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EV in flames on Dartmoor campsite
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/gallery/dramatic-pictures-electric-car-destroyed-10386241
It obviously wasn’t being charged. People in tents commonly run devices such as portable lights to connect up to their cars battery or perhaps even a small cooker
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Car possibly Honda CR-V.
Geoff S
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The comments state Volkswagen iD3.. These are common in the UK with more than 500k sold there so far. As prone to battery explosive failure as any other EV.
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Is that for: Charred Remnant Vehicle?
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You have to applaud the predictive text in that link: the electric vehicle is now an “eclectic vehicle”. Perhaps that should be the description of every EV reduced to a burnt out shell!
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Definitely a Fire – Meanwhile in OZ Energy generator and retailer AGL has green-lighted an $800m battery project in the Hunter Region in NSW.
AGL announced it had reached a Final Investment Decision (FID) on the 500 MW, four-hour duration, grid scale Tomago battery, with construction work likely to begin in late 2025.
Commencement of operations is targeted for late 2027 with a battery life of 20 years. The total construction cost is $800m
A statement from Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said: “A crew from Moretonhampstead have just returned from an electric vehicle fire just outside of town on a campsite.
“They worked with colleagues from Bovey Tracey fire station to bring the incident under control.
“The BA teams then went through a decontamination process to ensure nothing nasty was brought back to station and in turn back to their homes.”
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AGL green-lights $800m Tomago battery project
AGL announced it had reached a Final Investment Decision (FID) on the 500 MW, four-hour duration, grid scale Tomago battery, with construction work likely to begin in late 2025.
Commencement of operations is targeted for late 2027 with a battery life of 20 years. The total construction cost is $800m and AGL has contracted Fluence as the engineering, procurement and construction provider. The battery will be funded on AGL’s balance sheet, utilising operating cash flows and existing debt facilities, including green capex loans.
AGL’s 250 MW Torrens Island and 50 MW Broken Hill Batteries have delivered strong performance since they commenced operations and the 500 MW Liddell Battery remains on track to commence operations in early 2026, he said.
Broken Hill Battery Failure
The power outage in Broken Hill highlighted issues with the battery backup system not functioning as expected. A 50 MW, 50 MWh battery facility, designed to provide backup power during outages, was not allowed to operate due to restrictions in its connection agreement, known as the Generation Performance Standard.
It took over a week to connect the battery, and even then, it was only permitted to operate at one-tenth of its capacity.
The delay was attributed to technical and regulatory challenges, with the battery not being authorized to switch on until July 26, despite being ready on October 18.
The committee investigating the blackout recommended a review of such connection rules to prevent similar issues in the future.
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Australian Gas Lighting?
Says it all, really.
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Very apt naming.
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Mr Cannon Brookes has had a lot to do with Australian Gas Lighting
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As usual the Regulators get in the way. Not that I think batteries are the way to go, but this was caused solely by regulators sticking to their rules.
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They probably saved a kiddies somewhere by their zealous adherence rules while exhibiting the sense of urgency public officials are famous for.
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500MW, 4 hour duration for $800M, lifespan 20 years. A 2,000MWHr battery.
Ignore all degradation and maintenance costs. Just look at the capital.
One cycle per day, 80% capacity used, (probably should be 60%, but leave it at 80% to be generous).
So energy output per day is 80% of 2,000MWHr. This equals 1,600MWHr.
20 years, 365 days at 1,600MWHr all divided by $800M will give the energy unit cost = 14,600MWHr/$M. This can also be written, (in the inverse), as $1M to provide 14,600MWHr, this is equivalent to a unit rate of $68.49/MWHr.
Now look at the current billing from AEMO, this shows a unit cost, (WHOLESALE), of $81 through $160/MWHr, (depending on the state, SA being dearest).
So IF you exclude ALL maintenance costs and any items, like insurance, etc, etc, then this is going to be JUST under the wholesale price for a state that uses coal.
HOW can AGL be making a reasonable rate of return on this capital, as required for its investors, if it is highly likely to be more expensive than a coal fired power station. Remember, this is in the HUNTER valley, a place full to the eyeballs in coal and until recently, power stations.
I think the AGL directors may not be undertaking their duty correctly, making less profit than they otherwise could. ASIC should be investigating this.
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I assume they would looking at the juicy FCAS market and only bidding in when prices ballon to the ever more fequent stupid levels
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You are assuming that the batterywill be used for peak firming only, when infact most of these grid batteries are not used for that…
…their primary function is to stabilise voltage and frequency and ensure synchronisation between the “Inverter” based sources and the main grid.
A much more essential service !
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Are pills bad for you?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/pills-pills-pills-and-all-they-do-is-make-you-ill/
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Not all pills, but sadly, depending on your GP they do tend to load you on the conveyor belt that seems more suited to feed to medical machine than improving your outcomes. The article describes the escalation path quite well.
Just viewing what goes by in our 100+ member car club certainly seems to indicate that. The more scary correlation is the myriad health flare ups of the repeatedly Covid vaxxed
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The link title says it all
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/07/29/the-false-promises-of-electric-vehicles-are-being-exposed/
What irritates me is that EV drivers freeload on the road system and infrastructure paid for by ICE drivers as they pay no fuel tax levied on petrol/diesel. That amounts on average to around £1200 per vehicle.
In addition they had charges waived until recently for parking and congestion and road fund licence. The govt has just reintroduced a £3750 bribe-sorry incentive-to potential EV drivers. There is also a multi million pound tax payer funded project to enable channels to be cut in pavements so homeowners can run a cable from home to kerbside car-assuming they can park outside their house.
EV’s are morally and ethically dubious creations, add in their cost to the taxpayer and the whole EV business is beyond belief.
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My eldest son lives in the UK and his wife has a car as part of her salary arrangement. At time of offer, she could choose any vehicle as long as it was an EV.
An EV is probably not a wise choice for them because their sons were toddler and baby at the time of acquisition and one of their sons is still at toddler stage and may bot be able to negotiate his seat belt yet.
The fundamental error starts in calling them EV fires. They are explosions. The intensity of the explosion is government by the rate of release of energy. The iD3 that exploded in Daretmoor recently has a 59kWh battery; equivalent to 50kg of TNT when fully charged. You would be a fool to approach 50kg of TNT with a fire house in the hope of controlling the explosion.
EVs could do wonders for population control. China has a large population of BEVs and is now averaging seven EV explosions per day. I expect the incidence will increase for some time as the battery fleet ages.
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“The BBC’s world-renowned journalism will be working together with the Met Office’s weather and climate intelligence to turn science into stories and help everyone in the UK to make informed decisions about the weather.”
The BBC is changing its weather service back to the alarmist propaganda spewing Met Office so that we can benefit from their ‘climate intelligence’. I can hardly wait!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm4z8mple3o
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No wonder the UK feels like living in a tin of sardines. Another 700k net immigration.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14954199/Migration-drives-707k-population-rise-England-Wales.html
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I don’t want to sound nasty, but many of these million folks tend to be somewhat tribal in their social/cultural background. One characteristic is staying together – congregating in specific locations.
Are there reports of high-density ethnic enclaves? What are the consequences?
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Yes, forget multi cultural, many places are now mono cultures as incomers refuse to integrate yet the authorities can’t seem to realise the problems it causes and imports yet more people who settle in their enlarging enclave.
This is a problem mostly confined to big towns, rural areas are barely touched, but some cities look foreign.
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Thats up to the middle of last year. Will be interesting to see 2025 figures. I think illegal immigration, bad as it is deflects from the far bigger problem of legal migration.
Many coming here are low skilled and with dependents.
If the era of the need for mass migration ever existed-and I doubt it did-then with 10 million not working for one reason or another and the advent of AI there can be few excuses to import anyone unless they have a very particular skill.
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Tonyb,
who and (or) what do you think is behind this?
If your leadership has a goal, what is it?
Not to single out the UK, we had our issues in the US, but we seem to have slowed it down via the ballot.
From afar, the UK appears Hell bent.
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For a bit of a :heads-up”, start here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yzcjQEoON0
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The British disrespected the EU Defenders of Democracy by voting wrong.
For this temerity, they are being de-Britished.
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Interesting
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Possibly more like Kippers?
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The British government have used the orwellian “Online Safety Act” to block my ‘Online to DVD’ recordings of the US Senate hearing “Voices of the Vaccine Injured”. My recording stopped at 3 minutes 30 seconds into the recording while Ron Johnson was speaking up for the vaccine injured, with a caption saying “Recording Blocking Signals are Detected”. However, I then filtered the recording through an old VHS machine, producing a lower quality recording. However, Humberside Police could come to ‘check my thinking’ again: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/voices-of-the-vaccine-injured/
Members of the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, including Chairman Jim Jordan are in Britain to complain about the British governments orwellian ‘Online Safety Act’. Jordan called the Online Safety Act “UK’s online censorship law”. Mr Jordan also heavily criticised regulator Ofcom for “targeting” and “harassing” American companies.
Ofcom’s CEO wrote to the Government noting Ofcom’s responsibility for regulating all global social media posts throughout the world, including Elon Musks ‘X’, Donald Trumps ‘Truth Social’ and all other American and Global services, including businesses, charities, community and voluntary groups, individuals, and many services that have not been regulated by the British authorities since gaining independence from Britain, including the USA since 1776, and Australia since 1901.
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US Senate (and other branches of biggus blobbus) videos have been a pain to download for years.
I now have clever ways to do it though.
In this case, you can get the full video here:
https://rumble.com/v6w6cqw-psi-hearing-voices-of-the-vaccine-injured.html
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Gilmour Space launched their rocket from Bowen, with 14 seconds of flight.
it seems they added too much boomerang.
jokes aside, if orbital rocketry was easy, anyone could do it. I look forward to seeing them progress.
https://www.gspace.com/post/first-test-launch-of-eris-rocket-a-giant-leap-for-australian-space-capability
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Different type of rocket. Apparently Australia can now take out the entire Chinese Taiwan invasion fleet. I’m sure they’ve called it all off.
https://youtu.be/lwOkYyODqIQ
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They use a hybrid rocket design with liquid oxidiser and solid fuel.
Of course, all Australian efforts to get into space are reminiscent of when Australia first launched its own satellite in 1967 on a surplus US Army Redstone first stage which the US donated after they had done testing in Australia.
The Americans were prepared to donate more of the rockets as they didn’t want to return them to America but the Minister for Education and Science and also later PM Gorton at the time, could see no future in Australia being involved in space and rejected a proposal for a low cost space program along the lines of WRESAT. The cluelessness was staggering. Australia’s fledgling space program more or less languished after that.
Australia was the third country to design and launch a satellite from its own soil and one of only six other countries to have launched a satellite at the time along with USSR (1957), United States (1958), United Kingdom (1962). Canada (1962), Italy (1964) and France (1965).
I wrote an article about WRESAT.
https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/2017/October/WRESAT%3A+Australia%E2%80%99s+first+satellite+%E2%80%93+50+years+ago%21
Yet another lost opportunity by Australia due to second or lower rate politicians and the senior public serpents who tell them what to think.
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Ironically launched at Bowen. Can anyone think of any other Bowen failures?
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More of a-
htps://ww.gspace.com/post/first-test-launch-of-eris-rocket-a-giant-leap-sideways-for-australian-space-capability
They should play more ‘Kerbal Space Program’, a computer game where you are in charge of the Kerbal’s space program and rockets drifting sideways instead of up is quite typical…
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Not sure about the LSM description of the launch attempt as “historic”.
When I was a lot younger, I listened to LIVE broadcasts (THEIR ABCESS), of the launches from Woomera, of Brit / Oz “Blue Steel” rockets. (Essentially “trials” ICBM units). Later, (early 1980s?) there was the attempt, promoted by the Queensland government, to launch from Northern Queensland, but MUCH further north, (for obvious ‘”ORBITAL” reasons.
That was ans “interesting” time. I understand that ONE of the “players” was multi-national company called OTRAG. They had initially considered a proper “equatorial” launch site, “somewhere in Africa”.
However, soviet and chinese-fomented “instabilities” ruled that out. South America was not much , or any, better.
There was also a LOT of “anti-OTRAG” propaganda swirling about. Most of this could be tracked back to the usual soviet “sources” and their herds of “useful idiots”.
Much of this propaganda, as one has come to expect, “linked” OTRAG to WW2 nazi “science and technology” in an attempt to make it “invalid”.
This as all very quaint; given that almost the ENTIRE aerospace programmes of both the US and the soviets was firmly based on the research work and the actual presence, of “liberated” documents, equipment and “scientists”, carted off by the assorted “liberators”.
Every man and his Laika boosted or even founded their post-war aerospace programmes on that “liberated” knowledge.
See also the post-war Nuclear programmes. (Ditto; bio and chemical warfare programmes.)
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An interesting look at the after-effects of the Kamchatka “mega-quake” for the geophysically inclined..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2LXbAgxe0g
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I SURVIVED THE 8.8 TSUNAMI –
however, NZ’s Civil Defence NEMA suffered a glitch in their system as automated phone alerts kept going off all through the night and into this morning for numerous folk around the country (another good reason for turning your phone OFF at night) resulting in Emergency Alert Fatigue for some.
No unusual water movements happening here – east coast North Island – apart from the 1-2m swell leftover from Tuesday’s stormy front, christened an atmospheric river by the usual calamitists in the CCCult©️.
Kamchatka Peninsula is still ringing like a bell as aftershocks rattle the region, meanwhile Tonga and Macquarie Island (north & south of NZ) are also still shaking with their aftershocks… that’s how the planet works: no need to blame ‘carbon’ nor prepare for the ‘rapture’… I only wish it was a few degrees warmer.
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Apparently, the German village of Feldheim is a “global role model for energy sustainability”. Picture this “village” sitting among the rural, agricultural idyll of middle Germany, birds tweeting, sun shining and trees swaying gently as those majestic, beautiful windmills turn lazily, enabling a glorious green future.
Then do what I just did and look for Feldheim in Google Maps. There is a single blue dot just to the south of the ‘windfarm’, containing an aerial shot of the windmills, village in the background.
Yup, idyllic …
https://maps.app.goo.gl/steRevjQQcnSQW2a6
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FWIW
An inspection of the UN
“The Dreams Of The Past”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/07/30/the-dreams-of-the-past/
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FWIW
“Rick Rule
@RealRickRule
Sir, I’ve followed your climate projections for decades. May I observe that your track record seems unblemished by success
Quote
Al Gore
@algore
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30 Jul
Today’s EPA announcement ignores the blindingly obvious reality of the climate crisis and sidelines the EPA’s own scientists and lawyers in favor of the interests and profits of the fossil fuel industry. Weakening safeguards that reduce greenhouse gas pollution will harm American”
https://x.com/RealRickRule/status/1950245517075894623
Via https://instapundit.com/735171/#disqus_thread
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SMH has the usual propaganda on how we must commit to even greater carbon reduction goals for 2035.
“Australia, like the rest of the world, is due to set its 2035 carbon-emission reduction target under the Paris Agreement. As a result, Canberra is crawling with those who have an interest in influencing that target.”
Those with guaranteed incomes or money coming from the wrecking of our economy are keen-
“Australia’s peak scientific body now believes that even a 75 per cent cut by 2035 will be too little too late…Climate Council chief executive Amanda McKenzie noted that Queensland, NSW and Victoria had already backed targets falling between 70 and 80 per cent. ”
There’s an article talking of how Barnaby is wrong-
“(Barnaby) said, net zero and the deployment of renewable energy infrastructure are to blame for the rise in Australia’s electricity prices over recent years. Nonsense, says Tony Wood, energy and climate change senior fellow at the Grattan Institute. Energy prices surged in the first years of the 2020s because Australia’s clapped-out fleet of coal-fired power stations kept on failing, Wood explains. ”
“most of the world has abandoned the effort to reach net zero under the Paris Agreement, citing as examples countries including China, Brazil, Indonesia and the United States. Nonsense, says Tim Buckley, director of Climate Energy Finance. China’s staggering deployment of renewable energy continues to shock analysts around the world, Buckley says.”
“He is in lockstep with Donald Trump on net zero, and America’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is a catastrophe for the US and for the world. But it is not the whole story. States like California (which has the world’s fourth-largest economy) and New York (the eighth-largest) will continue their efforts to cut emissions. ”
So, you just pick the propaganda you want to believe in, there’s plenty around! Its just a shame that financing it all is compulsory.
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The coalition can win the next election in the same way that the no vote won the referendum.
Late in the day, large numbers of voters discovered what the yes vote really meant and the figures for and against fairly rapidly reversed.
The IPA has survey results to show that about 90% of people are only prepared to pay small change to save the planet.
What do you think will happen when they find out how much saving the planet by building wind and solar has already cost them and how much more it will take in the futile attempt to reduce the supply of plant food?
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Nothing will happen.
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I strongly disagree.
We can secure the next election if the electorate know the truth. Assuming the Coalition are united on dumping Net Zero, parliamentary democracy will flourish.
The MSM will go ballistic trying to discredit the Opposition, but the green left is ignorant on the science. I’ll bring the popcorn.
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Dan Tehan is thrown out of question time for calling Pat Conroy a clown. Conroy is a great believer in global warming and rising sea levels, his career depends on it.
‘During a dixer on the government’s Future Made in Australia policy, Tehan makes a point of order, saying the answer (by government frontbencher Pat Conroy) went into Liberal policy when that’s not what was asked.
Tehan says this:
“The question was very specific. It asked about what the Labor party was doing in this area. It said nothing about the Coalition, and only a clown would answer like that.”
‘Milton Dick is absolutely not having that and says in disbelief, that comment was “next level” and tells Tehan to leave.’ (Guardian)
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Another jingoistic call to war for the young people of today.
“Australia’s quality of life is the envy of the world – but if we want it to stay that way, we all share a responsibility to vigorously defend the egalitarian values underpinning our free and fair society.”
It even mentions the problem of the next generation not believing strongly enough in the leaders of their countries to die for them.
“the outcry at former British prime minister Rishi Sunak’s 2024 election pledge to reinstate national service revealed most young Brits do not feel a sense of obligation to their country. This sends a powerful warning to Australia – national service can only work here if we enact a fundamental reset in the social contract between our leaders and the younger generations, who will ultimately be asked to risk their lives. Governments must deliver on their promises to provide today’s youth with the opportunity, security and prosperity enjoyed by past generations. ”
They took Finland, the smallest and most cohesive Western nation as an example, and had quotes from young Finns talking about their time in the compulsory military service there, and how wonderful it was.
Sadly, written by an ANU law student who has not had enough time in life to realise that Govts cannot provide people with opportunity, security or prosperity, unless they steal the money from someone else first! Still, expect the push for compulsory military training to continue, the West wants to go to war!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/could-young-aussies-be-convinced-to-do-national-service-for-the-finns-it-s-an-act-of-nationalism-20250725-p5mhx6.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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That’s the way!
Draft the young ‘uns and send them off to fight in a war (what one comes next?) to “protect our country and democracy”. They only sit around on their phones anyway.Translation: protect the bungling clown politicians that led us to this point in the first place.
Just like the last leg of the road the EU is on right now.
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‘ … expect the push for compulsory military training to continue, the West wants to go to war!’
That is a broad brush and patently untrue. Australia definitely has no reason to have compulsory military training now that Beijing is becoming democratic.
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” Australia definitely has no reason to have compulsory military training now that Beijing is becoming democratic.”
Its always been democratic! The Communist Party elects the leader in an internal vote… just like labour unions! I’d expect their elections are just as honest as any other country’s, ie, completely faked!
We’re already at war with Russia, its just that our contribution is small enough to be absorbed by the army as it is. America has a list of Govts it wants overturned, so I expect our contribution will have to be enlarged.
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The wind and solar fantasy will collapse like a punctured balloon when people realise how often there is next to no RE in the grid at breakfast and dinnertime.
NemWatch tells the story in Australia. https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/
Around the world, this is the dashboard for the grid in Texas. Look at the numbers at sunrise! https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
Great Britain. https://grid.iamkate.com/ RE 26% at midnight a few minutes ago.
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Well not all electricity in Australia. There is 4-5 GW over in the west in the SWIS grid shown here:
https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/wholesale-electricity-market-wem/data-wem/data-dashboard
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In the bush at the moment there is no wind and fog is everywhere so not much sunlight 🙂
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The last few mornings have seen mirror reflections on still waters around Perth. Yet the AEMO WA website shows 13% wind energy. Have had a closer to look to see where that wind energy is supposed to come from.
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Maybe coal or gas electricity is used to spin the first in line wind mill, get it spinning at maximum and the “turbulence” will spin all the mills behind it. See easy.
/sarc
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I am also surprised at the small amount of hydro generation in the mix of both N.S.W. and Vic. Given the resources expended on the mighty Snowy scheme (the real, original one), I would expect to see more.
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In genreral its used as peaking or emergency supply not bulk routine supply
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Thanks, I get it.
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Rafe, rather than that “Renew economy” widget, i findthat this one is much more informative , especially in terms of times..
http://nemlog.com.au/gen/region/sa/
Just pick which State to view data.
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Australia is different to most modern economies. We make our way in the world solely by mining and we can feed ourselves. There is no viable manufacturing or heavy industry. UK is not far behind. Germany still makes specialty steel but that industry is in terminal decline now. USA may be recoverable but starting from a low base.
The electricity grid was destined for economic collapse in 2000 when the RET was made law. It enshrined theft from the poor to the better off.
The regressive theft is now supercharged with subsidised battery. If you own a roof you do not need to have electricity bills. And there is now an average of 1000 households taking up that offer EVERY DAY:
https://www.gadgetguy.com.au/australian-solar-home-battery-take-up-higher-than-expected/
I expect the average battery to be 10kWh so that is 3.5GWh of batteries going into households each year. And I have little doubt that China is dumping batteries and panels into Australia for income now their US market is slowing down. Since Trump was elected prices for batteries and solar panels have reduced dramatically in AUD terms. Albanese’as battery gift has not increased prices as I expected – they have come down faster.
I have been aware of the impending grid collapse for about a decade. The elements of that collapse should now be clear to anyone willing to observe. Those who can afford to are gradually defecting from the grid. Right now most are still connected but are leaning on the grid as insurance then even compensated for that benefit. The compensation is by way of the power rebate to all that covers the cost of the connection.
By the time the grid operators realise what they have done and try to remedy it, a large proportion of existing connected households can just disconnect. Fundamentally, a grid powered by wind, solar and batteries offers no utility to households that can use the same equipment and avoid the costs of transmission and billing. Solar panels and batteries have been powering spacecraft reliably for a while now. May not be as reliable as nuclear decay but still works without maintenance for a long time.
For some technical detail, it took 3 electricians 2 hours to install my battery – say 10manhours allowing loading and travel time. So it is not a huge labour force involved in installing 1000 batteries per day. They are much less labour intensive than solar panels. Unlike the solar panel installers, the three guys were all tradesmen.
I have two retired colleagues who have set up new homes recently with 10kW solar and both are looking at battery systems with a view to operating off grid. One of those was responsible for wholesale marketing of electricity in Victoria long before the NEM was even thought about. He still has a wry smile when the “grid transition” is mentioned. Although he now realises that lunacy has no bounds.
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A builder explained to me recently about a job for a customer with a leaking roof at his family home, the leaking area was covered in solar panels and therefore very difficult to work around. Some leak points were found and repaired but no guarantee of leak free in future.
The owner was advised that placing solar panels on an old roof is asking for trouble and very expensive repairs, the ultimate recommendation being to install a new roof before installing solar panels.
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I bought a $200,000 VAX on eBay and it runs my smart lights
https://youtu.be/z-iA_9U3WTc?si=cLWPu0CnNYNrhs6R
Dave’s Garage – a home for the old schoolers from the PDP, DOS and Win 3 era.
JC2 bookmark #6.
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Words of wisdom, and strength
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else,
it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits.
There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
– Late Bruce Lee
Too true. Well, I did achieve an unofficial world record in weightlifting in my late 40’s by that very thinking.
And injury/disability free even now, unlike so many who push the mental and physical limits…
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Asteroid could hit Moon and rain satellite‑crippling debris on Earth
A 200‑ft asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 now registers a 4 % chance of striking the Moon on December 22, 2032. NASA used James Webb telescope data to refine that estimate, as Earth is no longer at risk but lunar fallout raises new alarms. Astronomers warn of debris potentially showering Earth orbit and endangering satellites “orders of magnitude above usual”.
https://www.chron.com/news/space/article/asteroid-moon-meteor-shower-earth-20791541.php
Tens of thousands of satellites at high risk.
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Its a beatup, won’t happen, we already have the expertise to deflect incoming rogues.
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Americans spend nearly half of their days online, and young people are more suicidal than ever
They spend 5.4 of those hours browsing, working, gaming, looking at social media, reading email or paying bills, the survey found.
They spend another five hours streaming video or TV content.
Early smartphone ownership correlates with a troubling range of symptoms in young adulthood beyond suicidal thoughts. Those who got phones before age 13 show higher rates of aggression, feelings of detachment from reality, and hallucinations. Among specific mental health functions, early smartphone users struggle more with self-image, self-worth, emotional control, and resilience – particularly females. Males show greater difficulties with stability, calmness, and empathy.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/americans-spend-nearly-half-of-their-days-online-and-young-people-are-more-suicidal-than-ever/
Someone tell the eSafety Kommie-tsar!
Like I said ages ago – walk through any mall and look at the eyes of the zombiephone generation. They’re alone and dead inside.
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US electricity sector prepares to pour $1.1 trillion into infrastructure by 2030, but will it be enough to power AI systems?
EEI’s report highlights “manufacturing reshoring” and “strong economic development” as key drivers. But what they don’t mention is the looming financial burden on households.
Every dollar spent on grid upgrades is a dollar added to utility bills. And with monopolies controlling the market, consumers have no choice but to pay up. The $1.1 trillion investment isn’t charity—it’s a forced loan, with families footing the bill through higher rates and taxes.
Maloney claims utilities are “strengthening America’s energy security,” but the truth is, they’re strengthening their own monopolies. When the grid fails—as it did in Texas in 2021 and California in 2023—it won’t be the CEOs left in the dark. It will be you.
https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2025/07/us-electricity-sector-prepares-to-pour.html
There was a documentary on the US’s crumbling infrastructure many years ago in which the US Society of Engineers said it would cost trillions just to repair the roads, bridges and power grid.
But surveilling the great unwashed is more important.
The US is on its last legs. No empire lasts forever.
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FWIW
“Ring Of Fire Awakens: Pacific Megaquake First Sparked Tsunami, Now Eurasia’s Tallest Volcano Erupts”
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/ring-fire-awakens-pacific-megaquake-first-sparked-tsunami-now-eurasias-tallest-volcano
And the “doomsters” pile on in 3, 2, 1 ?
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Coal and gas fuelled generators are the problem.
sarc.
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Y’all need some horse dewormer, especially if you’re old.
“Ivermectin’s miraculous results for neurological conditions of Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s.”
Buried research, deleted from Google, has been found, proving Ivermectin reverses Alzheimer’s.
Neurological Disease Improves In Only A Few Days On Ivermectin Therapy…
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/07/30/it-seems-that-horse-dewormer-drug-is-more-like-a-miracle-drug/
Add daily Creatine and copper-rich foods too for brain performance…
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FWIW – for the covid record
“The GMC will stop at nothing to demonise caring doctors telling the truth about covid”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-general-medical-council-is-advising-doctors-to-be-untruthful-and-dishonest/
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Astounding read! The Govt bodies are so corrupted there is no ‘fixing’ them-
“However, the General Medical Council did not like my anti-drug stance. Although there has been no patient complaint, since 2001 I have been continuously investigated by the GMC involving seven Interim Orders Panel Hearings, one Non-Compliance Hearing and four Fitness to Practise Hearings (which were all cancelled with no case to answer). Prior to February 2023 the score was Myhill 39 wins, GMC nil. I am the most prosecuted doctor in the history of the General Medical Council. Indeed, GMC advocate Tom Kark QC commented: ‘The problem with the Myhill cases is that all the patients are better and none will give witness statements.’ The man on the Clapham omnibus would describe this as a witch hunt.”
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FWIW
“Americans Can Stockpile Ivermectin & Key Prescription Medicines – Here Is One Way To Do It”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/americans-can-stockpile-ivermectin-key-prescription-medicines-here-9/
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FWIW
“Hypocrisy of Australia’s rent-a-judges”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/hypocrisy-of-australias-rent-a-judges/
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Aunty is behaving badly.
‘Several hours before Media Watch went to air on Monday, a London-based journalist published a report which cited evidence that an 18-month-old Gazan boy – who last week became the face of starvation in the region – had previously been diagnosed with cerebral palsy and suffered from hypoxaemia. The ABC ignored it.’ (Oz)
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FWIW
“With conservatives like these, the Tories are sunk”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/with-conservatives-like-these-the-tories-are-sunk/
Sounds familiar!
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FWIW
“WHEN YES, PRIME MINISTER GETS IT TOO ON THE NOSE:”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1950579819831259161
Via https://instapundit.com/735385/#disqus_thread
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Lovely! The instruction book was there all the time, but no-one in the public or the mainstream media bothered to look at it!!
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