply with the Climate Change Act by “decarbonising” our economy. Ofgem paid £300,000 for a study suggesting that, instead of cooking with CO2-emitting natural gas, we should switch to carbon-free hydrogen. A £2 billion pilot project for Leeds would show how natural gas, or methane, could be converted to hydrogen by piping away all its nasty CO2 to be buried in holes under the North Sea.
This scheme has already been smiled on in principle by the green zealots of the Committee on Climate Change, run by Lord Deben (aka John Gummer), their only real reservation being that it would be rather expensive. But there are one or two other practical problems that would have to be taken into account…READ ON
PLUS (scroll down): Hurrah for the downfall of Raj Pachauri
Although it has been widely reported in India, there has been ***strangely little notice paid here to the downfall of one of the most bizarre figures ever to have paraded across the world stage…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/does-the-committee-on-climate-change-want-to-blow-us-all-up/
***CAGW-infested-invested MSM does not do negative news regarding anything remotely related to CAGW, Christopher.
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The Barrier Reef is 93% damaged. Scientists are at a loss to explain the missing 4% of damage, but they suspect it could be hidden in the deep oceans.
Meanwhile The Greens say in order to save the reef, the Adani coal project must be stopped. The potential damage from the project is apparently so great, the actual future damage has “time leaked” into the present. So it is vital the project is stopped to avoid any further damage from the future getting through.
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The cost of electricity is now so high in Australia it must be almost economical to make your own.
Does anyone know if it would be practical and economic to power a generator for your home that was powered by your domestic natural gas supply?
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David
Yes, either lpg or ng if you have the appropriate conversion kit. Chiefio has posted some on this in wrt California but I don’t have a link. Have a look at his topics.
Later
Some in here
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/diy-power-and-load-leveling/
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Dave:
I was given a figure in late February for 50-55¢ per kWh for a petrol driven diesel generator (new).
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Those figures are pretty right, especially if you claim the off road rebate which applies to power generation. I have run businesses off grid most of my working life (40 +yrs). Bear in mind the hassle of oil changes every 200 hrs or so, battery cycle life, engine rebuild at 15-20k hrs. It’s pretty much all in the price, if you do the work yourself. You can pick up a good diesel Genset 10-15kVA for around $5k. With solar and wind you need to do less work. My Genset runs about 10hrs per year.
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For a suburban installation with NG available I’ve often wondered how a battery storage with one of those small Stirling generators (about 1kw) that are made in New Zealand primarily for yacht power supply would go. I think they do them in diesel or gas, they make as much noise as a fridge. The heat would be useful in winter.
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Oh no, it’s much cheaper than that – even a single cylinder Diesel can get something of the order of about 1KWh out of 260 grams and density of diesel is about 832 g/lt.
832/260 = 3.2kWh per litre.
Yesterdays street price was 98.9c per lt less the 38.9c rebate = 60c per lt – so the raw fuel cost @ 260grams per kWh is 60/3.2 c/kWh = 18.8c per kWh.
Now the issue here is that the generator needs to run at its most efficient point supplying energy while it’s running to get that sort of economy, so you need to use a battery system to store the generated energy then invert that rather than have the genset supplying the variable load. You run the generator most efficiently to charge the battery then supply the variable load from there.
It’s possible to construct such a system for under say $3K remembering that unlike solar you can recharge the battery as often as you like so it can be much smaller probably get away with at little as 3kWh of battery capacity which is say 300AH @ 12V.
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David:
A snippet from E.M. Smith (Chiefio)
Useful Metric: On one occasion for the Honda Diesel, I discovered that the cost per kW-hr in cents was the same as the $/gallon shifted by a decimal. So $4.00 Diesel gave 40 Cent /kW-hr electricity. That ought to hold for other Diesels (or close.)
As we’re headed for 50 Cent tariff Real Soon Now and Diesel is under $US4 (per US gallon approx. 85% of imperial gallon or calculate per litre), it will shortly be cheaper to run your own Diesel here than buy from the utility. About parity even before that if you get untaxed offroad Diesel). Nat Gas here is running about $US1.50 / Gallon of Gas Equivalent (GGE) and is the cheapest. It’s already economical to make your own electricity from Nat Gas (on a direct fuel basis – not on a full maintenance and capital amortization though.. but close).
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It is economic to go off grid with solar and battery in residences with suitable roof space now. The most economic situation is to include a small generator that is likely to run few days each year. The ROI is better than the current interest rate on TDs.
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That would be with the subsidies. Battery life is still an issue, which is where a little Stirling Genset might help if run on NG.
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Still economic without subsidies. My off grid system is unsubsidised. I use it to run fridge and freezer continuously and I made my own hot water system that uses the excess off grid solar. It turns on when batteries are 90% charged and off when they are 80% charged so just the top end. It makes temperate most days but it automatically switches to grid if heating for 2 hours if it has not made temperature by 6pm. The storage is a 200l drum and I have a double copper coil to act as a heat exchanger. The drum has 200mm of glass wool around it and under it plus 400 on top. The heat loss is about 1kWh a day through autumn days. You cannot buy any with such low standby losses. The hour water heater cost me $400 in materials.
I have a 5kWh rated LiFePO4 battery. On full discharge it gives 6kWh still after 3 years. It should get 20 years based on cycle life and usage. It very rarely goes below 50% DoD. I have LiPoly batteries that still give more than rated capacity after 8years but they are not cycled often.
My lithium battery has a cycle efficiency around 95% at the loads I pull on it.
There are lots of smart ways to set up to make the best use of sunshine. Our house is not double glazed. That would likely be economic to reduce the size of the electrical system ifI went of grid completely. Our biggest energy requirement is house heating with the old, inefficient central gas heating system.
It would likely be lower cost in the long run to convert the cooktop to LPG rather than the current NG if we went off grid. The induction tops would require a large inverter and more battery capacity than I have at present. Existing oven is also a beast so it is not currently economic to run off grid. The demand side is as important as the supply side in determining the overall economics.
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Rick,
My Genset runs about 10hrs per year but I have 80kWh of battery, 3kw solar, 3kW wind(on a 20m mast). I live in a sunny and windy location.
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I’ve been in Texas all my life over 60 years.we have been having almost no winter this year . Same thing happened about 10 years ago .We never had temperatures so hot when I was younger .I believe what I see not what you say.
With a birthday in august in Texas you are very aware of how hot it was .117 degrees never happened in Texas until the last 7 years or so. Are you saying that the ice isn’t melting in the arctic or in Greenland.
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If only you had lived through the 1920’s and 30’s.
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Wasting your time. This is a data and evidence driven blog here. No one accepts simple anecdotes and we all know the problems with trusting subjective memory. You will find that all comments such as these have been heavily criticised in the past.
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Gee Aye,
I agree with you!
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With a cursory check of Google, I find the record high for Texas at one site to be 120C, set in 1936 and met in 1994.
http://texasalmanac.com/topics/environment/extreme-weather-records
A brief history of high and low points in Texan weather – https://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2011/11/29/a-history-of-drought-and-extreme-weather-in-texas/
And remember – Texas is HUGE. You could have a blizzard in one spot, a heat wave in a another, drought here, and a monsoon bearing down there, with normal weather in between it all, on the same day. (Texas is an exaggeration, size and tale wise)
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texas is smaller than Australia’s 4th largest state of territory.
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There you go again leaf not checking your facts. Actually smaller than the 5th largest, behind WA, QLD, NT, SA and NSW and 6th largest if you include antarctic territory.
Anyway what was your point? Sounds like a smug left wing comment.
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Naw, it’s a Smug Leaft wing comment. Though the first step is to recognize and admit isn’t it?
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Oh yes… I’ll book myself some therapy.
re your earlier comment about Monash… using Monash as a central point of reference would be a great way to understand a huge chunk of Australian history – and military history would only be a small part of it
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I’m not qualified but I’m here for you.
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I know. I appreciate all that you’ve done
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NYT heavy-hitter Davenport crafts it as a fait accompli:
24 Apr: NYT: Coral Davenport: Carbon Pricing Becomes a Cause for the World Bank and I.M.F.
But the leaders of the World Bank, the I.M.F. and other major global institutions say cutting emissions enough to stave off the worst effects of climate change will not be possible unless all fossil fuel polluters are forced to pay for the carbon dioxide they emit…
“There is now an overwhelmingly obvious scientific consensus that the more carbon pollution we put into the air the more impact it has on warming the massive melting of the Arctic, the cycles of droughts and flooding, the die-offs of coral reefs,” the World Bank’s president, Jim Yong Kim, said in an interview. “And to our economists, who have been studying this for quite some time, there is an equally obvious consensus that putting a price on carbon pollution is by far the most powerful and efficient way to reduce emissions.”
He added, “We strongly urge people to prepare for the carbon pricing that is to come.”…
***The World Bank’s central mission is to alleviate global poverty, and in a twist on that mission, bank leaders have identified climate change as a key driver of poverty. A World Bank report last year concluded that climate change could beggar 100 million more people by 2030…
Any policy that drives up the cost of fossil fuels can be expected to generate intense opposition. In the United States, voters — especially in the depleted middle class — are leery of the economic pain, and political groups funded by the billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch stand in the way…
Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the I.M.F., called carbon pricing the “crown jewel” of efforts to mitigate climate change…
Mr. Kim, the World Bank president, acknowledged that carbon pricing would come with burdens including higher energy costs.
“These policy reforms may be difficult,” he said. “And it is difficult, politically. But we are an organization that is completely committed.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/us/politics/carbon-pricingbecomes-a-cause-for-the-world-bank-and-imf.html?_r=0
***driven into poverty by the CAGW policy scams!
btw Mr. Kim, hundreds of millions of people (billions if people understood the cost) are COMMITTED to stopping your organisations implementing these plans.
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I just realized that Shackleton’s Hut, Cape Royds is not covered in snow as one of your commenters pointed out this would mean the arctic is not accumulating snow.Or it could have something to do with something called a snow drift.
another example No one was injured when the Lockheed Constellation ‘Pegasus’ crash landed onto the icy fields of Antarctica on October 8, 1970. The ill-fated flight had run into a storm and was forced to crash land in impossible weather conditions. Where the aircraft dramatically slid to a halt nearly 35 years ago is the exact same position it lies today, half-buried in snow.Still sticking up above the snow in the antarctic proving that the antarctic is not accumulating snow at any appreciable rate based on logic similar to another posters picture of a buried aircraft.
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As reported by the CBC, Canada’s ABC, BBC
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/river-fire-australia-mp-1.3550368?cmp=rss
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Rod
http://www.highspeedrailcanada.com/p/uac-cn-turbo-train-archives.html
Another Canadian one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_%28train%29
One of those was down at the US Dept of Transport test track in Colorado.
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Jo
#44 was in reply to #43 but isn’t nested
Is the second commenting level shut off for some reason?
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#19 ought to have been nested with #44 and not #19
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‘China plans to decrease its CO2 emissions by 18 percent in the second half of the decade, according to the 13th Five-Year Plan. The government will control total energy consumption and carbon intensity, pushing for near-zero emission demonstration projects and establishing a nationwide carbon market.
“We will deepen the South-South cooperation on climate change,” said Zhang. China will launch new projects under the new South-South Cooperation Climate Fund this year to help other developing countries.
‘Ban has always praised such effort. “We must support developing countries in making this transition. The poor and most vulnerable must not suffer further from a problem they did not create,” he said during his speech.’
China Daily
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The only hope is for news of this to leak out and force a new party meeting to put Abbott back. The Nationals too could force a review by withdrawing from the coalition. Now this would just speed up Malcolm’s election though and Joyce is too worried about his own seat with Windsor playing another hand.
In the preselections, Malcolm is stacking the party with his friends. Gay Green leaning progressive types. Those conservatives who ratted on Abbott are being ejected for not being Green enough and obviously untrustworthy. Their vote against Abbott counts against them in preselection as people are angry. Andrew Bolt called it Abbot’s curse when it is really Malcolm’s curse. Obviously such voters could change again and that will not be tolerated. Morrison has been treated miserably and is angry and told nothing. Mushroom farming. He is in the death seat of politics, as befits Malcolm’s next challenger. As every day passes, the chance of removing Malcolm diminishes.
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Reply to TdeF @ 37
“They are just afraid of flying.”
No, they absolutely LOVE flying….
… especially to conferences in exotic expensive destinations, on the taxpayer dime.
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Yes, Annie, disenfranchised. It’s Malcolm’s party now. In every way. We just don’t know it yet but my conclusions explain so much about about what has been happening for the last six months. Everything which puzzled Liberal voters and Andrew Bolt but galvanized some Liberal MPs. A new future with secure seats for everyone and Labor decimated. A near secret agenda, just leaking out. The cuckoo is already tossing the others out of preselection.
Labor will be the biggest loser and Bill Shorten has no idea yet. They think Malcolm is on their side when he is on the Green’s side supported by his ABC. The Labor days of presuming Green preference support are gone. Gillard was their last PM and that with Bob Brown and the Unions dictating Labor policies with support from turncoats. All over now. Labor will become the Greens but without any power in either house, with no first preferences from anyone, unless they deal with the Nationals. Ha!
Still, things can go wrong. Especially if the Liberal party wakes up, but they will find Malcolm has the numbers in MPs and voters have no control of their MPs, even if they threaten to vote Labor. We will have forests of golden windmills.
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I know it’s the weekend unthreaded post but the random reply comment allocation is taking the “unthreaded” rather too literally for my liking
[We agree. Somebody or something has broken the interleaving of comments – we are working on it.] Fly
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A depression is good for CO2 emissions reductions.
In the 40 years in which the IEA has reported on CO2 emissions, there have been only four short periods in which emissions stood still or fell compared to the previous year. Three of those — the early 1980s, 1992 and 2009 — came in periods of economic crisis.
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Was that as measured by economic activity or by measuring total CO2 directly? Did actual CO2 keep going up steadily when emissions did not?
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“Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have mad for many thousands of years, realized at last. I Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish. The opportunity is equally great to justify the faith which animated that long travail, and bequeathed them such a noble and happy heritage.”
Isabel Patterson: The God of the Machine page 292
Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 1993.
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 92-32935
ISBM: 1-56000-666-8
Originally published in 1943 by G. P. Putnam.
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I see the Solar Impulse 2 is back in the air.
Part of me thinks that it is quite an impressive achievement – to design and build such an aircraft, but then, it’s not particularly revolutionary, and even one of the pilots said that he believed “…electric-powered planes, carrying up to 50 passengers short distances, would be possible within 10 years…”, so the concept is not about to..errr…take off any time soon!
The real downside is how many ‘true believers’ will see this as some sort of beacon of hope, and proof that solar power can save the planet.
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64 / 5 -> take 64 base 6 -> 40 base 10 -> divide by 5 -> 8
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Sorry – ignore – it would have to be base 7 at least.
(7) 46 , (8) 52 , (9) 58 – so – no
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I believe the time for action will be after the election.
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This morning Andrew Bolt sees the election as a fizzer. He could not be more wrong.
The reason Malcolm is doing nothing is that the result is already determined. Blofeld can just smile. Policies are irrelevant. So is the budget. Many Australians just want more money. They do not have to worry about debts as half pay no nett tax anyway.
The new Greens under a very quiet Di Natale are going to change sides. Malcolm is not saying anything because he might be thrown out by outraged Liberals who have not been asked. Not just the general population, the actual Liberal party members. No one will help Malcolm in his election campaign, certainly not the campaign people who worked so hard for Tony Abbott. It does not matter. Voting patterns are fixed. The swinging voters have been signed onto the other team.
This next coup will be on the Liberal party, guaranteeing them control of the senate, the destruction of Labor and a new Green Liberal party which could usher in a new era including the environmental activists, the loony left, the gay lobby, the univeristies, the public bodies like the ABC/CSIRO/BOM, the refugee activists.
Once this happens, it will be impossible to undo without splitting the Liberal party, as in the great splits of history. Gillards hero, Aneurin Bevan did the same to the British Labor party. This vision explains why Turnbull entered politics. He has all the money and fame. Now he wants to remake the Republic of Australia with himself as the first President. A surprising number of people think he is a great guy.
On the other hand you can see the amazing growth of the extreme left, with demands for more free money from Bernie Sanders followers to Jeremy Corbyn in England. Labor and the US Democrats are being dragged towards socialism. Malcolm’s move to the left soon may seem moderate in comparison to these successful extremists. It is the era of mass migration and handouts and free wide screen TVs. No one has to work when you can tax the rich. Older politicians are abandoning ship, in case you have not noticed. They can see it coming.
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‘The danger with Malcolm Turnbull’s July 2 election is it’s shaping up to be a fizzer. A non-event.
‘It should be huge, but both main parties seem keen to make it an election about nothing.’
Andrew Bolt
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Possibly the way the reply comments are being placed, it may be that REPLY will producing near random position. It will be interesting to see if this comment is at the end.
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No, my direct comment at #91 went into #36. Now I will reply to AndyG55 at #90.
Andy, there are Malcolm’s friends and then there are others. Malcolm has a team. His objective was not just the coup against Abbott, but a vision as to where he wanted to take the Liberals. So far he has done nothing as he wants to get to an election as fast as possible. Policies are irrlevant. As Joe Bjelke Petersen said, he just has to feed the chooks. He is taking the time to destroy Morrison by directly contradicting him every time. Surely everyone has noticed.
Once in an absolute position, Malcolm and Malcolm alone will decide on policies. The idea of a mandate will be dead. Mussolini was a democratically elected leader and Italians still admire him. His ego was the problem. He was ultimately removed by parliament, imprisoned but rescued by Hitler to lead a puppet government in the North of Italy.
The old political balances will be gone after the next election. Malcolm just does not want to play his hand yet and is begging the Green left media to run quietly and they will get what they want. As a former Environment minister and the previous Minister for Communications, Malcolm knows his friends well. They do not include the Liberal party faithful.
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Tdef # 37
There is an alternative explanation for Turnbull’s behavior that is a bit more simple.
He is a dick with no policy background or achievements at all and thats being exposed sat the moment.
He is being and will continue to be nobbled by the far RW elements of the Liberal party who are a presenting as an un-electable rabble at the moment.
If he somehow wins on July 2, then he gets knifed soon after. Its now obvious that even if he wins, it wont be a be enough win to save his arse.
Watch the polling aggregates. Once the ALP primary starts hovering consistently @ at 37-38% the Libs will know they are toast.
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Ah yes, the useful !diota
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A couple of weeks ago I read in a motoring review magazine that within twenty (20) years governments will not register private transport vehicles if they have fossil fuel powered engines.
If that is the agenda why are governments not advising consumers now, most keep their private vehicles for at least ten (10) years on average and would not want to replace their vehicle with one that cannot be registered before they plan to trade it in. On the other hand the motor vehicle industry would not be happy with the decline in sales, or governments with the decline in tax revenue streams.
However, why would we buy electric vehicles with maximum range before recharging of batteries around 400-500 Kilometres for the most expensive brands and as low as a real 100 Kilometres for the cheaper but still priced higher than fossil fuel powered vehicles? And electric vehicles that take hours to recharge the batteries.
What about towing capabilities? Many of us tow box trailers, boats and caravans and the heavier they are the more electrical power consumed and the more electric motor power is needed for towing. Even more expensive special electric towing capable vehicles needed.
And where will the extra grid electricity supplies come from. The leftists are determined to phase out fossil fuel powered electricity power stations too. Wind Turbines and Solar Systems would not, could not provide the continuous reliable supplies and supply domestic, commercial and industrial needs too.
What about rail transport? I noted that the first step is private vehicles but Diesel-Electric locomotives must be next. So where will the extra electricity come from to power the railways?
Is this another indication that the socialists are intent on collapsing the capitalist system and related advantages that has brought to the developed world? I think it does.
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I just did the comparison at Nissan Leaf all electric car of my 2.2 Litre Diesel SUV and the much smaller Nissan sedan, I would save $1,086.00 a year on my fuel bill for 40,000 Kilometres a year of driving.
And instead of a 5 minute or so refill of fuel tank I could do a fast charge to 80% of battery in about half an hour or much longer for a full charge, even longer for a trickle charge. And when charged fully 160 Kilometres range compared to, Highway Cycle, 1,100 Kilometres.
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http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2016/04/tony-abbott-went-wrong/
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Two of my posts today have been published several posts above this?
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This is a response to TdeF at #92 et al.
The only problem with that TdeF is that Turnbull has already demonstrated just how ineffectual he is. And, in doing so, has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that his Judgement is right off.
For example: Gordon Gretch and “Utegate” demonstrated his poor people judgement abilities. He believed a bureaucrat who was playing politics. He was sucked-in by the wretch Gretch.
Example two: He pushed for a Republic at a time when the Australian people were still very much Monarchists. His judgement was right off. In addition, he couldn’t get the Republicans to agree the method of election for El Presidente. He failed. His judgement was faulty.
Example three: He was hot-to-trot for a Carbon dioxide trading scheme of one kind or another when he was the leader of the Liberals in opposition. His judgement was right off. He misread the feeling in the Liberal party. His appalling judgement on that occasion lost him the leadership.
There are many more examples. His political and people judgement is very poor. He’s got no idea.
If he’s planning that which you suggest, I’ll back him out. On his previous track record he will fail. He’s a show pony with a tin-ear. [Snip – you know better] Fly “He’s up himself” and it affects his judgement.
Against that background, how about sending your thoughts to Barnaby. it should give him a good laugh and get him off the tractor for a bit.
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“how about sending your thoughts to Barnaby”
I have already emailed Barnaby about this possible scenario.
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Great. Malcolm promised Truss that the Abbott policies would stay. So they have. However after the next election, the promise is over.
This is the phony period in which Malcolm is doing nothing. Even the few amazing things he says like Very Fast Train, GST increase, bank bashing, negative gearing, increasing the GST tell you he is already announcing Green policies. Joining with the Greens to remove the minority parties should have told people something. This only benefited the Greens and Labor. Then he strangely backs down, for now. Barnaby should be very worried.
Also we are all being blinded by the lack of press comment. The ABC appear disinterested in Federal politics right now, happy with Malcolm. Andrew Bolt is puzzled about all of it. There is only one explanation and it is borderline mad, Club of Rome stuff, except it fits.
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Skeptical Sam,
“The only problem with that TdeF is that Turnbull has already demonstrated just how ineffectual he is. And, in doing so, has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that his Judgement is right off.”
Yes, this is what we have all been told. He was environment minister pushing an ETS in Howard’s failed election. He was head of the failed Australian Republican movement. He was leader of the Liberal party. All fails. He was younger.
Now this ineffectual man is head of the Liberal party, Prime Minister without being elected and in a position to bring an ETS any time he likes, after the election. Many ‘Liberal’ MPs will back him. After all, they voted him in. With an ETS, he can win over the Greens. Gay Marriage too. The boat turnbacks if required by his Green partners. Lots more Liberal MPs too, dependent on Green preferences as in Melbourne Ports.
The similarities to Rudd are incredible. Rudd was the son of a milk farmer. Turnbull the son of a Bondi lifeguard. Both have something to prove. Both are incredibly rich with rich powerful wives. Malcolm though is a QC and merchant banker and Rhodes Scholar, a cut above hapless Rudd. Both love selfies.
Although as you point out, Turnbull has three great failures. An ETS, the Republic and Tony Abbott. You just know what he is going to do next. This time it is planned and he has the support of at least half the MPs.
The older ones are being pushed out or just quitting like Hockey. Abbott will stay the course. Those not in Turnbull’s camp will be pushed out too. It is amazing that Morrison has not resigned, being repeatedly humiliated. After all, what can his budget say when we are borrowing $4Bn a month and just at the Federal level? Once Turnbull owns the shop, watch the rich get taxed, superannuation, negative gearing, income taxes, temporary taxes on being rich, the end of R&D tax relief for everyone including miners. A mining tax. Just as under Gillard, the Greens will decide.
Since when did a merchant banker hate government debt?
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You’re right. Thanks. Inadvertence.
Please accept my apologies, especially those who might have read the appalling suggestion that the Prime Minister is as I described.
By way of explanation I can only suggest I’ve been desensitized by the “Safe Schools Program”.
It’s so insidious.
That’s what happens when the Liberal left forget that it’s there to mitigate pornography, bestiality, self-abuse and all other progressive green left practices.
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Very perceptive and Machiavellian on on the part of the do nothing PM. If this is true, then his lack of action is fully justified as far as he is concerned.
What you present is nothing to do with the welfare of the country, but again this is about his ego or lack of it.
The man is a failure also in business as to me being a merchant banker is little more than who you know and how he can use crony capitalism to enrich his ever failing ego.
This election is about the end of Australia as we know it, and for Bolty not to see this is really sad. If Bolty does not see that what sort of chance has the average person.
This is why for the first time in my free existence in Australia I won,t vote liberals. ALA in the senate. Last preference is greens, 2nd last labour and 3rd last liberal in the house of reps. I will study carefully the remaining list putting other conservatives on top.
For the average voter this is too complicated and hence the result will be predicable either labor or Libs with greens holding the balance. However, I hope the senate will be more conservative and will stop the rampaging left w/n labor and Libs.
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The numbering system this weekend is more Unthreaded than a stripped Whitworth.
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This unthreaded thread is truly unthreaded.
I can’t make a thread of sense of any of the unthreaded threads.
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Ahhhh now I have it.
Anything above Tdef’s moved post acts sort of normally , whatever that is. 😉
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Maybe.. let’s see.
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And anything below, becomes a jumbled mess. 🙂
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New posts (not replies to anything below Tdef’s or any below it) appear above TdeF’s in proper order and replies work properly.
Does that make sense? darned if I know 🙂
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And its no use replying by stating the # of the post if its below Tdef’s because the numbers keep incrementing.
[Perhaps they keep incrementing, because you are ‘helping’?] Fly
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AndyG55,
Right from the first minute, TdeF’s Comment was Number One, and then that numbering changed with every new Comment, and if you read the text at the bottom of that comment from the Moderator Jo – Fly, it was moved from the earlier Thread, and because of that, as the Post was moved, no nesting of replies can occur.
Tony.
[Thank you Tony – I think you have identified the source of the problem. I originally held TdeF’s comment on the Polish thread because, although it was very good, it was rather large, and off topic for the subject matter of that thread – Jo agreed, and decided to start this thread with TdeF comment instead. In that way, we hoped that more people would read it, and comment on it.
Something has obviously gone awry in that process, and it is that ‘something’ we will need to track down – we appreciate your keen eye, and everybody’s patience] Fly
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“we appreciate your keen eye, and everybody’s patience] Fly ”
His keen eye.. I pointed out what was going wrong.
Tony, as usual, just described it better. !! 🙂
Now you’ve gone and upset me.. I’m all in a huff. 🙁
joking…. Hi Fly ! 🙂
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“[Perhaps they keep incrementing, because you are ‘helping’?] Fly”
Come on Fly.. I was doing my best to analyse the problem 🙂
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I’ve been thinking about TdeF’s idea all day and have just been reading comments on Breithart related to Brexit. Some are saying the British Tories are behaving like the GOP elite in the USA. What TdeF is suggesting about Turnbull has many similarities.
NB. For Australia’s sake I hope TdeF is wrong but I can see the logic in his thinking.
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Sorry to have unthreaded the thread. I hope it is fixed now.
The very idea that the Turnbulls are just floundering around with no idea what to do is itself amazing. Even Andrew Bolt believes this. No, they are very busy and setting up the country for the next coup. It is all about the next election.
First Tony Abbott had to be removed, then his useful enemies like Bronwyn Bishop and Dennis Jensen and others who just wanted to punish Abbott but were not insiders. Then the media partners have to make sure Tony cannot come back, driven out of parliament like Hockey but he is made of sterner stuff and younger than Turnbull. The decks are clear and Bolt is only picking up the signals of what is to come, an extremely left Turnbull government. He even knows about backroom deals with the Greens, but thinks nothing of it.
Frankly I was amazed to see Mrs Turnbull, the ex Lord Mayoress of Sydney in China meeting the Chinese government. To think she is not totally engaged in Federal politics would be wrong. The Turnbull power couple are doing nothing to frighten the chickens yet. They are loading the board while not changing Abbott’s policies, so the Nationals do not take fright and destroy the coalition before they are also trapped. Little slips like increased GST, bashing the banks, a VFT, negative gearing escape and promises have to be made. Are they as good as Gillard’s absolute promises though?
Nothing is being said or asked about a carbon tax/ETS? Why? This move is absolutely guaranteed in the next Turnbull Green government. Malcolm always wins. The major achievements of Tony Abbott will be demolished. This is personal.
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Ok, so it is not yet threaded.
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Does Burning Fossil Fuels Cause Sea Level Rise?
These people had no coal fired power, or SUVs, but still the sea levels rose …
2000-year-old temple found underwater off Indian coast
“When the shoreline receded during the 2004 tsunami, tourists in Mamallapuram swore they saw a long row of granite boulders emerge from the sea, before it was swallowed again as the water hurtled forward.
More than a decade later, a team of scientists and divers have uncovered what eyewitnesses saw on that fateful day – vestiges of an ancient port.
A 10-member team from the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) surveyed the area from March 10 to 18, and have found the ruins of one of six ancient temples that are thought to have been swallowed up by the ocean as sea levels rose.”
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A small country rail siding many a long year ago
One of those slow moving country passenger cum local freight trains of that long past era pulls in.
A matron in a somewhat desperate state exits the passenger carriage and heads at speed for the station’s outdoor toilets. [ I said it was a long time ago and that is how it often was! ]
Followed shortly by a cacophony of female screams and a somewhat disheveled and rather undressed and very distressed matron erupts from the toilets screaming that she had been bitten by a snake in the unmentionable nether regions.
Immediate investigation showed two puncture marks in the indicated regions so the appropiate snake bite remedies of those times was publicly applied forthwith by those present despite the severe embarrassment of the matronly subject of all the attention.
Which left the problem of the immediate disposal of toilet residing snake to be resolved.
A gun was procured, no problem in the country in those days before the current gun laws, and the well armed citizen ventured into the recesses of the women’s toilet with gun at the ready to dispose of the dangerous serpentine source of all the excitement.
A careful peering from a discrete distance down the toilet seat hole with the gun at the ready was of a somewhat very substantial let down with some indiscreet coughing and hacking as the gun laden snake destroyer tried to control his emotions.
The very clucky chook down that hole was most intent on protecting her brood of chickens and was ready to take on all comers after having been unduly disturbed by events beyond a very clucky chook’s ability to foresee when she chose her nesting place to hatch her eggs and bring up her brood of chicks.
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Cold Air Outbreak (CAO) in Europe.
http://notrickszone.com/2016/04/24/late-april-snow-shock-surprises-germany-president-obama-experts-advise-putting-winter-tires-back-on/#sthash.zwhsRUFh.dpbs
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Why does that man, ‘David’, who writes on Don Aitkin’s blog, dislike you so much?
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As for conspiracy and WOO HOO. after four Prime Ministers in four years, you have to accept that deals are running the parliament and no voted for Malcolm as PM. Loyalties change overnight with self interest. Abbott supported Bronwyn Bishop into the top job and beyond sense and she repaid him with voting him out of a job. Perhaps seven of these people who turned on Abbott have been since removed or left or damaged, replaced by friends of Malcolm.
Gillard promised no carbon tax. Not to everyone, just to Labor voters. She betrayed them and did the deal, with Bob Brown standing next to her as an equal, with only one seat in parliament. Oakshott and Windsor too, betraying their electorates because Windsor hates Abbott and Joyce. So did Slippper. This is more Game of Thrones than Australian parliament.
So it is easy to criticize my reading of this, but what other simple explanation fits the facts? The Ah Ha moment was when Turnbull announced the Very Fast Train. That could only have come from the Greens. All the pieces fell into place.
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Only in his own mind.
Well…..considerably less now than a couple of months ago. 🙂
There is nothing sudden about that! FFS TdeF, have you ever seen the idiot perform in parliament. He’s the classic lawyer who just doesn’t get that parliament is not a courtroom, a bit like Julie Bishop but better dressed an smarter (not that that is much of a complement).
Anyway TdeF, I reckon you are probably reading far too much into things that have far simpler explanations and you really do need to give at least a little weight to observed behavior when considering how people will vote.
I suspect we are going to disagree ever more strongly on this grand plan theory of yours so consider me disengaged on this topic.
Night night.
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Hi all,
Forgive me if this has been covered already (this is a very long thread:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australian-mp-sets-river-on-fire-and-then-blames-fracking-a6998221.html
I look forward to the rebuttal.
Ian
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Wow!! Just wow! The News on the ABC ( yes the A.B.C.)tells us that due to increased plant FOOD (CO2) and water in the atmosphere, The greening of our world has been increasing for 30 years. Well,well,well!! Whodathort that?
Just as well, eh, with all those extra mouths to feed?
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