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People cutting off Tesla supercharger cables to sell the copper
https://twitter.com/megatron_ron/status/1790252111403323629
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How long will the copper cables last on these EV recharging stations in outback Australia?
https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/bowen/media-releases/fast-charging-ev-stations-ready-connect-nt-regions
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Between copper harvesting and vandalism potential , I dont have high hopes for their longevity/availability. Thats apart from their normal maintenance issues.
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In the State of Oregon, most gasoline stations have an attendent that pumps the gas. The customer has to stand and watch. Seems a bit odd for visitors from other states. {An unrelated comment, I know.}
Most EV charging sites I have seen appear isolated with no one around, more like porta-potties than service plaza facilities.
Folks have been chopping copper cables from lighted road signs, parks, and any other place not monitored 24/7. Replacement costs are many times the value of the stolen copper.
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Back in the 70’s when we still had attendants to “pump the gas”, wash the windows, and check the oil and radiator levels, the pump nozzles had the thingy that locked the trigger on so they didn’t have to keep holding it. Freed the attendant up to wash the window etc while the car filled.
I’ve have found one station in country Victoria (Aus) that still has the trigger lock function …. against regulations. (They do click off automatically.) The bowsers are also right on the edge of the road pavement without any protective bollards. (I assume also against regulations). It’s quite a novelty being able to lock the nozzle open again, and a bit of a trip down memory lane.
One of the other stores nearby still has an old horse water trough out the front.
My kind of town actually.
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NZ still has the locking-on catch on the bowser trigger, it always amuses me that Aussies can’t even be trusted with a petrol pump, never mind a real gun. Luckily my key fob is a perfect fit to jam in there…
Unless South Africa has changed direction drastically, they will still have attendants fueling up cars and collecting money there too. Of course if you don’t get out to do it, you won’t go inside to pay and you won’t shop, which is where the gas station’s money really comes from.
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Fuel cap is a nice size to keep the pump running though staff might object.
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Is this you, GA? đ
https://youtube.com/shorts/b_wdFi6KQts?si=hIkcQVe70p66pSzL
Don’t lock the nozzle on!!!
When you’re holding the trigger, it and you are earthed.
If you lock the trigger, go back in your car, then get out later you can build a static charge which can ignite fuel vapour at the filler neck.
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Curious that the person in the car surrounded by a flood or fuel thought it was funny enough to laugh so much.
I was browsing maps on my phone while filling recently, with the phone resting upright on roof rack for one hand screen scrolling. Over the loud speaker the cashier told me to stop using my phone. So I found out later when I was paying, given the instruction over the speaker was practically inaudible.
I would have thought that a phone in my pocket right next to the petrol cap would be worse. If there is a risk of ignition from a phone. But hasn’t that been shown to be not a real risk?
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Strop,
Yes, I recall reading a study by – IIRC – the Australian Transportation Safety Board, that said there was negligible fire/explosion risk from mobile phones.
I believe it was in the late 1990s or early 2000s, when mobile phones were bigger, and more power hungry.
There is, of course, a risk that you get carried away texting or streaming, and get a spillage!
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I ran a couple of servos in that era and the nozzles never needed service and never failed if inserted correctly.
Our quick checks saved many motorists some expensive repairs, especially top hoses on grey model holdens and buggered fan belts. They last forever today. I would never want an old car as my daily drive.
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Hallelujah, modern cars are insanely reliable.
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I just fit the fuel cap under the trigger handle, works a treat when cleaning the glass etc, keep expecting the console dude to cut the power.
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Did you get chatgpt to rewrite my comment?
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Could just be they had a similar experience and chose to write about it, not realizing that the great G had covered and therefore it was off limits. Nice snark though that someone else would need GPT.
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The engineering of a nozzle is actually quite impressive.
Here’s a detailed explanation of how they work:
https://youtu.be/UKiiiCEU8fw?si=JWu5sGyl9p8jiRsc
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It’s what typically happens in Third World countries like South Africa. There is still some infrastructure from the previous regime that is yet to be dismantled and sold as scrap, just destroyed for the fun of it or just because people want to return to their hunter-gatherer roots.
Tragically, under the DemocRATs, the United States is becoming a Third World nation just like that. There are also early signs of this happening in Australia.
TRUMP is the only hope that the US and indeed the Western World has.
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S Africa has a huge problem with thieves pulling down street lights and traffic lights to steal the copper cables from them.
Then the âsecondaryâ thieves come along and carry away the stripped poles for scrap metal !
..Geven the suggestion , they would likely steal the road surface too,⌠but much of it is not worth having !
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LOL…Trump won’t be ALLOWED to win again.
Better buy that farm in the boondocks sooner rather than later.
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Trump is 4 years, and its back to normal.
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Oregon and New Jersey are the only states that still require drivers to have their fuel pumped by an attendant. The rule in Oregon goes back to 1951, and has roots in concerns about fire safety and job creation, among other things.
In March 2023 the Oregon House overwhelmingly approved a bill to allow self-service options at every gas station in Oregon, raising a real possibility the state will cast off its place as one of just two states still forbidding many drivers from touching the pump.
Stations in Oregonâs most populous counties would still be required to employ at least one attendant, and to charge the same amount for gas from full-service pumps as they do at self-serve.
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But Minister Bowen (Blackout Bowen) recharges holding the cable at the EV charge point as if he was filling a fossil fuel vehicle tank
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Debionne on the Current RKI FOIA Trial
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Sefton Delmer in “Trail Sinister” and “Black Boomerang” gives some examples of some legal hold-overs from the Nazi era in this area that were not removed from the constitution of the “Redesigned Germany” after WW2.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20633774
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefton_Delmer
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Our government wants new powers to censor us and intrude on our privacy, yet like Germany, they themselves are increasingly secretive, clandestine, and unrevealed. Mr Andrews’ mystery trip to China to meet Xi which no Australian press was allowed to cover, the ALP compromised by the Aldi plastic shopping bag full of cash in the Chinese Restaurant, ASIO’s reluctance to name the retired parliamentarian, (and their party), who was cultivated by spies and tried to introduce a PM’s family to his foreign handlers, Albo & his ALP kicking ASIO out of national security meetings.
It is not us that need to be insulated from bad influences, it is the government and politicians who need to be insulated from bad influences.
It is not us that is vulnerable to misinformation disinformation and malinformation it is the government and politicians who are vulnerable to misinformation disinformation and malinformation.
It is not us who need to be transparent and have our every word thought or deed visible to and recorded by government and big brother in the globalist panopticon.
It is the government and politicians who need to be rigorously transparent and accountable to us, the people. We are the only safe custodians of freedom, government accountability, and the means to prevent government consolidating into tyranny.
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Video:
This guy made his own partial artificial hand.
Brilliant work. Still under development.
https://youtu.be/xHm1ou4OsTg
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Surprised that bulky chain drives are used for the finger controls.
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Crude compared to current tech though.
A muscle’s best analogy would be electrically controlled velcro which is why they’re so hard to copy…
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Not a “far right tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theory” any more.
Even Far Left oriented SNOPES changes status of Biden daughter diary detailing some creepy stuff with Joe from “unproven” to “true”.
This true information was censored by social(ist) and other media before the last US Presidential Election.
Talk about election interference!
Video: https://youtu.be/5c1Ncqmj-7g
See Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ashley-biden-diary-claims/
See Daily Wire: https://www.dailywire.com/news/snopes-changes-fact-check-rating-on-contents-of-ashley-bidens-diary-from-unproven-to-true
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Neuro-Weapons and the victims of Neuro-Weapons.
See also Havana Syndrome, and The Havana Act.
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Real life coyote chases real life road runner.
https://youtu.be/RGokoL-G1A4
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Sorry, I have to consider it a deep fake unless there is an ACME anvil involved.
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Not woke to say it but there are huge problems with multi-generational consanguinity (inbreeding) in the UK Pakistani community leading to many physical and mental abnormalities.
Video: https://youtu.be/_Gn-sGfJfYc
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Not to mention the “huge problem” with the religious convictions of this lot.
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The US Cackler in Chief, Harris, said the F Word in a speech to young people then couldn’t stop cackling.
https://youtu.be/taka35CwSiw
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Hard to pick who is dumber – Biden or Harris.
And people still claim that the last US presidential election was not rigged!
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I vote Harris. Before dementia set in Biden should large amounts of rat cunning building a fortune on a Senators salary. Harris brings nothing the table apart from ticking POC and gender boxes. They both seem incompetent but Harris wins the stupid stakes for me.
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“Concerns”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGk6_w1Bv6A
The Scottish Covid inquiry
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Those patients were murdered and the woke Scottish police apparently aren’t even investigating because the deaths were made in accordance to the Official Narrative.
Furthermore, there was already effective treatment protocols involving HCQ or IVM which were denied because they were made illegal in most Western countries including Australia under our WEF anti-Health Minister at the time, Hunt.
In the southern Australian fiefdom of Vicdanistan, all charges relating to 768 deaths related to defective hotel quarantine were also dropped.
Nothing to see here. Move along…
Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Prosecute.
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Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts: Government Covering Up Mass Covid Vaccine Deaths
Senator Malcolm Roberts has raised the alarm after uncovering evidence that governments around the world are aware that Covid mRNA shots are killing people.
According to Roberts, the Australian government has been scrambling to cover up the mass deaths caused by the injections.
As part of the effort, the government has been âdeliberately suppressing doctorsâ from reporting vaccine deaths, the top senator reveals.
Roberts says that governments around the world all know about vaccine harms and that they are âkilling people.â
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), in 2022, 174,717 deaths occurred.
This figure is 22,886 (15.1%) more than the historical average.
A growing number of experts and studies have confirmed that this spike was caused by the Covid mRNA shot.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/australian-senator-malcolm-roberts-f49
“Mistakes were made on both sides.”
Heh. Yeah, right..
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And the fact that covid patients were being murdered rather than treated properly is yet another “far right tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theoryâ that’s turned out to be true.
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More evidence that Australia is one of the most corrupt countries on this planet – especially politicians and their public serpent partners in crime.
https://www.hrlc.org.au/reports-news-commentary/mcbride-sentenced
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Corruption at work
The conservative social media platform Gab has openly defied the Australian governmentâs demand to remove or censor a video depicting a tragic attack at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church in western Sydney.
While tech giants like Meta acquiesced to similar requests, Gab has told the Australian government to pound sand, potentially incurring a hefty fine of $500,000 USD.
The controversial video, which includes a poignant message from Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, who was wounded during the assault, became a flashpoint for a clash between censorship and the right to free speech.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/australian-governments-overreach-slammed-conservative-social-media-gab/
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Back in time and the Aurora Australis is found even further north.
Captain James Cook September 16 or 17 1770.
Captain Cook Society
To find the northern hemisphere part of this we go to Japan.
Smithsonian Mag
Although it was perhaps seen closer to the equator in 1871.
“here” could be Geralton W.A.in 1909.
Trove The Geraldton Express WA Mon 29 Nov 1909 Page 1 Looking Backward.
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The frequency of solar flares coincides with the Sun’s 11-year cycle. When the solar cycle is at a minimum, active regions are small and rare and few solar flares are detected. These increase in number as the Sun approaches the maximum part of its cycle.
Astrology is a method of predicting mundane events based upon the assumption that the celestial bodiesâparticularly the planets and the stars considered in their arbitrary combinations or configurations (called constellations)âin some way either determine or indicate changes in the sublunar world.
The Sun’s 11 -Year cycle is thought to be governed by the movement of the planets around the Sun.
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There are some very clever people who use the planets and moon and their relationship to the sun to forecast the weather with great accuracy.
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More from 1871
Perth
The Herald Fremantle W.A. Sat 28 Jan 1871 Page 2 TOPICS OF THE WEEK.
ROMA queensland
February 17, 1871.
Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser Thu 23 Feb 1871 Page 2
1871 Ballarat Victoria with a lot about the frequent 1870 events. Also that it was not noticed in Melbourne. A hint that the plasma ring of aurora was north of the norm.
Bendigo Advertiser Sat 25 Mar 1871 Page 2 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE AURORA.
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Reminder to Jo.
The edit box on Android phones still doesn’t work well. It used to be OK until a few weeks ago.
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It was bad but now seems ok for me on 4 browsers.
Mind you, they’ve all had updates too.
No-one else seems to be having this problem and if anything the exact opposite – slow scrolling in general.
It’s a question for the XDA forums, if you’re a member.
One solution though would be to add scroll bars to the text box…
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I’m sorry, I wish I had a good answer. I’ll ask the guru helper if he has any ideas.
As far as I know nothing changed on the site in the last two months.
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I’ve had troubles with the phone, but it’s something to put up with.
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How much is Twiggy Forrest getting for his Hydrogen Schemes (Scams)?
This has increased considerablly from last years budget when the amount was only $2 billion.
Newspeak at its finest
“Itâs a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
â George Orwell
https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/bowen/media-releases/delivering-reliable-and-renewable-future-made-australia
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In the real world where corrupt and clueless politicians are not involved, Chemical Engineers construct a pilot plant to test new production processes before attempting to contruct large-scale production facilities at a much larger cost.
The cost of a pilot scale plant for “green iron and steel opportunities” should only cost in the tens of millions and not in the $ Billions.
“The problem with socialism is that evenually you run out of other people’s money” – Margaret Thatcher
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– Chris Bowen
Meanwhile in the USA
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New York regulators recently struck agreements with offshore developers at prices of around $150 per megawatt hour, more than a third higher than those in 2019. For comparison, the wholesale price for natural gas power is around $30 a megawatt hour.
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/05/14/full-blown-financial-meltdown-offshore-wind-industrys-collapse-accelerates/
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I believe that the offshore wind suppliers also want to be able to increase the wholesale delivery price annually for up to 20 years. Would have been cheaper for New York to use SMR nuclear power offered at US$90/MW.
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And if the “Ruinables” (Wind and Solar) are now providing the cheapest form of electricity, why then the need for these Electricity Rebates?
A local Eatery/Coffee shop Owner near me tells me that his electricity bill has gone up over $1,000 a month in the past year. Last night’s Feral Budget will give him/them a $325 rebate for 12 months from 1/7/2024.
That in simple Economics is going backwards.
Blackout Bonehead Bowen, Please Explain……………..If you can with logic prease (Chinese please).
Sounds like “Electrickery” to me.
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Mmmmm that’s some powerful comparative advantage right there
Bowen is cripling the grid and then spouting enegy based comparative advantage, heaven help us
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I was just pondering the relationship between vaccine compliance, and belief in Climate Change.
Seems to me the next round of vaccine mandates may run into big brick wall of ‘hesitancy’ (harr).
Wondering if climate alarmism is falling on a way bigger population of vaccine deafened ears?
‘Specially since the former ‘conspiracy theories’ about Pandemic aren’t quite as theoretical as they were six months ago. And the larvae of more conspiracy theories are turning in big flying mature accepted realities at a quickening pace.
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Hope you’re right.
For me, my climate scepticism alerted me to the similarities between the propaganda campaigns and my resulting rejection of the jab lies.
(It took me a long time to recognise the extent of the problem with AGW and its subsequent names.)
Cheers,
Dave B
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Me three.
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FWIW – more medical mysteries
” Fortune confirmed a tragic trend in a woefully unsurprising article headlined, âWhy have colorectal cancers tripled in teens and jumped by 500% in kids?â Haha, of course the article never answers that headline question.”
More at
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/?utm_campaign=pub&utm_medium=web
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Also in there
“Remember, the jabs were definitely not gene therapies; thatâs misinformation. But another new study poking a hole in that exhausted refrain appeared this month in the journal Methods and Protocols, titled âMethodological Considerations Regarding the Quantification of DNA Impurities in the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine ComirnatyÂŽ.â
“According to the researchers, it turns out that Pfizer may have slightly under-reported the amounts of DNA contamination in its magic spike protein elixirs. Behold my shocked face: đ. And by slightly under-reported, I mean by orders of magnitude. ”
More there
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“That’s a lot of wind beneath their wings…”
“After an extraordinary career spanning more than 80 years of service, and plenty of operational missions, the South African Air Force (SAAF) is preparing to retire its last C-47 Dakotas. Remarkably, the SAAF is moving to discard its C-47s while, at the same time, elsewhere around the globe, turboprop versions of the venerable transport continue to win orders.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/05/thats-lot-of-wind-beneath-their-wings.html
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Great aircraft, hopefully that’s where those airframes end up , into the conversion market or flying elsewhere.
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More here:
https://www.baslerturbo.com/
For flights into and within the interior of Antarctica the smaller more specialised Ilyushin, Twin Otter and Basler are utilised.
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From comments there
“Way back in BC one of our instructors at a sailplane maintenance school run by Gliding Federation Australia was an aeronautical stress engineer. One of his jobs had been the turbine section of PT 6 turboprops.
A discussion migrated to the service life of DC3’s – IIRC from here on –
“The people who designed them knew what they were doing. There are 3 wing spars, any one of which will keep the wings on. They knew there would be fatigue problems so there is a schedule of replacement and, if you do that, there is no reason that they can’t keep flying”.
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“Weight-loss drugs âgold rushâ”
Surely the very definition of insanity? Still, there’s money to be made from people’s inability to exercise self-control over what they eat.
https://inews.co.uk/news/weight-loss-jab-gold-rush-drugs-development-3055939
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FWIW
“Now you know.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1790254572885377241
Via https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/now-you-know.html
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FWIW
“The truth about Labor’s inflationary, increased spending and debt.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/the-truth-about-labors-inflationary-increased-spending-and-debt.html
And
“Therapeutic Albanese trots out the old energy-bill-rebate routine one more time!!!!!!”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/therapeutic-albanese-trots-out-the-old-energy-bill-rebate-routine-one-more-time.html
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It is on the cards for average power bills to increase by $600 per annum over the year before the next election so $300 is chicken feed.
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FWIW
“Of course it does – the ALPâs ABC gets a funding boost”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/of-course-it-does-the-alps-abc-gets-a-funding-boost.html
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1600 actual scientists say there is no climate crisis:
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/no-climate-crisis-says-coalition-of-1600-actual-scientists/
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It has come to my attention that quite a few engineers and scientist who post here (including Joanne C.) have not signed the Clintel declaration.
https://clintel.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/WCD-version-081423.pdf
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Better get on to Roy Spencer too
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What is it?
Who organized it?
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FWIW
“Demonized as Contributing to Climate Change, Cattle May Actually Decrease Emissions, Research Shows”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/05/14/demonized-as-contributing-to-climate-change-cattle-may-actually-decrease-emissions-research-shows-n3788367
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But … hold on!
Aren’t we told, repeatedly, that ‘The Science is Settled’?
How is it possible that there is any scintilla of doubt about cattle’s place in the emissions universe?
Weren’t we told by the Demented Pixie Victim, DD, that ‘meat is murder’ or some-such.
Or was it the Mann behind Mann-Made Global Boiling Oceans Scam and Lie?
Or, of course, the ever-so-slightly left-of-Centre apparatchik [and insect-chef] from the Nominally United Nations?
Or Attenbore, who probably remembers the Little Ice Age, being experientially-gifted?
I am left utterly bewildered and flummoxed [can I still say ‘flummoxed’? Or is it triggering to the flummox community??].
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FWIW
“Fake Science Leads to Massive Cull of Science Journals”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/05/14/fake-science-leads-to-massive-cull-of-science-journals-n3788392
Paywalled original site
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FWIW
“Now THIS Is Good Satire”
https://youtu.be/M3GruzsI3YQ
Via https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/05/14/now-this-is-good-satire-n3788390
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On Sunday ,Kim posted a link to adh.tv titled âHydrogen Bombedâ
It is quite revealing, and for those of you who do not like opening links , i have editited the following from it..
https://www.adh.tv/articles/hydrogen-bombed
âŚ.So a $300bn plan which seems to have a few holes in it.. not the least being the fact that the fundamental economics of âGreen Hydrogenâ has frequently been shown as impossible !
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âHydrogenâs poor efficiency means that it holds a compelling case as a decarbonisation solution only where direct electrification is not feasible â in industrial processes that require a chemical reaction, for instance,â says Mark Meldrum, of climate consultancy Systemiq.
https://www.ft.com/content/6e22930b-a007-4729-951f-78d6685a7514
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âŚand only then if you can prove CO2 is less desireable than H2O !
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PS:- Did anyone notice a mention of any of that $300bn for Hydrogen projects,âŚâŚ
âŚâŚin yesterdays Budget anouncement ?
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Itâs garnering hundreds of comments in The Australian today.
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The 2024 budget opens thee door to $30bn of it:
https://thenightly.com.au/politics/federal-budget-2024-295b-of-taxpayer-funded-sweeteners-for-critical-minerals-and-green-hydrogen-players-c-14666701
It includes components for hydrogen and transition mineral like lithium ores.
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‘players’ – in the quote – says it all.
Get-richer-quick merchants.
Anything in that for the population of Australia [or the globe]?
How naive can I be – even asking that question!
The ‘players’ will mop up every last cent.
Watch ’em.
You won’t be allowed to join ’em!!
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For contemplation –
“Joe Biden Announces Tariffs on Non-Existent Products from Non-Existent Origination Country â Hereâs Why
May 14, 2024 | Sundance | 110 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/05/14/joe-biden-announces-tariffs-on-non-existent-products-from-non-existent-origination-country-heres-why/
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FWIW – another on the medical scene
“Ten years from now there are going to be an utterly-huge number of people who are permanently screwed or dead:
The latest KFF Health Tracking Poll finds that about one in eight adults (12%) say they have ever taken a GLP-1 agonist â an increasingly popular class of prescription drugs used for weight loss and to treat diabetes or prevent heart attacks or strokes for adults with heart disease â including 6% who say they are currently taking such a drug.
Six percent of the adult population is currently using this crap?”
More at
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251296
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Anyone that is over weight, has diabetes, heart issues, or high blood pressure already has a greater than average probability of reaching ambient temperature in ten years. Taking these drugs may help them, or they might just degrade differently.
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It won’t pay to get sick enough to need hospital for the next decade, the over-crowding from these drugs/vaccines will cripple the system.
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hi everyone, what is the latest/greatest/cleanest coal fired generator? Hele vs USC? TIA
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USC, or Ultra Super-Critical, is a sub-class of HELE plants, which also include Super Critical (SC), Advanced USC (A-USC), Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) and Integrated Gasification Fuel Cell (IGFC) technologies.
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A useful HELE discussion can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/3/1591#:~:text=HELE%20electricity%20generating%20plants%20include,fired%20electricity%20generation%20plants%2C%20and
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Wednesday sarcasm
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Promise a man someone else’s fish for a lifetime and you create a politician.
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And a captured voter.
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Indeed.
It’s all very well voting for free stuff.
But, eventually, even the pollies run out of it – when they run into reality.
Scotland has a ‘Housing Emergency’ [declared today!]. Yikes! [Officially ‘Yikes and Crivens’ I believe].
They also have rent controls [so far less available rented property], and an insane planning system – even worse than England’s, for crying out loud – so less property built.
But there are – predictably – calls for ‘more support’ for renters …
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“Brilliant Leak on The Australian’s front page.”
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02c8d3b2f802200b-800wi
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/brilliant-leak-on-the-australians-front-page.html
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It would be an interesting exercise to go through past budgets that promised spending long into the future to see how many of those sums were actually used.
For me, I wonder if the energy “rebate” will apply to my electricity account when it is a payment to me.
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Mac keyboards are pretty hungry on batteries so I use Eneloop rechargables but they are only 1.2V nom. and are a pain.
Looking in eBay Ni/Zn batteries are available with 1.6V nom. so they sound much better. Anyone had any experience with them?
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There is an online review which may give an indication..
https://goughlui.com/2014/02/20/nickel-zinc-ni-zn-rechargeable-batteries-and-charger/#google_vignette
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Sounds like they were being charged on a charger not designed for them.
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The Charger
The charger supplied was a bundled charger. It is quite cheaply constructed, and features a single bi-colour LED for charge level indication.
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Okay!! I won’t rubbish my Eneloops again. I have only tossed a few as stuffed [a technical term meaning “stuffed”] after a lot of cycles and probable misuse recharging.
eBay has Li-ion available at a similar price but I have a hesitancy about leaving them charging on my ‘puter desk, fire risk and all.
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For variety check out the “Bumtreecartoon series” at https://newcatallaxy.blog/
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FWIW
“World Bank Launches First Global Framework for Agri-Food Emissions”
“The recent report from the World Bank, âRecipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System,â touts the possibility of making significant cuts to global agrifood emissions through a variety of prescriptive measures. The historical record of such centralized initiatives suggests a high probability of resulting in unintended and often detrimental consequences.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/14/world-bank-launches-first-global-framework-for-agri-food-emissions/
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That concludes
“At the very least the pursuit of such grandiose plans should be viewed with skepticism and caution, as history has repeatedly shown that the road to disaster is often paved with well-intentioned global initiatives.”
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‘World Bank’.
‘well-intentioned’.
Is that not almost the text-book definition of ‘Cognitive Dissonance’?
Just asking.
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Now the BOM(b) is forecasting a possible la nina. In otherwords more rain. But this bit on the News site puzzled me :
“The country experienced three consecutive La NiĂąa events between 2020 and 2022, before going through an El NiĂąo event last summer, which ended in April.
If a La Nina does re-emerge it could cause problems as the ground of eastern Australia is still moisture laden from the last La Nina, exacerbating any flooding.”
Since last summer to April I have seen no let up in rain. Slightly less than the previous 2 years
Was the 6 months to April really an El Nino??
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Yes.
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El Nino or not, the last horrible 4+ months have seen slow moving High Pressure systems parked in the Bight or thereabouts. The resultant easterlies and occasional trough systems coming from the west have meant constant rain for the extreme eastern coast. For much of Australia though it has been very different. Adelaide is bone dry, also Perth.
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The next few days forecast is for a rather large, persistent high over Oz:
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/4day_col.shtml
Cheers
Dave B
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The amount of suburban trees in Perth giving up and dying is not a pretty sight.And Iâm sick of having to turn the air con on all the time because of the continued heat.
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Don’t worry about trees dying in the new sub-divisions. The lots are so small there is no room left to plant one.
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Thanks. The rain has been relentless on the MNC for years now. Out in my little 5 acres near Wauchope we had 2.2 metres in 21, then2.7 metres in 2022, last year backed off to 1.1 metres, and to April this year we have had 0.7 metres.
The ground is saturated. Ground water is extremely high. Only takes 10mm to refresh. So another La Nina not welcome unless its mild!!
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‘Was the 6 months to April really an El Nino?’
It was a moderate El Nino and in Australia fairly wet.
If it becomes a strong La Nina then we’ll be in strife.
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No doubt the budget has this covered?
“The Green Energy Wall Can’t Arrive Quickly Enough”
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-5-13-the-green-energy-wall-cant-arrive-quickly-enough
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FWIW – More things to watch
“The W.H.O. âPandemic Treatyâ WILL be Negotiated in Secret! Our Sovereignty is Under Attack, as a Loophole is Uncovered (VIDEO)”
“The power-hungry global elites are telling the world they have âwatered downâ the Pandemic Treaty that will hand over pandemic response to The World Health Organization.
Do NOT believe them.
WHO globalists are in the process of duping the 194 member nations into a sense of security before they quietly pounce.”
More at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/w-h-o-pandemic-treaty-will-be-negotiated/
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Who will bet against that $300 energy ‘handout’ simply resulting in $300 increases in bills?
Anybody?
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The ridiculous levels of regulatory oversight of ALL levels of the Electricity and Gas markets these days would make such an attempt extremely stupid.
The Governments, both State and Federal have purposely set this in motion through an ideological policy fascination with “net zero” . They have all subsidized and given regulatory benefits to renewables. Kicked coal and gas in the teeth. And then wondered why bills were rising. The stupidity is mind boggling. And now they find themselves politically squeezed to the extent they have decided to give us all $300 to offset THEIR policy mandated price increases.
Reagan once said that the most terrifying 9 words you will ever hear are “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help”
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Steve,
____Along similar lines as the old homebuyers’ grants?
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FWIW – read it all
“Ryan Maue on âGlobal Temperature Shocksâ ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/14/ryan-maue-on-global-temperature-shocks/
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Rewatched the “Downfall” documentary on the 737 Max fiasco the other night. It makes interesting viewing in light of recent events with the 737 Max9 and 787.
Boeing management’s behaviour leading to and during the MAX saga was disgraceful, and then they mouthed all the expected words regarding improvements and safeguards. Here we are in real life a couple of years later and really they appear to just have gone back to business as usual.
The CEO during the original Max issues left with a $62 million package. They could have given an extra $150,000 per person compensation to the victims families with that, but that’s not the way the world works.
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John Cadogan is launching a regular non car missive. Todays was ‘The war on men is total govt misinformation’. There is no domestic violence crisis (apart from the section of society that we wont mention). According to govt stats, over the last 3 decades adult female homicide deaths are down 75%, with a 60% rise in population. Domestic violence, apart from terminal cases, is rather difficult to quantify.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6jc2GqcxfE&t=29s 20mins he does hammer – society is not in crisis.
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