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Victoria’s top energy and climate official, John Bradley, has abruptly quit as pressure grows on the state government to execute a sweeping energy transition plan to meet green goals and cut emissions.
“Victoria aims to reach a 40 per cent renewable electricity target this year and then turbocharge the rollout of solar, wind and batteries over the next decade to hit goals of 65 per cent by 2030 and 95 per cent by 2035, when AGL Energy’s Loy Yang A coal plant is due to shut.”
So in ten years we will have no carbon based power in Victoria? Even without the sheer impossibility of this, the soaring cost, the fragility and inadequacy, what is the actual benefit for Victoria? Anyone?
Are we stopping Global Warming in Victoria? How?
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Our renewable energy targets as legislated by politicians. And the state is already $200Bn in debt.
“Victoria’s renewable energy targets legislated in the Renewable Energy (Jobs and Investment) Act 2017 (Vic) are:
25% by 2020 (achieved)
40% by 2025
65% by 2030 (previously 50%)
95% by 2035 (new).
These targets include offshore wind energy generation targets, of:
at least 2 gigawatts (GW) of offshore generation capacity by 2032
4 GW by 2035
9 GW by 2040.
Our energy storage targets
Victoria’s legislated energy storage targets are:
at least 2.6 GW of energy storage capacity by 2030
at least 6.3 GW by 2035.”
I have to assume these are nameplate values, maximum available in the right conditions.
So if there is no wind and it is night time, where do we get our energy?
And much of what is in existence today will be non functioning by 2035 unless it is ‘repowered’.
Alice in Wonderland by a bankrupt state replacing what works reliably and forever by short life span unreliable replaceables at enormous expense and with billions in unique transmission lines. Nothing can go wrong.
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Meanwhile Africa, South America, Central America, India, China, United States and all of Asia are doing nothing, 95% of the world is not bankrupting their countries to prevent Global Warming. I would love to see the scientific justification of the now legislated destruction of Victoria.
But the current crop of lunatic politicians have form ” In 2020, Port Phillip Council conducted a review of council investment portfolio and adopted a nuclear-weapons-free investment policy”
“Many Australian local government areas of Australia have passed anti-nuclear weaponry legislation; notable among these are Brisbane, capital of Queensland, which has been nuclear weapon free since 1983, and the South and North Sydney councils.”
There is a world wide movement to make ballistic missiles illegal because they are indiscriminate in nature with poor accuracy.
Australia should go it alone and pass a law making the use of nuclear ICBMs illegal. And Global Warming.
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If we can so easily make nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles illegal in our regions then surely we could easily make those toxic turbine towers illegal.
Restore and upgrade our coal and gas-fired generation capacity.
Then all we need to do is tear those accursed towering feeble contraptions down.
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As Ronald Raygun may, or may not, have said:
Mr Communist, tear down these contraptions!
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“There is a world wide movement to make ballistic missiles illegal because they are indiscriminate in nature with poor accuracy.”
Well, they may want to ban ballistic missiles, but accuracy is not the reason at all! Russia is showing on a weekly basis that they can hit any particular building with them any time they like.
Anyway, you can see how successful their world-wide ban on land mines has been… Those big countries making them never signed the agreement, and happily sell them to third-world countries to use illegally.
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The terrifying thing is that the fake conservative Liberal Party non-opposition is more or less in agreement with Labor. And Liberals even colluded to ban fracking, in the state constitution of all things. Technologically and engineeringly illiterate politicians actually banned a technological process and wrote it into the constitution. Unbelievable!
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Has the Great Barrier Reef really become warmer?
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During the evening of 26th June I took some screen shots of AEMO and also of NEMwatch live Supply & Demand .
Just in NSW
The results are quite informative , I wish I could post them here .
Max load was 11,840 MW at 18:50 .
Coal struggling at 6785MW : one unit down at Eraring , one unit down at Bayswater .
Coal generation didn’t change much from that all evening as that was all they could give .
Watch out for flooding downstream , they’re gave the hydro a flogging : 1,507 MW .
Using up gas fast : 1,805MW
Wind useless at 228MW
No solar OF COURSE !
No wind in Victoria to import either ( not enough to even show on the graph )!
4 hrs, 10 min at ( my guess ) an average of $12K/MWH . Peak price $16,120/MWhr at 20:50hrs . At 2100hrs the price dropped to $680/MWhr . Did the retailers see that coming or is this going to cause the NEXT price rise ?
Just wondering …… how would we go if all 4 units at Eraring were shut down ( as they intend ) ??
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Most interconnectors are close to maxed out with Qld exporting 1.2 or 1.3 gW consistently. If the price goes over $1,000/NW, as it has, it’s a nice little earner.
Bass Link has been getting a lot of use, both ways. If there is wind they import 500MW so I guessed they must be having a dry spell but when the high parks over the south they export the same. Are they at risk of needing diesels again? Even now, well before the AM peak they are running diesels.
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“Even now, well before the AM peak they are running diesels.” was referencing SA, not Tas.
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7.20am look at Tasmania and:
Flinders – Wind/Solar OFF: Deisel 100%
King – Wind/Solar OFF: Diesel 94% (maybe the coffee shop hasn’t opened yet?)
Both sites, while running on diesel, are replenishing their Flywheel (Flinders -41kW and King -147kW) with Flinders also pumping into its Resistor which showing -2kW. To my mind when either site is “100%” renewables this operating time should be adjusted to reflect the fact that the backup is actually (still) using fossil fuel charge source.
Oh Happy Days.
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9.20am woke (as in risen from sleep) look at Tasmania and:
Flinders – Wind OFF Solar 9%: Deisel 91%
King – Wind -9kW* Solar 6%: Diesel 93%
*we know renewables suck overall but in no wind/resting point of blade state does gravity cause the blade to rotate backwards and individual wind turbines suck on their own?
Spirit In The Sky
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NSW might want to build another interconnector across the QLD/NSW border, QLD probably has a bit to spare them.
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A crash course
Net Zero For Dummies
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GuUyH_saMAAlO95?format=png&name=900×900
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Australian Governments, federal and state, as well as their agents of the Left, are always talking about the supposed need for ever more and larger taxes and are trying to invent new and “innovative” types of taxes. The latest being a wealth tax disguised as an unrealised capital gains tax on large superannuation (retirement fund) balances. And they are also thinking about a sugar tax, as I mentioned yesterday. There are others being considered, no doubt death taxes as well.
The real problem is not that the Government is not getting enough tax, it gets plenty of tax.
The problem is that the Government is SPENDING too much. And since Australia is now a virtual One Party State with no meaningful opposition (with the opposition fake conservative Liberals being almost indistinguishable from Labor in any case), the Government is doing whatever it wants, including spending without limit.
Back in the day, even Liberals in opposition would complain about too many and too high taxes and excessive and wasteful Government expenditure but this is no longer a part of their agenda.
This situation is unsustainable, especially as, by design, the economy is shrinking due to the ongoing destruction of power stations and the inexpensive energy they produce (and large cost imposts imposed on efficient power stations being collected by the owners of wind and solar subsidy harvesting installations). Inexpensive energy used to be a main competitive advantage of Australia, now expensive energy is a major economic burden causing the destruction of the economy.
It’s not going to end well…
See current Australian Government debt, federal, state plus local:
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
$2.112 trillion+ and increasing at a frightening rate.
And no one (most present company excepted) seems to understand or care. Including the main “opposition” political party, the fake conservative Liberals.
Also, as I’ve said before, I think most politicians are so innumerate that they really don’t understand the size of such numbers and I doubt most could write “one billion” or “one trillion” in numerals. They are just meaningless words to them.
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“And no one (most present company excepted) seems to understand or care. Including the main “opposition” political party, the fake conservative Liberals. Also, as I’ve said before, I think most politicians are so innumerate that they really don’t understand the size of such numbers and I doubt most could write “one billion” or “one trillion” in numerals. They are just meaningless words to them.”
Its very hard to make someone understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it! Its a feature of this abysmal system called democracy, there is no incentive at all for any politician NOT to spend more money than they can rake in, its not their money and the problems of paying it back will be someone else’s. Many of them are lawyers, and THEY understand the value of money and how much they can corral! The rest are Union officials who can count a thick envelope full of hundred dollar bills without opening it, and THEY understand how money comes and goes.
Their incentive is to buy votes, and until that changes nothing else will.
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University of Missouri professor, a centrist on climate change, loses weather page to Facebook removal
https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-a-centrist-on-climate-change-loses-weather-page-to-facebook-removal/
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It’s very disappointing that they are still censoring opinions not in accordance with the Official Narrative, especially after TRUMP, warned social(ist) media to stop censoring conservatives or they’d lose their Section 230 protections.
Also, what likely happened, I suspect, is that there was an orchestrated campaign by Leftists to complain about the professor due to his not believing in the Official Narrative. Therefore he was to be silenced as Leftists are intolerant of alternative opinions, hence their belief in censorship.
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Very interesting comment on tornado numbers..
“How climate change fits in with tornadoes is difficult to say because tornadoes are notoriously difficult to gauge trends by,” he added.
“To count tornadoes you got to have somebody to see it.
So, if you look at tornado numbers, they’re generally biased to where you have a [large] population and-or radars.”
“A hundred years ago,” he noted, “the weather bureau thought that [the] normal amount of tornadoes in the United States was 100. Today we know it’s 1200.” This, he said, is partly because we have more people, as well as new technologies.
So now they are censoring common sense.
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It’s painful enough listening to Their ABC Australia, the one billion dollars+ per year taxpayer funded Leftist propaganda machine.
It is made FAR worse by the fact that so many of their guests, always Leftists as they never or rarely have conservative guests, speak with an extremely annoying high rising terminal speech intonation. It’s like being forced to listen to fingernails down a chalk board.
Why do so many Leftists speak like that?
From Wikipedia:
It seems to me to be a sign of 1) being a Leftist, 2) insecurity, not really believing or understanding the BS they’re saying and 3) poor education.
I’m sure there’s plenty of scope for academic research on the topic. Researchers could just claim it has something to do with “climate change” so they could get funding. And it really does of course. Most Leftists believe in anthropogenic climate change and most Leftists speak with high rising terminal.
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Also, have noticed over the years far too many ‘reporters’ have no clue regarding directions, ie. North East West South / NEWS, for instance the Beeb’s well-travelled Lyce Doucet (French Canadian) reporting earlier this week Iranians fleeing over the border to Armenia & Azerbaijan to the “north-east” of Iran.
Perhaps all those ‘stans to the north-east would welcome refugees (or not) however even Alexander the Great knew the Caucuses Mountains lay to the north-west of Persia. A minor quibble but, news you can trust?
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I remember in a news item about a recent Sydney to Hobart yacht race the “journalist” said the yachts would exit Sydney Harbour and head NORTH. The cluelessness was simply staggering.
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Thanks for reporting on the enemy David, but please, it’s BLACKboard. As opposed to WHITEboard, which seems to be acceptable to all despite equally racist? connotations.
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Thankfully, you do it so we don’t have to.😉
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Thanks, now I know that kind of speech has a scientific name.
My ears are of that rare kind, well may be not that rare.., anyway I can not repeat even a simplest child song.
But even I recognise the ABC voices through the walls and they are so infuriatingly predictable !
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Watch: CNN Forced to Pile on Praise for Trump Economy – Market Near Record and Improving 200 Percent Faster Than Expected
Most CNN anchors and reporters would rather swallow shards of glass than say anything favorable about President Donald Trump.
… CNN Business and Politics correspondent Vanessa Yurkevich joined Boris Sanchez, one of the hosts of “CNN News Central,” to discuss the “impressive,” “remarkable,” and near-record performance of the stock market in recent months.
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-cnn-forced-pile-praise-trump-economy-market-near-record-improving-200-percent-faster-expected/
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Meanwhile, back in Oz, Americas Allie, where the prime minister cannot even get to speak with Donald Trump, we continue with the very subtle insults to the president of the United States.
On last nights channel 7 news, the President of the US, was referred to as “Mr Trump” complete and utter petty BS. I have heard this very soft insult a number of times on the media, how very condescending.
No wonder our deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Marles was relegated to the back line at the Nato meeting, as far away from President Trump as could be done.
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Australia is no longer a reliable American or Western ally.
I would be surprised if the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal goes ahead in its present form if at all.
And Australia is not spending enough on defence and yet still expects protection from the United States. The US has asked us to spend more (see below). Rather, Australia would rather burn money on insane attempts to alter the weather and numerous other areas of unrestrained Government waste.
We shouldn’t be freeloading on the US. If Australia requires military assistance from the US, don’t expect it to be a high priority.
Many Labor politicians feel a greater affinity to China than they do to Australia, the US or the West in general.
Also, I suggest you look at the book by Trevor Loudon, “Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism”.
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Albanese won’t meet with TRUMP but he is about to meet with Emperor Xi for the fourth time.
Whose side do you think he’s on?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/albanese-to-have-fourth-meeting-with-ccp-leader-xi-jinping-5878001
(PAYWALLED, but you get a certain number of free reads so might be able to see it).
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This has also been noted in recent days in The Australian – especially by columnist Peta Credlin.
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‘Whose side do you think he’s on?’
Our side, China is our biggest trading partner.
Has Albo been informed that Xi is not the man he once was, a doppelgänger stand up meets quarry master. That might be too risky, so in July he will be told the good news, Xi is going quietly.
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“Australia is no longer a reliable American or Western ally.”
True, true.. America’s lapdog actually, we will send troops and materiel to wherever America starts their next war, and if you think those Marines are in Darwin for some R&R, I have bad news for you. There would be a colour revolution if an Australian Govt tried to kick the Yanks out, overwhelming protests against the Govt with pre-printed signs and American flags, and the President would have the Marines ‘assist in a Police Action’ which somehow resulted in the Govt resigning. Happens everywhere else, why not here?
I doubt that America would get too excited about defending us if China invaded, we’re just not worth that much to them, our only use is as a Southern Ocean military base and probably the Philipines would be cheaper!
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Sambar,
Nothing wrong with that. Wikipedia tells us:
In context, that is for a letter to the *President*. Amusing to read that John Adams wanted the President to be introduced as “his majesty” and what Jefferson and Franklin thought of that idea.
Surely you also remember hearing plenty of quite respectful reports about “Mr Nixon”, “Mr Carter”, etc., from decades ago.
For proper disrespect you can switch over to the ABC, where many shows skip the “Mr” or “President” and make do with “Trump”.
These titles are a bit of a hot-button thing for me. I detest the way Australia’s media has adopted phony honorifics for its politicians. It’s not “Prime Minister Albanese”, it’s either “Prime Minister” or “Mr Albanese”; it’s not “Minister Bowen”, it’s “Minister”, or “Mr Bowen”, etc. I think this came on with increasing numbers of women in the ministry, and sensitivities about Miss, Mrs or Ms. Lazy reporters created the “Minister” honorific instead of finding out ministers’ preferences. Of course the pollies love it, but they’d probably quite like “your majesty” too. Doesn’t mean they should get it.
I’m more inclined to withdraw their entitlement to “the honourable”.
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“I’m more inclined to withdraw their entitlement to “the honourable”.
The Honourable so and so fits them as well as Honest Al, used car saleman.
Whenever I hear ‘honourable’ used , I immediately picture ‘Honest Al and his ‘preloved’ cars.
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The last few weeks have been a triumph for Trump but his haters will still accuse him of playing too much gold. The man has been busy as a one-armed paperhanger in a gale.
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Eagle kill research ignored.
https://www.cfact.org/2025/06/25/feds-ignore-their-research-on-windmills-killing-eagles/
Note last part about using a giant air gun to shoot fake eagle bodies into spinning wind turbine blades. Sounds like fun.
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There was a story, maybe true, years ago when they were testing high speed train front windows for bird strikes by shooting chickens at them. The results were disappointing until someone suggested defrosting the chicken. Tall tales and true.
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That story is usually told about aircraft engines but British high speed train windshields are another variant.
It is true, however, that aircraft engines and cockpit windshields are tested with high speed impacts using thawed chickens fired with a chicken cannon as these represent a realistic bird strike scenario in terms of the size of the bird although not the species
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Surely with temperatures about minus 50C in the troposphere they should use frozen chicken?
Or Australian Test Cricket openers?
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Here is a list of high-flying birds and their altitudes.
Some are recorded as flying at 37,100 feet
Presumably these birds were not frozen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_heights?wprov=sfla1
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Here’s one from trusted medical (doctors always speak truth) source. Elderly patient on 3rd visit regarding bad case of constipation. Previous visits had resulted in suppository approach, initially 1 every 3 days then increased to 1 per day but still no relief.
Dr: “You are putting these up your back passage like I told you?”
Frustrated elderly gentleman ”Yes doc and after you increased the dosage, I also put a couple in the lounge, the kitchen and 4 in the bedroom”.
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That joke finishes “For the amount of good they are doing I may as well stick them (where the sun don’t shine)”.
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UPenn climate scientist’s Michael Mann lawsuit award drastically reduced, has to pay opponents’ legal fees
https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-climate-scientists-lawsuit-award-drastically-reduced-has-to-pay-opponents-legal-fees/
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Unfortunately Big Green will probably pay his expenses. After all, he is one of their most important advocates. People still believe in his “hockey stick” today.
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Indeed, a friend of mine recently took an online course in “climate change” from American University. It featured the hockey stick. When I tried to show him the UAH satellite record he said he was too busy to look at it.
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What is the value of equal Justice for everyone in Victoria ?
How much time and effort was required to decide if John Pesutto had wrongly described Moira Deeming?
One afternoon over 2-3 beers.
But no !
Only her legal costs were about $2 million.
Much hope for normal working Victorians.
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They just declared victory all around and kicked the can down the road yet again.
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Exactly! Things have to be really really bad for that not to happen, a Vietnam or Afghanistan level of hanging off the last helicopter for it to be anything else than a victory. Iraq, victory, Libya, victory, Yemen, victory, Syria, victory… and all of those are waiting to flare up again.
I expect the same with Russia and NATO in Ukraine, both sides will declare victory and rush to re-arm for the next time.
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Surely the Liberals can find a better “leader” than Susssssan Ley?
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I think this is a situation where many people will “die wondering”
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I know a fellow in my club who told me yesterday that having invested a large amount of money in his solar system a few years ago, he was just advised by his electricity provider that they will no longer be paying him a feed-in tariff. So he will be providing electricity to the grid for free. This is in Victoriastan.
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This may be part of the “driven willingness” of solar system owners to “freely give” their output to be stored on a local community battery then at night/peak time the area draws back i.e save the national grid. The guff Ive seen talks about both getting money (through your donation) then saving money (by drawing back) of course the draw back would very quickly cancel out the donation. The guvment gotta policy plan already:
[AI] Community batteries are part of the Australian Government’s Community Batteries for Household Solar program, which aims to install 400 batteries across the country.
The program’s benefits include storing excess solar energy for families and households to use during peak times.
You will own nothing (including “your” roof top) and be happy.
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Seems community batteries are really taking off … including going airborne. For those who thought wind turbines on the skylines were a hideous sight You Ain’t Seen Nothing yet and you don’t have to go outback to blight your vista.
A 9-page FAQ available here states on page-5:
– each battery module is either 30kW/60kWh or 40kW/80kWh. This means, if they are fully charged, they can supply enough power over about two hours during the evening peak, at the full discharge rate, for about 10-15 customers. That’s up to 4kWh to 6kWh of energy per customer.
Peak demand time for QLD is 4-8pm so did quick check of our solar stats for Mon/Tues of this week and between these hours our “bought from grid” was 11.40kWh and 8.54kWh respectively. Low of .08kWh between 4-5p Tues, peaking at 5.48kWh between 6-7p on Mon.
So, if my fellow 9-14 customers sharing a single battery operate similarly that 2-hours of “consensual joining” suddenly starts looking like a quickie. Either way WE ARE SCREWED.
Energex backgrounder including floating battery pic here.
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Wait till they start charging for the electricity you feed to the grid during the day!
Didn’t it start already in NSW???
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Yes I believe NSW Mexicans are paying to feed in between 10a-3p each day as outlined with this backgrounder from last year. Up here in Qld we have the enshrined in law 44c per kWh until 1 July 2028. The energy mobs up here phased out their individual feed in payments in addition to the guvment one some time ago. AGL was paying 10c then dropped to 7c then just dropped it. New solar connections without the 44c get anything from 6c kWh to 8.75kWh. So far no talk up here of charging to feed in during mid day hours like NSW. Cheers.
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I notice that Australia has opened a ballot for the residents of Tuvalu to apply for visa to live in Australia. Apparently Tuvalu will become uninhabitable in 80 years time due to “climate change” so some residents will have the opportunity to move to higher ground in Oz.. Now this predicting the future thing has me a bit amused. 80 years is a long time to wait to be proved wrong. Maybe someone could predict how much electricity will be produce by wind turbines in my area today. My prediction will be “very little”. I’m happy to be proved wrong by tomorrow!
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You know it has to be BS when even Their ABC did a “fact check” and agreed with Craig Kelly’s claim that Tuvalu was expanding not shrinking….
As new Australian citizens, I wonder how many of these Tuvaluans will engage in productive work as opposed to being life-long welfare recipients? Australia seems to prefer the latter for its Labor-voting immigrants.
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Preston Stewart gives another BDA on the attack on Fordow, but this is different, the new stuff starts around 17 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vaRYZV_TY
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FWIW – on Vitamin F
https://thefenbendazole.com/joe-tippens-protocole/
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FWIW – re “multiculturalism”
“NYC Shows You Can’t Import The Third World Without Importing Its Failed Politics”
“Importing a large number of people from nations where liberty does not thrive and making no demand of assimilation doesn’t create a melting pot. It creates a powder keg.”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/25/nyc-shows-you-cant-import-the-third-world-without-importing-its-failed-politics/
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The size of the experiment –
“40 percent of New York City’s population is foreign born. Not just second and third generation immigrants. Foreign born. Almost half the city wasn’t born in this country. NYC isn’t an American city anymore by any reasonable definition of the term. It’s a tragedy and a disgrace.”
https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1937850316898152645
Via
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/06/26/matt-walsh-tim-miller-back-and-forth-n2414774
and Instapundit
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FWIW
“The Pitfalls of Observational Studies”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/26/observational-studies/
And
“BBC Celebrates Sales of Heat Pumps Rising From Near Zero to Near Zero!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/26/bbc-celebrates-sales-of-heat-pumps-rising-from-near-zero-to-near-zero/
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I know I speak for many off us when I say I am tingling with anticipation for the upcoming EV motor show. Take my money!
https://www.mcec.com.au/whats-on/2025/06/melbourne-international-ev-autoshow
Its only to be expected given the booming sales and all the talk of tipping points.
Meanwhile, in Realityland
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/byd-slumps-after-scaling-back-production-rising-inventories-slower-sales-growth
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Sorry Yarpos, meant green; poorly directed thumb.
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This lying WEF puppet is coming for your ID and ‘wrong’ ideological content
The plan kicks in December 10, 2025
…this is the same bureaucrat who launched legal action against Elon Musk’s X platform last year, demanding global takedowns of controversial content
The so-called eSafety agenda has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with surveillance.
…here’s the hypocrisy that screams to be acknowledged: if age verification is so vital, why is the eSafety Commissioner not demanding the same for pornographic websites? These sites are scattered across the internet, accessible to any child with a phone and a moment alone. No log-in, no ID, no warning. Just one click and it’s there. If children truly need to be shielded, wouldn’t that be the front line? Or is this crackdown only meant for platforms where ideas, not images, are the threat?
Opposition voices like Senator Matt Canavan have called this out. “Why does our government think it is their job to decide what people watch and listen to?”
…this is a calculated attempt to seize control of the digital public square. To eliminate private, anonymous communication. To install government oversight into every screen, every app, every interaction. It’s not just about kids, it’s about all of us.
…There will be a permanent ban on freedom online.
https://cairnsnews.org/2025/06/26/this-lying-wef-puppet-is-coming-for-your-id-and-wrong-ideological-content/
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Vic council worker wins legal case for unfair dismissal for refusing acknowledgment of country
https://youtu.be/3tpZKkqIiKQ?si=YHw7JeT9imSDzpFi
I for one am sick of this acknowledgment bs.
You were here first and we were here second.
Get over it. Do you want a trophy?
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The collapse of the feminist movement
No one looks at a spinster and sees her as “powerful” or free. Everyone can smell her failure. Her desperation. Her cope. This is why, more and more, we are beginning to see a sense of panic among women who bought into the feminist con game. They’re realizing that men are not chasing them anymore.
Recent surveys reveal that 63% of young men ages 18-29 are single. Around 30% of men have not been sexually active for a year or more. In 1980, 60% of adults were married by the age of 25. Today, only 20% are married by age 25. Men are exiting relationships and marriage at record pace, and because men are the initiators of relationships (men are biologically designed to take risks and pursue), women are starting to feel the pinch.
The latest data predicts that 45% of women ages of 25 to 44 will be single and childless by the year 2030, and not necessarily by choice.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/feminists-are-begging-men-come-back-still-blame-them-everything
No kidding. Bring back real women, with no tattoos, no trowled-on makeup, no botox and pudginess, no cold scowls, no attitude, no entitlement.
Of course the female biological clock, coupled with everyone’s favourite injection has pushed that narrow window into the early to mid 20’s now.
Maybe an epidemic of crazy cat ladies is on the cards.
No vaxx for that…
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An excellent take by one of the Lotus Eater guys, on a similar theme. 10 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhJO6dm_FlM
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Couples are sexually active, but the young ones are no longer desperate to get married. It depends a lot on the culture and economic circumstances.
‘Unmarried men in China have become part of the so-called “era of leftover men” (shengnan shidai in Chinese). This is an internet term that loosely refers to the period between 2020 and 2050, when an estimated 30 million to 50 million Chinese men are expected to be unable to find a wife.’ (The Conversation)
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Darwin awards: dumb guys and ladders
https://www.tumblr.com/sw1tchbackli/787386582248423425
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“Men are not made in comfort.
They are forged — like steel — in the fire of struggle.
It’s the pressure that sharpens the edge…
The pain that burns away weakness…
The repetition that builds resilience.”
Totally.
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That’s why men are in such short supply these days. Too many mollycoddled PC woke snowflakes.
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When you give 110%
https://x.com/GOPoversight/status/1937539891157451248/photo/1
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Vitamin D helps lower the risk of colorectal cancer by up to 58%
New research involving over 1.3 million people shows that higher blood levels of vitamin D are linked to up to 58% lower risk of colorectal cancer, especially in women. Vitamin D helps slow cancer cell growth, support gut health and reduce inflammation, factors that are all important in preventing tumour formation in the colon.
A whopping 80% of adults are either deficient or insufficient in vitamin D, which significantly increases their risk of developing colorectal cancer over time.
https://expose-news.com/2025/06/26/vitamin-d-helps-lower-risk-of-colorectal-cancer/
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Interesting. Husband tested positive about 15 years ago to one of those tests that used to be posted out. Was referred to a top colorectal surgeon who took out a section of bowel affected by early cancer. Since then we have been on a super healthy diet and, living on a farm, he gets plenty of exercise and sun. But, contrary to sceptical GP, we have also had daily Vitamin D3 (together with Vit C, Coq10, Curcumin, Magnesium, Cartia, and an excellent probiotic of Bifidobacterium Longus). In the last month he had the usual 3 year colonoscopy – all clear – and surgeon was exceptionally impressed with his healthy bowel and over all excellent health.
Our pharmaceutical obsessed medical profession continue to doubt the efficacy of vitamin supplements. I especially question why they are sceptical about probiotics. I reckon they actually improve mood – not surprising because of the gut/brain axis.
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Having experienced an episode of atrial fibrillation a few weeks ago (on top of longstanding heart issues) I started to pay attention to me heart rhythm using an at-home ECG and device to monitor my SPO2 while asleep. I am none the wiser as to why the AFib occurred, but I did finally understand some weird awakenings I have suffered for ten years or more. Despite using a CPAP machine, I was having very low SPO2 episodes that weren’t apnea-related.
One of the remedies I tried was Quercetin, which is said to benefit heart function. Well, as the saying goes, “Bugger me!” Those low SPO2 episodes have almost disappeared.
So, having an appointment for a stress echo at my cardiologist’s clinic yesterday, I took the opportunity to talk to him about this ‘miracle’.
Turns out that, despite being a professor of cardiology and having decades of experience, he claimed to have never even heard of Quercetin, much less have an opinion about it. Disappointing, but not surprising unfortunately. So many ‘specialist’ medical practitioners have tunnel vision these days, simply parroting the ‘accepted wisdom’. Just how much training does a person need to do that, really?
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A bit like a recent trip to an orthopedic surgeon recently where he claimed no knowledge of CoQ10? Even though good muscles definitely speed recovery of orthopedic “transactions”
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Investigations currently ongoing into the suspicion once again that Israel may have used depleted uranium weapons against Iran.
No accusations of chemical weapons this time as yet.
Hindustan Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqCVxwh4sqE
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Israel has the right to defend its self by any means deemed appropriate.
Flame suit buttoned up tight, hatches checked and rechecked 🙂
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Nothing wrong with a 10 to 1 response ratio either.
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And if you aren’t cheating you are letting your soldiers down.
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I wonder where the money goes? Friends of a friend, a psychiatrist couple, work online for a Melbourne pain clinic, between them 52 hours a week, $20 000pw, @$250ph. I wonder how much the clinic is charging?
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That’s just over one third of the hourly rate my lawyer is charging.
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FWIW
Looks like another “Hot night for AEMO”
https://reneweconomy.com.au/nem-watch/
Seems that the wind has gone far away?
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FWIW
“VDH: In the End, Everyone Hated The Iranian Theocracy”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/vdh-end-everyone-hated-iranian-theocracy
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FWIW
“Aus red meat sector drops Carbon Neutral 2030 target”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/aus-red-meat-sector-drops-carbon-neutral-2030-target/
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Fancy that- a High in the bight. Mid week. The cheek of it. Winter time too.
Tasmania will exhaust their hydro reserve soon, and resort to diesel generators.
But they were sent to Victoria – no, then sent on to South Oz.
But wait- they are reserved for Broken Hill as insurance for transmission tower toppling.
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It is universally acknowledged that wind and solar are not up to scratch.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/bp-energy-review-2024/
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FWIW
“Yet Again: Where Is Liability?
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Once again, into the breach with password theft:”
“If you thought that my May 23 report, confirming the leak of login data totaling an astonishing 184 million compromised credentials, was frightening, I hope you are sitting down now. Researchers have just confirmed what is also certainly the largest data breach ever, with an almost incredulous 16 billion login credentials, including passwords, exposed. As part of an ongoing investigation that started at the beginning of the year, the researchers have postulated that the massive password leak is the work of multiple infostealers. Here’s what you need to know and do.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253530
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Ah, the impending joy of a Govt database of every subject’s age, sex, address, email, phone number, passwords, arms licence, driving licence, dog licence, medical history… what could go wrong?
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