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Build a Ballot: A predator coming for your vote
Being a sincere climate advocate doesn't mean you can't also be disingenuous and downright dishonest.

Geoff Russell
1 day ago10 min read
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Nuclear power is a distraction; here's what we should be discussing
Nuclear power discussions are a distraction, we know nuclear works. What we should be discussing is out first-of-a-kind wind & solar system.

Geoff Russell
Feb 1811 min read
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Baseload solar: too good to be true?
Baseload power from a solar farm? Too good to be true? Or too bad to believe anybody would actually build it?

Geoff Russell
Feb 27 min read
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Tom Gleeson and the triumph of greed
When comedians celebrate greed and the audience laughs, you know you have a problem.

Geoff Russell
Jan 125 min read
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Eat the invaders: but which ones?
Australians have been eating the invaders ever since white arrival; so exactly what does Tony Armstrong want to change?

Geoff Russell
Jan 98 min read
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Koutsantonis and those diesel generators
Why did South Australia's energy Minister call for some diesels be bought back into the energy mix?

Geoff Russell
Dec 9, 202414 min read
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The ALP and Greens are locking in gas
Facing a future where both heat and electricity need to be ultra-low carbon, the ALP and Greens are locking Australia into gas.

Geoff Russell
Oct 25, 20246 min read
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A critique of Joëlle Gergis QE94: Highway to Hell
A critique of Joëlle Gergis' recent Quarterly Essay "Highway to Hell, Climate Change and Australia's future".

Geoff Russell
Jul 24, 20248 min read
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AI vs Q&A on nuclear waste
Comparing AI with Q&A on nuclear waste. Who should you goto for expert information?

Geoff Russell
Jul 16, 20247 min read
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Dispatchability: Deception on demand
What is dispatchable generation and how has the Government politicised the concept and corrupted its meaning

Geoff Russell
Jul 8, 20245 min read
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Scrutiny of energy transitions: is our media up to the job?
Peter Dutton's nuclear plan and the media storm around it has raised questions over our media's capacity to analyse any energy plan.

Geoff Russell
Jun 28, 202415 min read
1,221 views


How the CSIRO and AEMO buried $200 billion of added renewable electricity costs
The AEMO ISP & Gencost agree that costs on the other side of the meter can be ignored. That's how they find renewables cheaper than nuclear.

Geoff Russell
Jun 9, 20245 min read
1,842 views


"Insiders" and anti-nuclear bias
"Insiders" on March 10th showed a level of unprofessionalism, ignorance and bias that deserves to be called out

Geoff Russell
Mar 12, 20247 min read
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Parliamentary inquiry into duck shooting; couldn't hit the side of a barn
The long running SA Parliamentary Inquiry into the hunting of native birds was a total waste of taxpayers money.

Geoff Russell
Dec 16, 20239 min read
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Populist Quiz: Is Green The New Brown?
Should the Australian Greens party be names the Browns? No, not in honour of Bob Brown, but in honour of being the parties of big mining.

Geoff Russell
Jul 1, 202312 min read
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The right to care deeply about the climate while being utterly useless
Fining or jailing people for climate protests shows a lack of imagination almost as large as the protests themselves.

Geoff Russell
May 30, 20238 min read
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The good liar
A critique of the role of lies in the nuclear power debate

Geoff Russell
May 15, 202312 min read
640 views


Safeguard mechanisms and climate bombs
The UK Independent newspaper ran a remarkable line about the deal between the Greens and the Australian Government on the so-called...

Geoff Russell
Mar 30, 20236 min read
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Big Coal isn't as big as it used to be!
RenewEconomy recently ran an interesting article with an amazing headline: “Cannon-Brookes backed fund to deliver "coal plant-worth” of...

Geoff Russell
Mar 1, 20233 min read
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Gambling on the grid
Suppose you are trying to shift Australia’s 30 million tonne grain harvest and somebody has decreed that you couldn’t use anything other...

Geoff Russell
Feb 14, 202322 min read
278 views
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