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  • Open Thread – Mon 20 Nov 2023

  • How to be useful: A guide for Idiots

    I suppose if I hadn’t read Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Mark Steyn, Douglas Murray, Irshad Manji, Robert Spencer, Oriana Fallaci, Mark Durie, Michel Houellebecq and number of others; if I hadn’t often dipped into the Koran and the Hadith to check on what malign drivel was being said and written; if I hadn’t heard of Charlie…

  • Rafe’s Roundup 18 Nov

    The latest additions Australians for Science & Freedom AND Free Speech Union Launch Melbourne Monday Nov 27 THE FREE SPEECH UNION OF AUSTRALIA Quadrant The Energy Realists   IPA Net Zero Aust Spectator    Jo Nova Centre for Independent Studies Conservative Vagabond      The Monarchists    The Free Press    Bettina Arndt    Menzies Research Centre The…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 18 Nov 2023

  • OBJECTIONS TO RE PROJECTS (RC)

    WRITTEN FOR AN OBJECTION TO GLENELLEN SOLAR BUT APPLICABLE TO ALL WIND, SOLAR AND TRANSMISSION PROJECTS 1. The transition from coal is impossible without nuclear Simple as ABC. A: Input to the grid must continuously match the demand. B: The continuity of wind and solar input is broken when there is little or no wind…

  • EVs RIP

    Look out for cheap second hand EVs From Rafe You were warned, look at Briefing Note 21.11 The list of problems is so long that you need to read the note to appreciate them. Consider the social injustice of subsidies for well-off people who can afford evs, the human rights of workers in the supply…

  • Open Thread – Wed 15 Nov 2023

  • Open Thread – Mon 13 Nov 2023

  • A droplet of hope in a sea of despair

    First, I like to acknowledge the country on which we make our home, Terra Australis, whose landmass is over fifty percent under Native Title; whose major oil and gas projects are delayed by judges in thrall of whale song-lines, mythical undersea burial grounds, by mother sea and by rainbow serpents; whose states are busy enacting…

  • Bob King’s Summary

    WIND AND SOLAR PROJECTS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS:- LOCATED or ADVISED THIS WEEK NOW and until 2024 FNQ regional plan 20/11/23 Mount Piper BESS, Wallerawang 20/11/23 Tarong West Wind, South Burnett 23/11/23 Capricornia Energy Hub (CEH) Transmission Project 1/12/23  Sustainable Finance Strategy 11/12/23 and 1/3/24 Accounting Standards for Climate change 19/2/24   Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 amendments PREVIOUSLY 13/11/23 SA’s transmission and…