Open Thread – Wed 22 June 2022


Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560

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JC
JC
June 22, 2022 10:58 am

dover0beach says:
June 22, 2022 at 10:49 am
The business model for all renewables is to be able to sell energy into the grid at elevated prices.
What a massive ponzi. Everyone of these arseholes that claims that coal is uneconomic should be shot from a cannon into a brick wall.

I just don’t get how the two big parties don’t collude for nuke in a big way as that would get greenslime and the teals pretty much with nothing to sell. Both parties would be protecting their flanks from this political slime. I can’t work it out.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2022 10:58 am

Much like the Brittany media pack, the role of Four Corners and the Adelaide gal pals in the Porter case might make some interesting work for a (non aligned aka Murdoch) investigative j’ismist.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2022 10:59 am

Maybe I was missing something, but when I were a kid (and there were Australian TV shows that were not soap operas, sports, or current affairs) the people on the Logies had an attitude like the one Hollywood stars also had at the time: They were rich, had an adoring public, and and they were deliriously happy with themselves.

In days of yore they would flaunt the wealth and glamour that I did not have, but in a charming and charismatic way such that you did not begrudge them it.

Now they step up to the microphone and try to show off traits that they do not possess in greater abundance than I: reason, ethics, knowledge, and sincerity. Yet they act as if they embody the finest of all those things and I should bow my head before them.

Was the ratings for the Loogies up or down on previous years?

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2022 10:59 am

I just don’t get how the two big parties don’t collude for nuke in a big way as that would get greenslime and the teals pretty much with nothing to sell. Both parties would be protecting their flanks from this political slime. I can’t work it out.

They’ve been infiltrated.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 11:00 am

Sancho Panzer says:
June 22, 2022 at 7:06 am
I identify as Sancho Panzer-Bird.
Or is that Sancho Bird-Panzer?

Everyone’s Bird at some point.
🙂

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2022 11:05 am

Any damage inflicted to Ruinables will flow on to Industry Super Funds – at least it is my understanding that they are heavily invested in them and governments’ policies to buoy up their value underwrites a lot of the super funds balance sheets.

Somehow, I don’t see a Labor government not offering bail outs and special support.

Riversutra
Riversutra
June 22, 2022 11:08 am

news just in: I’m from the Government am I’m here to help.
The door to the school in Uvalde was confirmed to be UNLOCKED the whole time.
It is also confirmed that NO ONE ever even tried the door handle.
This is confirmed by the Texas Public Safety Chief.

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 11:11 am

I identify as a brolga.

Real Deal
Real Deal
June 22, 2022 11:11 am

This place resembles a Hume truckstop carpark after a dodgy cheese sausage.

Liberty quote, Bear. You’ve painted a lovely word picture.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 22, 2022 11:13 am

ONLY MARXISTS NEED APPLY

In Minnesota, a new rule relating to certification of teachers is in process. As I understand it, the rule has proceeded without legislative action and ultimately will come before an administrative law judge who will (I assume) approve it, absent enormous public outcry. The rule provides that you can’t be licensed as a teacher in Minnesota unless you subscribe to neo-Marxist theories of race, gender and so on.

You have to read it to believe it:

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2022 11:14 am

Channel 10 colleagues of Lisa Wilkinson have turned on The Project presenter – one unleashing on her over her ‘big head’ – as the fallout from her now-infamous Logies speech boils over at the TV network.

Wilkinson’s victory speech about Brittany Higgins led ACT Chief Justice Lucy McCallum to delay the trial through ‘gritted teeth’ of the staffer’s accused rapist, Bruce Lehrmann, for several months.

That led long-time Channel 10 weather presenter Tim Bailey to rip into Wilkinson in a brutal tweet last night, calling her a ‘big head’ and telling her to pull her head in.

‘Hey Lisa, pull ya head in,’ Bailey said in a now-deleted message. ‘I know this might be difficult, because it is a very big head. But please try.’ He added, ‘#LisaWilkinson #Logies2022 #carparkthief’.

(Picture: Lisa Wilkinson is pictured giving her Logies speech on Sunday night, where she thanked Brittany Higgins for sharing her story of an alleged sexual assault)

Legendary Ten news anchor Sandra Sully also liked a tweet from showbusiness reporter Peter Ford blasting Wilkinson’s speech. That message said: ‘Such serious consequences from Lisa Wilkinson… if only she’d stuck to silly stories like the paparazzi who stalked her in Chapel St.’

Despite the uproar, there were signs Wilkinson is still in denial over the serious consequences of her actions, with the host liking a tweet which said her Logies comments had ‘nothing to do with the accused. If the courts don’t recognise the difference, they are part of the problem’.

Separately, Sunrise presenter Natalie Barr expressed disbelief on the breakfast TV show on Wednesday, saying Seven always runs stories by their lawyers before going to air.

Daily Mail

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 22, 2022 11:20 am

The rule provides that you can’t be licensed as a teacher in Minnesota unless you subscribe to neo-Marxist theories of race, gender and so on.

Before these theories was the world a worse place? Have they helped?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 22, 2022 11:22 am

This place resembles a Hume truckstop carpark after a dodgy cheese sausage.

Liberty quote, Bear. You’ve painted a lovely word picture.

A dodgy truck stop cheese sausage.
He’s obviously had exciting and varied life experiences.

Bruce in WA
Bruce in WA
June 22, 2022 11:23 am

22nd June, 1941. Operation Barbarossa – the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia.

The 12th anniversary of my father’s death … in his sleep … on his birthday.

Way to go, Dad.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 11:31 am

Any damage inflicted to Ruinables will flow on to Industry Super Funds

They would have been one of the parties lobbying the hardest to get the energy market back open.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 22, 2022 11:37 am

The business model for all renewables is to be able to sell energy into the grid at elevated prices.

What a massive ponzi. Everyone of these arseholes that claims that coal is uneconomic should be shot from a cannon into a brick wall.

For everyone expecting the ponzi to deliver affordable electricity, ‘too cheap to meter’:

“There has been continued uncertainty regarding energy policy and an acceleration of the market forces that determine our strategy,” AGL chair Peter Botten said.

“Our financial results for FY21 reflect these ongoing challenging market and operating conditions facing the energy industry, as well as the impact of the decline in wholesale electricity prices that has occurred over the past two years.”

Challenging.
The terrible two-year decline in wholesale electricity prices in AGL’s markets: a fall from a healthy $80-$90/MWh to a dangerously low $60/MWh.

Luckily, fate has restored Peter’s challenged fortunes, the average wholesale price is now running at $250-$270/MWh – with the prospect of improving tomorrow.

Be of good cheer.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
June 22, 2022 11:39 am

I identify as a brolga.

Then you’d better change your avatar which looks like a tough chick to me.

Bluey
Bluey
June 22, 2022 11:39 am

shatterzzzsays:
June 22, 2022 at 10:52 am
Who’d a thunk it! ..
Apparently, if your a “maaate” ya gotta be “equipped” to go to gaol .. FFS!
https://ibb.co/mRRTLZK

Woah. That is a face that just screams pedo. Would not want him anywhere near kids.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 22, 2022 11:41 am

The government of India this weekend followed up on its feisty refusal to apologize for buying huge amounts of Russian oil by refusing to apologize for buying huge amounts of Russian coal.

The situation is much the same as it was with Russian oil: India needs the fuel, and Russia is offering steep discounts due to international sanctions, so they struck some deals.

Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar scolded Europeans for hypocrisy this month because they accused India of “funding the war” in Ukraine by purchasing Russian oil, even as Europe continued buying Russian energy products.

Reuters on Saturday noted the Biden administration told India it did not want to see a “rapid acceleration” of energy imports from Russia, but that is exactly what they got, as Indian purchases of Russian coal spiked last month alongside India’s orders for Russian oil:

The European Union is banning new contracts for coal and planning to terminate existing agreements in August. India, which is one of the world’s largest coal producers but began importing coal this year to address power shortages, saw an opportunity to take advantage of Russia’s fire-sale pricing and replenish its depleted coal stocks.

India’s two preferred coal exporters, Australia and Indonesia, were unable to meet its needs due to weather problems and export caps, respectively. Industry analysts expect India’s orders for Russian coal to spike again in August, when the EU termination of existing contracts goes into effect.

Old bloke
Old bloke
June 22, 2022 11:44 am

Gabor says:
June 22, 2022 at 2:39 am

Sanctions anyone?

Gazprom halved the gas delivered to Austria.
Now the Austrians are reopening coal mines, good news for some, bad news for others.
The same is happening in Germany.
Red faced greeny energy minister had to announce the sad news.

What goes around comes around, you only have to wait.

According to an Alexander Mercouris report a few days ago, only half the gas is being delivered to Germany due to a failure of some Siemens equipment in the pipeline. Siemens sent the faulty part to their factory in Canada for repairs, it’s their only factory which repairs this equipment, and Canada won’t send it back because of their sanctions against Gazprom.

Canada has therefore sanctioned Germany.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
June 22, 2022 11:52 am

Canada has therefore sanctioned Germany.

It’s got its entertaining side.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 22, 2022 11:57 am

Albosleasy is down south at the Map with his plywood teeth.

And he told all and sundry he grew up in public housing – again. FFS.

Wearing a scarf – which, of course, is gay.

Now bubbling through the plywood teeth about how good New Zulland is. That’ll pump the locals.

Unity, reconciliation, blah blaah.

Ist nations – our birth certificate.

Me mum, catholic, 1st nations again – my focus.

Trying to explain electricity – ruinables – market has spoken.

Ranting like a good bruvver – waiting for the Tory moment.

Fuck, it’s too hard to listen to – over and out.

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 11:57 am

Regarding battery packs for solar/home kits, I’ve contacted a couple of resellers/manufacturers in Australia as to the prices for a stand alone bank of Lead/acid batteries and refurbished EV packs.
So far, 1000Ah LiFePO4 bank of 5 at $2200 each, from WA freight just shy of $1k.
Anyone else looking at the market?

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 11:58 am

What did Swimming Australia know & when did they know it?

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 11:59 am

J.C:

I just don’t get how the two big parties don’t collude for nuke in a big way as that would get greenslime and the teals pretty much with nothing to sell. Both parties would be protecting their flanks from this political slime. I can’t work it out.

Because they’re making out like bandits on the renewables scam.

Brislurker
Brislurker
June 22, 2022 11:59 am

Geriatric Mayfly

If you are around or lurking, the explore brown bears cams have all come on live today!

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 12:01 pm

Imagine having a licence that allowed you to sell a product at an elevated price if you so wished.
And anyone else wanting to sell the same product had to wait until you sold as much as you wanted before they could enter the market & sell their product.

It sounds positively colonial.

Old bloke
Old bloke
June 22, 2022 12:15 pm

Goanna says:
June 22, 2022 at 7:33 am

From Jo Nova.

“In Poland, energy prices are so expensive that three weeks ago the government told people to go and collect wood from forests to keep their homes warm. Last week they the government said it would pay a large part of the cost of buying three tons of coal for each household. It’s that bad.”

This doesn’t make sense, the northern hemisphere in now in summer. I checked temperatures in Warsaw for the week, mid to high 20’s to low 30’s this week. Why do they need coal now?

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 12:19 pm

Is this in anticipation of a cold autumn/winter? Get in before the rush?

Otherwise it sounds like hooey.

m0nty
June 22, 2022 12:21 pm

I just don’t get how the two big parties don’t collude for nuke in a big way as that would get greenslime and the teals pretty much with nothing to sell. Both parties would be protecting their flanks from this political slime. I can’t work it out.

Nukes are a con put up by the coal lobby. Labor is not falling for it.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 22, 2022 12:21 pm

Engineered California

The birthplace of environmentalism was built through meticulous application of technology.

“Pave paradise, put up a parking lot.”

Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi,” 1970

California would not exist in anything like its modern form without massive engineering. Largely dominated by desert, flammable, dry chaparral and high mountains, California depends on human-created technology to bring water to its bone-dry coast. It taps distant dams for the bulk of its electricity and food and would have never grown its population without this manufactured transformation of its natural environment. “Science,” as the University of California’s second president, Daniel Coit Gilman, put it, “is the mother of California.”

The Origins of Environmental Politics

Ignoring the costs and trade-offs

In coverage of fires, the legacy media mindlessly repeats Governor Gavin Newsom’s claim that the conflagrations are caused by climate change.

Yet in reality, the problem is far more complex, and implicates the state’s mismanaged forest policies. As the left-leaning Pro Publica has revealed, the fires were made far worse by enforcement of green policies . There have been constant lawsuits against hauling away old growth, particularly dead trees. Even sustainable logging has been largely banned. California’s naturally combustible landscape , left on its own, would burn many times more than even the worst fire season .

The Green Jim Crow

Attorney Jennifer Hernandez has demonstrated in a recent report for the Breakthrough Institute what she calls “the green Jim Crow.“

Pushed by overwhelmingly white billionaires, these policies have escalated housing and energy prices, driving jobs and people out of the state. This has hurt minorities in particular, she claims, “deepening the state’s shameful legacy of racial injustice.”

The Water Crisis

If one assumes that climate change means drier conditions, the logical response would be to upgrade the infrastructure. But the greens prefer austerity to adaptation. Even Jerry Brown’s plans to rebuild the state’s water capacity elicited hostility from his green allies. The effect has been to reinforce scarcity, refusing to even consider new dams or desalinization plants, or even spending money on voter-approved new water storage projects.

Going Nowhere Fast

Once again, the burden for green virtue will fall on the middle and working classes. One critic suggests this could leave California like Cuba, filled with old rickety but affordable gas-powered automotive dinosaurs. At a time when electric vehicles cost more than $50,000, Newsom’s executive order banning the sale of internal combustion vehicles by 2035 and the elimination of gas-powered stoves, water heaters, lawn blowers, and furnaces elicited criticism by some Latino voting-rights advocates, who claimed these policies would require “us, or our landlords, to make investments we can’t afford.” A similar objection was raised by African-American assembly member Jim Cooper. “How will my constituents afford an EV?” he asked on the day the order was signed. “They can’t. They currently drive 11-year-old vehicles.”

Science or Religion?

Between 2007 and 2016 California, despite its climate policies, reduced its greenhouse gases at a rate 40th per capita among the states even without counting the impact of the fires. Similar failures can be seen in Germany , whose policies Newsom wants to follow, where much heralded “Energie Wende” have led to soaring energy costs but disappointing results in emissions declines. Even if successful, the impact on global climate of California’s “leadership,” notes one recent study, would be almost infinitesimal, particularly once you add the greater emissions when people and companies move to less temperate states and countries.

Back to the Engineering Solutions

Rather than genuflect to extreme greens, it’s time to be bold in ways that actually help Californians as well as the planet. California has the innovation and financial capacity to do all these things, given the presence of so much engineering talent and a skilled workforce. We need again to be innovators, not only in the lab but also in how we provide water, power, and opportunity to our communities.

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 12:23 pm

Powerline – the Geek in Pictures:
Some interesting stuff on this week.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 22, 2022 12:27 pm

Russian Ruble Becomes World’s Best Performing Currency, Reaches Seven Year High Against Dollar Despite Sanctions

The New York Times reported this. There is a certain irony in the New York Times outlining the consequences of the U.S. led sanctions are essentially that western governments and NATO countries are essentially punishing themselves with continued sanctions against Russia. Then again, the WEF coalition doesn’t really seem to care as long as they can continue chasing their Build Back Better agenda.

“More Americans believe that it would be better for them for Biden to be removed (56 percent) than Putin (43 percent).” {Poll DATA}

m0nty
June 22, 2022 12:28 pm

Great to see Trump-endorsed candidates getting beaten in Republican primaries.

I guess having Trump’s true crime podcast on the TV every night is starting to take its toll.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 12:29 pm

feelthebernsays:
June 22, 2022 at 9:29 am
Does anyone know a high profile, former political chap who invested a fuck ton in renewables?

Is he a maaaate of Dick Ed?

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 12:35 pm

Russian Ruble Becomes World’s Best Performing Currency, Reaches Seven Year High Against Dollar Despite Sanctions

Ozzie

It’s a mirage. The exchange rate is severely controlled through the central bank and sanctions prevent capital outflow in addition to domestic capital controls.
Also, there are very little imports coming into the place.

The government is also trying to avoid the huge discount they have to sell oil by appreciating the exchange.

Don’t believe the bullshit the economy they’re doing well as it’s not and most certainly the currency appreciation is not reflecting a rosy scenario.

Folks just understand what’s really going on.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 22, 2022 12:36 pm

White House Begins Engineering Narrative that Biden Policy U.S. Food Shortages are Fault of Vladimir Putin

Apparently, Russian President Vladimir Putin has the ability to drive up U.S. inflation, explode U.S. energy costs, increase gasoline prices, influence global agriculture, weaken U.S. oil refining capability, disrupt availability of diesel fuel, impede the transportation of U.S. goods, force municipal energy companies to raise prices, cancel airline flights, stop the manufacturing of infant formula and now block the production -and increase the cost- of food in North America.

It’s worth noting how John Kirby says NATO and the western allies can deliver thousands of tons of heavy weapons and arms into Ukraine from western Europe without issue; however, the western allies cannot get thousands of tons of grain and foodstuffs out of Ukraine. I digress. The propaganda around World War Reddit is remarkable.

If you follow the trajectory, perhaps the White House will now claim Vladimir Putin is the reason why we need to start eating bugs.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2022 12:36 pm

Fuck, it’s too hard to listen to – over and out.

Whoever said he was lazy is on the money.

He’s got one speech he keeps repeating, ad nauseum.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 12:37 pm

Is it too early to call the jury racist??

Jurors at a civil trial in California have found that entertainer Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.*

The Los Angeles County jury delivered the verdict on Tuesday in favour of Judy Huth, who is now 64, and awarded her $US500,000 (more than $717,000).**

Jurors found that Mr Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with Ms Huth, that he reasonably believed she was under 18, and that his conduct was driven by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor.
….
Mr Cosby’s attorneys agreed that he met Ms Huth and her high school friend on a Southern California film set in April of 1975, then took them to the Playboy Mansion a few days later.

Ms Huth’s friend Donna Samuelson, a key witness, took photos at the mansion of Ms Huth and Mr Cosby, which loomed large at the trial.

Ms Huth testified that in a bedroom adjacent to a game room where the three had been hanging out, Mr Cosby attempted to put his hand down her pants, then exposed himself and forced her to perform a sex act.

Ms Huth filed her lawsuit in 2014, saying that her son turning 15 — the age she initially remembered being when she went to the mansion — and a wave of other women accusing Mr Cosby of similar acts brought fresh trauma over what she had been through as a teenager.***

* were 16 year old prostatots common at the Playboy mansion?
** 45 years for a memory to surface..
*** $$$$$

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 22, 2022 12:40 pm

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a40241329/gravity-energy/?utm_campaign=socialflowFBPOP&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&fbclid=IwAR2cmos6mQeU-93R8VGmTeCuuI8cD9Vnlzf2ShTAQDXe-HupAljK_ke8p1M

Gravity—Yes, Gravity—Is the Next Frontier for Batteries

When the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t howling, suspended weights can step in to generate power.

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 12:41 pm

Certainly is, Winston.

This

and

This.

Although the first may be weighted with set-up usage*, particularly concrete for hydro. The second is on current (nyuk, nyuk) technology, and batteries inhabit the realms of magical future scientific discovery.

* unless it’s calculated over the life of the generation unit

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 12:41 pm

Dover

What a massive ponzi. Everyone of these arseholes that claims that coal is uneconomic should be shot from a cannon into a brick wall.

The old practice of “Fired from a cannon’s mouth”, with the guilty culprit tied by arms and legs to the wheels, and the shot going through the abdomen, would have been messy, but frightening to the next in line.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 12:42 pm

Nukes are a con put up by the coal lobby.

Mmmmyess, its a great idea to promote a new competitor into the market.

It why McDonalds helped set up Wendys and Hungry Jacks franchises, all part of their secret master plan.

I bet monty is behind sportsbet and has helped set up another 5 competing fantasy football websites selling his product.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 12:43 pm

Nukes are a con put up by the coal lobby. Labor is not falling for it.

So was G4 and G5, according to you, you technology genius. Recall how you used to tell us we needed the NBN and wireless had hit the end of the road at G3.

You idiot. You’re as bad as uncle fester who was peddling the stupid prediction battery technology hitting a wall.
You big fat idiot.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 12:45 pm

feelthebernsays:

June 22, 2022 at 12:01 pm

Imagine having a licence that allowed you to sell a product at an elevated price if you so wished.

Preferred supplier at last resort pricing.
Sweeeet!

Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2022 12:46 pm
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2022 12:49 pm

Get out of the basement munty it’s an echo chamber. tell us if it’s night or day, then give yourself another uptick.

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 12:49 pm

Link broken, Indolent.

Katie Hopkins has been pushing this line too. I’m booked up on three international trips plus looking at a fourth.

Maybe I’d better get some good walking shoes and water wings. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 12:50 pm

When the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t howling, suspended weights can step in to generate power.

Err, I think the correct term is “Grandfather clock technology”.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 12:50 pm

Nukes are a con put up by the coal lobby. Labor is not falling for it.

Our resident engineering technical eggspurt, m0nty-fa (BA J’ism) has spoken. Heed his words of stupidity, all ye listeners.

Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2022 12:54 pm

Obviously, already in the pipeline.

Biden: ‘There’s Going to Be Another Pandemic’

Kneel
Kneel
June 22, 2022 12:54 pm

“You do not understand how this internet/computer thingy works, do you?”

Umm, not to put too fine a point on it, but those IP’s belong to Optus (the 49. ones) and Telcoinabox (the 123. one). Since these are both ISP’s, finding out who they were being used by at the time might be problematic without a good legal reason, especially if they are dynamically assigned to customers – I can’t say about Telcoinabox, but certainly Optus would be unlikely to hand that info out to you.
If you have “banned” these IP’s, then most likely the individual responsible can obtain a different IP by simply turning off their ADSL/NBN modem for 10-60 minutes and then turning it back on again.
Banning the entire subnet would ban a LOT of people who had nothing to do with it.

But by all means, don’t let me stop you from doing anything you want – not my concern, just sayin’…

dopey
dopey
June 22, 2022 12:57 pm

Harbour Bridge flag. Be cheaper to pay Ernie Dingo to climb up the bridge each morning, fly the flag on his didgeridoo, then climb back down at sunset. Stan Grant could fill in on public holidays.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2022 12:58 pm

battery packs…Anyone else looking at the market?

NSW is offering some sort of rebate to selected postcodes to get into a battery for your house. We weren’t one of the blessed so didn’t look further. Apparently it will be extended further if successful, whatever that means.

This is in preference to governments being far-thinking and responsible.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2022 1:00 pm

It is ‘certainly possible’ Lisa Wilkinson could be prosecuted over her Logies acceptance speech which saw the trial of Brittany Higgins’ accused rapist delayed, a top barrister says.

Dr Matthew Collins, President of the Australian Bar Association, told Sunrise on Wednesday that it is a ‘serious possibility’ that authorities may look into charging Wilkinson with contempt of court.

Daily Mail

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2022 1:00 pm

Regarding battery packs for solar/home kits

https://www.tradezone.com.au/

try creating an account to get pricing

m0nty
June 22, 2022 1:01 pm

Mmmmyess, its a great idea to promote a new competitor into the market.

It why McDonalds helped set up Wendys and Hungry Jacks franchises, all part of their secret master plan.

Nukes will take 15-20 years to come online in Australia due to starting from the back markers, which the coal lobby knows. They push it as a delaying tactic so that they can distract from the fact that coal power stations have had bugger all money put into maintenance by dodgy operators who don’t care about the strength of the grid and are just in it for a quick buck.

So was G4 and G5, according to you, you technology genius. Recall how you used to tell us we needed the NBN and wireless had hit the end of the road at G3.

Nice straw man, JC.

What I said was that you can’t do what the NBN does over wireless, no matter what the generation. This remains true, in both economic and engineering senses.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2022 1:03 pm

The media are gathering in packs:

A resurfaced tweet from Lisa Wilkinson’s Twitter account seemingly shows that the TV presenter was aware of the dangers of speaking about the case.

Wilkinson’s Tweet from August last year warned users against “passing judgement” about a man accused of alleged sexual assault of a woman in parliament as this could have “dire consequences” for judicial fairness.

The old tweet comes after the veteran journalist Logie’s speech and resulting media commentary caused delay in the criminal trial of former parliamentary staffer Brittany Higgins.

“Can I implore everyone to respect what’s in play here,” the tweet from August 6, 2021 read.

“Naming the man on social media and passing judgement could have dire consequences for the outcome of any trial.”

It comes as with “gritted teeth” a judge has delayed the trial for the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins after TV presenter Lisa Wilkinson “completely obliterated” the line between allegation and guilt in her ­Logies acceptance speech.

Daily Tele

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 22, 2022 1:05 pm

Re the link posted by OldOzzie at 12:40 over the page.
“When the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t howling, suspended weights can step in to generate power.”
Yes, the kinetic energy in suspended weight to generate power will work technically.
But, like pumped hydro, it is the number of steps between original generation and consumption which renders it inefficient.
I was having a laugh about them running around building prototype towers and looking for disused mineshafts to create their “gravity storage batteries”.
They have missed the cheapest, most obvious and most elegant solution if you really must do this.
Instal the weights in wind turbine towers.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 1:08 pm

The past, where Parkinson interviews are so dangerous they have to come with a snowflake warning.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fculture%2Ftv-and-radio%2Fmichael-parkinson-s-interviews-are-fascinating-tv-even-with-the-new-warning-20220617-p5aumu.html

Each episode begins with a contemporary disclaimer: “The following program expresses attitudes that are not consistent with current standards and may offend some viewers.” That’s true, although the question is whether it’s Barry Humphries’ comic creation Sir Les Patterson or then-Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen discussing abortion that deserves the warning. There may be unseen episodes that do cross a line, but historic insight outranks contemporary privilege. This was monocultural Australia, just starting to mix with the world – repeat guest Bob Hawke was not yet prime minister, just the gregarious head of the ACTU.

John Sheldrick
June 22, 2022 1:13 pm

What I said was that you can’t do what the NBN does over wireless, no matter what the generation. This remains true, in both economic and engineering senses.

My satellite phone seems to work better than the NBN. ET and I are in regular contact. He’s OK BTW. The NBN is still a lemon – An Off Balance Sheet Liability no less……………………

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 1:14 pm

The Grand Tour has long since lost its glamour. Visit Venice today, and you find yourself part of a cast of thousands, jostling for space amid the backpacks and selfie sticks — and that’s if you’ve made it through the queues at airport security and your flight has actually taken off.

Quite. So is it a bad thing or a good thing to limit visitors to Venice? The author appears to want to have a bet each way.

As for “international travel for the rich only” – from an Australian perspective, not a hop on hop off Brit, it has always been a big decision both in time and money. A few less Hooray Harrys might be welcomed by denizens of the Continent.

My suspicion though is that this piece is in response to that mountain of luggage at Heathrow (mechanical problems with the conveyors) and the train strike (ideological problems with unions). The petrol stuff can be sheeted home to government interference both at home and abroad.

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 1:16 pm

suspended weights can step in to generate power.

Oh goody. Someone has finally developed a perpetual motion machine.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
June 22, 2022 1:17 pm

The NBN is still a lemon

Yes. And no salt and tequila.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 22, 2022 1:25 pm

The government of India this weekend followed up on its feisty refusal to apologize for buying huge amounts of Russian oil by refusing to apologize for buying huge amounts of Russian coal.

The situation is much the same as it was with Russian oil: India needs the fuel, and Russia is offering steep discounts due to international sanctions, so they struck some deals

Hard to blame India (or China) when Russia is prepared to sell Ural blend at a 30%+ discount to its pre-war basis with Brent.
Similarly coal and gas.

Putin may well win the military conflict.
But Russia’s place as a strategic European energy partner is gone.

This is pointing towards Russia’s new role in Asia.
Win-win.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
June 22, 2022 1:27 pm

Won’t happen! .. but what might be more enjoyable will be her time in the witness box .. given that all, known, acounts to date, specifically, exclude anyone other than the defendant and accuser being in the room at the time and the, alleged, victim having no recollection(s) of anything either!

Enough to rightfully destroy her career, though.

shatterzzz
June 22, 2022 1:32 pm

Apparently, wreckin’ the joint isjust par for the course but questions about who payz the bill(s) aint .. LOL!

THE damage bill for repairing and rebuilding homes in Wadeye (NT) is set to surpass $5m.
That sum is based on the damage sustained to 80 of the 125 homes impacted during unrest in the remote community earlier this year, Estimates heard on Wednesday.
An “early estimate” of the damage to these 80 properties was between $4m and $5m. Costs are expected to rise further as the remaining 45 homes are assessed.
There are 288 public housing properties in Wadeye, meaning nearly half of social houses in the township were damaged or destroyed during the unrest.
Estimates heard on Wednesday that 545 people were displaced by the violence.
In questioning, the CLP sought to get clarity on whether taxpayers would foot the bill for repairs, drawing a rebuke from both Housing and Homelands Minister Selena Uibo and local Labor MLA Dheran Young.
Ms Uibo said criminal damages were a matter for police and the courts.
“It’s disappointing to see the line of questioning around prioritising what it costs to taxpayers rather than the care and welfare of other Territorians,” Mr Young said.
Araleun MLA Robyn Lambley disagreed, saying budget estimates was focused on financial costs to departments and the questioning was fair.
Ms Uibo said a $200,000 emergency grant had been provided to the West Daly Regional Council for demountable toilets, water access and telecommunications to be provided to displaced people in those homelands.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 22, 2022 1:36 pm

Wind turbines would be pretty useless across the whole of Victoria as wind speeds are generally below 20kph everywhere and lower than that at key sites.
To get to plated capacity winds need to be in the 30-40kph zone. Foggy for most of the morning as well. Seems the weather doesn’t care if you buy batteries.

John Sheldrick
June 22, 2022 1:39 pm

There is a new post up…………………….

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 1:41 pm

m0nty-fa

They push it as a delaying tactic so that they can distract from the fact that coal power stations have had bugger all money put into maintenance by dodgy operators who don’t care about the strength of the grid and are just in it for a quick buck.

Those would be the managers who, in support of their fiduciary duty to their shareholders, have seen that there are greater profits to be made by subsidy farming with ruinables than by paying good money to maintain generators that governments of both complexions have taken action to ensure that they have no long term future?

You get more of what you subsidise, in this case ruinables. That they cannot deliver the required output is secondary.

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 1:49 pm

These renewable investors sound like Uber drivers manipulating surge pricing, with assistance from a complicit government.
The difference is the consumer with half a brain can opt out from an Uber trip, not so us mug electricity users.

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 1:50 pm

Coal station operators in it for a quick buck.
Epic trolling.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 1:53 pm

They push it as a delaying tactic so that they can distract from the fact that coal power stations have had bugger all money put into maintenance by dodgy operators who don’t care about the strength of the grid and are just in it for a quick buck.

Coal stations have bugger all invested in them for 2 reasons.

1: The governments capriciousness in setting closing dates/penalties for running and having them paid at the lowest market rate.

2: The runiables spivs who own some of the station mysteriously having them fail in order to get their prices for ruinables paid at the top dollar.
Eg:
Oh no we are having to shut down our coal generator early… https://www.originenergy.com.au/about/sustainability/

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 1:56 pm

Why is it so appalling to be surrounded by other tourists?
These whingers seem to care only about being special, and that seems to mean having some famous beauty spot to themselves.
Tourist hordes are always the norm in high season in famous places.

m0nty
June 22, 2022 2:02 pm

Origin Energy are renewable spivs lol, that’s such a dumb talking point with no basis in reality. They may talk a big game about renewables but the vast majority of their electricity generation still comes from fossil fuels. They have one (1) solar plant.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
June 22, 2022 2:04 pm

midwits like monty

What an insult to the worlds midwits.

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 2:04 pm

And you are correct Calli.
Big difference between Australians deciding on a few weeks in Europe to Manchurians deciding to have Ryanair weekend in Lisbon.

Zipster
Zipster
June 22, 2022 2:05 pm

China in Focus – NTD

01:04 Will the NIH Stop Funding Chinese Research?
05:16 Tesla Cars Banned From China Leaders’ Meeting
06:23 Musk: No Problems Balancing China, Tesla, Twitter
07:22 Chinese Media Takes Aim At Elon Musk’s #Starlink
09:28 Protest Over Closed Public Transit
11:22 ‘Miracle’ City Shenzhen Under Partial Lockdown
12:36 Explosion in Tianjin: 3 Severely Injured

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2022 2:08 pm

A dodgy truck stop cheese sausage.
He’s obviously had exciting and varied life experiences.

Numerous Perth to Port Hedland 24 hour Greyhound trips definitely counts there.

Kneel
Kneel
June 22, 2022 2:11 pm

“What I said was that you can’t do what the NBN does over wireless, no matter what the generation. This remains true, in both economic and engineering senses.”

Depends what you are trying to do and where you are – not everyone has an NBN node close by, and country people in particular are likely to have pretty crap bandwidth and/or high connection costs that make mobile networks look pretty reasonable by comparison.
I regularly see 70Mbps down and 20Mbps up on 4G modem/routers with NO diversity antennas attached, an RSRP of -103 or so and about -70dBm RSSI.
You can get a public IP if you want one (some limitations apply, at least on Telstra network, due to the way traffic to such IPs is treated internally by the carrier).
Data only SIM cards are much cheaper than voice/sms enabled ones.
And, of course, it very much depends on who and how many others are sharing your 100Mbps (4G) or 1Gbps (5G) down link. Anyone who has NBN over pay-TV cable knows how crap that gets during peak times, and 4G/5G is no different.
Nothing beats having a dedicated “wire” that you don’t need to share, but since most NBN goes via a link to your ISP over (most likely) Telstra infrastructure for at least SOME of the way, getting such a dedicated “wire” is near impossible with anyone other than Telstra for most people. “Contention ratios” mean you are likely to find yourself hitting a limit at some point (other than your soft NBN bandwidth limit that is part of your plan) if enough others you “share” the link with are also bandwidth hungry.

But most of my customers are very bandwidth frugal, as they are using the network for industrial telemetry and/or control – I am just getting starting selling them an SD-WAN arrangement, which is bandwidth limited to 128kbps per SD-WAN. No-one has really banged against the bandwidth limit for more than a few minutes per day, and most of the time the keep-alives are consuming the “used” bandwidth. When they DO bang against the limit, it is typically a “daily dump” of collected data and they don’t really care that it takes a bit longer, given that their networking arrangements are significantly simpler than any and all previous arrangements they have tried, and the SD-WAN can be configured by them to suit their existing infrastructure and requirements, rather than them having to adapt their systems to what they can get.

Zipster
Zipster
June 22, 2022 2:19 pm

Drbeen Medical Lectures

Original Antigenic Sin From Previous Colds May Lead to Severe COVID

In this study by the researchers from University of Rochester Medical Center show that original antigenic sin from previous colds can lead to severe COVID

Zipster
Zipster
June 22, 2022 2:25 pm

01:04 Will the NIH Stop Funding Chinese Research?

fauci the turd is still funding the ccp. traitor

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 2:46 pm

As soon as Fink/Gates/Uncle Warren get nuclear into the ESG universe, all opposition will suddenly become boosters overnight.
Watch what Fink is doing & funding.
That tells you how long the the runway is.
Talking points for the new boosters (current opposition) will be distributed then.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 2:48 pm

fauci the turd is still funding the ccp. traitor

Big bong.
You aren’t authorised to call people traitors.
Big bong.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 22, 2022 2:49 pm

coal power stations have had bugger all money put into maintenance by dodgy operators who don’t care about the strength of the grid and are just in it for a quick buck.

Hold on mØnty, I thought – aren’t most coal fired power stations
in QLD government owned?
Surely a Labor diehard like Jim Soorley wouldn’t be the chairman of some dodgy…
Oh, a penny just dropped.
Apologies mØnty.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2022 2:57 pm

All power station owners interest in the transmission grid begins and ends at the point where they hook up their asset. There aren’t many people operating in the electricity charity space, evidently. mUnty’s knowledge isn’t even undergraduate.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity
June 22, 2022 2:59 pm

Sky News:

Former Liberal member for Wentworth Dave Sharma has said the Liberal Party won’t make it back into government – unless it takes a stronger stance on climate change.

Mr. Sharma is correct, just not in the manner he first thought.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 2:59 pm

They may talk a big game about renewables but the vast majority of their electricity generation still comes from fossil fuels. They have one (1) solar plant.

Monty fails to click on link.
As usual.

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 3:00 pm

Drbeen Medical Lectures

Original Antigenic Sin From Previous Colds May Lead to Severe COVID

In this study by the researchers from University of Rochester Medical Center show that original antigenic sin from previous colds can lead to severe COVID

I’m confused. I thought OAS was a problem created by the vaxx, i.e. have a jab or three and you’ll be likely to get really sick really fast.

Now OAS is caused by a history of colds (and who hasn’t had a few of these) so now you’ll get Covid really badly.

Looks like we’re all snookered.

Cassie of Sydney
June 22, 2022 3:00 pm

“Former Liberal member for Wentworth Dave Sharma has said the Liberal Party won’t make it back into government – unless it takes a stronger stance on climate change.”

So he’s learnt nothing.

What a dickhead.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 3:06 pm

Stupid fucking Liberals.
ICAC is the most politicised blob in Australia.
Instead of appointing some black & white former judge they appoint a former Labor A-G who was part of the Eddie Obeid universe.
SFL’s deserve everything they get.

132andBush
132andBush
June 22, 2022 3:10 pm

Monty,

They push it as a delaying tactic so that they can distract from the fact that coal power stations have had bugger all money put into maintenance by dodgy operators who don’t care about the strength of the grid and are just in it for a quick buck.

Do you own a car?

shatterzzz
June 22, 2022 3:10 pm

“Former Liberal member for Wentworth Dave Sharma has said the Liberal Party won’t make it back into government – unless it takes a stronger stance on climate change.”
I don’t know about the rest of Oz but out here in western Sydney “houso” land one subject that NEVER comes up is “climate change” .. no idea if we are unique but any mention of “gummint”, State/Federal usually involves .. “what’s in it it for us, “freebie/money-wize that is” .. LOL!

Zipster
Zipster
June 22, 2022 3:15 pm

“Former Liberal member for Wentworth Dave Sharma has said the Liberal Party won’t make it back into government – unless it takes a stronger stance on climate change.”

sure, like debunking this nonsense as anti-west, anti-capitalist, anti-prosperity garbage. speaking of garbage, the garbage quality of politicians has never been more obvious. these ppl are plain garbage

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2022 3:17 pm

It’s good in a way that Sharma along with the other ‘moderate’ trash got the flick.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 22, 2022 3:18 pm

Just watching Monique Ryan (Looney Party) on Sky talking about electricity.

She’s fucking incoherent.

A primary school kid would make more sense.

Of course, the soft interview is from lefty Kieron Gilbert – softcock.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2022 3:19 pm

snap Zipster. I blame uni bludge courses. Read so many US Congress bio and you see summa cum laude in political science.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2022 3:20 pm

The teals are the closest thing to elio yet.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2022 3:20 pm

eloi sorry

Cassie of Sydney
June 22, 2022 3:22 pm

From the Oz…

“It was revealed that Wilkinson was warned four days before the events ceremony that she could hinder the trial from going ahead by speaking at the TV awards night.

“It’s certainly possible that the authorities will be looking at the speech”

Top lawyer Matthew Collins on Lisa Wilkinson’s “ill-advised” speech at the Logies that caused Brittany Higgins’ rape trial to be delayed. pic.twitter.com/XNFFFCxue7

Matthew Collins, president of the Australian Bar Association, told Sunrise on Wednesday that it is a “serious possibility” that authorities may look into charging Wilkinson with contempt of court.

“It’s certainly possible that the authorities will be looking at the speech that she made to the Logies and assessing that speech against the standard that applies in this branch of the law,” the barrister told Sunrise on Wednesday.

“That standard is, did anything that she did do have a tendency to interfere with the administration of justice?””

I have a theory about Ms Wilkinson and her ilk. I suspect one of the reasons why she gave her speech at the Logies was because she thought she’d get away with it…..just like other scum in the activist media have gotten away with smearing, slandering, defaming and destroying the personal and professional lives of various people along with prejudicing sensitive trials A classic case in point is Louise Milligan. She’s the perfect pin-up girl for this kind of muck journalism. Milligan’s career is strewn with the corpses of men she’s happily and merrily destroyed to suit her ideological narratives….Pell, Porter, Tudge, Laming and I’m sure there’s more to come. There have been no, zero, nada, zilch professional or personal repercussions for Milligan’s destructive “journalism”…cough. She’s even by protected by the “national broadcaster”, an organisation that has used our taxes to pay her legal bills. Nor has there ever been any acknowledgement from their ABC that they were wrong to pursue Pell, Porter et al like they did.

Milligan and Wilkinson are great pals and they follow each other on Twitter. They form part of that cabal of monstrous women, Milligan, Maiden, Wilkinson, Crabb, Shingle etc. Wilkinson thought she could get away it, just like her buddy always gets away with it. Wilkinson should be charged with contempt of court and she should be sacked from Ten. What she did the other night was outrageous. But of course she won’t be, I predict she’ll face no repercussions although Ten, unlike their ABC, won’t cough up dosh to pay legal bills, as her grovelling and very belated apology to Andrew Laming proved.

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2022 3:23 pm

They may talk a big game about renewables but the vast majority of their electricity generation still comes from fossil fuels.

mUnter, you must be an investigative j’ismist

do the givey Walkleys for Wrongology or is it just a professional standards thing with all j’ismists?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 3:26 pm

Incompetent?
Stupid?
Evil?

Imagine being such a 3rd world shithole a man cant book a driving test for 12 months.

Austrfailure, your seeping in it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-06-22/rigid-licensing-regulations-stall-qualified-livestock-truckies/101173588
Mark Thornton is a livestock transporter with 18 years of experience from the United Kingdom, who recently entered the country on a working visa with the intention of finding employment in the industry.

He approached the Department of Transport office in Perth, hoping to book a multiple combination heavy vehicle test.

Mr Thornton received a heavy rigid licence, which does not allow him to operate livestock transport vehicles, and was told to wait 12 months until he could sit his multiple combination licence.

Currently, he is sweeping the garage floors for Mitchell’s Livestock Transport.

“They’re in a crisis looking for livestock drivers. There’s not many people who can drive a lorry with livestock,” Mr Thornton said.

“If they require me to do a licence test let me do it tomorrow or the next day and have it over and done with.

“If I pass it I should be skilled enough to drive. If I don’t pass it, fair enough.”

Bing bong… computer says no…

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 3:27 pm

m0nty-fa

They push it as a delaying tactic so that they can distract from the fact that coal power stations have had bugger all money put into maintenance by dodgy operators who don’t care about the strength of the grid and are just in it for a quick buck.

This is your big chance to get away from these crooks and spivs. Take the Solar Challenge. Solar panels on the roof, a battery beside the house, an EV in the garage, cut yourself off from the polluding grid, and you are freeee!

Don’t just sit there, tell us when you start on the Challenge.

Vicki
Vicki
June 22, 2022 3:35 pm

Now OAS is caused by a history of colds (and who hasn’t had a few of these) so now you’ll get Covid really badly.
Looks like we’re all snookered.

Calli, it looks to me more like another desperate attempt by the medical technocracy to evade the prospect of the actual vaccines depleting immune systems to the point that Covid infections are worse than expected.

As someone who has mild Bronchiectasis, caused possibly by a previous bad bronchitis event, I was considered likely to be prone to contracting Covid. Through most of 2020, before I understood the Covid stats, I was pretty concerned about my prospect of contracting the confounded thing.

Without wanting to jinx myself, I failed to contract it despite continuing close contact with husband who had a mild dose of Covid. I think it is likely that this was due not simply to a year and a half of vitamins, supplements and exercise, but to current healthy immune system.

BTW this theory of susceptibility because of previous corona virus exposure contradicts just about all previous understanding of immunology. Indeed, some immunologist have postulated the contrary position – i.e. that some people have a degree of acquired immunity to Covid as a result of their antibodies and T cells recognising parts of the SARS 2 protein.

Brian
Brian
June 22, 2022 3:39 pm

The first presentation I saw on Original Antigeneic Sin used Flu as its example.
It noted that flu came in variant waves, and that a different cohort of people were affected by each wave. That means that over time there was a distributed robustness in the population so that the effects of flu were limited.
Original Antigenic Sin is basically the concept that the body uses the same learned tools from a first exposure to try a deal with subsequent exposures. With diseases that are highly variable – like Flu and Covid – that means we are often less protected from new variants due to using a mismatched immune system. But as long as some of the population [typically the young] are freshly exposed to a variant, some robust immunity is being built up in the community leading to a degree of herd immunity.
In that context, previous response to a covid virus [read common cold] could mismatch a response to covid-19 resulting in a worse experience. That appears to be the thrust of the paper and that makes sense.
However, the more important issue is the complete destruction of any kind of community herd immunity by a total population application of a single form of non-sterilising spike protein. And to make matters worse – this is being applied when that particular variant is no longer in general circulation.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or destructive response to such a disease from a so-called “scientific” effort. And it makes it clear that it was easy to predict that those so medicated would catch the disease, would spread the disease, and would slowly succumb to the disease in serious ways. The good news is that the current forms are exceptionally mild in effect. The bad news is that herd immunity is now impossible, so it has all the time in the world to produce more damaging variants.

shatterzzz
June 22, 2022 3:40 pm

Mr Thornton received a heavy rigid licence, which does not allow him to operate livestock transport vehicles

Bit o’ “houso” ignorance here but why do you need specific licence(s) to transport livestock as opposed to other goods .. they don’t use “special” roads .. do they? ..

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 3:49 pm

why do you need specific licence(s) to transport livestock as opposed to other goods

A HR covers your panel truck/bread truck type vehicles.
MC is one that covers towing trailers/ road trains.

The “thinking” was you shouldnt be able toget an MC without having held a HR for 12 months so you got experience driving a relatively heavier vehicle.
In reality you can do a HR, sit on your ass for 12 months then do an MC anyway.

Given its a competency based assessment a person is either assessed as competent or not competent, tacking on a 12 month wait is the result of uni-mongs guieded by ‘elfs (and safetys)

Vicki
Vicki
June 22, 2022 3:49 pm

The good news is that the current forms are exceptionally mild in effect. The bad news is that herd immunity is now impossible, so it has all the time in the world to produce more damaging variants.

Thanks Brian – your discussion illuminates this matter.

Your conclusion certainly reflects that of Geert Vanden Bossche who argues that, in spite of the current mild expression of the virus , the pressure put on the pathogen by the global vaccination program will eventually produce a very virulent variant.

shatterzzz
June 22, 2022 3:52 pm

A HR covers your panel truck/bread truck type vehicles.
MC is one that covers towing trailers/ road trains.

Thanx .. I thought it was something to do with the animals as opposed to inanimate stuff .. LOL!

Old bloke
Old bloke
June 22, 2022 3:56 pm

The government of India this weekend followed up on its feisty refusal to apologize for buying huge amounts of Russian oil by refusing to apologize for buying huge amounts of Russian coal.

The situation is much the same as it was with Russian oil: India needs the fuel, and Russia is offering steep discounts due to international sanctions, so they struck some deals

The EU wanted to ban everything to do with Russian oil but the Greeks complained as a ban would have hit them hard, the Greeks run the world’s oil tanker business. The EU agreed that the Greeks could continue shipping the stuff, but not to any European ports.

Enter India, “we’ll take all the Russian oil the Greeks can send our way.”

Russian oil now goes to India, it’s offloaded from the tanker, then reloaded onto another tanker which sends it to Europe as Indian oil, at a huge markup. The Greeks are happy, the Indians are happy and the Russians are happy. Everyone is happy except the Europeans who now have to pay much more for their oil.

If the Europeans were serious about achieving energy independence they would need to embark on a massive project of nuclear power station construction. If they are not prepared to do that, they will continue to be dependent on Russia for oil, gas & coal.

Frank
Frank
June 22, 2022 3:57 pm

Hobart had its annual Dark Mofo solstice nude swim. Paywalled.

It appears Hannah Gadsby was in attendance this year.

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 3:57 pm

Eventually being nine to thirty-nine months?

shatterzzz
June 22, 2022 4:00 pm

Ask not what you can do for your gummint but what your gummint can do for you ..!
Just got an email from NSW Housing offering me a special deal on a new washing machine ..
“Hardly Normal” ain’t gonna be happy .. competition .. LOL!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 22, 2022 4:02 pm

WA Police fitness standing: Force drops fitness standards to be in line with other jurisdictions
Josh Zimmerman
The West Australian
Wed, 22 June 2022 1:25PM
Comments

The WA Police Force has been forced to drop its physical entrance requirements for new recruits because the previous battery of fitness tests was scaring off applicants.

The revelation came during budget estimates in Parliament on Wednesday with Police Commissioner Chris Dawson admitting potential recruits were being deterred by “exacting” physical testing.

WA Police is on a recruitment drive that aims to add 950 officers above attrition by 2024.

To help achieve that goal in an extraordinarily tight labour market, Mr Dawson said the physical testing requirements had been relaxed in the past year to more closely mirror other jurisdictions.

“Western Australian police did have the most exacting physical testing requirements and that was then reviewed and subject of an approach where we’ve pitched it basically at the Australian average,” Mr Dawson said.

“So we’re not going below a bar per se but there has been some adjustment.”

Documents published by WA Police online reveal the primary change relates to a cardiovascular fitness assessment known as a “beep test” that requires recruits to repeatedly run between two lines 20 metres apart.

The time between beeps reduces as recruits progress through the levels of the test.

“If the applicant does not reach the 20m line by the time the beep sounds they are to be called ‘short’,” the police document reads.

“If the applicant does not reach the 20m line on two successive beeps then they are to be removed from the test.”

Previously, male recruits aged 18-29 were required to reach level 10, those aged 30-39 had to reach level 9 and men 40+ level 8.

Females aged 18-29 had to reach level 7 and women older than 30 had to reach level 6.

Under the changes, all men are now only required to reach level 7 and all women to reach level 6.

Upper House Liberal MP Peter Collier seized on the news to ask whether standards had “regressed”.

“As in our standards were much higher and now they’ve just deteriorated to come in line with the rest of Australia?” Mr Collier said.

Vicki
Vicki
June 22, 2022 4:02 pm

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/06/03/poles-told-to-gather-firewood-amid-soaring-energy-prices

Back to collecting wood to keep warm. Ah – our “Green future” in tatters?

The Greens, the Teals & all of their ilk live in “fairy land’, not the real world of globalisation where energy can be turned off by “the enemy”.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 4:04 pm

MC is one that covers towing trailers/ road trains.

Thanx .. I thought it was something to do with the animals as opposed to inanimate stuff .. LOL!

MC does not mean “Moving Cows”, now theres not many people know that.

Roger
Roger
June 22, 2022 4:08 pm

“Former Liberal member for Wentworth Dave Sharma has said the Liberal Party won’t make it back into government – unless it takes a stronger stance on climate change.”

How’s the new CV coming along, Dav?

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 4:08 pm

Old Ozzie:

Gravity—Yes, Gravity—Is the Next Frontier for Batteries

Sounds suspiciously like the Joke Gravity Train I invented a couple of years ago.
Build a ten mile long loop of railway up a mountain.
Fill the track with railway wagons.
Join them together with a cable that turns a generator.
Fill one side with gravel/sand, and let the weight push the other side – empty – back up the loop.
As the full wagons get to the bottom, they unlatch and empty the rock/sand/gravel for building.
The now empty wagon gets pushed back up the mountainside, and when it gets to the top, is refilled.
Gimme grant money now, gubbermint.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 4:09 pm

Nukes will take 15-20 years to come online in Australia due to starting from the back markers, which the coal lobby knows.

You big fat idiot, why on earth would ” the coal lobby” advocate for nuclear power when it would shut them out? You senseless ignoramus.

They push it as a delaying tactic so that they can distract from the fact that coal power stations have had bugger all money put into maintenance by dodgy operators who don’t care about the strength of the grid and are just in it for a quick buck.

Who cares what coal producers say, you fat twat.

New gen nuclear plants are essentially being produced en masse in manufacturing plants. We moving away from expensive bespoke.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 22, 2022 4:16 pm

Frank – you hurt my eyes. Badly.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 22, 2022 4:19 pm

To get to plated capacity winds need to be in the 30-40kph zone. Foggy for most of the morning as well. Seems the weather doesn’t care if you buy batteries.

Hmm, wind turbines and batteries. Where have I heard of them? Ah, here we go!

Solving the problem of battery waste (Phys.org, 21 Jun)

The increased uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) and home batteries comes with its own environmental and sustainability problem—what to do with the batteries at the end of their lifespan?

Sending lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) used in electric cars, most electronic devices and solar batteries to landfill can harm the environment and surrounding communities in several ways, from toxic emissions to fires. Incorrect disposal of LIBs in general waste or recycling bins can lead to fires during transportation or at recycling centers.

A study undertaken by mechatronics engineering student Liam Digby under the supervision of Professor Bernard Rolfe and IFM’s Dr. Jingsi Jiao earlier this year found increased use of electric vehicles (EVs) in Australia could result in around 180,000 tons of LIB waste by 2036 and a $2.9 billion loss to the economy.

Wind turbines bound for landfill because of hefty recycling expenses (ABC, 21 Jun)

Researchers from the University of South Australia are urging renewable energy companies in the state to come up with an end-of-life plan for their ageing wind turbines.

A study led by Professor Peter Majewski indicated that tens of thousands of old turbines could end up in landfill by the end of the decade.

Worldwide, there could be more than 40 million tonnes of blade waste in landfills by 2050.

Mountains and mountains of hazardous waste that will stay intact for many millennia. Oh, that’s a bummer. Maybe we should ask Adam Bandt and the Teals about it.

Winston Smith
June 22, 2022 4:20 pm

Boambee John:
Monty occasionally puts up some howlers, But this one left me open mouthed and slack jawed.

Nukes are a con put up by the coal lobby. Labor is not falling for it.

Our resident engineering technical eggspurt, m0nty-fa (BA J’ism) has spoken. Heed his words of stupidity, all ye listeners.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 22, 2022 4:20 pm

“Former Liberal member for Wentworth Dave Sharma has said the Liberal Party won’t make it back into government – unless it takes a stronger stance on climate change

Ever wonder why you got the arse gay boy?

sfw
sfw
June 22, 2022 4:23 pm

“Mark Thornton is a livestock transporter”

Wrong name, here in Vic if he changed his name to Singh or similar he’s be driving B Doubles within weeks of arriving. No experience required.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 4:23 pm
JC
JC
June 22, 2022 4:30 pm

This work-from-home caper is the biggest bullshit I’ve ever seen. Musk is doubly right. If you don’t do your hours in the office then fuck off.

Service is down in almost every area where work from home applies. I was just onto a large money management firm and the sheila answering the phone had her dog barking and ankle biters bawling in the background. I told her it was unprofessional and needed to get back in the office.

It’s absolute fucking bullshit.

I’ve also noticed that services have dropped – even technology based services are falling apart.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 22, 2022 4:31 pm

Winston Smithsays:
June 22, 2022 at 4:20 pm
Boambee John:
Monty occasionally puts up some howlers, But this one left me open mouthed and slack jawed.

Nukes are a con put up by the coal lobby. Labor is not falling for it.

Our resident engineering technical eggspurt, m0nty-fa (BA J’ism) has spoken. Heed his words of stupidity, all ye listeners.

Just when you thought Munty couldn’t get any worse, rake incoming. It just doesn’t stop.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
June 22, 2022 4:33 pm

Oxford University Press has announced it will produce a new dictionary of “African American English,” which will include slang ranging from “hip” to “diss.”

“ This will serve to acknowledge the contributions of African-American writers, thinkers, and artists, as well as everyday African Americans, to the evolution of the English lexicon,” Oxford University Press said in the release. “Evidence will be gathered from such diverse sources as novels, academic research papers, newspapers and magazines, song lyrics, recipes, social media and more.”

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
June 22, 2022 4:34 pm

Oxford University Press has announced it will produce a new dictionary of “African American English,” which will include slang ranging from “hip” to “diss.”

“ This will serve to acknowledge the contributions of African-American writers, thinkers, and artists, as well as everyday African Americans, to the evolution of the English lexicon,” Oxford University Press said in the release. “Evidence will be gathered from such diverse sources as novels, academic research papers, newspapers and magazines, song lyrics, recipes, social media and more.”

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 22, 2022 4:40 pm

I bet Germany had plenty of midwits like monty telling them to retire their nuclear industry and go solar/ wind/ gas. Now they’re turning back to coal. The midwits are unperturbed.

Germany has had midwits in full control of their energy policy since the mid 2000’s. I was involved in a couple of gas projects – which ended up shitcanned in the name of the Energiewende – even as Germany increased its reliance on Russian gas.

At least one of them is now back on the drawing board because ach scheiße.

Despite events, however, Die Grünen themselves have not had their own ‘energy turnaround’. Minister Habeck is simply going through the contortions you would expect from a Green minister in charge of an energy crisis.

• The restoration of coal generation is temporary allowing time for more renewables and demand management: the operating licences expire in 2024 – this is going to be desperately expensive baseload.

• Habeck is resisting calls to extend the licences of three nukes that expire at the end of 2022 – so goodbye ~20% of Germany’s low carbon electricity generation.

I wouldn’t quite say “unperturbed”, though. Germany is very jammed by the combination of the high household use of gas, the need for gas generation to back up renewables (ie wind), and the fear of Putin’s Russia.

The politics in the German media is hot and toxic.

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 4:43 pm

Thanks Vicky and Brian.

I’m starting to think that the whole edifice, or perhaps more accurately two edifices, of thought are starting to resemble separate belief systems. To the untrained eye, each appears to be coherent…up to a point. After that, chumps like me are expected to trust one or the other.

The obvious answer, of course, is “do your own research”. Problem is I don’t speak medical Swahili.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2022 4:44 pm

Can’t Sharma go back to foreign affairies? He’s suitably useless but on the wrong side of the uniparty.

Frank
Frank
June 22, 2022 4:45 pm

Steve Sailer article on the late onset gender dysphoria in men and how it has leached across into teenage girls as a form of social contagion.

The Truth About Pervs

For example, MSNBC anchorwoman Katy Tur has just published a memoir, Rough Draft, of growing up the daughter of Bob Tur, the top TV news helicopter pilot. With his wife/camerawoman Marika Gerrard, Bob captured the most notorious footage of Los Angeles’ tumultuous 1990s, such as the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny during the Rodney King riot and O.J. Simpson’s odyssey in the white Bronco from lawyer Robert Kardashian’s house (the keystone event of 21st-century American trash culture).

A relentless wife-beater—somebody in the L.A. news business put together an hour-long tape titled Bob Tur’s Greatest Hits of Katy’s dad punching her mom in their copter live on air—Bob now wears a dress and calls himself Zoey.

Apparently the good Mr Tur insisted upon the sobriquet Chopper Bob before changing things around, clearly the man was a total tool.

The existence of the late-onset type among some males is well-known among scientific specialists in the field, but has been almost completely covered up in the mainstream media due to furious campaigns by hyper-aggressive men in dresses to hush up the embarrassing news about their fetish.

It is an interesting article, I didn’t realise it was a thing.

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2022 4:47 pm

According sex-before-sleep

He (Sharma) has also worked as a staffer for former foreign minister Alexander Downer and was the head of the International Division in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from 2010 to 2012.

Frank
Frank
June 22, 2022 4:48 pm

Barking Toad says:
June 22, 2022 at 4:16 pm

You have to admit, it did what it said on the tin.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
June 22, 2022 4:50 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
June 22, 2022 at 3:26 pm…Theres something wrong in that story..”Mr Thornton received a heavy rigid licence, which does not allow him to operate livestock transport vehicles, and was told to wait 12 months until he could sit his multiple combination licence.”…..WA has 3 levels HR…Heavy Rigid…MC , Multi Combination ie semi trailer up to 48 tonne, and HC…Heavy Combination…Multiple trailers ie Road Trains.He has only passed the HR. Thats a flat top.

Zipster
Zipster
June 22, 2022 4:50 pm

“ This will serve to acknowledge the contributions of African-American writers, thinkers, and artists, as well as everyday African Americans, to the evolution of the English lexicon,” Oxford University Press said in the release. “Evidence will be gathered from such diverse sources as novels, academic research papers, newspapers and magazines, song lyrics, recipes, social media and more.”

dindu! dindu! dindu nutin!

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 4:52 pm

Doc F

Where do you think Germany ends up say 5 to 10 years from now?

cohenite
June 22, 2022 4:59 pm

Nukes are a con put up by the coal lobby. Labor is not falling for it.

Hasn’t fatboy come down with something yet.

m0nty
June 22, 2022 5:03 pm

Who cares what coal producers say

The Liberal National Party. Whose bulldust you are running.

As for those questioning Origin’s power plant mix, here is the list.

Darling Downs Power Station, QLD – coal seam gas – 644 MW
Roma Power Station, QLD – gas – 80 MW
Mortlake Power Station, VIC – gas – 566 MW
Ladbroke Grove Power Station, SA – gas – 80 MW
Quarantine Power Station, SA – gas – 224 MW
Uranquinty Power Station, NSW – gas – 664 MW

Eraring Power Station, NSW – coal – 2,880 MW

Mt Stuart Power Station, QLD – diesel-fueled gas turbine – 423 MW

Shoalhaven Hydro Pump Storage Scheme, NSW – hydro – 240 MW

Osborne Cogeneration Plant, SA – gas/steam – 180 MW

Bendigo and Ballarat Solar Parks, VIC – solar – 685 kW

dopey
dopey
June 22, 2022 5:05 pm

Whatever monty doesn’t like is a lobby. Whatever he does like, well I’m not sure what he calls that.

m0nty
June 22, 2022 5:06 pm

New gen nuclear plants are essentially being produced en masse in manufacturing plants. We moving away from expensive bespoke.

You can say those words in order, JC, but that doesn’t make them true.

All nuclear is expensive bespoke. There are no economies of scale in comparison to solar. It’s not even close.

rosie
rosie
June 22, 2022 5:06 pm

Late onset gender dysphoria is well known here.
Malcolm whathisname is a well known Aussie version.

Brian
Brian
June 22, 2022 5:06 pm

While many folk will be very reluctant to heed medical advise which is not from officialdom, the stories of very serious and competent medical people changing tune during the last few years should be heard.
I thought the interview with Brett Weinstein about his path through it all was very informative. Most of the current “villains” were not anti vaxxers, were not fringe dwellers but were mainstream operators, hated the idea of “conspiracy theories”, but were dragged to their current position by the data.

I think the most obvious items to cause a rethink by us common folk are the massive red flags in various areas.
The immediate banning of very safe drugs [some of the safest around] and the silencing, demonising and dismissal of any professionals that dared used them was a massive red flag. And it still is.
The gas lighting by suggesting that the gene therapies would offer better protection than natural immunity. The lack of transparency with the data – up to 75 years to let us know what the trial data.
The immediate dumping of all we had learned from past pandemics and instituting measures some of which we can now see were all about visual cues and keeping everyone afraid.
The very clear change of narrative as this thing has run its course.
I am still wondering what that doctor who assured his listeners that herd immunity would be delivered via the vaccine now thinks? Or has he simply slid along like governments and businesses who still mandate a vax, not to stop you getting or spreading it, but because the TGA says it is the best way to keep you safe from hospital or death.
When I have no say in what medicines I take merely to keep me safe, we have clearly crossed the Nuremburg line. And that is even more wretched when a person has safely endured getting the disease but you still have to get the vax!! ie I have safely managed my own risk – but I still have no say in how to protect myself!!
This is not just a case of saying – “which authority should I trust”. Some authorities are showing themselves to be wedded to a cause, prepared to lie, to punish and to not let up to obtain it. But that cause is not your health.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 22, 2022 5:07 pm

Worth a watch considering current events in our energy sector.
Peterson makes a very telling point about tearing down working structures for the sake of ideology.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QpjCca9Beww

cohenite
June 22, 2022 5:09 pm

All nuclear is expensive bespoke. There are no economies of scale in comparison to solar. It’s not even close.

The thing is you really believe this shit. And you’re right, there is no comparison between nuclear and solar because nuclear can maintain a grid, solar can’t. Anyway FOAD; seriously. You and the rest of the left have fucked the US, Europe, the UK, NZ and now Australia.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 5:09 pm

And which out of those produces baseload fat boy.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 5:11 pm

m0ntysays:
June 22, 2022 at 5:03 pm
Who cares what coal producers say

The Liberal National Party. Whose bulldust you are running.

Stop hiding in the basement m0nty-fa. Come clean, abandon that feeeeelthy coal power (particularly that even feeeeeelthier brown coal power). Take the Solar Challenge, be emissions free, save Gaia.

Or do you really not believe the ruinables crap you post here?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 22, 2022 5:13 pm

The only baseload solar panel system that will ever work correctly and as per the propaganda is that which is strapped to the Fat Man and toddles around behind him on castor wheels.

Since the sun shines out his arse, he will always be able to provide a few kilowatt hours to mighty Viktoristan, by day or by night.

You just need to employ someone with a squeegee every time he farts…

calli
calli
June 22, 2022 5:13 pm

For all those tricoteuses out there – knit something special for Pride month.

Like Cohenite’s book titles, those old ads just keep on giving. 😀

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 5:13 pm

m0nty-fa

There are no economies of scale in comparison to solar.

There are no economies of scale in solar. After dark, or on cloudy days, its scale is zero output. But don’t take my word for it, take the Solar Challenge!

miltonf
miltonf
June 22, 2022 5:15 pm

Look all the fat creep does is vomit up ALP/Marxist/Green talking points. He has know idea what he is talking about and he doesn’t care. The fact that he’s a germalist and not a tradie or an engineer says it all.

Zipster
Zipster
June 22, 2022 5:15 pm

BTW this theory of susceptibility because of previous corona virus exposure contradicts just about all previous understanding of immunology.

if you watch the DrBeen video upthread, he explains it quite well.

In a nutshell there are two strains of common cold that have S2 spike protein but not S1. S1 seems to be a recent insertion.

The immune system in this case creates antibodies to S2 but not S1, so when it sees covid it attacks with S2 antibodies. The result is that covid is not prevented from invading cells and replicating, causing severe disease.

In terms of mild versions of this wuhan virus, 20-40% of people still have long after effects. Many people have virtually no after effects but can tip the balance into severe outcomes by stressing their physiology. eg warnie going a liquid diet for 7 days. Sudden adult death syndrome.

Tests are available for the residual presence of S1 in the blood post infection…. in the US. Our shit governments don’t seem interested, despite 20-40% of infected will have long covid.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 22, 2022 5:16 pm

The only baseload solar panel system that will ever work correctly and as per the propaganda is that which is strapped to the Fat Man and toddles around behind him on castor wheels

Imagine something akin to this doggy wheelchair except not as cute or endearing, and probably festooned with ALP flags and CFMEU/ETU stickers.

Rabz
June 22, 2022 5:17 pm

This will serve to acknowledge the contributions of African-American writers, thinkers, and artists, as well as everyday African Americans, to the evolution of the English lexicon,” Oxford University Press said

AKA, “Speakin’ Jive*“.

*From 57 seconds in …

Megan
Megan
June 22, 2022 5:17 pm

Don’t just sit there, tell us when you start on the Challenge.

Will never, ever happen. For MontyPox, talk’s cheap, especially when it’s actually being paid for by the labour of others.

Cassie of Sydney
June 22, 2022 5:18 pm

“It is an interesting article, I didn’t realise it was a thing.”

It’s called “autogynephilia” or to use an old fashioned word, it’s a fetish, a rather sinister fetish. Some men get aroused by putting on women’s clothing, particularly underwear as well as wanting to invade women only spaces. Why could that be?

Gender dysphoria is a real condition, historically only ever something young boys suffered from. Most boys grow out of it, they grow up to be homosexual men, a miniscule minority don’t. This new contagion is not because of gender dysphoria, nor is it a homosexual thing, rather it’s adult heterosexual men who insist that they’re women because “they feel like women”. It’s a fetish that has become legitimised by the left. The thing is, it’s bullshit, but it’s dangerous…..interestingly, many of these “hetero” men who are identifying as females have violent backgrounds, and most particularly many have a history of violence against women. This explains the violence of many trans activists. So it begs the question, why are they identifying as women? Well, just look at the pervert at Wi Spa last year, who gained admittance to the female changerooms where women and young children were and then proceeded to walk around naked with an erection. It was revealed later, not by the MSM who either ignored the story or tried to cover it up, but by a real journalist named Andy Ngo, that this MAN had a long history of indecent exposure and sexual assault AGAINST WOMEN. There were even progressives on twitter trying to make excuses for the Wi Spa incident, stating that the women who complained should not stare or obsess about genitals. Umm well, if I was in a toilet or change room and there was a strange man walking around naked with an erection, I think that I’d get the hell out of there and call the police.

bespoke
bespoke
June 22, 2022 5:19 pm

Farmer Gezsays:
June 22, 2022 at 5:07 pm

Thanks

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 5:19 pm

The Liberal National Party. Whose bulldust you are running.

You enormous block of lard. The LNP policy is essentially identical to the Liars party. To suggest the LNP has been for nuclear is delusional after what they’ve done to the grid with renew-balls. Any why would reciting the names of those coal stations and or producers make your insane assertion any truer?

All nuclear is expensive bespoke.

No it’s not in terms of what’s coming, you rollmop.

There are no economies of scale in comparison to solar. It’s not even close.

You really are a obese moron and I’m being kind here. You don’t understand what the term economies of scale/ or scaling actually means you fat idiot.
Renewballs actually suffer from dis-economies of scale, which means you need more manpower with additions. It’s the opposite with nuclear. If you need more or less power you simply dial up or down and manpower doesn’t change much at all.

Get this through your stupid head, Monster. Renewballs suffer dis-economies and it becomes marginally more expensive with with each unit add.

I’m telling Brett Sutton. You’re in the fucking basement without a computer until late summer of 2033.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 22, 2022 5:20 pm

All nuclear is expensive bespoke. There are no economies of scale in comparison to solar. It’s not even close.

Being compact is a magnificent economy. Thousands upon thousands of acres covered with hot solar panels, forests of wind towers with the attendant transmission lines, making rural Australia look like no man’s land.
Look for scale and all you find is environmental destruction with renewables.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 22, 2022 5:21 pm

For all those tricoteuses out there – knit something special for Pride month.

Like Cohenite’s book titles, those old ads just keep on giving

That’s so Gay, Calli… 🙂

Still, Australia is the only place where you can say that taking a relative of the same sex as yourself out for a Gay Time amd enjoying it can have a real and completely innocuous meaning…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 22, 2022 5:24 pm

AKA, “Speakin’ Jive*“.

I’ve had quite enough of your J-J-J-Jive Talking, Rabz…

#Honk

Dot
Dot
June 22, 2022 5:25 pm

All nuclear is expensive bespoke. There are no economies of scale in comparison to solar. It’s not even close.

Holy snapping batshit you are a dumb, pathetic shill.

1. Explain away SMRs, which are becoming well, modular.
2. How can you have economies of scale if:

– seasonality, weather and time of day alters your theoretical output to zero?

– your energy density is very low.

– scale is dependent on land use?

– and viable solar farms with scale have high network access costs?

3. Solar requires subsidies; and it cannot provide baseload power. It cannot provide peak power at sometimes either.

The true test is trying to replace ALL energy demand now and into the future for 100 years with solar or nuke.

A golf ball lump of thorium pretty much covers one person’s current energy needs.

There are 5000 thorium mines globally.

Megan
Megan
June 22, 2022 5:27 pm

“ This will serve to acknowledge the contributions of African-American writers, thinkers, and artists, as well as everyday African Americans, to the evolution of the English lexicon,” Oxford University Press said in the release. “Evidence will be gathered from such diverse sources as novels, academic research papers, newspapers and magazines, song lyrics, recipes, social media and more.”

The only sales will be to woke libraries world wide, even in Australia, who have no need of it unless the have many patrons writing yhe Great Australian novel with an African- American perspective. Which will be banned because author is not of required race and therefore not authentic.
You know its coming.

JC
JC
June 22, 2022 5:27 pm

Get this through your stupid fucking head, Monster.

If you want to live in an industrialized civilization and enjoy the benefits of such a society (which in your case is obesity and the associated problems that come with that including diabetes), then plastic panels and propellers on sticks aren’t for you. You simply cannot run an advanced culture by trying to turn off its energy supply like the LNP did and the ALP is about to follow.

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2022 5:28 pm

Mountains and mountains of hazardous waste that will stay intact for many millennia.

there might be piles of shit but these will be GREEN piles of shit

and so its not really the same thing

if fact, according to green accounting principles all those piles of shit will be captured carbins

so its actually betterer than having no piles of shit

der!

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 22, 2022 5:28 pm

Alice Springs council confirms support for transgender community, days after FINA ruling

No wonder ratepayer support for their local council plunges through the floor in most areas.

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2022 5:35 pm

Origin’s power plant mix, here is the list.

you do know why the gas is in there doncha mUnty ?

actually scrap that … of course you don’t

this is worserer that trying to talk to yr missus about tax

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 22, 2022 5:36 pm

If the Europeans were serious about achieving energy independence they would need to embark on a massive project of nuclear power station construction.

I seem to recall France and Germany (and to a lesser extent, the UK) got stuck into this in a big way in the 1950s and 60s. Before the KGB-infiltrated and run anti-nuclear everything and environmentalist lobbies became popular with the young and non-‘confirmist’ crowds in the 1970s and 80s.

If they are not prepared to do that, they will continue to be dependent on Russia for oil, gas & coal

Correct. Because those central and eastern Euro states who have the resources (e.g. Poland, Czechia, Solvakia, Romania etc.) will be prioritising domestic energy security above all else, going forward.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 22, 2022 5:36 pm

Weather report.
Wind towers on the hills haven’t turned all day. There was about three hours of weak sunshine before the cloud and drizzle came back.
Economies of scale comparisons assume the alternate structure actually functions.
Fail.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 22, 2022 5:37 pm

Where do you think Germany ends up say 5 to 10 years from now?

By value Germany has a huge manufacturing sector which has been supported by a really productive workforce and – over the past 25 years – very low inflation, stable at less that 1%.

Currently German inflation is running at 6%, mainly due to the energy crisis – and last Monday, Destatis reported the Producer Price Index up 36% (yes, that is 36%) year-on-year – and increasing.

The energy situation isn’t going to improve any time soon, for the reasons I mentioned. So, I’m seeing (reading, more accurately, as I’m not an economist) a big step change into the unknown.

Problematically, Germany also has a very large service sector – so the potential for economic, social and political pain and suffering is front and centre.

Also not great for the Euro.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 22, 2022 5:39 pm

They may talk a big game about renewables but the vast majority of their electricity generation still comes from fossil fuels.

I haven’t had a look but mUnty is probably right here. You can virtually ignore the name plate capacity of wind farms when calculating volume produced – which is a major part of the problem.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 22, 2022 5:39 pm

Dot

2. How can you have economies of scale if:

– seasonality, weather and time of day alters your theoretical output to zero?

– your energy density is very low.

– scale is dependent on land use?

– and viable solar farms with scale have high network access costs?

You forgot those 800,000 new “ruinable” jerbs that AnAl has said will come with ruinables. Massively increasing the workforce for lower output hardly sounds like economies of scale!

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
June 22, 2022 5:42 pm

Worth a watch considering current events in our energy sector.
Peterson makes a very telling point about tearing down working structures for the sake of ideology.

Beautifully concurred with by Thomas Sowell:

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 22, 2022 5:44 pm

Oxford University Press has announced it will produce a new dictionary of “African American English,” which will include slang ranging from “hip” to “diss.”

Im not 100% sure this isnt an elaborate 4 chan prank.

ebonics…1
Ebonics ….2

neither of those 2 are anywhere near as racist as pretending People with dark skin cant speak english to a good standard.

MatrixTransform
June 22, 2022 5:45 pm

all the fat creep does is vomit up ALP/Marxist/Green talking points

reminds me of a mate of mine

last I saw him and last we spoke, he was marching up and down the lounge-room of his mum’s holiday house with my Bowens Estate Shiraz in his hand and shrieking, ” What.The.Fuck is a PPM, anyway?”

you can read my mate in The Age every Saturday because he’s and experty expert on all things experty like climate, finance and real estate

not a clue in sight … and a bit sad really

I remember the speech he gave once about living in a post-truth world

like mUnty

more like post-rational

Tom
Tom
June 22, 2022 5:46 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
June 22, 2022 at 5:18 pm

Great post, Cassie.

The global left is currently controlled by homosexual men who hate women — hence the homosexuals who waged the successful 2017 campaign to have governments recognise the “marriage” of homosexuals are now campaigning on behalf of the “trans” movement — which is essentially a hate group against women — and voila!

The global left is now campaigning against women’s sports and is fighting to allow male cheats to dominate women’s sports.

The global left is now against the feminists who were the backbone of leftism between 1960 and 2010. Sorry, sisters: your place on the leftist totem pole has been taken by violent homosexual men who will do whatever it takes to remake leftism is their own ugly image.

I expect that realisation has also now dawned on the Teals, who won their battle to destroy the Liberal Party wets, but lost the war to gain political power — all financed by a male billionaire, who might as well have been working for the homosexual misogynists who run the rest of the left.

Delta A
Delta A
June 22, 2022 5:49 pm

“which authority should I trust”. Some authorities are showing themselves to be wedded to a cause, prepared to lie, to punish and to not let up to obtain it. But that cause is not your health.

True.

Today, Best Man and I had appointments for flu shots at our regular clinic with the wonderful nurses who helped me through those ghastly months prior to the amputuation.* At that time I trusted these people – and the doctors involved – completely. I had no doubt that they were committed 100% to my health care.

Prior to the vax I verified with the practice nurse that we would be receiving the flu vax and nothing else. She confirmed that, adding cheerfully that a combination of flu and covid vax would be available as soon as 2024. I expressed concern about the covid ‘vaccine’, adding that we hadn’t been jabbed and had no intention of doing so. Also, that we (with six major comorbidities between us) had sailed through omicron earlier this year, as did all the other unjabbed, infected people of our acquaintance.

She clearly did not like that comment and she (the nurse who for years has greeted us with smiles huge hugs) hmphed a snippy hmph and walked away. Driving home, I remarked to BM that I no longer feel that implicit trust in the medicos who treat us. Will they always be truthful about the contents of a syringe, especially if pressured by their employers? I can no longer be confident that they will.

*Three years this June since the op. I’m still not used to it.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 22, 2022 5:51 pm

You forgot those 800,000 new “ruinable” jerbs that AnAl has said will come with ruinables. Massively increasing the workforce for lower output hardly sounds like economies of scale!

The economic multipliers of jerbs in renewables are best viewed through a pair of rose coloured Keynesian Wayfarers.
All the best socialist wankers are sporting a pair.

m0nty
June 22, 2022 5:52 pm

Yes Rex, gas is there as a transitional fossil fuel, less polluting than coal but not viable long term, intended to provide most of the baseload coverage until battery tech catches up.

The Coalition ran dead on supporting the transition of the NEM to a more sustainable mix. At least the adults are in charge now. It will take years to drag it out of the hole that the coal lobby put it in.

Frank
Frank
June 22, 2022 5:53 pm

Cassie, that is pretty close to what the Steve Sailor was saying. He was zeroing in on the particular subset of aggro older males that become women in later life.

m0nty
June 22, 2022 5:57 pm

You forgot those 800,000 new “ruinable” jerbs that AnAl has said will come with ruinables. Massively increasing the workforce for lower output hardly sounds like economies of scale!

The funny thing about this is that the new LNP mantra is targeting the tradies and industrial workers living in the suburbs who are building the business of the new economy like… hmm let me see… renewable power plants.

Do you reckon Caidyn the sparkie is going to vote for the party who attacks his industry relentlessly and promises to put him out of a job?

Mater
June 22, 2022 5:59 pm

Monty,
You don’t even know enough to know how stupid you sound.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 5:59 pm

“which authority should I trust”. Some authorities are showing themselves to be wedded to a cause, prepared to lie, to punish and to not let up to obtain it.

Wikileaks 2010 : Afghan papers.
Greenwald 2013 : Snowden/NSA leaks.
If those two events didn’t wake you up to the whole structure is the problem & none of it can be trusted, nothing will.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 22, 2022 6:02 pm

I see Monty won’t address the environmental damage caused and planned by renewables.
It’s the dirty uncle of the climate change family.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 22, 2022 6:02 pm

Australia is a great example of a post colonial system coming to its natural conclusion.
It’s happened before & it will happen again.

Indolent
Indolent
June 22, 2022 6:03 pm

Russell Brand – Victoria today, among other places.

So THIS Is What Vaccine Passports Were Leading To

duncanm
duncanm
June 22, 2022 6:06 pm

m0ntysays:
June 22, 2022 at 5:06 pm

All nuclear is expensive bespoke.

Small Modular Reactors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor#List_of_reactor_designs

cohenite
June 22, 2022 6:07 pm

At least the adults are in charge now.

Rub and tug, commie bandt and lucious lidia. You are such a fuckwit.

Hey head prefect, you broke bread with this moron. I hope you had indigestion after.

cohenite
June 22, 2022 6:09 pm
duncanm
duncanm
June 22, 2022 6:10 pm

All nuclear is expensive bespoke. There are no economies of scale in comparison to solar. It’s not even close.

That’s akin to saying that raindrops are economically scaleable with the use of a roof to fill a water tank.

Meanwhile, nuclear is the ‘design a dam’ option.

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