New Catallaxy

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…

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…

HELP WANTED Can you tell me in the comments when you first encountered the term “wind droughts?” It came up in the second briefing note from the Energy Realists but not in the first which was written to convey the idea of sudden death if wind is not available all the time. The choke point…

Please distribute to your network those sections which may be relevant. Victorian renewable projects are particularly difficult to identify – see note Three QUICK SUMMARY OF WHAT IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS:- LOCATED or ADVISED THIS WEEK 8/3/24   Offshore Storage – another enquiry 13/3/24 Stratford PHES, Hunter Valley 15/3/24 Euston Wind, Balranald 18/3/24 Gippsland Basin CCS 18/3/24 S.A. Hydrogen Hub,…

Just been rereading Tom Wolfe’s wonderful book The Kingdom of Speech (2016). Read it if you haven’t already. You won’t be disappointed. It’s all about why and how human beings developed the ability to speak and whether there are rules which apply across different languages. Wolfe entertainingly covers the debate between naturalists Charles Darwin and…

Taking over farmland to build facilities to produce intermittent energy is a violation of Article 2(b) of the Paris Agreement. Article 2 of the 2015 Paris Agreement states: “This Agreement… aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: “(b)…