Brilliant article about the futility of wind and solar for national power by Viv who really knows his subject.




The Green Elephant in the Snowy Mountains
VIV FORBES Fri 31 Aug 2018 09:58:25 am/3827 COMMENTS



Canberra breeds many white elephants, but now they are breeding a gigantic new breed of pachyderm in Australia’s Snowy Mountains – a Green Elephant. Grandly named “Snowy 2.0 Hydro-Electric”, it has the compulsory green skin, but it is just another big white elephant under a thick layer of green paint.

Snowy 2.0 plans a hugely expensive complex of dams, tunnels, pumps, pipes, generators, roads and powerlines. Water will be pumped up-hill using grid power in times of low demand, and then released when needed to recover some of that energy.

To call it “hydro-electric” is a fraud – it will not store one extra litre of water and will be a net consumer of electric power. It is a giant electric storage battery to be recharged using grid power.



This is just the next episode in an expensive and impossible green dream to run Australian cities and industries, plus a growing electric vehicle fleet, on intermittent wind and solar energy and without coal, gas, oil or nuclear fuels.

Surely we can learn from the unfolding disaster of a similar German Grand Plan:
https://carbon-sense.com/2018/08/29/german-plan-to-abolish-carbon-fuels-fails/

The first stage of Australia’s green dream was to demonise coal and nuclear power, set onerous green energy and CO2 emissions targets, subsidise and mandate the use of intermittent energy from wind and solar, and give electric cars financial and other privileges. All of this costs Australian electricity users and tax payers at least $5 billion per year. This destructive force-feeding of solar and wind power is well advanced.

Solar energy peaks around mid-day, falls to zero from dusk to dawn and is much reduced by clouds, dust and smoke. Over a year it may produce about 16% of name-plate capacity. Thus a solar-battery system would need installed solar capacity of six times the demand. These solar “farms” are very land-hungry per unit of usable energy, often sterilising large areas of agricultural land.

Wind energy is much more erratic - it can produce about 35% of peak capacity but often produces peak power during the night when there is low demand. It may produce zero power for several days. A sudden high wind can send wind power surging onto the grid, and it falls to zero as the wind dies. Wind power driving a wind-battery system would need installed wind capacity of triple the expected demand, but even that may not cope with a long windless spell.

There can be days with zero production from either wind or solar, and neither can increase output to meet demand which often peaks around dinner time and breakfast time when green power is scarce. Wind “farms” are a blight on the landscape and are often built in scenic areas where farming and forestry are prohibited.

The price of electricity fluctuates wildly as these floods and droughts of intermittent green energy surge into the grid. This creates instability, increases the chance of blackouts and destroys the viability of reliable coal-fired generators which are unable to ramp up fast enough to profit from soaring power prices during green energy droughts and are forced to keep running while accepting close-to-zero prices during the green deluges. To speed up this destruction of reliable energy, politicians are still using subsidies and targets to encourage more green energy to be dumped randomly onto the grid.

For a short very clear video on the cost and reliability problems caused by wind power in Minnesota see:

https://youtu.be/0vaIYttrL88


                Warren Buffett puts it bluntly:
                       “We get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms.
                        That’s the only reason to build them.
                        They don’t make sense without the tax credit.”

The solution to green energy disruption is simple. Do not allow any new spasmodic generators like wind and solar to connect direct to the grid. They must construct or contract for battery or other backup to moderate their fluctuations and increase reliability and predictability. Existing wind-solar farms already connected to the grid should lose all subsidies and be paid what their second class product is worth at the time it floods on to the grid.

Backing up and taming green energy is simple in principle – it can be done using lithium batteries like the Musk monster in South Australia, or giant pumped-hydro schemes like Snowy 2.0. Or conventional reliable generators like hydro, gas, oil, coal or nuclear can be operated intermittently to fill green energy gaps.

Read the full guide to ScoMo winning the election on energy here

http://pickeringpost.com/story/the-green-elephant-in-the-snowy-mountains-/8517

The silly old dead in the head TROLL VIRUS crawls out from under the floor boards.

The new rort - imaginary ocean level rising.




PACIFIC FORUM FARCE
LARRY PICKERING Fri 7 Sep 2018 09:17:21 am/2926 COMMENTS



If Australia thinks it can outspend China in the South Pacific now that the obese Island Jifs (chiefs) have discovered the rising sea-level ruse, then it’s kidding itself. But the three la femme musketeers of Gillard, Bishop and now Payne have given it their best shot. With stolen funds of course… stolen from our future generation.

Let’s get this straight… sea levels have not, and will not, in the next many millennia rise or fall beyond the normal miniscule centimetre cycles. After seven years of helicopter search and rescue operations in the area I can assure you the only sea level rises anywhere have been tsunamis caused by undersea volcanic movement. And you can’t spend your way out of avoiding those.



Hundreds of populated islands, barely inches above high tide, have been there for thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of years. But that won’t stop the ever-opportunistic island Jifs from taking advantage of the current climate change scam encouraged by the fraudulent UN’s IPCC and Left leaning politicians and media.

It’s confounding that an air head like Turnbull’s “little” token female, Marise Payne, has flummed the Stick Insect’s old job. It’s embarrassing. It seems you must first prove to be a portfolio failure to qualify for the plum DFAT post.

UN envoys have assured Island Jifs that they need to express “fear” of “expected” rising sea levels to cash in on this global warming bonanza.

Fear of Australian droughts and floods doesn’t seem to raise one hair on one neck. It certainly doesn’t seem to get Treasury all upset to the extent it would put its grubby hands even deeper into our pockets.

The UN, since it was the League of Nations, has been as useful as an ashtray on a motor bike. But for some reason we need to pay loyalty and royalties to an Islam dominated orgy of greed and corruption as a “responsible” member of the World’s nationhood.



Trump is leading the way out of this Left insanity and the even more Left media is refusing to allow the World to be cleansed of this madness by denying democracy and ignoring the electoral process.

I said to my doctor last week, “surely you don’t go along with this global warming bullshit, do you?” He slipped his glasses down his nose and said, “Well, 97 per cent of scientists can’t be wrong”.

I didn’t bother telling him that the well-publicised 97 per cent was of IPCC “scientists” only (most of whom are neither scientists, nor climatologists, but charlatan warmists on huge UN salaries with massive perks).

Thirty thousand real scientists and climatologists say it’s a hoax.

Oh well, we are getting there as we watch the EU and UN slowly collapse under the weight of lies and corruption.

ScoMo should get on the Trump wagon, because he resists media collusion.

http://pickeringpost.com/story/pacific-forum-farce/8539

Not related to Herb are you dill?

Using Pickering the crook as a source.

Redmond Neck wrote on Sep 14^th, 2018 at 11:59am:



Just shooting the messenger. Have you got a cogent argument?

You know like the temperature has risen so fast? About 1C in a century? Except of course the uncertainty is at least +/- 0.5C.

Phil Jones from CRU has said 3 warming periods from 1880-2010 were statistically indistinguishable from each other. How bizarre is that? It seems to point to CO2 not being any kind of driver in climate change.

But if you have reputable sources to refute what I say; feel free.

SkepSci, Guardian are not reputable sources. Use scientific papers.

Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations At 400 PPM Are Still Dangerously Low For Life On Earth
By P Gosselin on 17. May 2013

With atmospheric CO2 concentrations reaching the 400 ppm level, the media and a number of alarmist scientists have set off the mega-alarm bells, claiming “record high levels” of CO2 had been reached, and that the planet is on the verge of an overdose. This is based purely on ignorance of the Earth’s history.

Worrying that 400 ppm is too high is like worrying about your fuel tank overflowing when it reaches the 1/8 mark during filling.


At 400 ppm CO2 levels are actually dangerously low in historical terms.

From a historical perspective, an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 400 ppm is actually almost scraping the bottom of the barrel. Over the Earth’s history, atmospheric CO2 concentrations have ranged from 180 ppm to 7000 ppm, see Figure 1 below. On that scale we are in fact today barely above the Earth’s record lows.


Figure 1: Atmospheric CO2 concentration is just barely above the life-sustaining levels of 150 ppm. For life to have real buffer against mass extinction, CO2 needs to be closer to 1000 ppm. Source: http://deforestation.geologist-1011.net/.

That 400 ppm is actually dangerously low is a fact the alarmists keep avoiding and suppressing. Below 150 ppm, plant-life dies off on a massive scale. The Earth actually came very close to that point many times over the last 2 million years during the ice ages. At the bottom of the last ice age just 20,000 years ago, life on the planet literally teetered on the brink when CO2 fell to a level of just 180 ppm. Do we really want to live on the brink of extinction?


It’s a fact that biologists have shown that once the atmospheric CO2 level falls below the 500 ppm level, plants really begin to suffer. Many of us have seen the video showing how plants grow faster under higher CO2 concentrations. The following charts show the growth curves of some plants as a function of CO2 concentration:




Climate Myth: CO2 was higher in the past
"The killer proof that CO2 does not drive climate is to be found during the Ordovician- Silurian and the Jurassic-Cretaceous periods when CO2 levels were greater than 4000 ppmv (parts per million by volume) and about 2000 ppmv respectively. If the IPCC theory is correct there should have been runaway greenhouse induced global warming during these periods but instead there was glaciation."
(The Lavoisier Group)

Over the Earth's history, there are times where atmospheric CO2 is higher than current levels. Intriguingly, the planet experienced widespread regions of glaciation during some of those periods. Does this contradict the warming effect of CO2? No, for one simple reason. CO2 is not the only driver of climate. To understand past climate, we need to include other forcings that drive climate. To do this, one study pieced together 490 proxy records to reconstruct CO2 levels over the last 540 million years (Royer 2006). This period is known as the Phanerozoic eon.

http://notrickszone.com/2013/05/17/atmospheric-co2-concentrations-at-400-ppm-are...

Sir lastnail wrote on Sep 14^th, 2018 at 8:03pm:



Samoa is or do you want to look at another island?

"Geological subsidence and sinking islands: the case of Manono (Samoa)"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/arco.5099

lee wrote on Sep 14^th, 2018 at 9:08pm:


Yes they all must be sinking LOL Why ? Because Andrew Bolt says so in his rag and the rightards don't want to feel guilty about profiting out of destroying the planet