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Still not much wind in the sunburnt country, or am I caught in a time loop?
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SA the renewables state – 83% Gas, 13% liquid fuels (I assume that’s diesel generators), 3% Wind, and being 2:15am solar is 0%.
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“Q1 2025 was a record Q1 for large scale electricity generation in both of Australia’s major electricity grids. Renewable energy in the National Electricity market (NEM) averaged 43% this quarter.”
At present in South Australia, renewables are 3%, not 43%. Which means that despite tens of billions of dollars in Carbon Taxes the government has achieved a level of reliability of generation of no more than 3%.
It takes a special sort of blindness to reality to present this as an achievement. If this was the engine power of an aircraft in flight, everyone would be dead.
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Australians (most present company excepted) have been conditioned to Orwellian Doublethink:
Doublethink:
Or quoting from Nineteen Eighty Four:
Who’d have ever thought that Nineteen Eighty Four-style thinking could become the dominant paradigm in Australia? It was unthinkable until even three decades ago.
The Left won with their subversion of all institutions, public and private. After the current thinking generation die off, there won’t be much left worth saving, except in TRUMP’s United States.
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10:20, The ‘Renewables’ state really struggling this morning.
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Source? OpenNEM shows different numbers, including 9% imports from Vic.
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My source was AEMO dashboard. Selecting SA under energy mix.
https://www.aemo.com.au/Energy-systems/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-NEM/Data-NEM/Data-Dashboard-NEM
But using your source, 9am EST, Wind is 1.2% and solar 8.8%.
Slide the thingy back to 2am or 2:30am, my post was at 2:15am, and your source gives the same reading as what I posted.
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In my low part of the high country the “big still” continues. Struggling to remember any consistent wind over the last 4 weeks at all. certainly a day here and there but nothing that would prompt a kite flying competition. Lots of persistent fog as well, some days only lifting for a few short hours after midday. New electricity pricing starts for many Aussies around the 1st of July, only increases, no signs of the much touted $270 decrease promised 3 years ago but I live in hope.
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Remember Sambar, in Orwellian Australia “increases” are good because it means you pay less.
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The wind sock outside of my office window looks extremely limp, its very still and foggy in SA this morning
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It’s called flaccid sock syndrome in aviation circles
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And Fosters flop in other circles
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Brewer’s droop.
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Oh, did you say sock.
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I think we all misread it 1st time around. 😆
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This exchange on The Age website between me and a pro-renewables reader gives you an insight into how these people think (assuming it’s not a bot).
Steve N 15 hours ago
Solar and wind electricity generation keeps getting more powerful and more efficient.
Not long now.
Jon Rattin 10 hours ago
* In reply to Steve N
I don’t agree. This week demonstrates the vagaries of wind as a source of power. On Monday we record high numbers for wind powered generation and yesterday there was virtually no wind across the nation, it’s looking similar today.
In the 3 days leading up June 10, Victoria used 13% of its annual gas quota (as forecast by AEMO) to keep the power grid functioning. This supplemented the lack of energy generated by renewables. Queensland may not be willing to bail us out indefinitely, they’re calling for our state to get its energy affairs in order.
Steve N 9 hours ago
& In reply to Jon Rattin
It is always sunny or windy somewhere in Australia.
Offshore wind farms harness wind that is almost constant and always regularly strong.
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Incredible.
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No matter what I try to tell my 26yo grandson, he believes that wind is free and plentiful somewhere in Oz. Very worrying.
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John F.
Recent warning from the BOM
“Destructive” winds and rain from a “bomb cyclone” system are forecast to smash millions of Aussies across the NSW coast – and the conditions are only set to intensify in the coming days.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) have warned that winds will intensify on Wednesday morning for southern Queensland.
Sydney’s eastern suburbs and coastal fringes, including Illawarra and the south coast, could face significant damage from destructive wind gusts reaching up to 125km/h.”
It’s only the BOM who have a reputation.
IF their prediction comes true then the GOOD PART is that Sydney’s eastern suburbs and coastal fringes include the better off and Labor (or Green) voters.
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The bad part is it will reinforce their adherence to the cult.
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Some bomb-cyclone!!!
98kph wind gusts and about 60kph sustained winds were initially predicted for my area, along with heavy rains. I could have hung a tissue on my clothesline 3 days ago and it would probably still be there now, a little soggy, but still there. The winds have been FAR FAR less than a normal Hunter Valley winter’s day where the katabatic wind is funnelled down the valley. The rain has been intermittent light showers and drizzle. A few mm here and there.
The eye is still sitting due east of Newcastle, doing very little on land here. The action is further south in near-coastal areas that are copping some wind, but all apparently under 40kph sustained, and that ain’t a cyclone. Rainfall is equally unimpressive.
I have experienced 3 really severe east coast lows, two of which put cargo ships onto local beaches, plus a lot of major flood events. This one is a squib.
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Pasha Bulka and the Sygna. I saw the Sygna last year. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes and iron to rust apparently. There is not much left.
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Not wrong at all John. The WA SWIS grid had 24 hours of almost zero wind, and it’s now only providing 8% of grid power.
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Here is a tragic interview by Dr John Campbell of a severely covid vaccine injured Canadian man and he can’t get adequate support or interest by doctors because his symptoms don’t neatly fit any disease or cause.
And woke Canadian, specifically Ontario, doctors are not allowed to attribute the cause to the covid vax under risk of deregistration even though his doctor did admit to it but not in writing.
https://youtu.be/_M4et0nw_IQ
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I’m sure the Docs would be willing to assist in dying.
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I had a husband and wife , both doctors, stay with us on a Rotary exchange many years ago. The wife, a GP, diagnosed her husband, a plastic surgeon, as having Lymmes disease. Canada, like Australia, does not recognise Lymmes disease but the US does. She cured him with large doses of antibiotics and he taught himself to use his other hand as his operating hand became useless. I have a dear friend who also has Lymmes disease and cannot get any treatment here. She relies on a herbal doctor in the US and a strict diet. I don’t think the treatment is all that successful. It is a pity that doctors do not treat their patients as needed rather than as dictated.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-07-01/fda-exposed-hundreds-drugs-approved-without-proof-they-work
“Four criteria—presence of a control group, replication in two well-conducted trials, blinding of participants and investigators, and the use of clinical endpoints like symptom relief or extended survival—are supposed to be the bedrock of drug evaluation.
Yet only 28% of drugs met all four criteria—40 drugs met none.”
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Get woke go broke.
Rita Panahi discusses with Alex Stein.
Jaguar has managed to sell a whopping 49 cars in Europe in April since it remade itself into the image of wokeness. And I’m guessing only rich wokesters would be buying such cars.
As President TRUMP said, everything woke turns to sh*t.
Plus comments about the next possible communist mayor of New York city.
And a Gallup Poll that shows only 36% of Democrat voters are proud to be American compared to 92% of Republicans. They used to be about the sake in 2001. The reasons are discussed.
https://youtu.be/yy4KIUqOIgM
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49 Jaguars since April. Wow, that many? I can just imagine the rush to open new Jaguar dealerships throughout the EU. Hope Jaguar’s factories are able to meet the demand!! 😺😺😂😂😂😂
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Interesting video about the history of rotary dial phones including the origin of emergency numbers used in various countries 000, 911, 112, 999, 111 etc..
https://youtu.be/-Bbnq7yxK98
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They were Decadic phone systems
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In my collection of odds and ends I have a couple of uniselectors.
These were use for routing calls in old telephone exchanges.
Someone made a video about uniselectors at
https://youtu.be/xpycLDbdFx8
Wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepping_switch?wprov=sfla1
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Didn’t Turing and the Bletchley Park group make their Bombes out of PMG rotary uniselectors used in exchanges?
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One of the models used a uniselector.
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Interesting video about the manufacture of quartz crystal oscillators in WW2 in the United States showing all the manufacturing processes.
https://youtu.be/duZlWWwxIPQ
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I believe crystals from the Crystal King gold mine in the Strathbogie ranges were also used for this purpose. The old Melbourne museum also had a display of what was described as the “largest cut gemstones” in the world with quartz from this mine faceted into beautiful, though not valuable stones. Some must have weighed several kilos.
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Thanks for the info. Sambar.
I might go and take a look if it’s not private property.
More here:
https://www.geologynet.com/crystalking/
https://www.mindat.org/loc-255211.html
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/35002
https://www.vgls.vic.gov.au/client/en_AU/vgls/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:111704/ada
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It’s not on private property David. It takes just a little bit of finding with an unmarked track just slipping to the north of the main drag. Last time I was there, a couple of years ago, the head structure , as the picture shows, was there, The fence had been Broken down. While still under lease it isn’t being worked in any way. The main shaft has a heavy steel grate covering the shaft. If you go have a look at the Golden Mountain mine workings at the same time, just a couple of K’s away.
Word of caution, not a good idea to go in winter or after rain, the greasiest tracks and roads make driving even in a 4 wheel drive difficult. Some of the tracks are also “seasonally closed” for your safety as well.
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Last time we discussed this topic, we talked about how we would adjust the crystal frequency by lapping the crystal on a very fine stone. Quite an exercise, as we would lap a few times, wash the crystal, re-install it in its holder, measure the frequency, then remove the for the next lapping cycle. The original crystals were purchased at second-hand stores that sold ex-military equipment.
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AI killer robots?
If not yet, the time is not far off where an entire mass-produced army of these things could be deployed.
https://youtu.be/Xfqi9QU6imY
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https://youtu.be/obbQd4_f3rg?si=gSK9YzyCilFS98PK
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Video:
Topher Field discusses what he calls “The B Team”, Australia’s e Safety Kommisar, Australian Ambassador to the United States KRudd and the Prime Moron himself Albanese and the impact they are having on Australia, particularly in relation to the United States and also censorship issues. Also includes discussion of Australia’s e Safety Kommisar in censorship efforts in the United States, hence her being mentioned specifically in the US Congressional Judicial Committee report: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-06/Exporting%20Censorship%20Final.pdf
Report title: EXPORTING CENSORSHIP: HOW GARM’S ADVERTISING CARTEL HELPED CORPORATIONS COLLUDE WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS TO SILENCE AMERICAN SPEECH
Video:
https://youtu.be/FTDCD2Sr8DA
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B team? Topher is being polite, indeed excessively polite.
On a 7 point scale I would suggest that they would struggle to meet the bottom G rating.
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UK June, ‘phew what a scorcher’ as the headlines used to say.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/june-2025-provisional-statistic
In the Central England Temperature series 1976 was half a degree warmer on average daily maximum, but loses to 2025 on average daily mean temperature.
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Almost!
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/june-2025-provisional-statistics
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Video:
Dr John Campbell and Dr Josh Guetzkow discuss “Miscarriage after mRNA vaccine”.
https://youtu.be/DHkpmekB8hA
Preprint of paper:
“New Study: Higher-than-Expected Fetal Losses after mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination in Early Pregnancy” (46 pages)
https://researchrebel.substack.com/p/new-study-higher-than-expected-fetal
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My son insists that “no tax on tips or overtime” is not included in Trump’s BBB. Anyone read the 900 pages and knows for sure?
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go to DuckDuckGo and search:
Does trump’s big bill include “no tax on tips or overtime”
Seems the answer is …
Yes.
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Crazy climate ideas no. 5734:-
‘Scientists want to use giant PARACHUTES to stop the Gulf Stream collapsing – in controversial geoengineering experiment to combat global warming.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14864605/Scientists-use-PARACHUTES-Gulf-Stream.html
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Mmmm….
Is that more or less insane than blotting out the sun?
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Obviously blotting out the sun is urgently required because several ” CLIMATE SCIENTISTS” must have had their brains fried judging on their moronic schemes.
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If the parachutes are giant enough perhaps they could kill two birds with one stone. It would be fun to watch them try to deploy them.
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IMHO, it is less, but not by much.
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We couldn’t believe the number of personal fans fluttering away at Wimbledon tennis matches seen on TV yesterday. You would think they would distract the players at court level. It would be seen as a pleasant summer day in Oz.
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‘Over the moat’ in Paris, France, a BBC mouthpiece let slip it was
31 degrees in the shade and 40 outside.
Yet again, by which measurement are these record temperatures being recorded? Then switching to Fahrenheit, a la Guterres mode, to claim over 100 degrees! Sounds like ‘summer’ to me.
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Vicki – are this fluttering of fans to attract attention or one of Millibrain’s latest wind schemes?
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FWIW
“The Fantasy Of Net Zero (Or Nyet Zero 😉 Farming”
“How To Electrify A Farm Tractor – Or Not.
This is a wonderful video by Topher Field (from whom I’ve borrowed the “Nyet Zero” phrase 😉 where he “runs the numbers” on what it takes to convert a large tractor on a very large farm to battery electric power and still have any hope of getting the job done.”
https://youtu.be/JVAtuGuVv2I
And more at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/the-fantasy-of-net-zero-or-nyet-zero-farming/
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Well , you know you just redfine what getting the job done is. Like how EV drivers rationalize their travails on long trips, and only talk about the good trips as if they are normal.
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Nigel Farage declares Labour is ‘bankrupting the country’ in scathing takedown of benefits bill
And it’s being replicated in Australia by Labor here! The disease of socialism is like covid in as much as it is organised and sustained by government
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The fake conservative Liberals here won’t say that.
Why?
Meanwhile, total Australian Government debt (federal, state and local):
$2.1156 trillion
And increasing by about $6500 per second, or about $561 million per day.
It’s something the Liberals should be complaining about.
Obviously Sussssssan Ley is comfortable with that amount of expenditure.
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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FWIW
“Forget ‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ — Jaguar Went Stupid Instead”
“As recently as 2018, Jaguar sold 180,833 cars annually. Last year, they sold fewer than 33,000. In April — the most current sales figures available — Jag sold just 49 cars in the massive UK/Europe market. U.S. sales figures aren’t available yet, but they aren’t any better.
Jaguar went from selling 1,961 cars a month to 49 in just six years. I’m no car industry expert, but that looks pretty bad to me. ”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/07/01/forget-go-woke-go-broke-jaguar-went-stupd-n4941331
Did they blow up their IC engine plant in celebration?
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Panahi: Allan ignoring the will of the people with Voice plan.
As reported in todays Herald Sun.
The mention that indigenous people will get compensation and land grants. Of course the compensation will be tax payers money and the land grants will be the closure of public land and given over to indigenous groups.
As always, when talk about these privileged 2% of the population, you see the finely worked animal skins that represent traditional clothing. Finely tanned and sewn possum skin cloaks, worked leather kangaroo skins, all of which never existed before settlement.
A search of Wiki talks about aboriginal clothing and even “fashion” and yet in the reports that I have read of early observations the natives are in most cases described as “totally naked” with the very odd reference to animal skins draped over the shoulder. Photos of aboriginal groups show people “dressed” in rough skin clothing and more recently in brightly coloured loin cloths. Part of the trick here is of course the “photo” so well into the settlement period when decorum required covering of the naughty bits.
Rumour has it that the “finely worked ‘ possum skins all come from New Zealand and are tanned in China. Don’t know where the tailoring is done, but certainly not by ladies sitting around a fire labouring away with needle and thread
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Get them on Ebay.
NZ made. A$924 plus postage.
https://ebay.us/m/Z6k8KV
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Our possums are a major pest over there apparently.
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Same as paintings.
You know that street in Alice.., any day there would be few thousands of pointillism pictures for sale there, must be the whole production line. (somewhere).
However, once or twice a piece of art grabbed my attention immediately, my wife and and and the visitors to our house would enjoyed immensely but, “close elbow but you can not bite it”.
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Surely all those dot paintings are cultural appropriation from their inventor Geoffrey Bardon who invented them in about 1971?
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Thanks for that.
https://japingkaaboriginalart.com/articles/geoffrey-bardon-influence/
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With reference to Jo’s graph of coal emissions yesterday-
“Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean said Australia needed to reduce emissions to limit further climate warming, while also mounting a strong national adaptation effort to protect the nation against the risks that were already here.”
…in an SMH article about how increasing climate disasters are going to cripple us with insurance costs. You pick your lies and you push them hard and fast, then bury any counter-arguments later.
“CSIRO research suggests every $1 invested in climate resilience saves up to $11 in recovery costs.”
Predictions include more hot and dry weather so more intense fires, plus more thunderstorms, rain and cyclones, so more flooding, and all at once! But if you buy a Chinese electric car and a solar panel it will all stop and house insurance will be free…
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/insurance-claims-for-wild-weather-damage-this-year-already-exceed-2024-total-20250616-p5m7sj.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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Testflight 1 by Gilmour Space has been delayed again. Maybe next week.
It’s a 3 stage rocket with a 4 engine hybrid (solid fuel/liquid oxygen) 1st stage, single hybrid engine 2nd stage, and liquid oxygen/kerosene 3rd stage.
Unfortunately they won’t be live-streaming the launch, though anyone in the vicinity of Bowen in Queensland should see something.
https://www.gspace.com/launch
I hope it is a success!
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I most strongly want Bowen launched into space.
No need to return empties.
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Just as an aside, the Saturn 5 rocket used Lox/kero for extra thrust to get off the ground through the thick atmosphere then onto to Lox/H2 for the following stages.
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Here is an informative video, well worth 26 minutes of your time. It details the significance of William Dampier’s exploration of the Australian west coast.
In summary, apart from navigation, botany, zoology and other scientific achievements, and piracy, he became a best-selling author several times over. In his authorship he is even credited with the addition of 1,000 new words to the English language — second only to Shakespeare.
His scientific work laid the basis for great scientific thinkers of the 1700s and 1800s.
When not toiling as a scientist-buccaneer, Dampier also found time to rescue Alexander Selkirk of Robinson Crusoe fame, and indirectly gave ideas to Jonathon Swift for Gulliver’s Travels. Robert Louis Stevenson also based some characters in Treasure Island on Dampier’s adventures, and Jules Verne was a big fan.
All in all not bad for a 17th century pirate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=691SWtYzn_Q
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Very interesting, though I found the relentless ‘music’ irritating. Why do people think that’s an enhancement of what didn’t need it?
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I remember learning about him in primary school, 59/60, not a lot of detail though, didn’t know anything about his other talents.
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I get a regular email on various cyber security topics. Todays version included a proposal from OpenAI on turning Australia into an “AI powerhouse”
Apart from the eye rolling nature of all these “superpower” and “powerhouse” proposals that come to nought, their point 9 drew my attention more than the other motherhood statements. In a classic cart before the horse move they waited till point 9 to talk about energy.
They want the government to ensure “affordable renewable energy” (cue the mission impossible theme music) No mention of abundant and reliable which is really what they need.
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As far as I know, there are no AI or other data centres powered by “renewables” unless you count hydro (not SH2) which is a properly engineered system.
If you want to attract such data centres you need cheap, reliable, coal, gas, nuclear or real hydro power.
And of course, no accounting tricks like they use to claim Canberra runs on renewables.
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Serious question for the Left including the fake conservative Liberals.
How long do you think Australia can last with Government (federal, state, local) spending at around $6,500 per second or $561 million per day?
What, if anything will stop it?
Indeed, do you believe it should be stopped or should spending continue until it’s impossible for Australia to pay the interest bill?
How will it end or won’t it?
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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How much better and cheaper would our world have been if Al Gore/James Hansen and the UN not discovered man made CO2 driven Global Warming in 1988?
And where is the world a better place for this discovery and the vast amounts of our money spent on dismantling what worked and replacing it with what doesn’t work?
The real inconvenient truth is that we are no better off. In fact far worse off. But I do not expect billionaire Al Gore to say sorry any time soon.
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And given that straight line CO2 growth over the last 55 years has not been changed in the slightest, why are we continuing? (the reference is only for the CO2 graph. The accompanying text is the usual request for more funding). Surely with massive government expenses and taxes (safeguard mechanism) there should be some measure of performance? Why is no one held to account?
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Sigh… this again. And from you again.
Year [CO2ppm]
1960 317
1990 354
2020 414
30 year change rose from 37 to 60
Is it astigmatism that makes you see this as straight?
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Typical. From you.
Did you even look at the graph of CO2 I referenced? It doesn’t even have 1960 and 1970 It has more than your silly 3 points, 55 points. And not some calculated stuff for ‘world CO2’ but actual measurement in NZ.
It’s as close to a dead straight line as you get in experimental science. Certainly not exponential. But emissions are exponential. And summed emissions (the integral) are even steeper. You cannot add an exponential to a straight line and get a straight line. And of course the basic premise is that CO2 in the atmosphere was absolutely constant before 1750. Which is outrageous. Even something in perfect balance can move its centre point. A growth of 0.4% pa. is tiny.
And if you can see ANY impact of human activity, say bushfires, volcanoes, shutdown in 2020, anything, 500,000 windmills, billions of solar panels, just give the year and what you think happened.
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What I like about this graph is it is not disturbed by Henry’s Law in the tropics at Hawaii, Moana Loa. There you see the cycles in ocean surface tempeature and the rapid outgassing and then absorption of CO2. All you see off NZ is the monotonic linear movements of the equilibrium point for the very rapid CO2 exchange between ocean and atmosphere. How anyone can believe fossil fuel CO2 alone stays in the atmosphere is beyond logic. 98% of all CO2 is in the water and fossil fuel adds a tiny 0.02% per year to the total.
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It is not a straight line. The slope has increased by more than 50%. And yes, it is in that arc closer to being exponential than straight. Hand in your stats degree.
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BTW, as for your childish “did you even look at the graph”, (is that all you did???). No, I looked at the data. My “silly” 3 points of data were illustrative and they illustrated it well. Your graph strings out a shallow slope using a long x-axis which only fools fools and the mathematically illiterate into thinking it is straight.
here is that data with some earlier context. https://scripps.ucsd.edu/bluemoon/co2_400/co2_800k_zoom.png
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No, you didn’t look at the graph. And you propose looking at a different graph, a compound graph not at one location? And that makes sense to you?
Be careful who you call mathematically illiterate so flippantly. Inter alia I spent years with least squares fits of spectral data. And you presume to calculate two deltas and proclaim your expertise. As for deltas, it depends on the slope of what is very close to a horizontal line. I advise you to look again at the NZ graph and decide between line, parabola, hyperbola, exponential or compound curve or two lines. And as I pointed out, CO2 should go as the integral of the exponential if the accumulation theory was correct. And that is an even steeper exponential.
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Thanks leaf, from 1950 to 2025 there is total reliance on the Keeling Curve, do you have data from Antarctic ice cores over the same period?
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Is that preferable to direct measurement?
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Yes, there is inherent smoothing of the ice core CO2 record caused by diffusion.
The ice core record shouldn’t have been spliced to the Keeling Curve.
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Quick quiz… how was the ice core calibrated?
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‘To analyze the age of the deepest layers, scientists use a variety of methods, including measurements of the chemical composition and electrical conductivity of the ice. Scientists also use computer modeling techniques that can help to understand the relationship between the depth of the core and the age of the ice.’ (NASA)
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‘Refrozen melt layers in the Siple Dome ice core contain excess CO2 due to the high solubility of CO2 in the meltwater. Our analyses of samples from the Siple Dome ice core show a gradual decrease of CO2 away from two refrozen melt layers.’ (Ahn et al 2008)
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GA – if at first you don’t succeed, post rubbish 2 or 3 times more so that your post fails are statistically significant. 😆
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Wait, you wrote 55 years
Year [CO2ppm]
1970 325
1997 364
2024 424
39 and 60
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That’s almost enough for a PhD in Climate Science.
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Sorry TdeF, one of my regrettable misteering of thumbs.
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Thanks. I have been trying to express my amazement at the lack of any metric for success of the Net Zero idea. Say they have genuinely reduced CO2 ’emissions’. Great. Now how much has world CO2 gone done because CO2 global warming is not determined by our ’emissions’.
The political response is only that we have kept our promise. Given the enormous, crippling cost and adverse impact on all Australians, entirely pointless if it doesn’t change total CO2.
As ONLY purpose of Net Zero is to stop the increase in CO2, shouldn’t our politicians be asking why only 5% of the world’s people should make such enormous sacrifices?
Our politicians may have agreed to our suicide for the greater good, but surely we should be asking why no one gets any benefit?
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A good question. Ecosystem collapse uninhabitable tropics, and mass migration is forecast at around 800–1000 ppm CO2 which equates to a 4–6°C increase in temperature. This would happen around the year 2100 under “business as usual”.
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And you believe everything. Of course.
So why aren’t the tropics utterly uninhabitable now? Java has 158,000,000 people on an island half the size of Victoria. Why don’t people fry in the terrible equatorial heat? How can so many people feed themselves? Why is the maximum temperature really only 34C within 7 degrees of the equator?
And then Dubai at say 52C, 5 million people with no food, no water, no fish and 5 million people? How is it possible without fossil fuels?
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A drop in temperatures would be far more deadly. This happened in North Africa when the monsoons stopped and made the place uninhabitable. And vast jungles vanished. They are discovering the bones. The population retreated into the deep Nile valley. And India without the monsoons would be a disaster.
People think heat is a problem but it is heat without water which is deadly. All water on land comes from evaporation somewhere. Falling as rain, ice and snow, filling lakes and rivers, creating our habitable world. But if the heating became cooling and the rains stopped, a lot of the world would quickly becomes desert. Deserts can be hot but the desert is a lack of water and that means a lack of rain and that means a lack of evaporation. As creatures from the ocean, we have to have two things to live. Water and salt.
So being scared of heating itself is silly. Only 11,000 years past the point where New York was under a mile of ice is scary. Most people do not live in cold places at all. Humans have adapted to Canada, Scandinavia, Russia, Japan, Switzerland or those places would be empty. Unfortunately real scientists are still predicting a rapid fall of a few degrees in the next decade. That’s scary. Warming is generally welcome.
Besides, where do people holiday? Antarctica? As Dr Patrick Moore explained, a human without clothes would die from hypothermia at 20C.
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Why would mass migration occur at 800 ppm? According to measurements, the CO2 levels in many internal living spaces already reaches that level. According to the Canadian National Collaborative Centre for Environmental Health, the recommended ventilation level for occupied classroom situations is 1000-1100 ppm. Closed rooms can easily rise to 3000 ppm.
Humans easily cope with levels up to 5000 ppm, and most health authorities say that health is not affected with levels up to 7000 ppm.
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‘ … equates to a 4–6°C increase in temperature.’
Link?
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That’s not a straight line. Nor is this.
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When you see a dramatic graph like this, a scientist questions it.
In fact that’s three different sets of good but different data just bolted together. Bubbles in metamorphic ice to bubbles in partly compressed Firn under 300 years to direct CO2 Laboratory readings. But where’s your proof that these are measuring the same thing? And what’s the time resolution in the metamorphic ice? The ice hockey stick is on a par with Michael Mann’s bolted together discredited fraud. Undocumented tree ring data(he refuses to publish his privately owned data) and thermometers. Just because you cannot see short term variations in the metamorphic record does NOT mean they did not happen.
This is true for all such measurements, like estimates of temperature in the Middle Ages with daily variations of 10C to 20C as now. But invisible in any physical record. You can only infer the average. Rapid changes are filtered out by averaging.
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The Elites who engage in subsidy-harvesting activities are definitely far better off at the expense of non-Elites.
Staggering amounts of wealth have been sucked out of the economy and from individuals which could have been used to enhance the standard of living of non-Elites and also used for productive scientific research, education and numerous other fields of human endeavour.
Note also, that because of Australia’s fanatical commitment to Net Zero, it is no surprise that Australia is one of the few OECD countries which has a declining standard of living.
YOU KNOW IT HAS TO BE REALLY BAD WHEN EVEN THEIR ABC ADMITS TO IT!
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The first sentence says it all.
The second paragraph completes it.
Great stuff.
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Strike 1
A man has died on a flight from Dubai to Sydney leaving passengers stranded on the tarmac awaiting to disembark. Surely not the inflight meals?
Strike 2
Personal data of about six million customers has been breached in a cyber attack on a Qantas contact centre. Up to six million customers have been affected QANTAS are busy contacting them but don’t worry “There is no impact to Qantas’ operations or the safety of the airline.”
Strike 3 ?????
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Trans Lia Thomas stripped of swimming titles
The transgender swimmer who won an NCAA Division I crown in the women’s category in 2022 was stripped of that championship medal and all records as a female competitor at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) under the school’s recent agreement with the Department of Education, officials announced.
The resolution agreement signed by UPenn administrators requires the school to prohibit males from competing in female athletic programs or occupying women’s bathrooms or locker rooms.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/sports/trump-upenn-reach-deal-to-strip-transgender-swimmer-of-past-titles-and-awards-5881111
Pity it takes financial blackmail to force these schools to do the right thing and live in the real world.
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Brittney Griner has not confessed to ever having been a male. Does this rule have the teeth to force someone to take a medical examination including DNA testing?
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Na Brittney can’t dunk so is definitely female
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TRUMP-hating Australian Ambassador to the US KRudd seems to be a major impediment to Australia’s relationship with the US.
But KRudd is a friend of Al-Bozo so he won’t Bozo won’t sack/fire him.
I bet KRudd will only go if he’s given a job at the UN or similiar globalist position.
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I get tired of journalists and ex politicians (The entire UN) who presume to lecture Trump on what he should and should not do. In their expert opinion. Unlimited as to subject. War, tariffs, negotiations, how to deal with dictators and how to prevent WWIII.
What qualifications and real experience in deal making, negotiations, economics, confrontation do they have?
These are armchair spectators offering long distance random opinions based at best on world history as if the current age of nuclear weapons is not without precedent. The fact is that no one knows. But Trump’s guiding principles of avoiding wars, respecting people and negotiation are far better than either the hawkish commentators or those who prostrate themselves at the tiniest threats.
And then you get the acolyte classes who get their ideas from social theory or experts like Karl Marx, who lived in a time so different to our own. The world changed completely after WWII with consumerism. The dark satanic mills gave income and jobs and freedoms and holidays and consumer power and free speech to a world population. And ended slavery. Perversely the real problem today is with people who really want to go back to the days of Karl Marx or back to Medieval days where slavery and destitution and war were universal and the life expectancy was 24 years. Maternal mortality alone was 30% in Victorian days.
I love the idea of Make Gaza Great again. As the most heavily subsidized piece of beach front real estate in the world, Trump knows it should have been paradise, not hell. As Beirut was until the endless Islamic wars, just like the Dark Ages. And I love the fact that Trump is a deal maker who doesn’t need the job, not a professional politician who does deals to enrich himself. Like most politicians, especially the Bidens and Clintons and Obamas.
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9 news on the “Cyclone Bomb” off the NSW coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEQBYBQnvBk
Comments were allowed on this story. Comedy gold in the comments section.
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FWIW
“The Decline And Fall Of Our So-Called Degreed Experts”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/decline-and-fall-our-so-called-degreed-experts
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This is the basic dark humour of the Wizard of Oz. The scarecrow had a brain stuffed with straw. So the Wizard gave him a Degree. A PhD of Thinkology. The lesser alternative was Climate Science.
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I’ve been gardening and the sky is a beautiful Kodacolor* blue, the temperature about 25 deg. Life is good.
* Anyone with a camera 50 yrs ago loved the enhanced colours of Kodac film.
Kodacolor Bright Colors
Kodacolor is a brand of color negative film that has been associated with various color films since 1942. It is known for producing color prints on paper and has been used in different formats such as 120, 620, 116, 616, 127, 35 mm, and others.
Kodacolor films, such as Kodacolor-X and Kodacolor II, have been noted for their ability to produce bright and colorful images.
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I rewatched Arnold Schwarznegger in Total Recall. He landed on Mars and above the futuristic street scene was a giant neon billboard, Fuji Film.
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Fuji was only negative film, their claim to fame was quick and easy printing. Kodacolor gave positives you needed a projector or hand held reader for though they were the brighter, sharper image.
Just old recollections, not a pro.
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I have noted that my Agfa slides from the 60s have lost most of their colour.
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My point was that thirty years ago they could not imagine a fantasy future world without film.
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FWIW
“Toward A New Climate Paradigm”
“Like all flow systems far from equilibrium, the climate is ruled by the Constructal Law, one of the most under-appreciated discoveries of modern thermodynamics. The Constructal Law governs the evolution of flow systems.
And as the Constructal Law requires, the climate heat engine is constantly evolving to maximize the flow. The Constructal Law is a sort of Ten Commandments for anything that flows—rivers, blood, traffic, and, yes, the climate itself. The basic idea?”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/30/towards-a-new-climate-paradigm/
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FWIW
“Monday Mirthiness: The Bob Ward Teller of Forecast Fortunes”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/30/monday-mirthiness-the-bob-ward-teller-of-forecast-fortune/
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Blackout’s “renewables” fantasy has taken another hit:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-07/bluefloat-illawarra-wind-farm-plans-withdrawn/103074274
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Eventually, and I hope soon, even the L-Plate Labor Cabinet will realise that power stations are the proven technology regardless of fuel.
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Wednesday teaser: what is this?
https://imgbox.com/0ODDA0Tw
Some weird engine?
I have questions!
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Try these
“Axial engine”
Or “Z crank engine”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_engine
Other “barrel engines” have used a swash plate like a GM car air conditioner compressor
Invented long ago, not yet successful (AFIK)
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Herschel Smith “A History of Aircraft Piston Engines” has a chapter
“Lost causes, odd balls and unconventional engines” which includes those.
And re
“Heraclio Alfaro Fournier was a Spanish aviator who was knighted at the age of 18 by King Alfonso XIII of Spain for designing, building, and flying Spain’s first airplane.[10] He developed a barrel engine for aircraft use which was later produced by the Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company as the Alfaro. ”
in it there is this addition –
“Manufacture by Indian in 1938 was enough to guarantee failure. De mortuis nil nisi bonum and all that, but Indian was in those days the farthest thing from a precision shop that could be found this side of the steam locomotive factories”
(Might draw the wrath of Indian motorcycle fans but remember that I am quoting)
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WTF – Tyre comes off pickup truck and causes car to flip over
https://youtu.be/qkryj0A723c?si=8KP3nofWtPqS_T7P
Not even Hollywood nonsense!
Probably had one nut holding the wheel on.
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It’s usually the nut behind the wheel who is the problem.
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FWIW
“Eh Gawd!”
“BREAKING: CBS, Paramount Forced to Pay Trump Massive 8-Figure Settlement for Deceptively Editing ’60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris Interview”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/breaking-cbs-paramount-forced-pay-trump-massive-8/
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How’s this lawfare working out for you Dems? The hunters becoming the hunted.
That’s the second sizeable contribution to his library.
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FWIW
Long but interesting points (IMO)
“This That And The Other Thing”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/07/01/this-that-and-the-other-thing/
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FWIW
Another “Eh Gawd?”
“Wonky data behind the global warming message”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/wonky-data-behind-the-global-warming-message/
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Meandering jet streams not related to climate change.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/01/thanks-newscientist-for-admitting-climate-change-isnt-making-the-jet-stream-more-erratic/
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/ministers-race-close-gap-child-safety-left-open/105484866
Sector needs a ‘vaccine’ against predators I can’t believe this is the language of everything now – so are we just going to see these as breakthrough infections of child abuse. So angry reading this – sorry if my grammar etc all a bit off in this post.
Perhaps, there is a bigger question about whether government should fund early childhood education and care: https://www.thefrontproject.org.au/images/ECEC/ecec_timeline.pdf
It is a new thing, and maybe it was a bad idea?
Maybe children should be cared for by a parent until they are old enough to say what happens to them in the care of others?
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FWIW – we have a “winner”
Qld PRICE $129.45
NSW PRICE $139.23
SA PRICE $14,514.70
VIC PRICE $199.43
TAS PRICE $200.18
https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem
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What about night time solar hydrogen for South Australia? Excess wind powering giant flood lights to drive the solar farms which hydrolyze water for free Green hydrogen? We can be a floodlight superpower. As much sense as Snowy II.
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‘Tis late and I’m not so interested being on the other side of the world but “Diddy” Coombs has only been found guilty of “trafficking” charges, not RICO.
Debauchery is everywhere, hard to criminalise.
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