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40 years at the ALPBC. Talk about Hotel California Ultimo.
Haha. The new lead story at Paywallian.com: China tells other world leaders: be like AlbaneseBeijing has nominated Anthony Albanese as…
Still stuck on the 45. Yeah, people sometimes get stuck on facts. That appears to be a real problem, yeah?…
Presumably the only way to get a Mexican to mow your lawn for the next 4 years.
The vandalism continues…
Germany Begins Felling 120,000 Trees From ‘Fairy Tale’ Forest to Make Way for Wind Turbines
And Grim’s fairy tales have to be updated
Not so much nutter message boards, I was more relying on the “comprehensive study by domain experts at one of the world’s premier investment advisor firms“.
Lazards’ entire analysis is based on a single US nuclear generation project, the disastrous Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant:
Votgle 3 and 4 were ocean-going design and construction cockups that put Westinghouse into Chapter 11 protection. The costs to complete units 3 and 4 are now approaching US$40 billion for 2200MWe capacity – approaching twice the cost of the UAE Barakah project (mentioned above) for 5500MWe.
So, a single unrepresentative data – from the same scare school as ‘all nuclear power stations spew radiation like Chernobyl’.
Leaving that aside, the Lazard LCOE study treats renewables on the same basis as dispatchable nuclear, coal and gas. No battery backup needed, 25% to 30% average availability is lined up with 90%+.
Realising that that is obvious bullshit, Lazard also includes an estimate of the additional costs of providing ‘firming’ – a term that usually implies that renewables become dispatchable and directly comparable with coal, gas, nuclear etc. The study assumes gas backup for some Power Authorities – and heroic assumptions for clean green California:
Under these ‘firmed’ conditions, the unsubsidized LCOE of the ‘too cheap to meter’ utility scale PV is US$117/MWh to US$142/MWh – which seems to compare very favourably with naughty nuclear at around US$180/MWh.
Except, again, the storage costed into the LCOE is for 4 hours at 50% of whatever Solar capacity is assumed. So, the firming component of the LCOE is underdone by about 200% – and tough shit trying to charge your Tesla after about 8:30 at night.
It’s dishonest bullshit lapped up greedily by Solar Spruikers like Energy Sage – and repeated by our very own politicians and their winged monkeys.
And which duly makes its way into the lofty, official-sounding (but actually a product of Mycle Schneider, an anti-nuclear activist who has been adviser to Green members of the European Parliament on energy issues for more than twenty years.)The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2023:
Which is, of course, in itself, a true statement.
So, safe to say that domain experts at one of the world’s premier investment advisor firms have a significant commercial linkage to renewables.
Perfect stepping stone to enter any EU country as Malta is in the Schengen Area.
Once permanent residency given they are free to move and I reckon they will too.
winter in america is cold
Evening all. Unemployment is much enlivened by news that more commodities are going down the toilet.
Meanwhile the news is that WA Labor have banned takeaway disposable cups and are going to build a $100M footbridge with so many suspension lines they can project propaganda light shows on it. Presumably over Perth Water will no longer be a navigable airspace.
Florida is strange.
Drivers of massive utes and SUVs could soon be paying higher parking fees, as local councils look to emulate a controversial policy introduced in Europe.
Paris residents last month voted to triple the cost of parking for SUVs compared to standard-sized cars, from €6 ($9.90) an hour in the CBD to €18 ($29.70).
Now, Melbourne’s Yarra City Council is looking to follow suit, with one councillor saying Hummer owners are ‘absolute idiots’ who ‘need to be dealt with’.
On Tuesday night the council unanimously backed a motion by Greens Councillor Sophie Wade to investigate ‘ways to make travelling on Yarra’s streets more equitable and discourage large and heavy vehicles on Yarra’s streets, including by considering proportionate parking fees based on a vehicle’s size’.
But Paul Maric of carexpert.com.au told news.com.au that councils were ‘just trying for a money grab’.
‘They’re going for what I call woke-topia, this woke utopia where no one drives anywhere, everyone’s on bicycles or driving around in tiny electric vehicles,’ he said.
‘In reality, though, people are driving SUVs and dual-cab utes, they’re the best-selling cars in the country, and they want to increase costs on them just to meet some target.’
More at the Daily Mail
mark rufalo wore one of these to the oscars. Vile.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Thanks Tom. Some clever cartoons this morning.
Time’s up for Cassidy Hutchinson.
Tick tock!
Imagine being a lawyer and a part of the government but being jealous of successful people.
Such is life for those without the drive to succeed on their own and whose minds are so insipid they can’t compete but become bitter and envious.
What happened to West Australians? They used to be so sensible, like old country Queenslanders and New South Welshmen. Is it because Perth has grown so much it dominates and fewer people there are connected with the land and common sense?
Will the “media fact checkers” ever run the analytics on Hamas casualty figures and those staged street scenes? You know, like they did to Kate’s snapshot?
discourage large and heavy vehicles on Yarra’s streets
Do they realise how heavy EVs are?
Muslies and Ooman Wights mob are a wee bit peeved
Today’s Tele:
INDIA TO ENFORCE ‘BAN’ ON MUSLIMS
NEW DELHI:
India’s interior ministry said it was enacting a citizenship law that critics say discriminates against Muslims, just weeks before the world’s most populous country heads into a general election.
While the law was passed in December 2019, its implementation was delayed after widespread protests and deadly violence erupted in which more than 100 people were reported to have been killed.
The law grants Indian nationality to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who entered India from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh before December 2014 – but not if they are Muslim.
On Monday, the Ministry of Home Affairs said the rules would now come into force.
“These rules, called the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules 2024, will enable the persons eligible … to apply for grant of Indian citizenship,” the ministry said in a statement.
Many among India’s 200 million Muslims fear the law is a precursor to a national register of citizens that could leave them stateless in the country of 1.4 billion. Many poor Indians do not have documents to prove their nationality. Prime Minister Narendra Modi denies this, saying that Muslims are not covered by the legislation because they do not need India’s protection.
“These rules will now enable minorities persecuted on religious grounds in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to acquire citizenship in our nation,” Home Minister Amit Shah said in a statement.
The rules do not include migrants from non-Muslim countries fleeing persecution to India, including Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka and Tibetan Buddhists fleeing China’s rule.
They also do not address Rohingya Muslim refugees from neighbouring Myanmar.
Rights groups have condemned the law. Human Rights Watch calls it “discriminatory” and that, for the first time in India, “religion is a basis for granting citizenship”.
I think envy is the biggest driver of the left. The left seem to me to be incapable of doing anything for themselves, but have to insert themselves into the process of delivering help to those in need and moreso those that don’t need it. They need the admiration of the hive. Education makes no difference as exemplified by mutley failing Econ 101 and thinking he’s an economist the same ability of the Liars failed Treasurers. Oh wait, he is. Should have done gender studies instead. No clue whatsoever. Failure is their only success. How bad can we be…. hold my beer. I’ve made a list of the left successes, 1………………………………………………………………………………………? Nah I got nothing.
Thank you Tom.
Good on India.
I loved living in Perth. WA was another country in the 80’s and 90’s. WA inc put paid to that. Glad I no longer live there.
India has made a common sense decision that Australia is too weak to make.
Labor needs those seats in western suburbs for Tony Burqua.
For those interested in Aviation:
Today’s Tele:
YOU SNOOZE, YOU LOSE … CONTROL OF THE
PLANE!
JAKARTA:
An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 159 people strayed off course after both pilots fell asleep at the controls, with increasingly desperate attempts by air traffic controllers to rouse them going unheeded.
One of the pilots had apparently had his sleep disturbed several times the night before, waking repeatedly to help his wife take care of their twin one-month-old babies, after the couple had moved house that day, the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) discovered.
No one was injured on the Batik Air flight, on January 25, from the island of Sulawesi to the Indonesian capital Jakarta, but the incident again draws attention to the poor safety record of airlines in Indonesia, a vast nation of scattered islands connected by private airlines.
The KNKT report noted: “During flight preparation, the co-pilot informed the pilot that he had not been getting enough sleep. The pilot in command then offered his deputy to take a short nap during the flight to Kendari.”
But when the co-pilot took control of the plane to allow the pilot to have a nap, he nodded off again.
By the time the Airbus 320 was passing above Java, about 90 minutes into the flight, both men were fast asleep, oblivious to the attempts to hail them by air traffic controllers.
After 28 minutes the pilot woke up and realised the plane had strayed slightly off course.
He roused his co-pilot and reported falsely that they had experienced a radio failure.
The pilot and co-pilot, who have not been named by the airline, both tested negative for alcohol consumption before the flight took off.
The London Times
Hmmm…the avionics techos would pull said radios on landing and test for serviceability.
Two retired pilots we know assured us yesterday the NZ flight was just a case of extreme turbulence. But this morning news reports that it may have been a computer problem that had to be reset.
Falling asleep.
I had to pull over and have a quick nap often when I was still on the road and after a less than good night’s sleep.
I suppose not much different from pilots except they can’t pull over and the damage is out of comparison.
I suppose there should be a rule that cabin staff be allowed to check on them every 10 minutes?
Branco’s cartoon captures the situation perfectly.
Thanks Tom for the diligent provision of daily laughs.
How to make mashed potato.
PETA Asks White House to Use Potatoes for Easter Egg Roll (13 Mar)
I’d prefer rolling watermelons myself, ones like Ms Newkirk.
I love potato rolls, especially the ones made out of egg.
I had to pull over and have a quick nap often when I was still on the road and after a less than good night’s sleep.
I have done that myself on the odd occasion.
Yes, its not as if the pilots can pull over to the side of the road if there is a problem.
I have no problem with vegetarians. Tamil Nadu, SE Indian state is almoest entirely vegetarian. They don’t call veggies meat. Their food is magnificent. It makes very little difference to me if there is meat in my food. I would love to go to all these peoples place to tell them how to live my life but instead I will not engage just suggest the combine sex and travel.
Huh?
There is so much to laugh at this morning.
The message from the story that Beertruk posted at 7.10am: never under any circumstances use a sh*tbox Malaysian/Indonesian airline like Batik Air, which last year announced it would begin non-stop Melbourne-Kuala Lumpur flights with Airbus A330s, as well as its other 737 services from Malaysia to Australia via Bali.
They will find out when the streets all crumble under the weight.
I can’t believe all of the celebrities that SIMPed for Haiti.
Trump was right. It is objectively, a shithole and was back when he said so.
Now ruled by the murderous cannibal “President Jimmy “BBQ” Cherizier.
So racist! So insulting!
QANTAS: Queefs and narcissists, terrific air safety.
“President”
Quite logical, they can seek asylum in Muslim countries.
Good morning traiTors.
You have six days to repent.
Thanks, Tom. Knight was also good.
Ah, The New Soyentist, you never let us down.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134783-600-is-it-time-for-a-more-subtle-view-on-the-ultimate-taboo-cannibalism/
The results:
The soyience says cannibalism is good!
That’s why there are two of them though it doesn’t help when both are incompetent. Besides, their autopilot isn’t much chop either.
…but in 8 days I get a grant from the William Gates III Foundation!
Look. I didn’t get buff and be a body double for the humiliation ritual at the Oscars for nada.
Translation: Having failed Economics 1, mUnturd is in no position to refute what Dr F has said, so will resort to ad hom abuse as a substitute for intelligent argument.
Just wait until Bowen forces truckers to go electric.
Study finds California’s semi truck electrification comes with enormous costs that hit consumers (11 Mar)
It’ll likely die in the US under the pressure of the Teamsters and sheer unworkability, but can you imagine what an electric B-Double would be like? An Abrams tank would be much lighter.
Yes, its not as if the pilots can pull over to the side of the road if there is a problem.
Modern airliners do however have excellent autopilots. I guarantee that a sudden depressurisation event will wake them up.
There was a cartoon going around the airline industry years ago with Captain with head back and First Officer with head against cockpit window, fast asleep. The caption was
“0230, the Captain diligently scans the overhead panel while the First officer checks the heating in the side window”.
Do they realise how heavy EVs are?
No, why would that matter?
perchance Gaia would smile again
we should make the trams run on batteries too
Further to my post at 8.04am, the thing to remember with Third World airlines is that there is a global pilot shortage so some of them have hired coach drivers and turned them into pilots. They rely on the manufacturers to provide them with computerised flight management systems that can effectively fly themselves with little pilot input.
As Boeing’s recently manufacturing problems indicate, that works only if engineers are running the company. Boeing is now being run by accountants in Chicago, thousands of miles from the company’s main manufacturing plants.
Because of cost-cuttting by the accountants, Boeing decided to end production of the 757 in 2003, leaving a hole in the market for a long-range narrowbody, since filled by the Airbus A321 — now the most popular airliner in the world that flies daily between Europe and the US along with remaining examples of the 757.
I’m not sure what X’s algorithms had to do with the 2022 election, but this is the next attempt at total control of the means of communication.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
In a classified briefing this afternoon, attended by officials from the Biden Justice Department, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Elon committed “election interference” in 2022 by “changing the algorithms” on X to alter the results of the midterms that year.
Not coincidentally, the anti-TikTok legislation now being debated on the Hill would allow the federal government to force the sale of any social media platform that interferes in elections. Just so you know what’s coming in 2025.
This post by Dr F at the end of the old thread, proving that mUnturd was either completely ignorant of th history of his source, or deliberately lying. RTWT.
Apologies, Dr F re-posted at the top of this thread.
Australia’s corporate gene pool is being spread very thinly.
Woolworths, QANTAS, Origin Energy, NAB & ANZ all share directors.
Big fish in a little pond and I suspect that’s just the tip of the iceberg (mixing metaphors!).
These companies also all share a commitment DEI objectives and rate the interests of “stakeholders” above those of shareholders. Woolworths last annual report is quite up front about this. I suppose Woolworths shareholders can console themselves with this as their investment loses value.
Oh…and most of them are foreign born.
Finally, some common sense
England’s National Health Service bans puberty blockers for kids
The reason that Lazard’s study only uses a small sample size of successfully deployed recent nuke power stations in America is because that is the sum total of all successfully deployed recent nuke power stations in America.
The reason that there have been so few successfully deployed recent nuke power stations in America is because Lazard’s analysis is correct, and nukes don’t make economic sense any more.
The graphs keep diverging. Nukes get more expensive and impossible to deploy, solar and wind get cheaper, easier and quicker.
Yes, there is some hand waving about batteries to cover baseload. Your boy Musk is busy making those heroic assumptions come true. Not to mention endless squadrons of nameless Chinese engineers.
Why do you think South Australia is pitching for Victorian business with lures of cheap power? They are a global test bed for large-scale battery underlying renewables. SA reached 85% renewable energy provision at times recently.
I have seen engineers whine about how things are impossible before, back when I was a journo covering the Internet industry. Telstra had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into the broadband age.
Engineers tend to lack vision, especially when they are getting too old for the job. They learn that things work a certain way, have success for years doing it their way, and are slow to adapt when there is a paradigm shift.
There are still technical challenges to make Lazard’s assumptions become reality, but they are far more achievable than figuring out how to reverse the inexorable slide of nuke power stations into economic and political irrelevancy.
Not hard – crazy.
EXPLAINER: Why quitting coal is so hard
unqualifying immunity
those who purport to serve we the people must be accountable to we the people
People’s hearts are envious and they now wear their envy on their sleeve without shame.
That’s why there are two of them though it doesn’t help when both are incompetent.
Crossie,
Wife’s cousin was travelling around Africa years ago and said that a flight she was on, the aircraft (an F27) ran out of fuel halfway down the runway just after they landed.
Next time I see her, I’ll ask her about it again.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
We warned you and you called us grandma killers and horse paste eaters.
B-Doubles are slowly becoming a thing of the past. In the next ten years expect to see more A-B roadtrains and A-B Triples. Many bulk grain trucks are going that way, people I work for are configuring their full time truck to A-B roadtrain spec which can carry a 61-62t payload to Melbourne or Geelong.
In the coming green utopia posited by monty et al this efficiency gain would be negated by the equivalent of one trailer having to be a battery.
Biden’s $7.3 TRILLION Budget Is DOA In House, Massive Tax Increases Proposed So Biden Can Spend Even MORE Money (Federal Deficit Expected To Explode To $16 TRILLION Over Next Decade)
TODD BENSMAN: After I exposed Biden’s shady migrant flight scheme, his media allies tried – and failed – to trash my report as conspiracy. Now Congress is investigating the 320,000 new arrivals… so why DID Joe try to hide the truth?
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Don’t confuse our political caste with ordinary Australians.
Robert Hur admits ‘forgetful’ Biden read ALOUD classified files to ghost writer of his $8m book – who then tried to ‘DESTROY the evidence’: Special Counsel confirms president wanted to keep documents for ‘pride and money’
Boeing is now being run by accountants in Chicago
They’ve moved HQ to Virginia to be closer to Washington for lobbying purposes.
Shades of Atlas Shrugged where “Washington pull” mattered more than competence.
Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
Remarkable highlight from today.
Top secret classified documents were found in 7 separate locations.
Joe Biden, as VP and Senator, was never authorized to keep any classified documents. Some were more than 40 years old.
Monty, you are a fool and only here as a troll. Piss off.
Any mention of the unfortunate possibility of transmission of certain (prion related?) diseases?
“The reason why it is correct is because the cherry picked data and unicorn & moonbeam assumptions about renew balls look great for solar”
“…for the first time in India, “religion is a basis for granting citizenship”.
Well, since 1947 anyway…
As in QLD, governments will have to step in with tax payers’ money if we’re to reach the sunlit uplands of Net Zero.
And in 15-20 years the costly infrastructure will be redundant.
Does that mean that Trump will be able to order dismemberment of Google and Meta/Facebook?
What happened to West Australians?
We let the state be run ad lib by a Victorian.
And shucked our brains out to The West Australian.
…seriously though, I’m sick of the regions getting bled dry for the glory of St George’s Terrace and Barbagallo Motors. And I’m sick of the guvmint splurging on an endless chain of announceable ejaculations of art and architecture to “showcase our state”.
Yagan Square, bringing the colours and maximum temperatures of Kalgoorlie backlots to the city.
Coldplay FIFO at Optus.
The pop=up ad bridge.
Nicholas Cage’s film rogering Yallingup for six months.
West Coast autobahn.
Perth Pride, because grooming good and normal.
Perth Fringe, because even alternative and independent is the Ministry Of Culture.
Perth International Arts Festival, lanyard month for the local globo homo.
…I could go on, but I’m yarding sheep.
Cancer risk soars 52% among fully vaccinated aged 15-59, pathologist finds
Health Impacts of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF).
There are other countries than America Monty. I’m not surprised the Left can’t build nuclear plants in the US, they can’t even tell the difference between a man and a woman.
As I said the Chinese are rapidly building conventional nuclear plants in five years or less. Not only them but the Indians and several other countries not known for great sophistication, like Egypt and Turkey. There’s no reason why we could not do so.
Stop trying to force your kooky religion onto the rest of us.
Obviously just one directorship doesn’t pay enough for their needs.
No wonder all those corporations have the same policies.
mUnturd claims that solar and wind “get cheaper and easier to deploy”, but, like his dodgy investment advisors, quietly omits to mention the slow and expensive deployment of the necessary connecting transmission lines, and the extremely expensive and impossible to deploy battery back up needed.
PS, why didn’t those “premier investment advisors” look at the deployment of nuclear elsewhere than the US? Say Finland or India? Didn’t want to spoil their ever-so-precious “narrative”?
Intellectual dishonesty on stilts, pushed by a lying liar who lies.
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
These are profiles from the NJ Inmate database.
Does anyone notice a strange pattern happening here?
And a blight on the landscape, Roger.
It’s a corporate sausage machine….they all have MBAs from the same universities and many of them cut their teeth at McKinseys or Boston Consulting.
Diversity!
Eric Schmitt
@Eric_Schmitt
SINCE BIDEN TOOK OFFICE:
Groceries: +21.2%
Eating out: +21%
Baby food: +29.6%
Pet food: +22.7%
Rent: +20%
Electricity: +28.4%
Natural gas: +30%
Apparel: +12%
Used cars: +20.3%
Air fare: +31.4%
Public transportation: +20.8%
Real average weekly wages: -4.2%
Monty thinks the earth is flat.
monty @March11, 10:10pm
The IQ of a watermelon.
When a Christian stands for election the Left starts howling and screeching that they’ll enforce morality and bible laws on everyone.
Yet when a lefty stands for election and wins they immediately enforce their own morality and weirdo practices on everyone, and gaol people who refuse.
That’s Monty and his fellow travelers. Their hypocrisy is astounding.
Speaking of which, Dot, have you come up with any suggestions to resolve our problem with culturally incompatible immigrants before we have blood in the streets?
To say the least
Alex Bruesewitz
@alexbruesewitz
Biden NEVER had legal authority to take these documents. President Trump DID have legal authority.
Trump being charged and Biden getting a free pass is complete and total BULLSHIT!
This has got to be trolling.
An adult cannot be this stupid unless they’re seriously mentally retarded.
A humble, slower thinking person could be convinced of the falsity of that statement by comparing the climate at the poles compared to the temperate zones, tropics and equatorial regions.
Retarded by hubris? Possibly!
Along with DR F above this also bears repeating.
I alluded to this when he said it.
Not so sure now.
I know that General Pinochet and Rivers of Blood won’t save Western civilisation.
You can defend that all you like but Winston said something stupid and added something else in for a rhetorical flourish.
…and no he doesn’t get a pass, no one does here.
Let’s be serious for a moment. America was getting better under Trump, the data is all there.
Pinochet? GTFO. It’s a meme, you’re not serious and no one will vote for a shit eating grin bearing got on Twitter saying this crap.
If Rivers of Blood are the solution, you’re burning down the village to save it.
GIT
The last nuke plant commissioned in the US before the Vogtle Plant was in 2016, I’d call that very recent.
There’s also this-
IOW they fully expect these plants to be able to safely run for 80yrs.
Before Pinochet and the resultant Rivers of Blood, the Saxon has to begin to hate.
Football season is upon us, so that won’t be happening just yet.
Who are you talking about? Adam Simpson?
Translation: Well, yes, you could say Lazard’s domain experts haven’t exactly nailed it. But anyhoo, they’re domain experts telling us what we want to believe, so we’ll believe what they tell us.
Sadly, you are not alone.
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I witnessed a puppy on Sky (head of online services or somesuch) pronounce that he was disgusted that old people consider aged care to be a right.
After a lifetime of paying over the odds taxes, ‘old people’ should curl up in the corner and die according to this Zoomer.
The money is needed for higher priorities like drug rehab or motorcycle injuries.
The perversion is strong amongst the Zoomers.
Was it less than a decade ago it was “perfectly normal” and everyone’s right – including those who were too young to vote, sign a contract, or drink?
Young people in England will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers by gender identity clinics, officials said on Tuesday.
The banning of the medication – which pauses the physical changes of puberty such as breast development or facial hair – will affect anyone under the age of 18 being treated by the state-funded National Health Service (NHS).
It follows a spike in referrals to over 5,000 in 2021-2022 from just under 250 a decade earlier.
The government welcomed the NHS’s decision.
“Ending the routine prescription of puberty blockers will help ensure that care is based on evidence, expert clinical opinion and is in the best interests of the child,” said junior health minister Maria Caulfield.
The decision follows a public consultation on the issue.
Nah, it’s a poisonous combination of stupidity, lack of education (in the true sense of the word), hubris and arrogance.
All mixed with leftard politics.
Australia’s corporate gene pool is being spread very thinly.
Woolworths, QANTAS, Origin Energy, NAB & ANZ all share directors.
Obviously just one directorship doesn’t pay enough for their needs.
No wonder all those corporations have the same policies.
More likely the corporate directorship lucrative pension top-up is running a “closed shop” policy on hiring .. bit like gummint “advisors” .. it’s not what you know but who you know …….
The money is needed for higher priorities like drug rehab or motorcycle injuries.
When your younger it never seems to occur to some folk that one day you’ may get old too!
Dot, the Peta woman was suggesting to President Sniffy the Thief’s wife the usual Easter egg rolls be made out of potatoes.
.. it’s not what you know but who you know …….
Or as one young lady engineer informed us some years ago ” it’s not what you know but who you blow”
Dot
Read what I wrote. I deliberately did not use the expression “Rivers of Blood”. Nor did I mention Pinochet. I was referring to the recent anti-semitic demonstrations. Do you doubt that at some point, those demonstrators (Muslim and non-Muslim alike) will catch, beat, and possibly kill one of their perceived enemies? That will put blood on the streets.
You have told us what will not help, how about turning your mind to what will? I suggested three steps in a comment yesterday, can you offer any alternatives?
We have to kill the planet to save it.
The Clean Energy Council probably needs to read the Australian Energy Regulator’s Wholesale markets quarterly Q4 2023. Rooftop solar is pushing grid scale renewables out of the market during daylight hours – and batteries along with that.
Oddly enough, when power becomes ‘too cheap to meter’ new renewables projects just don’t seem to get across the FID line – and AEMO has to consider curtailing Mum and Dad power stations via their smart meters.
An unintended consequence that nobody could have foreseen.
But the Top Men at Lazard’s probably have a solution for all this.
They have taken notice of that, Dr. F.
Plan B required…urgently.
In todays Oz:
Netanyahu threatens ‘confrontation’ with Biden: The Israeli PM has reacted furiously to a US intelligence assessment that warns his hold on office may be at risk, warning of a ‘public and dramatic’ confrontation with the president.
Significant, given Israel’s heavy dependence on the US for military and financial support…
Gozo.
There and back again.
The bus ride is picturesque.
There are a number of bays on the north coast of Malta and the bus to the ferry terminal takes you up and down and around all of them.
The crossing only takes a few minutes then it’s another bus to the main city Victoria/Rabat.
I’ve learned that the Arabic words Medina/M’dina and Rabat mean city and suburb respectively.
In the Gozo Rabat’s case the Citadel is the city.
I went to the archaeological museum and the old prison inside the Citadel.
They had a bit of historical information, I had imagined that in 1551 the Turks had roamed Gozo to take all the inhabitants as slaves but no, they were conveniently inside the Citadel when the Turks besieged it, the defenses were weak the Knights sued for a truce and the Turks promptly shipped the population off to Tripoli.
One knight killed his wife and two daughters rather than have them taken. The Citadel had signs saying several hundred saved themselves by scaling down a wall on the north east side. Don’t know where they went Perhaps under cover of dark they could have walked to the strait and taken boats to Malta, or hidden in caves.
The medieval houses inside the Citadel are all gone, just narrow streets and a few walls remain but the prison, cathedral and a few other buildings have survived, or been rebuilt. Views from the top were delightful. Gozo apparently has always supplied food to Malta, more productive land. I remember reading last time that during WWII they couldn’t get food across for a long time to the starving Maltese, the strait isn’t very wide but constant harassment by the Axis made it impossible.
The Rabat part is also worth a wander.
On the way back it was getting dark, and along the promenade on the other side of Sliema the row of Easter Crosses had been lit up.
They take Randan very seriously here.
McGowan.
And yet nobody thinks it odd that every inhabitant of the remote indigenous communities is entitled to our tax dollars for their entire lives and even free new housing every few years which they will destroy in due course.
I’d love them to but we are probably going to find the estimates are on the low side.
Being a Wandereres tragic I watched last night’s 7-0 slaughter inflicted by Melbourne City .. Weird cos Wanderers, probably, played better (1st half) and were, definitely cleaner (fouls) than they have been for several games … BUT … just not good enuf and outplayed through-out .. not looking like a 90 minutes 1st grade ‘fitba” team, at all ..!
Tho, worse than the getting hammer-ed ending has got to be the coach, who’s motor-mouth is alwayz an embarrassment didn’t have the cojons to turn up for one of his, “it’s-everybody-but-me’s-fault cos I’m a wonderful coach/leader” performances ……
6 games to go and, methinx, another of our interminable seasons of “promise” is, almost, over …….
Why are they going after Netanyahu when it’s a unified war cabinet?
If Bibi does confront Biden it will be on behalf of all the main political parties and the vast majority of the Israeli population.
I witnessed a puppy on Sky (head of online services or somesuch) pronounce that he was disgusted that old people consider aged care to be a right.
Ah yes, an interesting discussion starter:
I think its illuminating to consider ‘negative’ vs ‘positive’ rights.
A negative right means you are entitled to NOT have something happen – the state cant murder you, seize your property, some crim cant assault you or take your stuff, etc etc. The key aspect of these rights is they dont require anyone else to lose something by providing you those things.
In contrast, a positive right means you are entitled to receive something – ‘free’ education, health care, public transport etc etc etc. The problem with that is that it necessitates that someone else is obliged to provide you with those things – which likely impinges upon their own rights, eg by making them give up their time or their money (likely under threat of violence) to you.
As such, the argument can be made that only negative rights can truly exist as rights. If you accept that, aged care cannot be a ‘right’ absent some sort of prior contract whereby you earned it – eg Gold cards for military veterans.
Why are they going after Netanyahu when it’s a unified war cabinet?
1) Because the US is tiring of the optics and the economics of supporting Israel in Gaza
2) Because Bibi’s government was on the nose before Oct 7, and one way out for the US is ‘regime change’ (which they love so much) which installs a new government with different intentions.
Natural Instinct
Is there any indication of what the felled trees are being used for, or are the just being burn on the spot?
mUnty doesn’t know he’s ignorant and Lazard has always been lying by omission
conceptually LCOE works as designed to addle the brains of the political class
An interesting but ultimately redundant argument given that a rights based approach has already been legislated in the Aged Care Act.
Any move to a user pays system would require a courageous reform of the income tax system which left people with enough disposable income to save for their old age over their working life. People could also insure themselves against unemployment & disability.
A brave new world!
Exactly the point made by pretty much everything I’ve posted today. I still miss the upticks.
It’s looking we like Queenslanders are going to have our very own Snowy 2.0.
The cost estimates for the Burdekin/Pioneer Pumped Hydro project are following the traditional trajectory of government brainfarts: $7bn in 2022; $12bn in 2023; now looking at a very reasonable $32.8bn and beyond.
And this is before any detailed engineering design and planning.
And before working out how to find 6000MW of deliverable renewable energy every day to keep the dam topped up.
Currently looking like $50bn+ for a $5MW baseload power supply.
Big Renewables.
Eat dirt NSW.
MatrixTransform
Mar 13, 2024 12:54 AM
assumed storage configuration is 50% of PV MW and 4 hour duration
winter in america is cold
Memories.
BELGIUM: Political Activist Sentenced To One Year In Prison For ‘Hateful, Racist Speech’, Allegedly From Memes Shared In Private Chat
Absolutely Stunning Data Point: The MAGA Movement Supporting Donald Trump Took the RNC from 3 Million to 50 Million E-Mail Subscribers
Haha, Karen wants to speak to the manager again.
NSW Police commissioner Karen Webb sacks media chief (Tele, paywalled)
Spin not working lady? Well you should’ve thought about that before you started arresting people for going to parks and beaches, ladies not wearing masks and guys with Israeli flags.
Okay, so I forgot to say “at every latitude”.
The point I was making stands. The quality of soil a solar panel is standing in is of zero consequence. REZ is not “mandated” on the best quality land, as Gez (IIRC) was claiming.
Israel, like Australia, should be making preparations for the time when the US no longer underwrites our security. It may come sooner than we think.
Hey Rosie, always copying and pasting your Malta adventures for Mrs TE as well after I’ve read them. Keep up the good work!
Former chief of QLD’s poles and wires, now a prof at QUT (name escapes me) has stated it doesn’t add up and never will.
Pfft…what would an engineer know?
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I’m glad people are held accountable here. Also glad that you and I had many very enjoyable debates in the past Dot.
Therefore it is time you were accountable.
(1) Around ten years ago you claimed that in having an industrial base was unimportant due in part to a revolution in manufacturing brought about by 3D printing.
We can see now that 3D printing has not replaced existing technology in the mass production of consumer products (an example you gave was car manufacturing- car plants are not full of 3D printing busy humming away producing car parts). We you accept you were wrong about the importance of maintaining an industrial base? If not, will you concede at least that you were incorrect about the potential for 3D printing to replace mass production processes?
(2) I think enough time has passed on resonant cavity space ships (EM-drive) anything to say about our previous debate on that topic? (Given the need for blog accountability)
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I have previously stated that Biden will see out his term. If I am wrong about that I will indeed front up and own up to the mistake and try to explain why I got it wrong.
Over to you.
Dot:
I’ll assume you’ve put this up as a revelation of how the Left will deal with people that make decisions they disagree with?
Give some people a little power, and Totalitarianism isn’t far off “…because those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Excuse the typos above.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/01/16/elon-musk-reveals-surprise-crypto-holdings-as-x-plan-to-replace-paypal-visa-and-banks-quietly-accelerates-amid-bitcoin-price-swings/?sh=66b65d153293
“I still own a bunch of dogecoin, and SpaceX owns a bunch of bitcoin,” Musk said during an X Spaces broadcast, referring to his rocket company. Musk’s electric car company Tesla also holds just over 10,000 bitcoin worth almost $500 million.”
He’s possibly wrong. BTC may replace payment processors. We know how the lightning network is thousands to millions times quicker than Visa for example.
Memes are rapidly becoming public enemy #1 for the Left, who have no sense of humour and absolutely detest being mocked.
Memes Are Shaping Elections And No One Is Immune From Them (12 Mar)
When I read that quote I immediately thought of Brett Lethbridge and his totally devastating caricature of Steven Miles. The Qld election is in October, and I have a feeling that someone has told Lethbridge to lay off, since he seems to be avoiding Qld political topics lately.
Bungonia Bee
How about registering private vehicles on a weight costing?
yep … I had a good chuckle at that too
Don’t care
I’ve mentally filed McGowan as Victorian
Or at least Victorian Adjacent
There should be some way for you to be held accountable for those typographical errors. 😐
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/the-candle-is-going-out/
Good vid on JoNova, reinforcing the point that all of life is about energy – and that the current switch from energy dense fuels to energy dilute sources, like wind and solar, can only have negative effects on society.
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It’s not my fault.
Chairman Dan with WA characteristics.
mUnty bringing the LOLs
An interesting but ultimately redundant argument given that a rights based approach has already been legislated in the Aged Care Act.
Quite right ! All laws are fair and just /sarc off
Great Ders Of History.
Israel, like Australia, should be making preparations for the time when the US no longer underwrites our security. It may come sooner than we think.
Reference the fall of Singapore, 1942.
Beertruk
Bloody good thing that it didn’t happen half an hour beforehand – they’d have been stuck up there all day!*
*Old aircraft refuellers joke.
The Sneakers backstory (crossing the Nullarbor in the Gemini) never captured the public imagination like living in a car or growing up houso. Sneakers had obviously spent enough time in corporate boxes at Subiaco Oval to understand the value of paranoia and Canberra bashing to the Party fortunes. He was as good as anyone.
Did I say “having an industrial base is unimportant”?
The level of manufacturing is higher than people suggest. It’s only really fallen as a proportion of GDP. There are several things we could do to improve this and make all businesses more productive (electricity prices).
TCF and cars have gone. So what? They were unprofitable and not satisfying consumers. PMV subsidies hurt other industries like mining and farming.
We make drones and IFVs, plus munitions. Who says we can’t make military hardware?
Car parts are made with 3D printing. A new car is about 20% 3D printed. It’s possible to now 3D print an entire vehicle now.
The potential for 3D printing has been barely used. 3D printing is just one method of additive manufacturing. Tell us why metal parts cannot be metal sintered. I know why I wouldn’t want to do it in Australia (electricity costs).
McCulloch has published 21 peer-reviewed journal articles on quantised inertia.
He’s right, MOND, stochastic gravity, etc are all wrong. His model fits the data for wide binaries, doesn’t need dark matter (like what is observed in new satellite finds).
The BARRY-1 (LOL) satellite has been aborted. The test vehicle he made with IVO is more like a Woodward design – using capacitors in a resonant cavity. IIRC McCulloch has a paper with empirical evidence of RF drives working.
We don’t know yet. White at JPL showed thrust, but was criticised for being low thrust – no shit, these drives might be very dangerous if scaled up with wattage – he was criticised for “just having thermal effects”, the thing is, the observed thrust WAS greater than the error term. Tajmar reckoned he got nothing but he didn’t mu shield the cables.
QI is correct and EM drives may not work. It’s like finding a five-dimensional solution to Maxwell’s equations before Einstein. Maxwell is still right, the mathematical model is empirically invalidated.
I can show you at least three empirical, peer-reviewed journal articles going back to 1994 that prove that Unruh radiation is real. The first one is from a nuke physics paper, and the last was from a CERN experiment.
There is plenty of room for optimising an EM drive. Q is a scalar factor that is as far as we know, unbounded.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353481953_Thrust_from_Symmetric_Capacitors_using_Quantised_Inertia
Thrust from Symmetric Capacitors using Quantised Inertia
10 years? Now that was overly optimistic.
High voltages are often dangerous.
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2022/07/how-to-maybe-see-qi-in-your-lab.html
Plot: Our three positive thrusts so far. The thrust (y axis, in grams) increased with voltage (x axis, kV), until in the first two cases (grey and blue) it reduced & there was a fizzling as the dielectric burned out.
Monty, maybe you recall the guest post I did on Sinc’s Cat. That was back in 2014 as I recall.
I showed that as soon as you are forced to match solar panels with a battery that dumping the wretched things and buying a generator is less expensive. That calc uses the standard financial analysis tools we all use in industry, namely NPV and IRR.
The situation has likely gotten worse since then since inflation and resource issues have increased the cost of batteries.
That’s the problem with lefties, you can’t wrap your head around the interrelationship between capital cost, operating cost and life-cycle analysis. You all look at the simplest number – the cost of the panels – and don’t look at the cost to convert that energy into always-on electricity. That’s the iceberg under the water that you never see.
Then why have a conversation? What was being discussed was a fruity idea that we need another Pinochet and Rivers of Blood to save our civlisation.
Keep your seatbelts on you d*ckheads.
Passenger shares experience on Sydney-Auckland flight | Today Show Australia
This is more meta than you may consciously think. They were cheering on the possible murder of Dr Cardinal George Pell whilst in gaol, an innocent man set up by a proven perjurer and a corrupt employee of state-owned media. Look at the applause for the disenfranchisement of COVID dissenters.
Of course we should have zero tolerance of the incitement to violence and give non-citizens the boot after they’ve been in gaol for their crime.
If we merely enforced the law as it stands (and consistently held our standards up, well, we’d be better off.
Gemini?
Looxury.
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In my brief Perthon phase I had the lend of a diesel Gemini which had been sold in qld and clocked a million k’s by 1995.
But next time there’ll be no emerging allied superpower to fall back on.
Roger
Mar 13, 2024 8:45 AM
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I’m not sure about the original article, but it appears odd. 200 million Muslim immigrants to other Muslim countries?
They won’t take them. The Muslim countries think they all belong in Christian countries.
The ABC has a long smearing piece on Modi now so I’ll assume he’s doing something ok.
Saw that yesterday.
Interesting background.
Played Albanese like a violin so there is that too.
Hindu nationalism doesn’t bode well for India’s Christian minority though.
Good stuff from Juan. He’s been busy covering all the dramas lately.
blancolirio:
United B777 #830 SYD Center Hydraulic System Failure
I’m not sure that well-educated and polite Catallaxians are aware of how prevalent antisemitism actually is, along with NWO conspiracies.
Name a problem, someone will blame “bankers” and “globalists”.
The diesel Gemini made the 80s era Camira look like a pretty smart buy.
Yes, I’d certainly agree with that.
I wonder when the Government is going to tell us how they expect to deliver Not Zero while none of the Clean Energy Council spivs are playing nicely. Shirley that’s been anticipated.
It probably involves lots of OPM, dished out under panic conditions as Eraring and Bayswater approach retirement.
Is that the same as “capitalism with Chinese characteristics”?
Carsales is terrible now, desktop, mobile or the app.
Terrible!
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Correct. Because for mass production there are better, cheaper and more cost efficient ways.
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You’ll have to reference something reputable on that one, because I disbelieve that claim.
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In general then, you are not being accountable for your ridiculous claims about 3D printing, which have had almost a decade to come true. And haven’t.
Shame on you. And shame on you for asking something of Winston you yourself will not do.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1767589122271539535
These are details from the New Jersey prison inmate cohort. Notice that Race and Ethnicity are different? It’s to furnish data that helps the narrative.
If the US gets President Trump re elected, the task of cleaning out the Augean Stables will be simple by comparison.
That was exactly my thought: I loosen the belt but always keep it on. That’s all you need in case of an air pocket. Simple to do, just as comfortable, yet so many people never work this out.
51 hp (52 PS; 38 kW) at 5000rpm
72 lb?ft (98 N?m)
🙁
Crossie
But think of all those wind generators that can be taken down and used in hydroelectric dams!*
*I’m making an assumption that the dams will be built, and the generators will be maintained in the last ten years of their lives on stalks. Yes. Brave assumption I know. The owners will just walk away and leave the mess behind.
Alastair Crooke on Judge Nap was interesting yesterday. Said that Biden admin was sounding out a soft coup over the weekend by sounding out Gantz only to find he would pursue the same policy as Netanyahu. Also on the weekend Biden is talking of redlines and in the same breath saying there are no redlines. Complete incoherence.
132andBush
Mar 13, 2024 9:01 AM
But his vote is equal to yours. Go figure.
solar v solar
but mUnty, you told us more was betterer
and LCOE falls at the first hurdle
climate steeple-chase should be banned
Two points.
First, Gez has been complaining about the construction of transmission lines across farmland. That construction brings with it restrictions on the use of the land under and to either side of the transmission line. This has an effect on high quality land. As someone whose experience outside inner-Melbun seems to consist of time in Seymour and India, this is probably beyond your limited comprehension ability.
Second, provide evidence that no REZ in Australia impinges on high quality land. Evidence, or, again, you just made the assertion up.
As I predicted, ten years after the initial argument, you can go down to the local Toyotas dealer and buy a brand new car. The engine block is cast. The brake components are forged. The chassis and body is made from various grades of rolled steel. The windows are made from glass the traditional process. The electrical components, including the main motor if it’s a hybrid, are made from copper wire which is drawn, then wound, not printed, because copper is ductile and that is how electric motors are made.
You cannot go to any car dealership and buy a mass produced vehicle which is 3D printed.
That was obviously going to be the case ten years ago, remains obvious now, and will still be obvious in ten more years time.
132andBush
I have a strong suspicion of Ocean Going Stupidity. But that’s just me.
If you don’t think the soil can be used for anything, or that every acre of land is always the same price as any other acre.
The knots m0nty is tying himself in is astounding.
Dot:
You defining something as stupid doesn’t make it so, Dot.
Now tell us your plan for stopping religious violence in Australia when it has happened every time Islam meets another religion.
I see that another case of “Epsteinitis” has occurred in the US.
An ex employee of, ….., Boeing, who was whistleblowing against the company, was found dead yesterday in his home.
John Barnett worked for Boeing for 32 years, as a Quality Control Manager, before retiring in 2017.
He was still giving evidence in the trial against Boeing but (apparently), decided to end it all instead, by blowing his brains out.
Boeing expressed deep sympathy for the loss of …. blah blah blah.
Nothing to see here folks, ….., move along. (Do the Clintons hold Boeing shares?)
We all know what really happened here though, ….., don’t we?
It was (the) Putin, of course! (Is that Novichok in the head wound?)
So, how is all that evidence that (the) Putin killed Navalny going?
Are we tired of reading pages of it, every day?
Funny thing is, even the number two Naz….., I mean, upstanding chap, in the Uke Govt, Budanov, (head of the UKR Gestapo), has said “Navalny died of natural causes.”
FMD, lets get the story right!
How about it Dot, ….., do we believe Budanov or not?
You are by far, the biggest Nazi supporter on this blog, so you should know.
You have never confirmed whether, as a true believer, you have done the following.
1. Installed lots of solar panels on your roof.
2. Installed a storage battery in your home.
3. Sold your ICE vehicle, if you had one, and converted to EV transport only.
and, most important,
4. Shown your absolute confidence in solar PV by disconnecting your home from the dirty, polluting, grid.
We await your response with bated breath (and not much confidence).
It’s Biden’s far-left Gen-Z staffers driving all this. They are Sanders acolytes, antisemites all. The MI none-of-the-above vote also panicked the machine men in the DNC.
Gantz knows all he has to do is wait. Likud’s poll numbers cratered after Oct 7, as the voters blame Netanyahu under the “buck stops here” principle. I happen to think he was betrayed by the Israeli deep state, but that doesn’t change the equation: when an election comes Netanyahu and Likud will be out the door no matter what they do.
The votes aren’t going to the Labour Party though (they stayed out of the unity government, which was a mistake) so Gantz is in the box seat. He’s a patriot and ex-IDF boss, so he’s not too bad for a lefty, at least for the defense of Israel, which right now is no. 1 priority.
Re the plane seatbelts: I just don’t feel comfortable without them engaged. Doesn’t matter if I am sitting up or sleeping. It is just first principle.
13th March. Seventy years since the Viet Minh attack on the French Garrison at Dien Bien Phu began – led to the end of the French colonial empire in Indo China, and the intervention of the Americans…
2024 is a waiting game in politics …
The sooner Netanhanyu is gone the faster solutions can be found to the land and security issues with Palestinians.
To divert the discussion into more productive areas. Your response seems to indicate that you have nothing to offer other than burying our heads in the sand.
I suggested three steps, to reduce immigration of culturally incompatible groups, to encourage their departure, including by cash payments, and to enforce assimilation and equality before the law. What is your reaction to these? what are your alternatives?
It’s not obvious at all. Sintered wires and wire mesh composites are very strong. How certain are you these parts are not used in panels? Or never will be?
If it was so obvious, did you make a prediction for how long 3D printing would not be used for?
No.
Honda has a way to weld aluminium, there’s absolutely no guarantee at all we’ll be using steel as much. There’s no guarantee our governments won’t be absolutely maniacal and mandate lightweight panels and all EVs.
Glass was first 3D printed in 2015. Borosilicate (stronger, higher quality glass) is actually well-suited for 3D printing.
Not true. See my response at 11:14.
flyingduk
It may be that Netanyahu is concerned the US run by Democrats will refuse to support Israel due to a burgeoning Islamic population in the US. I would share his concern. THE issue here is the Biden Regimes “unsuccessful” efforts to derail Irans efforts to develop their nuclear weaponry.
Dot
Just caught up with your 1114 comment. It reads like throwing your hands in the air in despair.
Wow.
Lay off the crack pipe, buddy.
What does Israel get from the US? Diplomatic support. Military support. Strategic depth. Financial support.
What does the US get from Israel?
Potentially a land based carrier, forward operating zone in ME, but it already has these elsewhere in KSA, Turkey, and other Gulf States, to some extent. What else? What major power’s position would be improved by underwriting Israel?
Of course we should have zero tolerance of the incitement to violence and give non-citizens the boot after they’ve been in gaol for their crime.
If we merely enforced the law as it stands (and consistently held our standards up, well, we’d be better off.
“and to enforce assimilation and equality before the law.”
Partially agreeing with you is burying your head in the sand or throwing your hands up in the air.
Unreal.