The week in Australian federal politics was headlined by the triumphant return of ‘Bad’ Malcolm Turnbull.
Australians had become accustomed to the pinkie-extended punctilios of Pleasant Malcolm and it has become clear they don’t much care for them.
So with nothing left to lose, Bad Malcolm got a run and delivered a withering character assessment of the Opposition leader. It was a terrific spray, no doubt, so full of harsh burns Bill Shorten may well still be plastering himself in aloe vera.
Bad Malcolm left his best line to last: “This sycophant, blowing hard in the House of Representatives, sucking hard in the living rooms of Melbourne — what a hypocrite.”
Understandably, lovers of the pugilistic arts weren’t about to get too excited. Should the People’s House ever become the House of Stoush with ‘Truffles’ Turnbull and ‘Wee Billy’ Shorten coming to blows, it would make last week’s Danny Green-Anthony Mundine fight look like the Thriller in Manilla.
Full column here.
More data and research to show the corporate tax cuts are not the answer.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2017/feb/14/the-governments-company-tax-cut-policy-has-two-major-problems
There you go again dismal one these loony news you allude to are candidates like you for the big house with a red roof
More research to show the Corporate tax cuts will not produce enough to covert the cost of them.
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/02/industry-concentration-means-company-tax-cut-wont-boost-investment/
New definition for “skunk works”
https://www.youtube.com/embed/H4_XZE3r3oU?rel=0
POTUS Trump not letting the grass grow under his feet re meeting World leaders, Mr Insider, and he just hosted Canadian PM Justin Trudeau. He’s only 24 days downwind of his Inauguration and sailing along nicely despite a small glitch re this 7 country travel ban. Smooth sailing Donald well done! P.S. and he has had a nice friendly chat with the Chinese Premier too.
http://tinyurl.com/h5j7mb6
JB.08:35pm.
What ever you say Mr Krugger -Dunning . Yes Greenland melting significantly , at least now you getting something right. The moon is still laughing at you also .The yanks flags planted on the moon are fading with sunshine beaming down on them also . Go back to sleep Mr K-D!
Since 1979 more than 20% of the Polar Ice Cap has melted away. Is all this made up.
The rate of melting has never been faster.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=images+of+antarctica+ice+receding&rlz=1C1AOHY_enAU708AU708&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_kZmy5I7SAhXKwbwKHZYMDYoQsAQIGg&biw=1493&bih=728&dpr=1.13#tbm=isch&q=images+of+antarctic+ice+receding&imgrc=KCUdDG8c5fO-xM:
“Krugger” Dunning? Rodent you are priceless!
I suppose you have some wacky notion that there is some advantage in provoking me into responding when you revert to your default position every time you get clean bowled. Somebody will read this and there will be one less goose on the planet who believes that fairy tale for flop eared gulls.
http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/
Beautiful day here in paradise today. Everyone smiling, everyone happy and friendly. Temp 10–22degs.
How nice
Coolest day in weeks here…82 degrees in the loungeroom with a nice breeze coming through the window.Might get my Strat out for a strum.
Srat is an odd name for it Bassy!
Oops…Fender Straocaster!!
Whats wrong with plain old “Percy?”
Percy is a bit old fashioned. How about something a bit more ocker like ‘old mate’
Yeah, strummin’ me old mate. Sounds pretty good.
Dismayed
Feb 13 3,50PM
says: “CotC you continue to lie about flannery’s comments. Mack the knife reckons the hot rocks was successful .We are in the industry, it appears both of us know quite a deal more about the project than you. You are a parrot for your chosen ideology.”
I expected nothing less from you Dismayed, with the emphasis on “LESS.” And I notice you are now backsliding with your “was successful …”
The following is a quote from our ABC News – 30 August 2016:
“Energy company Geodynamics closed and remediated the sites of several test wells and generation plants in the Cooper Basin after deciding they were not financially viable.
Before the closure, the company had managed to extract super-heated water from five kilometres below the earth’s surface and use it to generate small amounts of electricity.
“The technology worked but unfortunately the cost of implementing the technology and also the cost of delivering the electricity that was produced to a market was just greater than the revenue stream that we could create,” Geodynamics chief executive Chris Murray said.
Professor Martin Hand ran the South Australian Centre for Geothermal Energy Research at the University of Adelaide.
“I think it was talked up too much — it’s a very nice concept on the front page of a newspaper, looks very easy to do, and I think it was over-spruiked,” he said.”
As I have said all along, the project was a fizzer. I’m sure Mack the Knife can speak for himself, but as for you Dismayed knowing “quite a deal more about the project” ….. PFSSST!
A friend of mine worked on that project as a consultant Carl. The concept was sound but the location that were in had a problem – they couldn’t get enough of the water back up. I’ve heard a few other things too, but the geology needs to to be spot on in all regards. It sounds like it was maybe too…fractured…at their location.
Cheers TV, you’ve put it well. I’ve been attempting to convey somthing similar, but Dismayed repeatedly accused me of lying. No skin off my nose, but seems to be his natural fallback position these days.
CotC. you are again being misleading you lied about Flannery. The Hot rocks was something different again. The Hot rocks produced a working power plant therefore proving it works.
You are hopeless Carl. All it gets down to is the generation of power could not compete with dirty coal. As hard as it is for some of you to see it, more expensive non polluting energy will cost less in the long run.
When the world finally wakes up and coal cannot be given away that project could well be taken out of mothballs.
All of us mere mortals have skill shortages JB, except of course those who make revelations such as the one you have given us in your 7.07am prophesy.
A divine inspiration to be sure, you’re on fire me old mate.
CotC very sad you are incapable of admitting your falsehoods. that is Your “cross” to bear/bare? Your problem. Just one of which you appear to have.
Hi Carl, bit more on the subject. When I first researched the project, I had offered my services at the time as I thought it was a very worthwhile project, I wondered how they were going to supply the geothermal wells with sufficient water to capture the required amount of steam as the hot rocks at 5000 metres are bone dry. That is a huge problem right there as artesian water is relatively shallow around 250 to 300 metres depending on the location. Water wells must have been drilled nearby but not nearly as efficient as in Gunung Salak in Java where the hot rocks are supplied by water in the same well above the target zone. I believe it is similar in NZ, the water is recycled back down the well as in Java. Big loss of water through steam escaping and evaporation even though it run through coolers after passing through the generator. I was told the mud pools at Rotorua stopped bubbling for a while in NZ a few years back as not enough water was being pumped back underground. That’s obstacle number one, water supply, the second obstacle is the remoteness of the location. A figure of $2 billion was mentioned to build infrastructure including hi-voltage power lines to the site. That was the killer I’m told. Government wouldn’t fund it and the project just died. The technology did work, but some critical conditions were unfavourable would be a way to put it.
Cheers Mack, I much appreciate you taking the time to explain the geothermal/hot rocks experience both here and overseas. If you have been following my exchanges with our fellow poster Dismayed you may have noticed that he took inexplicable umbrage at my noting that the SA project Professor Flannery was involved in eventually failed. Perhaps I should not have bothered to react to his continuous defammatory claims that I was lying and I note in his latest 9.40am post he continues to do so. His heart may be in the right place, and I’m sure it is, but there’s something else going on that only he can account for. I wont hold my breath but I wish him well.
Thanks again for your closing info Mack on what began with a fairly benign comment on my part, generated a head of steam for a while and hopefully may now fizzle out as the Cooper Basin wells did.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/malcolm-turnbull-has-battery-storage-installed-in-point-piper-home-54504/
check this tech lover…..what a shit choice of battery…..and thanks for the nbn
Great to see ex-PMs Rudd looking healthy and back on ABC730. Superlative use of the personal pronoun and nice use of dot point decomposition in his analysis of the nation’s current power problems.
It was just like the old days, wasn’t it!!! Good old Ruddy
The real Terry can be found under the wig?
Eh fella! You saying I’m suffering from VD? No wilted roses from me.
No, you dope, think it through.
TeHe Good one
Dwight 03:52pm .
Seems Bass , is like Malcolm, “I have a plan”. Not sure if his plan can satisfy and pass the senate having lots of fire power like ICBM , but points for thinking ahead being one way of stopping the perpetrators who might one day get serious coming and throwing their weight around .Bassman has many ideas to solving problems like this which he feels sure will work , not sure if he has united support from his lefties who would faint on mentioning the idea of ICBMs.
The ICBM idea did not come from me. Once I was Principal of a school where most of my clients were army personnel. A very senior army officer put this to me. He also said if we were suddenly attacked in the far North it would take a month for us to get all of our stuff up there! Look-our country is far too big to defend conventionally
The logical plan for an invasion of Australia would be to load bloody great container ships with arms and personnel and simply dock at the major ports and stroll off.
At that point it would be imprudent to launch your ICBMs especially if the ships carried mid range nuke tips aimed at Canberra.
The advantage we have is that GREAT EXPANSE of water….we could detect them a long long distance away from us with satellite surveillance/and Pine Gap. We would never have to use the button…like USA and Russia we would warn them or give a demo with a small nuke.
Haven’t you been studying the Looters asylum seeker policy…it is called ‘sending them a message’.
No. The plan I worked out with Kimmie was to disguise the container ship, as, well, a container ship, all hollowed out. Obviously no-one is going to believe a container ship from PRNK , so only the Chinese or Japanese could pull it off. We were simply playing “what-if’s”) But! You wouldn’t even have a clue as to what was happening till the things docked. They’d have the CBD’s and immediate surrounds occupied while the army was still trying to get through the rush hour traffic.
The only way to defend the country would be to have a national service and every man and woman under fifty keeping a machine gun or RPG launcher at hand. And some crystal meth strictly for use in a national emergency.
Might work, might not work, but it would be interesting to watch.
Not to be outdone by Scott Morison who held up a lump of Coal last week in Parliament, Mr Insider, Greens MP Adam Bandt today held up a mini Solar Panel. Speaker Smith was “not amused” as the Coal vs Alternatives go at it hammer and tong. Great pics of the two “Power” protagonists in the linked article Mr Insider. I do believe Coal has a role Mr Insider.
http://tinyurl.com/j4w53rt