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08/07/20
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Originally posted by 310843B:
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yes it is ! if you received an email from the late wife of the CEO of the Worlds greatest oil field that had an address in Nigeria that read like this invest and buy a solar panel paddock or a wind propeller that generates power some of the time and is grossly unreliable and the Aust government will pay you buckets of those stupid tax payers money you would hit the delete button before finishing reading BUT this is what has happened right here in Aus......... now that surely isn't real funny unless your the collector of those taxpayers monies that we will now call subisity....... so that the stupid tax payer doesn't get too unset at being scammed and the scam is being Exposed... read on Old King Coal doesn’t mind the cold Viv Forbes The Spectator Australia 8 July 2020 Before sunrise on Sunday, the grass temperature in Washpool, in the south-east of the supposed Sunshine State, was minus 1.7 deg. There was no wind or sunshine. Wind turbines were becalmed and not even moonbeams energised our solar panels. In that still, frosty darkness, green energy failed again. Not a watt came from windfarms or from subsidized solar panels cluttering many roofs (including ours). But we didn’t need our diesel in the shed. We were saved by trusty Old King Coal, with maybe a dash of gas or hydro. Reliable 24/7 coal-fired generators provided pre-dawn power-by-wire for lights, heaters and coffee before we checked the frosty flats for new-born lambs. Yet politicians, academics and the(it) ABC relentlessly push unreliable “green” energy, promising it will promote global cooling. They should be careful what they wish for. Neither sheep nor shepherds like frosty darkness.
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You might have a soft spot for coal. But it's clearly on the way out. In Europe it is now miniscule. In North America it's in a death spiral. Just last week Japan announced a plan to reduce its coal consumption. Even countries that were very recently seen as the salvation of coal - like India - coal consumption has declined markedly in the last 2 years. Alternatives to coal are getting cheaper all the time and cutting its grass. Coal is very labour and capital intensive, and its losing on pure economics.