Wind turbines create ‘clean’ energy and do not release evil CO2 or dirty carbon into the atmosphere. This, we are told, is a wonderful thing. But what is the net CO2 output or saving when a wind turbine catches fire and burns 242 acres of brush and scrubland that was
There is all manner of interesting information available online these days. Transpower who are responsible for the NZ national power grid has a most informative website. On their site was a paper about forecasting wind generation and, after reading the article, the words from a 70s song sprang to mind.
Very interesting graphic from Domo. Utterly mind-boggling numbers. Remember this is every minute, every day, 24×7.
At the end of a typical Tracy Watkins puff piece about our ‘Dear Leader’, ‘Comrade’ Ardern, Tracy snuck in a little reality as a reward for those who had waded through the syrup of the first 1000 or so words. […] Labour’s flagship policy, KiwiBuild, is in tatters; there’s
In the good old days – before we were swamped with ‘well-being’ Local Authorities had some well defined and useful roles. 10 Purpose of local government (1) The purpose of local government is— (a) to enable democratic local decision-making and action by, and on behalf of, communities; and (b) to meet
Is there a reverse Midas touch effect with the Coalition government? Everything they do or attempt in the housing space seems to fail or make situations worse. A year-and-a-half after a controversial transitional housing village opened in Opal Dr, Papamoa, some neighbours have had enough of the “social experiment”. That’
What are the police paid to do? An illegal roadblock is installed and the police leave it in place. A senior citizen removes it to go about his lawful pursuits and the protestors call the police. Madness! A Redfield retiree ripped down an Extinction Rebellion blockade so he could drive
If not, Laila Laurel has designed just the chair for you. If you are a man and are guilty of manspreading then she has the cure; if you are a woman and are guilty of not womanspreading then she has a chair for that as well. Don’t laugh – she
One of the enduring “bogey men” for many evangelical Christians is “the mark of the beast”. What it means, exactly, is shrouded in mystery and obscurity but that does not matter to those who have assigned to it all manner of things throughout history. And the second beast required all
According to police, Van Spronsen, 69, was armed with a rifle and an incendiary device when he approached the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington on Saturday and started hurling “lit objects” at cars in the parking lot, setting one vehicle alight. The authorities believe that his ultimate goal was
Facebook got all high and mighty and banned crypto currency advertisments to look after their users, who obviously could not possibly think for themselves. Facebook has said it will block any advertising promoting crypto-currency products and services. The company said it was open to emerging technologies but many companies were
Peter Williams must be pleased to be free of the TVNZ censor. How it must have rankled with him to have to read all the auto-cue items on the TVNZ ‘news’ bulletins. He has now come out. I am so over the nonsense that is being propagated by politicians and
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am Stuffed in the middle with you. The only good thing about this latest piece of climate emergency idiocy is that the writer keeps talking about ‘global warming’. The official figures say that the trend since December 1978
Good old Stuff & Nonsense are beating the climate emergency drum as loud as they can. One has to wonder what financial inducements there are behind this Stuff & Nonsense campaign for them to be so hard out on the climate crises and so low on facts and reality. For
Willem Van Spronsen, who attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement centre over the weekend, identified himself as a member of the left-wing Antifa movement in his manifesto. He died in a shootout Saturday after storming an ICE centre in Tacoma, Washington, armed with flares and a rifle. Van Spronsen, 69,
