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Friends of Science Newsletter #417
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https://friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=2944
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Topics include:
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Net Zero and the Future Power Grid, with Randy Stubbings
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Florida Major Hurricanes, 1900-2024: What Do the Statistics Show?
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Steve McIntyre; the Real Lesson to be Learned from Hurricane Helene
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U.K. Faces Economic Ruin with World’s Highest Electricity Prices
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Heavy September Rainfalls Have Brought Back Lakes In The Sahara!
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Cloud Changes ‘Are the Cause of Changes In the Accumulated Solar Energy’
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Chapeau to Elon Musk, who is making the world a better place. Incredible.
But it also means NASA is too busy fighting man made funding chasing Global Warming instead of doing their job. One man with his own money and sheer determination is making a mockery of public space research. And Boeing also has lost their way, introducing racism as a meter for R&D and achievement.
Long live the pursuit of excellence. Only one man is talking of colonizing Mars. The rest have lost their way in Marxism.
And the world is busier spending $1.8Trillion a year fighting something which does not exist, man made CO2 driven Global Warming. The oceans are NOT boiling. That’s ridiculous. And no one in the slave press says so? Who believes it? No one. They are too busy punishing Putin, ignoring China, demanding that there are a million sexes and chasing reparations for slavery which has not existed for centuries.
Meanwhile an utterly unqualified and very strange woman may be elected US President on the platforms of racism, sexism and utter incompetence. E Pluribus Nihil. Kamala Chameleon is completely unsuited for the job. And all of America knows it. That makes NASA’s failure to innovate look reasonable.
And no one put in the door bolts on a new Boeing, checked they were there or even cared. Doors fall off. It happens. So they wonder why 17,000 people just lost their jobs? And Disney, the children’s favorite for decades is now the company of institutionalized pedophilia. Who cares about science, morals or even survival? It’s Hollywood versus the world.
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Great summary TdeF.
You have a way with logic and words that reflect the utter stupidity of our current world.
Thank you.
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Great news!
The Victoriastan Government is lowering electricity prices. They sent me tbis:
And where does this $300 come from?
It comes from the very same taxpayers it was stolen from in the first place, or money borrowed by the Government that the taxpayer will eventually have to pay back one way or another.
But most people (present company excepted) won’t realise that as they are addicted to all the “free stuff” they think the Government gives them.
It’s funny how no one needed electricity bill relief before the Liberals (fake conservatives) under Howard first forced “green” energy onto Australians, a position enthusiastically followed by the Green Labor faction of the Uniparty.
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In South Australia the former Liberal (& Opposition) Leader has resigned from Parliament after the Police charged him.
The Liberal hierarchy have endorsed a former Green as their candidate in the fore coming by election (no others were approached).
But it is OK because he gave up being a Green more than 24 hours ago.
I can foresee that there might be a deal of opposition from the voters when the time comes.
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A few days ago all the usual suspects were delighting in the closure of the UK’s last coal power station. Today, risk of generation shortfall:-
https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1845834412811759925
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No need to panic says Ed Sillyband, the Flywheels and Batteries will come to the rescue.
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I have bought a pack of AA batteries and will be contacting mini brain to tell him they will be able to store enough energy to power the UK for six weeks.
I have provided lots of mathematical formula as proof
£ 100 million sounds reasonable for this valuable energy source. Wish me luck.
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With “your” Ed Millibrain I think we now have a real challenger to “our” simpleton Energy Minister Chrissy Bowen. I never thought there could be a serious challenger to Bowen’s extreme stupidity.
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This is “journalist” maths.
I read up quite a lot on the Dinglun flywheel storage system with the objective of checking the often repeated claim that the energy stored in the flywheels could power 2000 houses for a year. That would be 7300MWh at the accepted 10kWh per day for a house.
I then found that the flywheels could supply their rated power of 30MW for 15 minutes. That is 7.5MWh or 7500kWh. So the journalist who did the original maths was out by a factor of 1000. If the flywheels did not lose energy due to friction, they could supply 2 houses for a year. Just 1998 short of what the journalist worked out.
If you search on “dinglun flywheel 2000 houses”, you will get pages of hits. So it is an oft repeated claim that is 1000 times out.
There are lots of outlandish Chinese claims on products but the claim for Dinglun appears to be a claim in the English speaking press. But selling electricity magic to politicians is an easy one. The majority have taken the CO2 scam hook, line and sinker.
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Surely this level of misinformation will result in jail time.
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LOL
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At least the UK has Nuclear and has plans to build more Nuclear Power Stations I believe (SMRs in particular). Here in OZ the Nuclear stoush continues on.
Meanwhile, Uganda is building a Nuclear powered Electricity Generating Power Station. The Russians are building one for Egypt. The Philippines have one in mothballs and are looking to fire it up again. Belgium has 7 of them operating and humming away nicely.
In OZ there is a Nuclear Power Station at Lucas Heights in the southern suburbs of Sydney which is used for Medical purposes. AUKUS (If it eventuates) will provide OZ with nuclear powered submarines. BUT to use nuclear to generate electricity in OZ is apparently not for OZ.
Go figure.
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That’s great news.
The Woke countries, including Once Great Britain and Australia, need some major power outages or preferably complete grid collapses with associated major chaos.
It’s the only way the Sheeple and politicians will wake up.
Don’t prolong the agony.
The downside is the way it might be spun. In Australia, I can see the Lamestream media, Marxist fake “academics”, the subsidy harvesters and our simpleton politicians spinning it as attributable to not enough wind and solar plantations. We just need to throw more billions at more such plantations.
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Just watched some Sky News this morning where a new QLD State Guv’ment Candidate who is a former Construction Worker stated in a TV Interview – “I’m not a Politician, I’m a real person”.
Well said mate.
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🙂
Aren’t some Construction Workers in Unions?
Aren’t some Unions involved in politics?
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And then there was set theory.
From the construction worker set, a couple of percent are in the union.
From the union member set, (which includes all union members), some are involved in politics.
Now, anyone care to guess how many in parliament could hit the correct end of a nail.
Or in some cases, “What’s a nail?”
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Yesterday, somewhere , there was another news headline that struck me as being so 2024ish.
It proclaimed that “Dementia is Diabetes Type 3 “.
Didn’t bother to read it.
Type 2 causation I understand, type 1, I suspect, is a derivative of the damage that follows on from T2 but now we have T3.
Really?
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QUESTION ABOUT WIND PLANTATIONS
On recent drives between Melbournistan and Sydneystan, my eyes and ears have been assaulted by three things
1) The sight of wind and solar plantations.
2) Their ABC Radio. How do people listen to that?
3) Government roadside rest stops with woke long drop/composting toilets. Only Leftists could love them with the disgusting sights and smells…
ANYWAY yesterday I noticed at one of the wind plantations thst many windmills were not spinning or only quite slowly and there was no obvious wind. I know that in the absence of wind power is drawn from the grid to turn them VERY slowly to prevent Brinelling of the bearings but many windmills seemed to be going faster than a very slow speed. I was wondering whether, in the absence of wind, they are spun under power just to give the appearance of operating and being useful? Yes, I am THAT cynical…
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Well, in daylight, it might help the duck curve….
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/port-hedland-council-votes-expose-dna-contamination-mrna/
Interesting, I can’t recall seeing anything about this in the Lame stream Media
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Because the Lamestream Media are the public relations arm of Big Pharma and Government and the experimental covid “vaccines” are “fully safe and effective”.
And to this very day, the Australian Government prefers you to die rather than have a life-saving organ transplant if you are not covid vaxxed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13517255/Heartbreaking-update-teen-denied-transplant.html
https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/australian-mom-denied-heart-transplant-due-to-her-covid-19-vaccination-status/
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One of the best examples of science fiction turning into reality is the vertical landing of Elon Musk’s reusable rockets. It was the standard way rockets were portrayed as landing in science fiction stories and illustrations in the early 20th century but that was never the reality until recently.
It’s still fascinating to watch even though it’s been routine for SpaceX for about six years.
Going beyond that, and in reference to Jo’s story yesterday, now Musk’s rockets don’t even touch the ground but are caught by the Mechazilla Arms.
And the Left are out to destroy this guy just because he doesn’t conform to their anti-Civilisation and anti-science beliefs and especially the Woke Mind Virus as he calls it.
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Unlike the science fiction rockets, the Primary booster doesn’t have legs. The stage is already super heavy and the legs would be much heavier than on lighter stages and more likely to be damaged anyway. So the primary stages are now to be caught with super strong arms. Plus of course you now have to have a lot of additional fuel to arrest the supersonic descent to hovering speed. No parachute would stop it. Most of that slowing work is done by the atmosphere but it must be an amazing balance between slowing the stage and burning up. Even empty it is 233′(75 metres) tall and 250 tons!
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And when captured from the top rather than the base, the rocket structure is exposed to tensile forces instead of compressive forces.
It’s a lot easier to make a tension member resist a load, (thing string), compared to a compression member, (think of that coke can you stand on when someone taps the side).
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Yes, David I am THAT cynical too. “They are spun under power just to give the appearance of operating and being useful?” AEMO anybody?
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There may be some logic to that other than bearings. There is momentum and perhaps a higher incremental yield from a gust if the blades are already turning. It’s a bit like aircraft on the ground where the problem is supporting the wings when in flight the wings support the aircraft. Being on the ground is unnatural for an aircraft and in time leads to damage through cracking and crack propagation as the bend is always extreme.
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The bend in the wings on the ground is just the weight of the wings. The bend on the wings in flight is caused by the weight of the plane body, (usually a lot more than the wings). So why would you crack more on the ground than in flight?
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Another study finds issues with the jab.
https://slaynews.com/news/scientists-find-55-undeclared-secret-chemical-elements-covid-vaccines/
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Just ask a Leftist. “Fully safe and effective.”
Leftists, isn’t it time for your 27th booster?
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The BOM does it again.
Monday’s Weather Forecast for Sydney City, the prediction was for rain and a few mm of rain. In reality there was lots of rain with thunderstorms on Monday afternoon.
This morning’s Weather Report stated 24 mm for Sydney City on Monday……………That is nearly an inch
– Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……………………
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Back in the day, before they went woke and abandoned science, I remember when the BoM was capable of delivering reasonably accurate short term weather predictions. As an avid bushwalker (US = hiker, UK = walker, rambler) I no longer rely on them, they have caused too many trips to be cancelled or wrong preparations.
And I remember in primary school before they went woke and used to teach useful things, the teacher asking we students to cut out the synoptic weather map from the daily newspaper and we brought it to school and studied it in class.
Today there is no useful teaching (unless you want to learn about the supposed 104 supposed genders or however many they are up to now) and no (or few) printed newspapers and certainly no widely published detailed weather maps like they used to publish in the daily newspaper (not for mass consumption anyway, only for specialist consumers like yachtsmen)…
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Could I recommend this Norwegian site which does a better job with the same data in my experience and gives a far better hour by hour picture. As a bike rider I cannot use the BOM predictions as far too vague. Click on the day to get the hourly forecast.
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Well, if recent experience in the last 24 hours in the Adelaide Hills I suggest they’re are right for Melbourne today.
Very unsettled heavy rain then sunny periods. Not like what was suppose to happen on the previous TV (hence BOM) weather forecast.
My thought is that the BOM have abandoned the idea that the weather comes mainly from the west and have reverted to the nineteenth century ideas.
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Looks like “Tough luck” if you’re not around a major city
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https://www.breitbart.com/news/super-harvest-moon-partial-lunar-eclipse-to-combine-for-rare-celestial-trifecta/
Good omen Orange Moon for orange man?
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“This shit is everywhere.”
— physicist Sabine Hossenfelder
Warmist science presenter bangs on about research fraud across “all” the sciences. Fraud and sloppy research continue to proliferate because there are few consequences.
https://youtu.be/EpQobaBCSYk?si=NfmxAsQEz4akJopV
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Peter Ridd called out the fake photographs. And PhD’s were awarded on infamously fake research from the same James Cook University. My view is that you can get a PhD in the operation of meat vans for delivering Halal Meat (I was at the graduation ceremony and it was one of many 200 PhDs from RMIT in one ceremony as I listened to the dissertations).
Real scientists doing real R&D are silenced, as was Peter Ridd, Head of Physics. PhD is now an industry. So you get Dr Jill Biden and Dr Twiggy Forrest and many more. You can even do a PhD in the economics of Paul Keating, a politician with no economics who dropped out at high school.
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And on Quora, all leading scientists who doubt the hoax are called shills for the oil and gas industry. Which is nuts because the oil and gas and coal industries have zero problem selling their product.
In fact COP was at Dubaim Shark El Sheikh and the next one is in Azerbaijan. The oil people in some of the hottest, most unsustainable, energy wasting places on earth are now funding and operating the UN Anti oil lobby main event. Which tells you how upset they are with Global Warming. It’s all good for business. Why pay to prove it nonsense? The oil sheiks think Green is great and you should Just Stop Oil. It’s good for oil prices.
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Have a look at this for an example of woke in science.
https://aibn.uq.edu.au/article/2024/09/fermenting-way-net-zero-lanzatech-and-dr-sean-simpson
https://lanzatech.com/
The technology actually looks pretty interesting, but the people involved are woke up to the eyeballs. Diversity is very important to them and we are all going to die via carbon dioxide no doubting it.
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Well Lord Kelvin predicted that the world would end in 400 years when we used up all the oxygen and would suffocate from CO2.
He also said that the Earth was only 10 million years old, that heavier than air machines wouldn’t fly, and that radio wouldn’t succeed.
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A new book has just been published.
Unredacted: Russia, Trump, and the Fight for Democracy (Christopher Steele).
How is this even allowed just before the election after the last dossier rubbish.
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Jordan Peterson’s take on the US election with Piers Morgan. Always interesting. 11 mins. ToM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DXML3UobbsA
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