Why is Australia throwing away billions of dollars on a net energy sink and no one in the Lamestream media, the Lamestream political parties and Lamestream “engineers” are asking questions?
Ultimately, I expect that the fewer and fewer remaining coal power stations will be running 24/7 to pump water up hill for this hydro battery, if it is ever finished.
What a horrible waste of resources, not to mention environmental destruction.
Scroll down to the bottom where it lists Tunnels. Approximately 98% of the Scheme’s engineering features are underground. Tunnels and pipelines, dug deep under the Snowy Mountains, measure 145 kilometres, and with 80 kilometres of aqueducts, collect and divert the inflows of the Snowy Mountains area.
In 1958, a small Australian Engineering Company, the ‘fledgling’ Toowoomba based Thiess Bros. was awarded the Tooma Tumut tunnel contract, the first major contract to go to an Australian Company, no experience, no background, out of the blue. The Big (American) Companies were astounded. Thiess completed that 14.3Km long tunnel in 1951, in way way less time than the ‘biggies’ were managing, and considerably under budget, and that got them more contracts, and in the end, Thiess was the biggest Company working in the Snowy’s, and as a side thing, because of the success of the Land Cruisers used on the ‘Scheme’, Thiess then brought them to Australia in 1959, with the first Australian importation contract with Toyota.
Huh! Maybe someone from SMH2 should have got on the ‘blower’ to Thiess and asked for some tips. After all, Thiess did it in 1958, and during work on that tunnel in 1959, they held the World record for tunneling at the time, 160 metres in a week, through solid rock, a record the Company themselves surpassed in 1963 with 165 metres in a week on the Snowy Geehi Tunnel around the same length.
Snowy Hydro’s principal contractor for the construction of Snowy 2.0 is Future Generation Joint Venture, a partnership with the combined engineering expertise of three companies – Italy’s Webuild (formerly Salini Impregilo), Australian-based Clough and US-based Lane Construction.
It’s a “partnership”.
Who owns whom?
Clough:
Following the acquisition by global construction leader Webuild in 2023, Clough Group became the Australian subsidiary of Webuild Group.
Lane Construction:
Following the merger with global construction leader Webuild (previously Salini Impregilo) in 2016, The Lane Construction Corporation became a wholly owned subsidiary of Webuild U.S. Holdings, Inc. https://www.laneconstruct.com/who-we-are/
Webuild:
It is Italian owned.
Conclusion:
SH2 is bring built by Webuild which is also the parent company of the other two companies so it’s effectively being built by one company.
I was somewhat pleasantly surprised to learn that, unusually for an Australian unreliable energy project, it was not being built by Chicomm companies.
“Clough’s South African owners, Murray & Roberts, have sold the cash-strapped engineering business to Italy’s Webuild in a $350 million conditional deal, leaving the Italians in charge of building hydropower project Snowy 2.0.”
In his memoir,‘A Bigger Picture’, Turnbull dubbed Snowy 2.0 ‘the single most important and enduring decision of the many I made on energy’.
Alas, Snowy 2.0 has not gone well. The warning signs were there from the start. Both the government-appointed Snowy Hydro Board and federal government were warned they had greatly under-costed it, underestimated the construction time and failed to recognise the damage it would do to the Kosciuszko National Park.
In August 2023, the government bumped up funding for Snowy 2.0 to A$12 billion – triple the October 2018 figure, when the final decision was made to go ahead, and six times what Turnbull first claimed it would cost in March 2017. That’s before counting the new transmission lines through the controversial HumeLink and VNI West transmission projects. When complete, Snowy 2.0 plus transmission could cost upwards of $20 billion – over ten times the figure Turnbull claimed.
But wasn’t the vested interests’ plan to use their wind turbine installations to supply electricity to Snowy 2.0 when the wind blows when the grid does not need more electricity.
A Brave New World – You are being watched wherever you go
Nearly 200 people visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘pedo island’ AFTER his sex crime conviction are exposed by mobile data linking them to homes and offices across the US – including one ping on street opposite Trump Tower
The mobile devices of visitors to Epstein’s island left a trail of data which links them to homes and offices in the US around the world
Some devices were also linked to addresses in Ukraine, the Cayman Islands and Australia
Trump must be a candidate in the US Presidential election. Suddenly the previously opaque Epstein story is being published and generally has a photo of Trump with Epstein. Now we have a story where there was a ‘Ping’ opposite Trump Tower.
Read ‘Black Boomerang’ and Sefton Delmer’s story of the Black Propaganda during World War II.
We are in World War III and it is a war for your mind.
I notice the gratuitous anti-Trump reference in the headline.
There is no suggestion whatsoever that Trump was involved, it could have been anyone, or it could have been a malicious actor trying to implicate Trump. Was Trump even home at the time?
“Opposite Trump Tower” is a highly public and busy space.
The Corrupt CSIRO claims “firmed renewables are the cheapest form of electricity”
Fact checking this statement
Here is the update on electric rates by the EIA, Residential rate, $0.416/kWh, a one-third increase. Yes, Hawaii Electric remains the highest cost electricity provider in the U.S. This did not need to happen to Hawaii and there is time to stop the Climate Policy madness for the rest of the states.
“Huge Kapolei Battery Plant Replaces Coal at Hawaii Electric“
That is the headline of the Canary Media in December 2023. Here is the background as reported in an American Civil Engineering Society article, by Jay Landers:
Among U.S. states, Hawaii has some of the most ambitious mandates for shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources to generate electricity. To achieve these mandates, the state aims to rely heavily on battery energy storage systems to provide backup power when intermittent sources such as solar and wind are insufficient or unavailable. On the Hawaiian island of Oahu, a large and sophisticated battery energy storage system recently came online, marking a key point in the state’s efforts to move toward a future of 100% renewable energy.
Darwin has plenty of roof top solar plus two solar farms yet to be connecte to the grid.
Why not make Darwin a test case for 100% renewables? Where is the Big Battery?
In true post modernist style, they are whatever they imagine them to be, with capabilities far beyond reality. Reality itself can be ignored including transmission lines, previously unneeded stabilizers, duplication and complex control systems.
Noticed on the tele last night that the huge interconnector between S.A. Victoria and N.S.W. was being towted as “a good thing”. Part of the narrative was the creation of “Green jobs” building this very high, high tension power line across a huge distance, I think they said it would be a 1000k’s long. As required, the mandatory environmental statements included things like “ we have studied thousands of trees and avoided damaging or removing any trees of conservation or cultural significance, some of these trees being up to 2 thousand years old”
Then the departing aerial shot. The power lines are like transmission lines world wide, dead straight, plum, no deviations, gun barrel precision without a single tree left standing underneath or for the required safety distance either side, Bulldozed dirt. Lucky all the significant stuff just happened to be growing 50 metres either side eh.
I posted this late yesterday so in case you didn’t see it:
Another win for the thinking community.
A judge in the US has ordered the FDA to remove it’s infamous anti-Ivermectin “you are not a horse” Tweets and all other anti-IVM statements.
Unfortunately they are not required to admit any wrong doing, pay compensation or to apologise for the lives lost because they discouraged or effectively prohibited the use of IVM.
The judge also ruled that the FDA had no authority to prohibit the “off label” use of already-approved drugs.
Many other countries also followed the FDA to ban IVM such as the former “Health” Minister and former(?) WEF employee, Greg Hunt in Australia.
I am still waiting for an apology and compensation from Australian Government authorities for the unnecessary deaths they caused by banning HCQ and IVM.
The Left have “Earth Day” (April 22) and “Earth Hour” (March 23 this year but is the last Saturday of March) which is not about pushing legitimate nature conservation and true environmentalism but pushing an anti-energy, anti-Western-Civilisation agenda.
How about the thinking community have a day to celebrate science, reason, the Enlightenment, Western Civilisation, reliable energy etc.?
Jimmy Dore is an old style Leftist from when the Left actually believed in thinking for themselves and free speech, totally unlike today’s Left (mainly because they weren’t in charge).
“Why Weren’t We Allowed To Question The Covid Vaccines?”
I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, That is a dirty rotten lie. Infact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
From the Daily Caller
The Biden administration banned children from submitting Easter eggs with religious themes for its 2024 “Celebrating National Guard Families” art contest.
The competition, which is part of the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll, explicitly stipulated that egg designs not feature any “religious symbols” on the Christian holiday.
“The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes,” a flyer with instructions from the White House stated.
Related coincidence, this year Easter is also proclaimed ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’
Trump SLAMS Biden’s ‘blasphemous’ move to declare Easter Sunday ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ as outrage grows after White House also banned kids from submitting religious-themed designs for egg art event
Trump slammed Biden for his ‘years-long assault on the Christian faith’ and said his Easter tradition-busting decisions are ‘appalling and insulting’
” “If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership—you are practicing followship.” — Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of the United Kingdom, known as “The Iron Lady” (1925– 2013)”
” “Just be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.” — Will Rogers, American vaudeville performer, actor, columnist, humorist, and social commentator (1879–1935)”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” — Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)”
In 325AD the first major church council, the Council of Nicaea, determined that Easter should fall on the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Easter takes its name from a pagan goddess from Anglo-Saxon England who was described in a book by the eighth-century English monk Bede.
“Eostre was a goddess of spring or renewal and that’s why her feast is attached to the vernal equinox,”
The first ecumenical council of the Christian church, meeting in ancient Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey). It was called by the emperor Constantine I, who presided over the opening session and took part in the discussions. He hoped a general council of the church would solve the problem created in the Eastern church by Arianism, a heresy first proposed by Arius of Alexandria that affirmed that Christ is not divine but a created being.
The council condemned Arius and, with reluctance on the part of some, incorporated the nonscriptural word homoousios (“of one substance”) into a creed to signify the absolute equality of the Son with the Father. The emperor then exiled Arius, an act that, while manifesting a solidarity of church and state, underscored the importance of secular patronage in ecclesiastical affairs.
History repeats with the importance of secular patronage of the religion of “Climate Change” and the heresy of “Climate Denialism”.
How Ramadan is muscling out Easter all over Europe: 30,000 Ramadan lights festooned across London. A Muslim crescent flag flying atop Westminster Abbey. Jam-packed mosques while church pews are fast emptying
Professor Joe Hurley, of RMIT University’s Centre for Urban Research, said there was a strong trend towards darker roofs in greenfield developments, and good documented evidence that the trend is contributing towards the “heat island effect”, in which urban areas are several degrees hotter than outlying areas.
Ever notice the colour of canopy. Relatively dark green. This is the color that has evolved over hundreds of millions of years. Each little change accidental but the changes that improved survival endured. Dark green it is because cold kills.
The problem is not the colour but the moisture associated with the canopy. Removing all canopy and replacing with moisture=free surfaces is the problem.
The number of fires caused by ebikes and scooters in NSW almost tripled last year, as a planned state parliamentary inquiry on electric car batteries shifts focus to the significantly more fire-prone devices. Fire and Rescue NSW attended 61 fires caused by ebikes and scooters in 2023, an increase from 22 in 2022.
A North Bondi unit was destroyed last week when an ebike exploded while on charge, forcing the South American tourists inside to escape out a window. Three food delivery riders were hospitalised, one with extensive burns, after an ebike battery caught fire in their Annandale apartment in December.
I learnt something new this week about the climate.
There are three distinct latitudinal lobes in the ocean heat content. One is centred on the equator and the other two in the NH and SH Ferrel Cell region. The Ferrel cells are net condensing zones where the atmosphere over the oceans give up the heat that comes down from the tropics. There are two charts and image showing these zones and the reason why: https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aq1iAj8Yo7jNh3q_FKWbygGNzHxq?e=v1MThf
I was surprised that the oceans in the SH have retained more heat then the NH oceans but that is explained by the large expanse of the oceans in the SH relative to those in the NH.
What is interesting is that the UAH satellite temperature trend with latitude has corresponding lobes in the region of the Ferrel cells. The temperature upward trends increase with northern latitude but there is only cooling south of 60S. The reason for this is that the precipitable water is rising in concert with the Northern Hemisphere getting more intense sunlight. The image shows how the atmospheric water has increased since it was first available globally from 1988. The average for December is around 30mm but it is up by 1.5mm in 35 years.
Also note that the peak in retained heat of 5ZJ at 45S is only a tiny fraction of the net heat peak of 160ZJ absorbed at the Equator over the 19 years of the Argo ocean heat data.
This proves that the oceans are retaining heat as the thermocline in the region of the Ferrel cells steepens. It is the result of more precipitation in these regions rather than the oceans “uptaking” heat from the surface to the abyss, which is a physical impossibility.
As a tip, I use Krud Kutter now.
The usual spray can degreasers did f##k all for a large black oil stain (courtesy of a water mains repair truck) which had soaked in for a week, I had to deal with recently.
KK shifted 70% on the first go, and after a 2nd spray, it’s barely noticeable. The rain will leech the rest out. Good stuff!
Krud Kutter might work for a few things, but its still over 80% water with potassium hydroxide in it, so sugar soap or KOH cleaner. Like the new rubbish they sell for workshop parts cleaners, they are seriously useless on greasy car parts.
You can’t beat chlorinated hydrocarbons for removing oil-based organics, and the crap about the ozone hole drove civilisation backwards once again. Now its better to dump 10L of petrol in the parts bath and go have a smoke somewhere else.
Tasmanians do not believe that wind and solar are the cheapest form of electricity
That could change if the next Tasmanian government sticks by its election promises. All this remains to be seen, however, as Labor leader Rebecca White conceded defeat on Sunday afternoon, and now caretaker premier Jeremy Rockliff seeks to strike a deal with the crossbench to form government. Whatever the case, both major parties pledged to curb sales of hydro-electricity to the mainland to bring down household power bills.
Last year, Hydro Tasmania generated enough electricity to meet four-fifths of the state’s demand. The marginal cost of production is low, which would make electricity in the island state cheaper if not for the interstate agreement that obliges Tasmanians to share it with the energy mendicants in Victoria.
“Remember the good old days when teaching was a noble profession and teachers excelled at teaching children the 3 R’s: Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic? In recent years, it seems that children are getting dumber and dumber. Well, it turns out that in Ontario, this isn’t possibly the fault of the teachers. Nope:”
Because people keep voting them in, believing their election promises of being the solution to the problems caused by the other parties.
I have no experience for the portfolio but I can criticise everyone else, smile, and pat babies on the head.
Vote for me!
I’m a musician in charge of a home insulation plan. What could go wrong.
Anyone smart enough to be an independent thinker won’t be allowed to run. Way too dangerous having people in power who don’t do what the public service tells them to do.
If a few do slip past the filter, they get slowly worn down and co-opted. Consider that Barnaby Joyce started his career with the loudest opposition to public debt, and during Covid he stood and watched while debt went through the roof.
The most consequential falsehood in American public policy today is the idea that any racial disparity in any institution is by definition the result of racial discrimination.
If a cancer research lab, for example, does not have 13 percent black oncologists—the black share of the national population—it is by definition a racist lab that discriminates against competitively qualified black oncologists; if an airline company doesn’t have 13 percent black pilots, it is by definition a racist airline company that discriminates against competitively qualified black pilots; and if a prison population contains more than 13 percent black prisoners, our law enforcement system is racist.
The claim that racial disparities are proof of racial discrimination has been percolating in academia and the media for a long time. After the George Floyd race riots of 2020, however, it was adopted by America’s most elite institutions, from big law and big business to big finance. Even museums and orchestras took up the cry.
Many thought that STEM—the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—would escape the diversity sledgehammer. They were wrong. The American Medical Association today insists that medicine is characterized by white supremacy. Nature magazine declares that science manifests one of “humankind’s worst excesses”: racism. The Smithsonian Institution announces that “emphasis on the scientific method” and an interest in “cause and effect relationships” are part of totalitarian whiteness.
As a result of this falsehood, we are eviscerating meritocratic and behavioral standards in accordance with what is known as “disparate impact analysis.”
CIVILIZATION AT STAKE
The ongoing attack on colorblind excellence in the U.S. is putting our scientific edge at risk. China, which cares nothing for identity politics, is throwing everything it has at its most talented students. China ranks number one in international tests of K-12 math, science, and reading skills; the U.S. ranks twenty-fifth.
China is racing ahead in nano physics, artificial intelligence, and other critical defense technologies. Chinese teams dominate the International Olympiad in Informatics. Meanwhile the American Mathematical Association declares math to be racist and President Biden puts a soil geologist with no background in physics at the top of the Department of Energy’s science programs. This new science director may know nothing about nuclear weapons and nuclear physics, but she checks off several identity politics boxes and publishes on such topics as “A Critical Feminist Approach to Transforming Workplace Climate.”
What do we do in response to such civilizational immolation?
We proclaim that standards are not racist and that excellence is not racist. We assert that categories like race, gender, and sexual preference are never qualifications for a job.
I know for a fact that being female is not an accomplishment. I am equally sure that being gay or being black are also not accomplishments.
Released by the Environmental Protection Agency, the rule progressively restricts the level of pollution trucks can legally emit across a manufacturer’s offerings for model years 2027 through 2032.
The rule applies to vehicles, including tractor-trailers, school buses, R.V.s, garbage trucks, and cement mixers, and aims to combat climate impact from this part of the transportation sector.
“Today’s announcement is a big one in terms of cleaning up the pollution from these vehicles on our roads and highways and importantly, the pollution that impacts our communities and our kids,” White House national climate adviser Ali Zaidi told CNN.
While the rule doesn’t require conversion to or replacement by electric vehicles, it effectively demands that manufacturers ditch diesel and adopt greener technology such as electrification or hydrogen fuel cells. As a net result, EPA modeling anticipates that between 12–25 percent of large freight trucks will be zero-emission by the next decade. The agency projects that smaller trucks could be around 40 percent zero-emission by that date.
Last week, the Biden administration announced a similar rule, targeting new passenger cars and light trucks. It mandated that those vehicles sold in the U.S. must be electric or hybrids by 2032. Those rules set targets for the number of electric models produced in the U.S. as a percentage of all light-duty vehicles created each year. For instance, in 2030, hitting the EPA’s new targets would require somewhere between 31 percent and 44 percent of new cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks to be fully electric, with the exact percentage depending on the amount of emissions from other vehicles.
Some small business trucker groups said that the Friday rule would inflict a steep burden on their industry.
“We are concerned that the final rule will end up being the most challenging, costly, and potentially disruptive heavy-duty emissions rule in history,” Jed Mandel, president of the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association, told CNN. “All parties need to be better aligned on the realistic timing for delivering the products and infrastructures critical to achieving the successful outcome we all want.”
Victoria has recorded the country’s biggest jump in financial distress. 54 per cent of Victorians now say they’re experiencing hardship beyond normal levels.
A comprehensive explanation by a marine engineer of the control problems affecting the Dali which led to the collision with the Baltimore outer-harbour bridge.
Loss of auxiliary power on large vessels occurs regularly. There was such an event in Sydney Harbour recently involving a cruise ship.
It’s worth noting that this free-truss bridge design for the Baltimore Outer Harbour was opposed by US maritime interests before the bridge was built.
The bridge represented a serious navigation hazard. Those authorities at the time were concerned about damage to shipping rather than damage to the bridge. Over 50 years though, the risk to the bridge increased with the size of the ships using the harbour.
Perhaps the cause of the disaster should be regarded as a delayed action design fault compounded by a progressive failure of risk assessment.
I wonder if potential cyber-attackers saw the potential.
The infrastructure for Smart Cities, otherwise known as “Resilient Cities”, or “Sustainable Cities” is being installed before our very eyes. We are told that this is needed to prevent climate disasters, however in this well-researched video, Samantha Edwards reveals that the technologies installed in smart cities have non-benevolent purposes that link with other aspects of the new world order.
We recognise that our business plays an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change. Bunnings is committed to sourcing 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2025 to help achieve our target of net zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030.
Time to install electic barbies at the sausage sizzle? Powered by solar panels?
Bunnings Easter BBQ horror: Couple are rushed to hospital
I don’t see how that could happen.
Oh&s should have the gas bottle enclosed, as they typically are. Safety 1st, convenience 2nd.
Was the hose defective? Not secured properly?
Strange.
If there is a water hose with a spray handy and you are quick you can “Red Adair” gas bottle fires by bringing the water spray up on the flames from underneath and walking the flames above the water away from the gas leak.
I traveled interstate last week and had a hire car booked with Avis, I’d asked for a compact car. When booking my car they advised that they had a special offer for hiring a Tesla. I had the greatest of pleasure saying no thanks to, I’d rather a real car. It took me less than five minutes to refuel before returning it.
I’d hate to think how long it would have taken me to find somewhere to recharge, download an app, and how long it would take before I could return it to AVIS. It would have meant I’d have to leave my meeting 1-2 hours earlier so I could find somewhere to recharge before I could get it back to the hire firm, meaning it could mean I’d miss my return flight and I’d have to finish my meeting and leave earlier that I did because I chose an ICE vehicle rather than a battery powered one.
Painting pedestrian crossings in 7 colours is ‘progressive’ & ‘inclusive’ – painting them white (as they’ve always been, for safety) is now an ‘eight crime’ because some drag queen faerie got upset. Surely the End is Nigh… d’oh!
“ORGANIZED THEFT IN THE NAME OF GOVERNMENT – Biden’s Executive Order 14008 locks away 30% of U.S. land by 2030, under the pretext of protecting the planet’”
Wind Turbine blade movement – on land.
These breeze-catchers, and bird-choppers, are not the easiest things to get to where their owners can catch subsidies.
Also text …
“The 65m (210ft) turbine blades land in Scotland at Rosyth and make the first part of their journey by more standard carriers.”
The BBC carefully doesn’t say where the [c.16 tonne] blades are made.
It also doesn’t say that these blades are far from the biggest – Chinese [offshore] Minyang MySE18.X-28X has 140 metre blades, which might approach 160 tonne! Each].
But obviously this transport is cost-free, as wind power is almost cost-free, we are continually lied to.
An abc – au news article of October 2023 is titled:
A sinkhole, toxic gas and the $2 billion mistake behind Snowy 2.0’s blowout
Is there an assessment of this project at the two-year anniversary of Florence’s launch?
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Proect our Parks – Snowy 2.0 Doesn’t Stack Up
https://npansw.org.au/campaigns-2/protect-our-parks/kosciuszko-national-park/snowy-2-0/
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Why is Australia throwing away billions of dollars on a net energy sink and no one in the Lamestream media, the Lamestream political parties and Lamestream “engineers” are asking questions?
Ultimately, I expect that the fewer and fewer remaining coal power stations will be running 24/7 to pump water up hill for this hydro battery, if it is ever finished.
What a horrible waste of resources, not to mention environmental destruction.
According to the download link at https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/news/snowy-2-0-project-update-january-2024/
The Florence tunnel is:
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So after two years it has gone 280m, so 140m per year progress.
To go 15km it will take a mere 107 years.
I can’t wait.
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Okay, take a look at this link then, to The Snowy Mountains Hydro ….. the ‘original’ SMH.
Scroll down to the bottom where it lists Tunnels. Approximately 98% of the Scheme’s engineering features are underground. Tunnels and pipelines, dug deep under the Snowy Mountains, measure 145 kilometres, and with 80 kilometres of aqueducts, collect and divert the inflows of the Snowy Mountains area.
In 1958, a small Australian Engineering Company, the ‘fledgling’ Toowoomba based Thiess Bros. was awarded the Tooma Tumut tunnel contract, the first major contract to go to an Australian Company, no experience, no background, out of the blue. The Big (American) Companies were astounded. Thiess completed that 14.3Km long tunnel in 1951, in way way less time than the ‘biggies’ were managing, and considerably under budget, and that got them more contracts, and in the end, Thiess was the biggest Company working in the Snowy’s, and as a side thing, because of the success of the Land Cruisers used on the ‘Scheme’, Thiess then brought them to Australia in 1959, with the first Australian importation contract with Toyota.
Huh! Maybe someone from SMH2 should have got on the ‘blower’ to Thiess and asked for some tips. After all, Thiess did it in 1958, and during work on that tunnel in 1959, they held the World record for tunneling at the time, 160 metres in a week, through solid rock, a record the Company themselves surpassed in 1963 with 165 metres in a week on the Snowy Geehi Tunnel around the same length.
Tony.
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If it strted in 1958 it looks like you mean 1961 not 1951 there
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Thiess were/are big in the Bowen Basin coal projects.
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To slightly misquote –
“Up the hillside at a racing pace they went”
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But only 8 years left.
Drill faster!!!😆
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Notice that they didn’t put the stats on their web page, you have to download it. No Lamestream “journalist” is going to bother to do that.
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From Snowy Hydro:
It’s a “partnership”.
Who owns whom?
Clough:
Lane Construction:
Webuild:
It is Italian owned.
Conclusion:
SH2 is bring built by Webuild which is also the parent company of the other two companies so it’s effectively being built by one company.
I was somewhat pleasantly surprised to learn that, unusually for an Australian unreliable energy project, it was not being built by Chicomm companies.
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“Australian-based Clough ”
Not even that..?
“Clough’s South African owners, Murray & Roberts, have sold the cash-strapped engineering business to Italy’s Webuild in a $350 million conditional deal, leaving the Italians in charge of building hydropower project Snowy 2.0.”
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Wasn’t, isn’t , the son of president Turnbull involved heavily with the share market?
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Turnbull – the best PM Labor ever had
In his memoir,‘A Bigger Picture’, Turnbull dubbed Snowy 2.0 ‘the single most important and enduring decision of the many I made on energy’.
Alas, Snowy 2.0 has not gone well. The warning signs were there from the start. Both the government-appointed Snowy Hydro Board and federal government were warned they had greatly under-costed it, underestimated the construction time and failed to recognise the damage it would do to the Kosciuszko National Park.
In August 2023, the government bumped up funding for Snowy 2.0 to A$12 billion – triple the October 2018 figure, when the final decision was made to go ahead, and six times what Turnbull first claimed it would cost in March 2017. That’s before counting the new transmission lines through the controversial HumeLink and VNI West transmission projects. When complete, Snowy 2.0 plus transmission could cost upwards of $20 billion – over ten times the figure Turnbull claimed.
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When complete, Snowy 2.0 plus transmission could cost upwards of $20 billion – over ten times the figure Turnbull claimed.
In other words the whole SH#2 project should be scrapped & the $ billions already spent written off to a “ bad experience “ driven by a cult!
To complete the project viably what price will have to be charged for the electricity produced. Oops! Best the project be scrapped!!
Maybe the people should sue Turnbull for his stupidity.
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“stupidity “?
I’ve always had the thought that this was a final gesture to Australia; up yours!
The final deliberate insult.
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If one picture summed up the government rolling out renewables:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/a1813f4cac7f4ed10b0bca4ba0760eaa/f4d2974233a751a8-9c/s640x960/d055e910130e8429c20d77f3d505f0ae7376e687.gif
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But wasn’t the vested interests’ plan to use their wind turbine installations to supply electricity to Snowy 2.0 when the wind blows when the grid does not need more electricity.
Follow the money trails.
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When I got here there were no comments but 1 Star vote? Strange attack.
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Perhaps the default start is 1.
I came back and voted, so now the star-rating is 5.5.
You didn’t vote.
Everyone should vote “10” and see what happens as the count increases.
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But at least you got 2 downvotes from the haters.
I bet they wish they could downvote the star ratings.
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A Brave New World – You are being watched wherever you go
Note the Australia connection
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13253571/Jeffrey-Epstein-pedo-island-mobile-device-visitors.html
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Trump must be a candidate in the US Presidential election. Suddenly the previously opaque Epstein story is being published and generally has a photo of Trump with Epstein. Now we have a story where there was a ‘Ping’ opposite Trump Tower.
Read ‘Black Boomerang’ and Sefton Delmer’s story of the Black Propaganda during World War II.
We are in World War III and it is a war for your mind.
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It will backfire.. Just the thought that Trump still has balls enough to chase women and then look at Biden..
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I notice the gratuitous anti-Trump reference in the headline.
There is no suggestion whatsoever that Trump was involved, it could have been anyone, or it could have been a malicious actor trying to implicate Trump. Was Trump even home at the time?
“Opposite Trump Tower” is a highly public and busy space.
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The Corrupt CSIRO claims “firmed renewables are the cheapest form of electricity”
Fact checking this statement
“Huge Kapolei Battery Plant Replaces Coal at Hawaii Electric“
That is the headline of the Canary Media in December 2023. Here is the background as reported in an American Civil Engineering Society article, by Jay Landers:
Among U.S. states, Hawaii has some of the most ambitious mandates for shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources to generate electricity. To achieve these mandates, the state aims to rely heavily on battery energy storage systems to provide backup power when intermittent sources such as solar and wind are insufficient or unavailable. On the Hawaiian island of Oahu, a large and sophisticated battery energy storage system recently came online, marking a key point in the state’s efforts to move toward a future of 100% renewable energy.
Darwin has plenty of roof top solar plus two solar farms yet to be connecte to the grid.
Why not make Darwin a test case for 100% renewables? Where is the Big Battery?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/30/hawaiis-energy-transition-solar-for-coal-one-third-rate-jump/
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What are “firmed renewables”? An oxymoron for morons?
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In true post modernist style, they are whatever they imagine them to be, with capabilities far beyond reality. Reality itself can be ignored including transmission lines, previously unneeded stabilizers, duplication and complex control systems.
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Noticed on the tele last night that the huge interconnector between S.A. Victoria and N.S.W. was being towted as “a good thing”. Part of the narrative was the creation of “Green jobs” building this very high, high tension power line across a huge distance, I think they said it would be a 1000k’s long. As required, the mandatory environmental statements included things like “ we have studied thousands of trees and avoided damaging or removing any trees of conservation or cultural significance, some of these trees being up to 2 thousand years old”
Then the departing aerial shot. The power lines are like transmission lines world wide, dead straight, plum, no deviations, gun barrel precision without a single tree left standing underneath or for the required safety distance either side, Bulldozed dirt. Lucky all the significant stuff just happened to be growing 50 metres either side eh.
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Firmed renewables? That’s what they’ve got on King Island. Diesel generator + vanity solar, wind and battery.
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/hybrid-energy-solutions/success-stories/king-island
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Flywheel and Resistor.
Don’t forget the wave energy, ABC article, no data, but it’s very, very high quality electrons.
That electricity is of a very high quality and has been accepted by Hydro Tasmania as suitable for the grid on King Island, so that’s a very important achievement.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-31/wave-power-generator-supplying-king-island-with-electricity/101282070
OK forget the wave energy, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-29/world-leading-wave-swell-energy-trial-wraps-up/102159078
12 million of our dollars and two years till destruction
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The Joys of Simple ICE Cars with no High Tech
The original VW Beetle was a joy to own even though it was low tech
My first car was a 1958 VW which did not even have a fuel guage – it had a reserve capacity lever that you flipped when low on fuel
My next car was on of these – hope they make a comeback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmQPnW4g7Y&t=20s
Classic VW ads from the “Mad Men” era
https://driving.ca/features/feature-story/pitch-perfect-volkswagens-best-ads-through-history
I like “If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen he would be President today”!
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I posted this late yesterday so in case you didn’t see it:
Another win for the thinking community.
A judge in the US has ordered the FDA to remove it’s infamous anti-Ivermectin “you are not a horse” Tweets and all other anti-IVM statements.
Unfortunately they are not required to admit any wrong doing, pay compensation or to apologise for the lives lost because they discouraged or effectively prohibited the use of IVM.
The judge also ruled that the FDA had no authority to prohibit the “off label” use of already-approved drugs.
Many other countries also followed the FDA to ban IVM such as the former “Health” Minister and former(?) WEF employee, Greg Hunt in Australia.
I am still waiting for an apology and compensation from Australian Government authorities for the unnecessary deaths they caused by banning HCQ and IVM.
https://youtu.be/jo8bbnSPWX0
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Gateway Pundit had the story a while ago. The question is why did it take so long for the law to act?
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The Left have “Earth Day” (April 22) and “Earth Hour” (March 23 this year but is the last Saturday of March) which is not about pushing legitimate nature conservation and true environmentalism but pushing an anti-energy, anti-Western-Civilisation agenda.
How about the thinking community have a day to celebrate science, reason, the Enlightenment, Western Civilisation, reliable energy etc.?
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🙂 🙂
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Sunday morning politically incorrect comedy.
Jimmy Dore is an old style Leftist from when the Left actually believed in thinking for themselves and free speech, totally unlike today’s Left (mainly because they weren’t in charge).
“Why Weren’t We Allowed To Question The Covid Vaccines?”
Quote: “Only dumb people ask questions…”
https://youtu.be/0PM67hjv4iM
3 mins.
Don’t forget to click on the forcibly applied Australian Government propaganda link telling you how wonderful covid 19 vaccines are.
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Claude Levi-Strauss
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Or to rephrase it:
A good teacher shows the students where to look but not what to think.
Let them discover the truth and lies by themselves.
Which is why some of my posts do just that.
If you want the big answers, YOU have to make the effort, just like me.😁
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Sunday morning music.
AC/DC It’s a Long Way to the Top if you Wanna Rock and Roll.
This video was filmed in Swanston St, Melbournistan in 1976 for a total cost of about $300.
https://youtu.be/g-qkY2yj4_A
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Angus young
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Angus first wore his characteristic school-uniform stage outfit in April 1974 at Victoria Park, Sydney – the idea was his sister Margaret.
Malcolm and Angus developed the idea for the band’s name after Margaret pointed out the symbol “AC/DC” on the AC adapter of her sewing machine
Higway to Hell – River Plate (2009) Angus the school boy is 54 here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEPmA3USJdI
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From the Daily Caller
The Biden administration banned children from submitting Easter eggs with religious themes for its 2024 “Celebrating National Guard Families” art contest.
The competition, which is part of the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll, explicitly stipulated that egg designs not feature any “religious symbols” on the Christian holiday.
“The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes,” a flyer with instructions from the White House stated.
Related coincidence, this year Easter is also proclaimed ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’
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Being born and bred in a Soviet family any religion leaves me cold.
But what your ABC does to Religion of Your Fathers makes my blood boil.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13255715/Trump-SLAMS-Biden-Easter-Sunday-Transgender-Day-Visibility-outrage.html
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“Forgive them Father for they know not what they do”.
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I thought forgiveness was granted AFTER confession and contrition, not during ongoing sinning??
I don’t see any sign of either.
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Yes they do.
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It’s almost like Brandon is trying to get Trump elected.
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Happy Easter 🙂
Ben Hur, 1959, 3:42:27
Only place I could find that was free to watch.
https://new-123movies.live/film/ben-hur-1959/j9S5XFX0/gHf50kQ0-watch.html
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FWIW
” “If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership—you are practicing followship.” — Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of the United Kingdom, known as “The Iron Lady” (1925– 2013)”
” “Just be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.” — Will Rogers, American vaudeville performer, actor, columnist, humorist, and social commentator (1879–1935)”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” — Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)”
Examples from
“Saturday Snippet: More deplorable wisdom”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/saturday-snippet-more-deplorable-wisdom.html
Which links to the source collection
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Happy Easter!
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In 325AD the first major church council, the Council of Nicaea, determined that Easter should fall on the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Easter takes its name from a pagan goddess from Anglo-Saxon England who was described in a book by the eighth-century English monk Bede.
“Eostre was a goddess of spring or renewal and that’s why her feast is attached to the vernal equinox,”
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First Council of Nicaea, (325 AD),
The first ecumenical council of the Christian church, meeting in ancient Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey). It was called by the emperor Constantine I, who presided over the opening session and took part in the discussions. He hoped a general council of the church would solve the problem created in the Eastern church by Arianism, a heresy first proposed by Arius of Alexandria that affirmed that Christ is not divine but a created being.
The council condemned Arius and, with reluctance on the part of some, incorporated the nonscriptural word homoousios (“of one substance”) into a creed to signify the absolute equality of the Son with the Father. The emperor then exiled Arius, an act that, while manifesting a solidarity of church and state, underscored the importance of secular patronage in ecclesiastical affairs.
History repeats with the importance of secular patronage of the religion of “Climate Change” and the heresy of “Climate Denialism”.
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Easter bunny in 1955.
https://imgbox.com/FIjqCVWQ
Things were different in the early days of bunnydom.
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Australia will soon follow
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13256157/How-Ramadan-muscling-Easter-Europe-30-000-Ramadan-lights-festooned-London-Muslim-crescent-flag-flying-atop-Westminster-Abbey-Jam-packed-mosques-church-pews-fast-emptying.html
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This article is PAYWALLED but is the next big thing in green madness in Australia.
They want to ban dark coloured roofs. But surely solar panels also have the same heating effect as roof materials?
And, in any case, so what if cities are a few degrees hotter than surrounding areas?
Will we also go the next level and start paint roads white like in Californiastan? But wait! That doesn’t work either! https://www.optimistdaily.com/2019/10/turns-out-painting-the-streets-white-doesnt-make-cities-cooler/
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Ever notice the colour of canopy. Relatively dark green. This is the color that has evolved over hundreds of millions of years. Each little change accidental but the changes that improved survival endured. Dark green it is because cold kills.
The problem is not the colour but the moisture associated with the canopy. Removing all canopy and replacing with moisture=free surfaces is the problem.
Modern suburbs in Melbourne are tree-free zones. Houses packed so tightly that a fire in one quickly spreads to others. And no room for trees.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.0892838,145.4782256,185m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
At least the Professor acknowledged that there is a heat island effect. Something no longer apparent in my leafy neck of the woods.
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Paywalled?
Loads out there for the anti dark roof fad going on for years.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/if-youve-got-a-dark-roof-youre-spending-almost-700-extra-a-year-to-keep-your-house-cool/ar-BB1kyTEw
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/crackdown-on-dark-roofs-in-plan-for-growth-suburbs-20240319-p5fdmu.html
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/sustainability/a-state-government-has-acted-on-growing-calls-to-ban-popular-darkcoloured-roof-home-design-trend/news-story/cf503f9a605f93d4fe8d86c3f1d4f2d9
https://architectureau.com/articles/dark-roofs-banned-as-nsw-targets-net-zero-for-buildings/
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/a-ban-on-dark-roofs-it-s-a-furphy-minister-but-here-s-what-really-makes-me-hit-the-roof-20210902-p58oah.html
Just paint them blue to stop the space lasers.😆
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FWIW
“This FBI Tweet Just Got Nuked by Community Notes”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/03/30/this-fbi-tweet-just-got-nuked-by-community-notes-n2637139
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London battery assisted pedicab fire.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13255193/E-bike-explodes-outside-Buckingham-Palace-emergency-services-called.html
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Also great to see that Caliph Kahn has implemented Third World style conveyances (pedicabs) in the caliphate of Londonistan. (/sarc)
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The number of fires caused by ebikes and scooters in NSW almost tripled last year, as a planned state parliamentary inquiry on electric car batteries shifts focus to the significantly more fire-prone devices. Fire and Rescue NSW attended 61 fires caused by ebikes and scooters in 2023, an increase from 22 in 2022.
A North Bondi unit was destroyed last week when an ebike exploded while on charge, forcing the South American tourists inside to escape out a window. Three food delivery riders were hospitalised, one with extensive burns, after an ebike battery caught fire in their Annandale apartment in December.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/ebikes-and-scooters-keep-catching-fire-what-can-be-done-about-it-20240123-p5ezes.html
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I learnt something new this week about the climate.
There are three distinct latitudinal lobes in the ocean heat content. One is centred on the equator and the other two in the NH and SH Ferrel Cell region. The Ferrel cells are net condensing zones where the atmosphere over the oceans give up the heat that comes down from the tropics. There are two charts and image showing these zones and the reason why:
https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aq1iAj8Yo7jNh3q_FKWbygGNzHxq?e=v1MThf
I was surprised that the oceans in the SH have retained more heat then the NH oceans but that is explained by the large expanse of the oceans in the SH relative to those in the NH.
What is interesting is that the UAH satellite temperature trend with latitude has corresponding lobes in the region of the Ferrel cells. The temperature upward trends increase with northern latitude but there is only cooling south of 60S. The reason for this is that the precipitable water is rising in concert with the Northern Hemisphere getting more intense sunlight. The image shows how the atmospheric water has increased since it was first available globally from 1988. The average for December is around 30mm but it is up by 1.5mm in 35 years.
Also note that the peak in retained heat of 5ZJ at 45S is only a tiny fraction of the net heat peak of 160ZJ absorbed at the Equator over the 19 years of the Argo ocean heat data.
This proves that the oceans are retaining heat as the thermocline in the region of the Ferrel cells steepens. It is the result of more precipitation in these regions rather than the oceans “uptaking” heat from the surface to the abyss, which is a physical impossibility.
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More things they’re coming for
“Wax and grease remover outlawed NY.”
https://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/topic/157230-wax-and-grease-remover-outlawed-ny/
More mentioned in comments including Brake Kleen
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That’s been going on in the USA for years.
As a tip, I use Krud Kutter now.
The usual spray can degreasers did f##k all for a large black oil stain (courtesy of a water mains repair truck) which had soaked in for a week, I had to deal with recently.
KK shifted 70% on the first go, and after a 2nd spray, it’s barely noticeable. The rain will leech the rest out. Good stuff!
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Krud Kutter might work for a few things, but its still over 80% water with potassium hydroxide in it, so sugar soap or KOH cleaner. Like the new rubbish they sell for workshop parts cleaners, they are seriously useless on greasy car parts.
You can’t beat chlorinated hydrocarbons for removing oil-based organics, and the crap about the ozone hole drove civilisation backwards once again. Now its better to dump 10L of petrol in the parts bath and go have a smoke somewhere else.
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Have YOU actually used it though?
https://www.reddit.com/r/CleaningTips/comments/vrnkdk/krud_kutter_is_hands_down_the_best_degreaser_ive/
https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/krud-kutter.85693/
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Will Snowy Hydro 2 ever be recognised as a disaster?
Is there an exit strategy?
Or will Australian taxpayers suffer to the bitter end which will be long after the guilty politicians and senior public serpents have retired.
The Liberal faction of the Uniparty is responsible so they won’t stop it.
The Labor faction of the Uniparty love wasting tax payer money and virtue signaling “green” projects.
The Greens will love it unconditionally, no matter how much of an economic disaster it is or the environmental devastation it causes.
Further evidence that politicians and senior public serpents shouldn’t be allowed to make scientific or engineering decisions.
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Tasmanians do not believe that wind and solar are the cheapest form of electricity
Last year, Hydro Tasmania generated enough electricity to meet four-fifths of the state’s demand. The marginal cost of production is low, which would make electricity in the island state cheaper if not for the interstate agreement that obliges Tasmanians to share it with the energy mendicants in Victoria.
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/03/30/no-country-powers-itself-entirely-with-wind-solar-no-country-ever-will/
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You think so?
“Don’t Blame Us for Your Kids Being So Stupid!”
“Remember the good old days when teaching was a noble profession and teachers excelled at teaching children the 3 R’s: Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic? In recent years, it seems that children are getting dumber and dumber. Well, it turns out that in Ontario, this isn’t possibly the fault of the teachers. Nope:”
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/03/30/dont-blame-us-for-your-kids-being-so-stupid/
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What is the reason for our politicians being so stupid?
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More important is to ask, why are these stupids elected ?
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Because people keep voting them in, believing their election promises of being the solution to the problems caused by the other parties.
I have no experience for the portfolio but I can criticise everyone else, smile, and pat babies on the head.
Vote for me!
I’m a musician in charge of a home insulation plan. What could go wrong.
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Anyone smart enough to be an independent thinker won’t be allowed to run. Way too dangerous having people in power who don’t do what the public service tells them to do.
If a few do slip past the filter, they get slowly worn down and co-opted. Consider that Barnaby Joyce started his career with the loudest opposition to public debt, and during Covid he stood and watched while debt went through the roof.
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Should I send a copy of these links to our PM and Minsiter for Energy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LglRPGDrcw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TViEzHJrMcM
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Disparate Impact Thinking Is Destroying Our Civilization – 7 Page PDF
Heather Mac Donald
Manhattan Institute
The most consequential falsehood in American public policy today is the idea that any racial disparity in any institution is by definition the result of racial discrimination.
If a cancer research lab, for example, does not have 13 percent black oncologists—the black share of the national population—it is by definition a racist lab that discriminates against competitively qualified black oncologists; if an airline company doesn’t have 13 percent black pilots, it is by definition a racist airline company that discriminates against competitively qualified black pilots; and if a prison population contains more than 13 percent black prisoners, our law enforcement system is racist.
The claim that racial disparities are proof of racial discrimination has been percolating in academia and the media for a long time. After the George Floyd race riots of 2020, however, it was adopted by America’s most elite institutions, from big law and big business to big finance. Even museums and orchestras took up the cry.
Many thought that STEM—the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—would escape the diversity sledgehammer. They were wrong. The American Medical Association today insists that medicine is characterized by white supremacy. Nature magazine declares that science manifests one of “humankind’s worst excesses”: racism. The Smithsonian Institution announces that “emphasis on the scientific method” and an interest in “cause and effect relationships” are part of totalitarian whiteness.
As a result of this falsehood, we are eviscerating meritocratic and behavioral standards in accordance with what is known as “disparate impact analysis.”
CIVILIZATION AT STAKE
The ongoing attack on colorblind excellence in the U.S. is putting our scientific edge at risk. China, which cares nothing for identity politics, is throwing everything it has at its most talented students. China ranks number one in international tests of K-12 math, science, and reading skills; the U.S. ranks twenty-fifth.
China is racing ahead in nano physics, artificial intelligence, and other critical defense technologies. Chinese teams dominate the International Olympiad in Informatics. Meanwhile the American Mathematical Association declares math to be racist and President Biden puts a soil geologist with no background in physics at the top of the Department of Energy’s science programs. This new science director may know nothing about nuclear weapons and nuclear physics, but she checks off several identity politics boxes and publishes on such topics as “A Critical Feminist Approach to Transforming Workplace Climate.”
What do we do in response to such civilizational immolation?
We proclaim that standards are not racist and that excellence is not racist. We assert that categories like race, gender, and sexual preference are never qualifications for a job.
I know for a fact that being female is not an accomplishment. I am equally sure that being gay or being black are also not accomplishments.
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Read Heather MacDonald’s Article above, then listen to the thoughts of Vladamir Putin posted yesterday!
OldOzzie
March 30, 2024 at 10:04 am · Reply
They’ll call it “Russian disinformation” but Putin’s observations of the West are spot on.
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Am currently in the heart of WIMI country.
OMG.
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There’s so much woke here in Canberra.
WIMI.
Woke
Induced
Mental
Illness.
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Biden Admin Imposes Strict Pollution Standards for Buses and Heavy-Duty Vehicles
As part of its aggressive green agenda, the Biden administration on Friday imposed new strict pollution standards for buses, trucks, and other heavy-duty vehicles that would all but necessitate electrification.
Released by the Environmental Protection Agency, the rule progressively restricts the level of pollution trucks can legally emit across a manufacturer’s offerings for model years 2027 through 2032.
The rule applies to vehicles, including tractor-trailers, school buses, R.V.s, garbage trucks, and cement mixers, and aims to combat climate impact from this part of the transportation sector.
“Today’s announcement is a big one in terms of cleaning up the pollution from these vehicles on our roads and highways and importantly, the pollution that impacts our communities and our kids,” White House national climate adviser Ali Zaidi told CNN.
While the rule doesn’t require conversion to or replacement by electric vehicles, it effectively demands that manufacturers ditch diesel and adopt greener technology such as electrification or hydrogen fuel cells. As a net result, EPA modeling anticipates that between 12–25 percent of large freight trucks will be zero-emission by the next decade. The agency projects that smaller trucks could be around 40 percent zero-emission by that date.
Last week, the Biden administration announced a similar rule, targeting new passenger cars and light trucks. It mandated that those vehicles sold in the U.S. must be electric or hybrids by 2032. Those rules set targets for the number of electric models produced in the U.S. as a percentage of all light-duty vehicles created each year. For instance, in 2030, hitting the EPA’s new targets would require somewhere between 31 percent and 44 percent of new cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks to be fully electric, with the exact percentage depending on the amount of emissions from other vehicles.
Some small business trucker groups said that the Friday rule would inflict a steep burden on their industry.
“We are concerned that the final rule will end up being the most challenging, costly, and potentially disruptive heavy-duty emissions rule in history,” Jed Mandel, president of the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association, told CNN. “All parties need to be better aligned on the realistic timing for delivering the products and infrastructures critical to achieving the successful outcome we all want.”
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Another one for Trump to undo
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Heavy Duty Trucks are on fire in Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liPm6OKPsB0
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Surprise, Surprise
7NEWS Melbourne
Victoria has recorded the country’s biggest jump in financial distress. 54 per cent of Victorians now say they’re experiencing hardship beyond normal levels.
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Yeah, well, that 54% are seeing the results of prior voting and allowances for stupidity.
It’s gonna get a lot worse before things improve.
Building a civilization, stable culture, sane laws and jurisprudence, take centuries. Tearing it down takes decades.
Distress is widespread social breakdown and hand to hand combat. Victorians are experiencing inconvenience.
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I thought it was 70% + financially stressed, and 20% with zero savings…probably more accurate.
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Do not worry Albo’s $275 saving on “Sleeper Electrishity” is due this year
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Expert Ships Engineer Reacts to Baltimore Bridge Crash
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A comprehensive explanation by a marine engineer of the control problems affecting the Dali which led to the collision with the Baltimore outer-harbour bridge.
Loss of auxiliary power on large vessels occurs regularly. There was such an event in Sydney Harbour recently involving a cruise ship.
It’s worth noting that this free-truss bridge design for the Baltimore Outer Harbour was opposed by US maritime interests before the bridge was built.
The bridge represented a serious navigation hazard. Those authorities at the time were concerned about damage to shipping rather than damage to the bridge. Over 50 years though, the risk to the bridge increased with the size of the ships using the harbour.
Perhaps the cause of the disaster should be regarded as a delayed action design fault compounded by a progressive failure of risk assessment.
I wonder if potential cyber-attackers saw the potential.
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FWIW –
“Is Justice Coming For Victims of COVID Wrongful Deaths?”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/is-justice-coming-victims-covid-wrongful-deaths/
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Great news. Thanks.
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Unmasking the smart city agenda
The infrastructure for Smart Cities, otherwise known as “Resilient Cities”, or “Sustainable Cities” is being installed before our very eyes. We are told that this is needed to prevent climate disasters, however in this well-researched video, Samantha Edwards reveals that the technologies installed in smart cities have non-benevolent purposes that link with other aspects of the new world order.
https://counterspinmedia.com/blog/resources-videos/samantha-edwards-report-unmasking-the-smart-city-agenda/
Download:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qW1i4KpzRMhK/
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Baltimore bridge disaster a CCP terrorist attack
https://twitter.com/NFSCSpeak/status/1774236887932154172
We’ll see…
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Do you have any knowledge or feel about the reliability of NFSC?
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Time to install electic barbies at the sausage sizzle? Powered by solar panels?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13255951/Bunnings-easter-BBQ-horror-Couple-rushed-hospital.html
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I don’t see how that could happen.
Oh&s should have the gas bottle enclosed, as they typically are. Safety 1st, convenience 2nd.
Was the hose defective? Not secured properly?
Strange.
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From a couple of experiences –
If there is a water hose with a spray handy and you are quick you can “Red Adair” gas bottle fires by bringing the water spray up on the flames from underneath and walking the flames above the water away from the gas leak.
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No one turns up for State “Voice” vote in South Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gKwDvWfwPI
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And this which I saw the other day:
https://youtu.be/RlsX33Pij08?si=cJX8DIYjN4TzImqe
Dodgy & Shonky 😁
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There were only one or two that looked like Aboriginals
The rest were woke white grifters looking to jump onto the Aboriginal gravy train
No wonder genuine Aboriginals gave this a big miss.
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I traveled interstate last week and had a hire car booked with Avis, I’d asked for a compact car. When booking my car they advised that they had a special offer for hiring a Tesla. I had the greatest of pleasure saying no thanks to, I’d rather a real car. It took me less than five minutes to refuel before returning it.
I’d hate to think how long it would have taken me to find somewhere to recharge, download an app, and how long it would take before I could return it to AVIS. It would have meant I’d have to leave my meeting 1-2 hours earlier so I could find somewhere to recharge before I could get it back to the hire firm, meaning it could mean I’d miss my return flight and I’d have to finish my meeting and leave earlier that I did because I chose an ICE vehicle rather than a battery powered one.
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When you are travelling to an unfamiliar city the last thing you want is trying to find a recharging station that is actually working.
Did n0t the clowns running Avis and Hertz thought the obvious through?
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No More English in China? Rising Russian Signs and Growing Anti-american Sentiment
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Growing anti-American sentiment?!
Ruh-roh!
I guess this means no more US/CCP co-operative deadly bio-contagion research.
The next zoonotic occurrence might catch us without vaccine pants.
Note: Out of respect for JoNova, I am wearing pants as I pixel this insightful thought.
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Rainbow crossing in Auckland painted over
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Painting pedestrian crossings in 7 colours is ‘progressive’ & ‘inclusive’ – painting them white (as they’ve always been, for safety) is now an ‘eight crime’ because some drag queen faerie got upset. Surely the End is Nigh… d’oh!
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FWIW
“ORGANIZED THEFT IN THE NAME OF GOVERNMENT – Biden’s Executive Order 14008 locks away 30% of U.S. land by 2030, under the pretext of protecting the planet’”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/30/organized-theft-in-the-name-of-government-bidens-executive-order-14008-locks-away-30-of-u-s-land-by-2030-under-the-pretext-of-protecting-the-planet/
This map has been around for a while –
https://i2.wp.com/allnewspipeline.com/images/UN_SimulationMap21.jpg
And what about a thoughtful look at what is going on in Oz lately?
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Wind Turbine blade movement – on land.
These breeze-catchers, and bird-choppers, are not the easiest things to get to where their owners can catch subsidies.
The BBC has this –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck5w9zlg1r7o
Some interesting pix.
Also text …
“The 65m (210ft) turbine blades land in Scotland at Rosyth and make the first part of their journey by more standard carriers.”
The BBC carefully doesn’t say where the [c.16 tonne] blades are made.
It also doesn’t say that these blades are far from the biggest – Chinese [offshore] Minyang MySE18.X-28X has 140 metre blades, which might approach 160 tonne! Each].
But obviously this transport is cost-free, as wind power is almost cost-free, we are continually lied to.
We need to stop this tilting at windmills!
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