The Canterbury region has just been flooded with a “one-in-100-year event” – yet the NIWA Outlook was for “below average rain”.
Should be mass sackings over the ditch. I see MetService has a message –[Cumulative Rainfall Map Unavailable – Unfortunately the cumulative rainfall maps have not captured the recent heavy rainfall accurately and have been disabled while we investigate. The maps will be restored once resolved.]
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Callide C coal-fired outage due to hydrogen explosion
Several sources are reporting the explosion was due to hydrogen which is used to cool the Callide C generator near Biloela Qld.
Can not help the Fed Gov as they try to blabber about future “hydrogen economy” in our energy mix.
Paywalled but says “…leak of the highly combustible hydrogen that’s used to cool the generator.”
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6 hours ago — A hydrogen leak could be behind the explosion that led to the … leak of the highly combustible hydrogen that’s used to cool the generator. Mr Brunker said the repairs to the unit at Callide C would take “months if not … A 550m exclusion zone is in place at Callide Power Station after fire in one of its turbines. AEMO daily prices show the price explosion is still proceeding as at 17Jun. Here is a chart to 4 June.
ABC and Brisbane Times articles also both mention hydrogen. OpenNem and AEMO NEM dashboard show details of prices and generation.
Fed Gov Budget Kurri Kurri gas fired generation
Tracing a timeline of announcements by Minister Angus Taylor before and after the Federal Budget reveals a fascinating coincidence of events which exactly supported the Gov case that the Kurri Kurri 660MW gas generation would be needed to beef up dispatchable generation when Liddell is closed. Of course the renewables industry spruikers and anti-fossil fuel interests have pilloried the Kurri Kurri gas plant widely. But the Minister (and his staffers and everybody else) seem oblivious that daily events with impeccable timing have been exactly demonstrating the case for Kurri Kurri. Enjoy the Timeline.
[1] Advancing Australia’s gas-fired recovery 7May21 no mention Kurri Kurri
[2] Investing in reliable affordable energy and reducing emissions to secure Australia’s recovery 11May21 Day of the Budget no mention here of Kurri Kurri
[3] ABC reports the day after Fed Budget – Here’s how the Hunter region fared in the 2021 budget 12May21 Despite the government’s plan to build a $600m dollar gas plant at Kurri Kurri at the taxpayer’s expense, no money was specifically allocated in the budget.
[4] Back to the Ministers media releases. Wholesale electricity prices at nine-year low 17May21 (Prob. due Covid disaster) Hey Minister on that VERY DAY NSW and other State prices are exploding due to a wind drought. OpenNem – 19 May screen save Open Nem
[5] Protecting families and businesses from higher energy prices 19May21 Mentions Kurri Kurri to be built by Snowy Hydro – still no recognition of AEMO daily average prices exploding due the wind drought in NSW and various other States. AEMO spreadsheet from 22May see below. Larger spreadsheet
[6] Snowy Hydro page on Hunter Power Project at Kurri Kurri
Upper Hunter byelection today
Morning TV news shows the extent to which our media is green/left dominated. The Premier spun her way through a few statements, pointing out the usual anti-Gov swing at byelections – saying she was returning to Sydney before evening. The assembled media made not one attempt at a probing question of this “greenleft credentialed Premier” – not that was shown on ABC TV news. Amazing in view she was asking voters to support her Gov – yet many voters depended for jobs & prosperity on coal mining which her Gov is trying to close down to reduce emissions, while replacing coal fired electricity by renewables.
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NZ Gov waste and a dead turtle
Check out the amazing sequence of events at the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Inc
Could this be another “failure of capitalism”.
Dinosaurs to now 66 Mill years of Earth cooling
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ScoMo’s NRRA birthed in memory lapse
The new Commonwealth “National Recovery and Resilience Agency (NRRA)” will distribute $Billions to victims of fire, flood, drought, but can anybody point to successful Fed Gov spending initiatives.
They also announce the formation of the “Australian Climate Service” to “better collate data”. What th’? we do not have enough Gov orgs pumping out “global warming climate change agitprop” now?
The NRRA was suggested by the “bushfire royal commission” which was an opera to “global warming climate change”.
But the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements ignored the Sep 2019 news from the BoM that “sudden stratospheric warming” was worsening the drought. The BoM said quote “Past stratospheric warming events and associated wind changes have had their strongest effects in NSW and southern Queensland, where springtime temperatures increased, rainfall decreased and heatwaves and fire risk rose.”
And in the ABC article “Rare weather event over Antarctica driving Australia’s hot, dry outlook” 6Sep19 the BoM says quote “SSW is not thought to be caused by global warming. “We view SSW as a natural, internally-generated phenomena,” Dr Hendon said.”
These facts have been totally lost in the responses post the fires and “sudden stratospheric warming” did not feature in 2020 news that I saw.
BoM Rain Outlook for April 2021 proven wrong
Rainfall outlook map Australia for April 2021 posted on 25 March.
April 2021 rainfall percentages for Australia 01/04/2021 – 30/04/2021
The temperature Outlooks were nothing special either
The Max t Outlook was mostly for a cooler Australia
but the results show the wide brown land had mostly warmer days. April 2021 mean maximum temperature anomaly for Australia
The Min t Outlook was mostly for warmer nights but Australia had mainly cooler nights. April 2021 mean minimum temperature anomaly for Australia
ANZAC history essentials to remember
With various Govts turning logical contortions to prevent ANZAC Day returning to the pre-covid state and much advice from on high to “stand in your driveway”. Here are two links to 2015 and 2018 where I blogged about the broad history around the early part of WWI involved with the Ottoman Empire.
Perspective re the late Prince Philip “spear throwing” question
Media has been remembering “gaffes” by the now departed Prince Philip and the time in 2002 when he asked aboriginal performers “do you still throws spears at each other”. Only a few minutes with Mr Google turns up many articles about spearing in the leg as a traditional tribal punishment.