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I will now try to build a Noah’s Ark in Sydney –
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR713.loop.shtml#skip
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The BOM were wrong about a long, hot & dry El-Nino Summer and now they are wrong about a long, hot and dry El-Nino Autumn.
Yet … they are certain the can prognosticate about the weather in 30 years and beyond.
Their scientific credentials are undeniably settled!
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Oz is quite big, it even extends west of the Blue Mountains. I am no Warmist, but Perth has been very hot and dry and here in Adelaide there has been virtually no rain for 10 weeks and counting. Feb/March were both bloody hot as well. The extreme east coast always has rain, especially in autumn.
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Mudgee is only 50 odd km west of the Blue Mountains and March’s av max was 2 degrees hotter than long term” (less than 40 years) average. That has been happening so often in the last six or more years that intuition tells me that if their numbers are reliable 1.5 degrees of warming has been passed well before now.
Missed the movie last night. Might there be a rerun?
Had an 80th birthday. Mine. I was never confident in seeing it, but it happened. Had a little party, the big party got cancelled when facilitators got CV19 for the second time.
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Here you are Ted. Watch it at leisure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A24fWmNA6lM . Congratulations on reaching 80. Now I know why you could beat me in the classroom, you were a year older. I feel better already. I was 79 last month.
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Thanks Lawrie. I didn’t achieve as much as I should have. We copped a bit of lead in our saddles.
The youngsters will have to keep the world rotating. I wish them luck, On present indications they will need it.
I’ll have a look at that movie.
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WE weren’t in the same class room. I was good at the school work, but the very least athletic. That got me shifted down a year for sport, where I was still the least athletic. I was small for my age.
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I am also in Adelaide…in the Adelaide Hills, and as King Solomon noted very accurately, “There is nothing new under the sun”!
The long dry and very warm to hot weather we have had here in Adelaide and regional areas is and has been in the past referred to as an “Indian Summer”!
I worked for over 25 years on the farm with my father and I vividly recall times during the end of summer and beginning of autumn exactly the same weather! My dad who was born in 1922, and passed away in 2013, and worked his whole life on the farm in the Adelaide Hills recounted times when they experienced the conditions we have just had, and it was common to refer to these conditions as an “Indian Summer”! This is nothing new, but something that is continually repeated over the span of many years.
Perth, Western Australia, will always experience prolonged very warm to hot weather when large, stable and very slow moving High pressure systemes are positioned over the Great Australian Bight, directing a very long eastly airflow over the land from New South Wales, over South Australia and into Western Australia, ensuring Perth will have prolonged hot weather, even though we are not in summer.
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Virtually no rain in Perth for six months now. Folks not connected to scheme water have run out of water, and the water carting contractors are working 14-hour days delivering water, and are still a week behind. Thankfully Perth has desal powered by low-cost gas.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but WA, SA & Victoria have what is referred to as a Mediterranean Climate. That is all 3 generally have winter rainfall together with winter temperatures. So as it’s still summer rainfall may be scarce and temperatures???
Well it is summer time they’re bound to be high as they have been for millennia.
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Yes, and it now appears that for Perth, it will be a “year without autumn”. The last similar one was in 1972, when a hot summer went right through April and a bit into May. More memorable because of the lack of air conditioning.
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Back in the day it was called a “rainy day” or “wet week”.
Today it’s “severe weather warning”, “evacuate now” etc..
Just keep the “climate change” terror going because, you know, some people are making a lot of money by selling fundamentally defective wind and solar electricity “generation” systems to supposedly “fix” the weather.
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https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/mongolian-deep-freeze-due-to-global-warming-/
The sight of dead and dying animals has become tragically familiar in Mongolia this year as the East Asian nation has fallen into the grip of a slow-onset weather disaster known as the “dzud”.
About 90 per cent of the country has been impacted by the phenomenon – a deadly mix of perishing temperatures as low as -50C, icy winds and layers of heavy snow that have weakened livestock and frozen pasturelands, killing between four to six million cows, sheep, goats and horses since last November.
Officials say this year’s dzud is the worst in decades. Scientists attribute the catastrophe to a mixture of overgrazing and global climate change.
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I am assuming that the last dzud, decades ago, was not caused by climate change but rather a polar blast or some such natural phenomenon. Twenty years ago their developing neighbour was barely beginning its latest leap forward and CO2 levels were much lower so it couldn’t be that could it?
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Rain Bomb is an American expression which we have cultivated.
‘Sydney’s Warragamba Dam spills over after reaching full capacity as rain bomb drenches NSW.’
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The other one they seem to have forgotten altogether is the Cloudburst.
I don’t know if it is because they couldn’t remember it or they wanted to Bring Back The Bomb. Probably both.
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That will be a Johnny’s ark.
How will your ark be powered? Noah’s just floated as far as I know. He trusted God to direct it, but Noah didn’t know where he went nor where he was when he got there.
I hope you have better luck.
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Johnny will naturally rely on his Rotten luck… though I hope he doesn’t land atop The Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains. If any more olympic-sized Flanneries fall from the sky, he could set course for the Great Inland Sea – it may be navigable soon 😃
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I like olympic-sized Flanneries falling from the sky. Can I use that with my warmist friends Greg? Or maybe I could just say it’s Flannering again every time it rains.
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Or a “Johnny Sarc”?
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The may be of interest to this site and especially Perth residents,
Australia: The Road Ahead, Conference
Wednesday, 17 April 2024. Fremantle 8:45am ~ 5pm
In a time of unparalleled wealth we are more divided than ever before.
Find out whether it is too late to save the Western World.
Speakers: Basil Zempilas. JOHN ANDERSON JANET ALBRECHTSEN STEVE WHYBROW BRENDAN O’NEILL TONY SEABROOK | GEMMA TOGNINI | SCOTT HARGREAVES | PROFESSOR STEPHEN WILSON | RUSSELL DELROY | PROFESSOR SIMON HAINES | DR. BELLA D’ABRERA | BRIANNA MCKEE | PROFESSOR GARY BANKS | JENNIFER GROSSMAN | FREYA LEACH
https://www.mannkal.org/event/australia-the-road-ahead/
https://www.australiatheroadahead.org/
Organizers/sponsors/attendees may include:
Mannkal Foundation, Perth. The Atlas Society, Texas, USA. IPA. etc.
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I must say it’s refreshing to see a more original Welcome To Country than the obligatory tedious incantation we’ve had to endure lately.
https://www.mannwest.com/welcome-to-country-2017/
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If Australia was still 100% populated by the indigenous, do you think people would be trying to come here in boats.
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Absolutely!
Have you experienced what some of them are desperate to escape?
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There is also the question of the number of mass murders committed by mentally ill “trans people”.
These type of mentally ill people uses to be locked up in “funny farms” to protect both themselves and the wider community.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13275097/jk-rowling-campaigners-deny-trans-offenders-paedophile-priest.html
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Yes.
Colorado Spring shooter- non-binary.
Denver shooter – trans.
Aberdeen shooter – trans.
Nashville shooter – trans.
That seems to represent a much higher rate than their proportion of the population.
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Furthermore, that linkage also includes the assorted psychotropic pharmaceuticals to the afflicted. Anto-depressants that bring on uncontrillable “rage” and “harmful intent”.
Apparently, the “Hippocratic Oath’ is just a non-binding, quaint tradition.
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No idea if there is knowledge about in Australia:
Covid democide: a primer
The article is longer as it seems at first view.
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Interesting.
Many sensed something very sinister was happening, or more likely being perpetrated.
In isolation and without language to codify it.
‘Democide’… I notice there is little interest among ‘Public Health’ overlords to reflect on the efficacy or destructiveness of their actions.
They seem only interested in more enforcement power.
If truth prevails, there will be new additions to the Nuremberg codes.
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It was well established that COVID was not a high risk disease for healthy people under the age of 65. In fact the seasonal flu was a higher risk factor for this cohort.
It normallly takes a decade for a new vaccine to be properly tested and approved.
The so called COVID “Vaccines” were EXPERIMENTAL and there use shuld have been limited to those who fell into the high risk category.
However, corrupt politicians and a Main Stream Media bought off by Big Pharma forced healthy people including pregnant females to take the EXPERIMENTAL jab in contravention of the Nuremberg Code.
These phoney “vaccines” were never “safe and effective”.
The COVID chickens are now coming home to roost.
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There were more factors than just age. It’s also important that the reliable information came out slowly in drips, it was not all known early at once. A specific question for any inquiry is at what time was enough known about the health and economic risks to make lockdown indefensible. Did lockdown continue after that time?
Wasn’t there also immunity to civil damages granted to the vaccine manufacturers? That was also a large contribution to their accelerated development.
Every body was operating with uncertainty, especially the evolution of the virus variants.
It’s all a question of degree. How abnormal does a situation have to be before abnormal treatment is justified?
If you’re referring to mistakes being admitted I have not seen any metaphorical chickens coming home at all and I don’t expect any. That seems to be the most effective form of immunity in the whole saga.
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Hmm what about this: trying to make sense of/understand: About the NEXT PANDEMIC https://www.ardmediathek.de/live/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL3RhZ2Vzc2NoYXUvbGl2ZXN0cmVhbQ Wie verhindern wir die nächste Pandemie? (2/2)
Begs the question: Why does or SHOULD a Virus want to jump from some species to Man, but not to some other species ?
Oh ? “there is no glory in prevention” ?
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Thanks for that. But before I go into it it might be a good time to record my own memories of this story.
1. In January from memory we were told of a new virus, emanating from the same region as some other nasties in recent decades. But don’t worry, it is not transmissible between humans.
2. It is transmissible, and it’s deadly. They convinced me that if I caught it my survival would be unlikely. If it gets away our hospitals will be swamped and we will have to treat ourselves.
3. A Dr Zelenko from New York announced that he had found that a treatment protocol based on early commencement of treatment and inclusion of Hydroxychloroquine reduced hospitalisation and deaths by 80%.
Note that an 80% reduction would have solved the panic over swamping of hospitals.
4. Dr Zelenko got run out of town. This looked bad, but they got away with it.
5. They banned HCQ, forcing thereby the use of newer technology which was extremely expensive. This looked really bad.
6. At the same time they virtually prohibited early treatment. This was beyond the pale. People who were running the show at that time should be incarcerated. It was this act which justified Dr Russell Blaylock’s assertion that this represented the murder of 80% of the people who had died in the US up till that time. That was 640,000 people at February 2022.
7. The authorities commissioned a HCQ trial on people who had been hospitalised, where it doesn’t yield any benefit. They then cited that “trial” as proof that HCQ “didn’t work”. This was downright disingenuous. The success had been with early treatment.
8. Then we saw a repeat with Ivermectin.
They lost me with their prohibition on repurposed drugs, backed up by the virtual prohibition on early treatment and private research.
In the business world prohibiting the use of a cheap drug to compel the use of an expensive drug would be a criminal offence. There is no reason for excusing it here.
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Thanks Ted1,
I agree, but suggest adding:
3(a) Dr Zelenko also emphasised the use of zinc, and later added vitamin D to his protocol.
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I have been taking zinc and Vitamin D for the past two years and so far have not even had a cold. I look after an 8.5 yo boy who attends a local germ factory so reckon I have done well. Maybe that treatment should be given to everyone.
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I should have added that the prevalence of colds and flu seems to be much less and I note that many at the supermarket use the available hand cleaners. Maybe there is a realisation that clean hands keep disease away.
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The winner of the Headline Of The Year contest! (“Flim” Flannery please note).
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Oh FFS, just when I thought it couldn’t get any more ridiculous!
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Peak ridiculousness may yet be years away…..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68673420
“E-waste ‘drawers of doom’ growing, say campaigners”
By Harriet Bradshaw ….. https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriet-bradshaw-4582b930/?originalSubdomain=uk [Masters in Broadcast journalism, BA Honours [Cantab], Archaeology and Anthropology –
Note – “2:1 and 1st class honours awarded for dissertation on a teenage sexual abstinence movement – interviews had to be sensitively conducted due to the subject matter.”] Appreciate that H.B. can be discreet.
“Senior Climate Change Journalist
“BBC Scotland;
“2021 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos”
“Household hoards of unused electricals and broken tech are growing, a recycling campaign group warns.
“Material Focus estimates we’ve gone from stockpiling an average of 20 items to 30 within four years.
“Its findings come from market research. The top ten products include remote controls, mobile phones and hairdryers.”
That’s 28th March, from – you noticed, I expect – the BBC.
Auto – now looking to recycle my ‘zapper’, urgently!!
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More here with cartoon characters (for school use?):
https://acec.upi.edu/file/ppt/CLIMATE_CHANGE_SitiNurbayaniPuspita.pdf
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But wait – there is more
Fellow deniers did no know. {I bet Simon will have something to say}
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8524293/
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And not an April Fool’s joke because it’s dated two days ago.
Further evidence that the Left have become parodies of themselves.
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Why would men prefer sex with pretend women over the real thing unless they give heavy discounts. Maybe the locals have been fooled once and don’t want to waste their money. Climate change can be blamed for everything including poor business models.
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Biden’s climate change rules cost nearing $1 trillion
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/5/joe-bidens-climate-change-rules-cost-nearing-1-tri/
Is that all? I’m sure it’s going to cost a lot more than that!
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Thanks to John Connor II for the word he mentioned yesterday.
kakistocracy.
Example: Australia is a kakistocracy.
QUOTE A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. Peter Bowler has noted in his book that there is no word for the government run by the best citizens, and that the aristarchy may be the right term, but still, it could conceivably be a kakistocracy disguised as an aristocracy. END QUOTE (Wikipedia)
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I’d suggest Peter Bowler read the definition of Meritocracy.
“Meritocracy is a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meritocracy
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The Terminator movie was set in 1984.
The Terminator came from 40 years in the future which is 2024! Dialogue between Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese:
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Well, Ukraine is demonstrating how the Govts are going flat-out down that road right now. Drones are the new assault rifles and autonomous drones are appearing.
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On a serious note: do you think that in 1982 they(?) believed that in 20 years the humanity will colonise other star systems?
The creators of great film Blade Runner could have easily picked a century or two from now…
On the other hand, their prediction of humanlike robots came true – check our current government.
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Microsoft and OpenAI Reportedly Building $100 Billion Secret Supercomputer to Train Advanced AI
Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a $100 billion supercomputer, codenamed Stargate, to train advanced new AI.
Microsoft and OpenAI are working on a new AI supercomputer data center headquartered in the U.S. that could cost over $100 billion, The Information reports. Called Stargate, since such a futuristic-sounding project deserves an equally sci-fi-inspired name, it’s planned to power OpenAI’s next generation of AI systems like ChatGPT and could launch as soon as 2028.
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/meet-stargate-the-dollar100-billion-ai-supercomputer-being-built-by-microsoft-and-openai
2028 – there’s that year again 😉😎
Maybe my final post here will explain.
Self evolving A.I. scares the sh#t out of me.
“Chitti, why did you dismantle yourself?”
“Naan sinthikka arambichitten” (I started thinking). Oops! Have today’s AI bots begun to think? At least it’s perceived that they’re beginning to.
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John,
The danger is real BUT all the robot systems and AI’s need power and that’s their issue . The irony is that wind turbines and solar panels won’t cut it . EMP weapons/events are also fatal for them . Its interesting that the rise of the machines features in Sci-Fi frequently , even before the technology existed . If they wipe us out it will also wipe them out too .
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FWIW –
“Aussies Grappling With ‘Inappropriate Content’ aka Degenerate Issues in Schools, Too”
South Australia
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/04/05/aussies-grappling-with-inappropriate-content-aka-degenerate-issues-in-schools-too-n3785982
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Positive engineering
“How a Steel Ball ‘Damper’ Saved a Building in Taiwan During the Earthquake”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/04/05/how-a-steel-ball-damper-saved-a-building-in-taiwan-during-the-earthquake-n3785980
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Otherwise known as a “tuned mass damper”.
It’s always good to see engineering put to positive uses, not negative uses like the wind and solar scams.
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This is what it looks like and how it works including video.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/08/the-728-ton-tuned-mass-damper-of-taipei.html
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If it works
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1077989770642435
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Given the appalling ignorance of science and technology, I’d like to see a questionnaire given to politicians and senior public serpents who make scientific and engineering decisions to assess their knowledge.
You may add your own questions to this starter list. Just some questions off the top of my head.
1) Name three gases in the atmosphere.
2) What is the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere?
3) What is photosynthesis?
4) How much power does a single wind turbine typically generate and for what amount of time? (A wide latitude in the answer is permitted.)
5) How much power does a typical coal powered generator produce and for what proportion of time? (A wide latitude in the answer is permitted.)
6) In what century was the steam engine invented and by whom?
7) Name two means of motive power the steam engine rendered obsolete.
8) How does a real vaccine work?
9) How does the body usually prevent infection?
10) What causes the seasons?
11) What are Milankovitch Cycles?
12) What is the nearest star?
13) Travelling at 100kph, how far does a car go in 90mins?
14) What is the cube root of 8?
15) What is continental drift?
16) What are Ice Ages?
17) Who first proposed the concept of gravity?
18) What was Einstein most famous for?
19) How long does it take the earth to orbit the sun?
20) How many watts in 1.7kW?
21) Is it possible for a human to change sex? If the answer is yes, what is the before and after karyotype of the changed individual?
Etc..
Feel free to add.
I think 50 questions would be appropriate.
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Some of those questions are too complicated and/or cryptic. For example, #13 should be: Travelling at 100km per hour, how far does a car go in one hour?
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76.3KM ….. and then the battery went flat!!
Tony.
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I just drove my electric car to Melbourne and back.
Just about the only car that overtook me the whole way was a nice 1964 Mustang on the Barton Highway.
There were even a pair of ambulances behind me for a quite while between about Wangaratta and Wodonga – they never caught up with me.
On each of my 2 pit stops each way, the car charged up faster than I could buy and finish a coffee and a sausage roll.
It’s kind of funny seeing how threatened some cranky old people are about electric cars.
Oh, and I paid $121 total for electricity on the trip – would have cost me heaps less if I wasn’t having fun and driving nice and fast..
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Interesting. Sounds reasonable. So how far was the actual trip? You didn’t say, all I know is beyond wodonga, and you did two fuel stops. I’d say a coffee and a sausage roll would be what, 20 minutes? (did you actually get a sausage roll – and a coffee – both times?)
How much charge did you have to take on at those stops, and how much did you have when you got home? And should you include a third stop assuming that when I go on a trip I’d fill up at my local on the way, starting with a low tank. And I could go 800km easily without stop.
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…and a lot of people did actually overtake you. You were eating a sausage roll at the time, twice.
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They didn’t have electric carrs in 1922.
https://cdn.britannica.com/78/79278-050-2357908B/Michael-Collins-photograph-1919.jpg
This was an easter uprising event.
Moikle is with us again.
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So you were speeding and the ambulances stayed well back.
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Rarely see an EV on our now weekly trips up the Hume to Wangaratta. Have never ever seen one sustaining the speed limit.
Congratulations though. Except for the stop frequency you have successfully emulated the capability of a new $30k car. Well done! how much did yours cost?
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“I just drove my electric car to Melbourne and back.”
From where and what make of EV, asking for a friend.
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Memories
https://joannenova.com.au/2016/11/weekend-unthreaded-141/#comment-1853710
Eight years of energy politics.
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Aw, I missed it… I’ve never seen an EV being driven fast, they seem to be the most sedate drivers ever. All that power, all that acceleration and they cruise along the open country roads just slow enough to get in the way.
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Tony, I seem to remember you were a fan of “The Shadows” pop music group.
FYI: The Shadows Hits, 1958-1968, 95 files in 1 .zip file. About 1.5 hrs of The Shadows.
Zip file is 358 MB. The file is clean and without bugs. The unzipped file is comprised of .mp3 audio files. Might have a few your collection is missing.
Anyway, it is from the internet archive: https://archive.org/compress/the-shadows-early-years-1958-1968-best-of-no.-1-hits-group-from-england_202312
Cheers.
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oops. It is 1.5 hr mp4 video with 95 jpg images, one for each song.
Can use VideoDownloadHelper or other converter to convert mp4 to .mp3 audio file.
Sorry for that. I’d downloaded dozens of files and got a bit confuse on which was mp4 or mp3.
Still and all, it’s 90 mins of the Shadows.
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Mike, Mike, Mike,
100 km/h.
How far in 90 min?
Uhmm … hmm … beyond me. 🤷♀️
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wrt #6 the steam engine – variations of it actually go back to ancient times. Modern – practical and usable – versions of it appeared in the 17th century.
wrt #17 gravity – everyone knew about gravity. Newton formalised a law describing gravity.
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here’s a curly one (and probably not suitable for this quiz) :-
22) is gravity attractive or repulsive?
If you get into Einstein it’s actually repulsive. Gravity is the repulsive force between space time and mass.
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The very early steam engine was an atmospheric engine, the atmosphere did the work, the steam was used to purge the air out of the cylinder then as steam was cut off a water spray condensed the steam and a vacuum pulled the piston upwards.
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MSM Journalists should also have to take this test
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So should voters.
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Well, after our own Sun, that would be Alpha Centauri.
Now, as Alpha Centauri is a Triple Star, then more correctly, the response should be Proxima Centauri.
Now, as it is a ‘Triple Star’ some might even say that the ‘more’ correct response should be Proxima Centauri b, which is 4.24 Light Years from Earth.
But, as everyone knows, Proxima Centauri b is not ‘technically’ a star per se, but an Exoplanet of that Red Dwarf Proxima Centauri, and it’s only a tick larger than Earth.
So, at current Escape Velocity, 17,500MPH (well, around that figure anyway, as it ever so slowly increases the further you travel in Space) it will only take us 162,000 years (plus or minus 0.144%) to get there.
Alpha Centauri is the lower of the Pointers of The Southern Cross. (the furthest of the two pointers from the Cross) If you were to draw an imaginary line through the two vertical stars of the cross, and then an imaginary line bisecting the pointer then where those two lines meet, drop an imaginary line to the Earth’s surface, then that point where that imaginary line meets the Earth’s surface is Due South.
Due to Precession, The Southern Cross dropped below the Horizon in the Northern Hemisphere around 400AD, and is now only visible in the Northern Hemisphere on very few occasions during the year at Latitudes close to the Equator.
Now, if you seriously think that all of the above ‘qualifies’ me to be a ….. ‘politician’ ….. you must be out of your mind!!!!!
Tony.
In 1961, I was ten years old. We were living in Labrador Queensland. One warm Summer night, I was lying on my back on the above ground round concrete ‘sump’ (prior to ‘town’ sewerage coming in) and I was looking up at ‘the stars’. Mum pointed out that ‘trick’ to find South using Crux to me, and I never forgot it. It’s one of the first things I do when we arrive at a new home, after moving, go out at night, and look for Crux and find Due South.
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I reckon the answer is the sun because it is abundantly clear that for most politicians the sun is that thing that is just there and has no effect on climate change. Much like all that water called oceans have no effect either. I saw a recent exchange in some US hearing discussing a new environmental law where the proposers were asked what percentage of the atmosphere was CO2. Answers ranged from 5% up. They seemed quite shocked when told it was 0.042%. Such ignorance among lawmakers is alarming.
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AU fraction of global emissions: 1.12 %
CO2 fraction that is man made: 4% Fraction natural: 96%
So the AU contribution is:
0.042 x 0.04 x 0.0112 = 0.0000188 %, by volume, of global emissions, or 1 molecule per 5.31 million molecules.
Supposedly, the 1 in 5 million molecules AU contributes controls world climate. Yeah. Sure.
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12) What is the nearest star?
And how empty is the Solar System – it takes light about five hours to get to Neptune …
I’d also have some more maths.
How many citizens paying one thousand dollars each would it take for the Government to raise – before collection costs – $24 billion dollars [or whatever number is the latest for your Snowy Hydro 2; or, in the UK, in pounds, the cost of the HS2 supertrain to, ummm, Birmingham [tho’ not from Central London, oh no!!]?
Auto
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Ford To “Re-Time” New EV Production, Expand Hybrid Production
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And why Toyota will stick to prioritising Hybrids also…
https://autos.yahoo.com/why-toyota-isnt-rushing-sell-154000759.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJvkRBGQTGXenz8UyMDH5fAKwrWjRtCSoSYEvMWqZBLrV9rJ9EbRItjeEf59WjJ0mJ089k04lEgrL-837QxrOdZSIX1rZhK0yoyevlUv53BP_a44Ydt6Mcfw4_EMrYmGsv2uHKB-hww3AtCu-9XNyytvumUnAMfAear420Q4hsSN&guccounter=1
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Fake positive Covid-19 RAT tests can be produced with a variety of alcoholic and other beverages.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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FWIW
“About That Inevitable Transition to Electric Vehicles…”
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/04/05/about-that-inevitable-transition-to-electric-vehicles-n4927910
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And
“Bill McKibben: Is the Fight Against Climate Change Losing Momentum?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/05/mckibben-is-the-fight-against-climate-change-losing-momentum/
With suggestions as to why
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Why – oh why – do these eedjits want to change EVERYTHING (like, every thing!) in the delusional belief one thing, ie. the climate, will remain static or unchanged.
Philosophy 101:
The only constant is change.
The likes of McKibben have dulled generations of inquisitiveness by turning weather into another Inquisition cult.
Philosophy Extracurriculum:
Some things never change.
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Was Toyota’s bet on hybrid cars right all along?
https://www.ft.com/content/2a8eeeb7-7412-464a-b43e-1698cc78d5c4
New hybrid and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles remained more popular than electric cars in Australia last year, and set new sales records.
Toyota accounted for 73.2 per cent of hybrids sold last year in Australia – and seven of the top 10 best-selling hybrids – but it is down from an 89 per cent share of sales in 2022, as new makes and models entered the market.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/australias-best-selling-hybrids-phevs-of-2023/
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Toyota Australia posted record sales in the second half of 2023 as the country’s top-selling automotive brand marks its “coming of age” with a 21st consecutive year of market leadership.
The hybrid share was above 80 per cent for Corolla sedan (84.3%), Corolla hatch (85.2%) and RAV4 (86.6%), and above 90% for Camry (92.3%).
Toyota will only be selling hybrids and discontinue ICE only cars except for high perfromance ICE cars in Australia
I rented a hybrid Corolla for a Melbourne to Sydney trip and it was a fine car and I had no range anxiety.
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FWIW
Around the eclipse in USA –
“the Pfizer triple-eclipse connection.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/x-marks-the-shot-friday-april-5-2024?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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How do we combat evil Pfizer?
In the Euahlayi oral traditions of southeast Australia, the Sun is known as a woman named Yhi and the moon as a man called Bahloo. Yhi falls in love with Bahloo and chases him across the sky. Yhi tells the spirits that hold up the sky that if they let Bahloo escape she will plunge the world into darkness (a total solar eclipse). A medicine man would recite magical chants to combat this evil omen.
More exclipse stories here
https://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/eclipse-stories-from-around-the-world
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Prof. Michael Hudson: Will Russia Become Top 4 Of Largest Economies In The World?
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Russia has an alpha male as a leader and not woke beta males like Australian and the USA
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Russia has a war criminal for a leader, who has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of valuable manpower, driven his nation’s economy into the ground and left his country diplomatically isolated.
Russia is now in a position where China can reclaim the entire Far East and Russia has zero means to oppose them.
Russia’s economy was only about 50% bigger than Australia’s or Canada’s, and unlike Russia, both Canada and Australia have growing populations, growing economies, a working national currency, and a rich and varied share of international trade.
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Also we have a free press and fair justice system.
China and Russia are Brics members so Beijing won’t be invading anytime soon, the CCP bureaucrats know the end is nigh.
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Ask Cardinal Pell about Australia’s justice system.
If he won’t talk then ask Daniel Duggan, or talk to Matt and Janet Thompson about what it’s like to run a small business in Australia. Heck, ask any small business owner how Covid lockdowns and mandatory jibbajab helped them out. Ask Bernard Gaynor about free speech as a human right in Australia.
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Sure, but on the ground in China its far worse.
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You really need to read a better grade of propaganda
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Due to the dumbing-down of the education system and wokeness and a fanatical commitment to the anthropogenic global warming fraud, plus the importation without limit of people who have no commitment to Western Values and who are mostly unemployable, the West is in decline.
It will be usurped by nations that have a traditional education system, non-wokeness, who retain their coal, gas, nuclear and real hydro generation, limits on immigration and the types of people brought in, and who have a culture amenable to organisation (not all cultures can organise themselves well).
Without the West, Russia would only have China and India as economic competitors.
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That S Trillion number keeps cropping up – why no mention in the Main Stream Media?
{Nationally the amount for back-up batteries is $6-10 Trillion with no coal, gas or nuclear}
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/04/05/hostility-mounts-rural-communities-ready-to-explode-against-wind-solar-onslaught/
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Our idiot Energy Minister does not undertand the difference between Power (kW) and Energy (Kwh) an his “scientists for hire” mates at the CSIRO are incapable of doing a back-of-the-envelope calculation to determine that providing battery back-up for unreliable wind and solar power is not economically feasible.
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Taking the “beat” out of the USA “birdflu beat-up”
Start here
“The New York Post ran a story yesterday headlined, “Bird flu pandemic could be ‘100 times worse’ than COVID, scientists warn.” The news was a single Texas dairy worker caught bird flu … so here we go again!”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/x-marks-the-shot-friday-april-5-2024?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
And read to find his symptoms
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Dog owners in NZ advised “don’t panic” after two (2) canines go down with WoofWoofFlu.
As I don’t eat dog, I should be OK.
EV drivers are more of a health scare.
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Coffee and Covid substack is excellent – love the humour and the stories. My eyes are red (from laughing)!
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I am disgusted with the Liberal party and their push on nuclear.
Even if you accepted carbon dioxide was toxic industrial pollution, you could reduce it dramatically with high efficency new power stations with dramatically lower CO2 output and extend the life of our coal resources. But Dutton’s people think going nuclear is a safer electoral option than rejecting CO2 driven man made Climate Change. The nuclear has no emissions argument is insane.
Just like the CO2 Coalition’s great new film which takes the safe political path of admitting ‘pollution’ but arguing the benefits far outweigh the damage. The ‘it ain’t so bad argument’ is not enough.
Does no one have the courage to call out the CO2 lie? Can no one see the hypocrisy of banning Australian use of coal and gas while being the world’s biggest exporter?
It’s like the absurdity of Arabs hosting COP28 in the world’s most unsustainable city. Even the food is flown in. And 130,000 people flew in to condemn flying. All there for the business opportunities in UN invented Climate Change.
We should be building high efficiency coal power plants today simply because they are much more efficient and we need them. And CO2 emissions would actually go down!
Last year total Australian CO2 emissions actually went up from increased demand. And needs to go up much more to support electric toy cars. More farce. New windmills are not being built and the solar farms and those that exist are dying quickly. Snowy II is stuck in the sand and isn’t worth finishing, ten times over budget and another decade behind in just two years.
We will soon be in a long energy drought with mass job losses and that will change governments across the country. Albanese’s idea to pay people to make solar panels in the Hunter Valley is beyond ludicrous. What happened to those promised Green jobs in the Yallourn valley? Why is lying a government policy?
The Liberals need to look back at Tony Abbott’s landslide election and wonder how they managed to throw victory away by agreeing with their opposition. Victoria Liberal leader John Persutto insists women do not exist and that any woman who disagrees is a NAZI. Waiting his turn he only promises to run Victoria less badly.
We do not need Persutto. We do not need nuclear. We need politicians with some sort of backbone as Jacinta Price shows every single day.
As for zero emissions Nuclear, we still have no idea what to do with the emissions which apparently don’t exist. I am thrilled that they have at last solved the massive problem of lethal long term radioactive waste. Apparently we will be no worse off than Ukraine in a few million years.
At present we are still pretending we actually recycle waste while councils issue up to five different bins.
The Green movement is hypocrisy and high farce.
There is no man made CO2 driven Climate Change. We can’t change CO2. It’s within 1% from pole to pole. Doesn’t that tell you something?
And no one in government actually cares about aborigines. Ask Jacinta Price. The $42Billion a year would instantly make every aborigine on the land a tax free millionaire.
Where is a leader who calls out the hoax of man made CO2 driven Climate Change? We need good coal and gas power stations now. Not farcical windmills and sun and tree worship. Or to wait decades for a nuclear Australia we don’t need.
Enough with the ridiculous Green jobs and nuclear for all. Get real Peter Dutton. Australia is going down a very deep rabbit hole with self serving politicians who believe only in electoral power, not electrical power.
Do we have to sink as far as Argentina? At least Milei’s first move was to sack all the public servants. Great idea.
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Powerful stuff;
now if only we could act on that “truth ” and stop the rot, begin building an Australia that’s grounded on common sense and know that we’ve cut out the rot and have something to look forward to.
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Australia won’t build ANY type of coal-powered generation, because most of the coal beneath our feet has been set aside to provide China with the cheap, reliable energy they need for their citizens – and to enable their increasing dominance of manufacturing.
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What a load of cobblers. We don’t export an oz of lignite for starters and you can build a power station on a seam too small for an export operation.
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Well said TdeF, although I disagree with you about nuclear waste disposal. It is doable and safe. And Australia developed the Synroc process which is superior to glass embedment.
It is however sad that with the civilian nuclear fuel cycle, the “waste” buried contains about 96% of its original energy which can be recycled as done in France, dramatically reducing the volume of the waste to be buried. https://www.orano.group/en/unpacking-nuclear/all-about-used-fuel-processing-and-recycling
The sole criterion for a nuclear power station should be the economics of a particular situation.
Dutton is a fool for not acknowledging the anthropogenic global warming fraud which is the only reason he pretends to support nuclear.
It was his pretend conservative Liberal Party who banned nuclear power twice. First in 1971 when they stopped the build of the Jervis Bay reactor and then by Howard who outlawed nuclear power by law in Australia in 1998:
Dutton must also know that even if there was a commitment to build a nuclear power station in Australia it would be unlikely to ever happen.
It would be tied up in inquiries, lawsuits, Lawfare, Green, Left and Union violence and sabotage, local and state government opposition etc.. It took 50 years just to decide and start building a second Sydney Airport and nearly everyone agreed that was needed. How much longer would it take for a reactor?
Dutton can advocate nuclear power knowing he will never have to implement it because it won’t happen in the “can’t do” country.
And if a nuclear reactor can’t be built, and no one wants to build a coal power station of any generation, and governments are committed to destroying more coal plants, then Australia is simply going to run out of power and become a failed state.
A vast majority of the dumbed-down masses are unable to understand or care. And any resistance to the engineered destruction of Australia will be met with government/police violence. We saw what they were prepared to do during the covid lockups.
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Man, I thought that everyone had oh so conveniently forgotten all about Synroc.
When I first heard about it in the late 70s when I was in the RAAF, I thought ….. Brilliant, here’s the answer to Nuclear Waste. Nuclear Power plants here we come. And best of all, an Australian invention.
It just ….. died a death!!!!!
Tony.
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Who is using SYNROC? I have not kept up with what people are doing. I have heard Lucas Heights are using 44 gallon drums.
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“And if a nuclear reactor can’t be built, and no one wants to build a coal power station of any generation, and governments are committed to destroying more coal plants, then Australia is simply going to run out of power and become a failed state.”
And if many more big projects go the way of the ill fated “Snowy 2”, we are all in deep doos.
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The Victorian Liberals are a complete waste of space.
In the last election they thought they could beat Green Labor by becoming even more left wing and with more extreme climate policies then Green Labor and lost badly.
They don’t have a clue.
I don’t even think they want to win.
They have well paid jobs, they don’t have to do much, it’s an easy, relaxed lifestyle and they get invited to lots of parties.
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In the early 1970s I gave a dissertation on the coming Hydrogen Economy as a Chemical Engineering student. My eldery pipe smoking one arm professor who had a career in the fossil fuel industry said it was all very interesting but unlikely to happen any time soon{One arm had been blown of in an indusrial accident!}.
My professor was right 50 years ago and God Rest his Soul is still right today.
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It’s kinda difficult to explain this, so please try to focus … there is no “we” in this situation, therefore statements beginning with “we should” are nonsensical.
There are power consumers in Australia who want cheap electricity … there is also a government who will do whatever seems convenient and might win an election. These two are somewhat aligned… but often not, because most of the voters believe what they are told about cheap wind and solar.
Then there are power producers … who generally want low priced electricity about as much as the fishmonger wants low priced fish.
Refurbishing Liddell with modern coal-powered equipment would be very efficient but there are a bunch of reasons why AGL does not want to spend that money:
* LRET makes coal unprofitable, and the more it produces, the higher the RET certificate price so the less profitable it is.
* Future governments might randomly make coal even less profitable. No one is confident enough to commit to a large investment when the rules change arbitrarily.
* AGL management has mostly been replaced with “wokerati” who have committed the company to renewables and don’t care much about the shareholders anyway … the share price was $25 back in 2017 and it’s $8.50 now. The P/R ratio is about 15 years, which is kind of poor for an energy company. Whitehaven Coal P/E is a third of that.
* Attempting such a project would be hit with noisy protests, Greens would occupy the office of any bank that did business with this project … same as happened with Adani. The company would be stuck with secondary boycotts via unions etc.
So the upshot is that it never gets done … despite appearing to be a good idea from the consumer perspective.
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The Alabanese Clown Show Goverment would not recognise a “good idea” if it hit them in the face.
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“I am disgusted with the Liberal party and their push on nuclear.”
Here here. Me too.
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“Does no one have the courage to call out the CO2 lie? ”
100% correct.
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Scary How Close the US Power Grid is to Failure
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Scary is the right word, but I thought he made a mistake when he said that the expected lifetime of a transformer is 4 years while mentioning that most are still operational after 38 years. Would that “4 years” be the warranty period? And their expected operational lifetime be something over 40 years?
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I thought when he said four years he meant forty.
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He did say forty, but his American dichronic lenition (strong /t/ to weak /d/ consonant drift) made “forty” sound like “for-dy” or even “four”.
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Provided they get their regular oil changes they should last “for ever”. Assuming that transformer oil has improved the way motor oil has 40 years should be easy.
Because every part of a grid is connected by copper, telemetry is over the copper not the net so it is looks hard to interfere remotely.
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Hanrahan,
Transformers are being asked to handle loads that not only vary in volts/amps but in direction too . Solar added to the grid has changed the way power flows and makes frequent change to both voltage and amperage. This would (I think) affect its lifespan considerably. Tony , what do you think ?
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Volts and current change 100 times a second, what matters is the Hz.
In theory a transformer is a two way, passive device but I would do a little reading before saying that they reverse feed further back than your local pole transformer.
The issues you mention may force the taps to change, and arc, more than they used to but they are external and should be a service item.
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It is a scary issue indeed.
Also Donald Trump banned the import of transformers from China due to concerns of them containing Trojan Horses which could bring down the grid.
Then Biden undid that ban.
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A comment made on the video comments is that aluminium wire is replacing copper wire in transformers.
That is not as robust as copper but copper is in short supply and expensive due to the damands of “green” energy projects and EVs.
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Electroverse links to this, at first glance excellent report, on the planet’s climate in 2023. Page 11 goes into ‘administrative adjustments’ in some detail.
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2024/03/Humlum-State-Climate-2023.pdf?mc_cid=904e98d7e3&mc_eid=c926002e71
From page 11
“The administrative uplift to the global surface
air temperature (GISS) from January 1915 to January
2000 has grown from 0.45°C (as reported in May
2008) to 0.67°C (as reported in January 2024). This represents an increase of about 49%, meaning that
about half of the apparent global temperature
increase from January 1910 to January 2000 (as
reported by GISS in January 2024) is due to administrative changes to the original data. Clearly such
adjustments are important when evaluating the
overall quality of the various temperature records,
along with other standard sources of error. In fact,
the magnitude of administrative changes may
often exceed the formal margin of error.”
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In the Australian today
“The climate wars may be over but an equally divisive battle is arising out of the nation’s new political consensus. Both sides of politics are locked into a net-zero emissions target by 2050, Labor by choice, the Coalition by the force of political reality. But Peter Dutton’s introduction of the nuclear option creates a stark contest between the main parties on how to get there.”
So what you do not know is that Labor and Liberal agree on Nett Zero and mankind’s culpability in causing Climate Change.
I’ll bet you did not know the Climate Wars are Over and Peter Dutton and Albanese fully agree.
Besides ‘The Science is in’. The only question is in what?
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Both factions of the Uniparty are in fundamental agreement and both are clueless.
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No one in the Uniparty is prepared to ask this basic question:
“How much will the Nett Zero Policy cost?”
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“How much will the Nett Zero Policy cost?”
And who proved nett zero, a silly pseudo accounting concept of returning to 2005, will make any difference to CO2.
“In 2022, we legislated Australia’s greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. We plan to reach Net Zero by 2050. By 2030 we aim to reach emission levels of 43% below 2005 levels.”
Why were 2005 Australian emissions perfect? If it was Global Warming with emission levels of 2005, doesn’t Global Warming just continue?
As Australia generates a tiny 2% of world CO2, that means 98% of (excess) CO2 in Australia comes from overseas. Why are we trying to reduce our ’emissions’. Shouldn’t we be talking to China which produced more than all the G20 together?
The Global Warming nonsense is based on total CO2, not emissions. There is zero evidence that humans have any impact on CO2.
There is massive evidence from NASA that growing trees does not reduce CO2. And growing trees is the entire basis of the appalling Safeguard Mechanism Act 2023 and the Carbon Credits(Carbon Farming) Act 2011
This fantasy accounting version of CO2 equilibrium science has to stop.
None of this makes sense. There is no science or even logic. It’s the Elmer Fudd idea of staying wery, wery quiet.
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“There is massive evidence from NASA that growing trees does not reduce CO2”.
Can you provide a source for that claim TdeF? Several reports of natural CO2 flux (withdrawal from the atmosphere above the Australian land mass) – based on retrievals from three different satellite platforms, combined with inversion procedures – suggest that the continent is a carbon sink. For example, Villalobos et al. 2021 ( https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-17453-2021) reported a sink of −0.41 ± 0.08 PgC /yr (c. 1500 M t CO2-e) for 2015.
Most of this carbon uptake occurred in northern Australia over the savanna ecotype and in the western region over areas with sparse vegetation. Analysis of the enhanced vegetation index (EVI) suggests that the majority of the carbon uptake over the savanna ecosystem was due to an increase of vegetation productivity (positive EVI anomalies) amplified by an anomalous increase of rainfall in summer.
Other reports cover both El Nino and La Nina years. For the seven I have collated (covering 2010-11 to 2017-18) the GRAND MEAN uptake (over all retrieval platforms and sampling years, n=7) ≈ 815 Mt CO2-e /year.
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Sure, but it’s not a point NASA make. It’s my point.
They claim CO2 is ‘fertilization’ when CO2 is the tree, not fertilizer.
They state unequivocally that forests have increased a massive 14% between 1988 and 2014, 26 years. Or two Brazils.
My point is that also CO2 went up 14% in that time!
Which is so damning of carbon capture, carbon sequestration, carbon credits.
What it means is simple. NASA is certain that trillions of tons of CO2 were sequestered between 1988 and 2014. But CO2 did not go down? How is that possible? Because the CO2 was immediately replaced from the oceans, the repository of 98% of CO2 and the only source of CO2.
It’s just so obvious that CO2 is maintained by continuous massive equilibrium between the vast oceans and the thin air above. An equilibrium you would expect and one which in a laboratory described by Henry’s Law. In the turbulent, stormy ocean which is on average the weight of 380 atmospheres, CO2 sloshes around as a liquid in vast quantities.
No matter how much CO2 we output, CO2 goes up and down of its own accord. You can see it as it goes up in summer and down in winter.
And more trees grow with more CO2, but CO2 does not go down. CO2 is oblivious to our world, our ‘biosphere’. We are irrelevant. Naked apes who have climbed Mt Everest, who have walked on the North and South poles and a few who have walked on the moon. Completely irrelevant. Our world is tiny, a skin on the planet. And we are helpless against the destructive forces we humans personalize as Mother Nature. As if.
If that’s hard to accept, that we are irrelevant and as Hillary Clinton says, we need to get over it.
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I can quote 36 papers which give the ‘residence time’ of CO2 as around 10 years. 10 years before all CO2 is exchanged with CO2 from the ocean. It is confirmed over and over.
So even if we output huge amounts of unprecedented CO2, it all just goes instantly into the ocean. The level is restored.
And as 98% of all CO2 is in the ocean, 98% of all ’emissions’ end up in the ocean.
As for why CO2 does not stay constant but has been increasing 0.5% a year, who cares? It’s not our fault and its very slow and its very good.
Does that cause rapid, tipping point, global heating? So what, if we cannot control it? And who does not holiday in warmer places? More food, better weather, more rain, fewer storms. We naked apes have had enough of the ice ages.
So what’s the problem? Who said there was a problem? And why?
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Bill, to address your specific concerns. The way carbon dioxide is discussed, it is tied to plants and the so called biosphere. Before a single plant existed, CO2 was just a very common chemical. Like H2O, it is a gas, a liquid and a solid.
But to us carbon based lifeforms grown from the first cells powered by photosynthesis, these are the gases of life.
So we now sophisticated humans in clothing take the view that we supreme beings control all CO2. Plus the plants and trees. And that burning old trees make a difference. But it’s not true. We are the children of CO2, not the rulers of the planet.
CO2 the very boring industrial gas goes in and out of the water like H2O and Oxygen O2. Fish also breathe. As so all living things. They all rely on gas going into and out of the ocean continually.
We do not control this rapid world wide exchange of gases. And the vast amounts of gas churning in the waves and wind at the surface far exceeds our puny output heating our homes and powering our cars. Which is why no matter how much CO2 China outputs today, CO2 is near constant within 1% across all oceans, countries and pole to pole. And if it changes, my first expectation is that oceans are slightly warmer. Not boiling, just warmer.
It took Al Gore in his first punt at the US Presidency in 1988 to concoct the idea that CO2 warms the oceans when in fact warmer oceans mean more CO2. It’s just so obvious. The flat beer effect, nothing more.
But according to Al Gore and James Hansen, the sky was falling. 36 years ago.
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Thanks for the link TdeF. If we had crossed wires it seems that you were discussing the CO2 content in the world’s atmosphere while I was focussed on the atmosphere above continental Australia. I’ll stick with the latter if you don’t mind as the world is too big an oyster for me.
It is impossible to measure CO2 fluxes based on land-based sampling of the Australian continent (769 M ha) so we have to rely on more readily obtained measurements from sensors on satellite based platforms. This is a good thing because sampling intensity is quite high e.g. a single OCO-2 footprint covers c.290 ha (c. 2,650,000 potential sampling points for the Australian land mass) with a 16-days revisit cycle. Importantly, where satellite-based measurements are spatially filtered to include only data recorded near TCCON surface calibration sites (30+ located worldwide, including those in Australia) the resultant fluxes are found to converge to those based on surface measurements alone.
Now before we get excited, I enjoy this blog and occasionally contribute comments because I too believe that the anthropogenic global warming story is BS. But before it became fashionable (say after the Kyoto protocol) I had spent almost a working lifetime monitoring tree populations and their growth in eastern Australian rangelands. (Another Ian & I first published a paper detailing our methodology in the Australian Journal of Botany in 1969).
The outcome of this prolonged field work was our conclusion that woody vegetation thickening was a widespread phenomenon in the northern half of the continent. We attributed it to changed fire regimes as a result of the introduction of domestic livestock grazing practices – first reported in a NSW Royal Commission finding as early as 1901!
Nevertheless, more recent attention drawn to the fact that CO2 concentrations are increasing in the atmosphere also suggested this might be a factor in our understanding of ‘thickening’ (since woody vegetation has c.50% C content). So hence my interest in C fluxes over the Australian continent and the series of research papers I alluded to in my comment above.
To round that budget off (see my previous comment) mean fossil fuel/cement manufacturing emissions for the retrieval years cited approximated 447 Mt CO2-e/year. This resulted in the continent being a net sink of 815 – 447 = 368 Mt CO2-e/year, well in excess of current reporting which claims Australia is a net emissions source. But of course the Australian Government and the agenda driven bureaucrats will not acknowledge that reality while sticking to their partial budgeting of CO2 fluxes and thus ‘cook the books’ in line with the the plethora of other IPCC ‘games’.
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As for nett sink, I think if we can have total responsibility for the Great Barrier Reef, a land area the size of Germany, we can claim the massive sink of the Antarctic and Southern oceans and much of the South Pacific. Below the Tropic of Capricon has only 2% of the world’s population, so it is the biggest sink on the planet. And I believe photoplankton likely consume more CO2 than trees. And respond much faster than annual trees. We saw this in action in the 2019 massive Australian bushfires where that CO2 blew over the South Pacific.
And I do not know why Albanese and Bower are hell bent on punishing Australians for making steel and concrete when we are already saving the world. As you indicated, Nett Zero is being applied to Austrlia without recognizing that the whole of the country, a third of the planet is a huge nett sink already.
So it is political b*stardry on behalf of the UN/EU/China. And nothing whatever to do with 2005 being the ideal amount of CO2 output from industry alone.
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By agreeing with an idiot, you are no better than they are, so when are we going to see a party set up to call out the CO2 farce and commit to unwinding the fraud, would they get a look in, maybe soon after some good blackouts.
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Why don’t real scientists speak out? Tim Flannery is no scientist. His first degree was in English. He is science ignorant. Al Gore studied English and then politics. He makes his fame and cash from scaring people with his hocus pocus science. Climatebaggers.
Almost no one is a real scientist. And Climate Scientists could not pass meteorology exams. They know no science.
And the Greens once banned Chlorine, an element of the periodic table. Now they want to ban Carbon and Carbon Dioxide, the molecule from which all life is made. Even Green Chlorophyll is a long chain hydrocarbon, but what Green voter knows that? What we burn are no more than old leaves.
The silence from scientists is appalling. Except for the CO2 Coalition. And Clintel, which I joined years ago.
I cannot believe we leave science to politicians, generally the most ignorant people in our society and otherwise unemployable.
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“The Word Wizard, J.K. Rowling, Destroys Biological Absurdity in One Hilarious Tweet”
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp/2024/04/05/the-word-wizard-jk-rowling-destroys-biological-absurdity-in-one-hilarious-tweet-n2394796
Actually a string of them
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“Dense and Desperate Californians Need Class to Learn How to Leave the State”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/dense-desperate-californians-need-class-learn-leave-state/
Overtones of that joke about “improving the IQ of both countries”
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And
“Will the last Calidornian to leave please turn off the light” – Oops “What lights”!
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The descriptions of rampant crime and malls shuttering is reminiscent of a visit I made to South Africa 3 decades ago. Appears California now catching up with South Africa. Becomes a scary picture when you realise the ease of getting a gun in the US.
The locals in South Africa recognised affirmative shopping way back then. Affirmative shopping is where mostly poor people would raid a mall and create so much havoc that the security were overwhelmed and the stores were ransacked with anything worthwhile removed from the premises without any money in return. It is a bit like the subsidy farmers in Australia but affirmative shopping was not openly encouraged by the then government.
When governments condone theft, you end up with chaos. Victoria is tougher on anti-vexers than fire bombers and violent car thiefs. These days, government priority is to remove money from average people and hand it over to wealthy people who support the government while taking their margin for making the rules.
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Would Putin allow such clinics to operate in Russia?
Now convince me that the patients are not complete nutters
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13272711/texas-gender-hospital-frankenstein-lab-surgeries.html
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Another complete nutter – where does this end?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13274499/Stephanie-Mueller-transgender-public-defender-seattle.html
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This is my perspective on the climate driver. You may be surprised to see that it is the sun:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!Aq1iAj8Yo7jNiAXyF_MhdWetER5L?e=cwe0ZC
It is a 9.7Mb file and covers a lot of ground. The conclusion includes:
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Lefties losing it: Rita Panahi slams UN climate advisor spewing ‘racist garbage’
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Read The Weekend Australian out today.
See Coalition SMR article and details, and the article on wind solar hybrid mess.
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The articles are increasing in frequency, covering many energy topics.
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FWIW
“The Book ‘White Rural Rage’ Gets the Research Wrong”
“Shockingly, people in rural areas don’t like being told they should be grateful for every effort big city progressives make to micro-manage their lives for them (always for the greater good of course). For daring to disagree, they get smeared with books like White Rural Rage.”
More at
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/04/05/the-book-white-rural-rage-gets-the-research-wrong-n3786021
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The urban elite cultural contempt for ah … everybody except themselves seems to have become a major thing.
White intellectuals blaming all the other white people is truly strange.
Kim’s link above #31 where the girl says …
“Climate Change is not man made, it’s white man made.”
Progressive ideology turns steadily evermore frightening.
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Whooping cough is surging in Australia
Australia is facing a whooping cough outbreak. Some 2,799 cases were recorded in the first three months of 2024. Cases are highest in Queensland and New South Wales, with more than 1,000 recorded in each state.
The last time Queensland recorded more than 1,000 cases in three months was the first quarter of 2013. This was at the tail end of a significant outbreak that spanned 2008 until 2012 – Australia’s largest reported outbreak since the widespread introduction of whooping cough vaccines in the 1950s. More than 140,000 cases were recorded during this period, with the number peaking at 38,748 in 2011.
There was a smaller outbreak between 2014 and 2017, with more than 60,000 cases in these years.
https://www.uts.edu.au/news/health-science/whooping-cough-surging-australia-whats-best-protection
Not just Australia, it’s increasing globally.
In fact it’s THE dominant event I’m seeing.
Bird flu – isolated, not significant cases.
Covid – virtually zero.
Dengue – still roaring along but managed well.
It’s pretty boring out there and has been for 6 months.
“No JC2, it needs to be viral for transmissability” (paraphrased) was the response when I predicted the next event could be bacterial not viral.
Heh..yeah. then factor in a badly immunocompromised population.😉
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Most people don’t know that whooping cough vaccine gives about 10 years protection at best, and then you are vulnerable again. Strangely enough the officials thump the table madly if any child doesn’t take the vax … but they take not the slightest interest when the majority of adults are unprotected.
For a long time doctors didn’t even bother diagnosing whooping cough in adults … apparently it didn’t interest them. Slowly, slowly, they started to take a peek at what was out there.
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Ray Dalio Predicts A Horrible Economic Crisis Where Everything Will Collapse
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The Jolly Heretic
‘Anarcho-Tyranny’
https://www.bitchute.com/video/-KRKjCM0HqA/
Robbery/assault: Suspended sentence/community service
‘Hate’ speech: jail
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It Started! The EV Market Is Way Worse Than We Thought!
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This is How China Could Start World War 3!
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They’ll have to get in line –
“Blinken Says Ukraine Will Cease To Exist”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/blinken-says-ukraine-will-cease-to-exist/#respond
“World War III Is Now Inevitable – Here’s Why It Can’t Be Avoided”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/world-war-iii-now-inevitable-heres-why-it-cant-be-avoided
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I saw a podcast with a Trans activist sitting in front of rainbow flag discussing the Scottish hate crime law.
He was wearing a button with Ukraine colors.
The strangest of bedfellows.
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Western Australia’s Gun Buy Back
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Why don’t all you stupid people just buy an EV, stop eating meat, become drag queens & all the men have their “ Fiddly bits “ cut off.& all these climate change disasters will simply disappear.
That’s what all the propaganda is about!! Just do as BoB tells you.
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