A friend sent this to me on Messenger and I thought it worth sharing. God bless America and may America get back to its roots. Oh, by the way, may President Trump be reelected in November!
Federal Government
Here in Australia the two major parties (Coalition & Labor) are pretty much alike when it comes to this scam of climate change. Today, in 2020 we have supposedly conservative governments in the Federal and the state of New South Wales. In 2019 the Federal government basically won the election due to the climate change scare of the Labor Party. The PM even took a piece of coal into Parliament to make a positive point for fossil fuels. The voters saw the Labor party’s love with renewables as a disaster for the nation and the Coalition won by a landslide.
Well, were we the voters dumb. Here’s why. The ‘NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean has championed the state’s $2 billion energy deal with the Commonwealth as a “massive green deal”, which marked a new consensus within the Coalition on tackling climate change.’ https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/massive-green-deal-nsw-environment-minister-spruiks-2-billion-energy-package-20200131-p53wgg.html
That $2 billion is now ‘…the landmark $3 billion energy deal struck with the federal government.’ https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/environment-minister-matt-kean-poaches-deputy-premier-s-ex-chief-of-staff-20200130-p53w5b.html
When governments get too big for their britches they think they can spend tax dollars anyway they wish. It doesn’t matter what the people who pay for this think, they the government also known as public servants, know best.
Common sense tells us solar only works when the sun shines. Wind turbines only produce when the wind blows. Duh!
What rational mind would even think of doing what these climate change religionists do? For instance in Scotland ‘Sutherland windfarm operators paid a total of £63m to turn off turbines‘. https://stopthesethings.com/2020/07/14/worlds-biggest-scams-scotlands-wind-farms-paid-650000000-to-not-produce-power/
If any of my readers live in Australia contact your local state member and Federal member and let them know your thoughts on this renewable obsession. It will not be too many years and the energy grid will not be able to supply the needed energy.
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he believes in Climate Change and that ‘Sea levels will rise between half a metre and a metre on average globally” https://kevinrudd.com/2020/02/12/australia-climate-change-and-the-complacent-country/ . Well, that’s what Kevin says but is that really what Kevin believes or lives?
For a measly seventeen million ‘Kevin Rudd and his wife, Therese Rein, were unmasked as the buyers of a seven-bedroom, five-bathroom, 1285-square-metre beachfront property, in what marks a return to the former prime minister’s birthplace.’
This is the only place where Climate Change will not affect the beach! One wonders how Kevin Rudd knew this?
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
While Australia sells its coal overseas it has an obsession with so-called renewable energy like wind and solar for Australia. Here Alan Jones is scolding Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor for not doing the right thing by Australia.
‘A man at the Sydney Black Lives Matter rally on Saturday 6th June held up an All Lives Matter sign. He was heckled and grabbed by the Black Lives matter supporters before being dragged away by NSW Police, probably for his own safety.’ https://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/all-lives-matter-the-new-its-okay-to-be-white/?mc_cid=ab614073d1&mc_eid=6e30632a8a
The mob knows best whose lives matter! Other freedoms we have come to enjoy will be gone soon if politicians don’t wake up!
The world is going or has gone NUTS. Here in Australia the politicians are going stark raving mad over solar and wind power. Well, the truth is that solar only works when the sun shines and turbines only turn when the wind blows. One doesn’t have to be a scientist in any field to know that! However, when the public throws money into a public purse where elected officials have the seemingly freedom to spend it however they want then stupid things happen. Near where I live the supposedly conservative state government of New South Wales is throwing another ‘$31.6 million’ into a solar panel farm https://dugaldsaunders.com.au/renewable-energy-zone-sparking-investment-boom/#comment-115. Oh, and the same day I read this news concerning the solar farm I received a letter from the electricity company saying their rates were going up in July. Anyway, the article below outlines the result of a state that has gone crazy over renewable energy.
‘In South Australia – Australia’s wind and solar capital – the situation is out of control and has reached the point of high farce, with the grid manager begging for legislated powers to shut down domestic rooftop solar panels in the hope of preventing another total ‘system black’ taking South Australians back to the Dark Ages, once again.
AEMO report says solar surge leaves SA at risk of major blackouts
The Advertiser
Matt Smith
18 June 2020
SA’s leading uptake of rooftop solar systems leaves the state at risk of mass blackouts, a new report says, triggering a multimillion-dollar push for the power to cut them off as needed.
Household solar panel systems could be turned on and off under State Government instructions in a bid to avert statewide blackouts predicted as early as this spring, a new report shows.
The unprecedented move is being triggered by concerns from the national energy market operator that South Australia’s world-leading take-up of solar panels is making the grid unstable.
The concerns, raised in an Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) report obtained by The Advertiser, include that solar systems can stop working after voltage disturbances – or sudden losses of power – which was one of the triggers for the 2016 statewide blackout.
The findings will prompt a $10 million state government investment to fund measures that will allow it to switch household solar on and off to stabilise the grid.
The measure would shore up stability of the grid to help avoid mass blackouts but would also cut revenue earned by the household feeding electricity back into the grid.
The report says that solar panel systems can fail in response to sudden changes in the power grid’s operation.
The concerns are raised even further because AEMO predicts household solar panels in SA could provide 100 per cent of the state’s energy needs on certain days within a few years.
But it says there is “considerable evidence that many distributed PV inverters (solar panel systems) disconnect in response to voltage disturbances” – similar to challenges faced by wind turbines during the 2016 statewide blackout.
It has raised concerns within government that if SA was cut off from the national electricity grid and large numbers of solar panel systems failed, the state could be again plunged into a blackout.
The statewide grid relies on a mix of reliable energy sources, more volatile intermittent renewable energy including solar, and baseload gas.
New rules, which The Advertiser understands will be announced Friday, mean the market operator will have the ability to reduce solar panel outputs – stopping households pushing power back into the grid. New solar panel systems would also be able to be controlled by the market operator via smart meters.
“Analysis in this report demonstrates that a severe but credible fault (in the grid) near the Adelaide metropolitan area could cause disconnection of up to half the distributed PV (solar panels) in the South Australian region,” the report says. Government sources said the issue was incredibly serious, echoing the problems that led to the statewide blackout in 2016.
A loss of power from wind farms and tripping of the interconnector to Victoria combined to collapse the stability of SA’s network and deliver the statewide blackout, a 2017 AEMO report found. The government sources said commissioning of the report had probably saved a repeat of that incident.
There is already so much rooftop solar in South Australia that, at times AEMO struggles to securely manage the system. Figures from the Clean Energy Regulator show there are about 276,000 solar panel systems on SA homes – representing about 35 per cent of all dwellings in the state.
An estimated 11 per cent of small business and 24 per cent of large businesses have solar. Last year, there were times when 64 per cent of SA’s power use was from rooftop solar. The report said SA has already experienced dangerously low operational demand that is required to maintain a stable electricity grid.
Demand is expected to reduce further by spring, prompting AEMO to stress there is “an urgent need” to establish ways to increase more reliable system loads while decreasing the use of solar.
The Advertiser‘ https://stopthesethings.com/2020/06/24/dark-ages-south-australias-solar-power-obsession-threatens-total-system-black/comment-page-1/?unapproved=522694&moderation-hash=0306050e1721dd6bedab34f0ed00c4bc#comment-522694
One doesn’t have to be a scientist of any kind to know the sun does not produce as much heat in the winter as the summer. Duh! All this solar and wind renewable talk is lies. For instance there is an ad for solar that tells the viewer that the solar panels will be paid for by the savings. Nah, for most average homes this is an out and out lie. Sadly, governments contribute to this lie sometimes by millions of taxpayer dollars https://www.theland.com.au/story/6781773/solar-farm-at-goulburn/?src=rss&utm_email=1ec342a17f.
‘When energy policy sounds like something from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass it’s because lunatics have overrun of the asylum.
Sure, those with skin in the game will say and do anything that needs to be said and done to profit from the most obscene subsidy rort in history. But, their licence to operate comes from the great unwashed proletariat, plenty of whom are convinced that we’re well on our way to an all wind and sun powered future. It is, of course, just another example of mass delusion and the madness of crowds.
As the adage goes, people go mad in herds and regain their senses, slowly, and one by one.
Films like Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans may herald just such a turning point, where logic and reason re-enter the fray to do battle with the unhinged emotions and irrational ideology of those who would readily drive us all back to the Dark Ages.
Norman Rogers delivers a neat little essay on the current state of energy insanity and how we landed where we are.
Green Electricity Delusions
American Thinker
Norman Rogers
22 May 2020
With global warming the alleged science is so complicated that nobody, including the global warming scientists, can really understand what is going on. Green electricity, mostly solar and wind, is different. It’s relatively clear cut. No supercomputers spewing out terabytes of confusing data are needed.
Green electricity is quite useless. The latest trend in green electricity is wind or solar with battery backup. This green electricity costs about nine times more than the fossil fuel electricity it displaces. The true cost is hidden from the public by hidden subsidies and fake accounting. (My book, Dumb Energy, goes into great analytical detail.)
Green electricity is ineffective for preventing climate change. The climate change alarmists James Hansen and Michael Shellenberger make the case forcefully in this video. Hansen is the most important and most famous scientist warning against climate change. His followers consider him to be the greatest authority on the dangers of climate change. He calls wind and solar energy a “grotesque idea” and a “fantasy.”
It’s true that we won’t run out of wind or sunshine. That doesn’t mean that wind and sunshine are effective tools for making electricity. They aren’t. The exhaustion of fossil fuels has been predicted many times. The current situation is that fossil fuels are in great over supply and the prices have crashed to low levels. Natural gas, currently the most economical fossil fuel for generating electricity, is painfully cheap and is being extensively exported from the United States to other countries.
Natural gas from wells, not served by pipelines to take it to market, is burned or flared to get rid of it. Only the more valuable oil is kept. Thanks to fracking, we have plenty of natural gas for the next 100-years.
Promoters of quack medicine sell various pills guaranteed to improve your memory or your sex life. Green energy is quackery too. It is promoted by green organizations like the Sierra Club. At one time the Sierra Club was a harmless club of backpackers and bird watchers. But it was taken over by ideologues driven by the delusion that modern society is a destructive fraud that must be rescued by the adoption of green principles. These armchair green commandos are math handicapped. They regularly propose policies that make no sense. The green commandos pontificate confidently without real understanding.
Coal is an excellent fuel for generating electricity. Unlike natural gas or oil, coal has limited uses other than generating electricity. The Sierra Club hates coal because it competes successfully against their beloved green wind and solar.
No lie is too outrageous as long as it is useful for discrediting coal. The Sierra Club uses trick photography to make it look like coal plants emit clouds of black smoke. The trick is to photograph clean white clouds of “steam” with the sun behind the plant. That makes the harmless white clouds look black. The exhaust products are composed of water vapor and carbon dioxide with very little pollution. As the exhaust mixes with the cool air, it condenses into a white cloud of clean water droplets commonly called steam.
In modern coal plants, almost all pollution is scrubbed away before the exhaust goes into the smokestack.
Residential rooftop solar energy is an uneconomic method for generating electricity but it sounds convincing to the naïve. Rooftop solar panels lack economy of scale. These small installations generate electricity for about three times more per kilowatt hour than the large-scale utility installations. The homeowner reduces his consumption of grid electricity, reducing his electric bill. Excess solar electricity is sold back to the utility, often at a price far higher than the cost of wholesale electricity.
The beauty of this scheme is that if the rules are sufficiently rigged in favor of the homeowner, it is possible for the homeowner to save money. No one could complain if the homeowner disconnected from the electric utility. But no one is disconnecting unless they live off grid. The utility is expected to maintain a power line to the home and maintain excess generating capacity to take over supplying electricity if it is cloudy or it is nighttime.
The true cost of maintaining this backup service, exclusive of any electricity sales, is around $100 per month, but utilities commonly charge only around $10 or $15 a month for a connection before the first kilowatt hour is sold. Every kilowatt hour of utility electricity displaced by solar costs the utility gross profit. If the utility is forced to buy the homeowner’s electricity at retail rates the utility may end up paying much more than the reasonable wholesale cost of the electricity.
In some places the homeowner is even allowed to bank excess solar electricity and draw it at a later time. The utility doesn’t have a bank where it can store electricity. In short, rooftop solar is a scheme of making everyone else subsidize the homeowner. The homeowner is under the delusion that he has discovered cheaper electricity. It is cheaper only because everyone else bears the cost.
The crippling weakness of wind or solar electricity is their intermittent and erratic nature. A fossil-fuel generating plant can be fired up as needed and throttled up and down as the consumption of electricity changes. Wind or solar generates electricity according to the vagaries of the weather. The grid operators, except in extreme circumstances, are required to accept all the green electricity presented. In order to do this, fossil-fuel plants have to seesaw their output to compensate for the erratic wind or solar.
Wind and solar plants can’t replace fossil-fuel plants for the simple reason that at times the wind and solar plants are not generating electricity. You must have enough fossil fuel along with hydro and nuclear to carry the full load. The consequence is that the system has to continue to maintain and pay for its traditional plants regardless of how much wind and solar is added to the grid. The only economic contribution of wind or solar is to reduce fuel consumption in the fossil-fuel plants during times when wind or solar electricity is being generated.
The proper cost comparison is to compare the cost of green electricity versus the marginal cost (fuel) of operating the fossil-fuel plants. Natural-gas plants have a fuel cost of about $15 per megawatt hour. Wind or solar with battery backup costs about $130 per megawatt hour.
For grid stability reasons new wind and solar plants are being equipped with battery storage, greatly increasing the cost. Without the battery backup wind or solar electricity costs around $75 per megawatt hour. To be clear, the electricity supplied by wind or solar at $75 to $130 per megawatt hour (not counting subsidies) could be generated in existing fossil fuel plants for $15 per megawatt hour.
Why the various states and the federal government continue to pursue, mandate, and subsidize green electricity is a mystery best explained by psychiatrists and students of propaganda.
American Thinker‘ https://stopthesethings.com/2020/06/25/welcome-to-crazytown-the-dangerous-delusion-that-wind-solar-can-power-us/comment-page-1/?unapproved=522554&moderation-hash=acb444c422411028d000b5a74c6d3ffd#comment-522554
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC or sometimes known as ‘aunty’) is one BIG Leftist Loony Lovie Marxist Australian Government sponsored waste of money.
Now, ‘Hundreds of jobs will be axed from the ABC as its executive team – clearly stricken with arithmophobia – struggles to balance its measly $1.1 billion budget. ABC Life has become the first causality. You might remember the lifestyle website cost taxpayers $3 million a year to run, and in return, produces articles about what might happen in a zombie apocalypse or how to cook tofu. The website will be rebranded ABC Local and those journalists will be redeployed to doing real journalism instead of the aforementioned strange lifestyle pieces. Still, ABC Life editor Bhakthi Puvanenthiran appears defiant in the face of imminent change. “We are losing up to half the ABC Life team as we rebrand as ABC Local,” she wrote today. “It’s devastating news and the details are unclear right now, but what I know for sure is I’m really proud of what we’ve built, telling diverse stories the ABC has never told before.” And despite the ABC putting out statements that the content would dramatically shift, she hopes to do the same sort of work with the new brand. “I hope we can keep doing that under a new banner but right now I am thinking of this incredible team of winners,” she said. While job losses in journalism are always sad and should never be celebrated the announcement by ABC Managing Editor David Anderson’s five-year plan is a step in the right direction. The national broadcaster only spends 20 per cent of its budget on news right now. That figure is disturbingly low when you consider what the core function of the ABC is supposed to be. Thankfully the reforms will put an end to ABC Comedy and redirect resources back to news gathering and breaking. Ironically, ABC Comedy, which has come under fire in the past for producing skits mocking religion, will be tasked with reporting on religious affairs and science. The changes have certainly ruffled the feathers of Ultimo’s elite – who have been told may have to vacate their prime real estate. Mr Anderson has promised to base 75 per cent of content creators outside of Sydney by 2025. The freed up space will then be leased to the private sector to return $40 million to the ABC’s poorly managed budget. In whole, the changes are a positive sign that Australia’s toxic culture of identity politics does not have to be supplemented by taxpayers. Instead many jobs will move to the regions and more people will be reporting stories of significance. Hopefully the culture continues to shift away from its churn-and-burn approach to digital journalism and returns to the days of boots-on-the-ground journalism in country towns. The ABC has morphed in recent years to become a Digital Monster. It now eclipses the largest news websites in the country. Granted the organisation breaks stories – many of national importance – but it also re-writes and publishes every good scoop journalists break from the private sector, drastically limiting the monetisation opportunities for that content. It is undoubtedly the best-resourced collective newsroom in the country and competes commercially against organisations for traffic and social media presence. One way it unfairly does this is by spending, millions of dollars boosting Facebook posts and paying Google to manipulate search algorithms to ensure its content stays at the top of searches. When the ABC was last questioned about this figure at Senate estimates it revealed the total cost each yeah of promoting its content online was $2 million. Roughly $1.4 million was handed over to Facebook while hundreds and thousands of dollars went to Google. It would seem that if the ABC wanted to save a few million dollars it could stop boosting its content and let its stories perform as they would naturally perform. In a coronavirus media environment marketing budgets are the first thing to go from a newsroom, but Aunty is not plagued by pesky limitations of COVID-induced funding cuts. Its budget remains untouched – impervious to advertising constraints which are being felt everywhere else in the industry. An industry which has been facing job cuts since this writer began his career. The ABC has never had to feel this burden on the same scale. Perhaps its current financial woes will serve as a lesson for the importance of learning to balance a budget.’ https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6166816175001?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Viewpoint%2024-06-2020&utm_content=Viewpoint%2024-06-2020+CID_2e8c29f4eb8761b5b42bc652f89411ff&utm_source=Daily%20newsletter&utm_term=ABC%20Life%20axed%20as%20Aunty%20announces%20major%20editorial%20reforms
It shouldn’t be any surprise that the House of Representatives has impeached President Donald Trump. However,
‘What happens next?
The Articles of Impeachment will now go to the Republican dominated Senate for trial. In the unlikely event of a “conviction” Trump would be removed from office.
Since the Republicans hold a majority in the Senate there is almost no possibility that the President will be removed from office.
But the Republicans do have some choices.
A. They could immediately acquit President Trump. This would mean that the impeachment process is over with minimal fuss. However, it would not begin to counter the negative propaganda that was generated by the Democrats in the House to harm the President. President Trump has expressed a desired to hold a real trial, controlled by the Republicans, that would highlight the opposing views, bringing Hunter Biden in to testify, and the whistleblower who initially made the complaint. There is speculation that the whistleblower coordinated with Congressman Schiff’s office before the complaint which would prove a conspiracy against the presidency.
If you have read my other articles, you know that my own conspiracy theory is that Hillary Clinton is behind the attacks on Trump and the impeachment (recall that the Clinton’s arranged all of the funding for Schiff’s first Congressional campaign, he is beholden to Hillary). Hillary wants to get into the 2020 race, but she needs Biden to be destroyed so that she can get an initial boost for “rescuing” the election. But Biden has weathered the storm so far and if there is no Senate trial, Hillary will not get the initial boost (she will get in anyway, watch for it…). The Republicans now see Joe Biden as a very weak candidate, and would prefer him to stay in the race. So more the better to keep it short.
B. They could have a long show trial. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already said that he is coordinating the trial with Trump’s attorneys. This would mean a heavily pro-Trump procedure, covered by all of the media networks, where the (fake) whistleblower, Hunter Biden, copious pro-Trump witnesses and maybe Adam Schiff himself (as a material witness, because of his office’s contact with the whistleblower). While it is doubtful that liberal networks CNN and MSNBC will cover this with the enthusiasm they did the House proceedings, the coverage could provide a tremendous boost in Trump’s popularity.
This would indeed destroy Joe Biden and perhaps make way for a Hillary Clinton candidacy. Trump knows that he can finish Biden’s destruction at any time, should Joe’s popularity start to rise (unlikely). But Joe’s presence accentuates the divided Democratic election slate. Without Joe, another candidate may start to gain momentum. Currently, it is mere chaos.’ http://punchingbagpost.com/2019/12/18/the-house-impeaches-trump-here-is-what-will-happen-next/
It is interesting to note that ‘The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress.
The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state’s entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators. Read more about the allocation of electoral votes.
Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. For this reason, in the following discussion, the word “state” also refers to the District of Columbia.
Each candidate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate’s political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. Read more about the qualifications of the Electors and restrictions on who the Electors may vote for.
The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. You help choose your state’s electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate’s electors.
Most states have a “winner-take-all” system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. However, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of “proportional representation.” Read more about the allocation of Electors among the states and try to predict the outcome of the Electoral College vote.
After the presidential election, your governor prepares a “Certificate of Ascertainment” listing all of the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors. The Certificate of Ascertainment also declares the winning presidential candidate in your state and shows which electors will represent your state at the meeting of the electors in December of the election year. Your states Certificates of Ascertainments are sent to the Congress and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election. See the key dates for the 2016 election and information about the roles and responsibilities of state officials, the Office of the Federal Register and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the Congress in the Electoral College process.
The meeting of the electors takes place on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December after the presidential election. The electors meet in their respective states, where they cast their votes for President and Vice President on separate ballots. Your state’s electors’ votes are recorded on a “Certificate of Vote,” which is prepared at the meeting by the electors. Your state’s Certificates of Votes are sent to the Congress and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election. See the key dates for the 2016 election and information about the roles and responsibilities of state officials and the Congress in the Electoral College process.
Each state’s electoral votes are counted in a joint session of Congress on the 6th of January in the year following the meeting of the electors. Members of the House and Senate meet in the House chamber to conduct the official tally of electoral votes. See the key dates for the 2016 election and information about the role and responsibilities of Congress in the Electoral College process.
The Vice President, as President of the Senate, presides over the count and announces the results of the vote. The President of the Senate then declares which persons, if any, have been elected President and Vice President of the United States.
The President-Elect takes the oath of office and is sworn in as President of the United States on January 20th in the year following the Presidential election.’ https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/about.html
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