CONTROVERSY RAGES OVER THE WIN BY BEN POTTER AND COLIN PACKHAM Last year the Packham Williams medal competition launched to commemorate the contribution of Colin Packham and Perry Williams to misinformation in reporting on energy issues. Sins of commission abound when false claims by politicians and others are published and there are sins of omission…

The awards launched last year and the the first winners were: The Jacques Barzun Award for history and cultural studies, Keith Windschuttle. The Brian Penton award for bohemian or hippie conservatives, Barry Humphries.  The William Harold Hutt award for industrial relations, Gerard Henderson. The Peter Bauer award for economics, Wolfgang Kasper. The Laughing for Liberty award, Barry Humphries. Nominations are invited for…

How many firms have been driven under by the rising price of power? Help wanted! The crisis in the power supply has been deferred for several years after Hazelwood closed in 2017 and the head of AEMO at the time, pre Audrey Zibelman, warned that we were travelling with a very thin reserve to handle…

The demonisation of CO2 is the foundational lie that underpins climate alarmism and the suicidal net zero ponzi scheme. Lets hear no more talk about nuclear power as clean energy. Most protagonists of nuclear power like to say it is clean, meaning no CO2 is released, as though this is a massive benefit. Certainly it…

Please distribute to your network those sections which may be relevant. Regards, Bob King There is a dam of perhaps 1,000 projects waiting to burst upon us, now that fast track processing is coming in, and as soon as the Capacity Investment Scheme, CIS, payments are sorted out, and if the investment case still holds up…

Please distribute to your network those sections which may be relevant. Regards, Bob King OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS:-LOCATED or ADVISED THIS WEEK NOW       Punches Creek, Millmerran, Solar unstated Whaleback Ridge Wind, Zeehan, TAS HUGE declared 6Mar 21/3/24 Humelink changed circumstances, Transgrid 3/4/24   Humelink, Changed Circumstances, CER 4/4/24   Restart of Redbank Power Station with woodchip 11/4/24 Smart Meters 15/4/24 S.A. Hydrogen and Renewable Energy…

This was a “killer month” when the Capacity Factor of the entire wind fleet was 10% or less for several periods – This submission to an inquiry in NSW in 2020 contains a day by day account of the drought in SA, Victoria and NSW during the longest “dry” spell, over 30 hours through the…

Late in the day, supporters of unreliable intermittent energy discovered that there can be a problem with the wind supply. They speculate that this could be caused by global warming and the term global stilling has been invented to make it look new and cover up their delinquency in failing to report wind droughts when…

HELP WANTED Can you tell me in the comments when you first encountered the term “wind droughts?” It came up in the second briefing note from the Energy Realists but not in the first which was written to convey the idea of sudden death if wind is not available all the time. The choke point…

Please distribute to your network those sections which may be relevant. Victorian renewable projects are particularly difficult to identify – see note Three QUICK SUMMARY OF WHAT IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS:- LOCATED or ADVISED THIS WEEK 8/3/24   Offshore Storage – another enquiry 13/3/24 Stratford PHES, Hunter Valley 15/3/24 Euston Wind, Balranald 18/3/24 Gippsland Basin CCS 18/3/24 S.A. Hydrogen Hub,…