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Channel 4 is one of the Big four terrestrial UK Tv Broadcasters.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/21/generation-z-cant-work-alongside-people-with-different-views-and-dont-have-the-skills-to-debate-says-channel-4-boss-as-she-blames-the-lockdowns/
Quite a startling thing for the boss to say, but regrettably appears to be true. Younger people often seem to be in a tight social media bubble and don’t like to hear other views in case it makes them anxious. Mind you of course, any views from others outside their circle are obviously racist, bigoted and sexist and ideally ought to be banned..
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This what happens when you have lived your life on a device with a screen.
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I spent too much time in the pub in a previous life but I did learn to control my mouth and that not everyone in the shout agreed on everything. Today’s keyboard generation doesn’t learn these facts of life.
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They all agreed when it was my turn to buy
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I’d blame the education system and the MSM before I’d blame the lockdowns. Sure they didnt help but there is more going on that that.
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From the “these rules apply to everyone but us” dept comes news that King Charles took a shortish flight internally in France which are mostly banned for ordinary travelers.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1815560/king-charles-flight-bordeaux-criticism
If there is a practical alternative-such as a train-the French dictate that this mode of transport must be used.
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Paris to Bordeaux flights are banned only from Orly airport. There are others to choose from, particularly for private jets.
The reality of flight bans within France at the moment is such that it’s little more than a token gesture.
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Yes, private jets seem to have a charmed life and are exempt from bans. Couldn’t be anything to do with the reality the rich mostly use them who are likely donors to the correct political parties ?
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Be happy that these private jets are insanely expensive to hire and to run and maintain, so us plebs get some pleasure in knowing it is costing a motza for the elites to use them.
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Look who thinks there is an expanding market for those types to hire –
“Textron announces option to sell up to 1,500 Cessna Citation aircraft to NetJets”
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/textron-announces-option-sell-up-1500-cessna-citation-aircraft-netjets-2023-09-20/
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Here you go
A Youtube channel based on a guy trundling around the US in a Citation
https://www.youtube.com/@CitationMax
Lots of positioning flights by himself to pick up family and passengers or just go to events like Oshkosh (as one does)
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I take no pleasure from that thought, because the cost in dollars might look huge to you and me, but what matters is the proportion of one’s wealth a thing costs. Measured in those terms, that private jet flight cost Charles (or rather the British taxpayers) the equivalent of a taxi fare to you and me, possibly less.
I have these sorts of conversations from time to time, when I argue much the same thing, i.e. that the cost in dollars matters less than the proportion of a person’s wealth. I also point out to people who wonder why a person with 500 million dollars in the bank wants even more, that Roman Abramovich paid $1.5 billion for a boat.
I recall being amused when visiting Monaco back in the late 80s. I remarked to my wife how happy some random millionaire would be with his swanky, $X million yacht when he parks it in St Tropez, yet he would feel like a pauper if he sailed it into Monaco’s harbour.
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“but what matters is the proportion of one’s wealth a thing costs.”
Makes a great argument for punitive fines to be handed out as a proportion of wealth, not just a $400 traffic ticket.
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We bought a 7 seat plus 2 pilots Cessna Citation biz jet with long range fuel tanks to service our mines scattered around Australia.
The commercial airlines were more comfy and faster air speed, but our routes were direct and cut big corners off their roures, so much faster overall.
The accounts guys at one mine gave the new Cessna a new name
The Flying Overheads.
Geoff S
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Despite ranking among two of the leading producers of carbon emissions, it is said that both private jets and cargo flights are to be exempt from this newly proposed jet fuel tax.
https://flybitlux.com/eu-proposes-to-exempt-private-jets-from-fuel-tax/
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Speaking of flights, flying, aircraft, airlines, brings up another contentious subject.
FRAUD!!
If I intentionally try to sell you a product, a thing or a service, advertise it for sale & don’t deliver I will be charged with FRAUD!!
Why has there not been a charge of FRAUD laid against Quanta’s or any CEO, directors
managers,staff. Is this another case of the two tier justice system.
The biggest FRAUD is the CEO walking away with over $20,000,000.00 as a reward, not to mention other directors &/or board members picking up huge bonuses while customers are denied any legal recourse for the fraudulent activity.
Where is the Law, have they been bought off!!
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We bought a 7 seat plus 2 pilots Cessna Citation biz jet with long range fuel tanks to service our mines scattered around Australia.
The commercial airlines were more comfy and faster air speed, but our routes were direct and cut big corners off their roures, so much faster overall.
The accounts guys at one mine gave the new Cessna a new name
The Flying Overheads.
Geoff S
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Tonyb,
It’s not just the media – its big business , education and the bureaucracy . Nobody wants to admit they got it wrong . Especially if its their “job” to maintain the narrative . Reality is already looming and its got some hard lessons .
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This is what, extremely, Rich Sunak’s apparent U-turn actually means:
“Government is pressing ahead with the so-called zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate, which sets sales targets that ramp up each year.
The mandate will require 22% of cars sold by manufacturers to be electric from next year. By 2030, the quota will gradually rise to 80%.”
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/22/four-in-five-cars-sold-must-be-electric-by-2030-despite-petrol-ban-delay/
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The only way they will do that is to offer much larger incentives to private drivers as the only ones buying electric vehicles in numbers are the car fleet owners who get good tax breaks.
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Usual Fascist system-
“The mandate will require 22% of cars sold by manufacturers to be electric from next year. By 2030, the quota will gradually rise to 80%. Carmakers that cannot hit the annual targets must either sell more electric vehicles in future years, purchase credits from rivals, or pay a fine of £15,000 per car.”
If the Govt banned petrol cars outright it would be Communist, but forcing the manufacturers to do it puts them behind the curtain.
“pay a fine of £15,000 per car” This will be why they didn’t give it up!
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From a so called conservative government FFS. Fining companies from doing something productive and driving them towards something destructive, uneconomic and unsustainable on the teetering grid. No really much of a U turn; more like driving a bit slower toward the cliff.
I am guessing this EV madness will be the next step if we are stupid enough to return Albo. It would be ridiculous but that wont stop them , given what we have seen with their “plans” for the grid.
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Should more steps be taken to combat waste, particularly in new endeavours like solar?
I would like to see a compulsory recycling policy on all manufacturing, but I believe it should start with new products, particularly those which already are expensive as a starting point
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Always a good thing but something a bit too practical and requiring real work. We have plenty of people who like to bleat about “climate justice” but would never dream of going to a Landcare cleanup or something real.
We can do plenty with our current mess and I do not know why we cant get into high temp incinerators with attendant power generation as happens in Europe and support viable recycling businesses like the one in SA that failed due to high energy costs.
Dont think we need to point the finger too much at emerging technologies but the promoters need to at east have a plan for the total life of the system, rather than dumping this stuff into the world and hoping for the best. Surely we have learned that doesnt work.
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FWIW
“”The Cluster B society” ”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-cluster-b-society.html
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From that
“You’re not imagining that the world has gone mad.
Healthy debate has been replaced by activist hysterics. Speech is declared violence, while violence is excused as speech. Masculinity is condemned as regressive, while men in skirts and heels are celebrated in the public square.
It’s easy to laugh at these outbursts as the ravings of a small but vocal minority, but the compromised health of our body politic is not a trivial concern. A strange, new pattern of psychological dysfunction has infiltrated our most prestigious institutions, our corporate bureaucracies, and the highest offices in the land.
In short, we’re sick. Our society is out of balance. We’ve been consumed by a cluster of disorder that appeals to our worst instincts and deranges our most important social functions.
We need to recover our sanity. But to do so, we must first know exactly what we’re dealing with: the emergence of a Cluster B Society.”
More there
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We bought a 7 seat plus 2 pilots Cessna Citation biz jet with long range fuel tanks to service our mines scattered around Australia.
The commercial airlines were more comfy and faster air speed, but our routes were direct and cut big corners off their roures, so much faster overall.
The accounts guys at one mine gave the new Cessna a new name
The Flying Overheads.
Geoff S
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I remember that, in another life, when I was involved with military technology, we had the problem of disposing of PCBs from defunct transformers etc. In the end, the only solution was extremely high temperature incineration.
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How does one get the high temperature needed for high temperature incineration without using gas? Somewhere along the line fossil fuel will become involved.
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I am sure that the cost of recycling will be added to new endeavours like solar, so people will stop buying solar.
And if wind turbines were treated the same then Chris Bowen would have a nervous breakdown and disappear into pension retirement.
On second thoughts I agree and have added a green tick..
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“Compulsory”…?
There is some confusion about the meaning of that word as of late.
Of course, ‘recycling’ just means it goes in a different color trash bin.
‘Waste’…?
Won’t even go there.
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OK PF.
Here is the test for you. You are choosing to use legislation to achieve an idealistic outcome.
Now please write that legislation defining for instance ‘waste’, ‘endeavours like solar’, ‘all manufacturing’, ‘expensive’ etc.
In completing that exercise you may find why small communities operating together using their own Capital tend not to waste things anyway. Only Remote Totalitarian idealists thinking they can mandate and enforce their thought bubbles end up with dirty skies and ugly industrial wastelands.
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>”ugly industrial wastelands”
Green wastelands:
Devastating risks of transitioning to ‘green’ energy: Mining for electric-powering minerals has left 23 million people exposed to toxic waste, 500,000km of rivers polluted and 16 million acres of farmland ruined
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12545855/Devastating-transition-green-energy-metal-mining-23-million-people-toxic-waste-rivers-polluted-farmland.html?mibextid=9R9pXO
Toxic byproducts of metals mining also pollute 10.7 million acres of flood plains
Researchers estimate the pollution also impacts 5.72 million livestock worldwide
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My answer would be to force manufacturers to continue supporting products for at least ten years from the date of sale, and spare parts must be sold at a reasonable price. Also, the things should actually be serviceable, i.e. it must be designed in such a way that repairs can actually be made, none of this casing everything in epoxy. Any part likely to need replacing, like a battery, should be accessible and removeable with simple tools.
I am sick of chucking away perfectly good products just because the blade it blunt (a garden mulcher I had a few years ago) or the rechargeable battery has died (my water flosser). Landfill sites must be jam-packed with computers, phones, rechargeable tools, TV sets, etc, etc – just because the battery has died or, even worse, because the software is ‘out of date’.
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Peter,
One of our subsidiary companies years ago was Australian Pulp and Paper Mills, APPM, one of the larger paper corporates. Some fundamentals of a business sector do not change much and the big lessons can remain valid.
APPM studied paper recycling before it became trendy.
One major finding was confirmed time after time.
You can recycle used paper only a few times, 2 to 4 times, depending on the quality of the paper you start with. This is because paper needs wood fibres of a certain length and hopefully uniform length.
Putting wood fibres through cycles breaks them up and makes them useless. Most APPM recycle at the time preferred and used offcuts from new paper production or large print operations.
Similar principles apply for many recycle processes. Example, you cannot recycle steel many times because impurities build up and quality drops. That is one reason why we did well out of finding new mines with fresh starting material for processing.
The reality of recycling in practice is a lot harder and more costly than simple idealists imagine in their thought about ambition.
Geoff S
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Won’t work.. Anything that has to be made compulsory will be resisted. Anything resisted will have to be enforced. Anything enforced will cost more than the problem and create more resistance.
Only individual enthusiasm will make people recycle, its a psychological thing not a physical thing.
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I think that’s true for individuals, but companies are far more easily controlled by regulations, if a government wishes to do so.
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“Will Happer IPA Speech Brisbane – Climate Physics in Understandable Bites”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/21/will-happer-speech-brisbane-climate-physics-in-understandable-bites/
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Who would downvote this and why? The impact of an increase in atmospheric concentration of Co2 from 400ppm to 800ppm is around a 1% increase in GHG effect. Who can downvote a fact?
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It doesn’t have to make sense, just a reflexive thing at the mention of both the IPA and WUWT.
No brain cells were engaged in performing this action.
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I did not give the down vote here but I made a lot of noise in the comments at WUWT.
If you think that CO2 is the climate control knob then you would support Happer’s conclusion. But bringing up radiative physics into a discussion on Earth’s energy balance is like showing up with a pop gun to fight a nuclear war. Convective heat transfer matters in Earth’s atmosphere. Radiation transfer only mattered at the top.
I look at the big picture, starting with the 340W/m^2 of solar EMR available at the top of the atmosphere. The sun is the driver of Earth’s climate not CO2. Water provides the stabilising control. The only contribution CO2 makes is an insignificant increase in atmospheric mass. Any theory on climate that does not explain why open ocean surface does not and cannot sustain more than 30C is just groping in the dark.
https://1drv.ms/b/s!Aq1iAj8Yo7jNhlHN4A_kDcuvdIjE?e=7FweAF
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China Says Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Is Unrealistic
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Planeloads of activists are on their way from UK, EU and USA to glue themselves to Chinese roads.
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How long before the BRICS become the shining lights of desire with their coal-fired lights on, looked at by the peasants of the West sitting in the dark eating bugs? Immigration may soon turn to emigration.
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A longish but important read about the Voice. ToM
https://steveblizard.substack.com/p/malcolm-mccusker-altering-the-constitution?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
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Erudite and Interesting points to consider.
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FWIW
“If you use a period in your email address, be warned…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/09/if-you-use-period-in-your-email-address.html
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rhetoric
rĕt′ər-ĭk
noun
António Guterres 2023:
UN Secretary-General Addresses General Debate, 78th Session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ_P43W8Iog&t=11s
Jacinda Ardern 2022:
New Zealand Prime Minister Calls for a Global Censorship System
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/09/25/new-zealand-prime-minister-calls-for-global-censorship-system/
Ardern is the smiling face of the new generation of censors
And the winner is?
[I think Jacinda wants António’s job]
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The UN would welcome her authoritarian instincts.
Lots of opportunity for her to make up rules for the little people around the globe.
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Mmmmmm speaking of Jacinda
https://twitter.com/ElonMuskAOC/status/1705668796483309990?t=7i8NqVZ4mlJYabLawscfKw&s=19
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FWIW
“A Neglected Factor in the Fall of Civilizations”
“The issue in question can be summed up in a very straightforward way. Many of us have noticed that there are quite a few things the political and economic leadership of the world’s industrial nations could do to respond constructively to the rising spiral of crisis that besets us. Many of us have also noticed that these things are precisely what the political and economic leadership of the world’s industrial nations will not do.
One of the people who noticed this was the historian Arnold Toynbee. Toynbee’s life work, the sprawling 12-volume A Study of History, argued that civilizations fall because their leadership abandons the problem-solving function that is central to any effective elite. His take was that civilizations rise when a creative minority inspires the rest of society with a vision of constructive change so enticing, and a set of solutions for current problems so promising, that most people fall in line behind them. As long as that minority continues to inspire the rest of society, by pushing forward its vision and coming up with effective solutions to the problems the society confronts, it remains a creative minority and the civilization keeps rising.
Sooner or later, however, the creative minority stops coming up with solutions to new problems. Instead, it starts insisting that the same old solutions will work just as well with new problems as they did with the old ones.”
More at
https://www.ecosophia.net/a-neglected-factor-in-the-fall-of-civilizations/
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Aussies love their free lunch (electrically speaking)
Rooftop solar ‘cannibalising’ power prices as Australian generators pay to stay online
Australia is becoming a world leader in solving 3rd world green energy problems. (Too much rooftop solar)
Fascinating article which confirms the problem of green energy but also suggests very substantial power generation.
All that sushine and low density housing!
Sincerely it leaves me surprised speechless and wondering how the problem can be resolved
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In particular, freedom to generate one’s own electricity strikes to the heart of libertarian sentiments.
Assume that those who post to this blog love to generate substantive of their own electricity.
Generating one’s own electricity via rooftop is main basis of public Australian green policy. I can see the same sentiments by people in N. America
What about those sho live in apartments? What happens when the sun doesn’t shine?I suppose there is always the personal battery.
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You want to generate your own electricity?
That’s fine. There are problems.
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There are problems when everyone wants to do it
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Not as long as they are truly going to “generate your own electricity” and not connect with the grid
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If you own (with or without a mortgage) a single family dwelling or business, you are a financial idiot to not protect yourself from the expected inflation of grid supplied electricity prices. Well if you expect to keep the property more than 5 years or so.
The next phase will see the PV panels installed on school buildings (most use in day time with the ceiling lights on and maybe heat pump air conditioning or heating) and multi store parking areas (where security light is “desirable”).
The arguments are for power storage failities, batteries and/or pumped storage. How about fertilizer replacement where production is based on cheap power when it is available? Currently this is many multiple millions of import costs for Australia.
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The early days of hydro electric power were built by companies in isolated locations having their own power requirements.
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Save $$$ by going green.
Save the world and your children’s future by going green.
Be a trendy early adopter by going green.
I have nothing against wanting to go green but people are being suckered into it with …
Make/save money
Emotional blackmail
Trendiness
What sort of idiot wouldn’t want to save money? (Stsndard advertising ploy)
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‘What sort of idiot wouldn’t want to save money?’…. and die the richest man on the block? Saving money isn’t as important as spending the saved money!
Modern economic theory says you shouldn’t save money at all, its a bad thing that cripples the economy, which relies on velocity of spending to pay expert’s salaries. The old reason for saving would be to pass something onto your children so they have a better lifestyle than you did, but seeing the next generations are not having kids, they have no reason to build up capital. Capitalism is indeed dead, but not for the reasons expected.
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Not to worry. There are developing world immigrants to bolster the population.
/irony
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If irony was energy….
Except utility wind and solar are not zero-cost; they are subject to economic profit and loss same as any other investment project.
They are effectively suffering opportunity cost (although not quite by definition) i.e. they have chosen their particular business venture but are now facing loss of profit and ability to pay back investment because another venture is taking it from them (that was their risk).
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>that was their risk
Another risk, not foreseen, is “congestion” (bottom of Raving’s link):
‘Congestion’ in the energy grid
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-05/australia-needs-more-renewables-but-does-it-need-more-powerlines/101188978
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What a load of absolute coping BS. They found a bigger fool apparently, like any bad investment.
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The only way it will ever get better is for the present grid to collapse. It gets closer to both blackouts and financial collapse every day.
People placing solar panels on their roofs will help accelerate the demise. And they can avoid the worst consequence by installing a battery. I do not know how many with batteries can actually operate off grid but some are able to do that. I already operate about half the household load off grid. There are now more than 100,000 home battery installations.
I know a number of households that have not paid energy bills for years.
Many ignorant voters are unaware of the government sponsored theft from those who do not own a roof to those who own rooftop solar, grid solar or grid wind.
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and how much of the blame can be centered on the continued increase in he cost of grid supplied electric power?
May the cost of the batteries (approved and certified for Australian installation only by licensed electricians) continue to fall.
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Is there a lot of solar rooftop in Sydney? It’s a beautiful city!
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When I look at google maps of Sydney I see that it has similar population densities to Toronto …. 5 million population too …
Surely the whole solar rooftop/windmill and such has to do with population densities. Cannot see renewables powering the Sydney area in the near future. Need to site power plants close by or bring in power from far afield.
The debate isn’t just about renewable verus fossil. There is power siting versus density.
Is this true?
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2030, half way there.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/aYrA5QC4pNJ4/
show notes and links
https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw530/
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2023/09/18/un-outlines-six-key-goals-to-accelerate-2030-agenda/
United Nations, Sep 18 (Prensa Latina) United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today presented an agenda of six key points for the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at the opening ceremony here of the Summit dedicated to those goals.
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>”Guterres today presented an agenda of six key points for the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”
Comes at a cost:
U.N. Chief Grifter Opens General Assembly Demanding Billions To Fight ‘Climate Chaos’
https://climatechangedispatch.com/u-n-chief-grifter-opens-general-assembly-demanding-billions-to-fight-climate-chaos/
But why stop at $600-billion-a-year?
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“What was the first fungus?”
https://youtu.be/KH9JVy-u5DQWhat was the first fungus”
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I often wonder about the first person who opened up an oyster, and thought wow! that looks like it would be good to eat!
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‘GO TO HELL’ – EU POLITICIAN DELIVERS MESSAGE TO THE GLOBAL TYRANTS
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yNu9v3QGK03E/
Save it from here:
https://seed132.bitchute.com/VRJl4IBsW0UG/yNu9v3QGK03E.mp4
Too good not to save.
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Wonderful (wundebar?) and no surprise this woman is an AfD MEP.
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95% of NFT Collections, Held by Over 23 Million People, Are Now ‘Worthless’
On the heels of the well-documented non-fungible token (NFT) craze – and billions in related purchases – a whopping 95% of the digital-asset collections are now worthless, according to a new study.
This and other telling data points emerged in a report from cryptocurrency analysis platform dappGambl. As part of the underlying research, the outlet zeroed in on the value and ownership details associated with 73,257 NFT collections, per the appropriate text.
Of these collections, 69,795, or north of 95%, had “a market cap of 0 Ether,” the breakdown shows. Running with the crypto-focused source’s estimate, some 23 million individuals hold the (monetarily) worthless virtual items. Additionally, only 21% of the analyzed NFT collections were sold out at the time of the study – leaving the remaining 79% with unmoved inventory.
The same resource also features a look at “the top [emphasis added] 8850 NFT collections according to CoinMarketCap”; 1,614 of the involved collections were valued at $0 and considered “dead.” Moreover, including the latter, 3,530 collections (almost 40%) of the previously expensive assets at hand had a value between $0 and $100.
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2023/09/21/nft-prices-september-2023-study/
Pile in like lemmings, chasing easy profits, and end up like the rest of the lemmings.
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Clearly money was made; just not by these guys.
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Zero students test proficient in state math exams at 13 Baltimore high schools
Jason Rodriguez, deputy director of the Baltimore-based non-profit People Empowered by the Struggle, said that the findings were akin to “educational homicide.”
“There is no excuse,” he told Fox Baltimore. “We have a system that’s just running rogue, and it starts at the top.”
“It’s not a funding issue. We’re getting plenty of funding,” said Rodriguez.“I don’t think money is the issue. I think accountability is the issue.”
The 13 schools where zero students demonstrated proficiency in math were out of 33 Baltimore City Schools, meaning 40 percent of Baltimore City Schools did not produce a single student proficient in math. Making matters worse, the only reason why FOX45 obtained an unredacted copy of the report is because a source provided it:
The list of 13 schools includes some of Baltimore’s most well-known high schools, including Patterson High School, Frederick Douglass, and Reginald F. Lewis.
But that’s not the only alarming finding we made. In those 13 high schools, 1,736 students took the test, and 1,295 students, or 74.5%, scored a one out of four. One is the lowest level, meaning those students were not even close to proficient.
Last school year, Baltimore City Schools received $1.6 billion from taxpayers, the most ever. The district also received $799 million in Covid relief funding from the federal government. And still, not a single student tested at 13 City high schools scored proficient on the state math test.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/21/zero-students-test-proficient-state-math-exams-13-baltimore-high-schools/
Maths is white racism anyway.
Now, if 4 trans men enter a women’s shower and receive 11 complaints, how much climate change is caused?
Now, that’s modern education!
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The extreme level of fail with is one is incredible. They will be able to gloss it over with victimhood though.
A preview of “Voice” programs if it gets up.
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Tony finally lands on his feet.
‘Tony Abbott nominated to Fox Corporation board of directors.
‘Lachlan Murdoch said the former prime minister had skills, experience and perspective that would contribute to the board and benefit the company.’ (SMH)
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Ed Dowd Makes Chilling Prediction on How the COVID Conspirators Will Cover Up Their Crimes
“We’re getting there [the tipping point] quickly as word of mouth spreads on the dangers of these vaccines,” data analyst Edward Dowd told Dr. Naomi Wolf in a recent interview. Dowd refers to the “tipping point” as the moment the public becomes so aware of COVID “vaccine” harms that demands for accountability become unshakeable.
“And when we get to a critical amount of people, the anger will be such that the politicians will understand that something’s changed, the regulators will start to worry, and we’ll start to see something — or an event that will cover it all up.
https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/ed-dowd-makes-chilling-prediction
And the real agenda of the 1% behind “the 1%” gets closer to being exposed.
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I don’t think it will be ‘talk’ about the harms that will matter, or even hard data showing that large numbers were harmed. People who took the jab and have, so far at least, escaped harm may be put off having boosters, but I don’t think they will mobilise. I think they’re more likely to stick heads in sand with fingers crossed.
What might make a difference is those vax injuries accelerating. If/when sufficient numbers are being harmed that the vaxxed start to feel scared, we might see a change.
But there is one thing I think that would almost certainly cause things to kick off and that’s more vax mandates. Vax survivors might be content to just move on today and hope for the best, putting this all behind them, but if more boosters are actually mandated, everything changes. However, for this reason alone, I don’t expect new mandates. ‘They’ aren’t that stupid.
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My local hospital mandated the Flu vaccine for all staff. Those that have not had the vaccine have had their jobs terminated.
What had happened to our hospitals?
What had happened to us?
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Dutton makes scathing comparison of PM to Gough Whitlam
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FWIW
“Carbon Credits: The Predictable Unraveling of a Flawed System”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/22/carbon-credits-the-predictable-unraveling-of-a-flawed-system/
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I had to check and see if Readfearn is getting a clue – but not him
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No mention of the equilibrium that exists between atmosphere and oceans of CO2 concentrations, which ensures that any amount removed from the atmosphere, by photosynthesis or sequestration, is rapidly replaced, under the guidance of Henry’s Law.
Cheers
Dave B
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Not a lot of people know about that equilibrium relationship. I first learnt about it by watching one of Murry Salby’s videos.
There is a good correlation between changes in temperature and changes in the growth of atmospheric CO2. (I have tested this with 4 temperature datasets. UAH, NCEI, GISS and Hadcrut5)
This is because when the world gets warmer, the equilibrium between the solubility of CO2 in the oceans and the partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere gets unbalanced. In order to move towards a new state of equilibrium the concentration of atmospheric CO2 needs to rise.
The rate at which the system moves towards equilibrium is temperature dependent. When the world warms, the rate of CO2 increase goes up. When the world cools, the rate of CO2 growth goes down.
If humans were not putting CO2 into the atmosphere, CO2 would have out gassed from the oceans. But, humans are putting more CO2 into the atmosphere than is needed for the equilibration process so the net movement of CO2 is from the atmosphere to the oceans.
It is the warming that is causing the CO2 to increase. Not the other way around.
This year (so far) has been a lot warmer than last year, so expect to see an increase in the CO2 growth rate compared to last year.
And yes, I know about the isotope ratio argument. It is an invalid argument because it is predicated on the assumption that natural sources and sinks of CO2 are in balance.
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FWIW
Cartoon of the day –
“Years ago fairy tales used to start with “Once upon a time”
Now they start with “According to experts”. “
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So, we really embarrassed ourselves this week.
We went to the big city where the traffic , strange people and the tall buildings are.
We had a meeting on the main business street in Melbourne (Collins St for the locals)
After wading through all the traffic and parking BS, there we are arriving in the lobby of the target building. Just as we arrive a lift goes “ding” door opens and we hop in knowing that we are going to level 14. We are looking around , door close, WTF! where are the buttons? We are trapped! Go for a ride to a few floors and eventually end up back at the lobby.
Stand in lobby puzzled for a couple of minutes. Discover tablet bolted to wall in lift lobby, blank screen, no signage. Touching it provides a display. OK so now you say what level you want to go to BEFORE you get in the lift, and what “car” to take is displayed on the tablet. Fine then.
Doesn’t help when we go back to the parking building and all they have is big brass lumps you touch to summon a lift and old skool buttons in the lift.
I am so over the city
At least we had a nice Vietnamese lunch on the way home. Something we dont get much of out in the boondocks.
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On our recent road trip, we spent two days in Sydney. Chose Chatswood because of fond memories of wife and her sister shopping there 30 years ago when we lived in Sydney. I was a bit shell-shocked because I could not read the window signs. Uncertain what type of food other than a broad spectrum of Asian styles.
This week we realised we did get something for free while in Chatswood – Covid. Probably from a lift or the one cramped eatery we were silly enough to try out.
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FWIW
As my grand uncle would say – “Eh! Gawd”
Tucker Carlson interviews Ken Paxton
https://twitter.com/i/status/1704665052031172641
Listen right though and look around! (IMO)
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If you haven’t been following closely start here
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/darrellfrost/2023/09/16/breaking-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-acquitted-of-all-charges-n1727640
Particularly this bit –
“During the brief debate in the House, it was revealed that no witnesses had been put under oath and that Paxton was denied an opportunity to give his side of the story to members of the investigating committee.”
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FWIW
“Breitbart Business Digest: Russia’s Diesel Export Ban Highlights the Weakness of Biden’s Financial War”
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/22/breitbart-business-digest-russias-diesel-export-ban-highlights-the-weakness-of-bidens-financial-war/
“Before anyone scoffs at the sustainability of this “military Keynesianism,” keep in mind that new orders for “defense capital goods” in the U.S. are up 20 percent year-to-date, hitting nearly $94.8 billion in July, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. New orders for defense aircraft are up by 17.3 percent to $36.2 billion. So, Putin’s Russia is not alone in getting an economic boost from war production.
Prokopenko, however, is confident that spending to build warfighting capability is “not productive growth.”
“The Russian economy is not sustainable in the long term. It all reminds of the Soviet times and we know how the Soviet economy went,” she told the Journal.
Well, sure. We do know how it went. But it took 69 years for it to finally go for good.”
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Exactly one lifetime.
And that is why its collapse was absolutely predictable.
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Climate Change Alarmist Al Gore Declares War on Fossil Fuel Industry
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Why Did Bill Gates Make Sudden U-Turn On Climate Doom Narrative?
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“Report: Biden White House, NIAID, NIH, CDC, HHS Crafted ‘Script’ in May 2021 to Downplay Adverse COVID Vaccine Reactions”
https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/22/report-biden-white-house-niaid-nih-cdc-hhs-crafted-script-in-may-2021-to-downplay-adverse-covid-vaccine-reactions/
Did the TGA get a copy?
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