Cold, windless Victoria may run out of gas before the end of winter
By Jo Nova It wasn’t supposed to be this cold and windless in Australia For some reason that no climate model can explain, Australia has run out of wind power three months in a row, which means we had...
View ArticleYou will buy the batteries that unreliable wind and solar need, but the...
Image by Nerijus jakimavičius from Pixabay By Jo Nova They want you in an EV so they can use your battery to rescue the unreliable grid they built There is a desperate need to add billions of dollars...
View ArticleNet Zero targets “Unachievable” says Air New Zealand and nearly 70% of...
By Jo Nova And the flavor of the month is “failure” Air New Zealand announced this week that it would not be able to cut its carbon emissions by 29% by 2030. The levers were “outside their control”,...
View ArticleRenewable Hell: Electricity price spikes hit $16,000 morning and night in our...
By Jo Nova The Crash Test Dummy Nation wins a Gold Medal in Electricity Prices And you thought last week was bad. While the single spike at $17,000 a megawatt hour in five states simultaneously was a...
View ArticleRepeating climate denial claims makes them seem more credible
By Jo Nova A group of arty psychologists has accidentally shown how much skeptics can achieve if they just speak up. The small, poorly worded study, done by people who have little understanding of the...
View ArticleCarbon naughty list: Russia, Australia, USA, export more “climate damage”...
By Jo Nova It’s something to be proud of: Russia, Australia and USA have the biggest Greenhouse Gas Export footprint on Earth. It’s a bizarrely contrived title though, where we have to ignore domestic...
View ArticleThe Solar Panel cyber threat: Dutch hacker gets into 4 million panels in 150...
By Jo Nova What if a few gigawatts of solar power disappeared without a warning or a cloud in the sky? Imagine a hostile force had control of half your national power generation at lunchtime and could...
View ArticleTransition hell: Solar plants sit idle for 4 years in NT because of fears...
ENI Katherine Solar Farm By Jo Nova The Northern Territory is a test case for renewable energy and it’s a bonfire In 2016, the new Labor Government waved a magic wand and commanded they would be 50%...
View ArticleCold showers coming, as largest exporter of LNG runs out of gas due to red...
By Jo Nova In Great Achievements of Government mismanagement, there is a $1 trillion dollar boom in LNG infrastructure around the world, and Australia is one of the top three exporters of LNG, far...
View ArticleRandom power glut means 80% of solar plant output was thrown away on Sunday
By Jo Nova It’s just another day of profligate waste in Renewable World It’s barely spring in Australia and already we’re reaching the point where there’s too much solar. There’s such an excess of...
View ArticleThe Misinformation Bill will harm Australians and protect bad governments
Submissions close today! It’s better to say something short than nothing at all. Let it be known that we have grave concerns, and far too little time to debate and discuss such far reaching...
View ArticleNanny-state rule and banking-cartel may crash out coal plant and 4% of our...
By Jo Nova Banker warfare to destroy businesses but make the weather nicer… It’s another emergency on the Australian Soviet-style electricity grid. An entirely profitable and law abiding operation is...
View Article$650m in renewable energy didn’t save Broken Hill from days of blackouts...
Broken Hill Solar Plant | Photo by Jeremy Buckingham By Jo Nova The lights went out in Broken Hill. A storm blew seven transmission towers over disconnecting the area from the national grid on October...
View ArticleBlockbuster: Labor’s weather control “renewables plan” turns out to be half a...
By Jo Nova Finally, twenty years too late, Australian leaders are talking about the galactic cost of making a spare energy grid that might, maybe, hopefully one day reduce world temperatures by one...
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