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This last week showed a perfect example of why I use Capacity Factor when it comes to doing comparisons for wind generation. For so long now, when I leave comments at that Renew Economy site (you’d think I’d learn not to do that, eh! Sometimes, I just can’t help myself) and (also before I learned better, at The Conversation site) all the agenda pushing wind lovers kept telling me that Capacity Factor means very little, if anything at all, and hey, when it’s so bad, well, they would say that, eh! And seriously, most of them have no real idea what Capacity Factor means anyway.
Last week was the single highest power generation for any week since the installation of the first wind tower here in Australia, with 738GWH of energy delivered to the grids across the vast AEMO coverage area here in Australia.
So, umm, obviously, it was the best week ever for wind eh! But was it really?
This total power equates to a Capacity Factor for the week of a whopping (well, for wind generation anyway) 38.5%. That’s the highest Capacity Factor for wind generation for 42 weeks, and the last time it was around this level was back in September of last year, and for that week, wind delivered slightly less power than it did this week. However, back then, there was a lower Nameplate, and what that meant was that the Capacity Factor for that week was 42.11%, and that is a significantly higher percentage than that Capacity Factor was for this week.
In fact, across the now 300 weeks (now closing in on six years) I have been collecting and writing up this data, there has 26 occasions when wind has operated at a higher weekly Capacity Factor than what it was for this last week.
Think about that for a minute. That’s only four times across each year for those last 300 weeks when wind operates at this supposedly high level, and here we are with the mindset that a Capacity Factor of around 40% is ….. HIGH!! Imagine if anything you personally owned only worked at 40% of its maximum, at best. Now also imagine if the Governments who for so long have told the public how wonderful wind power is were to actually tell you that it only operated at an average of just 30%, and that the high point might only be 40%.
Now, the same also applies for two other indicators for wind generation as well, the daily maximum for energy delivered, and the maximum total wind generation.
When it comes to energy delivered in one day, there were three days this week when wind delivered over 120GWH and more for the day, and while you might think that’s a lot of energy, it’s not even close to the highest. That was back in May, four weeks back, and that daily energy delivered was 175GWH, in just one day. In all this time, this week’s daily highs of 120GWH, well, that total was first set back in July of 2021, when the nameplate for wind was considerably lower than it is now, and that total of 120GWH has been broken eleven times since then. That record high of 175GWH for the day, one Month back now, was at a daily Capacity Factor of 63.9%, and even that is not the highest daily Capacity Factor, as that high Capacity Factor mark for one day is 70%, (and here, keep in mind this is just that one day) and it’s been higher than on that one day last Month (63.9%) on four earlier occasions.
The second indicator is the maximum generation for wind power, and here, keep in mind that any and all maximums are just for one single FIVE MINUTE point in time. This week, wind generation was up around 7300MW, and again, you think, wow, that’s high, but here, the highest it has been, again, just four weeks back now was 8430MW (remember, one five minute period only) and that was at an instantaneous Capacity Factor of 73.9%, and yet again, that instantaneous Capacity Factor percentage has been even higher than that on four occasions, the highest being 76.96%.
So, see how high numbers at any point, instantaneous, daily, and weekly mean a lot less when it is placed into context.
THAT is why I use the Capacity Factor metric as the single BEST form of comparison when it comes to wind generation.
Also, for all these last 35 weeks when wind generation has been falling away to the current low points, the excuse offered up by wind supporters was that there was ….. curtailment.
Now that this last week was so good, umm, no mention whatsoever of curtailment, on any one of the seven days this week.
Tony.
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That the highest 5 min CF is just 77% (rounded) speaks volumes in itself. The wind speeds required for full power are so high they almost never occur outside of major storms. So the nameplate capacity is really not there.
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Having a bet both ways – too much its “curtailment” – too little its “curtailment”!
In the energy sector, the term “curtailment” refers to the reduction of power production (“generation curtailment”) or – less frequently – power consumption (“load curtailment”) when there is too much electricity in the grid (generation curtailment) or when there is not enough power in the grid (load curtailment).
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Last financial year the daily average wind generation was 72.8 GWh.
There were only nine days that generated the average +/-1 the rest were either too high or too low.
44 days were above 150% of the average and 39 days were below 50% of the average.
If only the wind blew steadily all the time!
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As they do not often pass 40% of design capacity for which we pay, perhaps an Incapacity Factor would be more appropriate? Or given the fact of widespread wind droughts, perhaps additionally a % of time in which they are near useless, an completely useless rating% or CU factor? Times when an equally large power system based on fossil fuels has to do all the work.
Batteries and pumped hydro have their place in preventing the complete collapse of the entire system, but they are temporary storage only and no substitute for a reliable adequate and constant power generation system.
It is not reasonable that we are spending hundreds of billions to construct unserviceable systems with a known lifetime of 20 years which we know will fail completely on a regular if unpredictable basis. And spend more on backup to try to pretend there is not complete failure to deliver.
Windmills were rejected the moment steam engines were available. And despite all the advances of modern technology, the fundamental unreliability of windmills has not changed. So they are a not even a medium term a solution for anyone.
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And given this short service lifetime, we will never stop building and reach an equilibrium where the windmills and solar farms are going offline as fast as we can build them. How do you get payback on that? And when our coal and gas run out, as they will, who is going to build windmills for us and how are we going to pay for them?
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As soon as a wind or solar village is planned we get told how many homes it will generate power for then the eyes of the average listener (self included to a degree) glaze over as the mechanics of Kw Gw and its transmission lines etc etc unfold.
Why not include reports on how many of those 60 or 100,000 homes powered by site x wouldn’t be cooking their dinner tonight or watching tv or powering their car(s) if it weren’t for (insert name of states coal fired power station)? Now you “speaka my language” in the land down under.
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A commentator in The Australian today claimed that the National grid had a wind power output close to 100% of the total nameplate value at some recent time. I doubt that the total National grid wind power has ever risen to its full nameplate value.
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The success of a renewable energy system should be measured by the maximum non renewable demand during a given time period, not the maximum renewable penetration.
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Tony,
Can only add a 👍🏻 this way at the moment.
Thanks for flagellating yourself over at Renew Economy. They don’t make it easy to drop fleas into their echo room.
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Feds say “damn the whales” in the Gulf of Maine
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2024/07/01/feds-say-damn-the-whales-in-the-gulf-of-maine/
The beginning: “Biden’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) proposes to build a huge amount of floating offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine. As required by law it has published for public comment a draft Environmental Assessment of the area designated for this monster project. But insanely there is no assessment of the project, just of the area without the project. I am not making this up. This place is properly called the Wind Energy Area (WEA) because that is where the wind energy will come from. BOEM says they plan to issue eight leases initially with a monster development potential of 15,000 MW. Given that 15 MW is the biggest turbine available that amounts to 1,000 or more huge turbines. A second phase might add another thousand of so.
The potential adverse impact of this offshore wind project on whales is enormous. In fact the Gulf of Maine is designated as critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the desperately endangered North Atlantic Right Whale. Clearly caution is called for. The draft Environmental Assessment simply ignores this enormous threat. BOEM says these potentially horrendous impacts will only be considered on a lease by lease basis and then only when specific development plans have been submitted. So for now it is “Damn the whales, full speed ahead.”
Here is BOEM’s incredible statement, a single sentence: “The analysis did not consider construction and operation of any commercial wind power facilities within the Gulf of Maine WEA, the latter of which would be evaluated as part of a separate National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process if a lessee submits a Construction and Operations Plan (COP).”
It seems not to have occurred to BOEM that a careful impact assessment under NEPA is essential before any leases are offered. A proper assessment might conclude that some of these leases should not be let. Or it might call for restrictions on development of some leases. These leases are likely to sell altogether for several billion dollars and the buyers expect to get their money’s worth. It will be too late to impose major restrictions. Moreover there needs to be a cumulative impact assessment of the entire multi-lease project according to the Endangered Species Act. Given the critical habitat designation for Right Whales this project may not be legal and that determination must be made before the leases are let.”
Lots more in the article including how to comment on this nonsense. Please share it.
Save the whales from windmills.
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Sometime in the past year I read an article regarding the – lack of – ships and materials needed to place offshore wind facilities. Also, the cost of leasing and staffing said ships.
The implication was that placing many (1,000?) of these things would be a long and costly endeavor. Something like California’s high speed rail project comes to mind.
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Very true and the code for this is “supply chain problems”. I am told there are only 28 heavy lifting crane ships in the world set up to drive the monster monopiles that hold the turbine towers. The bandwagon is stuck in the mud.
The new fad of floating wind is far worse as there are few if any specialized ships that can do the work and no ports prepared to build the floating towers that are then towed out to their generation location.
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Recently somebody posted a link the U.S. Naval Architect site that had an article on the current status on vessels that service offshore wind systems.
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Look at this document: https://content.yudu.com/web/60wf/0A60wg/JetroOWV24/html/index.html?refUrl=https%253A%252F%252Frina.org.uk%252F
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The floating wind turbines off Scotland only lasted 6 years before they needed to be towed back to Norway to have the turbine gearboxes replaced.
It was likely that the rocking motion of the floating towers placed extra strain on the gear boxes.
https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/wind/uk-wind/545550/equinor-to-return-hywind-turbines-to-norway-for-heavy-maintenance/#:
Meanwhile in Switzerland
The Beznau nuclear power plant is a nuclear power plant of the Swiss energy utility Axpo, located in the municipality Döttingen, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, on an artificial island in the Aare river. The plant has been operating since September 1969.
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That rocking motion also likely makes on site replacement impossible. The turbines are hundreds of feet in the air and weigh hundreds of tons. Imagine them swinging back and forth as the float rocks. There is no way to hold it.
This is a general issue with all floating wind. The 15 MW iron they now want to use weighs over 1,000 tons and is 500′ up. I see no way to work on it at sea.
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It’s a problem on land too. The gearboxes are developing cracks due to stress (anyone covered that?) so they’re looking at direct drive systems now, eliminating gear boxes altogether.
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An excellent video on wind in Ireland, covering the gearbox problems. 16 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LklUVkMPl8g&t=180s
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The first 7 mins or so were good, but forget the rest of the video, as it wanders off into La La land. At least the video was prepared to admit that Ireland has a very high electricity cost.
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Direct drive is the new go to but may have problems all it’s own.
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The fate of democracy can not be left up to the ballot box.
(I’m trying to get a gig writing for the Biden campaign.)
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https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Vote-Just-Encourages-Bastards/dp/0802119603
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Kamala Harris needs a new writer. “The significance of the passage of time”
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And community banks.
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Who doesn’t love yellow school busses?
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When driving in the U.S. and Canada, there are often state rules that say that you must not pass a school bus when it has stopped to pickup schoolies.Caught me out a few times.
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What is Dr Evil (Bill Gates) up to Now?
https://electrek.co/2024/06/11/coal-to-nuclear-reactor-plant-wyoming/
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I hope their engineers are better than their journalists…
“Unlike water, the sodium doesn’t need to be pumped, because as it gets hot, it rises, and as it rises, it cools off.”
Water does this too, and the picture here show both lots of sodium are pumped.
https://www.gen-4.org/gif/jcms/c_42152/sodium-cooled-fast-reactor-sfr
..and I wouldn’t bet my life on this either-
“Even if the plant loses power, the sodium just keeps absorbing heat without getting to a dangerous temperature that would cause a meltdown.”
It would be nice if they were more efficient and safer, but liquid sodium brings its own problems.
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You do realise, don’t you, that the Japanese tried Sodium (molten) reactors and they ALL EXPLODED magnificently.
Sodium metal is explosive under a wide range of conditions. Molten Sodium is especially explosive.
That is why LFTRs (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) are safe. They use Lithium and Beryllium Fluoride as a molten SALT which is chemically stable (and mostly neutron resistant).
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) in 2022 released a study stating that 80% of US coal power plant sites could be converted to nuclear power plant sites in order to help the US achieve net zero by 2050.
Out of 157 retired coal plant sites and 237 operating coal plant sites that the study team identified, 80% have the potential to host advanced reactors smaller than the gigawatt scale. (Smaller nuclear reactors are cheaper and considered to be safer.)
Peter Dutton should read the report.
https://electrek.co/2022/09/15/should-the-us-convert-coal-plant-sites-to-nuclear-the-doe-seems-to-think-so/
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If you are intered in how the French Double Election works – this explains it
Will the centre and the left gang up on Le Pen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHjlzAYtKZE
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/01/supreme-court-trump-immunity-decision
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Has anone heard of the big win for justice. The report of the Supreme court on the prosecution of Donald Trump is scathing.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/01/trump-wins-supreme-court-says-presidents-covered-by-limited-immunity/
And this significant subsidiary judgement
“No former President has faced criminal prosecution for his acts while in office in the more than 200 years since the founding of our country. And, that is so despite numerous past Presidents taking actions that many would argue constitute crimes. If this unprecedented prosecution is to proceed, it must be conducted by someone duly authorized to do so by the American people.”
Yes!!!
It’s a slap in the face for Biden who has acted illegally and outrageously in prosecuting Trump. The appointment of Jack Smith by Biden and friends to prosecute his political opponent is not only unprecedented, it is legally improper and I would suggest shameful. This is as harsh a criticism of the action of the Executive (Joe Biden) as you would ever read in an unemotional legal judgement.
Geriatric Joe is having a very bad week.
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Of even greater significance:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/30/the-end-of-chevron-deference/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/01/monday-mirthiness-the-end-of-the-chevron-deference/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=monday-mirthiness-the-end-of-the-chevron-deference
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The swamp in fear of its livelihood as Trump’s return to Washington DC firms.
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The punters have Donald a clear winner, with RFK jr a better bet than Hilary Clinton.
https://www.sportsbet.com.au/betting/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2024-5479667
This could change if Joe falls on his sword, Tucker Carlson would firm.
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Looks like Mr. Trump has a bit of a win here with the US Supreme Court –
“What we know so far (as per the BBC)
The landmark ruling was released roughly an hour ago. Here’s a recap of what has happened so far:
The justices ruled 6-3 that Trump has immunity from prosecution for official acts that are part of his core constitutional duties as president, and that he has zero immunity for unofficial acts
They have sent the special counsel’s case back to lower courts to decide what is official and unofficial, but they have also given guidance on the case
The three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing that under this decision “the President is now a king above the law”
Trump sees this as a major victory. So do most court-watchers.
What was an official act in the 6 January case?
Justices decided there are two official acts in this case: Directing the Justice Department to discuss investigating purported election fraud with some states and talking to then-Vice President Mike Pence (Trump pressed him to not certify the results of the 2020 election)
They also said the speech Trump gave on the morning of 6 January 2021 encouraging rally attendees to march on the Capitol and suggesting he might join them was an official act, as were the tweets he sent that day
They raised questions about whether pressuring state officials to change their states’ electoral votes for Trump and creating what is commonly called the “false electors” lists for some states were unofficial, but they leave it to lower courts to decide.
In another blow to Jack Smith, they ruled that Trump’s private records – and those of his advisers – “may not be admitted as evidence at trial”
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cw0y5228v1yt
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To me it feels like eight years of Pearl Harbors and some of the smoke is clearing and we have some battleships left.
And the forces of the Empire have failed in their grand plan, but don’t know it yet, and have no plans for giving up.
It going to be an interesting few months.
France might have some fight left.
Poor Canada.
Don’t know what to think of Oz.
The DS Trump haters hate America.
And the Globalists hate freedom.
SOBs.
F ‘em.
God Bless the US Constitution.
We’d all be in a fix without it.
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… or with leaders pledged to protect and uphold it who instead defy, attack and weaken it.
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UK Summer got off to an ordinary start, June was 0.4C cooler than the recent average UK wide, with the Central England Temp mean a marginal 0.1C below the earlier 1961-1990 average.
A cool start to the month was offset later.
This is the first month for ages that wasn’t above average.
No sign July will be hot yet either.
Make of it what you will!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13588431/The-UK-saw-average-temperatures-June-Met-Office-says-despite-late-heatwave.html
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Here in the antipodes, winter arrived bang on time July 1st with over half-a-metre of climate den!al powder covering South Island ski fields overnight.
O ye of little faith and too much B.S.
the planet is doing fine –
if only it was 2 degrees warmer…
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A goodly frost here today, with a minimum of -5.4C. It was very pretty, with sparkling frost on all the trees. It’s still only 2.4C at 1027 and still frosty where the sun hasn’t reached to melt it.
Our lime crop is badly damaged now.
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Last night I went to the Australian Freedom Conference sponsored by Clive Palmer and the United Australia Party.
Present were some of the most pro-freedom public figures in Australia and the United States.
MC was Senator Babet.
Clive Palmer
Dr Melissa McCann
Dinesh D’Souza (recording)
Tucker Carlson
Clive Palmer talked about the importance of freedom, covid mismanagement in Australia and how his entire stock of 37 million doses of hydroxychloroquine which the Government gave him permission to import and which he donated to the Australian people at a cost of tens of millions of dollars was destroyed after the intervention of the Health Minister Hunt and head of the TGA Skerritt.
Clive also spoke about his recent won in the Queensland Supreme Court declaring vaccine mandates illegal and a violation of human rights, a rare pro-freedom win in an Australian court. He is now initiating proceedings for compensation for those who lost jobs and income due to being sacked due to refusing the mandate. Finally he talked about his plans to build Titanic II, a modern replica of the Titanic. I understand contracts have been signed, it’s going to happen and is not a fantasy.
Dr Melissa McCann talked about her evidence for covid “vaccine” injury, provable lies by the Australian Government, Department of Health and the TGA. She also spoke about her upcoming class action lawsuit in the Federal Court on behalf of the vaccine-injured. See the following link for details, video and if you want to join.
https://www.covidvaxclassaction.com.au/
Dinesh D’Douza talked (on pre-recorded video as he couldn’t be at that particular meeting) about freedom and election integrity in the United States. He presented his documentary 2000 Mules, which I strongly recommend for anyone who hasn’t seen it.
The documentary goes into great detail how two “election intelligence” experts commercially purchased 1 petabyte of cell phone tracking data (normally used by marketeers) and analysed movements of various individuals in relation to the US 2020 election. They used extremely conservative criteria to analyse and mine data with the following characteristics:
That a person had visited both a minimum of ten ballot drop stations plus a non-profit (where presumably ballots would be picked up) and only in five swing states. Normally a person would only need to visit one ballot drop-off station.
Analysing that data they counted around 2000 “mules” who had systematically harvested around 5-10 ballots and were dropping off papers in each of 10+ ballot boxes. They also obtained video surveillance footage of those boxes and correlated it with movements of the tracked individuals.
Incidentally, a by-product of their data mining operation was that they identified two individuals involved in the murder of a child who have now been charged by police.
Using the most conservative criteria above, Trump was the true and easy winner of the 2020 election (as we all knew) by tens of thousands of votes in the critical swing states. Expanding the criteria to further include individuals who had visited 5+ boxes put the number of well-placed fraudulent votes in swing states at 810,000 in which case Trump would have won by about eighty electoral college votes.
There is no question that the election was stolen and I strongly urge you to see the film and see the methodology explained in detail before criticising it (and it should be criticised if someone discovered a methodological flaw, but I think it is sound). I just checked and a DVD can be purchased online.
Finally there was the keynote speaker, Tucker Carlson. He talked about freedom and why we should value it and how it is being quite deliberately removed. For Australia he cited as examples (among others) such as the Victorian Government’s willingness to harm people protesting for freedom during the covid lockups and the willingness of police to shoot people with rubber bullets etc..
He mentioned how Australians are constantly being told that it is not our country and if the logic is that you don’t own country you can be assured it will be taken away from you. It’s all part of a softening up process.
He mentioned how freedom is being removed in his country and other Western countries as well, with much the same messages given, including to be ashamed of your country, a message also constantly repeated by the Australian Government and the Left.
He said he might want to buy a house in Australia as he loved it so much so he looked at some real estate websites and he said he couldn’t believe how high the prices were and wondered how anyone in Australia could afford to buy a house. He decided he couldn’t afford to buy a house in Australia.
He attributed the high cost of housing to immigration numbers in excess of the ability to build houses and other infrastructure to accommodate them. (In Australia and other Western countries with massive immigration programs beyond the ability to absorb such people.)
He touched on many other issues such as Nanny Statism, freedom of speech issues, etc..
There was airport type security (bag check, empty pockets and scanner) and police at the event. It’s sad that the Left have now become so violent that these types of measures are necessary.
He emphasised the importance of the pro-freedom community to be non-violent in all their actions. He said civil disobedience is the correct aporoach and the willingness to be harmed by the state. He said there has only be one pro-freedom violent revolution in history that worked and that was the US War of Independence.
There was much more said and I can’t cover it all here. I am hoping the proceedings will be put online on a free speech platform as many of the topics are not allowed to be discussed on YouTube/Goolag, Farcebook etc. such as anything to do with the covid vaccines not bring fully safe and effective or US election integrity.
I hope this gives you a taste of what was a very successful and enjoyable evening.
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Tucker also questioned how a country as energy rich as Australia can have such expensive energy (such as we have no industry left) and why we export out coal and iron ore to China and import it back as windmills and thought Australia’s stupidity must be quite laughable for the Chicomms.
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>2000 “mules”
Ballot stuffing. There’s another huge issue flying under the radar. As Jim Hoft puts it – “The Fractal team, using advanced quantum technology, entered this organization – The Voter Participation Center – and into its recently released Fractal Dark Money System and the results were shocking.”
Who Is The Voter Participation Center? – How One Group Is Identifying All of the Addresses in Swing States Where Ballots Will Be Sent to Phantom Voters
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/who-is-voter-participation-center/
We’re not talking RDBMS, SQL, OO, or DevOps here. The Fractal team is led by Jay Valentine:
Disruptive Technology, Fractal Programming
Fractal Programming – Why One Engineer Replaces 25 Programmers
https://jayvalentine.com/2021/06/06/fractal-programming-why-one-engineer-replaces-25-programmers/
And yet you repeatedly read “falsely claimed” and “lies” in respect to voting fraud in USA.
In other countries e.g. Argentina and here in NZ the elections are manually counted and the result all but done and dusted on the night of the election. USA a very different story even though, at a county level, the size of each counting function is little different to those in NZ.
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From Fractal Programming previous:
On productivity next.
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On productivity, from Fractal Programming previous.
In my working life I experienced:
Slide rules => electronic calculators;
Remote shared 1 MB IBM 360 => GB+ PC on my desk and mini access;
Drawing board & filing cabinets => CAD, R/H DBMS, GIS;
Massive productivity gains where design times were reduced by several orders with the introduction of the above technologies; and,
Dumb coolstore mgt and op => AI/RFID coolstore mgt and op
It is obvious to me that Fractal Programming is a quantum leap.
And now that Jay Valentine and his team are applying that technology to election data the same quantum leap is being achieved i.e. the tables are turned on the Democrat cheaters.
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For a trip down memory lane here is a HP35 simulator.
https://www.hpmuseum.org/simulate/hp35sim/hp35sim.htm
And for those old enough a slide rule simulator!
https://friendsofthevigilance.org.uk/Astron/SlideRules/LinearSlideRule/SlideRule.html
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I used to own an HP35. The battery lasted 20 years…
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I started out doing co-ordinate geometry for civil eng. works from surveys longhand.
Then COGO and ROADS program on IBM 360 with punch card input.
Then to compiling legal survey base maps for electricity distribution networks using co-ordinate geometry on an HP RPN programmable.
Total Station -> CAD programs eat that stuff now.
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I used to be adept at using an IBM 029
https://twobithistory.org/2018/06/23/ibm-029-card-punch.html
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Err ?…have we all forgotten the predecessor to the slide rule…
…. The LOG TABLE BOOK . !
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On the topic of fractals, the Sierpinski triangle is quite fascinating:
https://m.facebook.com/veskor.cassiopeia/videos/the-sierpinski-triangle-in-mathematical-visualgeometry-geometryart-geometric-geo/781727513745682/
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Richard
For some variety on your list –
I just missed slide rules and started with a Facit hand wound calculator where Add” was one turn forward, “Subtract” one turn backwards, “Multiply” and “Divide” the required number of turns in the appropriate direction. IIRC “Square roots” were pencil and paper.
Then a Canon desk calculator with punch card input.
Computers started with a university CDC punch card input system where “They also serve who only stand and wait” was appropriate for the return of student decks. I learned what passes as typing on card punches and still reckon that their keyboard set level with the wrist pad is easier on wrists than the usual keyboards.
Then a Texas Instrument double cassette terminal phone linked to CSIRONET.
Then an 8 inch floppy S100 CPM system and then successor desk tops.
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>The time savings was, well, this app was finished before the contract was completed
For IT projects there used to be a rule of thumb – multiply the project’s estimated completion time by a factor of 3.
Similar for cost.
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>Why One Engineer Replaces 25 Programmers
Remember “Learn to code” directed at coal miners losing their jobs in the US by left-wingers?
Then right back at the left-wing journalists losing their jobs.
But now automated and fractal programming is a huge threat to programmers.
I see the data centres and productivity gains of AI but I don’t see the expansion of the economic base i.e. growing food doesn’t change, housing doesn’t change (except maybe modular and 3D printed), but employment changes radically for some meaning job loss.
The concept is highly disputed (see lefty Krugmann et al) but Henry Ford saw the benefit of paying his workers enough to buy his cars:
The middle class took off 100 years ago … thanks to Henry Ford?
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/01/27/middle-class-henry-ford
I’m not sure that it is any different now. From a random report:
Similarly the “economic multiplier” concept is disputed:
The Economic Multiplier Impact Is Not Seven
http://www.mississippi.edu/urc/downloads/articles/EconomicImpactMultiplierIsNotSeven-June2007.pdf
Evenso if there’s massive technology job losses it stands to reason that many of those displaced will no longer have disposable income to circulate in the economy.
So where’s all the underlying growth mirrored in share market expectations?
Nvidia capitalization has soared past all else on huge expectations:
Nvidia Is Now Worth More Than Berkshire Hathaway, Tesla, and AMD Combined. But Will It Last?
https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/02/12/nvidia-is-now-worth-than-berkshire-hathaway-tesla/
Time will tell.
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The Model T Ford is still going strong a century later
https://www.modeltford.com/
Will the same be said of the Tesla and other EVs?
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Nvidia’s Data Center business is booming, up more than 400% since last year to $18.4 billion in fourth-quarter sales
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/21/nvidias-data-center-business-is-booming-up-over-400percent-since-last-year-to-18point4-billion-in-fourth-quarter-sales.html
Article in The Australian today on Data Centre owners going directly to Nuclear Power producers in the USA and signing contracts to take as much electricity as the producers can provide.
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Not 100% relevant but fun fact concerning what drives occupation in society.
The largest seasonal workforce employer in the US – H&R Block (Tax Season)
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Great feedback.
Was the venue sold out?
Was Clive Palmer well received?
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Thanks for your report David.
To use a common metaphor current events make it seem as though the truth is just getting its trousers on in response to the lies which have spread around the world.
My only misgiving is that I don’t trust Clive Palmer.
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>2000 “mules”
In summary from previous – The Voter Participation Center generates the fake voters and addresses.
That’s at the beginning of the operation. That is the enabling function.
That enables the ballot stuffing documented in 2000 Mules.
That’s the end of the operation. Except for the counting function….
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Woman dies on international Qantas flight from Melbourne to Delhi hours after feeling unwell
A young woman has tragically died shortly after boarding an international Qantas flight travelling from Melbourne to Delhi.
Manpreet Kaur, a 24-year-old student who had moved to Australia in March 2020, was set to fly to Delhi, India on June 20 in a bid to see her family for the first time in four years.
She reported feeling unwell hours before she arrived at the airport however she boarded the flight with no issues until she began to put her seatbelt on.
“When she got on the plane, she was struggling to put her seatbelt on,” Ms Kaur’s friend Gurdip Grewal told the publication.
“Just before her flight started, she fell in front of her seat and died on the spot.”
Ms Kaur is believed to have died from tuberculosis, an infectious disease that often affects the lungs.
The student had been working at Australia Post while studying with the dream of eventually becoming a chef, her roommate told the Herald Sun.
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Wow. That upends all I thought I knew about tuberculosis which centered around coughing your lungs out.
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Yes, it is not a fast disease at all, Mycobacteria are amongst the slowest-growing and hardest to cultivate. As far as I knew she would have been sick for months before getting to a lethal stage, years often.
So, have they placed everyone she met with under house arrest? We better have ‘stay-at-home’ orders to flatten the curve and everyone in the neighbourhoods she visited has to wear masks…
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That reminds me of a recent news story about a guy who had a severe coughing attacks after abdominal surgery.
Let’s just say the sutures weren’t that good.
Your imagination just completed the picture.
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I nearly died on a QANTAS flight when my blood pressure shot up when I hear the “Welcome to Country” BS.
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Wow, not Tuberculosis! The disease that was virtually eliminated from Australia by the ’60’s .
Plentty of us here will remember compulsory chest x rays for everyone 18 and older, vaccination programmes that involved “mantue” tests where a small amount of something was injected under the skin of your forearm. If TB antibodies were in your system you would get a reaction at this site and the you would NOT get the vaccination, everyone else got it. Any potential visitors / migrants had to have a TB clearance before you were even considered. My grandfather was refused entry because x rays showed scarring on his lungs. It didn’t matter that he could prove that the scaring was the result of injuries suffered, scarred lungs was enough to rule him out.
Medico I know talks about many diseases that used to be tested for but these days just walk in.
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FWIW
“The Green Myth: Despite Global Praise, China Not a Model for Renewable Energy”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/green-myth-despite-global-praise-china-not-model/
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China’s plans to build the world’s biggest hydro plant, in Tibet, on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra river, with 3X the output of the Three Gorges Dam! Possibly by building a small dam, and a massive 40-50 km tunnel, dropping 2000m, through 9 power stations! The neighbours wont be happy, but maybe bribable with some cheap power?? 22 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUnVHWOISfo&t=59s
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Too true. A regular commentator in The Australian often comes up with figures attempting to point out that China is pushing ahead with more renewables, but the truth is that China still uses coal for over 60% of its electricity, and the actual renewables increases are minor compared to the increases in coal power plants.
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FWIW – there is probably a reason
“China Stops Reporting Renewable Energy Utilization Data”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/china-stops-reporting-renewable-energy-utilization-data
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Worst government in my lifetime’: Bolt slams Labor’s handling of Australia
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the Albanese Labor government is the “worst government in my lifetime” as he discusses trips overseas with countries facing lower inflation than Australia is facing.
“I already knew this was a fantastic country, you know it too … but it is now being made poorer and more divided by the worst government in my lifetime,” Mr Bolt said.
“It is childish, it is dumb, it is blind.”
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Victorian politicians awarded 3.5 per cent pay rise with Premier Jacinta Allan to receive almost $500,000 a year
Jacinta Allan will receive a touch under $500,000 this financial year as Victorian politicians were awarded a 3.5 per cent pay rise months after it was revealed the state’s debt will soar to almost $188 billion.
Victorian politicians will take home more than $200,000 each this financial year after scoring a 3.5 per cent pay bump as the state grapples with soaring debt.
The Victorian Independent Remuneration Tribunal revealed the salary increases on Monday, along with a boost to allowances.
Politicians will now receive a basic salary of $205,798 a year, up from $198,839, with more cash going around for parliamentarians with extra responsibilities.
Jacinta Allan is entitled to an additional $229,636 for being Premier, plus a $62,597 expense allowance, taking her total remuneration to a touch under $500,000.
Ms Allan – who replaced Daniel Andrews in the top job last September – is the highest paid premier in Australia.
From the Comments
– That is $499,999 more than she should be paid. She makes Andrews look half competent.
– It is time these dishonest and incompetent politicians are required to make an application to an industrial court to justify their need for salary and allowances increases and if they can’t justify their claims they miss out. The present system of having a so called independent tribunal making the decision is and has been a complete failure and must be replaced with a truly independent system and not by a panel nominated by the politicians.
– Considering the financial mess Victoria is reported to be in this is obscene
– $500k just for Allan. Whats the cost for everyone attached to the Premiers office? Chief of staff, policy strategists, Media advisors, spin doctors, social media writing and monitoring and then there’s the popularity pollsters. You could times it by three and still have no change. I suppose we are to be grateful that no one is employed to manage transparency and integrity.
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“make an application to an industrial court to justify their need for salary and allowances increase”
No, all Govt salaries should be tied to the health of the State’s economy. If Vic is making money overall, they get a salary increase. If it is going into debt, they get a decrease. Biden and most Western PMs would be paying to stay in their job!
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Sam Mostyn’s $214,000 pay rise for plum Governor-General role a major political own goal for Albanese as the cost-of-living crisis squeezes the rest of us
Sam Mostyn’s eye-watering $214,000 pay bump is bad optics for the incoming Governor-General and Anthony Albanese as ordinary Australians struggle through cost of living pressures, writes Caleb Bond.
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I just can’t figure out if there is some sort of look for lefty women, I mean look at the difference between Sam Mostyn and Jacinta Ahearn.
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Albanese government’s stage 3 tax cuts to be wiped out by in two years by ‘stealth tax increases’ caused by bracket creep
The Albanese government has promoted its modified stage 3 tax cuts as “meaningful cost-of-living relief”, but the effects are set to be wiped out in just two years due to “stealth tax increases” caused by bracket creep.
Patrick Hannaford – Digital Reporter
And the Obvious from the Comments
– Didn’t Albo and co cancel the $1500.00 tax rebate just after he was elected? They didn’t spend $40 million advertising that did they?
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Leading economist Warren Hogan decries Jim Chalmers’ claim inflation ‘zigs and zags on the way down’ as inflation rises
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ claim inflation “zigs and zags on the way down” has been reviled by a senior economist who argued “there’s been no zigs” as data continues to point to further CPI grief.
James Harrison
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New home needed every two minutes to keep up with population growth
A new home would need to be built every two minutes to keep up with population growth and immigration according to industry analysis.
To keep pace with immigration, a home would need to be built every 2.4 minutes, before accounting for natural population growth.
The dire housing circumstances were revealed as July 1 marks the state of the Albanese government’s five-year promise to build one million new homes.
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Not going to happen with Building Companies going belly up and Australia needing hundreds of thousands of ‘Tradies’.
Added to that is Federal/State Public Works (Infrastructure) taking resources away from Private Sector construction (Houses etc.).
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Two reasons why the RBA will have to hike rates again, and soon
And we shouldn’t be so naive as to think the two simply cancel out. Pushed to the limit, either the brakes burn out or the engine explodes.
While the RBA nudges the brake, a reckless government pumps the accelerator
When the RBA board next meets, I believe there’s a better-than-even chance it will raise rates for the first time in nine months to 4.6 per cent, the highest level in nearly 13 years. And it may not be the last time.
With interest rates having already risen at a record pace and inflation already well down from its peak, you might be forgiven for wondering why further pain could possibly be necessary, particularly if you’re a mortgage holder.
There are two drivers of the need for further hikes. But first, some context.
This takes us to the second driver.
On Monday of this week, the federal government began pumping roughly $43 billion of further stimulus into the economy, in addition to the tens of billions pumped in by the states. The degree of wanton fiscal recklessness is unprecedented in my lifetime – at least given the context.
The decisions the federal government took in its last two budgets increased the deficit in the financial year that began on Monday by $20 billion. Along with the $23 billion stage 3 tax cuts, they turned a $15 billion surplus into a $28 billion deficit.
While the RBA is trying – too gently – to ease its foot onto the brake, Australia’s governments are pushing on the accelerator. This leaves the RBA little choice but to stamp down harder lest we hit the wall.
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An excellent explanation! Its obvious to anyone here that Govts always cause inflation, and the people are the ones who suffer for it. The solution is to allow competing currencies, so anyone can print their own money and see if someone else accepts it, which is how Aussie used to run.
You would soon see how a constantly-devaluing $Govt stood up against a $Westpac or a $Woolworths, the one that was based on borrowed money would be avoided.
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Driving around the city (Melbourne) recently and I noticed the huge advertising billboards along the citylink, typically I pay them very little notice, I HATE advertising. But what I did find? For the ads that are being displayed on these billboards, that if they are for cars, they are all ads for EV’s, not once did I see a car ad for a normal ICE car.
I’ve also noticed this EV advertising on TV advertising. Not that I watch live TV, but I have been seeing a little when around at my mums and she’s watching Tipping Point, Wow what an exciting game that is! (sarc).
What do I notice being advertised on the TV? EV’s. I guess you have to do whatever you can do to convince Mr & Mrs Jo Public on what they are missing out on.
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Similarly, when I took interest in the 2024 Honda CR-V, I struggled to find comprehensive reviews of the ICE version. I’d say 95% of online reviews covered the hybrid version.
By the way, after six weeks or so of driving it, my average petrol consumption is sitting on 6.6l/100km. If that holds over the long term, the substantial price premium of the hybrid will make even less sense for those looking for economical motoring. Using fuel cost alone and today’s local pricing, it would take 30yrs to recoup the price premium through fuel savings.
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Toyota Australia announced today it will no longer sell petrol-only variants of RAV4 and all other models where hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) are available. The move means that Corolla and Camry sedans and the Corolla Cross, RAV4 and Kluger SUVs are now 100-per-cent HEV for customer orders.5 June 2024
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That would not be so bad if they offered the PHEV versions which are available elseware.
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Toyota is pushing its EV and hybrids. But they are also letting people know that their Hilux is back in stock. I understand the waiting list blew out to 12 months before they stopped taking orders for the better eequippped models. That enabled the Ford Ranger to take top spot.
Also plenty of Dodge Ram ads on the TV. But the BEV variant is still to come. Rams appear to be a a cult car in Australia. Bought by men with lots of toys that need transport. Not sure if these buyers are so far woke that they would have a BEV variant.
BEVs in Australia have yet to reach peak woke to they are still faddish. The pain of ownership is still outweighed by the need for woke.
An interesting personal story on BEV – My eldest son lives in the UK and his wife has a BEV as part of her salary package. She had a choice of any make of car as long as it was a BEV. Anyhow, three weeks ago, it was stolen from their driveway. It had about 30% charge at the time. The car had no tracking but my son was able to operate the air-conditioner from his phone. He just kept operating the air-conditioner until the battery was flat and the car could not be driven. The police found it abandoned 3 days after it was stolen. There was no damage but the locking system needed to be recoded and new fob supplied as well as being towed to a service centre so some cost involved that was all covered by insurance. The insurance also covered supply of a small ICE vehicle with manual gear change that took a while for my son to get used to again.
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>Rams appear to be a a cult car in Australia
NIWA came under scrutiny (to say the least) over the purchase of Rams to tow their boats:
Concerns about driver ability, climate optics before Niwa’s decision to purchase big American utes
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/06/concerns-about-driver-ability-climate-optics-before-niwa-s-decision-to-purchase-big-american-utes.html
And,
And,
Also see – Emissions and image
Silliness of it all – NIWA has 3 oceangoing vessels:
NIWA Vessels – Our fleet: RV Tangaroa, RV Kaharoa, Kaharoa II
https://niwa.co.nz/vessels/niwa-vessels
Where’s the outrage?
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Love the bit in the article where they debadge them and removed signwriting and had white ones for less impact.
Never mind the reality its all about the vibe.
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Do you remember the Libertarian Mayor of Papakura who bought brand new cars on Govt fleet discount and sold them 12months later at a profit. He had some excellent ideas, but was booted as Papakura became part of Manukau City, much like the much-hated local body amalgamations over here.
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FWIW – “Twiggybank” reading
“German Professor Shows That the Road to Green Hydrogen Is Long, Expensive”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/30/german-professor-shows-that-the-road-to-green-hydrogen-is-long-expensive/
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Cartoon — robber steals his own money:
https://www.reddit.com/r/goodboomerhumor/comments/1c4szex/political_robbery/
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The SCOTUS decision re presidential immunity appears to be good news for Trump, but being pathologically cynical, I have to wonder what the implications are for Biden too. Doesn’t this grant him free rein for the duration of his election campaign and, instead of worrying (as some do) about what Trump might now do if re-elected, perhaps we should be more concerned about what the Biden team will get up to …
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He might have some trouble with defining what was “official”?
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The US President is pledged to protect the US Constitution.
Joe Biden has acted in wilful defiance of the Constitution and directs the heads of executive departments to act contrary to the Constitution.
Can such acts be “official duties” or are they necessarily private?
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more on that
“CNN’s Elie Honig Explains What the Immunity Ruling Does to All Four Trump Cases”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/07/01/cnns-elie-honig-explains-what-the-immunity-ruling-does-to-all-four-trump-cases-n2641225
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FWIW – listening on car radio to a pundit being interviewed on Justice Sotomayor’s tirade with reverential acceptance.
He ought to read this –
“WATCH: Bill Barr Rips Through Justice Sotomayor’s Hysteria Over the SCOTUS Presidential Immunity Ruling”
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/07/01/bill-bar-rips-through-justice-sotomayors-hysteria-from-scotus-immunity-ruling-n2176239
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I never realised top judges were so stupid. I suppose its not a competitive marketplace like the private sector.
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She is an Obama appointment –
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….. But hasnt that traditionally been the responsibility of the CIA ?
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This aired Sunday night on 7, worth a watch, the tide is changing.
“AFTER COVID” – A 7 NEWS SPOTLIGHT INVESTIGATION
https://old.bitchute.com/video/k3hIF0K5xjaZ/
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The show from memory had the Queensland Chief Medical Officer now Governor celebrated for saving the Queensland population from the dangerous Astra Zeneca for a mere 4 grand a week.
Such sacrifice is worthy of an esteemed position.
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SPACE MAY BE THE FINAL FRONTIER BUT IT’S MADE IN A HOLLYWOOD BASEMENT…
https://old.bitchute.com/video/5OreXpbIM19p/
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Or this:
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1807884989066834158
Wikileaks releases 11 minutes of NASA moon landing footage shot in desert.
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Ah yes Capricorn One.
The appending of wikileaks to the video does not make this more real or more leaked by wikileaks, than it was years ago when someone else was promoting this crap.
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Well, made by Boeing…
Just a plastic cover taped on I’ll bet, before all the real fittings are done.
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Great speech by Nigel Farage as Britons are about to vote.
If Reform can get more than six million votes, it’ll be a great result. Years ago, UKIP got 4 million votes — didn’t win any seats but it did ‘put the wind up’ Prime Minister Cameron, so much so that he agreed to hold a referendum on leaving the EU — which culminated in the vote for “Brexit” …. and lots of tears from the Establishment.
“The first day of the campaign, I did an event down in Dover where I talked about one of my pet subjects, the boats crossing the English Channel. And it was interesting because the BBC News Channel took the speech live until they cut it off, with the presenter saying, ‘Well, we’ve cut away from that because here’s Nigel Farage using his customary inflammatory language.’ And I demanded an apology and I got one, which is remarkable. In fact, over the last year I’ve had quite a few apologies, including from National Westminster Bank, which was rather good too.”
“. . . And for Keir Starmer, well, on his six election priorities, he doesn’t mention once legal or illegal immigration. And so this crisis is set to continue. But it’s a bit rich. It’s a bit rich for the Conservatives to say to Labour, ‘It’ll be even worse under you.’ How much worse can it get than it is right now?”
transcript of Farage Campaign Speech | ConservativeWoman . . . Go Nige !
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Well Australia was able to “Stop the Boats” – until Albo started using airplanes to bring in the immigrants!
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Were they Boeings? 😎
If not why not! 😁
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Japanese Researchers Break World Record with 402 Terabits per Second Internet Speed
This remarkable breakthrough, spearheaded by the Photonic Network Laboratory at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), paves the way for a future where data flows seamlessly across the globe at unprecedented speeds.
Using commercially available optical fiber, the team reached a data transmission rate of 402 terabits per second, approximately 1.6 million times faster than the average broadband speed in the United States.
The 402 Tb/s data rate the Japanese research team achieves is astonishingly fast, enabling the download of approximately 12,500 movies in just one second, more than three times the entire Netflix library.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/306178/20240628/japanese-researchers-break-world-record-402-terabits-second-internet-speed.htm
“You’re going to need a bigger data center”
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Researchers from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, and other Chinese institutions announced in February that they’ve demonstrated a way to pack more than a petabit of data (125 terabytes) into one optical disk.1 Mar 2024
https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2024/03/01/scientists-create-1-6-petabit-optical-storage-disc
“You’re going to need a bigger data center”
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Saw it! 😆
200TB in 100 layers but at a high cost- kW to burn a disc? I think not.
Artificial DNA is the way to go, as covered recently.
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JC II >Artificial DNA is the way to go, as covered recently.
Missed that. I assume something like this:
Synthetic DNA applications in information technology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27846-9
Downthread I commented that I’ve been anticipating optical/photonic computing since the late 1980s but still not at commercialization stage.
Given my rapidly shortening life expectancy I’m wondering if I will live to see either technologies in commercial application.
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Jumping the gun somewhat:
https://www.biomemory.com/faq
But it will be the future.
Barcoding the base pairs..
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Data Centre Owners going Direct to Nuclear Power Producers
Article in The Australian today on how in the USA Data Centre Owners are going directly to Nuclear Power producers and saying “We are willing to sign a contract to take all the energy you can provide to us”.
This will put them front of the queue as demand outsrips supply.
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>This remarkable breakthrough, spearheaded by the Photonic Network Laboratory at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), paves the way for a future where data flows seamlessly across the globe at unprecedented speeds.
I read in the late 1980s that optical/photonic computing was the big breakthrough and way of the future. I thought it was just around the corner.
Waited and waited, only now has NICT got it working as anticipated. Still not at commercialization stage.
Optical computing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_computing
At the bottom in references there’s this book:
2. Feitelson, Dror G. (1988). “Chapter 3: Optical Image and Signal Processing”. Optical Computing: A Survey for Computer Scientists. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Think what I read was in that era and maybe in respect that book – not sure.
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Meanwhile in Germany – hybrid truck recharges from overhead power lines
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sfy92xrEzR1z23obp_720.mp4
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Ah, the olde trolley buses come back!
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I remember going to school in ye olde trolley bus!
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Kogarah?
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https://search.brave.com/images?q=kogarah%20trolley%20buses%201950s
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Trolley buses, such as we used to have in Reading. It was sad the day they were replaced by single-decker noisy smelly diesel buses.
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Tuesday funny: pouring concrete
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sfvp3kwM8K1z23obp.mp4
Shonky brothers building co.
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North Atlantic SST warming causes southeast Pacific cooling, a novel teleconnection.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/07/01/new-study-1979-2013-southern-ocean-and-southeast-pacific-cooling-driven-by-warming/
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OPEC: The World Cannot Run On Renewable Energy And EVs (article)
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Schwab: the time for forced collaboration is here
https://x.com/cottusmarcus/status/1805763276443148789
Forced collaboration? Those pesky peasants still not complying with the great delusion?
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Tuesday memory lane
Remember when having no symptoms was one of the symptoms?
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That was hilariously ridiculous, wasn’t it?
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Supreme Court Justice Thomas Takes Aim at Trump Special Counsel Prosecutor
And then Thomas began a multi-page dismantling of the legality of the special counsel’s office. It was a “Gee since we’re talking about that whole being-above-the-law argument, let’s talk about the legality of the special counsel’s office” moment.
“I write separately to highlight another way in which this prosecution may violate our constitutional structure,” Thomas wrote.
“In this case, the Attorney General purported to appoint a private citizen as Special Counsel to prosecute a former President on behalf of the United States. But I am not sure that any office for the Special Counsel has been ‘established by Law,’ as the Constitution requires,” he added, citing generalized case law that Attorney General Merrick Garland said supported his decision to appoint Smith.
But Thomas slapped it down. Smith did not work under the imprimatur of the Department of Justice when he took the job as special counsel. Thomas wrote, “A private citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a former President. No former President has faced criminal prosecution for his acts while in office in the more than 200 years since the founding of our country.”
“If this unprecedented prosecution is to proceed, it must be conducted by someone duly authorized to do so by the American people,” Thomas explained. “The lower courts [New York, Georgia, D.C. Circuit, Florida] should thus answer these essential questions concerning the Special Counsel’s appointment before proceeding.”
He lectured, “None of the statutes cited by the Attorney General appears to create an office for the Special Counsel, and especially not with the clarity typical of past statutes used for that purpose.”
Thomas continued, “Before the President or a Department Head can appoint any officer, however, the Constitution requires that the underlying office be “established by Law.”
He also noted, “By keeping the ability to create offices out of the President’s hands, the Founders ensured that no President could unilaterally create an army of officer positions to then fill with his supporters. Instead, our Constitution leaves it in the hands of the people’s elected representatives to determine whether new executive offices should exist” [emphasis added].
Thomas’s concurrence isn’t binding, but it’s like a boss giving you a piece of advice on how to do your job.
The head of Merrick Garland’s federal “Get Trump Wet Work” team, Jack Smith, is already on tenuous ground. He has tossed out norm after legal norm in raiding former President Trump’s home, piercing Trump’s attorney-client privilege, working with local and state government lawyers to form the lawfare strategy against the former president, and then fighting the long-held notion that this former president enjoys immunity from prosecution for his actions as president. There is also the troubling question of whether Jack Smith’s appointment to be special counsel is even legal.
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Interesting.
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Redacted: He’s Destroying the Deep State Narrative and they’re Not Happy About It (video)
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Hi Jo
For what a friend used to call “The Little Me File”
“The Resilient Great Barrier Reef: Analyzing the Surprising Recovery Amidst Climate Alarmism”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/01/the-resilient-great-barrier-reef-analyzing-the-surprising-recovery-amidst-climate-alarmism/
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An article by Dick Smith has just been released in The Australian. Dick calls upon the Labor govt to scrap the nuclear moratorium, and says that the govt has been misled by the CSIRO and AEMO.He also said that wind, solar and adequate storage is more expensive than coal or gas, and even more expensive than nuclear. Couldn’t agree more.
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FWIW – covid
“The ‘devastating’ case against vaccine-pusher Pfizer”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-devastating-case-against-vaccine-pusher-pfizer/
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Ford CEO Shuts Down Controversial EV Program (video)
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FWIW
““It’s Coming, It’s Coming QUICKLY” | Farmer Warns About Worldwide Food Shortages”
https://youtu.be/Esd7uPVk7L8
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FWIW
“Watch Out EVs: Walmart Introduces First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck to Retail Fleet”
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/07/01/watch-out-evs-walmart-introduces-first-hydrogen-fuel-cell-truck-to-retail-fleet/
Who fired first?
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