Disturbing news, that the citizens of Nhill (always loved the name) should have been caught up in the crime wave sweeping the city. Well if you read the digital splash of the lizard Oz, you'll see that Victorians feel increasingly less safe safe alone at night, while apparently a crime wave is engulfing the city ... of Melbourne.
So what is it? The state or the city? Or just another evocation of black Africans hiding under the bed at night?
The pond wondered how many HUN and Oz readers were in the survey? You see, the reptiles have been banging on for some considerable time about this ... using panic, fear and loathing for naked political purposes ...
Never mind, it's race-baiting and fear-mongering of a kind the reptiles are becoming increasingly adept at, on the basis that a citizenry chained in fear is far more likely to follow like obedient sheep in the abattoir of life ... you know, vote for Malware and he'll fix the gangs and the NBN ...
And speaking of sheep, what was this?
The pond had a queasy feeling, as if was about to read a press release for a special interest group, dangerous 'leets let loose on the Oz readership ...
Now hang on, hang on, as you've mentioned Tamworth, the pond once lived near Marius street and frolicked in the slag heap, which never seems to make it into photos ...
The slag heap was over the other side - funny no one seems to have taken a fond snap of it - and while it wasn't up to the mountain in Broken Hill, it was a no go area of filth ... in much the same way that sensible folk heaved a sigh of relief when the power station was decommissioned and the shit in the air went elsewhere ...
Any sentimentality surrounding the power station only developed after it was long gone from town.
The pond spent years enjoying the benefits of coal gas - the detritus of muck and grease on the kitchen walls could never be cleaned off, not even for a re-painting, and all that could be done was learn to live with the crap ... while on a bad day downwind, the power station itself was something to be endured ...
But sorry for that trip down memory lane about the joys of coal, do go on ...
Hang on, hang on, the pond's queasy feeling just intensified into an intense low pressure system.
Just who is Greg Evans, what's his game? What's his possible excuse for this forelock-tugging, shameless pandering, judged worthy of being included as an opinion piece in the lizard Oz?
Ah, say no more, there you have it, another calm, objective report in the lizard Oz of the joys of coal, coal, coal for Australia, oi, oi, oi ...
Well, the pond never thought of its reptile herpetarium as being remotely useful ... and in truth on many a day, the rag, whether digital or tree-killer, the hysteria-mongering rag frequently resembles a power station slag heap, or the grease caked on a kitchen wall ....
On the upside, there's no point in having a discussion with a propaganda pamphlet of the kind best left in the reception area, or the lobby ...
And now as the reptile chances to bemoan the fate of Orestalia day - so named in honour of the Minerals Council of Australia - Rowe took the chance for an evocative cartoon, with more evocative Rowe here ...
It may well be, as our Minerals Council of Australia man avers that "The CCS process is widely used overseas, with 21 large-scale CCS facilities in operation or under construction.", but perhaps we should ask him just how many of those CCS facilities are actually coal burning plants used for power generation.
ReplyDeleteThe answer is two. It was supposed to be three but after years of trying the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi wisely converted from coal to natural gas.
So that leaves Boundary Dam Saskatchewan and Petra Nova Texas. Just two after all this time - that's a highly successful technology, yes ?
https://www.quora.com/How-many-CCS-electricity-generators-are-operational-globally-How-much-CO2-do-they-sequester-annually-and-at-what-cost
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteThe wealth of opportunities for CCS in Australia are definitely being exploited to the max;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage_in_Australia
DW
That's all right, DW, we can buy the technology when others develop it.
DeleteOR maybe we don't have faith that it will ever be developed?
If only that - waiting for others to develop it - was what is happening, Anony. But never underestimate the power of those who can't give us a working NBN to waste heaps on other rubbish:
Delete"Despite over a billion dollars of Australian government spending on CCS initiatives since 2003, there are still no large-scale coal with CCS operations in Australia."
http://www.tai.org.au/sites/defualt/files/P357%20Money%20for%20nothing_0.pdf
And not just not any large-scale ones, for $1Billion spent, there's none at all.
These coal boosters remind me of the cosmetics industry. Instead of "new age-defying cream with hyaluronic acid", read "new high efficiency low emissions coal". It really plays to people that want to believe & aren't inclined to check. Finkel was good enough to summarise the relative emissions (page 203).
ReplyDeletehttps://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/1d6b0464-6162-4223-ac08-3395a6b1c7fa/files/electricity-market-review-final-report.pdf
HELE is neither new or clean. As GB observes, CCS is not an unfolding technology, more a folding technology. I guess you cannot polish a turd.
That’s right BF – you can’t polish a turd – but you can coat it in glitter. And in the case of CCS the “glitter” is the propaganda peddled by the likes of “clean” coalman Greg Evans.
DeleteHis friends, the poor old World Coal Association are bemoaning the fact that investors and the general public don’t share their vision of “zero emissions from coal”.
Even a cursory study of the stats on HELE and CCS paints these processes as ultra expensive pipedreams that are no match for the ever-increasing cost effectiveness of renewables.
It’s such fun watching the carbosaurs in their slo-mo death throes.
This is bullshit about bullshit (in the Harry Frankfurt sense).
ReplyDeleteThe report itself is 443 pages of bullshit, with case studies and detailed costings and diagrams and flowcharts and ridiculously oversized tables, all of which collapse because all estimates of amount of CO2 to be captured have $0 attached to them And that's not counting the fact the authors explicitly excluded the cost of transport and storage. Their base case HELE, without CCS (which, as we agree, wight as well not exist), shows that HELE has at best 12% less emissions per MWh than a comparable non-HELE plant (777 t/MWh, which compares to Bayswater's most recent figures of 888 t/MWh).
I suspect that having paid for 443 pages of bullshit, the MCA now feel a bit like the Emperor after paying for his new clothes. "It's a load of bullshit, but we're going to look like muppets if we acknowledge that, so lets talk it up. Nobody will plough through 443 pages just for yucks to prove we're bullshitting too." Sorry, MCA. I did.
Sidenote - the Pond has mentioned several times recently that the reptiles are showing a propensity to run articles that were written and spiked months ago. This is another of them - that report came out in the middle of last year. Coincidentally, just after Simon Holmes a Court did some serious pwnage of this HELE/CCS guff on reneweconomy. Either its a slow day at Newscorpse, or Rupert has just checked his investment portfolio and shat himself.
All 443 pages ? That'd just about have been worth a nomination as 'Australian of the Year' ... or at least an Order of Aus with bar. :-)
DeleteBut yeah, baffle 'em by the sheer tonnage of bullshit is the way they're working. Especially if it's last year's "news" - but then, maybe that's how long it took somebody to read and 'absorb' the first 20 pages or so. (Newscorpse - love that one).
Maybe a bit of panic setting in - sometimes the market just rolls over the top of you.
Deletehttp://www.afr.com/business/energy/solar-energy/wind-solar-investment-on-a-roll-ahead-of-2020-target-20180124-h0nzwq
Many thanks to GB, Anony and BF for the above informative links. The abundant euphemisms of the coalistas ultimately inspired the following ramble.
ReplyDeleteSelected entries from the Revised Anthropogene Thermasaurus
Carbonefarious – descriptive of underhanded coal lobbying
Coal Porter – American composer of anthracitic ditties including “Anything Glows”, “Too Darn Hot” and “I’ve Got Coal Under My Skin”
Coala – slow moving, irascible creature
Coaless – female equivalent of a coalman
Coalhearted – reptilian, poikilothermic, right wing, Abbottic
Coalified – licensed to practice as a pro-carbon disinformant
Coalitis – chronic brain inflammation causing ultra-conservative thought modalities, symptoms include hubris, aggression, envy and paranoia
Coallation – dubious mix of coal company prospectuses
Coallision – inevitable convergence of the coal industry with reality
Coallusion – the global conspiracy to promote the fantasy of clean coal
Coalorectal – Big Coal talking out of its arse
Infernity – eternal combustion of coal
Greg Evans? Back in the 80s during a down and out period of my life, I watched a bit of day TV, including a games show called Perfect Match a sort of dating set-up. It was pretty awful, made almost bearable by a robot named Dexter assessing compatibility.
ReplyDeleteThe host of the show was Greg Evans a chatty dapper little guy as they tended to be. Could this be the same Greg Evans now spruiking for the Minerals Council? If so, I fear he has come down in the world from his days as a games show host.