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The Trump-led resurgence in natural gas
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/27/three-big-projects-offer-hope-that-our-energy-nightmare-is-ending/
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Shattered Green Dreams
The environmental costs of wind and solar – 36 Page PDF
SARAH MONTALBANO
Executive Summary
Wind turbines, solar panels, battery storage, and other “green energy” technologies are too often hailed as unqualified goods for the environment. However, there are no solutions, only tradeoffs, and the same is true for energy production and its environmental impact. All human activities have an impact on the environment.
Debates about the U.S.’ energy mix almost entirely overlook or minimize the negative environmental impacts of wind, solar, and batteries while diminishing the positive impacts of oil and gas, coal, and nuclear. Policymakers must consider the costs of wind and solar and the benefits of oil and gas, coal, and nuclear when determining the desirability and feasibility of ambitious energy transition goals.
Further, communities ought to be fully informed of the costs of wind and solar when debating the merits of proposed projects in their areas.
This executive summary is offered based on the findings of this report.
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Climate Lawsuits Are Changing The U.S. Energy Industry And China’s Too
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daneberhart/2025/06/22/climate-lawsuits-are-changing-the-us-energy-industry-and-chinas-too/
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Someone wrote this on Australian social media.
No wonder so many young people have no concept of saving money.
And how many kids even have money boxes any more?
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STRANGER DANGER.
Doncha know?
You’re not in its phonebook.
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Kids are smarter there days … low trust society … question everything.
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There is a concept of “doom spending” where many younger people have no motivation to save because they see no future and feel they should spend all their money and have fun and party.
Also, with older people, I am aware that many are also spending excessively as well because they foresee that their hard-earned savings are not safe under a Labor Government either due to new taxes both implemented and those not yet imagined or imaginable. They feel they should spend what they have now before the Government takes it from them.
And certainly the Australian Government doesn’t set an example. They themselves are doom spending.
The Government is spending money without restraint and there is no effective political opposition party to stop them. The opposition party, the fake conservative Liberals with very few seats in Parliament, themselves don’t see excessive Government spending as a problem judging by their lack of pronouncements on the issue. Australia is now effectively a One Party State with an actual communist PM*.
Total Australian Government debt, federal, state and local, $2.113 trillion and increasing at a frightening rate.
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
* Book: Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism by Trevor Loudon
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So many factors to consider though, and events lining up the vast majority haven’t a clue about.
Enjoy your remaining time!
I’ll leave this world broke.😁
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“Sunshine for your grandchildren” is a bad electoral programme. David Lloyd George (would he be Llllloyd these days?) 4-3-1923
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I don’t think it was much publicised but the world’s largest iron ore deposit was discovered in Australia.
AND
Assuming the deposit is economically feasible to develop and there is a world market for more iron ore, then that means more rocks for Australia to export and do nothing with ourselves as we barely have a steel industry and are not allowed to use coal which is required to process iron ore into steel. No, it is not economically feasible to do it with “green” hydrogen made with windmill or solar electricity.
In the Australian way we will export the iron ore and metallurgical coal, have someone else process it and buy it back as manufactured products.
Unfortunately, if this mine is ever developed, assuming its not on sacred land etc., this will will provide a huge new tax base to the Australian Government which will allow them to continue with their wild and irresponsible spending.
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Eagerly looking forward to the discovery of rare and endangered species and cultural heritage sites.
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Love the moniker Ted.
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USD6tr will go a long way toward Australia’s energy transition. Then hope a similar money spinner can be found within 20 years to pay for the replacement.
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It doesn’t matter how big it is, its what you do with it that counts!
No-one will buy iron ore from a country with the highest-paid workers in the world, it won’t be economic. No-one will be able to afford the iron ore by the time a Govt has added a 150% special mining tax to it in order to pay for everything else in the country. We’re not the only country with iron ore, we still have to compete.
Add politics to a greedy grasping rapacious Govt and we could be banned from dealing with China by our ‘Closest Friend’ America, politics changes daily in the White House.
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‘… banned from dealing with China by our ‘Closest Friend’
Highly unlikely, the POTUS knows that regime change in China is going to change everything.
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International buyers know nothing and care less about our wage structure, it’s the FOB price and quality that matters.
Our FIFO miners are NOT overpaid, Sydney train drivers would earn far more and they are good at what they do. They do not go out to prevent efficiencies in the industries and we are many days steaming closer to our markets. A world recession could cause problems but that’s not the miners’ fault.
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But they are very efficient and know what they are doing. During my visit to Marandoo, two RTIO staffers were asked how long it took to load the big 250 tonne dump trucks. One said 2 mins 43 secs, the other corrected him by adding a few seconds. It’s a very smooth choreographed process, with the next truck ready as the previous one drives away.
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Should be ‘unstoppable’ but will be more like, ‘unlivable’.
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A few decades ago before climate politics there was a proposal to build a dedicated railway line coast to coast and steel mills both sides, coal one-way and iron the other direction.
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You are going back to Premier Joh’s days.
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The MAGA Dig Dig Dig, Drill Drill Drill followed in Australia would result in substantially increased revenue for States and Federal governments via mining royalties, mining company taxes and employees, servicing companies taxes and employees and economic prosperity increasing with related after tax spending in the economy.
Lift to government restrictions on new ventures and extensions at existing operations.
The Albanese Labor Government plans to tax unrealised profits from superannuation schemes and no doubt extend to other areas after that, but what about unrealised tax revenue from locked away minerals and energy resources?
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These articles don’t read as if the iron ore deposit has been fully evaluated for the purpose of funding and development as a mine. It is described as a “deposit “, “reserve”, “resource”. Note that the article is published in New Zealand. Where is it reported in Australia? Where are the reports that describe the deposit in terms prescribed by the ASX required JORC Code? If the deposit is secured by mineral tenements held by an ASX listed company then these reports are mandatory. Watching with interest!
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One thing you can be sure of is that Australians won’t fund the development, that will fall on international companies and those buyers who sign early contracts will get favourable rates.
Sure as God made little apples ten yrs down the track Aussies will be whinging that international miners are “giving away” the ore to their mates, robbing Australia of what is “ours” even though we did diddly squat to find/fund/develop it. Look at the gas export industry and read the book.
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Yep, was half way through saying basically the same thing and saw your response.
The other thing we wont do is try and add any value. Scrape and export.
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Not necessarily. Gina Rinehart has put up a lot of the money for Roy Hill and has done very well from that.
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Apparently the new Superman movie is somewhat woke but the full extent is not yet known.
However, it has dropped the idea of American exceptionalism as the catchphrase or motto
“Truth, Justice, and the American Way”
has been replaced in the movie by
“Truth, Justice, and the Human Way”
And DC comics had previously changed it to:
“Truth, Justice, and a Better Tomorrow”.
I am guessing it will be another woke disaster story.
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To start with the character must be Superperson.
sarc.
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Stop discriminating against Perdaughters you bigot! How about Superthem!
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I’m not watching another Superperson movie until they are a black, transexual lesbian as a minimum.
I am the “modern audience”
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Mr. modern audience: So you’re responsible for all the dreck films!
I beg forgiveness in advance for this- it reminded me of an impish fellow saying “I am the science.”
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In her effort to try and understand why the Liberal Party (Australia), fake conservatives, lost the last election, which if she had a clue would be obvious, Sussssssan Ley said:
The fundamental problems with that approach is that:
1) It assumes “emissions”, presumably CO2, are a problem.
2) It is not a “global effort” at all. Only the stupid woke countries like Australia are destroying their economies in the name of emissions. The world’s largest CO2 emitter, China, has CO2 emissions as high as the entire Western world and is also twice as high as the next biggest emitter the United States. Not that any amount of CO2 matters anyway. Neither the United States since TRUMP or China operate with any CO2 emissions limits. It’s all pointless even if CO2 were a problem (it isn’t).
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The very fact that Sussssssan needs an inquiry into what went wrong means she has no clue. If she was a fit and proper person to be leader, and not a DEI hire, she would know what went wrong and be fixing it.
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I would expect her to know clearly what went wrong BEFORE she threw her hat into the ring.
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The opposition leader needs to hammer out an energy policy and having Dan Tehan leading the charge is a big plus.
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Her performance at the National Press Club luncheon address was pathetic, she is not a leader by any stretch of the imagination.
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Here is an outstanding 5 minute video clip by Rowan Dean about Albanese, Sussssssan Ley, why the Libs lost and a lot other commentary. It also has video of Sussssssan’s bizarre moment when she appeared in Parliament dressed as Tina Turner.
https://youtu.be/B5b9fcen1aI
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The snowstorm which dropped 1 metre of impossible snow on Australia’s Snowy Mountains earlier this week arrived in New Zealand yesterday, with torrential rain in the north of the South Island flooding homes built on old beaches and river valleys, while in the deep south it’s freezing with warnings of heavy snow to low levels as another ‘eye’ forms off the coast of Dunedin.
https://www.queenstown.com/webcams
It’s hard to see anything due to whiteout conditions. Naturally the manic zealots of climate are blaming this wintry weather on you-know-what: ©️©️©️.
Just in off the wires: Cardrona Ski Area’s official opening of their new backcountry chairlift, Soho Basin, has been postponed due to… too much snow! Is there nothing ‘carbon’ can’t do?
Meanwhile here up north, it’s pleasant & sunny with a gentle NW breeze and rumours of ‘the odd thunderstorm’ passing through… excellent! 😃
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I wonder how many Leftoids have any clue how important carbon is for organic chemistry, and hence life itself, or have ever heard of the carbon cycle?
And I find them constantly referring to carbon dioxide as “carbon” deeply disturbing because they really don’t even know what compound they are talking about but are prepared to destroy the economy because of it.
It’s like when these witnesses at a US House Transportation Committee were asked how much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and they had absolutely no clue:
https://youtu.be/bJfrKNR3K2k
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Several straw man points there, so what ?, you’re dodging the obvious fact that you have no evidence.
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Here he is. The person who brought us “What’s so wrong with a little insurrection ?” From the content of your posts and the lack of any meaningful or real contribution, it suggests you only have a teeny, tiny little “insurrection”
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My posts ask for you to provide evidence, an obvious request given the amount of squealing you do, zero so far. All I get is conspiracy theories from the mutual pleasuring club.
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‘ … provide evidence …’
There is ample evidence to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that CO2 does not cause global warming. Recent news suggests that there has been less cloud in the mid latitudes over the past 25 years, making the planet warmer.
CO2 has no case to answer.
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Want evidence?
https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/8942/ International Journal of Scientific Research in Physics and Applied Sciences, How the Magnetic North Pole and Energetic Particle Precipitation Control Earth’s Climate.
“The hypothesis that the position of the magnetic North Pole latitude ought to be very highly correlated with global temperature change has been tested and shown to be correct. Two new climate models are developed and tested, one includes
CO2, the other does not. Model 2 without CO2 predicts 89% of all modern warming and gives seamless hindcasts of the Roman Warm Period and LALIA, the Medieval Warm Periods, and a smooth transition through the Little Ice Age into the Modern Warm Period with the correct timescales and recent temperature amplitudes. As the Pole swings Northwards, the energetic particle interacting region shifts to higher ionospheric altitudes, and this reduces albedo and
hence increases forcing (figure 4) by virtue of changes to the world’s clouds. Calculations suggest that the EEP process is responsible for some 81% of recent warming, with the rest (up to 12.7% ) mainly of solar
origin. CO₂/other GHG/aerosols/aviation cirrus etc. at most, could contribute ~6% of all warming. The detail disclosed represents a profound and crucial discovery for climate science and its future direction.
But, of course, the only evidence you want to know about is anything, no matter how tenuous and manipulated, that supports man made climate change.
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Some drink deeply from the well of knowledge, others just rinse and spit.
What’s for dinner gassy one? fish fingers? Vegemite soldiers?
Maybe some raspberry jelly too!
Ask mummy to put YOUR evidence together for us.
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“pleasant & sunny with a gentle NW breeze and rumours of ‘the odd thunderstorm’ passing through”
Sun and showers here in Middle Nu Tirani; not bad for the time of year as far as “cows turning CO2, H20, and N2 into proteins , carbohydrates and fats” goes.
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It is like in the OLD DAYS (which the Greens want to come back) where everything was ORGANIC – so Whale Oil was good for all illumination (except for the rich who could use tallow (from cattle) candles. Life expectancy was about half current levels.
Air pollution in London (in the decade around 1715) was so bad that one amateur astronomer could look at the sun with a naked eye. Possibly because of all that coal being burnt for heating and industry (coals from Newcastle was a major industry).
And The end of the World coming SOON was a regular prediction.
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FWIW
A look at AI and medicine in here
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/civil-wars-friday-june-27-2025-c?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
And another war on Vitamin I
Plus other things
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Which reminds me, I must top up my supply of Vitamin I. My doctor prescribes it and I have an Australian compounding pharmacist who supplies it. However, I am soon likely going to some countries where you can buy it over the counter so might buy some there.
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FWIW
“Trump Has ‘Outsmarted All of Us’ Admits Backpedaling Economist”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/06/27/trump-has-outsmarted-all-of-us-admits-backpedaling-economist-n3804225
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FWIW
“THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Mercedes-AMG to Drop Four-Cylinder for Inline-Sixes and V-8s. “Mercedes-AMG is transitioning away from the four-cylinder plug-in hybrid powertrain and back towards the inline-six and V-8 powertrains more traditionally associated with the brand. That isn’t to say that AMG had a change of heart concerning the merits of the four-cylinder powertrain, but rather that the automaker is responding to customer criticisms. ‘Technically, the four-cylinder is one of the most advanced drivetrains available in a production car. It’s also right up there on performance. But despite this, it failed to resonate with our traditional customers. We’ve recognized that,’ a source at Mercedes told Autocar.”
The people have spoken.”
https://instapundit.com/728879/#disqus_thread
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This quote is rather pertinent in light of Australian Government censorship via the e Safety Kommissar…
“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert”. – J Robert Oppenheimer.
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Yet another conspiracy David ?, it’s hard to keep up with you, can you put them onto a spreadsheet please.
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Not a conspiracy at all.
The e Safety Kommissar’s job is to censor and issue “take down orders”.
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It’s called HISTORY. Of most civilisations that ever existed.
Ask your teacher about the rise and fall of the Roman empire, or the Egyptian 2000BC.
Even today corruption permeates society to the tune of $1.5 trillion a year (World bank data).
Civilisations fall from within driven by secret and not so secret agendas.
It’s human nature.
Welcome to reality kid.
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Reality demands that you provide evidence.
Welcome to science, leave the wank circle.
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Yup, just like the IPCC provided absolutely bogus Acrim satellite data openly and unashamedly falsified by the PMOD labs. Just like the IPCC didn’t like the actual Ceres satellite data that showed an increase in incoming shortwave radiation and an increase in outgoing long wave radiation. But multiplying both data sets by -1 soon sorted that out. Why leave the wank circle? We can learn from you showing everyone else how to sit in a dark corner and play with yourself. After all, you are so very, very good at it.
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Science requires falsification; mere evidence will not be enough.
Have you heard of this?
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There’s always someone shouting ‘Prove it!’ instead of bothering to refute the argument, especially in forums not intended for fully proven arguments in each and every post.
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“… leave the wank circle.”
I am triggered by this phobic assault on our innate and immutable sexual proclivities.
To feel safe again, I am retreating to my Cry Room to play with my Erector Set.
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Notice how M has a desperate need to direct blog traffic and demand other people do things. Surely their must be other places to go to stroke your own ego?
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The moves of government into misinformation were predicted by Heather Brooke in this book in 2011: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-State-Secrets-Surveillance-Democracy/dp/0099537621
She is an expert in the deep corruption of government, having broken the MPs expenses scandal.
So what conspiracy? Just the usual human traits of power lust, greed and fundamental stupidity really. All to be expected.
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The shinkicker is back ! Eat in or takeaway? This can’t be areal person.
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I read recently that the E Kommisar had been in the CIA. Most liking still is 🙂
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She was offered a job in the CIA but did not work there.
From Wikipedia:
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Who takes Wiki seriously as a bastion of truth?
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>offered a job in the CIA but did not work there … offered a position as a “case agent with the CIA”, but declined the offer as it meant “I wouldn’t be able to tell my friends and family what I was doing”.
That’s ok, you can still work for us but not as a case agent, we’ve got a cushy job for you down under.
You can tell your friends and family what you’re doing, but you can never tell them who you’re REALLY working for.
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Cool story bro….
Great cover tho. “I didn’t do it because if I was doing it, I wouldn’t be able to tell you I did it”
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Peering through the miasma, I don’t see a conspiracy theory there at all. Australia is well-known for its censorship on all forms of media, especially the internet. The subjects of the Govt have no right to free speech in law, yet the Govt itself has a politicians right to say anything they like encoded.
Even Wikipedia would educate you on that Miasma.
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Did you mean “Peeing through the miasma”?😆
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Every time a thought is driven underground, even if it is a bad thought, it is a danger to society. Ramsay Macdonald 6.12.1925
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David M
Ley appears too lazy to do her own research. She is misinformed, uninformed and hopeless.
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Bronwyn Bishop appears not to be a fan of Sussssan
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And that is being complimentary, every time she opens her mouth, she proves she’s not up to the job.
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She has to be a Turnbull LINO left person.
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My money is on Dan Tehan getting the leadership in the not too distant future.
Good energy policy is critical in winning the next election, coal and gas up against renewables. We can’t lose.
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The early betting has Angus Taylor as the man to take the helm. Other hopefuls, Josh Frydenberg, Andrew Hastie, followed by Ted O’Brien and Tim Wilson.
Tim Wilson looks good, but his seat isn’t stable.
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FWIW
Willis E. goes looking again
“A 485-million-year history of bad science”
“… at which point they loudly exclaim that “CO2 is the dominant driver of Phanerozoic climate, emphasizing the importance of this greenhouse gas in shaping Earth history.”
I’m sure you can see the difficulty with this procedure. It is circular, circular enough to make Ouroboros weep.”
“They’ve shown beyond any doubt that if you build a model that assumes that CO2 is the dominant driver of global surface temperature, you can conclusively prove that CO2 is the dominant driver of global surface temperature”
“My conclusion?
Bad science top to bottom, far too many tunable parameters and choices, GIGO, bad scientists, no cookies.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/27/10323700/
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FWIW
“Three Big Projects Offer Hope That Our Energy Nightmare Is Ending”
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2025/06/25/three_big_projects_offer_hope_that_our_energy_nightmare_is_ending_1118968.html
Via https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/06/27/three-big-projects-offer-hope-that-our-energy-nightmare-is-ending-n3804223
While “ElBowen” look the other way
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FWIW – and for consideration elsewhere
“Wake Up, America: Muslims Hate Us”
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2025/06/27/wake-up-america-muslims-hate-us-n4941229
And keep in mind
“Deception, Lying and Taqiyya”
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/taqiyya.aspx
if told that it is not so
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The rise and fall of Dick Smith Electronics
https://youtu.be/lx1biRh20yA?si=hKi17Lh1YbApk1lK
It all went downhill when they moved into consumer goods like VCR’s and TV’s, and discrete components were all in a corner at the back of the store.
But at least you could buy 2 resistors in a blister pack for $1 at Tandy. 😆
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Very sad what happened.
It’s what you get when you have people who don’t understand or care for the hobby electronics market with no life experience or general knowledge or a clue promoted into “management” positions.
Back in the day, they had genuine geeks working there with whom you could even discuss your circuit and design ideas.
The downfall happened after Dick Smith sold it, I will hasten to add.
This sort of thing happens to so many Australian companies.
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“It all went downhill when they moved into consumer goods”
Society had already changed, many items like radios and portable sound systems were mass-produced cheaply and couldn’t be repaired, the electronics were just a module. The customers who were keen for the challenge of building something themselves moved onto problem-solving games on computers, of which there are thousands, and the whole of society moved away from building anything themselves. How many people fix or modify their own car these days?
It frightening how many people don’t cook anymore.
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Life without supermarkets.
There’d be less of the human variety quite quickly in some places.
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Altronics and Jaycar still supply many of the same components.
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I know why a maker of copper or silver things is called a Copper Smith or Silver Smith.
So I would have assumed a Dick Smith had nothing to do with electronics.
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Are you sure that there was sufficient demand for strap-ons back then to support an industry?
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Ice age humans crafted the oldest known European boomerang from Mammoth ivory
Scientists have discovered what may be one of the oldest boomerangs in the world, hidden in a Polish cave for tens of thousands of years. The mammoth ivory artifact, found alongside human remains, could date back as far as 42,000 years ago, making it significantly older than previously known examples of this hunting tool.
While boomerangs are typically associated with Aboriginal Australians, this find suggests that early Europeans were independently developing similar complex throwing weapons during the harsh Ice Age.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0324911
Heh…😎
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The dates are interesting, 42.000 years ago there was a geomagnetic excursion.
Its reasonable to suggest that the boomerang could have been independently invented, humans are ingenious.
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I saw recently that “spear throwers” (woomeras) have also been found in other places e.g.
https://archeryhistorian.com/atlatl-the-spear-thrower/
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The world’s biggest bonfire
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_syime8vxtx1z23obp.mp4
Norway’s Slinningsbålet
Or “The Wicker Man” western economy edition.😉
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A Very Sensible Idea – Brake Lights on the Front of Your Car? They’re Being Studied—and Could Prevent More Crashes
There are numerous everyday traffic scenarios that could be made safer by cars with front-facing braking indicators.
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So many people..
..shouldn’t be allowed to drive! If you can’t estimate the speed & distance of an approaching car versus your acceleration, you shouldn’t be driving. ..or just wait until they are past you! I can see why they need self-driving cars.
Those clowns who drive autos will get deceived by any guy in a manual car who is using engine braking to slow down, what use would brake lights on the front be? Already the wrecking yards are filling up with cars that have had a minor front collision but are uneconomic to repair because of the expensive sensors that got broken.
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Apparently the 2025 best deterrent to car theft is manual transmission.
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And apparently getting harder to buy new
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FWIW – another one bites the dust –
“UK Pulls Plug on £24 Billion Desert Power Fantasy”
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/image-40.png?w=630&ssl=1
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/27/uk-pulls-plug-on-24-billion-desert-power-fantasy/
Something not fossil fueled or nuclear and nixed by Miliband!
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FWIW – More on the latest US – Canada tariff spat –
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Explains Severity of Response to Canada’s Digital Services Tax
June 27, 2025 | Sundance | 84 Comments”
“I was unaware until this interview the July 1st digital services tax that Canada is going to apply to U.S. tech companies is retroactive in application. Over a billion dollars will be due on Monday as a result of Canada’s targeting. Duplicitous Snow Mexicans.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/27/treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-explains-severity-of-response-to-canadas-digital-services-tax/
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Perfidious till the death.
Chips off the old block . . . . still.
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Our BoM is forecasting that an east coast low is developing into next week and the ABC has reported on it today at:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-28/australian-weather-bomb-threatening-east-coast/105469766
The BoM 4 day forecast, just posted, shows its expected development quite clearly at:
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/4day_col.shtml
( That link should last for 24 hours before being updated, and will remain interesting for a few days.)
Coastal NSW is in the firing line.
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FWIW
Latest Phil Duncan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlvj9tcb5zA
“Australia: Quieter – but an east coast storm possible next week”
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y74nv1zqpo
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s Summer.
It happens every year.
BBC headline –
“Southern Europe swelters as heatwave spreads”
And they’ve found a 22-year-old – in Madrid – who is quoted – “It always gets super hot in Madrid, what surprises me is how early it’s happening – we’re still in June,” but obviously has a calendar app on her phone.
Auto
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Electric Vehicle driver conditioning.
A carwash owner told me that many if not most of the not very many EVs that get washed in his premises, most visitors on holidays, when signalled to move forward into the wash bay and conveyor belt sit and wait for the EV to move forward automatically.
I noted last weekend that there is now a sign asking EV drivers to switch off the automatic function.
The mobile phone dependence syndrome.
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FWIW
“Your Blood Type Affects Your Risk of an Early Stroke, Study Finds”
https://www.sciencealert.com/your-blood-type-affects-your-risk-of-an-early-stroke-study-finds
Via Instapundit
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FWIW
“1900 Scientists Say ‘Climate Change Not Caused By CO2’ – The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/1900-scientists-say-climate-change-not-caused-co2-real-environment-movement-was
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New cell organelle discovered! But.. but, the science was settled, we knew everything!
“A new organelle has been found by scientists at the University of Virginia (UVA). The super-small specialized structure has a role recycling material inside our cells… termed a “hemifusome.” They found the organelle by using cryo-electron tomography, an imaging method that freezes cells and creates three-dimensional images of their internal structures… “We think the hemifusome helps manage how cells package and process material, and when this goes wrong, it may contribute to diseases that affect many systems in the body.”
https://newatlas.com/biology/organelle-human-cells/
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