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» 3/09/2018 4:24:05 PM Binoy Kampmark is, as usual, long on rhetoric and short on practicalities. The US passing .....
» 2/08/2018 10:40:33 AM As someone who was retrenched from the Australian Financial Review two years ago, I think .....
» 29/06/2018 10:33:51 AM The problem Carmody points to is well known - renewables wreck the grid and destroy the fa.....
» 28/06/2018 5:23:28 PM I was under the impression that Vitamin C had no effect at all on the immune system. Stori.....
» 27/06/2018 9:58:50 AM While I would not want to detract from the expertise of Professor Curson, this disease has.....
» 22/06/2018 5:27:10 PM Alan B "The paleontological record informs us we have crossed this 2-degree tipping .....
» 31/05/2018 10:35:30 AM Wasn't there an article on a very similar theme on this site a week or so ago? Never mind......
» 30/05/2018 10:33:32 AM Taswegian - just as an aside to your note, that decrease in power prices is off historic h.....
» 23/05/2018 10:44:12 AM Karun Cowper suggests, perhaps without quite realising it, a reinvention of socialism with.....
» 1/05/2018 10:08:51 AM Ant you should have looked at the list of references you cited. In fact I doubt that any o.....
» 26/04/2018 10:42:48 AM Tania de Jong's thesis is a popular one, but it does not stand up to any hard scrutiny. Te.....
» 5/04/2018 10:16:33 AM Having read the article I'm certainly not going to bother with the book. His comparisons b.....
» 4/04/2018 10:37:53 AM I can add to Geoff's article by pointing to overseas experience in this area. Where the sy.....
» 29/03/2018 4:16:06 PM Look no further than the statistic that most farms in China are still no bigger than 10 he.....
» 28/03/2018 10:07:30 AM Ms Francis is long on applaudable sentiment but short on any actual knowledge of the area......
» 22/03/2018 9:26:15 AM And this guy lectures at RMIT? As his article shows, Binoy Kampmark, like Marx before him,.....
» 22/02/2018 9:27:00 AM John, if you are going to quote propaganda statistics such as 1500 people die from coal-re.....
» 12/02/2018 12:58:19 PM Diver Dan/Alan B sorry guys but its almost entirely the other way round. The university a.....
» 12/02/2018 9:25:15 AM As Prof Ridd has pointed out, the reef has been declared almost dead so often by "exp.....
» 1/12/2017 11:03:48 AM And this guy is a retired professor at Macquarie. What Prof Curson says is all true up to .....
» 22/11/2017 9:02:40 AM Kampmark's article wanders over a few points but in some respects it is a self-parody. He .....
» 2/11/2017 9:38:44 AM As Don indicates the NBN was one of those projects that sounded really good at meetings, b.....
» 24/10/2017 4:11:21 PM Don - excellent article. I had wondered about all those different bodies and how they fitt.....
» 24/10/2017 4:00:27 PM Aidan In fact, the antivaxing movement provides a handy illustration of the main argument .....
» 24/10/2017 9:36:24 AM Like the other posters I got as far as the part comparing the anti-vaxers with climate sce.....
» 10/10/2017 9:43:02 AM Sorry Huon Hoogesteger but Abbott is right as ttbn just said. Your article simply repeats .....
» 21/09/2017 8:15:43 AM Excellent article Graham. If renewables really were anything but a blight on the grid then.....
» 1/06/2017 5:39:32 PM Its clear from the article that the writer has no clue about the organisations and taxatio.....
» 15/05/2017 10:09:59 AM The Indonesian occupation of the province/country was certainly heavy handed, and there ha.....
» 12/05/2017 10:41:44 AM Geoff - I am under the impression that much of the exported gas was sold forward long ago......
» 9/05/2017 4:34:04 PM Good stuff.. read to the end.......
» 1/05/2017 12:38:45 PM Mark Lawson here Bernie - the veto thing is basically what happens in the US as the farmer.....
» 27/04/2017 11:11:08 AM This is a very wordy article lacking in rigour and so is well below the standard of Geoff .....
» 20/04/2017 12:14:56 PM So this guy is Albert Langer - a left over from the radicalism of the 1960s? Is the Arthur.....
» 7/04/2017 10:51:43 AM The article has its moments but is of limited use, even for those interested in the future.....
» 5/04/2017 11:43:39 AM Entertaining - the factory being where it is indicates that Musk is not serious. As the wr.....
» 31/03/2017 9:30:20 AM The wildly incorrect projections in demand by EIA are interesting. But, as other posters h.....
» 30/03/2017 8:53:01 AM I didn't realise the unions had traded away penalty rates for the chains.. good stuff.......
» 29/03/2017 10:56:43 AM All good stuff. The defamation laws are restrictive but do guard personal rights reasonabl.....
» 14/03/2017 11:01:56 AM Alan B - you'll have to brush up on your sarcasm. I was part way into your post before I r.....
» 1/03/2017 1:22:51 PM This article is nearly incoherent. Whales have stranded themselves before and it was my un.....
» 28/02/2017 1:27:08 PM As other posters have noted, the author's concerns have no relevance to Australian audienc.....
» 20/02/2017 9:18:33 AM As a journalist I attempted to contact the NEM a couple of times. they don't say much. The.....
» 14/02/2017 10:35:20 AM Good article guys.. just one point. You mention the term semi-dispatchable at the end. My .....
» 18/01/2017 3:49:32 PM I note that Dr Peter Schrader has carefully left out several problem with his ideas, inclu.....
» 16/01/2017 8:47:25 AM Other posters have poured sufficient scorn on this article. I would point out that the wri.....
» 10/01/2017 3:13:21 PM Alan B As per some of our other encounters you completely misunderstood, or chose to misun.....
» 10/01/2017 1:37:53 PM I thought brain tumours from mobile phones and power lines was supposed to have wiped out .....
» 9/01/2017 8:54:52 AM As Yuyutsu notes, the ABM simply has to conform and produce analysis which conforms with t.....
» 12/12/2016 9:13:13 AM I don't know if the writer has actually noticed but SA already has more renewable energy t.....
» 9/12/2016 9:54:22 AM runner - I liked the statistic about four farmers a day suiciding at the height of the las.....
» 7/12/2016 10:36:30 AM So many errors so little time. "A related problem is the threat of global pandemic.&.....
» 30/11/2016 1:35:29 PM Tristan - sorry but most of the stuff you attribute to Marx was in fact recognised long be.....
» 30/11/2016 10:23:18 AM Tristan Ewins The problem with your comments is that the original Marx vision was simply .....
» 29/11/2016 4:00:53 PM The other posters have expressed their outraged and rightly so. The communist regime in Cu.....
» 3/11/2016 9:36:10 AM Iser presents this statement, "However, experience in other regions such as the ACT, .....
» 2/11/2016 1:17:42 PM Tartan "gutless, fearful, denial riven troglodyte commentary from the mentally weak n.....
» 2/11/2016 10:18:52 AM Julian - of your parade of nightmares the one that is the easiest to debunk is food securi.....
» 18/10/2016 2:45:23 PM I don't disagree with the article but I should point out that SA's present troubles with r.....
» 14/10/2016 4:17:01 PM Craig Minns - thanks for that.. your suggestion may be part of the answer. I'm fully awar.....
» 14/10/2016 9:41:54 AM I have no disagreements with the article but bear in mind, as far as I know none of the st.....
» 12/10/2016 1:34:23 PM Martin N - I'm sure that you could design wind turbines to operate at the higher wind spee.....
» 12/10/2016 10:45:00 AM Tom Quirk Mark Lawson here - thanks for the explanation of system inertia and frequency ma.....
» 11/10/2016 7:37:44 PM Alan B for a moment there I thought you couldn't be serious but you are. Automation of the.....
» 11/10/2016 11:53:01 AM As one of the other posters has noted, Tomlinson is one of the those rare individuals stil.....
» 2/09/2016 10:56:35 AM I agree with Sabena that the article is nonsense, although I can cite different reasons. T.....
» 23/08/2016 10:51:17 AM At last, someone has found a use for most of South Australia and Wauchope is objecting. We.....
» 16/08/2016 2:44:23 PM Alan B. - that stuff all makes such a good story. It's all nonsense of course - but it mak.....
» 16/08/2016 11:57:52 AM This article is another history in what is now a 30 year history of modern climate alarmis.....
» 2/08/2016 4:19:12 PM Mark Lawson here - took some time for me to come back. My apologies. voxUnius - tnks for .....
» 21/07/2016 10:31:39 AM The author is quite right. If a business consortium thinks it can do this then let them dr.....
» 13/07/2016 3:19:39 PM As the others have noted, the article is mostly self-delusion. The dumping of far right MP.....
» 5/07/2016 11:14:09 AM This article was very good, but marred by ridiculous comments about food fights. According.....
» 14/10/2009 10:18:08 PM Bugsy - come now do try to be polite. That adaption doesn't apply is obvious. What explana.....
» 7/10/2009 11:19:50 PM Chris - the editorials are under the control of the senior editors (I use to write them in.....
» 30/09/2009 12:01:39 AM Eclipse Now and Matt Andrews - I regret that suggestions concerning Hanson have arisen bec.....
» 29/09/2009 11:42:23 PM Bugsy - precisely, and I'm glad you do know something about this stuff - although that mak.....
» 27/09/2009 5:09:58 PM Q&A - If you are a scientist in the field you have lost all detachment, and I take it from.....
» 26/09/2009 12:31:48 AM Matt Andrews and Eclipse Now - I regret there were no misunderstandings and no errors. The.....
» 22/09/2009 11:47:42 PM Keith - 'Cumedgeon that you fail to understand the fundamental cause of the current crisis.....
» 21/09/2009 11:46:34 PM Tonykevin 1 - There are no power engineers saying the things you said, because it isn't tr.....
» 19/09/2009 11:22:00 AM Yes a collection of wild ideas.. RStuart - I regret that you misunderstood my post. The Fe.....
» 15/09/2009 11:37:29 PM Eclipse now.. this is part of the debate going on now in an online newsletter .. the guy d.....
» 15/09/2009 11:21:30 PM Eclipse Now - peer reviewed papers! The finds have only just been made so its a bit early .....
» 14/09/2009 11:29:50 PM michael_in_adelaide - no, in fact, the fields are very significant. What is going on? Fiel.....
» 10/09/2009 12:17:39 AM Judy - Ban Ki-moon should have saved himself a trip and kept warm. The reason the fuss ove.....
» 3/09/2009 11:32:18 PM RPG - its true that the side with the better funding has won, for the moment. Although the.....
» 3/09/2009 12:09:42 AM Peter H - unfortunately Peter, although the free market stuff sounds really good, the real.....
» 2/09/2009 11:59:26 PM rubyappeal - this is the public domain and I'm not asking the author to write a better art.....
» 19/08/2009 11:49:29 PM Matt Andrews - just to follow up the last post with a few links. Here is the response to S.....
» 11/08/2009 12:14:23 AM Ooooops! Quite right - my apologies. I was thinking of the gigatnic project they announced.....
» 5/08/2009 11:17:08 PM KAEP, considering that there are only test plants in a few of the comparatively easy geoth.....
» 4/08/2009 12:08:22 AM Eclipse Now As has been pointed out, wind is almost totally ineffective at the moment due .....
» 18/07/2009 5:02:24 PM As Protagoras isn't denying the only real problem with GM foods is aspects of the propucti.....
» 17/07/2009 10:00:25 PM Protagoras - as you have so handily confirmed, albeit not in a constructive manner, the fe.....
» 14/07/2009 11:30:38 PM Charger - others - sorry but the real problem with Australian farming has been a long-term.....
» 14/07/2009 12:14:52 AM Coorangreeny, the Club of Rome is a byword for loony forecasting. By most of the original .....
» 29/06/2009 10:40:34 AM Peter - you were quite right to point out that many scientists seemed to have succumbed to.....
» 26/06/2009 11:24:27 AM Unfortunately for those pushing renewable energy in all its forms, Martin is right but doe.....
» 26/06/2009 11:06:42 AM Leckos - sorry but you didn't get what I was saying at all. I know quite well about cost a.....
» 25/06/2009 7:58:41 PM Peak oil again - as much as I admire the author's persistance in submitting these articles.....
» 23/06/2009 10:06:13 AM Ian - quite right, but I think you could have used more foreceful language. In essence, th.....
» 14/06/2009 9:16:17 PM Bugsy - sorry but you have missed the point of what I was saying and have misread the grap.....
» 11/06/2009 11:44:06 PM Bugsy - If you have to resort to abuse that means your case is weak. The reason for the or.....
» 10/06/2009 12:12:36 AM Mark Duffett - the reason the temperatures are all positive is that they are measured from.....
» 23/05/2009 8:38:44 PM Leon - I was sufficinetly intriged by your claim that manufacturing was Victoria's biggest.....
» 1/05/2009 12:09:10 AM Sorry Cameron, but nothing I have seen justifies the immense expense you are suggesting - .....
» 27/04/2009 11:38:30 PM Economists have long been weighing and measuring Malthuse's ideas and the general concensu.....
» 23/04/2009 10:49:07 PM Sorry fellas but you are still short of an energy crisis. I was told only 30 years or oil .....
» 23/04/2009 11:58:32 AM Okay, I'll say it. The author's thesis, as outlined in the article, is highly confused. Th.....
» 22/04/2009 5:54:23 PM As with most of this well meaning stuff the views in the article are the exact opposite of.....
» 16/04/2009 11:54:09 PM I will respond to the Wilkins Ice Shelf comment as it has reminded me about this particula.....
» 30/03/2009 9:16:14 AM China's contribution to the debate was not positive at all. The Chinese Government was poi.....
» 22/03/2009 10:19:54 AM Clark Kent - quite right on the use of MWh but I don't believe it was necessary to go into.....
» 21/03/2009 2:26:56 PM Clark Kent - there was no confusion over Megawatt hours and megawatt. If you go back to th.....
» 20/03/2009 6:59:08 PM Protagoras - glanced briefly at your link. It doesn't disprove anything. The installed cap.....
» 20/03/2009 1:44:20 PM Jeremy - you raise an interesting point I did not quite get around to in the article. Yes,.....
» 12/03/2009 11:17:01 PM Mac - I am aware of Japanese economic history and it proves my point. Japanese industry de.....
» 22/02/2009 9:58:02 AM The claims in the article are bizaare. In fact the exact opposite has been happening. Glob.....
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