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The Energy Crisis is upon us: Energy Disaster is coming.
A guest post by Bill Stinson, one of my colleagues in The Energy Realists of Australia and author of an important survey of damage inflicted on the planet through the life-cycle of wind and solar projects. The Dark Side of Renewable Energy. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap” – Galatians 6:7. Australia is without…
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THE VOICE of energy realism
Mark Mills explains why the green energy transition is not happening. 5 min On the limits of wind and solar power. 5 min Nigel Ballantyne On the beauty of nuclear power. 4 min What sea-level rises? 2 min Welcome to COP 27 1 min RC The tragic tale of peaks and troughs in windpower 8…
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Black is White, Freedom is Slavery, 2+2=5
Newspeak rules in reportage of climate and energy issues in the mainstream media. In 1984 George Orwell introduced the concept of a new way of speaking to consolidate the grip of totalitarian regimes by thought control as well as brute force and intimidation. He spelled out the design and purpose of ‘newspeak’ in an appendix…
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Rafe’s Roundup 25 Sept
Calling Energy and Emergency Services Ministers Here is a thought, what is the plan to respond to the collapse of the electricity grid? Is there adequate backup with generators to keep hospitals and other emergency services running? Complete with fuel. And what else? What about the water and gas supplies. And everything else like lifts,…
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Not enough “oats” in the European power supply?
Everyone knows the sad story about the farmer who decided to save some money by reducing the ration of oats for his horse. He started with a reduction of 10% and it didn’t seem to matter so he cut another 10% and then another. He was saving money hand over fist but then the animal…
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Our biggest peacetime policy blunder ever
Epic Failure of Planning for the Green Energy Transition Briefing Note 22.9 September 2022 Purpose: To signal that the transition from coal cannot go any further without nuclear power. The critical issue. The combination of wind droughts and the lack of grid-scale storage dictate that any further loss of coal-fired power capacity will pose serious…
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Rafe’s Roundup Sept 17
James McPherson Report The disintegration of Russian/German economic affairs – first shots of a new trade war The Chinese fast trains trillion dollar debt disaster. Energy Matters Idiots guide to the Hydrogen Hype. Pay attention Twiggy! The green energy transition has hit the wall. Save our Coal Power Stations! More Roundups from the archive Roundup…
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What is happening and why
Guest post from Cardimona There is not a shred of evidence that CO2 has the capacity to “trap heat” or affect the climate “dangerously”. No scientific research paper has ever empirically proven that oft-repeated assertion. It has always been based on faulty maths, contrived research, and propaganda. That’s why sea levels haven’t risen, cyclones aren’t…
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Roundup 13 Sept
Wind at 7 this morning. Across the NEM the wind is delivering 8% of demand at 20% of capacity (the average is 29%.). Victoria and Tasmania are deep in drought with practically no wind and Tasmania is burning diesel to protect the level of water in the dams. SA is exporting power to Victoria while…
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Rafe’s Roundup Returns
Rafe’s Roundup appeared in the quarterly Policy magazine from the Centre for Independent Studies in the 1990s and surfaced again in the old Catallaxy where the idea was to remind readers of the range of liberal/conservative organizations in Australia with links to their sites. This morning, James McPherson on the hypocrisy and divisiveness of “reconciliation”.…