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NYSERDA Electric Vehicle Propaganda
Roger Caiazza
Here is another example of a jurisdiction desperately trying to put a positive spin on their floundering net-zero transition efforts.
The New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) has an important role in the Climate Act implementation. They publish “featured stories” that “take you inside the work to build a clean energy future in New York.” The term “propaganda” implies the dissemination of information, often biased or misleading, to promote a particular agenda. That description perfectly describes the February 11 Clean Energy Growth story “EVs hit record numbers in NY and the US”.
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For our purposes, note that battery electric vehicle sales were 10% lower than projected and plug in hybrid vehicle sales were 34% lower
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New York electric vehicle sales are not meeting the projections necessary to meet the Climate Act mandates. NYSERDA’s reports describing “record sales” don’t bother to mention that fact. The lack of evidence that the electric vehicle transportation sector emission reduction plan will work is one more reason that New York State needs to pause the process and determine if the plans are feasible before more money is squandered. I suspect that this is a universal problem for all similar initiatives. No number of cheerful claims of record sales will be able to hide the facts much longer.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/14/nyserda-electric-vehicle-propaganda/
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The premise of the electric car is that if cars have zero CO2 output, CO2 emissions will drop and this will reduce the growth of CO2. Saving the planet.
Nothing reduces the CO2 output of cars more than not using them.
Now imagine that across the world, the 1.5 billion cars which output CO2 stopped completely for six mnoths. This would be far more dramatic than just swapping them out for coal electricity powered cars. And for good measure, stop all the aircraft, cruise boats, non essential travel world wide.
This happened world wide in 2020. Sreets and airports and train stations were empty from Delhi to Washington, DC. Moscow to Melbourne. Six months of empty streets in some of the world’s busiest places. A dream test of the massive contribution of combustion driven cars to CO2 growth. An unprecedented world wide cooperative experiment to demonstrate the impact travel on CO2 by stopping all personal travel by car, plane, train, ship. Even walking.
So what happened to atmospheric CO2? A glimpse into a Green future of 15 minute cities and zero emissions. Did CO2 stop slowly climbing?
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The rising levels might be as much dependant on how much Dave Lowe had to drink the night before he measures!
Or his level of spice intake.
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To save the planet from catastrophic apocalyptic climate chaos I am of course quite willing to only use highly expensive renewable energy when the weather gods are in a good mood.
I hope therefore the govt will ignore this giant gas field just found on land in the UK.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/14/giant-gas-field-discovery-could-power-britain-for-a-decade/
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Al Gore’s co conspirator. “One of the leading climate scientists of recent decades, James Hansen, then head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was very specific in 1988. He claimed that New York’s West Side Highway would be under water within 40 years. Needless to say, the highway is still there and full of traffic.”
What was the future in 1988 is now the past. And not only was every prediction wrong, nothing has changed in 37 years. The grandchildren whose future lives were threatened have arrived to an identical world.
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He also said in 1988 that various islands (esp. The Seychelles) would be underwater by 2018. He also mentioned that the Florida beaches would be underwater.
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To solve that uncomfortable problem the government will probably ban any further searching?
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The UK Telegraph reports that Microbrain is planning a permanent ban on fracking in the wake of the latest gas field discovery.
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Many of Britain’s major cities will be underwater by the end of the century
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-were-all-going-to-drown-part-98/
Only the spires of the highest cathedrals will be visible
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They will be if they keep flooding coastal plains: https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/salt-marsh-plan-destroy-somerset-9625053
Getting ready for the Cider Sea: https://www.leylines.online/the-cider-sea
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So fish are now more important than people? Well yes, it seems so here as well. I cannot believe that a system to keep fish out of the inlet pipes could not be devised. A nuclear power station is among the most complex projects ever built and they can’t build a fish screen? Bull.
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The Somerset article says that Hinkley will have a fish screen and that only a small amount of fish would die. But it appears that this is not good enough for the environmental folks, who want EDF to go further.
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Insanely, much of the UK was once on bottom of the ocean, as you can see in the White Cliffs of Dover. It’s true around the world as many coastlines are built on limestone, especially Southern Australia, the limestone coast in South Australia to the entire Nullabor. If I understand the theory of rapid Global Warming, the water should be on top of the land by now. And much of France is built on limestone, as with the massive and endless caves below Paris and Rheims and Odessa in Ukraine, built on a plateau of solid limestone.
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How fortunate is southern England and northern France to have the natural benefit of huge thicknesses of micritic limestone. It makes excellent tunnelling material.
With the greatest respect the “Nullabor” is actually “Nullarbor” and should be pronounced Null-arbor and not Nulla-bor. The name does not derive from the indigenous weapon but rather the Latin for “no trees”. I believe the Romans saw the land as they rowed by the cliffs, a few centuries before Jonathan Swift visited with his small friends.
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Yes, the Nullarbor Plain, now 69 metres ASL, was once an inland sea. The top hard layer of limestone, similar to granite, covers a softer mud layer that contains remains of fossilised sea creatures. Under the mud layer is a further layer of hard limestone. These layers can be seen as you go down into the caves.
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As long as the minarets are safe.
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Argentina’s President Milei seems to be doing well
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-inflation-rate-seen-hitting-milei-era-low-2025-02-13/
If only more governments slash red tape, regulations and Government employees trying to safeguard their own position.
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First move. Halve the number of public servants. Especially those not working from home.
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I would have thought those working from home would be the first to go. Public Servants who go to work usually perform a needed function, firefighters, police, nurses and teachers. Those working from home are usually paper shufflers and report writers which, by and large, are not required. The PS is often a make work programme to reduce the dole queues and increase the Labor vote.
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As the saying goes, those who can be replaced by computers should be.
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It will be interesting to see if Trump can shift the USA that fast.
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Another “fact-checker” bites the dust
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EPA head Lee Zeldin reveals no real oversight of shocking $20B that Biden admin funneled through Citibank: ‘Tip of the iceberg’
https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/epa-head-lee-zeldin-reveals-no-real-oversight-of-shocking-20-billion-waste-biden-administration-funneled-through-citibank/
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A couple of weeks ago I posed the question here as to whether musk might be alienating his core customers by his political stance.
Still the worlds wealthiest man but are cracks starting to show?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/mailplus/article-14398367/Tesla-sales-shares-city-experts-buy-cash.html?ico=mol_desktop_home
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Funny how ‘alienation’ seems to travel in only one direction.
Must be some property of physics like ‘the arrow of time’.
I guess only ‘bad’ billionaires alienate.
‘Good’ billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg never seem to ‘alienate’.
I notice famous people and politicians with the correct politics never ‘alienate’.
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The electric car industry is going to be under increasing threat. Not only from incredible competition from China but also because its fundamental premise of saving the planet is wrong. Without the hundreds of billions pushing a transparently false story, electric cars have a lot of problems and only suit a very small proportion of the population. Musk knows all this.
But like all good businessmen, he is not stuck in a single business. You must have at least three viable businesses or your empire can crumble. He has done that.
The biggest problem with the electric car industry is that battery storage is 1/10th the density of chemical storage. Personally I believe a metal cycle could compete with the carbon cycle for cheapness and energy density. And ultimately the only viable inexhaustible and cheap energy source will be nuclear fusion. If only the hundred trillion spent on Global Warming was spent instead on nuclear fusion, the world would be a far, far better place. Then the only question is portable energy, cars and ultimately aircraft.
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“Personally I believe a metal cycle could compete with the carbon cycle for cheapness and energy density. ”
Yes, but no evidence of that at all. Petrol is a very stable liquid so long as it doesn’t evaporate, while batteries of all kinds leak energy away all the time and have nowhere near the energy density.
Its a field that should never have been Govt mandated, that has been a giant waste of money. If someone had come up with a battery that stored petrol-level energy, there would have been a market for it without any global warming scam anyway.
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TdeF, I agree that energy density is the basic problem but it is much worse than 10%.
Petrol energy density is 12.9 kWh per kg
Lithium-ion battery is 0.243 kWh per kg
That makes the ratio 53:1 or 1.8%, and so-called ‘future battery technologies’, if developed, are unlikely to make a dent in that.
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Well there was the aluminium battery which got some excitement a few years ago. Supposedly 4 to 5 times the storage of lithium batteries but the problem was charging it.
This could have been overcome if the swap system (for lead batteries) as was used in New York around 1905 for 500 taxicabs. Less than 5 minutes for a change over and the battery was recharged at leisure.
I am not sure about the chemistry but aluminium is made with electricity.
I believe that Dyson were interested.
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It begs the question, “Why where those people buying Teslas, really?” Tesla enthusiasts claimed they bought them to reduce emissions and thus save the planet, which would be a big deal if true. However, saving the planet suddenly seems less important to them. Turns out their political prejudice comes first, even before fixing the ‘climate emergency’.
They have zero credibility.
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*were*
I hate getting old.
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Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at the Munich Security Conference
Another good speech by Vance (19 min.). Vance was worried about state of the freedom of speech in Europe. He also wondered how it is possible to get criminal charges if you pray (Scotland). He also mentioned election in Romania that went so wrong that the result was dismissed.
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I watched the whole speech and very good it is too IMHO.
The Europeans there, apparently, did not enjoy the speech with minimal applause along the way.
The speech, which was ‘Free Speech’, would not have gone down here very well with the Marxist Australian Feral Guv’ment.
Too many Home Truths.
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Free speech is in a very poor state in Australia as well, with the full support of the Lib/Lab/Green Uniparty.
In fact, it was the fake conservative Liberal Party that was responsible for the e Safety Kommissar, the “misinformation” legislation which only just failed, and who gave their full support to banning social media for under-16’s which was simply a way of getting all Australians to attach their digital person number to all social media posts, no doubt for a future social credit or other totalitarian thought-control system.
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I never saw so bad looking people as the listeners of Vances speech, hilarious. 😀
Not to comment the respektive reactions later in the news. 😀
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His speech was to the point and well directed. The broadcaster’s comments following his speech said a great deal about the parlous state of legacy media. They saw the speech as payback for European sneering at Donald Trump 45 rather than the wake up call needed to save the West in general and Europe in particular. The people are smart, as JD said, but the media is as dumb as a dead cat.
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Vance is correct, democracy works best when the people have free choice and are totally informed, otherwise we would end up like China and Russia.
Its lucky that the Australian majors agreed to put the Disinformation Bill in the bottom draw until after the election. The incoming Dutton government won’t resurrect the Bill unless WW3 breaks out.
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Yes, he laid into the European elites, so very well done-
“As regards ‘foreign intervention’ in the European, and now specifically in the German elections which will take place on 23 February, Vance chided the allies by noting that if the USA could put up with the hectoring by the adolescent Swedish environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg for years, then Germany can put up with Elon Musk campaigning in favor of the AfD for a month or two. If their democracy is so fragile that it cannot stand up to dissonant voices, then there is in effect no democracy to speak of, and nothing to defend by military forces.”
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/
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Here is a bit more depth on the Romanian election.
https://lawliberty.org/romanias-election-and-elite-failures/
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Thank the lord for Climate Change. What would everyone do without it. There’d be nothing to whinge about, nothing to demonstrate, riot & BS about the world coming to an end. The UN secretary could swim in the ocean without being scalded / being boiled alive 😂😂 even though he deserves it!
The world would wither & die from boredom, not drought ( wish it would stop raining in Queensland ).
After all what would disillusioned youth do without a climate crisis.
Chris Bowen would be unemployed because everything else he’s been employed for was a disaster & CC was his last “ hurrah “. Tim Flannery wouldn’t have been proved to be a confused moron ( it’s raining cats & dogs in Queensland ) and he would have some credibility and not hide in his new waterfront home . Can’t rely on moronic delusion can you Timmy!
Maybe with Trump’s return to the Whitehouse we’ll have something else to panic about ( like the return of sanity)
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Loss of Climate Change™ will create a hole in the conversation.
However, China and India will gobble up their remaining coal resources within a couple of centuries or even less and that presents a challenge because there is no other viable resource to replace many of the uses of coal. Recycling will need to play a more significant role. Al that steel going into wind turbines now will be a rich source of low energy steel in decades to come. About 50% of the steel used in shipbuilding gets recycled. That needs to approach 100%.
So I look forward to conversations shifting to more important issues than CO2 demonising.
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“China and India will gobble up their remaining coal resources within a couple of centuries ”
Looking back at 1824, a lot could happen in 200years!
I don’t think coal will be burned for energy in 200years time, and they might do something useful with genetic engineering by developing plants that make usable plastics. How far into the solar system will we be in 200years?
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Jevons paradox? Jevons extrapolated UK coal use (about 1875) and decided that UK would run out of coal in less than 40 years.
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“Thank the lord for Climate Change. What would everyone do without it.”
Well for a start those businesses building huge oceanside mansions, enormous superyachts and fuel-guzzling private jets would have to seriously downsize their operations.
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A quarter of Australia’s youth are brainwashed to a great degree.
‘In 2022, the Youth Survey was completed by 18,800 young people aged 15 to 19 across the country. In this survey, over half (51%) identified the environment as one of the most important issues in Australia today, while over a quarter (26%) reported they were extremely or very concerned about climate change.’ (Orygen)
At some point Donald will organise a conversation proving beyond reasonable doubt that CO2 does not cause global warming. The world will then change overnight, Red and Blue teams in high school science will become standard practice.
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over half (51%) identified the environment as one of the most important issues in Australia today
Perhaps we should know the percentage of the respondents that live in high rise urban accommodations?
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I agree, these polls are dodgy, even Yougov said three-quarters are concerned. It would be helpful if they differentiated between male and female, to get an honest picture of future voting habits.
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Capital L for Lord!!
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A great speech that seemed to stun the audience. Lets hope the relevance will dawn on them and Australia EVENTUALLY!
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/02/14/watch-vance-torched-the-european-elite-face-to-face-and-they-absolutely-hated-it/
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ENCORE ELON, ENCORE!!
Can’t get enough of them having anxious nose bleeds!!👏👏👏👏
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Back in the day I learned about Deinococcus radiodurans, but there are many other radiation-loving organisms.
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Instead of being radiotrophic, could they simply be growing where the water is suitably warmed? Or maybe the radioactivity below the blooms is thermally cycling nutrients up toward the blooms.
Maybe a simpler answer is the correct one?
It would be nice to have some evidence of what is causing the blooms rather than just an observation of their location. Unless a test is derived to exclude the other factors, I’ll drop back to something we already know about mould, they like warmer, wet areas with better nutrient supply.
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They have superior genetic resistance to radiation via evolution, not due to warm water…
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Ship / Rats / Jump / en masse:
Three (3) big chiefs of NZ’s so-called ‘health’ dept have resigned this week – time will tell if their names quietly appear on boards of certain affiliated pharma companies…
• Health NZ (formerly Te Whatu Ora) CEO, Margie Apa, quit her $900k per annum contract last week
• Director-General of Health, Diana Sarfati, will step down next week
• Director of Public Health, Dr Nicholas Jones, who replaced Herr Doktor Bloomfield of C-19 infamy, will depart in 2 weeks time
The overall big kahuna Minister of Health, Dr Shane Reti, was shuffled off last month to another department, replaced by ex-Minister of Transport, Simeon Brown. At least the number of gurney crashes in corridors will (hopefully) go down thanks to the removal of speed-humps in the hallways.
The only constant is change, someone once said.
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In Australia, ex politicians and senior public serpents typically go to highly overpaid positions in the private sector even though they are clearly incompetent and have no knowledge of the subject matter they are supposedly employed for.
They are “employed” just as a “legal” way to receive their bribe for services rendered when they were in government or to exercise undue influence to secure special favours from government for their employer, or both.
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I’ve worked in organisations where they promote someone INTO the company who had obviously awarded contracts to the organisation, permitting the company to realise profits in fields that otherwise would have been excluded or challenged by competitors.
These imports are often excluded from anything important, being retained only for their earlier efforts, they get a lovely office, a couple of support staff and are flown to meetings around the world to keep them out of the way of the real workings of the company. After a finite time, they are retired and moved away, never to be seen again.
I’ve always wondered about the costs of this obvious payback and whether the company actually makes any money from the original venture noting the downstream penalty of carrying the dead wood.
It sometimes seems that only the board who approves of these appointments can see any benefit, maybe they are on a payback deal too? Clearly these deals are not open nor transparent and could easily be questioned with respect of the fiduciary duties required of the board, (similar for the board selection?). But no one asks.
Why’s that?
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I remember a former defence minister, staggeringly clueless, who was incapable of understanding the purpose of an aircraft wing ultimate load and flex test, or metal fatigue testing, and when an aircraft wing eventually failed under such testing (as expected, even though the structure performed superbly) somehow heard about it and judged the aircraft type to be unsafe and had it withdrawn from service. A huge strategic mistake for Australia.
That fool went on to a hugely overpaid job in the private sector in the defence industry.
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If physicists could harness the political force enabling the incompetent to fail up they would have a handy anti-gravity machine.
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Reminds me of the UK in WW2 where the “experts” analysed bullet ridden planes that made it back home to decide where reinforcing was needed.
Hint – not where the holes were!
/gotta love experts
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“ex politicians and senior public serpents typically go to highly overpaid positions in the private sector even though they are clearly incompetent and have no knowledge of the subject matter they are supposedly employed for.”
But they are experts in living that role, ‘being clearly incompetent and having no knowledge’ has been their whole life…
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I thought you called them “judder bars” or is that a South Island specialty?
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Epic troll by TRUMP.
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Tropical Cyclone Zella fizzed out.
. Warns the ABC, expecting 280kph wind gusts and 500m of rain!
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104933844
Residents of Port Hedland battened down,
Port Hedland had a maximum wind gust of 120kph at 3pm yesterday and today it is all over. Hardly a cloud showing on the satellite images.
Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.
Alls well that ends well.
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The Bunch of Muppets (BOM) does it again, ‘Hyperbowl’.
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‘The Mystery of Bedout Island’.
Was the remote weather station at Bedout Island a victim of Cyclone Zelia or is this a ‘Harbinger of Doom’ for alternative energy?
Did a wind turbine self destruct or the continuous overcast sky from the stationary cyclone prevent the solar cells recharging the battery?
Last heard from on the 14th at 4:30Am when the windspeed gusts were to 41 knots. The question is was the weather station sacked for poor performance in not achieving 320 kmH, was it hit by a Booby or was its demise due to failure of the alternate energy dream?
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And not that much rain either if one compares it to N Qld. Not many over 300mm..
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The rain was reasonably heavy – 660mm reported.
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Where was that Graeme?
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I thought Port Hedland, as mentioned on the TV news last night. Most likely the rainfall total over a few days. The Australian is saying that another 120 mm is expected in the area.
I see that inland, De Grey reported 600mm over the last few days, and Pardoo 320mm.
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Funny, that low max wind gust wasn’t mentioned on Perth TV news last night. But from the “damage” footage, it was obvious that it wasn’t that strong.
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The way the cyclone hovered off the coast and despite the lack of 300 KPH winds, you may still be having to feed the magpies you have inherited from another neighbourhood or be watering a distant neighbours potted palms.figs etc. Remember not to much water on a cycad if one of those has skidded onto your property.
Reminds me of the poor reporter waiting in a beachfront apartment in Yeppoon for the worst most dangerous further south due to Gorebull Warming Cyclone EVA! Best they could do was film a bit of spray under the sliding glass door. They should have guessed they had been sold a pup by looking at the weather stations in the path of the cyclone. They just did not hit the high scores being forecast.
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Remember this?
This happened about six+ years ago when TRUMP addressed the United Nations and warned how Germany and Europe would lose their energy independence and the German delegation laughed at him.
Who’s laughing now?
https://youtu.be/FfJv9QYrlwg
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David Maddison, #15,
____Then Vlad blew the gas line to make that speech age so well.
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FWIW
“Trump was Right: Study Shows Countless Lives Could Have Been Saved with Hydroxychloroquine”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/trump-was-right-study-shows-countless-lives-could-2/
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FWIW
““If America Can Survive 10 Years of Greta Thunberg’s Scolding, You Guys Can Survive a Few Months of Elon Musk” – EPIC! VP J.D. Vance Spanks EU Elites in First Major Speech in Berlin”
“Trust me, I say this with all humor, if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg’s scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk. But what no democracy, American, German, or European, will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their please for relief, are invalid or unworthy of even being considered. Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There’s no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don’t.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/if-america-can-survive-10-years-greta-thunbergs/
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It is possible that the US was one Democrat administration from the German and British situation where windpower is not working. It is imperative to build coal capacity which the EPA regulations were designed to close down.
https://www.flickerpower.com/images/RAFE_CHAMPION_CAN_THE_US_ESCAPETHE_WIND_DROUGHT_TRAP_The_Spectator_Australia.pdf
All the grids afflicted by subsidised and mandated wind and solar energy are running down their conventional power capacity until they reach a critical “tipping point” where there is not enough to meet the base load. Germany and Britain are past the point and Australia is on the cusp.
At that point, whenever demand peaks or there are unscheduled outages of conventional power, wind and solar become a necessity and not just an expensive addition to the mix.
But on windless nights there is no wind or solar and the grid will fail, like Texas in Feb 2021.
Recognition of the significance of wind droughts is central to ending the suicidal net zero program and that leads us to the failure of the meteorologists to issue wind drought warnings or explain the connection between high pressure systems and low winds. That leads to the WMO at the heart of the evil empire that drives the climate fraud and the net zero ponzi.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts
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I agree.
Another of the traps of magical thinking is along the lines that the process of adopting intermittent energy is just a matter of storage. And that if storage can get to 1% then it can get to 2% and with enough money put into big batteries, home batteries and Snowy II it can proceed through 3% and get all the way to 100%.
The problem is twofold. First storage will not ever get to 100% because there are not enough natural of financial resources. Secondly it is impossible to conduct heavy industry even if you could get past the first problem.
It’s a bit like teaching a pig to fly. Getting one foot off the ground isn’t too hard. Two feet off the ground can be achieved and even three feet off the ground. It’s getting the fourth foot off the ground where the real problems start.
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FWIW
“The Exorcism Of The USA Just Keeps Revving Up…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/exorcism-usa-just-keeps-revving
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FWIW
“Is DOGE Going to Kill the F-35?”
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/02/14/is-doge-going-to-kill-the-f-35-n4936978
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They should! His ideas on accidents per 100,000hours may not be correct in a few years as more pilots learn to fly it. While its new only the best people get in the cockpit.
At US$82million each, a country could waste a lot of money only to see drone developments make F35s redundant. We shall see if Putin offers to subsidise its continuation or pushes to close it down, he will know what its really like.
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Huh!
Once upon a time, we here in Australia, well, we had someone similar to Donald Trump, a fearless politician who tried to change things.
His name ….. Campbell Newman.
Years ahead of his time.
The Blob beat him, and reinstated all he strove to improve.
Tony.
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Newman suffered from a problem with ducks. He simply did not have his ducks in a row before he started.
And Newman’s efforts led indirectly to the totally unexpected palace chook show.
Four years of Biden created a much more formidable Trump. We live in interesting times.
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Great news this cold Melbourne morning.
Less than 13% of Victorian cops have confidence in their commissar !
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Put more bluntly
“Not before time.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/02/not-before-time.html
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FWIW –
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/02/14/preserved-in-amber/
An interesting comparison in there –
“Take environmentalism, in its “antropogenic global warming” which was not only supported with massive amounts of money (some of it obtained by blackmailing companies) but also with a seamless wall of propaganda so impenetrable that science fiction writers probably unwittingly and just because it’s everywhere (I don’t know maybe I should look for their names in the USAID site) couldn’t write the future without claiming that you know, in a hundred years Florida would be under water. And yet…. and yet, they keep having to change their name like a poorly run Chinese restaurant. Global Warming became Climate Change which became Severe Weather Events which…. well, is dissolving before our very eyes, even before their money was yanked.“
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Sort of associated (IMO)
“Claim: Chinese Coal Plant Construction is “Undermining” their Renewable Transition”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/14/claim-chinese-coal-plant-construction-is-undermining-their-renewable-transition/
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I turned on the TV and there was an Australian cooking show and they were promoting the use of “green” hydrogen for cooking.
Apparently, it’s now a thing, or at least soon will be.
It wasn’t MasterChef as per the article below but a possibly related show.
Hydrogen in the home. What could possibly go wrong?
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DM
“Hydrogen in the home. What could possibly go wrong?”
“The Hindenburg Home”?
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An interesting collection of subjects at Coffee and Covid Newsletter today –
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/my-valentine-friday-february-14-2025?
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This goes with some of that (IMO)
A reading of the tea leaves
“Oh Boy, Body Language Alert: Vice President JD Vance Meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
February 14, 2025 | Sundance | 30 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/14/oh-boy-body-language-alert-vice-president-jd-vance-meets-with-ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy/
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FWIW – some Valentine’s background
“Love Is IN the Air – Did You Think I’d Forget Valentine’s Day?”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/02/14/love-is-in-the-air-did-you-think-id-forget-valentines-day-n3799840
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