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I have been saying this for years as long time listeners would know.
Fact is, if the wind isn't blowing when you want to do the ironing, if you want that ironing done you have to get the necessary power from a source which supplies ‘base load’.
I recall a glib comment from a senior ACTEW executive when I put this proposition to him. He said – in that patient tone our intellectual superiors use when explaining to those who are more to be pitied than blamed because they just don't understand – "The wind is always blowing somewhere in Australia, Mike".
Too simplistic by half.
But let's not even worry about getting the power satisfactorily to wherever it's needed from wherever in this wide brown land it might be blowing.
Fact is, it doesn't blow on a reliable basis and it tends to do that all at once. As Mr. McCrann reports:
... not only does wind fail as a power source. Not that that's a surprise to anyone who's prepared to 'look'. When the wind don't blow, the power don't flow. Even more devastatingly, as this analysis shows, the wind not only don't blow an awful lot of the time. It tends to not blow 'everywhere' at the same time.
This utterly shreds the claim that if we build enough of the so-called 'wind farms' across southern Australia, the wind will always be blowing somewhere.
McCrann concludes:
Every wind turbine that goes up anywhere in Australia is not just a statement of some primitive theology but testament to government and public service betrayal.
I have a dream: to be at the first dismantling of the first turbine.We'll keep some as a reminder of a time when politicians and supposed intellectual elites lost all touch with reality.
I have no wish to be there at the dismantling, but you may recall my saying on a number of occasions that when reality bites and this wildly expensive fashion fades in Australia, decaying wind turbines will be a real problem because no one will want to spend the money to pull them down and take them away.
Ugly, yes. I see them every afternoon on the way home from work, stuck up there on the hills. An interesting radio piece a while back (not 2cc :-) said they are only of use if the power stations run on natural gas. Natural gas power stations can be regulated fast enough to accept power from the wind turbines. Coal power stations dont have that level of control, so the power produced by the wind turbines would, at the moment, mostly be dumped off the grid unused. Until we can effectively store large amounts of electricity, or use natural gas power stations, they are not much use.
Agree with you folk - Pete/Mark is obviously a very jealous boy: just hasn't your class Mike: but obviously his politics are OK with 2CC. For some really decent listening I recommend 2CC from midnight to 5 30am - then kill it till 9 when it's worth listening to again.
Or hot needles in the eyes and red hot pokers in the ears, just for some aural stimulation!!! And then there is the desire for an informed opinion...not happening methinks...:(
Yes well - I agree that the wind is always blowing somewhere. I hear it absolutely howls with the hot air that blows over the airwaves on 2CC from 6am until 9 on weekdays now that you're gone Mike. Perhaps ActewAGL should place a few turbines there in the studio to make use of the "potent source of energy" (aka BS) that flows from the idiot they replaced you with?
I couldn't actually bring myself to listen these days to check, but I just had a gander at Mark Parton's blog. What a load of drivel! He really doesn't have the ability to get his opinion across effectively without coming off sounding like a wet behind the ears teenager on his first bash at the debating team.
Go back to Adelaide or under a rock or wherever it is you came from Pete from Woden (aka Mark from Belconnen)!
The ACTEW Executive Officer is a tad off as it doesn't it really matter if the wind is always blowing somewhere in Australia, as the grid (last time I heard) is not connected nationally ie WA. Therefore is it not always possible to access wind power.
BTW I would love to see you do the gardening show on a Saturday and Sunday morning. One of the Grannys needs her green propaganda shoving somewhere beneficial.
Dunno Pete from Woden, Mike's comments make perfect sense to me. Ontop of all that wind turbines are just plain ugly. I was over the "wow" factor on my first trip to Sydney, where they litter the hills of the cullerin range.
I Think Pete from Woden is also know as Mark from Belconnen. As Aggie said, why source out the blog??? On another note, Canberra Breakfast Radio, quite franky, sucks ATM. Your replacement makes me want to poke myself in the eye, the guy on 666 is a good source of driver fatigue, as for the two FM stations, well im not in Junior High anymore. Cure our insanity Mike and set up some pirate radio please...
Another fantastic post on 'The Truth' Mike - boy we miss you, I even had to turn on the 666 ABC Breakfast Show the other morning. My shrink told me it won't kill me - but i'm not so sure...
Anyway, I'm so sick of the green/environmental 'industry' and their lies! Had to laugh when they changed 'Global Warming' to 'Climate Cahnge' after several key 'gatherings' were held during record 'cold spells'. One in New York a few years back that was held on the very day the city had its heaviest October snowfall on record! - kind of warms the heart really!
Perhaps we could add chairs to the unused windmills and offer kids rides?
Anyway, the winds blowing so it's back to the ironing!
I do wonder why Pete from Woden is even posting a comment on your site, Mike. If he disliked your show so much I am baffled to know why he would even seek out your blog. As for comparing you with your replacement, well I find him rather wishy washy myself.
I hate to say this but aren’t you now a little like those decaying wind turbines you talk about?
Yes, it’s true you used to blow a lot of hot air during your times on the radio, but now that the erudite management of the Capital Radio Network have seen fit to replace you with a more potent source of energy, it’s probably time to close up shop. This website is no substitute for being an influential radio personality.
There were hundreds of these turbines all through Europe, while we were travelling around there. Most of the time none of them were active/working, but there was an abundance of nuclear power stations - not with chimneys belching smoke: but with towers emitting steam. Is anyone else tired of the sight of these on adverts by the climate change freaks claiming they are smoke stacks..
