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  • Climate Cultism Begets Despotism

    There is one part in Homage to Catalonia when George Orwell observes that for a time he and his socialist comrades-in-arms in the Spanish civil war enjoyed true brotherhood. Socialism is an ideal where people share each other’s troubles and joys and each other’s worldly goods. You can understand its attraction. It’s just not compatible…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 16 March 2024

  • Weekend Reading #13

    Patrick Porter, The fallacy of soft power, The Critic Lafayette Lee & Darryl Cooper debate Scott Greer & Benjamin Roberts on White Identity, The American Nation: Identity, IM-1776 “Demos II”, A profile of the next Pope, writes Cardinal, New Daily Compass Ted Nordhaus, Did Exxon Make It Rain Today?, The New Atlantis Philip Pilkington, The…

  • Open Thread – Wed 13 March 2024

  • Open Thread – Labour Day 2024

  • What To Do, Hollowed Out and Still Spewing CO2?

    Our obsessive minister for climate change and energy Chris Bowen seems intent on ridding Oz of manufacturing. All unintentional mind. Collateral damage, as it were, from demolishing foul CO2-spewing coal-power stations, and marginalising and driving out its fellow pollutants oil and natural gas. Incidentally, history will thank him because it will be written current-day university…

  • Unreliable Energy projects

    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…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 9 March 2024

  • Wind drought June 2020

    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…

  • Global Stilling

    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…