First up, there might still be a few confused by the term "rent-seekers" as deployed by the Caterist...
The pond always thinks it's better work by practical example rather than deliver a few vague words in the hope of enlightenment ...
Here's a rent-seeker at work ...
Of course the pond has a collection of this act of rent-seeking that stretches back years, but one example will suffice, because the pond also paused to marvel at some indigent begging before getting to the Caterists ...
As soon as the pond scores a "learn more", it thinks of its favourite proto-fascist sci fi flick ...
Actually the pond wouldn't like to know more, but decided it needed a distraction from the rent-seeking Caterists ...
Hmm, ten bucks a week when it can be picked up for free by getting a job as an airport porter? Would getting the lizard Oz for free constitute enough of a fringe benefit for mucking out airport toilets?
Can someone trump that deal in a way that would please even the Donald?
Four bucks a week? Versus ten bucks a week for the dubious pleasure of Google's company?
Suddenly, with this sort of cheap hustle on the prowl, the time felt right to turn to the rent-seeker ...
As Caterist rent-seeking efforts go - and more than enough have gone on the pond - the pond would have to rate this as fair average.
Of course he's rent-seeking for coal, a common enough hobby for the Menzies Research Centre, which certainly knows which side to apply the IPA rent-seeking butter for a proper serve of jam and toast ... or possibly champers ...
It helps to know that the Caterists are in the "Implicit School of Climate Denialism", which requires hinting at it, evoking it, but rarely getting down and dirty with the science ... for fear of coming unstuck, unglued and not just from the impending summer heat ...
Just talk of the evils and the uselessness of renewables, celebrate brown coal where possible, hint at the end of the world if coal isn't used any more, and never ever worry that over-use of coal might actually produce the end of the world as it's currently operating ...
Oh and the pond forgot to add this tip... rent-seekers are always wise to talk of carpetbaggers, as a way of distancing themselves from their very own form of carpetbaggery ... that way you can keep scoring cash in the paw and feel noble and righteous year after year ...
And so to the infallible Pope, who this day turned to one of the pond's favourite stories, and conjured up a lesson which might be applied to the Hansonites, but seems just as relevant when contemplating the Caterists, with more infallible Pope here ...
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDelete“They can no longer expect the east coast grid to cover for them; anybody selling electricity must provide it every day in regular 4,362,000 alternating cycles.”
You can tell from this sort of crap and the pointless blather about boiling kettles, that someone from the coal lobby has been trying to explain to the gormless Cater about ’synchronous’ electricity generation as a way to wrongly denigrate solar and wind.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/ge-grids-dont-need-rely-synchronous-generation-89161/
As Cater has probably only the haziest understanding about electricity production or for that matter what electricity actually is, we instead get a load of overheated bullshit about rent-seekers and carpet baggers.
We probably get ‘alternating current at a constant 50 oscillations a second’ as Cater couldn’t understand why electrical frequency should be measured in rental cars.
Finally the Cater of little brain can’t even multiply correctly;
50 Hz
3000 cycles/min
180,000 cycles/hour
4,320,000 cycles/day (not 4,362,000 cycles/day)
DiddyWrote
I have to say that I think you greatly flatter the Goosebumps numbskull, DW.
DeleteBut here's just a couple out of his many misconceptions and errors to illustrate your thesis:
1. 'Thermal' generators in SA. Goosebumps: "A more reflective premier might have thought twice before abandoning coal, preferrably before a demolition squad blew up the state's last thermal power plant , as it did late last week."
Although, yes there is no longer a coal fired 'thermal' generator in SA, there's at least 13 gas fired 'thermal' plants, including Pelican Point which is planned to get an additional generator. Do you think Goosebumps maybe doesn't have a clue as to what 'thermal' means ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_South_Australia
2. Solar thermal 'viability': "...such as solar thermal, if it proves to be viable"
In fact there are more than 40 'solar thermal' (also called 'concentrated solar') plants ranging from 50MW up to 392MW around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_thermal_power_stations#Operational
Of course the 'solar thermal' pioneer is Spain:
Spain is one of the top ten countries by solar photovoltaics installed capacity and the first country for concentrated solar power (CSP) in the world. In 2016, the cumulative total solar power installed was 6,969 MW, of which 4,669 MW were solar PV installations and 2,300 MW were concentrated solar power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Spain
So, just an ongoing verification about the reptiles: lie, lie again and just keep on lying.
Funny thing, DP, a Govt tool called Angus Taylor was on the QandA panel last night spruiking the same line as Cater. Must have been an echo.
ReplyDeleteNever mind that, though, wait till they get stuck into Kristina Keneally. First up, Julie Bishop?
(Ps, found my browser and the keys to get in.)
Hey, I know it doesn't do to go poking the reptiles, especially the Chav, with facts, but in view of DW and GB above, it's perhaps worth pointing out that 130MW is not 4% of SA peak demand, except by torturing the numbers until they say what you want.
ReplyDeleteThose figures would imply that SA requires 3250 MW at peak. That's actually closer to Victoria's demand that SA under normal conditions, so I suspect it's completely wrong, but it also misses a key point - SA's actual demand for grid electricity is much, MUCH lower than the total demand because of rooftop installations and various private supply arrangements. The actual market for centrally generated electricity in SA is commonly under 1000 MW range in the middle of the day, and peaks at under 1500 MW when the sun is setting. Just for context, wind production occasionally drops below 100 MW and spikes above 1400 MW, averaging perhaps 550 MW.
I suppose it exceeds 2000 MW on hot windless evenings after the sun starts getting low, but 3250 seems a stretch, given demand control agreements with industry (in return for cheap supply, smelters don't do an aluminium pour when supply is low and other demand is high). But this is why this plant IS a game changer. It won't put out much power during the day because private rooftop solar is supplying most demand, and rates are low. But come evening, when demand for grid power rises, there is a supply of energy sitting there which will be useless by the next morning, giving a strong imperative to sell it at any price within the next few hours. Wholesale rates during the evening "peak" will plummet under that sort of pressure.
Which doesn't mean the price we pay will be lower, of course, but the wholesale prices is only a small factor in that price. Most of it is taken up with poles and wires, shareholder ROI and, frankly, price gouging.
Anyway, if renewables are so bad and coal so good, why is QLD's price higher than SA's one third of the time (and often by a huge margin)? Surely coal should always be cheaper?