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I am reading Javier Vinos’s book “Solving the Climate Puzzle.” I recommend it.
It could have been titled Climate Science for Dummies, assuming those dummies are science literate and are comfortable with graphs. The book spends much time with the basics, before explaining his theory of the main cause of global warming. Spoiler Alert: the sun is involved.
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Yes, but the dummies he should get aren’t science literate.
Incidentally there is a download available on the net as with his first book. He have both the books (and downloads as these are useful for ‘search’).
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Links to these publications and downloads may be found at Research Gate.
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Greens funded by billionaires
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/11/18/how-green-billionaires-groom-the-public-into-accepting-unworkable-net-zero-policies/
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Greta Thunberg has been in London the last few weeks and got involved in protests to support Palestine. She was arrested on another matter relating to climate and then ran from court in order to join another Palestine demo
This very silly piece from The ecologist tries to excuse the anti semitism but more interestingly links the causes of Palestine and climate as 2 big social justice issues
https://theecologist.org/2023/nov/03/greta-stands-gaza
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A fun way to collapse the whole “save the planet” green tulip pyramid economy? Just another engine ruining daydream?
An invention credited to a Malcolm Bendall has become a collaborative community open source research and testing project. A worldwide network of home dabblers appear to have confirmed his invention works and are improving it. The contraption claims to have cracked the alchemy of atomic fusion and to have solved any supposed issues with atmospheric CO2 from hydrocarbon fuels by “nulling out” CO2 from existing in the exhaust.
The implications of this no longer patentable public knowledge technology if it really works are hilarious. The CO2 just seems to just not exist anymore for some dabblers and be very very rare for others. They are attempting to figure out where it went but don’t know.
The thing retrofits an existing internal combustion engine with photo electric 100nM ultraviolet ionisation, sonoluminescence bubbling, three layer fractal torriodal plasmoid magnetic moment sequencing at 90 derees, counter rotating hot and cold ball lightning vortesies and thermo acoustic resonant catalyst reburning of fission products or something like that. Oh and pure water. Simple really. Don’t quote me.
Search MSAART, Thunderstorm generator, THOR, Plasmoid unification.
Could just be converting carbon to gold. Even people without a knowledge of the harmonic series of sacred geometric Ying and Yang cavity tuning note ratios or Thors hammer and the Egypt ankh, as per the star trek matter transfer beams, seem able to get these things running. End sarc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPshP2zDfek
COMPLETE DIY BUILD GUIDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=l6cxYnWTFi0
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Sounds almost as good as the Turbo Encabulator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
1.5 min video.
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Maybe it was the Retro Encabulator?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
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But it’s not ‘woke’ if it doesn’t have digital reclining ashtrays.
Sadly.
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Are you sure? They might have been installed, under another name.
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Graeme#4,
Yes, I see.
They may identify as cats …
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Gotta be a dollar in there somewhere.
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The Retro version is definitely an improvement on the earlier Turbo version, in that they employed far more technical terms to describe its operation, whatever that may be.
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Hmm. I’m wondering if the internal pitting and accumulation would lead to premature failure of the sphere.
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“premature failure of the sphere”
Here is an interview with a Metallurgy Guy “George Lush” who is also concerned about how long things can last with the range of temperatures doing counter intuitive things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icew8R-VWSY
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Ok. Thought the video said it was SS, but George seems to be saying MS. He sounds like a good gent to have working on the project. His thoughts on the cryogenic possibilities was interesting.
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The question that needs to asked – why is there an exhaust? If it is able to “exhaust” the same proportion of oxygen in air that went in then why not close the loop. It may need some pure oxygen injection if there degradation over time and there may need to scavenging of imputes that build up.
Efficiency gain is negligible. And CO2 improves bio-productivity so is a good thing.
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I thought the exhaust had been replaced by the retrofit. There does not seem to be one in the video of the working machine. Had the opposite questions, how do they get rid of waste heat, noise and all the other non carbon and non oxygen gases?
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This is worrying
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/11/17/international-atomic-energy-agency-iran-has-enough-60-pure-uranium-for-three-bombs/
Biden released another $10 billion of previously embargoed funds to Iran last week making around 70 billion all told. It seems they have been spending it on getting ever closer to finishing a nuclear bomb.
Biden greatly emboldened Dictators from Russia to China, Iran to North Korea, when he ordered American Troops to run away from Afghanistan, leaving all his allies in the lurch and throwing women and others back to the 10th century. Apparently the Taliban are now running many of the migrant routes into Europe via Serbia. What can possibly go wrong?
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If true, I will not be surprised at either of those factoids. Brings to mind a few questions:
Q#1: Will Iran test a bomb first, or try to deliver it to Tel Aviv? Then what?
Q#2: Where (whose?) did the money come from?
Q3#: What would be a good graphic depicting the $10 billion in relation to the $1.5 trillion in student debt that Brandon wants to wipe out? [Pyramid shaped stacks of oranges!]
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Interesting article in today’s Telegraph, behind a pay wall, by a respected financial commentator.
Hghly Alarmed at Bidens inflation reduction act and his general profligacy, he expects Bden to throw even more money about if he wins in 2024 and if so could cause a global financial collapse as Chna also struggles.
Bden is bribing the students To vote for him and in answer to your 1 , probably testing would take place in Israel unless Israel get there first and in relation to your 2 , if china isn’t able to fund bidens profligacy then it will have to be borrowed on the general markets at a high rate of interest.
The US has been living beyond its means for years but this would be a particularly bad time for it to grind to a halt.
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Quite a few Australian energy companies, aka subsidy hunters, are now setting up business in the U.S. to obtain access to the huge IFR subsidy pool. This now includes Twiggy’s Fortescue Future Industries, or FFI. Tritium, the Australian company making EV chargers, have also shut down their factory in Australia and moving to the U.S.
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If the borrowings are in $US there’s no problem in finding the necessary funds.
Biden can just print them. Buy the ink. Buy the paper. Run the presses.
OK. So that adds hyper-inflation and crashes the exchange rate, but the mighty US of A just pays it all out with the devalued green-backs.
Clears its debts and starts afresh.
No problem.
PS: perhaps that’s why central banks are rapidly increasing their holdings of Gold (currently trading at $Au3050.95) – the store of wealth.
https://www.abcbullion.com.au/products-pricing/gold
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Have we reached “peak self checkout”?
First mention I saw was that Boots were giving it up. Today’s Covid and Coffee mentions
“Fox 5 Vegas ran an uplifting story this week headlined, “Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout.” The gist is, big retailers are finally admitting that, unless you’ve only got a couple items, self-checkout is a job and there’s almost always some damned reason you have to wait on an employee to come over anyway.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/heroic-officer-harper-saturday-november?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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I refuse to use them. Our bank is also determined we should do our own transactions on the machine in the lobby. I tell the manager standing over me that I have no intention of doing it myself and whether when he buys a sandwich in the supermarket opposite he then expects to restock the shelf?
He takes it in good part but I think this all started with self service petrol back in the 70’s when it seemed quite good fun. It has gne much too far.
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“self service petrol back… ”
Why, oh why do Australians have to use the petrol hose with the trigger lock disabled?? Are they so stupid they can’t be trusted to work it?? Its the most annoying thing about coming here from countries where you flick the lock on and the petrol pumps in until its full while you wash the windscreen & find your wallet.
If I had to pick one thing to represent Australia it would be that.
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This disabled feature does prevent most possibility of returning to the localised gas cloud at the fuel nozzle – with or without any static electricity you may or may not have shuffled up.
Oh, and we pretty much can’t drive off while still umbilicaled to the pump either.
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For decades used the lock or shoved the windscreen cleaner brush in the handle and waited a couple of metres away escaping the fumes. Which I’m sure was much better for my health than having to stand and hold for the entire fill. In all that time never saw one incident of spillage or anyone driving away with hose still attached. It’s one of those nanny state regulations that are stifling everyday life.
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That’s what your fuel cap is for.
You jam it under the trigger and that holds it open while you wash your window.
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I ran a servo in the 60s when we checked under the bonnet [and saved a lot of engines] while filling. The auto nozzle never failed me.
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Bring you own velcro tie.
I’ve never found it a problem, because what else are you going to do while waiting for it to fill? Might as well stand there and hold it.
A bigger problem is the tendency to clench white knuckle watching the money clicker go up and up, knowing it’s mostly tax and won’t hardly get spent on roads either.
I read the fine print on my compulsory Green Slip (CTP) insurance and did you know they now hit you with an extra fee to cover the people WHO DON’T HAVE INSURANCE DESPITE IT BEING COMPULSORY? Think about that for a moment, when you pay insurance you are covering the people who are out there illegally. Clips on the petrol hoses are the least of our problems.
https://splattlawyers.com.au/free-legal-advice/car-accident-nominal-defendant/
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Don’t mind self checkout because staffing levels at all non ALDI supermarkets are way down. Which includes my closest – Woolies. Having said that, I still admire the ALDI supermarket checkout the best. Which is all assisted checkout. Plus ALDI have that totally sensible one entry/ one exit set up. I would imagine there’s less shoplifting at ALDI as a result and they were automatically set up for COVID restrictions. ( not that that really mattered anyway). Because the staff both fill shelves and man the checkouts, they know the products much better also.
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The ALDI at Kangaroo Flat now has self-checkout lanes
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We will be getting an Aldi in town soon but it will be nearly 15k away. I doubt it will be worth the drive as I don’t buy in bulk.
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Hanrahan they sell the weirdest range of products you could find. Different brands of the usual stuff a household needs, not a very wide range, but their specials are crazy… Anything from lawn mowers to electric heaters to TV screens to scooters, and once sold out they’re never seen again.
Keep an eye on their specials when they open it.
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We don’t even have any ALDIs in Tas – wish we did, to give the duopoly some competition.
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Aldi is always worth a look. Their special buys are well timed throughout the year.
I got fishing hooks and a couple of lures last week. Not typical Coles or Woolies stock. In fact, the local Coles now has a special buys table but nothing as impressive as Aldi. I often buy clothing from Aldi. In fact I tend to wait for their special buys on particular clothing lines. I used to be dressed by Colorado but they closes branded stores; then Target’; sometimes Rivers but now mostly Aldi.
Aldi is not a bulk retailer like Costco. Costco has good fuel prices and that is about the only reason to shop there unless you are feeding a hoarde of teenage boys and have a large freezer and fridge. Good if you host a lot of barbies or parties.
Something I have notice lately is that energy intensive stuff like ice cream is getting expensive fast. It must cost a fortune to keep ice cream frozen these days. Now those cost are coming through in the product pricing. The prices of the Vietnam sourced prawns at Coles make them a good buy. And I have seen Thai prawn farms so have an idea of the condition. Lead in food is not as bad as it used to be when there was leaded petroleum. If you want zinc then try Hobart oysters. There is something like 7kt of zinc sulphide in the Derwent that will be slowly liberating zinc.
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Memo…avoid Aldi at Kangaroo Flat.
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Why does it always seem to be raining at the ALDI checkouts?
I always seem to forget to pick up a low cost brolly from the specials table.
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Mann-made* temperatures hit all-time high in Brazil, with 59.3 C on a *heat index* thingymabob (temp + humidity x 97 plus a bag of fairy dust, give-or-take a pinch of salt) causing young female music fans to collapse – this has never happened before, evah!
Meanwhile, in southern parts of the South American continent, frigid snow blizzards hammer Chile and Argentina, with metres (plural) of snow in the Andes. Further south, Amundsen Scott Base is fairly cooking on -27 C, while up top, Summit Camp on Greenland is melting at -34 C.
Thirty-five years on from James Hansen’s dirty little trick and I’m still waiting for a ‘heat wave’ to arrive… maybe next year?
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15 minute cities are all about beng able to lock people down, says EU parliamentarian
https://notrickszone.com/2023/11/18/eu-parliamentarian-15-minute-cities-will-be-complete-impoverishment-enslavement-of-all-the-people/
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15 minute cities access to all you need?
What about access to family and friends who live on a different Reservation?
Goodbye to all that.
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15 Minute Cities access to all you need?
What about access to family and friends living on another Reservation?
Goodbye to all that.
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Meanwhile in the UK: ‘Children won’t know what snow is by 2010. Dr. David Viner a senior scientist at the University of East Anglia “Within a few years winter snowfall will become a rare and exciting event”.
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While in Australia we are still waiting for 1990 to arrive, when no Australian child will live in poverty.
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After nearly twenty years of the “modern” government economics, even in 1990, none of us interpreted that as meaning: “no Australian child will be unable to find a job”.
Now in 2023 there are no jobs in Australia.
Poor fella my country.
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“Poor fella my country.”
Rich fella my country’s milker
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From my reading, they can’t get enough workers to fill the vacancies available.
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Did they try offering much higher pay? That’s been known to work.
At very least how about wages going up as fast as the price of meat and electricity.
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The charities keep redefining the word ‘poverty’ so as to maintain their claim that huge numbers of people in Oz are living in poverty, “Now give us your money!”
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Our 2022 Poverty in Australia Snapshot found that there are 3.3 million people (13.4%) living below the poverty line of 50% of median income, including 761,000 children (16.6%).
Our median income [2020] was US$35,518 or A$512/wk.
How does that compare with China’s much vaunted rush into the middle class?
In China:
Upper-middle $20 – $50 $7,300 – $18,250
So our poverty line is at the top of China’s middle class.
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Hanrahan,
Thanks.
” poverty line of 50% of median income”
So, if the country gets wealthier, the ‘poverty line’ moves up – exactly as desired [and as you imply, and Steve of Cornubia says] to keep the Charity CEOs in a – cushy – job, very probably paying at least twice the median income.
Indeed, would a big-wig, well-connected – & possibly woke – Charity Super-CEO get out of bed for a measly Aus$71,000 per annum?
[About USD$46,000; about GBP£37,000]
But there is that strong incentive to keep the poor in their place – in ‘poverty’ [however defined]!
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Albanese government ‘still pressing ahead’ with misinformation bill
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri-markson/albanese-government-still-pressing-ahead-with-misinformation-bill/video/b1adaf1e78b7480282a0395bd89a0396
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Some of the problems that bill is trying to solve existed before the Internet and may always be with us.
e.g. from 2020:
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/two-thirds-of-australians-agree-that-overall-the-internet-solves-more-problems-than-it-creates
“There is a lot of misinformation masqueraded as fact with virtually no accountability.”
Nobody needed the Internet to sell Snake Oil. The posts don’t write themselves and the Internet does not make you believe it. The internet, by social media or otherwise, is an amplifier of such human foibles. That the internet amplified (past tense) misinformation from government sources just as well as misinformation from anonymous bloggers shows social media itself is not the source of the problem.
Consider that you-tubers are paid in proportion to views, which does not take account of whether viewers like, agree, or even understood the content. As Sowell said “Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcomes”. As long as the incentive for the producer is not aligned with the benefit for the viewer you’ll get side-effects like click-bait headlines and trolling for notoriety and misinformation and worse.
There is something to be said for reputation systems, though they need not be conducted with real life legal person names. That’s why de-anonymising is one solution but is not the only solution, and not the best in the light of cancel culture and the role corporations play in society. It is possible in future reputations may not even need centralised institutions to award, curate, and certify them.
The problems are real. The Misinfo Bill is not the right solution. It’s not even better than doing nothing at all.
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“The problems are real.” Not in a world without Nanny State telling you what to believe… In any Libertarian or free society, all information would be equal, it would be up to the reader to decide what to believe. Surely that is the definition of free speech.
That people choose to believe things according to their own world view and their character is not a reason for those in power to try and force a belief on us. Some people believe you need the vax to stop covid, some people believe Allah said to kill unbelievers.. it is all grist for the mill. No-one’s word should be censored, and broadcasting those words should be up to the broadcaster. You pick your news source according to what they censor, you don’t need some inept clown in parliament doing that for you.
De-anonymising is not a solution, it is instant self-censorship as seen in any organisation that the Govt has its eye on. Your net reputation comes with any name you pick, as amply illustrated by the many celebrities who have vast followings of their character and an assumed name. Nobody worried about Micheal Caine or Elton John.
You’re right, we don’t need the net to sell snake oil, but we do need people to take some responsibility for their actions. Selling snake oil is fine, but buying it is up to the individual.
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Elon had success and failure last night- Starship lifted off on top of its booster with all 33 engines firing. Last time about 5 didn’t light up, although it didn’t seem to worry it.
It passed MaxQ and at about 70Km up their new stage separation system worked. Last time the booster stage failed to separate and they had to blow it up. This time they left 3 engines running and fired up Starships motors to pull ahead of the booster. Amazingly you could see this on camera from the ground.
Starship accelerated ahead and the booster did its backflip for return, then suffered an ‘unscheduled rapid disassembly’ as the broadcaster quoted Elon from the past. Starship climbed to about 150km and reached main engine cutoff, from where it can coast the orbit then re-enter for landing. At that point it also exploded, the theory being that the ‘flight termination system, the safety explosives for blowing it up near the ground went off. Either way, both sections self-destructed soon after their engines were cut off.
It reminds of the 1950s/60s watching NASA’s string of explosions as rocketry slowly advanced. Better luck next time!
Some nice analysis here, and a better explanation of the Starship explosion-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2C7xE9Mj4
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Postponed due to “bad weather” – what, heatwave? drought? no, frigid snow blizzards – the Men’s World Ski Champs continued at Austria’s Obergurgl ski area, only to be interrupted by [achtung!] Austrian and German youth, aka The Last Generation, who ran onto the finish line and poured a ‘red powder’ onto the snow as a protest over… I dunno, sumpfink.
As police dragged the protesters away, cameras focussed on a Norwegian skier who “lunged” towards some of the youth: “it’s unclear why he was so angry” the article states – well, duh! – while further on, it calls the previous FIS boss a “climate change den!er”. Which is odd, considering the photo of the comp shows crowds dressed like Greta (puffer jackets, beanies, gloves) and the slopes BURIED under a fresh coating of snow and it’s only November.
https://www.snow-forecast.com (?)
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Heard this morning that another patient died while ambulance ramping in Brisbane. Hospitals all over the country are not meeting target wait times.
Is this because:
A.There are not enough staff in hospitals due to unvaxed staff being fired
B.There are not enough staff because they are vax injured
C.There are more sick people due to the vax
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D.
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Brenda,
I’m not saying ‘D’ isn’t the biggest cause now (because I don’t know), but when the alleged effect precedes the alleged cause, you have to develop a more detailed understanding before you can have any confidence assigning the true cause.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-needs-250-more-paramedics-to-reduce-ramping-union-says-20190225-p51061.html
Plenty of Qld hospitals had ambulance ramping a year before Covid19 and the relevant union blamed a shortage of staff.
You don’t hear of times when paramedics are between calls, you only hear of the times they’re overloaded. The problem is one of resourcing for peak demand when the peaks are a small percentage of the time. Not enough staff for the peak demand is the most likely explanation, but any link to covid needs more evidence.
Also consider the population is expanding in multistorey apartments but the space to physically perform procedures inside any given hospital is not – thus another need for more hospitals which are being built in some places over the next 7 years.
At least two interesting questions arise:
1) Assuming more money will be spent having more paramedics on call, what area of public service would Qlders like to see cut to compensate?
2) Assuming more paramedics are on call, what useful tasks could they do during a slow shift (aside from rehearsals and personal development) which can be easily dropped in 10 seconds to deal with a call-out?
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More paramedics = less ramping???
The issue doesnt seem to be a lack of ambulances rather a lack of beds which according to a friend of mine, is because wards are closed owing to a lack of staff ( speaking generally, of course)
The blockage occurs in ED because they have nowhere to send patients.
Ramping started while I was a paramedic (years ago😉) and the reason at the time was because we had to bring many aged care patients to hospital who had multiple chronic medical problems and no locum would visit the care home. The staff were not registered nurses and had to cover their backs. Also, relatives insisted on it.
The problem seems to be much worse now post-covid.
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There remains few registered nurses in aged care. Nursing care, such as it exists, is done by PCAs with little knowledge, experience and often little care. The ENs spend their time wandering around doing the medications. The understanding of dementia care is poor, the staffing for dementia care is poor, if you see mealtimes at some of these places that have got 4 star ratings you’d be appalled.
Aged care ratings are designed by people who like boxes ticked …with no understanding of good quality care.
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Yeah sorry that was a stuff-up, where I said paramedics without distinguishing between ambulance staff and hospital staff.
It is still a problem of resourcing for peak demand not just average demand.
As you cannot ramp up staff as quickly as patients can ramp-up, you have to have the skills on-hand all the time for the peak demand even though they must be doing other busy-work during the 80% of the week which is at less than average demand.
Was the extra demand from aged care due to a change in Qld Health policy on medical interventions or was it a case of private companies dumping their clients on the public system or what was their driving reason?
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Sorry Andrew,I can only speak for WA, have no idea what the Queensland policy is.
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All of the above (D). It’s not going to improve either. A recent survey amongst nursing staff revealed a significant portion are going to retire or leave the profession in the next 12 months.
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D I’d say.
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ATM Vic is registering zero wind generation.
Put up some more windmills and they could double that.
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Biden Using ‘Wartime Emergency Powers’ To Force Production Of … Heat Pumps
https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/17/biden-wartime-emergency-powers-heat-pumps/
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Local health service is running the “Heat kills more people than any other natural disaster meme again” that’s in Australia.
I was looking for info on the stats and find a few separate references that put heat related deaths between 2000 – 2018 at 473 with 354 of those occurring during heat wave conditions.
Then I found a figure from the ANU which puts the figure at nearly 10 x the official recorded figure because doctors are not writing out death certificates properly.
https://iceds.anu.edu.au/research/research-stories/we-know-heat-kills-accurately-measuring-these-deaths-will-help-us-assess
Seems the science isn’t settled !
https://riskfrontiers.com/insights/heatwave-fatalities-in-australia-a-new-analysis/
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Years ago in UK there was a furore about a poster ad for women’s knickers.
The complainant eventually clarified that it was the one he viewed “on the down escalator going up”
That sort of unsettled science?
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OldOzzie
Nov 19, 2023 11:42 AM
Battery electric vehicles are like Concorde
Sensible America never built a supersonic airliner. We should learn from that
MICHAEL KELLY
Today I want to compare the life story of Concorde – the world’s first commercial supersonic airliner – with the story to date of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and to suggest a possible future for the latter.
Concorde turned out to be a technology too far, and I suggest that BEVs are heading the same way.
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Jet airliners fly a little over 0.8 mach, they could easily go faster, but what’s the point when you spend hours getting on and off them. And you are thankful your flight wasn’t cancelled.
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They are now running slower, presumably to save fuel. Used to fly regularly Perth-Singapore in under five hours, now it’s always over five hours.
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The Concorde could fly faster over the route it was designed for than subsonic passenger aircraft. That was an advantage.
BEVs are not permitted to drive any faster than ICE vehicles.
BEVs cost more to buy.
BEVs cost more to operate.
BEVs cost more to maintain.
BEVs have lower range than ICE vehicles.
BEVs have restrictions above those of ICE vehicles on where they can be parked and how they can be transported.
BEVs are not paying their way for road maintenance.
BEVs do more damage to roadways.
If you know of any advantage that a BEV offers then please advise. Otherwise, it appears BEVs offer no benefits, unlike Concorde.
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They have big computer screens on the dash so you can watch movies while you’re driving? Oh wait – smash!
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BEVs ..and Hybrids,.. reduce the consumption of oil, which is a finite resource and essential for use in several other key areas for which there are currently no alternatives .
Hence BEVs extend the time oil will be available for those other uses.
IE:-…Oil is not an essential fuel for transport .
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The fuel saving is a fair point but I have my doubts about that actually happening.
Oil can be made from coal. Sasol have produced 1.8bn barrels equivalent of liquid fuels from 800Mt of coal since 1955. So it is a proven process. Using coal depends on the cost of oil and any aversion to burning coal.
Many of the BEV charging stations being set up have their local diesel generator because the grid is not designed to handle charging stations. This will be the only option as the grid gets more fragile.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/nrma-diesel-powered-electric-car-charging-station-in-outback-nt-angers-aussies-make-it-make-sense/ar-AA1jtJLt
Same thing in USA:
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/biggest-tesla-ev-charging-station-in-us-powered-by-diesel-plant
UK is more advanced with BEV uptake. They are already running into the grid issues. So, although there is grid connectivity, there is limited power available:
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/opinion/356621/electric-cars-charging-diesel-generators-insane
I can load 1800MJ of energy into my fuel tank in around 3 minutes; so operating at 10MW. The service station I visits has 14 pumps. With all 14 operating, the pumps are delivering around 140MW. Four pumps are high flow so run up around 1l/s or 30MW but only trucks can take full flow. Allow an efficiency factor for the BEV ti ICE of 3, you would still need something like a 50MW gas plant to power the station. At average of say 30MW, with tracking solar array operating at 10% CF, requiring 125MW (USD200M) of panels, combined with 1500MWh (USD200M) for 48 hour storage, the capital cost to power the charging station is around USD500M. And you would need a lot of land. I have my doubts that you will save any liquid fuel over the 15 year life of the batters and 25 year life of the solar panels. Then you have to replace the lot.
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But a windy-mill will help.
Won’t it?
If the wind is blowing, enough but not too much.
And the birds and bees and bats keep well away.
But will the charging station need to be where the best wind is?
Will EVs have to go up the highest hill in the county? Regenerative braking on the way down – yippeee!
Someone suggested using a form of energy that is fairly stable, can be put into vehicles quite easily, is available widely with an existing network, and is cheap [if not taxed immodestly].
I think that anything of that nature would easily catch on …
And then the watermelons screamed ‘Just Stop Oil!’.
Oh dear.
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Just looked at the rain forecast for East Coast Australia for the next 2 weeks. Seems like Mr El nino has gone missing.
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Is there a definition that El Niño means no rain? I never knew
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Is there a definition that El Niño means no rain?
Yes, that is one of the elements that BoM use to define El Nino weather impact on Australia:
This is rainfall the BoM forecast for October:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/ahead/outlooks/archive/rain.forecast.median.national.month1.20230914.hr.png
This is what was recorded in October:
https://awo.bom.gov.au/products/historical/precipitation/4,-28.883,133.022/nat,-25.609,134.362/r/m/2023-10
Not very good forecast and certainly not consistent with El Nino expectations.
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But they know exactly what the weather will be like in 2100. The science is settled.
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So where is no rain? I can’t see it.
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Hmm..I was told by the BoM that the last three days at my location would be unsettled and Friday would be the worst, with T/Storms and Super Cells. Still waiting. Forecast for the coming week even wetter…I doubt it. Widgee Board needs recalibrating.
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Widgee Board?
No, probably not.
It’s astrology, with added numbers [so it’s sigh-ence!].
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There is a lot of moisture above central Australia. Just East of Katherine right now has 45mm:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=total_precipitable_water/orthographic=-229.32,-21.62,911/loc=135.888,-20.406
There is enough to support cyclic convective instability that will maintain low surface pressure and pull more moisture in.
In 1919, when the last El Nino was doing its normal thing, the atmospheric moisture at the same place was just 8mm; basically bone dry.
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In 1919?
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Meanwhile, in Vancouver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwcp2mcOH0Y&t=483sFentanyl” A synthetic opioid, now WIDELY used in Australian hospitals.
ALL of it appears to come from China; you know, the place that distributed a GM virus and them started selling sub-standard masks, dubious DIY “test kits” and buying up vast swathes of urban and rural real-estate and complete food production chains .
We are certainly living in “interesting times”.
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Believe it or not but you can get Fentanyl lozenges prescribed if suffering from pain related conditions like CRPS , they were available in the NZ and I think Western Australia.
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I wonder what the voting trend would be if signs were placed in Centrelink customer service areas explaining that because of the bans on mining and extraction of energy and minerals wealth, transition to expensive and unreliable electricity, heaps of red, green and black type penalising business and other taxpayers, that welfare assistance will be scaled down over the next few years with a sunset clause end date?
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Maybe Australia would then become the nation it was meant to be, and everyone would be more content, being part of the team.
The only worry is, we need proper leadership to do this.
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Climate refugees in Anchorage Alaska:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/15/anchorage-alaska-homeless-record-snowfall
Alaska should send a few plane loads to New York. They are good at handling climate refugees. On the other hand they could just wait for more global warming.
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Imagine how many snow-storms there would be without global warming!!
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There would be fewer snowstorms if the northern ocean surface was not warming. I authored this paper on the termination of the modern interglacial a while back:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!Aq1iAj8Yo7jNhHtudMEW7WbCojm3?e=yi3ct2
The warmer the oceans get, the more snow. It is quite obvious if you think about it. Snow is actually made from water that came out of the ocean. The warmer the ocean surface, the more atmospheric moisture and, therefore, more snow over land that will always fall below zero when the sunshine disappears for a couple of months.
The demonising of CO2 has diverted attention from the obvious and inevitable slide into glaciation for the northern hemisphere. It is almost on time going by the stage of the precession cycle when the last interglacials ended. Within two centuries, the permafrost will move south again. Within a thousands years, the land north of 40N will be mostly ice covered and the oceans will be down by about 400mm from present level. Then it accelerates for 5,000 years and will stall for 11,000 years about 20m below the present level before going down more.
There is a view that humans will be able to easily prevent the slide into glaciation but I expect that is no different to the belief that CO2 is causing the present warming. When snowfall is coming down at two to three times the present rate, it will take a lot of energy to get rid of it.
Edmonton, Canada, creates snow piles from clearing snow off streets and declare winter over when the last snow melts. In 2011, winter ended on September 14th. So far that is the latest the snow has lasted but I expect to see it extend beyond that date in my lifetime.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/winter-officially-over-edmonton-last-city-snow-melts-194415380.html
Snow is highly reflective and is quite difficult to melt. Once it is on the ground, it is hard to get ground temperature above 0C. So “global warming” on northern land will occur as it becomes permafrost again. The ice will progress from top to bottom in the ranges and north to south on the prairies.
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Alaska needs more Ig Loos.
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Sunday ejukayshun: the amount and type of meat eaten by country
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-meat-consumption-by-country-and-type/
Australia: poultry is the most consumed meat. KFC no doubt.
Per capita: 48kg poultry, 37kg beef, 24kg fish, and a total of 145kg per annum for all types.
Bugs don’t get a look in. Yet.
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Poultry would be on price. KFC buys the body of the chook which leaves the drumstick and breast meat for the retail market.
Something similar for bacon. Americans buy streaky bacon from China which leaves the “shortcut” for Australia, cheaper than the whole, fatty rasher.
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Errr ? …what is left on the “body” once the drumsticks and breast meat is removed ?
..neck ?…..no thanks
..wings ?… not much going there either !
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Can I get sauce on that?
I get KFC from time to time and I’ve also been given the guided tour around the gizzards of the establishment so I’ve seen what they buy and when, and how it’s stored and cooked.
I buy the thigh and the wing portions, but I’ve noticed when fellow tradies order without specifying, drumsticks and breast pieces are thrown in with the rest.
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I only ever buy chicken breasts.
You don’t eat the rest so why pay for it.
Same for bacon – lean cut or not at all.
And graze fed beef…
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ExxonMobil has big plans to mine lithium.
In Arkansas EM must have found brine instead of oil so they plan to mine it.
A three-step process
We’ll extract lithium-rich brine from rock formations deep underground (~10,000 feet). Brine is salty water unsuitable for drinking or agriculture.
Above ground, we’ll use a process called Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) to extract lithium from the brine quickly and efficiently.
We’ll pump the leftover brine back underground, into the same reservoirs it came from.
This safe process is similar to many of the technologies we use today in our existing businesses.
https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/what-we-do/delivering-industrial-solutions/lithium
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Black And Green Tea Can Inactivate COVID-19 Omicron Subvariants
A recent study conducted in Japan found that green tea (Japanese sencha), matcha, and black tea can effectively inactivate certain Omicron subvariants. In addition, saliva produced after consuming candy containing green tea or black tea exhibited virus-inactivating properties in the laboratory, rendering the virus less contagious.
A previous study that the research team had conducted found that polyphenols found in green tea or black tea reduced the infectivity of the virus in human saliva in the lab, demonstrating virus-inactivating properties. The polyphenols in tea can bind to the spike protein of the virus, preventing it from infecting cells.
The research team published the new study on Oct. 3 in Scientific Reports, indicating that green tea, matcha, and black tea rapidly and effectively inactivated some Omicron subvariants.
Another experiment involved steeping black tea, green tea, or matcha in hot water and subsequently mixing the virus suspension with the tea beverages for 10 seconds, followed by assessing the virus’s virulence. The results revealed that the infectivity of the BA.1 and other Omicron subvariants—meaning their ability to establish an infection—decreased to less than 1 percent.
Not only does freshly brewed tea have virus-inactivating effects, but bottled green tea beverages purchased from grocery stores also significantly reduced the infectivity of Omicron subvariants BA.1, BA.5, and BQ.1.1, although they weren’t effective against BA.2.75.
https://principia-scientific.com/recent-study-black-and-green-tea-can-inactivate-covid-19-omicron-subvariants/
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Interested by not hearing cries of, ‘white privilege’, and ‘racism’ in USA, in the case of abortions, in different racial groupings. Black woman have abortions at X4 the rate of white women (24 per 100 000, compared to 6 per 100 000)(some big states don’t put out figures!)
3100 pa is not exactly genocide, but Planned Parenthood have achieved 60 million plus abortions since the 1920s; 40% were black, so 24 million babies and offspring, were not added to the present 13 million black population. It must be tough to be pro abortion and pro black ? Surely we have double-think working a treat. 3100 is X3 the black on black homicide rate.
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It’s also 300X the police killing unarmed black people, rate.
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The Dutch are battling ‘cheap‘ green energy too.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/dutch-energy-prices-double-as-country-transitions-to-cheap-green-energy/
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From “back in BC”
“Five Years Ago Today: California Governor: “In Less than Five Years, Even the Worst Skeptics Will Be Believers” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/18/five-years-ago-today-california-governor-in-less-than-five-years-even-the-worst-skeptics-will-be-believers/
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Cannot verify, apparently 300 fishing boats have been sunk by South Korean fighters.
China has been warned for years that illegal fishing in South Korea’s waters must stop, the Alliance is making its move, now let us see how the Beijing fascists respond.
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Might be right:
https://www.tuklasinnatin.com/watch/bHcSOaM0W_U
If so, I hope they like battered fish.
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How Blaming Climate Change for Every Disaster Hides the Real People Who Should Be Held Accountable
Blaming climate change for every tragic weather event is easy and convenient. However, this can be a dangerous oversimplification that ignores the role of policy and infrastructure failures in exacerbating these disasters. For instance, the devastating floods in Germany in 2021 were not caused by climate change, but by the failure of local and regional governments to adequately manage floodplains and build resilient infrastructure. Similarly, the wildfires in Maui in 2023 were fueled by a combination of failed infrastructure and poor land management practices.
In July 2021, Germany experienced one of the most severe natural disasters in its recent history. Heavy rainfall triggered catastrophic floods, particularly in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, leading to widespread destruction. Almost 200 people lost their lives, and more than 700 were injured.
While climate change was initially blamed for the intensity of the floods, a more in-depth examination reveals a complex narrative deeply intertwined with infrastructure failures and inadequate policies.
Over the years, urban development has encroached upon floodplains, increasing the risk of flooding. As more buildings and infrastructure were constructed in areas prone to inundation, the natural capacity of these areas to absorb rainwater was diminished.
https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/shifting-the-blame
Similarly for Maui. No, it wasn’t DEW tech…
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The Effects of Pulsed Microwaves And Extra Low Frequency Electromagnetic Waves on Human Brains? Governments Routinely “Classify Information” Pertaining to the Manipulation of the Human Nervous System
In the year 1962 the American scientist Allan H. Frey carried out experiments with pulsed microwaves, which produced clicking, buzz, hissing or knocking sounds in the heads of people at a distance of up to several thousands yards. In his report, he also wrote that with the change of parameters he can produce pins and needles sensation or perception of severe buffeting in the head and claimed that this energy “could possibly be used as a tool to explore nervous system coding… and for stimulating the nervous system without the damage caused by electrodes“
Frey caused rats to become docile by exposing them to radiation at an average power level of only 50 microwatts per square centimeter. He altered specific behaviors of rats at 8 microwatts per square centimeter. He altered the heart rate of live frogs at 3 microwatts per square centimeter. At only 0.6 microwatts per square centimeter, he caused isolated frogs’ hearts to stop beating by timing the microwave pulses at a precise point during the heart’s rhythm.
In 1975, Allan Frey published his research on blood-brain barrier in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, where blood-brain barrier (protecting brain from poison entering it together with blood) of rats, illuminated by pulsed radiofrequency, allowed dye to penetrate into their brains. His findings were confirmed by 13 different laboratories in 6 countries and with the use of different animals.
As well Australian scientists found out that:
“Not only could the cell phone signals alter a person’s behavior during the call, the effects of the disrupted brain-wave patterns continued long after the phone was switched off.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-governments-around-world-classify-information-about-effects-pulsed-mirowaves-extra-low-frequency-electromagnetic-waves-human-brains/5839545
[Guns are so old hat. 😉]
The Bioinitiative Report, was a report written by 14 scientists from around the world, that summarized the findings of hundreds of studies related to the biological effects of EMF radiation on the body. In 2012, 29 scientists in total updated the report after reviewing 1800 additional studies, eventually publishing a nearly 1500 word report on these dangers.
“At least five new cell tower studies are reporting bioeffects in the range of 0.003 to 0.05 μW/cm2 at lower levels than reported in 2007 (0.05 to 0.1 uW/cm2 was the range below which, in 2007, effects were not observed). Researchers report headaches, concentration difficulties and behavioral problems in children and adolescents; and sleep disturbances, headaches and concentration problems in adults. Public safety standards are 1,000 – 10,000 or more times higher than levels now commonly reported in mobile phone base station studies to cause bioeffects.”
So first of all, to clarify, .1 µW/cm2 (microWatt per square centimeter) is equal to 1 mW/m² (milliWatt per square meter) just so you understand the conversions. So in that quote, they say new studies report biological effects in the range of 0.003 to 0.05 μW/cm2, which would equal .03 – .5 mW/m².
https://emfacademy.com/high-emf-readings/
Maybe a dedicated post on the realities of EMR?
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The Wind for Offshore Wind Projects Doesn’t Matter
“Bottom line is- offshore wind doesn’t work. It’s not designed to work, or to be economically feasible in real life. It’s a giant Ponzi scheme wholly dependent on government subsidies and political “climate change” brownie points. ”
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/required-reading-from-meghan-lapp
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If the figures for the Hepburn wind farm are any guide, then no onshore wind farm would make a profit if it didn’t regularly receive some form of govt subsidy or assistance.
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