australia

Thank US voters: Australian pension funds are backing away from climate pledges too

We’ve reached the flipping point downunder.

By Joanne Nova |2025-01-30T10:21:57-05:00January 30th, 2025|Comments Off

Grid not-fit-for-purpose: On a warm day, Crazy Australia paid $3.5m to industry to stop working

The Australian electricity grid is not-fit-for-purpose. And failure is being normalized.

By Joanne Nova |2024-12-07T03:06:10-05:00December 7th, 2024|Comments Off

Pull down the blinds. We’re transitioning to third world status

Australia is too energy poor to use air-conditioning and dishwashers on a warm day.

By Joanne Nova |2024-11-29T10:29:46-05:00November 29th, 2024|Comments Off

Net Zero targets “unachievable” says Air New Zealand nearly 70% of Australian companies “not even trying”

The flavor of the month is “failure.” Nearly 70% of Australian companies “not even trying”

By Joanne Nova |2024-08-04T16:00:06-04:00August 3rd, 2024|Comments Off

On a bad day $20 billion in wind power across Australia can only guarantee as much power as two diesel generators

How much back-up do we need for our 11.5 gigawatt wind system? About 11.4 gigawatts.

By Joanne Nova |2024-06-17T12:10:24-04:00June 16th, 2024|Comments Off

Skeptics visit the poster-child of severely “bleached” reefs, and it’s just fine 18 months later

When divers scan the Great Barrier Reef under the water, they find it’s been in record good health for the last two years.

By Joanne Nova |2023-12-09T10:18:07-05:00December 9th, 2023|Comments Off

Australian government throws giant pile of money at renewables — so big, the cost is a secret

If the market won’t build crazy loss-making unreliable generation machines, the government will.

By Joanne Nova |2023-11-27T14:53:12-05:00November 25th, 2023|Comments Off

Australia’s “Snowy 2.0” doomed from the start — after the sinkhole came the poison gas

“Worst major project in history” emblematic of your "Clean Green Future."

By Joanne Nova |2023-10-24T11:01:54-04:00October 24th, 2023|Comments Off

Australia is on the precipice of a radical experiment with their energy grid

The grid will be flickering and faltering Down Under.

By Joanne Nova |2023-09-03T13:59:09-04:00September 3rd, 2023|Comments Off

Tasmanian mega wind farm approved that can’t operate half the year

When does it make sense to build 122 giant industrial turbines that can’t operate for nearly half a year?

By Joanne Nova |2022-12-09T11:34:10-05:00December 13th, 2022|Comments Off

The Australian Climate is Fine — but the State of the CSIRO and the BOM is a Crisis

The latest State of the Climate Report is out to scare everyone with plucked esoteric records based on dubious datasets adjusted with secret algorithms

By Joanne Nova |2022-11-27T23:58:47-05:00November 26th, 2022|Comments Off

Wild west voltage spikes in South Australia and a billion watts of wasted solar

South Australia survived the big scary sunny day yesterday, but had to shut off solar power and throw all those sacred green electrons into a thousand open circuits.

By Joanne Nova |2022-11-23T16:16:30-05:00November 18th, 2022|Comments Off

Next big energy fraud — Replacing coal with Hydrogen to make steel

Hold onto your wallets Mr. and Mrs. investor who lack adequate knowledge of how mineralogy and chemistry work.

By Dr. Jay Lehr |2022-10-10T10:00:10-04:00October 10th, 2022|Comments Off

The secret climate election we didn’t know we had

There was not one word, barely, about climate change in the public square in Australia the last six weeks, yet today suddenly it was “a Green-slide” and a climate election post hoc. But the whole reason the Greeny-Teals did well was because no one talked about climate change.

By Joanne Nova |2022-05-27T11:18:47-04:00May 27th, 2022|Comments Off

Wind power is unreliable

Maybe if we could put wind energy in "shoe boxes."

By Joanne Nova |2022-04-05T10:33:16-04:00April 5th, 2022|Comments Off