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r posted this in the comments to the previous post it s by an electrician in melbourne and describes some work he had done on the feasibility of installing ev charging points in a local apartment building i was amused i recently did some work for the body corporate at dock 5 apartment building in docklands to see if we could install a number of electric charging points for owners to charge their electric vehicles we discovered our building had no non allocated parking spaces i e public ones this is typical of most apartment buildings so we cannot provide shared outlets the power supply in the building was designed for the loads in the building with no spare capacity only 5 or 6 chargers could be installed in total in a building with 188 apartments how do you allocate them as they would add value to any apartment owning one the car park sub boards cannot carry the extra loads of even one charger and would have to be upgraded on any floors with a charger as would the supply mains to each sub board the main switch board would then have to be upgraded to add the heavier circuit breakers for the sub mains upgrade when docklands was designed a limit was put on the number of apartments in each precinct and the mains and transformers in the streets were designed accordingly this means there is no capacity in the docklands street grid for any significant quantity of car chargers in any building in the area it gets better the whole cbd hoddle grid docklands and southbank is fed by two sub stations one in port melbourne and one in west melbourne this was done to have two alternate feeds in case one failed or was down for maintenance because of the growth in the city docklands and southbank neither one is now capable of supplying the full requirement of melbourne zone at peak usage in mid summer if the other is out of action the port melbourne 66 000 volt feeder runs on 50 or 60 year old wooden power poles above ground along dorcas street south melbourne one pole is located 40 cm from the corner kerb at the incredibly busy ferrars st dorcas st intersection and is very vulnerable to being wiped out by a wayward vehicle the infrastructure expenditure required would dwarf the nbn cost excluding the new power stations required these advocates of all electric vehicles by the year 2040 are completely bonkers it takes 5 8 years to design and build a large coal fired power station like loyyang and even longer for a nuclear one that s after you get the political will permits and legislative changes needed wind and solar just can t produce enough it s just a green silly dream in the foreseeable future other than in small wealthy countries it will no doubt ultimately come but not in the next 20 years so don t waste your upcoming vote in the federal election on the greens or labor because electric cars won t be happening for a long time yet in related news lord deben and his colleagues at the ccc foresee few problems in converting the whole country to electric vehicles in the near future 38 comments share article friday may 03 2019 by bishop hill what will net zero cost may 3 2019 energy costs yesterday s ccc report was a masterpiece of bureaucratic obfuscation with acres of verbiage and a generous sprinkling of buzzwords that was never entirely successful in obscuring a marked shallowness of thought one of the things that struck me about it was the almost complete lack of any cost information we were told that all the ccc s whizzbang scheme would cost just 1 2 of gdp in 2050 pull the other one but there was nothing to substantiate this figure or indeed most other figures in the report it all struck me as extremely unlikely just a couple of days before i d come across a study that put the cost of deep retrofitting insulation measures to the uk housing stock at 2 trillion which over 30 years is 67 billion per year that s 2 of current gdp on its own the report puts the cost of converting to low carbon heat heat pumps etc at 15 billion per year with this in mind i wondered whether bh readers could come up with some more capital costs of the great leap forward that our lords and masters are intending to unleash as a start i reckon that current uk energy demand is around 1600 twh per year how many offshore windfarms will we need to deliver that and what will they cost to build every 15 20 years 23 comments share article wednesday apr 24 2019 by bishop hill making the poor cold and miserable apr 24 2019 energy gas energy grid i have an article up at think scotland on the subject of induced energy poverty we have just learned something of the human cost of the government s increasingly absurd energy policies it s not a pretty story buried in depths of a rather obscure statistical report the department for business energy and industrial strategy has given details of how much energy households use for heating and lighting compared to the amount that they actually need astonishingly 69 per cent of households consume less energy than they need with an average underspend of 10 per cent this may overstate the case somewhat but it s clear that there is a real problem for those in fuel poverty who underspend by 20 per cent it s particularly acute for households with children click to read more 29 comments share article tuesday apr 23 2019 by bishop hill another attenborough tragedy porn exposé apr 23 2019 bbc this was posted up at reaction magazine earlier today tragedy porn is now a standard green propaganda technique you ve probably been on the receiving end of it and will recognise it once i describe it first of all you need a victim animals preferably fluffy ones and preferably with large eyes are ideal but people will do at a pinch then you have to film them in the process of dying or otherwise suffering a presenter or scientist needs to be on hand to describe the events preferably choking away their tears then you blame global warming it is often an effective technique but care is required last week tragedy porn proved to be the undoing of sir david attenborough when on netflix a carefully contrived story that global warming was driving walruses over cliff tops unravelled over the course of a week as a series of flaws were discovered in the narrative and in the tales spun by the production team as they attempted to cover up what they had done once it emerged that the production team may well have played a role in causing the tragedy it all started to look a bit problematic click to read more 30 comments share article thursday apr 18 2019 by bishop hill attenborough does climate apr 18 2019 bbc this is an open thread for discussion of tonight s david attenborough does climate thingy 168 comments share article thursday apr 18 2019 by bishop hill more walrus articles apr 18 2019 climate wg2 over the last week the walrus story has developed a lot i wrote an update at the gwpf blog and then looked at some potentially explosive details of the geography of cape kozhenikova then i summarised the whole story for reaction magazine i d say the netflix team coming out of this looking very bad indeed 14 comments share article thursday apr 11 2019 by bishop hill on walruses apr 11 2019 climate wg2 my article on walruses appeared behind the paywall at the spectator coffee house blog earlier this week over the weekend social media and the newspapers were full of stories of pacific walruses plunging over sea cliffs to their deaths heart wrenching film of the corpses of these magnificent beasts piled up on the shore have been driving many to tears this all came about as the result of the latest episode of our planet the new wildlife extravaganza from netflix as is normal for such programmes the story that accompanies the animal eye candy is told by sir david attenborough and as is positively compulsory it is spiced with multiple references to the horrors of global warming in fact we are told it is us who should shoulder the blame for the slaughter of the walruses because shrinking sea ice caused by climate change forces them to haulout leaving the water to take refuge on the shore instead the programme ends with attenborough directing viewers to a website run by wwf the co producers of the series it is therefore in essence an eight part multi million pound fundraiser which is a pity because there is now considerable evidence emerging that the story is not quite what it seems for a start as the zoologist susan crockford has documented for the gwpf walrus haul out behaviour may not be related to global warming in her 2014 paper on the beach she cites examples as far back as the 1930s long before global warming she also explains that there doesn t appear to be a strong correlation between sea ice levels and haulout behaviour nor is the phenomenon of walruses falling to their deaths from sea cliffs new american tv recorded the same phenomenon in 1994 and the new york times reported 60 deaths in a single incident in 1996 attempts were made to install a fence at one site while another employs rangers whose sole job is to keep the walruses away from the cliffs at the time scientists explained that the most likely explanation was overcrowding at the water s edge crockford thinks that the footage on the netflix show comes from a well documented incident that took place in the village of ryrkaypiy in eastern siberia in october 2017 september and october are the peak period for walrus haulouts and there are numerous examples which date back to the 1960s of the cliff phenomenon taking place on wrangel island a few hundred kilometres to the north however in 2017 as the siberian times reported the colony attracted polar bears that frequent and indeed at the time terrorise the area the bears drove several hundred walruses over the cliffs to their deaths before feasting on the corpses they continued to frequent the area right through into the winter i ve been able to show that crockford s supposition about the geographical origin of the footage is correct analysis of the rock shapes in the film and in a photo taken by the producer director both match archive photos of ryrkaypiy the photo was taken on 19 september 2017 during the events described by the siberian times but whereas the siberian times and gizmodo website which also reported on the 2017 incident were both quite clear that the walruses were driven over the cliffs by polar bears netflix makes no mention of their presence similarly there is no mention of the fact that walrus haulouts are entirely normal instead attenborough tells his viewers that climate change is forcing the walruses on shore where their poor eyesight leads them to plunge over the cliffs this is all very troubling as it raises the possibility that netflix and the wwf are innocently or otherwise party to a deception of the public exactly who was aware of the presence of polar bears remains unclear but it seems doubtful that no one at the wwf and the production team was unaware and given that one of the prime objectives of the show seems to have been to raise funds for wwf that seems problematic 79 comments share article monday oct 30 2017 by josh cartoons by josh calendar 2018 oct 30 2017 josh the best way to remember how entertaining or horrifying climate science energy policy etc was in 2017 is to buy a cartoons by josh calendar the calendar is a new size this year and while the cartoons are the same size the space for the diary dates is reduced this cuts the printing and posting costs by nearly half to 10 p p per calendar which means less fossil fuel money and every calendar saving the planet just a little bit more update the calendar is now printed and pre orders posted you can order one here cartoons by josh 57 comments share article saturday oct 21 2017 by josh who science not the iarc josh 391 oct 21 2017 josh who from reuters london reuters the world health organization s cancer agency dismissed and edited findings from a draft of its review of the weedkiller glyphosate that were at odds with its final conclusion that the chemical probably causes cancer documents seen by reuters show how a draft of a key section of the international agency for research on cancer s iarc assessment of glyphosate a report that has prompted international disputes and multi million dollar lawsuits underwent significant changes and deletions before the report was finalised and made public iarc based in lyon france wields huge influence as a semi autonomous unit of the who the united nations health agency it issued a report on its assessment of glyphosate a key ingredient in monsanto corp s top selling weedkiller roundup in march 2015 it ranked glyphosate a group 2a carcinogen a substance that probably causes cancer in people that conclusion was based on its experts view that there was sufficient evidence glyphosate causes cancer in animals and limited evidence it can do so in humans the group 2a classification has prompted mass litigation in the united states against monsanto and could lead to a ban on glyphosate sales across the european union from the start of next year the edits identified by reuters occurred in the chapter of iarc s review focusing on animal studies this chapter was important in iarc s assessment of glyphosate since it was in animal studies that iarc decided there was sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity one effect of the changes to the draft reviewed by reuters in a comparison with the published report was the removal of multiple scientists conclusions that their studies had found no link between glyphosate and cancer in laboratory animals in one instance a fresh statistical analysis was inserted effectively reversing the original finding of a study being reviewed by iarc in another a sentence in the draft referenced a pathology report ordered by experts at the u s environmental protection agency it noted the report firmly and unanimously agreed that the compound glyphosate had not caused abnormal growths in the mice being studied in the final published iarc monograph this sentence had been deleted reuters found 10 significant changes that were made between the draft chapter on animal studies and the published version of iarc s glyphosate assessment in each case a negative conclusion about glyphosate leading to tumors was either deleted or replaced with a neutral or positive one reuters was unable to determine who made the changes link here cartoons by josh 31 comments share article tuesday oct 10 2017 by josh daring to doubt tony abbot gwpf annual lecture 2017 cartoon notes by josh oct 10 2017 gwpf josh click image for larger version tony abbott former prime minister of australia gave an excellent gwpf annual lecture last night the text of the lecture is on the gwpf website here and the video is below cartoons by josh 150 comments share article sunday oct 08 2017 by bishop hill media blackout oct 8 2017 bbc a couple of weeks back the bbc s nick robinson was bemoaning the fact that the general public is increasingly 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