by Jim Ball | Sep 11, 2017 | Alternate Energy, Alternative Energy, Blog, Renewable energy |
Random Note: It’s quite apparent that while strutting and preening, wearing their green credentials on their sleeve and taking the moral high ground, the energy behemoths like AGL and Engie are in fact scamming consumers by using the shut down of one of the... 
by Jim Ball | Aug 30, 2017 | Alternate Energy, Alternative Energy, Blog, Malcolm Turnbull, Random Notes, Renewable energy |
With Jay Weatherill’s already obsolete tower of power technology and the big battery in SA combined with Turnbull’s Snowy 2.0 whereby it costs more to pump the water up hill than it generates down hill, we have reached peak stupid in the weirdest,... by Jim Ball | Jun 28, 2017 | Alternate Energy, Alternative Energy, Blog, Energy, Renewable energy |
“…It’s five o’clock on Sunday afternoon in Sydney in winter. By any reckoning Sydney doesn’t get that cold. But I have been at my computer for a couple of hours, with three layers on top and a beanie, and have been cold the whole of that time. When I was... by Jim Ball | May 14, 2017 | Alternate Energy, Alternative Energy, Blog, Climate |
Just how unhinged, absurd, futile AND insanely, eye-wateringly expensive, is the pursuit of alternative energy? Here are some staggering stats that should sober up a few of the romantics. READ ON… “….Here’s a quiz; no conferring. To the nearest... by Jim Ball | Apr 10, 2017 | Alternate Energy, Alternative Energy, Blog, Coal |
And so the rest of Australia morphs into the lowest common denominator and the social laboratory that is South Australia. This is what the Labor wreckers and vandals in Canberra are proposing. It’s all you need to know. Don’t you just love the euphemistic... 
by Jim Ball | Mar 22, 2017 | Alternate Energy, Blog, Nuclear Energy |
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (Part 2) I write to thank Adam Creighton for turning on a South Australian light to illuminate the power elephant in the room — nuclear fission. In the future mix of baseload and renewable electric power, an obvious source of...