There was something wondrous about that reptile juxtaposition of splashes - Dame Groan still maintaining her dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, what climate science? ways and attitudes - but to be fair, she was busy in all sorts of areas, matching Bob Carr's assiduous work for the Chinese government …
If only Bob had done as much work for NSW infrastructure, we might have been spared the mess known as Gladys … unless of course you really did want to know how many holes it takes to fill Sydney's CBD ...
But the reptiles' climate science denialism had once more been raised, and it made the pond wonder whether it should follow Barners down the rabbit hole …
After a wave of nostalgia for that scorched earth look - oh how the pond misses the mighty trickle known as the Peel - the pond noticed that the wags were out in force …
At last, a reason to abandon Aldi for a moment and do something useful in K-Mart …
Of course another wag provided a link to the K-Mart corporate goals for the planet, including but not limited to …
Dearie me, that made the pond wonder whether it should have a squiz at Barner's memoir …
Dearie me, maybe not …
And even worse there were renegades and rebels out and about, and amazingly they turned up in the AFR, here, usually the favourite Fairfax home for climate science denialism (may be paywall affected) …
Well enough of all that … the pond felt the need for some genuine old style climate denialism cordial of the kind the pond used to enjoy before the war …
And since Lillymans is long gone and that bottle was snapped up on Ebay, who better than the reptiles of Oz to quench the pond's thirst in these heating up times?
It seems that the reptiles have now officially moved to point 4 in the five stages of denialism …
Yep, it's impossible, it's too expensive, and anything we do is pretty much a waste of time and money ...
Admirable really …so much more nuanced than Barners and the onion muncher ...
Ah, that "we shouldn't have to lead the world" will come in handy …but meanwhile, can at least a little dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, be salvaged from all this nonsense, from this religious hoax?
Indeed, indeed, who gives a flying fuck about the world … Australia's fine doing it on its own, and the last thing we need is any nonsense about the bloody useless planet …
Australia doesn't need the bloody planet, and the sooner the planet realises that, the better … oi, oi, oi …
Let the world keep increasing its emissions and see if the reptiles of Oz care (foot stamp, and book hidden in baby section might add to the theatrical effect)
And as usual the infallible Pope has produced a guide to this advanced form of denialism, with more infallible Pope here …
… and of course the entire point of the pond was to get to the Pope and his celebration of the pond's favourite movie …
Bring it on, for the love of reptiles ...
Abbott: "This is why it's so important to get out of Paris to say that we will control what happens in this country and the circumstances under which it happens."
ReplyDeleteBeaudy, Tones: no storm will ever cross our coastline ever again, no El Nino will ever send hot winds across our coastline. Sea level rise will never enter our territorial waters and thus never reach our shoreline. Yes, we can ! Just ask Tones and Barners and Dutton.
Oz editorial: "Our politicians must stop pretending they can control the planet's climate."
Ooops !
By the way, do you think that anybody in the reptile press, or even the parliament has taken any notice of this:
"The very first time in the world that a hydrogen car has been powered by a fuel derived from ammonia, making it carbon-free."
And:
"Australia’s energy needs are changing, and momentum on hydrogen is growing both nationally and internationally. The hydrogen council predicts that by 2050, hydrogen will make up 15 per cent of global energy demand, with annual sales of hydrogen and equipment of $2.5 trillion! Our work on alternative fuel options is proving critical in preparing for a reliable, economical and sustainable energy future."
https://blog.csiro.au/hyper-for-hydrogen-our-world-first-carbon-free-fuel/
Well guess what: if it can power cars, then it can power generators either as a thermal fuel producing superheated steam to drive turbines, or as a direct fuel for combustion engines turning smaller, localised generators.
Say what ? A carbon-free fuel that can drive "reliable, dispatchable" generators ? Shhh, nobody tell Tones and Barners, it has nothing to do with coal.
But don't get too enthusiastic, it's an Aussie-CSIRO thing, and like aircraft black boxes, fresnel mirrors for solar thermal and wifi, the world's grifters will just come along and, with the LNP's total approval, steal it from us and then make us pay a mozza to use it ourselves (though at least we did get a few $hundred-million for wifi).
PS DP, one of my all-time favourite movies too. Probably the only one I'd rate higher is The Wizard of Oz which I saw first at the advanced age of four. But when I saw it later ... the dancing, oh the magnificent dancing. And one or two half-way decent songs, too.
DeleteThe reptile energy plan seems to be what is known in economics as "free-riding" and in the vernacular as "bludging". Forgetting that it will not work, they are proposing that we gain an advantage by not meeting a commitment. As usual, I find this hard to reconcile with a group of high-minded individual who talk endlessly about morality, ethics, liberalism etc.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, Auntie ran the story about the ammonia/hydrogen powered vehicles. They had a couple of trial cars on display. One of the tin-lids did a research project on hydrogen fuel and it seemed rather counterintuitive but hydrogen in compound was less bulky than liquid hydrogen. Petrol has more hydrogen per litre than liquid hydrogen (ammonia would be a better choice of course)
Incidentally, Bef, the ANU developed a closed cycle ammonia-hydrogen-nitrogen system many years (at least 15) ago. The idea was to use solar heat to dissociate ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen which were piped into a combustion chamber and mutually combusted to provide steam for power generation.
DeleteYou can see details of it here: https://cecs.anu.edu.au/research/research-projects/ammonia-based-energy-storage
It never seemed to actually take off, but the idea was to dissociate a lot of ammonia during the day and combust the H-N overnight. It always sounded like a really good idea to me so I have no idea why it never succeeded.
Interesting ideas pop up from time to time then seem to sink without trace. There are always lots of barriers where new technology bumps up against a mature technology. Economies of scale and just the plain old resistance to change, detailed at great length by the pond, seem to discourage investment. The technology needs a nudge, either by government or from developments in another industry like batteries for mobile phones.
DeleteI don't know diddly squat about the technology but hydrogen fuel cells have been touted from time to time.
Whatever the solution is it's likely to need more planning than you will get out of private enterprise and the current government seems to have fear progress as a guiding principle.
I later thought that the problem with the ANU ammonia closed cycle system might be the practical difficulties with storing, and/or transporting, large volumes of hydrogen, even over short distances for short periods of time. If so, I reckon the latest CSIRO hydrogen/ammonia technology may either solve the difficulty, or bury the ANU idea permanently.
DeletePlease do check in on Troy Bramston's twitter account DP.
ReplyDeleteA certain botherer of dogs known to all of us got frisky in there, and some kind of reptile hell has broken out.
Which was nice.
Well you can't call the lowlife dogs racist; there's only two kinds of people in their world: "us" and "the (evil) Left". I think that's actually called "indiscriminate haterism".
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