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Roundup 25 Nov
The New Energy Narrative It’s Time for a new narrative, a new Energy Story. The game has changed, not officially and not among the True Believers but every month it will get clearer to anyone who bothers to check. We are in damage control. The exit from coal, gas and oil has just about run…
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SA the wind-leader!
This morning on Wednesday Nov 23 South Australia is in a wind drought. The wind-leading state is demonstrating the great green future of Australia as we pretend to transition from coal. Before sunrise SA was importing power from Victoria and drawing almost 30% of its demand from the wind, with 70% from gas, with a…
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Save our rural surroundings
And our farmland and forests. The Menzies Research Institute is hosting a webinar forum on the rising tide of protests from rural communities faced with the wreck and ruin inflicted by wind and solar factories and the transmission lines associated with them. Express interest here. The date is 15 December at 6.00 Sydney time. These…
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Let’s Lift Wind Literacy
Reading literacy appears to be in decline and that is causing concern but spare a thought for the prevalence of “wind illiteracy.” This means lack of awareness of the wind supply, especially at the continental scale. Wind illiteracy has enabled the biggest peacetime policy blunder in our history, that is, connecting intermittent energy sources from…
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Putting energy realism on the google map
The Energy Realists of Australia have two sites, the original list of papers hanging off the RiteOn site and our own site, Flickerpower. It will help if these sites come up on the first page of searches and this is more likely to happen when they get more traffic directed from other sites, like this…
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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…