coljones

You are buying retail and selling wholesale and then the power company has to load up what you have supplied and onsell it to, say, South Australia which, so we have been told, is incapable of producing it's own power (always cloudy and no wind)

Do you have an authoritative source?

Sounds like a beat up Yenn. You should ask your daughter for a quote from an authoritative source. Alan Jones, Ray Haddley and the local paper usually invent stories to suit there own agenda.

Base 8 or 12, you just move the "decimal" point. In addition 12 can be divided by 2, 3, 4 or 6. Duodecimal - the English knew a thing or two about numbers.

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Subsidies, blackouts and rising energy prices, but it isn't renewables who are the culprits - the story of aluminium smelting in Australia - The AIM Network

Heaps more peak power required with the arrival of air conditioners requiring fat networks to provide just for peaks! Aluminium refiners pay very low prices so they can be shut down when total demand approaches or exceeds supply - but they don't like it. Is the national party getting money from the refiners?

But we probably shouldn't produce any more finished metals than we need. Currentrent modelling suggests that we are exporting highly subsidised energy packed in aluminium and importing pollution that would be produced overseas if they did their own aluminium smelting. I have seen suggestions that the subsidies to aluminium is higher than $150,000 per person employed in the smelting industry. It would be cheaper to have these employees on the dole being paid the full time Australian average weekly earnings.

I'd like to see the model. Was it designed and installed in a professional manner or was it strung among the trees. In my youth I suspected some of the energy retailers planted trees, waited til they were big enough and then strung the power lines - they were rough. The original Optus Cable was strung along the power poles using substandard equipment. They were so bad that Optus stole the Telstra phone lines to provide Optus broadband (or was that to hijack the ADSL capacity to block Telstra). NBN has refused to use the Optus Cable despite having paid dearly for it. A properly engineered and installed system isn't cheap.

Behind the baseload, un-interuptible power argument is the seldom revealed need to supply massive amounts of energy to the aluminium industry. The electricity provided is very cheap and is a electricity consumer donation straight to the pockets of the aluminium smelters. Australia refused to prop up the aviation industry, the motor vehicle industry, the agriculture industry but we do prop up the aluminium smelters exporting energy by way of processed aluminium with a high effective subsidy and effectively importing other countries pollution (because we refuse to export the pollution along with the aluminium) Closure: time to shutthe smelter with a $4 billion subsidy habit Subsidies, blackouts and rising energy prices, but it isn't renewables who are the culprits - the story of aluminium smelting in Australia - The AIM Network

Ahhh! Fooey!!! Base 10 was invented by those who could only count by fingers not by brains. Base12 and base20 are much more flexible. Have you ever tried to separate 10 into piles of 3, 4 or 6? https://io9.gizmodo.com/5977095/why-we-should-switch-to-a-base-12-counting-system?IR=T

The fees for the big end of town funds are extortionate - lots of these fees find their way to the LNP. The fees for industry funds are much lower and less finds its way to unions thus reducing union fees. (and even less to the ALP)

move your super to an industry fund!!!

When a condition of release, age or death, is reached then the funds can be drawn down irrespective of where you live. Dormant accounts may be transferred to the government but still accrue income without some of the extortionate fees charged by some funds. The contributer, dependants or the estate are entitled to make a claim on the fund following meeting a condition of release even if the funds are held by the government. If your Canadian friends have met a condition of release they can recover their funds.

Some super companies are living high on the hog, these companies have high fees and lower returns to the contributors. The Industry, not-for-profit and company funds operate from a much lower fee base and the returns to the contributors is, generally, much higher. The problem for the Productivity Commission and the Liberal Party is that the really efficient funds are those associated with unions. A further problem for the Liberals is that if the inefficient for-profit funds are forced away from the trough then kickbacks and contributions to the Liberal and National Parties will fall. This is, probably, the reason that the Productivity Commission failed to nominate the innefficient funds. As the Banking Royal Commission proceeds it would appear that the biggest contributors to the LNP will start to be revealed as the Mafia it is (but without the machine guns)

Sometimes you have to take a stand! Do you let the Nazi and Japanese off the hook, just because they are soldiers. Do we forgive Lt. Caley for his efforts in Vietnam? Being a soldier is bad enough but coming home under a shadow of coverup only makes it worse. We should be honest with our soldiers and praise them when they have done good but submit them to the courts when they are alleged to have done bad things. 1066? Wasn't there but undoubtedly that invasion and that of the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Romans would probably count as illegal and the behaviour of the invaders be dubbed as war crimes.

The owner of the business might get to pocket some profit (unless they do some trick accounting, like borrowing money from themselves at eyewatering, but tax deductible interest rates) but for Australian companies quite a lot of the income from sales is retained in Australia as wages, accountants and lawyers fees and various taxes, charges, licence fees etc. Where Australia loses is if the owner shuts up shop moving manufacturing offshore and just running an import market, a bit like GMH and Ford. Offshoring is most attractive if you can push your sales through a tax haven so they don't even pay tax anywhere.

"In WW2 it was we who declared war on Japan, not the other way around"? Would you like to expand on this and validate - taking in to account historical Japanese aggression against Koreans, Manchurian, Chinese and Taiwanese people.

I tried "demagogues" first and then thought that the way they act their ardent supporters might consider them as "demigods"

We originally had the "Protectionists" vs "The Free Traders". Politics is a fair representation of our population - full of well meaning idiots, fair minded people, scum, scoundrels, self serving demigods and absolute turds. And they come on all shapes and sizes, all political hues and all sexes. WA Liberals seem to have covered all bases despite their size.

It is all in the nomenclature. Roads are paid for out of consolidated revenue. All governments have been tricky about what pays for what.

That doesn't stop it being a subsidy.

NSW power station - Canavan and Alinta are up to no good. It may well be that Alinta is after a guaranteed share of the NSW market and the NSW guaranteed prices. Or they are after a dead duck power station at a dead duck price and probably demand huge subsidies to keep it on line.

What has been the change in CPI during that period? Private enterprise now owns or controls the majority of energy in Australia and they are earning a profit. Rudd, Gillard etc had nothing to do with the current prices. Besides Rudd and Gillard provided an offset, a refund of the carbon tax, that enabled people to realise the true costs of energy and either pay more or have a case of beer - their choice!! PS tried to buy a house recently or paid a mortgage or bought some fruit or lamb?

There are a range of technical and financial variables in the equations for energy generation, storage and despatch. The base generator price of energy is about $63/MWh, during the evening it is about $145/MWh. If there were spare capacity off peak then this could be stored and sold during peak demand. If you had market strength you could demand time of day pricing. The spare capacity is from the sun shining, the wind blowing, the rivers running, any redundant and spare capacity. The incentives are the usual financial ones - you've been paid for your capital, which you usually get out of your daytime and peak demand customers, your operational costs, the costs of inputs and the money you will make selling power back into the grid at the highest price you can get for it. It is becoming evident that the operational costs of renewables is matching or bettering the costs of coal. Will renewables ever replace coal? Hard to tell but with smarts you can minimise the use of coal. What happened in SA, Alinta discovered that coal was unprofitable. What happened to the gas generator - private enterprise couldn't be depended upon to get it back on line. Why did NSW set up the Electricity Commission? Because private enterprise couldn't be trusted not to plunge NSW into blackouts. How have things changed? If you remove the gold plating from the network we might go back to blackouts. Why change the system? Never get between a politician or lawyers and a bucket of cash.