Daily review 14/06/2023

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1. Anne 1

   14 June 2023 at 7:21 pm

   I have never listened to Heather du Plessis Allen before but I happened across this ZB interview with PM Chris Hipkins by chance.

   https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/opotiki-mongrel-mob-barbarians-death-pm-says-gangs-contribute-nothing-to-society-after-convoy-sparks-outrage/CP73X6N3QZHTFCLCIY6A3C4WCE/

   Setting aside anything one might disagree with Hipkins about, I was shocked at the responses of HdPA. At the end of the interview she rudely cuts Hipkins off and then proceeds with a pathetic and humourless (she thinks its funny) attack on him and Labour using a Groundswell prank on Hipkins and other Labour ministers at the Field Day event in Hamilton.

   My apologies for offending anyone with my language, but this woman is a total arsehole who doesn't have an ounce of breeding, maturity or integrity in her entire body. Her attack on Chippy and Labour which she is encouraging others to adopt should be enough to have her fired from her post as a radio host on any media channel in the country.
   • Anne 1.1

     14 June 2023 at 7:43 pm

     Amendment – should be "other government ministers" in paragraph 2.
   • Patricia Bremner 1.2

     14 June 2023 at 9:01 pm

     100% Anne. HDA is married to B Soper. Enough said about her taste
2. Johnr 2

   14 June 2023 at 7:30 pm

   I note, once again, that plod have cow towed to the bikkie gangs and permitted unfettered law breaking and unannounced road closures so bikkies can command a presence at a funeral in opotiki and onto whakatane. It is my understanding that 100 extra plod were present at this event.

   Accordingly I cannot see any blame for this behaviour being laid at the current govts doorstep because of lack of resources.

   In past years it was not uncommon over the xmas period in particular to have booze busses and road side checks for rego and warrants. This also gave plod an excuse to conduct further investigations if they suspected drugs or weapons in the possession of the driver/rider.

   When are we going to stop tolerating this intimidating behavior.
   • AB 2.1

     15 June 2023 at 11:25 am

     I suspect you will find that the police let the event go ahead but are now quietly following up with charges for offences where they can reliably identify the people concerned. Operationally, this is the only sane way of proceeding, unless you would get a secret thrill from a Waco-style shootout.
3. joe90 3

   14 June 2023 at 7:56 pm

   Some good news.

   Simon Evans

   @DrSimEvans

   AMAZING solar stats klaxxonIt took 22 years for the world's solar power capacity to grow from one gigawatt to one terawatt The latest @SolarPowerEU projections say the second AND the third terawatts will arrive WITHIN FIVE YEARS

   

   https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1668641031141695491

   From down the thread.

   4. Discussion and Conclusions

   The analysis performed herein represents a much-needed update and harmonization of the EROI literature, and it advances the conversation surrounding the viability of renewable resources in the energy transition process. A common argument is that the EROIs from renewable energy technologies are supposedly lower than those provided by fossil fuels, and that transitioning to RE technologies would therefore result in a large loss in net energy. The results of this analysis rebuke that sentiment, noting that the three most important technologies for the energy transition—wind, PV, and hydropower—all have EROIs at or above 10 (even when the output is weighted in terms of primary energy equivalent assuming a future-proof life-cycle grid efficiency of ηG = 0.7, i.e., 1 unit of electricity per 1.4 units of primary energy). This means that greater than 90% of the energy produced by these technologies is delivered to society as net energy.

   Perhaps more interesting still, the EROIs from liquid fuels, including the EROI from conventional oil production, are less than 10 once the costs of refining and delivery to the point-of-use are included. Oil is widely considered the most important fuel for the economy, used mostly in the transportation sector. This means that oil delivers less net energy to society for each unit invested in extraction, refining, and delivery than PV or wind. The transition to electric vehicles, according to these results, will actually increase the amount of net energy delivered to society (even more so when considering the higher efficiency of electrical power trains vs. internal combustion engines).

   It is clear from these results that EROI estimates at the point of extraction can be wildly misleading. As a case in point, even if crude oil were measured to have an EROI of 1000 or more at the point of extraction, the corresponding EROI at the point of use, using global average data for the energy “cost” of the process chain, would still only be a maximum of 8.7. Furthermore, as the quality of oil, gas and coal continue to decline in the future, the energy “cost” of the associated process chains will increase, further reducing the EROIs. On the other hand, as the technologies used to harness renewable energy improve, the corresponding EROIs will continue to increase in the future.

   Finally, it is also important to observe that, in the future, a significant increase in the penetration of renewable technologies into the electricity grid mixes will have to be accompanied by a concomitant deployment of electrical storage, to compensate for the intrinsic intermittency or renewable energy availability and ensure the continued real-time matching of the supply and demand curves. However, detailed scenario analyses of the net energy performance of even highly decarbonized grid mixes relying heavily on PVs, based on high temporal resolution grid balancing algorithms rather than blunt assumptions, indicate that the additional energy investment for electrochemical energy storage does not significantly affect the overall EROIPE-eq of the resulting electricity mix [7,11].

   https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/12/7098#
4. joe90 4

   14 June 2023 at 8:20 pm

   oh…

   Arieh Kovler

   @ariehkovler

   Who owns Twitter? Elon Musk is fighting in court to keep the true ownership of Twitter a secret.

   https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1667650248079024128
5. tWiggle 5

   14 June 2023 at 8:46 pm

   https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-zealand-and-fiji-strengthen-defence-relationship

   And the Guardian whips up a quick article on this and shifting alliances in the Pacific

   'New Zealand and Fiji have signed a defence agreement to strengthen military training and maritime security, that comes amid rising tensions over security in the region.'
6. Joe90 6

   14 June 2023 at 9:22 pm

   First it was just a little boat sinking in the Med.

   Now they're organising.

   https://whdh.com/news/researchers-spot-rare-sight-orcas-in-new-england-waters-along-with-dozens-of-whales-and-dolphins/
   • tWiggle 6.1

     14 June 2023 at 9:25 pm

     COPorca 28.

     If you have ever read Moby Dick, half is a fantastic observation on whale hunting and whale social response, with large pods drawing around to protect tneir young and mothers.

     The author suggests that some of the whale behaviour is learnt, with those whales who have been hunted before by humans being much more immediately aggresive against the whale boats pursuing them.
7. tWiggle 7

   14 June 2023 at 9:35 pm

   Micheal Woods fronts up to RNZ about cyclone buyout process

   Crisp and to the point. The government recovery plan process seems to be well-thought out and responsive to local councils.
8. Muttonbird 8

   14 June 2023 at 9:43 pm

   Subhuman is a translation of the word, "untermensch", used by Nazis to describe non-Aryan people they deemed as inferior. Where is David Farrar and Juliet Moses to take David Seymour to task? They are usually pretty hot on appropriating Nazi language for political purposes.
   • adam 8.1

     15 June 2023 at 1:27 am

     Dirty politics will only cheer on their own.
9. tWiggle 9

   14 June 2023 at 10:33 pm

   To be fair, Seymour's tweet does talk about subhuman behaviour, not actual subhumans. Although making a huge stink and noise on motorbikes and 4x4s doesn't seem that subhuman. Used to be on Saturday nights in any small kiwi town, pretty similar behaviour took place, just not for so long or loud.

   The clogging up the highways part is a bit brutal, perhaps. On the other hand, have you ever been caught in a holiday weekend pile-up from Ōtaki onward?

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