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The Australian today..
“Australia is “well behind the pace” to hit Labor’s target of hitting 82 per cent renewables in the power grid by 2030, the nation’s green bank has warned, with a major wind farm needing to be built each month until the end of the decade to hit the ambitious goal.
Labor has set a goal of tripling renewables capacity to 82 per cent by 2030”
The arithmetic is simple when there is no wind and at night. 3×0=0.
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They are never going to make their target…and as for Net Zero by 2050…total fantasy, but its the trying bit that is the problem…that will wreck the generetion system and crash the economy, but ideology always trumps science with the marxist idiots.
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the point is not to reach the target;
the point is to keep shoveling out the money.
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Somehow, no one, present company excepted, seems to understand that the nameplate capacity of windmills is meaningless. Storage is needed and that is simply not economically or practically viable. Indeed, calculations show that there is not enough lithium for batteries in the world, or hydroelectric resources (differential elevations) or concrete to build dams to do this.
Of course, it has never been the plan to maintain our present standard of living. It will be dramatically reduced for non-Elites.
You will be given enough of an electricity ration for some night time lighting, one or a few Internet connected devices to receive government propaganda and for Big Brother to spy on you, and a little heat for your stove to cook your ration of insects and gruel.
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It’s an incredible target. 40,000 solar panels and 40 wind turbines a day (Think I have those numbers correct).
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Surely we could do it if we gathered enough people together, perhaps all those who used to work in oil & gas, in agriculture, and in manufacturing/refining, and any who speak out against such plans (so they can be educated properly).
They’d be so enthusiastic to learn new “high-tech Green industry” skills, such as digging holes and ditches, pouring cement, clearing vast swathes of native vegetation, and bolting together shoddy hardware made in China that they wouldn’t even want to be paid, or to go home.
Food wouldn’t be a problem, as a steady diet of birds harvested from around the wind turbines would suffice, with an occasional cricket-based treat for achieving a work quota.
To identify these heroes, should they ever be seen outside their workplace, I would also suggest an insignia sewn onto their clothing, and as they’ll be in the countryside, for their own safety, they should have a tracking device, maybe something subcutaneous so it wouldn’t interfere with their work.
Sure, the detractors will say that such a plan resembles slave labour, and Gulag style work camps, but that’s because they are lazy and hate the planet, unlike all those hard working people who would be selected as volunteers.
Wind and Solar will set you free.
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Yes Bowen’s “PLAN” to reduce Oz’s CO2 emissions by 43& by 2030 requires, according to him:
An additional 63,240,000 solar panels or 22,000/day for 8 years or 2,920 days.
An additional 38,400 7MW windmills at 40/month for 960 months.
Chris Bowen owes us a progress report on the status of this project, which based on rumors is even worse than Snowy 2.
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One should never confuse a plan or a budget with what is actually going to happen.
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Thanks for providing the correct figures.
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7am on Wed morning across the NEM grid, wind 1.9GW from nameplate 10.2GW, solar 0.25GW, big batteries 0.15GW.
What supplied the balance required to keep the lights on to meet the total demand of 25.2GW?
16.2 GW from coal, 3.0 GW from gas, and 3.7 GW from hydro.
Quick, build more unreliables.
Would 50GW (nameplate) of windmills be enough?
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Well, here we are, then!
Sociopaths to the left, Psychopaths to the right; knee-deep in grenade pins…..
REAL PEOPLE are under sustained attack by Death Cultists.
So, what are a couple of annoyed old blokes meant to do?
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Nothing we can do, Bruce. To paraphrase an old saying:-
“Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
And those who do learn from history are doomed to watch helplessly while everybody else repeats it.”
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Repeat after me:
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does more good than harm.
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That should be more good an NO harm.
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Totally beneficial… boosts the Carbon Cycle that all life on Earth relies on.
There is no evidence it causes warming, but even if it did, we are currently at a rather cool period of the Holocene, and any minor warming, especially in higher latitudes, would be hugely beneficial as well.
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Witches also did no harm.
But the Inquisition did.
https://youtu.be/yKQ_sQKBASM
No one expects the IPCC … or the WEF.
Cranking all our joints on the Google/Facebook/Twitter rack.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/76h60XOnKbV4/
I confess to things I did not do.
The oceans are boiling.
Joe won fair and square.
But then again, the upside to progress is that nothing really changes.
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That second video from Anderson Cooper is about as severe a case of TDS as I’ve ever seen. He couldn’t even say Trump’s name.
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And another paid advertisement presumably..
“New analysis shows hydrogen production could add $50 billion to national GDP by 2050 and create a jobs boom. Here’s how the quest to get there is shaping up.
Hydrogen was a big winner in this year’s federal budget, with the government announcing a $2 billion Hydrogen Headstart program aimed at bridging “the commercial gap for early projects” and placing Australia on course to develop a gigawatt of electrolyser capacity by 2030 through two to three flagship projects.”
So the windmills are going to create hydrogen which someone will sell for a huge income. And presumably we Australians sit there with our thousands of Chinese windmills and watch them make hydrogen from water for the Chinese?
What else do we do with no manufacturing, no farming, no trains, no trucks, no ships as planned in the same time period?
And how do we pay for all these windmills with no mining, no agriculture, no transport? And what do the 30 million people do? Sit on the beach?
It’s an energy cargo cult on a National level pushed by a Green government. Wind and solar and hydrogen making everyone rich while we holday. The only thing wrong is everything.
Who is pushing these insane ideas?
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I seriously doubt we are going to see much for our $2 billion investment. I have a mental picture of the wave generators that were going to provide free power…that didn’t end well
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What is all this hydrogen going to be used for (apart from production of a useless product that Elites get paid for)?
Hydrogen is even a nightmare fuel for NASA to use.
There is no way LH2 is suitable as a consumer transport fuel. And no practical safe way to store it e.g. as a metal hydride or ammonia.
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Another green jobs boom!? we have had so many of those now its a wonder there is anybody working on anything else. Thank God we de-industrialized to make way for these ever booming green jobs.
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We are facing three great scams, all founded in public ignorance of science.
1. The Hole in the Ozone layer,
2. CAGW, and
3. CV19.
It seems we should go back to number 1. It looks like they’ve reached the limit of their evergreening of patents, so we have to ban another set of products from our marketplace.
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I will put a word in for 2.
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does more good than harm.
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And a word for 1.
Why is the Hole in the Ozone Layer at the south pole when most of the people supposedly causing it reside in the northern hemisphere?
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Not just most. All. Only 2% live South of the Tropic of Capricorn. And no one lives South of 53 degrees (Heard island)
In the Northern Hemisphere you have Edinburgh, Glasgow, Berlin, Moscow, Stockholm, Oslo, Warsaw, St. Petersburg, Talin, …
I suppose you could count our people at Mawson base. They must have a lot of hairspray.
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According to NOAA.
‘The severe depletion of the Antarctic ozone layer known as the “ozone hole” occurs because of the special atmospheric and chemical conditions that exist there and nowhere else on the globe. The very low winter temperatures in the Antarctic stratosphere cause polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) to form. Special reactions that occur on PSCs, combined with the relative isolation of polar stratospheric air, allow chlorine and bromine reactions to produce the ozone hole in Antarctic springtime.’
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What a load of absolute malarkey.
Atmospheric ozone is caused by sunlight reacting with oxygen – O2 – to form the higher energy allotrope ozone – O3. For three months of the year there is no sunlight in Antarctica. Hence there is no ozone formed.
Much the same thing happens in the Arctic Circle in the NH winter. Only in the NH apparent depletion is less because there is a greater circulation of air from outside the region, where the sun is still shining.
This was high school physics 60 years ago. It has SFA to do with chlorine and bromine.
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Things are going queer. on the Mac. I’ll try the iPad.
I wonder have they noticed that there’s 3 km less atmosphere at the South Pole?
And that 3 km comes off the heavy end?
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There is the altitude. Average height 3400 metres!
And the size. Antarctica is as big as Australia/Brazil/Continental US/
and latitude.
And that it is positioned squarely on the bottom of the planet almost centred at the South Pole so just looking at Antarctica now
100% of the land from 80-90 degrees
90% of the land from 75-90 degrees
70% of the land from 70-90 degrees
75% of the land from 65-90 degrees
So we have an enormous high mountain range, higher than anything in Australia and much taller. So likely 50% of the oxygen.
Which is a dramatic difference as the Arctic has the same long night but is by definition at sea level.
But also a lot less oxygen outright to be hit by cosmic rays. So perhaps 50% of the ozone production.
Incidentally it is also 25C colder, far colder than the arctic perhaps because at 3,400 metres, the temperature drops 1C per 100 metres. What this would mean is not clear for ozone formation but it is a totally different environment for ozone production.
The very idea that ozone depletion is entirely man made does not fit the facts.
And also for a country with the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, the health impact may have much more to do with the number of Scotsmen and Irishmen and Englishmen in the country. Especially in the South.
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What all this has in common with man made Global Warming is the incredible and new proposition that we humans are so powerful now that we are changing the planet, that our tiny output is very significant and when we notice something, it’s our fault.
As we are told daily, we humans are a cancer on the planet and everything which goes wrong from the bleaching of the great barrier reef to drowning polar bears to a slight increase in temperature is our fault. And we should tread so carefully that we do not disturb our Earth Mother. And be taxed to death to buy almost useless and utterly unnecessary Easter Island Windmills. From China.
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‘The very idea that ozone depletion is entirely man made does not fit the facts.’
Agreed, Dupont made a lot of money based on flawed science.
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“Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does more good than harm”
CO2 in the atmosphere does absolutely no harm at all. Beneficial in many ways.
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4. the fiat banking system (soon to be digital currency)
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4. Nett zero. As if it’s some sort of science and based on #2 but with the incredible idea that CO2 is controlled by humans.
The real facts are that CO2 existed before life on earth and 98% of CO2 is always in the ocean. So 98% of the CO2 we output ends up in the ocean, at least half within 5 years, possibly much faster say in bushfires.
Although the fanatics always try to blame Climate Change “Aerosol emissions from wildfires can lead to the atmospheric transport of macronutrients and bio-essential trace metals such as nitrogen and iron” No, it’s not macro nutrients. It’s just CO2.
It’s amusing that this journal admits it’s CO2 but sees phytoplankton as ‘mitigating’ Global Warming.
And this article does not blame ‘nutrients’ but CO2.
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Remember all this talk of CO2 going into the water IMMEDIATELY is in total contradiction to the 4th IPCC report which states that the half life for absorption of CO2 is 80 years! And that all greenhouse gases are ranked their ratio to CO2.
What is missing is any explanation. And the fact that everyone knows CO2 is highly soluble. Lemonade, beer, cheese, champagne, soda, breathing. The exchange in your lungs every breath is massive 0.04% in and up to 14% out. All liquid salty water to air in a breath
but the IPCC tells us you have to wait 80 years for your next breath.
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The one thing we do know for sure about fossil carbon is that before it was fossilised it, all of it, was in the atmosphere.
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🙂 🙂
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A valid point I’ve made before but it got no traction, yet I believe this fact should shut down the scam.
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Yes.
Expect to see a brand new scare and a whole new round of bannings.
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I’m on to it David.
We will change it from ‘Ozone Depletion’ to ‘Ozone Change’.
Once you get the formula right, it just a cut and past job to be an propagandist creating the next narrative.
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Will they scare include the sudden ozone laying about the southern Pacific (i.e. near the Equator?)
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Ah yes, ozone is thinner at the equator but …
‘Higher temperatures near the equator also increase the vertical motion of air, transporting ozone-forming chemicals higher in the troposphere, where they can live longer and form more ozone.’ (Jason West)
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nothing to see here, move along (as Frank Drebin would say):
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Tuesday ejukayshun: how big is Australia?
https://64.media.tumblr.com/d680cc350b7c792ebbdf4f2d19297b11/tumblr_pzawcnpscd1rasnq9o1_1280.jpg
No room for a chinese invasion…
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All the satellites in orbit:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/45/9a/4d/459a4dcc3707bc773603ff5b49c26058.gif
With 10k+ more coming…
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It’s a wonder any sunlight gets through that morass of space junk – oops, technology. Maybe it’s all that cosmic debris keeping the heat in and cooking their computer models. Science!
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That’s a neat view of our size John.
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Widespread use of disinfectants and hand sanitizers (quaternary ammonium compounds) is fueling the asthma and infertility crisis
During the covid-19 insanity, coordinated terror campaigns drove people into states of isolation, paranoia, hypochondria, and germaphobia. Disinfectant sprays, hand sanitizers, antimicrobial gels, and baby wipes gave people a false sense of control over microbial life. Many people still depend on these products to feel safe.
Mass hysteria led to widespread use of disinfectants that contain quaternary ammonium compounds (or quats for short). Widespread exposure to quats has only polluted the environment with toxic chemicals that exacerbate antimicrobial resistance and various human health problems – notably asthma and infertility. These chemical compounds are also linked to dermatitis, inflammation, and birth defects and can disrupt metabolic function such as lipid homeostasis and impair estrogen levels and mitochondrial function.
Toxic quaternary compounds are now pervasive in public settings, harming human health
“It’s ironic that the chemicals we’re deploying in vain for one health crisis are actually fueling another,” said Erica Hartmann, a co-author of a new study that examines the effects of disinfectants on human health.
When used as a disinfectant, quats inactivate various microorganisms, but only in controlled laboratory settings. There is no evidence to suggest that the chemicals reduce transmission of infectious disease in real world settings.
http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2023/05/widespread-use-of-disinfectants-and.html
Has Covid created a generation of germaphobes as children as young as two report having an unhealthy obsession with hygiene… with one boy who refuses to hold Grandma’s hand.
Most eight-year-old boys have to be reminded to wash their hands. But not Theo Panteli.
For the past three years, Theo has been hooked on a rigorous routine of scrubbing them at the sight of a tiny speck of dust, often several times an hour.
Each time it has to be exactly 20 seconds – as long as it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice, which he picked up from an announcement by Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister, at the height of the pandemic.
And it’s not just his hands. Theo won’t drink out of cups at school, even if they are clean. He asks other children to keep at least 2ft away from him when they’re ill. He won’t even hold the hand of family members.
All of these behaviours are driven by a fear of catching a virus which could harm him or his family. They are also the classic symptoms of the mental health condition called obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12054321/Has-Covid-created-generation-germaphobes.html
The brainwashing is working well…
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Old growth vs regrowth forests – the ecosystem issue
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rufjpwpYuy1z7ukda.mp4
That’s interesting.
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The usual disingenuous bullocks. He’s comparing old growth native forest with plantation forest – which are indeed different things. He suggests that new growth forest is barren, but young forests are lovely places, creating a different ecosystem from that which existed before.
I spent some of my young years running free on an English lord’s estate, which at that time had plenty of forest at all stages of growth. I was a very keen naturalist and birdwatcher, and my favourite haunt was a section of probably 5-10yo fir/pine. Because it was young, plenty of sunlight reached the forest floor, which meant it teemed with critters. The trees were big enough for birds to nest in and squirrels to go harvesting. The variety of small plants was way higher than the dark, old forest, even the deciduous areas. I would snare rabbits for my mother to cook and might ‘stumble upon’ a fat, newly-released pheasant, too. Too fat to fly, they could be caught on foot. Yum! Almost as delicious, I once was lucky to find a giant puffball in perfect picking condition. I couldn’t get home fast enough. Thickly sliced then fried in peppered butter. Drool.
I really noticed and enjoyed the diversity of habitat across the estate but that ‘young’ section remains a very fond memory.
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Tend to agree. In the SW of WA, the original logged forests were, in the main, not replaced by plantations, but left to regrow naturally. The result is that, after 100 years, we now have a whole new “old growth” forest system that continues to delight visitors.
So I believe that’s it possible to selectively log old-growth forests, because they will eventually re-grow.
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A friend of mine in the 80s was the manager of a state forest in NE NSW. Logging was under attack from greenies at the time so I asked him to explain the logging system. First they did not clear cut but marked individual trees for harvesting. When they were cut down they cleared a patch that allowed sunlight in for young trees in the understory. The trees that were felled were typically up to 200 years old, big and had stopped growing. The salvaged wood to waste wood ratio was much higher than when smaller trees are cut down as is often the case with plantations. They worked on the premise that in any forest trees would be harvested every 200 years. That was sustainability in action but then along came the Greens and weak politicians. Old growth forests became national parks that are not managed. The fire trails are not cleared and so what was once a well cared for forest becomes a haven for feral animals and plants and inevitably gets burnt to the ground when a fire comes through. I have never heard of a Green who is a volunteer fire fighter.
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Video: Dr John Campbell on Vitamin D dosing.
https://youtu.be/E3_t-EQIy0s
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Thanks D M,
Great find. And great long term analysis:
I’ve copied the link to the paper, and tested my keying (but not read it yet):
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30611908
Cheers,
Dave B
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Anybody know if larger doses of D3 require larger doses of K2?
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G’day Steve,
Sorry, no, I can’t give you a definitive answer.
But my guess is NO. K2 is one of those supplements which come with a warning to not take too much .
And I have a rather unclear memory of a report of someone who took too much accidentally by taking multiple D3 + K2, instead of just D3, and did get an adverse reaction.
Cheers
Dave B
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Thanks David. I haven’t so far been able to find any guidance. In the meantime, I have increased my daily intake from 1000iu to 5000iu but will keep to the same K2 dose until I am advised otherwise.
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I have seen nothing at all on maximum safe levels or intake of vitamin K2.
There is material available on vitamin D3 toxicity, levels vary according to the preferences of the source.
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This may be helpful, Steve.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FC_rsgIKe80
Personally, I eat Natto for K2 (I understand that hard cheeses are good, but Natto gives lots more.) Another benefit of Natto is the Nattokinase, which is recommended by Dr. McCollough to help detox the spike protein of Covid-19.
Careful with the D3, as it’s toxic if you chronically overdose, as the above video explains. Also, look up Stasha Gominak (Neurologist) for an interesting novel approach to D3. Here’s a video sample.
https://doctorstevenpark.com/004
She also has a website with lots of info.
Hope that info is useful to you.
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Video: Dr Suneel Dhand talks about the “mysterious” huge rise fatal in blood clots in the UK.
https://youtu.be/cSsS7ZeTfE8
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It’s those AZ Vaccines. I had exactly that problem here in Australia. 2+ years later I’m still having BP problems, dizziness!
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CO2 exonerated after amazing discovery.
‘From 14,000 to 45,000 years ago, when the atmospheric CO2 values were said to be under 200 ppm, California lakes record millennial-scale mean annual air temperature (MAAT) variations of over 12°C and intervals when it was nearly 4°C warmer than modern.’ (Notrickszone)
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Actuarial Report on Covid deaths
The big question?
An answer:
Well what about vaccines?
For an excercise I have inserted ‘excess mortality’ instead of vaccinations in the sentence from the above quote.
Figure 1 – Weekly actual and predicted deaths – All Causes
I ask, “does that slightly modified sentence fit the excess mortality trends in Fig 1?”
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There was just a huge settlement for various communities allegedly suffering from PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) contamination.
But how bad is it really? Even Their ABC saw fit to report on a study by the ANU that found little evidence of disease risk.
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Little evidence?
https://dceg.cancer.gov/research/what-we-study/pfas
https://www.tuvsud.com/en-us/resource-centre/stories/fire-foam-phase-out
https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safety/aircraft_rescue_fire_fighting/f3_transition
https://www.reuters.com/legal/fire-protection-company-kidde-fenwal-files-bankruptcy-citing-pfas-lawsuits-2023-05-15/
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/firefighting.html
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Can you point to a para in those links that quantifies any incidental risk other than to firefighters themselves? Civil juries are very generous with other people’s money, judgements are not really proof of anything.
I had my bore tested for this chemical and was posted the results for the area. Nothing to worry about.
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Probably look at the Du Pont factory making Teflon, the one where the women all had defective births and were removed from working in the production division.
“This man-made poison, called PFOA, brought us the magic of Teflon, the convenience of non-stick, and an array of stain and water-resistant products that revolutionized our homes and our lives forever. Internally, top company scientists had been studying its toxicity for decades. And there had been alarm bells after alarm bells: cancer in lab animals; cancer in exposed workers; birth deformities in offspring of exposed lab animals – even, unconscionably, in babies of exposed workers. The unique properties of PFOA, and its close chemical cousin, PFOS (used in an equally dizzying assortment of products, from Scotchgard to certain firefighting foams) make them incredibly persistent: they last for an unusually long time in our bloodstreams, where they accumulate. And they last virtually forever in our environment. That’s why they are dubbed “forever chemicals”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/17/dark-waters-pfas-ticking-chemical-time-bomb-in-your-blood
Overall, I’m sure its worse than what you think, but not as bad as its made out to be.
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I accept that it is dangerous to handle so firies etc should not be exposed but that is direct exposure. I do not accept that mowing the lawn around the Oakey army base is hazardous and that is what “settlement for various communities” implies. But I never believed that second hand smoke was carcinogenic either, just smelly.
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Way back when asbestos sueings were the flavour of the week in US I remember reading that white asbestos (with a crinckly fibre) was the least dangerous, Much less than blue or brown with straight fibres,
And that blue asbestos was only used in US by the Navy for a short time after Perl Harbour.
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I was a storekeeper in the Navy from 70 to 74. In one storeroom we had huge rolls of asbestos cloth for wrapping steam pipes. I don’t know when or if they ever stopped using it, though they probably did.
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China’s CO2 emissions hit record in first quarter, report says
China, the world’s top polluter, has emitted record carbon dioxide in the first quarter of this year, with emissions set to rise to an all-time high in 2023, according to a new report published on Friday.
CO2 emissions grew by 4% in the first three months of 2023 compared to last year, to hit a quarterly record high of more than 3 billion metric tons, according to an analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), a Finland-based independent organization.
The analysis is based on official figures and commercial data and was first published on the Carbon Brief news website.
The authors of the report said the increase was driven by a robust economic rebound after the end of China’s extended and much-criticized zero-COVID policy, stimulus measures in manufacturing and construction sectors, and weak hydropower generation due to low rainfall and ongoing drought.
“Looking at the rest of the year, the government’s focus on economic growth means that China’s emissions are likely to reach an all-time high in 2023, topping the previous peak in 2021,” CREA analysts Lauri Myllyvirta and Qi Qin said in the report.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/environment/china-co2-05122023130837.html
The west keeps buying their crudola and Greta’s nowhere to be seen…
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CMA links global warming to El Nino.
‘Most regions of China are forecast to experience their first heat wave of the year this week, with maximum temperatures soaring to 37 C in some areas, the China Meteorological Administration said on Monday.
‘An El Nino system is building along the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which could send global average temperatures soaring to a record high this year or in 2024, the CMA said.’ (China Daily)
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El Nino … ocean energy from the sun and wind… + maybe some under ocean volcanic activity.
NOT CO2 !
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Here in Germany we are awaiting groundfrost during the next nights. Where is El Niño when needed ?
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UK’s most expensive food items revealed as prices of key staples double
Some meat, yoghurt and vegetables are among items that have doubled in price compared to a year ago, new research shows.
Analysis of more than 26,000 food and drink products at Aldi, Asda, Lidl, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose show that essential food groups are continuing to rise in price month on month.
That is despite overall food inflation starting to fall, dropping from 17.2% in March to 17.1 per cent in April, according to Which?
While the rate at which milk, butter and bread is slowing, other staple items have continued to rise, with Which? saying food inflation remains at “shockingly high” levels.
At Asda, Morliny Frankfurters (350g) rose from an average of £1.25 to £2.42 – a rise of 93.8% – on a year ago.
A pack of four brown onions at Morrisons went from 65p to £1.24, a 90.8% rise over 12 months.
Also at Morrisons, Lancashire Farm Natural Bio Yoghurt 1kg went up from £1.18 to £2.18 over the year, a rise of 85.3%.
Other food categories where inflation continued to rise month on month included juice, chocolate, water, fish, chilled ready meals and cheese.
Which? found Aberdoyle Dairies Natural Cottage Cheese 300g at Lidl had gone from an average of 67p in 2022 to £1.34 this year, a difference of 100.9%.
At Tesco, a 260g pack of own-brand salmon tails rose 51.4% from £3 to £4.54
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk-most-expensive-food-items-revealed-see-full-list/
UK food prices are at a 46 year high.
No mention of prepacked cricket prices…
I went to a suburban takeaway that I haven’t been to for 18 months or so as they always used to do top food for a good price, and I was out that way.
New (chinese) owners. A chicken kebab was $16.50 up from $9 on my last visit, so I opted for a burger and scallops. Both barely warm albeit well presented.
I won’t be going back & I guess they won’t be around much longer the way they’re going. Pity.
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I’m producing my own yoghurt since years.
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Current world economic situation in ten minutes.
I’ve not heard of this guy before, but in just ten minutes he does a pretty good job explaining where we are now, how we got here, where it’s all heading, and who is responsible. Highly recommended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAVY3dSCRc4
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As far as WEF situation …
I think the plane has already left the ground with the hijackers on board.
Popularity is no longer required to complete the mission.
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Tom Nelson’s latest youtube video is a cracker. Some american lawyer talking about nuclear. Sounds dull but it’s a real good one, well worth a listen.
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I’m always a friend of comments talking about a subject with few words but not providing the respective link.
/sarc
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just go to youtube and type in tom nelson, it will come straight up. All info required supplied.
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I read an article recently about how (in the U.S.A.) The Environmental Protection Agency is working on a new rule that would set stringent limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from US power plants. Utilities would be required to retrofit existing plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or to switch to hydrogen fuel. The article mentioned how the EPA stated categorically that CCS is now a ….. TRIED AND PROVEN method of CO2 emissions reduction.
Now, what concerns me the most about this statement is that this is the U.S. EPA, and the fact that if they actually say this, then (because they are so huge and would not propagate ‘porkies’) then it …. ‘must be true, eh!’
So, the vast majority of people would just flat out believe it. (“Tell a lie often enough and big enough, and it ‘becomes FACT'”.)
Needless to say, this CCS is in fact virtually an impossibility, and I have been ‘harping on’ about this for many many years now, and this Guest Post at Joanne’s site way back in 2015 (eight years ago now, and with 211 Comments) explains just what is involved in this ….. well, what can only be described as a ‘diversionary tactic’ really.
Consider this, when applying it to an existing large scale coal fired power plant, with a life expectancy of 50 years.
They have to find a way to capture the CO2 emissions at the same rate as they are actually being emitted, convert the CO2 from a gas to a liquid (also at that same rate) transport that liquid CO2 to the prospective ‘hole in the ground’, (also at the same rate) inject that liquid CO2 into that hole in the ground, (also at the same rate) where it is expected to stay ….. for the remainder of ETERNITY.
So, if the large scale plant (Nameplate 2000MW+) has CCS retrofitted, then it is expected that the ‘hole in the ground’ will be holding, after the 50 years life expectancy of that power plant, then it will have to hold, ….. 853 MILLION TONNES of CO2 ….. FOREVER.
And that is just for ONE coal fired power plant.
Tried and Proven.
Of course it is!!
Tony.
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Get the EPA to study the Nikolov-Zeller video posted here a couple of days ago then we can all forget about this carbon dioxide superstition and rebuild our fossil fuel power grids.
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Found this snippet years ago- “Carbon capture is the impossible idea of stuffing a gas back down the small hole it used to live in, when it was a rock and before it met O2 and grew threefold in weight and 2,100 times in volume. Calculating the expansion of coal to CO2: 1 tonne of Coal generates 2.8 tonnes of CO2. 1 tonne coal fills 0.74m3. 1 tonne of CO2 fills 556m3. Therefore, 1 tonne of coal expands from 0.74 to 1560m3. or about 2100 times. Most of what is being sequestered is oxygen, not carbon.”
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Hungary Outraged By Leaked Ukrainian Plans To Blow Up Vital Oil Pipeline
Hungarian media is abuzz with angry reactions after a leak obtained by The Washington Post revealed that Ukraine was planning to blow up the Druzhba oil pipeline that transports crude from Russia to Hungary.
According to the leaked documents, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed at a February meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Yuliya Svyrydenko that Ukraine should blow up the pipeline in order to incapacitate the part of the Hungarian energy infrastructure reliant on Russian oil.
Government spokesman Zoltán Kovács reacted in a tweet with a short question: “How is it possible that Ukraine is plotting against a NATO country??”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hungary-outraged-leaked-ukrainian-plans-blow-vital-oil-pipeline
Well now, US-backed Zelensky plotting against NATO!
What a development (especially for the pro-Zelensky idiots). 😆😆😆
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Who wouldn’t believe WaPo.
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There were roumors, Ukrainians were responsable for Nordstream blow-up. Beside the probability US were responsable, that was an attack on a NATO State too, or by US Forces or by Ukrainians.
And here we don’t talk about a leaked paper but about facts.
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“United Nations’ Group Confirms Meat, Eggs, and Dairy are “Vital Sources of ‘Much-Needed Nutrients’”
There are many possible reasons for the United Nations’ new respect for real sources of protein.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/05/united-nations-group-confirms-meat-eggs-and-dairy-are-vital-sources-of-much-needed-nutrients/
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War is expensive. The recent missile attack on Kiev saw 6 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal rockets destroyed at $10 mill each, shot down by multiple Patriot SAMs at $4 mill each, plus many more assorted missiles, none of which are cheap. Ukraine claims to have shot down 17 incoming.
$100+ mill wasted in Putin’s folly.
Just found this:
Russia spent from USD 438 to USD 581 million on missiles launched on the territory of Ukraine during the night and morning of March 9.
This was reported by Economic Pravda on Thursday, March 9, with reference to the Tsina Derzhavy Telegram channel and Air Force data.
The publication notes that the aggressor state launched 81 missiles. The total cost of a missile attack on Ukraine for the Russian Federation:
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While it didn’t cost Zelensky anything, everything he has he gets for free, the explosion from one of those missiles in Khmelnytsky cost someone a lot of munitions. I don’t think uranium shells are cheap, either.
https://newindian.in/gamma-radiation-spikes-as-explosions-rock-munitions-depot-in-ukraine/
If you find the video on Twitter or similar it is most spectacular!
Russia sends in a lot of ‘blank’ missile in the first wave to draw the Ukies air defence out, then the later ones are armed. When you’re defending you can’t afford to let any through. Just one Khinzal cleaned out an underground base full of NATO personnel and all their electronic warfare gear a week or two back. Apparently 200 people were killed.
On the other side-
“In today’s clobber report the Russian Defense Ministry reported the intercept by air defense of a British Storm Shadow cruise missile. This confirms that these are not some new wonder weapons. (The recent two Storm Shadow impacts in Luhansk city were against undefended targets and also accompanied by a U.S. delivered electronic warfare missile which probably can confuse air defense radar.) Also taken down yesterday were seven U.S. HARM anti-radar missiles and ten HIMARS missiles.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
Its all propaganda until someone wins, then its all lies.
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Why repeat the same nonsense from the last thread where I showed you there was no radiation spike. The IAEA has also now confirmed no spike.
An interesting topic would be that western antimissile systems stopped Putin’s unstoppable hypersonic missiles with a very high rate of success last night. Will he bother wasting his last few dozen?
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Hypetsonics shot down by Patriots is about as real as the Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island and the NATO bunker with x hundred high level people being destroyed. Fog of war stuff.
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FWIW
On the other side of cost estimates –
“Russia Says It Took Out US-Supplied Patriot Missile In Hypersonic Strike On Kiev”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1658287607938162690
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FYI: The Ethical Skeptic takes on climate change:
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/
… My friend forwarded me the study because he was aware of my active research concerning the increase in thermal energy content of the world’s oceans. While the study and several associated headlines were interesting (CNN: “Oceans are warming at the same rate as if five Hiroshima bombs were dropped in every second”), I found its conclusions premature, de rigueur, incomplete in critical scope, and unsound. Yes the Earth’s oceans are warming, but they are warming far too fast and asymmetrically at abyssal depths, to be explained by man’s activity alone. Such pluralistic ignorance and myopia epitomizes the entire coercive miasma surrounding current climate change science. …
let’s examine the recent global industrial shutdown which was necessitated by our Coronavirus 2019 SARS-2 pandemic. Most of Europe, Asia and North America were shut down during the March – June 2020 time frame. Demand for fossil fuels was hardest hit during that time – especially oil, which plunged 8.6% and coal 4% (averaged across the entire period – see red line in Exhibit 1C).14
During that same time frame however, the Northern Hemisphere observed its most aggressive CO2 ppm growth in 45 years of data.15 One can observe this by means of the red dotted-line slope in Exhibit 1C to the right (21 Mar – 30 May). The coronavirus incidence and shutdown periods are marked along the timeline as well, in the form of PCR-detection arrival curves for China and the US. Most of the industrialized northern hemisphere shut down commensurate with the United States detection curve, as depicted on Exhibit 1C (and two to three weeks prior as well). Notice as well if you will, the US Energy Information Administration data on liquid fuels consumed globally for this same time period (red line on lower portion of Exhibit 1C).16 Just as our global use of fossil fuels for power, transportation, and industry hit their lowest impact-use of the coronavirus lockdown – at this very same moment in time, carbon dioxide ppm were posting a record 45-year increase (~May 15).
How does such a record CO2 ppm increase occur during a global industrial shutdown, if it is indeed industry which is the primary source of this CO2? In fact, how does this record CO2 ppm increase occur during that time frame, if indeed 47% of global greenhouse gas producing economies are shut down that entire time?17 A resurgence in Chinese activity (standalone 27.5% of carbon contribution) alone cannot explain this ppm rebound. The implication is of course, that another factor is playing into the release of CO2 into the atmosphere. …
Now follow this experiment to its next inferential step. From June 2018 through to the end of 2020, humans emitted significantly lower CO2 than in the most recent years. One can observe this in Exhibit 1D to the right which indicates lower emissions during the June 2018 through end of 2020 timeframe.18 As we saw in the previous Exhibit 1C in Observation 1A, this was due unequivocally to China’s reaction to something which caused it to shut down industrial activity during that 2.5-year duration. Despite this sustained exceptional lower trend in CO2 emissions, curiously the Earth also happened to experience its hottest non-El Niño year on record in 2020.19
This was explained away with no study nor ability to forecast whatsoever, as stemming from the following: “global shutdowns related to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic reduced particulate air pollution in many areas, allowing more sunlight to reach the surface and producing a small but potentially significant warming effect.”20 The credibility of climate models was severely strained with this form of ad hoc rescue. If 2.5 years of lower CO2 emissions also causes global temperatures to rise, then what are we doing? …
[Very, very long and technical.]
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Amazing interview as is usual with Kiran krishnan the microbiologist. I have purchased his products once or twice and these days make my own. Anyone interested in making their own K2 or Bacillus Subtilis would be my pleasure to lecture and go on and on forever.
I make my own K2 and breed my own Bacillus Subtilus from the wild ‘sour dough’ style from the air and thus, omit having to take K2 in a pill or paying hugely for the ultimate K2 vitamin. In saying this, Kiran krishnan is a guru (IMO) (in my opinion) and the missing link, and i do mean almost completely absent information about the various bacteria involved in what constitutes the gut microbiome and of course the immune system.
Peak Human Anti Aging Summit – Dr Kiran Krishnan – The Science of the Microbiome
2 days ago
https://peakhumanlabs.podbean.com/e/dr-goel-and-dr-kiran-krishnan-microbiome-research/
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https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/newly-launched-finnish-nuclear-plant-sees-electricity-prices-plunge-75
Pity about the length of time it took to build….
The question of the moment…. Will the small modular reactors be less expensive and faster to build?
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Nothing to see here…
Just that covid mRNA “vaccines” might make you go blind.
Don’t expect it to be reported in the Lamestream media or medical “authorities” to take notice, or care, however.
It was even reported in the now-fully-woke journal, Nature.
Video: https://youtu.be/TNW5Re8G420
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-023-00661-7/
Covid vaccine pushers: Isn’t it time for your seventh “jab”?
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In Australia, in certain areas local governments are encouraging people to remove gas appliances from their homes and replace them with electrical ones.
https://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/secondnature/get_involved/local_sustainability_champions/electrify_your_home
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The same in Germany where they are also preparing for
blackoutssupply problems.The same in the UK where they are also preparing for
blackoutssupply problems.Try to buy a generation, but they will decide to ban diesel.
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The current wind power record? (/s)
“Alberta’s wind power drops to 2 megawatts out of 3618 on Friday, the lowest level we’ve seen yet”
https://pipelineonline.ca/albertas-wind-power-drops-to-2-megawatts-out-of-3618-on-friday-the-lowest-level-weve-seen-yet/#/?playlistId=0&videoId=0
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FWIW
“I’m Not Eating Bugs And I’m Not Eating Chicken-19”
“They’ll do for chicken what they did for coronavirus;”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/05/16/im-not-eating-bugs-and-im-not-eating-chicken-19/
“Nothing can go wrong – – go wrong – – go wrong”
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FWIW
“Its Over Folks”
“America, that is.
There is one last chance to save it: The FBI and DOJ must be disbanded, everyone working for it fired with no pensions, no benefits, no nothing, and if we need the functions of either agency and/or DHS they must be reconstituted with hard criminal penalties for anything that even smells like this in the future.
If not, well, we’re done.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248803
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FWIW
“Media Admits They Lied About That Russia Collusion Thing But Are Totally Telling The Truth About Everything Else”
https://babylonbee.com/news/media-admits-they-lied-about-that-russia-collusion-thing-but-are-totally-telling-the-truth-about-everything-else/
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FWIW
“”It’s hopeless,” the prospect of reforming cancer trials
A colleague doesn’t pull punches”
https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/its-hopeless-the-prospect-of-reforming
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Luckily the behaviour of the political/pharma industry was so bad over Covid we will see a general distrust of industrialised Western medicine and more research into alternatives. Just look at the Vit D discussions on here, and hopefully that is happening across society as people question their doctor’s opinions and the drugs they have to take.
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Re hydrogen
Half heard on a 9 Radio news –
Listed NSW as getting something like 7% of current power production from HYDROGEN!
Anyone got any more clue on that?
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Isn’t it C6H12 + 9O2 => 6CO2 + 6H2O… They’re burning the hydrogen as well as the carbon, so yes, our gas, diesel & coal power plants are all burning hydrogen.
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