By Jo Nova
Foiled — Coal plants are closing (in theory) in Australia, but all the cheap, free, wind and solar power needs hideously expensive high voltage towers, which aren’t going to be built in time, or maybe ever. Last week the AEMO officially announced there would be a two year delay, throwing a spanner in the transition timeline. Coal plants like Yallourn, are supposed to be closing in 2028, but the Victoria-NSW-Interconnector (VNI) won’t be ready until 2030 now.
It doesn’t matter how much wind or sun falls on outback plains if there is no cable to connect them. The renewables-unreliable industry is worthless without these large pieces of infrastructure, which the farmers detest, and the industry can’t possibly afford to pay for itself.
The organization of the farmers in Victoria is just inspirational — all the paddocks marked in red are the areas farmers have refused access to the VNI project. Give these people a medal.
‘We’ll fight them at the gate’: Vic farmers vow to step up fight against VNI West transmission project.
By Christine Middap, The Australian
And now, as the Victorian government presses ahead with legislation to force access onto private property and penalise defiant farmers, the stakes have been raised even higher.
“We’re united on this and we’ll fight them at the farm gate, if that’s what it comes to,’’ said merino breeder Ben Duxson, a sixth-generation farmer from Marnoo in the Wimmera region.
“We’re prepared and we’re organised and, to be honest, there are people out here quite prepared to go to jail for this. They will not be getting access to our land.’’
The Australian has the whole story, and things are starting to get desperate and dark. The farmers on these lands describe the area as intergenerational farms on the best farmland in Australia, and say they can not be bought off. Though rumors are that a desperate Victorian government may offer as much as $460,000 per kilometer for a 100m wide easement. And if that doesn’t work, landholders barring entry may face fines of $12,000 each.
Developers are so desperate they are also offering “near neighbors” up to $40,000 just to smooth things over. Wind turbines are so unpopular, even people next door need some compensation too. No wonder costs are blowing out.
The Victorian government works like the Magic Faraway Tree (but it’s not as much fun). The latest fantasy land has seven “renewable” zones with as many as 5.2 million solar panels, and 1000 wind towers. It would cover as much as 7% of the whole state, though, VicGrid says that’s not so bad because cows and sheep can wander among the towers, or something like that. Presumably they can eat the grass between the solar panels, and sleep under the thump-thump-thump of the blades, not that anyone knows if that affects meat-quality, fertility, or is inherently cruel. It’s just another pointless experiment in a pagan quest to prevent droughts and bad storms in 80 years time.
The proposed transmission lines are totally superfluous. We could use the money to build new coal, gas or nuclear plants near the current transmission lines instead.
Ultimately it’s our money the government and subsidized-renewables-industry is throwing away. We all stand to lose. These farmers are saving Australians vast sums of money and deserve help, beer and postcards. If anyone knows key players, or social media links, please share in the comments.
Western Victorian Farmer
Our governments, Federal and state, specialize in foot-shooting with howitzers! “Fire again, Moriarty! There are vestiges of toes remaining!”
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Fantastic fight back by the farmers.
And Trump’s Bill is also about energy too “Ending the subsidies helps save hundreds of billions of dollars and refocuses the country’s efforts on more reliable energy sources.” Reliables vs Renewables. He has also roughly halved government royalties on methane, coal, gas where Daniel Andrews tripled them.
And when it comes to wind, it’s the extraordinary cost of ‘distribution’, creation of a vast ‘collection’ network not factored into the cost of power. So vast amounts of taxpayer dollars. And a serious percentage of Victorian land to be occupied before you even get to the cost of the windmills and solar panels. For other forms of energy, fossil fuel and nuclear, there is no such need. And certainly no need for a ‘National Grid” and multi billion dollar interconnectors, a total waste with one button in Canberra to rule them all.
So when the wind farms and solar farms are abandoned as broken, in fewer than twenty years, all this supporting investment becomes a seriously expensive and ugly and utterly useless blot on the landscape. You wonder whey the Greens are not protesting this wholesale destruction of habitats, National Parks, wildlife and landscapes.
As for reliable, when the wind stops, everything stops. The only thing reliable about solar is that it is guaranteed to be off half the time, so it’s back to the caves for humanity. We will have invested in nothing, created nothing and wrecked the joint. That’s not Green. The answer they say, is blowing in the wind. No more windmils.
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We already have daytime solar. It’s called farming.
We need food to eat and food to export. This National land grab is wrecking what is essential for human life. And of course they want to build on the best land for agriculture because that’s where people live and there is a need.
Isn’t the story that Australia has vast uninhabited land? And you don’t need green watered fields for wind or solar. So why the push for unreliables in tiny Victoria at all?
It’s an attack on farming, just as in Europe. An attack on our basic ability to feed ourselves and feed others and pay our way in the world. And at a reasonable cost, which means paying farmers not to grow crops is a double attack on Australia at our expense. Presumably all ordered by Albanese’s great friends in Communist China and the WEF. Just like the attacks on food production in Europe.
Our politicians are an utter disgrace. Anti Australian. On both sides.
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What is missing from all this is a reason for governments, Green parties, conservationists to be doing all this damage to Australia. It’s just too easy to point out that this is all insane.
Is it only because we are signed up to the Paris Agreement? Is that it? Why does no one explain why this ecological and environmental and social and economic damage to Australia and Australians is essential? All this expense?
But there is no debate in any parliament. Just a headlong, spare no expense rush to ruin the country as quickly as possible.
And I note I only get a red tick when I suggest a reason.
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Your red ticker hasn’t yet caught up! 5 4 3 2…..
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It’s a UN supported pledge to kill off capitalism.
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How can we support these refusenik farmers in their just struggle?
They fight for us.
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I would donate to a gofundmyfarmer.
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Remember what Canada did? Anyone donating to the cause were identified and threats were made to close off their bank accounts.
I wouldn’t donate unless it could not be traced. Cash in a tin works.
Another reason why the government want digital currency. You can’t fund a protest if they have your account under control/closed.
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So would I.
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The farmers need to get a class action based on Plenty v Dillion:
https://casejudgments.com/a-case-analysis-of-plenty-v-dillon-1991/
The government would counter by having police turning up with a warrant so the issue of global boiling and the efficacy of ruinables would have to be part of the complaint. In response the complaint would have to be inventive:
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2012/07/news-legal-action-against-agw/
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Extreme economic, environmental and social disruption and disruption and destruction of farming to pretend to “save the planet” from a non-problem.
We all know the true agenda is to destroy Western Civilisation.
If that were not the case why doesn’t an advanced military, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, space power, robotics, economic and manufacturing power and the world’s biggest CO2 emitter by far, more than twice that of the US and with about the same emissions of CO2 as the entire rest of world – China – have any CO2 emissions limits whatsoever?
Why?
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Exactly. Otherwise it does not make sense. But factor in the Art of War and it all makes sense.
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>Why?
Because they’re already a communist dictatorship.
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I wonder if these transmission line towers will follow the tradition of the unreliables / subsidy farming industry of being built with sub-standard Chinese steel making them prone to collapse?
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One can only hope that may come true, and a total blackout in Victoria, or a domino effect into NSW, may help rid us of these complete idiots proposing all this lunacy. We can then start again, and build some coal generators with gas peaking plants.
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I think most of us would rather avoid a “see we I told you so” scenario, but given the persistence of the Left’s stubborn blind faith in renewables, it might be the only way things can play out. Mind you, Big Wind Bowen and his ilk have recently been back peddling on gas and are now emphasising how crucial domestic supplies are for our power grid as if they were thinking like that all along.
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How will all the people react when their devices stop glowing?
The massive disconnect between physics and the preferred science fiction of law makers.
There are no stupid farmers. Farming does not reward idleness and the silly people
who insist upon instant gratification. Money can not buy intelligence.
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How many even know where electricity comes from or how it’s produced?
It’s just like many or most people are clueless where food in the supermarket comes from.
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Don’t forget how far the socialist Victoriastan Government is prepared to go in brutally imposing it’s will on the farmers or anyone else.
This is the same Government that imposed the world’s most draconian lockup regime during covid. And even patrolled the streets of Melbourne in armoured personnel carriers and turned the police into the despot Dan Andrews’ own private army who brutally and sadistically enforced his decrees. Unbelievable that that could have happened in Australia.
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Imagine a road blockade, tractors side by side, all freeways into and out of Mogadishu on the Yarra, blocked for a week or two. No food into the shops. No deliveries.
The people might soon learn that supermarkets don’t make the food. If people panic bought when toilet paper or eggs became scarce, imagine the panic when they realise that food and fuel is going to run out.
Sometimes the message has to be spelt out in terms that the government might understand. You just can’t keep taking.
Imagine.
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Keir Starmer is trying to destroy British farming with inheritance taxes. I hope Anthony Albanese isn’t taking note. French farmers fight back against their government with tractors on the roads. I hope Victorian farmers are taking note.
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I was going to say that this post “says it all” and then read TdeF’s comments that cut deeper:
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2025/07/4b-billion-vni-interconnector-delayed-2-years-facing-mass-farmer-protests/#comment-2858278
There are words to describe government behaviour on this situation, but they can’t be used here.
Yesterday there was a reminder of the rewards that accrue to those who help push the renewables insult, disruption and theft when it was announced that the former “stairfaller” from that state was in the process of buying a golf course from which he had been refused membership.
This news in isolation may seem trivial but it shows the level of financial push that Sun Tzu can give his supporters.
Thanks and support to the farmers and thanks to the Australian for their article which highlights the need to Fix the swamp that has entrapped our nation.
Our national politics is locked in but we can’t wait for the next elections: this mess must be reversed Now.
Goodbye Uzt Nus!
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[The Dan Andrews comment is attracting some responses and Dan is not really the topic unless it directly relates to govt dealings on this. To avoid further responses querying the “stairfaller” and “buying a golf course from which he had been refused membership” I offer this explainer.
Dan Andrews, Premier of the state of Victoria 2014-2023, fell down the front steps of a holiday home in 2021. Sustaining some serious injury. There was speculation over whether he simply slipped or had some help receiving the injuries.
Re Golf. Dan Andrews had a third party enquire with Portsea Golf Club as to the likelihood of being accepted as a member. Feedback was it was unlikely so he never made a formal application. Now he claims he wasn’t rejected because he didn’t officially apply.
The latest story is he is tied to a group looking to buy Capital Golf Course in Melbourne, which is owned by Crown Casino. Not him personally buying it.
Hope that clarifies for those seeking further info. – Raquel]
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@ Raquel the moderator.
1) We, the People, voted those people in and thus approved their exorbitant pay. They can anything with the Law with their money.
2 + 3) I do not know how play golf and categorically not interested in after hours habits of our politicians. As long as they stay within the Law.
4) The Law in Victoria . Somehow you omit this point.
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Farmers have also been radicalised by the insidious land tax known as the Emergency Services Volunteers Fund. Imagine volunteering to put out fires started on Government land and then being charged for the privilege knowing full well the money is not coming back to them but to pay off debt.
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Debt being paid off….. I don’t think so.
The money is for more bread and circuses. The party is not over yet. Not till the money runs out sometime next Monday.
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If the lefty lunatics can get away with it, why not adopt their tactics and black-ban Blackout himself: protest every public event he attends and he will eventually get the message. That will show solidarity with our gutsy farmers.
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This is how farmers in Brussels protested against the Left’s war against farming. Just sayin’. Not saying it could or should happen here. But there’s only so much BS the productive classes can take from the unproductive classes.
https://youtube.com/shorts/9vL-RvOk4ag
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The pig slop spreaders were the best things to see in action.
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Wait for the “eminent domain” Laws to be enacted
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FWIW
“Deja Poo”
“We all know what Deja Poo is, right? It’s that distressing sense you’ve seen this sh*t before.
In this case the sh*t is Musk’s third party formation.
I was going to write a long post explaining why this was a bad idea, but it turns out my friend Kim Du Toit was there before me.
His post is called “Nope” and you should definitely read the whole thing.”
More at
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/07/07/deja-poo/
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Good article.
It comes down to the difference between Musk’s brilliant engineering brain vs TRUMP’s brilliant people/business brain.
Two great men.
I just hope they can resolve their differences and learn to work together again.
Maybe they should just go the International Space Station together for a few days and sort out their differences?
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The Victorian government is about to hand over sovereignty to the First People’s Assembly. What do the indigenous say about this rape of ‘their’ land? Why have they not come out and condemned the blatant racist land grab from their elders, past, present and emerging?
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Because they have been paid off by the Victorian government with taxpayers’ money?
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A farmer led recovery, brilliant.
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Near a town called Donald: surely there’s a witty protest song in that lucky coincidence?
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Australian farmers are taken for granted. They underpin the quality of life in Australia and some suffer physically from their hard work and related aspects. It is an indictment on city dwellers that Australia is dependent on them to halt the NetZero fantasy.
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This is the sort of movement the Nationals (the “ N” in the LNP, or the current federal opposition party in Australia) should be behind and be supporting. They should split from the clueless Liberals and really support their traditional supporter base. Chuck Net Zero to the outhouse.
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I find it amazing that along that whole transmission line path there isnt one sacred site, birthing tree, arrangement of rocks or a potentially disturbed rainbow serpent mentioned. I guess that bill may have already been paid.
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Perhaps tribute was already paid to get approval?
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I would say that you are right over the target.
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Jacinta may have given assurances that the number of Welcome to Country ceremonies and the payments for them will increase. That should guarantee key indigenous individuals overlooking any culturally significant sites that lie in the path of the VNI.
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Long time reader of this site. So admire Joannenova and commentators exposing the ‘Green Grift’ potential wreckage of Western Civilization, all the while posing as ‘Saving the Earth’ from Co2.
Am in the States but same observations apply.
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Never forget that Aussies emit about 1% of global Human emissions and we are the nearly horizontal line at the bottom of the linked OWI Data graph.
China and the rest of the NON OECD are the largest co2 emitters.
Add the OECD and NON OECD together and the rest are aviation and shipping to make up total global emissions.
Very simple sums but the clueless donkeys still BELIEVE in their BS and nonsense. Why is it so?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=OWID_WRL~Non-OECD+%28GCP%29~OECD+%28GCP%29~AUS
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China and India are now doing the heavy lifting of invigorating the atmosphere with life supporting CO2. All environmentally minded Australians should;d be utterly ashamed of the successive governments that have attempted to outlaw the use of fossil fuels.
Without the human release of CO2 back into the atmosphere, plant life would remain on the brink of extinction. The death of all life would follow. Plant life has already demonstrated its potential to sequester CO2 beyond its own survival level. The coming glaciation could result in extinction of all life on Earth if humans do not maintain the effort to release sequestered CO2.
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I am part of this group. We are serious, we will fight this project all the way. Our farm land is too important for Australia’s food security and these projects are disasterous for our economy and industry. VNI-WEST Transmission line is an extremely expensive and unnecessary project. I have also undertaken mapping in the Wimmera to show the opposition to Renewable Energy Zones and to hosting renewable energy infrastructure, it is over 600,000 hectares and growing. Love to talk to you about it all.
[Thanks. Email coming Marcia! – Jo]
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Hi Marcia
Is there a website/facebook page where we can add our support and keep up to date on the fight?
Cheers
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Would also love to know, but @Marcia be careful what you post here – it is a public form and information might be accessed and used in ways you did not intend. Maybe Jo can help us get around this challenge.
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All the best to you and everyone involved in this pushback.
In a rational world these projects would never have been contemplated.
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The fools running this fantasy failed maths or did not even study maths. The economic capacity factor for wind turbines in a battery firmed grid works out around 9%. Given natural CF is around 30%, the overbuild is around 3 times. This is now reasonably well recognised as evident in recent CSIRO reports; somewhat more realistic than the drivel in the Finkel report.
So if remote wind farms are built without commensurate storage, the intercopnnectors need a capacity 11 times greater than their average power flow. This is a horrendous waste of resources. And remember that Victoria’s biggest battery is being built in the far east of the State.
If you own a roof, you can avoid the high cost of grid power by using solar and battery. As industry dies off in Australia, households can at least insulate themselves from the ever increasing cost of grid power as many others are doping:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/battery-boom-australians-charge-into-next-phase-of-solar-revolution-20250705-p5mcpb.html
Australian State and Federal governments of both flavours are submerged in the Net Zero fantasy. There are only a few fringe parties that realise it is a fantasy of fools.
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‘Overbuild of three times’, why, three times nothing is still nothing.
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But it is not always nothing. Solar gives at least something every day and quite a lot every few days.
For wind turbines, the required overbuild for lowest cost electricity from a battery firmed wind system works out around 3 times. This is due to the high cost of battery storage. It is lower cost to install more turbines than more batteries.
The off-grid system I have been operating since 2012 has fixed solar panels that achieve a CF of 3.8%. I have 50 hours storage capacity. If the panels were tracking and located in an open field, the CF for the panels lifts to about 7% at 37S near the coast.
Off-grid solar/battery can produce electricity for around 60c/kWh and pay for the capital. Australia will be higher than this because there is high cost in transmission lines. The lowest cost option for “renewable” is solar panel on every roof optimised for winter sunlight and 50 hour battery in every house. So it is cheaper for households to make their own
A lignite powered grid makes sense because the cost of generation is around 5c/kWh. A wind and solar powered grid does not make sense because the wind and solar are ubiquitous. Solar the easiest for households and small business to access directly. This is now the default position for AEMO. They have all but given up on their ISP – currently in the too-hard basket but destined for the round file.
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I guess they will object to any mine proposal also, particularly any gas project
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Why?
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They have Peter. Just a bit further west in the Wimmera, many farmers protested Mineral sands exploration and mining. Then there was the “Shut the gate” protest against gas exploration which led to state government bans. So, it works both ways.
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He’s just not paying attention.
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Talking of a town called Donald… a couple of 24-packs west of there, through Warracknabeal, right at Dimboola, through Antwerp then left to Netherby and almost to the border with South Australia – where the old railway line ended – is Yanac.
Doubtful if a city slicker Melburnian politrickster has ever made it out that far west, yet my maternal ancestors farmed there in the mid-1800s at a place they named Yanac-a-Yanac (being Irish immigrants they were either drunk or had a stutter).
Despite the environment (or was it climate back then) they made enough money to move east to Kyneton where they bred horses – visited there 8 years ago and found a few old relatives’ graves in the town cemetery – before half the extended family upped & sailed to Oamaru, NZ, on the east coast of the South Island: the gold rush was over and sheep farming (and horses) were in.
The family name was Little, and I’m intrigued if any here are related to, or know of, the far-flung offspring. There was also a Smith and a Hood family in there, the latter starting in Hobart before striking gold in Ballarat / Bendigo then sailing to NZ as well: horsepower was the name of the game for old Bob Hood too, providing transport for all and sundry in the back blocks and high country of the Mainland (South Island) post-1860s gold rush.
Hopefully some of my long-lost rellies are amongst the farmers telling these shysters just exactly where to shove their taxpayer-funded civilisation-destroying subsidy harvesting pylons.
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Greg, I’ve worked on farms in that area and had a university mate whose family farmed at Netherby (Dart surname). It’s actually not bad cropping country (light loam: sand soils), but you can’t go further north without running into the Wyperfield National Park which is just scrub and sand. So your ancestors may have done ok after the initial clearing of scrub bush. Possibly wool production and wheat. ( sorry, possibly off topic as well)
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Your Irish immigrants weren’t drunk. (well, maybe a little at times😀) That’s a common part of aboriginal place naming. Wagga Wagga being one of the most famous. Over the years the names were shortened for brevity.
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[Intended as a reply to #22]
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> a common part of aboriginal place naming. Wagga Wagga being one of the most famous.
And, to quote Spike Milligan, “Woy they called it Woy Woy oy’ll never know”.
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My electricity supplier increasing the rates from 30.78 c/kWh to 43.98.
Has anyone else got something similar?
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My friend has two properties both with solar panels and his purchase rate has gone up and his feed in tariff gone down.
I know someone else whose rate also went up and their solar feed-in rate went to zero so he’s supplying power to the grid for free.
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“so he’s supplying power to the grid for free.”
That’s the govt incentive to spend on batteries to help the nongs out of a bind they themselves caused, stuff ’em.
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This relates to Comment 23.
Except Woy Woy, which is never shortened to simply Woy.
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I never say Kurri Kurri.
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The economic “justification” of household rooftop solar panels ceased to be the feed in tariffs about 10-12years ago. Avoidance of the grid based unit charges is/was the main driver for installation.
Now will TPTB allow me to install enough panels to provide meaningful power output in the winter along south coast Australia?
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Still getting a free ride. If he wa exporting at noon today he should be paying 1.2C/kWh for not having to control his production. All the grid scale generators have had to reduce their output today to avoid paying to stay generating like the coal fired stations have been forced to do because they cannot easily disconnect and reconnect.
Not all electricity is created equal. The most valuable gets created around 6pm each day in winter. If you friend can generate at that time, his electricity would be useful. Lunchtime generation is bad for the grid.
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Yep, (in theory) alright. Labour is sneaky. It has been keeping their green energy nightmare surviving on coal and gas fired life-support for a long time. They’re hoping to buy time to build as many wind and solar industrial sites as possible along with their poxy attitude of stuff the farmers and wildlife.
Farmers are now protesting this massive rort, and Labour is finally up against growing opposition with good legal grounds to stop Labour’s bullying.
Of course those like the Greens, Teals and other green bubble dreamers are only concerned that their electrical appliances work when switched on. They aren’t interested in giving further thought as to whose paying the real cost for Labour’s green energy fantasies. For them, it’s an infuriating case of bugger the farmers and the bush, we’re alright!
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What a fiasco this renewable bs is.
Clueless, inept, baby-head-patting buffoon pollies with no comprehension of reality, let alone expertise in power systems pi$$ing away billions of taxpayer money on intermittent, unreliable & costly energy systems that use fossil fuels to produce, rape the planet for materials, exploit the vulnerable and create massive waste problems far beyond that of fossil fuels.
Let’s go solar and save the planet!
Yeah, but they’re only 22% efficient and need sun.
Let’s supplement with wind turbines!
There’s always wind somewhere, right? (Ah, no actually!)
Ok, well we need a backup, so how about $B on batteries?
Well, disposal, lifespans and capacity are issues too.
Ok, but people can help by using their roof solar to feed the grid!
Well yes, but excess power and timing are issues.
Ok, maybe EV users can help too!
But the grid can’t charge them enough as it is.
We’ll work it all out, but only if you vote for us, ‘cos the opposition parties are idiots!
Meanwhile we need cables to span the country.
Only a few more $B to tax the plebs for.
Destroy and take over farms?
Doesn’t matter as you’ll all be eating bugs soon enough anyway, that’s if you survive the Fakevax.
That about sum it up?
Round up every single polly, put them on a ship and move it to the Mariana Trench, then blow the ship up.
Other than that, it’ll only end in tears.
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Actually, a revision of the mental health act is what is required.
Behaviour putting your life, or other peoples life at risk is insane.
What the pollies are doing with energy policy is insane
however as it is classed as politics their delusions are condoned.
We need to ensure the robust energy systems our forefathers
sacrificed to plan out and deploy are not blown away by the insane
marxist/one world government idealogues that are in charge.
Another clear example is the “Plandemic” which was the delusion of a handful
of “CHOs”- the Victorian exemplar being qualified all of 18 months and had intriguing
family connections.
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To summarise, Australia has spent countless billions on unreliables and there is nothing positive whatsoever to show for any of it.
All it has produced is economic and environmental destruction.
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So I asked a couple of days ago – how to compare the cost of flAsh flood mitigation projects, gigantic though they might be, with that of a building an average wind tower.
Honest question – maybe you need few B$ to divert one-in-century flood around the town of few thousand people…
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The mounting criticism illustrates a timeless truth of economics and marginal analysis: the ‘best’ sites for solar and wind are used first. ‘Best’ means closest to demand, best sited for wind and sunshine, with least additional costs to connect to customers.
All the cheapest solar and wind projects have already been done. From here on in, it just gets more and more expensive per kwhr.
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Frankly, it insults our intelligence to expect us to believe that wind and solar electricity are a viable means to power an industrial Civilisation.
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They are not insulting your intelligence. They are just doing stupid things knowing you cannot stop them. There is no logic behind any of this except shutting down Australia. it’s not Green. It’s not reducing CO2 levels. It’s just your money being spent like a river on Chinese stuff intended to stuff our country. All approved by Albanese. There is no other logic I can understand and certainly not a shred of science or cost benefit analysis. A billion here, two billion there. Who cares? It’s not their money.
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And the faux conservatives, the Liberals are exactly the same. In Victoria former leader John Persutto is still in parliament. I have no idea why? Is he the Liberal version of Daniel Andrews?
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Likeminded ones among us should do more than keyboard warrioring in support of the farmers.
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It’s a political problem. What can you do when the Farmer’s party, the Nationals is to the left of Albanese on Climate Change?
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As this post is about the imposition made by the renewables fiasco on the real people, in farming, it might be appropriate to mention another imposition.
It seems that the Hydrogen powered electricity generation in Kurri Kurri has begun. This afternoon the local ABCCC radio was taking calls from residents of Kurri who said that the plant had started “generating” .
There was unfortunately a bit of a problem: a horrible smell had infiltrated the area. Does burnt H2 smell.
Ahhh, maybe it was the back-up diesels on a test run.
Whatever, the locals seem to feel that the politics around renewables “smells” decidedly unpleasant.
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It’s too bad farmers can’t resist selling out to wind farm developers. Obviously it’s a different situation with power lines. Can’t get enough to retire to the Gold Coast on that.
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