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Another day another bus fire-this one in London.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12950765/London-electric-double-decker-bus-fire-Wimbledon.html
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A battery pack in a bus or a truck is likely to be exposed to more vibration that one in a car.
It only takes one defective cell amongst 1000s to start a thermal runaway.
An older battery pack that has completed many charging and discharging cycles maybe more at risk that a newer pack.
This is a fertile field for more investigation and analysis.
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Interesting comment. Buses are often on bumpy city roads and constantly stop and start so there is lots of movement. I dare say there is also the odd small crash or two
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“thermal runaway”?
Whoah, wait, what?!
Isn’t that what all this XXXX is supposed to be fixing? So the cure is worse than the illness? Hmmm… reminds me of another XXXX ‘solution’. Madness.
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Why do trucks have suspension seats?
Benefits of Air Ride Truck Seats
Dampened Shock and Vibration: The seats allow for much smoother travel, so drivers can increase long term comfort and mitigate impacts on their health. Pain and soreness associated with long hours on the road can be reduced or even eliminated,
Maybe the battery packs need to have their own “suspension seat” so they have a confortable and low shock ride like the driver?
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Re “Maybe the battery packs need to have their own “suspension seat” so they have a confortable and low shock ride like the driver?”
More weight less freight
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Considering they Vegan haulers, a bit of extra weight won’t affect the virtue signal being emitted from their slot cars.
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Also on the BBC … FWIW: –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67944657
A little of that report:-
“Emergency services were called to Wimbledon Hill Road/Alwyne Road in Wimbledon shortly after 07:20 GMT.
“Transport for London (TfL) said the bus was quickly evacuated, and the Met Police said no injuries were reported. The force declared a critical incident.
“Max Pashley, a local resident, told City A.M.: “We heard a huge bang. We were terrified.” ”
But the bus seems to be in a 20 mph zone, and certainly was in the ULEZ insisted on by Mr. Khan, our current [Socialist] Mayor of London – so I guess the responsible person – the Mayor – will be heavily fined for the particulate emissions
Ummm /S
Auto
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Lawyers think the supreme court might find the Jan 6th “rioters” innocent.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-win-cards-jan-6-defendants-lawyers-predict
If so, presumably Trump could not be accused of inciting them to insurrection and States would have no case to keep him off the ballot
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Good news but Trump was never found guilty of insurrection anyway.
The states have no right to remove him from ballots.
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But they are removing him for reasons mostly connected with Jan 6th
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Yes, they are removing him because they have to due to crimes they have committed including the apparently staged insurrection. An organized series of, from what appears to be from video evidence staged events, timed to cause the debate on the electors to be curtailed and the Presidential election results declared in an emergency session. There appears to have been a lot of powerful swamp dwellers complicit in all sorts of corrupt activity. The next President will have the power to pardon or to expose these individuals.
They have to remove Trump from the election, one way or the other.
The recent actions by the ‘Swamp’ have let ‘We the People’ know they can be held in confinement for exercising their constitutional freedoms and the Judges are on notice their homes and families will not be defended against the ‘brown shirts’ / Antifa should they chose to apply those constitution freedoms in a judgement.
Like the Civil War of King Charles the 1st, the problem is financial for the concept of Parliamentary Democracy. This is in a large part due to failed foreign policy and the waste and theft of sovereign wealth. The first shots fired of the impending conflicts are legal arguments on legitimacy.
We live in a world wide web of a psychological Black Op. What is the truth?
Is Trump a false flag to absorb the energy of a last wave of resistance like a long shelving beach?
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And the Colorado Supreme Court appeal has been granted a certoirari by the SCOTUS, Oral Arguments are set for Feb 4, if I remember correctly. . .
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“And the Colorado Supreme Court appeal has been granted a certoirari ”
It may be there are some here who, like me, did not know the meaning of certoirari. It means “to be more fully informed”
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Unlike you I checked.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/certiorari
“More fully informed” could only make sense to the global boiling crowd.
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Arctic sea ice no longer shrinking
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/10/no-arctic-sea-ice-isnt-falling/
It appears to have been stable for around 15 or more years. I have written two articles on Arctic sea ice and it is evident we must stop thinking of the area as a permanently frozen wasteland, whose ice has only shrunk in modern times. This is quite untrue.
The Romans were aware of “Thule”. The Vikings traversed the Arctic quite well, In 1816 Scoresby-from my home town-was sent to the Arctic by the Royal Society to investigate reports of vanishing ice. The ice started melting again around 1907 and resulted in the iceberg that sunk the Titanic and caused the start of ice berg patrol ships that continue to the present day.
Older proxies suggest that at various times during the Holocene the Arctic was much warmer than today.
If we measure from one of the high points of ice levels-1979-then declines are likely to be highlighted but that is merely a blink of the eye.
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And Amundsen sailed through the NW passage in 1906.
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And long before that, palm trees grew and camels roamed – I’ve seen artists’ renditions so it must be true!
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That does sound a lot like palmistry.
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And for last 10 years “vital for our survival” idling desalination plants wasted $Millions.
We can try to outdo each other in stupid statements.
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1923 Will the North Pole melt entirely?
1958 Scientists say The Changing Face of the Arctic
the polar ice is 40% thinner and 12% less in area than half a century ago. Even in the lifetime of our children the Arctic could be open so ships could sail over the North Pole. NY Times Sunday Oct. 19, 1958
‘Ships will sail over the North Pole by 2017’ – The World Economic Forum
‘The North Pole could ice-free by next summer’ | World Economic Forum A leading climate scientist says ships will sail over the melted North Pole by next year or the year after.
Climate Change Could Allow Ships to Cross the North Pole by 2040
The wider lane will enable ships to take routes further away from the Russian coast and closer to the North Pole, shortening the journey over the top of our planet, and will allow unreinforced
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/climate-change-could-allow-ships-to-cross-the-north-pole-by-2040-371538/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/04/ships-sail-north-pole-2050 The Guardian being conservative!!!
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Another more recent example of variability
https://navalhistoria.com/uss-skate-the-first-submarine-to-surface-at-the-north-pole/
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Here is the DMI’s temp data for the Arctic from 1958. If you click on the years you’ll find that summer temps are usually average (there are a few up-ticks in the early 1990s). Obviously there are other factors at play that cause the ice to melt, not temps.
https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
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“Obviously there are other factors at play that cause the ice to melt, not temps.”
Could Co2 be one of these “other factors”?
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No
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But, but, but – doesn’t CO2 cause temps to rise. So it couldn’t be CO2.
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My reaction precisely IG.
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Ocean currents control sea ice behaviour, CO2 has no part to play.
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What will happen re Beaufort Gyre ???
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Under a global warming regime.
‘The wind patterns shift into a cyclonic circulation due to the residence of a low pressure system (rising air induced by warmer ocean temperatures a greater volume of open Arctic Ocean water), this will cause the circulation of the Beaufort Gyre to reverse and flow counter-clockwise.’ (wiki)
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Rental giant Hertz dumps EVs, including Teslas, for gas cars
By Nathan Gomes and Joseph White
January 11, 202412:25 PM EST
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/hertz-sell-about-20000-evs-us-fleet-2024-01-11/
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Thanks Ric, I saw that too, and have just posted it. Laugh til we cry…
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I read about it in the UK Telegraph this morning before coming here. Rough justice eh?
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Hertz is flogging off its Teslas for $20,000 each.
Go woke – Go broke.
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Even at $20,000 people do not want used Teslas.
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Who wants a car that takes an hour to “refill” if you can find a suitablle “refilling station”?
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They should put the charging stations outside pubs, give you something to do for a couple of hours before getting back behind the wheel.
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This has been predicted for a long time but racist and sexist DEI (divetsity, equity and inclusion) policies that employ people on the basis of their skin colour and gender rather than fitness for the job are already affecting safety in the airline industry in the US and presumably elsewhere.
Matt Walsh discusses:
https://youtu.be/qlSbvmJt928
Also see comments from pilots and others beneath the video. It’s a serious problem and we are well on the way to a serious crash with multiple fatalities.
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The Babylon Bee put out a post from Boeing assuring those who fly in the Boeing 737 Max that Boeing has implemenned the highest standards of DEI (exclamanation mark).
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The number of air traffic control incidents and near misses has escalated in the US. If nothing changes it is only a matter of time.
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Rice University Offers ‘Afrochemistry’ Class To Address ‘Inequities In Chemistry’
Rice University, a prestigious academic institution, is currently offering a course on “Afrochemistry” that seeks to address “inequities in chemistry and chemical education.”
“Students will apply chemical tools and analysis to understand Black life in the U.S. and students will implement African American sensibilities to analyze chemistry,” a course description from the catalog noted. “Diverse historical and contemporary scientists, intellectuals, and chemical discoveries will inform personal reflections and proposals for addressing inequities in chemistry and chemical education.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/rice-university-offers-afrochemistry-class-to-address-inequities-in-chemistry/
Chemicals and black life in the USA. The memes write themselves. 😉
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“Afrochemistry”? That’s blaxploitation right there!
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Warmunists’ heads are exploding: Timaru reached 33.3C yesterday, thanks to our old friend NW Foehn – a sure sign of the End of the World! Not a whisper, however, of the BELOW FREEZING SNOWFALL on Mt Cook, an hour inland from Timaru, the same day, the same frontal system.
The man from MetService (MFM) was just interviewed on the radio: talk about squirming and bluffing and evading reality. A ‘relief from the oppressive heat’ was how he described this weekend’s southerly buster, ie. heavy rain, gale force winds, and snow to 1,000 metres.
What’s that saying about lunatics and asylums?
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This is what happens when the climate is changing, there is instability.
They can squirm, but there is no escaping the fact that natural variables. A positive SAM and hot water is a reasonable assumption, yet they fail to mention a moderate El Nino and extra water vapour in the stratosphere.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/yes-it-can-still-flood-in-el-nino-/1733369
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Port of Newcastle blockade climate protesters face court over November 2023 Rising Tide action.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-11/climate-protesters-port-newcastle-rising-tide-escape-conviction/103308308
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Severe slap on the wrist coming their way, and of course 15 minutes of ABC fame and virtue acknowledgement. The circus can then move on.
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Boeing and DEI
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1745110176372339167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1745158868676546609%7Ctwgr%5Eb51ef717f616efd1b956a811277debc9cb3eebf7%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fchiefio.wordpress.com%2F2023%2F12%2F22%2Fw-o-o-d-22-december-2023-merry-christmas-empire-or-lies%2F
Boing, Boing, Boing?
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A tip:
Delete eveything after (and including) the first “?” in the link, as the referrer info isn’t needed.
eg. https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1745110176372339167
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Arrrrgh! Had to go to the main post office to pick up a parcel today, over half an hour of extreme wokeness in every possible way! Wall-sized TVs displaying how we should adopt Abo names for everything and how to whatever the whatevers who were here when we arrived.. No system of showing people how to queue of course, just wave you phone at this pattern and join our virtual queue while you wander around the display cases and hopefully buy some rubbish!
I’d hand the whole organisation over to Woolworths or Coles and get it run properly!
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I see they are now thinking of naming heatwaves here in Oz similar to naming cyclones , apparently heatwaves kill more Australians than any other natural event !
Facts obviously have never mattered in the climate war .
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Will they have categories similar to cyclones? Let’s use ‘Hat’, for how many hats you need to wear for added protection, as in the daze® of extra masks:
Hat 1: one day heatwave
Hat 2: two day heatwave
Hat 3: three day heatwave
Hat 5: five day heatwave
Hat 6: weeks of glorious warm sunshine, like old-school heatwaves pre-1988
Hat 11: OMG prepare to die!
NB. There is no Hat 4 as it’s a bad luck number in fortune cookies.
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You need to put a cap on all hats after Hat 11.
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Eleven hats PLUS a cap? That would be the final tipping point – OK, I’ll leave now.
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Now how about in the spirit of –
“Most Highly Derogatory Order of the Irremovable Finger”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Highly_Derogatory_Order_of_the_Irremovable_Finger
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YSM meets the rough end of the pineapple –
“WATCH: Vivek Puts Media on the Spot With Stunning Questions, Their Response Should Concern Us All”
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/01/10/watch-vivek-puts-media-on-the-spot-with-amazing-questions-their-response-should-concern-us-all-n2168563
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“One of the last Flying Tigers takes his final departure”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/01/one-of-last-flying-tigers-takes-his.html
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“Who would have predicted that Arctic sea ice would grow during the hottest year ever.”
https://twitter.com/MatthewWielicki/status/1744501479598161956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1744501479598161956%7Ctwgr%5E4139cbe96fce127b9801a55a9858e3b40d06faba%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fchiefio.wordpress.com%2F2023%2F12%2F22%2Fw-o-o-d-22-december-2023-merry-christmas-empire-or-lies%2F
Via https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/12/22/w-o-o-d-22-december-2023-merry-christmas-empire-or-lies/#comment-168393
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Volume is relatively low for recent years though, if you believe they can measure that with any accuracy!
Extent with at least 15% ice cover doesn’t really tell you much. More, the same, or less ice than previous years; might just be spread out/concentrated differently or thinner/thicker.
Red thumbs away!
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“Away! Away! Red thumbs by gum” ?
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If you want to know about sea ice extent – Tony Heller has the data and explains it in a minute and a half in the following link.
As he states, “Ice doesn’t lie, but climate scientists do”
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Not only busses freezing –
“CLIMATE MADNESS: Wind turbines FREEZING in the cold
Maybe they would work better if we had more global warming?”
Via PeterSweden newsletter
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Boeing speaks of a quality escape. The rest of us would say stuff up if we were being polite.
Someone at Boeing needs to go to jail so as to focus the attention of the others onto their jobs. If they think a President is fair game, Calhoun is not exempt, after all nobody is above the law.
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But what if he votes Democrat?
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It would be a given that he is a dem, they qualify for preferential hiring under DEI.
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New study finds there is no correlation between CO2 and a moderate rise in temperatures.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/01/11/new-study-finds-no-evidence-of-a-co2-driven-warming-signal-in-60-years-of-ir-flux-data/
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An old study showed the same thing.
Interesting that Svante Arrhenius was elevated as the founder of AGW belief system. He was ignored for many decades after Knut Ångström and his assistant Herr Koch in 1900 showed that reducing CO2 concentrations did not affect the amount of IR absorbed by the air.
In addition to the observation made a couple of years before that the superposition of the water vapour absorption bands, more abundant in the atmosphere, over those of CO2, convinced most informed scientists that calculations by Svante Arrhenius for CO2 warming were wrong.
However, never let the facts get in the way of the Religion of Climate Change – too much money at stake.
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It’s a week since Alaskan Airlines lost a door/plug and we, the great unwashed, are starting to get good info from people in the industry. Nothing I read is reassuring, nothing says this was a freak one off, never to be repeated, near catastrophe, quite the opposite.
This morning Juan Brown on the blancolerio channel had some good photos and an explanation, but if this is correct, on a Ryanair aircraft where they have over 200 seats and this door is installed as an escape hatch then the four bolts which prevent the hatch opening would NOT BE INSTALLED anyway. Does this mean a Ryanair plane could lose its door in turbulence anyway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhfK9jlZK1o
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A little more thought and I realise that the four actual escape hatches would not have those bolts fitted so there is multiple failures here. The Swiss cheese analogy is true again.
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The actual emergency escape hatches are different from the plugs. They don’t have those bolts fitted and don’t need them, because they have a dedicated mechanism for opening the hatch. The plugs have no opening mechanism.
Where fitted, the emergency escape hatch doors cannot be opened when the aircraft is pressurised.
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Drum Roll…Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum will be discussing Disease X on January 17, 2024 as part of their annual meeting.
“With fresh warnings from the World Health Organization that an unknown “Disease X” could result in 20 times more fatalities than the coronavirus pandemic, what novel efforts are needed?”
https://twitter.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1745432796032651626
WHO orchestrated global lockdowns and forced injections coming?
Ze masses vill not comply any more. Ve must make zem take ze next shots. Ze cleansing must go on.
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Finland warns of Akira ransomware wiping NAS and tape backup devices
The Finish National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC-FI) is informing of increased Akira ransomware activity in December, targeting companies in the country and wiping backups.
The agency says that the threat actor’s attacks accounted for six out of the seven cases of ransomware incidents reported last month.
Wiping the backups amplifies the damage of the attack and allows the threat actor to put more pressure on the victim as they eliminate the option of restoring the data without paying a ransom.
“In all cases, efforts have been made to meticulously destroy backups, and the attacker indeed goes to great lengths for this,” reads a machine-translated version of the notification.
“Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices often used for backups have been broken into and emptied, as well as automatic tape backup devices, and in almost all cases we know of, all backups were lost,” the agency informs.
The NCSC-FI suggests that organizations switch to using offline backups instead, spreading the copies across various locations to protect them from unauthorized physical access.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/finland-warns-of-akira-ransomware-wiping-nas-and-tape-backup-devices/
Hands up everyone who has a quality AV packages, backups and backup protection. Where’d everybody go? 😎
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Anyone tried to access the AEMO dashboard lately ? I get a message telling me I’m blocked from viewing the site .
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From looking at the wind outputs for the SWIS network on the AEMO site
The Data Dashboard is currently being aligned with internal systems after the transition to the SCED Market. Please consider data to be unreliable until the removal of this message.
Still not certain what the Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch model is or is supposed to do. Prefaced by
the new Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM), which goes live in WA in October 2023
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All Hail Queensland!!! Exporter of power to every State right now!
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I’ve looked at their dashboard several times today, including just before I started keying this reply, without problem.
I’m using an iPad, duckduckgo and fixed wireless broadband from Telstra.
Cheers
Dave B
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Believe it or not the screen that come up saying you are blocked had a link to AEMO for troubleshooting, and even more bizarre they got back to my request in just a few minutes . Seems I have to change my browser so will go with the duck .
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Here you go, https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem
Tried deleting cookies?
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Thanks MP but alas “access forbidden “ also using this link .
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Link works for me.
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Thanks it must just be my iPad .
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Driver assist technology is replacing driver ability
When a person has trouble walking on their own, a cane or a walker – even a wheelchair – may be necessary for them to get around. But canes and walkers and wheelchairs are unnecessary for people who don’t have trouble walking on their own – which is why you rarely see people who can walk on their own using them.
“Advanced Driver Assistance Technologies” – as the automotive equivalent of canes, walkers and wheelchairs are styled – are another matter. People who can drive on their own are presented with electronic canes, walkers and wheelchairs ostensibly meant to help them drive. To “assist” them with parking, steering and braking – all of which the “technology” presumes every driver needs “assistance” with.
One of the road tests an applicant had to pass in the Before Time was parallel parking a car, without Park Assistance Technology, often on a hill (if the ride-along evaluator was determined to suss out whether the applicant had the skill to drive and deserved a license confirming this).
All applicants were expected to demonstrate that they could control a car, as by keeping it within its travel lane – without Lane Keep Assistance. That they knew how (and when) to apply the brakes, to slow the car safely without Brake Assistance Technology.
Today, it is mostly a written test.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/01/11/when-safety-isnt-safe/
Actual DRIVING is one of the joys of being on the open road.
There’s enough idiots on the roads already so anyone that needs technology to replace their brain and eyes shouldn’t be on the road to start with.
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How high is the bar?? How bad do you have to be to never pass the practical test?? Looking at the stats it seems over 95% pass within 5 tries, so are there 5% of youngsters out there catching buses, or driving unlicensed?? While more people can drive than own phones, there are some of my circle that I know damm well they shouldn’t! They are incompetence personified when it comes to understanding vehicle dynamics, roading, and anticipation of events.
“When driving conditions aren’t ideal – when it rains or snows – there will be driving lockdowns. It will be argued that not closing down the roads when it rains it snows is a safety risk – because the Advanced Driver Assistance Technologies millions of drivers are being trained to depend upon might not work in the rain or snow.”
Yep, far more new licenses are issued “automatic only” now in Aussie, more people removed from the real driving experience. Just turn up the sound system and sing along in your ideal environmentally controlled 2tons of mobility!! I’m waiting for the research to show all the vehicle radars are environmentally dangerous. Tempted to fit a jammer to my car that upsets the computers in all the cars approaching…
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Daily sarcasm
Stay home so we can make Covid disappear like the security footage from Epstein’s cell.
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On Instapundit just now there is a series on why you should probably walk than fly in US these days
https://instapundit.com/626357/#disqus_thread
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Heat Culture
‘Australia should follow the Spanish city of Seville and start naming its heatwaves as part of measures to help communities cope with the rising risks from extreme temperatures, according to a new report.
‘Naming heatwaves could be part of enabling a “heat culture” where communities prepare for extreme temperature events in the same way they plan for the arrival of named cyclones, the report said.’ (Guardian)
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