Congratulations ttbn!

It's good to see that you are starting to use a number of sources to help with your posts.

For a while there I though you were getting all your information from youtube loonies - even loonies have bills to pay I guess.

It's great to see you embracing the Australian Energy Council.

As their website clearly states: "The AEC supports reaching net-zero by 2050 and is committed to delivering the energy transition for the benefit of consumers."

Net zero? Energy transition?

Careful though, some of the old-timers on here might start calling you woke.

More asbestos confirmed in windmills at the $1 billion Clark Creek wind “farm”.

Wealthy windbag, Twiggy Forest, had to give up his green hydrogen nonsense, now he’s got asbestos. Another gift from China. ‘Low risk’, they claim. We all believe that of course, coming as it does from that wonderful country Albanese has a good relationship with. Nothing to see here, folks.

The asbestos-riddled pads will be removed (they reckon), but where will they be disposed of? China or Australia? And, nobody has a clue how many of these monstrosities blighting the Australian countryside are also affected, and how much it will cost to fix them, and who is paying.

Windmills flogged to the dopey country of Australia by Denmark have also been found to have asbestos in them.

It has actually been illegal to import asbestos-containing goods into Australia since 2003. Betcha Albanese will find an excuse not to take any action against China. Not sure about Denmark.

Renewables without subsidies would probably not have got off the ground.

The government auditor has claimed that the $2.3 billion in handouts from the Treasury are illegal because they didn’t have Jim Chalmers' written approval.

It’s Rafferty’s Rules in Oz. Surely the Treasurer should have been aware of the written approval requirement? But, then again …….

The $300 p.a subsidy to householders, an attempt to disguise the shocking rise in power bills is part of the mess.

The Treasury itself revealed the Constitutional breach in October. The breach was the flinging of other people’s money around “without appropriate written ministerial authorisation in place for the senior official to approve the payments on the Minister’s behalf”.

Talk about amateurs! A larger financial breach has not been investigated by the auditor-general this year.

The news came on Monday after a grilling by Senator James Patterson.

If the Treasury had not “self-reported”, the breach would have stayed hidden. The Treasure is supposed to be looking after public interests, and ensuring that his department is doing the right thing.

Given Jim’s performance as Treasure though, we can’t expect him to know about this Constitutional requirement - or much else.

The excuse for Jimbo is that the states did the right thing, so he made a only “technical” error.

"SMR only exist as 100 KwH / day and very short fuel cycle before changing."

Geez, who told you that? Cult leader Albo or his grifter buddies?

"Albo is your leader"

Not my leader, but certainly a stupid C ("C" for China) selling out the nation's future to help out his grifter buddies.

Hey, but here's a bit about China's pilot smr that scares the poo out of the grifters:

"China Huaneng Group, one of China's major generators, is the lead organization involved in the demonstration unit with 47.5% share; China Nuclear Engineering & Construction (CNEC) has a 32.5% stake and Tsinghua University's INET 20% – it being the main R&D contributor. Projected cost is $430 million (but later units falling to $1500/kW with generating cost about 5 ¢/kWh). The HTR-PM rationale is both eventually to replace conventional reactor technology for power, and also to provide for future hydrogen production. INET is in charge of R&D, and was aiming to increase the size of the 250 MWt module and also utilize thorium in the fuel."

Do you know why the grifters are so scared of nuclear? It's because nuclear can provide 24/7/365 power: They would sell power via long term contracts and the grifters wouldn't get a look in. The scam would end, and the only people bothering with expensive rooftop solar would be anti-nuclear nutjobs.

End the ban and ditch the grifters.

ps. Did you hear about all the poor little birdies that the grifters killed building a transmission line? Now there's a thought for your Christmas dindins.

Hi Fester,

You seem rather rabid with your opposition to renewable energy, are you politically motivated? Many on the right of politics, oppose renewable's based on their opposition to the progressive left, who by all accounts support a transition. Regardless of holding a staunch political view, long term, fossil fuels will become exhausted, and alternatives will be needed. In your opinion what are those alternatives, if its not wind and solar, what is it, and when should that transition begin?