And they falsely describe its power output as “2GW” when in reality it is one third of that at best, on average. Why do these subsidy harvesting projects keep getting away with falsely describing their projects in that manner? Any other corporation falsely describing the capability of a proposed project like that would be prosecuted for false and misleading statements.
More interestingly, why are wind and solar facilities allowed to be connected to the grid without being able to produce power at the same level of reliability expected of conventional generation? If a ‘renewable’ generation facility is built, it should be required to show the same 24/7/365 delivery performance as the conventional generation it’s bidding to replace, and should only be allowed to advertise itself at the power level it can deliver with that performance. Build a wind farm with a theoretical maximum capacity of 2GW, but with the battery capacity it has to cover periods when it’s not working at or near full capacity, it can only deliver 100MW continuous power, it can only advertise itself as a 100MW facility. And the grid operators — or the government — are not responsible for any price support for the facility’s production over that rating; if the grid has more power than it can use, the facility either pays conventional generation to reduce output or lowers its own.
Batteries are NOT dispatchable generators. They are energy constrained with usually less than 4 hours reserve.
The only way to firm wind is with gas or diesel fuelled generation.
Any wind farm that wants a rating of 100MW needs to have a 100MW diesel or gas plant. They may find it economic to use a battery for short term firming but a battery does not turn it into a dispatchable generator.
The semi-scheduled category was introduced into the NEM in 2009 after the intermittent generating capacity started impacting the grid stability. The RET was introduced in 2000 but it took 9 years before the installed capacity of stop-go generation was enough to need to be considered in scheduling. No one in charge of the grid thought it through.
The vast majority of people installing solar panels actually think they are supporting the grid rather than accelerating its demise. Grid scale wind and solar are a spent category. They will continue to fight for declining volume until Snowy 2 is running. I expect that will be before 2040. By then, rooftops will be serving almost half the demand. All industrial users will be off the grid.
The vast majority of people installing solar panels actually think they are supporting the grid rather than accelerating its demise.
Some of us simply wanted protection from the effects of inflation and management incompetence of the electrical generation/distribution system.
Maybe someday soon, the technology will enable practical “islanding” when the rural grid suffers its inevitable outages.
I note that Texas is planning to introduce legislation that requires renewable providers wanting to connect to their grid to guarantee some level of reliability.
AEMO certainly let its standards slip when they allowed unreliables to connect to the grid, if a coalfired station performed like that, they would be forced offline until the problems were fixed.
This just isn’t good enough.
Here is a video by Topher Field about how the proposal by a real estate research company for a bedroom tax on Australian homes, presumably by a young and naive woke Leftist, and just as insane as the windows tax in England, Scotland, France and Ireland in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, will be misused by Government to introduce a slightly less insane tax.
He argues that no Government would dare introduce a bedroom tax but with this tax already having been placed on the agenda, they will appear to be saviours by saying we won’t introduce THAT tax but will introduce a slightly less offensive tax on the family home such as a land tax, as a “compromise”. I’m sure there’s a psychological or negotiating tactics term for that. (Henry Kissinger said “effectiveness at the bargaining table depends upon your ability to overstate your initial demands”.
Incidentally, the adverse effects of the window tax were as follows according to Goolag AI.
Indirect Impacts
“Dark” and Unhealthy Living Conditions:
The tax promoted darker, less ventilated, and less healthy living spaces, as people prioritized saving money over natural light and fresh air.
Landlord Behavior in Tenement Buildings:
Landlords often paid the tax for tenement buildings, which led them to board up windows in entire buildings to reduce their own costs, severely impacting the living conditions for tenants.
Shifting Building Practices:
The tax created an incentive to design buildings that were outwardly simple and less dependent on large window apertures, influencing the overall aesthetic of new builds during the tax’s era.
Long-Term Effects
Lasting Architectural Features:
The practice of bricking up windows left permanent scars on the facades of historic buildings across Britain, serving as a historical marker of the tax’s impact.
A Legacy of Tax Avoidance:
The Window Tax is a classic example of how heavy, indirect taxation can distort behavior and lead to widespread tax avoidance, permanently altering the built environment in the process.
But, to this day, politicians in the UK [and perhaps elsewhere, too!] do not usually recognise that taxing something more heavily means you get less of it :-
– see the recent increase in National Insurance [a tax on jobs that – once, in the depths of time – was supposed to cover unemployment money] which cut out 160,000 jobs in about since April [4 months] when it took effect. Mostly starter-type jobs, holiday jobs for students, and minimum wage jobs … oh, yes, the Government [Rachel again …] decreed that employers would need to increase the minimum wage … which comes from the employer!
… Guess what?!
– or see the ‘crack down’ on ‘dangerous’ flags [if they’re flags of England or the United Kingdom, but [allegedly] not those of Palestine or Pakistan] in some local authorities in – er – England … Result – more flags of England or the UK, all over the place!
Or, if you subsidise something … you get more of it.
Didn’t Mao try that with flies?
Motability, a scheme whereby those with disabilities get ‘given’ [if they give up a modest part of their Government-supplied monies] a new car, largely expensed, too!
Up to a BMW i4, I gather!
And changed – for new – every 5 years.
It seems now that ‘depression’ & ‘tennis elbow’ etc. are sufficient to qualify.
One calculation is that a QUARTER of all new cars sold in the UK are under this scheme – which the rest of us have to pay for …
[Is THAT where all the EVs are sold … ?]
And the classic Australian example, under the pretext of public health and huge savings in hospital costs , the ever increasing tobacco costs.
Clearly this policy worked, legitimate tobacco sales just keep reducing, so success. Don’t worry about creating a complete illegal tobacco industry, don’t worry about depriving the government of billions in revenue, don’t worry about the endless arson attacks in Melbourne, don’t worry about innocent people being murdered, this clever tax MUST have worked cause legitimate sales are down!
It won’t be long before we are taxed for having one excess kidney. It’s an inter-generational thing. Sell that kidney now so that we can all be worse off together.
…proponents of Empire insisted … that national security required the far-flung empire that is still with us today.
So there is no mystery, therefore, as to why the Forever Wars go on endlessly. Or why at a time when Uncle Sam is hemorrhaging red ink like never before, a large bipartisan majority has seen fit to authorize $1.2 trillion per year for vastly excessive military muscle and wasteful foreign aid boondoggles that do absolutely nothing for America’s homeland security.
In effect, Washington has morphed into a freak of world history – a planetary War Capital dominated by a panoptic complex of arms merchants, paladins of foreign intervention and adventure, and Warfare State nomenklatura. Never before has there been assembled and concentrated under a single state authority a hegemonic force possessing such enormous fiscal resources and military wherewithal.
Not surprisingly, the War Capital on the Potomac is Orwellian to the core. War is always and everywhere described as the promotion of peace. Its jackboot of global hegemony is gussied up in the beneficent-appearing form of alliances and treaties. These are ostensibly designed to promote a “rules-based order” and collective security for the benefit of mankind, not simply the proper goals of peace, liberty, safety, and prosperity within America’s homeland.
As we have seen, however, the whole intellectual foundation of this enterprise is false…
…which is part 2 of a prior excellent essay here, from which, this extract:
Would it actually be too much trouble for the hyperventilating neocons in Washington and the mainstream press to just eyeball these three maps? What is happening is actually a clean-up of 100 years of misbegotten history, not a betrayal of the Ukrainian nation, whatever that actually is; or, most certainly, not a repudiation of Imperial Washington’s phony “rules-based order”.
The truth is, hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have died because a viper’s nest of Washington neocons overthrew the winner of the 2010 election as shown below, thereby igniting the bloodbaths and demolition derby’s that have now led to the imminent partition of a communist-built nation that was never meant to last.
“[..] Washington […] – a planetary War Capital dominated by a panoptic complex of arms merchants, paladins of foreign intervention and adventure, and Warfare State nomenklatura.”
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England and Wales 8593
Germany 8133
France 7500
Poland 2399
2023
England and Wales 68109
Germany 39029
France 42400
Poland 1127
Gosh, I wonder what changed? I wonder if it has anything to do with opening a country’s borders to some of the most violent, uneducated, misogynistic and anti-Western people on the planet, which interestingly Poland did not do and whose numbers actually decreased.
In fairness, in the UK, there has been a concerted, bi-partisan, effort to get more victims to actually REPORT rape.
Mr. Plod, historically, was not very sympathetic to rape reports – although this seems to have changed, in some areas.
Not all, but some.
We are even getting reports of males being raped [by other males, generally].
And I have no idea what effect this better reporting has had.
I do know that the population has increased about one-sixth [~59 to ~69 million, official figures] in that time.
I occasionally watch a video from Sargon of Akkad, he is sane and softly spoken. Y’day he was as mad as I have ever seen him, supporting the St George flag movement with an anti-immigrant rant. And he didn’t miss Nigel Farage either.
Australian Uniparty politicians, especially Green Labor, understand this well:
… the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
A (retired) USA surgeon commented to me recently as I mentioned fluctuating BP issues: In the old days the blood pressure was supposed to be 110+ half your age (systolic), and diastolic under 100.
Apparently under the old rules, my BP is still normal.
But there are rumors that a diastolic under 60 is “not good”
Video from Jeff Taylor describing how the Left in the UK are becoming increasingly violent and dangerous as conservatives are finally waking up and beginning to fight back against the evils of the Left.
I will stop the use of the word Science with Climate. From now on it is Political Science, not real science.
In the State of Victoria, fracking is not only banned, the ban was enshrined in the Victorian Constitution in 2021. That’s a level beyond making it illegal. You cannot make it legal.
This has to be added to the Victorian ban on radioactivity ” nuclear power is banned in Victoria by the Nuclear Activities (Prohibitions) Act 1983. “This Act prohibits the construction and operation of nuclear reactors and other related activities within the state. The ban covers the entire nuclear fuel cycle, from mining and exploration of uranium and thorium to the disposal of nuclear waste. ” We are not even allowed legally to look for Thorium.
How anyone can call Victorian politicians Progressive or Woke? Regressive is self evident.
Luckily there is no ban on idiocy. Or we would have no legislature.
One should consider that physics, .., …, and chemistry are applied to the study of weather and aspects of climate. Further, there is a subject called “political science” that uses mathematics, statistics, and probability. What ClimateCult members do believe is climastrology as practiced by climastrologers. Computer technology replaces crystal balls and entrails.
What has nuclear power got to do with climate? Fukushima is the poster child for why the victorians want nothing to do with it. And I’m assuming the at you will be happy to have the waste stored in your backyard, next to the waste from the AUKUS project
These anti nuclear clowns are living in the past, Fukushima was an old design reactor ,built on a fault line, destroyed by a mag 9 quake, and the ensuing tsunami which did most of the damage. So, using your reasoning, you would never set foot in a modern airliner because DC3’s used to crash and burn regularly.
As for waste, there is no requirement to store it in anyones backyard, CSIRO back in the 70’s developed a process called ‘Synrock’ to store low level waste in a glass medium, sealed forever.
The Fukushima reactors themselves weren’t directly destroyed by the tsunami but a design flaw with the backup diesel generators which were flooded due to poor placement and there was already a plan to relocate them. The failure of the generators led to the failure of the reactor cooling systems and subsequent partial meltdown.
To me Fukushima is the poster child, indeed !
Engineers (designers, constructors, managers) and politicians make mistakes, it is true.
But there are mistakes and mistakes.
Just compare the number of dead in the overall tsunami-affected area to number of wounded at Fukushima.
Mistakes happen indeed. A few days ago in China a big bridge a few hundred metres above the river collapsed as the join from the two sides was about to happen. Some cables broke apparently. About 18 died, but life’s cheap in China.
They managed this in Sydney a long time ago but missed in Melb sixty years back [different construction].
That’s correct, if the backup generators were sited on a hill out of reach of the tsunami, the power plant would still be operating, generating clean dispatchable power for the masses.
Ronin,
Big mistake. Many here would be pleased to know that CSIRO had nothing to do with the development of SYNROC.
Your spelling makes a second mistake.
SYNROC was developed by staff of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in conjunction with Prof Ted Ringwood of the ANU.
It was Prof Ringwood’s original idea.
Your third mistake is that the work was completed not in the 1970’s but in the 1980’s.
Your fourth mistake – and please don’t give Peter F any leverage – because this one really matters, is that SYNROC was designed from the outset to handle high-level waste, and does so, very successfully indeed.
SYNROC is the gold standard for nuclear waste management.
Yes, I was there during the time of its development.
“Yes, I was there during the time of its development.”
I wasn’t, so I was just raising points from memory, I was thinking not everyone has heard of Synroc as a method of storing radioactive waste safely, not in someones backyard as suggested by others.
A strange statement. Surely you must acknowledge that if nuclear was used in Australia, we would not need expensive, unreliable renewables; we wouldn’t have to desecrate national parks, forests and agricultural land, and we wouldn’t have overly expensive electricity. We would have clean, reliable energy for a very long time, without any need to regularly dispose of toxic solar panels or wind turbines.
We export a lot for others to burn, which makes no sense when you consider that CO2 does not cause global warming. Anyway, Beijing doesn’t believe in the yarn and are building a new coal fired power station every other week.
I’m against nuclear power, particularly after Dutton said he wanted one in my backyard.
In actual fact Japan was a victim of its own geography and culture, don’t question your elders, follow orders and the chain of command…
Fukushima is the best known example, but not the only one, with thousands of needless deaths from the 2011 tsunami, stories not commonly known. In fact it probably could have been prevented if they had embraced sea walls like at Taro (now anyway).
As for “safe disposal” of nuclear waste, it’s more a case of “out of sight, out of mind” as decay is on geological timeframes, and leaks are common, and “bomb carbon” has been found in animals at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
There is no safe method of waste destruction.
Nice try Peter.
I would have thought the answer was pretty obvious.
It is that for those who believe that human-produced CO2 emissions are a driver of climate change, the only electricity-generating technology which reduces CO2 emissions very very significantly, and actually works, 24/7, 365 days of the year, is nuclear power.
And to spell it out for you: therefore it’s banning in Victoria is completely illogical.
Your choice of the Fukushima accident was poor: no one died or received a significant dose of radiation as a direct result of that accident. Sure, a lot of politicians over-reacted, but those are the facts. In any case, Ronin’s analogy with the DC-3 as to how to describe your attitude is an excellent one.
In the State of Victoria, fracking is not only banned, the ban was enshrined in the Victorian Constitution in 2021. That’s a level beyond making it illegal. You cannot make it legal.
?? Why not ? ….
If the constitution can be altered to ban something, surely it can be altered again to reverse that ban. (Ban the Ban ?) via a referendum .
“In short:
Perth has broken weather records this winter, experiencing its coldest day in more than 50 years.
The city has also exceeded its average rainfall in each of the three months of winter for the first time since 1996.
Meanwhile, areas in Western Australia’s north have hit maximum temperatures of more than 38 degrees Celsius.”
Morning Jo, I hope you and your team have somehow managed to survive the “global warming” event that has delivered the wettest winter in 30 years and coldest day in 50 years.
If the “heat” gets to much to bear you can put another cardigan on.
It’s even been warmer here than there (Perth, WA) the past few pleasant sunny Spring-like days – oh no! cardigan calamity crisis – though by the weekend it’ll be the polar opposite [literally & figuratively] such is life at 36.5° South in August.
Not sure how the BOM has determined that, as they have moved Perth’s temperature measuring site twice in that time, and with the first move, no parallel old/new site comparisons were made, so they never compensated for a very significant site move.
But regardless, Perth experienced a lot colder weather in the 1960s and 1970s, even when measured at a colder site.
Ex-hurricane Erin’s outer winds beginning to have an effect on those bird-chopping monstrosities stationed around the once-pristine coastline of Airstrip One [1984]
Records may be broken – and possibly a few pylons / turbines – as the storm formerly known as Erin lingers for the next week (?) testing the design qualities of said toxic windcatchers (could be some great ‘collapse’ videos soon) as well as pushing heavy rain bands eastwards to the Alps, ie. floods, unseasonal snow, zero solar… must be man’s fault.
Thanks Rafe, I enjoy your daily observations. Thank goodness for oil, coal, gas, hydro, etc.
The Z-scala is 10X the X and Y scales so exaggerates the tilt of the plan that the Sun actually moves in. I figure this is primarily due to the Jupiter’s ecliptic plane but there is some variation about that as well.
The Z-axis motion has no close bearing on solar activity. But if you follow the orbit, you find that sunspots are related to the tight cornering. I noted April 1989 where the orbital path took a short cut and did not go around the barycentre. That tight cornering aligns with peak solar activity.
I have some doubts that the NASA JPL derived motion of the Sun is correct. The solar activity is linked to gravitational forces but the derived motion has a time shift relative to solar activity that I cannot explain using the derived orbit. It could be that the Earth observer causes this time shift but that requires the solar activity to be a travelling wave, not a whole of disc phenomena.
The main reason that Earth’s temperature has been trending up since 1700 is the precession cycle and the much high thermal response of the NH versus the SH. The ratio of land temperature responses is 3.3X at the present time.
There are shorter term movements of the Sun that affect climate on shorter scales such as the Z-axis movement. Likewise the solar activity has an impact but it is relatively mild by comparison with the positional aspects. For example, the 1998 peak in global temperature aligns well with the northern excursion of the Sun; as does the 2024 peak. The 2016 peak is a result of solar activity and El Nino. I have not yet found any strong linkage between the Sun and El Nino.
Positional relationships explain the medieval warm period and the so-called little ice age.
Solar activity is definitely linked to gravitational forces on the Sun. And I think it much simpler than the dynamo hypothesis. I believe it is just the variation in rotational torque. However I also believe there is a fundamental error in calculating the movement of the Sun by reducing it to a point mass. Using the same daily forces that JPL use, I can get a near circular orbit of the Sun from 2000 to 2040 with very small change in radius but quite significant change in angular velocity.
Tomorrow, I will link a chart that has sunspot activity on the same time scale as the effective turning radius difference from the average radius. The chart is based on the weird JPL orbit shown in the linked image above.
Official view of the Fairfax Group, I think they own the SMH. Editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald-
“Elements within the Coalition have long voiced global warming denialism and turned the climate wars into a perpetual battle. But the Resolve Political Monitor’s finding of strong support for a more ambitious 2035 target to take to the next climate conference in Brazil this year should provide some pause for thought.
Even if the projected 2035 figure falls short, the push for net zero is heading in the right direction. And despite the Coalition naysayers, a growing number of Australians clearly think the government must stay the course.”
So they see a permanent forever Govt by Labor unless the Coalition embraces global warming and joins the ‘in’ crowd. No mention of what people were actually asked to get a poll where increasing numbers of Australians support stronger measures to save the world.
I used to think that the SMH/ Age newspapers were the preferred reading material for the conservative middle class in Sydney and Melbourne.
I was wrong about the conservative middle class. They are not conservative! Neither are the Fairfax newspapers.
I found the former Premier of Victoria (Henry Bolte) called the Age; “That pinko rag”.
That was 50 years ago. Since the the middle class has turned from voting Liberal to voting Teal.
They use this in the editorial to avoid giving space to a review of alternate views on how to address the climate change problem and effectively shut down debate. Disagreeing with the Net Zero approach does not relate directly to climate denialism. Bjorn Lomberg for example believes that global warming is a problem but that the introduction of net zero policies is more dangerous to the population and more expensive than doing nothing.
The author has deliberately used the ‘denialism’ tag to stifle any discussion on alternate solutions or paths forward (such as not destroying the grid, which allows us to have resources to face the ever changing climate, whether it warms or cools). After all, if there are no other options, then people will agree to Net Zero (hence the survey referred to). Those other options must be kept from the general populace.
“Euronews Is Euro-Trash: Lessons in Media Deception Tactics”
“This is a legacy media iron rule of thumb you can take to the bank — every single time:
· if the racial identity of the perpetrator of a crime is listed in the headline and referenced at least three times in the body of an article, that perpetrator is white
· if the racial identity of the perpetrator is referenced only in generic terms and definitely never mentioned in the headline, that perpetrator is some protected minority”
FWIW- looks like a “What the hell is going on here?”
Re that truck driver petition in USA
“Manisha Kaushal, a Hindu tied to the RSS group from Australia, started this petition. How pathetic that you pin blame on others while your own Hindu community fuels this divisive campaign. Stop the deceitful tactics and own your hypocrisy! ”
Hi. I concede that ” G fills from D, but D can’t fill from C. ”
It could because the outlet from C to D is lower than the outlet from C to J. But I just noticed the trick … the C outlet to D is closed … dirty trick there.
FDA suspends license for Chikungunya vaccine after ‘Serious Adverse Events’
Federal regulators on Aug. 25 said they’ve suspended approval for a vaccine against chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus.
Due to reports of serious adverse events following administration of the vaccine, the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) “believes this vaccine is not safe and that continued administration to the public would pose a danger to health,” the FDA said in a statement.
Despite 14 named storms, there’s been no major Cat3+ typhoons and only 3 which reached Cat1 before dissipating within 2 days, ACE well-below.
Similar story for NE Pacific hurricanes: 10 named storms, zero Cat3+, 4 Cat1 dissipating within 2 days, ACE below average (so far).
Which is the complete opposite of stock-standard political-speak mumbo-mantra espoused by Climate Cult Profits (CCP) in their attempt to scare the children & parents alike, ie. more, bigger, worse!
Exposing the illusion: The truth behind mRNA vaccines and scientific claims
Vaccine development was clearly driven by “experts” with inadequate scientific training, who received large sums of funding and self-validated their work through narrative rather than rigorous experimentation. They are not genuine scientists, but impostors hiding behind credentials they do not truly possess.
Yet, at a recent major scientific conference, these same individuals proclaimed:
“Experts delivered a clear message: the COVID vaccines, especially those using mRNA technology, should be stopped immediately. They also urge increased focus and resources (read funding) to investigate safety signals.”
This begs the question: What have they been doing for the past five decades with billions of dollars in funding? They have produced and marketed ineffective, potentially harmful products under the guise of advanced technology — all while endangering public health. Still, the public continues to place trust in them, believing they represent real science.
Great news for those who lost their jobs for not taking the covid inoculation. This just out of the Fair Work Commission:
‘I have concluded the decision to terminate Parks was harsh given all of the circumstances, including Parks taking the proactive step of self-testing before attending for work as he had been educated to do and returning negative tests, deficiencies in how the testing was undertaken, his unblemished work history, his personal circumstances, and the financial impact on him.’
So, all you fellow uninoculated workers who had an “unblemished work history, had personal circumstances such as religious belief or unease at an untested unproven drug going into your body, and of course faced financial hardship when your livelihood was taken off you with no compensation other than standard notice period payments….. take, oh no wait on as you were.
But hang on. There was a national grocery chain that had a published zero tolerance policy when it came to drugs which meant instant dismissal if caught out. They however didn’t have testing so finding out the accident or psychotic incident was drug related would only have been established after the event. Then just before covid they abandoned that for a more accepting and supportive policy involving rehabilitation and counselling etc.
Imagine if their policy change had introduced home testing kits for staff to mitigate against drug affected accidents (dock forklift accidents or poor shelf stacking that could collapse on a customer). When covid came along they could have opted for a home testing kit for that as well and accept the staff members claim of negative tests when they continued to turn up for work.
But no seems breaking the law with illegal drugs is AOK its only having “…unbleamished work history, personal circumstances and the financial impact “ of being fired for opting to not take a “legal” drug that was being forced on you under duress that is not to be questioned.
Appalling.
Unbelievable.
Atrocious.
And I being chased by a nurse through the public hall of a major hospital because I could not produce a vaccine certificate in 2022 after all lockdowns were lifted. They lost my regular donations, but would they care?
Never forget, never forgive.
Just a little note from the US, home of the Trump phenom.
He sent the national guard into DC to squelch crime.
There have been no murders since.
The man has politically maneuvered the Democrats into breathlessly hoping for murder.
The scolds and ghouls at CNN and the NYT are waking up everyday desperate for an ‘I told you so’.
They will be unable to hide their glee when death returns.
(Of course, we here have known for years that a certain segment looks to every weather event hoping for disaster. And for decades we’ve been sounding the alarm and few listened, then Trump.)
‘Home affairs spokesman Andrew Hastie and former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce are the highest profile members to call for the net zero pledge to be axed, while conservative activist group Advance is lobbying MPs to dump the policy.’ (AFR)
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One less nonsensical floating wind project in Oz:
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2025/08/22/equinor-pulls-out-of-2-gw-australian-floating-wind-farm-project-rejects-feasibility-licence/
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And they falsely describe its power output as “2GW” when in reality it is one third of that at best, on average. Why do these subsidy harvesting projects keep getting away with falsely describing their projects in that manner? Any other corporation falsely describing the capability of a proposed project like that would be prosecuted for false and misleading statements.
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Reminds me of the lyrics to country song:
The porch swing don’t swing
The doorbell don’t ring
[House Again by Hudson Westbrock]
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More interestingly, why are wind and solar facilities allowed to be connected to the grid without being able to produce power at the same level of reliability expected of conventional generation? If a ‘renewable’ generation facility is built, it should be required to show the same 24/7/365 delivery performance as the conventional generation it’s bidding to replace, and should only be allowed to advertise itself at the power level it can deliver with that performance. Build a wind farm with a theoretical maximum capacity of 2GW, but with the battery capacity it has to cover periods when it’s not working at or near full capacity, it can only deliver 100MW continuous power, it can only advertise itself as a 100MW facility. And the grid operators — or the government — are not responsible for any price support for the facility’s production over that rating; if the grid has more power than it can use, the facility either pays conventional generation to reduce output or lowers its own.
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Batteries are NOT dispatchable generators. They are energy constrained with usually less than 4 hours reserve.
The only way to firm wind is with gas or diesel fuelled generation.
Any wind farm that wants a rating of 100MW needs to have a 100MW diesel or gas plant. They may find it economic to use a battery for short term firming but a battery does not turn it into a dispatchable generator.
The semi-scheduled category was introduced into the NEM in 2009 after the intermittent generating capacity started impacting the grid stability. The RET was introduced in 2000 but it took 9 years before the installed capacity of stop-go generation was enough to need to be considered in scheduling. No one in charge of the grid thought it through.
The vast majority of people installing solar panels actually think they are supporting the grid rather than accelerating its demise. Grid scale wind and solar are a spent category. They will continue to fight for declining volume until Snowy 2 is running. I expect that will be before 2040. By then, rooftops will be serving almost half the demand. All industrial users will be off the grid.
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Gas is the best way to shore up unreliables.
https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/news/hunter-power-project-update/
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But only if CCGT generators are used with cheap gas, neither of which appears to be used for gas peakers in the east.
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The Hunter Gas Pipeline project is obviously being constructed for this purpose.
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Teething problems.
https://esdnews.com.au/hunter-locals-kick-up-stink-about-kurri-kurri-diesel-smell/
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The vast majority of people installing solar panels actually think they are supporting the grid rather than accelerating its demise.
Some of us simply wanted protection from the effects of inflation and management incompetence of the electrical generation/distribution system.
Maybe someday soon, the technology will enable practical “islanding” when the rural grid suffers its inevitable outages.
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Trump’s on the case in the US: https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/08/25/ending-rural-solar-subsidies-was-the-right-call-n4943018
Another good article by David Manney.
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I note that Texas is planning to introduce legislation that requires renewable providers wanting to connect to their grid to guarantee some level of reliability.
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AEMO certainly let its standards slip when they allowed unreliables to connect to the grid, if a coalfired station performed like that, they would be forced offline until the problems were fixed.
This just isn’t good enough.
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Here is a video by Topher Field about how the proposal by a real estate research company for a bedroom tax on Australian homes, presumably by a young and naive woke Leftist, and just as insane as the windows tax in England, Scotland, France and Ireland in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, will be misused by Government to introduce a slightly less insane tax.
He argues that no Government would dare introduce a bedroom tax but with this tax already having been placed on the agenda, they will appear to be saviours by saying we won’t introduce THAT tax but will introduce a slightly less offensive tax on the family home such as a land tax, as a “compromise”. I’m sure there’s a psychological or negotiating tactics term for that. (Henry Kissinger said “effectiveness at the bargaining table depends upon your ability to overstate your initial demands”.
https://youtu.be/58xGVrmr8lc
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Incidentally, the adverse effects of the window tax were as follows according to Goolag AI.
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You can still see some of these windows to this day, generally the apertures were bricked up
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But, to this day, politicians in the UK [and perhaps elsewhere, too!] do not usually recognise that taxing something more heavily means you get less of it :-
– see the recent increase in National Insurance [a tax on jobs that – once, in the depths of time – was supposed to cover unemployment money] which cut out 160,000 jobs in about since April [4 months] when it took effect. Mostly starter-type jobs, holiday jobs for students, and minimum wage jobs … oh, yes, the Government [Rachel again …] decreed that employers would need to increase the minimum wage … which comes from the employer!
… Guess what?!
– or see the ‘crack down’ on ‘dangerous’ flags [if they’re flags of England or the United Kingdom, but [allegedly] not those of Palestine or Pakistan] in some local authorities in – er – England … Result – more flags of England or the UK, all over the place!
Or, if you subsidise something … you get more of it.
Didn’t Mao try that with flies?
Motability, a scheme whereby those with disabilities get ‘given’ [if they give up a modest part of their Government-supplied monies] a new car, largely expensed, too!
Up to a BMW i4, I gather!
And changed – for new – every 5 years.
It seems now that ‘depression’ & ‘tennis elbow’ etc. are sufficient to qualify.
One calculation is that a QUARTER of all new cars sold in the UK are under this scheme – which the rest of us have to pay for …
[Is THAT where all the EVs are sold … ?]
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And the classic Australian example, under the pretext of public health and huge savings in hospital costs , the ever increasing tobacco costs.
Clearly this policy worked, legitimate tobacco sales just keep reducing, so success. Don’t worry about creating a complete illegal tobacco industry, don’t worry about depriving the government of billions in revenue, don’t worry about the endless arson attacks in Melbourne, don’t worry about innocent people being murdered, this clever tax MUST have worked cause legitimate sales are down!
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Reported today from a major retailer suggest the sales of legal ciggs are down 90% compared to previous years
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It won’t be long before we are taxed for having one excess kidney. It’s an inter-generational thing. Sell that kidney now so that we can all be worse off together.
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Don’t give them ideas.
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(Henry Kissinger said “effectiveness at the bargaining table depends upon your ability to overstate your initial demands”.
Even kids know that if they want a kitten, start by asking for a pony.
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The unions call it an “ambit claim”. Kissinger prolly learned from the unions.
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This essay and it’s prequel are highly recommended as essential background for understanding the precipice upon which we are currently poised.
Russia and China Are Not Threats to the US
by David Stockman | Aug 25, 2025
https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2025/08/24/russia-and-china-are-not-threats-to-the-us/
…which is part 2 of a prior excellent essay here, from which, this extract:
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“[..] Washington […] – a planetary War Capital dominated by a panoptic complex of arms merchants, paladins of foreign intervention and adventure, and Warfare State nomenklatura.”
Is he allowed to say that?
He’s definitely got a way with words .
🙂
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Elon Musk Tweeted the following rape statistics for Europe.
Gosh, I wonder what changed? I wonder if it has anything to do with opening a country’s borders to some of the most violent, uneducated, misogynistic and anti-Western people on the planet, which interestingly Poland did not do and whose numbers actually decreased.
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In fairness, in the UK, there has been a concerted, bi-partisan, effort to get more victims to actually REPORT rape.
Mr. Plod, historically, was not very sympathetic to rape reports – although this seems to have changed, in some areas.
Not all, but some.
We are even getting reports of males being raped [by other males, generally].
And I have no idea what effect this better reporting has had.
I do know that the population has increased about one-sixth [~59 to ~69 million, official figures] in that time.
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I occasionally watch a video from Sargon of Akkad, he is sane and softly spoken. Y’day he was as mad as I have ever seen him, supporting the St George flag movement with an anti-immigrant rant. And he didn’t miss Nigel Farage either.
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Climate change is the official coverall lie for everything.
It’s not “their way”, it’s CO2.
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Seen this?
https://twitter.com/Rightanglenews/status/1959972631555297540
Shades of Victoria now…
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Australian Uniparty politicians, especially Green Labor, understand this well:
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Ah well, 6 years left and we can start over…
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Video from Dr Suneel Dhand warning about possible over-medicatuon for high blood pressure:
https://youtu.be/-Ilqghj48CQ
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Added blood pressure to the list for Big Pharma already.
What’s “normal and healthy” keeps getting adjusted downwards so you NEED pills.
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A (retired) USA surgeon commented to me recently as I mentioned fluctuating BP issues:
In the old days the blood pressure was supposed to be 110+ half your age (systolic), and diastolic under 100.
Apparently under the old rules, my BP is still normal.
But there are rumors that a diastolic under 60 is “not good”
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I like Dr Dhand’s channel – he questions everything about the medical establishment and himself too.
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Video from Jeff Taylor describing how the Left in the UK are becoming increasingly violent and dangerous as conservatives are finally waking up and beginning to fight back against the evils of the Left.
https://youtu.be/7fTxOguMjFA
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Are Komodo Dragons giants or dwarfs (due to insular dwarfism)?
https://youtu.be/QHn-nVBh6UI
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Were the swans of Malta giants? Insular Gigantism?
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I will stop the use of the word Science with Climate. From now on it is Political Science, not real science.
In the State of Victoria, fracking is not only banned, the ban was enshrined in the Victorian Constitution in 2021. That’s a level beyond making it illegal. You cannot make it legal.
This has to be added to the Victorian ban on radioactivity ” nuclear power is banned in Victoria by the Nuclear Activities (Prohibitions) Act 1983. “This Act prohibits the construction and operation of nuclear reactors and other related activities within the state. The ban covers the entire nuclear fuel cycle, from mining and exploration of uranium and thorium to the disposal of nuclear waste. ” We are not even allowed legally to look for Thorium.
How anyone can call Victorian politicians Progressive or Woke? Regressive is self evident.
Luckily there is no ban on idiocy. Or we would have no legislature.
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One should consider that physics, .., …, and chemistry are applied to the study of weather and aspects of climate. Further, there is a subject called “political science” that uses mathematics, statistics, and probability. What ClimateCult members do believe is climastrology as practiced by climastrologers. Computer technology replaces crystal balls and entrails.
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What has nuclear power got to do with climate? Fukushima is the poster child for why the victorians want nothing to do with it. And I’m assuming the at you will be happy to have the waste stored in your backyard, next to the waste from the AUKUS project
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These anti nuclear clowns are living in the past, Fukushima was an old design reactor ,built on a fault line, destroyed by a mag 9 quake, and the ensuing tsunami which did most of the damage. So, using your reasoning, you would never set foot in a modern airliner because DC3’s used to crash and burn regularly.
As for waste, there is no requirement to store it in anyones backyard, CSIRO back in the 70’s developed a process called ‘Synrock’ to store low level waste in a glass medium, sealed forever.
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The Fukushima reactors themselves weren’t directly destroyed by the tsunami but a design flaw with the backup diesel generators which were flooded due to poor placement and there was already a plan to relocate them. The failure of the generators led to the failure of the reactor cooling systems and subsequent partial meltdown.
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To me Fukushima is the poster child, indeed !
Engineers (designers, constructors, managers) and politicians make mistakes, it is true.
But there are mistakes and mistakes.
Just compare the number of dead in the overall tsunami-affected area to number of wounded at Fukushima.
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Mistakes happen indeed. A few days ago in China a big bridge a few hundred metres above the river collapsed as the join from the two sides was about to happen. Some cables broke apparently. About 18 died, but life’s cheap in China.
They managed this in Sydney a long time ago but missed in Melb sixty years back [different construction].
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That’s correct, if the backup generators were sited on a hill out of reach of the tsunami, the power plant would still be operating, generating clean dispatchable power for the masses.
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Ronin,
Big mistake. Many here would be pleased to know that CSIRO had nothing to do with the development of SYNROC.
Your spelling makes a second mistake.
SYNROC was developed by staff of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in conjunction with Prof Ted Ringwood of the ANU.
It was Prof Ringwood’s original idea.
Your third mistake is that the work was completed not in the 1970’s but in the 1980’s.
Your fourth mistake – and please don’t give Peter F any leverage – because this one really matters, is that SYNROC was designed from the outset to handle high-level waste, and does so, very successfully indeed.
SYNROC is the gold standard for nuclear waste management.
Yes, I was there during the time of its development.
Cheers,
Paul Miskelly
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“Yes, I was there during the time of its development.”
I wasn’t, so I was just raising points from memory, I was thinking not everyone has heard of Synroc as a method of storing radioactive waste safely, not in someones backyard as suggested by others.
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so you agree that Nuclear has nothing to do with Climate, thanks for your support
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A strange statement. Surely you must acknowledge that if nuclear was used in Australia, we would not need expensive, unreliable renewables; we wouldn’t have to desecrate national parks, forests and agricultural land, and we wouldn’t have overly expensive electricity. We would have clean, reliable energy for a very long time, without any need to regularly dispose of toxic solar panels or wind turbines.
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‘ … Nuclear has nothing to do with Climate … ‘
Neither does coal.
The debate in parliament is political economy, nobody is talking about climate.
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if it is left in ground, or if it was managed like uranium, but if you dump the waste products for free then yes, coal is a problem for climate
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We export a lot for others to burn, which makes no sense when you consider that CO2 does not cause global warming. Anyway, Beijing doesn’t believe in the yarn and are building a new coal fired power station every other week.
I’m against nuclear power, particularly after Dutton said he wanted one in my backyard.
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But nor does coal. Your point?
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In actual fact Japan was a victim of its own geography and culture, don’t question your elders, follow orders and the chain of command…
Fukushima is the best known example, but not the only one, with thousands of needless deaths from the 2011 tsunami, stories not commonly known. In fact it probably could have been prevented if they had embraced sea walls like at Taro (now anyway).
As for “safe disposal” of nuclear waste, it’s more a case of “out of sight, out of mind” as decay is on geological timeframes, and leaks are common, and “bomb carbon” has been found in animals at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
There is no safe method of waste destruction.
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Why doesn’t uranium, scattered randomly around the world close to the surface, need to be rendered safe?
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Nice try Peter.
I would have thought the answer was pretty obvious.
It is that for those who believe that human-produced CO2 emissions are a driver of climate change, the only electricity-generating technology which reduces CO2 emissions very very significantly, and actually works, 24/7, 365 days of the year, is nuclear power.
And to spell it out for you: therefore it’s banning in Victoria is completely illogical.
Your choice of the Fukushima accident was poor: no one died or received a significant dose of radiation as a direct result of that accident. Sure, a lot of politicians over-reacted, but those are the facts. In any case, Ronin’s analogy with the DC-3 as to how to describe your attitude is an excellent one.
As I said, nice try, Peter.
Paul Miskelly
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Well,
Let me know how deep you want me to dig!
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?? Why not ? ….
If the constitution can be altered to ban something, surely it can be altered again to reverse that ban. (Ban the Ban ?) via a referendum .
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There was no referendum to ban fracking in the Victorian Constitution.
Therefore it can be changed by a vote in Parliament.
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In World War II, US Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz had the answer to Net Zero. His policies led to what became known as The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot!
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Was that “net zero” or “wet zero”.
Nearly 500 planes downed in a day.
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” Iron bottom sound”.
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“In short:
Perth has broken weather records this winter, experiencing its coldest day in more than 50 years.
The city has also exceeded its average rainfall in each of the three months of winter for the first time since 1996.
Meanwhile, areas in Western Australia’s north have hit maximum temperatures of more than 38 degrees Celsius.”
Morning Jo, I hope you and your team have somehow managed to survive the “global warming” event that has delivered the wettest winter in 30 years and coldest day in 50 years.
If the “heat” gets to much to bear you can put another cardigan on.
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It’s even been warmer here than there (Perth, WA) the past few pleasant sunny Spring-like days – oh no! cardigan calamity crisis – though by the weekend it’ll be the polar opposite [literally & figuratively] such is life at 36.5° South in August.
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Not sure how the BOM has determined that, as they have moved Perth’s temperature measuring site twice in that time, and with the first move, no parallel old/new site comparisons were made, so they never compensated for a very significant site move.
But regardless, Perth experienced a lot colder weather in the 1960s and 1970s, even when measured at a colder site.
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GRIDWATCH TUESDAY 26
AT 7.10 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 27% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST
AND 18% IN THE WEST
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
WHAT ABOUT TEXAS?
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4.15 PM WIND 9% SOLAR 30%
BRITAIN?
https://grid.ia10.mkate.com/
10.20 PM WIND 53% SOLAR 0
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Britain 53% wind…
Ex-hurricane Erin’s outer winds beginning to have an effect on those bird-chopping monstrosities stationed around the once-pristine coastline of Airstrip One [1984]
Records may be broken – and possibly a few pylons / turbines – as the storm formerly known as Erin lingers for the next week (?) testing the design qualities of said toxic windcatchers (could be some great ‘collapse’ videos soon) as well as pushing heavy rain bands eastwards to the Alps, ie. floods, unseasonal snow, zero solar… must be man’s fault.
Thanks Rafe, I enjoy your daily observations. Thank goodness for oil, coal, gas, hydro, etc.
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On Sunday, WUWT published my article on Earth’s reduction in reflectivity:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/24/change-in-reflected-solar-electro-magnetic-radiation-during-ceres-era/
Some of the discussion got into what was driving the Z-axis motion of the Sun. I produced the attached diagram to show how the Sun moves relative to Earth’s ecliptic:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r9GEuaAExUkzDr5K8ej-_NunXCdkJxJL/view?usp=sharing
The Z-scala is 10X the X and Y scales so exaggerates the tilt of the plan that the Sun actually moves in. I figure this is primarily due to the Jupiter’s ecliptic plane but there is some variation about that as well.
The Z-axis motion has no close bearing on solar activity. But if you follow the orbit, you find that sunspots are related to the tight cornering. I noted April 1989 where the orbital path took a short cut and did not go around the barycentre. That tight cornering aligns with peak solar activity.
I have some doubts that the NASA JPL derived motion of the Sun is correct. The solar activity is linked to gravitational forces but the derived motion has a time shift relative to solar activity that I cannot explain using the derived orbit. It could be that the Earth observer causes this time shift but that requires the solar activity to be a travelling wave, not a whole of disc phenomena.
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Rick, I was looking at your paper earlier today and noticed in the comments some discussion about the sun’s motion about the barycentre.
If you are not already familair with the work by Rhodes Fairbridge here is a link to an article by Rishard Mackey.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228635119_Rhodes_Fairbridge_and_the_idea_that_the_solar_system_regulates_the_Earth%27s_climate
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I have not seen any of the Fairbridge work previously.
Earth’s climate is primarily driven by precession of Earth’s orbit. It causes huge differences in seasonal solar energy. I go into detail on precession driving glaciation in this WUWT article:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/16/cycles-in-earths-climate-part-1-the-trend-setters/
The main reason that Earth’s temperature has been trending up since 1700 is the precession cycle and the much high thermal response of the NH versus the SH. The ratio of land temperature responses is 3.3X at the present time.
There are shorter term movements of the Sun that affect climate on shorter scales such as the Z-axis movement. Likewise the solar activity has an impact but it is relatively mild by comparison with the positional aspects. For example, the 1998 peak in global temperature aligns well with the northern excursion of the Sun; as does the 2024 peak. The 2016 peak is a result of solar activity and El Nino. I have not yet found any strong linkage between the Sun and El Nino.
Positional relationships explain the medieval warm period and the so-called little ice age.
Solar activity is definitely linked to gravitational forces on the Sun. And I think it much simpler than the dynamo hypothesis. I believe it is just the variation in rotational torque. However I also believe there is a fundamental error in calculating the movement of the Sun by reducing it to a point mass. Using the same daily forces that JPL use, I can get a near circular orbit of the Sun from 2000 to 2040 with very small change in radius but quite significant change in angular velocity.
Tomorrow, I will link a chart that has sunspot activity on the same time scale as the effective turning radius difference from the average radius. The chart is based on the weird JPL orbit shown in the linked image above.
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Official view of the Fairfax Group, I think they own the SMH. Editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald-
“Elements within the Coalition have long voiced global warming denialism and turned the climate wars into a perpetual battle. But the Resolve Political Monitor’s finding of strong support for a more ambitious 2035 target to take to the next climate conference in Brazil this year should provide some pause for thought.
Even if the projected 2035 figure falls short, the push for net zero is heading in the right direction. And despite the Coalition naysayers, a growing number of Australians clearly think the government must stay the course.”
So they see a permanent forever Govt by Labor unless the Coalition embraces global warming and joins the ‘in’ crowd. No mention of what people were actually asked to get a poll where increasing numbers of Australians support stronger measures to save the world.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-out-of-step-on-net-zero-emissions-20250825-p5mpkf.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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I used to think that the SMH/ Age newspapers were the preferred reading material for the conservative middle class in Sydney and Melbourne.
I was wrong about the conservative middle class. They are not conservative! Neither are the Fairfax newspapers.
I found the former Premier of Victoria (Henry Bolte) called the Age; “That pinko rag”.
That was 50 years ago. Since the the middle class has turned from voting Liberal to voting Teal.
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These days we only have SkyNews.
‘Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says there should be a “debate” on net zero policies.
‘Mr Canavan told Sky News Australia that net zero is the most radical “socialist plan” ever for the Australian economy.
“Our party room has never actually had a full debate on the issue,” he said.
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They use this in the editorial to avoid giving space to a review of alternate views on how to address the climate change problem and effectively shut down debate. Disagreeing with the Net Zero approach does not relate directly to climate denialism. Bjorn Lomberg for example believes that global warming is a problem but that the introduction of net zero policies is more dangerous to the population and more expensive than doing nothing.
The author has deliberately used the ‘denialism’ tag to stifle any discussion on alternate solutions or paths forward (such as not destroying the grid, which allows us to have resources to face the ever changing climate, whether it warms or cools). After all, if there are no other options, then people will agree to Net Zero (hence the survey referred to). Those other options must be kept from the general populace.
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FWIW
The other day Hanrahan asked about the difference between “green jobs” and “jobs in mining and extraction industries”
Some thoughts here –
“Green Jobs Make Us Poorer”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/25/green-jobs-make-us-poorer/
And for your consideration
“New Scientist: “We could get most metals for clean energy without opening new mines” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/25/new-scientist-we-could-get-most-metals-for-clean-energy-without-opening-new-mines/
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FWIW – a lesson from Germany
https://instapundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/latinx_adjacent_doctor_germany_immigrants_08-25_2025-600×427.jpg
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FWIW
”
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
New DEI definitions:
Didn’t Earn It
Definitely Expecting Incompetence
Definitely Expecting Indictments
Don’t Expect Intelligence
Democrat Employment Insurance
Destroying Every Institution
Destroying Excelence Instantly
Delivering Empty Idiocy
Delegating Employment Illogically
Dumb Entitled Incompetent
Any others?”
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1959621321362641020
Via Instapundit
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Defintely Entering Idiocracy
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FWIW – news reading
“Euronews Is Euro-Trash: Lessons in Media Deception Tactics”
“This is a legacy media iron rule of thumb you can take to the bank — every single time:
· if the racial identity of the perpetrator of a crime is listed in the headline and referenced at least three times in the body of an article, that perpetrator is white
· if the racial identity of the perpetrator is referenced only in generic terms and definitely never mentioned in the headline, that perpetrator is some protected minority”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-08-25/euronews-euro-trash-lessons-media-deception-tactics
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FWIW- looks like a “What the hell is going on here?”
Re that truck driver petition in USA
“Manisha Kaushal, a Hindu tied to the RSS group from Australia, started this petition. How pathetic that you pin blame on others while your own Hindu community fuels this divisive campaign. Stop the deceitful tactics and own your hypocrisy! ”
https://x.com/Snyderboxer/status/1959985421582213468
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/08/25/the-great-divide-in-america/
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Tuesday brain teaser: which tank will fill first?
https://imgbox.com/DtN4LD6m
No cheating!
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No takers to this point Second Coming? I’ll go for “G”
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G the only logical conclusion
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I’ll go for F.
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Yes, F will. G fills from D, but D can’t fill from C.
So, A goes to G,to C, to J, to L before I and L fills F.
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Hi. I concede that ” G fills from D, but D can’t fill from C. ”
It could because the outlet from C to D is lower than the outlet from C to J. But I just noticed the trick … the C outlet to D is closed … dirty trick there.
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FDA suspends license for Chikungunya vaccine after ‘Serious Adverse Events’
Federal regulators on Aug. 25 said they’ve suspended approval for a vaccine against chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus.
Due to reports of serious adverse events following administration of the vaccine, the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) “believes this vaccine is not safe and that continued administration to the public would pose a danger to health,” the FDA said in a statement.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/fda-suspends-license-chikungunya-vaccine-after-serious-adverse-events
Meanwhile,
Fakevax ™climate change continues to wreak havoc globally, although Trump looks to be about to ban it (Fakevax ™ that is).50
All quiet on the maritime front:
https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?loc=northwestpacific
Despite 14 named storms, there’s been no major Cat3+ typhoons and only 3 which reached Cat1 before dissipating within 2 days, ACE well-below.
Similar story for NE Pacific hurricanes:
10 named storms, zero Cat3+, 4 Cat1 dissipating within 2 days, ACE below average (so far).
Which is the complete opposite of stock-standard political-speak mumbo-mantra espoused by Climate Cult Profits (CCP) in their attempt to scare the children & parents alike, ie. more, bigger, worse!
F for Fail (and other unmentionable words).
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Exposing the illusion: The truth behind mRNA vaccines and scientific claims
Vaccine development was clearly driven by “experts” with inadequate scientific training, who received large sums of funding and self-validated their work through narrative rather than rigorous experimentation. They are not genuine scientists, but impostors hiding behind credentials they do not truly possess.
Yet, at a recent major scientific conference, these same individuals proclaimed:
“Experts delivered a clear message: the COVID vaccines, especially those using mRNA technology, should be stopped immediately. They also urge increased focus and resources (read funding) to investigate safety signals.”
This begs the question: What have they been doing for the past five decades with billions of dollars in funding? They have produced and marketed ineffective, potentially harmful products under the guise of advanced technology — all while endangering public health. Still, the public continues to place trust in them, believing they represent real science.
https://bioanalyticx.com/exposing-the-illusion-the-truth-behind-mrna-vaccines-and-scientific-claims/
Video:
https://youtu.be/BZrJraN2nOQ?si=rYwwdFxmdCedgJry
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No Wall Street stock traders managed to beat Nancy Pelosi’s trades last year.
She “is one of the most successful stock traders of all time, with 54% returns last year, beating most major hedge funds in the U.S.”
https://youtu.be/UVVSY8jGsLo
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I guess like bridge
“One peek = two finesses”
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Ans people give their money to hedge fund managers, pfffft
https://247wallst.com/investing/2025/01/10/this-innovative-etf-lets-you-follow-democrat-politicians-trades-nanc-etf/
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The US Government will soon ban Covid-19 “vaccines” according to Newsweek.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rfk-covid-vaccine-hhs-2118816
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FWIW
Headline there
“RFK Jr. May Roll Back Major Achievement Donald Trump Called ‘Monumental’ ”
What headline probably should have been
“RFK Jr. May Roll Back Major Achievement Donald Trump was told was monumental”
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Great news for those who lost their jobs for not taking the covid inoculation. This just out of the Fair Work Commission:
‘I have concluded the decision to terminate Parks was harsh given all of the circumstances, including Parks taking the proactive step of self-testing before attending for work as he had been educated to do and returning negative tests, deficiencies in how the testing was undertaken, his unblemished work history, his personal circumstances, and the financial impact on him.’
So, all you fellow uninoculated workers who had an “unblemished work history, had personal circumstances such as religious belief or unease at an untested unproven drug going into your body, and of course faced financial hardship when your livelihood was taken off you with no compensation other than standard notice period payments…..
take, oh no wait on as you were.
This finding applies to any worker out there that smokes illegal non-medical marijuana, takes a self-test at home that is supposedly negative then fronts up to work to drive one of those massive dump trucks at a coal mine but the work site test finds THC in your blood stream.
But hang on. There was a national grocery chain that had a published zero tolerance policy when it came to drugs which meant instant dismissal if caught out. They however didn’t have testing so finding out the accident or psychotic incident was drug related would only have been established after the event. Then just before covid they abandoned that for a more accepting and supportive policy involving rehabilitation and counselling etc.
Imagine if their policy change had introduced home testing kits for staff to mitigate against drug affected accidents (dock forklift accidents or poor shelf stacking that could collapse on a customer). When covid came along they could have opted for a home testing kit for that as well and accept the staff members claim of negative tests when they continued to turn up for work.
But no seems breaking the law with illegal drugs is AOK its only having “…unbleamished work history, personal circumstances and the financial impact “ of being fired for opting to not take a “legal” drug that was being forced on you under duress that is not to be questioned.
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Appalling.
Unbelievable.
Atrocious.
And I being chased by a nurse through the public hall of a major hospital because I could not produce a vaccine certificate in 2022 after all lockdowns were lifted. They lost my regular donations, but would they care?
Never forget, never forgive.
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FWIW
“Sign up for a Starmer-free Sanctuary Town”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/sign-up-for-a-starmer-free-sanctuary-town/
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FWIW
“How the Donald Factor is transforming the European right, Part One”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-the-donald-factor-is-transforming-the-european-right-part-one/
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And
“Unanswered questions over the death of Del Dimmock”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/unanswered-questions-over-the-death-of-del-dimmock/
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FWIW !!!
“The Rise and Fall of Keir Starmer, UK Supreme Court Calls for Resignation!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuOT9ABszrA
Via SDA
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G’day a i,
Is this link and AI fiction?
Cheers,
Dave B
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GRIDWATCH TUESDAY 26 PM
AT 7 PM EASTERN TIME IN AUSTRALIA THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 22% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST.
AND 14% IN THE WEST.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
3.30 AM WIND 11% SOLAR 0
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
10 AM WIN31% SOLAR 12%
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Hey… nutso bad – at 7pm, wind energy contributing almost ONE QUARTER of
energy in the East, ( tho’ less than one fifth of energy in the West.)
Weather, like intermittent wind and solar tech, is, well, er, intermittent.
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Just a little note from the US, home of the Trump phenom.
He sent the national guard into DC to squelch crime.
There have been no murders since.
The man has politically maneuvered the Democrats into breathlessly hoping for murder.
The scolds and ghouls at CNN and the NYT are waking up everyday desperate for an ‘I told you so’.
They will be unable to hide their glee when death returns.
(Of course, we here have known for years that a certain segment looks to every weather event hoping for disaster. And for decades we’ve been sounding the alarm and few listened, then Trump.)
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“The man has politically maneuvered the Democrats into breathlessly hoping for murder.”
Ain’t that the truth. Yet the TDS suffers predict a blue wave on the back of Trump hatred at the midterms.
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Andrew Hastie would make a great PM.
‘Home affairs spokesman Andrew Hastie and former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce are the highest profile members to call for the net zero pledge to be axed, while conservative activist group Advance is lobbying MPs to dump the policy.’ (AFR)
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FWIW
“Why The IEA Reinstated Its “Business As Usual” Scenario”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/why-iea-reinstated-its-business-usual-scenario
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