Warnings Of Blackouts in Sydney Are Just Embarrassing!
NSW State Treasurer Matt Kean went on television last night urging people to reduce their energy consumption to avoid a blackout.
Sydney’s 5.3 million people were told to keep power usage to a minimum between 5.30pm and 8.30pm for fear there would not be enough electricity to power the city.
The treasurer asked people not to use their dishwashers!
Vivid festival, featuring light instillations around the city, carried on. But I digress.
Australia is the most energy rich country on the globe, and we’re being asked to ration our power. What a disgrace!
We are a laughing stock. Get used to it.
With no wind, no sun, and deliberate scarcity of coal and gas, comes low supply and high prices.
The worst part of this energy catastrophe is that it was all completely foreseeable.
Australia has enormous amounts of coal, gas, and uranium and yet right now our major city is being warned of blackouts in the middle of our coldest start to winter in 30 years.
Imagine New Zealand having a wooly jumper shortage. It's ridiculous.
Physics trumps Green economics. Wind and solar will not keep the lights on in Sydney.
If we had more coal plants operating right now, there would be no problem with supply, or with price.
Incidentally, Australian coal is trading on the world market at a record high price.
We were all told by the very same people now urging energy rationing - in winter for god’s sake - that coal had no future and that coal mines would be stranded assets.
Idiots.
If we really must do something about emissions, then the government should ensure all existing coal plants are operating at full capacity until nuclear power is up and running.
If they are not prepared to do that then they are neither serious about solving the energy crisis or about reducing emissions.
Our energy crisis is actually a critical thinking crisis.
Australia’s abundant supply of coal and gas is being deliberately left in the ground by people insisting the sun can keep us warm when the sun don't shine, and that the wind can keep us powered when the breeze don’t blow.
Renewables are a unicorn. We do not have storage and we cannot scale them. On the other hand, nuclear provides a reliable, zero emissions, 24/7 energy generation solution. The problem, however, is that nuclear offers no rent-seeking benefits to those invested in green technology.
Reality will eventually trump Green ideology.
One more thing while we are talking about the Green ideology promoted by people wealthy enough not to have to worry about the huge price rises it creates …
Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow used a budget committee hearing this month to brag that as she passed “every” gas station in her new electric vehicle it “didn’t matter how high (the price of gas) was”.
I just have to say on the issue of gas prices I drove (my electric car) from Michigan to here this last weekend and went by every single gas station and it didn’t matter how high it (petrol prices) was.
It was a staggering display of bravado from a representative of the people. She’s gloating about being rich enough to own an electric car while her constituents suffer because of her virtue signalling green madness.
She’s a modern day Marie Antoinette. A true champion of the little people.
“Get out of the way of my Tesla, peasants!”
Anyway, that’s a little insight into how the green elites who keep banging on about the need to avert a climate crisis feel about you!
Mark my words, matter how high the price of electricity in Australia goes, none of our politicians will be shivering in their homes.
James I saw Andrew Bolt and Paul Murray railing about this last night. The nonsense promulgated by the IPCC has all been scientifically rejected by rational geologists, physicists and chemical scientists but we are driven to listen only to these new sociologists called climatologists who have socialist agendas. Idiots like Michael Mann. I say new sociologists as like sociologists without an agenda they wouldn't have jobs or people to listen to them. These rich and let them eat cake types you mention merely think this is a fad that they have to get into so they're not left out. God help them when the socialists grab what's theirs to give to the people of the world who are not white or are of one of the genders that is not ball bearing or child bearing. Pretty much covered all my rants there.
Matt Kean's "plan" to save the planet: "I know, I'll come up with a set of steps that we could use to save the environment"…
So he created an Al Gore-ithm.