Dammit, the pond insists on running its holiday snaps …this time looking down from the hills of gold, Hanging Rock, on to the village of Nundle below …
One way or another, mineral wealth will come into play this day, and so the Caterists have been brushed aside, and the pond must focus on Malware, the onion muncher, dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, and the restless lizards of Oz …
The pond should first note the onion muncher and reptile ploy to undermine Malware even more, given front page play in the tree killer edition (how they love to kill the natural world) ...
But first the pond must backtrack to the sage of advice of the dog killer, because this is an epic read for hardcore pond devotees, featuring the best of the recent lizard Oz, or the worst, depending on your mood ...
Only a person as innately stupid and dumb as the dog botherer - Iraq war anyone? - could imagine that the onion muncher and the corgi Cory are there for the wooing and the winning.
That's not the way the game is played by testosterone-clogged middle-aged men desperate to snipe, undermine, wreck and humiliate …
But lo, it's time for a serve of inordinate dog botherer stupidity ...
What's pleasing about this?
Well if Malware follows the dog botherer's assorted suggestions, he'd be out on his ear, and quick-stix too …and the onion muncher might well achieve his new dream, of becoming the leader of the opposition … and then all this talk of polarised debate would reach a new level of frenzy …
Meanwhile, surely the most stupid man scribbling for the lizard Oz scribbled on ...
Why is this so funny?
Well the pond happened to catch other baying hounds in the Terror stable the other day. Petulant Peta was doing the hate fest in style ...
Such fear, loathing and pure distilled essence of malice, and the dog botherer wants them all to become loveable luvees doing softy, touchy feely huggies?
Then there was the oscillating fan, quivering and wobbling, and also offering Malware advice on what he should do when the dreaded 30th arrives ...
Hmm, perhaps the pond got it wrong. Perhaps there's a hot contender for the dog botherer crown of 'stupidest reptile scribbling for the lizard Oz' … because bunging on a leadership spill would be as epic a solution as the one adopted by John Gorton … but please, do go on...
Essence of comedy … no bloody showdown?
When he's sixty four, they'll no longer need him and they'll no longer feed him?
What a silly concept, and not just because the pond also caught Akker Dakker, baying for blood in the usual way in last Sunday's Terror ...
And that brings the pond to today's ploy, which is preparation for the 30th, and encouraged by the reptiles, and, as noted, given front page attention … and with the illustration showing the onion muncher lurking in the shadows, out of focus, but only so that fierce hatred might seem a little more mellow and soft ...
It was only by chance that the pond drove along the Putty road and into the heart of darkness and the mountains of the moon that dominate the Upper Hunter and the land around Werris Creek.
The poor little hamlet of Bulga is already showing the final signs of extinction … the pub was up for lease, and the mine will soon encroach on the hamlet, in the same way that Vesuvius made short work of Pompeii ...
And that's what all this talk of dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi is in relation to Malware … stupid people acting on the stupid belief that climate science is actually a Chinese hoax or the work of the UN attempting to establish world government by Xmas … and the reptiles actively encouraging the dream ...
Climate denialists are on the march, and Malware might recite a poem, this knight so bold, and heaven help the Liverpool plains if they manage to do to that food bowl what they've done for the Hunter Valley …
Take it away mountains of the moon and valley of the shadow ...
What's also remarkable is to see how many people in the bush, at least around Tamworth way, where the light is good and strong, have installed solar and taken themselves off the grid …
The pond has no idea of how these cockies reconcile themselves to the enormous stupidity of the likes of gorgeous George ...
And there you have it… as they go about the business of slaying the Malware dragon with mindless talk of clean dinkum Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, and the world moves on to an uncertain future, the pond was reminded of just how many luddites make up the National and Liberal party ranks, and fill the lizard Oz full to overflowing …
No wonder they fucked the NBN.
The pond was left doing reflexive snaps of the dragon dance in the hamlet of Nundle, with Chinese suddenly all the rage (Chinese Australian meals served on request, but try finding an actual marked Chinese grave in the local cemetery) ...and the village's quest for Eldorado now so long ago ...
Will they one day be taking snaps of the coal dreaming on view in the Hunter Coal Festival?
Hanging Rock! Ah, DP, you know how to make my heart beat faster.... At one point, I used to regularly threaten to retire there - unfortunately, the rest of the family used to encourage me to do so...... Sadly, the last time I visited I found that the yabbying at Sheba Dam was much reduced - truly tragic.
ReplyDeleteThese guys are so obsessed with 29 Newspolls that they seem to be unable to read any other polling that's being done. Over the last 12 months, respondents have consistently favoured renewables over coal by factors of anywhere from 2-to-1 to 5-to-1.
ReplyDeleteSure, for many voters, climate change is not a first-order issue (it should be, but that's another story), but power prices certainly are, and HELE is not a path to any part of the quadruple bottom line any government needs to look to here. affordable, reliable, dispatchable and (to a greater-or-lesser extent) low emission.
The simple fact here is that to comply with the Paris Agreement, we effectively need to phase out virtually all coal-fired static electricity generation by somewhere between 2030 and 2040. After that, every GWh a HELE plant produces is two GWh a cheaper, more dispatchable, lower emission gas turbine can't. The lifespan of one of these new HELE plants will reach out beyond 2050 even if we broke sod on one tomorrow. So, what, we are going to build multi-billion dollar assets knowing that they are going to be useable for half of their design life? If they are only going to be 50% productive, you are effectively doubling their capital cost (because you only get to offset the capital cost over half the productive life), which makes the hopeless uncompetitive on price, even without an actual carbon price, which will probably make a comeback sometime before 2030.
A new HELE plant fails on three out of the four success criteria. They are (presumably) reliable, but that's it.
But going back to voting - suppose the COALition were to adopt the Monash Forum fantasy, even if coal -v- renewables (on climate or power price) is a first order issue for only 5% of people, the expressed voter preferences are so lopsided that it would cost the coalition 6 to 9 seats, on its own (if I've done the maths right). So sure, Canetoad Christiansen, Sturmbannführer Abetz and Soapy Sam Andrews can commit suicide if you want, don't let me stop you.
The Monash Forum is officially ground zero for morons.
Ahh, but think about the 'duck curve' in electricity consumption, FD, and how to raise that sunken back.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
But really, can anybody understand, and then explain to us all (or at least to me) why this total infatuation with really obsolete processes and practices such as 'brown coal' (lignite) power generation ? It seems to have infected quite a few of them.
I've often wondered that.Some people find soccer endlessly fascinating, almost the whole meaning of life, but I will never feel that. Some of the right wing blogs start off talking about sea level or something, but pretty soon they are into the most interesting topic - coal.
ReplyDeleteMy father was an engineer in a coal-fired power station, but he never talked about it, probably because he rightly thought nobody was interested.