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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsWeatherill’s green ambition puts SA in the dark ages — Nick Cater, The Australian
This is how the dreamy, misty eyed, romanticism and unhinged ideology of the Green/left/Labor alliance in South Australia flies in the face and collides, crashes and burns with cold hard reality….
“..The speed of South Australia’s transition from coal to wind and solar is breathtaking. The state’s renewable generation capacity has more than doubled in the past six years. Other regions that have made transitions on this scale, such as Denmark and Iowa, already had strong network connections with neighbouring producers, making it easy to buy in baseload power when the blades stopped turning. By contrast, as we saw last week, South Australia’s energy link to the outside world seems held together with sticky tape and string. The state’s capacity to produce its own baseload power from fossil fuels has rapidly diminished. The state’s four largest power stations — two at Port Augusta, Pelican Point and Torrens Island A — will have closed or will be in mothballs by this time next year, made unviable by unpredictable deluges of cheap wind power…”
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — Sept 30, 2016
What thinking Australians Are thinking... Wind farms are useless on a calm day, but when it’s blowing a gale and you’d think they’d be in their element, they have to be shut down. Not only that, they can’t be started up again (presumably) without power from another...
The true deniers, the high minded narcissists and rent seekers of the renewable energy industry are finally exposed for the frauds that they are.
These people epitomise the moral vanity of those hucksters and believers in alternative fuels as a base load power source and its not before time that these rent seeking climate catastrophists and climate criminals were brought up on charges. When push came to shove it was the much cheaper and reliable coal that saved the day. The talking points from Labor HQ in South Australia is that “the system worked as it was supposed to”. This is just whistling past the cemetery. If the system is designed to “Earth Hour” the entire state in one hit, then SA needs a better, work around system instead of relying on and bludging on the non-mendicant states. Worth noting that back in July the spot price for electricity in South Australia went from $100 per megawatt hour to $14,000 (that’s not a typo) per MWh because they put all their eggs in the alternative energy basket. As I’ve been saying for the last 15 or 16 years, renewables are boutique at best and cannot deliver solid, reliable, AND cheap base load electricity.
Is Hillary Clinton Losing the 2016 Election? — American Thinker
"...The depth of public outrage has been the consistent misunderstanding of all pundits trying to explain the current election. Why is the public so mad? Why do people seem to love Trump so much? Those charged with telling us the truth – journalists, the federal...
Road to tyranny is paved with Leftie assumptions — Maurice Newman
“..They must be vilified without debate, lest too many of us waver on the virtues of bigger governments, central planning, more bloated bureaucracies, higher taxes, unaffordable welfare, a “carbon-free” economy, more regulations, open borders, gender-free and values-free schools and same-sex marriage; the sort of agenda that finds favour at the UN. Yet history is solid with evidence that this agenda will never deliver the promised human dignity, prosperity and liberty. Only free and open societies with small governments can do that..”
The religion of Islam is in need of change — Mark Latham
“..The standard response from the elites has been to say that historically, similar results and resentment would have been recorded against earlier waves of migrants: the Italians, Greeks and Yugoslavs in the 1960s, the Vietnamese in the 1970s, the Chinese in the 1990s. I don’t believe this is accurate. There was never any majority movement to stop these groups coming to Australia. Most elites making this argument live in wealthy monocultural neighbourhoods. Even though they preach the language of “diversity”, they have forked out big bucks to get away from ethnically diverse communities, especially those which settle large numbers of refugees..”
If archaeology students can’t cope with ‘scary bones’, they really are doomed — Brendan O’Neill, Spectator
The West has finally arrived at peak stupid. Unless our leaders are prepared to attack and defeat this politically correct contagion, it not deserve to survive.
And it won’t.
ALP’s anti-plebiscite drive reflects audacity of hate — Jennifer Oriel, The Australian
“…Having lost its election campaign to deny people a vote on marriage reform, Labor has swung into attack. It is reframing the plebiscite debate by exploiting fear and manipulating emotion. In one short week, Labor has succeeded in reframing the founding principles of liberal democracy as manifestations of hatred — all in the name of love, of course. Increasingly it is the case that whenever a question of social reform arises, the political Left reverts to the audacity of hate to coerce people into conformity. Its default position is to mob and vilify dissenters..”
Trump’s Taxes? Audit the Clinton Foundation!
“..The Clintons have made a career of making a fortune on the dime of a public they intentionally deceive and defraud, using their positions of power to enrich themselves at the public’s expense. Before there was “pay for play” at the Clinton Foundation, perhaps the real reason for the private server and the deletion of 30,000 emails, William Safire wrote of Hillary’s amazing 10,000 percent profit in commodities trading which Hillary credited ro astute reading of the Wall Street Journal..”
Random note #187,945 — It’s a pretty shallow and specious argument
I find it interesting that there's a lot of confected outrage and faux anxiety and concern about the $160 million to be spent on the plebiscite but not much similar concern about the 400 and something billion debt racked up in the last 8 years from a surplus position....