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Another way to destroy a grid: add a million electric vehicles
Another way to destroy a grid: add a million electric vehicles New electric vehicles have big fat batteries, which will help solve the problem known as “charge anxiety” (let’s call that the Flat-Bat-Fear). The new fat-batteries, however, have the small catch that they need two days to trickle charge. Hmm. Then there is the other […]
Puerto Rico: Hurricane destroyed wind, solar. Plus five months on, 15% still blacked out.
Puerto Rico: Hurricane destroyed wind, solar. Plus five months on, 15% still blacked out. In South Australia, when the lights went out, Olympic Dam took two entire weeks to get operational again. Spare a thought for those in Puerto Rico. Right now, five months later, and one in 6 still don’t have electricity. That’s five […]
Wind farm blades damaged after just a few years at sea — hundreds need repair
Wind farm blades damaged after just a few years at sea — hundreds need repair Image of offshore wind farms. Baltic Sea Wikimedia | Mariusz Paździora We are trying to collect dilute erratic energy, spread over hundreds of square kilometers in windy, salty, and wet conditions with machines that spin at 330km/hour. What could possibly […]
Christopher Booker gets serious about understanding “Groupthink”
Christopher Booker gets serious about understanding “Groupthink” We toss the term Groupthink around a lot, but Christopher Booker gets serious about exactly what it is and what it means. He analyzes the “Climate Change” debate through the lens of the original scientific study of Groupthink as published by Irving Janis, a professor of psychology at […]
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 […]
EIA estimates for USA in 2050: The Future is Fossil Fuels and Cheap Electricity
EIA estimates for USA in 2050: The Future is Fossil Fuels and Cheap Electricity What energy transformation? The EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2018 is out. The hard heads at the US Dept of Energy crunched the numbers, assumed technology will improve, and modeled the outcomes. According to their best estimates (and even their “worst” estimates) […]
Before climate change: Falling rocks set fire to 10% of land, trigger mini ice age for 1000 years
Before climate change: Falling rocks set fire to 10% of land, trigger mini ice age for 1000 years Another day, another apocalypse. Life in a perfect climate Poor sods. After 90,000 dismal cold years things were finally just warming up when a bunch of comet fragments from a a 62 mile-wide comet, crashed into our […]
JCU bans Prof Peter Ridd from criticizing scientific institutions. Defiant, he refuses, fights on!
JCU bans Prof Peter Ridd from criticizing scientific institutions. Defiant, he refuses, fights on! JCU is trying (and failing) to gag Peter Ridd from discussing why we can’t trust scientific organisations Last August Professor Peter Ridd said the unsayable — that we can no longer trust scientific institutions. His employer, James Cook University (JCU) could […]
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 […]
Inconvenient Bill: Electric cars may lower your fuel bill, but make electricity, jobs, lifestyle, unaffordable
Inconvenient Bill: Electric cars may lower your fuel bill, but make electricity, jobs, lifestyle, unaffordable The electric car push is on. Sadly, what people save on petrol bills looks like it’s going to be spent on electricity or tax. Steve Goreham outlines the international push to get our cars and heaters electrified. But the dark […]
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 […]
Last record-breaking winter with snow hits Canada, US, before “nobody knows what snow is”
Last record-breaking winter with snow hits Canada, US, before “nobody knows what snow is” UPDATE: Record breaking snow falling in upstate New York. Pennsylvania. The airport in Erie, Pennsylvania, has had a whopping 65.1 inches of snow from this lake effect event — the highest snowfall total from any event on record in Erie. (Heavy […]
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 […]
