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It was cheap and reliable, but so were model T Fords in their time. Times and technology has moved on, and, sadly for some, the alternatives are cheaper, more reliable, require much less maintenance, and produce less emissions to boot. Model T fords in today's money were about USD $15000 (AUD$21,000). For $19,000 you can get small hatch backs.. now, who is going to buy a car to the Model T spec for $21,000 when you can have the alternatives cheaper? Not too many takers, I would think. Yes, there has to be an investment to bring it on to critical mass, just like there was an investment in coal stations. Remember, all of Australia's power generation was originally government owned because of the investments required - before the governments sold the family silver. I guess candles and horses weren't enough. It's not woke, it's economics - pure and simple. I recall plenty of blackouts as a kid... when it was virtually all coal. And a hell of a lot less demand than today - no air conditoners and the like fo us commoners. When I worked in the industry, the maintenance of coal plants was horrendous compared to even nuclear (nuclear was more expensive due to the standards, not the actual work that had to be done). We live in thereal world, with real data, not some nostalgiv throwback.

One of the more obvious clues is that the ABC is being really nice to Pauline Hanson in the article. They portray as it being Pauline and David Speers against the bank CEO. There's a lot of those types of scams going around quoting various celebrities like actors and celebrity chefs. They probably picked Pauline Hanson because she's been in the news a lot lately with media coverage of recent poll results.

It's a cunning scammy website artfully drawn up as an ABC interview, but it has links promoting scammy cryptocurrency. I wouldn't even click on the cryptocurrency links in the article, it probably goes to North Korean scam websites.

Mushroom does it for me. I hate mushrooms anyway, and will never touch them under any circumstances - but sometimes, some chef or cook will sneak mushrooms into a dish I've ordered and eaten, and I don't find out until my anal region starts exploding, with a smell that makes a sewerage plant smell like a Chanel perfume factory. And the damage keeps up for 2 to 3 days. It also happens when I see a dish, and it mentions mushrooms as an ingredient - so I ask if I can have without mushrooms. This generally results in the cook just scooping out the visible mushrooms, but leaving all the mushroom sauce. The result is the same as eating mushrooms.

I'd have to say Yes. Kenya was a British colony until Dec 12 1963, when it gained independence. Google tells me this much (but it's still subject to variables) .... Birthright Status (1949–1963): Anyone born in the colony between Jan 1, 1949, and Dec 11, 1963, was generally a Citizen of the UK & Colonies (CUKC). Independence Act 1963: On Dec 12, 1963, most people acquired Kenyan citizenship, and automatically lost their CUKC status. The Exceptions: People were allowed to retain British status (becoming British Overseas Citizens or, in some cases, full British Citizens) if they, their father, or their paternal grandfather was born in the United Kingdom or a place that remained a colony. Disparity in Citizenship: This, in practice, favoured white settlers with direct, recent connections to Britain, while many Asian and Black Kenyan residents found themselves in a precarious position regarding their right to reside in Britain or Kenya. SWMBO initially married a bloke in the late 1960's, who was Kenyan born - of mixed descent. His father was British and Anglo-Saxon. But his mother was born in Nairobi, of Dutch-Lebanese/African parentage, and her parents came from the Seychelles. But SWMBO's daughter (my stepdaughter) found she was entitled to a British passport, because her dad, and both his parents, came to Australia in the early 1950's, on British passports.

Tell me one thing that hasn't got more expensive over time.

That was a paper written 8 years ago. Latest scientific research shows the sea level has indeed risen. Physical evidence confirms this. There are numerous reports also. This is googles AI perspective. Tuvalu faces an existential threat from climate change, with rising sea levels expected to submerge much of its low-lying land (average elevation <2 meters) by 2050 and render 95% of the nation uninhabitable by 2100. The sea around Tuvalu is rising at roughly 4-5mm per year, significantly faster than the global average. Saltwater intrusion is contaminating groundwater and crops, forcing the nation to consider adapting through land reclamation or potential digital migration.

Yes Pete, that is a cold blast lantern. The Chinese lanterns these days are like a lot of their stuff; it looks the part but el-cheapo made. I've got one that's a copy of that Dietz blizzard in the above photo and the metal is paper thin. Even with a big tank, it would be lighter full of fuel than an empty Dietz. A lot of the Hong Kong made lanterns were good in the days before it was all China. I think in those days the manufacturers had some pride in making a decent product.

Curried egg and red onion is a potent combination.

Last time I looked, Base rate here is 36c/kwh. Plus about $90 p.a. connection fee. So we pay about $1200 per year for electrons. I recently bought a bunch of used 190w panels for $5 each. The solar installers just want to get rid of them when they do upgrades. If my grid power was so unreliable , i'd whack a couple of kw of them on the shed roof and use a cheap inverter to keep the fridge going during the day.

$0.3699 There's other charges as well, all the funny money they rip out of you.

So, is that one in your picture a cold blast type? I keep a couple of lamps. I have a new Cokeman pressure lamp but it isn't a patch on my dad's old Aladdin that we used when I was a kid. The chinese copies look just like the originals, but seem to be made of plasticine. Not at all sturdy.

Just out of interest, what are you paying per kWh

I've filled 23 1/2 pages of a medium size writing pad with dates and times of blackouts since 2015 - twenty lines per page, and each line represents a blackout. Moreover, I can't see an end to these blackouts. And there's no end to charging more for power.

That is why I tried to expose the complexity of attempting to call out the validity or otherwise of sea level rise. The present satellite averaging measurements are the best we have. We are all aware of the risk of cherry picking a location that 'proves' a particular suspicion of acual sea level then extrapolating it global levels. Time will tell. But changing our energy sources away from fossil fuels will improve global health regardless of 'global warming' effects. Isn't that worthwhile?

I accept my own data, too. About electricity prices. (Not vaxines) I have recollections of capital city outages (back in the 1980's Qld). And my bills back then. Now I have lower electricity bills than ever, in dollar values not corrected for CPI. I now get very rare (brief) outages. Less than ever. My conclusion is that the modern evolving mix of solar and conventional (old school) generation has cut my monthly expenses. And increased continuity of supply.

PM, do you believe new coal or nuclear (and I am not anti-nuclear) can be built without increasing electricity bills? The fact that you use the tired old "woke" to describe a valid method of generating electricity. My woke panels mean that for me , electricity bills are not really an issue. So do antivaxxers.

I must be eating twice dead skunk, not that I remember it.😁

I accept my own data. I have been paying for electricity for over 50 years. It was nearly all coal and it was cheap and reliable. Now it is woke electricity and it is expensive and we get blackouts. What more data do you need?

It is a matter of data isnt it? I assume that you don't accept the figures from CSIRO or AEMO?

The Klimanachrichten article references a ZDF documentary by journalist Johannes Hano, which notes that locals in Tuvalu aren’t fearful of climate change. A 2018 study (Paul Kench, University of Auckland) found that 74 out of 101 of Tuvalu’s islands have remained stable or have actually grown in size, despite an approximate 15 cm rise in sea level over recent decades. This is attributed to coral-derived sediments being washed onto the islands by currents and storms, increasing their area

SWMBO can leave the house for ten minutes o two hours. But you can guarantee that when I let a big one rip, she will walk in immediately afterward.

Coal has been a cheap, reliable source of electricity since the 1920s. What planet do you guys live on?

The article is basically dressed up to look like it was written by the ABC about a supposed episode of The Insiders where David Speers had Pauline and the Comm bank ceo as guests. The storyline goes that Pauline put the bank dude on the spot so he stormed out of the interview, after which the bank complained to the ABC so they didn't air the show. They're making out Pauline let the cat out of the bag about a wonderful, foolproof crypto scheme that was helping ordinary battlers make money and pay the bills. Naturally enough, they have links there so you can send them your money.