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1 week ago | 
joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Perry Williams
By Jo NovaThey’ve run their largest coal plants into the ground — to the point of neglect where an air duct “detached from the boiler end and fell to the floor”. So one 380MW unit will be out of action at Yallourn for two weeks. And it’s just the latest in an ongoing series of failures. We are the Renewable Crash Test Dummy — this is what the unfree, fixed, forced market produces when the best assets in a system are treated like planet-wrecking trolls.
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3 weeks ago | 
joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Matthew Cranston
By Jo NovaFor your sake, the Australian government took at least $440 of yours this year and spent it on electrical hobgoblins that claim to make nicer weather in a hundred years. That’s $1,800 for each family of four, in order to reduce world temperatures by nothing in our lifetimes. How many families would willingly give up that kind of money on the witchdoctor weather quest? The IPA has done what the Labor Government is too dishonest to do, and the Opposition was too scared to do.
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4 weeks ago | 
joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Greg Brown |Perry Williams
By Jo NovaAnthony Albanese was elected in May 2022 and set God-like new emissions targets in to legislation. Ponder the scale of the national achievements of the last three years. All that money, all the wind factories, the solar panels, the batteries, the holes bored in the Snowy Mountains, and this is all we have to show for it?
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1 month ago | 
joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Simon Lewis |Daphne Psaledakis |Pete Linforth
By Jo Nova To combat the rise of the Blob’s new insidious censorship laws Donald Trump will deny visas to any foreign officials who are or were involved in censorship of American citizens. Suddenly EU lawmakers, and Brazilian Judges will find they can’t get a visa to the USA, and the ban may apply to their family members too. This should slow down the spread of new cancerous “content moderation” laws around the world, and the attacks on the US Tech Giants.
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1 month ago | 
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Jo Nova
New AI data centers will use the same electricity as 2 million homesBy Jo NovaSince 2022, AI -related firms have stormed the S&P 500 market — growing by $12 trillion dollars. The IEA just posted a whole report dedicated to AI. The demand from data-centers is so large in some places it is already rivaling the kind of monster consumption we are used to seeing from aluminum smelters. There are six states in the United States where data centers already consume over 10% of the electricity supply.
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2 months ago | 
joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Sarah Knapton
By Jo NovaThe Gods in the UK Parliament plan to spend £50 million in a quest to control sunlight, because obviously, the UK is too sunnyAlso obviously, there is nothing more useful the United Kingdom could spend money on than pie-in-the-sky plans for weather-control. It’s not like people are struggling to heat their homes or put food on the table. And it’s not like anything could go wrong, or plants use sunlight.
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2 months ago | 
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Jo Nova
In crash-test dummy land, we solve teenage girl climate anxiety with $500b in fantasy weather experiments…In crash-test dummy land, we solve teenage girl climate anxiety with $500b in fantasy weather experiments…By Jo NovaAnd so we arrive, a nation of people looking at TikTok as they cruise down the freewayThis week, our national energy policy is an Agony-Aunt letter — poor Alexa, 21, has been suffering from ‘climate anxiety’ since she was 15.
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2 months ago | 
joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Sarah Elks |Joanne Panagopoulis
By Jo NovaGood news: The conservative opposition has promised to reduce the fines to zero for car manufacturers who sell “too many” diesel and petrol cars. This effectively negates the New Vehicle Emissions Standards (NVES), even though the Coalition says they will keep the standards (whatever that means).
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2 months ago | 
joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Ari Natter |Jennifer A. Dlouhy
By Jo NovaAny moment now President Trump is expected to sign an executive order that will boost coal mining, keep old coal power stations running and even restart shuttered coal plants. The word is that the US government will define coal as a “mineral” which allows him to use presidential wartime authority to speed up approvals for coal mines, and to bypass environmental red tape and even prioritize exploration and mining on federal lands.
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2 months ago | 
climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Jo Nova
Even the EU, the motherlode of climate action, backs away from Climate PlansBy Jo NovaThe EU wants to keep their target while exploring every possible option not to keep it. They’re contemplating a “non linear” path, meaning, a much slower approach now, while they think up excuses to bail out later. Politico, [Formerly paid by USAID]To start, officials are contemplating a “nonlinear” path between the EU’s 2030 emissions-cutting target of 55 percent and its 2040 goal — rather than a straight line.
