Say, What Would Australia Look Like With 100% Renewable Energy Or Something

By William Teach January 28, 2019 – 7:51 am

Nicky Ison (@nickymison) is the “founding director of the Community Power Agency and research associate at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney.” It sure looks like he has a lot at stake in pushing for more and more “renewable” energy to be built. And he thinks they can do 100%. Despite the utter failure of renewables during a heat wave in Australia

What would Australia look like powered by 100% renewable energy?

Probably like the center area

Anyhow, Nicky thinks it would look like

1. Big on wind and solar

In future, the bulk of our electricity will come from the most affordable technologies – wind and solar photovoltaic (PV). In areas with the best renewable resources, big wind and solar projects connected to transmission lines will generate electricity to power Australia’s industry, transport, cities and exports.

2. Lots of different technologies in different locations

These solar and wind farms will be spread across the country, sharing their output, because in a huge continent the size of Australia, the wind is almost always blowing somewhere.

Basically, they would have to cover over the continent sized nation with solar panels and wind turbines, destroying the pristine areas, destroying wildlife areas, leaving lots of concrete pads for the turbines, disrupting the habits of wildlife as they turn and cast constantly turning shadows, as well as all the solar panels keeping sunlight from hitting the plant life.

Hold on … hydropower in the dry continent of Australia? Yes, they have identified 22,000 potential sites, mainly off-river reservoirs in hilly terrain or abandoned mine sites, and just 0.1% of those could meet all of Australia’s storage needs in a 100% renewable grid.

And the extreme enviros will block these hydropower sites, as well as putting up the solar panels and wind turbines, and, failing that, the transmission lines which can disrupt wildlife and despoil the environment.

Future electricity use will be much more dynamic. When the sun is shining or a gale is blowing, smart software will send a signal to energy users to turn on their pumps and fill up their batteries.

First, the tech to truly hold the necessary energy doesn’t really exist. Second, the batteries only last so long, creating a toxic mess. Good idea, guys!

6. Industry and transport go renewable too, and not just in Australia

In other words, they’re going to force Other People out of their fossil fueled vehicles, and do away with clean, abundant, reliable natural gas. Will they require the demolition of all airports, too?

Such a transition has engineering and policy challenges that must be addressed, but with our smartest minds on the job, creating this energy system of the future is already under way. The biggest question that remains is – will we do it at the speed that climate change demands?

Will they do it at the speed to make Nicky and the other Warmists pushing this lots of money quickly?

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TDS: Washington Post Blames Trump For Convictions Of Pro-Illegal Alien Supporters Who Left “Aid” In Desert

By William Teach January 28, 2019 – 7:27 am

The laws regarding entering the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge without a permit as well as leaving garbage were established long before Trump took office. They were updated in July of 2017 a tiny bit. Yet, somehow, this is all Trump’s Fault, and the Washington Post Editorial Board highlights that they are for open borders with their use of the word “migrants”. Also, they weren’t really convicted for what the headline says

Convicted for leaving water for migrants in the desert: This is Trump’s justice

A FEW weeks ago, federal prosecutors in Arizona secured a conviction against four humanitarian aid workers who left water in the desert for migrants who might otherwise die of heat exposure and thirst. Separately, they dropped manslaughter charges against a U.S. Border Patrol agent who fired 16 times across the border, killing a teenage Mexican boy. The aid workers face a fine and up to six months in jail. The Border Patrol officer faces no further legal consequences.

That is a snapshot of twisted frontier justice in the age of Trump. Save a migrant’s life, and you risk becoming a political prisoner. Kill a Mexican teenager, and you walk free.

The law states that you cannot enter without a permit, nor leave any “aid” supplies, the latter for two reasons: it entices illegal aliens to come illegally, and via a really, really dangerous area. That same “aid” is also then discarded, creating trash in the pristine desert area. The Border Patrol agent had already been through two trials, having been acquitted on one charge and deadlocked on a second in the first trial and a deadlocked jury in the second. There was no point in the third. A quick link above is not a substitute for showing the real details or dropping it at the end of the editorial, WPEB.

The four aid workers, all women, were volunteers in service to an organization, No More Deaths, whose religious views inform its mission to prevent undocumented migrants from dying during their perilous northward trek. They drove into the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, about 100 miles southwest of Phoenix, to leave water jugs along with some canned beans.

Suddenly, the WPEB is concerned about religious views. If they really cared, they wouldn’t entice illegals to cross through the refuge, a harsh, deadly area if you don’t start with right supplies. Heck, even if you do. Even the National Wildlife Federation says the area is dangerous, and has tons of smugglers and others coming through.

The women — Natalie Hoffman, Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick — made no effort to conceal their work. Confronted by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer, they said they believed everyone deserved access to basic survival needs. One of them, Ms. Orozco-McCormick, compared the wildlife refuge to a graveyard, such is the ubiquity of human remains there. (snip)

In the past, prosecutors declined to press charges against the volunteers who try to help by leaving water and canned food in the desert. But the four women, arrested in August 2017, were tried for the misdemeanor offenses of entering a refuge without a permit, abandoning personal property and, in the case of Ms. Hoffman, driving in a restricted area. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bernardo Velasco, who presided over the bench trial, said their actions ran afoul of the “national decision to maintain the Reserve in its pristine nature.”

And that’s why you don’t incent people to cross illegally there by leaving them aid. And they admitted they broke the law. Others in their group face trials in February and March, one of them for harboring illegal aliens. And they were damaging the refuge. It’s not Trump’s fault they made the decision to violate U.S. law.

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House Supposedly Revenue Neutral Carbon Tax Bill Is A Trillion Dollar Tax Hike

By William Teach January 27, 2019 – 3:38 pm

Just like when you read about Warmists saying a carbon tax is “free market”, be beyond skeptical when they say it is “revenue neutral”

A NEW ‘CARBON FEE’ PROPOSAL COULD HIKE TAXES BY MORE THAN $1 TRILLION

The bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus claims it is pushing a “revenue-neutral” carbon tax, but legislation proposed Thursday would hike taxes by at least $1 trillion over the next decade, according to Paul Blair, director of strategic initiatives for the right-leaning policy institute Americans for Tax Reform.

Florida Reps. Ted Deutch, a Democrat, and Francis Rooney, a Republican, reintroduced a bill Thursday that would place a $15-per-ton tax on carbon emissions in 2019. The tax would rise by $10-a-year increments until it hits nearly $100 per ton.

“To let the free market price out coal we should consider value pricing carbon,” Rooney saidin a statement. “A revenue-neutral carbon fee is an efficient, market- driven incentive to move toward natural gas and away from coal, and to support emerging alternate sources of energy.”

Though Rooney claims the tax is “revenue-neutral,” the plain text of the bill does not include any reciprocal tax cuts to balance out the burden of the added tax on emissions, Blair told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Climate Solutions Caucus, co-led by Deutch and Rooney, claims the bill is “revenue-neutral” through carbon dividends. The IRS will pay out the funds raised by the tax to U.S. households, giving “100 percent of net revenues to the American people” and maintaining the bill’s revenue neutrality.

“Historically and for anyone engaged in tax policy, the definition of ‘revenue-neutral’ is and always has been if you increase a tax, the amount of revenue it generates must be offset by an equal tax cut elsewhere,” Blair said.

The left-leaning Tax Policy Center shares Blair’s view, defining a “revenue-neutral” tax proposal as one “in which provisions that raise revenues offset provisions that lose revenues so the proposal in total has no net revenue cost or increase.”

Essentially, people are going to pay more in taxes even if the government refunded 100%. Which we all know will never happen. Oh, some people will get some money back, which makes them more reliant on government. Funny how that works, eh? First, government programs cause an increase in the cost of living in all aspects, energy, food, transportation, housing, and so much more. Plus taking more money directly out of your pocket. Then, they give you some of that money back to offset what the government caused. But, you need that money, so now you look more towards government help.

Really, if it is predicted to be $1 trillion over 10 years, you can bet that in the Real World it will be many times more than that.

BTW, gotta love the double shot of free market and revenue neutral.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 27, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution in the sky from evil fossil fueled airplanes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on “Republican” Ana Navarro trying to get the Dems to pick a candidate to beat Trump.

It’s Australia week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 27, 2019 – 9:38 am

patriotic pinup Walt Otto

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and consumer confidence is up. This pinup is by Walt Otto, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Ice Age Now covers global warming politicians causing more problems then global warming
  2. Jo Nova discusses the insane cost of energy in Australia due to renewables
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That covers the climainsanity at Davos
  4. 357 Magnum catches the NY Times discussing Venezuela without mentioning Socialism
  5. Blazing Cat Fur notes the CBC yammering about white privilege during the Indigenous People’s March
  6. Bunkerville discusses Washington considering a statewide rent control
  7. Creeping Sharia notes another refugee arrested for plotting terrorism in Canada
  8. DaTechGuy’s Blog has thoughts on the shutdown deal
  9. Geller Report highlights another Islamist bombing of Christians in the Philippines
  10. Hogewash has a cool shot of a supernova (this is not a euphemism for something political. It’s real)
  11. Jihad Watch highlights another wonderful sexual assaulting refugee in Germany
  12. Legal Insurrection discusses Trump’s only real choice on the wall
  13. Moonbattery covers pronouns as thoughtcrimes
  14. Pacific Pundit is bummed out that Ocasion-Cortez will miss the Sundance Festival due to the shutdown
  15. And last, but not least, Political Clown Parade discusses Socialism running its course once again

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list.

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Good Luck, Germany: All Coal Plants To Close, Will “Rely” On Renewables

By William Teach January 27, 2019 – 8:08 am

This should be fun. The green grid in Australia collapsed under the weight of the heat wave, which is typically the norm when “relying” on energy that is called “the renewable supply duck neck (power only arrives when it isn’t needed).” Solar doesn’t work at night when people are home and trying to sleep with air conditioning (something Warmsts are trying to eliminate for Other People). Wind turbines do not supply energy when the wind isn’t blowing between 5 to 30 miles per hour. Damns are only available in certain areas, and extreme enviros not only block new ones, they want old ones torn down. And they also want no new nuclear plants, and are getting old ones turned off

Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants, will rely primarily on renewable energy

Germany, one of the world’s biggest consumers of coal, will shut down all 84 of its coal-fired power plants over the next 19 years to meet its international commitments in the fight against climate change, a government commission said Saturday.

The announcement marked a significant shift for Europe’s largest country — a nation that had long been a leader on cutting CO2 emissions before turning into a laggard in recent years and badly missing its reduction targets. Coal plants account for 40% of Germany’s electricity, itself a reduction from recent years when coal dominated power production.

“This is an historic accomplishment,” said Ronald Pofalla, chairman of the 28-member government commission, at a news conference in Berlin following a marathon 21-hour negotiating session that concluded at 6 a.m. Saturday. The breakthrough ended seven months of wrangling. “It was anything but a sure thing. But we did it,” Pofalla said. “There won’t be any more coal-burning plants in Germany by 2038.”

The plan includes some $45 billion in spending to mitigate the pain in coal regions. The commission’s recommendations are expected to be adopted by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government.

“It’s a big moment for climate policy in Germany that could make the country a leader once again in fighting climate change,” said Claudia Kemfert, professor for energy economics at the DIW Berlin, the German Institute for Economic Research. “It’s also an important signal for the world that Germany is again getting serious about climate change: a very big industrial nation that depends so much on coal is switching it off.”

The decision to quit coal follows an earlier bold energy policy move by the German government, which decided to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022 in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011.

Now, perhaps there will be some great breakthrough between now and 2038. You never know. But, probably not

The plan to eliminate coal-burning plants as well as nuclear means that Germany will be counting on renewable energy to provide 65% to 80% of the country’s power by 2040. Last year, renewables overtook coal as the leading source and now account for 41% of the country’s electricity.

This has also led to more people relying on a the original renewable: wood. The use of wood, particularly wood pellets, has skyrocketed in German homes over the last 10 years as they’ve gone on this climalarmist journey. Which means more trees cut down. Which also leads to more particulate pollution. And this will all lead to an increase in the cost of energy to go with the unreliability, which means the cost of living will skyrocket.

Of course, one has to wonder if what will happen instead of solar and wind (where will it all go? The footprints of these are huge) is that the use of natural gas will skyrocket, and one of Germany’s biggest suppliers is….Russia.

Anyhow, good luck, Germany.

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A Government Created Carbon Tax Is The Ultimate Free Market Solution Or Something

By William Teach January 26, 2019 – 3:57 pm

Here we go again. The Cult of Climastrology just can’t give up a good talking point, and these Statists think things implemented and run by the government are free market. Not sure who Erik Kobayashi-Solomon is and what he really stands for, but, as a big time investor (I worked as a hedge fund risk manager, an investment banker in Tokyo and New York, a Market Strategist for Morningstar and as the Director of Research for a financial data start-up in Chicago) you’d think he would understand the difference

Carbon Tax: The Ultimate Free Market Solution To Climate Change

Thanks to a particularly odious little troll of a man and to a writer whose two major works the late, great Christopher Hitchens describes as “transcendently awful”, the word “tax” has a nearly obscene connotation.

Nonetheless, it is clear to me that a carbon tax, similar to those implemented in major economies throughout the world, should be broadly implemented here in the United States – the second largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world.

Well, sure, he’d probably make a lot of money off fleecing middle and lower class citizens.

Unlike a lot of mush-minded Greenies, I am under no illusion that a tax on carbon emissions will discourage people from burning carbon-based fuel or will serve just retribution on wasteful capitalists. Nor do I think that the taxing authority will use the collected funds for anything other than a typically idiotic boondoggle. In fact, I do not even believe that a carbon tax will do anything to stop the near-term effects of climate change (there is plenty of heat stored in the ocean, and those chickens will take decades to come home to roost).

Not a very convincing argument, eh?

No. My reasoning is based completely on free market considerations.

Humans do one thing phenomenally well: adapt to obstacles. If there is a mountain in front of us, we’ll climb it, build a tunnel through it, construct a road around it, and throw up a scenic overlook on the side of it.

The pure expression of human adaptability is the free market system.

Before June 2007, no one even realized that not being able to watch their favorite superhero movie while commuting to work was even an obstacle to overcome. Now, try to take a commuter train or subway (or even an elevator) without taking your smart phone out of your pocket.

OK, you’re welcome to read the rest of this silliness, but, let it be noted that it was really the private sector which developed the ability to watch that movie, not government placing taxes on your entire life, jacking up your cost of living to finance the movies and development of the technology.

Again, the government passing any type of carbon tax legislation, then setting the terms and pricing while running the whole thing has nothing to do with a free market. It is forcing the market to respond. It is rather what is called Socialism.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 26, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a walkway needed to cross a flooded world*, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on limerick thoughtcrime.

*yeah, yeah, perhaps a bit of a stretch, but, I’ve said I could find a link with just about any photo, and someone sent me this one to do just that.

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Democrats Worried That Border Battle Distracts From ‘Climate Change’ Fight

By William Teach January 26, 2019 – 10:30 am

Right, right, they’re very worried about an issue that many Americans care about in theory, but, in practice? Not so much

DEMOCRATS WORRY BORDER WALL BATTLE IS DISTRACTING FROM THEIR CLIMATE AGENDA

House Democrats are concerned that President Donald Trump’s fight for wall funding and the government shutdown is derailing their attempts to target the administration’s climate agenda, Politico reported Thursday.

Nearly a dozen Democrats admit that dealing with the partial shutdown is distracting from their ultimate objective: wrapping the administration in probes and resuscitating a wayward climate push. Democratic Rep. Paul Tonko of New York, for instance, believes a lot of unfinished business is being placed on the back burner.

“It’s holding back everything and it’s terrible because there’s lot of unfinished business and a lot of important work to do,” Tonko, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee, told reporters. “The shutdown is causing that disruption.”

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone of New Jersey backed away from a plan to place climate change front and center.

“I had previously announced our first three hearings never believing that this shutdown would still be going on when this Committee had a chance to organize,” the Democratic congressman said in a statement. “Those critical hearings on climate change, the future of the Affordable Care Act and oversight of the Trump Administration’s inhumane Family Separation Policy will still occur, but they will not be next week.”

Democrats are itching to jump on board the so-called Green New Deal (GND). More than 40 Democratic lawmakers support the GND, a broad plan to tackle climate change and build green jobs. It remains to be seen what role a prolonged shutdown will have on the deal.

Well, good news, the shutdown is over, for at least three weeks. Then they can get back to their mission of using “environmental” concerns (has to be in quotation marks, since ‘climate change’ has little to do with the environment) in order to force through their big government ways, with lots of taxes and fees along with restrictions on citizen’s lives. All while refusing to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their own lives carbon neutral.

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Bummer: Wyoming Makes It “As Hard” To Get An Abortion As Get A Firearm

By William Teach January 26, 2019 – 7:04 am

The gun grabbers constantly tell us how super easy it is to purchase a firearm. Apparently, they now do not think it’s that easy in Wyoming (via Twitchy)

https://twitter.com/JustEric/status/1088591473828872192

The link in the first tweet shows

A bill restricting women’s access to abortion received initial approval Tuesday from the House Judiciary Committee.

House Bill 140 requires a woman seeking an abortion to first meet with a provider and then wait 48 hours before terminating her pregnancy.

The bill was introduced by Sheridan Representative Richard Tass. He told the committee that unlike a clothing purchase, women can’t change their minds about an abortion. He said the bill gives women time to consider the gravity of the decision.

It still takes longer to get a handgun, but, this highlights the murderous nature of Big Abortion.

Let me ask: if you start thinking about buying a car, does it pop in your head one day and you just get it done? A few people do, and they often live to regret it. I would see them bringing in their car within a month to get out of it. It is typically a multi-day, even week or several weeks long process. When I made the decision, kinda pushed into it due to a leak in the radiator, I looked at what we had, decided on a lease. Then did even deeper research on the same vehicles I sell day in and day out (also knocked Jeep out). I took 4 test drives. Knocked one car out except as a last resort. Had a large spreadsheet. Coworker mentioned a lease special. I can deal with red for 3 years. And actually love it.

But, it wasn’t a quick process. This is a Big Decision. This is a 3 year commitment. Heck, people will take 48 hours to decide which smartphone they want, even if they have an iPhone and are going to get another. An abortion is a big life decision, and one should think hard on it.

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