WARREN BUFFETT Rejects All-Renewable Future With $10 Billion Bet on Oil & Gas
Posted: June 1, 2019 Filed under: Climate Change, Government Grants/Funding, Green Agenda, Green Energy, Renewables, Solar, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: Baseload, Climate science, Climatism, Energy, Energy Density, Energy Poverty, Fuel Poverty, Global Warming, solar, Solar panels, unreliables, Warren Buffett, wind, Wind Farms, wind power Leave a comment
Australian voters just shredded the notion that the proletariat is wedded to heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar.
Labor’s Bill Shorten sought to ram a 50% Renewable Energy Target down voter’s throats; a concept which the vast majority of them duly rejected.
Sure, there were plenty of other issues that sank the Green/Labor Alliance. However, it should be remembered that 2019 was billed as the ‘Climate Change Election’, with wind and solar pitched up as the only panacea to what has now become a ‘climate emergency’.
Pundits professed, with great certitude, the notion that the Australian public just can’t get enough intermittent, unreliable and unaffordable electricity. Well, that didn’t quite pan out. Bill Shorten slunk off the political stage, a wounded and embittered hero of renewable energy zealots and rent seekers, alike.
Another part of the meme was that the markets had already turned their back on fossil…
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NUCLEAR Power: Australia’s Happy To Sell It To The World – But Allergic To Using It
Posted: April 29, 2019 Filed under: Climate Change, Nuclear | Tags: Baseload, Climate Change, Climatism, Energy, Energy Poverty, Global Warming, Nuclear Leave a commentTHE dismissal by climate activists of ‘CO2’ free nuclear energy confirms that supposed, CO2-induced ‘Climate Change’ has zero to do with the environment or “Saving The Planet”.
IF it did, every climate alarmist would be gluing themselves to the pavement in demand of CO2-free baseload nuclear power.
BECAUSE they are not demanding ‘clean’ nuclear power, confirms that AGW has EVERYTHING to do with power, control and the swift advancement of global socialism – the first cousin of communism.
If you’re reading this in Australia, you’re doing so thanks to coal. You might be doing so thanks to nuclear power, but for the fact that the idiots that govern us banned it, years ago.
Talk about wind and solar replacing conventional generation is just that. Talk.
The dividend from Australia’s obsession with wind and solar is rocketing power prices and a grid on the brink of collapse.
Mass load shedding events are now a guaranteed part of the Australian summer in RE obsessed South Australia and Victoria. Although those responsible for Soviet-era power rationing – the new ‘normal’ in what was once an energy superpower – are trained to refer to it as “demand management”. The cause will be, as always, collapses in wind and solar output – thanks to those pesky phenomena: sunset and dead-calm weather.
With Labor and the Greens still trying to outdo each other about…
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MUST WATCH : Why You Should Love Fossil Fuel
Posted: February 27, 2018 Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Climatism, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Fossil Fuels | Tags: Baseload, Clean water, Climate Change, Disease, Earth Hour, Energy, environment, Famine, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Mother Nature, nature, Sustainable Development Leave a comment
EVERY year on Earth Day, 22nd of April, which by no coincidence happens to be the Birthday of Communist dictator Vladimir Lenin, we learn how bad humanity’s economic development is for the health of the planet. But maybe this is the wrong message. Maybe we should instead reflect on how human progress, even use of fossil fuels, has made our environment cleaner and healthier. Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress explains…
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BLACKOUT Nation: Insane ‘Reliance’ on Wind Power Delivers Pure Power Chaos
Posted: February 12, 2018 Filed under: Australia, BIG Government, Energy Poverty, Failed Green Schemes, Green Agenda, Green Energy, Renewables, RET, Solar, Taxpayer waste, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: auspol, Baseload, Blackouts, Dan Andrews, Energy Poverty, Fuel Poverty, Jay Weatherill, Josh Frydenberg, Load shedding, NEG, Renewable energy, RET, SA Blackouts, solar, unreliables, VIC Blackouts, Wind Energy, wind energy scam, Wind Farms, wind power Leave a comment“A generation system that throws 2,000 MW into the grid over the space of minutes, without warning, and collapses by the same margin over the same time-frame, again without warning, and irrespective of the demands of users, is not a system, at all. It’s chaos.
Now that that chaos is repaying wind and sun worshippers with mass blackouts and forced load shedding across two States, slowly but surely the proletariat is reaching the same conclusion.”
SPOT-on STT.
“Never before in our recent history have we seen on this scale governmental incompetence and arrogant disregard for the well being of communities in the quest for green votes.”
YES Robert Gottliebsen.
Alcoholics call it a ‘moment of clarity’. In wind powered South Australia and Victoria, hitherto fans of renewables call it a ‘mass blackout’.
In 1919, after Engineer/Soldier, Sir John Monash returned to his home town of Melbourne from the Western Front, to a hero’s welcome, he set about establishing an electricity grid that would serve his home State, and the coal-fired power plants located in the Latrobe Valley that would power it.
Immediately after the Armistice was struck with the Germans on 11 November 1918, Monash sent officers to infiltrate German coalmines near Cologne and elsewhere to get an understanding of how the Germans managed to achieve the successful use of their brown coal reserves, similar to those found in the Latrobe Valley. Armed with knowledge of the German’s techniques and engineering, Monash drove the development of those reserves and their exploitation, and Melbourne and Victoria never looked back: the…
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Australian Base Load Electrical Power – Week Ending 23rd December 2017
Posted: December 24, 2017 Filed under: Australia, Empirical Evidence, Energy Poverty, Fact Check, Fossil Fuels, Government Grants/Funding, Green Agenda, Green Energy, Renewables, Solar, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: Australia, Baseload, Blackouts, Energy, Energy Poverty, Fossil Fuels, Fuel Poverty, Green Energy Failure, Renewable energy, renewables, SA Blackouts, unreliables, wind energy scam, Wind Farms, wind power Leave a comment“Dirty” fossil fuels still doing ~80% of the heavy lifting.
Unreliables (wind and solar) making up about 6-10% of total base load, despite billions upon billions spent!? Cough, cough, ahem.
Merry Christmas all!
By Anton Lang ~
This is the continuing Post, where each Saturday, I will detail the power consumption for the Base Load in Australia for the previous week. This will show what is actually meant by the term Base Load, and that is the minimum daily power consumption at its lowest point. Power consumption never falls below this point.
Here in Australia, that level of power is 18,000MW.
The Bayswater Coal Fired Power Plant In New South Wales
This data I have collated below is for this last week, and is for the five States connected to the Australian grids, every State east of the Western Australian border, and here I will show that data for each of those five States, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania.
As you can see from these numbers, that huge amount of power is being supplied mainly by coal fired…
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WORLD Building New Coal Plants Faster Than It Shuts Them
Posted: September 13, 2017 Filed under: Australia, Fact Check, Fossil Fuels, Government | Tags: Baseload, coal, coal fired power, Coalition, Energy, Energy Poverty, Fossil Fuels, Green Energy Failure, Renewable energy, unreliables 6 Comments
A DOSE of global energy reality that should act as a shot in the arm for climate obsessed politicians who have recklessly bowed down to the green religion. Australian elected representatives, from both sides of the aisle, morally swooned into symbolic, unreliable and ‘unelected‘ green-energy sources that have destroyed Australia’s competitive advantage with power prices, now officially, the highest in the world.
MEANWHILE, the rest of the energy-sane world saves their virtuous eco-speak for Paris gabfests and moves forward with cheap, efficient and reliable energy sources that underpin economic strength and job security.
THE global coal-fired power boom Via The Australian :
Nations around the world are building coal-fired power plants at a faster rate than those being decommissioned. The plants under construction reflect a 10 per cent increase to the total global generation powered by coal.
New electricity generated by coal-fired plants will outstrip that which was retired in 2015 and 2016 by a factor of five.
With Australia facing a policy crisis over energy security and the winding back of reliance on coal, construction of new coal-fired power plants was increasing in at least 35 countries, according to data analysis supplied to the Nationals by the federal parliamentary library. China has 299 new coal generation units under construction, followed by India which is building 132. Australia’s closest neighbour, Indonesia, was planning a further 32.
Nuclear countries, including Japan and South Africa, were also increasing their exposure to coal-powered investment, with 21 new plants between them. Vietnam was building 34.
The data was requested by Nationals senator and party whip John Williams, who has argued that the carbon emissions produced by the new plants worldwide would eclipse Australia’s total carbon emission profile.
“We don’t have a tent over Australia … emissions are going up around the world because of these generators being built,” Senator Williams told The Australian. “We are bowing down to the green agenda which will make no difference to the world’s emissions.
“It makes no sense. We will de-industrialise Australia and let everything be manufactured overseas with higher emissions.”
The parliamentary library paper showed that 321 gigawatts of new generation would come from coal plants under construction globally. In 2015 and 2016, total coal generation retired amounted to 64 gigawatts.
Worldwide, the paper showed, there were currently 5973 units of coal-fired power generation. There are often multiple power-generating units within a power station. The number of new units under construction totalled 621.
It would take until 2057 for Australia’s 16 remaining coal-fired power stations to reach the end of their working life, with four slated to shut in the next decade.
Simon Benson (National Political Editor @simonbenson)
World building new coal plants faster than it shuts them | The Australian
Janet Albrechtsen on the mad politics behind Australia’s unreliable-energy debacle:
Australia’s competitive advantage as a country with cheap, reliable energy has been sacrificed…
Labor and the Coalition have allowed the politics of climate change to distort sensible energy policy. The only difference between the two major parties is one of degree, with Labor pushing a higher renewable energy target than the Coalition. In both cases, the climate tail is wagging the energy dog, with RETs and subsidies rendering investment in coal unviable, leading to gaps in baseload power, grid instability, blackouts and that insufferably high power bill on your kitchen bench. If renewables made economic sense without subsidies, the industry would thrive without an RET and without driving up energy prices. It’s hard to imagine a policy more certain to kill jobs and industry and drive investment offshore.
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“Green” Germany
Posted: March 28, 2016 Filed under: Failed Green Schemes, Fossil Fuels, Green Agenda, Green Energy, Renewables, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: Baseload, coal fired power, Energiewende, Fossil Fuels, Green Agenda, Green Energy, Solar panels, unreliables, wind energy scam, Wind Farms, wind power 10 CommentsIDEOLOGICALLY aggressive “green” Germany has outlaid €1 Trillion Euros, of other people’s money, on Wind and Solar power, under the disastrous Energiewende program, only to undergo the biggest coal-fired power expansion in her history…
Green dream on ice as ‘coal frenzy’ grips Europe and renewables lose their attraction:
Germany’s wind and solar power production came to an almost complete standstill in early December. More than 23,000 wind turbines stood still. One million photovoltaic systems stopped work nearly completely. For a whole week coal, nuclear and gas power plants had to generate an estimated 95 percent of Germany’s electricity supply. –Daniel Wetzel, Die Welt, 24 December 2013
16th Centuy weather-dependent Windmills were abandoned centuries ago, for obvious reasons.
All they really do is relieve climate guilt for the gullible while diverting trillions of dollars of taxpayers money to rent-seeking eco-corporations. So much for ‘socialism’, in this case green-central planning, evening up the wealth gap!
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