Monday 2

This Monday went missing a couple of weeks ago, and just turned up now…

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    TdeF

    In today’s Australian, a symptom of the immense money involved in Climate CHange.


    Call for expanded Carbon Storage “Cutting emissions is not enough”

    The Federal Governments $10Bn Greenbank.
    The Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
    The Climate Change Authority.

    and go on to quote the IPCC, 1.5C by the end of the century. End of mankind etc.

    Then you get the
    Clean Energy Regulator
    Clean Energy Finance Corporation

    and of course all the State equivalents.

    Where does it end?

    And here was I thinking that pointing out there was no need to sequester CO2, that CO2 disappeared so fast from the air it didn’t matter. That any increase is purely natural and has a wonderful upside and ZERO downside.

    But these people want $10BILLION cash to fix the problem? No wonder no one’s listening! No need to ask why. And there are entire departments dedicated to the proposition that CO2 is a problem? And how many people? Boards of administrators!

    It is a vast amount of money being demanded to solve a problem which does not exist.

    There are so many snouts in the Climate Change trough I now understand why no one wants to hear there is no problem!

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      TdeF

      “And big operators like Santos (one of the worst ‘polluters’) have previously warned Australia is missing an opportunity to create a major carbon capture and storage industry and called on governments to prioritize the technology.”

      So now governments should throw billions at ‘innovation’ to create ‘carbon storage’ so it can be a ‘superpower’ and capture the ‘opportunity’.

      This is an insane profiteering supported by endless middle men and whole government departments. Or am I just a ‘denier’?

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        TdeF

        And I thought the giant piggery at Bowral with 200,000 Great White Sows was huge! The CO2 industry now dominates our country. And it’s 100% fake.

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      TdeF

      For those who have not heard of the $10Billion “Green Bank”

      “Australia is one of the few OECD countries to have established a green bank at the national level. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) was set up in 2012 as an independent statutory authority. Its primary role is to facilitate investment into the clean energy sector, with the ultimate goal of bringing Australia on a low-carbon emission path.

      The Government provided AUD 10 billion to the CEFC to be invested in the clean energy sector and used to catalyse additional finance from other investors. The Corporation is governed by an independent Board and reports to the Australian Parliament.”

      Your taxes at work!

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        TdeF

        And Malcolm Turnbull’s failed Snowy II is now projected to be $12.5Billion of total waste. Never to be used and likely never to be completed. Like 3 of the 5 multibillion $$ French desalination plants bought on hire purchase and never used. It all dwarfs the $440million Malcolm gave to his wife’s friends to ‘save’ the Great Barrier Reef, which does not need saving and never did. (7 1/2 tons of gold). No one ever asks where the money went. When did our taxes become their money, to spend on a whim?

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          Why not use these Desalination Plants to produce water that can be bottled and marketed as ‘Spring Water’ for sale? Either here in Australia (Walgett in Northern NSW needs clean water) or for sale for export to the rest of the World.

          Water is the new Gold don’t yer’ know.

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            TdeF

            I wonder who much they will have paid in total. The French financed the deal on the never ever. Who knows at what interest rates. While the face value of the 5 plants was low enough, the total cost of buying over decades was supposed to be closer to $100Bn. But who knows? It’s Government money which means it is limitless.

            Like those freeways in Victoria were were a public/private venture with temporary tolls. They are now our property but we still have to pay to use them and the Andrews government gets half plus the original operators. Money for jam. Billions for nothing, like most taxation. Except that half the money goes to private investors for doing precisely nothing.

            Exactly like RET funded windmils. We pay for them and they are owned privately and no tax is paid as our money is depreciated as a tax deduction. No wonder they want more windmills. Wind driven money pumps. Endlessly renewable cash vending machines.

            Isn’t Climate Change great! Too bad it’s not true but who cares? Take the cash.

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            KP

            ..and don’t bury the bloody CO2, make the water fizzy with it and export it all!

            I am quite sure they will just drill a deep bore and pump CO2 down it forever, as it immediately leaks back to the surface again!

            ” Billions for nothing, like most taxation. Except that half the money goes to private investors for doing precisely nothing. ”

            Yep- I figure the West should crash and burn, we have become quite insane and its time for more practical countries to take over the world.

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              James Murphy

              There’s a well in the South-East of SA (onshore), “Nangwarry-1” that is now a commercial supplier of CO2 to the food and beverage industry. expected production lifespan is around 30 years. the previous CO2 producer for the same purpose, Caroline-1, stopped production after about 50 years.

              It’s still cheaper (and profitable) to spend $16-17 million to drill and complete this one well, than it is to “capture” CO2 from the air or other sources.

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          lyntonio

          I wish you would stop talking about my mate like that!

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          Robber

          TdeF, why do you say Snowy2 will never be used (assuming it can be completed)?
          With so much solar, something has to act as the big battery to store surplus power during the day and then keep the lights on for the evening peak demand.
          The economics are based on the fact that midday spot prices are often negative, and evening prices are high.

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            TdeF

            Firstly there is not enough water to store a huge excess and nowhere near enough raw generating capacity to replace all the power stations of the entire country. I would guess at 10%. It’s all too little, even doubled. So it’s very limited.

            And someone has to pay for the energy to pump water uphill during the day with substantial losses. It would be farcical if coal and gas are used to pump the water up the hill during the day, which is what I expect will happen just to make it look as if solar and wind and hydro are adequate at night.

            Also without UHVDC the losses would be enormous in both directions, charging and discharging over vast differences. The Snowy was only to power Victoria and NSW, not the whole country.

            Someone needs to do the modelling and the costing. $12.5Billion should cover it. Where are the calculations? I started doing them and then stopped. This is like saving the Great Barrier Reef. Who needs to justify it?

            This was all considered in the 1950s and abandoned as uneconomic. Getting excess solar and wind to our one battery in the SE of the country is madness.

            We are now ‘investing’ in utterly inadequate batteries just to make solar and wind seem rational decisions just to avoid generating CO2.

            Snowy II will be used initially. Then it will be quietly turned off as a complete waste of money while we wait for mandated private ‘innovation’.

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      David Maddison

      What do you think is the best way to protect personal wealth against the huge confiscatory taxes that will be likely imposed upon financially responsible people to pay for all this?

      Shares?

      Real estate?

      Cash in bank?

      Physical gold?

      Investment funds?

      Other?

      Sell up and leave country and live on a Pacific island like Fiji or Asian country like Thailand?

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        Lucky

        Yes.
        As for the last one, recall that they stopped departures, they stopped re-entries, so if you can get out in time be prepared for no return.

        You may need portable wealth like diamonds sewn in the stomach.
        It has happened before.

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    TdeF

    You don’t think these multi billion dolllar carbon dioxide businesses could spent a little money in getting expert advice on whether they were wasting their time and our money? Or are we all simply slaves of the IPCC. And even the IPCC has now backed away from any story of catastrophe! Surely after 35 years of utterly failed predictions someone would ask questions? Even about this? Or this?

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      Steve of Cornubia

      The money is never “wasted”, even when, as in most cases, the project fails or goes nowhere. The churn of money is the whole point. All that money dashes around from stupid idea to white elephant and on to some NGO but, as it whizzes around, vast sums stick to wealthy hands, many belonging to politicians. Whe you’re disbursing billions of dollars, that buys lots of favours post-politics.

      Just ask yourself how it is that modern politicians earn so little, yet get so rich.

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        James Murphy

        Politicians are paid incredibly well if you compare what they achieve for the money they cost.
        No doubt it’d be the equivalent of being paid tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per productive hour of work.

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          David Maddison

          Agreed James.

          Most politicians are lazy, stupid, morally bankrupt, unpatriotic and incompetent.

          They have very little to no value in any proper job.

          Their only purpose is to be used by corrupt, Elite forces to facilitate special favours.

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    How come there are now two Mondays for Open Threads? Is this now a parallel Universe that I am in? Beam me up Scotty.

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    So, I will post this again for the second Monday………..lol

    Hey, Blackout Bowen, do you have my $275?

    https://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/bowen.png

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    el+gordo

    Now that winter is over ….

    ‘Germany has shut down its last three nuclear power plants as part of a long-planned transition towards renewable energy.

    ‘The closure, which was agreed more than a decade ago, is being closely watched abroad.

    ‘Countries such as the UK, US, Japan, China and France are counting on nuclear energy to replace fossil fuels.’ (UK Mail)

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    John Connor II

    Breaking Kuwait news

    https://twitter.com/KuwaitNews/status/1644792772212260867/

    That’s an interesting news reader, don’t you think!

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    SteveD

    Currently a high pressure system over South Australia. Wind power generators for all of the NEM have been generating < 2000MW since midnight. SA was running diesel generators this morning. What are the chances we'll hear about this in the news?

    How about "What happens when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine?".

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      Dennis

      State governments phone all business high electricity usage businesses and order them to cease operations, and promise a cheque in the mail to cover losses.

      Later the cost is added onto all consumer’s accounts.

      sarc.

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      Sambar

      “What happens when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine?”.

      Community batteries that will last well————

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    James Murphy

    The ABC is very unhappy with being labelled correctly, it seems.
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-17/abc-branded-government-funded-media-by-twitter/102230338

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    yarpos

    So the Lidell stage of the courageous and brave transition of the NSW grid is upon us. Cant understand the hesitancy around Eraring, its all going really well so far. It will be interesting to see how this game of grid Jenga goes. Tricky when the results of moving that key block wont be seen until the weather stops co-operating. To paraphrase Edward Smith, the captain of the Titanic, so far so good.

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      robert rosicka

      NSW is nearly always using more electricity than generating so losing 10% of supply should help the shortfall when prices skyrocket and people won’t be able to afford electricity so consumption drops , Baldrick cunning plan indeed .

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        James Murphy

        Don’t forget though, all the price rises and all the blackouts are due to evil fossil fuels companies and Russia (despite vast amounts of evidence to the contrary).

        Call me stupid, but I am still surprised that even though the government has freely admitted that capping gas and coal prices will not stop electricity costs skyrocketing, not one MSM outlet has questioned the narrative.

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    John Connor II

    Monday 2, part III, section 4(a), non- ChatGPT ver 1.0 – Electric Cars Being Written Off After Minor Bumps

    Electric cars are being written off after minor damage to batteries, casting renewed doubt on their environmental credentials

    Roughly half of low-mileage EVs being salvaged have suffered minor battery damage – which can be caused by something as innocuous as mounting a kerb – according to Copart, an auction platform.

    A senior source in the insurance industry said car manufacturers were not sharing diagnostic data because they were wary of third parties botching repairs.

    As a result, insurance companies are reluctant to attempt repairs and assume responsibility should anything go wrong.

    “A lot of people are quite scared of what to do with them,” he said. “If a car is not powered down correctly you could get electrocuted.”

    It comes as the Government unveiled plans to force car manufacturers to sell an increasing proportion of EVs in the run up to the ban on petrol car sales by 2035.

    The source said EVs could be sent to the scrapheap for minor bumps, such as mounting a kerb.

    https://principia-scientific.com/electric-cars-being-written-off-after-minor-bumps/

    The article highlights a bigger problem, the lack of skilled repairers, primarily mechanics.
    The average mechanic, even trained in modern car computer systems, has a very hard time in diagnosing faults.
    A recent case for a brand that shall not be named, had a car transmission replaced, a VERY expensive job, only to find the fault was still there. The actual cause was water in a tail light, a common fault for that vehicle…
    In the absence of service data (eg Tesla) a lot of EV’s are going to be unserviceable and therefore liabilities rather than assets.

    Truly skilled diagnosticians are rare as…

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      David Maddison

      They are hardly environmentally friendly…

      And apart from that, EVs are mostly coal powered (not that it matters, but proponents of EVs think it does).

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      RickWill

      The insurance premiums or even inability to insure BEVs is now a major factor in their acceptance.

      Owning a BEV in Australia requires deep pockets and masochistic tendency.

      I saw BEV owners complain about queues at charging stations over Easter. Who would buy a BEV in Australia and take on an Easter road trip without expecting to be queued at the charging station.

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    KP

    The latest Musk madness, live in 2hours! Well, 10.15pm Monday, somewhere in the world.

    https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-test

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      Hanrahan

      Why is this “Musk Madness”?

      People want space launches and he looks to be head and shoulders above the competition, NASA included.

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        KP

        He definitely is! It really shows that the US Govt should have held competitions for private companies to do this decades ago.

        Just like Burt Rutan with his Starship, the composite, much-improved version of a Beechcraft turboprop commuter . He, unfortunately, landed on the wrong side of the bureaucrats and was ‘FAA’d’ out of business.

        Seems that was Sydney time displayed, another 15minutes for the live transmission. Probably launched an hour or two after, we shall see.

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      Memoryvault

      Seems to have been a bit of a delay.
      Countdown now due to start at 22.35.

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    Hanrahan

    So is it Monday 2, Monday too, or Monday as well?

    But ain’t it marvellous, three days out from Liddell closing and renewables are meeting 8% of demand.

    The whole world is crazy ‘cept me and thee and sometimes I wonder ’bout thee.

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    James Murphy

    I don’t follow the news avidly, but I do pay general attention, and, as such, it was, err… news to me… that buried in this video, was news that farmers in Poland are protesting because Ukrainian grain is cheaper than locally grown grain.
    I guess reporting this properly would go against the “Russia is bad, Ukraine is perfect” propaganda.
    EU slams Poland, Hungary move to ban Ukrainian grain imports

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    Memoryvault

    Scott Ritter with the latest update on the Ukraine war.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovBnh2ozePw

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    David Maddison

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/08/old-car-parks-could-collapse-under-weight-electric-cars/

    Car parks could collapse under the weight of electric cars

    Electric vehicles are typically much heavier than petrol or diesel cars, with their batteries accounting for a lot of the extra weight

    By
    Jack Simpson, TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT
    8 April 2023 • 2:19pm

    Multi-storey car parks across the country could be at risk of collapse as heavier electric vehicles put pressure on ageing infrastructure, experts have warned.

    Car parking experts and engineers have told The Telegraph that the growth of EV use in the UK could put pressure on car park floors, with unloved structures most susceptible to buckling.

    So worried are some about the ability of car parks to hold new vehicles that new guidance is being developed that will raise the weight levels for what car park floors should be able to hold.

    Chris Whapples, a structural engineer and car park consultant and the author of the new guidance, told The Telegraph: “I don’t want to be too alarmist, but there definitely is the potential for some of the early car parks in poor condition to collapse.”

    “Operators need to be aware of electric vehicle weights, and get their car parks assessed from a strength point of view, and decide if they need to limit weight.”

    New electric vehicles are much heavier than the average petrol or diesel car. EV batteries account for much of this, usually weighing around 500kg.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      Chad

      I wonder if he realises how much the average UTE or Bently , BMW, Jeep, Range Rover, etc etc weighs …..compared to the popular EVs ?
      And what would the typical loading safety factor be on such a structure with a variable loading intention ?
      IE its all attention seeking scaremoungering !

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    David Maddison

    Video (13 mins):

    Dr Philip McMillan looks at the “mysterious” dramatic rise in heart failure cases in the UK.

    Coincidental, I’m sure, it strongly correlates with people being forcibly injected with covid “vaccines”…

    Aren’t “true belivers” about due for their sixth or seventh “jab”?

    Interesting comments on the video as well. One nurse said her department is overwhelmed with heart failure cases but no one will say anything.

    https://www.youtube.com/live/1UHoiePQPLE?feature=share

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    el+gordo

    A new paper throws a whole new light on the glacial max.

    ‘Averaged over the entire Earth, the mean annual temperature was 0.4°C warmer than modern (14.8°C) 31.3 k years ago, and -0.4°C colder than modern (14.0°C) 46.4 k years ago, or during the coldest period in the last 200,000 years.

    ‘Mean annual temperature swings ranging from -3.4°C at 80°N 111.8 k years ago to -40.9°C at 80°N 46.4 k years ago suggest millennial-scale climate variations as high as 35°C occur naturally in the Earth’s climate system.’ (Notrickszone)

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    Graeme No.3

    ‘comment’ by JANET ALBRECHTSEN in today’s AUSTRALIAN.
    If you are confused about the story we have published, join the club. The really vexing part is that I am forbidden from informing you about this latest chapter to the Lehrmann-Higgins imbroglio. Here’s what I can tell you. Late on Monday afternoon, Chief Justice Lucy McCallum in the ACT Supreme Court released her judgment from last December relating to why she suppressed details of an application brought by Bruce Lehrmann after the mistrial was declared last year.
    What is far more interesting than that judgment is what I cannot tell you. I can’t tell you why that December 2, 2022, judgment only became public on Monday. Nor can I tell you anything about the nature of the “application” that CJ McCallum alludes to that sparked the judgment that she released on Monday. The nature of that application brought by Lehrmann and his lawyers after the mistrial, and before the DPP decided not to retry Lehrmann, remains secret by decree of the court.

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    KP

    Word from ex-intelligence people that the whole Jack Texeira spying case is a sham- He didn’t have security clearance to even see one of the files he is alleged to have copied, he didn’t have the time to copy & distribute as he’s only a ‘weekend warrior’..

    https://sonar21.com/more-unanswered-red-flags-regarding-jack-texeira/

    ..and especially as it seems to only be done to put out a date for the giant Ukie counter-attack.

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      Lance

      No way a 21 yr old National Guard dweeb had access to original documents. Someone gave them to him. He’s the patsy for some kind of propaganda.

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    Lance

    “The Simpsons” Blasts Woke Colleges Using Real Quotes From Students. Quite appropriate and timely. Funny as well. 🙂

    https://theamericantribune.com/watch-the-simpsons-blasts-woke-colleges-using-real-quotes-from-students/

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    Robber

    The stupidity of solar power.
    According to OpenNEM, in March rooftop solar provided 1,944 GWh, utility solar 1,191 GWh.
    In January, 2,347 GWh and 1.414 GWh.
    But in Sept, 1,532 and 911 GWh.
    And July, 1.030 and 744 GWh.
    So what keeps the lights on in winter, and every night?

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    crakar24

    I have had Mondays go missing before

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