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Ukraine hit by ‘massive’ attack on energy grid
Russia has launched a “massive” early morning missile and drone attack on energy facilities across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
More than 50 missiles and 20 drones were used in the attack, he wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
It marks the latest in a string of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid, which Moscow insists is a legitimate military target.
The strikes targeted seven regions across the country and took place on a major national holiday commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War Two.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wxypwe9jxo
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Germany has defeated itself this time around by destroying its own energy grid thank’s to the Green Dreams of its political class.
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The Leader of the Free Non-Woke World is winning
“Victory will be ours”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsw4Tk49ncA
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Next Russia might destroy what is left of the UK power grid – Before the clueless Pommies destroy it themselves!
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/uk-gives-ukraine-green-light-to-use-british-weapons-inside-russia/
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And you know the answer from Russia, as some days before I linked it here.
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Tennis Elbow and Blackout Bowen are doing a good job of destroying Australia’s Electricity Power Grid as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU7JV51Khn0
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The Russians are getting ready to take Kharkiv. After that, they have a clear run up to the Dneiper River.
After the terrorist burning of the Crocus City Hall, there’s been a significant shift in attitude and Russia has become more aggressive. Dunno if that was part of the plan.
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Ukraine hit by ‘massive’ attack on energy grid
Russia has launched a “massive” early morning missile and drone attack on energy facilities across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
More than 50 missiles and 20 drones were used in the attack, he wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
It marks the latest in a string of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid, which Moscow insists is a legitimate military target.
The strikes targeted seven regions across the country and took place on a major national holiday commemorating the defeat of Na*i Germany in World War Two.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wxypwe9jxo
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Putin, he has argued, is right to free the world from the ‘western yoke’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13403981/Putin-hires-hardline-professor-suggested-nuking-Europe-test-NATOs-resolve-Kremlin-role-deterring-West.html
“The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.” – Billy Connolly·
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‘ … free the world from the ‘western yoke’.
Its not a yoke, we are free, democratic nations and have no desire to be crushed by totalitarianism.
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Lol! You forgot the / tag!
We are slaves to the Uniparty, sinking in an ocean of lies and propaganda from The State above us.. Actually, no different to Russia at all really..
He was, of course, referring to the world outside the West, the countries that have been enslaved for centuries by ‘us’, any desire to break free from Western control or influence crushed, and local cultures or beliefs strangled by the Mighty McDonalds media.
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Local cultures or beliefs strangled by the CCP.
We are not slaves of the Uniparty, the majors linger in the middle because that is where the votes are.
‘ … lies and propaganda from The State above us.’
Its not an organised conspiracy, the MSM and politicians feed off each other. If you think of the ABC as the propaganda wing, the organisation has been extremely biased in favour of AGW theory and leaves out alternative views, more a sin of omission.
Anyway the people can think for themselves, lots of platforms and blogs to choose from.
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“Anyway the people can think for themselves,”
If only…
Sadly, the ABC was held up as a model for TVNZ as it was being accused of being ‘too Leftist’, showing how far NZ has moved since the 1980s revolution for freedom.
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Aunty is pathetic and woke but a lot of people swear by it, reckon its gospel truth.
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Duplicate post. Please remove. Thanks.
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Russia still having to fight the N4z!s
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And German tanks in Kyiv. Again. You would think the Ukraine government was an innocent party. This civil war has been going on for at least 15 years! And the Lords of War are celebrating and the hundreds of billions keep flowing, more than the GDP of Ukraine.
No one cares about the Ukranians or the Russians dying in vast numbers. Or wants it to stop. Cash and vengeance.
My great hope is that Donald Trump stops this terrible war in a day. As with Gaza, it’s all about the money, as they say in Spaceballs.
What were the Bidens doing there when Obama was President? Helping?
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Collecting 10% for the “Big Guy”
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TdeF, with respect – say in plain English what Ukrainians should do.
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Give the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine back to Russia, kick NATO out and embrace both sides just like Turkey does. Ukraine will lose, there is no doubt, but how many men will it lose in the process. Stopping it sooner rather than later will help preserve the country, once you lose the cream of your men you will become Africanised or Muslim.
Accept NO money or foreign firms from America, all they’ve done is loot the country and then destroy it.
It would have been better if it was still Polish/Romanian in the West and Russian in the East. Another failed line on a map by the Imperial Powers, jamming two different peoples into one country.
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Tell ’em to come here and start with Cantberra and Vicdunnystan. 😆
So with Ukraine about defeated, the loony west still funding the slaughter and depleting their own weapon stores, how long before the neocons deploy NATO troops in Ukraine and kick of WW3? 2 weeks?
On the subject of depletion, the US stockpiles have a problem:
https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1717049864180379761
The night skies over the EU could be brilliant white rather than pink shortly.
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The Looming Electrical Power Shortage
By Steve Goreham
Originally published in Washington Examiner.
People in developed nations take abundant electricity for granted. When asked where electricity comes from, most will point to their wall outlet. But many states in the US are headed for a serious and prolonged shortage of electrical power not seen in decades, driven by rising demand from the artificial intelligence revolution and mandates to adopt green energy.
For 20 years, US electrical power policy has been dominated by efforts to try to “mitigate” global warming, believed to be caused by human greenhouse gas emissions. In 2021, President Joe Biden called for achieving a 100% carbon-free electric sector by 2035. Twenty-three states have enacted statues or issued executive orders to achieve Net Zero electricity generation by 2050.
https://saltbushclub.com/2024/05/03/the-looming-electrical-power-shortage/#more-2759
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AI and Nuclear Energy – Play by Sam Altman CEO of of OpenAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zxjgOdRxg&t=164s
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A company called Holtec has become the voice for restarting the nuclear power revolution in the U.S.
As it becomes clear that the nation’s needs for power are far underserved, and will certainly be in the future with the adoption of AI, one company, currently the “top US manufacturer of storage equipment for nuclear waste”, is advocating for restarting cold reactors across the country.
Lately, the company’s ambitions have soared. Since 2019, it’s acquired four retired nuclear plants originally intending to decommission them: Indian Point (NY), Oyster Creek (NJ), Pilgrim (MA), and Palisades (MI),
Tearing down old reactors promised good returns due to the hefty trust funds tied to cleanup costs. Holtec quickly became the nation’s leading nuclear decommissioner.
And, as the report notes, despite initially purchasing Palisades to dismantle it, Holtec is now planning to restart the reactor with a $1.5 billion loan from the DOE, marking the first time a cold reactor would be revived in the U.S.
Holtec aims to have Palisades online again soon and launch its own small modular reactors (SMRs) by the end of the decade.
Traditionally, decommissioning involved shutting down reactors and letting them sit for decades. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) gives operators up to 60 years to complete the process, funded by a trust built from utility ratepayer contributions. For instance, Palisades had $552 million in its trust fund when it closed
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/meet-company-helping-restart-nuclear-revolution-us
Now where are the trust funds to cover the cost of decommissioning Wind Turbines and Solar Panels when they met their use-by-date in 15-20 years?
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Magna Carta case damaged by Just Stop Oil protesters at British Library
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68991038
Well, because, because, democracy causes Global Warming™!
Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!
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Magna Carta would have carbon ripoffs stopped overnight, if only someone would take Australia’s carbon ripoffs to the High Court. The Carbon industry is similar to the weapons industry. Unbelievable riches in telling lies about fighting great battles when the carbon billions are flowing, hidden illegally in your bills, not your taxes. Enriching third parties on order of the king is illegal.
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Great perspective!
The fact that society no longer deals with criminals is appalling.
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There is another Magna Carta in Salibury Cathedral in Wiltshire. One of the only four surviving originals.
https://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/discover/magna-carta/
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And another in Lincoln Castle.
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I can see museums and art galleries refusing to allow any bags into their premises.
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That’d be discriminatory – they’d have to ban older men too.
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Sperm whales have complex language
New research:
“Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations”
Open access at:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8
“Sperm whale vocalisations are more expressive and structured than previously believed, and built from a repertoire comprising nearly an order of magnitude more distinguishable codas.”
Codas are their click like calls.
If only they could vote.
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Are they fighting amongst themselves? If not, perhaps we could listen in and get a clue on how to live in harmony with other human beings ???
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It’s amazing to me that environmentalists are prepared to wreck the joint, slaughter the birds, bats, wreck national parks, bulldoze private property, destroy habitats and National Parks and now attack the whales.
Environmental activists are a fifth column for the money men. And the nett effect of 36 years of this on Carbon Dioxide is absolutely zero! (which is why the focus on ’emissions’, but only in Democracies where you can vandalize anything and not go to jail forever)
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Something on Blue Whales – literally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWxdqOkJXU
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Talk with the Animals
In 1889, Oscar Wilde asserted boldly that “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpBPavEDQCk
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David,
I wonder how much of it is gossip ? If they have a “society” and language that’s on the cards . Did you hear about Wendy and the humpback…..?
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And the UN has doubled down on ‘The Sky is Falling’ and it’s your fault.. using their agents at the Guardian. Another fake ‘survey’ hit piece.
“Alok Sharma, the president of the Cop26 climate summit in 2021, agreed, saying “The results of the Guardian’s survey .. stop prevaricating and inject much more urgency into delivering on the climate commitments they have already made.”
Would those ‘climate commitments’ include the $100Bn in cash to the UN to fight CO2? It about the money, isn’t it? Too bad those COP communiques are not legally binding.
And the same people want another $100Bn to continue the war in Ukraine. What happened to the UN which was supposed to promote international peace and security? I guess the 80,000 UN people need to be paid. Even if half are contractors.
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THE DAILY CHART: PEAK CLIMATISM?
Matthew Yglesias, a progressive-leaning writer with a popular Substack site, reflected recently on how his views about climate change have departed from progressive orthodoxy. He writes: “I’ve come to see the mainstreaming of this fairly extreme approach to climate change as probably the central error of the contemporary progressive movement. . . Voters don’t care that much about the Democrats’ top priority.”
Maybe, just maybe, we have reached and passed peak climate hysteria:
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“The results of the Guardian’s survey .. stop prevaricating and inject much more urgency..” came about solely because they never asked any taxpayers “Would you be prepared to pay an extra 500pounds a month to help??”
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Live coverage of the Largest CME In 20 Years Headed Towards Earth
What impact will it have?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sOdBSnV8LM
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LIVE: Aurora Borealis Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_klLkbKmlY
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Question
In Australia, it is said that there is a lot of unused solar around noon and this is wasted. Some electricity companies even let you charge EVs for free at that time.
Instead of wasting this power or using it to charge EVs why can’t it be offered to people without solar panels who can install a battery to absorb it and use it later? Would that be economically worthwhile at current battery and power prices?
NOTE: I am not advocating for solar power. Any use of “ruinables” is a disaster. I am just considering ways of optimising the absurd situation we find ourselves in. Obviously we would be all better off using coal, gas, nuclear or real hydro (not SH2) power.
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Why not install more Tesla Megapacks on the sites of former Coal Power Stations?
https://www.energyco.nsw.gov.au/projects/waratah-super-battery
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In South Africa everybody who has solar power has a battery. You save your energy for when there is “loadshedding”. In Australia people should be saving their solar power to use during peak hours to avoid peak tariffs. Surprisingly, batteries are getting cheaper. Maybe its because they cant sell enough EV’s.
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A govt quango in the UK has issued guidelines about the placing of domestic batteries. They should not be placed in lofts, under stairs or in garages and must have good airflow around them.
In effect batteries are not safe anywhere near a house.
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RobB,
I have considered batteries for this reason and not the cost/benefit reasons . If we continue down our current path the South Africa scenario comes into play . Risk/reward also is a factor and for now its paramount as battery fires are bad news . I have not seen a battery system that addresses this issue adequately yet while still being effective . Lead acid systems do not allow full discharge and will swiftly deteriorate if this is done . Happy to be corrected…..
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Hi Old Goat
There are two types of Lithium batteries – Li-ion and LiFePO4 (Lithium iRon Phosphate). Li-ion is used in Teslas and laptops and blows up. LiFePO4 has a lower energy density so is less suitable for cars, but is used in households, where there is plenty of space in your garage. The main thing is that it is much safer than Li-ion, can do a full discharge, and lasts longer than Lead-acid.
Here is a longer discussion: https://www.anker.com/blogs/others/lifepo4-vs-lithium-ion
Cheers
Rob
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Answer
Why would you go to the expense of installing a massive battery charger say 24volt & >40amps , an inverter to convert DC TO AC >~3Kva, batteries with a life of 10 to 15 years if they are looked after and do not blow up and burn your house down and all that wiring and fuses that may be chewed by rats and burn your house down;
just so;
someone who is receiving a subsidy can install solar panels, a regulator, an inverter to convert DC TO AC >~3Kva, and all that wiring and fuses that may be chewed by rats and burn their house down?
Neither of the houses will be able to run air-conditioning, hot water or stoves for any length of time so what is the point?
So simple answer is that it is expensive, complicated, prone to failure and fraught with danger!
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Instead of wasting this power or using it to charge EVs why can’t it be offered to people without solar panels who can install a battery to absorb it and use it later? Would that be economically worthwhile at current battery and power prices?
There are retailers offering free power between 1100 and 1400 hours.
Lets say you can guranteee a daily consumption of 6kWh every day of the year then you could save around $2.40 per day over the life of the battery.
To get decent life you would need an 8kWh battery to pull out 6kWh each day. It will cost around $11,000. So payback period is
11,000/2.4/365 = 12.5 years
Other considerations are subsidies you might get to buy the battery. I have not allowed for any cost of capital. $11,000 would get to $20,000 on current TD interest over 12 years. The 40c/kWh I have used has some margin for inflation. I would not be surprised if electricity costs 60c/kWh in 12 years.
A significant benefit of having a battery with solar panels is to go off grid and save the connection fee. Most supply service fees are amount $1.20 per day. So that is another $438/year if you go off grid. This will be the area that suffers serious inflation over the coming years as remaining consumers are burdened with the costs of paying for offshore wind farms that cost a lit but produce very little. I also doubt that Snowy 2 will be able to cover its cost of capital and operating cost on price arbitrage so it might also hit consumer bills directly or taxpayers required to bail it out.
If you have faith in Minister Bowen to deliver his promised price cuts then it would not be worthwhile considering just a battery. However if you doubt there will be cost reductions in electricity bills then a battery should be in your thinking even if you cannot instal panels.
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In the Friday thread, RickWill wrote:
It’s remarkable to consider how inefficient SH2 is and what a huge energy waster.
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16GWh to charge it up and 10GWh back. That increases the cost of (coal) power by 60% and emissions by 60% if coal is used. No one will pay and it is a massive increase in CO2 as you cannot have 19 hours of solar and wind is not steady enough. Coal and gas can ramp up on demand so using coal and gas to charge the battery means a 60% increase in CO2. No one will pay to charge the battery and it cannot be filled with lunchtime solar.
It never made sense! And we would still be far better off financially if it stopped tomorrow and they also halved CO2 emissions by building a high efficiency coal generator. Then the expensive storage would not be needed.
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I expect SH2 will be mostly recharged by coal and will become even more useless than planned if they shut down more coal power stations.
SH2 will be like an electric car, mostly coal powered.
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There is nothing but coal which can supply this input for 19 hours. Which means that CO2 emissions from coal are nearly doubled. If 1/4 of the current projected cost was used to build a new coal power plant, emissions would be halved. We are far worse off with Snowy II in every respect.
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I expect Snowy 2 will get paid to take power for reasons of grid stability. There are already retailers offering free power from 1100 to 1400 every day.
Unless there is storage to soak up lunchtime power, there is no point in adding grid scale intermittent because it just gets pushed out of the market by rooftops.
Price arbitrage for batteries over the past week has averaged $523/MWh but it is usually around half of this. They also get the lion’s share of the FRACs market. By the time Snowy 2 is up and running (if ever) the price arbitrage could average $500/MWh over a year. It would also get some capacity payment and a decent share of the FRACs market.
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You might take a moment to check Ricks figures, rather than taking them on face value…!
Why does he quote 60% eff ?…when every other PH facility is between 70-87% eff ?
Why does it need 19 hrs @ 2GW, to recharge 10 GWh of discharge ?
…see my reply yesterday to Ricks post for more detail.
Snowy 2 is a cluster phuk of biblical proportions, but if it is completed it will be beneficial to the grid efficiency whether it is coal , nuclear, or fairy dust powered !
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“It will be beneficial to the grid”?
https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/stakeholder_consultation/consultations/nem-consultations/2023/draft-2024-isp-consultation/draft-submissions/mc2-energy.pdf?la=en
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Yet we did not require it before?
It’s good to bandage wounds, it’s best to avoid the wound.
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But before , we had more coal plant capacity.
..That is no longer the case and we now use expensive gas as a “Peaker” source.
SN2 could reduce the need for gas peakers and also improve the efficiency of any coal plants or other base load still running
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Every degree off vertical for the tunnels reduces efficiency. Snowy 2’s tunnels are 21 deg. according to this: https://aboutregional.com.au/tunnel-vision-turns-to-reality-in-snowy-hydro-2-0-milestone/424214/
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You cannot work on averages. That is where Finkel’s consultants failed miserably. AEMO no longer do forecasts on averages because they now realise volatility matters..
I am allowing a 19 hour window to get 10GWh of energy into the system with the aim of getting 6GWh out during peak periods. Most of the pumping will be during lunchtime when they will get paid to pump and soak up demand.
In the last week, the price arbitrage on batteries has averaged $523/MWh. This is unusual but it is not uncommon to get paid to $40/MWH to charge and $250/MWh to dischsrge. Snowy 2 will work the same way on price arbitrage.
You find me a published figure on round trip efficiency for Snowy 2 and I will use that. Otherwise it is a somewhat pessimistic 60%. It does not matter though because they will be paid to consume power so the lower the efficiency the more money that will make. As long as their recharge window is long enough and there is enough intermittent capacity to pump. They may not pump on a day like today when no region has had sustained negative prices. There may be times when they generate most of the day if prices are above $500/MWh.
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Assuming there is water to pump. Remember what happened to Tassie Hydro and pity the poor irrigators downstream.
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Obviously,…but i am pretty sure that is not what Rick was refering to !
..especially as the system is intended to operate as a “closed loop” water system !
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Obvious? please refer to this piece on climate and topography submitted by Dorothea Mackellar in 1904.
Mind you they had not invented Tupperware containers big enough to be reservoirs for a closed system in 1904.
Reservoir levels
Look at 2007 and 2008.
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“Obviously “=….all bets are off if there is no water !
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Here is an example of how China is dominating the manufacture of products that Westerner’s demand.
In the amateur radio world there is a Chinese handheld VHF/UHF transceiver called the Quansheng UV-K5(8), yes, a ridiculous model number. It has accessible firmware meaning it has come to be known as “the world’s most hackable transceiver” and supports a huge open source community writing firmware that makes it a vastly superior radio to what it came from the manufacturer as.
The amazing thing is that you can get one of these things delivered to Australia from China for around A$28 total cost including shipping and GST.
This compares to traditional equivalent Western transceivers (Japanese) Icom or Yaesu models which might cost A$400-500 and not have hackable firmware.
The Chinese radio is built very well, not quite to the standards of the Japanese but fully acceptable, especially at the price point.
It is not going to end well.
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QC is China’s biggest problem and always has been, but that’s why their stuff is cheap.
Coincidentally, I was looking at handheld Oscilloscope/DMM units yesterday, namely the Hantek 2D72 and the Fnirsi 2C23T.
The Hantek lacks the polish and has very silly features and bugs that should have been found and fixed prior to product release, but at least one can update the firmware.
Fnirsi wins, and 1/4 the price of a Fluke.
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I have one of those 2-channel scopes, was cheap to buy and works very well. Never thought that I would be able to buy a decent scope for occasional use.
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Which one Graeme? What cost and from where?
I have been reluctant to buy a Chinese sosciloscope but it would be nice to have. Have a few Chinese made meters that are OK.
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Owon SDS1102 Rick. I bought mine for around $200, but the current cheapest price seems to be $305 from AliExpress. A great scope. Also purchased another two for my training classes.
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FWIW
“The Rules of Sewage?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-rules-of-sewage.html
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“Rules of Sewage”
Billy Connolly – Sewerage Maintenance Joke
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=726444719087531
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FWIW
“Our mate Viv Forbes on the Carbon Capture Con.”
https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/carbon-capture-con.jpg
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/our-mate-viv-forbes-on-the-carbon-capture-con.html
Looks like another go at “Perpetual Something-or-other”
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FWIW – more covid scene
“James Woods’ 1-Word Reaction to Birx Admitting She Knew All Along COVID Vaccine Wouldn’t Work is PERFECT”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/05/10/james-woods-one-word-reaction-to-birx-admitting-she-knew-all-along-covid-vaccine-wouldnt-work-n2396121
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FWIW
“Anybody who has taken a serious interest in the relationship between the Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical and medical device industries is struck by an obvious fact: the revolving door between the regulators and the regulated is utterly corrupt. ”
More at
“Follow the Money”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/05/10/follow-the-money-n3788116
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New role for former TGA boss
Professor John Skerritt has been appointed to the Medicines Australia Board.Medicines Australia, the peak body that represents the nation’s pharmaceutical industry.
Drug regulators – the revolving door keeps revolving
Former TGA boss appointed to the board of Medicines Australia, hoping to advance “mRNA technology framework” in Australia.
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/drug-regulators-the-revolving-door
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There’s a fundamental problem with all government regulations … if you want someone who knows something, then you need to hire an experienced person who necessarily must have worked in industry. Then you have the “revolving door” and of course this person also has buddies still in the industry, a network of friends, and probably wants to keep future opportunities open.
If you hire someone who has never worked in the industry then you end up with a bozo who doesn’t know anything and typically will be a loyal party apparatchnik and gives the politically correct answer … depending on what is needed to win the next election.
Neither approach serves the public.
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From a comment on modern diesel trucks –
“That is why I will never own anything with a newer than 99 engine.
***** just sold a 2WS to go in a 2011 Pete 389 that has a PACCAR in it.
The owner told her that it been at the Pete dealer for 53 weeks, and it still won’t make a trip.
That would bankrupt the average person just the down time. ”
Living next door to modern EPA emission regulations
Another one
“5 times this year the 2020 frieghtliner has broke down. Only has 480k on it”
All emission related
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FWIW
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/dieselgreen.jpg
Vhttps://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/05/10/we-dont-need-no-stinking-giant-fans-91/ia
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We know “renewables” are paid in many secret ways from the government
Can anyone provide a link to a good article?
We know there’s the renewable energy certificates, but there’s a lot more – guaranteed offtake agreements, cheap finance and now the “capacitive investment scheme” the government try very hard to keep this massive waste of money away from the public – but it must be available somewhere?
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This recent article contains a link to Alan Moran’s Substack that details the renewables subsidies. Very interesting reading. The subsidies total $15.6bn annually and are increasing every year.
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/05/05/occasional-wind-solar-generation-guarantee-staggering-backup-costs
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On cyclists
https://twitter.com/i/status/1786428729327079802
(A bit salty for those of tender ears)
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If that is what AI can do for us…… pass me the drugs !
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAT-1xmbxEs
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FWIW
“Alarmism Now – and Then (Modern Malthusianism in its 6th Decade)”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/10/alarmism-now-and-then-modern-malthusianism-in-its-6th-decade/
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FWIW
“Carnival Rides”
“The miasma of anxiety befogging so many brains in our troubled land begins to lift as every narrative served up by the US fascist intel blob goes annoyingly stale and impotent. The worst media meme — that a vicious officialdom is “defending our democracy” — gets laughed out of the room now when repeated incessantly by such shills as Jen Psaki and Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC. Everybody understands they want to “defend our democracy” by cancelling your freedom of speech, pounding you into bankruptcy, and stealing whatever remains of your stuff.
Likewise, everything else, namely: that our doings in Ukraine are a “fight for freedom,” that “white supremacy” lurks just out of sight getting ready to pounce on the “marginalized” (who are actually running things, and doing it very badly), that “Joe Biden” turned around the economy, that “voting rights” equals non-citizens getting to vote, that election fraud is a “big lie” (and that the J-6 riot over it was an “insurrection”), and that the Covid vaccines were “safe and effective.” ”
More at
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/carnival-rides/
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I see personal responsibility still isn’t on the agenda.
I’m so old I can remember the demands for police to exit these places, self determination and all that.
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They may have to send in the special forces.
‘Fear of rape, death or arson’: TOs sue NTG over Jovi Boys terror.
‘The Wilsons say the Jovi Boys ‘continue to defy police online’ where they post pictures on social media and ‘brandish firearms, show offensive weapons and adopt obscene poses’. (NT News)
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Its a cross cultural thingy, American gangsterism gives meaning to their daily lives. Strongly suggest a special force of five unarmed officers confiscate the mobile phones of the Jovi Boys, denied their panacea they’ll quickly come to their senses.
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Concerns Mount Over Exploding Electric Vehicles
From the DAILY SCEPTIC
BY CHRIS MORRISON
Safety concerns around electric vehicles continue to mount with Australian fire and rescue services in New South Wales stating they might have to make a “tactical disengagement” of a trapped car accident victim if the battery is likely to explode.
Australian journalist Jo Nova covered the story, which was first mentioned in the EV blog The Driven, and commented: “They say the first responders need more training as if this can be solved with a certificate, but the dark truth is they’re talking about training the firemen and the truck drivers to recognise when they have to abandon the rescue.”
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Concerns Mount Over Exploding BESS Units
Around one Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) catches fire/explodes every month around the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM4ifQnIm2Q
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A new one for the JC2 lexicon:
POPUP- a Politician who Over Promises but Under Performs.
All part of Pollywood – the same lowlife lefties as Hollywood but in politics.
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News from the People’s Republic of Victoriastan
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13406005/judge-liz-gaynor-county-court-slams-police-violence-Covid-lockdown-protests.html
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The vote yesterday has confirmed UN destiny – suicide.
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Australia’s support for UN resolution on Palestinian membership ‘not recognition of statehood’, Penny Wong said.
They won’t get statehood until Hamas is history.
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I am not embarrassed to say that ME problems take second place for me.
Does P. Wong recognise that she, like and 90% of Australians, are here as “uninvited guests” ?
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We are a nation of immigrants, began around 63,000 years ago.
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Why do you presume to speak for 90% of Australians? Tad arrogant methinks.
If you are uninvited it is clear you should depart whence you came. I’m stickin’ around.
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My apologies for misprint – there was “me” between “like” and “and”.
I took your advice Hanrahan, I am not moving.
Who do you speak for ?
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The only one I’m authorised to speak for and I live here without anyone else’s approval being sought.
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Packers QB Aaron Rodgers vs. the White Coat Supremacy of Dr. Anthony Fauci
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers recently went on record criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci who, the football star said, “was given over $350 million to research this, to come up with drugs, new or repurposed to handle the AIDS pandemic. And all they came up with was AZT [azidothymidine].”
Rodgers is on to something, and there’s more to the story.
Anthony Fauci earned a medical degree at Cornell in 1966 but if he ever practiced medicine, it was only for a short time.
In 1968 during the Vietnam War, Fauci was drafted but rather than serving in a military hospital in Vietnam, he got a cushy “yellow beret” assignment stateside with the National Institutes of Health. Fauci’s bio showed no advanced degrees in molecular biology or biochemistry but in 1984 the NIH made him head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). For leading medical scientists, Fauci was a poor choice.
“This man thinks you can take a blood sample and stick it in an electron microscope and if it’s got a virus in there, you will know it. He doesn’t understand electron microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine. He should not be in a position like he’s in,” said Kary Mullis, who earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from UC Berkeley and won a Nobel Prize for invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
[SNIP]
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Gen Z are really miserable and this is why
Young Aussies are the most boring and miserable generation getting around, and now there’s research to show why.
When did young people become so boring?
According to a new study out of the United States, young people have stopped drinking.
We already know youths are imbibing less – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data shows a 133 per cent increase in 18-24 year olds being teetotallers in the past two decades.
A fifth don’t drink at all.
I’ve long thought this was because they had no friends – not ones they actually hang out with, at least – and now Carnegie Mellon University has proved it.
We live in a world more connected than ever thanks to technology. You can talk to anyone in any part of the world at any time.
And yet we’re more disconnected than ever.
An October 2022 survey of loneliness found more than a third of Australian adults felt lonely the week prior.
Those aged 18-24 reported the highest levels of loneliness.
According to the Black Dog Institute, depression among young Australian adults increased 72 per cent in the 14 years to 2022.
They’re not catching up at the pub anymore – they’re rotting at home sending each other messages instead.
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This advert could be the tipping point for the awful iPad
Apple has faced huge backlash over its latest advert and rightly so. A metal rectangle is no substitute for real play
WILLIAM SITWELL
It’s uniting actors and artists, musicians and writers, with Hugh Grant describing it as “the destruction of the human experience, courtesy of Silicon Valley”. I’m talking about the advert for the new iPad Pro, heralded by Apple as “the most powerful iPad ever [which] is also the thinnest”.
For child management, the iPad should be the last resort, that weapon to silence an annoying infant, for long car journey management or plane peace.
It is brought out reluctantly – for it is a slippery slope, a habit that is hard to break that stops a child from looking around them at the real world.
I remember the depressing site of seeing a child being wheeled through an airport, its gaze firmly on the iPad. I saw it again being pushed through the aircraft I was on and then lifted and put in a nearby seat. It watched the device as we took off then as we cruised at high altitude. Then after it fell asleep, the iPad was carefully removed from its lap. A few hours later, the child stirred and its parents quickly retrieved the device. Then, as the little one opened its eyes, there was the iPad, on and ready to ease the toddler back to consciousness. The child never looked up from the device.
I thought: what hideous cruelty inflicted upon the child, and then wondered why they seemed to want to raise a moron.
For that is what these things make us: morons. And Apple wishes to celebrate it.
How can it actually be acceptable for a company to attempt to argue that it is better for a human – a child indeed – to hunker down over a screen – than to experience real play, interaction, the use of muscles, of arms and legs, mouth and hands? It is as if that company wants us to develop a sort of locked-in syndrome, zombies with only eyes, thumbs and fingers, that it is somehow an aspiration to emit a trumpet sound or a guitar chord by pressing a button rather than creating it with our own developed talents.
Are we to gather for concerts to watch an individual hunker over the blue light of their iPad while they form the sounds of an orchestra?
It’s worth seeing that advert to witness the destruction of the trumpet, the piano and the metronome. Because I think it will genuinely repulse you.
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Have you noticed the way everyone is a genius when it comes to telling other people how to live?
Are kids bored in an airport? Yes, after the first time there’s nothing whatever that might interest a child.
There’s no “us” … this guy is speaking on his own behalf an no one else.
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Ozzie,
I have seen infants handed phones to entertain themselves while their parents are “busy” . TV used to be the preferred babysitter but technology has moved on . It is educational to note what happens when someone discovers that they have forgotten their “fondle slab” – in most cases they will go to great lengths to restore it to their direct possession . We are addicted .
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Another example of combined defence forces;
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Indo-Pacific/Germany-France-to-send-naval-and-air-forces-to-Indo-Pacific?utm_source=paid.outbrain.com&utm_campaign=BA_broad_CORE_PM&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=RSSfeed&dicbo=v4-njgDLTL-1131228701
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Generals (and Admirals) are always preparing for the last war
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What’s wrong with that if ALL Generals and Admirals are fighting the last war? Computer Generals in their underpants are the only ones fully informed it seems.
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IVERMECTIN – Then and Now
Saturday, 11 May 2024
Thanks to reader KB for the tip.
Trust the science… pic.twitter.com/uKe7o631Gt
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) May 8, 2024
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Boeing planes are built to the highest DEI (DIE) standands!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/another-one-boeing-737-crash-during-takeoff-senegal/
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Update: Doctors warn of deadly whooping cough epidemic sweeping Europe
European countries have reported a surge in whooping coughc ases in first quarter of 2024, with 10 times as many identified as in each of the previous two years.
Nearly 60,000 cases were reported by European Union and European Economic Area countries over the period, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said on Wednesday, with 11 deaths in infants and eight among older adults.
In the UK cases of whooping cough could reach a 40-year high in 2024, experts have warned amid a rapid rise in cases.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/whooping-cough-symptoms-incubation-pregnancy-b2541480.html
I said it was the only event of note on my radar…
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