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South Australian court rules employers who mandated COVID jabs can be held liable for injuries
https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/south-australian-court-rules-employers-who-mandated-covid-jabs-can-be-held-liable-for-injuries/
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Fred Nile (NSW) tried to legislate for employer compensation but only PHON supported it.
https://thehouseinreview.com/2022/02/25/in-the-house-wednesday-23-february-2022/
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Liddell operated for 52 years – a Tesla Megapack battery has a warranty for 15 years
I wonder when hydrogen production will start at the site?
One of the oldest coal fired power stations in the USA dates back to 1945
The Fort Wainwright Central Heat and Power Plant in Alaska is the nation’s third-oldest coal-fired power plant.
The plant opened in 1945. The base, originally called Ladd Field, was a transfer point for the U.S. Lend-Lease Act through which nearly 8,000 aircraft were delivered to Russia.
Not surprising that Alaska is not a place for “renewables” and the coal fired power station will be replaced with natural gas.
https://alaskapublic.org/2023/03/01/army-selects-natural-gas-fired-heat-system-for-fort-wainwright/
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Hype Dreams
https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/hydrogen-valley-planned-for-aussie-coal-country/
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So it is never going to actually happen. I suppose we will eventually be able to place a small modular reactor where Liddell was once the penny eventually drops with the dreamers and carpet baggers.
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Hungary mulls buying several small nuclear reactors.
https://rmx.news/economy/hungary-mulls-buying-several-small-nuclear-reactors/
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Tesla Megapack is for the E-grid > large-scale energy storage, not for autos.
I wonder, does such a battery degrade slowly and get replaced – who pays what and when?
Do they catch fire? Then what?
In 15 years, what will be a similar replacement, or will there be a new technology?
So many questions. No Answers.
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Large scale batteries are new technology. There are a number of development paths so the technology is evolving. Material constraints will be a factor in battery development.
If you are old and observant you would be able to recall the development of modern power stations. Large grids did not exist when I was born. City and regional councils were the first to establish lighting grids. These were gradually taken over by State networks then those were interconnected. The first power stations operated for around 20 years. By that time the technology was obsolete. It was more economic to scrap the old plant and build a new one because it improved overall productivity. Look at how China has continued to develop coal fired technology.
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Yes
https://www.energy-storage.news/tesla-megapack-on-fire-in-minor-incident-at-battery-storage-site-in-australia/
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Tesla Megapacks come in various capacities,..up to 3.9 MWh.
And cost varies depending on the total capacity ordered, but averages around USD$500.00 per kWh.
https://electrek.co/2022/09/14/tesla-megapack-update-specs-price/
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“So many questions. No Answers.” asks John Hultquist.
Indeed.
So why are the questions not being asked – by pollies, by the meeejia [so opinionated, so expert, in all things – they tell us], by the civil serpents [whose job I naively suppose it is to, at least, ask those questions]?
In any country in the West?
Is this a clear result of Andropov’s [and Rudi Deutschke’s] long march through the institutions?
Allied with the ubiquity of electronic entertainment [and damn-all civil sense]?
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The construction of a new ONE BILLION DOLLAR Tesla battery in Victoria was announced last week. Politicians smiled in front of TV cameras as their shovels turned the first sods of soil on the site. What happens in ten to fifteen years if lithium becomes unavailable or to expensive to replace due to demand or political interference from another country?
This is a national security issue that even blind Freddy can see, but there is no plan B.
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I don’t think many in power realise the national security importance of energy independence. And the economic importance of energy independence. For an island nation with no close major oil or gas producers, we need to be self-sufficient. If our sea lanes are disrupted and we’re trying to live off SandW and batteries we are done for.
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And by that point in time we will not have the capacity to make steel to rebuild the “traditional style” electricity generators.
Hopefully the panels on your roof will still be capable of generating at 50% of the original rating?
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Actually, you have to get rid of this idea that those in power give a shit about energy, security or you, it should be obvious to anyone over 40 that they only care about screwing maximum money out of politics before they retire with a golden pension scheme.
Its not China, its not Russia, its not North Korea.. THEY are the enemy who will ruin our lives.
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Many Australians are unaware that the start of what is now the world’s largest interconnected electricity grid was in Victoria using lignite-brown coal fired power stations based on before WW1 German design. General Sir John Monash, and engineer, convinced VicGov that the project would attract manufacturing industry and that would benefit the State economy and all consumers from the demand for electricity created and keeping prices low accordingly, economies of scale.
The fleet was replaced in all grid segments SA TAS VIC NSW QLD from 1970s following the Environmental Protection laws created, and various suburban power stations closed down and new replacements built in country districts.
Obviously Liddell Power Station and nearby Bayswater Power Station (same water supply and coal mine) are examples.
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Apart from electric cars, liquid hydrogen is being promoted as a “green” fuel of “the future” by the subsidy harvesters. This despite the fact that LH2 is a nightmare for even NASA to handle.
Another fuel being promoted by the subsidy harvesters is “green” ammonia, also a nightmare to handle. Toyota and its Chinese partner GAC have developed an ammonia powered car. There is nothing new about using ammonia as a transport fuel for Otto cycle internal combustion engines, it has been done in the past such as to power buses in Belgium during WW2. It’s just not very safe and its energy density is about a third that of diesel but twice that of LH2.
There is a very good reason LH2 and ammonia have not been used extensively as transport fuels – safety and convenience. The only reason to use them is to harvest subsidies in their production.
In Australia, the subsidy harvesters are already onto it. https://minerals.org.au/resources/australias-emerging-hydrogen-and-ammonia-industry/
And the production of both usually requires “carbon” (sic) sequestration, which none of these subsidy harvesters seem to think is a problem.
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David:
There are 2 wells with hydrogen flows in South Australia. Both were originally drilled in the search for natural gas but then sealed. No figures on the flow rate but certain politicians are excited about the hydrogen economy coming.
They were found in York Peninsula and the flow apparently has 6% helium, which given its price MIGHT make development feasible. Then there will be the electricity to separate the helium and the 300km. pipelines to move the hydrogen to where it can be used. That is ASSUMING that there is enough hydrogen available from the reactions underground (said to be from water reacting with iron bearing rocks).
Personally I think the whole excitement is premature but look up any announcements from Green Hydrogen – chaired by Alexander Downer.
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The company is Gold Hydrogen.
They have been doing some flow testing on at least 1 well, but are keeping the data under wraps.
During drilling, they measured some hydrogen, but some of it is likely to have been produced by the drilling process itself.
Both wells are about 1000m deep. The zones of real interest for H2 are in a fractured limestone, at quite shallow depths.
I’ve seen the drilling data and some of the initial formation testing results, and I remain extremely sceptical that any sort of gas can be produced in useable amounts.
The “worlds biggest natural hydrogen reservoir” in Mali fails to produce viable volumes of H2, unless it is to be used locally to run a couple of lights occasionally.
3% of the worlds Helium was produced in Darwin from the Bayu Undan field near East Timor but it seems to have run out. In theory there could be more from wells in the Amadeus and Mereenie basins in the NT. Beetaloo basin… maybe…
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Wouldn’t a drilled well with a hydrogen flow be considered “natural gas “ and therefore not allowed to be utilised in the forward looking state of Victoria?
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Using “renewable” energy for ammonia production with natural gas as feedstock is, in my opinion about equal in its ridiculousness to the production of hydrogen from natural gas.
Surely there are some competent chemical and industrial engineers left somewhere?
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Does the manufacture and combustion process of liquid hydrogen and green ammonia emit any concerning levels of greenhouse gases such as water vapor, and if so does this not cancel out any theoretical value in reducing CO2?
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Playing along with the GHE fairy tale, water vapour has an average residence time of 8 days. So human contributions would rapidly stabilise to next to nothing. CO2 has a residence time of about 7 years so human additions have a measurable impact.
This article has some good animations based on satellite measurement where the CO2 comes from and where it goes.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/01/carbon-dioxide-movie-night-the-global-picture/
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An Ammonia powered car?
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A very interesting series of comments about the core issue of the UNIPCCC control mechanism on the world.
It includes an outline of Will J’s stuff.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/monday-open-thread-30/#comment-2635345
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Be careful where you walk;
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/monday-open-thread-30/#comment-2635101
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Background reading:
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-vortex-photons-electrons-circular-motion.html
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Dense 🙂
This quote from the end of the paper is interesting;
“Our achievement opens up a totally new research field.”
$$$$$$$$$
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Eco-Activists, Climate Scientists Quietly Met To Discuss Tinkering With The Sun
https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/14/activists-scientists-met-environmental-defense-fund-solar-geoengineering/
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FWIW
“Oyster flatulence worries climate scientists”
https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/oyster-flatulence-worries-climate-scientists/
Via
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/02/14/y2kyoto-fart-joke/
Give that “Eat your bugs” drum another bang
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Yes – and its time to get serious with Vegans who are a risk to our climate.
So where do all those vegan farts come from? Typically, fiber is to blame. When you go vegan, you naturally start eating a lot more beans, fruits, and veggies. And that means you’re getting a lot more fiber, which your body isn’t used to processing in such large quantities
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The chemical compound of the day is arsole.
From Wikipedia:
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Politician of the day is Chris Bowen
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Cobalt(3+); [(2R,3S,4R,5S)-5-(5,6-dimethylbenzimidazol-1-yl)-4-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-3-yl] [(2R)-1-[3-[(1R, 2R,3R,7S, 12S, 135, 175, 185, 19R)-2,13,18-tris(2- amino-2-oxoethyl)-7,12,17-tris(3-amino-3-oxopropyl)-3,5,8,8,13,15,18,19- octamethyl-2,7,12,17-tetrahydro-1H-corrin-24-id-3-yl]propanoylamino]propan-2-yl]
phosphate;cyanide
OR…
Vitamin B12
What about Moronic acid, Vomitoxin, BARF and Deadcat?
Chemistry…
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The government is coming harder for your ICE vehicle and desire for towing a caravan.
A stealth means to claim EV popularity is rising snd successful.?
https://www.news.com.au/travel/australian-holidays/big-issue-caravan-industry-sounds-ev-warning-as-utes-targeted-in-fuel-efficiency-overhaul/news-story/79c418d8ca0123d6024ca569e10a5919
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” and we need to relearn all the lessons in why grand, state-led industrial strategies never work.””
Explains it all really.. Too bad this is not a core teaching in high school.
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All part of the “15 minute cities” plan.
Escaping from your home in a caravan will be forbidden.
“You will own nothing and be happy”
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The government is coming harder for your ICE vehicle and desire for towing a caravan.
But will they allow you to store it (and regularly use it) on your rural/regional block? Not currently.
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For the record – Jo cited
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/02/14/quiet-you-4/
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Just for a change of pace.
A local town ( the one Yarpos refered to as “having a pub” ) also has a beautiful marble statue that had been on permanent loan to the town from the National Gallery since 1939.
This statue set in a beautiful garden opposite the shire offices had its head removed in a malicious act of vandalism on February the 9th. It appears that the reason for this was the statue was in fact of Princess Alexandra of Denmark, later Queen Alexandra of Great Britain.
Never made the main stream news that I am aware of, local police are investigating but I wont hold my breath. This was just a beautiful piece of artwork destroyed for no reason other than absolute stupidity. Note that Princess Alexandra was DANISH, just married into the British Royal family, so therefore must be removed from history.
Sad really that people could be so motivated that anything that has any reference to the real history of the planet has to be destroyed.
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I’m sorry to hear that Sambar. I forgot to pick up a copy of the local rag yesterday.
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Quite likely the people who did it didn’t know who she was, and probably couldn’t find Denmark (or Britain) on a map if they had to!
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“It may take days or more than a week”
14 February 5pm statement from AEMO
Vegetation clearing and repairs to damaged powerlines and poles continue. However, given the extent of the widespread damage, it may take days or more than a week in extreme circumstances to restore electricity to all of those impacted.
For safety reasons, please do not approach fallen powerlines and call the faults and emergency number for your electricity distribution company on your electricity bill.
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And, a slight detour.I caught a bit of the early-morning TV “news” featuring the big winds in Viktoriastan.
Scenes of smashed-up power lines in suburbia.
Trees FALLING on the wires and causing short-circuits and breakages.
I live in a quiet corner of Briz Vegas suburbia. Outside my kitchen window I have TWO layers of power
lines plus the co-axial cables for the “broadband” services. The upper layer is the 11 KV . The lower layer is the “230V” household supply; three phases and a “Neutral”.
There are also trees; quite substantial. leafy ones.
However, the “poles ans wires” component of our shambolic and ludicrously expensive electricity supply system turn up at least once each year to give these trees a “haircut”. They literally “flat-top” the trees like weird topiary, so that the are BELOW the level of the lower power cables (the “lower-voltage customer feeds). They are none too subtle about it; with a serious, giant “hedge-trimmer” on an elevated platform and a very efficient but noisy “log chipper” that rapidly converts the leaves and boughs to garden mulch precursor. Good idea to ask for and receive a couple of barrow-loads for use in the garden.
There are NO “substantial” trees growing through the power lines, nor are there any left such that if a Victorian-grade wind arises, they will topple and cause major inconvenience (and expensive damage).
It is a bit of a “make-work ” programme. Whoever decided that the selected variety of trees should be planted UNDER existing power lines, was/is a dangerous idiot, at best. These trees also have substantial root systems that will probably, one day, breach the fire-hydrant pipework, and such that are directly below them..
Mechanical engineers build weapons, electrical engineers (mostly) build guidance systems. Civil engineers build TARGETS.
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My quiet corner of BV experienced the same haircut treatment a few years back. In this case the trees were tall and very well established when the entertainment line was being strung up so “they” cut the center bits out and strung the cable through the gap. The long street, which has three roundabouts, suddenly had some 40+ odd looking trees. Of course with all that nasty CO2 around the trees continued to grow however the pruning of their centers meant that rather than grow up they grew out sideways across the footpath and the road. Then that other growth industry, home food deliveries (feeding those couch potatoes watching their subscription tv), developed and these, along with other tall trucks started ripping off leaves and then low hanging branches from the trees they passed under/through and casting them along the road which posed potential safety threats to other traffic, pedestrians and of course the efficiency of street drains.
In another street where the cable was run the squat tree bushes have grown up and now the cable runs right through them enabling the possums easy entry and exit to run along the power lines at night – which is more entertaining than couch surfing old tv series and even older movies.
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A few temperatures from around the planet during the past 24 hours:
-55 C Greenland Summit
-41 C Yakutsk with ‘ice fog’
-40 C Amundsen S. Pole & snowing
-23 C Arctic N. Pole via DMI
42 C Meekatharra & Marble Bar, WA
36 C Perth, WA (maybe 43 today?)
30 C Salmon Gums, WA
(Aus temps yesterday via BoM)
Here in ‘world-leading’ climate crusading NZ, max temps range from 13 C in Dunedin to 25 C here up north, well-below average summer warmth. Can we stop all this silly business now that we’ve successfully ‘cooled’ the planet? Or as Christiana Figuerres (UN) prophesied over a decade ago, is it all about total tyrannical tormented transition…
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Dictionary adds 327 new words and phrases including ‘girl dinner,’ ‘skiplagging’ and ‘range anxiety’.
Should also add “Charging Station Anxiety” – “the apprehension of fear that on reaching a charging station its will work or the copper recharging cable has been stolen”
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Saw a thing the other day about how Demorats are inviting illegals to live in their homes. I wonder how many 2024 ballots will be sent to such households? I wonder how many of those will in turn be picked up and delivered by mules?
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Matt Walsh discussed it.
https://youtu.be/DHWBSxpVsMs
It’s win-win for the DemocRATs. They get a supply of ‘RAT voters plus the woke Leftists into whose homes these criminals go get free domestic servants, at least until something goes BADLY wrong, which inevitably it will.
You’ll note that no woke Hollyweirdos have opened up their multiple spare mansions to such criminals, and certainly not Oprah.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-64456074
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Schizophrenia is supposedly implicated in more and more violent acts. Obviously, once cited, actual motives and any cultural drivers need not be considered. Then again, marijuana is a known cause of schizophrenia, a fact usually ignored by liberal media. Put the aforementioned ‘cultural differences’ together with marijuana use and violence is highly likely.
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Aus Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has proposed marriage to to his girlfriend on Valentines Day. She said “Yes” despite 60% support for “No”.
Not surprisingly, and similar to the “Yes” campaign, the PM and his fiance can’t get their stories straight about how they got together. Albo never has been good with detail.
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/prime-minister-anthony-albanese-has-proposed-to-longterm-girlfriend-jodie/news-story/dcb9278762619b3d66bd607548fd3b48
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Albo never has been good with detail.
Nor with truth.
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Fun Facts
Over the last decade to 2022 Australia reduced its CO2 emissions from fossil fuels from 395.6 to 376.3 million tonnes of CO2 a decrease of 19.3 million tonnes or 5% {Applause!}
Over this same period the combined emissions of India and China increased by 2,289 mt a 21% increase
Therefore this increase was 118 times Australia’s reduction.
So what benefit was obtained from doubling power prices for Australians over the last decade?
Australia’s last coal fired power station was commissioned in 2009, while China is permitting two new coal fired power stations every week!
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Fun Facts – Part 2
Over the last decade to 2022 Australia exported 3585 million tonnes of coal
When burnt outside of Australia this coal would have created around 10,300 millions of tonnes of CO2.
This compares with Australia’s CO2 emissions of all fossil fuels of 3,496 million tones of CO2 emitted in Australia for the same period
Therefore Australia’s “exported CO2 emissions” {Not including LNG exports} are 2.6 times as high as domestic emissions.
Surely then if Ausralia is to meet its “Climate Targets” banning the export of coal should be top of the list!
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Please don’t encourage them.
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Fun Fact – Part 3
Over the last decade to 2022 Australia exported 762 Billion cubic metres of LNG when burnt overseas this would have generated approximately 3,890 million tonnes of CO2 – around the same as Australia’s domestic CO2 emissions from all fossil fuels of 3585 million tonnes of CO2 or the same period.
To meet our “Climate Targets” exports of LNG should be banned as well.
Might as well ban iron ore exports as well, even though iron ore is not a fossil fuel it generally requires coal to make steel.
It takes around 770 kilograms of coal to make one ton of steel, with approximately 70 per cent of global steel produced in basic oxygen blast furnaces.
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We often hear about food waste and local councils are providing rubbish bins to separate food waste from other waste.
Of course there is never any mention of food waste caused by blackouts. I went to my local Woolies yesterday, after the power outages in Victoria, overnight. Woolies staff were finishing the process of removing all food from the refrigerated shelves and cabinets, and half the freezer shelves were empty, all due to the overnight blackouts. I presume there were similar or worse situations elsewhere in Victoria
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Ditto Coles in Seymour. I didn’t check Woollies as I’m still boycotting them after their Australia Day nonsense. Aldi were operating with a large generator and had fairly well stocked cold shelves.
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May I suggest that all Victorians whose food couldn’t be saved after the latest power blackouts ship the decaying items (without refrigeration, of course) to the homes and government offices of Albo, Bowen, Victoria’s Premier and her Energy Minister!
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US political fun.
Once long ago in a campaign faraway, Joe Biden promised to end fossil fuels … intimately.
A vow.
Probably sacred.
https://apnews.com/united-states-presidential-election-9dfb1e4c381043bab6fd0fa6dece3974
But …
why, oh why is the US producing producing more oil than anybody ever?
It’s a paradox.
Within an enigma.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/us-producing-more-oil-climate-change/676893/
He does forget sometimes.
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Peter Zeihan pointing out that new restrictions on export gas permits, change nothing, but make the greens happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSJqE5gQzvs 7 mins
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America is currently facing an unidentified “serious national security threat”
https://twitter.com/gurgavin/status/1757818208222888216
What could it be?
Disease-X?
Ukraine bioweapon or tacnuke?
False flag with Poland?
Stay tuned for pre-election updates. 😉
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Aliens, it’s always aliens.
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Ivermectin Is Trending Again…New Scientific Paper Released Exposing “Miracle Drug”
So they quietly released the papers showing that Ivermectin is a miraculous treatment for cancer, and no media outlet has said a word.
They knew Ivermectin was one of the only things that would stop their planned release of the Pandemic — and they desperately needed to lock the world down so they could steal the 2020 election.
A Remarkable Drug: “If You Had to Design a Drug for COVID, It Would Look Exactly Like Ivermectin”
https://wltreport.com/2024/02/03/ivermectin-is-trending-right-now-heres-why-2-2/
Anyone got a good source of dewormer, let us all know.
You may need it soon. 😉
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ebay or US Amazon. You can order the Sheep drench in Amazon.com.au.
You just need to get the dosage to weight ratio on both the paste(horse) and liquid for whatever you body weight is.
Not poisonous if followed correctly.
I am of course not recommending or suggesting just informing. 🙂
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My wife has ovarian cancer, so this is of huge interest to me. Have you seen any mention anywhere of human trials? Any suggestions as to dosage?
I have some Ivermectin tablets which makes getting the dose right pretty easy, but my stock is low. I took Ivermectin several times, twice as a prophylactic and once as treatment, but my wife refused to try it.
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DuckDuckGo “Ivermectin ovarian cancer”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13167-020-00209-y
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043661820315152
https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/67444/ivermectin-anti-cancer-effect/
https://www.brightworkresearch.com/the-cancers-that-ivermectin-has-been-demonstrated-to-be-effective/
https://www.asianscientist.com/2017/10/in-the-lab/wip-osaka-parasite-cancer/
Quercetin too, and easier to get.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7063794/
More articles:
https://www.nature.com/subjects/ovarian-cancer
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Have a look at Vitamin F (fenbenzadole) as well
Panacur is one animal treatment
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ICAN uncovers a potential next-level threat: “inhalable” self-spreading vaccines that spread like a virus
A new class of “encrypted RNA” vaccines are being developed where the RNA would piggyback onto an existing wild virus and spread from person to person without any person’s knowledge or consent. Although this may sound like science fiction, it is far from it. Two companies involved in this research have received millions of dollars from the federal government. A study using this technology on hamsters and the SARS-Cov-2 virus has already been completed and a Phase I trial on humans is in the works. ICAN’s attorneys have already sent legal demands to all government agencies involved.
Supporters of this technology claim it will “solve” several problems with traditional vaccine delivery, including “behavior barriers” like noncompliance. Meaning everyone gets vaccinated—whether they like it or not.
https://icandecide.org/press-release/ican-uncovers-a-potential-next-level-threat-inhalable-self-spreading-vaccines-that-spread-like-a-virus/
Mask up for a different reason…
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Unfortunately we know Masks Do Not Work in stopping viruses or anything else below 300microns
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You know that is not true. Unless it is individual freeze dried or lyophilised viruses, the mesh gets a huge % of them. It is not an unreactive monolayer with holes in it, it is a thick (relative to a virus) hydrophilic mesh. And viruses don’t travel as a dry particle.
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I think you meant hydrophobic not hydrophilic. 😉
Infection rate is driven by relative humidity, and lower is not better. In fact it’s 40-60% that’s optimum for reduced spread.
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“viruses don’t travel as a dry particle.” GeeAye
If the virus travels as/with moisture it would be more likely to get caught by the filter mesh. Yes. By the time of the next inhalation it has dried so will get to the lungs then.
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Nonsense. It is stuck not free and has a short half life.
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Tip of the day
Do you hate copying text that’s all in caps and having to convert it to upper/lower?
Or capitalised case? Or alternating?
Go to https://convertcase.net/, enter your text and choose your output format, typically sentence case.
Copy the output. Easy!
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I cOpy yOU
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Not something I’ve ever needed to do but checked for Open Office:
In OpenOffice Writer you can change any text to sentence case, lowercase, uppercase, capitalize every word, or toggle case by following the steps below.
Highlight the text you want to change.
Once highlighted click Format and then Change Case.
Within Change Case select the type of capitalization you want.
and stand alone there’s https://convertcase.net/
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In MSWord select the text to convert and press shift-F3.
There is also a pull down in the ribbon that toggles case, capitalises, UC, LC the selected text.
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“WTF!?”: Poilievre grills Trudeau over $258M given to IT firm with 4 employees to develop ArriveCAN. (and the company does not do IT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-wNCy9_zU8
Is this a grab for cash before the exit. (H/T Turnbull444)
4 mins
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Not really… that all happened awhile ago. the cash is already grabbed. Arrivecan has been a mediocre app for Canadian travelers for a few years.
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No outages in our town, but so so happy we got a generator installed three days ago! I’ll be happier if we never have to use it. Sparky said supply is tight, they’re all being shipped north to Qld.
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Daily sarcasm
Be careful when you follow the masses.
Sometimes the M is silent.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-15/home-design-changing-for-better-future-as-climate-warms/103442692
From Bathurst Tourism
I know Mr Bland talks s4it. It was always very rare for enough snow to block a road but black ice is much more common. Google “Bathurst snow” and it’s happened every winter for the past few years. Maybe salting of roads is more common so cancelling of bus services is less common – or Mr Bland has ABCitis.
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From The Australian 15/2/24
Victorian government removes ‘embarrassing’ offshore wind paper from its website
Article is paywalled.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/victorian-government-removes-embarrassing-offshore-wind-paper-from-its-website/news-story/d20b48ee5097f45e5a36514578ad67e1
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‘ Maybe salting of roads is more common’
I’ve never heard of it being done here, while it does snow in the Central West it is short-lived so its more a cause of excitement than a nuisance. I’m sure the ‘Winter Wonderland’ lasted less than a day, I don’t remember it as being unusual.
The Council/roads authorities are always keen to close a road for any reason at all, I wouldn’t count of them to tell you if its passable or not. They close Mt Canobolas road all the time when there’s a hint of snow these days, or amybe modern drivers are far less competent.
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FWIW
“MASSIVE Academic, Scientific Fraud Exposed”
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2024/02/14/massive-academic-fraud-scientific-exposed-n4926447
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It was a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated and The Science changed, and besides it was Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve and Safe and Effective, except for the Horse De-wormer.
From the Seinfeld Prophesies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn_PSJsl0LQ
11 seconds
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Headline: massive worker shortfall:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-15/unemployment-abs-labour-force-data-january-2024/103470154
Headline: unemployment rises:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-15/unemployment-abs-labour-force-data-january-2024/103470154
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Here is a clear and seemingly honest explanation of what caused the unit at Callide power station in Queensland to suffer a catastrophic failure .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLvjFohK9g
As with most of these major disasters it took ( at least ) 2 things to to go wrong .
If the relay that detects the opening of the explosion door hadn’t had a false trip all would have been OK .
If the battery charger characteristics were slightly different and it’s output had recovered more quickly in response to the dropping voltage on it’s output terminals , all would have been OK .
If they had a different switching sequence that ran the systems on parallel batteries for a short while instead of parallel chargers all would have been OK .
If the ACS ( Automatic change over switch ) on the C4 DC bus had worked the DC supply would have been restored from the station supply all would have been OK
Any one of the above would have averted the disaster !
Of course there is still the question as to why so many other generators tripped of in cascade around the Qld grid .
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Was Boeing involved in the design?
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I still smell sabotage.
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On more things why –
“Starship, Tech, And More Than You Want To Know…”
https://youtu.be/ZIisBG3NV8Y
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/starship-tech-and-more-than-you-want-to-know/
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might be some networking is happening? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyB8XfBtix8” rel=”nofollow ugc”>
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FWIW
“The power that underlies our entire civilization”
“A couple of years ago, Gravitas Documentaries produced a 1h. 20m. documentary titled “Juice: How Electricity Explains The World”. Its introduction on YouTube reads:”
More and links at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-power-that-underlies-our-entire.html
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