sendler2112 said:
In the words of systems theorist Kenneth Boulding: “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-05-09/excerpt-from-the-patterning-instinct-can-we-transform-our-society-for-a-flourishing-future/
South Australia, Denmark, and Germany have the most expensive electricity in the world.
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Yep, its a great chart & web link, and it brute forces the reality of "Supply & Demand Law" in the electricity market.
It's no coincidence that the 4 top has the largest amounts of wind-turbine/solar installations in the world on a per-capita basis combined with the lack of availability from traditional dispatchable electricity generation.
It's just like bananas, except swap "Bananas" with "Electricity"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqeRnxSuLFI
Here is an article from the Australian, showing the closure of coal-power stations and the massive rise in electricity prices, South Australia was also once very cheap at an averaging all states for about $50 per MWh.
It's no surprise that SA had a very eary "jump" in electricity prices, as SA was the first state to start shutting down coal power-stations and move to wind-turbines.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/power-rows-drive-surge-in-prices-equal-to-50-a-tonne-carbon-tax/news-story/76250cea38872e5789741256e00643a2
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/cac32b32b8d226bfe1d9e2a8d6f486f2?width=650
You can word it and garbage it all you want, but the brutal reality is its the effects of "supply & demand law".
We are now heading towards even dumber ideas, that being to somehow force electricity to be cheaper by taking control of the market/operators, sounds so much like Venezuela, but I can hear the renewables folks say "It's going to be different this time" :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntpc4zS2x-Q
Look at Victoria blue, it had the biggest shutdown in coal MW 1700 and it went up the most over the last few years.
All up losing 5318MW of coal generation over the last 5 years is a lot of power to lose, its amazing electricity hasn't gone up more.
Some of the other country/states can be explained in a similar manner, merely from over demand for existing conventional electricity suppliers as populations of states/countries get huge. Like NSW for example, merely the CITY of Sydney has a population BIGGER than a lot of ENTIRE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES like Norway, not their city but the whole country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway#Population
The city of Sydney is well over 5million now. Melbourne also over 5 million now.
I constantly see these "LOW IQ level 75" equivalent memes on Facebook telling everyone we should all be like the country of Norway, and copy their cheap electricity/free university/health care/free everything, while these incredibly dumb people IGNORE the most obvious part of Norway's as a country/people success, that is the incredibly low population for the country resources.
Norway hasn't yet filled up its country with 3rd world migrants just to push up Coca-Cola sales or general stockmarket indexes just for the sake of it for the people at the top of the tree, while feeding garbage information via broadcast media to push it all pointlessly further.
Also, note on that electricity index price chart that Norway is near the bottom.
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"
This insane ideology is constantly pushed by broadcast TV media when it makes no sense, because supply & demand law means that the ONLY thing it can do in the modern society is push-up the costs of living, while destroying the quality of living for the public, no normal everyday person wants that, but the people at the top do.
Constant increases in automation kill the traditional idea of growth based economies based on mass-immigration, instead, it just accelerates the inequality of wealth to the people at the very top.
Bad ideology is incredibly powerful, just look at the difference between North and South Korea, same people, same everything except their ideology. The modern western world is now under control of equally destructive insidious ideologies based around wind/solar energy, extreme SJWism, and more mass-immigration for pointless growth GDP numbers at the cost of everyone else's quality of living.
But people are so dumb they fight for a lower quality of living and increased costs of living and also lower wages, all because they gain their insight/information about the world from broadcast media.
People are ultimately being brainwashed-programmed via old broadcast media and go out protesting for extreme SJW virtue signalling causes, ultimately at the cost of their own lives/living quality. And at the same time just get more angry and confused.
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/download/file.php?id=251987&mode=view
Being presented with an easily absorbable "supply & demand law" to brainwashed broadcast-media people who are deeply annoyed at the costs of living causes them to get even more deeply confused that their masters on TV could be lying to them.
https://youtu.be/67g4_9LenCw?t=177
Everyone wants to believe Elon Musk and his vision of EVs and Robotaxi's but don't believe it affects jobs? Again more mass immigration only lowers your wages and new job prospects in an ever-increasing world of automation.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/22/tesla-elon-musk-self-driving-robo-taxi/
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https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=82223&start=6050#p1464228
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=99183#p1464254
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These two articles are great, in describing the real world effects of supply and demand law on electricity prices in the market.
http://joannenova.com.au/2019/05/more-renewables-more-record-prices/
http://joannenova.com.au/2018/03/surprise-australia-closed-a-cheap-coal-generator-and-electricity-got-85-more-expensive/
Should ever have to say it, but I do of course.. That is, if Wind/Solar is so cheap/great/reliable, why does it only ever get deployed based on government subsidies? Why can't it just be deployed by its self in an open free market? It's another "IQ level 75 puzzle elimination test fail", because it's all crap.
It's only getting to be a few more years more or less until Australia has the same population as Canada.
But Canada has resources like multiple freshwater lakes bigger than the entire size of Tasmania, and lots of other freshwater lakes the same size of Australian cities, quantities of water that Australian people could only dream about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_of_Canada#Canada's_largest_lakes
Australia, conversely, is running so low on fresh water that all the fish are dying, and old TV broadcast media is so crap/cancerous that it fails to point out we are using all the remaining water up for food farming and still just wants to continue with mass-immigration. The fighting between states of SA/NSW/Vic for this water has gone on for decades, the fact is it can never be fixed or be enough water with overpopulation. Every few years they have a review or "new policies", the fact is it's just not enough water.
Always here these stupid government ideas of "Australia being the food bowl of the world", when the fact is you can look up the food production numbers
on any major vegetable and see China produces about a 1000 times more of the same vegetable in weight, no one really needs our food, we should be saving our water for the sake of the environment, but everyone's under the control of old backwards broadcast media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato#Production
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot#Production
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccoli#Production
An expert has warned against making rash decisions about Australia's biggest river system as NSW authorities drag tonnes of dead fish out of the Darling River.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/tonnes-of-dead-fish-pulled-from-darling-in-river-clean-up
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-15/mass-fish-kill-in-darling-river-to-impact-other-states/10715640
Again it's just like bananas, except swap "Bananas" with "Electricity/Food/housing". They are all commodities being traded on a market, and ultimately we should imagine our selves living on a small tropical island, eventually, demand outcompetes the available supply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqeRnxSuLFI
If u could have/buy electricity for only 1/3rd of the day from Renewables or pay more for reliable 24/7coal-gas (even if it's cheaper to produce) u are forced choose coal every time.
If the entire system is just traditional conventional electricity that's capable of dispatchable 24/7 power, then you have more choice via and more competition PUSHING DOWN prices.
Wind/Solar in the electricity market is pure cancer. The Wind/Solar electricity on the grid market is a bit like only being able to order an "Uber driver" at 3am in the morning when you DON'T want it.
You naturally end up deciding to pay more so that you can have an "Uber driver" available when you need it during the daytime, just like with electricity demand, no one controls the wind, but the costs to build/deploy/maintain are fixed.
Uber drivers also find themselves being victims of the market because of the invisible costs of having to maintain their vehicles. Imagine if Uber drivers had to work on a law like the randomness of the wind, where they could only randomly be allowed to go Uber-driving when the winds are only strong enough to a certain degree outside, most would get annoyed and decide to only do it if it was triple the money.
Such annoying chaotic effects would affect supply and demand law and therefore the total costs would go up.
South Australia now has 2,142MW of wind-farm capacity online its grid, but still the most expensive electricity in the world.
2142MW for a state that uses on average about 1300MW of power, so it has over 150% of renewables installed, but it doesn't matter because if you're a gas/goal generator willing to buy/hold/maintain an expensive thermal generation asset that randomly gets called upon to supply power, you invariably end up being the ONLY person who can supply power, then you have to charge a fair price for that electricity to cover your costs in a market full of insane people/policies.
https://anero.id/energy/wind-energy
The Australian Greens party policies will NOT lower co2, this is simply obvious because they are the BIGGEST proponents to mass-immigration into Australia under SJW/Virtue-Signalling ideologies.
Even IEA/The-Guardian has articles claiming every time a 3rd world migrant moves to the 1st world their co2 footprint multiplies at least by 100 times in co2 emissions. http://energyatlas.iea.org/#!/tellmap/1378539487/4
So 1million new migrants "technically" means 100million times more co2 emissions for the country they migrated to, how on earth is that being Green? The major political parties are pure lying cancer.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5pYxlCU8AALGbn.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5pYxlCU8AALGbn.jpg
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New article out from Forbes environmentalist Michael Shellenberger
The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/#2606d430ea2b
Germany was forced to acknowledge that it had to delay its phase-out of coal, and would not meet its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction commitments. It announced plans to bulldoze an ancient church and forest in order to get at the coal underneath it.
Despite Germany's massive 60,000MW wind-farm deployment, Germany gets about half the MWh's of its wind-farms annually from "Biomass Renewables", which mostly just encompasses the practice of
cutting down trees and burning them to generate electricity under the name of "Biomass".
The chart shows 45TWh from "Biomass" vs 92TWh from "Wind", which is just a complete insidious joke played on the general public, for the size and the amount of capacity of wind-installed, biomass shouldn't be anywhere near half the generation.
https://www.electricitymap.org/?wind=false&solar=false&page=country&countryCode=DE&remote=true
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_image/public/paragraphs/images/fig3-share-energy-sources-gross-german-power-production-2018.png?itok=lABkj99H
Over the years everyone came to view biofuels like corn ethanol as a "false economy" and ultimately not green, the new argument now is people will now slowly accept the fact that covering huge amounts of land with wind/solar renewables is equally as dumb.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/07/with-ethanol-and-biomass-no-longer-viewed-as-green-will-other-renewables-soon-follow/#41d85abe7fb9
Over the last decade, both groups have turned against two of the largest sources of renewable energies: biofuels, including corn ethanol, and biomass. Both had been long touted, like solar and wind, as climate solutions.
It all raises the question: with biofuels and biomass no longer accepted as “green,” is it only a matter of time before environmentalists similarly reject other forms of renewable energy, including solar and wind?
