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    Diesel generators and gas turbine versions are a symptom of a sick system. Huge imported expense, to be rarely run just in case or used where infrastructure is poor, in which case the fuel is extremely expensive. Such poor economics, it's exempt from taxes as a direct government sudsidy. All imported expenses and subsidised by us. Government will spend $50 billion in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry and mining industry over the next 4 years including fuel excise rebates. An ongoing expense that only benefits very few. None is an investment in productively for the nation, nor to provide energy independence, or reduce energy imports. In fact, the policy ensures the foreign wealth transfers and sovereign risk increases with every year. Imported fossil fuels can only get more expensive as will locally produced ones. Almost no entity in most of the fossil fuel chain pays any tax on the subsidised diesel fuelled activity. farmers are another debate but inherently subsidised. Government must always pick winning ideas for economic assistance with a view to productivity, taxation, development, communal wealth and health. Our current policy is like burning money over Phar Laps corpse and expecting to win the Melbourne cup.
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    Yes, the generators are a short term insurance due to the grid reliability from the old brown coal stations. Industrial power use is huge but generally during day light ours, as is most retail and office work. Big industrial users which consume large chunks of a states power like alloy smelters are already investing in renewable power in a effort to be carbon neutral in the short to medium term. Big industrial users know it's cheaper and more reliable to partially decouple from the grid with green energy. They invest for profit, that's where the money is flowing. They don't have to worry about grid spot prices or brownouts. Nor the social and environmental costs. Excess solar can be stored, and hydrogen made which then gets converted to electricity. Combined green carbon free steel or aluminium can be made with only local inputs.
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    It's only fair she sues them. How else will she get any recompense and postive justice. Workers comp won't help much 😔. A dodgy employer, who ran a highly dangerous workplace, purposely chose to ignore and defeat all safety rules and laws. He even falsified records as part of a criminal conspiracy to pervert justice. A workplace so neglectful of safety culture that a pilot was taking cocaine and didn't fuel the aircraft. Nor was that picked up as a essential check item. A pilot that responded to engine out by dropping the slung victim to his guaranteed death as a first response, beggars belief. All from a cowboy group staring on TV shows. Certainly not cash poor or invisible to the regulator. The bloke in charge should loose everything plus his liberty for a long time. The pilot must also take his punishment. Casa should also pay for allowing the unsafe sling operations to be approved the way they did.
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    Years ago, it really was a heavily polluted place and you would never, ever eat a fish you caught. Still, west of the bridge can be dodgy, over past Rydalmere is still yuck 🤮. But the harbour itself is spectacular and species are recovering. I have seen large schools of large Yellow king fish hunt as groups into small bays and feast. Much healthier these days. Sydney heads is mind-blowing to enter when you consider it's home to a huge city. National parks and nature abound. Compare that to other international harbour cities.
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    That how the Sun works , come 7pm it's getting darker Don't worry it will be back on the morning 🌄
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    So on your figure of 27% of current solar would have to expand to be 2700% of our total grid and wind 1100%? Do you actually believe that? Or are you saying 100 times more battery storage? Coal is already completely financially unviable and environmentally immoral.
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    Now, for those will a bad intent, that Sellarfield site is the easiest way for a terrorist or state actor to turn a whole part of England radioactive ☢️. Those waste ponds and storage are incredibly vulnerable and completely unprotected against any determined group. The world's largest dirty bomb just waiting for a evil mind. That is how we deal with nuclear waste. It's a mad world.
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    Here is a article on nuclear and a cautionary tale. It really demonstrates the legacy issues and safety problems. Plus videos. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/dirty-30-dangerous-sellafield-nuclear-site-ponds-safety-fears&ved=2ahUKEwjp3eXkqvqCAxVvwzgGHXvMC0QQ0PADKAB6BAhPEAE&usg=AOvVaw1FGI68DRkCU7b0es8EZZzs https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/04/sellafield-nuclear-site-hacked-groups-russia-china&ved=2ahUKEwjp3eXkqvqCAxVvwzgGHXvMC0QQ0PADKAB6BAg5EAE&usg=AOvVaw0dW6BBqVrXQM7xJPZkNZ7_
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    Not to mention the huge air pollution of just mining and transportation of coal. I get coal dust in the air from the hunter mines, float on the air to my boat a huge distance away. Want black lung for your children, go live near a coal mine.
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    Typical of the bloody poms. They make the ugliest flying boat ever and name it after the most beautiful city harbour in the world. 🤮
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    Absolute flaming bullshit. Unless your talking about your brain cells You strawmen seem to have Pinocchio's nose.
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    Which would be easy. We have more available roof space than that would need. 5million homes could cover the panels plus industrial roofs, carpark awnings etc. Space is not a issue, imagination and proper planning can do it.
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    I was talking generally not just one incident.
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    What about the grid and coal plant failures, some taking months to get old parts? A much bigger problem
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    It was obvious from the previous shutdown. The Vans attitude to customers, staff and partners was plain to see. The pineapples are loaded and signed by lawyers. Lubrication is only available if all rights are signed over. Chapter 11, a way to screw everyone, hide your money and keep the company.
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    Strange, I always thought 🤔 on hot days, due to the scorching sun 🌞, solar was cheap and plentiful, when allowed to connect to the grid. I better find a bucket of salt.
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    Actually you're on the ball 🏈. Essentially you just chop into small pieces, no waste and add a small amount of new resins and heat either forged and/or extruded into parts. So beams should be easy enough. This technique can be done very cheaply and with very low potential for pollutants. Transforming into a new product with minimal input is a smart way forward. A problem become a profitable solution. If you look up forged carbon you will get the idea.
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    Local solar and wind is entirely possible it must be designed for the conditions and positioned appropriately. Cyclone designs are available for wind systems. Since when does the sky stay black for four months of the year? It's very cheap to add more cells for shady days, battery storage drops in price constantly as well. How much would it cost for a Broome system, a guess of $1 billion for a system owned by the community and run by the them for a grid stable system that keeps the skills and money locally. How much for a Small Modular Reactor? Assuming you can get one (the biggest developer has just confirmed its program is stopped and not likely to be revived ) The expected cost would be $ 5 billion minimum. Plus all skills and maintenance would be contracted out forever to a foreign company. With us owning the legacy waste forever. It would also need a large desalination plant for cooling. Human consumption is not a priority, no cooling equals meltdown 😕. Shit, you can bet we would pay at least a cool $ billion on consultants. No wonder the lobby groups and LNP are dog whistling. That's Sovereign risk on a massive scale and cost.
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    I think I now understand, you don't worry about the consequences of your choices as long as it fits your comfortable world view. Beliefs are not facts or science.
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    And last week they were protesting here at Port Stephens, saying far offshore wind turbines would kill the Whales, destroy tourism and kill the economy. They quoted research that never existed, fraudulently claiming a respected expert scientist wrote it. 100% intentional bullshit for political aims. Followed by more Nuclear propaganda. Do we notice a pattern going on ?
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    No, I have been watching, researching and carefully sorting the truth from the wishful and intentionally distorted thinking for 30 plus years. I vet my sources with academic rigour , I don't just accept what a pro nuclear lobby group wants. Nor the LNP attempts to do anything to stop sensible progress. I did look at your links and whilst some have merit for unique situations, as grid power they are woefully underdeveloped, massively expensive, poisonous to life and never account for the true costs born by the public purse and the plant. After 80 years of the largest government funded R&D program in history, it's still a power system thats a market failure. Even assuming it never fails and never pollutes, the costs far exceed the benefits. Never has more money been spent in history, for so little result, but a massive legacy of environmental and economic debt for thousands of years. Renewable power can do all our our power needs far faster, easier and quantum's cheaper, this is also undisputed. Even large miners and manufacturing plants are investing in renewable power. They already know what's economic and works, they don't do it for Woke reasons. They are hard headed money men and can see the wind direction.
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    Intelligent enough to know it's not suitable for Australia, we have no history in it nor expertise. Even expert countries have huge difficulties and massive cost overruns. Until Fusion becames available it's a fool's errand.
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    But not smart enough to consider the obvious. Strawmen are made of carbon,nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen and utter bullshit arguments.
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    Now a 72 Afla Gtv with a Ferrari V8 is a real stonker. 300hp at wheels and sub 1100kg Check Home built by Jeff on YouTube.
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    I am blown away at the intellectual sophistry to make such a comment. Having a science background was clearly a waste of 40 years of study and in-depth interest. I could just shove my brain in the bin and give up now.
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