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Dec 30 2020

Australia’s Wind Issues- The Canary in a Coal Mine For Other Countries?


Will any learn from Australia’s experience. Want to make a bet?

Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Jack Dini —— Bio and Archives—December 29, 2020

The newest and biggest wind project to date in Australia is to undergo major repairs after faults were found in its commissioning process. Wind turbines at the Coppers Gap wind farm in Australia had to be repaired or replaced before they were even put into service. (1)

The blades of one of the 123 turbines will have to be replaced entirely, while GE Catcon is also going  to replace ‘generators’- referring to the equipment in the nacelle at the top of the wind tower —in a further 50 turbines.  

The issues at Coppers Gap add to a terrible run of problems for some of Australia’s largest wind farms, including the delays to the commissioning of the 336MW Dundonnell wind farm, and the fall of a blade from one of its turbines that stopped all production for several days.

Other major wind farms are also taking much longer to be completed than originally expected. Coopers Gap has been running about one year behind its original schedule.  1

Further, the 420MW Macarthur wind farm delivered a relatively low capacity factor of just 26 percent last year. 

This kind of story is common in many wind farms, and is further proof that they are nothing but horrendously expensive virtue signaling white elephants, reports Andy Rowlands. 

Solar Panels on Households

In Australia, as many as a quarter of solar panels pose a high or severe ‘electrical safety’ risk. Since there are two million households with solar panels, that’s half a million homes sitting under a live problem.  2

A national audit revealed that between 21 and 26 percent of small-scale rooftop solar installations inspected every year since 2011 had been found to have faulty wiring and unsecured panels. Some posed a ‘severe risk’ where wiring was exposed. This required units to be shut down immediately and remediated. A total of 35 licensed installation contractors have been warned they face the possibility of suspension.  

Australian massive daily spikes and collapses in wind and solar power output

Then there are hailstorms. As Joanne Nova reports, here’s a problem coal fired plants don’t need to worry about. “Sydney’s recent ‘catastrophic’ hailstorm resulted in a damage bill said to top $125 million. How much of that damage is to rooftop Solar PV? The last massive hail storm in Sydney was in 1999- but there were hardy any solar panels then.”  3

Before anyone blames climate change, stories about hail the size of eggs have fallen in Sydney in 1929 and other places in 1934. Perhaps building 2 million solar panels on a continent with hail the size of tea cups was not such a good idea. 

Investment Disappearing

Australian massive daily spikes and collapses in wind and solar power output have resulted in new rules about grid access for intermittent wind and solar and, much to the horror of the wind and solar industries, government is actually enforcing them. 4

Dozens of proposed wind farms and large-scale solar projects have been shelved, simply because they can’t be guaranteed of ever being able to deliver a single watt into the grid.

To their credit, it appears that investors are none too keen to hand over their cash to build projects which will never earn a dollar.

 Summary

What about the canary in the coal mine? This is destined to hit California in spades as the insane legislature has made solar panels required for all new construction starting in 2020. Other states probably have similar plans. Will any learn from Australia’s experience. Want to make a bet?

References

  1. Andy Rowlands, “Major problems with Australian wind turbines,” principia-scientific.com, November 18, 2020
  2. Joanne Nova, “Deadly: a quarter of all solar panels pose high or severe risk,” joannenova.com.au,December 20, 2018
  3. Joanne Nova, “Sydney hail storm: just how hail proof are those solar panels?”, joannenov.com.au, December 22, 2020
  4. “Totally choked: Australian wind power investment suffers massive collapse,” stopthesethings.com, August 30, 2020
Dec 21 2020

A Technical Study in the Relationships of Solar Flux, Water, Carbon Dioxide and Global Temperatures, November 2020 Data


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Carbon Dioxide CO2 is not making “ANY” dangerous changes to the global temperature!

From the attached report on climate change for November 2020 Data we have the two charts showing how much the global temperature has actually gone up since we started to measure CO2 in the atmosphere? To show this graphically Chart 8 was constructed by plotting CO2 as a percent increase from when it was first measured in 1958, the Black plot, the scale is on the left and it shows CO2 going up a bit over 31.0% from 1958 to October of 2020. That is a very large change as anyone would have to agree.  Now how about temperature, well when we look at the percentage change in temperature from 1958, using Kelvin (which does measure the change in heat), we find that the changes in global temperature (heat) are almost un-measurable. The scale on the right side had to be expanded 10 times (the range is 40 % on the left and 4% on the right) to be able to see the plot in the same chart in any detail. The red plot, starting in 1958, shows that the thermal energy in the earth’s atmosphere increased by .40%; while CO2 has increased by 31.0% which is 78 times that of the increase in temperature. So is there really a meaningful link between them that would give as a major problem? The numbers tell us no there isn’t.

The next chart is Chart 8a which is the same as Chart 8 except for the scales which are the same for both CO2 and Temperature. As you see the increase in energy, heat, is not visually observably in this chart hence the need for the previous chart 8 to show the minuscule increase in thermal energy shown by NASA in relationship to the change in CO2. Based to these trends, determined by excel not me, in 2028 CO2 will be 428 ppm and temperatures will be 15.0o Celsius and in 2038 CO2 will be 458 ppm and temperatures will be 15.6O Celsius. This is what the data shows no matter what the reasons are, so I have no idea how the IPCC gets to predict that the world will end in ten or even twenty years.

The full 40 page report explains how these charts were developed and why using NASA and NOAA data that are used without change to prove that The New Green Deal is not required and any attempt to complete that plan will be a worldwide disaster.

Click on the link below for the full report that you can download.BLACKBODY TEMPERATURE 2020-11Download

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Nov 20 2020

Trudeau’s Corruption


Armstrong Economics Blog/Canada Re-Posted Nov 20, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Nov 20 2020

A Technical Study in the Relationships of Solar Flux, Water, Carbon Dioxide and Global Temperatures, October 2020 Data


Carbon Dioxide CO2 is not making “ANY” dangerous changes to the global temperature!

From the attached report on climate change for October 2020 Data we have the two charts showing how much the global temperature has actually gone up since we started to measure CO2 in the atmosphere? To show this graphically Chart 8 was constructed by plotting CO2 as a percent increase from when it was first measured in 1958, the Black plot, the scale is on the left and it shows CO2 going up a bit over 31.0% from 1958 to October of 2020. That is a very large change as anyone would have to agree.  Now how about temperature, well when we look at the percentage change in temperature from 1958, using Kelvin (which does measure the change in heat), we find that the changes in global temperature (heat) are almost un-measurable. The scale on the right side had to be expanded 10 times (the range is 40 % on the left and 4% on the right) to be able to see the plot in the same chart in any detail. The red plot, starting in 1958, shows that the thermal energy in the earth’s atmosphere increased by .40%; while CO2 has increased by 31.0% which is 78 times that of the increase in temperature. So is there really a meaningful link between them that would give as a major problem? The numbers tell us no there isn’t.

The next chart is Chart 8a which is the same as Chart 8 except for the scales which are the same for both CO2 and Temperature. As you see the increase in energy, heat, is not visually observably in this chart hence the need for the previous chart 8 to show the minuscule increase in thermal energy shown by NASA in relationship to the change in CO2. Based to these trends, determined by excel not me, in 2028 CO2 will be 428 ppm and temperatures will be 15.0o Celsius and in 2038 CO2 will be 458 ppm and temperatures will be 15.6O Celsius. This is what the data shows no matter what the reasons are, so I have no idea how the IPCC gets to predict that the world will end in ten or even twenty years.

The full 40 page report explains how these charts were developed and why using NASA and NOAA data that are used without change to prove that The New Green Deal is not required and any attempt to complete that plan will be a worldwide disaster.

Click on the link below for the full report that you can download.

BLACKBODY TEMPERATURE 2020-10Download

Nov 19 2020

San Francisco Going Just Insane


Armstrong Economics Blog/The Hunt for Taxes Re-Posted Nov 19, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

First, San Francisco just banned Natural Gas in any new buildings, requiring them to rely on the electric grid instead. The city’s board of supervisors unanimously approved the ordinance which will apply to more than 54,000 homes and 32 million square feet of business space that was approved for construction. They do not have the power generation to support that and a power grid failure means even the food people have will go bad without electricity and they cannot even cook on a stove or microwave. What do you do if power is out for weeks?

Secondly, San Franciso passed the CEO tax. The tax applies to companies in which the highest-paid managerial employee earns 100 times more than the median worker in San Francisco. Businesses above this 100 to 1 threshold pay an extra surcharge on their gross receipts. The greater the inequality, the bigger the tax. Companies with an executive earning 200 times the median worker in the city incur a 0.2% tax, all the way up to 0.6%. For large firms (businesses with more than $1 billion in gross receipts and 1,000 employees nationwide), the tax is applied to up to 2.4% of its city payroll expenses. The bill is expected to bring in between $60 million and $140 million per year, about 0.4% to 1% of the city’s annual budget.

This tax is really problematic. It is a tax on the company rather than the executive. But generally, these large pay-outs are stock options – not cash. So if the stock doubles in price, the CEO would make a theoretical windfall and the company would pay a surcharge which could impact the shareholders and could even reduce the workforce.

Nov 6 2020

Stop the Steal


Cheating Asses

The 2020 election is a continuation of the Democrats’ long and unrelenting coup against President Trump.

When it became clear that Biden was going to lose, things suddenly stopped. In the key states run by Democrats, no more votes were tallied. The corporate propaganda media for the most part refused to acknowledge Trump victories—especially Florida.

At around 3 a.m. Mountain Time, a  CNN announcer sheepishly warned viewers that a sea change had taken place. He knew he was going to lay a big whopper down on us all. Trump’s 100,000 vote lead had magically evaporated and Biden suddenly went ahead by 10,000 votes. This was due to the counting of mailed-in ballots, he said. All those ballots were for Biden. I knew then the Democrats were going to steal the election. I went to bed resigned to that fact.

The Democrats have never given up on their coup attempt. They tried to stop Trump before he was inaugurated. They subjected him to the Russia collusion witch hunt—based on a Hillary Clinton lie. The House impeached him over a routine phone call to Ukraine. Now they’ve gone after Trump by means of blatant cheating.

The Deep State Swamp is populated by too many socialist traitors including a few ‘RINO’ Republicans such as Mitt Romney. John McCain was definitely a traitor.

Biden ran a very poor campaign despite having the mainstream media cover and cheerlead for him. Despite all the money spent by the Biden campaign, Joe drew thin crowds of a hundred at best, whereas Trump had long lines of people waiting hours just to gain entry to crowded venues of tens of thousands just to hear him speak. Biden is a war mongering corrupt career politician and pedophile. Even many progressives despise him. And yet he suddenly racked up huge windfalls of votes in states where Trump had a big lead? Something’s fishy.

Dead people are voting. “Authorities” ordered the application of postmark stamps on late-arriving ballots. Republican observers at polling places were bullied and removed by Democrat operatives. There have been more ballots cast than there are registered voters. Biden’s election coup is obvious and in our face.

The question is, can Trump and his legal team stop it?

—Ben Garrison

Nov 6 2020

Treason: The Crime of Betraying One’s Country


If ever there was a time to make your voice heard, it is now. If ever there was a time to march against this corruption, it is now. If ever there was a time to energize against the crimes committed against all Americans, it is now. This is treason

Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Guest Column — Abernathy Crumm —— Bio and Archives—November 5, 2020

Treason: The Crime of Betraying One's CountryThe graph sums up the reality with appalling clarity (See Below).  There is widespread, massive cheating going on.  The number of registered voters compared to votes and voter turnout make it laughingly obvious that the Democrats have attempted to steal a presidential election nationwide.

What does this mean to the average voter— Republican, Democrat, or Independent?  It means that one of our political parties has betrayed us as a people and a nation.  It shows that the Democrat party will lie, cheat, and steal your vote, and do it blatantly, defying authorities to stop them, confident they can cover it over with lawyers, money, and threats of violence.  They have done this successfully for decades, albeit never to this level.  They are stealing your voice as a citizen.

One wonders what they are thinking.  Do they really believe we, the American people, are so stupid that we would not see this?  The answer has to be a resounding yes.  Their hatred of all things Trump, Republican, or Conservative so deranges them that they are betraying every sacred principle foundational to our Republic.

Today they betray open and fair elections; for years they and their surrogates have been demeaning and attacking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, the right to bear arms, and many others.  Each principle they erode results in more power for government and it will not stop until we are all slaves.

Our liberal political and cultural elites embrace this control as long as they are on top pulling our strings, as long as they control the media and social media, as long as they control the narrative.  Look at the vicious language they use.  Look at their contempt for the average citizen.  It is everywhere.  Just go to comments in any liberal leftist news site.  The articles are bad enough, but the soul of these vile people comes out in the comments.

Your safety and your freedom mean nothing to them, only power and control energizes them.  The wanton destruction and violent riots are Democrat creatures, they fund them, and they help organize them.  Like vampires, they crave the lifeblood of our nation and will leave behind a burning husk of misery and violence.

If ever there was a time to make your voice heard, it is now.  If ever there was a time to march against this corruption, it is now.  If ever there was a time to energize against the crimes committed against all Americans, it is now.  This is treason; shout it out for all to hear.  It must not stand.

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Nov 6 2020

The Voting Dead


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Nov 6, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

The scheme to steal this election is off the charts. One guy in Florida was trying to vote for 400 dead people for Biden. In another case, absentee ballots were sent in with no return address postmarked from South Carolina try to vote for dead people.

In both Michigan and Wisconsin, the election is being stolen by dead people voting for Biden. Dead people have been voting in New York City as well. A commonly expressed concern about vote-by-mail in the United States is that mail-in ballots are sent to dead people, stolen by bad actors, and counted as fraudulent votes. It is not that big of a deal when the votes are not significant enough to change the tally. But in this case, it has been open season for fraud of a grand scale.

Nov 6 2020

London is being Destroyed by Boris Johnson


Armstrong Economics Blog/BRITAIN Re-Posted Nov 6, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

I lived in London. It was my favorite city in the world. I lived at 62 Cornwall Gardens off Gloucester Road. I loved the culture there that included all the small specialty shops. All of that is intentionally being destroyed by Boris Johnson. The death rate of this virus does not warrant the total destruction of the economy. The small businesses that gave character and life to the city are folding. There will no longer be a London to enjoy.

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Posted Nov 6, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

I lived in London. It was my favorite city in the world. I lived at 62 Cornwall Gardens off Gloucester Road. I loved the culture there that included all the small specialty shops. All of that is intentionally being destroyed by Boris Johnson. The death rate of this virus does not warrant the total destruction of the economy. The small businesses that gave character and life to the city are folding. There will no longer be a London to enjoy.Video Player00:0001:28

This is the callus directing coming from the World Economic Forum and their Great Reset schemed in the minds of academics who sit around drinking their port and have ZERO experience in the real world. To them, the economy is the product of government and it can be recreated GREEN by simply using a pen. I have been behind the Berlin Wall before it fell. That is not a world I desire to live in. Death is really much more preferable.

All we have left is our freedom. If this insanity is not stopped, there will be nothing but ashes left behind. Communism 3.0 will fail. The left cannot live standing by while others enjoy freedom. We must be enslaved to satisfy their philosophy, which is always anti-religion be it Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhism, or Hindu just to mention a few.

Nov 6 2020

Censorship is the New Norm


Armstrong Economics Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted Nov 6, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Just to inform – as feedback – that this blog post was removed from my feed on LinkedIn.

This is now the second time LinkedIn has removed a post of yours from my LinkedIn feed.

I have been a member and active poster on LinkedIn since 2009.

Over those years I have probably reshared 75-100 of your posts.

It is only in the last 6 months that a reshare of yours is removed by LinkedIn almost as a matter of course.

As we all know, LinkedIn was acquired recently by Microsoft.

t – London.

REPLY: This is a sign of the times. I finished, “The Cycle of War and the Coronavirus” last May. I was told they were so excited and would have it out in 60 days or less, distributed for all major book stores. Then the delay began. Curiously, I received my sample copy delivered only on election day — November 3rd.

Others are reporting their feeds suddenly stopped listing our articles. This only goes to show anyone against Bill Gates is suddenly blacklisted no matter what the content. So much for free speech. People join the army to fight, but for what? God does not support Communism 3.0 and neither does the Constitution. They play the military for fools who are told to follow orders and never question anything.