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    More quantification of the impossible cost of batteries making wind and solar reliable. This time analyzing a big utility. All US utilities are ignoring the storage issue.

    “$104 Billion for Batteries in 5 years, $40K Per Customer”

    https://www.baconsrebellion.com/104-billion-for-batteries-in-5-years-40k-per-customer/

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      johnny Rotten

      So much for ‘Blackout Bowen’ and his yet to be installed Batteries cost and coming to the rescue.

      How much will Snowy 2.0 and the pumped hydro cost; if it ever gets finished and works?

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      Tonyb

      I have got two Jackery solar batteries intended for emergency back up use, plus a couple of portable solar panels to try to top them up if the mains fails.

      I see the co has started calling them ‘ Power stations’ so I will be applying to the UK govt for very large grants and subsidies for the installation and running of my two badly needed new power stations and the two solar farms that will be used used to power them.

      I expect to be very rich very soon if I can get the plans in front of Eco fanatic Ed Miliband.

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      David Maddison

      So, even though TRUMP has abandoned the ruinables scam nationally, woke States like Virginia remain committed to it?

      That means that the pro-science, pro-energy states who abandon the scam, in line with national policy, will progress economically while the woke states will continue to stagnate or regress.

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        Yes 28 states have “renewable portfolio standards” mandating ever increasing use of renewables and others like Virginia have net zero laws so ending subsidies will have a limited effect until these laws are changed.

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          Yarpos

          Rather a bad combination given the presence of data centre alley in northern Virginia. Something will have to give after the wishful thinking is done and dusted.

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      Graeme4

      Unless I’m wrong, that amount was only for one day’s battery backup. To achieve high power reliability, I doubt that this is sufficient – surely a minimum of three day’s backup would be required, which would push the cost per person out to US$120k.

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    MrGrimNasty

    Some EV manufacturers, most likely Chinese, may be excluded from new UK subsidy scheme, because their manufacture is not ‘green’ enough.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/electriccars/article-14932769/Worlds-largest-EV-maker-brands-Labours-Electric-Car-Grant-stupid.html

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      David Maddison

      I love it when we have green vs green and they start eating each other.

      Of course, China doesn’t care less about “green” in reality.

      They are the world’s most environmentally destructive country, and strangely (or not) beloved by the green/Left.

      And that’s not even counting their emissions of CO2 which in reality are harmless but the Left claim are destroying the planet. They are by far the world’s largest emitter of those and the Left exempted them from limits as well, even though they are a leading military, space, nuclear, AI, robotics superpower etc..

      In 2023 China emitted 35% of all the world’s anthropogenic CO2.

      Remind me why China is exempt from CO2 limits and Australia with about 1% of world anthropogenic emissions (despite being a net carbon sink) has destroyed its economy over this (and continues to do so).

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    johnny Rotten

    The UN is not united and should be renamed the DUN – The Dis-United Nations.

    Same as Australia which should be renamed the DUSA – The Dis-United States of Australia.

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    David Maddison

    Hulk Hogan, professional wrestler, passed away.

    A great wrestler, one of the greatest.

    From Wikipedia.

    Terry Gene Bollea[8][9] (/bəˈleɪə/; August 11, 1953 – July 24, 2025), better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his work with WWE and World Championship Wrestling. Known for his flamboyance and massive physique, and his trademark blond horseshoe moustache and bandanas, Hogan was widely regarded as the most recognized wrestling star worldwide, the most popular wrestler of the 1980s and one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time.[10][11]

    The Hulk once power slammed King Kong Bundy, who weighed 440lbs, 199.5kg. According to Goolag AI:

    Yes, Hulk Hogan did power slam King Kong Bundy. This iconic moment happened during their match at WrestleMania 2 in 1986. Hogan, known for his strength, successfully slammed the much larger Bundy, despite Bundy weighing around 440 pounds. This feat of strength became a defining moment in Hogan’s career and is often remembered as a highlight of WrestleMania 2 according to wrestling fans on Facebook.

    Here is a compilation from one year ago of some of his moments, set to Rick Derringer “Real American”.

    https://youtu.be/Ja8fi9KbvSI

    He was only 71. Tragically all these pro wrestlers seem to die at a relatively young age. He died of cardiac arrest.

    There are not many wrestlers left from the Golden Age of US pro-wrestling of the mid to late 80’s.

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      MrGrimNasty

      It’s a miracle for anyone that used steroids to reach 71 before having a heart attack!

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        Eng_Ian

        It wasn’t steroids, it was his four daily soy lattes and weekly ballet classes that resulted in his ‘lightly’ bulked/hulked image.

        /s in case you needed it…

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        Chad

        Hogan was reported to weigh 150 kg , which is excessive (obese) even for a man of his size.
        That much excess weight can put a tremendous strain on the heart at any age, hence most likely a major factor in his reported fatal heart attack.
        RIP. One of the world big characters and entertainers.

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          Robert Swan

          Chad,
          150kg doesn’t necessarily make him “obese”. Apparently Jordan Mailata (who left Australian rugby league to play American football) weighs 157 kg, is only 2cm taller than Hogan was, yet that article refers to “Mailata’s sub-20% body fat percentage”. Not obese.

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            Chad

            True but Mailata is a 28 yr old active pro footballer, with a high % of muscle.
            Hogan was a 71yr old ex wrestler… with a very different physique and liifestyle.

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              Skepticynic

              >Mailata is a 28 yr old active pro footballer, with a high % of muscle.

              Hogan was a 71yr old ex wrestler… with a high % of mustache.

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    David Maddison

    Copied from Quora Digest.

    The story of vanilla.

    In 1841, on the island of Réunion, a 12-year-old enslaved boy named Edmond Albius changed the world with nothing but his curiosity and his thumb.

    French colonists had brought vanilla plants from Mexico to Réunion and nearby islands. But they faced a big problem. Vanilla flowers only bloom for a short time, and in Mexico, special bees helped pollinate them. On Réunion, those bees didn’t exist. Even with all their training, scientists and plantation owners couldn’t figure out how to pollinate the flowers in time.

    Then came Edmond.

    He used a thin stick or a piece of grass to gently lift a small flap inside the vanilla flower. Then he pressed the male and female parts of the flower together—doing the job the bees would have done. It was quick, simple, and it worked.

    Thanks to Edmond’s method, vanilla could now be grown in many places. Réunion became an important supplier. Madagascar followed and still leads the world in vanilla production today, using the same hand-pollination technique Edmond discovered.

    But Edmond Albius never received any reward. He didn’t become rich or well-known during his life. Even though his idea helped build a global industry, he died poor and mostly forgotten.

    Today, we remember him.

    Because even though he was denied freedom and education, Edmond did something no one else had done: he solved the mystery of the vanilla orchid and made a lasting impact that we still feel every time we enjoy ice cream, cake, or perfume.

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      MrGrimNasty

      Sadly, whenever I read something like this these days, I just assume it’s something invented or exaggerated or otherwise misrepresented to suit today’s required history curriculum narrative.

      Then I read this, so who really knows?

      ‘In retrospect, Richard’s life has been marred by controversy. In 1841, when the young slave Edmond Albius (1829–1880) discovered the process of hand-pollination of vanilla, Richard claimed to have discovered the technique three or four years earlier. His story created serious doubts about Albius’ claims, despite the support for Albius of Féréol Marie Bellier de Beaumont (1759–1831), naturalist Eugène Volcy Focard, and Méziaires of Lepervanche. By the end of the 20th century, Albius was considered the true discoverer.’

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      TdeF

      I had no idea that vanilla was also a South American discovery, like so much of modern cuisine. You wonder what the Italians ate before tomatoes, potatoes, capsicum, chile, maize/corn and other plants like tobacco which changed the world. Bread fruit though came to nothing. And the modern seedless banana is a wonder of human ingenuity as it cannot reproduce except by grafting.

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      Eng_Ian

      Of course, if he’d done this today he would have been charged with either destroying the work of bees, (a collective/unionised enterprise), or he would have been charged with interfering with a plant, sexually.

      The world really has gone out backwards in just a few short years. Soon we’ll be able to take a wealthy nation to court because they haven’t enacted laws to ban CO2 emissions. I wonder if you can take china to court on this same ‘non-enforceable’ ruling.

      It makes you wonder, with all the lawyers watching, if development of ANY product will ever be the same again.

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      John Connor II

      Even with all their training, scientists and plantation owners couldn’t figure out how to pollinate the flowers in time.

      Never underestimate the combined ignorance of groups of experts?
      Honestly…a bee could work it out!

      Even today virtually all pollination is done by hand, not that it matters as what you buy isn’t real Vanillin but derived from other sources like wood pulp, cow dung and of course petrochemicals.

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    Graeme No.3

    Didn’t get a reply yesterday from our Trolls so repeating it

    Evidence has shown the Eemian period, some 125,000 years ago, the UK (and the world) were very different places. It was much warmer: some 2° C higher than pre-industrial times (currently, it is up to 1.1° higher?); ice sheets were much smaller; sea levels were some five metres higher; forests extended into the arctic circle and there were hippos in Britain. CO2 levels were 280 ppm. Fossil specimens of elephants, rhinos and hippos are in the British Museum and Leeds Museum.
    Just over 400,000 thousand years ago the centre of Greenland – currently under a kilometre of ice – was ice free with grasses & small shrubs growing. CO2 levels were just below 300 p.p.m.
    Please explain how the temperature rise was caused by CO2.

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      el+gordo

      Its unfair to call them trolls just because they have alternative views.

      By definition a troll is someone who talks off topic to disrupt the flow, they don’t do that. Just a few harmless contrarians game to put themselves on the front line of the information war.

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      David of Cooyal in Oz

      Nah G3,
      Too early. 125,000 years ago, so no humans, so outside the IPCC charter.

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    David Maddison

    From Daily Telegraph, (Sydney), July 23.

    How many Sydneysiders can name Australia’s Opposition Leader?

    Following the Coalition’s crushing defeat in the May election – with Peter Dutton among the casualties – action in Canberra was finally back, and the Opposition had a new boss.

    If only Sydneysiders knew who she was.

    But when The Daily Telegraph took to the streets of the Sydney CBD this week, armed with photographs of Mr Albanese and Ms Ley, none of 100 people approached could put a name to her face.

    Not one.

    ANTHONY ALBANESE
    Knew Albo by name: 57
    Didn’t know: 43
    Correctly guessed politician: 21
    Incorrectly guessed NRL coach: 18
    Incorrectly guessed banking exec: 4

    SUSSAN LEY
    Knew Ley by name: 0
    Didn’t know: 100
    Correctly guessed politician: 50
    Incorrectly guessed mining magnate: 36
    Incorrectly guessed newsreader: 14

    Eleven of the 100 did identify her as a politician. But naming Sussan (with the double S) Ley or recognising her as the Opposition Leader was beyond them.

    Overseas readers may be astonished to learn that Australia is one of the few countries in which voting is compulsory.

    People are cruelly forced to vote, or get fined, even if they are utterly clueless and disinterested in politics.

    Both factions of the Uniparty want to keep it because they believe forcing clueless and disinterested people to vote benefits them.

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      Graeme No.3

      And both factions get money from those extra votes.

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        KP

        …and they have the world’s most complex voting system so most Aussies wouldn’t have a clue what their vote really does.. anyway, back to the footy!

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      h p

      Australians are merely asked to be in contact with the voting system each time an election is called, with two purposes. Firstly to help enable voter roll integrity, and secondly to cast a vote if they wish. Given the trouble that having a corrupt voter roll causes in many other countries, I think “ fair enough” to the first purpose. Given the freedom to fill out or not, or even incorrectly, ones ballot paper, then also “ fair enough”.

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      el+gordo

      Ley is only keeping the seat warm and HP is correct, there are choices and people are free to make them.

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      David of Cooyal in Oz

      And the requirement to number every square in the House of Representatives means you often, even usually, have to give a vote to a known unsatisfactory candidate.
      Making that voting optional would remove that problem,.
      I suspect that in the last election that meant that many voters put Labor ahead of the Greens…Which at least eliminated Bandt.

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    TdeF

    I am staggered at the successes of the Trump team. Zero illegals at the border. Crashing through resistance in LA. Exposing the deceit of the Democrats in California. 92% approval in the Republican party and no one is leading the Congressional Democrats who have 20% support in their own registered voters. Tariffs are not increasing inflation which has plummeted but created an unprecedented nett balance of $60Billion June. Even Elon Mush did not believe it could be done and that he had wasted his time cutting while Trump was boosting trade. Trump was right. Fix the basics and the US is rich again. Now if only the NATO countries will invest in their own defence, something they have promised to do, but deceit among politicians is high. And Japan is investing $.5Trillion in the US while Trump is using tafiffs to stop the lawfare attack on Brazil’s former President Bolsanaro who is now under de facto house arrest with an ankle bracelet.

    And in Australia, Albanese is asking Forrest for the money back on Green Hydrogen right after their joint kowtow/groveling trip to China. But Albanese is still hanging onto his $Billion in shares in Quantum Computing, which are likely unsaleable and worthless. The way Australia is being run as a personal private business by Albanese is amazing and wrong. When did Australia stop being a parliamentary democracy and become a dictatorship? The Green machine is being exposed as the racist communists and cultists they are and any pretence of ecological concern has been swept away.

    When will the cult of man made CO2 driven Global Warming collapse? I expect it will happen very quickly. The UN is being exposed as a bad actor in Gaza. And UNESCO incredibly is demanding world wide censorship, an incredible jump for monuments men. While Trump has once again withdrawn from the out of control WHO,UNESCO, Human Rights Committee.

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      TdeF

      And Letitia James and pencil neck Schiff both likely on criminal charges for mortgage fraud. Delicious irony.

      Who knows what charges the Clintons will face over Epstein and Obama over Obamagate revelations? We also know why Hillary collapsed as she was on heavy tranquilizers to stop her irrational outbursts. It’s what happens when you spend your life hiding what you really are doing and thinking, the criminality of the Clinton enterprise. And we will see if Michelle Obama makes a run for the exit.

      As for President Newscum, that’s not even a remote possibility. And The View is going to vanish like Colbert and friends.

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      Paul Siebert

      TdeF, #8,
      ____”Now if only the NATO countries will invest in their own defence, something they have promised to do,”

      ____Not just we, us and ourselves getting dragged down the AUKUS USUKA path. WE build these sinking boats for OUR defence, but Uncle Samuel keeps all the operating codes. Har, har, har.

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    Graeme No.3

    Mt. Lofty is the highest “mountain” in the Adelaide Hills (it has 3 TV Towers on it to tell people which it is).
    Snow fell at Mount Lofty on Sat. 12 August 1939 (Trove Advertiser)
    Snow fall Mt. Lofty July 20, 1951
    Snow fall July 11 2015
    July 5, 2016 – snow has fallen at Mount Lofty
    July 9 2025
    July 22 2025 (snow flurries).

    Must be due to Global Warming

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      TdeF

      Global Warming causes Climate Change which increases the probability of ‘extreme events’ including extreme cold. So very cold weather is part of warming. They have it all covered with goobdelegook science.

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    MrGrimNasty

    Unlike the UK, where I have just had my first ripe eating apple more than 2 weeks earlier than ever before (early variety called rosette), parts of California are having their coolest summer for years.

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather-forecast/article/summer-temperature-cloud-california-20780501.php

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      another ian

      IIRC that is why we can still use wooden kitchen cutting boards

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      KP

      Goes along with brass door handles and stairway rails, and push panels on latchless doors. Also shown to reduce microbial contamination on hands touching the metal, and widely used before stainless steel. Recorded by a doctor who noticed the street of copper-smiths in Paris didn’t suffer infections during a plague.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Trump EPA To Remove “Greenhouse Gases” From List Of Dangerous Pollutants”

    “The Trump administration is acting to overturn a key 2009 Environmental Protection Agency finding used to justify most federal government regulations regarding climate change.

    The EPA has crafted a proposal that would undo the government’s “endangerment finding”, a determination that pollutants from burning fossil fuels, such as carbon dioxide and methane, can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The finding has long served as the foundation for a host of policies and rules to address climate change. The EPA’s proposal to revoke the finding is currently under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget.”

    More at

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-epa-remove-greenhouse-gases-list-dangerous-pollutants

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    David Maddison

    There is currently a scheduled electrical outage in my area of Melbournistan due to upgrades of cables.

    It makes me realise that given that the Left are trying to completely eliminate the gas supply, there is no alternative energy source.

    I have a gas hot water heater which is capable of running without electrical mains connection, and I can also operate my gas stove without mains connection if I manually light it.

    I currently use reverse cycle heating as it’s cheaper than gas, but I could also run my gas central heater if I connected it to a generator to run its fan and electronics.

    Without gas I would have no hot water, capability to cook or heat. Just like the Net Zero lifestyle the Left want us to live.

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      GreatAuntJanet

      This true blue Aussie has some thoughts (very spicy language warning) on the subject that you might enjoy David! Travis Ricciardo for office! https://x.com/TRAVmoneyofmine/status/1948261382001950782

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      liberator

      Precisely why, despite the cost, I’m never disconnecting my gas. I cook with it, heat our water with it, and if the power fails and I can no longer run my AC, I can heat with it. I used to heat the house with gas but it got too damn expensive. I’ve got a basic fake gas log fire. If the power is out I can light it with a gas lighter, the fan wont run, but it will still heat!

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Climate Activism In Judicial Drag”

    “If you’d asked me last week to imagine the world’s “highest court” declaring climate science settled by judicial fiat, and then threatening the globe with reparations if governments don’t color inside the climate lines, I’d have poured myself a stiff gin-and-tonic and double-checked the URL.

    But alas, welcome to 2025, where the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has just handed down an “advisory opinion” so ambitious, sanctimonious, and scientifically shallow that it reads less like a court ruling and more like the script for a very, very earnest United Nations bake sale. Their own summary of their latest lunacy is here.

    Let’s set the table. The ICJ was asked by true-green climate activists to weigh in on whether countries that—brace yourself—aren’t “protecting the climate”, whatever that might mean, are guilty of internationally wrongful conduct.”

    More at

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/24/climate-activism-in-judicial-drag/

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      another ian

      Concludes

      “Good luck to us all. My solution?

      US out of the UN entirely, including out of the ICJ and every other slimy tentacle of the UN. It is a snake-pit of vipers, totalitarians, anti-Semites, self-important “jurists”, and crazy green activists.

      UN out of the US entirely. Move the headquarters to Ouagadougou or someplace where the locals need help, forbid the UN employees from using air conditioning so they can “protect the climate”, and see how many UN fat-cats and parasites living the good life in New York City suddenly quit to “spend more time with their families” …

      My best to all, keep fighting the good fight,”

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    TdeF

    I was shocked to read that the UK had recently experienced ‘three heatwaves in four weeks’.

    So how long and how hot is a British heat wave, caused always by fossil fuel. Like all warming.

    This from the Spectator

    “Heat Up
    Are heatwaves becoming more common across Britain?

    Average number of days per year in which each county experiences a temperature in excess of 32C(90F)
    1931-1960 0.17
    1961-1990 0.25
    1991-2020 0.40
    2015-2024 0.91 (note only ten years where the others are 30)
    Source: Royal Meteorological Society/Mat Office”

    So less than a day per year over 32C? The average daily temperature in Darwin. And a very common temperature in most of Australia.

    Which shows that one country’s terrible Climate Change heat wave is an average day in another.

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      TdeF

      So are millions really flocking to Britain/Europe to escape Climate Change only to find the country is boiling? I hope they brought warm clothes.

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        Graeme No.3

        But TdeF:
        The figures for 2015-2024 include 103 NON existing weather stations. These don’t exist but have recorded temperatures for the last 30 years even when shut down years ago.
        Not the Airport Station which keeps running despite (apparently) starting up 23 years BEFORE the Wright Brothers flew.

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        KP

        “only to find the country is boiling?”

        Hang on! Don’t the Poms all go to Spain to get some heat? They LOVE days over 30!

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    David Maddison

    Here’s a thought.

    As Australia goes more “green” with ever more expensive and unreliable solar and wind there is a corresponding increase in economic destruction and indebtedness.

    In fact, Australia is one of the few countries in which the standard of living is actually decreasing. Remarkably, even the Government propaganda unit, Their ABC admits that*.

    So, as Australia becomes more indebted** and the economy further collapses, we may find that we can’t actually afford to transition all the way to Nut Zero in any case. It is self-limiting due to its extremely high cost and the country will have exhausted its borrowing and taxing capacity. (You know solar and wind is expensive because the Left claim it’s the cheapest of all possible forms of electricity production, an obvious lie and opposite of the truth.)

    * https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/can-albanese-government-fix-the-economy-four-corners/105260320

    ** http://australiandebtclock.com.au/

    Total Australian Government debt, federal, state, local, now $2.127 trillion.

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      John Connor II

      As Australia goes more “green” with ever more expensive and unreliable solar and wind there is a corresponding increase in economic destruction and indebtedness.

      Why doesn’t anyone get it?
      All governments know what’s coming so they’re spending like drunken sailors.
      It’s never their own money and they’ll never be held accountable for anything anyway so why not.

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        Vladimir

        I thought that our previous Gas & Electricity supplier CovaU made an honest mistake with a decimal point eg – 40.% price increase, which should have been only 4.0%.
        Silly old me, yesterday I heard on 3AW a caller saying that their power bill will be more 50% higher from 1st of August.

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    John Connor II

    History of Bugatti, from 1898 to 2025

    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_szw5wwFccw1z23obp.mp4

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    John Connor II

    Unseen: New Documentary Reveals The Truth Behind Killer Hospital Protocols (UK)

    https://youtu.be/_wOYPObjLpM?si=njeu2JOjJfFHcoqE

    The film reveals how medical guidelines reminiscent of the abolished Liverpool Care Pathway, include the use of potentially lethal drug combinations and covert Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders and have led to thousands upon thousands of suspicious deaths.

    Watch or save it fast because it’ll be gone tomorrow.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “How the Trump AI Action Plan will Wreck Green Energy”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/24/how-the-trump-ai-action-plan-will-wreck-green-energy/

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    David Maddison

    Copied from Quora Digest. It had a picture.

    Meet Clara Belle Drisdale Williams [1885-1993], the first African-American graduate of New Mexico State University. Many of her professors wouldn’t let her sit in the classroom, so she had to take notes from the hallway. She wasn’t allowed to walk with her class to get her diploma either. In 1917, she married Jasper Williams, and their three sons became doctors. Clara became a great teacher for Black students during the day, and at night, she taught their parents—who were former slaves—home economics.

    In 1961, New Mexico State University named a street on campus after her. In 2005, the building for the English department was renamed Clara Belle Williams Hall. In 1980, she was awarded an honorary degree by NMSU, and the school apologized for how she was treated as a student. Clara lived to be 108 years old.

    Credit: Respective owner

    John Muir

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    OldOzzie

    Sydney Moaning Herald Fuax Fax View on Life

    Federal Reserve chief schools Trump in excruciating live fact-check

    Vs

    Jerome Powell Looking a Little Green Around the Gills During Trump’s Fed Tour

    and Washington Times

    Trump, Powell tour Federal Reserve headquarters amid criticism over renovation price tag

    President Trump said he won’t fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell, but said a project manager who was over budget on one of his real estate projects wouldn’t fare the same, as both men donned hard hats and toured the central bank’s over budget headquarters renovations Thursday.

    “Generally speaking, what would I do? I’d fire him,” Mr. Trump said when asked how he would handle a construction project manager who was over budget.

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      LocalExistence

      The Fed is actually in debt:

      “Rather than earning seigniorage profits for taxpayers, something the Fed did for more than 100 years, the present-day Fed has instead accumulated losses of the staggering amount of $231 billion. These losses reflect Fed expenses that, between 2022 and 2024, included over $420 billion paid to banks in interest on their deposits held at the Fed and over $185 billion in interest paid to other financial institutions on repurchase agreement loans; in addition, the Fed made over $4 billion in dividend payments to Fed member banks on their Fed district bank stock.”
      […]
      “To date, the Fed’s liabilities exceed the book value of its assets by $185 billion. The Fed has had to borrow this amount to pay its expenses and to pay dividends to its private shareholders, while it has no profits and no retained earnings.”
      […]
      “It classifies its accumulating cash losses as a “deferred asset” so that its reported retained earnings remain unchanged despite its massive losses.”

      https://lawliberty.org/duplicity-at-the-fed/

      A video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoKfpBF0YA0

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Gradually, then suddenly

    The death throes of a regime”

    “For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.

    -Stefan Zweig

    Now, as Antonio Gramsci might have put it, is the time of monsters. Our wassail is over; the Graces, my friend, have abandoned the earth; there below, the Greek ships wait. In short – Britain’s ruling regime is kaput. The only thing left to do is to wait and see how the decline plays out and plan as positively as possible for the aftermath.”

    More at

    https://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/gradually-then-suddenly

    Via https://instapundit.com/734202/#disqus_thread

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    Ross

    There’s video of an old ” bloke doing the rounds of social and mainstream media today. His name is Gerry Noonan and he might own a mining company.  In an interview (not sure where) he’s taken aim at Net Zero in a colourful rant. Rather fruity language, but boy does he hit the target. It’s the sort of thing most people on this blog think, but who dare not say in public. Apparently, Gerry, also never followed the rule of not swearing in front of women. Anyway, very amusing.
    Here’s a link- https://omny.fm/shows/ben-fordham-full-show/we-re-f-cked-mining-boss-smashes-australia-s-energy-policy

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    MrGrimNasty

    UK increases guaranteed price and extends guarantee to 20 years.

    Comical Mili is still promising NetZero will reduce energy bills?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8ynegwn4o.amp

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Damning evidence of the deadly risks in vaccinating infants: Part 1”

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/damning-evidence-of-the-deadly-risks-in-vaccinating-infants-part-1/

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Moderna’s Parent Company Now Spraying RNA Into Your Food”

    “Flagship Pioneering, the company that founded Moderna, is now genetically programming crops”

    https://modernity.news/2025/07/24/modernas-parent-company-now-spraying-rna-into-your-food/

    Via SDA

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    KP

    Colour revolution in Ukraine… again? NATO-backed media suddenly enraged about Big Z’s politics, yet 12months ago he was the hero.

    “Most eye-opening about the fall from grace is how boldly the chosen actors are playing their lines, pearl-clutching about some imagined ‘repressions’ of a pair of organizations virtually no one has heard of or cared about until a few days ago, in this case NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) and SAPO (Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office).

    There are myriad other far more pressing concerns for Ukraine, not even counting the war itself, and yet the pitched fight around some Biden-era “anti-corruption” watchdogs is what has animated the intelligentsia and paid-off ‘influencer’ sphere to take to the streets with pre-branded slogans and obligatory ‘English’-scripted signs? ”

    …especially the pre-printed placards in English, as seen all around the world when America wants a regime change. Still, the CIA put you in power and the CIA take you out.

    ..and some lovely revelations about how NGOs really control the world under the Yanks! I wonder if the Japanese still have to ask their Ameican overlords for permission to appoint top bureaucrats to positions?

    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/echoes-of-maidan-mark-zelenskys-sudden

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    Enthalpy

    If they want to make hydrogen, they should take the next step and convert into the most useful hydrogen storage molecule——-methane! The it would amazingly become very useful.

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