G = 8 * Pi * T has been the physicists constant since the early 20th century and the resultant basis for the laws of thermodynamics. Recent new groundbreaking developments in physics indicate the equation above is likely incorrect and Lambda needs to be inserted adjacent to the "G".

The implication of this is immense for energy, including the fact energy may be able to be altered as never considered before. It also explains the origin of the so-called Big Bang, and the fact it results in a vacuum before the "bang" and after once our current cosmos collapses at some future point in time, no creator required, but that's another story entirely!

Anyway, the implications for energy mean energy should be able to be transformed in ways we have yet to understand.

Notwithstanding this, renewable energy, as in solar, wind, biogas etc, will remain a pipe dream because you can't run a growing modern society on the energy delivered if we intend to maintain the business as usual model. Trucking alone, which Australia relies on for so much of our just-in-time delivery systems, can't sustain itself on renewables.

Thorium nuclear technology would be a game changer if our vested interest pollies took off the blinkers and their political party donation interests.

As to the 6-9 metre sea level rise, bollocks it won't happen even if we go beyond 2 degrees C.

the amazing thing is that we pay economist and gw alarmist. They are useless at making predictions and only ever wise after the event. We need an exit from idiotic targets to impress unelected bureacrats around the world. They have stuffed things up simple things like immigration and now hold to the failed gw religion/dogma despite all the evidence revealing them as mugs. South Australia has its complete stupidity exposed and Mike writes this nonsense in complete denial. Our poor grandkids. I suppose with Brexit it shows that at least some are starting to think rather than the masses being dumbed down like the getup clowns and those who think wind farms are of any use without coal.

Geoff of Perth: Do you really know what "G" is in that equation?

Renewables black out an entire state, & the ratbags come roaring out of the woodwork to scream it wasn't us, it's coal.

Germany, Denmark & the UK have woken up & are running away from windmills just as fast as their little legs will carry them, but our ratbag lefties refuse to open their eyes. Perhaps it's campaign donations that are blinding them.

God help us if some of them are not forced to grow up sometime soon.

Hasbeen, would you mind explaining why you think renewables (wind in this case) were the precipitating factor in the SA situation?

On a slightly different note, would you mind explaining why you are so violently opposed to renewable technologies? I don't really get why you're so passionate about it?

No need to go into too much detail, just a simple outline would be fine.

thinkabit it's all to do with the curvature of space.

Consider the dogma where the universe is expanding at the speed of light and you then discover the speed of light has not always been a constant speed, it was slower just after the Big Bang and is now measured at a different rate!

You don't need to be a genius to realise this reality changes our assumptions in relation to energy and the assumed laws of thermodynamics.

So yes I do know what 'G' stands for.