Think of the unnecessary carbon outputs from him flying back and forwards two or three times this week. : (

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… and I hate privatisation, see . . . . .

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Cheers
Mick

Too many people pushing there own wheel barrow and agendas.

The reality is we need to plan each State’s actual usage and map it to the weather. Once you have done that you will see were you have shortfalls eg like wind in SA is at 7% in winter and the 4 days from Sunday the wind was under 18kmh (no electricity) for 3 days.

We need to plan how to have 24×7 power that uses the weather but is not dependent on the weather. As you can see a 40 degree day in Summer but no wind will work during the day with PV’s but what happens at night?

I know a lot of people will throw solutions at the above but what we need is to write a specification of what we need and put it out to tender. Then evaluate the tender responses. Lets see how creative we can be and how much will it really cost.

I had an argument last week with someone who supports Hanson. He accused ‘all you lefties’ of being too idealistic and avoiding reality. He spends time in Europe and has seen the refugee problems first hand in France and Germany. As I saw it, he was looking at the worst of things and extrapolating the evidence to even more devestation. I was accepting those terrible truths but not allowing them to completely define the reality. It seemed to me that he was terribly scared and couldn’t understand why I was more upbeat, allowing some of the good things into our frame.

So I was intrigued by how persuasive ‘expert’ opinions of doctors and farmers could mitigate against the lefty-loony framing. I think perhaps it helps people feel someone is in charge, in control. Real people, people they recognise as being effective, are ‘on the job’. Great insight.