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By Jo Nova
Careful, your subsidies are showing…
The more we make, the more we waste. The trend is clear and it’s so Soviet.
Spring is the season with the most wasted renewable production, and each spring is more wasteful than the one before.
AEMO QED 2025
There are two sorts of “curtailment” where the generator has to shut off production. Network curtailment happens when a a transmission line is already at capacity, or a line is down . But Economic Curtailment is rapidly becoming the big drain. It occurs when there was such a glut of power that prices went negative. Generators were producing something so useless they had to pay people to take it away. Investors flee at this point. This is hidden under jargon called “Offloading” which sounds a bit like 4-wheel driving with a lisp. I mean, they could have called it “toxic energy.
From the AEMO Q4 report
“During Q4 2025, total economic offloading of wind and grid-scale solar generation averaged 1,312 MW, the highest quarterly average on record (Figure 45). This exceeded the previous peak set in Q4 2024 by 653 MW (+99%). Grid-scale solar economic offloading rose sharply, […]
By Jo Nova
One Nation is the centre right party the Liberals forgot to be
*For Foreign readers, Pauline Hanson is the leader of One Nation, has been a politician here for 30 years, and has pointed out problems with mass immigration the whole time, and are a party of skeptics. They got about 5% of the vote in the election in May last year, but in a meteoric rise, they now poll 30%+ not only ahead of the conservative coalition here, but ahead of the Labour Party.
The commentariat say that Pauline is a lightning rod for believers, but “she doesn’t have any solutions”. However in this day of Big-octopus-government, the best solution is when the government does nothing. Yesterday in the National Press Club Pauline Hanson laid out a textbook conservative policy platform on Net Zero: stop the subsidies, end the white elephants, don’t destroy our best agricultural land, and let the free market decide. And this was just the Net Zero policies. Hanson also wants to conserve our borders and our culture, and introduce Nuclear Energy.
Hanson wants to kill off the Snowy Hydroelectricity scheme. (Well, Hallalujuh!)
— “Let me make no apology: […]
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By Jo Nova
The handy all-purpose smoke bomb for any occasion is “climate change”
Food prices are rising because we’ve mismanaged the economy and screwed up our energy supplies while we played doctor to the clouds. As sure as night follows day, we stopped digging for coal and oil and now it costs more to transport, process, refrigerate, package and store food. But don’t be fooled, the bigger underlying cause that the Blob doesn’t want you to notice is money.
The inflation starts with the money supply. If we gave everyone a million dollars, the thing we most want would suddenly cost a million dollars more.
As long as The Blob can borrow money into existence they can fund their friends and promise free homes and eternal youth to the voting massess. And the borrowers get to spend the money first, before the price rises.
So since 2008, all the US dollars ever created going back to World War I, have been multiplied five fold. This is the money-base data today from the US St Louis Federal Reserve.
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Climate change (code for CO2) causes crops to grow and greenery to get greener. So articles […]
By Jo Nova
A story by Greg Roberts in The Australian a couple of months ago seems to have been missed. It exposed a motherlode of funds is flowing into Australia from foreigners to promote Net Zero.
Think of how enormous $343 million dollars is. Even spread over six years, it’s a huge amount of money to any Australia charity to buy teenage rent-a-crowds, social media campaigns, and tin-pot reports.
It’s so sweet that all these foreigners care so much about our environment, right? It’s just the mum’s and dad’s of Shanghai who want Australians to have nicer weather in 100 years…
Or maybe state entities and foreign industrialists want to protect their investments? How could we tell? The largest number of donations supposedly came from the US, but charities are under no obligation to name donors. And large US philanthropic funds can absorb and pass on donations from anywhere if they wanted to disguise the original source.
If, say, the Chinese wind industry (or the Danish one) were able to buy off Australian environmental activists, they win in two ways. Their pet activists demand the government mandate more wind turbines which increases the profits of Big Wind, while at […]
Ebola virus
By Jo Nova
No matter how arrogant and evil we think the Deep State is — it’s worse
The conspiracy nuts were right again.
Marberg Virus | NIAID
The US funding that helped create the Wuhan Flu was not a one-off. It was just the tip of a clandestine industry spread across the world.
The next world war may be a Bioweapon War, and it may have already started.
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) reveals that the US was funding biolabs in more than 30 countries, many of which were working with ways to make dangerous pathogens even more dangerous. There was very little visibility or oversight on these labs and with some in war-zones, or hostile nations, there was always the dark possibility of losing control of the labs.
And so it is that the bad-man Trump-Hitler is the only President so far, who asked his officials to provide the evidence to the world, and to stop the US government funding of gain-of-function experiments.
Past Presidents would just call you a conspiracy nut.
With the AI rush, we are on the cusp of a kind of mutually assured destruction by bioweapons. […]
By Jo Nova
For some reason the pursuit of global teenage-girly weather-control has meant Australian workers are less productive. Who could have guessed that attempts to stop storms, floods and droughts in a hundred years would not make us richer today? I mean, apart from everyone?
“Australians are working harder for less”
In the last 25 years we’ve spent 126% more on capital costs but only improved output by 14%. It’s bad!
Now even the Productivity Commission is warning that renewable green investment is holding back the nation.
Australian productivity was rising until it suddenly fell off a cliff around May 2022 (see the graph below). Coincidentally this was the moment the Albanese Labor Party first got elected and went gangbusters with renewable energy. It seemed to be worthy of an annotated arrow, so I added that in…
Productivity Commission: Quarterly productivity bulletin June 26
From The Australian:
Renewables and green spending drag down productivity, PC warns
By Matthew Cranston, The Australian
Australia’s falling productivity levels have been driven down by the replacement of coal-fired power plants with billions of dollars in renewable energy projects, the Productivity Commission has declared, as it warns […]
AI eats energy for breakfast.
By Jo Nova
If the grid breaks, remember it’s all AI’s fault!
New data centers in Australia may use as much as 6% of the electricity demand by 2030. (That’s a whole six percent increase in demand four years from now. Call the ambulance, eh!).
But the thing is, our fragile grid already has these odd jiggly voltage and frequency spikes now that we’ve blown up all the spare coal plants, and any one of these jiggles may trigger a cluster of data centers to trip out at the same time to protect themselves. If a large load disappears off the grid simultaneously, it could set off a cascading chain of failures causing a widespread blackout. (A bit like the wind farms did in the Great South Australian Blackout of 2016).
So the manager of our forced fantasy transition is lining up the excuses to cover for his own failures. If there’s a blackout, it’s AI’s fault he says. And if prices rise, it’s AI’s fault too claims Minister Chris Bowen — who says that “Wholesale electricity prices could jump by a quarter in NSW and Victoria if data-centre growth is not matched […]
By Jo Nova
Back in 2020 nothing was more important than climate change. Swept away by the crisis, Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos set up a $10,000 million dollar fund to ‘fight climate change and protect nature’. It was the largest piece of atmospheric philanthropy known to mankind. But it’s become a bit of a ghost account.
The money was supposed to be spent by 2030, but six years in, 72% of the funds still haven’t been allocated.
Bezos Earth Fund Is Off Pace to Meet $10 Billion Climate Giving Pledge
By Ben Elgin and Sophie Alexander, Bloomberg
Officials at the Bezos Earth Fund said they remain committed to disbursing $10 billion by 2030. With four years left on the timeline, however, only 28% of the promised funds have been allocated so far.
In interviews and statements, Earth Fund executives reaffirmed their plan to spend $10 billion by the end of the decade. “Many of our strategies remain the same,” a spokesperson said…
Now that Trump sucked the government subsidies away from pet climate projects, you’d think the Bezos funding would be more “needed” than ever.
It’s not just Bezos who is backing away […]
The Burnett River Catchment opens to the south of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
By Jo Nova
Below is the craziest environmental rule Peter Ridd has come across, and below that, a strategy to deal with it.
Queenslanders please sign this Petition!
For some reason no one can explain, the catchments for the Burnett and Mary rivers are included in the Great Barrier Reef protection legislation. These rivers don’t even flow into the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, they empty to the south of it, and get swept away by the giant East Australian Current which heads south away from the reef.
The amount of water moving there is so vast that the entire annual flow of the Burnett and Mary Rivers passes in just two minutes.
Any runoff the rivers add to that flow will have to do a full lap of the Pacific Ocean to Peru and back before they get to the Great Barrier Reef.
We’re being so precious about the reef, but there are also eddy currents and gyres in the area that stir up the ocean floor and add a rich nutrient mix to the water. One near Fraser Island is so […]
Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash
By Jo Nova
We’re facing the sixth mass extinction but carbon accounting games are a performance art and almost no one cares that the largest emitter on Earth has gaping holes in their numbers.
One reader in The Wall Street Journal, pointed out that The Onion saw this coming years ago:
“China Vows to Begin Aggressively Falsifying Air Pollution Numbers.” (2014)
We live in an era where satire became the news.
The Paris Agreement allows everyone to set their own targets, and to define their own terms (and retrospectively as well). So China decided it would count “carbon intensity”, rather than carbon output. But it didn’t define carbon intensity. Normally it means the amount of CO2 emitted per unit GDP — which would work well for China with its rapidly growing economy. But something else is going on.
In the last five years China had promised to cut emissions by 18%, but all the official statistics suggested it was only getting 12% of the way there. Then a miracle happened and suddenly China leapt to a 17.7% reduction, just in the nick of time.
The Ecoworriers team […]
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By Jo Nova
The bottomless pit of public spending strikes again
Germany added 14 gigawatts of wind power in the last 5 years, however the total amount of electricity produced is still around 106 Terawatt hours.
Imagine how much money they could have saved if they hadn’t bothered to add more wind turbines?
Wind power is like a perpetual public money vacuum.
From Pierre Gosselin at No Tricks Zone:
Germany’s Die Welt: “Too Much Is Too Much” … Green Energies Are Cannabalizing Each Other!
Wetzel describes this as a ‘wind power puzzle’ and discusses several possible causes:
Several years with weak wind conditions, More frequent curtailments of wind turbines due to grid bottlenecks, The expansion of wind farms at weaker inland locations, So-called shading or ‘wind theft’ effects between wind turbines.
Australia has already done the same experiment. No matter how much wind power we add to the grid we can’t seem to get the bare minimum to increase, (the dark green columns at the bottom).
ie. Wind power remains 95% Useless.
The Australian experiment thanks to WattClarity
The maximum amount of wind power increases but the part we […]
Tarkine Forest,Tasmania by Tangerineduel
By Jo Nova
We’ve 1,000 years of coal left underground, but we’re returning to burning trees again to scare off the Climate-Yeti.
Environmentalists are aghast, of course, even though this is exactly what they wanted — a lower carbon form of concrete, and an end to coal.
But the 100 year old coal kiln needs $100m worth of transformation to be able to burn wood and tyres properly. So this is an expensive shift, and it won’t be easy to undo, and now the Greens and ABC (but I repeat myself) are concerned…
Concerns native forests could be part of Cement Australia’s ‘sustainable’ fuel option as it moves away from coal
By Kelsey Reid, ABC
One of the largest cement manufacturing sites in Australia has temporarily shut operations as it upgrades its coal-fired kiln to accept alternative fuel sources such as used tyres and “sustainable” wood waste.
Cement Australia’s Railton plant, in north-west Tasmania, will stop production for an estimated 45 days to allow for the $108 million works as the company moves to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
The whole point of the […]
National Archives at College Park – Archives II (College Park, MD) 1979
By Jo Nova
The ferocious demand for gas power to feed US Datacenters has triggered a global shortage
Such is the cashed up desire for gas turbines in the US, that all around the world other people are struggling to get gas turbines. Manufacturers have ramped up production, but waiting times have blown out to more than five years. In sheer desperation, companies are converting jet engines into small gas turbines.
Wow – this graph from the latest IEA report
The demand for gas power in “US captive data centers” is so large it is bigger than the investment in gas power in any other country except for the investment in grid connected datacentres, also in the USA.
Anyone who thinks they can just add a gas turbine here and there to patch up a gap in their renewable transition could be in for a nasty surprise.
“It only takes 30 -45 days to convert a Boeing 737 Jet Engine….”
Soaring Electricity Demand Meets Gas Turbine Shortage
By Irene Slav, OilPrice
Turbine makers like Siemens, GE Vernova, and Mitsubishi are ramping […]
I’ll be speaking tomorrow at an event organized by Gerard Rennick’s team in WA. He will take part from Queensland by video link. It’s all things crazy about the energy crisis, and the pagan witchcraft masquerading as science, and finding a path out of the swamp.
The great thing about these events is meeting the people who come.
It includes food and drinks so anyone who can make it will need to register and pay $33 today so they know the numbers.
Mount Hawthorn Main Hall, Perth, WA from 3pm -7:30pm Tomorrow.
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By Jo Nova
Antarctica would have been unrecognizable
The worst global warming nightmares all came true 130,000 years ago, done by mother nature all by herself. Most of the time the media ignores all this inconvenient catastrophe that lasted an astonishing ten thousand years. New research suggests almost all the Ross Ice Shelf melted and large parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet disappeared too, yet somehow Emperor penguins survived. So did the seals and the whales, and there was no tipping point that broke the planet. But the Hunter-gatherer beach clubs of 131,000 years ago were all washed away.
A new study looked at dust in Antarctic ice cores and noticed there was an ominous shift 120,000 years ago. In other periods the ice core had a layer of fine dust that seems to have traveled all the way from South American volcanoes. But when the Earth last warmed out of the depths of the ice age 130,000 years ago, a different type of coarse grainy dust appeared in the ice core they dug out. Normally big grains don’t travel far on the wind, so this implied that it was coming from a close volcanic source. And while there […]
By Jo Nova
The EU Free Trade agreement would Weaponize the Paris Agreement
The Labor Party want to sign a deal with the EU which means that future Australian governments won’t be able to drop the Paris Agreement without being bludgeoned in trade by the EU. If we revise our Net Zero goals downwards or delay them the EU can cut access for our farmers to their markets. And the EU will be able to say they are not bullying us, or interfering with our sovereign rights, they are just enforcing a trade agreement we signed up for.
In the Labor Governments own words:
For the first time in a free trade agreement, Australia (and the EU) has made a binding commitment to implement obligations under the Paris Agreement on climate change.
— Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Effectively Australian farmers or exporters to the EU will be held hostage by the EU to make sure we meet our Paris targets, even if we vote against Net Zero commitments. The deal has meaningless words like “Australia maintains the right to regulate in pursuit of its own public policy objectives” but if we […]
By Jo Nova
Australia is supposed to be going hell for leather to install renewables in order to pretend it has a chance of making Labor’s 82% reduction in emissions target by 2030. Instead investors are running away:
Investors desert Australia’s renewable rollout at ‘critical juncture’
Mike Foley and Nick Toscano, Sydney Morning Herald
Investment in renewable projects collapsed by 50 per cent over the past year, wiping out $4 billion in spending on the rollout, compromising the Albanese government’s clean energy targets and spurring industry warnings that the delays could raise electricity bills.
It’s always a critical juncture for renewables isn’t it? It’s like that for things that serve no useful purpose and levitate on subsidies. Investors must bet on which way the political wind will blow, and last year, after the Trump win, renewable energy took a hit.
Financial commitments for new renewable generation projects fell to a 10-year low in 2025 of $4.4 billion, half the value of projects that reached financial close in 2024, according to the Clean Energy Council’s annual report, published on Tuesday.
Investors are fleeing because of all the usual reasons not to invest — there’s […]
By Jo Nova
The ABC and the Guardian think they are onto some hot scandalous leak, but they don’t seem to realize the awful truth they are accidentally revealing.
This is not the story of an evil miner failing to make commitments, it’s the story of their technology fantasy busting. If wind and solar power were cheap, the profit hungry miners would be doing it wouldn’t they?
Instead all their ambitious plans are coming undone.
BHP is the largest mining company in the world, it has shareholder approval to spend millions on wind and solar projects and on the conversion to electric trucks. They also had an enthusiastic management and Net Zero targets, yet somehow the company has decided to drop or delay the wind and solar projects, and the low emissions processing plant too. It’s all been put in the deep freeze, delayed until 2031 before it even starts.
The truth is that the big electric haul trucks are not even close to being ready, and without the batteries to soak up the unreliable power, there was no point in spending a billion dollars on the wind and solar projects either yet.
Everything hinged on the electric […]
By Jo Nova
The Seismic Rift continues as conservative politics fractures over Net Zero and mass immigration.
MRP polls 6015 voters April 29 – May 14 | AFR
Astonishing polls in the AFR today point to a wipe-out of the old centre-right
The message is clear, the voters on the right side of politics don’t want to pander to the climate police and they don’t want mass immigration (which is also true of some voters on the left). It ought to be a snap for the Liberals and the Nationals to figure this out and win them back, but they are not even trying.
One Nation could win a blockbuster tally of between 46 and 59 seats in the Australian Parliament. The Liberal Party would be reduced to between 7 to 21 seats and the Nationals to zero.
It’s the Blob versus The People, but the Liberals are on the Blob’s side. One Nation voters know this is a fight for the country against corruption and globalist power, and they’re hardly going to be won over by a team that says they’ll stick with the UN because they’re a bit busy to just say “No”.
What is […]
Image by Cortex Zone from Pixabay
By Jo Nova
Interest Rate Climate Porn attacks Australia
Henceforth and verily, a witless economic model stacked on top of a skillless scientific one says that eating beef steaks makes the interest rate rise. But, don’t worry, if you spend thousands buying heat pumps, windmills and EVs from Matt Kean’s friends, you’ll pay less on the mortgage (trust us) and Wollemi Capital, who Matt Kean works for, will make more money.
Right now, interest rates are a hot topic, so bingo, Climate Change causes that too:
Inaction to force up rates, says Climate Change Authority’s Matt Kean
By Rosie Lewis, The Australian
Natural disasters fuelled by a failure to curb global warming will make higher interest rates a permanent feature of Australia’s economy, the government’s climate change tsar Matt Kean has claimed, as analysis shows the extent to which climate inaction will harm the nation – in particular in NSW and Queensland – and reduce households’ income.
The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority has relied on economic modelling by Oxford Economics Australia to inform its first stress test of how a changing climate could affect home […]
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