Each day the pond begs for mercy, and each day the reptiles continue to torment the pond.
The pond is almost tempted to accept that dinkum clean Oz coal is the way forward, oi, oi, oi, just to stop the crusading … because sure enough once the reptiles get going on a crusade, little Sir Echo, aka the Caterists, can always be relied to chip in …
First a bit of virtue-signalling. This presentation of the Caterists is only intended for the amusement of passing readers, and is an entertainment, and users must accept full responsibility and gamble sensibly.
Anyone who intends to respond to that immortal line "A new HELE (high efficiency, low emissions) coal-fired power station on a brownfield site might do the trick …" should keep the response within the decent parameters of a belly laugh, verging on a horse laugh …
Anyone resorting to the Fairfaxians for a price check here ...
… must understand and accept that the Caterists are very used to getting taxpayer cash in the paw, and so questions of price are meaningless.
The Caterists are adept socialists, so "if the government stumps up the money and starts today" is just another way of saying, "hey let's approach the Department of Finance for another grant for the Menzies Institute …"
And so to the dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi part of the show …or perhaps, in a dissembling way, hamsters at work in their wheels ...
Point of order m'uh lud, the implication here is that the malt tanks were used in the brewing process. As anyone who's done a tour of the place would recall, the tanks were used to hold the malt …
The main feature of the building was the malt store tanks. They were an innovation for their time and were believed to be the only ones of their type in the Southern Hemisphere. They were erected by the Monier Concrete Co, who succeeded in obtaining the tender in competitions with all the leading boiler makers of Victoria, the cost of building them being £100 cheaper per tank than the steel ones. There were 21 of these tanks installed, twelve in the southern half of the building and nine in the northern portion. The tanks are built of cement and bluestone concrete, with perpendicular steel rods, laced with cylindrical ones. The bottoms and dome tops are made of the same material. They go through the height of two floors, their capacity is 1450 bags or close upon 6000 bushels each. This makes a total holding power in the 21 tanks of over 120, 000 bushels. (pdf here)
Is there some new trend that the pond can celebrate with tatted, bearded hipsters?
The main feature of the building was the malt store tanks. They were an innovation for their time and were believed to be the only ones of their type in the Southern Hemisphere. They were erected by the Monier Concrete Co, who succeeded in obtaining the tender in competitions with all the leading boiler makers of Victoria, the cost of building them being £100 cheaper per tank than the steel ones. There were 21 of these tanks installed, twelve in the southern half of the building and nine in the northern portion. The tanks are built of cement and bluestone concrete, with perpendicular steel rods, laced with cylindrical ones. The bottoms and dome tops are made of the same material. They go through the height of two floors, their capacity is 1450 bags or close upon 6000 bushels each. This makes a total holding power in the 21 tanks of over 120, 000 bushels. (pdf here)
Is there some new trend that the pond can celebrate with tatted, bearded hipsters?
Would Monash have swung with the times? Not if he wanted to remain a luddite dear to the heart of the Caterists …
But speaking of young people, it's only fair to mention what a difficult proposition they are …
The pond is out for the rest of the day, but as a bonus for those who missed it, the pond is proud to present last week's Caterist opus - who knows, enough of them and the pond might yet either bankrupt itself or the Speccie mob …
And luckily, in this outing, the Caterist brooded about those young people with their trendy ways and their sense of grievance - apparently they lack the nous to head off to the Department of Finance and stick out a humble paw for a decent cash grant ...
It has an even more ironic resonance when it's remembered that the Caterists, lacking frugality, thought pissing a couple of billion against the wall on a new coal-fired power station was a bit of an alright whizz …
Impatient millennials? The Caterist was just beginning to warm to his ageist war rhetoric ...
Ah indeed, the public servants. Where would we be without the bureaucrats in such august bodies as the Department of Finance?
It goes without saying that Labor's task is roughly equivalent to the brutal, unedifying task of Department of Finance bureaucrats, robbing the hapless taxpayer in order to drum up a decent cash in the paw grant for the Caterists … though whether it will be enough for the imending settlement is up to the court to decide …
Of course the Caterists are amongst the first beneficiaries of public spending programs, though every so often they seem to forget it …
Suck on that doctors, lawyers, welfare workers and teachers … and to hell with you, young people, with your impudent air and uppity ways …how easily you're conned ...
As usual, it's been an exhausting journey, and all the pond can offer survivors is a Rowe cartoon …
Perhaps it would have been wiser to point out at the start that there's more Rowe cartoons here, but then some mug punters would have taken an early mark and raced off, and not suffered with the pond, and where would be the deep moral lessons and the reform of the reprobates in that?
And what about that pic in the Guardian this day?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/08/hard-times-have-come-for-coalition-and-nothing-will-change
Does anybody reckon that The Mutton can actually form a facial expression ? Other than frozen disapproval, that is.
DeleteThank you for that, DP. The Cater is a national treasure who never misses a chance to "make a fool of himself". I'm thinking primarily of the Grantham flood, and also today's glorious output in which he effortlessly confuses 'franking credits' with 'cash refund for excess franking imputation credits'.
ReplyDeleteBut then I guess that's a real easy mistake to make for a welfare recipient like Cater.
It wouldn't be a Caterday without some boneheaded mistake, GB.
ReplyDeleteIn the first splashes, aside from simultaneously arguing for and against coal, he earns his pottage with a mandatory swipe at the SA battery, because it doesn't have the capacity to smooth the evening peak. No shit, Sherlock. It's not meant to - even if it was wired for that, it would only have the capacity to "behead the duck" for 10 or 15 minutes. It's primary purpose is grid stabilisation, which would have reduced or eliminated the causes of a couple of the SA blackouts we've all heard so much about by buffering capacity and giving the Wind generators a sufficiently stable environment to continue generating.
Of course, for Nick its always easier to say something is unfit for purpose when you arbitrarily decide it's purpose is something other than what the designer was asked to provide.
If any Australian government wants to reduce energy prices, they only need to impose price controls that mean the distributors can't tack on a 35% profit margin when moving from generator to consumer.
It isn't just Cater who doesn't grock the SA battery FD - though he does his usual fine job of total misunderstanding - it's the entire herpetarium as best I can tell.
DeleteBut then, that's not unusual, exactly.
However, I do have some puzzlement as to viable sources of non-greenhouse energy: A1B. Why can't we just buy a dozen or two of them ? Cheaper than the failed HELE/CCS technology I'd reckon.