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Hazelwood Countdown: 53 years old and making more electricity than Australia’s entire wind industry
Three days to go: The Hazelwood shut down begins The situation in
Australia right now: The total fossil fuel output compared to total wind
power generation, NEM, Australian electricity market, 21 March 2017 One
old coal plant makes more electricity than all the wind farms Guest
Post by TonyfromOZ and Jo Nova I’ve been watching the output of all
eight generators at Hazelwood closely all month and
Gottleibsen: Australian Energy Crisis “criminal” with 75% chance of blackout
Last days before Hazelwood shuts down. Robert Gottleibsen in The
Australian a couple of days ago has investigated our energy crisis, and
discovered our old centralized grid design is quite likely to fall over
next summer in an incredibly expensive way. It’s nice that he did some
research and even talked to engineers: The looming crisis is much worse
than I expected. Three state governments, Victo
Climate caused Brexit sayth the Gore
Righto. It’s time to blame climate change for causing British voters to
vote against German rule of Britain. Back when the climate was ideal,
the Brits would’ve been fine with that. Instead, even though the world
has not warmed for 80% of the history of the EU, the EU is breaking up
because of climate change. It’s not like Al Gore to draw conclusions
from a long nebulous chain of dubious reasonin
Yesterday
Climate media news coverage collapsed in the 2016 election year
After the 2009 peak of Copenhagen-fever and ClimateGate, media coverage
dropped precipitously. Then there’s been a kind of dead cat bounce as
the extreme voodoo climate meme was pumped and every hot afternoon
became a front page headline. But media interest has plummeted — and in a
US election year. To some extent this was coming as the crowd was tired
of the hottest year after the hottest year,
Mar 22
Watch the 12th International Conference on Climate Change Live (Thursday morning US time)
The 12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-12) will take
place on Thursday and Friday, March 23–24 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in
Washington, DC, thanks to the Heartland Institute. Watch and hear the
scientists, economists, engineers, and policy experts who persuaded
President Donald Trump that man-made global warming is not a crisis, and
therefore Barack Obama’s war on fossil fuels m
Mar 19
All Australians “are detrimental”. Climate Scientist worries that her baby will cause floods, droughts, and warm globe
After years of struggle to conceive, plus tortured introspection about
the effect her baby might have on future storms, Sophie Lewis, climate
scientist, announces conception in the most convoluted way: And then,
just as senselessly as our grief began, it ended. For no particular
reason, the expected bad baby news never arrived and now the complexity
of having an imagined child will become a concr
Mar 18
Weekend Unthreaded
… Rating: 7.5/10 (25 votes cast) Rating: 7.5/ 10 (25 votes cast)
Mar 16
Climate-Dollar bragging is over: funding goes underground to avoid “climate-axe”.
Once upon a time governments bragged about how much they spent on
“climate change”. Every Climate Quiz or tin-pot-program to insulate a
chicken-run was wrapped under the Climate Action banner so that
politicians could claim they were saving the world. Nowadays voters have
voted for the guy who called it a hoax, and the funding’s gone
underground because he was going to boast about how much climat
Energy crisis in Australia: Feds versus State
Turnbull announces beefing up the Snowy Mountains Hydro. Weatherill
gets grumpy. Insults exchanged. Things are so serious that suddenly the
Feds are unveiling a new solution to fix the blackouts and “load
shedding”. http://a.msn.com/01/en-au/BBybbQL?ocid=se As Bob FJ writes:
see Canberra Times and note the eye-contact avoidance etcetera twixt
Weatherill and Frydenberg. h/t To Bob FJ Rating: 9.3/1
Mar 15
Infamous Milgram experiments repeated: Only a few will stand up against authority
The Milgram Experiment. Image Wikimedia. The chilling Milgram
experiments have been replicated, and yet again, 9 out of 10 are willing
to inflict electric shocks and pain on another person. In these
infamous experiments the power of a white lab coat was enough to get
more than half the participants (26 out of 40) to deliver a fatal shock
(the participants didn’t realize the shock was faked, and t
Mar 14
Battery powered SA, could be 100% renewable for just $60 – $90 billion
South Australia (SA) is planning to build a new gas fossil fuel plant
for $550 million because it has too much competitive and “cost
efficient” free energy. There are fears this will not only push up
electricity prices in the state but in Victoria, NSW and Tasmania too.
(Bravo, SA). In order to build a new fossil fuel plant with Greens
permission they spend $360m on the new gas plant, and then of
Mar 13
West Australia – Unskeptical conservatives wiped out in election – No Trump, No Brexit vote
Don’t
mention the climate — unskeptical conservatives give away some of their
best weapons The local Liberals (conservatives) got smashed on the
weekend in the Western Australian election. Polls predicted it, but
instead of a Trump-surprise, Colin Barnett’s team got a nasty shock
instead — wiped out. There was no “hidden vote” waiting there because
the local Liberals are just another brand of The
Mar 11
Fake News: Whipping up a media frenzy over bizarre “records” before they occur
Australia’s “leading climate scientists” can’t predict the climate but
they are very good PR operatives. Here in Perth we’ve had a cool year —
for the last twelve months it’s been nearly a whole degree cooler than
the average for the last 20 years. But last weekend in Perth, news
stories told us we’d had an “autumn stinker” and wait for it, we might
get Perth’s second hottest first eight days of
WA Election — Conservatives who believe in “climate alarm” were wiped out
Rating: 8.2/10 (39 votes cast) Rating: 8.2/ 10 (39 votes cast)
Mar 09
Climate Institute runs out of money
The The Climate Institute is a private think tank set up in 2005. It
got about $2m a year back in the heyday of climate panic. Today Planet
Earth is still about to collapse, but it’s not important enough for the
team to keep working without a salary. Amazing what someone, who really
believes in what they do, can achieve with 1% of what they had. No more
propaganda surveys from them then: Climate
Fifty Shades of Loadshedding — “Welcome darkness my good friend”
Love it! (Sing ’til you cry). Welcome darkness my good friend it’s good
to meet you once again Because the power grids are stressing, that’s
the reason for load shedding… – Shrish Viyas Hargoon h/t Lance. …. Why
they do it, we all know cos their resources are low they are doing it in
three stages Feels like we are living in dark ages Lights are taken
away from us without a fuss give a few hours o
Mar 07
Go NCSE “March for Science” — Rage for Cliches!
The whole NCSE march on April 22nd is devoted to a strawman: The
National Center for Science Education was one of the first organizations
to endorse the march, and we are encouraging our members to take part.
Why? Because we believe that the marches will be a powerful and positive
reminder that there is something that virtually everyone agrees on: the
value and importance of science. There is no
Mar 05
VW eco-scam, official corruption, is killing diesel
News is out that diesel cars which don’t comply with pollution
standards will be banned from some roads in Germany on “high pollution”
days. Depending on how often those bad news for diesel industry and
owners. How useless is a car that you can’t drive when you need it?
Stuttgart is being called the “Beijing” of Germany for air pollution.
Residents are suing the Mayor for “bodily harm”. The same
Windy Clean Green Pollution
Looks like the halo is fading. Today-Tonight is a current affairs show
in Australia. Today a few more Australians discovered that free energy
is not just expensive but creates its own kind of pollution. This hardly
a surprise for anyone who can spell cost-benefit, but it’s healthy to
see the prime-time media in Australia doing something other than singing
the Clean-Green advertising jingle. h/t S
Mar 04
Weekend Unthreaded
Sorry I am a bit distracted with other things this week. Light
postings. Rating: 8.0/10 (30 votes cast) Rating: 8.0/ 10 (30 votes cast)
Mar 03
DiCaprio, Bono, and Al Gore: flying eyebrow artists for the planet
Advertising
your virtues sometimes conflicts with advertising your social status.
Paul Joseph Watson never minces his words. … The surprising thing is
that these guys get away with it. Not laughed out of town for their
grandstanding piety at awards nights. h/t Scott of the Pacific Rating:
9.2/10 (95 votes cast) Rating: 9.2/ 10 (95 votes cast)
Mar 02
Climate Change will suck the flavour from your daily bread
Climate Change threatens to make bread less tasty Over at The
Conversation the panic is rising. Life is not going to be the same. Get
ready for the bland future — if we stop all plant breeding tomorrow, and
don’t change our fertilizers at all, it possible, by 2050, in dry
years, wheat may have a 6% decrease in protein. It’s that serious.
Everyone likes the high protein kind of wheat, and it’s wor
Mar 01
Trump takes away EPA “right” to control every puddle in USA: WOTUS executive order
Smile. One more noxious, power-grabbing bit of legislation: fixed.
Farmers and land-owners lost control of the puddles and ditches on their
land under the guise of environmental protection. Remarks by President
Trump at Signing of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Executive Order
The EPA’s so-called “Waters of the United States” rule is one of the
worst examples of federal regulation, and it ha
Feb 27
Does Solar PV in half of Europe make more energy than it consumes?
You might think we’d know whether a solar PV system produced energy
before we installed 1,000 Megawatts of it. But it’s hard to even know
after the fact. Dr John Constable points us at an interesting new paper
that discusses the odd creature called EROEI. This stands for energy
return on energy invested. If you get back less than “one”, it sucks.
That sounds like a fine idea except everyone seems
Feb 25
Weekend Unthreaded
… Rating: 8.2/10 (28 votes cast) Rating: 8.2/ 10 (28 votes cast)
Feb 24
How progressive: ship dead trees 5,000km and burn them (use £450m for kindling)
It would make any hunter gatherer proud. [The Times] Britain is wasting
hundreds of millions of pounds subsidizing power stations to burn
American wood pellets that do more harm to the climate than the coal
they replaced, a study has found. Chopping down trees and transporting
wood across the Atlantic Ocean to feed power stations produces more
greenhouse gases than much cheaper coal, according to
Feb 23
Solar Homes use more grid electricity than non-solar homes
There are probably more solar panels in QLD than anywhere else in the
world. Back in February last year, the boss of the Queensland state
power company announced the awkward result that households with solar
panels were using more electricity than those without. Apparently people
without solar were turning off the air conditioner because electricity
cost too much, but the solar users didn’t have
Feb 22
Y’think Donald Trump will bring in a carbon tax? (And pigs will knit socks.) Bob Inglis is a former Republican congressman who lost out to a Tea Partier (you’ll see why). He’s visiting Australia to talk us into doing climate manipulation. I can’t see his reasoning catching on: Former Republican congressman Bob Inglis says he knows it sounds improbable to say the US president would impose a carbon price, but he thinks reality will force MrThe climate conspirators have nothing on me. I see a push for nations to tax themselves and send money to the UN to be used up in fraudulent carbon offsets while the US stays out so as to reap the competitive benefit of the rest of the world shooting itself in the foot. Meanwhile chances are good clamping down on energy will happen simultaneously with increased need for heat during a cold cycle corresponding to natural cyclical effects similar to those of an ice age. And the fraudsters stay warm while others freeze and the UN hobbles sensible energy producing land use. Isn't corporate profit wonderful ?. oldephartte
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