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Exactly right, Cassie. The Academics Lawyers and Perverts’ party will probably give his (alleged) persecutor a medal.
I am glad to see Trump acting early on the chainsaw mechanisms re the bureaucracy, which is clearly bloated and…
This sounds much more like it. My only experience with publishing was via an academic friend who wrote a series…
The protesters, who appeared mostly middle-aged Bwahaha, I bet that one stings the shower-dodgers!
Comment, fro the Oz, on the case of the POS that ran over, and killed Mum, Dad and unborn babe…words fail me, they honestly do.
Caffeine is just fine for me… 😉
a mental pygmy can end up PM of NZ.
Following new naming conventions that is a mental pygmy giant.
Or Mental giant pygmy.
Teacha feature
As a city kid, the sheep dog trials and the woodcutting competition, both held in the main ring, were always the highlight of the “Ekka”. We made sure we never missed them, after first hitting sideshow alley, naturally!
green beans … $38/kg
$38,000 per tonne…
2 Lib, 2 ALP, 1 Green, one Jacqui Lambie Network.
Eric Abetz not returned.
“…why that is not currently possible on the scale required…”
You need to SHOW these people what a real power station look like – make them walk through it, and them tell we need well more than 10 of these going flat out non-stop to power the grid.
Without that, the scale means nothing to them – it’s just numbers.
But OK.
Your house, with air-con running and the oven going too, might use 10kW.
How many car batteries would you need to match that? Well, you can draw maybe 300 amps from the battery for about 2 minutes before you flatten it (cranking the engine over), so that would be 300 times 12 times 120 or 432 kw/seconds, or about 0.12kW/hours. Let’s say the latest and greatest batteries are 10 times better (they aren’t), and so the same volume/weight would give you 1.2kW/hours. So 8 or nine would run your house (@ the above 10KW level) for an hour. 200 or so would probably do you a day, pretty easily. So about 200 million would do a million homes. The car battery is actually a lot cheaper than the latest and greatest batteries, and in volume you could probably get car batteries for $50 a pop, or $10 billion for a million homes. If we have 10 million homes in Aus, that’s $100 billion for 2 billion car batteries.
But you need to charge them too, or they just go flat – they don’t make energy, they just store it, and not very efficiently at that. But let’s say you can store it at 75% efficiency – that means we need to charge the battery (and still supply the electric demand while we’re charging) with the same amount we are removing and that means we need 133% of what we get back from the battery, plus 100% to replace the power that the battery would have been supplying, but it can’t because it’s flat and we’re charging it up.
So, your solar panels are what, 500W each, and you have let’s say 12 hours of that 500W (that’s ridiculously over optimistic – you’d be lucky to have 4 hours at full output), and that on average you are using 5kw, not the 10 above, so you need 10 just to run the house during the day and maybe as many as 20 for peak usage, plus 13 (33% more, right?) to charge the battery, so you need 23 to 33 panels per house – call it 27. At $50 each (ridiculously cheap). And we will say you get the battery charge controllers and inverters for free for buying all those panels and batteries, so you have another $1.3 billion per million homes, or another another $13 billion for our 10 million homes.
So with all those ridiculously over-optimistic assumptions, it’d cost $113 billion for 10 million homes (no businesses, not electric cars, just houses). And if you needed twice as many panels, and twice as many batteries, which would still leave you in optimistic territory and not even close to worst case, you’d need, let’s call it a round $250 billion. Plus labour to install it all – can we say the labour would be as much as the parts? That sounds highly optimistic to me, but let’s go with it. Half a trillion bucks, and it’s yours, right?
And even after all that, if there was a overcast day or two, you’d have no power left until you got a sunny day again. So if you want to protect from say, a week of overcast days in a row, you need to spend 7 times as much, so maybe 3 and half trillion bucks.
If you want to run your electric car as well, you can triple that (petrol/diesel consumption in energy is about twice electricity consumption), so 10 trillion – again conservative.
If the panels and batteries both last 10 years, then need replacing, you’d have to spend a trillion a year for ever.
Err, I don’t think we can afford it, even with this highly optimistic pricing, and even for just 10 million homes, never mind shops, factories, street lights, etc etc.
Does that give you an idea of the “scale” problem?
Reminds me of this…
Sometimes you just have to laugh.
Australia updates UN climate submission
AAP – 2hr ago
ZK2A @ 1533
Did someone mention 303 earlier? A sure fire cure for his ills.
tucker is a national treasure
Director Warns $40B Weapons Shipped To Ukraine Could Be Used By “Criminal Groups” For Years
Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov
Summery of the twitter thread I linked earlier about jab mandates in victoria.
Oh yes, reckon that point is important too.
I’d volunteer for the firing squad that shot that filth, and bring my own rifle and ammunition.
“Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov”
I like Roman – he always cites his sources, always wants both sides of any debate, and always distinguishes between facts and opinion, whether his own or his sources.
In fact, I like the Epoch times – period. Not least because Roman seems more the rule for journalists there, rather than the exception. It almost seems to be one of the few “main stream” places left that actually does reporting and not just opinion disguised as reporting.
Timcast.com isn’t bad for news either, but you have to pay if you want their opinion. That’s pretty generous, when you get down to it, so good for Tim Pool. Can’t wait until Truth In Media fact checking gets up and running (Get it? Truth in media? TIM. Noice)
This is not a bad video (although the bloke is a twit) comparing the penetration of various calibres against Level 3 armour.
I worked on a tender to develop and supply a Modular Combat Body Armour System (MCBAS) for ADF about a decade ago at the height of the Afghanistan campaign.
The spec called for front, rear and side plates capable of stopping 8 rounds each out to 25 mm from any edge of 5.56 AP, 30 Cal AP, 7.62 x 39 AP and 7.62 x 51 AP. A tough ask but we achieved it… I think they have improved now.
Old mate seems confident that somehow the average gangster is going to know how to store and operate heavy artillery pieces and multiple launch rocket systems.
Still, the weapon of choice amongst certain folks in Malmö is the hand grenade (in one of the most tightly gun-controlled nations in the world), so maybe his assertion might have merit?
Though using an M777 or M270 on an armoured truck doing the weekly bank run or bullion shipment is likely to have a poor return on investment ratio…
NFA at 2:56.
Humour and tongue-in-cheek wind ups are not your strong suit are they?
The UAP “Dob in an Infiltraitor” hotline will be going gangbusters this arvo.
No need for any help from me.
What is hilarious is that it will be all coming from people who were screaming about “the Stasi” a month ago.
PS How do you know I live in North Melbourne.
You do know doxxing is a dog act, right?
“The offender will then be subject to a substantial period of parole where he will be closely monitored and assisted to reintegrate into the community.
Pity the victims won’t get parole.
I can’t recall if it was MCBAS or TBAS was widely shat upon by the end users for its tendency to fall off when dragging wounded diggers out of contact. The plates were okay, but all the clasps and straps that held the plate carriers and kevlar joint pieces and sleeving together were weak links. And I don’t think it had a decent drag handle on the back.
Winston Smithsays:
June 16, 2022 at 2:36 pm
The Frolicking Moll:
In effect once a kid slips into the grasp of the trans/medical lobby the skids are greased to ensure a good little gelding is produced as the end product.
We thought the the “Stolen Generations” was a big deal.
Just wait until this steaming mess hits the fan with the next generation of Lawyers in the US, Australia & GB.
Hmmmm. The “Neutered Generations” doesn’t have the same ring, but “Castrated” or “Spayed” are both too gender specific.
Keep thinking …….
How could you forget the Butter Board’s ham sammiches?
The mental health care industrie has a done a lot of damage to kids these past fifty years. Having said that there are plenty within quietly repairing what is being done. You just don’t see them in the media or on some doctor’s wifes contact list.
Blueysays:
June 16, 2022 at 4:04 pm
Voice For Victoria
@Voice4Victoria
That’s it, we are done!
In close we’ve discovered that none of the experts support the widespread mandates are still being in place & also none of them are advising the govt so the question becomes are the govt lying & covering up that they’ve made up their own ‘health advice’?
I’m no doubt in a minority, but the situation works fine for me personally. I can go to pubs, restaurants etc. but I’m not allowed to go to work, but have to WFH. The only inconveniences I suffer are when some organisation chooses to keep vaxx requirements which the government doesn’t actually impose. I’m OK with being banned from getting up an hour earlier to trek through the cold and rain to get to the office, so if mandates lasted till spring I wouldn’t personally be inconvenienced.
But I know that there are others who are still suffering real hardship so if there’s a petition to scrap all mandates I’ll sign it.
PS there’s some first class lunacy going on even at our hospitals. Consider these visitors’ rules. Vaxxed, even over 6 months ago, walk right in with only a conventional useless mask. Unvaxxed, recovered from covid a few weeks ago so at about maximum immunity, and do a negative RAT a few hours earlier, N95 mask and face shield at all times. At least they aren’t banning me completely, I suppose.
How about the Non-Generation, since that is the ultimate outcome?
Or is that too macabre? 🙁
People need to remember that long prison sentences (while in some cases and for some offences are necessary) do not serve anyone. They come at significant cost to the tax payer and community, and often only serve to perpetuate a cycle of reoffending.
Sounds like this person is calling for re-instatement of the death penalty?
Nuffink generayshun.
Easy…Dagwood Dogs.
Well, no.
But I do like your escalation.
Well done, sir!
Sounds like this person is calling for re-instatement of the death penalty?
I’ve heard there is little recidivism after that.
Rex Angersays:
June 16, 2022 at 4:35 pm
Hmmmm. The “Neutered Generations” doesn’t have the same ring, but “Castrated” or “Spayed” are both too gender specific.
How about the Non-Generation, since that is the ultimate outcome?
Or is that too macabre? ?
Eureka! I have it!
The “Final Generation”.
One thing that really annoys me about the mandates is it disproportionately effects working class and blue collar who have to physically go to work. It’s find for those in a professional job where all they need is a laptop to avoid the jab and work from home, shithouse if your not.
And of course all the unions threw their members under the bus and did SFA.
Quite so – I’m aware of cases where convicted murderers were reprieved, sentenced to life, paroled, and went on to take further lives. However, I don’t believe the liked of Ronald Ryan or Eric Edgar Cooke ever re – offended.
Zipster, you have a world line for our universe. To explain the double slit experiment you posit another time line “close” to it in some sense. This is in some ways like the Everett multiverse, the chief difference being that your multiple universes get laid out in a line, your t’ direction, and so you have a very specific structure on the multiverse.
Then the interference is not of one electron with itself, but of distinct electrons in different universes. And hence information can pass between two universes. Then a detector at one slit can block this transfer of information, so no interference occurs.
This is my understanding of what you are saying. Am I correct?
Rex Anger
What up with all the trainee train drivers be advertised?
Hey proles! Turn off the heater and freeze. Do it now! Your betters have spoken.
Anthony Albanese, Chris Bowen issue warning to NSW residents amid energy crisis (16 Jun)
Meanwhile Albo and the Turtle double down.
Bowen says extending coal-fired power stations is not a solution to energy crisis – as he backs investment in renewable storage (16 Jun)
Albanese reveals new target to cut emissions by 43 per cent by 2030 as Bowen says Australia has turned ‘climate corner’ (16 Jun)
Do pray tell Mr Bowen what this magical renewable storage stuff is. And do tell, Albo, just how we get 43 percent reduction in less than 8 years without being blacked out half the time.
Then the interference is not of one electron with itself, but of distinct electrons in different universes. And hence information can pass between two universes. Then a detector at one slit can block this transfer of information, so no interference occurs.
IIRC this is pretty much David Deutsch’s view. He also reckons quantum computers work because the processing is going on in parallel in in adjacent universes. IANAQM.
Just how many cables are there transferring power to Canberra?
Despite every thing they have been able to devise to give renewables an advantage they are hopelessly nowhere near even providing baseload supply. Now he is talking about them producing vastly more than even that to have the excess to re-charge storage.
Well Australia, you wanted this. And I don’t mean because Labor won the election. The Libs were doing the same thing just half a heartbeat behind.
Do pray tell Mr Bowen what this magical renewable storage stuff is. And do tell, Albo, just how we get 43 percent reduction in less than 8 years without being blacked out half the time.
I put it closer to 75% of the time. I reckon the next 3 years are going to see Australia fucked.
On the “bright” side, this is not going to end well for these chaps.
There’s only so long they can get away with blaming the Libs, and they’ll be up for relection soon after that.
The trash in charge in Canbra take all their cues from the ‘rats in the US. It’s been a while now, but a line was crossed when the political class is actually harmful to the electorate that they allegedly represent.
A keeper at a private zoo was fatally mauled when he put his hand through a fence to stroke a tiger during feeding time.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18898239/zookeeper-dies-tiger-savages-arm-video-mexico/
Around 1995 in Adelaide there was a veterinarian named John Palm (now deceased) who was a great vet and had a genuine affinity with animals – but he seemed to think of himself as Dr Dolittle and was otherwise a bit ‘odd’.
Anyway, I took my dog to him for some routine reason and Palm was sporting a very large bandage on his lower right arm. Naturally I enquired about the reason and he unfurled the bandage to reveal what would have been a very nasty cut (now hospital stitched up) about 15cm long.
Turns out that he had been at the Adelaide Zoo and decided to pat one of the lions that was resting on the bars of the enclosure. At the time, the lion enclosure was very rudimentary in its safety/design so he merely stepped over the low fence and started patting the lion through the bars. The lion was less than impressed and swiped at Palm catching his arm inflicting a 15cm x 1.5cm wide gouge. Ouch (not to mention lucky).
Another time I walked into his surgery and Palm was in the waiting area with this enormous python wrapped around his neck and part of his upper body. Nobody else was there and just as I was asking whether he was ok, he managed to unwrap the python and said “yep, all good now”. But it was obviously a bit of a struggle – this snake had a good grip and wasn’t in a hurry to let go. I don’t know what he did to annoy the snake so much.
I don’t know what killed John but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was a fateful meeting with a dangerous animal/ poisonous reptile etc.
Footnote: A druggie tried to break into Palm’s surgery and entered via the roof. For whatever reason, the intruder died in the roof cavity and lay undisturbed for some time until an unpleasant odour pervaded the surgery and caused Palm to investigate. Body found, police called, body removed, business as usual.
Never a dull moment with this bloke may he RIP.
From a job advertisement in Seek today, placed by AEMO, for an Engineer:
So in 3 years time, they want a system that will tolerate 100% renewable generation.
These people are insane.
Well Australia, you wanted this. And I don’t mean because Labor won the election. The Libs were doing the same thing just half a heartbeat behind.
No one has really won a federal election convincingly since 2013. Not hard to work out why.
No One actually “lives” in North Melbournistan
Working with wild animals encourages a certain attitude to OH&S. See Steve Irwin and Malcolm Douglas.
And you will get good and frozen solid.
How many HELE power stations can we build with current roony subsidies?
I don’t think they are technically insane. Just pig ignorant and living in a fantasy world. Also, unbelievably arrogant.
d. None of the above
would romp home in a canter.
So AEMO want an engineer to tell them how to have a 100% renewable, reliable grid. Didn’t Google have a team look at this a few years ago and include it was impossible? What will AEMO do if they get an actual competent engineer who tells them it is impossible? My bet is he’ll be fired.
Young people in our town are ending up in hospital with the flu. They never sought medical help when they had covid.
I wonder what could have degraded a young immune systems so much that they’re particularly vulnerable to a winter virus?
Orania only continues because it’s not seen as a threat yet.
Fired? He wouldn’t be hired in the first place. That’s part fo the problem.
Don’t you love how these guys blame everyone except themselves?
‘I didn’t invade Ukraine’: Kean’s bizarre energy rant (Daily Telegraph, 16 Jun, paywalled)
Well, stupid man, if you can’t control the weather you should not make the electricity system dependent on it. Sheesh.
Hello,
I like to pretend i’m a Doctor [on the Internet],
and my considered opinion is that it has absolutely nothing to do with
highly intelligent young people getting double vaxxed and boostered so they could get into the pub.
It’s also in the middle of MAMOFA – Miles And Miles of Fvck All – also known as the “Greater Karoo” semi desert.
Just how many cables are there transferring power to Canberra?
NSW load shedding the ACT would solve an awful lot of problems….
The sterile generation.
Might get the Euroweenies to blame the Poot for power prices. Can’t see too many Australians buying that BS.
Chickens coming home to roost nationwide, baby! 😀
All the old Government Railways drivers are going and/or gone (be it into retirement or chasing whoever can pay them the most to give them the biggest nest egg before the annual and then 6-monthly medicals for the over 75s become too hard), the demand for heavy haul and intra- and interstate bulk and intermodal rail haulage has skyrocketed, commuters are drifting back onto their metropolitan systems.
And another 40+ years of lazy, crap policymaking (post-privatisation railway companies were importing drivers en masse from NZ, Seth Effrika and the UK for years before folks noted it in other industries) coming home to roost. Insufficient time and money has gone into consistently recruiting and training up more drivers over time. Particularly in the West.
In WA, BHP have said “Fuck It!” and opened a driving academy for their iron ore system. Officially, this is because of the terrible difficulty it (and all the other miners had) with their predominantly FIFO workforces and the border closures, and providing opportunities for WA folks to take up train driving. In practice, it’s really for all the frustrated railcar drivers who jump ship from the Perth PTA amd other suburban networks in search of the big bucks driving ‘real’ trains. But who all need to be trained from day one as their experience is with lightweight vehicles that accelerate and decelerate far harder than is safe with 40,000 tons and 2 miles of iron ore. I am told of some spectacular accidents in the early days of ex-passenger drivers going north with non-specific Cert IVs and coming badly unstuck.
Tony Abbott telling lies to get Elected, then flipping Liberal supporters the Bird once he was there is what did it.
Turnbull achieved a miracle by holding on in 2016.
What’s happened this time is that a heap of Labor Voters stayed home rather than vote Liberal, due to the Labor/Unions Covid shenanigans.
Albanese won’t do anything good, but if Dutton falls into the Nuclear Power trap, those Labor Voters will return home and it’ll be the Liberal Party’s voters that take Election Day off.
Sadly can’t be the D-Generation.
That name is owned by the ABC.
Who are champion degenerates.
Cheers Rex.
Saw a documentary on Oriana a few years back.
They eschew white supremacism, but support separate development in the interest of preserving their distinctive culture.
Mandela, Mbeki & Zuma have all visited and expressed varying degrees of support for their endeavour.
Says Big Dog Sanch Panzi
You were the one that said you knew the beat in North Melbourne because it’s your patch.
If that’s doxxing then stop dogging folk with this ip, 49.186.59.241
Nuclear reactors are impervious to the weather and Vladimir Putin.
M0nty’s hijacked your account, hasn’t he Grigs?
The sterile generation.
that’s the whole idea
Allan Ginsberg said ‘we’ll get you through your children’
AHem
How does a voltage gate work in a many worlds interpretation?
(Obvious troll).
If I bothered reporting every example of black violence in the US I’d do nothing else but every now and then along comes an example worth exhibiting.
‘Savage monster’ accused of decapitating pregnant ex-girlfriend, throwing head in dumpster
Ginsberg is dead
my children are grown
missed me
Mandela, Mbeki & Zuma have all visited and expressed varying degrees of support for their endeavour.
So they’re getting paid off.
Bloody hell!
Grigs is being honest. That can’t be right. Or normal.
Grigs, blink twice if you’re being made to interact under duress…
You reckon we can’t afford that!!
FMD it’s the 1.4 deg of warming over the next century we CANT AFFORD!!
Or so I’ve been told.
A mate is doing the rounds of specialists follow his heart attack last week. Surprisingly two of them thus far have pointed the finger at vaxx.
I was surprised by this.
Is the general medical profession starting to put distance between themselves and the public health experts and government?
Boambee John:
Can we have Organ Banks?
That should have some effect on recidivism.
And do tell, Albo, just how we get 43 percent reduction in less than 8 years without being blacked out half the time.
How many big businesses will be drawing power a year after brownouts and load shedding become common?
Lot of carbon savings one we stop making shit.
LOL
Scam email
[email protected]
I am told of some spectacular accidents in the early days of ex-passenger drivers going north with non-specific Cert IVs and coming badly unstuck.
Apparently slamming on the brakes means a lot of rail lines need replacing as each wheel on the ore carriages acts like a little angle grinder as it skids over.
Apparently (though this might be a bit old) this was part of the reason trying to automate them was such a shit of a job. Software likes off/on not “bleed off a little speed as we approach this area”
we used to make an roasted eye filet served with a deconstructed Caesar salad.
alas … cant afford the lettuce now
Frank:
I don’t know.
I did ask several months ago just what the Interconnecter was. Is it a location? A building? A field of transformers and wires? What?
Or is it a nebulous ‘thing’ in hyperspace shuffling electrons around the Multiverses?
Mandela, Mbeki & Zuma have all visited and expressed varying degrees of support for their endeavour.
So they’re getting paid off.
Picture of the visits.. colourised.. 2022.
Even better than the real thing, these are self fattening.
How does an NPN transistor based voltage gain operational amplifier on AC power work in a many worlds interpretation?
Look. I am not engaging in f%$#ery, if the universe is infinitely large, then parallel universes, the multiverse, other dimensions and many worlds are logically also real.
Showing people how something already complex in the classical world works with QM and many worlds GM is a task, but if it can’t be done, then something is wrong or missing.
?
Says the moron who seeks to control the climate (and by extension, the weather).
Anyhow, have a Coleslaw.
Better yet, grow your own.
NSW ponce Matt Green didn’t start the war in Ukraine and can’t control the weather.
How can the war in Ukraine affect gas supply in Oz – only by Oz operators upping exports to fill a demand ?
And if the bald green ponce obviously can’t control the weather why is he spruiking unreliable ruinable to control long term weather patterns (climate) for the world.
Wire/lamposts needed.
Here is your brother’s commentary Panzi and he is using one of your North Melbourne ip addresses, 49.179.28.5
You would be quite surprised.
The latest f-in-the-head leftist stupidity is that high international spot coal prices have caused the increase in electricity prices, despite that almost all coal fired power stations are sited on coal fields with long term supply contracts, and even if it were true, the $US400/t price equates roughly to $1.50/kg which generates 1 kwh for which I pay north of $30.
Believed by the morons I work with, who think electricity comes out of a wall socket.
The multi-racial Trump coalition certainly hasn’t gone away. I wonder what will happen in November. If anything, it should be even stronger as the ‘rats don’t even try to pretend now.
Great result in Texas in the 34th district and good that Musk gets it.
It’s been said that a Congressional election is harder to game than a presidential but I’m sure the ‘rats have a cupboard of dirty tricks.
Kim Chi is something I wish upon my enemies
I’m your huckleberry.
Doc Beaugan:
That’s right, DBG.
What they’ve done is constructed a world in which ideology is God. If their God says such a thing is possible, then they behave as if it is. They cannot change, and like Disasterfarians, the failure of their God to predict and succor their reality will just allow them to go further down their own personal rabbit holes.
Unfortunately, they’re dragging us along with them to their psychotic castle in the sky – if you don’t mind mixing metaphores.
(This time will work!)
I spent the better of a period today
explaining to a year 10 studentbanging my head against a brick wall explaining why his assessment task needed changing. He had no concept that 10mm (yes mm) handle was too small for me to grasp, he pointed to his Inventor drawing on the screen and said “look my hand fits”. Not even mocking it up full size with paper could convince him. While I was doing so I noticed half the class furiously redrawing their projects. In 2 years he will be old enough to vote – sigh.Texas’s 34th Congressional District
Try $10k per replacement wheelset. 🙂
And torn-out drawbars and derailments tend to be expensive in their own unique ways. Particularly the delays.
I should also mention that Rio Tinto has finally abandoned AutoHaul- Too much money spent for no improvements in reliability and train handling, and why have a driver and a ute in a hut for a 12 hour shift every 150km or so along the line in case of a system failure, when you can put a single bloke in the cab for 12 hours, handle the train better than the computer will and actually save the company money?
I spent 3 weeks in korea back in early 2000
on the flight over I’m going, like what is this cabbage shit? It’s the bomb.
by week 2 I was begging for anything without kim chi in it.
the guy I was working with asked me what my favourite breakfast food was
natch, bacon and egg
his was kim chi soup like his nanna makes.
I never spoke to him again
Big, fresh, locally-grown iceberg lettuce in abundance down at the local greengrocer at Whitfords to day.
$3.50
Cos = $2.00
rickw:
Too many.
We’d need earplugs for the screeching of “We’re all in this together!”
I doubt the poor whites of Oriana could pay off a SA president.
It’s been said that a Congressional election is harder to game than a presidential but I’m sure the ‘rats have a cupboard of dirty tricks.
The Jan 6 bullshit is a prelude to a confected charge against Trump and some other imminent insurrection justifying the mid-terms not going ahead.
A lot of the Wabtec add-ons to bulk/multi modal trains have been very helpful
I doubt the poor whites of Oriana could pay off a SA president.
So why would a white hating racist like cyril tolerate them?
I thought ACT was 100% renewables?
People put a lot trust in blog hosts. Don’t screw it up.
The very one I didn’t mention.
I can’t recall if it was MCBAS or TBAS was widely shat upon by the end users for its tendency to fall off when dragging wounded diggers out of contact. The plates were okay, but all the clasps and straps that held the plate carriers and kevlar joint pieces and sleeving together were weak links. And I don’t think it had a decent drag handle on the back.
That would be MCBAS for sure. It was a dogs breakfast and to be frank a disgrace from the get-go. Too heavy, mobility limiting, over sized plates, dictated by the ADF specifications, prevented satisfactory combat rifle firing. The company I worked with was US and manufactured for US Special Forces with the main manufacturing plant at Fayetteville, outside Fort Bragg in NC. Australian soldiers ditched their MCBAS and continued buying our armour on line, direct from the US.
The Australian winning tenderer illegally copied some patented concepts of our armour but not the manufacturing standards. They whisked me away to a private room when I challenged their patent violations at an open debrief to reduce the impact of the attendees knowing that they were in violation of confidentiality provisions. Within 6 months it was known that they had wasted over $85m on a dud design and poorly manufactured piece of crap…
I thought ACT was 100% renewables?
just accounting trick of course like Yarra Trams’ wind powered tram. I recall that part of the idea of the Snowy Hydro was to give Canbra a power supply that could be independent of the NSW thermal generators.
From Woolies 5:37 pm –
our current price for iceberg lettuce on the Eastern Seaboard is between $6.00 and $6.90 a head, much higher than we would like, but our biggest challenge is keeping stock in supply
Cohenite:
Wants them to put years of work into the project, then smash it.
At the moment, it isn’t worth the effort to kick it over.
Just for the larfs.
Irony, milt.
Even a hippie on a hill outside of Nimbin is not 100% renewable
Not many land claims in the Karoo, from what I understand.
The Jan 6 bullshit is a prelude to a confected charge against Trump and some other imminent insurrection justifying the mid-terms not going ahead.
quite possible- there is no evil they are not capable of
Understand Roger- just reminded me of the ‘wind powered tram’
Saw it going down Brunswick Street once
There is a lot of helpful automation out there, and the brake systems get better with every new model.
Wabtec and Progress Rail alike are busily sinking money into GPS-guided AI assistance programs to recommend where and when power and braking should be applied. But a driver’s best assets remain has his arse and his memory.
Proprioception and road knowledge will give you a lot of clues about how your train is behaving and what it is about to do.
I rarely look at Ed Cases posts but this drew my eye.
“Tony Abbott telling lies to get Elected, then flipping Liberal supporters the Bird once he was there is what did it.”
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
EMD have probably found a good home with Caterpillar- good to be out of the mess that is GM.
The Welsh have one of those! 😀
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=amOu46M1Ym0
Wonder if Nimbin is still smack city. A friend met a girl from there once that told him she gave birth the night before, to a lizard, but it ran away under the house. Never did get around to checking out the Rainbow cafe.
I once got stuck behind a tram on Brunswick St.
So why would a white hating racist like cyril tolerate them?
The very one I didn’t mention.
Not many land claims in the Karoo, from what I understand.
It will eventually be turned into a valuable and productive district.
Then it will be “nationalised”.
Not the wind powered one!
Not without a fight from the locals, I would expect.
Quite.
Cheap electricity will return with Zero Taxation.
Spotted in Sydney today. Hornsby Heights. Galston Road. Mum, Dad, child in stroller.
All wearing masks.
Whoops. They weren’t all in the stroller. Only the child.
Parents pushing the thing. 😀
Brisbane Trams:
Labor Lord Mayor Clem Jones had a hard on for Leopard Buses from Germany to replace Brissie Trams but the other 22 Aldermen weren’t interested.
Jones pressed on and in 1969 the Paddington Tram Depot burnt to the ground.
Buses were ordered the next day.
When Jones died in 2008 he left an Estate valued at $60 million.
How about that?
I’d put a youtube link to Dragon’s ‘are you old enough’ with the Brunswick St tram but the adds just go forever now
what do you smoke bespoke?
I’m talking about a ferking bird shit and I will publish every ferken ip it uses…. there are another 90 ip addresses all grouped.
from your reply I gather you know that Leigh Lowe/Sanch Panzi is a multi-personality degenerate that uses a North Melbourne ip site.
Good to know.
If they don’t start building 8 nuclear power plants next year as a coal replacement they won’t finish them by 2030 and the only alternatives are fossils and ruin. Questions, comments, criticisms?
Roger:
That will be the icing on the cake Roger.
The Leyland Leopard is a British bus design, Grigory.
Basic facts. They seem to escape you…
Truss tomatoes were $17/kg in IGA today, more expensive than 3 star mince. I didn’t buy any.
Unfortunately, though, there wasn’t any 3 star mince and my currawongs won’t eat tomatoes.
I blame Vlad since Matt Kean does.
Getting mixed up with leopard tanks me thinks
Evan at triple the population, Oriana won’t have enough to defend it self.
Sri Lanka is looking good!
NFA at 6:08.
Doxxing arsehole.
Just how many cables are there transferring power to Canberra?
Get a friend with a light aircraft, fly around Canberra at say 30 nm radius and count the lines heading in the direction of Canberra that you cross.
Brutal.
I’d imagine it would take just as long to build the dastardly coal fired plants we would need.
….
We are so screwed.
Latest essential accoutrement from Germany are Panthers.
Germany sends Putin huge warning and unveils new highly advanced £1.3bn ‘Panther’ tank (15 Jun)
Um, guys, threatening Russia with Panther tanks didn’t work out so well last time. Just saying.
That area is considered one of the strongholds of the Afrikaners, so they might not be on their own.
South Australia … you filthy skank
https://aemo.com.au/Energy-systems/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-NEM/Data-NEM/Data-Dashboard-NEM
The Ukraine Army shelled a Maternity Hospital yesterday, a crowded Market the day before, nothing in the Australian Media
think it’s more about preventing trump from running in 2024
Times, locations, towns please, Grigory.
And if it was in the DPR in the last 24hrs, the shells fell from the east.
Let the actual vatniks do the cope-shilling, Grigs. You’re too inept and desperate for attention to do the job properly.
remind me how many nukes the krauts have?
oh
At the rate of casualties estimated by Ukrainian and Russian bloggers both countries will be depopulated by Christmas.
rickwsays:
June 16, 2022 at 5:55 pm
Just how many cables are there transferring power to Canberra?
NSW load shedding the ACT would solve an awful lot of problems….
No, no, no. Homer (Not Trampis/Non Memtis) has assured us on CL’s blog that the ACT is an exporter of electricity.
Here is the Australian Bolshevik Collective having a gloat at the political demise of Senator Abetz, almost the only parliamentarian who was prepared to stand up to it:
https://youtu.be/GX7A2ponMjc
Well thanks v much! We LOATHED MCBAS for its weight and bulk – nearly 20kg fully fitted if I recall – it wasn’t so much the plates as all the extra soft armour addons for frag protection. You could hardly move in it. We were much pleased to swap it out for TBAS at about 12kg.
Energy warning: Get used to cold showers
Perry Williams
Australia faces an energy crisis largely of its own making with market interventions and LNG imports its only near-term options and Labor under pressure to find pragmatic market solutions, consultancy Wood Mackenzie said.
States should consider fast-tracking gas fields or even providing financing for exploration and gas drilling to head off a supply shortfall.
A raft of LNG import plants could also face delays with intense competition for floating LNG vessels as Europe tries to break free from Russian supplies and grab its own access to gas resources.
“This is largely a crisis of domestic making. As fears mount over gas and electricity shortages in New South Wales and Victoria, one producer bluntly told me: ‘Folks in Melbourne better get used to cold showers’,” WoodMac Asia Pacific Vice Chair, Gavin Thompson said.
“Record gas prices and the impact on the cost of living across eastern Australia needs immediate action. The new Labor government may have far-reaching ambition to deliver net-zero, but right now pragmatism rules.
“With energy security at the top of the political agenda worldwide, voters will be slow to forgive avoidable energy crises.”
Oz
No, no, no. Homer (Not Trampis/Non Memtis) has assured us on CL’s blog that the ACT is an exporter of electricity.
All the ACT produces is hot air and bad policy. Politeness prevents me from saying anything more.
I may well be a pooftah pansie, but at least I am not one of those ex-pat Aussie drunks who prey on children in SE Asia.
Wow the Chinese aren’t even interested in Mt Arthur. I don’t buy it, a mate yesterday was telling me how much his mine in the Sydney basin are looking to expand due to the coal prices. Long and short BHP IMO are sitting on the fence, trying to virtue signal but hedge their bets as well. Watch for the 2030 to become 2034 with an UG extension…
JC, your Gas investment from a few weeks back. Both contacts have got back to me now and both say on surface value unrealistically high. The exploration company as I suspected probably fishing for more money. However it was mentioned to me about the crazy gas prices at present so you may make something of it if it comes to production…
Just got David Deutsch Fabric of Reality from Kindle. Very, very interesting.
The ACT government the other day – we are just over the border but have to take notice – said they were going to extend their new leccie tram network south.
They cut down a whole heap of large trees down the main drag to put it in. The network services a few northern suburbs, but mainly seems to be unused whenever I see a tram car going by. Reason being that who wants to walk in the cold for several blocks to get to your work or house I suppose.
Powered by electricity from over the border…
Thanks, duk.
I thought it was MCBAS that got the bad rap.
Canada: The MEME NATION Goes FULL CONSPIRATARD?
Black Pigeon Speaks
WTF is that?
Anyway – these guys are just getting orders from the top – our politicians are the insane ones.
Gee bird
Tell us again the story of which one of your multiple personalities killed your father in hospital.
Or was it out the bush on the dairy farm with your mother.
Or was it in the cellar of your North Melbourne mansion?
Speaking of bald-headed green left flogs such as Kean, I heard the bald-headed green flog Dr (for a P Haitch D he is) of the green left Australia Institute batting away a question about miners and workers in the (extensive) support industries losing their jobs. Sure, he said, it’s a horrible thing to lose your job, but there will be plenty of opportunities: look at the expansion of coffee shops in the last twenty years. I doubt that he has ever been game enough to say that to an audience of miners ; if his green utopia ever comes to pass, I hope they spit in his coffee before serving it to him.
“Can you control the weather – the wind and the sun” seems like a great question to ask leftards pushing renewables.
It’s right up there with asking leftards pushing the alphabet people hoax “What is a woman”.
Both questions seems to tie them up in considerable knots.
From their web page. Ever wonder why the Burnet Institute experts want to keep the vax and Covid scare going. There are billions of reasons :
“Burnet Institute has welcomed medical research funding of AUD $6.8 billion over the next four years announced in the Federal budget.
COVID-19 and the pandemic response is a key health area targeted in the budget, including previously announced funding of AUD $100 million over five years for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and a further $85 million to access vaccines for low-income countries through the COVAX Facility.
The Budget also provides for increased investment in overseas aid to address the immediate COVID-19 crisis and other global health issues, along with a AUD $77 million increase in spending for global health programs and five-year extension of the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security
As well there’s an extension of temporary and targeted packages aimed at supporting the economic and social recovery from COVID-19 in our Pacific and South East Asian neighbours.
Burnet Director Professor Brendan Crabb AC welcomed the increased investment in overseas aid in his role as Chair of the Australian Global Health Alliance, but said Australia risks losing ground in global health without further long-term commitments.
“Pleased as we are with this commitment, the funding increase announced by the Commonwealth is temporary and cuts are still built into the forward estimates,” Professor Crabb said.
“This ignores the medium to long-term nature of responding to COVID-19, including the profound effects of the pandemic on health more generally.
“We must invest strongly to address immediate global health needs, protect our hard-fought progress, and prepare us to tackle new health threats in the future.”
The budget confirmed previously announced funding associated with an agreement with Moderna to establish sovereign mRNA vaccine manufacturing capability in collaboration with the Victorian Government.
The facility will be based in Victoria to provide Australia with priority access to mRNA vaccines and support research and development and domestic preparedness for possible future pandemics.
Other Budget highlights include:
$384.2 million to support and keep Early and Mid-Career Researchers engaged working on Australia’s greatest health challenges,
$4.7 million for the Women in STEM Ambassador initiative and the Future You national digital awareness raising initiative,
$2 million to extend the Superstars of STEM program to continue raising the profile of Australian women in STEM and inspire the next generation, and
$69 million over two years for the Japanese Encephalitis Virus National Plan.
The Budget provides AUD $28.1 million, previously announced, over four years to establish Genomics Australia, to drive the translation and integration of genomics into the Australian healthcare system.
Of the total allocated to medical research AUD $2.6 billion will come from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), a AUD $20 billion long-term investment supporting Australian health and medical research.
MT – Bookmark this version, which is more useful than the “new” graphics AEMO have implemented.
NEM summary tiles
It’s fun. At the moment wind & solar are going like this:
SA: 1.4%
Vic: 11.3%
Tas: 1.7%
NSW: 6.5%
Qld: 2.9%
At those massive levels of renewables Albo is sure to get his 43% reduction by 2030. It’ll be a cinch!
ok self admitted poofta pansie, how come you know ex-pat aussie drunks who prey on children in SE Asia?
I do not presume you make copious donations to http://freedomphilippines.org/ you fucking degenerate.
That is actionable!
Where did you get that bullshit from?
The Furniture Store has become Faulty…
Peter Ducey from Fox needs to ask the Spox at the Whitehouse House if Biden believes if he is God? He seems to think he can replace the entire planets energy grid with wind and sunshine. How’s he going to do that exactly? Command the wind to blow? Demand the sun will shine?
It’s all rather bizarre when you think about it. Besides, according to the recent released audio, Hunter claims that Joe thinks Hunter is a God. It all gets pretty messy.
This is a better representation of power generation, on the right, Live Australia Electricity Generation Data:
https://reneweconomy.com.au/
Sure thing!
Make action degenerate.
The next few days will be “interesting” for wind power in SE Australia.
Rogersays:
June 16, 2022 at 6:56 pm
NSW load shedding the ACT would solve an awful lot of problems….
I thought ACT was 100% renewables?
They purchase indulgences from various ruinable sites far from the ACT, and then use the same mix as NSW., from the same generators.
When I was working in Japan I had a year or so working in somewhere that that involved changing train at Tsuruhashi (in Korea-town).
In the morning the place reeked of Kim Chi, the emanations of which assailed your nose and ate away at your eyeballs.
But, on the way home in the evening dozens of Yaki-Niku (‘bulgogi’ if keeping with the Korean names) had opened up like flowers, beckoning to us with vivid colours and the seductive aromas of cooking beef.
No wonder they have that Yin-Yang looking symbol on their flag.
NEM Summary tiles – BoN
What do the red and grey tiles with arrows represent? Red ruinables (Tas sending hydro to Vic) and grey coal & gas?
All complete bullshit in other words.
Dick ED
You have been babbling on for days about nuclear being electoral poison. Others here have made a sound case that ruinables (solar and wind) cannot deliver reliable, continuous power.
What is your solution to the issue? If nuclear is out, and solar and wind are inadequate, what will do the job?
You have apparently put some thought into the problem, so it should not take you long to give us the benefit of your considerations.
Toad – They’re the interconnectors. They go red when they’re at capacity in either direction. They have more capacity in one direction than the other, I don’t know why that is. The arrows say which direction electricity is being sent up the lines. For example at the moment the Tassie interconnector is flat out sending hydroelectricity into Victoria.
Good night, Cats!
3 straight days of midnight shunts beckon.
I’ll be a mightily tired Rexie by then, but most satisfied….
(Get your minds out of the gutter, ypu horrible people. 🙂 )
#Phrasing
Gypsum.
Thanks BoN.
The WEF had it planned all along, and it’s getting worse | Redacted with Clayton Morris
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The head of the World Health Organisation. This is the man who wants to run our lives.
Sophia Dahl
@sophiadahl1
Who is Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Give it a rest NFA.
So what if I know Bird.
Just remember he isn’t 100% some days.
He doesn’t know what he is saying if his meds aren’t balanced.
He isn’t in a good place right now.
Just let it go.
sure… yuk it up Rex but a self styled Poofta Panzi is a complete and utter fucking liar and threatens and slanders me.
Bring it on you febrile degenerate.
There are another 90 ip addresses that were banned from the joke ‘furniture store’ for the disgusting anti jewish and russia loving crap they dragged.
next time I will copy it directly here.
lose your job, cold showers in winter- all very Stalinist. Would warm the cockles of Wong’s dead heart though.
South African history is always interesting – the ancestors of the Afrikaners, the Dutch settlers, landed at the Cape of Good Hope in the 1650’s. They found a land inhabited by the Hottentots, and the “Bushmen.” They treated them with casual indifference – enslaving some, and forcing others into the Kalahari desert, but it wasn’t for another hundred years that the ancestors of today’s A.N.C. arrived in the Cape Province, fleeing the rising Zulu nation.
The rationale behind the development of the South African atomic arsenal was based on the long term plan for the Afrikaners to retreat into their original homeland – the Cape Province – and anyone who tried to invade that homeland, glowed in the dark for a long, long time..
One of my staff is a (naturalised citizen) migrant with an IQ that is likely 79 or lower.
She thinks the 5% pay rise decision by the FWC was a bad move & as a consequence believes the Fair Work Commissioners are brainless.
She believes Albanese is a fool, that most of his cabinet are idiots, & that Australia is in for tough & miserable economic times purely due to incompetence by the federal ALP.
She lives on Instagram. She’d spend 18 hrs a day glued to Instagram if she could.
She follows Anthony Albanese’s Instagram feed.
Okay, that’s set the scene.
At dinner last night she informed the table that Albanese’s Instagram had some photos of him meeting the “back to Biloela” family, lotsa hugging, flowers, smiles all around, plus text saying how marvellous it is & how fair and moral it is they’ve been returned to Biloela.
She reported that the Instagram post in question had hundreds & hundreds of “likes” and comments (or whatever Instagram calls a thumbs up)
She reported that all of the likes are by people who are not in Australia – mostly they are in Sri Lanka, and from their comments these Sri Lankans firmly believe that Australia will let anybody stay, they just have to loaf around for a few years in a 4-star compound, lie through their teeth like the back-to-Biloela family did, then after a few years they’ll be granted PR & then citizenship. No problem.
Her final observation: She is struggling to process just how stupid Albanese & co actually are, to be unaware of the loud & clear message they have sent to the world’s poor.
Footnote: A couple of the people commenting under Albanese’s Instagram are former staff of mine, who played up & got themselves deported back to Sri Lanka. They know the back to Biloela family lied & scammed all the way. They approve of it, coz it worked.
Stand by for a flotilla of illegal arrivals that’ll make the D-Day invasion fleet look small.
This is from the University of South Australia.
Vitamin D deficiency leads to dementia
There’s a link to the actual study. It seems that vitamin D is good for many things. Interesting that it was discouraged against Covid.
Too late you degenerate.