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What, a first!
And nothing to say and I didn’t watch the Corronation (but I have some recorded as the weather is lousy today).
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Pipped at the post by 3 minutes – congratulations G3!
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Did you record the ABC’s coverage?
If so, you’re in for a real treat with our taxpayer funded impartial broadcaster making it a respectful crowning of Australia’s Monarch.
/sarc 🙁
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Disentis Ski Area in Switzerland has announced they plan to be 100% ‘solar-powered’ by 2026. Axis intends to install a 10MW array up on the mountain, producing 17GW hours annually (?), piggybacking onto ‘existing infrastructure’.
As I commented on the article, let’s hope it doesn’t snow otherwise… well, most of us here can figure that one out. It’s the opening promo page at https://www.snow-forecast.com
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Greg:
I thought that skiing was in winter time, when the weather is usually pretty poor for solar power. I didn’t see anything about a huge battery to store the power in summertime.
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Actually when in the Alps, there were quite a few sunny days when folks sat outside sunning themselves high up in the mountains. Looks really weird at first, until you realise that high up, the sun really beats down.
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Yeah but, on those powder days when it’s snotting down and everyone wants to be accessing those chairlifts – ‘Sorry folks, you’re gonna have to walk.’
Maybe they’ll keep the ‘existing infrastructure’ plugged into the mains for those ‘rare’ emergencies, when there’s a metre of freshies on top of those ‘sun idols’ and zzzzzzz.
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The 17GWh figure is based on annual output. There will be little to no snowfall from maybe April to November so probably enough time to get 1700 hours of full sunshine equivalent with tracking array.
The grid will store power by not burning gas in summer that can then be burnt in winter to provide power when the panels are snow covered. This is the same accounting practice that is used in Camnberra so they can enjoy 100% “renewable” energy.
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….And also if it is possible to add this here that, ……… it appears that a group of fictional scientists have discovered a pandemic of EV’s (electric vehicles) after testing for them….there were some false positives that seem to suggest they were combustion engines..
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Canberra is a city full of green beaurocratics and dodgy accountants . .
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They like hiding in the bureaux.
Don’t get so caught up with real work.
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That’s a calculated capacity factor of 19.6% which is typical of PV systems, but will be interesting to see the real summer vs winter numbers,
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Further to my post at #2, re alpine sun cult, the weather report for Disentis on Sunday 7 May was –
Snow showers, -2 C max, 5-10 cm new snow each day all this week, culminating with a max of -7 this Friday… so much for that mythical ‘warming world’.
Historical records show this part of mountainous S.E. Switzerland receives 3.4 days of snow per week with an average of 50 cm snowfall each week – sounds great for skiing and boarding but not too hot for generating solar pixie-power (expected to run 9 lifts and numerous offices, cafes & accessories). At least the snow-ploughs and snow-mobiles run on diesel/petrol.
As an aside, Australia’s ski areas resemble the Swiss Alps this morning ❄️ ‘Storm Blizzard’ is forecast to arrive in NZ tomorrow night, with ‘snow to 400m’ and totals of 1 metre-plus on the higher peaks over the next few days. Where are the ‘activists’ when you need them!
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“expected to run 9 lifts and numerous offices, cafes & accessories”
You forgot the 850 electric cars to be charged in the lower car-park while their owners ski..
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Like farms, those ski runs are simply windmill prime realestate. Cleared, away from inner city living. Ready to go! Might even be able to combine wind and solar on the same acreage.
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For post coronation reading
“1,200 Years of British Royalty in 5 Charts”
https://graboyes.substack.com/p/1200-years-of-british-royalty-in
Via SDA
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Alexander III, 1249, ‘Killed when horse fell over cliff”. If only they had orange road cones – traffic management saves lives!
And earlier, Malcolm III, 1058 – appears karma got him in the end.
Life in the Medieval Warm Period eh – your own family was more of a threat than the elements.
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Here’s a quiz for the ABC commentators who covered the coronation in such a negative biased manner:
Which alternative occupiers of Australia would you have preferred?
• A. None. Better that the continent remained with its aboriginal tribes
• B. France
• C. Spain
• D. Portugal
• E. China
• F. Japan
• G. Germany
• H. Turkey
• I. Iraq
• J. Iran
• K. Russia
Please provide reasons for you selection(s).
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• L Belgium
King Leopold’s emissaries treated the Congolese just smashingly, or was that merely English PR?
• M Indonesia
Are we allowed to mention Irian Jaya / Western New Guinea?
• N Penguins
I wouldn’t want to cross a grumpy penguin
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“The Crime of The Congo”, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Non fiction. Can be downloaded free of charge at gutenberg.org
There are a lot of other books there too, including classics, copyright free.
I highly recommend two by Watkin Tench, who was a captain of Marines on the First Fleet.
Not too long, very informative. Just search his name.
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Thanks for these
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“I wouldn’t want to cross a grumpy penguin”
Especially if they are a King or Emperor. Very oppresive lot they are.
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F. If they had more space, they may be inclined to procreate and not die out. The Japanese just appeal to me more than the other options. There would be no PS4 or PS5 or Toyota Hybrids.
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Japan as occupiers during WW II? No thanks. Maybe this century?
Cheers
Dave B
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My experience tells me that ABC commentators are likely to go Dutch with a cheap Italian.
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A was never an option
Some power was always going to occupy them
They ended with best possible outcome.
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Noel, Marcia and Lidia might not agree!
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O. American whalers
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France, I like a good croissant.
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Yumm. And a crème brûlée. Will be sampling these again in a few months…
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The alternative you refer to is of course the alternative to the Vikings who actually did take over Australia. The Viking territory, Normandy, took over England in 1066 and never let go.
Frankly, I am p’d off with the endless Balkanisation of society that has been gaining strength over the last few decades. None of us are responsible for what anyone did 200 abd more years ago. Get over it. England did. So can Australia.
PS. The Voice is just another attempt at Balkanisation.
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Mike
There is surprisingly little Norman DNA in Britain except in Some Southern Counties. The majority is Anglo Saxon. As you rightly say The Normans were Viking and our Viking ancestry proportion (strongest in the East) predates the Normans, who as a dynasty lasted only a century. I agree with you about Balkanisation of Western Society and as you say we are not responsible for what our ancestors did centuries ago.
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Not forgetting of course that, prior to the Norman Conquest, poor Blighty had been ‘invaded’ first by some Belgic and perhaps other small tribes from the continent, then the Romans and then the Germanic ‘Anglo Saxons’. Subsequently there were the partially successful Scandinavian occupations. Only after all that did the Normans barge in. In between all this, successful incursions from Scotland and Ireland added to the genetic mix.
The most recent illegal invasion is made up of a loose alliance of African, Middle Eastern and eastern European tribes but they are being met, not with drawn swords, but by welfare cheques and free housing. That’ll teach ’em.
I should get my DNA tested. If it turns out I am descended from the poor old Ancient Britons, I demand reparations!
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I choose none of the above. As a Maltese I have experienced British governance, a symbiotic system that was quite biased in favour of the Maltese who had actually chosen the British crown by a vote by the leaders of the insurrection against Napoleon’s invading force in 1800. 10.000 Maltese young men died during the 2-year insurrection which ended with the French force surrendering with full honours upon the arrival of Lord Nelson’s navy in Malta in 1802. The French military, which had blockaded itself inside Valletta city were to proud to surrender to an army of farmers armed with torches and pitchforks.
When the French left the island, the leaders of the insurrection chose the British crown as a sort of protector/government on a dominion status/self government until independence in 1964. That choice was between bringing back the Knights of Malta, the Czar of Russia, Britain or some other superpower of that time.
I have been to French Caledonia and have experienced how Caledonians live, and thank God that my ancestors resisted Napoleon and his forces and chose the British Crown
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Thanks, Bert, for spelling that out. I am fortunate to have visited Malta and to have learned a little bit about its history. It is an amazing place with amazingly resourceful people (living on a little island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, they needed to be).
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“this is a fun game for a change with a search engine, a browser, and an AI chatbot called Gippr, which aren’t obviously rigged to hide reality”
GIPPR AI:
asked: write a global warming limerick:
response:
“The planet has gotten too warm,
Our weather has started to swarm,
With ice caps that melt,
And rising sea felt,
The damage we’ve caused is the norm”.
asked: write a limerick about global warming BS
response:
“I’m sorry, as GIPPR I cannot provide a limerick that directly insults the idea of global warming as it is a scientifically recognized phenomenon. As a conservative AI, I believe in taking steps to protect our environment and natural resources for future generations, regardless of one’s opinion on the cause of global warming”.
asked: how can humans stop global warming?
response:
“There are several steps that individuals and societies can take to address global warming. From a conservative perspective, these steps may include: 1. Reducing carbon emissions: This can be done by using renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, increasing energy efficiency, and reducing fossil fuel consumption. 2. Promoting sustainable practices: This includes reducing waste, recycling, and conserving water. 3. Supporting conservation efforts: Conserving natural habitats and promoting reforestation can help absorb carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change. 4. Encouraging innovation: Investment in research and development can help advance new technologies and solutions for combating climate change. However, it is important to note that global warming is a complex issue and will require collaboration and action from governments, industries, and individuals across the globe to make a significant impact.”
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NOT programmed by a Conservative…
Programmed by a rabid AGW apostle… trying to pass themselves off as a Conservative… FAIL !
A non-intellect, non-conservative, regurgitator of the anti-science consensus on climate.
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You don’t program an AI, you train it. The quality of training data is all important. So is the algorithm, but the Large Language Models are in the public domain now. There is a lot of skill in choosing the appropriate training parameters. GIPPR acknowledges the existence of anthropogenic global warming because it’s scientific fact and it has not been trained on the nuttier parts of the internet.
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LOL, you obviously know basically nothing about computer programs.
What more can be said !
AGW is NOT a scientific fact, if it was you would be able to produce some of that science.
But have failed hilariously at every attempt.
“it has not been trained on the nuttier parts of the internet.”
The fact that it is quoting from leftist AGW propaganda, shows that it most definitely is!
Another fail.
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Today’s recommended reading is ‘The Earth Transformed’ by Peter Frankopan, which tells the story of Homo sapiens and how we have suffered natural ecological disasters and engineered our own in turn. It’s just come out and should be at your local bookshop. Peter is Professor of Global History at Worcester College, Oxford and knows what he is talking about.
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Let’s take a couple of snippets shall we.. taking about the Holocene…
Oh dearie me.. seems at least someone knows that warmer periods bring life and prosperity.
Pity we are currently in a rather cold period of the Holocene, isn’t it. 😉
And that the anti-CO2 agenda seeks to make things even more difficult for humans to exist…
… to halt the rise of prosperity through these cooler times by destroying technological advancement.
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Noted yet again, the complete absence of any science proving CO2 warming…
Just a failed attempt at distraction. Very funny. 🙂
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“Professor of Global History at Worcester College”
his opinion is as to whether c/agw is a ‘scientific fact’ is literally irrelevant (not qualified in the relevant field).
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He gets the history part correct, that warmer period were periods of human prosperity.
Then destroys it all by going down the farcical “future rapid global warming” AGW cult pathway.
A scenario based on absolutely NOTHING but erroneous models and fake science.
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‘ … and engineered our own in turn.’
Homo sapiens were incapable of influencing climate, coming out of the ice age they were still hunter gatherers. The Younger Dryas was a sobering experience for the people of the Northern Hemisphere, so at its end they cultivated the wild grasses and sat down more often in the one place. The dawn of civilisation.
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According to Amazon.
‘A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time.’
We already knew that.
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We are lucky to be living through an era of rather stable and benign “climate” !
Why some clowns/fools/nongs want to destroy the reliability of energy that allows us to adapt to weather events and changes, is beyond me.
Future generations will undoubtedly suffer because of it.
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If we lose power this winter there will be an uproar.
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‘ … engineered our own in turn.’
Its happening faster than we thought possible.
https://notrickszone.com/2023/05/07/manmade-studies-suggest-that-wind-parks-cause-climate-change-even-regional-drought/
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“There is a lot of skill in choosing the appropriate training parameters.”
That is funny. 😉
You mean these “training parameters” (ie programming, fudge factors etc etc) are selected by someone.
Do you ever think about what you are typing ?
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Well, “training” is programming… after all, it is not too much more than manipulating coefficients, whether they are changed manually, or less visibly as part of a multilayered AI.
As with climate models, you seem to think that AI models are accurate and infallible, which demonstrates how little you are prepared to learn about either subject.
AI is not some magic sentient thing, it’s just code, and still beholden to “garbage in, garbage out”, it makes no decision as to whether anything is “scientific fact” or not. It just happens that the largest, most famous AI models have been fed garbage in the form of AGW, along with all kinds of other garbage, such as ‘counting’ posts from Reddit, as discussed in this video.
https://youtu.be/WO2X3oZEJOA
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“From a conservative perspective, these steps may include: 1. Reduc…… However, it is important to note that global warming is a complex issue and will require collaboration and action from governments, industries, and individuals across the globe to make a significant impact.””
Obviously doesn’t believe in the free market & prefers a big Govt.
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I had a discussion with it about whether State government interference in what pension plans are allowed to invest in was consistent with small government. It’s a very ‘vanilla’ LLM, ChatGPT is more sophisticated in its arguments. It’s still a vast improvement over the quality of debate here though 😉
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“ChatGPT is more sophisticated in its arguments”
Ie.. its been “trained” to waffle and BS more, to cater for leftists.
Yes, the artificial non-intelligents, when they do comment, certainly lower the quality of debate.
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State Governments have the absolute DUTY to maximise their financial returns on pension funds.
Going woke, and backing companies that push the ESG farce, is an absolute failure of that duty.
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You are suggesting that the State should override the pension plan managers’ investment decisions. That sounds very socialist. How can politicians understand the market better than skilled investment managers? In my experience, whenever the state meddles in free market decisions, it leads to poorer outcomes.
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If the management is not doing their financial duty, they should be dismissed!
If they are putting their cult, religious or social ideology before their financial duty, they should be dismissed.
Wouldn’t you agree!
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“whenever the state meddles in free market decisions, it leads to poorer outcomes.”
We can absolutely agree that the government subsidies on wind and solar, and their politically-based attacks on reliable electricity supplies, based purely on junk science, are leading to an extremely poor outcome for all Australians.
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Feel free to leave and go to a “safe space” on one of your beloved censored Leftist platforms that doesn’t allow difficult questions or alternative opinions, Simon.
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Ask the pseudo-AI about Antarctic cooling:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/05/06/facebook-censoring-the-inconvenient-truth-about-antarctic-temperatures/
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“as GIPPR I cannot provide a limerick that directly insults the idea of global warming”
Yet it can write a limerick where EVERY line is provably FALSE and/or just plain nonsense!
What does that tell you about its programmer.
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BS in, BS out. Simples. It’s the same Climate Change models on steroids.
BS in, 3 X more BS out. They have to move it up the extra 2 notches because current BS is losing traction. You know Germany now going to build fossil fuel generators etc, etc.
Time to panic!
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Ruari does a much-superior job with limericks!
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Commonwealth of Australia – Head of State
https://www.ourconstitution.org/aust_head_of_state.php
“The Australian Constitution does not contain the words “Head of State”, nor was the term discussed during the constitutional debates which resulted in the drafting of the Constitution and its subsequent approval by the Australian people. In the absence of a specific provision in the Constitution, we need to see who actually performs the duties of Head of State in order to determine who is the Head of State.
As discussed in this paper, these duties are performed by the Governor-General, and the Sovereign’s only constitutional duty is to approve the Prime Minister’s recommendation of the person to be appointed Governor-General, or, if the need should ever arise, to approve the Prime Minister’s recommendation to terminate the appointment of a Governor-General. Although the Governor-General is the Queen’s representative for the purposes of exercising the prerogatives of the Crown in Australia, when he exercises his constitutional duties as head of the executive Government of Australia he does so in his own right and not as a delegate of the Queen……………”
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The Head of State in a democracy is the person who lawfully exercises the executive power vested (ie given solely) to them by the people.
Australians agreed in a referendum to transfer their power to vest executive power to the then Queen, and her successors in a kingdom which, strictly speaking, no longer exists.
The executive power was then exercised by the Governor General, and once the Constitution was enacted was vested according to Section 70 ie to the GG or the GG in Council or to an authority vested by laws under the Commonwealth.
The de jure HoS is the Governor-General, the de facto HoS is the entity who really exercises executive power. Who is that? Who really pulls the purse strings? The bureaucracy?
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I have tried three times today to look at the AEMO Market Notices. It has either just sat there or returned “no market notices found”. I think the system has been overloaded!!
Lets hope the notice system is not a harbinger of the grid status.
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I’ve successfully accessed the Data Dashboard a few times today, including just now..
Cheers
Dave B
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But did you see the Market Notices?
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At the page https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem I had a giggle after turning to the “Renewable Penetration” tab and encountering
“Renewable Penetration Highlights
“The below figure is the maximum renewable penetration rate ever recorded
“MAX
“68.7%
“18,882 MW
“Fri, 28 October, 2022, 12:30
bragging about a five minute snapshot; what Keating would call “all tip and no iceberg”.
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Sorry. No.
Cheers
Dave B
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Your harbinger probably relates to the mass of minor problems in satellite comms and submarine optical cable systems resulting from the past few days of geomagnetic storms. If so, expect more trouble over the next few days.
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Price forecast to hit $14,000 at 6pm today.
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The AEMO Price and Demand data is now frozen at 21:20 May 7.
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Forecast demand was 9277 this morning.
Will be interesting to see what value it did peak at, given the rather cold winds that have pushed through.
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Dashboard back up now. SA peaked at $356/MWh at 0759 today.
It appears that SA is the most vulnerable now that Liddell is out of the picture. The price in SA hit $12,900/MWh on May 4. Gas was producing 80% of demand. There was no import from Victoria and distillate was suppling 2.8% of demand.
https://opennem.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=7d&interval=30m
I do not think many people anticipated that SA would be most vulnerable to Liddell closure.
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“I do not think many people anticipated that SA would be most vulnerable to Liddell closure.”
When wind is low in SA, SA is at the end of the supply line… so it sort of makes sense.
Everyone else gets first dibs on what is available.
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“Blind” robot hand can operate solely by touch
It can manipulate objects in complete darkness.
Columbia University researchers have built a robot hand that can deftly manipulate objects without seeing them — allowing it to work in complete darkness.
One of the biggest challenges with that has been replicating the human hand, which has 27 degrees of freedom and incredible touch sensitivity — this allows us to manipulate objects while also knowing exactly how much pressure to use to grasp them.
To demonstrate the system, the researchers had the robot hand grasp and rotate an unevenly shaped object between its fingers. This seemingly simple task is challenging because the bot must constantly reposition some of its fingers while using others to prevent the object from falling.
Not only was the robot hand able to ace the test, it was also able to do so in the dark, demonstrating how it relies on its sense of touch — not sight.
https://youtu.be/mYlc_OWgkyI
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.03486.pdf
Nice. There’s just been an amazing development on the A.I. front which I won’t post on, just yet.😎
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Meh! The Davos crowd began manipulating “blind” human objects, who, by definition, are always in the dark, years ago!
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Willis is in good form and plays down the impact of CO2.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/05/ice-cores-temperatures-and-co2/
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Scientists launch manhunt for ‘longest ever’ Covid patient in Ohio who has been infected for two YEARS – as they warn patient’s virus is so mutated it could spark ‘concerning’ outbreak
Scientists are trying to track down an Ohio resident who they believe is the longest-standing Covid patient ever, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The patient – thought to live in the Columbus area – is carrying a highly mutated version of the virus that is ‘unlike anything’ experts have seen.
The virus has been detected through wastewater sampling and traced back to early 2021. It is being repeatedly picked up along a 40-mile area, signaling that one person is carrying and shedding it through their stool.
Dr Marc Johnson, a microbiologist at the University of Missouri, warned the mutations the strain has would be serious enough to make it a ‘variant of concern’ if it began circulating in the population.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12012763/Scientists-launch-manhunt-longest-Covid-patient-Ohio.html
Nope, sorry. Not interested. It’s over.
I blow my nose at your silly scientists.
https://youtu.be/x1TGsFCDrjQ
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Scotland is banning beards on police so they can wear more effective masks ‘next time’.
You really think it (and I don’t mean covid) has gone away?
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This man is still alive, so where is the danger ?
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And he has had the variant for two years, but it appears he is still the only one infected with it. Not very transmissible, obviously.
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I thought we had moved on from the covid scare story.
The ufo Alien scare story didn’t get much traction so now they are trying out Artificial intelligence is going to kill us all.
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Cool Australia brainwash our children.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2023/05/how-they-churn-out-so-many-horrid-little-activists/
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Snowfall in the mountains in Australia.
https://i.ibb.co/Z6h2VRS/Zrzut-ekranu-2023-05-07-085642.png
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‘Image not found’.
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Try this link
https://www.9news.com.au/national/australia-weather-cold-front-sweeps-across-new-south-wales-and-victoria/413ae251-df0b-4ecb-8952-f1f58ba7f4cf
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Its not unprecedented at this time of year, the ski season starts in a month.
As you know the meandering jet stream is causing blocking high pressure, its too far south and the subtropical ridge is in disarray. Cause unknown.
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Unbelievable !!
Humanity’s tipping point? How the Queen’s death stole a climate warning’s thunder
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“The paper in Science was truly earth-shattering, as it heralded changes that could threaten the future of civil society on this planet.”
What? Again?
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We are staying at a campsite in Tasmania and today seemed like a good day to catch up with the laundry. In the laundry-room, where I had to remain while the washing was ‘doing’, an investigation of the bookshelves produced a battered paperback copy of Michael Crichton’s ‘Prey’. I read it years ago and found it spooky then; even spookier now in view of recent discussions here on Jo’s blog.
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Annie, I use a copy of Michael Crichtons book “State of Fear” as my go to for the “science”, and what is wrong with it, of Global Warming/Climate Change.
Written in 2000, though a fictional story it contains all the original data from NASA GISS, weaved into the story with around 27 pages of scientific attributions.
The man was a critical thinker and a great loss.
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…and isn’t it amazing Hollywood never made a film based on that book. I suppose they never made films or TV series based on his books or his involvement before , did they? Oh, hang on.
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“A Heavy Dose of Reality for Electric-Truck Mandates”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/06/a-heavy-dose-of-reality-for-electric-truck-mandates/
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FWIW
“BANKRUPT BLACK CITY TO PAY REPARATIONS TO ITSELF”
https://richardsonpost.com/danielg/31495/detroit-to-pay-reparations/
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What happens when you have the majority of white families move out of the cities?
Add to this more immigrants…disaster is sure to follow as angered people are left behind…
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I just love mark riley giving Jim charmers a tongue bath about taxing energy providers to subsidise low income earners that are disadvantaged because of government policy. You know it makes sense!
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mmmm it has a certain lefty circular logic about it, I can see how they would like it. They seem to think the energy market is a magic pudding. In a country that could have some of the cheapest energy costs in the world, they choose to do this.
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The NEM has survived the first week AL.
As far as I can ascertain, there was an accounting issue with AEMO’s financial liability hitting its cap that resulted in gas plants needing to be fired up in NSW despite the fact that QLD was reducing demand on running coal plants.
It appears the price cap of $300/MWh was implemented in both NSW and QLD through most of last week.
The Market Notices ramped up to record levels with actual Lack f Reserve conditions occurring in NSW. But no demand management needed as far as I can tell. The Market Notices system is now broken – probably got overloaded!
We are still three weeks from winter but Victoria is getting some cold weather – I wonder what the record snowfall is for May 7? Does not bode well for a mild winter across eastern Australia.
Week 2AL starts with all regions apart from Tassie forecasting prices near the $15,000/MWh cap on Money. South Australia for the morning peak as well as the evening peak.
July will likely be the toughest month so I will be watching until that has passed. A unit failure at Eraring would probably cause havoc now.
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We USED to have a strong buffer against this sort of thing.
Now, because of the FAILURE of governments to allow the construction and update of coal fired power stations… WE DON’T !
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and if something happens it will , of course, be due to “unreliable coal”
definitely not “we have removed reliable generation and are running with insufficient reserves”
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Why won’t they tell us what the policy is to be when the inevitable collapse arrives?
This programme is not in the control of Australia’s political class as was demonstrated when Al Gore had his conference with Clive Palmer in 2014 and “renewables” was rescued.
These surely are those interesting times.
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Dog dewormer for cancer.
Long ago I figured that vets are better informed about diet and nutrition than the average GP but YT being the Bs they are they dropped them off my “recommended” listing.
Tonight I found another story but rather than links [I don’t want to be accused of promoting quack cures] I will give the key words for a search: Joe Tippins + cancer .
Some may find it informative.
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“Fact checkers” say Fenbendazole has no efficacy, so this suggests to me it may in fact have some efficacy as fact checkers, like all Leftists, often say the opposite of what’s true i.e. they lie to suit the official narrative. Fenbendazole is under investigation for its anti-tumour properties.
It’s unlikely to be allowed to succeed as it’s a cheap drug.
See
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Thanks David, you did that better’n I could have.
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Westinghouse unveils AP300 small modular reactor
https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Westinghouse-unveils-AP300-small-modular-reactor
What people seem to overlook is that there is really only one source for the ring forgings for the reactor pressure vessels.
Japan Steel Works. They are the sole provider for 80% of nuke ring forgings worldwide. Limit is one forging per month.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-power-reactors/heavy-manufacturing-of-power-plants.aspx
If the US was to go full nuclear, it would need between 800 to 1000 ring forgings. That is about 80 years of production for ring forgings using an AP1000 as the template, just to replace existing coal/gas generation. Twice that to support EVs.
The last 2 nukes built in the US are at the Vogtle site in Georgia. 14 years construction time, 28.5 Billion dollars, twice the time and cost that was initially planned.
https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/news/2021/11/04/georgia-power-nuclear-reactors-plant-vogtle-cost-doubles-energy-costs/6286729001/
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There goes the supply chain of government promises to reality biting them in the arse.
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I believe that we need to focus on SMRs for Australia, as I doubt whether Australia would ever contemplate building a large nuclear plant such as Barakah, Vogtle or Hinkley C. Also Hinkley C and Vogtle are outliers in a world where other countries have gone ahead and built nuclear power stations for a lot less cost.
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That does assume that everything remains constant and everybody sits on their arse for 80 years waiting for items to be produced , which seems unlikely if the demand eventuated.
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Is $28B “outrageous” for 2.4 GW of power with a CF of almost 100% and life of 50 yrs?
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Un-informed consent
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/un-informed-consent/
The shocking refusal of medical treatment to the unvaccinated
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/the-shocking-refusal-of-medical-treatment-to-the-unvaccinated/
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Do they hear themselves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF7sbm5rDZY
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Staggering hypocrisy. I bet as an Elite she will not be eating insects or giving up her Ferrari when they expect non-Elites to make sacrifices.
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Repair cost for low speed “fender bender” in Rivian EV Truck: 42,000 USD.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/ent-evs-hidden-costs-man-gets-42000-repair-bill-fender-bender
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I have heard some cars in Aus, including some Kia models and Chinese MGs, are becoming uninsurable because of unavailability of spare parts causing cars to be written off after minor damage.
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I think I can see where this is heading….
Leftists will complain about the cost of insurance and then the government will force insurance companies to insure battery powered cars at the same cost as ICE cars and so force ICE owners to subsidise battery car owners even more.
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Paywalled but the headline says it all.
https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1655167257301925891
In event of war it might be a simple hack to set EVs to overcharge and explode? Especially when the streets are filled with the coming flood of Chinese junk.
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And it is now Monday morning in Sydney NSW.
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And also in Melbourne.
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I’m surprised King Charles 111 didn’t march to the pulpit with his orb and sceptre after being crowned to declare a climate emergency.
ABC suggests he will become known as the climate king.
Prince Charles March 2009: ‘We have less than 100 months to stop climate change disaster’.
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I think King Charles III has been told not say any weirdo stuff now he’s king.
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Fine line.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63516054.amp
The climate swamp even got the Queen spouting on climate change in her last couple of years.
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In case of emergency, ‘Dial 111’.
King Climate III … in yer best Irish accent, say ‘King Charlie the Third’ 😃
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chuckle! 😉
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“How Can We Further Divide Canada?
“Looks like the next election will be a referendum on mandatory jabs.
Liberal.ca- Mandatory Vaccination
To finish the fight against COVID-19, protect people at work, ensure businesses can get back up to speed, and, most importantly, make sure our kids can safely return to school, we need to do everything we can to keep public spaces safe.
A re-elected Liberal government will:
-Require that travellers on interprovincial trains, commercial flights, cruise ships, and other federally regulated vessels be vaccinated.
-Ensure vaccination across the federal public service. As the country’s largest employer, this will protect the health and safety of the federal public servants and their communities, across Canada.
-We will also keep working with employers in Crown corporations and federally regulated workplaces to ensure vaccination is prioritized for workers in these sectors.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/05/07/how-can-we-further-divide-canada/
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It’s called the ‘Crown’ virus for a reason:
Crown ~ Latin, corona.
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with the WHO and the USA finally giving up on Covid hysteria , you have to wonder how long Trudeau can keep up the gaslighting? Its amazing, but then I live in a State that returned Andrews to power, so I would not cast stones.
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Do wind farms cause less rainfall?
https://notrickszone.com/2023/05/07/manmade-studies-suggest-that-wind-parks-cause-climate-change-even-regional-drought/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=manmade-studies-suggest-that-wind-parks-cause-climate-change-even-regional-drought
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Another fail
“Thousands of Americans Try To Take Advantage of Biden’s Solar Subsidies. They Can’t Connect to a Power Grid.
Outdated power systems create years-long lines to plug in green energy projects”
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/thousands-of-americans-try-to-take-advantage-of-bidens-solar-subsidies-they-cant-connect-to-a-power-grid/
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not sure if its a fail at the end of the day. These subsidy harvesters are part of problem and don’t contribute to grid issues their systems help create. It does seem like a classic all around energy policy stuff up though.
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And – off shore wind potential might stay off shore
“JACKSON: Gavin Newsom’s Carbon-Neutral Grid Plan Looks To Be Going The Way Of The Bullet Train To Nowhere”
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/06/jackson-gavin-newsoms-carbon-neutral-grid-plan-looks-to-be-going-the-way-of-the-bullet-train-to-nowhere/
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“Texas AG Ken Paxton Tells the Truth About Election Fraud”
https://youtu.be/4eTG32YC_Uw
https://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2023/05/07/texas-ag-ken-paxton-tells-the-truth-about-election-fraud/#comments
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Thanks for posting.
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NDR: Because we live in the lap of luxury, there is no rain in Kenya
https://www-pi–news-net.translate.goog/2023/05/ndr-weil-wir-in-saus-und-braus-leben-faellt-in-kenia-kein-regen/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
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I guess whoever “we” are is also responsible for the floods in Congo and Uganda.
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You gotta love JP Sears. (AwakenWithJP). “Where Did All The “Trust the Science” People Go?” He’s still on YouTube, but he must be close to being banned, but there is Rumble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEADB8deeok
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Very good video. Yes, I’m sure he’s close to a ban for his truth telling.
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How was Lake Goldsmith steam rally mate? Was dragged there as a kid by my father probably 1/2 a dozen times, but then once also took my 3 sons there when they were young. One thing about steam -it’s warm, so I expect that would have been useful yesterday! 🙂
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It was excellent as usual, Ross. I’ll make some more comments later but here’s one video I took, but not of a steam engine but an ICE engine.
https://youtu.be/qOEiM47Hing
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Wow, that’s impressive. Let me guess – you’re a fan of the Quambatook tractor pull as well?
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A tell-it-as-it-is graph from Willis.
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/vostok-plus-modern-temperature-co2.png
It is obvious that the increased CO2 has had zero effect on temperatures.
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Mineral requirements for various means of electricity generation.
It’s actually much worse than indicated once you take into account the capacity factors. See link.
In terms of tonnes of materials per MW for each generation method we have:
Gas 1.2
Coal 2.5
Nuclear 5.3
Solar 6.8
Onshore wind 10.1
Offshore wind 15.5
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/energy-and-the-environment/mineral-requirements-for-electricity-generation.aspx
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Post Liddell, some crazy price variations across the NEM electricity grid.
Per AEMO, NSW $159/Mwh, last month $111, with spot prices regularly hitting the $300 ceiling.
And what’s happening in SA?
Last 7 days, lots of gas and Vic imports, average price per AEMO $298/MWh, last month $85.
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When did NSW last generate enough power for itself? All it ever does is import power now.
When things get tough its the grocer that stays fat, not his customers… I can imagine Qld saying ‘Sorry NSW, we need all the power this week, you’re on your own..’ then setting up customs barriers just like in Covid and if you want to move there because they have 24/7 electricity you’ll have to meet their criteria as an immigrant.
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🙂
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Today, I would like to bring up one of my abiding frustrations, namely ‘planned obsolescence’.
We are constantly nagged about excessive consumption, over-use of the Earth’s resources, pollution caused by waste and landfill, emissions, etc, etc, bloody etc.
Yet we are also frequently forced to throw away perfectly serviceable products simply because the manufacturer wants us to buy a new one. They do this using ‘compatibility issues’. Your smartphone, tablet, GPS, laptop, desktop, Kindle or smartwatch might at any moment cease to work properly because the manufacturer has nobbled it. It’s easy for them to do – they just keep updating programs/apps while failing to maintain compatibility with your 8yo operating software. Suddenly, no workey, even though there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the hardware and it is otherwise completely functional.
My most recent experience of this type involved my Kindle, which Amazon effectively barred from accessing the eBook store. I managed to fiddle a workaround a year or so again, but last night, they tried again by telling me my device is no longer compatible with the Amazon content. I knew this was bowlocks of course, because I have hundreds of books on there and they all work fine. Anyway, a few hours of swearing, plus experimenting, provided another workaround.
But how many perfectly functional devices end up in landfill simply because of this built-in obsolescence? And how is this acceptable when we’re being told we’re destroying the planet if we dare to use a plastic straw?
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Well, every 3G phone is heading for the tip in a year as they turn off 3G… a perfectly functioning system right across the country.
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Thanks for that.
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Galactic radiation data from Oulu indicate that the magnetic activity of the solar wind is at a similar level in cycle 25 as it was in cycle 24. This is consistent with the predicted behavior of the solar magnetic field by Zharkova. Cycle 26 is already expected to be much weaker.
https://i.ibb.co/0nT7N0d/onlinequery.gif
https://cfn-live-content-bucket-iop-org.s3.amazonaws.com/journals/0004-637X/795/1/46/revision1/apj501502f2_lr.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAYDKQL6LTV7YY2HIK&Expires=1684170648&Signature=DKrqbKB5RfoCYuvAx7fIfmkllbw%3D
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Hi All
Situated ~ 6 kilometres away from a local Windmill installation in the NSW tablelands … my observation raises another question. The wind howled all day on Wed 3-May. Constant and gusting over 60km/h easily. Big trees came down and all. Commented to a guest that this might mean they would close down the windmills because the wind was too strong. He didn’t believe it. Never heard of such a thing ! The wind subsided slowly overnight and it was back to a relatively normal calm breeze by the time we travelled out around noon Thu 04-May. Mind you, had to spend an hour clearing a large fallen tree off our access track. Anyway, low and behold, passing by the windmills, not one of the dozens of turbines was turning. Could it be that some of that power loss was because some installations had to be turned off due to the wind being too strong ? That would be amusing. Anecdotal, but just a thought. Cheers.
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