What are you on tonight, Nick? LOL

Hi Nick,

Around forty years ago, a top South Australian scientist [no, that's not an oxymoron] proposed dragging a fifty-mile iceberg up Spencer's Gulf, mooring it around Port Pirie and piping off the fresh water as it melted. Back in those days, a shortage of water was probably of more concern than global warming. But your thoughtful suggestion could work wonders in so many ways.

Cheers,

Joe

Well then Chris Lewis, I gather then that you are not a cardinal, or even a bishop in this new anti energy religion you preach. Surely you must be a high priest at least, to be so committed.

I know it must be hard for the converted & brainwashed to be sensible, & look at the real science, rather than the UN sponsored religious hooey of your new found cause.

I know the fraudsters discourage any of the faithful reading any blasphemy in the form of the real science flooding the climate field, but it is time to wake up mate. The fraud is dying, don't go all the way down with it.

Of course the drag co-efficient is mainly the cross section bow not the length. The iceberg shape is fairly laminar flow and the correct proportions for deep sea voyages . Compared with trade winds, the Roaring Forties are exactly the right speed and direction for a trouble-free Nullarbor landing with less sail area than estimated in the blueprint. Crowd-funding prospectus is available from Hon J Wetherill MP and AC 240 volts.

SA blames the energy authority for a failure to "demand" that ENGIE crank up Pelican Point. ENGIE will yield only when the price offered makes it worthwhile. What's the authority to do, mandate a price ENGIE must accept? Great investment climate, that.

Whether paying privateers for peak generation or running state owned generators, reliable electricity costs a monza where renewables are at high penetration. SA has relied on interconnection to date but, with Hazlewood going offline, the cost of Victorian electricity will both rise and become unreliable, so coal-fired power in SA will have to be considered. Solar thermal is unaffordable at the scale required, besides being unreliable. Dreams must go on the backburner.

If only there was some long term sense in the world pursuing RE to avert CAGW, one could justify the pain of it all. With no scalable, affordable energy storage solution here or on the horizon, there is no sense in it.

The oceans are obsorbing heat how else is Greenland and Antarctic melting.
The warmer the oceans get the more co2 it dispels. No matter what Turnbull does climate change is not going to stop for him.