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6.6 degrees @ 2:30 am and a 6 to 9 km/h breeze, forecasting 5 frosts for the first week of spring. Hope they are not too hard on the fruit trees.
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Where are you Ted? I hope the grapevines are okay if there are any close by.
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Mudgee. Lots of vineyards. I expect they might be anxious.
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Hi Ted, been considering a spring ride to Mudgee via Bylong Valley. Do you know what the roads like through there at the moment?
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All sealed. I don’t know what weather damage. A beautiful drive, especially if you go up the valley to Rylstone..
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Cheers mate.
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G’day Graeme,
We drove Mudgee, Wollar, Bylong, Rylstone, Lue, Mudgee last week and yes it is all sealed, but its pretty rough from Bylong towards Rylstone. Patched, and being patched. And the Bylong store, where we’d hoped to have coffee, is closed, apparently permanently.
The Bylong, Wollar, Mudgee section used to be largely dirt, but the sealing is now complete, and is now an easy drive. A bit variable as there are sections of unwidened old road. Quite scenic and the section over the Munghorn gap is quite spectacular.
Cheers
Dave B
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Thanks David.
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4 degrees at 7am, calm & foggy, 97% humidity: northeast coast NZ. Frosty further south and inland, below-zero for South Island valleys… hello 1st of September! At least the sun quickened last week – brightness & warmth have returned, three weeks to Spring yet it feels like it’s sprung.
Your YES/NO referendum vote is on the same day as our elections next month: thumbs-down looks like the winner on both sides of the Tassie. Meanwhile we have no effective government until then – they’re in recess as of yesterday – yet I’m sure we’ll all get along fine without them.
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“Meanwhile we have no effective government until then “
Struggling to remember the last time we had an “Effective Government” whether they were in recess or not.
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Be careful what you wish for.
As George Washington observed:
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master”. –
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I recently looked up data for Adelaide Airport when I had a discussion that we don’t get frost. It hasn’t dropped below zero since 2020.
I live close by and walk the dog at sunrise. We definitely had a few days of frost since then, although not this year. One day, all the cars were covered and some rooves had frost on them. One that had been vacant for a week and another with the best insulation money can buy.
It’s not just that it must have dropped below 0°C, the BOM site showed that it briefly did. Strangely, it’s gone down in history as the coldest since 2020 is 1.5°C
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Total pea souper fogged out here in Jurien Bay 17C 5.30am.
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EVs. Are the people here anti EV because of the current implementation of EVs (which are both too limited and dangerous) or because of simple animus?
Would your opinions change if there was a battery that wouldn’t burn and was capable of providing a 1000+ kilometer range?
Just curious.
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And you forgot- cost circa $30k and recharge in under five minutes, pay a road usage charge and not have to replace the battery for $Xxx after Xxx years. Your points plus mine, maybe.
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Plus in a car after 200000 miles if it needs it you can rebuild the motor and keep on motoring. You cannot do that with an ev. With older cars you can rebuild the motor yourself as a project.
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All or those things!
Then people would not need to be subsidised to buy them. They would sell on their own merits.
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” They would sell on their own merits.”
Says it all really, no other arguments are necessary. It doesn’t matter what they are or do, make sure its a free market and let them go. I’d buy one if it weighed under a ton, RWD, had good handling and reasonable speed, like the sporty sedan I have. I’d be sad about the noise, or lack of…
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What “ sporty sedan” do you have that weighs under a ton ?
I suspect that the main issue limiting the uptake of EVs is simply the cost.
Battery technology, life, range, recharge times, charger access, are side issues which irritate, but not a barrier…..but cost is to many.
For urban/city use, EVs make a lot of sense…..regeonal or interstate use, not so much !
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Corolla KE70, 980kg.. now with Celica diff, 4AGE twin-cam motor & g’box. Retro and fun to drive… Wouldn’t want to run into a 2-ton SUV with it.
Yes, the maintenance and fueling systems for petrol cars arose organically as they spread, but now we want everything for electric put in place all at once, while the market for them is far too small. I would have thought urban/city use would be covered by Smart cars & Japanese Kei cars, cute little runabouts for two people.
Then again, who drives this, the buying public or the manufacturers or the Govt?? If all manufacturers make 2-ton SUVs because they escape some Govt anti-pollution law made for sedans, what’s a customer to buy?
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Neat .. but not exactly a current market option that joe average could have on his list of choices .
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Mines a bit heavier than yours. But 2008 FN2 Civic Type R, with RRC inlet, CPL CAI and 2.5″ exhaust. Goes well and sounds incredible. Unlike an EV…
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All or those things!
Then people would not need to be subsidised to buy them. They would sell on their own merits.
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2001 as a retirement project, I rebuilt a Triumph TR7 out of 2 derelicts, one good mechanicals, one good body, bought for $1200 the pair. On the road for less than $5000 total spend including a paint job.
Drove it as my daily driver until 2016, 75,000 kilometers, then rebuilt the motor, & a full bare metal respray. Another 25,000 kilometers, & it is like a new car now. Total spend $15,000, including tyres & maintenance for effectively a new car & over 100,000 kilometers of motoring, with the receipt file to prove it.
You could never do that with a BEV or a modern ICE car with their high level of electronics, & I have a really desirable car to boot.
Add the fact my best mate lives 248 kilometers away, & we visit each other alternate months via minor country roads, 486Km round trip, impossible with most BEV cars
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You may be surprised to know that some already do just that,..rebuild EVs ..motors , transmissions, battery packs, etc etc.
But, they are not your average “lawn mower” repair type mechanic…they need to understand the electrical complications !
Then again, i suspect you have not rebuilt an ICE of current vintage ?…since a considerable understanding of electrical ECMs, Canbus, sensor calibration, OBD codes, etc ,..is needed if you ever want it to run again !
..It is not just a valve job or rebore any more !.
And it may also surprise you that many modern cars ( looking at you land Rover !) will need flat bed recovery attention is you simply open / close the doors too many times whilst it is stationary !!
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I would have to be in a place where the climate meets the Goldilocks Principle.
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I’d probably look at an EV purchase if it was a comparable price to an ICE car, allowed me to do a return trip to the big city with only a single toilet stop each leg ( 620 K round trip ), still have at least another day or two’s driving in the tank after the completion of that trip, only take less than 5 minutes to ” refuel ” , weigh a similar weight to my existing ICE car and be capable of lasting at least 10 years with proper maintenance….and not have any impact on my househole insurance if garaged on the property.
The above may take a while to happen. Note I have not mentioned the problems of toxic battery disposal, the sourcing of the rare earth minerals for that battery using fossil fuels and the extra emissions generated by the manufacturer of the EV.
In short, they presently appear to be an inconvenient solution to a non existent problem ( that boogey man CO2 ).
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EVs as such are not a problem. The problem is subsidies and mandates and other things that favour EVs. I’m happy to see EVs in a level playing field.
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Like most things these days, there will be a LOT of “bilateral spillage”.
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If I was buying a used car, there’d have to be low miles and an enormous discount from the new price knowing that there’d be an expensive battery replacement in my future. Buying a new car, I’m aware that a future buyer of my used car would be expecting an enormous discount knowing that an expensive battery replacement was in his/her future. An ICE doesn’t have those same concerns.
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For me it is all in the cost and/or other problems with the batteries. Some of those problems could be overcome by making the batteries swappable. But the fire problem could yet see lithium batteries banned.
I imagine the cost of manufacturing an EV would not be greatly different to an ICE vehicle.
I have not been in an EV but imagine they could be a delight to drive. And a battery would not have to last 1,000 km if it could be easily swapped at a servo.
Have there been any developments in the supercapacitor field? That is where I would be looking hard for solutions.
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Solutions to what ?
Supercapacitors are not even in the same league for energy density, size, or cost.
Their only real advantage is charge time, but that is not really very useful, since if you want to recharge a 100 kWh pack in 5 mins, you need a charger/supply that can provide 1200+ kW ! ……Safely..
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A capacitor’s discharge curve is unsuitable for task.
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Fantastic for acceleration, though.
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A servo fuels hundreds of cars a day. How much power would they require to recharge hundreds of batteries a day, what would the fire risk be, & would you want to live near one?
Talk about introducing dangerous heavy industry into every suburb.
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Wouldn’t want to be anywhere close to a supercap if it shorts.
They have their uses -the Perth trains use them to provide a short-duration backup for electronics if overhead power is lost.
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Hybrids
An ugly solution that works. Insults purists and more complicated than just an ICE
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His link shows that this project will also include battery power after take off. Nothing on how this will be done.
My guess is that the aircraft might keep the jets at the rear and electric propellors on the high mounted wing. My imagination is not good enough to see any other electric drive BUT props.
This high wing design could also be a test bed for the unducted fan engines with the conventional jets remaining during development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propfan
On Neptune anti-submarine aircraft they would speak of “Two turning, two burning”. If we are regressing to windmills we may as well do this.
I don’t know who owns 277 now but while in service it was only ever white over light grey.
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Wrong place. Delete please, correction made.
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Try thinking of a hybrid as an ICE with regenerative breaking. That’s basically what it is.
It IS NOT a poor man’s EV.
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None here is against electric cars if they were, borrowing the propaganda, safe and effective. EVs are not either. Lithium fires basically can’t be put out with water, and you are sitting right on it. But they also have limited range and you can’t just chuck a spare battery in the boot. The battery weighs upward of 800kg and given e=1/2 mv^2 there is incredible waste especially going uphill e=1/2mv^2+mgh Towing range is ridiculously low. Because of the cost of replacing a battery they basically have no second hand resale value. They have a high cost of ownership with Australian electricity costs. The battery charge efficiency drops 30 % over the life of the battery. If you care about CO2 emissions they emit about 3 x the CO2 because of losses in delivering the electricity plus our current coal fired electricity is pretty inefficient. We absolutely should upgrade the generating fleet with the latest supercritical tech and get rid of renewables to lower the cost of electricity. 30% less coal burned. 30% off fuel costs. CO2 emissions of ultra supercritical coal beats lifecycle emission of grid-scale solar and wind.
Personally I have nothing against hybrids though, most of the above criticisms don’t apply to them as long as it has a small battery
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Yes they can….. but you need a lot of water not just a hose spray !
Which EV car battery would that be ?
Teslas 100kWh pack weighs 625 kg
The Nissan leaf battery weighs under 300kg
Others range in between..
Any data to support that ?
..and what do you define as “charge efficiency “ .?
Lucky for you those “misinformation” rules are not active on this blog !
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Simple, park the car on a trapdoor over your swimming pool.
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Yeh !…. With a heat/smoke detector wired to a trap door release mechanism !👍😃
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Chad it may be of interest.
In my experience you can’t put out a lithium battery “fire” with water.
We apply water to protect exposures and cool the thermal runaway. It slows it down and reduces the chance of an explosion.
Dumping it in a pool will not “extinguish” it…. It can make it safer tho. The pool will cool it and hopefully control the reaction.
You have to wait for the reaction to finish…
Which can take hours on end.
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Well in my experience it will “put out the fire”….. ie no flames or huge heat release..
..and it doesnt have to be a pool,..a high flow continuous drench that can take the hear away will preven the thermal runaway “fire”,.. until the pack is discharged.
..and if salt water is used it will speed up the discharge period
Obviously i have not done it with an EV pack, but ebike sized packs .
The problem is though, having enough water avable at the time and place of the (usually) unprediced fire !
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I live mid way up a 13 floor apartment building with vehicle parking in a basement car park (cars and electric bikes). Parked cars now include EVs and I’m concerned for my family and neighbour’s safety should one catch fire. The body corporate and building manager are unaware (or ignore) any potential fire danger and cannot explain how any intense fire of the Li-ion battery type could be extinquished in our tight basement confines and with limited access for fire equipment.
Does anyone know any rules/regulations or guidelines for this situation?
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In Victoria, they are forcing both residential and commercial high rise to install charging facilites for EV’s in new constructions. Simply crazy stuff, but until we have a ” towering inferno ” situation, sanity will not prevail. I feel for you Lank…it would keep me awake at night worrying about it. Make sure you know how to leave in a hurry safely.
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And, just for giggles, the very fire extinguisher system that could probably deal with a Lithium ion fire, was effectively banned globally when the fraudulent campaign against CFCs was in full swing. STILL in use by sensible Air Forces around the globe; the ONLY way to deal with a burning aircraft constructed from Aluminium and Magnesium alloys. Once such fires get going, they will rip apart Carbon Dioxide and keep on burning and the heat evaporates water before it gets close.
“Experts”?
Yeah! Right! (The best example of a double positive indicating a negative).
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1) They are forcing them upon us. They are taking away freedom of choice. Especially against the non-elites. Stalin couldn’t have thought of a more anti-freedom program.
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2) There are unnessary. They are a proposed solution to a made up problem. Even if the problem was real they cannot solve said problem. In fact they make the problem worse if it was a real problem.
3) They support child and slave labour.
4) They create severe environmental damage.
5) They moreso damage roads and infrastructure.
7) There are not enough raw materials to support them.
8) They damage free market economies.
9) They weaken the nations of free peoples.
10) They strengthen the enemies of free peoples.
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The eventual loss of oil/petrolium, or the possibility of its cost becoming prohibitive for the average driver ..is a real problem.
Oil is an essential feed stock for many chemicals and comodities, without which life would be very unpleasant, ……think lubricants, pharmacuticals, fabrics, plastics, aero fuel, etc etc..
…so..conserving oil for those essential uses, and reducing its use in areas where there are practical available alternatives, make a lot of sense.
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“..make a lot of sense.”
Only in a tyranny. Some of us are quite happy to use oil for fuel and give up hair spray, perfumes, deodorants and a hundred other trappings of modern life. A free market would see oil going to the use of the highest bidder, and that would see a lot less plastic waste generated. Things like a yard full of large plastic toys that kids want renewed every year, plastic packaging, synthetic fabrics..
Those worst words in the world.. ” I’m from the Govt and I’m here to help you decide how to run your life.”
Maybe electric cars would work if electricity was all nuclear and dirt cheap.
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What if that highest bidder pushes up the price to 10x or 50x the current price ?
( remember this is a critical resource, so that “free market” has no limits )
….making your daily commute a $100 trip…
…would you still be happy ?
Why not avoid that possibility, and conserve that resource for use where it is essentials ..pharmacuticals, industrial feedstock chemicals etc, and use alternatives where they are available..like road transport ?
I doubt any of us would be happy living in a world with restricted oil supply or very expensive oil based products.
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Mr. Chad: A guy named Dave Middleton should be along to explain why your fear of the “loss” of oil is irrational. Keep your eyes open and you’ll see for yourself- when the price spikes up, the incentive to produce more oil solves the problem every time. The “eventual” part is where you go wrong.
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Paul, .. so you think there is an infinite supply of oil ?….
….even whilst we continue to consume it at an ever increasing rate ?
Why wase it on high consumption uses when there are practical alternatives available .?
The,..“When the price spikes up” part is where your approach fails ! ( it becomes unafordable for the average motorist )
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Mr. edwards: Good question, my answer is “not if that battery is made in China.” For me, EVs present two big picture problems. 1. EVs are purely the product of enviro activists. No customer sought them, and no manufacturer considered them, until activists convinced cowardly politicians that EVs are an answer to no problem at all! Teslas are pure subsidy farming to provide fabulous toy to rich boys. 2. China has grabbed up sources for battery materials, as well as set themselves up as battery and EV builders, dominate the market. Buying an EV is planting a fruit tree in Xi’s garden. There is no prospect at the present that the US or any western nation will build EV batteries in the future. Therefore, owning an EV is putting wind in the sails of enviros who are working to destroy free societies, and the CCP.
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Christmas in September?
Jordan Peterson’s reeducation classes live streamed?
Clash of Civilizations?
Well, more like Civilization vs. who or whatever they send to correct him.
Trudeauceania vs. the last free Canadian?
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Hope he fares better than the Mohicans
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Seems in Canada Trudeauceania is having trouble finding the last of the Mohicans. All that outpouring of grief for all those Indians who died in the evil white people insitutions seems to have to be put on hold until they can actually find a body. Seems after some 2 years they have done enough digging of the areas which the ground penetrating radar said had bodies and haven’t found a body.
I know the skeleton didn’t go to the party because he had no body to go with but seems without a skeleton they need to cancel, or at least rethink, the party.
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Jo, I think we need to do a back to basics exercise.
Why is n global warming overblown, it’s easy to prove sensitivities over 0.5deg per doubling are impossible.
How the energy required for the alarmist prediction likewise far exceed the energy available from global warming and that any energy from effects must subtract from the warning. First and second law of thermodynamics.
That gridscale wind and solar are less effective than supercritical coal at reducing emissions anyway (they don’t work) why this is true.
Why you can’t consider an EV a zero emission vehicle. How the losses between the combustion process this generated the electricity, the system losses and battery charge/discharge cycle and battery weight cause more emission than petrol/diesel IE why EVs are worse emitters than diesel kw for kw
How subsidies drive up electricity bills.
We should do a series on these just to remind people of what they want you to ignore.
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“Back to basics” brings us back to “green house gasses”.
There isn’t a a problem to fix.
That’s where we have to start.
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Bob and Doug.
It’s a scam, that’s why.
And it doesn’t stand alone. It is second in a series of three.
1. The Hole in the Ozone Layer,
2. CAGW, and
3. The CV19 vaccines.
If the predictions of blackouts come through people will start screaming.
Our job then will be to support and guide the screaming against all three scams.
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There have been blackouts, those who care blame “old technology”.
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I have a back to basics question.
Aren’t all the gasses ‘greenhouse’?
In that they refract (if that’s the right word) one wavelength or another.
Making the focus on this one trace gas weird?
I don’t trust Wikipedia or Googly, or college.
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No, symmetrical molecules like O2 tend not to emit in the ir spectrum, water is actually the main culprit but they couldn’t get away with denigrating water. Of course we know here that CO2 is as essential as water because it is like oxygen to us for plants and without plant life animals die. The AGW postulate, not really even a theory is that the slight warming of CO2 causes humidity to rise and multiply the effect of CO2 by about 3, this is likely wrong because cloud shades, if the water is condensed to cloud then it cools. Also they do not correctly do the energy flux, that is to create humidity in the troposphere you have to get a pretty heavy molecules evaporated and up 10km then you have to allow for the slight increase in rainfall (flux) that causes, and that costs energy. The water feedback likely doesn’t exist.
So yes there is lots wrong, but I am suggesting a focus on what people care about. 1. Is there any point to renewable energy and does Solar, wind, EVs actually do what’s claimed.
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Thanks,
lots of not delivering what’s claimed lately.
Maybe we should call it Undeliverable Energy.
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Can only do what we can prove, if we use their value for back radiation 3.7W per square m per doubling and Hansen’s value for current warming 0.6W per square meter then that’s enough to prove that warming is considerably less than 0.5 deg per doubling and that 99% of alarmist claims violate either the first or second law of thermodynamics. IE energy conservation or the law of entropy.
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There are 2 questions.
Back to Basics on CAGW.
Back to Basics on grid collapse/stability.
Since there is no CAGW, that issue is moot.
AU is 1.3% of the human generated 3% of CO2 of the 0.042% of the atmospheric CO2, or , 0.013 x 0.03 x 0.042 = 0.0000164% of atmospheric CO2.
So if AU were to shut down every and all forms of CO2 generation, it would save the Earth from 0.00000016 parts of global CO2 emissions, or 0.16 millionths of global CO2 generation. That is less than nothing and functionally irrelevant to any mass or energy balance. A fools game.
Grid stability is defined as generation equal to load. Instability is generation unequal to load, or load exceeding generation.
There are 2 ways to satisfy this equality: Increase generation or reduce load. The first implies a stable economy. The second implies energy, standard of living, liberty, or economic, poverty. There are no other choices.
The Grid can collapse for 2 reasons: Voltage collapse or Frequency collapse. either situation causes an exponential increase in current demand and a subsequent action of protective relaying that disconnects the load from generation. Effectively a blackout. The Grid is essentially an inductive load. Restarting that load requires 400% to 600% of generation capacity at the time the blackout occurred. So a Black Start into a collapsed grid needs 4 to 6 times the generation capacity that existed at the time of the blackout.
Until the Black Restart is successful, there will be no refrigeration, transportation, lifts, hospitals, traffic lights, water, internet, cell phones, production, banking, pharmaceuticals, food, or anything else. A continent wide Black Restart would take 3 to 12 months to engage. If substation transformers or special switchgear are damaged, replacement parts are 1 to 3 years away. Riots begin in 3 to 5 days. So have a thought on that.
Thermal generation (steam power plants) have generation units comprised of turbines and alternators, comprising some 600 tons of rotating mass or kinetic energy reserves, that smooth out sudden loads being added or removed from the grid. The difference between a stable grid and total blackout is about 5 to 15 minutes on a continental scale and 2 to 60 seconds on a local scale. If generation and load cannot be balanced in those time frames, then you will live the life of 1850, and you will do so until repairs are made. And, your economy will likely collapse in the meantime.
For those who wish to understand why generation and load need to be balanced, a decent article is: https://www.energuide.be/en/questions-answers/why-does-the-electricity-grid-have-to-stay-in-balance/2136/
Voltage collapse is well explained here: https://www.ijert.org/research/voltage-collapse-causes-and-prevention-IJERTCONV4IS02016.pdf
Frequency is affected by the ability of generation units to match mechanical torque to alternator demands in real time. If the prime mover cannot supply the required torque, frequency falls. The requirement is Freq +/- 0.05 Hz. Thermal generation excels at this due to the electrically coupled kinetic energy of all the grid linked rotating masses. Wind and Solar have no real mass and can only simulate frequency matching by following the grid frequency. In other words, the Load commands generation and frequency. Wind and Solar follow the thermal plant grid, and thus are 2 orders removed from reality in response to the Load.
Anyone who thinks that intermittent generation can support a dynamic load at Gw scale in real time, is delusional.
The bottom line is that if the Grid goes down, society devolves into anarchy in 3 days. If the grid is unstable, you have no reliable economy.
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Lance,…
I suspect that contrary to the public message offered by the authorities, the prime function of the “Big Battery” systems being urgently installed in most states, is not for “peak storage”, “demand smoothing”, or “power back up”,…..but actually for FCAS services (frequency control etc)
Coincidentally, that also happens to be far more financially rewarding to the suppliers than simple power storage would be !
I have no idea how much battery capacity might be required to ensure a primarily Winf and Solar generation grid is stable, but i bet it will be a huge amount.
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A thorough treatment of your point is available as a free .PDF download. 1000 pages.
“Assessment of the Extra Capacity Required of Alternative Energy Electrical Power Systems to Completely Replace Fossil Fuels”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354067356_Assessment_of_the_Extra_Capacity_Required_of_Alternative_Energy_Electrical_Power_Systems_to_Completely_Replace_Fossil_Fuels
The short answer is that battery storage requirements are approx. 573.4 TWh and along with 1.39 Billion EVs, would take more than the known world reserves of lithium.
A study on using solar for the USA grid estimated battery storage costs at USD 400 Trillion for battery storage alone. And, if solar panels could be manufactured, delivered , installed, integrated , at the rate of 1 sq m per second, it would take 960 years of production. I’ll dig up that paper if I can find it again.
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Found the paper.
“Going Solar: System Requirements For 100% U.S. Solar Generated Utility Baseload Electricity”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/09/04/going-solar-system-requirements-for-100-u-s-solar-generated-utility-baseload-electricity/
“If 1 square metre PV panels were manufactured at the rate of 1 per second, it would take 930 years to manufacture 29.3 billion panels.”, so I misremembered it as 960 yrs.
Battery requirement is 5.7 million shipping container sized lithium mega battery packs at 4.3 Trillion USD total. The 400 Trillion USD is total storage cost estimate for global battery storage. My error. Still a lot of money.
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Lance,..
Yes, i understand and agree, but those figures are assuming the batteries are used as storage for intermittent back up etc.
My point was that they also are used for that system stability functions (FCAS) you were identifying as not being available without the “spinning reserve” provided by the thermal plants.
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ACCC take court action against Qantas for selling tickets on already cancelled flights –
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/accc-take-court-action-against-qantas-for-selling-tickets-on-already-cancelled-flights.html
Qantas removes expiry date on $570m worth of flight credits after backlash, as ACCC accuses airline of selling tickets for cancelled flights –
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-31/qantas-sued-by-accc-for-selling-tickets-to-cancelled-flights/102797592
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I have had only two experiences with jet planes. Going and coming from Sydney to Launceston and Cairns, using cheap flights.
Every time we arrived at the airport to the announcement that our flight had been cancelled. But a satisfactory alternative flight was found in every case. One represented an upgrade.
If that is how they keep the fares down I won’t complain.
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Bank cancellation comes to Australia.
I am quite happy to close my accounts I have had with NAB my whole life if they don’t reverse this. I would never deliberately be offensive to anyone but these days it’s impossible to not offend some people. It’s too much of a risk keeping my accounts with the bank because I might inadvertently offend someone or a malicious person claims they were offended by my online comments. Gosh, Leftists and other irrational thinkers offend me all the time but I never seek to have them cancelled, silenced or their bank accounts shut down.
In any case, your personal opinions and statements ought to be nothing to do with the banks. Especially since they happily maintain the accounts of tyrants, dictators, politicians, communists, Elites, terrorists, feral unions and their members etc..
Report from Rebel News (the one Avi Yemeni works for).
https://www.rebelnews.com/aussie_bank_warns_customers_mean_comments_online_may_get_your_account_frozen_or_closed
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So your accounts can be closed for mean comments on line but you can cheat, bully, threaten, lie etc to people in person but your account stays open?
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Then in line with it’s own policy NAB should just shut down entirely close it’s accounts for bullying of customers that don’t agree with them. Such commercial intolerance is unacceptable
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Before jumping to the conclusion that this is about comments online generally, I’d want to see more background and clarification about what the conditions were intended to mean.
If you assume “account” means bank account it makes no sense, but if you interpret account more broadly (like a user account on a communications service) then it makes more sense. But that does not necessarily mean it is about the web generally. For example NAB have a secure messaging service for talking with bank staff:
https://www.nab.com.au/content/dam/nabconnectcontent/nab-connect-help/quick-reference-guides/view-and-create-secure-messages.pdf
If you used your Internet banking account to send nastygrams to bank staff that would be an instance of this rule (and the rules would be fair).
The hint is probably in the title:
The rules rely too much on the context for correct interpretation when they could be more specific. This may be a case of the journalist taking the quote out of context to create a mountain out of a molehill.
What still doesn’t make sense is how discriminatory comments would count as “financial” abuse. I’ve heard the old saying “money talks” but this is ridiculous.
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Does everyone realise that with the deployment of CBDC’s comes the closure of bank branches?
All the banking staff will be unemployed.
Everything will be digital, no physical presence required, everything can and will be done online, you won’t have a choice. That’s the plan.
The oldies without tech knowledge will be hit the hardest.
You can move accounts to smaller financial institutions to escape the political issues in the time left though, but they too will be closed in upcoming years.
If you haven’t seen the big picture yet and retired early, you should rethink that.
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Video.
There has been a “mysterious” outbreak of airline pilot deaths from cardiac arrest as Dr Philip McMillan comments.
What could it be….?
The airline industry is obsessive about safety and the health of commercial and military pilots, even if a pilot has hypertension, but are not worried about the one thing known that they are forced to take with a 1 in 35 chance of cardiac complications?
https://www.youtube.com/live/Py3p5cPSYqs
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Coincidence
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Hi MP,
Not coincidence at all, but reasonably well researched science.
Earth’s magnetic field strength is falling and the rate is accelerating. The magnetic poles are on the move meaning that the entry point for high speed charged particles is also changing. The South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly is growing rapidly. Those spending more time at altitude are becoming increasingly exposed to a range of high energy, high speed particles and increased radiation. Pilots and passengers on flights at around 45,000 feet are currently exposed to around 75 times more radiation than those at sea level.
The consequences of this increased exposure to cosmic rays and the solar wind is well researched and has shown that there is an elevated risk of heart attack as well as neurological disorders – including suppression of the hippocampus which is responsible, amongst other things, for spacial navigation. Add to that a well researched and documented general increase in heart problems as a result of Covid 19 jabs and pilots are facing a double whammy.
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I am trying to find out how many coincidences there are to make a conspiracy. (Coincidence x ? = Conspiracy)
Now you have thrown me off my count I am going to have to start over, thanks.
I am doing this in the hope it will lead me to an even greater mystery, “The speed of Science”.
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As the joke goes, “coincidences are the biggest cause of sudden deaths”.
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See also:
Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence.
Three times is enemy action.
On a planetary or cosmic scale, all bets are off. The Earth’s magnetic poles have reversed with monotonous regularity for aeons. The big hazard is not the actual reversal, but the time it takes to occur. Effectively this means that the “shields are down” and the rotating plane gets thoroughly hosed by some nasty solar radiation. The only reason such a protective field exists has a lot to do with the rotation of the super-dense core.
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The Left are at War against the food supply of non-Elites, e.g. the promotion of insect eating in schools and elsewhere, restrictions on farming practises such as fertiliser use, irrigation, land clearing, expensive energy etc. which will become FAR worse when/if Australia passes a Constitutional amendment to become an apartheid state.
Anyway, the latest food target of the Left seems to be one of the cheapest and most nutritous and healthy foods there is, the humble chicken egg.
Law changes in Australia will ban cage eggs causing a dramatic price increase as has happened in New Zimbabwe.
I personally decide to buy free range eggs but the cage option should be available for people who can’t afford them. Notice that the Left don’t care less about the plight of the poor?
Also, even though living in a cage doesn’t seem so pleasant by human standards, as most Australians will know from the world’s most severe covid lockups, if the chickens were truly distressed by such circumstances, they wouldn’t lay eggs.
Ref: Insects in schools.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/1000-australian-schools-are-fed-insects/
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Don’t agree. Using cruel methods to make an easy buck is unacceptable. This method of egg production is a relatively modern abomination, developed by capitalists, who don’t give a f*ck about the poor.
Our basic humanity is illustrated by our treatment of animals.
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Mr. Steve: It’s cruel and an abomination because you say so??!! What if a fox shows up, and the cage protects the chicken?? Capitalists care about the poor because the poor have some money, and a profit can be made selling things to the poor, and the poor want those things, willing to pay for them. In your cruel world, the poor can’t get those things and they clearly are worse off, but you feel better about it.
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Check out the cost of New Zimbabwe eggs at:
https://www.countdown.co.nz/shop/searchproducts?search=Eggs
1NZ dollar = 0.92AUD
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Apparently our clever cousins over in the land of the wrong white crowd are putting all the free range chicken runs in the vacant areas around their wind turbine farms. This innovation is helping to keep the production cost of this family favorite down.
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No foxes to worry about… No snakes either of course, but not usually a problem to hens. They will eat a lot of animals that people don’t think about, they love stealing the mice off my cats and spend 5minutes chasing each other around the lawn while one beats the mouse enough to smash its bones so it can gulp it down.
Lizards.. prized food for chickens.
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So free range chickens are a threat to native wild life. Better ban chickens, unless they are indigenous.
Apparently death by indigene is different to death by new arrival
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The Governments of both the UK and the US are panicking about the next release of covid, BA.2.86 and are promoting more mass “vaccinations”, and some say, possibly mandatory masks and lockups.
Because the Elites must maintain the terror, and Big Pharma have a defective product to sell.
Given that the Australian Government loves to follow the worst ideas of others, we likely will do so as well, especially the compulsory “vaccinations”, masks and lockups which our very own dictators love to impose on us and which gave Australia the dubious reputation of among the most vaxxed, masked and locked up place on the planet during covid with some restrictions still remaining in some professions and a woman who is legally exempt from covid vax from getting a heart transplant (still today).
Buy your Ivermectin now before the Australian Government bans it again (if you can find a GP who has a clue and also you will need a compounding pharmacist who makes the 24mg dose, or buy from overseas).
Dr John Campbell discusses the official panic in the US and UK:
https://youtu.be/9EdMMrCa_UE
And as he says, the new variant is very mild anyway.
Also, as the US CDC said, and I wrote previously, the most susceptible people to the new variant are the previously vaxxed.
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See:
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/thursday-21/#comment-2696888
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Stock up on Ivermectin and antibiotics(In Europe – Augmentin 625mg.)
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Alex ? Augmentin-
Clarithromycin and Doxycycline have proved useful in COVID protocols.
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I never took the Jab(s) and I won’t take the latest ones either. Didn’t get the Virus at all. Just the usual cold and sniffles every Winter.
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Take the Jab, it’s good!
Panda boy, Simon and GA have, nothing wrong with them?
Hmmm I may have to think this through a bit more.
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This report seems scarcely believable in that it’s officially stated that the vast majority of US covid deaths were faked
https://slaynews.com/news/cdc-faked-99-reported-covid-deaths-data-shows/
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Tony, you will be pleased to know that I have already researched this phenomena, the conclusion is thus.
They were not “faked” they were mis-categorised. Convid 1984 is a shape shifter, it comes in many forms, bullets, knives, car accidents and the Flu. Disguised as the flu it is able to enter the body and overpower the First Nations Flu, latter through inbreeding (H/T the royal family) it became weaker and was able to co-exist with the flu, though Convid gave up most of its rites to organs, the parasites that control the organs were not happy with the split and demanded that the organs correct this injustice and a referendum be held between the organs as to who would control over them.
The parasites through virus holder capitalism and moving at the speed of science, manufactured a fake vaxxine (FV), the FV would not harm the first nations flu nor the convid 1984, but would decimate the organs logic, the parasites having developed the FV knew to avoid this, and knew the biggest threat to the parasites rule was ivermectine, the natural enemy of the parasite.
Utilising TikTok (a poison) and the FV, they attacked the organs logic, convincing the organs that only parasites know what is best for the organs. Some organs developed a resistance to the parasites and the poison, and tried to pass this resistance on to other members of the organ family.
Through science, I have shown that the biggest threat to the organs is not the viruses themselves, but the parasites.
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There’s no need to stock up on anything !
Hasn’t the penny dropped yet ? It’s a politically motivated scam. Don’t do anything different from what you’d do for ‘real’ flu – vitamin C and D – you’ll be fine don’t panic.
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Don’t panic, don’t panic………….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI2mCG8trhc
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Don’t agree.
This variant is as weak as dutch lager, shouting “boo” would nuke it.
Don’t panic people. Have you learned nothing?
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Historically, as assorted Viii have “mutated”, they have become less “viruleny”, so to speak.
Co-morbidities?
The biggest detailed record of this is probably the erroneously-named “Spanish” mega-flu that swept most of the world starting late in WW1. It tore through military combatants in Europe. Not entirely surprising; years of crap food, mind-shattering stress, assorted disgusting diseases related to living in foul conditions and so on, made millions of mainly men susceptible.
The total absence of serious antibiotics (until the mid 1930’s) meant the pre-existing “bacterial issues” could not be effectively suppressed and the “bug” raged across the world.
Interestingly, it hit troops from the USA quite heavily, but often not until they had been rapidly repatriated to the USA after the end of hostilities. Many of those men had come from small farming communities and thus had not been exposed to the “bug soup” found in the crowded cities.
What we have seen more than anything else during the Kovid Kaper, is POLITICAL SCIENCE. Deeply unpleasant people trumpet9ing solutions for which they had long sought a suitable “problem”. Viktoriastan, anybody?
The LSM jumped on it with glee, as it provided a whole new platform of fear-mongering and opinion-shaping..
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There is one interesting theory I’ve come upon in the last three years that suggests the ‘Spanish Flu’ of the early 1900s actually began in the USA in military camps and was then brought into Europe by American troops posted to Portugal/Spain.
The ‘Spanish’ name relates to where it was first officially attributed to.
One of the differences between the Spanish Flu and the fake Covid Flu is that the former mostly killed millions of young men and women, whilst the latter mostly killed very sick, old people – like real Flu does every single year.
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I have always wondered about the numbers game surrounding the CO2-climate narrative. Let me explain.
Humans emit 10 Gigatons of carbon equivalent of CO2 every year, that is 0.0274 Gigatons every day.
The atmosphere holds about 800 gigatons of carbon equivalent of CO2.
The hydrosphere has dissolved in it about 38,000 Gigatons of carbon equivalent of CO2.
The atmosphere and oceans are in a constant state of equilibrium sharing CO2 according to Henry’s Law.
The biosphere is thus continuously feeding on about 39,000 Gigatons of carbon equivalent of CO2, while we humans are adding 0.0274 Gigatons every day. Can someone please explain to me where the hell is the catch?
The 0.0274 Gts of Carbon equivalent of CO2 that is emitted to a store of 38,000 Gts is so minuscule that it cannot be considered other than less than irrelevant, less than insignificant to be considered a forcing strong enough to change the equilibrium between the atmosphere and the oceans, and hence climate. The trigger can only be the warming of the oceans, releasing CO2 according to Henry’s Law.
Then there’s the elephant in the room, or beneath the oceans; the thousands of volcanoes recently discovered under the seas.
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Alex,
It would appear that the “mechanism” that governs carbon is still working well . Lots of moving pieces . ALL life is made primarily of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon . There are long and short carbon cycles depending on weather you have life or diamonds , Our political class is a waste of good carbon……
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And yet every day the amount of CO2 is increasing in the atmosphere (and in the oceans). You can conflate a daily number with the estimated total all you want, but the store of CO2 now available to reflect IR back to the surface is increasing.
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And that is excellent news.
If the atmospheric CO2 had continued to drop we would have faced a mass extinction event as plant life doesn’t survive below 150-200ppm (depending upon which photosynthetic pathway it uses).
We came dangerously close to that limit.
Fortunately, it is starting to naturally increase again.
Hopefully it continues to improve, I’d like to see 800-1000ppm.
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Phytoplankton and other animals absorbs CO2 in the oceans, orders of magnitude more than human emissions. How much ends up sequestered on the sea floor is very much uncertain (possible twice as much as previously thought), but much more than human emissions.
“Scientists” say only about a third of human emissions are sequestered this way because they assert that global levels of CO2 went up due to human emissions, and the rate corresponds to 2/3rd of human emissions. They have not actually calculated it, just used circular logic.
I’ll add that the Keeling Curve is bollocks on a stick. NASA have given up on it’s third attempt to measure global levels using a satellite with 2020s technology, and Keeling did it with 50s technology from the side of a volcano.
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re phytoplankton – Patrick Moore puts the sequestration of carbon by phytoplankton over time at 100,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/15/greenpeace-founder-delivers-powerful-annual-lecture-praises-carbon-dioxide-full-text/
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You can thank developing countries for the rapid ramping up of CO2 concentration.
Are you going to force them to rely only on renewables in their quest to industrialize?
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Peter, you are a worry. Does it hurt?
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Where’s the CO2 coming from Peter?
Take a look at the following graph.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_fossil_carbon_dioxide_emissions_six_top_countries_and_confederations.png
Don’t worry, it’s from Wikipedia and they are fully woke.
You will notice that a vast majority of the increase comes from your beloved China, a fully developed country, which happens to be exempt from CO2 emissions restrictions.
Note how the EU/UK and United States are actually decreasing.
How do you explain that Peter, and how can emissions possibly decrease without imposing severe restrictions on your beloved China?
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‘ … and in the oceans …’
Global warming’s evil twin.
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Reflect!!! is that the level of your scientific understanding?
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How would you know that CO2 tonnage is increasing in the oceans? How is it measured? By what is it measured? What is causing the increase? It cannot be due to the insignificant 0.0something that we emit everyday compared to the 38,000,000,000 tons dissolved in the oceans. The only cause for any measurable increase must be volcanic activity or farting sea-unicorns.
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Sometimes you don’t even have to complicate the numbers game. Use the KISS method (Keep it simple stupid). Most people don’t even know the basics of CO2 stats and that would include most bureaucrats and a lot of biologists. The basic numbers are 0.04%, 3%, 1%. So , CO2 conc in the atmosphere (400ppm), the amount of man made CO2 emissions (rest, 97% natural) and Australia’s contribution to that measly 3%. When you talk gigaton etc, people get a false impression of the actual real proportions. Then also realise that the level of CO2 presently dissolved in the oceans is 50X that floating around in the atmosphere. So, then you realise what’s happening in the atmosphere is not even significant with regard to CO2 dynamics. The oceans control the earth’s climate, the atmosphere is only a minor player.
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‘ … thousands of volcanoes recently discovered under the seas.’
They found 19,000 new seamounts and only 20% of the ocean floor has been explored, so we should expect some surprises in the years ahead.
https://earthsky.org/earth/19000-undersea-volcanoes-found-on-ocean-floor/
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The BS is running down onto one rear tyre – that’s got to be a safety issue!
https://youtu.be/T0ghSa-_TvY
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How else are you meant to transport your pet bull?
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Quick. Bag it, add “Climate change will make it worse” and you will have a comfy academic job.
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How good is natural immunity? Oy Vey! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiA1S6NvCo4
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A very important study, Simon.
This confirms the results of many other studies that are being ignored by establishment witch-doctors, Big (Not) Pharma, the Government, and its public serpents who identify as medical “doctors”, politicians, the Left and the Enemedia.
Never let politicians make medical (or engineering, or economic…) decisions
Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Prosecute.
Whenever you see a politician or public serpent involved in this scam, remind them that one day they will be prosecuted for their malfeasance.
They can’t claim “they didn’t know”. It is provable that there was documentation of the dangers and ineffectiveness of the covid “vaccines” even before they were available or made compulsory.
And before that, effective treatments like HCQ were banned even before the vaccines were available.
Now watch some uneducated, Leftist, barely-literate, pimply-faced, 18 year old Social “Justice” Warrior working as a censor for Goolag tag that video as “medical misinformation”.
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Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Prosecute. Zero tolerance for government crimes.
Fixed it.
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Hi David, remind them we must. During the scamdemic, there were groups all over Australia called, Stand in the Park, this dissolved but another group has reformed called “My Place”, they are the Antiwoke and understand this is all driven at the local level by the Councils and the parasites that inhabit those public halls.
We need to push back, this is a good place to start. They are all over Australia and if you use facebook their link is here
The destruction of our society is via all Governments, but we all have access to our local councils and can make a huge difference at this level, this is where the fight needs to be had.
They are on the political radar and are starting to instigate change.
Join one, start one, but be one, we can make the change we need.
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I have a rule not to join FB. That rather limits engagement with any group like My Place.
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The first link was to their web page. FB and others are options for those who have already thrown their privacy in the bin.
https://myplaceaustralia.org/
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I’d already looked at that. Trying to discover more about local branches requires FB login.
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It was also bizarre, the original claims from witch doctors working for Government that natural immunity from prior infection wouldn’t protect you. An obvious lie and disinformation from the Government from the very beginning.
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Birmingham emission zone, zero reduction in pm2.5, 7% reduction in nox (perhaps, it’s difficult to quantify other factors).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12465561/So-health-boost-ULEZ-Birminghams-Clean-Air-Zone-cut-air-pollution-7-HALF-previously-claimed-study-finds.html
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The death of Disney, “narrated” by Sir David Attenborough.
Now, Sir David is very woke and so I assume he didn’t really narrate this and it is an AI impersonation of his voice.
https://youtu.be/EG4JL6ntJsw
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“Did a Climate Alarmist Law Student Just Kill the Green Movement?”
“Katta, I know you are not a climate skeptic, but you have given climate skeptics like myself an incomparable gift – a potential lever for restraining out of control government borrowing and climate rhetoric, by forcing left wing politicians to choose one or the other. Thanks to you, they can no longer have both.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/31/did-a-climate-alarmist-law-student-just-kill-the-green-movement/
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So the BOM has released it alarmists predictions for a hotter drier Spring complete with the now obligatory red maps. Meanwhile we are still waiting to dry out while their “warmer and dryer” winter slowly drains away.
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On a purely anecdotal note I would think this last winter was a tad warmer than the long term average and wetter without doubt. The snow cover on the local mountain, ( observed from home ) was definately light and only one trip up with the dog as it was just to patchy. That said, when we get to BoM predictions and alleged observations, we get reporting that claims “hottest winter in a quarter of a century”. Now, being a person that believes words have meanings, why did the BoM choose “Quarter of a century” as opposed to “the last twenty five years? It couldn’t be because “a quarter of a century” sounds like a long and scary time frame could it? Twenty five years ago, well that was 1998 lots of people around that remember those sorts of time frames.
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With Eildon being so full we are ‘entertaining’ our daughter’s horse and steers on our already very wet place. She was flooded last October with water that lay around for a total of 35 days after huge panic releases from the dam.
The water table seems very high atm and each lot of rain just lies around with nowhere to go.
It has been a long wet but slightly less cold winter here. At least, the citrus fruit hasn’t been frosted…it seems ok down to -4C which we have had this year but damage occurs when we get lower than that.
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FYI
“A fascinating exercise in aeronautical engineering”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-fascinating-exercise-in-aeronautical.html
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His link shows that this project will also include battery power after take off. Nothing on how this will be done.
My guess is that the aircraft might keep the jets at the rear and electric propellors on the high mounted wing. My imagination is not good enough to see any other electric drive BUT props.
This high wing design could also be a test bed for the unducted fan engines with the conventional jets remaining during development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propfan
On Neptune anti-submarine aircraft they would speak of “Two turning, two burning”. If we are regressing to windmills we may as well do this.
https://aeropedia.com.au/content/lockheed-p2v-7-neptune/
I don’t know who owns 277 now but while in service it was only ever white over light grey.
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An aeroplane with jet engines, propellers, batteries, solar panels and sails. Fantastic. It doesn’t matter that it has no room for passengers, freight or crew, because it can be piloted by AI and AI can travel on it.
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How good was Disney Land. They’ve had flying galleons with sails for decades!
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Thin wings? Where do they carry fuel? ..and the passengers sitting behind those jet engines won’t be happy.
It will be interesting to see what becomes of it, but I expect nothing as Boeing are already just another Govt Dept in America, and NASA is just a waste of money. If Burt Rutan and Elon Musk got together, it might be different!
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Swing wings also…on a commercial passenger aircraft !
How does that impact the failure risk assesment ?
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FWIW
“Why Won’t COVID Lockdown Tyrants Admit They Were Wrong?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/why-wont-covid-lockdown-tyrants-admit-they-were-wrong
And
“From One Unapologetic Media Hoax To The Next”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/one-unapologetic-media-hoax-next
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We may have unrealistic expectations of tyrants.
And a hopelessly inadequate supply of therapists and anti-psychotic drugs.
Likely made necessary by drugs.
I’ve got Deja vu all over again.
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F,ff AUKUS deal takes our Superannuation our minerals our military, and our sovereignty to America’s military industrial complex.
What? you say, what.
https://youtu.be/Cp–XdqRNlw?si=uGyqvtq__ykxdT4d
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So you don’t trust the US. I don’t trust China.
We’ll have to agree to disagree.
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https://youtu.be/IoTTAmkfdVY?si=3fvb_O0TzeJfYfV0
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Don’t bet against the $US. BRICS is a wet dream.
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Any one has thoughts on the Messenger Company that iiNet wants up to switch emails?
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I had set about cancelling their crappy wifi internet solution and had fttp installed. I checked four times to confirm that my email address would remain alive. So I migrated the address across to The Messaging Company as my internet solution was terminated. Thus far I still have my email working. Fingers crossed!
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why do you tether yourself to a particular isp?
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At a certain distance from the town centers, a good wireless signal is required……
There seems to be (only) one company that has a more consistent presence
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Had no choice but to accept their “offer”, as was heading overseas. Not happy, but it will take time to migrate everything across to another service.
The key problem is using your email address for security accesses. Surely would be better for everybody to have an ID that could be used?
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It seems that email has become a burden for busy ISPs as people leave their emails up on the web, hogging GB of data-room. The Message Company are specialising in handling email customers for other companies, and will just charge users to have an account there. No doubt your email address will be changed later on, I’m on my third iteration of that as companies got sold or merged.
I started converting over but their special password took too long to arrive!
Seeing my email downloads every 5min I have no wish to have a Gmail account or one of these cloud thingies, but I’m not sure who is left providing a non-webmail service.
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If you have a mail client, the connection to the ISP can normally be set to actually down load the email messages. Of course, doing this means the messages are no longer available on webmail.
Sometimes the ISPs don’t quite get the setup “right” though.
Especially when they are adding anti-spam and security features….
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What are you paying for Ivermectin supplies?
A local compounding pharmacist in Melbournistan quoted me $270 for 60 x 24mg pills which is considerably more than when I last had an order a couple of years ago.
I might consider ordering from India.
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$80 for 50 of 12mg, 9 months ago from India.
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Going up… $100 bought me 100 12mg tablets and 6 Ziverdo kits in ’21
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US$47 for 100 6 mg tablets about 5 months ago.
Easier to set the 2mg/10 kg body weight dosages.
Took longer to get to WA from Sydney than from India to Sydney.
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Is there anything that Climate Change can’t do? This morning on ABC I learnt that the incidence of hay fever has increased “due to Climate Change”. The muppet medico-scientist did not canvas other contributing environmental and other factors eg diet, lifestyle, chemicals, genetics etc.
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In a word no.
Which is excellent for obtain a “research” grant, you just have to add “climate change” into the research proposal and you can get a taxpayer funded adventure holiday just about anywhere in the world from Antarctica to the Great Barrier Reef, to the Amazon, remote tropical islands or just about anywhere you want to go.
Or if you want to stay at home you can still get tax dollars without even having to think about a worthy proposal, just add the magic words.
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Here’s an incomplete list of just 100 things blamed on “global warming”.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Gee, I think that’s amazing.
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Obviously no thought given to increased growth this year.
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World Happiness Report 2023, top 50 countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report
Overall rank Country or region
1 Finland
2 Denmark
3 Iceland
4 Israel
5 Netherlands
6 Sweden
7 Norway
8 Switzerland
9 Luxembourg
10 New Zealand
11 Austria
12 Australia
13 Canada
14 Ireland
15 United States
16 Germany
17 Belgium
18 Czech Republic
19 United Kingdom
20 Lithuania
21 France
22 Slovenia
23 Costa Rica
24 Romania
25 Singapore*
26 United Arab Emirates
27 Taiwan
28 Uruguay
29 Slovakia*
30 Saudi Arabia
31 Estonia
32 Spain
33 Italy
34 Kosovo
35 Chile
36 Mexico
37 Malta
38 Panama
39 Poland
40 Nicaragua
41 Latvia
42 Bahrain*
43 Guatemala
44 Kazakhstan
45 Serbia*
46 Cyprus
47 Japan
48 Croatia
49 Brazil
50 El Salvador
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David,
once long ago, I, a small town Southern boy, moved to the Big City of Washington DC, to seek fame and fortune.
Got my first and only ‘real’ job in political fund raising company that had recently gotten rich and bigger by scaring people about the ‘evil’ conservative Ronald Reagan.
(Historical note: Donald Trump is Mother Load gold for the DC political business.)
About the same time, the company hired a ‘human resources’ manager.
We were all required to meet her.
I walked in, sat down, noticing the ‘dream catcher’ thingy hanging on the wall.
The first utterance from her was “so … are you happy?”
I blanked and reflexively chuckled.
Prior to this I had never even pondered such for a single second.
Just was never taught that one.
Nor had I been taught to think of myself as a ‘resource’.
Now it’s Wokeworld everywhere all the time.
With enlightened and effective government policy, I’m sure we can achieve Anthropogenic Happiness.
We may have to sanction those that simply refuse to be happy.
I think Oz just recently built the facilities and the legal framework for that.
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The folk in the top ranked countries probably misunderstood the question “Are you content with your wife?”. Answer: “Yes, my wifi is very good!”
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Gold
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Then there was that other survey concerning whether men talked to their wives while having s e x.
10% said sometimes
20% said generally, more often than not
70% said yes if their mobile is charged and in reach of the bed.
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Your taxes at work.
Deputy PM using military aircraft as private taxi service.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Try Bronwyn’s helicopter. The ice bucket and bubbles have been replenished!
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Her bill was “only” $5000 as opposed to $3.6 million for Marles.
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You can’t fly from Kanberrah to New York UNHQ in a hellicopter.
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No, but i wish more politicians would try that option !
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Good one.
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Late rainy season forecast for the top end.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/rainfall-onset/
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That would be early onset.
In FNQ it stoped raining about a week ago, never seen so much grass this time of year.
Cattle prices have taken a big hit, off the farm and over the hooks, but not over the counter?
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Twitter can now harvest YOUR ‘biometric’ information including fingerprint, face recognition and eye tracking data – as Musk’s site quietly updates its T&Cs ‘for safety purposes’
A new update quietly added to the platform’s privacy policy says that X now has permission to harvest its users’ fingerprints, retinal scans, voice and face recognition and keystroke patterns.
The update would mean that anyone who uses fingerprint verification to log in to the app from their phone, posts selfies or videos to the platform or speaks their mind on X ‘spaces’ could see their unique biometric data catalogued by the company.
The new policy, which describes its interest in users’ biometrics as ‘for safety, security, and identification purposes,’ also added the platform’s intent to scrape up data on users’ job history, educational background and ‘job search activity.’
The move follows nearly a year of turmoil for the microblogging app, which has included Musk requesting that its users pay subscription fees for premium services and verification: part of his larger plan to recover from cratering advertising revenue.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12465941/Elon-Musk-X-Twitter-BIOMETRIC-data-privacy-policy-fingerprints-voices-facical-recognition.html
Close your Paypal, FB, X accounts and every other “social media” sypware ones.
Maybe social media should be called social mafia…
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Scary, what’s Elton up to.
Maybe he’ll get an invite to sing at the reunion of Harry and Charles next month.
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As I explained way back when Elon Musk first embarked on buying Twitter, it was never about the social media side of the platform.
Between 2012 and 2015 Microsoft Executive Manager, WEF powerbroker and multi-millionaire, Ms Julie Inman Grant, who is now slumming it here as our esafety Commissioner, oversaw the purchase by Twitter of nearly every company making R&D progress in the field of AI.
AI has been the main focus of Musk for the last five years. He is also leading the field in the development of microchip brain implants. As the line from Macbeth goes . . .
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”
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It’s a case of: I know what you did last summer and it’s a case of working the puzzle board. 😎️
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This is the most shocking thing I have seen yet regarding the COVID vaccines. The SV40 promoter is a means to move plasmid DNA into cell nuclei.
Has the human race just lived through a deliberate experiment to disrupt and change its genome?[JC2 – YES! Finally someone’s worked it out, well part of it anyway]
What if that huge amount of E.coli-made double-stranded DNA encased in plasmids was in the mRNA COVID vaccines for a reason, and was not the result of sloppy manufacturing?
What if it was there to make it interact with our own genes, with the intention to cause mutations in our chromosomes?
And what if the SV40 promoter recently found in the vaccine was there deliberately, to enhance this process, since it has a unique function of allowing the plasmid DNA to get through the nuclear membrane, to enter the nucleus? There are a lot of “What ifs” here.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/this-is-the-most-shocking-things
Ok, it’s all a planet-wide DNA experiment with 8 billion people. It’s a bioweapon, it’s a depopulation tool, but it’s also incredibly clever by design, a design that makes you wonder who would possess the knowledge to design it.
It’s going to alter everyone’s DNA, the vast majority will get sick , die or be unaffected. A tiny amount of people,however, will be different and they’re the interesting ones. Timeframes are also very important.
I’d better shutup.😉
Until part 2…
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Sugar!
That’s big.
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Dysfunctionality – the Scourge of our ‘Modern’ Age – What I’m seeing is across the board dysfunctionality: i) social – relationships, empathy, communication … , ii) thinking skills – critical thinking, analysis … , iii) scientific & technical – an inability to work science and to produce technical solutions. etc, etc, etc.
The West is being destroyed culturally and economically. It is destroying itself from within. One prime example on the dysfunctional front is that it assumes that when it pushes the button that everything will work as expected. It assumes that all the information is correct, that the algorithm won’t do something daft and that it will all work. After all if there were any problems someone would have said and you would have chopped their head off so no problems just press the button.
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Unprecedented national winter warmth.
‘Australia just had its warmest winter in more than a century of records with lean snow cover and prolific lightning rounding out an almost unrecognisable season.’ (Weatherzone)
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Yes: and anecdotally I’ve just been through the coldest winter for a long time.
In plain English, it didn’t seem hottest evah!
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As a lifelong South East Queensland type, in the last couple of weeks, I found the FNQ temperatures a bit chilly in the mornings. Regular overnight showers, too.
Rain is about the last thing needed in much of that country right now; the cane is ready to harvest and the mechanical harvesters are not exactly “swamp-buggies”.
As Graeme Connors sang: “Let the canefields burn”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yyzTLu4moc
Bonus song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPOg5YKoJRE
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FWIW
“Karine Jean-Pierre: Joe Biden “Has Done More to Secure the Border” Than Anybody Else (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/karine-jean-pierre-joe-biden-has-done-more/
That is the Russia – Ukraine border then?
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Antarctic Ozone Hole starts early.
‘One of the potential reasons that could explain this unusual start of the ozone hole season is the increase in water vapour brought to the atmosphere by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano in December 2021 and January 2022. This mechanism takes place because ozone depletion is fuelled by chemical processes occurring on polar stratospheric clouds, which are more likely to form when water vapor levels on the stratosphere are high.’ (Copernicus / AMS)
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A book review update –
A while ago I posted a mention of “Black Boomerang” by Sefton Delmer. He was the head of UK “Black Ops” propaganda in WW2. From that I learned that there was a first book called “Trail Sinister” which traces his life from birth to the start of the second book. And our library system has produced a copy. I’d suggest start with the first if you take up the read.
His family was Australian and his father was a professor of English at a Berlin university. He was born and started school there so a solid grounding in German (things as well as language). They were in Berlin from the start of WW1 until allowed out to Holland about 1917. He finished schooling in UK and university at Oxford.
Then became a foreign correspondent with the Beaverbrook press. In the course of which he reported in detail on most of the dust-ups in Europe that lead to WW 2 – including eastern Europe and Russia.
Then “Black Boomerang” follows on.
The books were published about 1961 and in them he reviews what was happening post WW2 (particularly in Germany) relative to pre WW2. In his opinion Germany was re-surfacing a fair bit of the worst per WW2 features.
His observations on eastern Europe bear considering what has and is going on there too.
All IMO.
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I was told yesterday by a builder that trades people are reverting to power leads and cord operated electric tools because of the high failure rate and costs relating to Lithium ion battery tools.
Battery tools are being reserved for quick jobs. The problem is regular recharging and too many using fast charge and/or not fully discharging to the equipment set limit of about ten per cent.
The revolution is imploding.
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One son is in that trade. He swears by Milwaukee – not at the brand.
The other boys have Makita and similar results.
I have seen one mention of avoiding fast charging.
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A smaller scale but I have three chargers for NiMH AA cells and none are fit for purpose. The apple keyboard and austar remote devour batteries plus the usual sundry items around the house so I am constantly trying to get batteries to last a few days.
A difficulty may be that these items are optimised for disposable 1.5V cells so don’t drain the 1.2V rechargeable ones very far, maybe only 50%.
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Yes, we have a workshop crammed with Milwaukee toys, brilliant I will admit, and have found the fast charging kills battery life.
I think people are just sorting out the best tool for the particular job, the grunt of a 240V (sorry 230V!) tool will always be needed in some situations.
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The logic is simple..
A mains 240v supply can power up to a 2400watt tool (@ a legal 10 amps, more on a 15 A industrial supply)..continuously !
A cordless (battery) tool will find ir hard to get anywhere near that power on even 48 volts , and even then the 50+ amps needed would drain the batteries in minutes….
….and repeated usse at that level would render the batteries usesless very quickly.
There are applications where cordless tools are invaluable, but many others where they are totally impractical
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One Nations latest cartoon, the Ayer’s Rock statement, from the bowel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUPWKvsnJM
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Pauline must be careful, the Makarrata mob gave Albo a couple of spears.
By the way, the pen is mightier than the spear, Vote No
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The return of “the hyper-bowel”?
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Since 2000, 81 women had been killed by violent partners in the NT, the inquest has heard.
Seventy-six of the victims were Aboriginal.
“I’ve been advocating, campaigning for years on the issue of domestic and family violence to recognise that where it’s most prevalent in our remote communities is where people are out of sight, out of mind, their first language is not English, but most importantly there are elements of traditional culture and customary law for example, violent payback, the acceptance of violence, that I believe is contributing to those rates of violence,” Senator Price said.
As the campaign for a Voice to Parliament begins, Senator Price said it would do nothing to address these shocking rates of violence.
“I haven’t heard a single one of the advocates of the Voice speak on behalf of these people, the most vulnerable in our community,” she said.
“I’ve heard them talk about the fact they want reparations, compensation, treaty, Makarrata, but I’ve not heard them once talk specifically to an issue of concern in a remote community.”
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Senator Malcolm Roberts, weekly roundup.
https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?e=92f84feeff&u=0d0298ad8de0084fd26150fc5&id=6892608018
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Correcting the Coles, Woolworths messaging.
https://twitter.com/GraffitiRadical/status/1697305543881404567
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Lol That takes some balls!
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Andrew Bolt slams politicians ‘blinded’ by ‘global warming ideology’
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Video:
More evidence that the covid vax spike protein circulates in the blood stream when it was supposed to remain at injection site.
The body doesn’t generate an immunogenic response to it, thus explaining why the vaxxed are more susceptible to covid infection.
Dr Philip McMillan discusses latest findings.
https://www.youtube.com/live/75Gl02vUzSg
Research paper:
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Any ideas on how a protein molecule is supposed to “stay at the injection site”?
The circulatory system carts all manner of stuff out to the most minuscule extremities of the body. Then after the goodies have been unloaded, the venous system picks up all the rubbish from cellular processes and carts it away to be processed by the lungs, liver, kidneys, etc.
If this spike protein is in fact behaving as described, it is very odd. And virtually impossible
More like a bio-weapon, deployed for mass, global genocide, er, “population right-sizing”…..
Any advances?
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Labor, Greens, Centre Alliance and Jacqui Lambie last night voted down a Bill for mandatory sentencing for pedophiles.
https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/labor-greens-reject-mandatory-sentencing-for-paedophiles/
What are the trash worried about, doing a bit of time?
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Enrol for Smoke Signals 101
“Twitter Updates Privacy Policy Notifying Users Their Content Will Be Used to Train and Develop Enhanced AI
September 1, 2023 | Sundance | 52 Comments
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/01/twitter-updates-privacy-policy-notifying-users-their-content-will-be-used-to-train-and-develop-enhanced-ai/
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