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Many in the West hate their own culture which doesn’t bode well. Or could it be an indigenous person? Or a recent Immigrant?
Captain Cook Statue brought to its knees
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13128957/Captain-Cook-statue-Melbourne-Famous-explorers-sculpture-Cooks-Cottage-East-Melbournes-Fitzroy-Gardens-hacked-off.html
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Captain Cook was a brave explorer who discovered the east coast of Terra Australis and he had nothing to do with the terra nullius mentality which came in his wake.
Let us not be cowered by wokedom, put the statue back with first class security in place.
Being an immigrant nation a large majority have very little interest in history.
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What a peculiar thing to add to the end of your comment. Not only is it facile and condescending, it is also untrue. Are you suggesting that people living in a place have no interest in the history of the place unless they were born there? Anecdotes are not evidence but I know a lot of immigrants for who this is not true. For that matter history is a major motivation for me when I travel overseas so I seek out the history which, remarkably for someone not living in the country, I know something about.
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Comrade we are in the minority.
https://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/new-critic/six/gregory
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Gee Aye have a friend that lives in Siege street Glenrowan close to Ned Kelly’s last stand and has no interest in what happened before he moved in , I live not far away and know about it but don’t care what might have happened here way back then . As a matter of fact when visiting various places across Oz I’ve seen plaques that when you stop and read them they say things like “On this site in 1880 nothing happened, zip , nada and nietski .
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A district visitor would certainly have trouble finding that other ”place” the Kelly tree, where the murders of Police Officers Kennedy, Scanlan and Lonigan took place
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Easy if you frequent the area for as long as I have and have been to both the signposted site and the actual supposed site once but been past on Tiger hill road more times than I care to remember.
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I know Italians, proud of their culture who are more Australian than you mob.
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Top UK cardiologist expresses concerns over the effects of the vaccine
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/27/top-cardiologist-reports-47-fold-increase-in-serious-myocarditis-post-covid-vaccinations-as-he-calls-on-gmc-to-investigate/
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There are an awful lot of conspiracy theories, none more so than on communications masts
I looked at the effects of a proposed 5G mast close by, not for its health impact but because it was being placed in a beauty spot. However on reading up about the subject it seems clear that 5g has been rolled out before its full impact has been assessed.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/26/are-we-taking-the-risks-of-5g-seriously-enough/
The EU commission also wrote a report suggesting that more research was needed but the industry has steam rollered everyone, aided and abetted by those wanting the latest gadget or a better signal.
I think the subject of Electro magnetic fields in general are worth more research. We have hundreds of devices emitting EMF inside and outside the house but its impact is not well understood on the human body, especially the heart.
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I installed LED ceiling lights, and I have a cheap AM/FM radio.
Some of the lights wipe out the radio stations, some don’t.
Whether or not the LEDs have an effect on me, I don’t know.
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Generally it seems LED bulbs are unlikely to be worse than conventional bulbs. However it appears that “smart” bulbs using wifi or Bluetooth are another matter
https://beatemf.com/light-bulb-radiation/
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I don’t believe it’s the LEDs themselves, it’s the cheap switching power supplies that generate the RF interference.
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Switching, by definition, generates harmonics, the squarer the waveform the higher the hertz [even] harmonics contained in the waveform. I know of no study saying this is dangerous.
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I read about LED bulbs. Very illuminating.
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I had to research the effects of RF on the human body. It’s the fluid-filled parts of the body that are most susceptible, and mainly to certain specific frequencies. As it’s a heating effect, the exposure duration is also important. But in general, I don’t believe that normal RF that surrounds us has any significant impact. There are international emissions standards that restrict the ability of RF sources to impact us.
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“There are international emissions standards that restrict the ability of RF sources to impact us.”
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Did you hear about the Australian public servants working in a building with a “communications ” tower on top.
It was a complete coincidence that many got cancerified.
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” As it’s a heating effect,” Only in the way that the blast effect is the problem with an atomic bomb going off in your town..
The authorities measure the heating effect to decide if wavelengths are safe or not, basically they are just deciding how long it will take to cook you. However our body runs on very weak interactions between protein molecules carrying slight electrical charges to make enzymatic action happen.
We have never evolved to handle EMF, and just as some electron is exposed to a proton and about to jump ship, along comes a photon and knocks it away. So that bit of chemistry in your mitochondria didn’t take place, and does anyone know the effect?
Look up “The Invisible Rainbow” by Arthur Firstenberg on the web and d’load a copy, there is a lot to think about in it, from the bees being wiped off the island Marconi put his first transmitter on to whole towns near radar stations getting sick. Put your mobile phone on an ants nest in the garden and see what happens, its expected to drive them away but I’ve never tried it.
Not that we can do anything about it, the whole Earth is covered in radiation from satellites now, and collision-avoiding radar on cars make sure we get a solid dose every day.. WiFi is everywhere, cellular towers, and even the power board on your house is a great source of EMF. Never put your bed on that wall.
We started killing ourselves with metal poisoning when we first invented smelting, and we haven’t stopped since.
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Just on the photon bit.
A photon can be emitted from an atom but it doesn’t receive photons.
The energy coming at an atom is an electromagnetic wave.
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An interesting outline.
There’s no info on 5G to be found on the net. I suspect that the government sponsors analysis of the heating effect of radiation to make it look like they’re interested in our health.
Most likely it’s to distract us from going too deep: i.e. Misinformation.
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The only time you are not being bombarded with RF is when you are miles from anywhere communing with nature.
When at home you are surrounded by wiring emitting 50 Hz RF waves.
In a previous life I worked on powerful 10 cm radar. There were WHS precautions of course but even in this SHF band the practical approach was “Don’t stand in front of the antenna”.
The 3cm marine radar is not considered dangerous but it is only a fraction of the power of an APS-20 set. I never got near the F111 but the techs took tham seriously.
It’s all freq./power dependent but I am unsure about an ultra high freq./low power phone so close to the brain.
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GMS – not only my famous initials, but Geo-Magnetic Storm, aka another Carrington Event, appears to be the latest, controlled, psy-op to freak the sheep. Who knew the sun could affect life on Earth!
mock/sarc
Meanwhile BBC is doing a total Mann-wash on the Hokey Pokey Shtick, exonerating and venerating its creative mannipulator who has been ‘under attack’ from quarters questioning his ‘overwhelming evidence’. The game is rigged: bring on GMS!
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Is this the same Geo Magnetic Storm that has caused Warner Bros to shut down New Zealand News Hub services?
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I looked for research on 5G and was shocked by its Absence.
I smelled a big rat.
Significantly the local Council donated a section of local park for the new Tower.
No money changed hands.
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Odd with councils always crying poor. My old shooting club had a nice earner hosting a comms tower, plus they hosted police for their “off site tactical training” Always had money to build or do what they wanted.
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The virtuous copper cycle?
If this is not already happening in Australia it soon will be as word gets around.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/green-crime-an-electric-car-wind-and-solar-crime-wave/
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I have read several books on the quantities of metals available for green technologies and they all say green tech will fail because there is not enough copper.
We have been plundering it for two thousand years and especially the last century and what will be required in the next two decades will be as much as man has mined in its entire history. One of the biggest users will be power cables of one sort or another of which millions of miles will be required.
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Maybe it will be true this time.
“Concern about the copper supply is not new. In 1924 geologist and copper-mining expert Ira Joralemon warned:
… the age of electricity and of copper will be short. At the intense rate of production that must come, the copper supply of the world will last hardly a score of years. … Our civilization based on electrical power will dwindle and die.”
Wikipedia – Peak Copper
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The amount of copper required has grown exponentially, however a great deal of it is recycled.
However it can not be recycled when it is under the sea as cables or as transmission lines or in renewable power stations. So presumably with the current surge in demand will come a period when it is effectively locked away from being reused. That will cause shortages but perhaps other materials will be found to take its place.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium-conductor_steel-reinforced_cable
… for long-distance transmission
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Another good reason why in Australia the existing network of power stations and locations must be retained and the nearby main electricity grid transmission lines.
Continue to use coal and gas and introduce nuclear reactors as needed.
Abandon the ridiculous renewable energy target and transition.
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Top 5 reserves of copper
Chile. Copper reserves: 190 million MT. Chile has the largest copper reserves of any country by far, with 190 million metric tons (MT) as of 2022. …
Australia. Copper reserves: 97 million MT. …
Peru. Copper reserves: 81 million MT. …
Russia. Copper reserves: 62 million MT. …
Mexico. Copper reserves: 53 million MT.
However Australia is eighth on the list of copper producers
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264626/copper-production-by-country/#
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“If this is not already happening in Australia it soon will be as word gets around.”
Ah, its laughable.. America has sunk to the level of Africa now, copper wire theft is so common in South Africa it causes more blackouts than the power station corruption!
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Electrical energy is measured in kWh (or MWh or GWh) gigawatts is a measure of peak power output.
So how many minutes or hours will 6.3 gigawatts (storage) last if all of Victoria’s coal fired power stations have been shut down and blown up and there is an extended period of overcast and low wind days?
Combined power capacity of Victoria’s 3 largest coal fired power stations is 4.7 gigawatts
https://www.climatechange.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0028/635590/Victorias-2035-Climate-Target_Driving-Real-Climate-Action.pdf
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My calculation is 80 minutes, assuming all batteries are fully charged and ready to go, and that said batteries can be discharged to zero. That’s assuming that all batteries are installed (and connected) but given the Victorian Public Service performance in recent years there must be a doubt about that.
Will the 59,000 jobs being created be for running on treadmills?
And incidentally saw the English comment about F8k news.
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I come up with a similar result.
In Victoria current grid battery capacity is O.52GW/0.72GWh which is well below the Vic Gov Target of 6.3GW. This only provides grid stabilisation.
Assuming the same GWh/GW ratio the cost of batteries to meet a target of 80 minutes storage at A$ 750/kWhr would be around A$6 Billion
For 24 hours back up the amount goes to $150 Billion and for a week’s backup to allow a discharge and recharge cycle for a few cloudy windless days we hit “ONE TRILLION DOLLARS”.
Clearly the whole Victorian Parliament including the useless Vic Libs all failed maths at school!
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Okay then, here’s some, umm, lateral thinking then.
Let’s pretend beyond even the wildest imagination that we even hoped to get enough ‘grid scale’ batteries in place, to, you know, SUPPLY energy to the grid.
The TOTAL energy delivered to the grid by wind generation delivers 13% of the overall requirement for the, umm, operation of Australia.
The TOTAL energy delivered to the grid by solar plant generation delivers 7% of the overall requirement for the, umm, operation of Australia.
So wind and solar provides an average of just 20% of what is required on that daily basis.
For the purpose of this exercise, forget rooftop solar, because that is ‘behind the grid’, and all of it is already being consumed by the homes with the panels and the nearby homes in the same area, and even that is only 11% of the grid.
So take that 11% off the overall, and that leaves 89% of the total grid energy being required from actual power plants.
So, industrial wind and solar plants deliver 20%.
That’s the background picture here.
Now, back to the batteries I mentioned, pretend that there actually might even be enough of them.
The Batteries need to be charged so that the power can be used when it is actually required ….. eh!
If they use wind and solar to charge those batteries, and just think about that.
IF, if, if, they were to use the TOTAL energy from EVERY SINGLE ONE of those wind and solar plants, they still only have enough energy for TWENTY PERCENT of what is actually required.
So, if ALL the energy from EVERY wind and solar plant is used to charge the batteries, you still only get 20% of the requirement.
You either use that energy to charge the batteries, or deliver it to the grid for consumption. You CANNOT do both.
Charge the batteries, or run 20% of the Country.
See the scale of what is required now?
It actually WILL BE impossible, and will NEVER be achieved.
Tony.
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Currently, the total Nameplate for Industrial wind and solar plants is a little HIGHER than the Nameplate for coal fired power plants, both black coal and brown coal.
Those Industrial wind and solar plants deliver 20% of Australia’s power requirements.
Those coal fired plants deliver 57% of Australia’s power requirements.
Tony.
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Except all that wind and solar wont be used to charge up batteries, because Malcolm Turnbull will have some “special” arrangement to use it in his new proposed pumped hydro projects. So that he can be forever ripping us off in arbitrage by pumping water uphill when the sun/wind is blowing and then releasing it when the spot power price is the highest. Amazing how there’s been licences issued for pumped hydro projects, but Australia cant get a new coal fire power station built or at the very least have the nuclear ban legislation reversed. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I just follow the money.
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This is not correct. South Australia often exports rooftop solar to Victoria. Last Sunday rooftop lunchtime production was 11GW. All coal was 10GW.
https://opennem.org.au/energy/nem/?range=7d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time
Rooftops often result in grid wind and solar offloading due to to negative pricing.
Reverse power flow creates new challenges for protection systems. The linked paper looks at some of the issues with local transformers:
https://energycentral.com/system/files/ece/nodes/463672/der_reverse_power_flow_impacts.pdf
The recent outages in Victoria were as likely caused by rapid loss of generation, mainly rooftops as the front moved over Melbourne. The tower failures should not have caused a major power station hundred of kilometres away to disconnect from the grid. Either the protection is inadequate or there was a sudden loss of distributed generation.
Many things are possible if enough money is thrown at it. There is is a lot of money being thrown at “renewables” in Australia I have now operated part of my household load off-grid for 12 years. It is technically feasible and proving highly reliable. And I forecast it will be lower cost to make your own electricity using solar and battery than having an incredibly complex network of distributed generating and storage sources across the country.
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RickWill:
SA does not have any coal-fired generation. Probably gas and diesel? Or coal from NSW?
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I think there’s a (perhaps slight) misunderstanding here.
Yes, South Australia exports energy (MWH or GWH) into Victoria, and it’s probably a concept that’s a little difficult to understand for the average ‘punter’ not trained in electrical ‘matters’.
The exported energy ‘looks like’ it’s the excess from rooftop solar, and all that excess, when added together looks like a large amount of energy
Individual rooftops generate what is really minute amounts of power. KWH compared to MWH and GWH. What is not consumed by the home with the panels itself is then ‘exported’. The nature of transmission of electrical power is that huge amounts can be transmitted across distance, because the losses inherent with transmission over distance might only result in the loss of small amounts, considering it’s large MWH, or even GWH.
However, when it comes to the amounts exported in excess of what the home is consuming, those KWH can only be consumed in the area local to where they are being generated. So, all those excess tiny KWH amounts add up to (relatively) largeR amounts, within those many areas where the homes are providing that small excess.
So NOW, all those little areas do not need to be ‘drawing’ power FROM the grid to supply what might now be delivered from excess rooftop KWH added up.
So, add up all that power now NOT required FROM the grid for each of those local areas with excess from rooftop panels, and it amounts to a large amount of energy ….. OVERALL.
THAT large amount, being generated by the wider grid is what is being exported into Victoria.
So, it ‘looks like’ it is ‘excess rooftop solar power’ being exported to Victoria, but is actually a whole lot of individual areas ….. NOT requiring energy from the grid.
It probably could be ‘explained away’ by rooftop supporters as maybe ….. semantics probably.
It’s actually power plant generated power (huge amounts) the equivalent to rooftop generated excess in a large number of tiny amounts.
So now, (an expensive exercise really) there’s no need for grid engineers to phone up power plants and ask them to shut down, as we don’t need that power any more. They just export that excess down the Interconnectors into Victoria. So instead of curtailing those power plants or even shutting them down, (and they’ll always need the ‘insurance’ of having that power AT the grid, if rooftop solar power drops away in any of those large number of individual areas) so instead of getting zero dollars (shutting them down) the energy is exported to Victoria at that added extra cost.
Huh! If you can actually see what I mean here.
Tony.
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Rick mentions this, and hey, I’m not doing this to pick an argument here, just showing you something perhaps of more importance that rooftop power generated at Midday on a Sunday compared to the power generated by coal fired power at the same Sunday Midday timeslot.
The main overall power consumption for the whole of Australia is at the evening Peak, around the same time EVERY day ….. forever, and that will NEVER change.
On average that AEMO wide power consumption at that time, around 6.30PM on an averaged year round basis is 26,450MW.
The average delivered from ALL four renewables (Hydro, Wind, Solar Plants and Rooftop solar) at that same time is 6854MW.
So, the difference is ….. 19,596MW.
The vast bulk of all of that is delivered from coal fired power, which ramps up to its usual daily maximum at that time, ramping up EVERY day ….. FOREVER.
See the image at this link.
Tony.
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I recall that you once stated that the minimum demand will always be at 4am in the morning. The minimum demand now is mostly at lunchtime.
My son has a tariff that charges nothing for energy at lunchtime; 1100 to 1400hrs. His house is solid brick so lots of thermal inertia. He will set up heating and cooling on timers to heat or cool as required through those 3 hours. He will use his house as a thermal battery. His hotwater is currently gas but it makes sense to go to electric to get the free energy.
No heavy industry in Australia can compete with China or India. It will all go. The grid demand will continue to trend down as more houses install rooftop solar. Another 3.14GW in 2023.
You are still avoiding the question of how can 11GW of rooftop go into a grid with a demand of only 26GW without gpoing back up the grid. Or how is it possible for rooftops in South Australia to produce in excess of 100% of their demand without exporting ON HV TRANSMISSION LINES back to Victoria.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/02/12/rooftop-solars-success-results-in-struggling-large-scale-segment-in-australia/
Wind/solar with storage is technically feasible for 100% supply and it appears the current Labor governments across the country are willing to throw as much of your money as they like at it. I am opting out of being pillaged by insane politicians.
In Q4 2023, WDGs contributed 26% of average demand. The NEM had its lowest ever operational demand of 11GW at 1330 on Oct 29.
https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/qed/2023/quarterly-energy-dynamics-q4-2023.pdf?la=en
Figure 7 on page 10 show South Australia minimum demand as negative. But not all regions have declining minimum demand
The large scale solar projects cannot compete with rooftops. Rooftops are also eroding the economics of the wind generators. The only way that more grid scale intermittent generation can be squeezed into the grid is more storage. It also means that the cost of LGCs will climb to incentivise more grid wind and solar. So wholesale prices may trend down but retail will always trend upward.
I would not count on the evening peak never changing either. Batteries can charge at negative prices so could well outcompete coal and gas plants for meeting evening demand, There is an additional 3GW/7GWh battery projects in the pipeline. They will all be charging at negative prices and looking for daily arbitrage on the evening peak. It is still demand but being served differently to now. But every savvy household willl be looking at ways to shift demand tp lunchtime.
If you want a place with coal fired generation in the long run, you will need to move to China or India. These are developing countries and only liberate UN approved virtuous CO2.
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Midday isn’t the minimum demand. We still use much more power at midday than at 4:30am. Your son having a cheap electricity on his deal at midday is not about overall demand being at a minimum. It’s that there is a good supply of electricity in the middle of the day when solar is able to produce.
Now, you might say, “People with rooftop solar are not demanding power from the grid at midday because all their energy needs are met by solar. That’s what I mean by minimum demand. I mean Minimum grid demand”.
Well, you can’t just ignore the power used from rooftop solar and remove it from “demand” because when considering grid capacity needs you have to allow for periods at midday when solar is not working optimally.
Plus, if you want to remove solar from demand, you can’t then on the flip side talk about it being an exporter. You’re actually arguing that it doesn’t exist on the grid for the purposes of demand. But it does exist for the purposes of generation. You can’t have it both ways for an intermittent source.
I don’t think Tony avoided the question and he explained why rooftop solar is not exporting to Vic. He did say that rooftop supporters could say it’s “semantics” because while rooftop excess power is used locally and not exported, that local usage means there is availability to export power from other generators. So while you say it’s rooftop being exported, Tony is saying it’s actually not. It’s power generated from a different source because, if I’m reading Tony correctly, rooftop doesn’t have enough oomph behind it to travel. Take way the other generators and nothing leaves SA.
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Tony’s explainer.
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It is as far as the wholesale market is concerned. All the grid scale generators are backed off as the rooftops take up the demand.
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It’s not the minimum demand across the AEMO market. I think you must be talking about just SA.
Today, midday-ish, across NSW, QLD, Vic, SA, Tas, “demand” is at least 2500 MW above the low of the day at around 3:30am.
It’s also not the minimum demand in the context of electricity consumption in any state.
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Sorry Rick, but i do not see how this is possible.
At its peak , on a full sun day,.SA rooftop is suggested as producing < 2.0 GW ..( 1.8 GW,,..and those are only “guesstimates” from known installed capacity, not measured generation)
At the same time ..midday.. the SA grid demand is still 1.0+ GW in addition to that rooftop consumption ( with no rooftop generation the midday demand would be 3+ GW.
So,..SA rooftop would need to be producing over 3.0GW for it to be even at a level to have spare capacity to export.
And i agree with Tony,..RT solar can only ever “offset” grid generation,..not add to it .
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Look at the AEMO report – Figure 10. The minimum demand in SA is negative. The entire SA demand being met by rooftops and a little extra being exported to Victoria.
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the thing you are missing is that it is IMPOSSIBLE for the 240v generated locally by rooftop solar to be transferred past the transformer at the end of the street which will not be a bi directional transformer. 11KV to 415v/240v is fine but not 240v to 11kv. cant be done so the rooftop solar is used up by the local consumers which (as Tony has said many times) and any extra is lost. The power exported by SA to Victoria comes from gas and large wind /solar farms when their output isnt needed by the local areas covered by rooftop solar. Rooftop solar is only useful in the local areas and cannot be exported.
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This should be documented
If true there should be ways to (publicly) track the throughputs at the distribution level transformers.
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Rick,..
From that report..
But..we know that there is no way the AEMO can measure RT solar output,.. only estimate it…….so how can they know there was a -26 MW surplus from RT solar ?
That would imply a less than 2% accuracy for the estimation of RT solar production.
..Which is rediculous !
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I have a plan, invest in the new Turnbull pumped hydro company recently reported by media.
Sell electricity to recharge batteries and other premium price supply applications.
sarc.
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If the Parliament is supposedly still debating Digital Identity legislation which means it hasn’t been passed yet, why is there a section on the MyGov website to enter your Digital ID information from your Identity Provider?
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It is a totally different thing
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https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/craig-kelly-to-join-one-nation/video/e58d2a85f690cb9f8abe356a11e91f6e
Former Liberal MP Craig Kelly is set to join Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party.
Mr Kelly currently works as director of Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party.
He is set to join One Nation as federal campaign director.
It’s understood the role will involve fielding election candidates.
He will also participate in raising funds for the party.
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Understandable he is leaving UAP when you consider his experience with the candidates
https://twitter.com/TinfoilTales_AU/status/1761650620455616564
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I cannot see the link you are trying to make.
If it’s the “we don’t trust the F$#ers” statement, 100% agree.
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FWIW
“Tucker Carlson: The 2020 Election Was ‘100 Percent Stolen’ From President Trump”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/02/27/tucker-carlson-the-2020-election-was-100-stolen-from-president-trump-n4926819
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Does anyone believe that Scope 3 emissions reductions is in any way possible for Woodside? How on earth is an oil and gas company supposed to “cover” – or whatever they call it – the emissions from end-users driving the cars that uses their crude oil! That sounds utterly insane and Woodsides Board is taking this seriously.
Isn’t it obvious that Scope 3 emissions is just a covert way of killing off all domestic oil and gas production. It’s a completely impossible target and yet Woodside entertains the proposition seriously. Currently, they “cover” their Scope 1 and 2 emissions with carbon offsets for “land conservation projects” (whatever that may be).
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Woodside purchased some agricultural land neat Welbungin in the Shire of Mt Marshall, WA. Their application to establish a tree “farm” for their off sets was passed. The lady councillors were concerned about the loss of good farming land
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Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass gains greater than losses.
According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic Ice Sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to present.
https://www.antarcticajournal.com/antarctic-ice-sheet-mass-gains-greater-than-losses/
More media crickets in a woke world. Chris Bowen, Minister For Climate Change, please explain.
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“the Antarctic Ice Sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to present.”
But , but but , I just searched multiple websites, and they all say exactly the opposite.
Wikipedia promoting misinformation?
Surely not?
I was wanting to know what % of the total mass of ice the 112 billion tons would be.
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The rumour going the rounds is that Antarctica hasn’t been in this perilous state for 700,000 years, which is bollocks.
NASA is using Grace to build up their argument, West Antartica is losing mass balance, while East Antartica is showing a ‘modest’ increase in snow and ice.
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/265/video-antarctic-ice-mass-loss-2002-2023/
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I’ll throw this in for good measure.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/02/26/the-elevation-of-the-early-holocenes-w-antarctic-ice-sheet-once-plunged-480-meters-in-200-years/
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Always amazed at the capacity of ” renewables” to allegedly power so many things when they only have a capacity factor of 30% and weather and time of day dependent availability.
Yet magically “renewables” supply:
– the ACT
– all the major supermarkets
– desal plants
– “x” thousand households when any new one is opened
– in future pumping water uphill for SH2
All this without signicant storage, it really is magical.
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Yet a large amount of people believe in this magic.
Welcome to Xanadu.
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Theme music already written –
“The Land of Make Believe”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mLdUFw4Xfc
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Apparently Bom were under the microscope at Senate estimates today on their bodgy forecasts .
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A foretelling of climate doom from 2004. Just looking at the news and out the window, not much of this happened.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver1?CMP=share_btn_link
Link taken from a snippet on SDA
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This one?
“Down the memory hole”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/02/27/down-the-memory-hole-3/
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It’s been a lovely day around here, but I have just discovered ‘the nuclear shadow’. This describes the number is nuclear missiles that you need to guarantee others can’t afford to attack you, if you get up to mischief. (ie Russia) About 200 will do it. At present North Korea has about 40, but with the present world situation, and a financial and technological boost from Russia and Iran, their missile testing program jumped from 4 in 2021, to 70 in 2022. I was hoping to still be here in 5 years, but we could be heading into some pretty gnarly territory?! Well actually that might well be some of the least of our problems!
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NATO today is a joke.
More like an irritant then any actual physical threat to Russia.
A bunch of people pretending to be leaders but are definitely cowards.
Military capabilities are terrible with broken Military and broken machinery.
Against drones and missiles that are extremely accurate and destructive is suicidal.
Russia doesn’t want it’s infrastructure blown to crap either because it doesn’t want to have to rebuild it again.
Ukraine is Russia and nothing will be stopping that.
Other countries like China and Muslim nations aren’t going to interfere.
Always remember the Afghanistan departure for reference…
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Another sign that the Euro-greens really are watermelons – bright red inside.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/27/revolutionary-eu-criminalises-the-most-serious-cases-of-ecosystem-destruction
More regulations to prosecute ‘eco-crimes’
“‘Revolutionary’: EU Parliament votes to criminalise most serious cases of ecosystem destruction
By Mette Mølgaard Henriksen Published on 27/02/2024 – 07:00•Updated 17:06
“Countries will have two years to put the updated directive, which covers crimes ‘comparable to ecocide’, into national law. The European Union has become the first international body to criminalise the most serious cases of environmental damage that are “comparable to ecocide”.
“Ecosystem destruction, including habitat loss and illegal logging, will be punished with tougher penalties and prison sentences under the EU’s updated environmental crime directive. In a vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday, EU lawmakers overwhelmingly backed the move with 499 votes in favour, 100 against and 23 abstentions.
There’s is more – having a legal permit [on its own] won’t be enough to save you.
“Member states now have two years to enshrine it in national law.
“Here’s what you need to know about the updated law, which experts are calling revolutionary.
“According to Marie Toussaint, a French lawyer and MEP for the Greens/European Free Alliance group, the EU is “adopting one of the most ambitious legislation in the world. The new directive opens a new page in the history of Europe, protecting against those who harm ecosystems and, through them, human health. It means putting an end to environmental impunity in Europe, which is crucial and urgent,” she says.
“According to Toussaint, current EU and national legislations are not dissuading offenders from committing environmental crimes, because offences are too limited and sanctions very low. Environmental crimes are growing two to three times faster than the global economy and have in a few years become the fourth largest criminal sector in the world,” she says.
“Environmental crimes still occur in Europe. In its report on the fight against environmental crime in Europe, the European Environmental Bureau cites numerous examples of environmental crimes that were still going unpunished because they were not included in the old directive. These include illegal fishing of bluefin tuna, agro-industrial pollution in protected areas, as well as illegal hunting practices and carbon market fraud.”
“Environmental crimes are growing ‘two to three times faster than the global economy’ – because we people-hating Watermelons [bright red inside, with a notional green coating for the Deplorables] are making more and more things – even innocuous things – into enviro-crimes, because we hate people and industry and want to see you [not us, naturally] all back in the Stone Age – if not actually dead. Although the latter is acceptable. Untermensch!’ – as Marie Toussaint, a French lawyer and MEP for the Greens/European Free Alliance group – did NOT actually say.
Although her group’s actions can certainly be interpreted that way.
Do they think that moving industry to – say – East Asia, will miraculously improve standards hugely?
Do centrally planned economies always ensure the environment is looked after?
This will drive more industry out of Europe.
One example given –
“An example, Manders [Lawyer Antonius Manders, Dutch MEP from the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), has described the changes as very hopeful.] explains, is that the chemical industry in the Netherlands in 1982 was given a permit to pollute water with PFAS, before these chemicals were identified as harmful to human health. But today, we know that the chemicals cause cancer and even death. So in a court case like the one about the chemical company Chemours, even though the company has a permit, when the new directive comes into force, it has to stop, since it has been proved that PFAS harms people,” Manders adds.”
Member states will have two years to implement the revised directive in national law.
“Among other things, they will have the flexibility to choose whether to introduce fines for companies based on a proportion of their turnover – up to five per cent depending on the crime, or fixed fines of up to €40 million. “We would have liked to go much further,” Toussaint says.”
Of course she would have liked to go further – fining, & imprisoning people who work, who create wealth.
Maybe re-educating them, exiling them, or worse!
It’s the EU – so it’s corrupt; there will be horse-trading in smoke-filled rooms.
Politically-connected industries will probably get a [modest] stay of execution.
Will that be enough for the watermelons?
“Toussaint … says it is crucial to keep an eye on the ongoing negotiations at the Council of Europe, where the Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law – equivalent to the EU directive but at Council of Europe level – is currently being revised.
““This convention, originally adopted in 1998, has never been ratified and has therefore never officially come into force. The current revision of the European directive could thus have a major influence on the negotiations underway and an impact outside EU territory,” she says.”
We will rule you all – she didn’t add.
Auto
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FWIW
“My car?”
https://patriotpost.us/memes/104741-my-car-2024-02-27
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Any secret millionaires out there with a few hundred bitcoin they bought a few years ago?
They are US$59,262 each. I’ve been told a thousand times, but would I listen?
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