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Will Australia have a strategic oil reserve before it is too late? (part 2)
Will Australia have a strategic oil reserve before it is too late? (part 2) In part 1 we talked about what action the government is taking to bring Australia back to the IEA 90 days oil stock requirement. What was done so far This website contains the relevant reports: IEA International Energy Program Treaty https://www.energy.gov.au/iea-international-energy-program-treaty […]
The Coming Banking Crisis & The End of Bailouts
The Coming Banking Crisis & The End of Bailouts Behind the curtain, there is a growing concern about a serious banking crisis beginning once again in Europe. Many governments are talking about the crisis behind-the-curtain and we are now beginning to see steps that are being taken to end the TO-BIG-TO-FAIL policies that dominated the […]
Australia’s ‘deadliest natural hazard’: what’s your heatwave plan?
Australia’s ‘deadliest natural hazard’: what’s your heatwave plan? Heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest natural hazard, but a recent survey has found that many vulnerable people do not have plans to cope with extreme heat. Working with the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre and the Bureau of Meteorology, my colleagues and I surveyed 250 residents […]
How much do we have to pay people to NOT use electricity – up to 30 times more?
How much do we have to pay people to NOT use electricity – up to 30 times more? To understand the real value of electricity, consider the price at which people will give it up. “Demand Response” is the nice euphemism for a voluntary blackout. At what point do people volunteer to go without? For […]
Mystery: Australian electricity costs rise six times faster than wages – up another 12%
Mystery: Australian electricity costs rise six times faster than wages – up another 12% More bad luck for the renewables industry. Despite providing free energy from the sun and wind, electricity prices keep rising relentlessly, shockingly fast. Even doubling in wholesale costs in South Australia and Victoria. It was supposed to be cheap to collect […]
Peak heat: Electricity prices lifting off; industry shutting off in Australia. Hospitals switching off lights, “Code Yellow Alert”.
Peak heat: Electricity prices lifting off; industry shutting off in Australia. Hospitals switching off lights, “Code Yellow Alert”. UPDATE: MELBOURNE hospitals are enacting emergency procedures to prepare for the potential loss of power. Hospitals are switching off non-essential electrical equipment, including some lights, to minimize energy use. This is a “Code Yellow” alert asking hospitals […]
Summer heat — electricity prices hit cap of $14 per KWhr in SA, almost there in Victoria
Summer heat — electricity prices hit cap of $14 per KWhr in SA, almost there in Victoria Watching the AEMO dashboard as a hot summer day hits Is this the summer crunch-time that the the National Grid managers have been fearing? Today things are not running smoothly in the green states of Victoria and SA […]
Energy guzzling NSW had to import up to 1,700 MW on 7 Jan 2018
Energy guzzling NSW had to import up to 1,700 MW on 7 Jan 2018 On the first really hot day in 2018 Sydney experienced temperatures above 45 degrees. Fig 1: BOM Temperature map for NSW on 7 Jan 2018 http://www.bom.gov.au/web03/ncc/www/awap/temperature/maxave/daily/colour/history/ns/2018010720180107.hres.gif These were the temperatures in Sydney’s suburbs: Fig 2: Maximum temperatures on 7th January 2018 […]
This was Sydney before “Climate Change” hit — fifty degrees
This was Sydney before “Climate Change” hit — fifty degrees: Jan, 12, 1939, The Northern Star Penrith may have recorded 47.3C for at least one-second this week, but Windsor is only 23 km north-east of Penrith, and on January 13th, 1939, it recorded 122F or 50.5C with an old fashioned liquid thermometer, not a modern […]
An Open letter to the School of Public Health, UQ, re: the looming net energy cliff
An Open letter to the School of Public Health, UQ, re: the looming net energy cliff Geoffrey Chia publishes here the letter that he sent to his colleagues a few months ago. As you may have expected, he received no answer. But we know it is how it goes. So, here it is, for the […]
This Flu Season Begins the Risk of a Pandemic 2018-2019
This Flu Season Begins the Risk of a Pandemic 2018-2019 A possible new pandemic is forming from a deadly strain of flu emerging from Australia and will be headed to the UK as the normal flow of travels would take it. Britain will perhaps be hit with the worst flu season in 50 years. Already, […]
Welcome to renewables world: Australia plans for blackouts, throws billions of dollars, but ABC says it will get “cheaper”
Welcome to renewables world: Australia plans for blackouts, throws billions of dollars, but ABC says it will get “cheaper” The fear is palpable How much fun can you have living in a global experiment? In Australia, peak summer is about to hit in a post-Hazelwood-electricity-grid. We’re drowning in electricity news as summer ramps up. Everyday […]
Everyone cutting coal use except for most of the world and most of the banks
Everyone cutting coal use except for most of the world and most of the banks The situation with our most hated energy asset Australia’s big four banks are fighting over themselves to turn down the chance to profit from coal loans and tell the world. Months ago, Westpac went on a low-coal diet, declaring like […]
Australian Banks – First The Housing Bubble Bursts, Now A Public Inquiry
Australian Banks – First The Housing Bubble Bursts, Now A Public Inquiry We keep returning to the subject of Australia and the growing signs that its bubble economy is bursting. Earlier this month, we discussedhow the world’s longest-running bull market – 55 years – in Australian house prices appears to have come to an end. […]
Blowout Week 204
Blowout Week 204 In this week’s Blowout we continue our recent focus on energy storage, featuring the just-published ACOLA study which claims that Australia can get 75% of its electricity from intermittent renewables with 105 gigawatt-hours of long-term storage, enough to cover demand for all of four hours. We follow with Russia jumping into bed […]
