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Am I the first today ? Look what came in from Germany: Deutschland würde einiges blühen
Mehr Handel mit der Welt, mehr politische Autonomie versprach sich Großbritannien vom Brexit. Geklappt hat das nur zum Teil. translated as Germany would flourish a lot
Great Britain hoped for more trade with the world and more political autonomy from Brexit. It only partially worked.
To think that they are even writing about it …. . Ooooooo! Deuxit
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I think Brexit was only partial and not a complete severance and they still ended up paying a huge tribute to the EU plus kept open borders.
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Nigel Farrage said that Brexit was good but with the NGOs wielding a lot of power they need to be sorted out to get the best result.
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UK calls General Election for 4th July.
The Tories will likely lose Big time.
Seems a strange decision as the economy is starting to power ahead, inflation continues to fall and bank rates are likely to be cut later in the summer. An election in November would seem more sensible.
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Since most of the Torries will be out of a job – they will still have some summer to enjoy their new found leisure hours in.
Good luck with a Labour Government.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-pm-sunak-announce-snap-general-election-july-4th
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Could be time to consider emigrating to Oz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2kDWx23ZU&ab_channel=StanAustralia
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Not easy 30+ years ago.
Harder now and a lot more expensive and time consuming
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One wonders how much worse the open border illegal migration policy will be under Labour. As it is, it’s essentially unrestricted now.
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It’s all part the Ayatollah Albanese’s plan to transform Australia.
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Dear Leader Albanese. If you want absolute power, you first have to wreck the joint. That is the communist way. Revolution. Ask Adam Bandt.
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He doesnt need to ask Bandt, he is well down the “wrecking” part of the plan already .
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? I thought they were talking about the UK
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If labour get in, they’ll probably get them back in the EU.
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“If labour get in, they’ll probably get them back in the EU.””
Let’s hope Labour gets in then. It is highly probably they will as the Tories have been in government since 2010
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Was quite funny, Rishi soaked to the skin in his suit and drowned out by protesters playing the old New Labour anthem full blast in the live broadcast.
As for inflation down – only the meaningless indexes, real world unavoidable house owner occupier index is increasing rapidly, over 6%. Our water company has just requested a 91% bill rise, yes, almost a doubling.
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If our labor govt is anything to go by, you folks are in for a world of hurt.
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Watch Andrew Bridgen with Doc Malik on YouTube. The answer is there.
This comment is for Tonyb above.
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Climate catastrophes have been predicted for centuries…
Now, in my short lifetime…
I remember that in the the 1980’s that “climate experts” were saying the world would end in 15 years.
It didn’t.
I remember that in the the 1990’s that “climate experts” were saying the world would end in 12 years.
It didn’t.
I remember that in the 2000’s that “climate experts” were saying the world would end in 13 years.
It didn’t.
Ok, if just one of those experts’ catastrophic climate climate predictions was true …
We wouldn’t be here.
Yet we have survived, which is highly inconvenient.
As they now have sceptics, in 2024, to challenge their next climate doom message.
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Back in the day, human or animal sacrifices were made to the climate gods to ensure good weather.
Now cash tribute is paid to the subsidy harvesting Big Green billionaires, organised by a vast slave army of useful idiots.
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Cash indulgences to prevent hell fire. More medieval Catholicism. The cause of the Protestant Reformation.
Rich Arabs don’t care. They have Mohammed, oil and airconditioning.
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I am finding that as Climate Change drags on and every dramatic prediction fails, the proponents of rapid man made CO2 driven Global Warming are just rewriting history.
The current trend is denial that anyone said the Arctic Ice cap would be completely gone by 2014. It seems everyone was misquoted? Sea level rise too. No one ever said one meter per year or anything like it.
So recent history is being rewritten. And as temperatures refuse to rise fast enough, +1C change is allegedly world changing and dates are pushed out to the end of the century. Which redefines the world rapid.
What I want to know is where is the Climate Emergency? And how fast does something have to be to be an emergency?
After 36 years of run for the hills, the sky is falling? Where and when did it fall?
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TdeF. I was just reviewing Jo’e recent postings. From the farmer’s protest delivering a conservative government in Holland to the build up of unsold EVs in various parts of the world they are all good news for the likes of you, me and every thinking person but anathema to the elite and brain dead. While such huge changes were taking place around the world the local media is carrying on as if all the elitist plans were working perfectly. Much the same as the paradox of various agencies telling us to have another shot while news of serious adverse events is kept from the general populace. As has been pointed out here numerous times the the MSM is the problem.
With minor exceptions no media calls out the failed predictions of the climate experts. Flim Flam is still interviewed by the ABC and broadcast to children as the best science available. Universities still employ so called climate scientists who have been found wanting when it comes to accuracy of forecasting climate catastrophes. The CSIRO’s ridiculous finding that nuclear is too expensive yet support the failed Snowy 2 that is set to be dearer but does not actually generate any power and is still subject to rainfall. That also seems at odds with forecasts of less rain and snow due to climate change. How do these clowns get away with it?
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Yes Lawrie
I think you answered your own question as to how do these clowns get away with it?
1) local media is carrying on as if all the elitist plans were working perfectly.
2) With minor exceptions no media calls out the failed predictions of the climate experts.
The question should be how can we reverse this deceitful trend?
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Green Hydrogen: Fact or Fiction?
There is no justificiation for the Labor Government to give $ Billions of Taxpayer dollars to master rent-seeker Twiggy Forrest to attempt to commercialise “Green Hydrogen” when others have nuch deeper pockets.
Let them put their money at risk to see if there is a commerical market for “Green Hydrogen” and to determine how much “Green Hydrogen” will cost to produce and transport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnaLu9e5VAY
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Wind and solar produce clean electricity — a commodity the world already uses. Green hydrogen, on the other hand, will require building more solar and wind farms when, in many cases, it would be simpler to just use that clean energy directly. By the time hydrogen is made, stored and burned to make electricity again, there’s nearly 70% less energy than at the start — and the cost has tripled.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/eu-spending-billions-hydrogen-ready-wheres-hydrogen
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I am waiting for these muppets to fall flat on their face playing with hydrogen, I’ve worked with it in an industrial setting and it is not nice stuff.
If they think lithium battery fires are bad now, just wait till there’s a bit of hydrogen about.
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While the corrupt CSIRO in the finest example of “Yes Minister” claims that nuclear power generation will be too expensive in Australia, other countries are now embracing nuclear energy
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/05/22/italy-joins-europes-sudden-sensible-nuclear-power-push/
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May ICE cars rule forever
A Kiwi and an Aussie lead the starting grid for the Indianpolis 500 to be run this Sunday
Scott McLaughlin won the 2019 Bathurst 1000 in a Ford Mustang GT.
https://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/events/indy500/event-info/live-grid
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Australia – the land of Petrol Heads
Aspendale Racecourse, in Australia, was the world’s first purpose-built motor racing circuit, opening in January 1906. The pear shaped track was close to a mile in length, with slightly banked curves and a gravel surface of crushed cement.
https://www.hyperracer.com/history
One of the oldest existing purpose-built automobile racing circuits in the United States, still in use, is the 2.5-mile (4.02 km)-long Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, built from March to August 1909, when it first opened for racing
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We invented Solo speedway motorcycle racing as well, 500cc, 7,000rpm, no brakes, one gear.
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Follow the lead of Geert Wilders – Defund the BBC and the ABC
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/22/bbc-make-climate-propaganda-out-of-tragic-death/
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It’s the modern vogue. Some else is always to blame for stupidity. So investigate the airline for natural phenomena.
Before the modern era with satellites and very high altitude flying, such turbulence was assumed, normal. Especially when Qantas ran Catalina flying boats to America
The death was a heart attack. Having flown thousands of times, you do up your seat belt and there is no problem. Everyone knows that.
It is the standard instruction to all passengers when not moving around the cabin.
This weaponization of clear air turbulence is astounding. And blaming the aircraft manufacturer? What?
Even if the average world temperature (whatever that is) slowly changes over decades by a tiny amount, it is the end of the world, unprecedented and someone’s fault. Argentinian extreme socialist Pope Francis says the Americans are the culprits. And never criticises China or Communists or totalitarian dictators. That would be poor form.
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If nothing else, it proves Boeing 777s are a damn solid aircraft.
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OPINION
I flew that Singapore route for decades. Here’s why it gets rough at this time of year
David Evans – Former Qantas Captain
In my near four decades of flying that exact route as a Qantas captain, I learnt there are particular challenges pilots face, especially at this time of year.
It appears the Boeing 777-300ER aircraft in question struck severe turbulence entering the notorious Bay of Bengal, between the subcontinent of India and the Malaysian Peninsula.
This time of year, the Inter-tropic Convergence Zone, or ITZ, is very active. That’s a fancy aviation name for the monsoon, which we know simply as the “wet season” in northern Australia. Those ancient trade winds, which our international travelling forebears used to sail around the world, collide somewhere close to the equator. That collision line is the ITZ, and it moves north or south of the equator depending on the season.
When they meet, those opposing trade winds have to go somewhere, creating instability in the atmosphere that can translate into severe weather and turbulence, and a bumpy ride if you’re flying near them.
Current weather charts show a significant cloud mass right across the bay, with embedded thunderstorms up to 55,000 feet. Unless you’re flying the old Concorde – which used to cruise supersonic (faster than the speed of sound) at around 65,000 feet – you cannot fly above this weather. Current modern airlines simply don’t have that kind of “ceiling”, an aviation term for how high planes can fly.
So, as pilots, what tools do we have at our disposal at the pointy end of the plane to avoid the worst of such weather for the safety and comfort of those down back?
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Pre-flight, we have very accurate weather forecasting showing these active areas of concern. This is backed up with satellite images confirming the worst areas.
Armed with this knowledge, an airline’s dispatch – together with the pilots – will plot a course of least resistance through any known rough areas.
Once airborne, pilots have sophisticated weather radar at their disposal, plus other pilots flying the same route will broadcast bad weather and turbulence information in the area. Weather radar is designed specifically to help aircraft pick their way around this weather, or on some occasions through it.
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It’s easy to read headlines like the ones you are reading today on SQ321 and ask: is flying becoming less safe? Is the atmosphere turbocharged by climate change?
I can assure you that flying is still the safest form of transport
If it gets that bumpy at the business end of a jumbo, you will understand how rough it can get further back.
In a previous column after a LATAM Airways flight hit turbulence in March between Sydney and Auckland, I used the analogy of a dog wagging its tail.
The tip of the tail travels further than the other end, so an aeroplane is designed to wag its tail.
The human body, unrestrained by a seatbelt, is not.
That’s why they put first class up front, where the ride is smoothest.
This “wagging” and “flapping” is for structural integrity and load relief within the airframe.
Just look at the wing tips “flapping” about in turbulence.
Without that “wagging” and “flapping”, stress would be concentrated somewhere within the aircraft structure.
Structural and metal fatigue would result, reducing the life and strength of the aircraft.
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Did a lot of long-distance travel in the 747-400 and yes, down the back does tend to wave around a bit.
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The pilots commenting pointed out that clear-air turbulence doesn’t show on radar.
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AIPA VP and Qantas pilot Mark Hofmeyer talks Singapore Airlines flight SQ321
A Qantas pilot has revealed what likely happened in the terrifying few seconds that threw Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 into chaos.
AIPA vice president and current pilot Mark Hofmeyer said the horror moment 37,000 feet in the air was likely caused by thunderstorms, or convective turbulence, rather than clear air turbulence.
“Clear air turbulence is normally associated with a jet stream, a really strong core of air,” he told NewsWire on Wednesday.
“You don’t get many jet streams around the equator, which is where this happened.
“What you have up there though, is you get really big storms. Big puffy clouds, lots of air moving up, lots of air moving down, big thunderstorms.
“From what I can see from the telemetry (data collection), they have hit some convective turbulence, where the aircraft suddenly gone into a rate of climb and then it has suddenly gone into a rate of descent. It was like a rollercoaster.”
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Critical Safety Alert: 300 Boeing Jets Flown by United and American Airlines Have Potential to Explode Mid-Air Due to Fatal Fault
A severe and potentially catastrophic flaw has been identified in nearly 300 Boeing 777 jets operated by major airlines, including United and American Airlines.
This flaw, rooted in an electrical issue, poses a risk of causing the aircraft’s wing fuel tanks to ignite and explode, a recent investigation by Daily Mail has disclosed.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) highlighted this concern in a notice issued on March 25, 2024, which revealed that an “electrostatic discharge” near the center-wing fuel tanks could act as an ignition source, leading to a possible fire or explosion.
Boeing has been given a deadline until May 9 to address these issues, although their response remains pending. The proposed fix involves the installation of new electrical bonding and grounding measures around the air intake system near the center-wing fuel tanks.
According to the FAA, this fix would cost less than $698,000 for all affected aircraft within the U.S., with individual parts priced at merely $98 per plane.
Five models of the ‘triple sevens’ were called out by the FAA’s order, including the Boeing 777F, 777–200, –200LR, –300, and the –300ER, which was the exact model involved in this Monday’s fatal Singapore Airlines incident.
Read more here.
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A B 747 blew up out of NY once, attributed to old brittle wiring sparking in the fuel tank. I thought they were now using inerting systems.
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Golden Rule for the Bay of Bengal – Keep you Seat Belt fastened and don’t go to the Loo!
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Golden rule: Belt up at all times, including while trying to sleep on a flat bed. It’s not only while over the Bay of Bengal care is needed.
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“The last fatal accident occurred in 2000, when a Boeing 747 crashed while attempting to take off from the wrong runway at a Taiwan airport. Some 83 people of the 179 people onboard were killed.”
So they are comparing an unfortunate death from heart attack with a crash landing which killed 83 people? What sort of desperation is driving news reporting? They are lucky someone died?
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More fake history.
There is an image going around that purports to be the real human face of the Statue of Liberty. What is not mentioned is that it is AI generated and like all fake images and history generated by the AI programmed by Big Tech, it has a biased, false and social engineering agenda. Thus the fake “real life” picture of Miss Liberty has partially African features such as dark skin colour, just as AI images of George Washington or National Socialists were bizarrely of African appearance. Not that there’s anything wrong with being African, it’s just not the reality. The statue was modelled after either the French sculptor’s mother (not confirmed) or simply a generic woman in the neoclassical style who would have been of European origin.
https://twitter.com/fakehistoryhunt/status/1675585095732690949
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Some intense tornado video:
INSANE TORNADO PIPE Intercept with Windmills Toppled Near Greenfield, Iowa!
Reed Timmer
May 21, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_ZDVYzIhgc
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Funny hearing generators on sticks referred to as ‘windmills’, I was expecting to see farm windmills, I wonder if we ever exported any ‘Southern Cross’ windmills to the yanks.
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I have seen mentions of them being there, also some from the South African branch. Seems those have a brake band assembly and the Oz ones don’t
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The ABC has reported on this. 5 towers destroyed. Includes climate change propaganda.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-23/tornado-greenfield-iowa-damage-deaths-climate-change/103883746
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Victoria Police State persecution still kicking even though the evil dictator left.
Melbourne protest leader assaulted by Vicpol Robocops has prosecution “discontinued”
Police hit the pause button but can hit play again at any time.
“Discontinuance is a new process brought in by government which … allows them to recharge any time they want… it’s only suspended” – Jerry Prus, barrister
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World Economic Forum Founder Klaus Schwab Stepping Down:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-21/world-economic-forum-founder-klaus-schwab-stepping-down-semafor?embedded-checkout=true
This is the same Klaus Schwab that said that the WEF penetrates the cabinets.
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Most people would have preferred to see him “danned” rather than stepped.
A year or two back it was interesting to be presented with a visual family tree. Interesting and worrying.
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Stepping down?? Somebody needs to knock him down!
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Don’t celebrate to soon, Tony Blair could be taking over WEF
Tony Blair Britain’s ex prime minister and the devil incarnate is rumoured to be in the running taking over the WEF from Klaus Schwab.
He is a lover of the digital ID.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/warning-dont-celebrate-to-soon-tony-blair-could-be-taking-over-wef/
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Student of Heinz now Henry Kissinger, organiser of the Bilderberger push
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FWIW
“Why Johnny Doesn’t Read…”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/05/22/why-johnny-doesnt-read-n3788813
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They grow up looking at porn pictures, who needs to read.
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I can confirm that over the last decade I have seen a precipitous drop in freshmen reading comprehension. Most won’t even scroll down online.
If you put an instruction on the bottom of the page, half the class will miss it. https://t.co/Q3a72zhRZO
— J. Whitebread (aka Travis Lee Clark) (@JWhitebread1) May 21, 2024
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FWIW – emergency power
“A few disaster recovery considerations coming out of Houston, TX”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-few-disaster-recovery-considerations.html
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Had to use the generator this am for the freezers. 14h outage due to last night north wind, an unusual wind for this area brought down 2 trees.
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CSIRO releases 2023-24 GenCost report
“Significant industry participation drives key insights on future electricity generation technologies while renewables remain lowest cost”
The report can be downloaded, all 129 pages, so will take some analysis.
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Where in the real world are unreliable “renewables” the lowest cost?
The CSIRO is just anoth bunch of corrupt public serpents.
The cost of providing back-up to make unreliable “renewables” reliable runs into the A$ Trillions.
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They hindcast till they get the number that gives the “right answer” in the forecast?
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Costing nonexistent renewable power is a divide by zero sum.
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In their world of course !
It all depends on the definitions, assumptions, and data selection, to produce the outcomes required .
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Politics is such an ugly substitute for real engineering.
When I was at uni, there was a saying that:
,,,, an engineer is someone who can do something for a shilling which the average person, or politician, could do for a pound.
And that estimate didn’t include any allowance for the corruption that we face now.
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Apart from cost, the other claim made by Clown Bowen and his corrupt mates at the CSIRO is that nuclear power stations will take too long to build in Australia?
Well how long will it take to complete Snowy 2.0?
Australia currently has “Big Batteries” with a national ENERGY storage capacity of 2 GWh – this would provide around 4 minutes of back-up for national electrity demand
If all this battery storage had been installed last year using Tesla MegaPacks this this would have accounted for 14% of Tesla’s “Big Battery” output.
https://www.energy-storage.news/tesla-deployed-14-7gwh-of-energy-storage-in-2023/
Now assuming that Australia would need only one day’s backup without evil fossil fuels and without nuclear how long would it take Tesla to make all the “Big Batteries” reqired?
How about 45 years at current production rates?
Australia is more likely to need at least 20 days backup to allow time for recharging following periods of cloudy weather with low wind.
This reality shoots down the claim that nuclear energy would take too long to implement when nuclear provides reliable power 24/7 and no battery back-up is required.
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Please see the new thread just posted, and feel free to repeat these relevant discussion points there!
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Under no pressure the opposition should disclose the proposed nuclear plant locations as the current rulers will have time to prevent it happen there.
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Was the figure I saw for developing a nuclear power industry in Australia correct? $17 Billion? If it is correct, let’s get on with it. The Reactors would be placed where the coal fired plants are/were and use the existing transmission lines which must be much cheaper than installing a maze of new transmission lines. Also for any real conservationist it is a win win by not trashing the environment with windmills, solar panels and thousands of kilometers of ugly power lines. Also, aren’t we gifting $13 Billion to Twiggy just to try and make Hydrogen power work? Nuclear seems like a much better, much more reliable and much cheaper option with a much better environmental outcome to me.
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At this cost every state could have its own plant
“Based on this approach, the expected capital cost of a large-scale nuclear plant in 2023 is $8655/kW,” it says, meaning a standard one-megawatt power station would cost about $8.65 billion.’ (AFR)
Gas fired power stations would be cheaper.
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That is just the capital/BUILD cost,..it is only part of the full cost per kWh of electricity..
Gas has a significant fuel cost factor….Nuclear doesnt.!
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The figures I have show SMR nuclear at around A$5600/kW, full lifetime cost. USC coal was the cheapest, followed closely by CCGT gas.
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From a cartoon –
“IF Y’ALL KEEP TRUSTING THE GOVERNMENT, SOME OF YOUR PRONOUNS ARE GONNA BE WAS/WERE”
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“Solar storm frenzy of May 2024 was strong enough to affect the deep sea”
“Subsea compasses deep underwater recorded disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field.”
https://www.space.com/solar-storm-effects-reach-deep-sea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Via today’s Covid and Coffee Newsletter as is this –
“The readings were so strong they first thought it must be earthquakes:
“I looked into whether it was potentially an earthquake, but that didn’t make a lot of sense because the changes in the data were lasting for too long and concurrently at different locations,” Slonimer said in a statement. “Then, I looked into whether it was a solar flare as the sun has been active recently.
It was indeed solar activity that influenced the compasses beneath the sea — some situated as deep as 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) beneath the surface.”
“It was so unusual that they initially didn’t even consider the storms could cause strong deep-sea readings. But the same scientists will swear on a stack of Q’rans that all this extra solar energy has no effect on Earth’s climate, because science. Shut up! Don’t ruin it for everybody.”
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FWIW
Mentioned in here
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/05/19/that-crapping-their-pants-sound-from-eu-dc/#comment-170392
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“(1) fear, (2) fright fear, and (3) death fright fear.”
I guess that has something to do with the Australian aboriginal “pointing the bone”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdaitcha
So is all this “panic, Panic, PANIC, PANIC” a gigantic bone pointing exercise?
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Just heard the Senator Dr. Helen Hayes on local radio. The programme host asked her what happens with old solar panels and the responce was “they need to be recycled” and not go to landfill. Wow, everything is easy when you are a politician, say anything and with just a sprinkle of fairy dust its problem solved.
I didn’t hear the full interview as my auto deafness switch turns on when the politicians get interviewed but the good lady veterinarian acknowledged that solar panels only have a 20 year life, that some panels are better than others and all should be recycled for the materials they contain.
Now as an “Independent” who only follows the Labour/Green party line, any change of direction needs to be monitored closely, still its a first I suppose.
She wasn’t asked how this proposed “recycled” process could be achieved, nor would she have a clue, something for someone else to solve. Just like micro grids with local battery back up to solve electricity supply.
Understanding that “everything” can be broken down to its constituent elements is one thing but how that is arrived at is something else completely, No comment from the good doctor of where the energy reqirements would come from to transform dead solar panels into other products but at a guess I would think it would take far more energy to reduce these used panels to basics than they everwould have produced in their lifetime. So here we have the perfect circle of energy CONSUMPTION to mine minerals, manufacture, transport, install, remove and then recycle solar panels that at their best produced a piddling amount of electricity that served no usefull purpose. You simply cant make this schist up!
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“Another Conspiracy Theory Win; It’s Getting Depressing”
“When I saw a reference to this new study challenging the narrative that fluoride is an unadulterated good I wasn’t particularly surprised because I have done a lot of reading about the research. What surprised me was that the study was done, the results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and there hadn’t yet been a firestorm. ”
More at
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/05/22/another-conspiracy-theory-win-its-getting-depressing-n3788799
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Not enough kale?
Journalist (not a doctor) Norman Swan, tells us the perfesser’ name is Karen.
Following a couple of links I think I see the problem
Your taxes, folks, your taxes.
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Interesting job description of one person She/ Her. The job is “Client Experience Office” Wonder what the renumeration package is for asking someone “was it good for you”?
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After the Singapore Airlines encounter with severe turbulence 2 days ago, the Guardipan wasted no time in suggesting that that this severe turbulence was caused by climate change and consequently we should expect them to become mire frequent . .
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FWIW – a summary of Trump’s latest trial
“Just How Bad Was Cohen’s Performance — And Merchan’s?”
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/05/22/just-how-bad-was-cohens-cross-examination-n3788846
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This goes with that (IMO) –
https://img.patriotpost.us/01HYDE184Y7S1P6N3GHK4JMMB9.jpeg?w=1024&dpr=1&q=75
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FWIW
“Massive Utility Trade Group Reportedly Taking Biden Admin to Court Over Green Power Plant Rules”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/22/massive-utility-trade-group-reportedly-taking-biden-admin-to-court-over-green-power-plant-rules/
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FWIW
“Let’s Make Something Clear Right Now”
“none of the hype — zero — about “cancer vaccines” is going to work.”
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251346
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“Cloud Eh? Yeah, That Was Stupid”
“I bet you didn’t put this on your punch list for “reasons not to use the cloud.”
Buried under the news from Google I/O this week is one of Google Cloud’s biggest blunders ever: Google’s Amazon Web Services competitor accidentally deleted a giant customer account for no reason.
Of course deleting the account meant, well, “deleted.”
Now here’s the really ugly part of it: It appears that Google in fact deleted it all, including across all their regions and they had no independent backups.”
More at
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251334
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Heck. I was mightily pissed when, during the swap from the Apple universe back to PC recently, I somehow managed to delete almost two years’ worth of event photographs. That’s thousands of irreplaceable photos. I even managed to delete them from my backup drive. That’s all the related files: JPGs, RAWs and .xmp files – the lot.
I still don’t know how I did it.
The worst part of doing something like that is the few minutes you spend in motionless denial, struggling to accept you’re not in a dream and you really DID do that stupid thing. I would imagine that whoever is responsible for hitting ‘Return’ on the erase command at Google spent more than a few minutes in that desperate state.
Like me, he/she probably had a minor heart attack when first they realised what they had done, but then recovered a little when they remembered it was all backed up somewhere. Then another, even bigger hearty when they started to realise it wasn’t – it really, actually, definitely had ceased to exist. Silent scream time, methinks.
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Families to be urged to stockpile three days’ worth of food and water to help build national ‘resilience’ – amid fears of prolonged power cuts, cyber attacks and floods
Families will today be urged to stockpile three days’ worth of food and water to help build national ‘resilience’.
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden will advise people to make contingency plans for dealing with potential emergencies such as prolonged power cuts, cyber attacks and floods.
Last year, Mr Dowden said people should stock up on ‘analogue capabilities’, such as candles, torches and wind-up radios, to boost their ‘personal resilience’.
Today he will go further by encouraging people to stock up with enough food and water to survive for three days without leaving their homes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13444625/oliver-dowden-stockpile-national-resilience-power-cuts-cyber-attacks-floods.html
3 days of food for a “prolonged” outage or cyberattack?
Seriously – why even bother?
Even Martin A is advising 2 YEARS worth.
There are “interesting things” happening making 2 years the more realistic choice.
Let’s just say you won’t need another Carrington event to throw mankind back into the stone age.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Armstrong
Martin Arthur Armstrong (born November 1, 1949) is an American self-taught[1] economic forecaster and convicted felon who spent 11 years in jail for cheating investors out of $700 million and hiding $15 million in assets from regulators.[1]
He even had a movie made of himself, must of got the idea off Wall Street.
A Los Angeles Times critic described the film as “intended primarily as a name-clearing platform for Armstrong to relate his version of the events” and that it lacked perspective due to its failure to present commentary from authorities.[27] A New York Times critic decried the film’s “one-sided assertions and insinuations” and “less than skeptical” tone.[28] A Washington Post critic observed that “though the Armstrong partisans in the film strongly suggest that [his models work], director Marcus Vetter struggles to convince the lay viewer.”[29]
Once a crook always a crook
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He is quite popular on this blog and features quite often for some reason. Here he speculates about economic collapse last year
and here a mod gets grumpy
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People like BayouRennaisanceman and Chiefio, who have looked at the situation and become serious preppers, would not argue with at least a year – including food, water supply, power, fuel and personal supplies – and other things
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Why bag people who at least want to get started? Seriously? people are stupid for not instantly preparing for your personal view of armageddon.
There are plenty of different disaster scenarios, that all have different implications and timelines. Doing something and thinking about it is better than doing nothing, and ragging on people who make their first steps is classic perfect getting in the way of the good.
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What the state of your desk says about your work
Whether you have a Jane Austen or Bill Gates type ordered desk or a Steve Jobs or Albert Einstein messy desk, might explain the way you think and work.
Jane Austen needed just a small walnut tripod table adorned with nothing but a quill and a pot of ink to write about the trials and tribulations of the Bennets, while Mark Twain conjured the adventures of Huckleberry Finn from a desk buried in a sea of paper.
Steve Jobs favoured unwieldy piles of folders and notebooks flanking a large Apple monitor, and by comparison Bill Gates’ desk looks like something from Architectural Digest.
Before them both, every nook and cranny of Thomas Edison’s bureau was crammed with endless rolls of paper (among them, no doubt, the blueprints for his many inventions) and Einstein’s was, put simply, pure chaos.
Alan Turing, for his part, got by with just a typewriter and a few stacks of notes at Bletchley, while Sigmund Freud kept his desk artfully arranged with antiquities.
Ok I put hands up for being a “Steve Jobs” – As MD, the staff hid me in the corner office!
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There was that chairman of IT&T (Harold Geneen) who produced a long series of better than 10% better results each year and was not a believer in a clean desk. He travelled with a grand collection of data in briefcases according to his biography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Geneen
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“Geneen The biography of Harold Geneen, who made ITT into the most successful conglomerate in history ”
https://www.amazon.com/Geneen-biography-successful-conglomerate-history/dp/B000J18OZI
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BBC propaganda.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/05/21/bbc-make-climate-propaganda-out-of-tragic-death/
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Aussie egg farm at Meredith in Victoria goes into lockdown over fears bird flu discovery is the strain causing mass poultry deaths around the world
Bird flu has been detected at an Australian egg farm, plunging it into lockdown amid fears it could be the strain causing mass poultry deaths across the world – and the possible cause of the next global pandemic.
Agriculture Victoria on Wednesday confirmed the presence of avian influenza after a number of poultry deaths at an egg farm near Meredith, about 40km north-west of Geelong.
The property has been placed into quarantine and Agriculture Victoria staff have arrived to support the business and investigate further.
Samples have been sent to the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness at Geelong to determine the strain of the disease, Agriculture Victoria said.
Avian influenza is a highly contagious viral infection which can cause severe symptoms and sudden death in domestic poultry, wiping out entire populations.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13445217/Bird-flu-egg-farm-meredith-victoria-fears-deadly-strain-mass-deaths.html
Stupid lying MSM again. WHAT mass poultry deaths around the world?
My data sources are exceptional.😎
Reported cases 23 April 2024 to 24 May 2024:
EU – 0
UK – 0
Africa – 0
South America – 0
India – 6, 60k birds culled
China – 1
USA – 12
Cases are a mix of wild animals and domestic.
The 2 cases of human transmission in the USA are now trivial, a bit of pink eye and discharged from hospital.
THERE IS NO SIGN OF A LOOMING GLOBAL BIRD FLU PANDEMIC.
Unlike last time I saw one developing and warned in advance.😉
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FWIW
“This is exactly how technocrats view all lifeforms, including humans”
“Techno-Cows Bioengineered to Squirt Insulin From Teets”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-05-22/techno-cows-bioengineered-squirt-insulin-teets
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Just saw a professor type on our/their (American) ABC blame the air turbulence incident on ….wait for it…Climate Change. LOL. He was going on about how “CC is pushing more ‘energy’ into the atmosphere.” (face palm)
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