By Jo Nova
Bloomberg is softening everyone up for the blackouts
The latest Bloomberg puff-piece is straight out of Renewables-Marketing-Inc. It’s a plea for people to get used to rearranging their lives to accommodate the failing grid, but mostly it is pure Psy-Op to train the minions to blame grid failures and expensive electricity on hot weather. That way, if climate change causes the grid to blackout, the answer is “add more wind and solar power”, right?!
Firstly, get used to less power and more suffering
Girls and Boys, you can’t keep using that air conditioner, or charging your car at peak times. Put down your lifestyle Susie!
“Extreme weather events of all kinds – heat waves, hurricanes, flooding events – are putting immense stress on the grid and on people’s lives,” says Kit Kennedy, who leads the power division at non-profit Natural Resources Defense Council [NRDC]. Simple actions by consumers, such as avoiding charging your electric car during peak hours and raising air conditioning’s temperature, can ease grid stress, Kennedy says. “Flexibility is going to be the key.”
Bloomberg makes sure readers know Kit Kennedy works for a “non-profit” agency but forgets to mention that the same NRDC, has $462 million dollars in assets to spend, and their Chinese branch is sponsored by Chinese national agencies, the staff in the Beijing office used to work for the CCP, and the NRDC thinks China is doing a great job. If Kit were linked to Exxon instead, they’d make sure we all knew that.
Perhaps that explains why the Bloomberg team write like communist kindergarten teachers:
Here’s what you need to know about how extreme heat affects grids and how you can help prevent blackouts.
Remember, if you can prevent blackouts, that means when they happen, it’s your fault! Don’t blame us, children. You turned on the oven…
Extreme heat is distorting the Grid
Apparently hot weather now causes nameless “generators” to be less efficient, and transformers to heat up, and it “distorts the normal flow of electricity”, too. If only the world wasn’t heating by 0.1°C every decade!
Get ready for some of the worst science writing you’ve ever seen, almost like someone is trying to torture metaphors:
How Extreme Heat Hurts Power Grids
In a way, the grid functions like a seesaw: it stays stable if the power supply and demand are equal. But periods of high heat can throttle the efficiency of power generation and transmission, impairing the supply. Meanwhile, more homes, offices, shops and factories will turn on electric fans or ACs, sucking more juice out of the grid. When the demand and supply fall out of balance, a power outage can occur, says Timothy Wang, a managing director at consulting firm Filsinger Energy Partners.
Strangely, no one worried that hot days would “throttle the efficiency of generators” during all the decades that we relied on coal and gas plants? Since old coal plants operate at 540 degrees Celsius (1,000F) it’s “not likely” they give a toss about a 2 degree rise in global temperatures. The generators the Bloomberg team don’t want to name are the ones starting in S and W. Solar panels lose nearly half a percent for every degree above 25°C. If they reach 60C in the blazing sun they lose 10-17% of their generation. Wind turbines, might work in the heat, but often hot days are windless.
They could have just said new unreliable generators don’t cope in the heat.
The transformers needed to keep electricity flowing can also heat up, limiting their ability to handle rising power needs. Elevated overnight temperatures means equipment can’t cool when the sun sets. If the power load on the grid goes up too high, an aging transformer could blow up, likely causing a power outrage or worse, a fire, Wang says.
Lord help us all. Old things break at high temperatures. So, they probably break at freezing temperatures too?
Next your electricity bill will be attacked by spooky wave patterns:
Extreme heat also distorts the normal flow of electricity on transmission lines, causing the electronic appliances in your home to use more power, Marshall says. That’s because electricity travels across high-voltage lines in waves, and when those wave patterns deviate from what’s considered ideal, it distorts the power that flows into homes.That can add as much as 20% more on consumers’ electricity bills, according to an estimate by Whisker Labs.
What Whisker Labs is probably trying not to tell you is that solar panels can cause voltage surges at lunchtime, and that will increase some electricity bills. In Australia solar gluts have pushed up power to the 253V limit. The high voltage will make heaters, toasters, hair-dryers and old air conditioners draw more power than they normally use, hence one more cost imposition thanks to renewables.
Blame Climate Change for high electricity prices too!
Extreme weather causes higher electricity price spikes, it’s such bad luck…
The consumers who are lucky enough to keep the lights on may end up paying more for their electricity. Wholesale electricity costs can spike in extreme weather. These prices are passed on to consumers on their monthly bills, but by how much and how quickly will vary.
Lower those expectations people — you will be lucky if the lights stay on.
There is sort of a feedback loop of supposed climate change causing more blackouts therefore we need more unreliables to combat climate change. And more unreliables cause more blackouts. Back to step 1.
At least TRUMP is putting a stop to that insanity in the US.
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Labor Blackout Bowen and the Sydney Moaning Herald keep telling us Renewables are cheaper
Final determination on 2025–26 safety net prices for NSW, SA and SE QLD – AER NSW 278,868 (8.0% increase)
https://www.energy.gov.au/news/australian-energy-regulator-releases-new-default-electricity-prices
Just Received New Charges from Red Energy due from 8 July 2025
Previously Time of Day TOD – Offpeak/Shoulder/Peak
Now only Off Peak/Peak – Shoulder has gone
Off peak has gone from inc GST 18.28c per KWh to 28.75c per KWh = 57.75% Increase
Peak has gone from inc GST 38.43c per KWh to 49.96c per KWh = 30% increase
Daily Supply Charge inc GST has gone from 95.41c to 102.87c = 7.8% Increase just under set increaseby AER for NSW
Off to https://www.energymadeeasy.gov.au/ on 8 July 2025 to change plan yet again
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Back in the 1990’s when Retailers were introduced to the electricity markets, a common belief was that we would have “a guy in a black porsche” setting up as Retailers (traders). That never really became a thing but we did get a number of smaller Retailers and so, for a short while, had a fair bit of “competition” and, on the surface, good deals.
But electricity trading is a very risky business. Swings of price in the wholesale market can cause massive changes in financial position and most Retailers had to acquire generation to help them hedge these risks.
Solar and Wind (particularly “distributed” versions) are reducing that hedging capability. The smaller Retailers now really struggle to keep financial heads above water.
And that explains why we now see them using huge tariff increases where once they were offering significantly lower “contract” prices compared to the “default prices” that come with a Standard contract.
Blockhead Bowen says consumers should “shop around” but, with very reduced competition, there just ain’t anywhere else to go.
Staying on the default Standard contract has turned out to be the best plan after all. And stay away from smart meters.
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Bit hard to stay away from smart meters when they’re mandated.
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Red Energy NSW offered to install a smart meter at my home last year and made it sound like them doing me a favour.
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Part of the sales pitch.
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In the words of the Four Yorkshiremen ‘ You were lucky”. I live on the Mid North Coast and Origin is my supplier. feed in =12 cents/kWh. off peak = 35.2660 cents / kWh. peak = 58.6960 cents/ kWh. Shoulder = 50.8310 cents/kWh. Supply = 203.2580 cents / day. In 2006 I was paying 5.9 cents/kWh for my irrigation and 10 cents for everything else. Aren’t we lucky to have renewable energy and weren’t we fortunate to have John Howard mandate its use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k
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The only feedback loop in that Article is the loopy people who think it and wrote it.
Absolute codswallop.
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Back in the day, if the grid got “stressed” that was a healthy sign of economic growth and the solution was simple.
Build more power stations to satisfy the increased demand.
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And mine more coal.
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So, we’ve gone from being able to supply enough power
for people and industry to use, with a lot available
as spinning reserve, to
this is all we’ve got, tough tittie if your light go off.
We are paying for a service, at premium prices.
They must be able to provide that service.
And in Victoriastan and soon, NSW, you can’t even
get gas to/in your house.
And changing from petrol/diesel for vehicles to battery
shifts the power supply needs.
Our politicians/bureaucrats are trying to kill us.
And the poor old consumer suffers.
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“Our politicians/bureaucrats are trying to kill us.”
Finally, someone else “gets it”.
All of that anti-scientific waffle from the usual suspects displays both criminal malice and terminal cretinism
I am suspecting the balance swings hard to criminal malice,
Those of us who actually work with things like internal combustion engines and electrical stuff, have picked up a few clues over the years,
In the electrical biz, there is a thing called “power factor”. Mostly about “load and impedance matching for the most efficient delivery of “energy” to the end user / device..Audio buffs will be aware of all the voodoo involved in the world of amlifiers and speakers. Basic reqality is that the “Output impedance” of the driving device, “amplifier” MUST match or be lower than the nominal impedance (fancy resistance for alternating current.
If there is NO “load” on the “power source” very little current will be flowing in the transmission lines Part of the trick, in both audio power and serious grid systems is to have EXCESS “deliverable grunt up the proverbial sleeve. This is because, in the event of e sudden increase in demand, (like a big drag-line or aluminum smelter kicking, the whole rock-show does NOT fall over.
It is like the terminal sociopaths declaring that nobody “needs” a car with more then 8 horsepower. Seriously, the Poms did this at a national level pre-WW2. While they were fooling around with the Austin Seven and other toys, the Trans-Atlantic cousins were perfecting a V8 for the masses; thank-you, Henry Ford. Such engines had been around for decades, but were exotic, expensive, imported and unreliable. WW2 intervened, with many Millions o the Ford “Flat-Head V8 powering trucks, tanks, generators, boats, etc.. GM and Chrysler were hot on their heels, with Chen having also noticed Cadillac;s fancy V8, took a couple of giant steps to produce the overhead valve, lightweight, “small-block” engine.
We are CONSTANTLY being lied to by VERY dangerous people, and, paying for it out of our own pockets.
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Ah yes, the Austin 7 with 8 hp, and a crankshaft with two main bearings, one at each end, on a four cylinder engine, astounding.
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>crankshaft with two main bearings, one at each end, on a four cylinder engine
Anything over about 2500 RPM and the crankshaft flex could cause the centre two pistons to hit the cylinder head with undesirable results.
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Yeah, but it’s cheap right?…Right?
Politicians from both major parties are responsible for this debacle.
Very few appear willing to buck the Net Zero narrative or to call out the lie that unreliables are cheap, cheap, cheap!
No wonder I refuse to vote for either party.
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In a similar vein only the logic impaired keep electing Albo and Bowen. Both are habitual spreaders of falsehoods who have the gall to lie on camera to the Australian public.
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With just 30 odd percent of the vote, a majority voted against them.
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“Extreme heat also distorts the normal flow of electricity on transmission lines, causing the electronic appliances in your home to use more power, Marshall says. That’s because electricity travels across high-voltage lines in waves, and when those wave patterns deviate from what’s considered ideal, it distorts the power that flows into homes.That can add as much as 20% more on consumers’ electricity bills, according to an estimate by Whisker Labs.”
Huh, ? what’s that about.
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It means the frequency goes out of range because there isn’t enough inertia.
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As I said in the post, this is likely the overvoltage issue caused by solar gluts at midday. AT 253W quite a few electrical items are using more electricity than they normally would.
They admitted this back in 2018:
https://joannenova.com.au/2018/11/white-elephant-solar-panels-force-feeding-high-voltage-raising-costs-breaking-things-shutting-themselves-down/
The tell-tale thing is the line “causing the electronic appliances in your home to use more power.”
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It could well be over-voltage.
is vague enough that it could just as easily be changes to amplitude or frequency.
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I think he is referring to the skin effect which generates more heat in the conductors and therefore more resistance and therefore higher power losses. If its a hot day then I suppose the effect is greater.
Typical illogical reasoning from a cult of doom member
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What is it about?
A brief acknowledgement that “heat’ in a conductor (like a wire), INCREASES the “resistance in said wire and reduces efficiency of te transmission line. If you “skimp” on the wire diameter, there may be issues, apart from the usual cash spillage. The very act of a current flowing in a conductor creates heat in that conductor. Hence, the electric toaster bar heater, etc.as the current continues to flow and the wire temperature rise, so does the “resistance”. . In yur toaster, the system achieves “equilibrium” fairly quickly, and that is a good thing. What these folk are “hinting’ at is the hazards to the grid of “climate-change” temperature rises causing transmission wires to become more ‘resistant and thus less “efficient”. Basically pseudo-scientific babble to frighten the peasants.These clowns DO NOT WANT the peasants to have ANY electricity: They are Death Cultists.
“Line’ frequency stability is vital because electric motors can be quite sensitive to it.A LOT of them are designed to run at a specific rotational speed which is determined by the Mains frequency.. This extend to things like the classic LP turntable, where variations in mains frequency caused unpleasant “wowing” of the music. Also, in the early days of analogue TV, the mains frequency “reference allowed relatively stable picture scanning. Hence 50Hz picture scan rates in most of the world, and 60Hz in places like the USA, Canada, Japan Digital TV is a whole different bucket of bait.
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That is utter anti-scientific nonsense and a meaningless, incomprehensible statement.
Trying to make some sense of this nonsense:
1) If it’s hot, the grid will be more heavily loaded due to air conditioning use. This means power lines (conductor, insulators, circuit breakers and other hardware) might heat up and they have a maximum continuous operating temperature of maybe 75C to 90C. A grid operator will seek to ensure that temperature is not exceeded.
2) Due to high grid load when it’s hot, due to air conditioning use, there might also be a voltage drop, especially if the grid has limited generation capacity due to the proliferation of solar and wind.
3) A certain appliance in your home might use more power when it’s hot, an air conditioner, for obvious reasons.
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Most people commenting in the media about “Power” have zero comprehension of either Power or Grids or Generation, or Stability, or Frequency, or Voltage, or anything related to Grid Power.
If the pundits don’t understand what they are commenting about, then their opinions are worthless.
How many people actually understand a Load Flow? https://electrisim.com/load-flow-power-flow
Because if they don’t, they have Zero competency in making any statement whatsoever about the Grid, Power, Generation, etc. They have opinions, yes, but opinions worth exactly nothing.
For the seriously curious: https://lanl-ansi.github.io/PowerModels.jl/stable/power-flow/
Blackouts are caused by conductor faults, equipment faults, protective relaying actions in consequence of the foregoing, or because of voltage or frequency collapse caused by inadequate generation or grid system response capacity failures. Ie, if you look at the first link, and understand what it says, it becomes rather clear that the instabilities related to intermittent generation are practically/mathematically impossible to control for any rational grid system. Physics rules. Not emotions or ideologies.
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Extreme heat also distorts the normal flow of electricity on transmission lines, causing the electronic appliances in your home to use more power,
“That is utter anti-scientific nonsense and a meaningless, incomprehensible statement.”
Thank you David.
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If we have an electricity blackout my gas fired home heater and my gas hot water won’t work because they have electronic thermostats.
I am thinking of getting a petrol generator.
Is there some way to wire it into my switchboard so that I can run my house during a blackout?
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The proper way to do it is that you need a grid disconnect switch and then a power input socket so you can power the house from the generator and not the grid. Obviously it has to be configured so that only one can be connected at a time.
A simpler way to do it if you only want to power the heater and hot water is to make sure neither are hard-wired but are plugged into a power outlet and then you can run them from your generator.
All that’s assuming the gas supply keeps running and remember that Australia is running out of both electricity and gas (because we export most of our gas and are shutting down the power stations).
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Yes, but it requires a certified electrician to install an isolation switch. (This prevents electricity flowing back into the grid when there is a blackout (safety for electrical workers etc).
Not sure about petrol generator. You would need to run the generator at least once a month (or more) because petrol “goes off” (gels) if left undisturbed.
Diesel may be a better choice or bottled gas.
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What capacity generator are you thinking of buying?
Your house is divided up into circuits, for example you will have a 32A circuit for your electric oven, you will have a circuit for the lights (maybe two or three) you will have circuits for your wall sockets (fridge, kettle etc) and you will have a circuit for your heater and hot water etc, etc.
You need to find out if your heater and hot water are on the same circuit (if not maybe move them to the one circuit), what is the current draw on these circuits (the size of the cct breaker will help you here). Once you have all this information you can then decide on what size generator you will need to run the circuits you want to maintain when the mains turns off.
Then as mentioned above you will need a switch to isolate these circuits from the mains because lets say you lose mains and so you plug in your generator and turn it on and then at some point the mains turns back on then things will go very pear shaped very quickly as both sources will be generating 240VAC at 50Hz and you have no way of synchronising that 50Hz so things will break.
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Something like this (diagram): https://imgur.com/2bf817Y
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Easy, talk to an electrician. I had my house wired that way about 10 years ago via the switch board. It will just cost you $.
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By the way, that 25 degC temperature for solar cells is the skin temperature of the cell, not ambient air temperature.
Why are almost all solar cells a dark colour? To absorb as much sunlight as possible. So what is the typical temperature of those rooftop solar panels? On a cold winter’s day in Victoria! On a typical summer’s day in QLD?
I suspect many rooftop solar panels exceed 60 degC on a regular basis in Australia.
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Solar panels work by absorbing photons of light, they work better when cold so in this case the cultists do have a point, the hotter it is the more inefficient solar panels become.
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Blame climate change (not renewables!)
In the USA, blame Trump.
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So why were temperatures 8 c higher during the Eemian and sea levels then were 6 to 9 metres higher than today in 2025.
Human population during the Eemian was tiny and possibly only 100 to 300 thousand and co2 levels were only 280 ppm. See even Wiki.
Also temperatures and SLs were much higher during the Holocene optimum and Ken Stewart used many studies to prove the point.
https://kenskingdom.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/the-worlds-biggest-thermometer/
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Here in “controlled outage” Victoria we’ve had a couple of blackouts in modern times affecting a significant portion of the state already. Not quite South Australian event, but close. Hence, it is more likely we will experience another very soon. The government love to blame the unreliability of coal without explaining how the coal plants are being run into the ground under minimum maintenance. But maybe there is some reality sinking in with our Labor government. Gas was going to be essentially banned from any domestic use in the near future. This week they’ve had a change of heart. Owner/occupiers apparently can retain their gas heating/ appliances for longer. Gee, thanks Jacinta!!! So, we people who love our gas in chilly Victorian winters and have been advised to install gas for the last 70 years are getting a reprieve. But we’e still getting nauseating ads from the gas industry advising us that we need gas to peak supply quickly when solar and wind crap themselves. Which is a lot. But we wouldn’t need gas peaking or mirrors/fans if we had stuck with coal anyway. Plus gas is essential for any industrial process require high heat inputs – like food processing, oil refining etc. That’s obviously how our original grid architects planned the system. Gas for heating liquids and houses, because it’s more efficient, electricity for everything else. Now, they’re even telling us “renewable” gas is good. What’s renewable gas, I hear you ask? It’s methane from digesters and perhaps hydrogen fed into the present gas supply to extend supplies. More desperate moves. Just build more coal you idiots or perhaps just maintain what’s there already.
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That is a logical fallacy by the alarmists.
They can’t or won’t explain how the situation will improve if we use NO coal at all.
We are being gaslighted (pun unintended).
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“We are being gaslighted (pun unintended).”
Where will they source the gas in future to gaslight us, bit of a worry.
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Talking of “outages”. The predicted wind conditions for the next 5 days is as flat as biscuit. A huge high is about to settle over Southern Australia and will produce extremely calm conditions. Which means states like Victoria will be running on coal, gas, hydro with maybe some solar. But when the sun goes down at around 5pm, there will be no solar. Which means the state will be energised by hydrocarbons predominantly.
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What if you live in a state that has no coal, gas or hydro?
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Have you got a paddle to go with that barbed wire canoe.
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I promise not to charge my electric car during peak hours.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81iDlDJPnHL._SL1500_.jpg
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I can make the same promise, but in case I forget I’ll also promise not to buy one at all.
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Yes, its typical of Climate Change stories. Utterly illogical based on untenable propositions. But even if you accepted that it is all real science, the politicians legislating the destruction of the entire energy infrastructure should explain the benefits? There aren’t any. No Australian politician has ever justified Net Zero.
Consider that most countries signed up for the 2016 Paris Agreement but only democracies totalling no more than 6% of the worlds’ population and 10% of the world’s governments have done a thing. And America has walked away. Again.
Why would anyone in their right mind utterly destroy their own country without being able to justify doing it? I would far prefer sheer stupidity was the answer. I doubt it.
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And if we don’t?
“The short answer is that there is no hard enforcement in the Paris Agreement. But all the members regularly meet, share progress, and renew their pledges of climate action, encouraging every country to step up its commitments.”
And no one has a list of which countries are ‘developing’ countries. Like China which claims despite producing more CO2 than all other countries in recorded history, that it is a climate victim.
Then there is the “Green Climate Fund” “as of Dec 2023, the GCF had a portfolio of 13.5 billion USD (51.9 billion USD including co-financing)
Plus the recent levy on bunker oil for all ships at sea, another cool $42Billion a year.
Not to stop the ships at sea, but to encourage them to change their evil ways. And perhaps move to electricity created by fairy dust.
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Power outage this morning in country Victoria came with hourly updates from Powercor to advise when full service would be resuming. Of course those estimates of return of service are designed for them to have a tolerance level, so they ‘over deliver’ when it’s back on an hour earlier than their sms announcement. These ‘suppliers’ are under delivering services. We aren’t forceful enough in Australia to holding them to account, but then we don’t actually have an opposition supporting alternative options.
It’s worth remembering that the Australian Labor Party ran the Victorian Labor Party when Despot Dan was the figurehead and they introduced all this de-industrialisation of Victoria. Obviously it was a test run for the roll out they had in mind for the entire country.
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Theoretically, smart meters communicating by wireless should allow the power transmission company to identify at the dispatch center where a line break has occurred. Allowing the repair crew to start close to where the fix needs to be applied. Or perhaps this thought has not occurred to the management.
In any case Western Power now has devised communication back through the power lines. Which seems to have some non communicating substations/transformers in between them and me.
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Joann,
I struggle for your country’s stupidity. Maybe one of Trumps kids can relocate to solve your problems.
Donating to your effort, less than usual since I retired.
Brad
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It’s those “old clunker” coal power stations you know! They ain’t what they used to be because renewable energy is much better.
sarc.
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Having lived with unstable power, the transformer type leads for laptops are really sensitive.
You notice that before they go pop and on fire that there is a smell – a sweet, perfume that is also slightly acrid, slightly citrus. When you smell that smell, unplug the laptop.
Smartphones or tablets weren’t around at the time I lived in unstable power. But they are pretty sensitive, so I imagine will suffer like laptops.
I would recommend no charging of devices overnight.
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Isn’t there some kind of intermediary gizmo you can buy to plug into the wall between laptop and mains power, which stabilizes the current?
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A UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) will do that. Beware they have a short lifetime, perhaps 3 years with lead acid batteries. And they will provide power when teh power turns off, at least enough for a graceful shutdown so you do not lose your work.
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once upon a time “constant voltage transformers” were a useful thing. Before “power strip” spike control. As they were not particularly inexpensive, their use was stripped away
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I saw one of them go poof and go on fire too. But certainly less frequent than the laptop leads.
As well as short battery life, they are expensive at purchase and not very portable – defeats the purpose of having a laptop as a member of a ‘mobile workforce’ – easier to just keep replacing the laptop power cords.
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There are other ways in which climate activists are destroying Australia.
In Victoria the government tripled the cost of coal when the decision was being made to close Hazelwood which ran at 98% of design efficiency for last month. That made it worthless. Despite billions in buying the State owned facility and $2.5Billion in upgrading, the owner walked away.
Two years ago Melbourne was receiving so many (very profitable) cruise ships that they forced the Tasmanian Ferry to Geelong. And the cash was greatly helping Melbourne recover from disastrous lockdown. But then the Harbor Trust tripled the cost of mooring from $5 per person to $15. Many liners said they would abandon Melbourne and last year the busy docks were empty. So from hero to zero. Who wins here. The government was getting $5 per person from tens of thousands. The shops were getting millions. Now they all get nothing.
Now in Queensland the Royalty on coal has soared and today in the news a private mine cannot afford the Royalties. Their story is that they have paid $120million in Royalties to the Queensland government and not made a cent in profit. So they will close, costing another 500 jobs. And of course one more coal mine closed. Let them make solar panels is the Albanese answer. We will be a solar panel superpower.
So I have to ask, what sort of mad government triples charges only to find they are paid nothing at all. Power stations gone, mines closed, tourists and ships told they are not welcome and State debts are soaring, nearly $200Bn in the state. In fact the Queensland government now complains that Royalties on coal are falling, upsetting their budget. And they are puzzled.
Normally you reduce charges to get volume and profit, not increase government charges until no one comes or buys. As the docks in Melbourne remained empty all summer, the people who saved the planet by telling cruise ships they were not welcome will be celebrating. On our taxes. As each coal mine closes, another win for the Greens. Simple. Tax them out of existence and then just tax everyone else to make up for the lost income.
It’s the same with electricity, just jack up the charges.
But wait till the 35% CO2 taxes in full hit everything in the country, hidden in every bill you pay. Consider a 35% tax on the cost of jet fuel will have on airfares. Or shipping and goods. Or mining. Coming by stealth to your country. To save the planet of course. For whom?
The only explanation is a concerted effort by Labor governments to destroy Australia while paying themselves more. Albanese has just bought his retirement home on the beach. He is set to retire on his indexed government pension, free office and staff. What does he care? He has saved China from CO2. And not wasted billions on defending the country.
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I was amazed. Keir Starmer and Donald Trump just had a meeting to affirm their committment to AUKUS. Our PM was not invited.
Possibly the whole world recognizes that Australia has become a vassal state of China, a new Venezuela.
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Replty to tdf @ 18…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_that_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs#/media/File:The_Goose_That_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs_-_Project_Gutenberg_etext_19994.jpg
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There’s a lot wong with what Wang says.
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I really tried to be polite.
Saturday morning cleanup, after Friday’s Cyclone Marcia in Rockhampton.
I’m cleaning up all the broken palm fronds, literally hundreds.
Neighbour from across the road doing similar, exchanging small talk on how we both fared.
He looked at our low set brick house constructed to Cyclone standard and noted we got of relatively easily.
Blah blah blah.
He noted that we should be right for hot water at least, pointing to the rooftop solar hot water panel etc.
So, I responded, where IS that, umm, rooftop solar hot water system.
It’s on your roof he replied, thinking how silly I must be for not knowing that.
Hmm, I said ….. I wonder how the water gets up to the rooftop solar hot water system?
Puzzled look.
With an electric pump, I patiently replied.
Oooooh!
The more I think I have dumbed down electrical power explanations, the more I know I need to try harder!
Tony.
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I thought you had moved south to Beenleigh
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Cyclone Marcia Rockhampton Friday 20 Feb 2015.
Tony.
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Bit hard, no; impossible to “shop around” power suppliers if one lives in Nth Qld.
Ergon or Ergon.
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May I repeat David Wojick’s post on Monday June 23
Sums it up
“Worrall on Oz grid price controls with a great picture of Clown Bowen:”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/21/australias-green-car-crash-grid-will-now-face-harsher-government-price-fixing/
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