Perhaps he has misinterpreted the information provided from his staff? In the end, ‘reality always wins’. The Liberal MP told The Feed, “I know what I'm saying seems all a bit far-fetched. Craig kelly mp ретвитнул(а) sky news australia. Meantime, google up ‘Calamity Jill’ and have a look at some of the possibilities still available… though Big Brother is closing the loopholes quickly. Studies into hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients have cast doubt on the drug as treatment for coronavirus. Australia’s National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce and Therapeutic Goods Association have also stated that the drug should not be used as a treatment for anyone with COVID-19. It’s comforting to know that if there’s a fire or something I’ve only got to grab a single 2TB drive to carry away much of my life to safety. Much less than nuclear or coal, without the risks and damage they cause. Electricity from Hinkley C will be around 20 cents per kilowatt-hour and no one is offering to provide new nuclear power much cheaper. The Chief Scientist has stated that both nuclear, and even “clean” coal (let’s hope not) may form part of the “mix” required to provide adequate, secure dispatchable power – have you never heard of this? Residents in Craig Kelly’s Sydney electorate of Hughes have reacted angrily to their MP accusing Facebook of censorship, saying he regularly blocks constituents from his page when they disagree with his climate change denialism and advocacy of … But I suppose I have to try.  Sometimes you’ve just got to kneel down and beat the crabs of stupidity with a stick. The studies I am aware of have been inconclusive in COVID-19 and have not yet been published in a peer-review journal to validate the findings. Facebook issued a week-long ban on Australian lawmaker Craig Kelly, citing repeated violations of its rules against coronavirus misinformation. Mr Kelly said he believes there are many reasons why people are “desperate to see that [hydroxychloroquine] doesn’t work”. My summary: Well that’s pretty damn magical how the “emergency diesel generators” supplied over 400 megawatts when they are only capable of supplying around 309 megawatts under optimal conditions and maybe 240 megawatts during a heatwave.  I’m guessing Craig Kelly is the kind of idiot who complains about diesel generation being used without understanding that Australia was using diesel generation during periods of high demand long before there was a single solar panel or wind turbine in the country. I had a brain-snap last night after reading through a lot of posts – where many were simply focused on their individual benefits from tax-payer funded subsidies – with no idea of the bigger picture. His responses are below: Craig Kelly’s question: “Of the trials that didn’t work, did those trials include zinc, and did they use hydroxychloroquine and zinc in the early or late stages of the illness?”. til anon, to quote Bill! Final statement not quite true. When new, the Hornsdale Power Reserve had 129 megawatt-hours of storage capacity with 10 megawatt-hours reserved for ancillary services.  This means it would only be possible for Neoen — the company that owns it — to supply not a lot more than 100 megawatt-hours of stored electrical energy. Ready for some quotes? LUVVIT! 😉. There must be SOME reason why the UK is prepared to continue with Hinkley C – perhaps they want to take the pain now, to get extra cheap energy in the future (after the capital is paid down). Craig Kelly MP quotes Dr. Alan Watts on Wind Turbines Craig Kelly MP, Hansard, Australian Parliament November 29 2012. This has really got to be THE most rigged market that was ever contrived in the entire history of capitalism. I WOULD like to see the figures showing off-grid cost effectiveness. Just a quick question on Electricity Generation, if I may? And it costs a lot more to run and sequester the CO2 it does capture. New Zealand’s success came from rapid testing, isolation, washing hands and wearing masks.”. It’s the BIG issue, and will be the cause of extinction of every living thing on the planet… sooner rather than later. “…needed spend several hundred million on emergency diesel generators to keep the lights on just before the state election…”. women disappears, Young Aussies some of the hardest hit by FB’s news restrictions, experts say, Where to find SBS content outside Facebook, Ex tennis star Jelena Dokic fires back at ‘body shaming’ trolls, Why most people don’t report workplace sexual harassment, 12-year-old child risks deportation over adoption issue. I first checked to make sure it was a legitimate doctor and legitimate video and I posted that to my Facebook page,” Mr Kelly said. This is despite the fact South Australia with no coal capacity didn’t suffer a blackout due to a lack of supply while Victoria suffered rolling blackouts due to 40% of its coal capacity being out of action when it was needed most. On Facebook, Mr Kelly also referenced a Melbourne study about Ivermectin -- an antiparasitic drug used to treat head lice and worms -- quoting an interview with gastroenterologist Professor Thomas Borody where he said the drug could be a “real killer of coronavirus”. (582 MW x 24 x 365 = 5,098,320 MWh). I had noticed a couple of nuclear stations were absolutely and quitely HAMMERING out power – you could tell by the massive amount of steam coming from there cooling towers. I’d have loved to see the ideological battle against nuclear abandoned years ago, but now it costs similar amounts of money to build. We all know that – but why would we not want to optimise this? At the moment, we mostly fall back on coal, or natural gas, to provide backup power. Diesel generators get switched on when the price of electricity is high and it always goes high during heatwaves.  That’s the way markets work.  The high price is what results in demand being met in our market based system.  But this is something Craig Kelly doesn’t like as he complained: “…prices in South Australia surged to $14,500 Mwh (they averaged around $40 Mwh before all these ‘cheap’ renewables flooded into the grid)…”. Yes, nuclear builds are similar in cost to equivalently powered coal plant, but: I live in sunny Perth, but even we have still, heavily overcast days in winter – sometimes lasting a week. No one who wasn’t a complete loony expected the battery to supply more energy than it could actually provide.  Can Craig Kelly name one person — who doesn’t talk to their own boogers — who expected the battery to supply more energy than the laws of physics allowed it to? A further question is whether Labour politicians should be provided suites in the above mental institution. He was the most vocal critic of his party's energy policy and has threatened to sit on the crossbench. Which day are you planning to have 100% of the available supply options – be they renewable or conventional, baseload or peaking – all offline simultaneously for 24 hours? The US are already, or are planning, to provide 40 year duration Contracts-of-Power Provision, instead of the more normal 10 year period (which increases the operator’s risk). In times past he has championed the causes of some worthwhile things (such as more defence spending, funding for disability sector). Or maybe he’s upset that a private company owns the battery and is making a profit from it instead of the state.  If that’s the case I can’t wait to hear his plan to renationalize the electricity sector.  It will be very entertaining to watch Comrade Kelly battle private ownership. A look at Kelly’s Facebook page reveals his pet concerns as expressed to his 73,000 followers: Phewie. But if the government focussed on the grid to support the private sector putting in the generation and storage, it is practical and achievable at a fair cost. Their original estimate was actually closer to 4.4 c/kWhr – the change primarily due to EDF’s cost-of-capital at 9%, instead of the 2% government rate expected then, but also due to small changes mandated after Fukushima (which has to date resulted in only 1 radiation-related death). Because we are so big, it can be shining in Perth long after it has gone to bed in Sydney or Tassie. “Professor Risch is from Yale and clearly has much experience and has been one of many commentators. Australian MP Craig Kelly has been suspended from Facebook after posting the benefits of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment. I was watching Carmen Sandiego with a young lady the other day.  A very young lady, in fact.  After all, I’m young and she was 4 years younger than I am…. Because the battery performed exactly as expected and didn’t somehow magically provide more energy than was possible it is an enormous failure along with renewable energy. Power companies are smart enough to see which way the system is set up, so they are closing down the big steam turbines, and going with that they can get paid for. While not a major problem in Australia, pollution from coal power stations — especially ozone — reduces agricultural productivity, with crops such as wheat, pulses, and cotton being most vulnerable.  This is a serious problem in China and a number of other countries. He became passionately interested in environmental matters upon his return to Australia when the local Mayor met him at the airport and explained it was far too dangerous for him to return to Toowoomba on account of climate change and mutant attack goats. Craig Kelly. We respect your privacy and you can opt out from the newsletter at any time. With Peta Credlin, Peter Gleeson, James Morrow, Jane Marwick. You talk about “risks and damage” – but are you aware of industry data that shows Solar PV has historically resulted in one hundred times (100x) the fatality rate per terrawatt-hour of energy produced? Craig Kelly’s question: “Why would Professor Harvey Risch [be] wrong?”. If you want to learn about the Hornsdale Power Reserve, or the Tesla Big Battery as it is often called, you can read this article I wrote.  It contains some actual information.  If you want to learn more about Craig Kelly’s problems with information processing, then read on. Car crash interviews are so subjective. Lets start with the big country bit. “It is illegal to bring these substances into Australia without the proper permits and I strongly urge Australians against importing these items,” Dale said. There will be days when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing. ps….. there was actually a move afoot at one time to ban ordinary Holdens and Fords from the tourist carparks in case they contaminated the BMWs and Alfas. Foolishly, I expect better from people who come to this site, where Ron makes such a great effort to provide factual, clear and understandable information to assist people understand the world of renewables better. Craig Kelly believes his personal conviction that the health and climate effects of burning coal are not dangerous outweighs the evidence it is harmful.  In a furniture salesperson this might not be a large problem, but he is a Federal MP who makes and influences decisions that affect how much coal pollution our families will be exposed to and what quantity of greenhouse gases will be released into the atmosphere.  So on this topic he is not only an idiot, but a dangerous idiot, as he is in a position to get people killed.  At the moment he is basically the Minister in charge of trolling people who give a shit about the future. Whether you meant to or not, I feel your statements smack of ignorance, condescension, and arrogance. So, what you are suggesting is that someone invests in enough wind and PV infrastructure on the west coast of WA, to be able to power all of NSW, Vic, and Qld – after it gets dark there, on days the wind doesn’t blow – then that massive amount of costly infrastructure (including the transmission lines) is to sit idle during the most of the day, when it is sunny and blowing on the East coast. Kelly wrote: “Yet again, the truth is the exact opposite of the Alarmist narrative peddled in the media and swallowed, hook line & sinker by the naive and gullible.” “The AMA is once again urging Australians not to seek out or use hydroxychloroquine to ‘cure’ or ‘prevent’ the COVID-19 virus,” the spokesperson said. Kelly was saved from preselection challenges by prime ministerial intervention before both the 2016 and 2019 elections, and a Liberal source cited in The Australian says “there’s no appetite in the party to save him a third time”. But federal MP for Hughes, Craig Kelly told The Feed he believes the choice to prescribe the drug should be in the hands of the doctors themselves. Or did Elon make such a compelling last minute offer, that we simply ignored the ongoing advantages of the above for short-term and short-sighted (or selfish) sub-optimal outcomes.