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UK worst place in the world to site solar farms
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/uk-worse-place-in-world-to-put-solar-power/#more-85408
I live in coastal Devon , one of the funniest counties at some 1800 hours of sun per year.We are importing billions of solar panels made using coerced Labour and coal power then getting a pitiful amount of energy from them
Our politicians are truly mad. Presumably there are big plans in sunny OZ for solar farms?
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Remarkable day for UK wind and solar!
https://realclimatescience.com/2025/01/uk-green-energy-record
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We are curreNtly in very sunny Austria but people are telling us how grey and miserable it is back home.
Mind you lots of solar panels here do not generate power for a quarter of the year as they are often in villages that are in the deep shadow of the mountains
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Still and foggy. In the UK – who knew there’d be days like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UUWkr4FUlo
When everyone is up front
And they’re not playing tricks
When you don’t have no freeloaders
Out to get their kicks
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Same with Germany. Just go more Nuclear.
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In terms of woke Leftist “science” and “engineering”, that makes them ideally placed.
I always thought putting solar subsidy farms in the northern parts of Europe was odd.
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Oh, I thought Solar Farms were there to attract the sun and make the place warm and fuzzy and a better place to live.
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The UK solar efficiency is reputed to average 10.5% over the year, not much different from Australia’s 16.26% efficiency. My home solar in “sunny” Perth only averages 9% in winter.
Surprisingly, Germany obtains 12% of its electricity from solar with a 11% CF.
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You’re probably funny and sunny.
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Malware on the Gateway Pundit site
I don’t know if anyone else has had this problem, but I have had an issue when reading the Gateway Pundit.
Firstly I had multiple occasions when an unexpected screen would appear from Security Protection Centre, which would perform a scan and inform me that I had 26 virus and offer protection for $3.99/ month. Since I was using a new IPhone 13, this seemed unlikely so I would shut that down and reopen the site.
After a few days a new message appeared, claiming that I had been selected to a variety of prizes as one of 100 lucky Telstra customers. Again I would just close and then reopen the site.
Over the past 2 days I get the same message but purporting to come from Google.
It only happens if I am reading the Gateway Pundit.
I think it is an attempt to scare people away from the site. Has anyone else had the same issue?
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Peter,
On my computer, I have gotten similar sorts of things. It happens after I visit a site that wants me to click on “allow” cookies. Doing so re-sets a “permissions” to accept notices from some unknown place. I note the offending source. Then I go to “Settings” and then “Cookies and site permissions” and find that listing. Then I have to go to “View permissions …” and Block that site. Finally, I have to watch for that “allow” tab and not do that again.
The messages appeared to be coming from a well-known company but their web site warms against this scam in their name.
I assume your phone has a similar “fix” – – you need to investigate.
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I get the same thing on another site, not this one though.
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As solar power is an unlikely energy source in the UK our clever elite are still looking to hydrogen to somehow plug the energy gap.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/01/19/oops-climate-rescuer-hydrogen-12-times-worse-for-the-climate-researchers-find/
In the comments section there is a discussion on the half life of co2. Has anyone got any views on the half life of this gas as politicians worry about it staying around for hundreds of years as a reason to get to get zero quickly
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Hydrogen will not work at the moment. The cost of the energy required to extract the hydrogen makes the whole thing uneconomic. The Australian Guv’ment has provided incentives (loads of taxpayer and borrowed money) and even with this, it is still uneconomic. Some here have tried to make it work and have given up.
Green Hydrogen is another fantasy of the Climate Alarmists.
Maybe one day technology will come to the rescue. However, by then, other technologies may have have taken over.
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Hydrogen appears to be attractive to the scammers because its combustion “only” produces “water vapour”. .
It is actually extremely dubious as a “mass” fuel. The energy involved in “capturing, storing and transporting” it is another huge problem.
Finally whilst it “may” work in existing designs of internal combustion engines, its mechanical and thermal properties are not even close to actual hydrocarbons. it also leaks everywhere; being the “smallest molecule”,it wanders straight through the sort of hoses and seals that will contain a very basic gas like Methane.
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I did a search for Residence Time of CO2 in the Atmosphere and was rewarded with this paper.
Scrutinizingthe carbon cycle and CO2 residence time in the atmosphere
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921818116304787#:~:text=Temperature%20dependent%20natural%20emission%20and,increase%20over%20the%20Industrial%20Era.
The residence time of CO2 in the atmosphere is just 4 years!
The author thanks Prof Murray Salby for his assistance.
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Peter, thanks for the link.
In the first couple of reports they use the term “turnover time” instead of “residence time” or “lifetime”.
On page 8 of the first IPCC report (FAR) it says
“The turnover time of CO2 in the atmosphere, measured
as the ratio of the content to the fluxes through it, is about 4
years This means that on average it takes only a few years
betorc a CO2 molecule in the atmosphere is taken up by
plants or dissolved in the ocean”
The turnover time is important because they use it to calculate total emissions. It is the inverse of the removal rate.
You can calculate the turnover time used by the IPCC by dividing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by what they say are the total emissions.
On page 700 of the sixth assessment report, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is said to be 870 Gt C. (1 Gt C = 1 Pg C)
Total emissions are ( if I have added them correctly) 225.4 GtC.
This gives a turnover time of 3.86 years or a removal rate of 0.259 per year.
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Thanks John and Peter for your comments. John, I see where you have many worthwhile contributions to this subject in the past, along with TDef and others.
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Tdef will also have a good explanation – see his most recent comment here on 31 Dec 2024. A recent Aug 2024 study (Koutsoyiannis, WUWT 30 Aug) put the residence time at 4 years.
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Ivermectin to the rescue again. . . . as an anti cancer drug.
A combination of Ivermectin and Fenbendazole (and/or a similar drug Mebendazole) has had strong cancer treating properties. Not a cure, necessarily, but a strong treatment. Since all these drugs are off-patent, nobody will spend the money to do a Phase III trial. Still, if you are in stage 4, something to think about.
The easy-read link:
https://slaynews.com/news/top-oncologist-confirms-ivermectin-cures-cancer/
The more detailed and nuanced link:
https://www.canceractive.com/article/is-a%20combination%20of%20fenbendazole%20and%20ivermectin%20a%20real%20cancer%20killer
And finally, the peer-reviewed paper:
https://isom.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Targeting-the-Mitochondrial-Stem-Cell-Connection-in-Cancer-Treatment-JOM-39.3.pdf
(The peer-reviewed paper in includes dosage schedules.)
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As I have mentioned before, both drugs are inexpensive, out of patent and possibly effective in the treatment of cancer therefore unlikely to be approved by Big Pharma’s marketing agency in Australia, the TGA (equivalent to FDA in US) for that purpose.
Under the new Government in the United States, I’m sure they’ll get a fair evaluation for this possible treatment.
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Ivermectin is considered to be a “Tier 1” anti-cancer drug by the IMA (Independent Medical Alliance), formerly known as the FLCCC.
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Prince Harry gets apology and ‘substantial damages’ from Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN)
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/01/prince-harry-gets-apology-and-substantial-damages-from-rupert-murdochs-news-group-newspapers-ngn.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cd9qqj3gvv1t
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The dynamite new Offshore Wind EO calls for a thorough assessment so this is a small step in that direction.
Western offshore wind EIS is MIA
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/01/22/western-offshore-wind-eis-is-mia/
The beginning:
“Last month I analyzed various holes in the draft federal California Programmatic EIS (PEIS) for offshore wind. Now a new report shows that these seemingly big holes are tiny compared to the yawning Programmatic EIS gap created by the Federal Action Plan for West Coast offshore wind development.
To begin with the full California Program is huge compared to the measly five leases covered by the so-called California PEIS. The document I wrote about would be better called the Starter Kit EIS. Plus there is a lot of development off of Oregon and Washington.
I earlier pointed out that the PEIS document did not address the cumulative impact of those five leases; it just looked at the generic impact of one lease. But what is really Missing In Action is an environmental impact assessment for the entire West Coast Program.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
Here is the EO: https://www.cfact.org/2025/01/21/eo-temporary-withdrawal-of-all-areas-on-the-outer-continental-shelf-from-offshore-wind-leasing-and-review-of-the-federal-governments-leasing-and-permitting-practices-for-wind-projects/
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Will tax credits still remain for wind farms in the US or will TRUMP remove them?
Will there be now any point to build wind farms in the US?
What happens to existing wind farms?
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The tax credits are law so I do not see how Trump can block them but this is the Wild West so we shall see. But in some deals the ratepayers get the tax credit savings not the developer. The developer just gets a very high price for the power.
I do not expect a $300 billion or so industry to walk away. Expect lawsuits like Biden got when he tried to stop LNG facilities. The President does not have all that much power.
Ending new leases is irrelevant since there are 40 already with the potential for well over 40,000 MW to be built. What matters is the temporary hold on permits for existing leases while a big study is done. That is fairly shaky.
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David, didn’t the Californian offshore wind auction fail to attract any bidders?
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The annual fun figuring out why the banned number plates are rude: https://uk.yahoo.com/news/full-list-car-number-plates-155410978.html
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https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/chinas-microwave-weapons-aim-to-zap-us-drone-swarms/
Chinese scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in developing a compact HPM weapon … China’s HPM weapon can generate electric fields up to 80,000 volts, comparable to the EMP pulses generated by nuclear explosions.
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(COMMENT FROM DR PETER RIDD ON FARCEBOOK)
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Yes David, and now that Fauci has been pre-emptively pardoned, he needs to be called in by Congress and again questioned by Rand Paul, as that pardon removes his right to plead the fifth amendment.
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Pointless. He will simply lie. There seem to be no consequences for lying to Congressional inquiries or committees. They’re toothless.
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Lying before Congress is illegal and considered perjury and one can end up in jail. That’s why Michael Cohen was sent to jail in 2019.
https://americanoversight.org/lying-to-congress-rarely-results-in-charges-until-now-heres-how-others-in-trumps-circle-could-be-in-trouble/
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Under the new “only two gender” policy in the US, it must be so hard for the Left to come to terms with the biological facts that women don’t have penises and men can’t have babies.
They are in meltdown, crying and screaming in their “safe places”.
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It has been a wonderful couple of days watching the Donald do his work undoing the madness of the crowds. Never have I enjoyed so much watching the convulsions on MSNBC and CNN.
Loving it!
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Can you see an order preventing entry to US using documents from states with different definition of gender (and therefore, your identity) – ie. Australia? It makes sense to me, but won’t be good for Aussies.
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Maybe they will just check our genders for their records on entry using the scanners?
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We have snow that children 25 and younger cannot see … on the Gulf of America.
‘Unprecedented winter storm paralyzes Gulf Coast with record-breaking snow even in Florida’
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/weather/winter-storm-south-wednesday-hnk/index.html
It’s the warmest year EVER.
Especially were I am … 10 F.
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Yes it’s a wonderful way to celebrate:
1) TRUMP
2) The renaming to Gulf of America.
3) The end of global warming BS (only in the US).
Snow in the humid sub-tropical Gulf Coast of America. It’s wonderful!
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None of the policies TRUMP has implemented are extreme or unusual. They just represent a return to reality, common sense and moral decency as it might have been 50 or 60 years ago or even much less.
For example, to declare that there are “only” two genders is no more remarkable than declaring that the sky is blue. Even 10 years ago people understood that there were only two genders. It’s just a declaration of truth and reality.
Here is a list of all the genders that the Left claim to exist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gender_identities?wprov=sfla1
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It’s remarkable how smoothly the renaming of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America has been.
Apart from Killary Clinton laughing when TRUMP said it at the inauguration speech, there don’t seem to be too many complaints, even from the anti-American Left (a tautology I know).
I do note however that as of this moment, Goolag maps still call it by its obsolete name. But Goolag is a fully woke Leftist organisation.
Open Street Maps seem to have changed the name but for English language versions only
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571
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I will still use the Gulf Of Mexico.
Why? Mexico was a named place long before there was an America.
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America has the most coastline of the Gulf. I posted the numbers yesterday.
And the term America was first used in 1507.
Mexico as the title of the country was first used in 1821.
To some, TRUMP might sound like he makes random decisions but they are backed up by objective fact.
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FWIW – re Musk’s salute –
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Capture-12-600×400.jpg
And pictures of a whole lot of people giving “dubious salutes”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1881746484229763524
Then
Elon’s ‘Fascist’ Salute? Not So Fast, Says an Org That Would Know.”
https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2025/01/21/elons-fascist-salute-not-so-fast-says-an-org-that-would-know-n4936206
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FWIW
Dutch government has another loss in “the nitrogen wars”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/w-o-o-d-18-january-2025-t-day-minus-2/#comment-175147
The comment that follows –
“Keith says:
22 January 2025 at 1:04 pm
@Jim2
Re “nitrogen pollution”
I can foresee there’s going to be a whole new way to troll the scientifically illiterate.
OMG!
Nitrogen makes up 78% of the atmosphere!
How can we remove the harmful Nitrogen pollution?
OMG!
If we remove the Nitrogen, that will increase the % of oxygen and carbon dioxide!
OMG!
More greenhouse gases!
More fires!
etc.”
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FWIW
“Global Warming – Tropical Snow?”
“Snow is predicted from Houston Texas to Jacksonville Florida”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/global-warming-tropical-snow/
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Post from Javier Milei.
It’s in Spanish. You have to use the translate button on X. Unfortunately, the translated version can’t be copied and pasted, at least from my Android phone.
It’s definitely worth the trouble to read. It’s not long. Click on the link and then the translate button at bottom of the post.
I wish Australia had a leader like Milei or TRUMP.
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Using google translate…
Elon Musk must be one of the most important men in history, who is pushing human progress at breakneck paces, and has always defended freedom in its purest form, for everyone.
He bought X in an act that was considered crazy from a business point of view, but that will undoubtedly be considered one of his great contributions to humanity, taking control of a platform that was supposed to be a forum for public debate, but it turns out that it was programmed to cancel any discourse that was not the hegemonic woke discourse.
That is why today all international progressives ride on the innocent gesture of @elonmusk to brand him as n@zi. Because their struggle for freedom threatens the hegemonic control of international wokism.
But the world changed. Elon is not alone. Those of us who fight for freedom are no longer alone. We are millions. And now we also recover the “land of the free” that was in his hands, thanks to our dear @realDonaldTrum
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FWIW
Chiefio experiments – in the kitchen
“Some Notes on Induction Cooking”
Note that copper or aluminium utensils aren’t suitable
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/some-notes-on-induction-cooking/
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FWIW
“Education – by Charlie Martin”
“What happens. over and over in traditional American education, is that kids are repeatedly reinforced in a fixed mindset.
Too often, it’s not that they are failing school — it’s the schools that are failing them.”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/01/22/education-by-charlie-martin/
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