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How Close Were We To Blackouts Yesterday?
January 9, 2025
By Paul Homewood
We came perilously close to rolling blackouts yesterday, something which I have not seen reported in the media –(correct me, I may be wrong!!).
The ever alert Kathryn Porter has the full story: Blackouts near miss in tightest day in GB electricity market since 2011
This is her conclusion:
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Why did we get into this awful mess?
It does not take a genius to work out why? We shut down more than 20 GW of reliable coal capacity, and thought we could replace it with medieval technology that only works when the wind blows!
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/how-close-were-we-to-blackouts-yesterday/#more-85168
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Good news!
Like Australia, it’s going to take large scale blackouts to wake up the Sheeple.
Of course, someone would be needed to explain the truth of what happened, not a spokesman for the Uniparty that believes in the anthropogenic global warming fr@ud like all Uniparty factions in Australia.
In Australia, in the absence of someone to tell the truth who the Lamestream Media would give exposure to, large scale blackouts would likely be spun as a case of not having ENOUGH intermittent generators and efforts would be redoubled to build more.
In fact, as Jo has reported, Australia would already be suffering regular blackouts were it not for large amounts of taxpayer money being paid for the right to load shed our few remaining large industrial consumers like aluminium smelters. Due to lack of diligence by the Lamestream Media, this doesn’t get reported
Australian Uniparty politicians are perfectly happy to complete the total collapse of the economy in pursuit of “Net Zero”. The only difference is that the fake conservative Liberals want to build nuclear reactors to replace coal for baseload but they still want more intermittents. And large scale projects of that nature, assuming they will ever get approval, would take decades in massively over-regulated Australia and we will be like Venezuela by then and it will be game over.
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Not quite sure its punching the air , good news! stuff in the UK. The consequences of a blackout in cold climate , especially a prolonged one , are pretty severe
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Add some hyperinflation and we might spark change
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I live in Washington State where hydro is the “Big Kahuna” of our electrical supply. There are plenty of generators on tall towers and the region sends electricity south to California. (See: Pacific DC intertie)
This week the generator blades mostly have been still. I follow the action at the link below. Wind is the green line at the bottom.
https://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/baltwg.aspx
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It’s interesting that the winds driving the Commiefornia fires, don’t get to the tower-mounted generators.
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? 1800 klm away
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Note that this is a high voltage direct current (HVDC) system. The components are discussed under the heading “Components.”
The northern end is at: 45.594933, -121.113039
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J F H…what is the “VER” refering to in that chart ?
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VER means Variable Energy Resources, which are primarily wind and solar
Zoom the green rectangle with the pie chart. It shows 10.1% wind and 1.4% biomass**. A small amount is solar. Solar appears to be less than 1% and not provided a percent number. A few years ago they changed WIND to VER because numerous small solar facilities were being added in the region.
**Biomass has one large entry called Frederickson Power a natural gas-fired combined-cycle facility and another 2 dozen small “waste” burning or “landfill” sources. On holidays and weekends the small facilities often drop by half. That is the brown line that often is close to the Nuclear – color Cobalt (purple). One small coal facility is closing in 2025.
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70 companies which make a living from censorship are very upset at free speech with Facebook.
It’s ironic that ‘free’ speech will finally be free, cheaper and not funding a whole ecosystem making their entire living from censoring, sorry ‘fact checking’ others. And AI is a special case as it should fact check itself.
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TdeF you’ve got an extra http:// in your link and it won’t click through.
Here’s a working link.
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Thanks.
And quietly I am still steaming about the Presidential debate between Trump and Harris. The ‘moderator’ some ten times fact checked Donald Trump and only Donald Trump.
Not only was Trump right, in what sort of debate does the moderator ‘fact check’? It is the job of the two debaters to pick up on errors or let them slip. And each time the ‘moderator’ was wrong. It was surprising that Trump did not say more about the fact that the public did not want to hear the opinion of the referee.
‘Fact checking’ is so presumptuous and outrageous. Now the left want laws defining and criminalizing lies, labelled disinformation and misinformation based on intent? Who decides? And who decides on intent? The Wuhan Virus was created in Wuhan. So the WHO renamed it. But everyone still knows about the Spanish flu, which came from America.
Free speech is free speech. You are allowed to be wrong. You are allowed to tell lies. Or just have an opinion. And if you cause commercial or personal damage, there are remedies in the law. There are few absolute facts, like the population of Greenland. So creating a Department of Truth and criminalizing opinions is tyranny.
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And in the first Presidential debate, it must have been difficult for the ‘moderator’ not to race in and help Joe Biden the way they blatantly helped Kamala. I think the moderators were stunned.
CBS were perfectly happy to paste in video answers for Kamala on pre-recorded interviews presented as live television!
That’s was outrageous deceit by CBS and election interference and Trump is suiing commercially for $10Bn. . I hope it goes ahead. There are already commercial and criminal remedies for lies as with Trump’s $12Million settlement with ABC.
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. I think the moderators were stunned.
Either that, or the point of the first debate was to make Biden look stupid so they could get rid of him in time to install someone else.
The debate was held much earlier than most presidential debates. The timing was “perfect”.
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Not Department – Ministry . . . .
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Here are some spoken quotes about the Ministry of Truth from Nineteen Eighty Four.
https://youtu.be/QdA_s-hxju4
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Here ya go DM:
https://imgbox.com/auEJU4HK
😁
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Your “Free speech is free speech” paragraph is brilliant. I will quote it mercilessly as the need arises.
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“70 companies which make a living from censorship are very upset at free speech with Facebook.”
Yes, the Leftist hacks at the Sydney Moaning Herald are screaming about it.. The digital age will be thrown into a dark age.. Freedom of speech will be freedom from facts! (with a picture of a hammer smashing a magnifying glass) and they hate the idea that professional opinion-makers have been replaced by a rag-tag army of volunteer moderators are shaping what we see. Real people are just no substitute for semi-bureaucrats!
Obviously what the Left opines are facts, and what anyone else says is misinformation. At least we know where the enemies of freedom are these days.
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In a Family Group restricted to 11 people in Facebook, I had an innocuous article cancelled saying I had breached guidelines – came out of nowhere, and when I queried the stupidity of the action – no reply from Facebook – only use Facebook for Family Group – nothing else
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If you do a Goolag search for “California fires climate change” without quote marks you will see a large number of articles blaming “climate change” for the fires; not Leftist policies of demolishing dams leading to a lack of water, failure to do controlled fuel reduction burns, DEI fire department policies and management, overall bad management of the state and homeless people deliberately lighting fires.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/10/us-news/homeless-man-seen-lighting-fires-who-was-zip-tied-by-la-residents-not-yet-charged-with-arson-police/
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Simple. Don’t build in fire prone areas and certainly not right up against a forest/trees.
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Or less than 5m from another wooden frame house?
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Simple, dont build at any latitude south of the top of NSW its all pretty much fire prone.
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Yesterday John Connor II posted a link to this important article with huge implications for free speech.
Also, the idiocy of claiming that the UN “owns the science” is beyond belief. No one “owns” science, that’s not how science is done. It’s just as ridiculous as having “consensus science”. That’s not how you do science.
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Don’t expect a proactive and supportive response from Albosleazy until after the election! If Labor win Albo will be all in boots and all with “The UK government has become a key financial supporter of the UN’s campaign to stifle public dissent on climate change.” He’s already blaming The LAX wild fires on climate change.
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My point is emphasised by this UN assault on debate.
Web articles now are full of “Globalists losing across the West” type optimism. That optimism is not tempered by reality – the left never yields power without a long drawn out, vicious fight. Most people do not have the patience and persistence to stay engaged, which is why the left win so constantly.
Simple example: the current VC of Sydney Uni. After horrendous sequences of anti-semitism on campus which he had resolutely refused to address, he finally offered a squeaky “I was wrong”. Yet he’s still there without penalty and offering no new initiatives; he’s not going anywhere. (My opinion, in case he’s litigous).
The Romanian equivalent to the Aus GG simply declared recent election results invalid because the left didn’t like the results.
Unhappily, Trump will be constantly waist deep in lawfare, with each and almost every proposed change being challenged up to the SC for the full 4 years. Given the existing stacking of most of the various Appellate Courts on the way up, this will be the bottomless, muddy, quick sand version of “You get what you vote for”.
The current situation in Britain is unspeakable. I have read elsewhere (and find it pointless to try and confirm) that Starmer commanded his backbench with its’ overwhelming majority to vote down a national inquiry into the “Rotheram” syndrome – but he himself abstained when the vote came on. How is that the globalists losing ?
Macron hasn’t won a vote in over two years, but he’s still offering government by retread. The German and Austrian lefty governments are fighting large NO votes but their constitutional authorities are constantly showing a Romanian attitude. Large-scale, definitive voting may well be “cancelled”.
Longish rant here, but Musk on X is unlikely to be sufficient, in my view, as entertaining as he is.
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The Supreme Court is already independent of the leftists. Closer to fair.
And Trump will nominate two more members in his term. So the Supreme Court will no longer be the instrument of the Democratic party, the socialists and the Globalists. It will correctly interpret the Constitution, its sole job.
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Checks and balances restored as the Founding Fathers intended,
Executive, Legislative, Judiciary.
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“Will nominate”? There is no certainty on that. If it’s a conservative Justice that dies or retires nothing changes. Also dont see that they have been and instrument of the Dems in recent years. They seem to be doing a balanced job.
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…which is why people need to SAVE the evidence of the political lies.
Rip webpages, save articles, have books, videos, documentaries, all with proof of government and media fraud.
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As the Australian Government becomes ever more censorious, the TRUMP Revolution which caused Zuck to change his mind about censorship, at least pretend to do so to save his company, will have a beneficial effect for Australians.
Andrew Bolt wrote the following but I can’t post more because it’s paywalled.
PAYWALLED
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Free speech is a threat to democracy. Strange.
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“Free speech is a threat to democracy. Strange.”
Nope..not strange, in a system where they buy your vote anything free is a threat!
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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In Melbournistan (Australia) I find it amazing how many food delivery slaves (usually on electric bicycles) are around. Are people now that lazy they can’t be bothered to get their own food? Plus they are a road hazard.
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Plague in the UK too, usually illegal immigrants, someone gets the gig legitimately, then rents out the job. Police do nothing about them blatantly riding around on throttle controlled electric bikes which are illegal; unless road registered, plated, and insured, like a motorbike.
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They are a plague in Dubai too. It’s a miracle mmore of the riders aren’t killed on the main roads there.
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make sure you check the topping of every future pizza order for tyre/tire marks to ensure the “miracle” is continuing lol.
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Not so many when 5,300,000 people have to be fed.
And with smaller families, especially in the inner city where they abound almost exclusively, the value of cooking small meals for one or two or three people is quite different. They are really for people who have a need, tired, sick or not prepared to make it to a restaurant. Also connected to the dramatic increase in high rise apartments. Again, an inner city phenomenon serving a geographically small community.
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I thought that ordering a latte and fetched by Uber Eats or whatever, was the height of laziness. I see that optimists order gelato for bespoke delivery!
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While whining about how expensive eveything is
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Lazing on the couch in their underwear, ordering Ubereats while bingeing on Netflix.
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Being called “far right” today is like being called a witch in the Middle Ages.
No evidence needed and it helps the authorities get rid of the ones they don’t like.
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“. One official UN statement described climate dissent as part of “toxic information ecosystems.””
That’s the clear start of the witch hunts, nothing has changed in 400years. I expect the jackboots to be out this year with the usual thugs demanding personal ID papers to get on the net and then make you take responsibility of any deviation from the official propaganda. Then its off to the gulag with those who disagree, those net-banned subjects who will have to meet in person for coffee and a philosophical discussion in quiet undertones at the local library..
I can remember the days of freedom when you could buy a mobile phone, pre-pay for calls and use it, no ID required. No doubt millions of Australian lives have been saved by stopping the terrorists from using phones without three forms of ID, so it is all worth it, like the TSA and Homeland Security in America.
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In America in Australia: had the pleasure of your border security airline bureaucracy Epsilon Staff System™️ flying into, and out of, Airstrip Botany Bay recently – even had to repeat the shuffle of humiliation a 3rd time after flight cancelled and delayed for 24 hours.
No biometric scanners for me, I go old school in the queue / line, yet every 2 paces (6ft) there’s an Orwellian Space Odyssey eye observing everything & everyone, eerie lifeless all-seeing black octopi 👁️ as the customer experiences the shuffle on by. Almost enough to hang up my travelling shoes and enjoy the view out front.
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” Almost enough to hang up my travelling shoes and enjoy the view out front.”
Did it years ago… We used to trqvel ever year, but now just the wife goes off round the world and it doesn’t worry her. Once through their hellhole called Sydney airport after about 2012 was enough for me. Treated like a criminal by the jackboots who are just waiting for someone to put a foot out of place…
If I can’t drive there I don’t go.
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And you’ll be hauled before the Spanish Inquistion and imprisoned if innocent.
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”
/UK excluded.
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FWIW – the marvels of diplomacy!
“Starmer’s October Surprise Chagos Give Away – Stumped by Trump’s Triumph – Exploding on Him”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/01/10/starmers-october-surprise-chagos-give-away-stumped-by-trumps-triumph-exploding-on-him-n3798668
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I was having a look through an article about “hottest ever winter temperature in Australia” and it’s becoming ridiculous the complete lack of scientific integrity being displayed by the BOM and lack of any actual investiagtion done by “journalists” that write these nonsense articles.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/26/winter-heat-records-broken-as-australia-set-for-more-temperatures-over-10c-above-average
The weather station that recorded the “highest winter temperature” in late August 2024 in Yampi Sound in northwest WA has only been open since 2019. And what a coincidence, the BOM placed it in the hottest part of Australia during winter. So this isn’t a national “record” by any means, it is an example of artificially finding a record, comparing new hot weather station data to different old weather station data. For all we know that hot area has recorded multiple winter days above 40 last century, but there was no weather station to capture it. And of course the highly dishonest media don’t ever investigate or mention this. Peak journalism.
One weather station in the hot northwest WA has been open since 1902 – Marble Bar. So we can actually do come analysis and compare oranges to oranges since its the same weather station – a controlled variable. The data there tells a very interesting story: the period around late August/early September has recorded multiple very hot days over the last century. Here’s a list of days above 39:
4th Sep 1944: 39.4
5th Sep 1944: 40.0
6th Sep 1944: 39.3
7th Sep 1944: 39.3
3rd Sep 2013: 39.2
29th Aug 2024: 39.7
30th Aug 2024: 39.2
3rd Sep 2024: 39.7
4th Sep 2024: 39.3
So although the 39.7 in Aug 2024 was technically a record for the calendar month of August and hence winter, it happened right at the end of August. The heatwave in early Sep 1944 was virtually the same time of year (within a week) but happened in a different calendar month and season so it’s not “winter” – a really silly technicality. To conclude, the Aug 2024 heatwave was not “unprecedented” – early Sep 1944 was just as hot, and of course not mentioned by media for context.
Just for some more context (!!mainstream media pay attention!!), here’s the hottest temperatures in each calendar month since 1902 for Marble Bar:
January 49.2 in 1905 and 1922
February 48.3 in 1916
March 47.4 in 2019
April 45.0 in 1928
May 39.5 in 1990
June 35.8 in 1998
July 35.0 in 1917
August 39.7 in 2024
September 42.6 in 1942
October 46.0 in 2002
November 47.2 in 1928
December 49.3 in 2018 and 2023
With all the “records” being talked about by the media these days you’d think each month’s hottest temp would have ALL occurred in the past few years. Nope. Half the monthly records were set pre WWII, 1928 has TWO.
This is what real journalists should be doing, but they don’t because there’s a much larger agenda to push.
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Great work!
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The so-called “Yampi Sound” site is actually the Derby military airport, located in a hot area. The original ”Yampi Sound” site was out in the sound off the coast, one of the iron ore islands, I think Cockatoo, which was a lot cooler. They are very different sites. I think the Cockatoo Island site is still used for temperature readings, but the BOM always reference the new hotter location for its “very hot” statements.
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FWIW – an “On the Waterfront” development around the Californian fires –
“Snail Darter RIP: The Species that Shut Down the Tellico Dam May Not Actually Exist”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/01/10/snail-darter-rip-the-species-that-shut-down-the-tellico-dam-may-not-actually-exist-n3798654
Remember back when the “Christmas Turkey” and the expedition liner were having problems being frozen in down around Antarctica there was a poem called “The Ice That Wasn’t There”?
Might be time for another of the genre titled “The Fish That Wasn’t There”
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And the blue banded bee which shut down a gold mine. All made up. Secret women’s business. Or the cave paintings which have shut the world climbing phenomenon of Mt Arapiles in Victoria. Killing a major tourist destination. Never seen paintings whose location cannot be revealed as they are a tribal secret.
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>Never seen paintings
I spent years crawling all over Arapiles in the 1970’s and I don’t recall seeing any paintings or hearing of any. I guess you had to know the right people.
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Yep, did a short rock climbing course at Mt Arapiles ( + Mitre Rock) in 1984 and there was never a mention of aboriginal rock art. Nor did I ever see any. So, some aboriginal blows ochre paint over his hand 200 years ago and it’s considered art is it?
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FWIW
“I’VE BEEN SAYING THAT ESG IS A BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY FROM THE BEGINNING: Texas court rules against American Airlines in ESG 401(k) plan case: The presiding judge found the airline breached its fiduciary duty under federal law by prioritizing non-financial considerations in its employee retirement plan.
This was obvious, but the obviousness was overridden by the sense that anything that’s a fad among the ruling class must be okay.
(My bold)
https://instapundit.com/695413/#disqus_thread
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Amazing scenes of 1930’s Germany in Melbourne as police move on some Jews having a coffee at Starbucks. Apparently they were breaching the peace by having a coffee whilst having Jewish symbols on their clothing. They were told to move 100m away and not come back for 2 hours as there was an Anti Jewish demonstration starting and the police wanted to keep the streets safe. And of course, their excuse was that they were keeping the Jews safe. At the same time the police and the Government of Victoria are aiding and abetting Jewish hatred and discrimination of Jews. We all know what happened after these steps were taken in the 1930’s.
[Is there a link to the “Amazing Scenes”? – LVA]
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SOUTH AUSTRALIA THE POWER MENDICANT STATE
Germany, Britain and South Australia boldly led the way in the wind power revolution and enough time has passed to get a clear picture of the success or failure of their grand schemes.
Germany and Britain are circling the drain with out of control electricity prices destroying their industrial base and household budgets.
South Australia is in the same boat although they are so small and insignificant in the larger scheme of things that nobody would notice them if they didn’t have two AFL sides based in Adelaide.
Net zero enthusiasts are regularly excited by the ever-increasing penetration of unreliable energy in the South Australian grid but the applause will be muted when they pay attention to the situation after the sun goes down.
Checking every morning just before sunrise in December, SA generated enough windpower to supply the demand on 5 (five) days out of 31 and imported power from Victoria (mostly coal power) on 20 days.
On the 31st, they were burning diesel.
THIS YEAR
SA has been importing pre-sunrise on 8 days of 11.
Not Self-sufficient with windpower , 10 out of 11.
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As a matter of interest how is their big battery going?
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It would be arbitraging its little head off I imagine
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I have heard that some percentage of the battery failed and had to be replaced. Also I believe that the battery size has been increased. Would be nice for a story on this battery.
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Youcan follow the performance of the “big battery”. (HORNSDALE Power Reserve) , on the nemlog.com, site.. http://nemlog.com.au/gen/region/sa/
The original 100MWh battery was expanded to 190MWh a few years ago.
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Thanks for the info on SA Rafe. Very useful info.
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The southwest Pacific’s first troppo of the season hath been anointed – it is named therefore it is – TC Pita (Cat 1) a small circle of cloud on the convergence line stretching from the Solomons to south of Tahiti, passed over Niue during the night and is expected to ‘fall apart’ or fill-in later today … that’s it folks!
They Who Own The Science (TWOTS) now have #1 Pacific cyclone of 2025 on the books, albeit a mere swirly wave-cloud along a vast occluded tropical front – and they’re racing this time:
Sharks! Cyclones! Earthquakes! Conflagrations! Hottest EVAH!!! Pay us MORE or the planet gets it! (Authorised Version). And yet here back on the beach up north in NZ, a pleasant sunny day is marred by this month-long southerly (coolish) wind – the complete opposite of the Sly Priests’ prophecies last year – while where I’ve been in mid-coastal NSW the humid wet nor’easters are back and councillors are now filling sandbags as we speak (or not?).
And snow, and ice, and frigid temperatures (and the ensuing chaos that brings) across the northern hemisphere this/their winter, and skiers & riders & the ski industry having a good season – all of it is nothing new in this brief interval during the ongoing Pleistocene Ice Age we find ourselves in. Yet far too many appear to be lost in space…
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FWIW – Kunstler on the Californian fires
“Apocalypse Still Unspooling”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/apocalypse-still-unspooling
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You stole my childhood!
https://imgbox.com/bJ29VYH0
Or white privilege, 1910:
https://imgbox.com/XwJ3NO1D
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Did I hear this correctly: FIT for solar will reduce from 3 cents per unit to 0.04 cents for some part of the day in Victoria. It makes the 7 cents per unit that I get for FIT in WA seem like a windfall (apologies for introducing wind to the solar debate).
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While the $0.07/kwh is appreciated, the FIT does not appreciably change the analysis regarding the installation of roof top solar panels. That analysis is dependent on the REPLACEMENT of grid supplied power (about $0.30/kwh). In southern WA the shorter, more cloudy days in winter are the limiting factor.
Please someone certify to Aus Standards a cheap(er) battery capable of connecting to the inverter.
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Why would you want to add a battery? You will never pay it off with the savings in the battery’s short lifetime.
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At current prices you are correct. LiFeP batteries may have a different lifetime profile than the current offerings.
But the system still needs to be sized (and configured) for winter usage not summer.
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In Brisvegas we were early adopters and get the QLD government legislated FIT of .44c per kwh. Initially we also got 7c from the power company (to get our sign up) but that was very quickly whittled away and now they have condition that you only get “their” FIT if you are NOT on a government program. Our FIT expires 1 July 2028. Cheers.
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I believe that the WA 7c is due to drop to 3c soon. Doesn’t make a significant difference to the payback period though.
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Thought for the day
“Exercising is basically hurting yourself until you build up an immunity to
hurting yourself.”
Tell me about it…
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And it gets harder and harder as you approach old(er) age.
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Many years ago I was told that everything would get harder as I got older.
They lied.
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They lied?
Not with regards to hard physical exercise……
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I am (not quite) the Walrus but happening now and has been for last 3 days:
“Sitting in a Brisbane garden
Waiting for the sun
If the sun don’t come
You get a tan from standing in the Brisbane rain”.
Height of summer and brollies and macs are the order of the day to protect against excessive rain tan. The most amazing part is that while the oceans are the source of 86% of global evaporation only some 10% is transported over land yet of this, the stuff currently failing in this Brisbane garden, none of it is boiling. Go figure.
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Different!
Wed or I’ll shoot: Inside the criminal world where young men are forced to marry at gunpoint
The practice of kidnapping young people to get married has made a comeback in Bihar, India, highlighting high unemployment, a stagnant economy, and a rigid caste pyramid
The government job that should have been Avinash Mishra’s ticket to a better life has become his nightmare. The 28-year-old teacher from Munger, in the impoverished northern Indian state of Bihar, spends his evenings scanning the streets for unfamiliar vehicles and unknown faces, in fear that he could be kidnapped by his in-laws.
“They want me to consummate a marriage that happened at gunpoint,” Mishra said in a trembling voice. “How can they call it a marriage when I was kidnapped and forced to perform rituals with a gun to my head?”
Bihar is currently facing the problem of Pakadua Byah, or shotgun weddings, where a groom is kidnapped and forced to marry a girl at gunpoint. It is because of the age-old tradition of dowry, where a groom’s family will demand money before agreeing to a marriage; the bride’s family is helpless. In Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, the problem is especially exacerbated by the rigid caste pyramid, family feuds, and socio-economic pressure.
According to journalist Indrajit Singh, shotgun weddings first saw a major spike in the 1970s, when dowries became a serious problem. Unemployment was high, so a young man with a job was in high demand. It peaked in the 1980s and continued until the 2000s; there was a sharp decline after 2009. But now, the kidnappings are back.
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Allison Pearson
Telegraph
2 days ago
Hello Everyone, this was a shattering piece to write. Unlike Jess Phillips, however, I don’t think my own feelings are what matter.
Thousands upon thousands of British white girls suffered sadistic s@xual torture at the hands of mainly Pakistani-origin r@pists.
Those are the facts no matter how hard the media tries to avoid them.
It’s a national disgrace and how lucky we are that Elon Musk has the clout to blast his way through the laters of denial and corruption.
I know this excites strong feeling – rightly so – what would people like to see happen? Allison x
The Telegraph Opinion
Elon Musk has ripped the cloak of deceit off one of Britain’s most disgusting scandals
Allison Pearson
Once upon a time there was a good and fair country and people who lived in countries that were neither good nor fair travelled to that land and made it their home because they knew it to be kind.
But some men who made that land their home brought the values of countries that were neither kind nor fair with them. Such men hated the female children they found in the good and fair country.
The girls were white but not chaste; they were dirty unbelievers who went about unaccompanied as if they were boys. They disgusted the men, and they tempted them, which made them hate the female children even more. The monsters, for that is what the men became over time, caused savage harm to thousands of girls – so many that no one is yet sure of the number and may never be, for some were lost or killed. And the monsters drugged and bribed them, they made them s@x slaves, branding the girls’ flesh with their initials, ramming large implements into their tiny bodies the better to accommodate four men.
This may be hard to comprehend, dear reader, but the people of that enlightened land did not protect their daughters. I’m sorry to say they abandoned them to their fate.
Police, whose duty it was to look after the most vulnerable, either arrested the girls, dismissed their pleas for help or left them with their tormentors. For that famously kind and decent land had fallen under a strange enchantment, which was called multiculturalism.
It said that, no matter how wicked or cruel the men were to the children, you must never speak of it. The dark spell, and what a powerful spell it was (enough to vanquish justice and compassion), caused any who dared to say that Pakistani M@slim men were targeting white girls to become the bad people.
Because all cultures are equal, you see, even ones that don’t believe in equality or which agree that girls who aren’t v@rgins are wh@res and deserve to be punished.
And those who struggled against the powerful spell that stifled their countrymen were called racist.
Then, one day, the richest man in the whole wide world came along and broke the dark spell.
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An aside to this story is the broken UK system of recognition. Who vetted :Sir” Keir Starmer’s knighthood. Is it something Prince Andrew oversees?
Keir Starmer should be facing degradation of his knighthood given his response to Musk and what is now getting the spotlight..
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But the Labour Party, which is in Government, hopes to go on getting votes from voters of Pakistani origin, and THAT is the Highest Mission, even if it is unfortunate that – they might say – some bad things might get glossed over.
The UK, sadly,has a deplorable record on fixing responsibility to those who do not do their duty – Post Office; cladding & Grenfell Tower; Maternity Units that kill mothers and babies; Contaminated Blood; local councils able to run up debts in the thousands of millions; etc.
This horrific scandal is awful – is it even the worst?
Does this Socialist Government care?
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… and the hits just keep on coming. Yesterday listened to Mel Gibson on Joe Rogan. Great podcast and conversation with our “Aussie” actor and director. But all the headlines of the podcast referred to his information on some friends with cancer taking ivermectin and fenbendazole. Cue the big pharma outrage and their mock surprise on this subject. Even though it’s being doing the rounds of social media now for about 2 years. Today old mate Mark Zuckerberg was the guest and although I haven’t listened to it ( there’s only so many hours in the day. for chrissakes !!) he apparently reports the undue pressure Facebook personnel were subject to by Biden health officials, mostly regarding the side effects of the jibby jabs. That is, the removal of posts reporting these side effects. Also that Donald Trump is not a bad bloke after all and he’s really happy to have Dana White (UFC director) on the Facebook board of management. Facebook now without fact checkers and less emphasis on DEI. What’s next, Kamala Harris on JRE where she admits to being a closet Republican?
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Good luck getting hold of Ivermectin for the treatment of cancer in Australia. It can be purchased overseas though, so I am told. Mostly, it is manufactured in India and the QC is a bit suspect according to some. Dosage is also hard to pin down so those interested might visit the FLCCC website.
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Ivermectin has been investigated as an anti-cancer drug and shows promise.
Fenbendazole also appears to be potentially effective for some cancers.
I agree, there’s little chance of it being approved for cancer treatment in Australia as the drugs are inexpensive and safe, not subject to patents and would therefore not be approved by the TGA (Australia’s equivalent to the FDA).
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would therefore not be approved by the TGA (Australia’s equivalent to the FDA
I would settle for them to be available over the counter at a price approaching the SE Asia price…
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Here is a reference to a post on X which Australia’s eNanny, the E Safety Kommissar, an appointee of the fake conservative Liberal Party, ordered to be taken down.
Australians are not allowed to see the censored content. (Look at the greyed out box in the screen shot.)
https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1877560190192726123
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Someone has posted a screenshot of the censored content here:
https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1877559531934462328
I don’t know why people shouldn’t be allowed to see this. The picture is of someone employed by the WHO, an organisation our taxes pay for.
Also, you can find the censored screenshot on Farcebook.
A good thing TRUMP will soon be defending them.
The story apparently originates with dailymail.co.uk
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You can find the original story on Daily Mail if you do a Goolag search for “daily mail who trans expert” without quote marks and look for the story dated 27 Feb 2024. On my search it was the first result.
Seemingly it has taken nearly a year fir Australia’s censor to do this.
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If even Goolag isn’t censoring it and it gives the first search result, how bad could it possibly be?
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Correction: the line was meant to read:
An unauthorised spelling change which I altered but it didn’t stick.
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The link for the video on Rebel News.
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