Make sure you have candles. Panic now: The Australian national grid manager admits blackouts are coming By Jo Nova We’re on the precipice of a radical experiment with a national electricity grid The AEMO (manager of the Australian grid) has finally released the major report on problems coming in the next ten years on our national grid, and it’s worse than they thought even six months ago. They euphemistically refer to the coming “reliability gaps”. They could have said “blackouts” instead, but a gap in reliability sounds so much nicer. Bizarrely, the lead graph of the 175 page AEMO report goes right off the scale, mysteriously peaking in the unknown and invisible real estate off the top of the chart. And they’re not projecting troubles fifty years from now. Those cropped peaks of invisible pain hit from 2027. And even the pain we can see is apparently quite bad. Two states are already likely to breach “the interim reliability measure” in this coming summer. Ominously, just one day after releasing the report, the AEMO is calling for tenders for “reliability reserves” in South Australia and Victoria. Apparently, they want offers of industries ready to shut down who aren’t already on the list, and they want spare generation too — get this — even asking for “small onsite generators”. Does that sound bad to you? It sounds bad to me. As the calm analyst Paul McArdle says: “Based on current trajectory, we’re in for a world of pain ahead. …the AEMO projections are looking pretty dire.”. . . .
Alan Joyce is a crook and so are the Qantas board who backed him. Qantas has been reduced to an unrecognisable shell of it’s former self. The government needs to take a long hard look at itself and it’s relationship with Qantas.
Peter Ridd continues to speak truth to power. The Woke Transformation of the Australian Academy of Science Charles Rotter The Australian Academy of Science is now a joke. . . .
Sydney Airport EV Fire Destroys 5 Vehicles Eric Worrall Should Electric Vehicles be banned from airports and ferries? . . . .
Problem: Australia does not conceive itself as a Nation ! A nation that plans for the entirety of services such as electricity, fresh water, sewage disposal, etc. eh Moi
Australian Electricity Generation – 2023 Update Posted on September 18, 2023 by curryja by Chris Morris This report brings readers up-to-date with happening in the Australian generation industry since the previous posts: Australian Renewables Integration: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. While many were optimistic about Australia’s planned changes, we were concerned that technical problems would emerge and that the costs of the transition will also make the power significantly more expensive for a less reliable supply. Continue reading →
Outlawry at ABC. ABC Rejects Police Request for Climate Protest Crime Scene Video Eric Worrall “… if the [Aussie] ABC provided footage to the police it would breach Four Corners journalists’ commitment to keep some activists’ identities anonymous. … WA Police Minister Paul Papalia said he was comfortable with police actions. “If Four Corners knew about these events in advance it’s actually really irresponsible and pretty disgraceful behaviour that they didn’t notify the police,” he said. . . . "
Australia’s Answer to Greta Thunberg Faces Years In Jail Eric Worrall The kids grew up: Australia is reaping a bitter harvest, for enabling and encouraging a foreign criminal climate radical to groom our kids. . . .
Not content with getting knocked out of the rugby World Cup in the group stages Australia just lost to SA in their heaviest ever cricket world cup defeat. Played 2 lost 2. What's going on Aussies? Is this a result of strict lockdowns and lack of games played or does it go deeper?
Nope. We just had a crap rugby team and a couple of bad days on the pitch. Its happened before and will happen again. To all counties and in all sports. Now is there any other erroneous BS you'd like to bring up while I can be bothered?
Young athletes in the Caribbean are choosing basketball over cricket. It's why West Indies cricket is suffering.
Snowy 2.0, doomed from the start — after the sinkhole came the poison gas, “worst major project in history” ABC News By Jo Nova It’s just emblematic of your Clean Green Future Complexity and false hope is eating the crown of Australia’s Net Zero transition — the Snowy 2.0 Pumped Hydro scheme. Things have gone from “debacle” to Soviet Grade Industrial Fiasco. After Florence-the-tunnel-borer got stuck and created a sinkhole, workers spent seven months trying to shore up the ground, playing God against the mountain — pumping in grout, cement and polyurethane foam. But the foam made a gas so toxic the tunnel had to be evacuated. To make things worse the workers were originally told the gas was water vapor but it turned out to be isocyanate. At every point the Snowy Hydro team hid the bad news and issued propaganda, and it’s only taken the ABC a year to tell us what the workers knew, and three months to investigate the safety breach. Still, that’s better than the NSW regulator who knows all the other safety breaches but won’t even share them, because it’s so bad ” it may affect the contractor’s reputation.” (Which it surely just did anyway.) This is your low-carbon future. It was supposed to cost $2 billion but the bill is $12 billion. It was supposed to be finished, but it’s barely begun. Florence the tunnel borer was meant to have dug a 15km long hole through the mountain, but it’s only bored through 150 meters. It did about a weeks worth of progress before being stuck for 19 months. They knew at the start things were doomed, but did it anyway. Workers drilled ahead and hit soft ground only 100m from the opening. Water gushed out, proving there would be mass mud within. But they filled the hole and went ahead anyway. They were supposed to have a slurry system in place, to cope with the mud, but it wasn’t there. In just 8 weeks the borer was predictably bogged — wallowing in up to 4 feet of water. Drowning perhaps in fantasies of building a sacred weather talisman. Do normal industrial projects, given normal scrutiny, go so wrong, for so long? . . . .
Wonder why we let these things happen? If all due diligence is attended and contracts are not as open to abuse, costs shouldn’t blow out. There must be exceptions of course for earthquakes and changes of government but otherwise if you are building a road and !
