Cold, windless Victoria may run out of gas before the end of winter

[rangerrebew]

Cold, windless Victoria may run out of gas before the end of winter
Dystopian Fantasy city. Dark. Doom. Death.

By Jo Nova

It wasn’t supposed to be this cold and windless in Australia

For some reason that no climate model can explain, Australia has run out of wind power three months in a row, which means we had to use more gas than expected. It’s also been colder than climate models predicted, despite global emissions being higher than ever in history. For some other reason that no rational adult can explain, the State of Victoria banned gas drilling for most of the last decade (to reduce the beachy-weather days in eighty years) and thus, as night follows day, the state is running out of gas. Ergo, predictably, it is also facing blackouts, cost blowouts and manufacturers dependent on gas are warning they may have to close down, or move to the US, where gas is still cheap.

If only the climate models could predict temperatures and wind even a month in advance?

The AEMO (our electricity grid manager) says Victoria will run out of gas before winter runs out of bite. Apparently Victorians are pulling twice as much gas out of their main storage as they can afford to at the moment. Not only does Victoria need the gas for electricity, but 80% of Victorian homes have gas for cooking or heating. And then there is manufacturing, not just in Victoria but most of Australia as gas prices rise all over the East Coast.

Who needs explosives and fertilizer, anyway?

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/06/cold-windless-victoria-may-run-out-of-gas-before-the-end-of-winter/

[DefiantMassRINO]

In the very early 1980's, Boston/New England almost ran out of natural gas due to delays in LNG shipments.

Those who don't remeber the energy shortages of the 1970s and 1980s, and the Blackouts of 1965, 1970s, 2003, etc., are creating failed Energy, Economic, and Security policies in the West.

If the Kleptocratic Oligarchs really drank their own Global Climate Change Kool-Aid, they would not be using private jets to fly into Climate conferences.

Good energy policy requires diversification, multi-sourcing, and redundancies.

Placing all your energy hopes into Wind Turbines and Solar Panels is stupid as all $h!t.

[Smokin Joe]

In the very early 1980's, Boston/New England almost ran out of natural gas due to delays in LNG shipments.

Those who don't remeber the energy shortages of the 1970s and 1980s, and the Blackouts of 1965, 1970s, 2003, etc., are creating failed Energy, Economic, and Security policies in the West.

If the Kleptocratic Oligarchs really drank their own Global Climate Change Kool-Aid, they would not be using private jets to fly into Climate conferences.

Good energy policy requires diversification, multi-sourcing, and redundancies.

Placing all your energy hopes into Wind Turbines and Solar Panels is stupid as all $h!t.

I believe that characterization grossly overestimates the intelligence of envirowhacko energy policy.