Germany led the way into the green energy future with the Energiewende, launched at the turn of the century. Driven by The Greens they set out to close their coal power plants and also their nuclear power fleet. They are now going into recession. Read all about it

Heads up for Free Speech CitizenGo Defending life, family, and freedom across the world. Look out for The Free Speech Union of Australia! Get in early, sign up here to be on the mailing list when it launches. Check up on the usual suspects The Energy Realists    The Australian Spectator  Conservative Vagabond  Jo Nova    The Monarchists…

You would have heard a little while ago that Aotearoa, New Zealand to you old-fashioned folk, recently introduced a new medical triage policy. Other things equal, you go to the head of the queue if you are Maori. And, as medicine is often a judgement call, doctors and hospital administrators are bound to err on…

Many readers ask us ‘what is civil society and why do you go on about it so much’?    Civil society comprises the relationships and activities that make up our life at grass-roots    levels of society, in families, communities and voluntary associations, independent of both    government and the commercial world.     It comprises eight key segments:     Family,…

As the capacity of coal power sinks towards the level of demand This is a short story to explain why intermittent inputs from the sun and wind can’t power a sustainable energy system. Its all about the wind droughts. Especially at night. First, the ABC of intermittent energy production. A. Input to the grid must…

Triffids first appeared in a post-apocalyptic novel in the 1951 that depicted a swarm of people-eating monster plants stalking the countryside. Apparently they were bioengineered in a secret laboratory in the USSR and accidentally got released into the wild (yes we have heard that one before.)    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids The modern triffids are made of steel,…