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Tested: How Towing Affects the Electric Pickups—Hummer EV, Rivian R1T, and the Ford F-150 Lightning
Towing a trailer with an EV pickup might be easy, but it kills range fast.
To evaluate this emerging electric-towing phenomenon, we hitched each to the same load, a 29-foot camper that weighs 6100 pounds, the sort of trailer a family of four might take on the quintessential summer getaway.
We ran all three trucks on the same 85-degree summer day on the same flat highway loop at 70 mph. Other than the slightly lower speed, which is prudent when piloting between 13,000 and 16,000 pounds of truck and trailer, we conducted this the same way we run our 75-mph highway-range tests, with the automatic climate control set to 72 degrees and running as many miles as we dared before the battery’s state of charge became dire.
But you won’t want to be going far, as a full battery will take you a mere 100 miles in the Lightning, 110 miles in the R1T, and 140 miles in the Hummer. Although the Hummer consumes electricity at the highest rate of the three, its considerably larger battery pack more than makes up for the difference. (As with unladen range, each figure is rounded down to the nearest 10-mile increment here.)
The range for all three trucks when towing was less than half as far as when cruising lightly loaded at 75 mph.
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How on earth is an EV Locomotive going to pull a 2 mile train of iron ore from the Mine to Port Hedland? Will there be recharging stations along the way? Now, a diesel could do it with no problems.
Over to you Mr/Mrs BHP, Mr/Mrs Rio and ‘Hydrogen’ Twiggy.
I know what Gina will do as she does not believe in this “Climate Change” Alarmism………………………
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Why carry a battery? Electrify the line.
Moranbah to Hay Point was electrified decades ago. City trams were electric a hundred years ago.
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LOL. They all know that the mains electric power will not be there with solar panels and those windmills that chop up the bird life. So diesel power it is for eons to come.
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“Electrify the line…” LOL Where do you think they’ll get the thousands of amps of electricity they’ll need for the power? From the sun? From the wind?
Or from a dirty big diesel or LNG power station that, according to physics, will consume pretty much the same amount of diesel fuel or gas as the diesel locomotives currently in use?
Every time you duck squeezers think you’ve hit the bullseye, all you do is shoot yourself in the foot.
Hahahahahaha!
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From the same place they get the power for the Hay Point line: The grid. Assuming there are always trains running, a CC turbine [or two, I don’t know]outside the AEMO would be cheap power and a controlled cost.
The NW is awash with gas, do what the US does and build the pipes. Gas powers economic activity, not just electricity.
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But H
That isn’t fashionable
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Sydney’s Parramatta Light Rail will use both technologies. A dozen CAF-Transdev units have been ordered with so-called “Greentech Freedrives” ie grid power via catenary and contact cabling and lithium batteries powered by wokeness.
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INdeed, Batteries? we already have electric trains, electric trams, electric Trolleybuses, and electric drills: but now take a look ( and follow on the leads ) electric TRACTORS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzl3wkkKtoA . … how will they make all that cabling when / if Copper becomes scarce and Plastic ( for insulation ) is a NO-NO.
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And where will they get the power?
Up to 1 MW in that advertising video.
Are John Deere also supplying a small nuke . . . ?
Auto
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Electric Trains do not have to be battery powered .
EG,.. most current intercity trains in Europe, Trams, Metro trains, TUVs, and the Japanese “bullet “ trains. ..( the latest versionsof which do actually have an onboard emergency battery that can provide drive power if the mains supply fails !)
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Maybe they’ll do it with a stationary battery bank and a regular electric loco, but I doubt it.
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If you have the power to charge the battery you have the power to run the train on HV AC and do so more efficiently.
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“How on earth is an EV Locomotive going to pull a 2 mile train of iron ore from the Mine to Port Hedland? ”
I think it is downhill to the port.
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GoogleEarth says there is 650m elevation change from Newman to Hedland. Even on steel rails they can’t coast it. Besides an empty train is still heavy on the return trip.
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Isn’t a diesel locomotive an EV with an on-board diesel generator?
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The railways in South Africa were electrified back in that time when they were having trouble with oil imports. Interestingly steam was retained for shunting.
Seems like these days they might be having trouble getting both electricity and coal.
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A tow test using a $150,000 plus Tesla SUV AWD and a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV 4WD Diesel was conducted with both towing identical caravans, the route was Penrith West of Sydney CBD to Bathurst on the other side of the “Blue Mountains” and that route was chosen because the test crews realised that the Tesla EV could not tow even the small single axle caravan any further without recharging the battery pack.
The Land Cruiser reached Bathurst with fuel tank reserve enough to do the same trip return and back to Bathurst several times.
As for performance the Tesla handled the hill climbs with caravan hitched with no problem and was a match for the Land Cruiser on the hill climbs.
But range limitation and price of EV was not satisfactory, the Land Cruiser is or was around $55,000 less expensive.
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Electric trains are possible and have been done. Admittedly not suitable for the application you describe. But there is an even more difficult and challenging application than the locomotive…….
The tractor…… how will a farmer in a remote location, who has 10,000 hectares to harvest, plough, tilthe, harvest, fertilise, for 18+hrs per 45 degree c day day during the season accomplish this with batteries? Will there be a separate pack for the 300hp pto? How does one retrofit a cane or combine harvester? It’s just never going to happen. What a modern diesel tractor can facilitate is amazing. But even that is eclipsed by big shipping.
Where will they put the million amp hr quick change packs in the middle of the pacific during cyclone season? How will they charge them? Maybe they will drop them off with another battery tanker ship….
That so many are so ignorant of what it takes to get one’s 2 dollar loaf of bread, their teaspoon of sugar in their tea or their 2 dollar Chinese trinket from the cheap shop is a truly epic travesty. Loom at anything inside your home and think of the ingenuity, engineering, creativity and craftsmanship involved in it…. and ask yourself how criminal is it that a sleazy politician or lawyer will retire with an able body…. never having suffered a workplace injury or having to work while sick….. and intact pension and luxury car?
For generations society has somehow continued to operate under the guidance of a cabal of intellectual thugs, white collar psychopaths and and populace of willing serfs.
A single percent of awakening from how the world really works will literally kill innumerable people comfortable and safe in their homes at night.
And yet i am confronted with a paradox. I wish things might be better. But I am confronted with a truth that makes my position precarious. Advocates for the greater good must accept the inevitability of their opposition….
Maybe I should read Ayn Rand again… all groups are made from individual building blocks…
Time to shrug…
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” harvest, plough, tilthe, harvest, fertilise, for 18+hrs per 45 degree c day day during the season accomplish this with batteries?”
With a lot of batteries?
NZ has one electric milk tanker being trialled , in a very limited way, in a limited area.
Less than ten minutes to swap battery packs they reckon.
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So electric DOES ruin the weekend.
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How drivers who buy petrol or diesel cars could be stung with a $4,000 fee because they didn’t choose a climate-friendly electric vehicle
– Fully-electric vehicles have a minuscule 1.6 per cent market share in 2022 so far
– Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes wants 10 per cent share by 2024
– Griffith University’s Anna Mortimore said New Zealand had petrol car penalties
– She suggested Australia would have to copy Kiwi neighbour policy for EV surge
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* The state governments are already preparing an EV road use charge to replace fuel tax, yes fuel tax is a federal tax, no doubt there will be a deal offset for federal and probably to do with state grants.
* All EV and Hybrids must now have a blue warning sticker on the front and rear registration plates to warn fire brigade and road traffic authorities, rescue, that exothermic reaction from lithium ion batteries is a potential major hazard.
* In Australia EV are recharged from the grid supplied mostly from fossil fuelled generators so emissions reduction not much.
* Battery pack is a trade-in valuation factor for devaluation of offer and a “fuel” expense when replacement time is reached and should be factored in to savings calculations when compared to fossil fuelled vehicles.
* Running cost does not break even until the price difference between the EV and much cheaper ICEV is taken into account.
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In the USA, the Feds tax at the refinery (~18.4 ¢) while the states tax at the pump. The Great Left Coast State of Washington adds 49.4 ¢ (#8). Gas taxes face a narrowing base, as the improvement in vehicles’ fuel economy along with the growth in sales of electric vehicles.
The tax is set to climb on January 1 of 2023 by a projected 46 cents per gallon.
Taken together with federal gas taxes, Washingtonians will be paying just shy of $1.14 per gallon, the highest tax at the pump in the country of any state. The tax on diesel would be higher. This is a CO2 based tax and will continue to climb.
Owners of electric vehicles pay $150 each year as a gas tax offset. The State wants more but can’t figure out how to do so. Stay tuned.
I will add that the State’s highways need the repairs and improvements now in progress.
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I wonder how the Tesla semi trailer is going? Its gone awfully quiet, especially since these real world towing tests have been bubbling to the surface. Never mind , Elon will make it work.
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I would like to see a cost-benefit analysis of heavy transport with an electric prime mover (tractor) losing the weight of the batteries needed from payload capacity impact on profitability and the downtime recharging the very large capacity battery pack needed even for a not acceptable long distance haulage 500 kilometres range.
A while ago I did some calculations and I believe that on a B-Double trailer truck the smaller trailer would have to be for the battery pack so maybe a trailer swap every 500 kilometres?
Are there any Cobb & Co coach company staging post managers still alive to give advice?
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It’s already known and has been calculated.
Tesla trucks are viable for around 3% of typical USA trucking: Basically the jobs where a truck drives long way across town, picks up a load, drives short distance to deliver it, drives a long way back to base. That’s it. This is why they have never seen the light off day. And that 3% is still only with Teslas guesstimate prices…
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Let’s see if this can work.
https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/fonterra-powers-ahead-with-electric-milk-tanker/
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Same argument with cordless drills: Nobody asks and Nobody states the Electric motive power, or the equivalent mpg ie Units of electricity to perform the duty ie kWhrs from the Battery ( or better still the INPUT kWhrs (units in the UK ) to travel ‘x’ Miles or Kms. Then we could easily at the sales Forecourt calculate which is best. Seemplz.
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? what? cause it doesnt matter, you pick up a battery pack and wang it in. If you dont like it you spend a few hundred dollars on another brand. There is no equivalence.
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I am in a position to report that a builder in Sydney needed a concrete saw and asked for demonstrations and quotations for a battery model and an internal combustion engine model with similar performance specifications.
The electric was considerably more expensive plus spare batteries needed to operate all day as needed on the project.
Petrol engine 4-stroke model was purchased.
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Even a roofrack and skies/surfboard will cut range. Aerodynamics are important, that’s why Musk fitted [expensive to replace] flush door handles.
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Labor is up in the Polls so will continue attacking the former Government.
Meanwhile their stupid policies will be waved through by the gullible & WOKE Teals.
Must check costs of generator & installation.
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And this morning news that Labor knows that no law was broken by PM Morrison and, that the Constitution according to Labor’s Attorney General does not specify the number of cabinet ministers that could be appointed to any one portfolio.
PM Morrison did not create new portfolios and did not get sworn as the a cabinet minister, he was sworn in as a back up cabinet minister for each portfolio involved.
Listening to Albo babbling we could be forgiven for believing that a second cabinet was created, a secret second cabinet, but that is as true as his claim during the election campaign that he was once economics adviser to PM Hawke. He was not, he was a staff member in the Sydney suburban electoral office of Hawke Cabinet Minister Uren and Albo was not even located in Canberra.
I believe that the politics involved not only involve Labor desperately trying to divert voter’s attention from the many problems but the diversionary tactic has suckered the centre left MPs of Liberal and National into airing their dirty washing in public, not advisable, as PM Hawke once observed, disunity is death in politics.
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That may well be but why was Scotty so secretive? And it was the Solicitor General who has provided the advice. NOT “Labor’s Attorney General”. ‘LayBore’ does not own the place.
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So secretive?
I am aware from past glimpses inside and advice received that many decisions by prime ministers and cabinet are not made public and most are marked not to be revealed for decades into the future.
The reasons are also or could be upsetting for we the mere mortals outside in voter land, or misconstrued, or even provide political ammunition for opposition members and parties to make mischief with, as Albanese Labor is doing right now after reading the book written by Australian newspaper journalists who were granted access to observe the inside management of the pandemic.
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Did Labor mention at all that Gough Whitlam did the same same bit covering even more Ministries?
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And don’t ignore the Rudd Labor Gang of Four inner cabinet of PM, Deputy Gillard, Treasurer Swan and Minister for Finance Tanner.
I remember reports of cabinet minister outsiders were not happy.
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Labor wont be up in the polls for long, just wait till the posturing, preening and virtue signaling stops and they have to do real things with consequences. Reality has a way of catching up.
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https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1561441768377294848
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my kind of woman, focused on the real mission not the BS
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High pressure blocking fingered for China drought.
‘China has shifted into a hostile drought pattern at amazing speed since early summer. The culprit? High-pressure ridging associated with dramatic warm SSTA off the East Asia Coast. The SEP/OCT/NOV 2022 outlook favors a mostly drier than normal climate and worsening drought.’ (Climate Impact Company)
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Obviously, the Chinese are not pumping out enough CO2. Also, I would have thought that they would have built plenty of Desalination Plants by now. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Maybe they are not so clever after all.
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Natural variables rule, climate change is out of their hands.
BoM seasonal forecast, a wet and dry country.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/outlooks/#/overview/summary
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Dorothy McKellar forecast..”a wet and dry country.”
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The writing carved on stones exposed by drought as river beds appear and water disappears dating back hundreds of years recording past droughts and famine resulting were interesting, I wonder if the BoM read that news story?
And Climate Council, Greens, pale greens, Labor, LINO left and all the others in woke mode.
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Too busy Covid testing fish apparently
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In The Australian today that the economy of China is 20% of USA GDP, contrary to what many people seem to believe.
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some disagree
https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-gdp
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ranking/gdp-gross-domestic-product
https://statisticstimes.com/economy/projected-world-gdp-ranking.php
its all in the methodology I guess, just like climate
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My preferred comparator is Real GDP, (AKA purchasing power parity) which compares the value of final goods and services occurring within a nation in a nominal period.
The George Bush Center for Intelligence (CIA) publishes one such Real GDP reference, but it has a serious bias- all goods and services produced in each country are valued at the prices prevailing in the United States, when they should be valued at the prices of the most efficient or highest volume producer.
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Been watching this develop for a while. It’s not unusual for a strong La Niña
We still have strong westerly Trade winds across the Pacific, sucking cold water to the surface of central America and pushing it across the Pacific to us. Easterlies in the Indian Ocean meet the Trades to our north, creating a major rising air mass and consequent above-average rain here and through SE-Asia. Meanwhile, the Northern Pacific gets very hot, and north China and Kalifornia get drier than average.
China may have bigger problems than Taiwan…. but Taiwan may provide a distraction from the CCPs more management of those problems.
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From The Spectator –
We need to stop looking to the government to resolve all of our problems – especially since many of our existing difficulties have been created by the State.
Covid ‘emergency’ laws have exacerbated our country’s toxic reliance upon the State, a trend already on the rise prior to Australia’s first lockdown in March, 2020. It is high time we stopped reaching for handouts. To wean ourselves off, we should start by ending the pandemic disaster payments in Australia that are a burden to taxpayers and a drain on our economy.
Some weeks ago, Federal Health Minister Mark Butler had it right when he pushed back against pressure to prolong the cut-off date of Pandemic Leave Disaster Payments, conveying the common-sense position that emergency payments cannot last forever. However, the federal Labor Party caved to pressure from parochial Premiers, the majority of whom favoured an extension of the payments. It is worth noting that both Victoria and New South Wales are approaching state elections within the next twelve months. No doubt this had some influence on their decision.
According to our federal government, the premise of the payment is the provision of financial support ‘if you can’t earn an income because you or someone you’re caring for has to self-isolate or quarantine due to Covid’. Therefore, in order to scrap the Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment, governments at state level must reverse their mandated seven-day isolation orders for workers in the event they test positive for Covid.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/08/paying-for-the-pandemic-welfare-state/
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Sounds like work and personal responsibility Johnny, who wants that?
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They won’t do that- It is the first step down a dark and ugly path that leads to the realization that we don’t need a Govt to do everything for us, in fact we don’t need a Govt at all!
Govt give-aways, Govt power, and Govt control of your life are all on a ratchet mechanism, they only go one way. Any hiatus is just while they wind up for the next step forward…
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Need to look to the Govt to STOP creating problems and STOP preventing solutions.
ie: problem- shortage of electricity. Solution – dig coal and build coal fired power stations.
Problem. Govt wont allow the solution.
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D.C. Lawyer of the Year: Natasha Taylor-Smith
I have been reading with horror Julie Kelley’s day-to-day description of the treatment afforded some 850 people arrested in D.C. for conduct on January 6 and the awful legal representation and judicial treatment they have received. Many have been held in horrible prison conditions for over a year, denied bail and an opportunity to have their cases heard outside this venue where the jurors will never grant them a fair trial.
None of the big law firms in town which puff up their public service donating time — for example, to defend Guantanamo Bay detainees — have to my knowledge volunteered to help these people. So it was a welcome surprise to see one young public defender do her job. The woman is Natasha Taylor-Smith, and for once I am proud of the legal profession in this ginned-up partisan Stalinist prosecution of mostly ordinary citizens most of whom did little more than walk through the open doors of the Capitol and leave. (Six more were just convicted of this — ordinarily a minor trespass with no charges brought — and will now face a potential six months in jail.)
Most of the defendants have had to rely on public defenders and most of those caved utterly in defending them. Not Natasha. Here’s her opening statement to the trial court:
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All happening in the so called “Land of the FREE”……..And I thought that the USA had a Constitution.
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” the USA had a Constitution.”
Yes, once upon a time , it did.
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It’s now “the vibe, man…it’s the vibe….get it?”
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The electrical supply grid is biased toward supply using redundant systems. All for a higher quality and some assurance of supply. This is achieved with extra generational capacity and extra transmission lines. In our current system, there is also the benefit of numerous suppliers across multiple companies and states, this provides physical as well industrial, (strikes), protection.
In the future, as more and more of the grid supply is converted to weather dependent supply, how long will it be before we are held to ransom, (by pricing), for this supply by one or more of the generating companies.
Imagine this, one windless night across southern Australia, the batteries are fast flattening, Snowy II is drainging, Tasmania is draining and the only windmills in operation, located in Qld, are owned by a foreign company. What price are they going to bid for supply? How do you fix that problem?
As always, supply and demand. The current government would propose that we build more windmills and solar farms in the southern states to beat them….. That probably won’t work too well but who is going to get this through their thick skulls?
Or…. Once you’ve abandoned/load shed the fabrication and manufacturing industries, what’s next on the agenda for this Labor government and the minister for blackouts?
Who will make our candles?
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Adding to the “firming” will be Chris Bowen’s transition to EV, to quote Tim Blair in the Daily telegraph: “Bowen’s electric dream”.
Smart meters roll out fast tracked to enable better management of grid demand.
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Chris Bowen’s wet dream more like it.
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“Smart meters roll out fast tracked to enable better management of grid demand.
So that they can flick you off grid if they get into strife.
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I’m still wondering if any part of Australia’s energy systems have any form of stated reliability percentage. I’m presuming that there isn’t one, because surely having one would mean that they were legally obliged to adhere to the stated reliability figure.
In a recent blog I saw the figure of 99.99% being quoted for a USA supply system, but don’t know any details.
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Those numbers can look good and be totally meaningless. I used to manage a continental scale Data Centre and customers could have 99.9%+ availability and still be very unhappy, and they would be right.
We also need to think about the difference between availability and reliability, they are different things although the words are often interchanged.
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Eng_Ian, what size generator do you think for an inverter fridge, a couple of LED lights and a 40″ 85w tv.
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Bit of a straw man scenario as wind is mainly a southern thing, but the fundamental point stands. We need a more intelligent system for pricing energy. My interest has been piqued by the Taswegians paying through the nose while they are doing business as ususal, pumping out hydro power and a touch of wind. The system is broken.
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… and with what?
Mass-produced candles are usually 60% fossil-fuel paraffin, 35% animal fat, 5% vegetable fat.
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The following is extracted from an interesting news report from Science.org (Science) on 9 August 2022 regarding ‘star’ marine ecologist Danielle Dixson who allegedly committed misconduct, according to the University of Delaware.
https://www.science.org/content/article/star-marine-ecologist-committed-misconduct-university-says
Dixson obtained her Ph.D. at James Cook University (JCU), Townsville in Australia, in 2012. She was known as a highly successful scientist and fundraiser. After JCU, she worked as a postdoc and assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology for 4 years; and in 2015 started her own group at UD’s marine biology lab.
The University of Delaware confirmed to Science that it has accepted an investigative panel conclusion that marine ecologist Danielle Dixson committed fabrication and falsification in work on fish behaviour and coral reefs. The university is seeking the retraction of three of Dixson’s papers and “has notified the appropriate federal agencies,” a spokesperson says.
Among the papers is a study about coral reef recovery that Dixson published in Science in 2014, and for which the journal issued an Editorial Expression of Concern in February. Science has now retracted that paper.
The investigative panel’s draft report painted a damning picture of Dixson’s scientific work, which included many studies that appeared to show that rising CO2 can have dramatic effects on fish behaviour and ecology.
Amongst other things, a former Ph.D. student (Paul Leingang) first brought accusations against Dixson to university officials in January 2020. Leingang, who had been at Dixson’s lab since 2016, says he had become increasingly suspicious of her findings.
Science states that the finding against Danielle Dixson vindicates whistleblowers who questioned high-profile work on ocean acidification.
I guess the vindicated whistleblowers might include Peter Ridd, Jenifer Marohasy, and yourself.
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So we need to rely on the Americans again to find the truth – not a peep out of Australia…
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Exactly.
In the US, a PhD student at University of Delaware raises concerns, and they set up an investigative committee.
In Australia, a university professor raises concerns, and the university fires him.
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Another PhD trained in the James Cook method gets found out. (There was that one who went to Sweden).
Albo would get more mileage if he started an enquiry into Jame Cook Uni.
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The taint of JCU appears to be spreading. I wonder how long before a JCU qualification becomes a red flag?
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But “knowledge from a long distance away” (/s)
“Julian Burnside predicts ‘the end of America'”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/julian-burnside-predicts-the-end-of-america.html
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News at 10.00 Doh
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This caught my interest.
‘There is still controversy about tropical temperatures during the LGM, but it appears that they were only 1–2 °C colder than present. This is consistent with evidence that tropical temperatures have not changed much over the course of the past 540 million years despite huge changes in the average temperature of the planet (9–30 °C)’ (Vinos and May 2022)
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Interestingly it is the temperature gradient between the mid latitudes and the poles which seem to be the biggest influence on droughts and floods (or for you blocking high pressure systems)
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Droughts and floods are WEATHER. !
They occur, and there is no indication of any significant trend one way or the other.
All weather is influenced by NATURAL temperature and pressure gradients.
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The mid latitudes feel the brunt of severe weather anomalies.
Climate change is happening as we speak, note the high pressure drifting into the Bight. Its too far south for this time of year and the winters are cooler because of Antarctic blasts.
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf
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Ponder this.
‘Overall, the IPCC models indicate a shift to more El Niño-like states as climate change warms the oceans, says climate modeller Richard Seager.
‘Puzzlingly, Seager says, observations have shown the opposite over the past half-century: as the climate has warmed, a tongue of upwelling waters in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean has stayed cold, creating more La Niña-like conditions.’ (Nature)
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Add energy to a chaotic system, this is what you get
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Good argument, if the UAH doesn’t fall below the line then we might assume that human induced energy is impacting the system.
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“we might assume that human induced energy is impacting the system.”
Which would be a totally non-scientific and baseless fantasy assumption… backed by absolutely nothing. ie Superstition.
Actual measurements show the real cause of warming.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/08/22/new-study-a-post-2000-increase-in-absorbed-solar-energy-by-far-the-largest-contribution-to-warming/
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It makes sense, but the rank and file won’t be easily swayed.
‘In other words, the impact of CO2 and other greenhouse gas forcing together with cloud has contributed a net cooling influence that has been soundly superseded by the increasing solar radiation trend.’
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Did a bit more reading and it appears TSI has been increasing. A couple of decades ago NASA said if this upward trend continues it will warm the planet. They got that right.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.277.5334.1963
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NASA KNEW !!
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You have been shown several times, by measurement, that increasing CO2 levels does not add energy to the atmospheric system.
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One possible explanation as to why Australian Aborigines and other people camped around the lake now known as Gulf of Carpentaria?
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Its fairly clear that the first Australians came via New Guinea around 50,000 years ago. The LGM is a long way off but sea level had already fallen considerably, so reclaimed land and island hopping was the way forward. Its highly unlikely that Timor was involved because of the logistics required.
Lake Carpentaria eventually formed, fed by waters from the Papua highlands.
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A light hearted video for Monday 🙂
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/comedy-break-jp-sears/
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You die when the heart stops pumping. Nothing light hearted about that.
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That bloke looks a bit like that female swimmer with the ginger beard in a previously posted Article.
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This report lays bare the facts that the planet does not have the resources to allow a full transition to green power. The facts are so mind-bogglingly obvious when gathered into one place, that one might think it’s been known but deliberately ignored by all the relevant agencies pushing the dream. The author will have to step carefully now, they will be out to get him .,,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuBocc
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The use of “green” to describe so many things falls right into the hands of http://www.thegreens and their sales and marketing people, spin doctors.
As do “green” descriptions like “wind farms”, national parks “for future generations” ignoring locking up valuable resources for economic prosperity today, etc.
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For those who want some of the charts and tables in hard copy, try here..
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354067356_Assessment_of_the_Extra_Capacity_Required_of_Alternative_Energy_Electrical_Power_Systems_to_Completely_Replace_Fossil_Fuels
Curious that the pdf here seems to be dated almost exactly a year ago, maybe the youtube link above is an update.
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Last week the United Nations publicly declared non-approved thought / ideas / questions , called conspiracy theories , cannot be tolerated.
The ‘ vulgarian hoards ‘ causing discomfort ( theirs ) are seen as a problem not just for the uni-party in DC , but in the UN , NGO sphere as well.
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Bank Australia Chief Impact Officer Sasha Courville says no more loans for evil autos.
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Capitalism as the left refer to the best system yet created for economic prosperity, what is free enterprise and free markets, consumers pick the winners and losers on merit, not governments dictating to consumers.
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Get woke go bwoke?
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I’m following that with interest. Will they be able to sustain that ? Will the other banks follow ? Ive never heard of Bank Australia unless NAB has changed its name ?
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I just looked: there is a web page on wiki that says it started as a collection of credit unions.
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Did you know that the leading cause of death in many places is defined as “unknown cause of death”?
JP Sears (Awaken with JP) comments.
This is simultaneously sad, funny and worrisome.
https://youtu.be/F74iqEJnb14
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-interview with Dr Fauci on MSNBC: ‘If you want to put a dead stop to polio” in the US ‘get everybody
August 2022 vaccinated’
—–> CDC Director Walensky admits that her agency needs to be overhauled…..
-Dr Fauci: “If you attack me, you attack science”
June 2021
Physicians, we were taught to challenge ourselves and each other to get at the truth. While again dodging the scientific issues, the country’s most interviewed physician says criticizing him is criticizing Science. We all should hold him accountable to science and truth.
PHYSICIANS FOR FREEDOM
I don’t know the ‘physicians for freedom’, but I agree with the above.
Virology Journal, published: 05 June 2022 ‘Adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines and measures to prevent them’
??? ‘The media have so far concealed the adverse events of vaccine administration, such as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), owing to biased propaganda. The institute encounters many cases in which this cause is recognized.(The Institute = Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Okamura Memorial Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan)
…..
To date, when comparing the advantages and disadvantages of mRNA vaccines, vaccination has been commonly recommended. As the COVID-19 pandemic becomes better controlled, vaccine sequelae are likely to become more apparent.
It has been hypothesized that there will be an increase in cardiovascular diseases, especially acute coronary syndromes, caused by the spike proteins in genetic vaccines. Besides the risk of infections owing to lowered immune functions, there is a possible risk of unknown organ damage caused by the vaccine that has remained hidden without apparent clinical presentations, mainly in the circulatory system. Therefore, careful risk assessments prior to surgery and invasive medical procedures are essential. Randomized controlled trials are further needed to confirm these clinical observations.
Some studies suggest a link between COVID-19 vaccines and reactivation of the virus that causes shingles’
(I have 2 family members who received 4 mRNA shots and got shingles. I don’t know if these vaccines are the
cause or if was just coincidence)
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I thought that “died suddenly” was the front runner … turns up in the news.
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JP is woke to the reality that the more absurdist the ideology, the higher the social credit score.
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Mark Steyn
“Wrecking 12,000 years of farming in about 12,000 minutes”
https://youtu.be/FdgHQfkg4vA
And things around that
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What a crazy World we now live in. Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians who can get the job done………………….
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I was at a management training course way back in BC and we were introduced to the Pyramid Model – one chief working down to many indians.
And from the class there came (with a UK accent, in partial attribution)
“So that is how it works. I thought it was like a vegetarian’s dunny – the turds floated to the top”
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China is NOT going to collapse
I’ve seen a lot of videos on uselesstube recently claiming the problems in China are insurmountable and China has x-amount of time left before it implodes.
These claims are garbage!
They do have wide-ranging problems and getting worse but the totalitarian nature of the CCP, the mass censorship and the extreme docility of the population will ensure another Tiananmen doesn’t happen.
They could take their country back as they have the numbers but it won’t happen.
Even having their life savings wiped out hasn’t provoked mass rebellion.
It just annoys me to see that sort of half-baked claim repeated so I’m venting. 🙄
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China is not an island, they are almost totally dependent on exports and their customers are all about to cut their discretionary spending.
The Ukraine is localised, not WWIII, but in a world where no country is self sufficient any more the damage to trade is world wide. Are we in Mini WWIII?
Donald Horn may be proven right again.
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Doctors Warn About ‘Very Contagious’ ‘Tomato Flu’ Virus Deteted In Children
Another new virus dubbed the tomato flu, or tomato fever, has emerged in the Indian state of Kerala.
So far 82 children under the age of five have been diagnosed with tomato fever since May.
Experts feared the virus may be a new variant of hand, foot, and mouth disease but are also investiagting whether it is the after-effect of a mosquito-borne infection. They also say they are not ruling out an entirely new pathogen.
‘Given the similarities to hand, foot, and mouth disease, if the outbreak of tomato flu in children is not controlled and prevented, transmission might lead to serious consequences by spreading in adults as well.’
The main symptoms observed in children with tomato flu are similar to those of chikungunya – a viral disease similar to dengue that is transmitted by mosquitoes and is endemic in parts of India.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in most cases, the virus has symptoms like fever, painful sores in the mouth and a blistery rash.
The virus got its name because of the eruption of red and painful blisters throughout the body that gradually enlarge to the size of a tomato. These blisters resemble those seen with the monkeypox virus in young people, the Lancet reports
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(22)00300-9/fulltext#%20
Ah…India again..my favourite spot for Disease outbreaks. 😆
Should I even mention Dengue? Naaahhh.
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LOL. Tomato Flu? They must be joking. How about a Cucumber Cold or a Siberian Rash?. Or a Chinese Itch?.
What a load of Tosh this is.
Beem me up Scotty and not you Scomo. You already have some kind of issue.
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Holy guacamole. Not the tomato flu!
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Antibody “master key” discovery could neutralize all COVID variants
A new study published in Nature Communications has homed in on a part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that seems to be shared across all known variants. The research also reveals an antibody fragment that can hypothetically block the virus from entering human cells, paving the way for future therapies to neutralize all COVID-19 variants.
The new research offers one of the most thorough investigations to date into the spike protein differences between a number of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Using cryo-electron microscopy the study zoomed in on spike proteins from Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Kappa, Epsilon, and Omicron (BA.1 and BA.2) variants.
The researchers discovered a certain part of the spike protein is conserved across all these variants. This spot, known as an epitope, is vulnerable to novel antibodies that could block the virus’ ability to infect human cells.
“The epitope we describe in this paper is mostly removed from the hot spots for mutations, which is why its capabilities are preserved across variants,” explained Sriram Subramaniam. “Now that we’ve described the structure of this site in detail, it unlocks a whole new realm of treatment possibilities.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.add5446
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A question for the advocates of a net zero emissions economy.
Why are you pretending to support a revival of manufacturing industry and related emissions?
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Does anyone know the pitfalls of solar hot water?
People are not talking about it now there is rooftop solar.
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We went into it around the early 1990’s with a Solarhart Black Chrome. The tank on it was glass coated steel and the story was that they weren’t fussy on the water quality. The pay off was about 7 years.
At about half that time it got “very religious”. We negotiated a replacement for about the price of going off peak electric and ran that on rain water when possible. It lasted not much longer.
At which stage solar hot water was declared a very expensive hobby, at that stage theoretically sound but practically imperfect.
We went Rinnai gas on demand which was what the district had decided was the way to go. We’ve had no problems with it in around 15 years. The plumber who installed it knew of only one solar left in the district at that time.
Stainless ones might be better but I don’t know of any examples around here. Beware that there are grades of stainless.
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The usual problem with glass lined tanks is corrosion at the threaded penetrations due to galvanic action. The tank must be electrically isolated from the piping connections by means of dielectric unions or fittings, and the tank must have either a sacrificial zinc/aluminum anode or an impressed current artificial anode. Without an anode, the tank will last 3 or 4 years and start leaking. A zinc/Al anode gives the tank another 7 or 8 years of life. An impressed current system gives about 20 yrs of life until leaks occur. The Zn/Al anode can be replaced at about 6 yrs and extend the tank life. Some manufacturers tried stainless electric hot water tanks, but the heating elements then became the sacrificial anode and the elements corroded in short order. It was a good idea, but they forgot about galvanic corrosion.
Examples of a powered anode are : ( USD 95) https://www.amazon.com/Powered-Anode-System-Water-Supply/dp/B074XC19J6
or https://www.ebay.ca/itm/ICCP-Powered-Anode-Rod-Stops-Hot-Water-Odor-And-Internal-Tank-Corrosion/142271777319
The powered anode uses a tungsten rod with some coating on them and a 12 VDC power supply coupled to a current controller to deliver 5 mA to about 15 mA of current with the tank being negative and the rod being positive.
The existing anode rod has to be removed to install the powered anode system. It takes a 1-1/16″ or 27mm socket to remove. Best to use an impact wrench as the factory really torques them down hard.
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” the heating elements then became the sacrificial anode ”
I confirm that. I had a solar water heater with a stainless steel tank. The heating elements lasted 2 to 3 years. The tank lasted about 12 years. It was not corrosion but cracks round the plumbing connections were leaking.
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(1) In most cases you need a plumber and an Electrician to install the system. Finding either has been fun up to now.
(2) You may have difficulty purchasing an evacuated tube system.
(3) If you buy a new evacuated tube system that locates a heat exchanging ballast tank on your roof, place some boiling chips in the tank before you allow the sun on the tubes or be prepared for some terrifying bumping as it boils.
(4) Water pipes in your ceiling have the same problems as locating DC current from panels in your roof, when thing go wrong they go very wrong and in a difficult to access location.
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Why bother with solar hot water?
Soon Australia, under the leadership of Federal and State Labor parties, will have unlimited electricity from windmills, solar panels and Big Batteries and it will be so cheap it won’t be worth metering…
/sarc off
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Rooftop thermal water heating suffers from being a more expensive installation than a heat pump hot water heater – which would hopefully use a bit of the “excess” solar electricity you have from the PV panels.
I do note that 5 days of continuous cloud and colder weather in winter is somewhat limiting in the production of hot water for both methods.
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Ive used a Dux Heat Pump for years now and never had a lack of hot water on long winter cloudy days. Temperate east coast climate, rarely drops below zero but we do get a few frosts per year. And yes it was a much cheaper option than straight solar. I think it cost me $50 installed with those government subsidies they handed out years ago. Thanks for that tax payers.
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It is the heat pump that I need to know more about.
I have a 22 yr old standard system now. There are no constraints on size or noise levels, so a change over should be simple for the plumber.
The electrician? Maybe not so simple. IF it as good as they say I should be able to switch from the switched [cheaper] supply to the standard one where I have some PV cells coupled in. I have not been able to find the power rating on the unit though. I would only do that if I could set a timer so that it only works during the day.
I’m in the tropics so there are no low temp issues but does that mean they are “flat line” efficient across a broad range of temps or are they BETTER with high ambients? Somehow I doubt it, there are no free lunches.
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I think people aren’t talking about solar hot water because heat pumps are a much better option. I notice those vacuum tubes perched up on roof tops that were getting about some years ago are much less prevalent these days.
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Don’t use it where there are decent frosts…. Mate replaced his original system that kept developing leaks due to frost with expensive German vacuum tubes only to have them do the same.
Minus 2 isn’t uncommon in winter (when there’s drought!) but below that is pretty rare here.
2020-now,total frosts could be counted on both hands. Wet, cold, and miserable!
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I’m in the tropics. I’m getting sick of all these 15deg mornings.
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Those Solarharts were a double system, with antifreeze in the panel side – glycerine IIRC – so the frosts we get were not a problem. Except that the supply and delivery pipes could freeze up.
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I always felt they were a bit of a con, since they included an electric booster that would also heat the water, and nobody seemed to be able to quantify the exact system benefits because of this booster. In WA, they generally corroded and failed quickly.
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I’m having trouble with the filter. A post setting out my circumstances was first m0der@ted, then it vanished.
I am not being rude and not replying.
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OK, so it isn’t a blanket problem.
It is the heat pump and its performance in the tropics I’m curious about. I know they have issues in the deep south but is the current drain low enough to switch from the cheaper switched supply to the standard tariff, assuming I can time it to only work during daylight when I should be getting OP from my PV cells?
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H, I’ve been told they draw about 800 watts.
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That’s less than half the heater in a standard system does.
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Put your beers near the exhaust from the heat pump. No sense wasting the reverse cycle.
Got some wood, go hydronic!
Plasmatronics are making a solar one that uses power from your panels to heat an element in your existing tank. It can then dump the rest back into your batteries. Might work quite well in the tropics.
I went out and bought one of everything. I will let you know when they are hooked up as to which one actually lasts and heats water.
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You will be fine in tropics with a heat pump system. Only really cold places have issues.
I have my heat pump on normal electricity with time of use tariff (not single rate, not off peak) with 3 people in the house who shower at night. Doing this the unit comes on twice per day, once at around 10 pm, using the cheaper electricity, and in the late afternoon around 4 pm which will run into peak tariff at 5. To solve this if you have one shower in the morning it will come on around midday. So your solar panels will help charge that, but not the night obviously.
They’re pretty economical. I used to manually turn the hot water off at the powerboard so it only charged at night (like having it connected to old school off peak), but it makes little difference to cost over all. When heat pumps first came out they said you couldn’t run them on off peak, which is not true, it works fine. That was south coast NSW.
The big warning I would offer though is put it under a shelter. They say you can leave them exposed but I did with my first house and it broke down ALL the time. Second house it is under the verandah and it is very reliable and quite old now. Both the same system DUX Aeroheat.
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Don’t bother with rooftop solar hot water.
I have a Quantum Heat Pump water heater (tank with integrated heat pump on top, all in a single cylinder outer casing).
They are extremely efficient and qualify for the solar rebate because they are extracting heat energy from the surrounding air which has been heated by the sun.
To ensure full access to the ambient air they must be installed outside – not in a garage etc.
It is connected to off-peak supply and the running cost is less than $10 a quarter for all the hot water for a 4 bedroom home.
The cheapest form of hot water available.
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The only pitfall I know of is it lightens your wallet a bit.
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The wallet is only getting 0.1% interest STILL.
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NZ bans nuclear beginning with US Navy ships …. yes, very old news now, Labour PM and leftist Helen Clarke after whom Kiwis changed the name of Wellington City to Helengrad.
Fast forward to 2022 and NZ is now seeking to ban autonomous military technology, particularly pilotless or drone aircraft, RAAF Ghost Bat that was developed by Boeing Australia and the RAAF and now built near Toowoomba, QLD. Three built for testing and other purposes and ten on order for the RAAF to develop for its needs. The concept is part of the allies Loyal Wingman development programme and various prototypes are now flying, the ultimate prize is orders from Joint Strike Fighter F-35 stealth fighter project participant nations now flying them.
Ghost Bat can be sent on missions alone or in multiples, but mostly will fly alongside RAAF F-15, F-18 fighters and other aircraft the RAAF operates.
But Helen’s “daughter” from the left wants them banned.
The CCP must be amused.
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The CCP amused? Not at all. They expected their instructions to be obeyed. They were obeyed. End of story.
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The left’s mask slips on brazen Trump bias
By Miranda Devine
Sam Harris deserves our gratitude. With dazzling honesty, the liberal atheist public intellectual from LA has said out loud what we all knew but which his ilk have blurred for the past two years: once you decide Donald Trump is the second coming of Ad@lf H@tler, then anything is legitimate to stop him — and, yes, everything illegitimate was done to stop him in 2020, and it was “warranted.”
Now that the Orange H@tler is lining himself up for a second tilt at the presidency, it’s OK to suspend democracy again to stop him.
Harris doubles down: “I do understand how corrosive it is for an institution like The New York Times to show obvious bias and inconsistency and dishonesty – The way I would frame it is, ‘Listen, I don’t care what’s in Hunter Biden’s laptop.
“At that point Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement. I would not have cared . . . Whatever the scope of Joe Biden’s corruption is, if we – understand he’s getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden’s deals in Ukraine or . . . China, it is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in.
Harris continues confidently: “That doesn’t answer the people who say it’s still completely unfair to not have looked at the laptop in a timely way and to have shut down the New York Post Twitter account; that’s a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump’. Absolutely it was, absolutely. But I think it was warranted.”
At this point the hosts protest. “You’re saying you’re content with a left-wing conspiracy to prevent someone being democratically elected as president?”
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I watched a commentary on that this afternoon. These guys are called The Jewminati. They are Jews who directly take on antisemitism – thus Sam Harris – and encourage antisemitic types to listen and throw their insults. It’s a good education on the issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZdCYlQC92A&t=3387s
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And the NYT gest even more open about its objectives:
NYT Op-Ed: Throw out the ‘Broken Constitution’ and ‘Reclaim America’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/22/ivy-league-professors-reclaim-america-from-broken-constitution/
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Opps, “gest” should be “gets”.
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If a ‘Constitution’ is ‘broken’ as the NYT moans then you fix it by democratic means. Not by throwing it out as that is not constitutionally possible unless of course there is a Civil War and all bets are off.
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Then they’ll go back to “pre 1776”? That will go down a treat.
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Biden’s a border for me, but not for thee
By Post Editorial Board
President Joe Biden is all for open borders — except when it comes to the one around his own vacation spot.
He’s stuck taxpayers with a bill for close to half a million for a security fence around his Delaware beach house, a project ongoing since last September, contracted out to a local builder by the Department of Homeland Security.
Biden’s policies, which entice illegal migrants to put their lives at risk on the long journey while creating unsustainable pressures on the small towns they flow into, make a mockery of both.
The irony is rich: The same agency Biden has used to help erase the US southern border is overseeing a wall around the president’s ocean hideaway.
Yes, presidents need security (especially in these deranged political times). But the nation and the people who inhabit it also need security — as do those who aspire to come here.
Again, the inescapably conclusion is that Biden doesn’t care about Americans’ security (only his own). His endless claims to be fixing the border would be comical, if the consequences for America and those streaming across its border weren’t so tragic.
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Greta – the green version. Pt 1
One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked.
“Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
“What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
“The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
“Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
“Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
“Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”
“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
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Greta – the green version. Pt 2
“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
“Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”
“How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
“Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.
“Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
“What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
“Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing – being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.
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Where is Greta? What has changed? Is this the beginning of the end of the green scam/great reset? The EU have created a catastrophic ‘green’ energy crisis that is causing an economic crisis. What is the solution?
The EU have proved that zero CO2 emissions policies/carbon tax = Assured GDP/company/job collapse for no climate change benefit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHZym4QG7UQ
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On the presidential bike trail
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Good News!
And an exclusive for Jonova.
I’m announcing my candidacy for POTUS.
My motto:
“4 US Presidents, 20 years in Afghanistan, even I couldn’t F things up that much”
Although I don’t think that will fit on a hat.
I look forward to working with my friends in Oz, except for that Dan guy, he’s kinda creepy.
The Gunner fellow is already out of government, right?
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Lithium leach fields
Lithium extraction fields in South America have been captured by an aerial photographer in stunning high definition.
But while the images may be breathtaking to look at, they represent the dark side of our swiftly electrifying world.
The production of lithium through evaporation ponds uses a lot of water – around 21 million litres per day. Approximately 2.2 million litres of water is needed to produce one ton of lithium.
“The extraction of lithium has caused water-related conflicts with different communities, such as the community of Toconao in the north of Chile,” the FoE report specifies.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/01/south-america-s-lithium-fields-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future
Amazing. The scale of these ponds.
The environmental damage, water requirements, neurotoxicity, recycling & disposal issues.
If the planet is shifting to dustbowl era conditions, can we even afford to waste water this way?
Thankfully alternatives may spell the end of Lithium…
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They say the are 19 million tons of lithium available, and if each ton requires 2.2 million water litres, that works out at…………..
… lot of water!
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No problem, build more desalination plants and wind turbine installations to supply renewable energy.
/sarc.
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“Thankfully alternatives may spell the end of Lithium…”
“Old King Coal was a merry old soul”?
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“The Feds Go Too Far”
https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/20/the-feds-go-too-far/
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And others it might seem
“Yeah, but he’s white so apparently it’s OK.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/yeah-but-hes-white-so-apparently-its-ok.html
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Matt Kean was on Chris Kenny today. His argument is that coal fired power stations are unreliable because they are old and we need to put more energy into the grid.
Doesn’t specify that he means renewables.
Pure politician. All spin and smiles, his greatest skill is dancing around the point.
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Now Matt Green leader of the LINO parliamentary left faction.
It is annoying that power stations have been forced to generate inefficiently intermittently when wind turbines can deliver and with other commercially unviable impositions operators have been forced to do only essential repairs and maintenance knowing that soon they will be shut down having achieved the 50 years tax accountable working life write off of value of the asset, ignoring that well maintained another 30 years would be possible without the transition to unreliable energy sources.
Even worse that politicians sold the NSW power stations and transmission lines to the private sector started after Labor created the 30 per cent or so Renewable Energy Target with incentive subsidies for investors and when, for example in NSW, the Coalition was voted in to form government it was too late to stop the sales. I remember that NSW power stations were valued at $12-15 billion estimated. Sales realised just below $6 billion and when the debts were repaid that Labor had arranged to be paid as extra dividends to improve budget bottom lines all that was left was $800 million from the sales, and plus transmission line sales value later. How in a hurry the left was to dump our assets.
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This drought in China is caused by a monstrous high pressure block and anomalous warm ocean to the east.
‘A nationwide drought alert was issued on Friday as a long-running and severe heatwave in China’s heavily populated south-west was forecast to continue well into September.
‘The loss of water flow to China’s extensive hydropower system has sparked a “grave situation” in Sichuan, which gets more than 80% of its energy from hydropower.’ (The Guardian)
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“Population Will Rebel” – Swiss Police Chief Fears Social Unrest From Winter Power Shortages
The Swiss government is preparing rapidly for the possibility of power shortages this winter with Jan Flückiger, Secretary General of the Energy Directors’ Conference, warning that “internal security then becomes a problem,” arguing that the federal government has not yet recognized the urgency in this regard.
“Imagine, you can no longer withdraw money at the ATM, you can no longer pay with the card in the store or refuel your tank at the gas station. Heating stops working. It’s cold. Streets go dark. It is conceivable that the population would rebel or that there would be looting,” he said, adding that the country’s authorities should take measures to prepare for such extreme scenarios.
Exercises that were conducted in 2014 to prepare for a blackout scenario revealed major shortcomings, including lack of emergency generators for police, hospitals and other critical infrastructure and services, he said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/population-will-rebel-swiss-police-chief-fears-social-unrest-winter-power-shortages
Another example of why you should have cash & food reserves…
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“Population Will Rebel”
The intention … the justification for totalitarianism.
It’s the only way to stop Climate Change and reinstate Chateau/Donjon Supremacy.
They are building curtain walls around DC gov buildings and Biden’s Delaware seaside house as we speak.
No moats yet.
Not being a theorist, they say as much in public.
Bono and Bruce support the idea, so it’s cool.
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And a knowledge of defensive positions
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Crickets for kids. The brainwashing accelerates.
https://seed307.bitchute.com/7LiZcQregKr5/971Fc7kiJl5Z.mp4
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Well, who else was deeply embedded in the corruption of Ukraine? Seems the Yank’s agribusiness was up to their armpits..
“A key provision of the US and IMF demands on the post-coup government of US-picked Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk , a leader of the CIA-backed Maiden protests against Yanukovych, was to finally open Ukraine’s rich agriculture land to foreign Agribusiness giants, above all GMO giants including Monsanto and DuPont.
Three of the Yatsenyuk cabinet , including the key Finance and Economy ministers, were foreign nationals, dictated to Kiev by the US State Department’s Victoria Nuland and then-Vice President Joe Biden.
The Washington-imposed IMF loan conditions required that Ukraine also reverse its ban on genetically engineered crops, and enable private corporations like Monsanto to plant its GMO seeds and spray the fields with Monsanto’s Roundup.”
But wait! There’s more… Its America’s millions of tons of grain that is blockaded by the Russian army..
https://www.globalresearch.ca/whose-grain-being-shipped-from-ukraine/5790604
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Isn’t it interesting that the establish medicine will label perceived vaccine injuries as ‘psychosomatic’, but at the same time consider gender dysphoria as a physical condition treatable with hormone drugs and surgery?
For children.
The Age of Reason is behind us.
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Hmm, I thought that one would be moded before the other thing, go figure.
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Power crunch threatens China
Electricity shortages amid a severe drought have replaced Covid lockdowns as the latest and potentially biggest threat to economic growth, at least in the month of August. Sichuan, a southwestern province with more than 83 million people, had to cut its hydropower generation by more than half as of Friday, state broadcaster CCTV reports. Dazhou, a city of more than 5 million, has implemented rolling blackouts on non-household users and is making plans for residential power cuts if the situation doesn’t improve.
The blackout in Sichuan has led to factory closures of Toyota, Panasonic and CATL, the world’s top battery maker, while threatening supply chains to automakers including Tesla. Power generation in other parts of the country may come under pressure as well. Capital Economics noted on Friday that China’s eastern provinces — industrial hubs that normally consume power from the west — are now being asked to send electricity in the other direction, leading to a quick depletion of their thermal coal inventories.
Electricity shortages are so far at an early stage and relatively concentrated in the southwest, according to Morgan Stanley. Further deterioration, however, could start to drag on manufacturing and other economic activities, posing additional downward risks to corporate earnings and stock-market sentiment, analysts Laura Wang, Jonathan Garner and Fran Chen wrote last week.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/power-crunch-threatens-growth-reinforces-weak-yuan
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China has passed its zenith, like Icarus, it has flown too close to the sun.
They are where the US and Japan were back in the ’80s and like them will be forced to trim their ambitions. Sadly I doubt they will resign themselves to harsh reality and will strike out unpredictably.
A nuclear war in which the US and China trade multi millions of deaths would be a WIN for China. They have too many mouths to feed already.
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I have doubts, I agree with the mouths to feed part but nuclear strikes do not isolate anybody and the comrades could end up vaporised too.
As we know nuclear is a deterrent first and foremost, there can be no winner.
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I add that right now many countries are joining with a show of combined global solidarity of military force, a major joint airforce training operation is underway in Northern Australia skies with fighter jets and other aircraft, refuelling, surveillance and others from several nations, Germany has flown a several of their fighters to the NT with air to air tanker refuelling for example.
The combined forces include nuclear armed nations of course and all together must be a major deterrent to the potential aggressors.
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My connection dropped out when I tried to post this. It was a reply to a post about battery powered tractors but having written it I will post it “unthreaded”.
‘The concept of battery-pak farm machinery is as absurd as going to the moon with a sky rocket up your bum.
Thoughts: Heavy tractors compact the soils so every few years on a continuously farmed paddock you need to “rip” the ground with deep tines behind a dozer. Think of the extra damage a tractor twice [or more] the weight would do.
Our farmers aren’t vandals and the grain growers have learnt to tread lightly and no longer plow and till, they sow through stubble. A ten ton behemoth planter rather ruins that story. Do a search on No Till Farming if interested, there are many benefits.
A grain grower wants rain when his crop is growing and sun when the seed is maturing. He does his moisture test and when the wheat is hard and dry he wants it off, pronto. In the unlikely circumstance that he owns his own harvester which has been gathering dust he will start it and run it ’til the job is done. The auto pilot runs the machine so the operator can set the radio and airconditioner and sorta go to sleep. Working for himself, he and Dad can run non stop.
A guy with the nic topcropper would post about his farming while driving. A young man, he impressed me with his knowledge on sustainable farming.
The farmer is unlikely to own his own harvester so he hires a contractor. Waddayano! Every farmer wants his crop off at the same time. Don’t know how long harvesting is for grain but I know a little about sugar and the mills run continuously for about 5 months and the harvesting is highly mechanised and that machinery must run as near as dammit to continuously or costs skyrocket.
If you want to afford food, batteries are your sworn enemy.
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Andrew Bolt and guest talk about the silence of former child actor Greta Thunberg.
https://youtu.be/aHZym4QG7UQ
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Yes Thunberg’s days are over . .
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An interesting side-comment was that Sweden are now turning to burning oil to fix their energy crisis.
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Important news …
Science is retiring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmO5YULUWY8
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But apparently he won’t be immune to future investigations and outcomes.
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The new James Webb space telescope observations have found the first new astronomy paradox. One of the old observational pillars to support the Big Bang theory was the Hubble space telescope observations that appeared to support the assertion that distant high redshift galaxies (Z greater than 1.5) were in general distorted and spheroid due to the massive number of small galaxies that were assumed to be colliding with each other to form large galaxies.
The new JWST observations have found that the majority of large high redshift galaxies in the range of Z>2 and Z2 and Z2 and Z 3 with JWST in the SMACS 0723 Field
Also, the galaxies at this epoch are often very tiny, such that their size in a NIRCam image is just a bit larger, or within, the PSF of JWST. In fact, the larger number of spheroids/compact objects is in part due to the fact that so many of these systems are unresolved, an indication that their sizes are quite tiny. Future studies carefully measuring sizes with the use of the JWST PSF will examine these sizes and their evolution.
Conclusions:
II. A major aspect of this is our discovery that disk galaxies are quite common at z ∼ 3 − 6, where they make up ∼ 50% of the galaxy population (William: based on numbers of objects, not based on size/mass of observed object. In the local universe more than 2/3 of the stars/mass is found in large spiral galaxies), which is over 10 times as high as what was previously thought to be the case with HST observations. That is, this epoch is surprisingly full of disk galaxies, which observationally we had not been able to determine before JWST.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3015
BULGELESS GIANT GALAXIES CHALLENGE OUR PICTURE OF GALAXY FORMATION BY HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING
We inventory the galaxies in a sphere of radius 8 Mpc centered on our Galaxy to see whether giant, pure-disk galaxies are common or rare. We find that at least 11 of 19 galaxies with Vcirc > 150 km s-1, including M101, NGC 6946, IC 342, and our Galaxy, show no evidence for a classical bulge.
We conclude that pure-disk galaxies are far from rare. It is hard to understand how bulgeless galaxies could form as the quiescent tail of a distribution of merger histories.
Recognition of pseudo bulges makes the biggest problem with cold dark matter galaxy formation more acute: How can hierarchical clustering make so many giant, pure-disk galaxies with no evidence for merger-built bulges?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4542v1
THE EDGE-ON PERSPECTIVE OF BULGELESS, SIMPLE DISK GALAXIES
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My above comment did not paste correctly. This is the missing part.
The new JWST observations have found that the majority of large high redshift galaxies in the range of Z>2 and Z2 and Z<6 were tiny spheroids and tiny peculiar galaxies. This indicates that majority of the high redshift mass and stars are found in spiral galaxies.
JWST observational finding that the high redshift galaxies are dominated by large undisturbed spiral galaxies is what we observe in our region of the cosmos, at Z close to zero.
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Yes Thunberg’s days are over . .
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Someone blogged this earlier, and it is devastating. I’ve seen mainly back of the envelope calculations over the last 5 yrs, for what will be required to replace our present set up, with renewables. Well this engineer works through the detail, and comes to the conclusion we are pretty stuffed. He says he has been giving this talk for a year or so, with very little blow back.
ie at our present rate of production, it will take us 10 000yrs to produce enough lithium for the first generation of batteries to get to net zero. I guess people better hope that numbers can lie, as 2050 doesn’t look good.
The summary starts from about 40.00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuBocc
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Lots of very interesting data to process. Even if lithium is not used for future battery technologies, this presentation still casts doubt on whether alternative minerals will be available in the required quantities anyway. And the diversion of so many minerals and metals into the wasteful net zero idea would mean a huge increase for all minerals and metals used everywhere else – a frightening scenario.
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“ALL THE INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN CORRUPTED: WSJ: The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis: A former president’s rights under the Presidential Records Act trump the statutes the FBI cited to justify the Mar-a-Lago raid.”
https://instapundit.com/538395/
More at
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/08/22/when-the-fbi-does-it-that-means-that-its-not-illegal-256/
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A full Flannery of rain overnight. Further South at our sons place they had two Flannerys. Some say dams are filling, but its just a rumour at this stage.
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Here is me thinking increased weather extremes were NOT happening with climate change. What is CBA doing other than make money for insurance business.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/31-billion-in-cba-mortgages-exposed-to-extreme-weather-risks/news-story/98b7823292bb3bf1208ad21ef74ef01b
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Get prepared
“Can’t You Smell That Smell?”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/08/22/cant-you-smell-that-smell/
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They also highlight that people are at risk of losing money on properties in mining areas, due to lack of demand for minerals, especially coal.
Could saying climate catastrophes are on the increase, and coal prices are collapsing be misinformation? Where are the factcheckers??
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Nitrogen testing raids in Canada
Maybe! Just maybe as yet.
“Saskatchewan Minister Jeremy Cockrill has sent a warning to the Trudeau government that officers sent by Ottawa will be arrested if they continue to trespass on farmland to test nitrogen levels.”
https://thecountersignal.com/trudeau-officers-threatened-with-arrest/
It starts here from yesterday
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/08/21/good-question-3/
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New rules at U tube
You are no longer banned for question the use ov masks for covid
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/08/22/how-kind-of-them/
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Despite the CDC retraction of all their covid recommendations over the last two years or so
“Everything’s up to date in
Kansas CityQld Education”By the on-line Courier Mail headline just now, Qld Education is going to dock the pay of unvaccinated teachers.
Details behind the Murdoch Wall for me.
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More for the covid record
“Safe and Effective®”
“The fact the US, CDC, NIAID, FDA, etc etc. have to rely on a Thailand preprint for the first prospective study of cardiac biomarkers is mind-boggling negligence. The US and this CDC have shown that either they are incompetent to take safety signals seriously, or indifferent to safety. They earn Grade F. This study should have been done in the USA, by Pfizer 1 month after EUA was granted. End of story.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/08/23/safe-and-effective-83/
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