JvK

Husband, father of three beautiful kids. Pro gravel rider wannabe, airline Captain - Airbus, pro energy abundance - pro nuclear power - pro Wombat

[JvK @Numbat73]

@JC47053522 That’s a lot of hot air to diss the most effective, safest, scaleable, lowest materially intensive decarbonisation tech on the board, which outside the west is also super cheap. You must be a fossil shill.

[JvK @Numbat73]

@LukeGromen @GoldPathSolar Cute

[JvK @Numbat73]

@CraigSarg73 @NotGMO_AU Please don’t take this post down in two and a half years time

[JvK @Numbat73]

@IncrediblyBozza @turtlemagpies He didn’t drop the ball either, that’s one tough hombre

[JvK @Numbat73]

@FootnotesGuy Not a massive problem since the windmill only operates at 30% capacity factor anyway. Helps installation!

[JvK @Numbat73]

@EnergyWrapAU Good vibes versus physics 🤔

[JvK @Numbat73]

@pushingportis99 @swandane Yeah what would Dane Swan know anyway?

[Mark P. Mills @MarkPMills]

The narrative, the myth, the delusions, of an "energy transition" is very sticky.... trying again with a reality check in my latest piece.
https://t.co/YIgQKhKJrd

[JvK @Numbat73]

@Atomicrod There’s virtually no western renewable producers anymore, and those that do produce pretty much rely entirely on Chinese produced components and supply chains.
Regardless - as you’ve probably mentioned before - the idea that renewables provide good local jobs is absurd.

[JvK @Numbat73]

@jm493_au @OskaArcher @LawleyEnergy Source data, convert to AUD. This excludes retail power bill relief and panic buying of LNG cargoes at above market prices.
Yes primary energy consumption is the data that really matters. 91% of Australia’s primary energy consumption is fossil energy

[JvK @Numbat73]

@jm493_au @OskaArcher @LawleyEnergy So after 25 years and $20 trillion on the wind and solar experiment now these technologies supply a bit over 3% of the global energy system. You must be a fan of cancelling future wind and solar projects based on this glacial rate of progress as well?

[JvK @Numbat73]

@TomPlayford3 Which is why the claims about overall monthly or quarterly percentages quoted by the boosters about wind and solar supply are completely irrelevant. Electricity is required to be delivered on demand when and where people need it.

[JvK @Numbat73]

@EnergyWrapAU @Potkinetic Haha you should be on RenewEcomedy

[JvK @Numbat73]

@PeterDGardner Haha a nice euphemism for “rooftop solar is breaking the grid”

[JvK @Numbat73]

@LyrebirdDream You are not a serious person. Where on this chart has solar and wind made a dent in hydrocarbon consumption?

[JvK @Numbat73]

@GusLefty @aaronsmith @Butterscribe Fair point, it’s more like seven years.

[JvK @Numbat73]

@aaronsmith @Butterscribe Pot Kettle Black

[JvK @Numbat73]

@PeterDGardner As opposed to powering it with coal, which is what the Chinese do.