Delta Strain Mortality Rate in Australia

This is at least the third peak in daily case numbers and by far the largest. But the death rate is only 20-25% that of the second peak, despite the more cases now. The site to which the link leads is updated daily. Go to the Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases graph at the top and then scroll down to the Daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths graph and compare.

The governments and the media are quiet about this. A bit of perspective; go to Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths. From 1 March 2020 to 23 August 2021, there were 984 deaths. That's almost 17 months, say 16.5. Air pollution from coal-fired power stations kill about 795 in Australia annually. That's 1093 in 16.5 months—more than COVID. Gladys said nothing about that. Alcohol kills about 4,000 annually in Australia. That's 5,500 in the time COVID has been going. Total silence.

The grog shop near where I live is open in this lockdown. That's the BWS in Lavington. It's a drive-through, but they get out and go into the shop. Just checked, the one in town is open from 09H00 to 19H00.

The authorities are loath to give up the power COVID handed them and the media would like the easy news (find TV or radio news or a newspaper without COVID in it) to continue.

I've had my second shot on 1 July, and I'm still treated as if I have leprosy—a very lowly contagious disease, btw. I have to wear a mask and sign in everywhere I go. What's next? Should I ring a bell and shout, unclean, unclean?

How to easily stop and reverse global warming

The technology to do this has existed for many decades. The problem is people.

The human factor

Two overlapping groups are the problem.

• the libtards—those who can’t distinguish between reality and the ideals of political correctness, and side with the latter
• the teeming masses—they keep politicians in power and politicians will never upset them

As I ennumerate what should be done, starting with the most important, you’ll see how these two groups are the problem.

What should be done

• replace all fossil fuel power stations with nuclear ones and ignore the libtards
• stop all animal farming and go vegan—that’s right, redneck, from now on you’re a vegan

The above are the two remedies which will have by far the most effect on global warming. There are too many smaller ones to mention. I’ll name a few.

• let private vehicle licence fees rise exponentially with fuel consumption—more below
• stamp out all inefficient energy use—more below
• replace all huge ships with nuclear‑driven ones
• stop wasting money trying to create city, state, and country scale wind and solar electricity—it’s pie in the sky; build nuclear power stations

Vehicle licensing fees

Set a fuel‑consumption reference, say 7.5L/100Km. Have a certain test, say a long distance trip involving some cities on the way, and get the figures for the vehicles. Let a vehicle using 8.5L/100Km pay ten times more (10¹ times), one using 9.5L/100Km 100 times more (10² times), etc. One can use decimals for the power if the excess use is a fraction of a litre. Yes, bogan/redneck, you’ll have to sell your 4WD/SUV and get a small car.

Of course, everyone will claim they must use a big, fuel‑hungry vehicle. Each case should be individually evaluated and inapproprate vehicle use (no load, only a driver in a fuel‑hungry vehcle) heavily fined.

Inefficient energy use

There is so much of that. Below only a few.

• cretins love to let their vehicles idle for minutes on end—starting and about seven seconds of idling use the same amount of fuel—there are billions of cretins in the world
• running empy or near‑empty buses all over the planet
• open, cooled shelves in supermarkets—not just here and there, all over the world
• stupid people setting their air‑conditioners to the maximum heat (often 30°C) in winter and on the minimum in summer;in summer, the AC should only be able to start cooling at 28°C and not cool below 24° and in winter it should start at 18°C and not heat above 22°C
• open doors and windows in rooms with AC and AC left on for hours when people leave

Doing all this will work, but it will upset most people. Tough titties, I say. Do we want to beat global warming, or don’t we? Of course, the politicians would not want to upset voters and so lose their cushy, well‑paid jobs. So, global warming is with us and may yet wreak havoc with the planet.

Political correctness is a mental illness

The other day I thought that if schizophrenia is characterised by delusions and hallucinations then political correctness is schizophrenia without hallucinations.

Dictionary.com has a hallucination as a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind and a delusion as a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact.

The politically correct (henceforth called libtards for short) don't generally suffer from hallucinations. But they have strong delusions completely resistant to evidence. I'll name only a few. Note that goes for by far the majority of libtards, but not every single one of them.

Nuclear Power Generation

You cannot be a card-carrying member of libtards incorporated if you don't throw a hissy fit at the mention of nuclear power generation. It doesn't matter if one tells them that nuclear power generation kills fewest people per unit of electricity generated. Fewer than even their darlings, solar and wind power generation. Here is more.

Then, of course, there's France which gets more than 70% of its electricity from nuclear power which is the world and Europe's biggest exporter of electricity. Here are the world figures. Note that they export to the politically correct countries heavily relying on renewables - think mostly Germany here. Strangely enough, the two libtard nests with their renewables, Germany and Denmark, have the most expensive electricity in Europe. And France has no health or other problems from all their nuclear-power-generated electricity. The French don't glow in the dark. Strange, isn't it?

But do these figures change their warped little libtard minds? Not by a long shot. Is it normal to ignore decisive evidence and stick to one's delusions? Maybe in the madhouse.

Race

There are libtards who say there is only one race, the human race. No, libtard. Humans are a species. Homo Sapiens. Sapiens is Latin and means wise or clever. Obviously, the reality-denying libtards don't belong to this species. The definition of a species is something like, a group that can freely pair and consistently produce fertile offspring. A cross between a Collie and a Labrador is a fertile dog. Not so a cross between a donkey and a horse—a mule.

A race is more something like a subspecies. The definition of a subspecies is something like, a subgroup in a species which breeds true and has common features identifying them as members of that subgroup and separating them from other groups in the species. By breeding true I mean Chinese have Chinese kids, German Shepards have German Shepard pups, Caucasians have Caucasian kids, etc.

We know that some dog races are faster than the others—only a libtard will put his money on the Bulldog in a race between a Bulldog and a Whippet. Similarly, some are cleverer. A Kelpie will leave a Boxer far behind in obedience training. Africans seem to be faster than the rest of us if one goes by Olympic medals in sprints. But when Vasco da Gama sailed around Africa in about 1498 the Africans did not have writing (already more than 2,000 years old in other parts), they did not use the wheel (even older) and they had no form of mathematics. Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth in Alexandria, Egypt in about 250BC. Do you think the state of the Africans at any stage, or even now, is a sign of intelligence? Obviously, that cannot be.

In 2002 Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen published a book called, IQ And The Wealth of Nations. Basically, the higher the average IQ of a country, the wealthier they were. This book caused many libtards to prolapse their uteruses (strictly speaking, uteri) and twist their spermatic cords. A flurry of testing was launched to prove these two wrong. Unfortunately for the libtards, however... The results were so unanimous that they couldn't be questioned. Here's one with the results lower down on the page and here's what happens if one dares contradict the libtards. Here is a short version of the history of research into race and intelligence. Academics even say suppressing the debate on this issue may do harm.

What the libtards do is try to nullify these results. They say intelligence is hard to define and cannot be measured. Although the race IQs are different, that means nothing according to the libtard. The fact that Africa is a mess is whitey's fault. In the process of doing this, the libtards talk more BS than was in the Augean stables. It's a pity Hercules is not here.

Homosexuality

According to the libtards homosexuality is just a harmless variant of normal. So, how come the astronomical suicide and self-harm rate amongst homosexuals? Here is more. Of course, that's society's fault. And what about their predilection for serial killing? More than 40% of US serial killers are homosexual and more than half their serial killer victims were killed by homosexuals. Look at this. I suppose we should not mention that. This is no evidence that there is something seriously wrong with homosexuality, according to the libtards. They stick their heads in the sand.

Islam is a peaceful religion

Yeah, right.

But those were naughty Muslims, the libtards say. They didn't know that their own religion is a religion of peace. Well, what did they read in the Quran and the Hadiths? Kill the infidel, they read. Cut his throat. You may not want to fight, but fighting is good for you, they read. Here's their favourite verse in the Quran, the verse of the sword Here's another opinion. And this person actually went to the trouble to extract violent passages and he gives references. But despite all that, the libtard says, Islam is a religion of peace.

The evidence is clear, political correctness has a major problem recognising reality. Evidence means nothing to the libtard. That means they're delusional. Political correctness should be in the psychiatry textbooks. Someone should be looking for medication to at least control the madness of these poor people.

Bushfires in Australia

It's now 6 January 2020.  Australia had disastrous bushfires in the past week or two and some are still going.  About 3.5 million Hectares were scorched, at least 20 people are dead, the army is apparently helping to bury 100,000 dead cattle and more than 1,500 homes were burned down.  The prime minister, Scott Morrison promised a two bilion dollar recovery package.  The actual cost of the fires will, of course, only be known later.

Here are some resources confirming the above figures:

• Seven TV Network
• BBC A Visual Guide 
• The Guardian - Australian Edition

In the winter of 2019, I was in a car driving through the Mount Hotham area in Victoria.   There were masses of deadwood on the forest floor as far as one could see.  And it didn't stop as one drove along.  "This is a bushfire waiting to happen," I told my friend.  The order to evacuate Hotham came on the 3rd of January.

It's hard to set a Eucalyptus tree ablaze.  In New Zealand, we used to start the woodfires using pine and only then added the Eucalyptus wood.  One needs a lot of kindling to set fire to Eucalyptus wood.  This kindling is in plentiful supply in the woods of Australia.  And the authorities do nothing about it.  They have no incentive - they are never held accountable.  To say they were derelict in their duty would be a euphemism.  Gross negligence is closer to the mark.  And still, the law protects them.

The CSIRO did a study on wildfires in Tasmania which you can get here.  They studied three plans of action:

1. Do nothing - popular with those living on the taxpayer dollar the world over.
2. A maximal treatment, with the most possible prescribed burning within ecological constraints.
3. 12 hypothetically more implementable state-wide prescribed-burning plans.

 Of the third option they said:

Leverage analysis of the 12 more-realistic implementable plans indicated that such prescribed burning would have only a minimal effect, if any, on fire extent and that none of these prescribed-burning plans substantially reduced fire intensity. 

This means it won't work.

Of the second option they said:

Statistical modelling showed that an unrealistically large maximal treatment scenario could reduce fire intensity in three flammable vegetation types, and reduce fire probability in almost every vegetation type.

My point is that bushfires are so devastating that expensive, large-scale preventative measures are justified.

Keeping that in mind, option two is clearly the way to go.  But they are already making excuses stating backburning won't work.  One of the problems is it can only be done in the right weather conditions.  They didn't say it, but I say it, backburns can get and have got out of hand.  So, if backburns are not the way to go, what is?

Finland had a decrease in forest fires over the past few decades.  They fare much better as far as forest fires are concerned than neighbouring Sweden.  The do clear deadwood from the forest floor and they go so far as to clean the forest floor of combustible material after cutting down trees.

It is justified to use armies of prisoners and able welfare recipients to clear the ground in Australian bushland.  It may not be politically correct, but political correctness should yield to reality.  And these bushfires were and are very real.  Of course, if anything is preferable to violating the principles of political correctness, go for the bushfires.

Getting the kindling out of the woods is most likely the most important thing to do that will yield results the soonest.  One should focus on the big gains first.

Jamestown, South Australia Grid Battery - How Long Can it Supply South Australia?

The 129MWh storage capacity Tesla battery in Jamestown, South Australia brought tears of joy to the eyes of the politically-correct, greenie retards. Just look at how they celebrate this. And here's more.

Little do they know, it's only good for topping up the electricity supply during times of peak demand. A battery can discharge quickly without preparation when needed. This battery is totally useless for coping with sizeable blackouts.

Let me explain some things so you will quickly know more than the Minister of Energy about electricity.  For our purposes we are interested in a unit of used electricity.  Household electricity is paid per kWh - kilowatt hour.  A kWh represents an amount of work done.  A watt is the rate of work made possible by the input of a certain amount of energy - a watt of electricity. Say your kettle is marked as 1,000W - one Kw.  If you boil that kettle continuously for one hour you will have used 1kWh of electricity.  A kWh is a unit of electricity used to make a certain amount of work possible, say cool your room for x minutes, light up a certain area for y hours, etc.  When it comes to mass consumption a kWh is too small a unit and 1,000 of them are lumped together to make a MWh (megawatt hour) and 1,000MWh are lumped together to make a GWh (gigawatt hour).  1,000kWh = 1MWh.  1,000MWh = 1GWh.
 
What does 129MWh mean? It means they can supply 129MWatts for an hour. As the battery's maximum discharge capacity is 100MWatt/Hr it means the battery can actually go on for about 75 minutes discharging at 100MWatts/hour.

You will find much of what's in the paragraph above on the linked-to pages. But you won't find what it actually means as the media monkeys don't understand numbers. They don't answer the question of how long can it supply electricity to how many people. I wanted to see how long it can supply Adelaide with electricity but I could not find Adelaide's electricity usage. My guess for Adelaide was less than 10 minutes. I did find this AEMO pdf document online. It gives the electricity usage for the whole of South Australia.

On page 18 you will see that in 2017-18 South Australia used 12,203 GWh. Giga is 1000 Mega. So, with minimal rounding, it comes out that South Australia used 33,433MWh/day, 1,393MWh/hour and 23MWh/minute in 2017-18. 23MW/h means 23MW delivered for an hour.  But they need that delivered per minute.  So, they need a supply of 1,380MW/h for business as usual.  The supply rate of the battery is not remotely up to that - it's only 100MW/h.  Immediately, it's going to hit the fan big-time.  Now say the supply rate can be upped to the required 1,380MW/h, how long can SA keep running?  That's easy, the battery capacity is 129MWh.  Per-minute they need 23MWh.   So, the battery can supply South Australia with less than 6 minutes worth of electricity.  But, as already shown, even these six minutes won't happen. Only a few islands of light will be able to last the six minutes. And these must be decided in advance.  Who will get the electricity and who won't?  That'll be the night the lights went out in South Australia. Those backwoods, southern yokels will be crying into their beer for their battery to save them, but it won't.

Adelaide has about 515,000 homes.  This battery can run 8,000 houses for 24 hours. That's 0.0155% of Adelaide's homes.

I wonder how many of the numerically and reality-challenged politicians in the various governments know this.  I would not be surprised if the answer is none.

This is typical of this world – the world is mostly populated by retards led by their noses by the arts-and-humanities monkeys in governments using the arts-and-humanities monkeys in the media to disseminate their propaganda to the great unwashed. All three these groups have but a tenuous hold on reality and don't understand our technical world. That's the world we live in – the hoi-polloi crying out to be deceived and the politicians and their flunkies, the politically-correct media people, are all too ready to oblige.

Who Created God?

In an interview featuring Roger Penrose and William Lane Craig the former said a higher intelligence, like God, as the agent responsible for the Universe, is not a satisfactory explanation.  Roger Penrose wants a reason for the higher intellect as well.

Before Edwin Hubble demonstrated redshift in the nineteen-twenties, most people were happy that the Universe had just always been there.  In Stephen Hawking's last book, Brief Answers to Big Questions, he states that with the Law of Gravity in place, the Universe could have just happened.  Now the Law of Gravity had to be there for all time.  Others say that fluctuations in a quantum vacuum or quantum space were responsible for the existence of the Universe.  That means the quantum something must just always have been there.

So it's clear - most people are happy with something just always being there, as long as it's not a higher power to whom they are most likely accountable.  A few come right out and say so, to their credit.  But most are not that honest.  They have to invent a "scientific" reason for their disbelief in a higher power.  Their big question is if God created the Universe, who created God?  Richard Dawkins asks that question frequently.

First, let's get our heads around what a chain of causation is.  Say Y created Z, then the immediate question is who created Y?  Why X of course.  And who created X, you ask.  That's W.  And so on and so on.  If we travel back along this chain of causation, we will eventually reach A.

In our quest to discover who created the Universe, we can start with anything in the Universe and then travel back along this chain of causation.  There are only two possibilities.  This chain can be:
1) Circular
2) Non-circular

If the chain is circular, we will eventually get to something that was created by something that it had created - the chicken came from the egg that the chicken had laid.  That's Wheeler's Participatory Universe.  In short, the Universe was created by intelligence the Universe had created.  This concept has to do with particles acting like waves if not observed but acting like particles if observed.  That means that the act of observing them after their creation made them go back in time and influence their own nature so they act like particles.  That's enough to give anybody a headache and, not surprisingly, this explanation for the Universe's existence hasn't really caught on.

If the chain is not circular, there are only two possibilities:
1) Infinite regression - we never get to the ultimate creator, which will mean nothing can exist.  We know this is not the state of things.
2) Somewhere we run smack-bang into an uncaused cause - the higher intelligence.

There are only these three possibilities:
1) The Participatory Universe possibility
2) Nothing exists because there's no ultimate creator.
3) The uncaused cause is behind everything.

One cannot ask where the Uncaused Cause came from - that's a stupid question.  Just like people were happy to accept that the Universe was eternal and Stephen Hawking was happy to believe that the Law of Gravity was eternal and those of the Quantum faith have no problems with something quantum being eternal we have to accept that there may be an infinite higher intellect.  Not only that, an eternal higher intelligence is by far the most satisfying explanation.  After all, who would want the Law of Gravity or something like a quantum field as their God?

Trump won, liberals lost, suck it up.

It takes pride of place on the news - liberals and Muslims protesting against Trump. The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) and artistic communities are outraged. It seems the whole of the film industry had their haemorrhoids prolapse and thrombose. Not surprisingly, this motley lot is joined by many politicians from many countries declaring their condemnation for what Trump is doing. At the same time, this sorry lot, the politicians included, are displaying their hypocrisy in the media of the world. Liberals are always loudly in favour of democracy, except if the vote goes against them.

Furthermore, this sorry lot is also displaying to the world that they are sore losers. They whine and complain and carry on like a hypochondriac told there's nothing wrong with her. This is really very bad style. When did conservatives go on like this after they had lost an election? I can't recall them ever taking to the streets and making such a sorry spectacle of themselves. Shame on you liberals. But come to think about it, this is just what can be expected of you, given you are such sore losers and hypocrites. My advice to you is to act with style and dignity - very hard for two-faced liberals. Suck it up. Prepare for the next election. Who knows, maybe...

And as for the Muslims, what did you expect? There are very few things as well established on this Earth as the link between Islam and terrorism. Don't try to convince us that Islam is a religion of peace - the evidence says differently. First convince your fellow Muslims of it and get them to act on this Islam is a religion of peace, which, given the present facts, only the most obtuse will believe. Maybe then it won't be dangerous having Muslims around.