by Jim Ball | Aug 24, 2019 | Blog, Random Notes, Renewable energy |
In an effort to blame shift and move the focus, AMEO Chief Audrey Zebelman talks about the ‘declining reliability of coal and gas generators’. Just as with anything with moving parts, like your own car for example, if you don’t maintain and upgrade of course it will... by Jim Ball | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog, Random Notes, Renewable energy
It’s stating the obvious, but as obvious as it is, it is obviously lost on so many, seemingly normal and intelligent people, so busy are they getting off on the misty eyed and misguided romance of renewable enrgy that it needs to be spelled out in clear concise... by Jim Ball | Aug 14, 2018 | Blog, Climate, Climate, NEG, Random Notes, Renewable energy |
It’s time the drones in the Liberal Party seriously understood what their leader is about. And it’s not them and it’s not their futures and definitely not that of Australia. There can be no question, it is unambiguous and unequivocal that the sentiments... by Jim Ball | Apr 8, 2018 | Blog, Coal, Random Notes, Renewable energy |
Question — If the self-flagellating, pious, high priests of politics and the commentariat with their conscientious ignorance and willful stupidity, were so deeply troubled and concerned about government intervention in the market, where were they when the government... by Jim Ball | Apr 6, 2018 | AGL, Blog, Random Notes, Renewable energy |
It seems that Andy Vesey, the boss of AGL, is living up to his reputation of being joined at the hip to the much loathed boss of Telstra 15 years ago Sol Trujillo. In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald on Thursday, Vesey reeled out the usual boilerplate... by Jim Ball | Apr 5, 2018 | Blog, Free Markets, Liddel and AGL, Random Notes, Renewable energy |
Privatising our once state owned electricity assets without certain caveats, must now be categorised as one of those “..it seemed like a good idea at the time..” moments, all in the name of and at the altar of free markets. No problem with that basic underlying...