Here’s a good news piece about the health of bird populations. It is a good news story, so it is unlikely to create many headlines in the main news media.
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June 9, 2018 at 01:30AM
Month: June 2018
It’s not even summer.
NSW has been hit by clouds and a lack of reliable coal power. Prices are soaring. In NSW the awatt hooooo Aluminium Smelter consumes about 10% of the state’s electricity. It has been forced to switch off three times in the last week because there was not enough reserve power on the grid.
The boss of Tomago, Mr Howell, said Australia is “at a crisis point with our energy system”.
“This is not summer with extreme demand. This is the likely future of our energy grid as once reliable baseload generators exit the [NEM] and are mostly replaced with intermittent wind and solar projects with no practical storage to speak of,” Mr Howell said. “Our energy debate should not advocate either renewables or conventional thermal,” he said.
– SMH, Peter Hannam,
Aluminum pot lines can only sit idle for a few hours before they cool too far and the damage becomes permanent and wildly expensive as the aluminum becomes solid.
Renewables-fans blame the emergency on the unreliability of coal
As if! Suddenly Australia is the only western nation on Earth that can’t maintain its […]
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June 9, 2018 at 01:25AM
June 8, 2018: The Heartland Institute today shipped copies of the Climate Change Reconsidered series of reports to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. An accompanying letter from Heartland Institute President Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., advises Pruitt to use the 3,000-plus page report containing some 10,000 footnotes to comply with a federal court order to provide “documents that support the conclusion that human activity is not the largest factor driving global climate change.”
Read all of Heartland’s announcement.
Click here to visit the Web page of the Climate Change Reconsidered series of reports.
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June 8, 2018 at 10:41PM
Highlights need for back up generation when wind isn’t blowing
5 June 2018 – Britain has gone seven days with almost no wind generation and forecasts show no increase in wind output in coming days.
Meanwhile, Australian authorities warn that wind droughts, which can last for months, are an inevitable consequence of climate change.
“The Australian CSIRO BOM recently explained a three month wind drought in South Australia, with more to come in the future, was an inevitable consequence of climate change.
Unfortunately for anyone looking to the CSIRO Australian government agencies for climate guidance, this was a revision to a 2011 CSIRO prediction that climate change would create stronger winds.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/prolonged-wind-drought-crushes-british-turbine-output/
Thanks to Sonya Porter and Laurel for these links
“Stop giggling,” says Sonya!
“Sending this with MUCH laughter,” says Laurel. “Wind drought???? “We usually would call it blissfully calm weather and enjoy it without earaches. Can’t help but find it hilarious and once again sigh at the ugliness of the turbines the blot on the landscape bird-shredding blight …. and the wasted billions spent that could have gone to reliable clean coal power.”
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June 8, 2018 at 10:02PM
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