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Largescale Solar Parks Just Can’t Withstand The Harsh Elements of Nature
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At least Europe building solar plantations in north Africa is slightly less infeasible than Australia building solar plantations in northern Australia and exporting electricity to Singapore. That is for electricity which the Singaporeans have never said they wanted as they have reliable and inexpensive electricity from mostly natural gas from which 95% of their electricity comes.
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Solar panels can drop output by half when there is dust in the sky.
Known since (about) 1976 by a CSIRO tests in the Northern Territory. That’s where some “entrepreneurs” want to place vast fields of solar panels and export either electricity or convert it to hydrogen.
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Note that date and time (era). 1976.
Ten years before Hawke put his social scientist mates in charge of the real scientists at the CSIRO.
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There was once a video on YouTube of north Africans smashing up a solar plantation because they didn’t want it but I just looked and I think YT have censored or shadow banned that video.
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Here ya go DM:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1674861222549508&id=204350859600559
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Yes, that’s it. Good find. Thanks JC II.
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Have they solved hydrogen embrittlement yet.
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Yes, it’s called HYDRO-carbons, i.e. Petrol, Diesel, LNG.
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Recycling solar panels remains uncertain
“based upon their calculations of projected solar panel installation growth and replacement, solar panel waste will exceed new installations by 2031 and more than double by 2035. The result would be that solar energy costs are expected to increase four-fold more than what they are currently.”
https://thesouthern.com/recycling-solar-panels-remains-uncertain/article_3041d046-48d3-5482-a192-52f5a6e4b78a.html
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Reports that Blackrock has withdrawn support for renewables , could change all that.
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I am a bit confused by this story as I thought OZ had effectively blocked all illegal migrants
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13094509/Asylum-seekers-Australia-boats-Albanese-Dutton.html
How are they getting there and why two boatloads in a couple of days. Is this to be a growing trend?
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Really depends who is in power, what policies they have and how much they actually want to enforce them. Its been demonstrated as possible but recent events are just another example of the destructiveness and incompetence of our mini Biden and his dream team.
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Never ascribe to “incompetence”, that which is clearly MALICE”?
Perfectly in alignment with the general adoption od the “Napoleonic Code”.
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The Government wants them because they are future Labor/Green voters.
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That’s why PM Albanese is importing over half a million immigrants every year. If Australians wont vote for him, the new arrivals will. There has been a lot of fuss made over two boatloads of illegal immigrants, but hundreds of “asylum seekers” (the PC term for queue jumpers) flying into Australia every week is not news worthy.
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It was a very popular policy by the Tony Abbott government but Labor aren’t so keen.
It is obviously a trial run by the gangs who hope to get the profitable business going again.
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Quickly! Border gates at NT and don’t let them out of the State!
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They landed in WA KP
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NT isn’t a state
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They have been airfreighted to Naru already.
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Regarding the “first” boat in this current flotilla:
It is stated that the occupants of the first boat came from “Pakistan and Bangladesh” (the latter being, of course the territory of the country previously known as “EAST PAKISTAN”. Two bits of real estate separated by the entire Indian sub-continent.. Logistically very interesting..
Did they travel under their own power ALL the way? Were they under tow for the bulk of what is a long and dangerous voyage for anyone but an experienced crew with good navigational skills?
Will anyone in ‘authority” admit that this is a renewed campaign of “industrialized” people smuggling? If the “boats” are still in existence, will ANYBODY with the requisite skills and knowledge be allowed to analyze them for the wealth of “intelligence” ust in construction, facilities and “odds and ends”, (charts, documents, GPS, radios, etc), that is there for the taking? Or, will they be hastily burnt in the name of “Quarantine”? A full sweep of the “wildlife” in and on the hull will be quite revealing.
Crusty old bastards want to know.
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It would have to be a very substantial and seaworthy vessel to have intercontinental range to get to Australia from either Pakistan or Bangladesh.
It must have refuelled numerous times which seems implausible. It would be over 7000km to Bangladesh and 9000km to Pakistan minimum distance.
It’s helpful that the bulk of the masses, including government officials, no longer know enough geography for this to raise alarm bells.
Obviously the Government is lying, again.
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The photo I have seen of the recent boatload shows very healthy, well dressed young men. Almost as if they’ve been on a pleasure cruise. Something stinks to high heaven.
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Young, single FIGHTING AGE men at that.
Where are the women and children if they are genuine “refugees”?
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They believe that once they are accepted as refugees, they casimply apply to bring family members to Aus.
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Beats me why we don’t have satellite surveillance of seas of that area of Australia. After all a satellite can pick you out having an illegal piss in the chook yard, surely we can afford to have the observance of illegal boats moving into our waters up north. There seems to be no will to stop this practice . Perhaps it is a policy of the uniparty to fill the joint with scum.
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According to a ABC local in the the NW of WA, she got to talk to one of the few who could speak English before Border Force got there. He said he flew to Indonesia and it cost him $800 to get to Australia but he thought he was going to Sydney!
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Yes, the Mardi Gras is a real international drawcard
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They got to Indonesia by air and then were brought over by Indonesian fishermen on a fishing boat which mysteriously was not picked up by border force radar, arriving or departing!
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Nautical enthusiasts wil notice that the boats used for thr final sprint seem to be devoid of serious superstructure and “masts’.
SERIOUS sea-going folk who venture forth in simple craft tend to be keen on at least ONE mast, atop which is something that looks like a very large Christmas-tree ornament. This is a RADAR REFLECTOR. this is quite useful when operating at night / bad weather in major sea lanes. The fast-moving freighters and tankers can “see” a boat so quipped from a reasonable distance..
HOWVEVER, the occupants of said dodgy smuggling vessels prefer to keep a “lower profile”. It matters not a whit to the “expeditors” in Indonesia or elsewhere, whether the “refugees” are successful or not.
The money has already been paid, so, if Achmed and his mates stagger ashore in the Kimvberleys or “vanish at sea”, is neither here nor there to the “facilitators”. Previous interceptions by RAN patrol boats speak of the occupants of these feral craft enthusiastically dumping “objects”; apparently charts, documents, Sat Phones, GPS “nav-aids” overboard as soon as the Patrol boat is sighted. The patrol boats carry MUCH better optics than the invaders. Also noted is the practice of attempting to scuttle the boats to deny evidence / information to the RAN and “Border Force”.
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I wonder if the coastal surveillance aircraft have been pulled by Albo to save funds; or indirectly by Border Force.
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If you follow the real news across the US, UK etc, the immigration story has the same elements. You have the present southern border situation in the US and a huge boat people problem in the UK and other parts of Europe (eg. Italy). They’re all supposed refugees, escaping tyrannical dictators and wars in foreign lands- except, they’re not. Most appear to be able bodied young men of ” fighting age”. The authorities in both the US and UK appear unable to stop the problem. In the US, it would appear that allowing potential Democrat voters in an uncontrolled fashion is good for the Biden administration. In the UK, the governing tories appear to be clueless, which is why so many of their traditional voters are now disenchanted with the Conservative Party. What would appear to be the problem is that western countries have signed up to some UN agreement in terms of allowing refugees into their country. I would suspect Australia has possibly also signed up as well. Some commentators are now even calling for total review of “refugee status” in our international agreements. Because, clearly the system is being gamed by some very nefarious operatives.
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Failure of border protection units. Should have been detected.
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Apparently the Border Protection Body has had its funding slashed (typical Labor in power)!! It would be interesting to know just how many hours/days the Border Protection has been reduced to.??
Maybe its on par with the letter delivery service 3 days/week ….if we are lucky !
This Country is a B…joke…and the politicians traitors…
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Yes, this was big news a year or so ago, but now , the narrative is that “ negative comments will aggrivate the situation and encourage thepeople smuglers “…
.. so please dont mention how the Border Force has been hobbled !
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$600 million cut from Border Force budget in 2022.!
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This is the old story of a leopard never changes its spots. Albo is hard left and has ALWAYS backed refugees being welcomed here. Andrew Giles is a case of dracula in charge of the blood bank. In 2001 he was an immigration lawyer battling the Howard governmnent over the TAMPA crisis. In 2013 he gets elected and still keeps batting for the same side. Granted, these refos have all got a free ride to Nauru. But the boats got through to the mainland
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There have been boats every year for the last decade.
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According to the refugee council of Aus stats, there were no boats in 2021.
https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/asylum-boats-statistics/
Interestingly, with the change of govt in 2022, there were 7 boats in 2022. The most since 2015, which had 11. After 300 in 2013, 278 in 2012, under the Labor “all welcome open borders” Government.
Given this current Govt lets detainees facing criminal charges out into the community, there will be more encouraged to come after seeing the soft attitude.
The question is, how did these new arrivals get to shore? Has this government given specific instructions to the Navy and Air Force to cut patrols? Or has the Navy and Air Force slipped up or got complacent due to the effective policy of the previous Govt. I know, it’s a big coastline.
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Theoretically and in practice the Jindalee Operational Radar Network (over the horizon radar) should be able to track these boats so if any boats get to shore without interception it means it’s with the imprimatur of Government.
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Or maybe you are asserting, without evidence, something you know nothing about.
And what if the hugged the coast from the north?
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They have to get to the coast before they can hug the coast. They can only hug each other for at least 400km.
But, yes. Govt imprimatur shouldn’t be stated as if fact.
Anyway, when it comes to boats; I thought it was the Spanish imprimatur.
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I know a bit about Jindalee and whatever you are trying to suggest makes no sense at all. How can you “hug the coast” unless you start at the coast? I assume you are aware that the mainland is an island? You cannot “hug the coast” from Indonesia.
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Remember election day
‘Disgraceful’: report reveals Morrison government pressured border force to promote election day boat arrival
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Given there was a boat, is there anything wrong with making it public. Obviously it was made public because he perceived it as a political advantage. But since when don’t you like the truth being part of an election campaign?
I would agree it’s disgraceful if there wasn’t a boat and Morrison said there was. Or got border force to say there was when there wasn’t. Or, got a few well tanned Young Liberals to row a dinghy out off the north west coast and pretend there was.
But don’t get shirty because your above statement about boats every year was wrong. Or the fact that your favourite political party caused mayhem off the coast and a huge detention problem last time around, and now is keen to bugger things up again.
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Only in woke dreams.
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well OK… I was wrong about 2021.
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Stick to telling the woke that there is no difference in illegal asylum arrivals when Labor is managing the boats. Be honest and admit that the difference is stark.
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No !.. you were completely wrong !.. NO refugee boats have been able to land on the shore since 2014 ! ..
Many inteceptions and turnbacks , but NONE have been able to reach the shore undetected.
So, either border force did know of its movements but did nothing about it ..or.. if they did not detect it ,..then there is a major security issue !
..and Albanese does not care about it !
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This is incorrect.
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I think there’s been at least two others since 2014.
Vietnamese landed, I think near Cooktown. 4-5 years ago.
Another group landed at Beagle Bay WA late last year.
Also, I think there was another that reached an Australian territory that wasn’t attached to the mainland.
Some reports disputed whether they were simply lost fisherman or not. But lost fisherman don’t request asylum.
Certainly not many actually reaching the shore over the years. But now we have two in just a few days.
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The refugee council stats in the link above #3.9.1 are for all boat intercepts and not specifically reaching the mainland.
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Watch: Mobs Of Violent African Migrants Riot, Attack Police In Holland
Mass violence broke out in the city of The Hague in The Netherlands Saturday night as hundreds of marauding African migrants attacked police, smashed property and set fires, in scenes that once again highlight the complete failure of multiculturalism.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-mobs-violent-african-migrants-riot-attack-police-holland
Multiculturalism is a joke like woke.
Next up, martial law. Elites rub hands together…
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Albo would have you believe that but you know what labor are like.
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Atomic Accidents A history of nuclear meltdowns and disasters.
A 621 page PDF.
Very interesting. Most accidents resulted from ignorance, hubris, carelessness, tunnel vision, and just plain bad luck.
https://atomicgothic.neocities.org/atomic%20gothic%20test/lib/James%20Mahaffey%20-%20Atomic%20Accidents_%20A%20History%20of%20Nuclear%20Meltdowns%20and%20Disasters_%20From%20the%20Ozark%20Mountains%20to%20Fukushima-Pegasus%20(2014)%20(3).pdf
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I’ll pass on reading 621 pages.
I do wonder how many folks died from radiation in contrast to other means.
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It is fully indexed and bibliographed with hot links. No need to read it all.
But it is a very interesting read. All about failures and their modes. Steam, Hydropower, nuclear, etc.
Most of the failures were human caused or bad luck. But the failure modes are fascinating.
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Nuclear Energy can be compared to the risk of flying
Everyone knows that statistically travelling on commercial plane is the safest form of travel
{There have been no fatalities in scheduled commercial air transport in Australia since 2005 vs 1266 road deaths in 2023 alone.}
However, every commerical plane crash gets worldwide publicity eg the Boeing 737 Max crashes
https://www.power-technology.com/features/nuclear-mortality-rate-safe-energy/?cf-view
The Lockhart River air disaster occurred on 7 May 2005, when Aero-Tropics Air Services Flight 675 crashed while on approach to land at Lockhart River Airport in Queensland, Australia, on a ridge known as South Pap 6 nautical miles (11 km) north-west of the airport. All fifteen on board died as the aircraft was completely destroyed by impact forces and subsequent fire.
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The Top 25 Safest Airlines For 2024
Air New Zealand
Qantas
Virgin Australia
Etihad Airways
Qatar Airways
Emirates
All Nippon Airways
Finnair
Cathay Pacific Airways
Alaska Airlines
Albo’s “best mate” Alan Joyce can be blamed for QANTAS losing the top spot
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2024/01/03/ranked-the-25-safest-airlines-in-the-world-according-to-airlineratingscom/?sh=254c104e4c03
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Australia’s worst commercial airline disaster
On 10 June 1960, a Fokker Friendship passenger aircraft operated by Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) was on approach at night to land at Mackay, Queensland, Australia when it crashed into the sea. All 29 people on board Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 were killed
No definitive cause was found.
One of the recommendations made by the Board of Accident Inquiry was that passenger-carrying aircraft of the size of the F-27 and larger should be equipped with flight data recorders.
Qantas acquired Trans Australian Airlines on 14 September 1992
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Just imaging if the $ billions wasted on “saving the planet” and the phoney UN scaremongering had been spent on upgrading and dividing major regional roads.
This would have saved thousands of Australian lives and many more serious injuries.
Australia only contributes 1% of global CO2 emission so any reductions made by Australia is totally irrelevant.
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Then what’s worse- instead of using funds to build better roads in regional Australia, they wasted money installing 100’s of km of useless cable barriers. Which when involved in an accident are never repaired, because it costs too much. There was no real positive argument that they save any more lives anyway.
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These were forced on us.
No justification provided at all.
I wonder who was getting the kickbacks.
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They are to stop you overtaking when some clown in Canberra who catches a bus to work thinks you shouldn’t overtake.
They filled the roads with double yellow lines but apparently they’re not enough.. There’s nothing like the frustration of being 6th in a queue traveling at 95kph with no legal chance of overtaking.
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Sections of wire barriers we see each week are repaired when damaged. Seems to take at least 6 months though.
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Add .pdf to the above link or you’ll get a 404…
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China intends to flood the US with cheap electric vehicles by building them in Mexico
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/16/china-premier-automaker-plans-factory-mexico-flood-u-s-market/
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The U.S. has a “vehicle recycling” industry. {that 2-word string can be used for searching} Some parts are taken out if demand is there.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trAJnsmjqbE
Real cars are more-and-more being built with some recycling ideas from the get-go.
Searchup: chrome-bumpers-good-old-days-when-bumpers-were-metal
Car companies, including SUBARU reuse remnant materials and scrap generated during the production of automobiles as well as end-of-life products.
Where will the “flood” of EVs end up?
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This is a bit worrying as Germany intends to clamp down on free Speech (assuming it comes from the Right)
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/18/germanys-plans-to-restrict-political-dissidents-in-order-to-better-control-the-thought-and-speech-patterns-of-its-own-people/
Right wing parties are likely to enter govt in the net year or two and this seems to be a preemptive strike to ensure that doesn’t happen. The EU have passed some laws that are intended to restrict fee speech and “misinformation” i.e anything they disagree with.
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But the Faser ideas won’t pass the parliament, there is still to much opposition within the gouvernement coalition.
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One hopes. These attempts by the elites in most western countries is revamped communism. Destroy the idea of the nation state and supplant it with the new one world order. Everything is arranged and in place. A future where one owns nothing but will be happy. The writings on the wall
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FWIW
“Four Out of Five Americans Test Positive for ‘Emerging Contaminant’ Found in Popular Cereal Brands: Study”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/four-five-americans-test-positive-emerging-contaminant-found/
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“A gibberellin biosynthesis inhibitor, it is used as a plant growth retardant….Although currently only allowed for use on ornamental plants in the U.S, a 2018 decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) permitted the import of foods, primarily grains, treated with chlormequat [1]. In the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada, chlormequat chloride is approved for use on food crops, primarily wheat, oats, and barley.
Danish pig farmers who observed reproductive declines in pigs raised on chlormequat treated grains… More recent reproductive toxicity studies on chlormequat show delayed onset of puberty, reduced sperm motility, decreased weights of male reproductive organs, and decreased testosterone levels in rats ”
Ze plan is vorking, zese useless eaters are like a plague of rats..
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The Great Reset Didn’t Work: The Case Of EVs : “We are living through one of history’s longest and most excruciating versions of “We told you so”…”
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‘Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.’
Before the Industrial Revolution powered by steam and coal the world relied on weather-dependent windmills and water wheels (and animal power).
Who in their right minds would belive that reverting to weather-dependent energy would be a good idea?
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This is how it goes with wild conspiracies. When nothing happens, because they never existed, suddenly “didn’t work because”. Or we stopped it. Or it has gone underground and will emerge next year/decade/whenever.
I’ll now collect my WEF cheque.
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The Great Reset is no conspiracy theory.
That darling of the Left, Herr Kommandant Klaus Schwab even wrote a book about it.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/
https://m.soundcloud.com/world-economic-forum/the-great-reset-resetting-the?in=world-economic-forum/sets/the-great-reset
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Reset?wprov=sfla1
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Digital_Transformation_Powering_the_Great_Reset_2020.pdf
http://reparti.free.fr/schwab2020.pdf
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People saying and writing opinions is not the same as saying a grand conspiracy is underway to carry out those things.
The great reset is a thing that is discussed as you suggest, but it is like a lot of other conspiracies based on things such as academic thought pieces, billionaire’s speeches (“maybe in the future we will..) and even off the cuff comments. The conspiracy theorists trawl through so much stuff to find these nuggets that fit into something much more fanciful. Think of all the Gates and covid nonsense as another example.
“But he said”… is not evidence of anything. The key to understanding WEF and its actual influence lies in the “F” part of its name.
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Whew, thanks.
When they were discussing the “thing”, I was worried that they might try to actually carry it out.
Tons of CO2 produced flying around in private jets to just give speeches and express opinions.
An opinion … like a private jet … everybody’s got one.
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yep it is a waste of time and resources talk fest.
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The Great Reset is based upon a synthesis of the UN’s Millenium Goals and the various means to achieve the stated outcome. All UN bodies must assume the MG’s as their core guidance – hence IMO, ICAO, World Bank, the trade bodies and so on must all factor in climate change, wealth redistribution and all the other niceties to their (once moderately useful) work. I’m sorry to say your words indicate no appreciation of the UN’s reach or its determination to achieve a reset by all the many means at its disposal. It is not a conspiracy theory per se as it’s all in writing on the UN’s many web pages – but of course it gets scant attention from the msm or chattering classes.
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Gee Aye,
Yes indeed. I remember one wild theory that the predicted heat that didn’t eventuate was hiding in the deep oceans.
Of course the Big Oil drives CO2 drives the climate conspiracy theory is one that very few people here have swallowed.
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wild scientific theories are now the topic? The only link is the word theory.
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You’re not usually so easygoing with the adjective “scientific”. Basic physics tells us that warmer water will tend to rise, so what “scientific” mechanism convinced the missing surface heat to dive so deep?
Anyhow, you set the pattern:
and the “it’s going to get relentlessly hotter from CO2” theory giving way to the “heat’s hiding in the deep oceans waiting to unleash its terror” fits your pattern nicely. And it’s only sciency, not scientific.
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UBI to the CNN misinformed.
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Or, “it’s not global warming, it’s climate change.”
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What Tucker Learned From Surviving a Plane Crash
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Is this the crash Tucker mentions – it ended up in the sand at the end of Dubai airport in October 2001?
https://gulfnews.com/uae/pakistan-airline-plane-crash-lands-1.427574
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Don’t buy Chinese computers as they may contain (digital) viruses and other malware/Trojans.
https://youtu.be/dMrqUgTPd5M
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I thought it was going to be the Louis Rossmann s/hand pc clip from the other day tearing strips off Lenovo for their BS advice.
A must watch too. 😆
https://youtu.be/Ahw1cppZi-g?si=qBaVTsDcNPZ2DRbP
Yet more proof that you DO need quality security software, contrary to the idiotic opinions of some youtubers.
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Viviez, in Aveyron, 900 tons waiting to be recycled
https://news.yahoo.com/french-lithium-battery-warehouse-goes-154048783.html
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Saudi Arabia imports both sand and camels from Australia. From quora.com:
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Will that be one hump or two?
We have Dromedary Camels, which are one-hump camels. They are native to the Middle East and perfectly suited to the hot, dry Australian climates. Two-hump camels are called Bactrian Camels. They are native to colder climates like Mongolia and Central Asia and are not found in Australia.
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Where does Sydney get sand from? In the 70’s I worked for a large mining company that looked into dredging sand off the NSW coast since Sydney had no sand deposits for construction. Also the white sandy beach in Honolulu is made from Australian sand. Volcanic basalt usually only delivers black sand.
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America’s most corrupt mayor.
https://youtu.be/U3Fd1Ktgr1Y
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What a shambles.
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Leftist prudes trash The Benny Hill Show and call for its censorship.
Demirep discusses:
https://youtu.be/etQhTsaROxk
And Benny Hill was genuinely funny and uplifting. Have you ever had the displeasure of listening to a woke “comedian”?
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Leftist prudes will be gunning for Paul Hogan next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0pCeaxOZpY
I invested in Crocodile Dundee – best investment I have ever made.
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The shapely lass in this now politically incorrect skit is Karen Pini
Karen Jo Pini (born 30 July 1957) is an Australian actress, model, TV personality and beauty pageant titleholder. She represented her country at the 1976 Miss World pageant held in London, United Kingdom and finished first runner up. She was also the nude centerfold in the first Australian edition of Playboy magazine in February 1979. Pini also co-hosted the weekly televised New South Wales lotto draw for twelve years.
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A few of my old mates invested in Dr George Miller’s (we used to hang at the same parties during our University years) Mad Max. Unfortunately I didn’t. Boohoo!
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I recall, yes it was a long time ago, the Benny Hill show would give me loud uncontrollable laughter, truly
-rolling on the floor laughing- type stuff.
So I am not sure about ‘upliftling’.
What Benny Hill had was not quite unique but was a great gift.
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“The Great Reset Didn’t Work: The Case Of EVs”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/great-reset-didnt-work-case-evs
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Hmm …
I’m sure the Xsposure (see what I did there) has no relation whatever to sudden ‘realizations’ about EVs.
Only a coincidence theorist would think such things.
So many went from driving an expensive ‘climate virtue’ signal, to an expensive “I bought something from a MAGA Supremacist that talks to Joe Rogan’ signal.
I’m just kidding..
Our thoughts are not manipulated in any way.
Besides, they would never abandon the critical mission of saving the planet just to financially ruin the one guy that’s preventing them from controlling online speech.
The climate cause is like ‘public health’ … a sacred contract with the people.
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This is an interesting vehicle.
Toyota is introducing an inexpensive pickup truck, around US$12,000.
Originally it’s intended for markets in Asia but may also be introduced to the US and why not also Australia?
As well, a suggestion of a 4WD one.
https://youtu.be/8CiEKGbNF_k
Needless to say, being a vehicle intended for work, it’s petrol or diesel powered, not electric.
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Just in time for Chrissy Bowen’s “emissions tax” on utes used by Australian tradies
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Where is the outrage from the Liberal (pretend conservative) Party about this?
I don’t even think most people know about this.
It will create a huge market in used, reconditioned vehicles and Australia will end up with a car fleet like Cuba’s.
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This cheap “Hilux” proposal has been around for years now. Wish the hell Toyota would just sell it. Even in the 2WD version they would sell 1000’s of them in Australia alone. But, all they would do is cannibalise their present 2WD Hilux market.
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Would be interested in this, the Ford Macerick or the Subaru ute. Unlikely to see any of them in Oz.
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“Needless to say, being a vehicle intended for work, it’s petrol or diesel powered, not electric.”
Just like a battery chainsaw, you’ll be heading for the charger before you even work up a sweat.
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There’s a “chicken tax” that will prevent it being sold in the US.
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A massive fire broke out at a French industrial site used for recycling hybrid and electric car batteries on Saturday, sending thick clouds of smoke into the air.
The town of Viviez in the department of Aveyron in Southern France was shrouded by black clouds of smoke after a fire broke out at a warehouse used to hold hybrid and electric car lithium batteries. Overall, the site held an estimated 900 tonnes of lithium batteries, however, officials claimed that the cause of the fire has still not been determined, Le Figaro reports
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Photos here
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/18/watch-warehouse-with-900-tonnes-of-recycled-lithium-car-batteries-bursts-into-flames/
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However, officials claimed that the cause of the fire has still not been determined, Le Figaro that out. LOL
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I think it was on ‘Outsiders’ that someone mentioned, that China now turns out more manufactured product, than the next 12 countries combined, and they are about to dump electric vehicles on the West, at give away prices. They are building a number of huge car carriers, taking 7000 vehicles each.
If something like that goes up, it would almost change climate, talk about heating the oceans, and we better hope it happens a long way from anywhere; the fumes, the fumes……
Maybe they will be built with the brine systems installed? Who knows?
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“Generals are always preparing for the last war”
The Woke West is being “invaded” by products from China (many of which are bugged!) which we can no longer economically make (eg cars in Australia)
You can bet the computer control chips in all these EVs are bugged and these cars can be “switched off” should the need arise at a future date!
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I was reading the usual nonsense reported in the Australian. And the resistance of Luddite farmers to having their land, their environment, their quality of life utterly disrtupted by Green energy, solar farms, windmills, power lines. Who do they think they are?
And along with all the usual phrases to which we have become inured
Green energy
Clean energy
Renewables Superpower
Green hydrogen
Green steel
which apparently no longer need explanation you have a startling phrase
“ALP’s Climate Policy”
who would have ever thought a political party would have a Climate policy.
Welcome to a new world where we, the people are told to believe that politicians control the climate.
My gabber is flastered.
It seems we control CO2, at least in our backyard. And that controls CO2 world wide. And so we control our climate.
So say all of us in the Labor party. And your ABC, BOM, Universtity adminstrations, CSIRO.
Saints be praised! Politicians have become Gods.
It all just happened so slowly.
Now the party of the workers, the undertrodden now has the power to change the climate of every corner of Australia.
And the quite deranged farmers are trying to stop them doing what has to be done. And at the same time uninformed power companies are trying to prolong the life of coal power plants which have to be gone soon. Because they must. It’s the only way to fix the climate. If we don’t shut the coal power stations, there will be not enough incentive to build thousands more windmills! The people have to suffer to be truly free.
Rational science is dead. Politicians have killed it. So much for the enlightenment.
Now how do we control the rainfall? And where? And stop all storms. Then we must do something about El Nino.
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The ALP demigods will be working on an “Earthquake Policy” and a “Volcano Policy” next
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Yes, the next time anyone speaks to a politician, they should ask about their Climate Policy. And their intentions with the climate.
And ask how the hundreds of billions of $$$ Australia is spending on dismantling and completely replacing our good, reliable, working and adequate power system with windmills is going to produce better lives for ordinary voters
And a more profitable Australia. How much greener will the world be? And ask how Australia will become an renewable energy superpower and what that means practically for growing our farming, manufacturing, tourism, smelting industries. That is outside the 600,000 people in Canberra whose only industry is raising taxes.
Also ask when we will stop the export of coal and iron ore and gas and uranium and wheat and sheep and wine before they are made UN prohibited exports? We already know how they will stop exports of steel and aluminum, but coal and iron ore should never be exported under Labor’s Climate Policy.
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The ALP should have a policy on preventing the sun from becoming a red giant. They have 500 giga years to develop this….
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You have to be warned, they will need a lot of cash to do this. With interest over 6 billion years it should be enough, if they can get solar inflation under control.
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Albo and co like red giants such as Marx, Lenin, Mao, Castro…
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You can add the smallest communist, Adam Bandt whose PhD in Melbourne was on Communism. He hides it. And he had not a Green idea in his head when he first tried to get into politics. But there are those who bow down before the mighty Green giant who will save the world with Green energy, green food, meat free hamburger and insect stew. Plus of course make us all rich as a Renewable Super Power. If you believe all that, you are beyond help.
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It’s not that easy being green, tra la…
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=it%27s+not+easy+being+green+kermit+the+frog+youtube&sca_esv=d40fc41f2bec7eae&source=hp&ei=5CDTZc2aG4ukvr0P6oW76Ac&iflsig=ANes7DEAAAAAZdM
Green on the outside, red on the inside.
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That program that masquerades as a regional/ rural/ farming program on the ABC- Landline, did a story on the wind turbine/connecting powerlines protests by farming groups. The whole tone of the story was ” oh wow, aren’t these farmers cute, doing protests like the big boys”. There was no investigation if these monstrosities were actually needed in the first place, no balance in the story. Which is what you expect from the ABC these days anyway. It was just it’s a given, the green energy infrastructure HAS to be built, so what are you silly farmers protesting about? So now, right on cue, we have individual farmers and some vague farmer groups indicating their support for wind/ solar. It’s almost as if someone or something is prompting them. Silly of me to think of these things, I know.
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I can’t think of a single Australian Government policy, Federal or State, which is fundamentally beneficial for Australia in any rational interpretation.
They all seem to be highly destructive toward Australia and the interests of her people.
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For the greater good though. Of China.
At least the Chinese were looking after their own public health by banning our coal and lobsters and wine.
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(U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863)
Did not workout that way in the US – nor in Australia
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Has anybody noticed today’s BOM weather radar images are date stamped 18/02/2024? Are we getting yesterdays weather?
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it is displaying the correct UTC time.
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Green Tick!
Credit where credit is due.
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Or GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)…I’m an old-fashioned girl.
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Homogenised calendar.
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BOM must read Jo’s blog they have updated the time now.
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That’s because it’s the 19th in the UK now.
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They are 11 hrs behind us (in Vic and NSW) at this time of the year.
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European immigration, Eritreans bring their civil war to the Netherlands.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13097091/Hague-riots-broke-violent-clashes-rival-groups-Eritreans-scenes-saw-police-cars-torched-thugs-throw-rocks-Dutch-cops-use-teargas.html
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“Diversity is our Strength”
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There is only one way Australian electricity prices can go under present arrangements.
Up.
And double or triple the price with likely frequent outages. With outages, probably commercial users will be shed to make them less visible in voter land.
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On a Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) basis Australian electricity price to consumers in 2022 was 0.176 USD per kWh compared to 0.409 USD for wind and solar obsessed German.
So expect electricty costs to at least double in the next few years.
However, Chrissy Bowen has assured us (backed up by “modelling” by the CSIRO) that “renewables” are the “cheapest form of electricity”.
https://www.energycouncil.com.au/analysis/international-electricity-prices-how-does-australia-compare/
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Which is why anyone who owns a building with adequate roof space should have “behind the meter” solar panels installed.
Love them or hate them, they offer 10+ years of inflation protection against the price of grid supplied power.
Now to get the WA government to permit more panels even if the export limit is 5 KW…. It takes many more panels that 5kw rating to actually get 5kw output in the winter.
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WA is so supersaturated with solar that new installations must have a bidirectional smart meter.
You think you own the solar panels, but the government can switch them off. They threaten to overload the grid otherwise.
https://www.synergy.net.au/Your-home/Help-and-advice/Solar-credits-and-upgrades/Do-I-need-a-new-meter-to-install-solar-and–how-do-I-arrange-this-Resi
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The buzz word for Big Brother controlling your solar panels is “Virtual Power Plants”?
The impact of adding more solar in WA on the “Duck Curve” from 2018 to 2024 and “potential grid instablity” can be found here
https://www.synergy.net.au/Blog/2021/10/Everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-Duck-Curve
Why aren’t the powers to be running out and buying a lot of Mr Musk’s Megapacks at a A$2 million a piece to provide power from 3pm to 9 am outside of peak solar generating times?
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Has DRED been tested in WA yet?
I am having difficulty with no load shedding in recent days….
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Well the meter that eventually became remotely readable (and apparently bidirectional) was installed in conjunction with the first solar panels in 2012. About 1/6 of my solar export on the last bill was “peak”. The annual cycle will, alas change that….
And I would hope that the only real action that can be undertake is that export to the grid can be “shut down” rather than “turning the panels off”
Remember:: The cost savings of the panels is the avoidance of having to use the “pricey” grid supplied power. Not what you earn from supplying power to the grid. However, being frugal means you appreciate a penny saved is a penny earned
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ozfred. That’s a good point that needs clarification. Do they stop you exporting or actually stop the panels. It would be pretty extreme to stop you using your own panels to save on your bill, but we know when the towers fell in SA authorities asked people to disconnect their own solar panels.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/renewable-south-australia-islanded-flying-by-the-seat-of-their-pants-afraid-of-a-solar-surge-on-a-sunny-day/
They also seemed to be spiking the voltage to deliberately trigger solar panels to shut off.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think “off” means off — as in, no electricity flowing to the house?
See the phrasing:
https://wattclarity.com.au/articles/2022/11/13nov-too-much-rooftop-pv-in-south-australia-not-enough-controllability/
As Paul McArdle said:”I can’t ever remember hearing a network company putting the call out for people to manually switch off their rooftop PV! That’s a bit of a sign that the situation is pretty serious.”
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The only time politicians tell the truth is when they call other politicians liars.
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“Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.” as the saying goes.
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900 tonnes of EV Batteries Burst into flames
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/18/watch-warehouse-with-900-tonnes-of-recycled-lithium-car-batteries-bursts-into-flames/
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I’ll guarantee none of the damaged car batteries were discharged. I expect car batteries are not actually flammable so it will take 3 days. This is all utterly preventable. Otherwise it is the energy equivalent to an inextinguishable fire in a 80 ton petrol dump.
(900 tons = 1800 batteries each with the energy equivalent of 50 litres of petrol is 80,000 litres, a B Double tanker truck)
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The sign of things to come. That must mean there is at least 900 EVs that have died.
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About 1800, maybe 2000. (As low as 350kg, the average battery weight is 454kg, but it depends on what car batteries are scrapped as they can be 2x and 3x that weight)
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Most of Australia’s problems can be attributed to the general dumbing-down of the population from a defective education system plus apathy plus very, very most politicians having basic science, engineering, economics or historical knowledge as well as being utterly without ethics.
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Our esteemed Prime Minister is a classic example
Was a politcal activist at University (aka a Communist) and then
Never had any real world experience and so is the perfect “useful idiot” for the likes of the UN and WEF as well as local Marxist Aboriginal activists who seek to divide and conquer Australians
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1984 (how auspicious NOT) economics degree must be worth a brass abacus or razoo. That date will be lost on him!
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With Tom Uren as mentor he was always going to be crazy left.
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Correction. It was meant to say no basic science, engineering, economics or historical knowledge as well as being utterly without ethics.
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It happened when we grew so big that everyone could specialise. Suddenly there were ‘political science’ degrees, (oh the irony..) and people could make a career as a politician.
Prior to that the rich businessmen/bankers had to go into politics themselves to get what they wanted, afterwards they had a proxy to take the heat.
The few real people who have gone into politics (Bob the Builder for Tauranga) leave soon after and say they were disgusted at how it all happens and realised they could never change it. I suppose Trump and Imran Khan feel the same.
They are now a breed apart, and its war between them and us, not between left and right.
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Saved from the trans nightmare
America first legal sues Mesa public schools in amended lawsuit, adding mother whose daughter’s gender was transitioned without parental knowledge or consent, and after obtaining new evidence proving scale of deception.
Today, America First Legal announced the filing of an amended complaint in Walden v. Mesa Unified School District to add a new plaintiff to the case–the mother of a daughter whose gender was clandestinely transitioned by school officials from Arizona’s Mesa Unified School District, which is more commonly known as Mesa Public Schools (MPS).
Once Jane found out about Megan’s struggles, they were able to talk about them with love and empathy. Megan was able to talk to her therapist about them as well. Within a month, Megan’s gender identity issues were resolved. Megan is now very comfortable presenting herself as a female and using her given name and is thriving in high school. If MPS employees hadn’t concealed Megan’s gender identity issues from Jane, Megan would have avoided many months of needless suffering and angst.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1757401637809803539.html
One child spared from the trans drugs and surgery craziness. Therapy and understanding, not misinformation, peer pressure or teacher insanity and breach of trust…
“The war on children”, full documentary.
Every parent should watch it.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1759049663917838659/
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Net-zero is pulling the plug on America’s electrical ‘life support system,’ new documentary says
The United States has become so utterly dependent upon an uninterrupted supply of affordable electricity that, as our grid becomes ever more fragile, American society has become fragile along with it.
Former CIA director James Woolsey testified before the U.S. Senate in 2015 that, if America’s electric grid were to go down for an extended period, such as one year, “there are essentially two estimates on how many people would die from hunger, from starvation, from lack of water, and from social disruption.
“One estimate is that within a year or so, two-thirds of the United States population would die,” Mr. Woolsey said. “The other estimate is that within a year or so, 90 percent of the U.S. population would die.”
Chris Keefer, president of Canadians for Nuclear Energy, concurred.
“The energy grid is a civilizational life support system, and without it, modern society collapses very quickly,” he said.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-02-16-net-zero-pulling-plug-americas-electrical-life-support.html
From Texas to Tokyo, this five-part docuseries shows how politicians and corporate avarice weakened our most critical network — and why we need fission to fix it.
https://juicetheseries.com/
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Deindustrialisation the Bowen way.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2024/02/australia-that-zincing-feeling/
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(Copied from elsewhere.)
Hopefully all those resignations are because they were asked to behave like National Socialists during the covid lockups and to engage in other un-Australian activities.
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Here are 20 new arrivals who will be looking for a job
“More than 20 people arrive by boat in remote part of Western Australia”
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This has been doing the rounds on social media for about 1 year now. That VicPol are short of numbers. There’s a number of reasons for these morale problems. But foremost it would appear that after the gradual politicalization of the force during the Daniel Andrew years that intensified during COVID there are now serious concerns. My suspicions are also that during contact with VicPol, “customers” are also giving very pointed feedback. As I did once, during a traffic infringement. They don’t appreciate it!! Not only the general public, but possibly friends and family as well.
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“Medical grounds”?
Now what would they be…
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Have a guess, go on, have a stab
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Meantime in BrizVegas the elephant in the room just farted and senior plods hot footed down to the Gold Coast to meet with the frontliners to discuss the plunging morale. This has been an open festering sore for years not helped by the way they have steered the deparment (the woke appointments and everyone has to have a rainbow continually pushed down your throat) not to mention the mis-management of the jab enforcement. The juvenile crime lack of action and continuing “oh those poor children you have to understand” approach its not just a case of the wheels coming off but now not being able to find the wheels to put them back on!!!
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Looks like one of the woke appointments is defiantly teetering. Katarina Carroll has announced she is “considering her options” with regard to the renewal of her contract due in July this year – including the option to not ask that her contract be extended. Seems this state news is staying in the state at the moment with “our” paper reports all behind pay walls. The Townsville Bulletin (also pay walled hence no link) breaking news page currently has an interesting presentation with their top 3 Qld stories being:
1 – Katarina Carroll has revealed she may not continue on as the state’s top cop when her contract ends in July.
2 – Horrifying footage has captured the moment a man holding a samurai sword was spotted casing the streets of a Loganlea neighbourhood before police arrested him.
3 – Terrified residents in several affluent Brisbane suburbs are forking out thousands of dollars a week on a private security guard and his highly trained dogs to deter ‘out of control’ youth criminals.
Yeah right Katarina it will be up to you yourself alone to make the final decision re staying on in the job.
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Thought I was dreaming but no this proves I was woke.
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When Australia rode on the sheep’s back
https://www.andrewgloe.com/categories/agriculture/
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Before James Cook and Invasion Day
https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/5c2b2c0e21ede6106ccf159f
Famous for his work, Isaak de Graaf, the Dutch cartographer is one of the greatest map makers of his time
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Clearly shows Rottnest & Carnac islands, Swan & Canning rivers.
Looks like he explored the upper river reaches on foot.
“Nothing to see here….”
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Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
A team of physicists in New York has discovered a material that conducts electricity with perfect efficiency at room temperature—a long-sought scientific milestone. The hydrogen, carbon and sulfur compound operates as a superconductor at up to 59 degrees Fahrenheit, the team reported on October 14, 2020 in Nature. That’s more than 50 degrees hotter than the previous high-temperature superconductivity record set in 2019.
“This is the first time we can really claim that room-temperature superconductivity has been found,” said Ion Errea, a condensed matter theorist at the University of the Basque Country in Spain who was not involved in the work.
“It’s clearly a landmark,” said Chris Pickard, a materials scientist at the University of Cambridge. “That’s a chilly room, maybe a British Victorian cottage,” he said of the 59-degree temperature.
Yet while researchers celebrate the achievement, they stress that the newfound compound—created by a team led by Ranga Dias of the University of Rochester—will never find its way into lossless power lines, frictionless high-speed trains, or any of the revolutionary technologies that could become ubiquitous if the fragile quantum effect underlying superconductivity could be maintained in truly ambient conditions. That’s because the substance superconducts at room temperature only while being crushed between a pair of diamonds to pressures roughly 75% as extreme as those found in the Earth’s core.
https://nautil.us/room-temperature-superconductivity-achieved-for-the-first-time-237999/
In other words, it’s as useless as a government health expert.
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US Taxpayers’ Money Used To Fund Research Into Trash-Fed Crickets for Human Consumption
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is funding research into trash-derived cricket feed.
The agency has allocated $130,000 in federal funds to support research into cultivating crickets, that have been fed municipal landfill waste, as a source of protein for human consumption.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/16/biden-admin-shells-out-taxpayer-dollars-on-getting-americans-to-eat-trash-fed-bugs/
The mice on toast are looking better every day, eh DM? 😉
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British Gov’t Says Trans Breast Milk Is Better for Babies Than Natural Mother’s Milk
The British government has declared that drug-induced ‘chestfeeding’ milk produced by biological men who identify as women is just as good if not better than natural mother’s milk for babies.
Chemical rich transgender milk is produced by men if they take the hormone progestin, which creates milk-producing glands, in combination with a drug such as domperidone, which makes them lactate.
“Domperidone, also known by the brand name Motilum, was not intended for this, but is prescribed off-label by doctors, despite the manufacturer, Janssen, itself recommending against it because of possible side effects to a baby’s heart,” reports the newspaper.
https://modernity.news/2024/02/18/nhs-says-drug-induced-chestfeeding-transgender-milk-is-just-as-good-for-babies-as-natural-mothers-milk/
Make it stop. I have reached my barf limit.
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If newborns had any say, they’d find this all too hard to swallow
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A modern take on Frankenstein’s monster
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I have never known the government to lie.
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New Zealand Data FOI Release Shows Devastating Outcomes for The Vaccinated. Even Worse, While Regular Folks Were Essentially Given No Choice, 11,000 Politicians and Elite were Given Jab Exemptions.
Let me spell it out. Those who took 1 dose of Pfizer had a peak-excess deaths on 5th July 2021 of 6803% higher than usual!
To put this into understandable numbers; on 5th of July 2021, for every 1 person dying at the end of their life from usual causes more than 68 people died; all of them having received a first coerced toxic injection of Pfizer product! New Zealand is a small nation! Town and cities are small. People know each other. So many deaths could not have been invisible; blamed on Covid-19 infections and used to push more deadly doses!
Each new rollout of additional doses was followed by new spikes in excess deaths! I can’t imagine; surely there should be very few persons still taking 5+ doses after the clear carnage from mid-2021!
That black line, lower than 0%, ie fewer than usual deaths, are those who did not take any injections at all! Those stubborn staunch holdouts, children young enough to escape the intentional poisoning, and those traitorous politicians and elite, died at lower rates than expected throughout the 2 years from July 2021 though to July 2023!
If there was evidence that there was never a pandemic and that the deaths were all manufactured and CAUSED by the injections (in this case, almost exclusively Pfizer), this is it!
https://supersally.substack.com/p/new-zealand-data-foi-release-shows
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I never miss a good night’s sleep wondering “Should I have trusted the government and got the jab after all”
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And a long distance NZ truck driver has just won compensation for refusing the inoculation. While the details of the case may be specific to his circumstances ie not a carte blanche for everyone to go to court one comment of the judge does have universal legs that maybe more can follow up on:
“She said Big Chill could also have offered Basher leave as an alternative to dismissal.”
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“11,000 Politicians and Elite were Given Jab Exemptions.”
Where is a list or reference of who these persons were?
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Trust The Australian?
was stated in The Australian today.
All the “Big Batteries” installed so far at a cost of around $2 billion would only provide around 5 minutes of back-up power for national demand if called to do so – they have been installed to provide grid stability for unreliable wind and solar.
To completely eliminate coal and gas would requires batteries costing around A$10 Trillion.
The usual rent seekers are attempting to stop State governments from extending the operational lives of the remaining coal fired power stations.
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Running cost of batteries, I’d like to see the mathematical workings of that claim, is the pro rata life of the battery included, I’d wager not.
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The usual warranty on the Tesla Megapack is 15 years (subject to operational condition) with degredation to 70% over this period
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Fun Facts
Lewis Carroll
The Three Types of Twilight
The three twilight types are civil, nautical and astronomical twilight. Civil twilight is the brightest phase of twilight, while astronomical twilight is the darkest, and occurs just before or after night.
The phases of twilight occur in the same order anywhere on Earth, but how long they last is based on your location on Earth.
– Civil twilight occurs when the sun is between 0 degrees and 6 degrees below the horizon.
– Nautical twilight occurs when the sun is between 6 degrees and 12 degrees below the horizon.
– Astronomical twilight occurs when the sun is between 12 degrees and 18 degrees below the horizon.
Night is classified when the sun is 18 degrees or farther below the horizon.
How long each phase lasts depends on the season and latitude you are viewing the sun from; each phase of twilight can be as short as 24 minutes (near the equator) or last several weeks if you are at or near one of the poles during the summer or winter months.
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“Generals are always preparing for the last war”
Meanwhile in Australia, Chinese made solar panels and wind turbines are the centre piece of Labor’s “Energy Policy”!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13098111/China-hack-infrastructure-FBI-warning.html
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China in Antarctica
“Beijing views Antarctica as part of its “strategic frontiers”, he added, describing the base as perfectly positioned to collect “signals intelligence” over Australia and New Zealand.”
I keep saying that Australia’s destiny is to be Hong Kong MkII
Australia became part of the British Empire as it expanded as a world power (and which has long been in decline) – now China is becoming the dominant world power and Australia has a strategic importance to Beijing given our size and raw materials
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/why-china-has-just-built-its-fifth-base-in-antarctica/news-story/5208144d15f6eaca5f5aea7c16364f67
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‘China is becoming the dominant world power’
No longer, its all down hill from here.
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“The Covid Resistance Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize”
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/18/the-covid-resistance-deserves-the-nobel-peace-prize/
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The ‘Conspiracy Theorists Nobel’?
‘Cause everyone that ‘resisted’ was a CT.
Just sayin’.
Here in the US, one often sees a Prius with a ‘RESIST’ bumper sticker.
Often a pink haired driver alone in the car wearing a surgical mask.
The ‘RESIST’ sticker became popular when the terror DJT was elected by Russian interference.
Just like the bumper stickers displayed by the Resistance in occupied France.
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Speaking of resistance, everyone with the mental acuity to resist, realizes that ‘Pandemic’ was a test run.
Noe they have lists.
Now we wait.
Featuring the Global Intel/Tech/CommieCap Goliath vs. the Bombastic Real Estate Developer TV Personality David.
We’re gonna need Divine intervention.
Bring popcorn.
It’ll probably be your last meal.
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I’ve got to get out more ! As Gramps says: WTF did our EDUCATION do for us since the War ? On the local news this now: around 50 African Nations banning Donkey slaughter for their SKINS – to satisfy the Chinese market … Just like shark’s fins, Rhino Horn, etc What about some of our MP’s Ears or Tongues ? – might help them poop better. — well you know what I mean. Is nothing in the world safe from “Chinese” stupid ‘custom’ medicine ?
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Huh and don’t need to go all the way to China: London Kan’t keep out of the news of silliness: London demolition to be discouraged: Demolition should be actively discouraged to help reduce carbon emissions in the nation’s capital.
That is just one of the recommendations of a new report from the London Assembly entitled Retrofit vs Rebuild – Reducing Carbon in the Built Environment.
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FWIW
“Groundbreaking Global Study on 99 Million Vaccinated People Reveals Increases in Neurological, Blood, and Heart Conditions Associated with COVID-19 Vaccines”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/groundbreaking-global-study-99-million-vaccinated-people-reveals/
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“Imagine we lived in a world where all
cars were EVs, and then along comes
a new invention, the “Internal
Combustion Engine”! Think how well
they would sell: A vehicle half the
weight, half the price that will almost
quarter the damage done to the road.
A vehicle that can be refuelled in
1110th Of the time and has a range Of
up to 4 times the distance in all
weather conditions. It does not rely
on the environmentally damaging use
Of non-renewable rare earth elements
to power it, and use far less steel and
Other materials.
Just think how excited people would
be for such technology, it would sell
like hot cakes!”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUiCy0vl8oAOV1y5dZDzZTqsphVvO7CcXEEpUDGwLwXprEBUaIDecGWwthJNH662QE1-KOW47r8H9WhFFETsjysVvpD7lMSVTCWksw-lBBd4fl1ym2FkXiL0e1R8V7Xuw3mM-yBgfZUJs-ZtNBdyFqC58H5UD792HI3njzNjBIxQCUXFvlyi0CzAdcveg/w275-h400/Meme%20-%20EV%20replacement.png
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electric motorcycle prototype powered by hydrogen worst of all worlds, then ? may as well have a Petrolhead Jenny in the sidecar ( Or Diesel Rudi )
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“The ‘Energy Trilemma’ And The Cost Of Electricity – OpEd”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/19/the-energy-trilemma-and-the-cost-of-electricity-oped/
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