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This can’t be good…
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/copper-supply-shortage-here
One of the major flaws with copper is that our manufacturing cheapens out and uses smaller sizes which overheats or over capacity the lines.
Besides the more expensive it is, the more valuable it is to being robbed which is everywhere.
Causing even more failures.
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There have been many, many Articles written about the amount and type of minerals required to build the Wind Towers, Batteries, etc, etc, and the absolute impossibility of doing so on the scale dreamt up by the ‘Pipedream Merchants’ like Blackout Bonehead Bowen and the like. Let alone supporting the ongoing maintenance of such ‘Pipedreams’.
Mission Impossible and at worse, ‘Crash and Burn’, unless sanity prevails and there is a massive U turn quite soon.
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“a massive U turn quite soon.”
3,2,1 . . . .
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/reality-check-jp-morgan-warns-delay-global-energy-transition
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Australia is heading the way of South Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liqvp6FWfXI
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When buying solar, go for 48v like I did, so you can use smaller gauge cable and reduce losses…
/just a tip
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48v also avoids the requirement to use a licensed electrician (at least in WA).
But will require new wiring to use for the obvious things like lighting
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I am linked to your post via the Blogger platform.
For some reason, your posts no longer display.
-Joe
[That’s interesting Joe. Can you show me past ones where it did display? -Thanks for your help. I’m not sure what you mean by “linked” — did you see my posts in the Blogger platform? I didn’t know that? – Jo]
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As an example Jo, click your site link:
https://www.blogger.com/profile/09498304081826217403
Blogger is USA, so no surprises really…
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Thanks John, that link goes to joannenova.au which is a flawed address. needs the .com.au
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We will be short of numerous metals and minerals and rare earths as the green demand will overwhelm the supply which, with some of the materials is limited, difficult to extract and difficult to process.
Copper is an intriguing one as it can be really reused, but if it has been spun into thousands of miles of cable to go underwater or on power lines then it won’t reenter the recycled supply zone for decades.
Green “stuff” is mostly unsustainable or-as in the case of renewables, second best.
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It is said that copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen, arguing over a hapenny.
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The UK gov. has no idea about the cost of net zero.
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/government-doesnt-know-cost
But the benefits to the global climate are self-evident:-
De minimis.
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I suspect they do know the cost but they don’t want the voters to know.
If Reform took a hard stance on net zero it could give them the high profile differentiation they need at the General Election
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Nor can they tell us how many hundredths of a degree that net zero will reduce global temperatures.
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The whole point about doing anything about CO2 is that we can
1. change CO2 by changing CO2 output, based on the premise that human CO2 has any impact on CO2.
2. bury CO2 in trees, water, solid, caverns and will lower CO2.
3. lower Co2 in just a few countries and world CO2 will go down, if only a little.
All these are lies, deceit, ridiculous. Science rubbish statements.
Emissions do not change CO2. Burying does not change CO2. Destroying your own country does not even save yourselves, let alone anyone else.
Highly soluble CO2 is constant across the planet within 1% and in rapid equilibrium with the vast oceans which contain all the CO2. Only 2% is in the air. And all ’emissions’ go straight into the water, which is why CO2 is a constant everywhere. The simple normal exchange of CO2 is much greater than all our CO2 output anyway.
The very slow linear growth in CO2 is due to slow global warming, nothing more. Nothing we have done like installing 500,000 giant windmills has had any effect on CO2. Even shutting all cars, planes, cruise ships and locking people in their homes had zero effect on CO2. Gigantic bushfires, volcanoes have no effect on CO2. And emissions have grown 3500% in 100 years with no effect.
Humans cannot change atmospheric CO2. It’s a lie. Nett zero is a crock, pseudo religious claptrap formalized into endless laws to shut down democracies and nowhere else. And incidentally CO2 cannot cause global warming. That was Al Gore’s lie, his ticket to the US Presidency in 1988. And the UN just wants more cash and power.
The oceans are not boiling. I would have thought that was self evident. And we now have to ask why the President of the UN is spouting such nonsense.
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World CO2 changes by 0.2% a year. That is as constant as anything gets. Within 1% pole to pole.
NASA told us between 1988 and 2014 tree cover went up 14%, the size of South America. And CO2 went up 14%. So trees do not reduce CO2. In fact they scale precisely with CO2. And the only way this is possible is that the oceans release more CO2 to compensate exactly for trillions of tons sequestered in trees.
China now outputs more CO2 than all other G20 countries combined. And there has been no effect on CO2.
CO2 output and CO2 emissions are growing despite the $1.5Tn a year being spent.
We can clearly see changes summer and winter in CO2, but we cannot see ANY human activity. That confirms CO2 is controlled by the oceans.
Not a single prediction of Climate Change has come true in 36 years of this. It’s time to call it out as the biggest hoax in human history. We even know when, why and who.
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At COP28 Al Gore claimed “We’re still putting 162 million tons .. every single day”.
With a 5 year half life the equilibrium evaporation and aborption of CO2 which has nothing to do with mankind is 860 million tons a day.
98% of all CO2 is in the ocean and 98% of all new CO2 ends up quickly in the ocean, likely within 2 years.
Even the Climate movie avoids these facts. They try not to be confrontational and only paint the endless positives of CO2 and the lack of CO2 caused warming.
In think they avoid calling it all a giant hoax so as not to be confrontational, banned and attacked. These are scientists, shy of confrontation.
I believe that is a big mistake, to allow the lie to sit as if we are somehow CO2 ‘polluters’. The foundation idea of emissions adding to CO2 is a lie.
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Who are “we” and how does Al Gore speak on their behalf when traveling the world in his private jet, when not living in his mansion?
The greatest percentage increases in CO2 are occuring in developing nations as they seek to increase the living standards of their citizens from a very low CO2 emissions per capita bases.
And that mansion
• The past year, Gore’s home energy use averaged 19,241 kilowatt hours (kWh) every month, compared to the U.S. household average of 901 kWh per month.3,4
• Gore guzzles more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years.5
• In September of 2016, Gore’s home consumed 30,993 kWh in just one month – as much energy as a typical American family burns in 34 months.
• During the last 12 months, Gore devoured 66,159 kWh of electricity just heating his pool. That is enough energy to power six average U.S. households for a year.
• From August 2016 through July 2017, Gore spent almost $22,000 on electricity bills.6
• Gore paid an estimated $60,000 to install 33 solar panels. Those solar panels produce an average of 1,092 kWh per month, only 5.7% of Gore’s typical monthly energy consumption.
https://nationalcenter.org/ncppr/2017/08/01/al-gores-inconvenient-reality-the-former-vice-presidents-home-energy-use-surges-up-to-34-times-the-national-average-despite-costly-green-renovations-by-drew-johnso/
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Same as the corrupt CSIRO in Australia – professional liars
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“… for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth, and seeking to convince others of the truth, might not be the right place to start”
Former honcho(a) of Wikipedia, now running NPR into the ground, gives TED talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2gsj0EEE3I
“our reverence for the truth might be a distraction”
And what major tricky disagreement might be distracted by truth you ask?
Surprise, surprise …
Climate Change.
Funny, I’ve noticed that.
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An interesting, but extremely long (more than 2.5 hours) interview with 2 ex Canadian Armed Forces personnel, and a lawyer representing them as they sue their government over various wu-flu vaccination grievances.
It seems the Canadians went through 3 chiefs of defence staff and one general as they either refused to force vaccinations on their personnel, or they wrote the memo stating how such a mandate goes against numerous laws. The weapon of choice to get rid of these troublemakers…allegations of sexual misconduct, of course.
Maybe this is old news to many, but keeping up to date with the Canadian armed forces is really not very high on my list of priorities.
It’s effectively a podcast, so no real need to watch, per se.
https://youtu.be/dYI6-qa8VYk?si=7unibtF_VmqB0biG
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My latest in the war to save the whales from offshore wind.
Boat noise is a whale safety issue.
Dominion’s pile driving boat violates the Marine Mammal Protection Act
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2024/04/22/dominions-pile-driving-boat-violates-the-marine-mammal-protection-act/
The beginning: “The boat is the Orion, and it is BIG, about 710′ long, with a 5,000-ton crane capacity and 8 powerful Thrusters for dynamic positioning. Its coming job is to place and drive the 178 enormous monopiles in Dominion Energy’s huge offshore wind facility.
Turns out the Orion has a serious noise problem. Its thrusters are so loud they exceed the harassment threshold established by NOAA under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Harassment of marine mammals is illegal unless authorized by NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and no such authorization exists. Dominion applied for and received NMFS authorization to harass almost 80,000 marine mammals while constructing its facility. But that was for the noise of pile driving and sonar surveys. The noise from dynamic positioning was not included.
It, therefore, appears that the Orion cannot set and drive piles until the necessary authorization has been applied for and issued. This could take some time.
Dynamic positioning means the boat can be held motionless despite significant wind, waves, and current acting to move it. This is essential because if the boat moved while driving a pile, that pile would not be vertical, and a leaning pile is useless. The piles each weigh about 1,500 tons with a diameter of 28 feet, so holding them perfectly steady is a feat. So the 8 thrusters work like tugboats as each is a separate, powerful propulsion device. Orion is a DP3 boat, meaning it has the most elaborate dynamic positioning system.
The harassment level noise from the Orion was measured by marine acoustics expert Robert Rand while the boat was working on the Vineyard Wind facility. His recently released report is here: https://randacoustics.com/papers ”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
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A small win in Victoria Australia
Tanya Plibersek has blocked plans by the Victorian government to build a plant to assemble wind turbines for offshore windfarms because of “clearly unacceptable” impacts on internationally important wetlands.
So attacking the onshore support facilities for offshore wind turbine projects is another avenue of attack
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/08/tanya-plibersek-blocks-victorian-government-port-hastings-wind-turbine-plan
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Good point which I had not considered. The US is also just beginning to build the onshore arm of offshore wind. Worth looking into.
Dominion is building its own big crane boat, the Charybdis, but it is a year behind schedule (@ $600 million) hence hiring the Orion. Those thrusters are very interesting.
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Another Avenue of Attack – get Native Americans onside
https://ais.washington.edu/research/publications/spirits-our-whaling-ancestors#:
The Albanese Labor Government will invest more than $300,000 to study Indigenous environmental knowledge about the connections between land, sea and sky, with a particular focus on whales.
https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/plibersek/media-releases/joint-media-release-studying-indigenous-songlines-better-protect-australias-whales-and-dolphins
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FWIW – related to the covid scene
Instapundit this morning
“FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE:” Police Website Reveals CDC Suppressing Defensive Gun Use Data.
If you can’t trust the CDC — well, then it’s a day ending in ‘y.’ ”
https://instapundit.com/643247/#disqus_thread
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“Musk chooses ‘ego and showing violence’ over common sense: PM”
“I find it extraordinary that X chose not to comply and are trying to argue their case,” Albanese told a press conference,”
Govt are HATING that Musk didn’t do as he was told! Now, I wonder who has done more for the planet, Musk or Albanese? Who is the person most important to the planet??
Musk should just say “Who? PM of where? They had an incident they failed to prevent and now insist on a world-wide ban because they don’t want their own citizens to see it?”
Go Elon!! If only everyone failed to comply and tried to argue their case!
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Albanese and his Minister for Truth are acting under pressure from their Muslim MPs.
How long before Australia has a Muslim Prime Minister?
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Elon is an entrepreneur, got rich awfully quick and has flaws in his thinking.
Disappearing gratuitous violence is not a bad thing, it only encourages zealots to copy cat.
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Plus we don’t need to see it. I can think of no credible reason for watching it. He chose the wrong hill to defend.
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So you don’t need to see it, not we. Trust the media and government, your one true source of truth. Neither you nor the government get to decide what I can and can’t see.
If you don’t want to see it, don’t look at it, have you thought of that solution to your nonexistent problem.
No problem with all the war footage though I take it?
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‘No problem with all the war footage though I take it?’
Good point, only for those who have the stomach to watch drones take out soldiers in a trench. Slightly depressing, its a first world problem.
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Ever notice that the Utoob allows the most hyperbolic fantasy violence from movie clips, but censors the slightest hint of blood in actual events?
I’m sure there is nothing at all Orwellian about that.
I’ve seen Utoob thumbnails of a man’s surprised face about the bayonet through his skull and a samurai holding a severed head.
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With all due respect (ie: not much) who gives a damn what you think about what others wish to see, or not? That is the whole point, freedom to choose.
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“He chose the wrong hill to defend.”
No, he choose the right hill to defend, not some celebrity or political subject. If we give the Govt the right to censor what most of us don’t want to see, then they will soon be censoring what most of us should see! He needs the right to publish unsavory or unpopular subjects far more than the right to publish the usual dross that can be found anywhere.
Govts are the cheerleaders in sanitising real life, so most people are totally unready for violence when it happens. There would be far less war if cameras were in the trenches showing people getting their arms and legs blown off. Instead we get posters of heroes raising flags and beautiful women in uniform to make impressionable youngsters go to war for impotent old men.
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I think you (and others) misunderstood, or maybe I wasn’t clear. I absolutely support Musk’s fight against overbearing governments, but if he was going to pick some video that the public needs to see uncensored, he shouldn’t choose footage of young women being stabbed. Others might want to see that, sadly, but I certainly don’t and I don’t understand why anybody would. At the very least, that particular video isn’t going to help him recruit public support for freedom of speech.
Now when Avi Yemini was forbidden to film anti-lockdown protests, THAT was worth fighting in support of free speech.
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“it only encourages zealots to copy cat.”
Or communities to discuss why this happened and how to prevent it. Is it possible some ways of raising children help 16 year olds to be better citizens?
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They will have the discussion regardless, SBS is bound to do an in-depth story on how this young man was radicalised.
Does gratuitous violence on social media discourage or embolden young people to become violent for a dubious cause?
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The authorities want to dampen down religious hatreds before they get out of hand.
After the stabbing there was a riot, best not to exacerbate ill will.
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Don’t know about Oz, but my government has recently been ‘tolerant’, and dare I say actually encouraging, of some riots and hatreds, but not others.
Hating hate is anti-hate, especially when you write the dictionary.
Personally, I hate hate.
And I am intolerant of intolerance.
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I wish I could agree.
But we’ve already seen that ‘intolerance of intolerance’ leads to “I get to decide whether you are being tolerant or not, and what you are allowed to say”.
The assault on free speech has gone so far in Canada that the President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada cannot say that “Islam teaches homosexuals should be killed by stoning” as that is considered hate speech against gays, and the head of PFLAG Canada cannot say “Islam teaches homosexuals should be killed by stoning” as that is considered hate speech against Muslims.
Both sides are forbidden to tell the truth.
This should not be. A thought police is a worse enemy than free speech is.
Even when people use their freedom to say things we hate. At least when they publicly espouse it, we can publicly refute it. But suppressing speech doesn’t prove your opponent a liar, it proves you are afraid of what he has to say.
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Parents don’t raise their children any more Jo. Their role is simply to house and feed them, take them to Saturday sport, then fund their indoctrination at high school and university.
When it comes to actually shaping a child’s character and value system, parents play a minor role these days, having been usurped by government, the education system and social media. Growing numbers of parents are struggling to understand how their kids turned out the way they did, and why ‘families’ drift apart when kids become adults, not realising that their kids were taken from them years ago, metaphorically speaking. Massive use of recreational drugs is also playing a role.
This has always happened to some degree, mostly because it is in the nature of young people to rebel and to want to be different to previous generations, but we now have a yawning gulf where there used to be just differences. Of course all of this is exacerbated by recent efforts to actually demonise older generations, particularly the ‘boomers’, who are apparently to blame for everything.
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Free speech makes for free people. So, what’s you PM doing bending the knee to the censorship Czar?
And Wht don’t Aussies Rebel?
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The majority did not rebel during the Covid tyranny. Its doubtful whether they have grown in critical thinking skills or a spine since then. It breaks my heart, but the Australian Covid response was one of the most panicked in the world.
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“They had an incident they failed to prevent and now insist on a world-wide ban because they don’t want their own citizens to see it?”
Exactly, and I don’t want the news ‘sanitized’ by Albosleazy or any other muppet, I want the choice of seeing it or not, as the case may be.
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There are no guaranteed “safe spaces”.
If you wish to ignore history, you will find unwanted repetitions of certain actions.
The Assyrian Church video should not be “banned”. OTOH commenting on it directly should be limited to:
1. A spokesperson for the church
2. Police assigned to investigate the incident
3. The offices of the state Premier and the Federal Prime Minister
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Why, who can ever say “should” when speaking for the rest of us?
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We are commenting on it here in a limited way and the MSM is handling it carefully, for judicial reasons, but I think the actual savage stabbing should be banned.
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I’m pretty sure I saw the banned video on a number of mainstream internet news sites before the ban. I hadn’t realised it might harm me. They hadn’t realised that either. Thank God for the E-safety department looking out for me. I wonder if I can claim compo?
Actually, I bet a number of the politicians involved in the banning attempt have seen it too. It’s just the community that shouldn’t get to see it. Because some members who are also victims of a hate crime might feel they are the victims of a hate crime and protest it. Better they don’t know about it. It’s okay for me but not for thee.
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FWIW
“The Bad Faith Olympics”
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/the-bad-faith-olympics/
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You want lies? We’ve got plenty of lies for you!
“The rise of renewable energy in the grid is driving down emissions and power generated from wind and solar farms is starting to drive down the cost of electricity as well.”
Yep, we’ve all seen that!
“AEMO said the cost of electricity generation fell in the first quarter this year, even as households switched on their air conditioners last summer to deal with extreme temperatures that strained the network.”
Funny, it was a cool summer! When we go back to REAL summers we shall see..
“The rising price of electricity has been a major driver of cost-of-living pressures across Australia…However, lower wholesale electricity prices are contributing to the energy regulator cutting “default market offers” – the maximum prices retailers can charge east coast customers on standard bills – by up to 7 per cent from July 1.”
Ah, do I see the Govt Regulator aiming to cut the increases the retailers need to load on us, so the Govt can point to the good work they are doing with ruinables??
They will subsidise the retailers through the back door and then whack prices up again at an opportune time!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/renewable-energy-is-slashing-emissions-now-it-s-cutting-prices-too-20240422-p5flqy.html
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I recently saw a comment relating to the added cost of new residential construction complying with the added environmental regulations.
Consider the added costs of supplying water (sewarage) and electricity to new developments which must be completed before lots can be sold.
It does not surprise me that the new close in urban lot sizes are so small that green vegetation which would lower the heat signature of the development can no longer be safely planted.
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One tires of pointing it out to extreme east coast people, but the continent is big, it extends for quite some distance beyond the Great Divide westwards. Much of that big bit was hot this summer, especially after mid January.
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Yes but, 80% of the grid cunsumers are on that coastal area and hence have the most influence on the electricity demand.
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FWIW
“There’s an allegation running around that Tesla vehicles deliberately overstate mileage driven by an enormous amount — as much as 30%.”
https://twitter.com/Factschaser/status/1782450873706160480
Via
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251170
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A challenge at the end of that item –
“Let’s test this and put the question to bed quite publicly; if the allegation is false then what’s circulating around is bullshit, but if its true then it needs extremely wide exposure and Tesla must be forced to both fix it and compensate everyone who got f*ed.”
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Range is temperature and load dependent.
Try using a Cybertruck to tow a mobile home through a snowy state in winter.
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Ooooh they will feel silly when they reakise they hired a car with a metric speedo….
or would it just be a dash setting?
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If it was metric wouldn’t the speedo reading also have been off as well as the odo?
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My 2003 BMW can report speedometer readings (and temperature) in both British and metric units.
Are the automotive software engineers that “restricted” in outlook?
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Of course they do, get ready for a rude shock if you are driving at highway speeds , against a headwind or with a few adults on board on a hot or cold day.
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Another wrong road we have turned down-
“The US Department of Defense’s projected costs for maintaining the F-35 fleet through 2088 continue to rise. In particular, maintenance cost estimates increased by 44%, from ~$1.1 trillion. in 2018 to ~$1.58 trillion. in 2023. ”
“Overall combat readiness (percentage of time an aircraft can perform at least one of its assigned missions) missions) of the F-35 fleet has declined significantly over the past five years, and none of the aircraft variants meet targets. The rate of full combat readiness (the percentage of time during which the aircraft can perform all assigned tasks) also decreased from 2022 to 2023 for all three options. The F-35A’s full combat capability rate (for the Air Force) fell from 43.5% to 36.4% . The F-35B (the Marine Corps STOVL version) saw a decrease from 16% to 14.9%. The F-35C (the carrier-based variant used by the Marines and Navy) saw a decline in full combat readiness from 20.9% to 19.2%.”
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/milinfolive?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
The war in Ukraine is showing how the expensive flash toys of the West are not any better than the blunt force of more basic Russian systems. No WonderWaffen has had a noticeable impact yet, maybe we should hang onto those cheap and cheerful F/A 18s!
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Australia’s Manned Submarine Program is another example
Manned Submarines without nuclear weapons are as obsolete as Battleships – with underwater drones taking their place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw2KTo85890
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Underwater UUV are primarily used for commercial enterprise.
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One of the larger XLUUVs shown had what looked like four torpedo tubes at the front. And if they were only being developed for commercial purposes, then why also develop long-range underwater comms disguised as whale songs? They also mentioned the possible use of small reactors to power these UUVs.
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“maybe we should hang onto those cheap and cheerful F/A 18s!”
We should have hung onto those F111’s.
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and in the USA the A-10s?
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IIRC despite the USAF’s best attempt to round file it –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II
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The F 111 had become “impossible” to maintain but experience is showing that F 35s with their stealth, sensors and connectivity with other friendlies work well with 4th gen aircraft.
FA 18s are twin engined and can carry much more ordinance than the F 35 so the F 35, with its stealth, can lead the flight and target the missiles fired from a safer distance.
BTW The B 52, with its new RR engines, will still be flying when it is 100 yrs old, but they are hardly cheap and cheerful. They don’t call them Buffs for nothing.
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Re service aircraft with a long time in service –
Lockheed has a few marks on the board –
Neptune – 1944 – 1970’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-2_Neptune
Hercules – “The C-130 entered service with the U.S. in 1956, followed by Australia and many other nations.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_C-130J_Super_Hercules
Orion
“The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engined, turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-3_Orion
No regulr high-G turns there though
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I spent many hours climbing around a Neptune. Changing the radar transmitter was particularly big job. They never flew high so the best seat ever was in the front nose cone flying over Sydney, through the Heads to join an SAR for a downed mirage.
But I would not have thought of them as a particularly good or long lived aircraft.
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How many IDF F 35s has Iran shot down?
Care to list the genuinely new weapons systems that have failed to perform in Ukraine? I’d suggest that it is only because of the effectiveness of the near obsolescent stuff the west have given that Ukraine is still in the fight.
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That is true, without Western support they would all be speaking Russian by now.
In a different theatre its the south east Asian co-prosperity sphere.
‘Japan expands counter-China coastguard training from Southeast Asia to Pacific islands.
‘Two Mobile Cooperation Teams were sent to the Marshall Islands and Micronesia in January to boost Japanese coastguard operations in the Pacific.
‘First set up in 2017 to counter China’s growing influence, the initiative could be expanded further, analysts say, as ‘the US can’t do it all alone’
(SCMP)
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Who doesn’t like a good police chase and disrespect for the Law?
This bike chase in Brazil is worthy of a James Bond movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tR8udZ6c0&t=750s
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America’s fight to save handwriting from extinction as IQs begin to fall for first time ever and teachers warn some 20-year-olds can’t sign checks anymore
Several US states are trying to prevent handwriting from going extinct as classrooms increasingly swap pen and paper for tablets and computers.
The US government removed the skill from the core curriculum in 2010 due to claims it was time consuming and would not be useful in the age of technology which meant schools could instead focus on typing classes.
Handwriting is considered a fine motor skill that stimulates and challenges the brain, but with schools turning to technology instead, some teachers are complaining students can barely hold a pencil but can swipe and double-click on their devices.
Students with learning disabilities like dysgraphia – when children can read but have trouble writing letters – can also be affected because methods of overcoming the disability requires them to practice writing by hand.
Previous studies have revealed that IQ scores have dropped for the first time in a century and indicated that technology could be to blame.
Teachers, parents and experts who DailyMail.com spoke to said they were seeing kids and young adults who don’t know how to sign their name or read cursive.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13273363/handwriting-extinction-IQs-begin-fall.html
…or read an analog clock…
They can always go into polly-tics or work for the BOM.
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There is (I think) a more basic but unsayable reason for the fall in IQ. Actually it’s two related reasons – open borders and who is now having kids.
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FWIW
“Tucker: Our Politicians are TERRIFIED of Being BLACKMAILED | Beyond the Headlines”
“Since Tucker left Fox News, he undoubtedly has been able to express himself in a more unfettered way. On the Joe Rogan Experience, Tucker made a shocking revelation — the US Intel Agencies not only put illicit material onto politicians’ devices but then subsequently BLACKMAIL them with that material in order to get what they want. Is this crazy, conspiratorial conjecture, or something coming from a public figure who may be more informed on the matter?”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/tucker-our-politicians-are-terrified-being-blackmailed-beyond/
Get yourself a copy of
“Tracers in the dark” by Andy Greenberg
and read the chapter “Welcome to video” about taking down a child porn site on the dark web.
I guess that they have plenty of stock photos just from that.
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Mike Johnson, the Speaker in USA House of Reps is a great example- Dead against giving money to Ukraine for months, the after a 10minute meeting in the back room he supports it fully!
“Johnson met with top national security officials, including CIA Director William Burns, in the Oval Office to discuss classified intelligence … “I really do believe the intel,” Johnson said. “
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You mean like the intel that drove the US to almost obliterate Iraq?
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Modern medicine – a diagnosis for everything!
“B.C. doctor makes international headlines for ‘climate change’ diagnosis”
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-doctor-makes-international-headlines-for-climate-change-diagnosis-1.5662907#:~:text=Kyle%20Merritt%20gave%20the%20controversial,started%20thinking%20about%20underlying%20issues
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/04/22/a-catch-all-diagnosis/
The comments there are shaping up for promising reading
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Question: What do you call the guy who missed half the lectures, fell asleep in class, turned his work in late and scored the lowest possible pass mark at the end of medical school?
Answer: You call him ‘Doctor’.
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NY environmentalists’ next target? Individually wrapped cheese slices face ban under far-reaching bill
Individually wrapped cheese would be largely banned under a far-reaching bill getting pushed by New York environmentalists and politicians to reduce the use of plastics, The Post has learned.
The state bill — called Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act — would require companies with net incomes over $1 million who sell or distribute food or products to reduce plastics and other packaging that ends in landfills or waterways by 50% over the next 12 years.
Four states have implemented similar programs — Maine, Oregon, Colorado and California.
One leading environmentalist backing the bill confirmed that the goal is to eliminate single slices of cheese packaged in non-reusable plastic, as well as other wasteful packaging.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/ny-environmentalists-next-target-individually-wrapped-cheese-slices-face-ban-under-far-reaching-bill/
12 years? LOL. Whatever.😎
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Instead of the heavy-handed totalitarian dictatorship route, why don’t they divert a tiny fraction of the corruptocracy’s seizure of taxpayer funds in the name of Ukraine, and use it to build a few high temperature incinerators for the plastic waste?
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Has Glad’s “Go-Between” frozen food separating film also got the evil eye?
Neither of the 2 food markets in town here have it
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The prototype drone submarine named Ghost Shark has been revealed at Garden Island Sydney recently, designed and built in Australia by Anduril, a US company now located here;
https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-and-the-royal-australian-navy-to-partner-on-extra-large-autonomous-undersea-vehicles/
The RAAF is already flying some Ghost Bat MQ28 drone jet fighters designed and built here by Boeing and more have just been ordered for the RAAF.
These projects were Coalition Government established.
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The U.S. and China have had large drone subs for some time. The satellite photo showing the drone dock in China was interesting.
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US Navy are looking at the recently on show prototype Anduril Australia large drone submarine at Garden Island, a RAN Project, for US Navy.
US Air Force are evaluating the now flying drone jet fighters designed and built here by Boeing for the RAAF, they were an extension from the Joint Strike Fighter Programme that produced the F-35 stealth jet fighter.
And other allied air forces are considering Ghost Bat drone.
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The video mentioned by CO2 upthread showed the photo I was referring to, and also a lot of very interesting info about XLUUVs being developed. Both fascinating and scary.
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Boeing in Aus seems to be doing good work.
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With jet engine upgraded and many other improvements the F35 stealth jet global fleet will be flying until 2088 according the the latest US Government decision.
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/04/15/f-35s-to-cost-2-trillion-as-pentagon-plans-longer-use-says-watchdog/
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We got fed various of those about the Peking Pox IIRC
Leading to observations like #8
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Over 1,000 have been built, with the production line to be busy for years. With such a large fleet money spent on upgrades can be amortised over many airframes, so they will be in our skies for a long time. Their actual sticker price per copy is now quite reasonable.
The F 22 Raptor was a great aircraft but because it was restricted from O/S sales production was limited so development costs could not be amortised over a large fleet so it will die before it’s time.
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How the F-35 stands out …
https://www.slashgear.com/1404532/f-35-fighter-jet-speed-and-range-capabilities/
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The author got a bit dizzy there but it is good to see it being appreciated. It is a good plane, it should be, the amount of money spent on it.
When OCU from Williamstown are deployed here for the last week of pilot training on type I see and hear them out my window on their approach. They fly a lot of sorties so I do not believe the doom ‘n gloom serviceability figures quoted. ALL military aircraft need a LOT of repair and maintenance but they have a lot more stuff on board than an airliner.
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Manned nuclear submarines for the RAN is a two-stage project;
https://www.navy.gov.au/capabilities/ships-boats-and-submarines/nuclear-powered-submarines
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FORD = Fix Or Replace Daily.
Ford recalls 43,000 SUV’s because of leaky injectors, BUT guess what their fix is!
https://youtu.be/l61EDm1s59Q?si=6uxXJIVQA5oVPlR8
You have got to be f#cking kidding!😆😆
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Plus the charger cost.
Hmmm, $22k in fuel saved every 5 years so using a discount rate of 5% you are never better off vs a ICE.
Nice colour choices though and you get a big boot where the engine normally resides (should reside)
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The Norwegian Air Force is now flying only F-35 stealth fighters but after the first were delivered I read a pilot report about a planned encounter or “dog fight” between a then new F-35 and one of the F16 Falcons that have now been replaced. The F-35 proved to be superior air to air manoeuvring and the pilot said as more experience flying them is gained he believes flying skills will improve and exploit the full potential.
Note that F-35 was not designed to be a line of sight fighter like an F-16 or F-18 or other previous generation fighter jet.
This is an interesting video;
It is a pity that Albanese Labor have decided not to take up the option for 28 more RAAF F-35s to achieve 100 aircraft in service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI5qaoZQ5G4
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We would need 100 F35s to get 30 of them in the air it seems from my post above. The 100 would cost $1100millionAu just in maintenance each and every year, $US6.8million each. Expensive for 30 jets in the air…
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Give it a rest. I see them out my window when they are up here on detachment. They fly a lot of sorties.
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Where I live further north they use the area as a training area and almost every day, I have watched them pass at low level one, two or more from my favourite beach and they are below the headland at times.
There are many negative stories floating around about F-35 and they started when the Howard Government decided to join the US Joint Strike Fighter Project late early 2000s. It reminds me of the similar put down attempt stories about the F-111 fighter-bomber with swing wings ordered 1960s that proved to be by far world’s best of type and only were replaced when stealth technology was perfected and it was no longer viable to upgrade F-111.
One of the many silly claims was that F-35 is not capable of air to air combat or dog fights, but it is a new generation fighter that detected and attacks enemy aircraft from far away out of sight and uses “growler” jammer technology to disable enemy aircraft systems, as can the RAAF F-18 Super Hornet Growler model. However, recent tests have proven that F-35 is more than a match in air to air combat with previous generation jet fighters including the excellent F-16.
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Maybe “42” is not the only answer?
“Stop blaming yourself for your failures.
Learn astrology and blame the planets.”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVF-bIOpftvupo0lqIG8Gim0bRy_uakyeIafc2jDZUz4G5LC2J311pR9ktgIlfRS26Uqxd7EOcy7VdXkTq0vv-zFQKsPtd7peAGVV2W6JrHWxWwQFOu4OLb7TxWirK7fSUiy-apeTsh0ZA0mmQ7fuHdKNhmzG6wuY2AX9RfwEJ_ikXu2CzYxOsdI1N0E/s600/Meme%20-%20blame%20the%20planets.png
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/04/memes-that-made-me-laugh-206.html#more
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FWIW
“In California, Newsom’s Energy Experiment Goes Awry”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/04/22/in-california-newsoms-energy-experiment-goes-awry-n3787025
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FWIW – Instapundit
“OF COURSE THEY ARE: Biden Administration Trying to Implement Its Own ‘Pandemic Treaty’.
They like your face under their boots.”
Opinions on the TGA’s reaction?
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