USELESS: Windmills and solar panels DESTROYED by, er, WEATHER | MGUY Australia

[@stephenvelden295]

I get it! Net Zero means you end up with nothing!

[@chrissmith2114]

Net zero is the output of your economy.

[@stephenvelden295]

@@chrissmith2114 Who's economy is that then?

[@rayven2383]

Nut zero

[@robertlenon7216]

You'll own nothing and be happy. Or else.

[@mortifinkenbein9559]

Yes. And it is also sustainable. After you end up with nothing, you will have nothing for a long, long time ...☹

[@globaleye8]

Putting the labour party in charge of our future energy requirements is like putting 5 year old children in the cockpit of an airliner and demanding that they fly it....

[@gomezgomezian3236]

Except they were all started by the Tory Govt.

[@rayw3294]

The Tory scum have by far done the worst damage. Labour cannot do any worse or we will get rolling power cuts. The SNP as scummy as the Tories.

[@petew8388]

Ha ha, very good !...and spot on.

[@halburd1]

the left brain is damaged in some way they just do not understand how to run things well or make good decisions. a FACT i learned in 6 decades on this planet.

[@orwellboy1958]

@@gomezgomezian3236 Doesn't mean Liebour have to continue, these days there's no difference between them anyway.

[@jonathanchurch7561]

Check who makes the wind turbines and solar panels and trace the money back to who is involved, and 'connected' politically!!

[@jodargoofmaztica5071]

Agreed! Follow the money...

[@orionbetelgeuse1937]

it's not only who makes them but who gets the contracts to import and deploy them

[@vinnyganzano1930]

Probably made in China from dodgy materials.

[@windturbinesyndrome1067]

People who build and own these things find places where people have no money to fight them, rural unzoned areas are prime. These developers and solar/wind owners do NOT live near the facilities. Solar farms require massive amounts of either tarmac covering ground or huge amounts of chemical pesticides to kill tree and weed growth.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

Check back to who is funding THIS insane debate, coal coal coal, oil oil oil gas gas gas..w ake up. These industries are zoo i zidal and of massive expense, but SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO profitable. its a social media game.

[@klimatbluffen]

It doesn't matter how much weather-dependent electricity production you build, when there is no wind and the sun is not shining, they deliver nothing.

[@DemiGod..]

You will just have no electricity and can't charge your car till the sun comes back out, which to them is probably good as less electricity used, saving the planet.

[@klimatbluffen]

@DemiGod.. To get some household electricity in a holiday home, you can have some solar panels and some lead batteries.But living all year round and charging your electric car with solar cells doesn't work.A diesel powered power plant would be better, cheaper and more reliable.

[@TroySavary]

The build windfarms in places where there is near constant wind. Luckily, the people planning deployment are brighter than Simon's audience.

[@peterolsen9131]

then when there's too much they are destroyed ! the stupidity of this debacle is staggering , the greed outvoted common sense

[@klimatbluffen]

@peterolsen9131 When our rulers are more afraid of farting cows than a global nuclear war, the result is what we see now.

[@zitzong]

Solar panels and wind turbines. Future my arse!

[@jodargoofmaztica5071]

🤣👍

[@brianlopez8855]

Aka Ed Miller Band

[@brookerobertson2951]

We just need huge lithium batteries to store the energy in between dry spells. And we all know that lithium batteries are very good for the environment. Also the utility companies get subsidized when there is no sun or wind. They are guaranteed to always make profit no matter what happens through subsidies regardless.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

too late, in Australia it already IS.

[@unkindled6410]

Windmill suck but solar can have good usage as backup generation mostly by putting it on roofs of most urban structures. Its not much but can help and use actual otherwise unused space. The real answer to replace coal and diesel grids is nuclear power though.

[@stewartread4235]

The only thing that's renewable about renewables, is that every 6-15 years they will need to be renewed. An utter waste of resources for no gain.

[@clydesimpson1462]

Investors stand to gain. A lot.

[@stewartread4235]

@clydesimpson1462 yes, but the "Reverse Robin Hood" that's been going on for decades has to stop.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

unlike every other form of power generation.

[@Waltonstagram]

The problem with the climbing cost of residential power in Australia, is the lack of maintenance through privatisation. Now it is finally failing after years of neglect. Us consumers need to pay for the replacement of the infrastructure.

[@jamesf3683]

Solar and wind farms need replacing every 30 years. So do coal plants. Coal plants aren't running at anything like the same levels of efficiency after that time either.

[@flyingsword135]

Here in Korea they clear cut mountain sides for solar farms....now there is a climate change caused problem with land slides😮😅😂

[@DemiGod..]

Forest that get rid of Co2 and make oxygen are also getting cut down to make solar farms - duh!

[@kilburn1313]

Same in South Australia...also Tasmania...clearing massive areas for the wind farms, the land is much more stable though...best of luck to you

[@PaxAlotin]

@@kilburn1313 The Drop-Bears are angry.

[@dunkirk1581]

Spain removed the Dams that caught the rain, now it being washed away, Idiots in parliaments

[@a9503128]

Chopping down the trees that literally provide us life to put up windmills on concrete pads that create tons and tons of carbon dioxide

[@cowcocky]

I live near the Bald Hills Windfarm. The turbines are regularly not turning either because the wind isn’t strong enough or locked down because the wind is too strong. Expecting this to power our future is insanity

[@brianlopez8855]

But we won't need any power, when we cease to exist by order of HMG.

[@gaiustacitus4242]

Just wait. After a few years many of the wind turbines will not be turning because they are broken and cannot be repaired due to no spare parts being available and/or the cost being too exorbitant.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

its been ten years.... in another ten we wont know the industry. have tidal to harness. No one plants wind generators where ther ei s no wind.

[@gaiustacitus4242]

@@lauchlanguddy1004 Even in the best of locations the wind does not blow constantly or even at a consistent speed. This makes wind power unreliable. As for tidal power generation, there is the same problem to overcome that is faced by offshore wind farms. Salt water is highly corrosive, and systems exposed to it have short useful lifespans. If these pop culture technologies had ever been economically viable without government subsidies, then companies would have already implemented them. The problem is that the major supporters of "clean energy" solutions have no background in either business or engineering. They are dreamers who live in a fantasy world where the real world and its complications are rejected.

[@marktapley7571]

That is what the parasitic elite have to implement in order to destroy the western economies and move the livestock into the U.N.’s long planned Agenda 21.

[@billmitchell7904]

Here in England the county of Lincolnshire is one of the most productive farming areas we have, but thousands of acres are now being covered by solar panels with more planned 😡. The natural beauty of Cornwall is also disappearing under massive solar farms 😢. Absolute madness!

[@patriot77185]

Time to protest or revolt because not only is Global warming a LIE, it is always a way to ruin our countries making us into a 3rd world which the WEF will be very happy since they want One World all 3rd worlds.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

massive beauty went when you cut the trees down all those years ago.

[@robina.jensen6114]

The same happens in Denmark.

[@jamesgoggle3421]

We need to stop this sort of thing NOW

[@fredEVOIX]

In China they are currently sending the army to evacuate villages and then destroy their homes and cultures to install hundreds of solar panels that don't work or soon won't just to "look green"

[@briantilley3158]

Storm Darragh was just a normal winter storm in the UK. I’ve experienced storms like that throughout my 76 years on this planet. What it did demonstrate was the futility of trying to meet Net Zero targets.

[@unkindled6410]

If they really wanted to reduce carbon emissions while also being actually efficient they would have built nuclear power plants and just placed/incentivized solar panel installations on the roofs of houses and building for a slightly energy backup for the main grid. Windmills suck though, even on the ocean where they would tecnically be better, still not really reliable.

[@Puzzoozoo]

@@unkindled6410 Remember that Calder Hall's main purpose was to produce plutonium for Britain's bomb, to give Britain a 'seat' at the top table, the ability for civilian cheap electricity was a distant secondary matter beyond that all important seat.

[@unkindled6410]

@Puzzoozoo modern powerplants can be built solely for energy generation purposed with the usage of thorium. An exponentially more abundant, more energy dense, and safer to mine, refine and use than uranium. Its all a matter of interest, if we are to really mean it when it comes to transition to cleaner and better energy, nuclear is not negotiable, its a must. But the stupid government crooks still insist on fearmongering it.

[@ptaalman100]

What it did demonstrate is that people who've only lived 20 or so years have little to no knowledge of what has occurred in the past. They think this is all new. When in fact, it's just....wait for it...WEATHER!

[@unkindled6410]

@@ptaalman100 humans do have impact on the planets weather and geological phenomenons, negating we are a geological force is being foolishly ignorant, but like i said, it is true that a lot of the people that are so bent on being ''eco friendly'' are not really doing anything significant for it and are just playing political agendas and other pro profit stuff.

[@Bob-n1t8o]

It brought a tear of joy to my eye to see pictures of destroyed solar farms. Thank you storm Darragh

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

Wait till your houses and ports start to go, wont be so happy.

[@davidbarlow350]

Don't forget ,in the UK,the £328 billion in subsidies for the nett zero garbage. Nice cheap energy!

[@stevewilcock4767]

All loaned in 💸 cash by the IMF!

[@martinday2815]

Eh? So that infamous black hole could get filled and still leave change for this NZ garbage?

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

but you get coal, fuel and gas for FREE!!! I can see why you are pissed off

[@cp4512]

Net zero is a huge joke. Only it isn’t very funny and is costing taxpayers billions of dollars 🤬🤡

[@johannabarry4672]

And we are going to be broke and cold and will be unable to afford to get out of the horror hole we are digging for ourselves.

[@aaronbryan5095]

​@@johannabarry4672 while the elitists will probably fly away and enjoy themselves in the Bahamas or something along those lines.

[@MalLaw-c2q]

burning the most oil ever to build all the so called net zero solar and wind that have limited life span before needing to build them all again using up even more resources, we are not heading for a good future.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

Unlike the climate now tearing the world apart, and its just the very very beginning, watch and learn.

[@1x3dil]

And when the time comes to have them removed , it will be the taxpayer who pays . Plus the land will be unsuitable for agriculture , irrespective of any chemical leaching, the ground will have been starved of water an anaerobic biomass . Which will take years to reestablish , and of course many of the original installers will have cut and run long before then .

[@YouShouldThink4Yourself]

Today in western Victoria (the home of wind farms) the sun was blazing, 40 degrees the wind was blowing 30 kph and we were BLACKED OUT for 8 hours. My Solar panels did SQUAT enough battery power to cover that 8 hours would cost $25-30k my generator cost me ~$8 in Diesel for that 8 hours.

[@thedave7760]

You should just get someone else to buy you those batteries you need, you are saving the world so you deserve it.

[@jonathandean9658]

Almost certainly because of a distribution failure, not a generation failure

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

glad you are not an economist. I lived in country australia as well, and normal power was down once a month for 8 hours very regularly. no news. Any repairs big storm, floods fires or just usual lack of maintenance ensured that. Thats normal.

[@jamesf3683]

Serves you right for cheaping out on the inverter. Cheap inverters have to shut themselves off if the grid goes down so they don't feed power back to the grid while repairs are being done. Any battery system and the solar panels would be working hard. An average 10kw system would produce upwards of 50kwh on a day like that, which is enough to keep a moderate airconditioner running from half an hour after sunrise to half an hour before sunset. 8 litres of diesel would only produce about 16kwh of electricity so a third of what the generator would.

[@Tinys-Homestead]

@@jonathandean9658 Well, they are shutting down solar and wind farms at different times due to the balance required to maintain the network. Voltage is only one part. the frequency has to be within 50 - 60 Hz or the whole grid will collapse. Solar and wind generation can't be controlled to balance that frequency. Worth watching the Sky Australia doco on "The cost of net zero". Very good doco.

[@paulwilson7622]

In the decades that coal power stations were operating, how many times have they been shut down by wind, hail, storms or any sirt. Never sorings to mind!

[@DanRyan-v5y]

Once in the great hurricane of 1987 in UK, but that was the power lines being blown down and disrupting the grid

[@whisped8145]

Plants like Carbon.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

well , you never lived last century in NSW australia. They got shut down by strikes, maintenance, malfunctions,. Power supples are shut down REGULARLY by cyclones, fires floods accidents, maintenance. Never ever had an outage because solar or wind went down.... or batteries went flat.

[@unkindled6410]

@@paulwilson7622 these should still be replaced by nuclear plants. The zero emission agenda might be zealotry but there is a real need for cleaner energy and more nature friendly practices, the problem is that the real ones that work are often ignored because, as we are seeing with this zero emission BS, greed and political control is the actual priority for them.

[@jamesf3683]

326 outages at coal plants in Australia since 2015. The big one was Callide in 2021 that left 400,000 people without power for several hours. They happen all the time though.

[@sbeers88]

It's not just ideology that is driving this net zero lunacy. Follow the money. You know the politicians are making a lot of money off this crap.

[@Andrew-fq7pu]

Exactly. Your average ignorant housewife and student may be imbecilic zealots, but the people with the power to drive this idiocy are making fortunes and that's why it is happening.

[@MalLaw-c2q]

@@Andrew-fq7pu yep human greed continues to kill us off rich feeding off the poor it's just getting worse and worse

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

money for these looney ideas goes back to the trillion dollar carbon industry. any economist will tell you that.

[@sorbabaric1]

As are their donor billion dollar international corporations.

[@thomasm9552]

That's why I like Trump. He doesn't even take the Presidents salary for himself. He donates it. And he doesn't believe in the "climate crisis" agenda.

[@victorgrech1136]

some loon on FB just told me 4 million homes in Australia have solar panels, if that's true then we're going to have 40 plus million panels in landfill, great going what a joke

[@SillySausage-mq3so]

Yeah, you can't recycle them, or very expensive to do so.

[@TroySavary]

Solar panels are recycled. And last at least 25 years.

[@YouShouldThink4Yourself]

AND it's going to cost you over $100 a trailer load to dump them.

[@blazegarbo6884]

Luckily they can be recycled, try that with coal or gas. There are a lot of valuable minerals in panels kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4LOon-jp6uhp7M

[@TroySavary]

@@blazegarbo6884 These nutters also think batteries can't be recycled. No matter how much evidence to the contrary is presented. They want an echo chamber for their FUD. There thought process cannot get past "green energy is woke".

[@309lincoln]

I drive past large wind farms and see many not running on windy days with some running.

[@info88w11]

cardboard cutouts for subsidies

[@bradwhite5884]

Imagine you are designed to the job you were made for but turned off because you cannot handle what you designed for, the irony tbh

[@hudsonbear5038]

Yep thats because like all renewables they require the goldilocks conditions.. eg the right winds speeds or sun for them to actually function. Same with tidal power.. Wind and tidal have to be routinely shut down i during high winds and storms to protect them... something the eco lot fail too mention...

[@TroySavary]

Because they activate/ deactivate based on demand. If you see some not spinning, it isn't because they are broken, but because they are not needed right then.

[@manoz6194]

I was in South Spain in October and drove to several major cities. Saw a few wind farms yet not a single wind turbine was turning!

[@klimatbluffen]

Weather-dependent electricity production works when you don't need electricity.If you want to charge the car with solar cells, you can only drive at night.In winter, when it is cold, dark and windless, you have to have an alternative to weather-dependent electricity production in order not to freeze to death.The only thing that works 24-7 all year round is nuclear power or oil, gas and coal.

[@TroySavary]

Luckily, the wind tends to blow more consistently at night. Texas has so much wind capacity that electricity is pretty much free at night. Makes owning an EV there pretty attractive.

[@klimatbluffen]

@TroySavary Here in the northern hemisphere, it's just the opposite, the colder it is, the less wind there is and the sun barely goes above the treetops.In the northernmost parts of Scandinavia, the sun does not cross the horizon for several months, without reliable and cheap energy, it would be completely impossible to make a modern society even function

[@TroySavary]

@klimatbluffen Yes, because, as we all know, the entire northern hemisphere is just like northern tip of Scandinavia. Nevada and Norway get the exact same amount of sun.

[@royblackburn1163]

Seems good to me if cv owners always work nightshifts so petrol car owners like me don't have to.

[@klimatbluffen]

@royblackburn1163 I highly doubt these mindless idiots have ever done any decent manual labor.If you put a shovel in their hand, they will look for the menu and the button to start it.

[@joschmoyo4532]

The trouble with panels mounted in fields on racks is that it creates a huge unbroken sail. On roof's they are far more protected. Windmills are just plain stupid.

[@DemiGod..]

not protected from hail stones

[@vincentcausey8498]

@@DemiGod.. In the UK, hail stones are tiny, pea sized, so their terminal velocity is much lower. But yes, in places like Australia they are a real lethal projectile.

[@joschmoyo4532]

@DemiGod.. Partly true. Depends on the size of the hail. Regular size hail, no problem. Tennis ball size. Not good.

[@blazegarbo6884]

More a case of cherry picking & shoddy installation. Same as a roof on a house blowing off, dodgy builders exist.

[@joschmoyo4532]

@blazegarbo6884 Very true. I watched my installers like a hawk.

[@glengrant3884]

Good job mguy!!💥💪🙌

[@awc900]

The ground is poisoned indefinitely under those broken solar panels.

[@sullivanrachael]

Do you have any data for this pollution? Surely the gallium / arsenic doped silicone stays in the broken glass and can be retrieved?

[@hudsonbear5038]

@@sullivanrachael Look at the data coming out of the US after a recent 3000 Acres farm was destroyed.. the locals have been warned about pollutants in the water tables.. thats how bad they are..

[@awc900]

@sullivanrachael They can also contain cadmium, selenium and antimony. None of which should be allowed to get into the water table. Solar panels can of course be recycled but this is an energy intensive process which makes that a costly option. Sadly this has led to illegal dumping.

[@peterolsen9131]

cadmium, worse than nuclear waste leaking

[@waltdisnenycopyright8048]

@@awc900 as you probably know, the last thing that you need is all the components that make up a solar panel, to be scattered for miles across farmland, this is an ecological disaster and requires investigation, but we all know what that will say

[@peterpaldor5866]

When googling Storm Darragh I ran across a BBC article about insurence companies not covering the damages because 'Storm Darragh was not a storm.' Wind gushes of 53mph makes it a strong gale, not a storm according to them.

[@CrowPal]

The strongest measured gust was over 90mph.

[@DelDredd]

That was the steady wind speed in most of Wales, gusts were hitting 94mph in places, we had no power for 3 days, on for daylight hours one day and then off for another 14hours.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

they know these storms and extremes will get worse and more frequent, ( obvious already if you have eyes and a brain)they know their science and a way ahead of you.

[@rosen9425]

LOL, just picking up those billion ton goal posts and moves them like nothing. What a sad joke they are

[@sirjohng1]

Remember the Texas massive solar farm back in the summer that was TOTALLY DESTROYED by a 5 MINUTE HAILSTORM. Or, the solar farm in India built floating on a , wait for it, LAKE. The first major storm shredded it. And what do you do with smashed solar panels which cannot be reclaimed? Perhaps send them as infill to the Lithium mines in diesel powered ships and lorries?

[@TroySavary]

Remember when all the natural gas plants in Texas were destroyed by simple cold weather?

[@zedeco]

@@TroySavary you mean like the wind farms that froze in Texas?

[@kenik2023]

​@@TroySavarynever happened

[@harukinzaphod]

@@TroySavary Selective memory doesn't work like that.

[@sirjohng1]

@@harukinzaphod:​​⁠:One selects from memory the information that backs up one's comments. Try these. Old wind farms in the US lie idle and rotting because no one will pay to have them taken down. Old worn out wind sails lie rotting on the surface too as they cannot be reused nor recycled.project The massive US $BILLIONS focussing mirror solar project where thousands of mirrors shone on to a receptor at the top of a tower never worked well enough to be continued and also now lies rotting in the desert. But of course, in action, just like my solar, nighttime and sun obscuring weather plus rain and frost and snow produce NO POWER. The occasional dusty rain we get from the Sahara desert lays a blanket of sticky dirt on the panels which makes the panels useless until clean rain comes to clean it off. Very hot weather reduces the panels DC output as do the long transmission lines to the DC/AC converters. The massively varying output on a daily basis in our northern latitudes causes no end of grid balancing problems and certain very large wind farms have to turned off regularly as the grid is unable to balance their input so we pay £Millions to the operating companies to switch them off as they have to if the wind exceeds 45 mph average speed or they catch fire. So, you may say, what keeps our power on when the above happens? Gas generation, Nuclear, a few other small methods but mostly BUYING IN ELECTRICITY FROM EU affiliated countries at high cost. We live on top of over 100 years of power resources but are not allowed to use them. And, we pay a 24% tax on our fuel bills to pay for these very expensive and transitory renewables.

[@AbbyNormL]

I entered the US Navy back in the 1970s to learn how to operate a nuclear power plant. At the time nuclear power was taking off and power companies were paying a premium for Navy trained reactor operators. Then the 1979 Three Mile Island incident plus the timely release of “The China Syndrome” movie ended new nuclear power plants in the US, so I spent the next 40 years working in the Coal power generation field. The US Navy has been safely operating hundreds of nuclear power plants since the launch of the USS Nautilus in 1954. It is currently the safest, efficient, reliable and eco-friendly form of power generation in the world. No amount of solar panels and wind turbines will ever match it.

[@MicMc539]

Russia has the tech well sorted. They're powering all over Africa with affordable, reliable City sized NPP's. Meanwhile, here in La-La-Land . . . . . . . ! Peace.

[@OldCanadianguy953]

They should put windmills and solar panels indoors to prevent damage!😂😂😂😂

[@shanesmith6815]

But the evangelists will tell you that livestock can still feed around solar farms so the land is still productive. what a load of cods wallop.

[@DemiGod..]

You ill have to get rid of your cows though as cow farts add to global warming

[@PeterGardner-e1z]

Livestock chewing on the minute remnants of the panels. To clean that ground up it will need to all be dug out cleaned or dumped and replaced. Probably won't see any Sheep in there again.

[@TroySavary]

Livestock can feed around panels though. Sheep being used to keep the grass down on solar farms has proven to be very effective. Hilarious to see a Luddite claim something cannot be done when it is already happening.

[@harukinzaphod]

Load of rubbish reneweconomy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_3899.jpeg

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

obviously not a farmer, its done everywhere I travel. Not in desert areas...

[@ix-Xafra]

In Scotland they have diesel generators next to the wind turbines to drive heating elements in the turbine blades so as to melt snow and prevent it from accumulating and breaking the blades.

[@Bob-n1t8o]

Just can’t do without oil

[@AnthonyWellington-u7x]

I remember this fact...Maori in Australia 4 All Brittain!!!

[@joukokuisma9574]

😂😂

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

but you dont have a starter motor in your car, you push start it daily.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

intelligent idea, but why would they need that when connected to the grid? when you heat your hose do you start a diesel or do you turn a switch??? I mean...... I assume the farm is connected to the grid???

[@keegan773]

Just when you need power most…….there isn’t any.

[@rosen9425]

Funny. It's 3AM right now and blowing like mad. Wind power is generating 10,571 MW. Total production ~22,000 MW, total consumption 15,000. So exporting 6,900 MW because we ain't using none of that at this hour! 😂

[@chrissyjones-major1557]

Well said. It makes me wonder about politicians brain cells. There must be money involved in Net Zero and a few people getting very very rich!

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

Well, i just follow the pure science. You follow the coal industry paid for trolls.

[@waltdisnenycopyright8048]

The solar farm in anglesea, wales, is likely to be out of commision for over a year according to what the locals are saying, but a billion or two should take care of that, glad im not waiting to charge my electric car, carbon fibers have travelled out for miles, im worried about dairy farms

[@DemiGod..]

But, the expert said they are quick to repair, that is their strength.

[@TheSparkySpitz]

😂😂😂😂​@@DemiGod..

[@Galerak1]

@@DemiGod.. I would love to see these experts 'repair' all these solar panels. Let's see them gather all the tiny pieces that have been spread over miles in the high winds and painstakingly put them back together. More than likely they've changed the word 'replace' into 'repair' in their reports. I have no doubt they can quickly and easily be replaced, the problem with that is it will just happen again... and again, and every time it happens the pollution to the environment will just get worse and worse.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

How long is Chernobyl out for and whats the repair bill.? Thermal stations never need work or repair?

[@Galerak1]

@@lauchlanguddy1004 That's an interesting observation. However, since the 1950s there have been only 3 major nuclear power station disasters. 1979 the power plant at Three Mile Island disaster was caused by equipment malfunctions in the secondary cooling circuit, human error and inadequate training. 1986 the Chernobyl power plant accident was put down to poor design, operator error and a fire. 2011 the Fukushima Daiichi power station was damaged by an earthquake and tsunami, so at least that one falls into a similar 'weather related' catagory that the solar farm does. So, since the 1950s humans have been using nuclear power plants, there are currently around 440 in operation worldwide, yet there has only been 3 major catastrophes (only one of which can be put down to weather) in all that time. The fact of the matter is mistakes have been made and lessons have been learned. What exactly is being learned by rebuilding these solar farms? If the climate cultists are to be believed, the weather is just going to keep getting worse and worse, so why keep building stuff that either can't be used or demolishes itself during heavy weather?

[@picobyte]

A week later Germany almost went black as dunkelflaute gave them a 16GW shortage on demand. Only loadshedding, huge anounts of diesel power and imports from neighbouring countries kept the lights on. Electricity prices went sky high wel over €1000 per MWh. Madness!

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

for a few hours. What happens in countries with vast floods fires and cyclones, we survive here. Thats what grids are for, it worked. finish. be thankful

[@rosen9425]

@@lauchlanguddy1004 That is not how it works dude. A sudden spike up or down on the grid puts a strain on it. You have to maintain a very narrow balance or the grid trips out completely. The entire country would be 'blackout' for days bringing it online again, given that you even have the necessary power generation to do it. Germany (and everyone else doing this stupidity) are playing seriously stupid dangerous games; with society and the economy as the wager

[@picobyte]

@lauchlanguddy1004 3 Days (over 72h) is more than a few hours of crazy high electricity prices >€1000/GWh.

[@alanwatts9232]

Couldn't have said it better myself. Good job.

[@nps5886]

Why no nuclear thats what i cant understand

[@totallyjonesin]

They are building it here.

[@squishedfrog99-gp4qq]

10 years minimum to plan and build. Budget overspend at least 50%. Massive decommissioning costs. Most are left and never made safe. Cheaper Chinese designs with poorer safety. Have you seen Chernobyl. Poisoned half of Europe. Fukushima is another one.

[@dps615]

Chernobyl? There's always a concern a plane would just randomly fly into a nuclear reactor one day. Bye bye Australia.

[@davelowe1977]

Because it turns into an absolute farce when we try to build them. It takes about 30 years and costs ten times more than it should.

[@TroySavary]

​@@squishedfrog99-gp4qqFukushima had the misfortune of being hit simultaneously by an earth day and a tsunami, while it was in the process of being decommissioned. Take away any of those 3 factors, and the meltdown would not have happened. Chernobyl was designed, and run, by drunk Communists. Modern reactor designed cannot melt down, are far cheaper to build, an in the case of micro-reactors, can be made on an assembly line, and delivered while needed. Cost overruns and schedule delays are usually caused by government red tape. Another problem solved by micro-reactors. They can be up and running in a few weeks. There is nothing unsafe about decommissioned plants. They just kinda sit there, self contained.

[@philiphumphrey1548]

Happened recently in the south east USA, solar farms and windmills ripped up by twisters.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

but no houses and cars??? by your logic we dont rebuild anything destroyed by nature?? Maybe.......... mmmmmmmm....... dont build there???

[@Equiluxe1]

You know why these solar farms are so often 49.9 MW. Below 50MW they only require local planning and that can get bought by contributions of cash to parish councils.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

good.

[@roberthagberg5482]

The hurricane that followed Helene wiped out a whole field of solar panels by hail, in Florida!!!!!!!!!

[@annieluctor7524]

That Chris Hewett bloke sounds a right you know what. He tells us that "...and renewables such as solar farms are a vital part in the fight against a warming world." Er, hang on, correct me if I'm wrong Chris, but isn't "a warming world", with more sun, exactly what you want for solar panels to work? 🤣

[@philjones8427]

We the people did not vote for this, however we did ( not me though ) vote for the Labour party and they did tell us of their intentions.

[@paulorchard7960]

We have that much coal in Australia that energy supplied to homes should be free, only industry and commercial consumers need to pay to keep it viable!

[@clydesimpson1462]

Extraction cost plus 10% for domestic market. That is what politicians should be demanding. Not Ted's fiddle- faddle figures.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

but we would be dead faster... sad but true. The foreign companies own this, pay us zero thanks to corruption and charge a bomb. do research on lates fracking deals in the NT. Make Ned Kelly blush. Treason actually. The MP who set the rip off up then got a nice job with the corrupt US company. make any complaints and they want to sue you. Good old US revolving door.

[@thomasm9552]

And AU has the most of the best quality coal.

[@NYShepherdGirl]

For years now in America, especially in the United States, those of us with COMMON SENSE, and/or knowledge of wisdom from experience in the NATURAL "WEATHER" THAT FLUCTUATES IN MANY AREAS OF THE HIGHLY VOLATILE AREAS AROUND THE U.S.!!! We drive by or travel through many of these areas SHOCKED at the LACK OF UNDERSTANDING THAT THE SMR MOUNTING AREAS THE CHOOSE FOR SOLAR & WIND, ARE ALSO THE AREAS WHERE OVER THE YEARS THE REPEATED STORMS HAVE WIPED CLEAN OF TREES, WOODS, and BRUSH DUE TO CONSTANT WINDS, STORMS, and beating SUN DRYING OUT ANF WEAKENING THE SOILS!!! WECOME TO THE WORLD OF THE CRAZIES!!!!!

[@benbrown2470]

Fear and panic equates to weather terrorism!

[@paulconnolly4483]

Australian domestic emissions are less than 1%, of course reducing emissions to zero is going to save the planet 😂😂

[@david-hf3dk]

Same % in the UK !

[@kirannnnnn]

1% for 27 million people in Australia Australia per capita emissions 16.75 metric tons Australia Mining sector is not emitting clean air Australia 60% of GDP comes from mining sector

[@clydesimpson1462]

@@kirannnnnn If Global warming and emissions were a reality Australia would shut down all mining.

[@Andrew-fq7pu]

Meanwhile, we export hundreds of years worth of coal and gas for a pittance to the biggest polluters on the planet, while our electricity is the most expensive in the world. It's a farce.

[@shink9844]

The ethereal power of virtue adds another 4%.

[@michaeld5888]

The problem we have is that we have our political class who do not know anything but then will not be told anything. Miliband has his fixed immutable views and I doubt if any quantity of information and advice will sway him from his lording over the upcoming destruction of the UK. With their unwarranted parliamentary majority, an unelected upper house and a King far far away in Cloud Cuckoo Land there are just no checks and balances in place to stop all this. If there is something that is not failing in the UK we are having difficulty finding it. Health care, roads, rail, border security, housing, criminal detection, freedom of opinion... all on a downward spiral. Both our political parties bereft of ideas to stop the rot or courage to stand up to to any threats as our social order and cohesion wither away. To cap all this with these ridiculous forced Net Zero timelines is just the final coup de grâce.

[@lesklower7281]

Well done MGUY

[@arsyadidris6349]

In comparison to the flimsiness of solar panels n wind turbines… it took 3 things to destroy the fukushima nuclear power station that day: - 9+ magnitude earthquake - a giant tsunami - managment incompetence n beurocracy Seriously, if any one of these 3 aspects didnt occur, the worst that couldve happened was a temporary shutdown n a follow up repair. And added to the fact that fukishima was built on the coast, directly facing the Pacific. If the Pacific decided to have a hissy fit - which it does practically every year - fukushima faces it head on. Thats how tough fukushima was in reality.

[@CrowPal]

The fourth thing it took to destroy Fukushima was the standby diesel generators being only just above sea level, instead of on top of the adjacent hill. The real reasons for the failure of Chernobyl lie buried, deep down the rabbit hole. The official story has more holes than a leaky sieve.

[@arsyadidris6349]

@@CrowPalyeah,, that diesel generator i would class under managment incompetency n negligence. If im not mistaken, apart from not raising the seawalls after multiple rejected demands, managment also ignored the demand to put that diesel generator smwhere higher. It really did take alot for fukushima to end up the way it did. Infact, if it wasnt for slow beurocracy, the plant itself woudnt have exploded, even after the generators failed. The men on site already had readings that the pressure inside was far beyond what the plant could handle, but they couldnt vent it on their own, they had to call it in n seek approval from a comittee in tokyo. The men who on site essentially had no autonomy on responding to the ailing powerplant.

[@Ziegfried82]

Not only that, Fukushima was 40 years old when it failed. That power plant wasn't exactly a new design. And the location could not possibly have been worse! Yes there are places you should not build nuclear power plants. Fault lines where huge earthquakes hit, coasts where huge tsunamis/hurricanes hit, etc. Stuff that seems common sense but you know how it goes: I'm sure people promised that Fukushima would endure any disaster etc.

[@arsyadidris6349]

@@Ziegfried82 ikr? Have u seen some of the scathing reports against tepco? Their engineers demanded the seawalls to be raised multiple times throughout its life… all ignored. And when crap did actly hit the fan, the men on sight still had to wait on orders from hq, n didnt have much autonomy on handling the situation. N smthing like a nuclear meltdown, time is of the essence… n beurocracy messed it up. Seriously, it actly takes a whole lot of BS for a nuclear meltdown to happen. Like i wrote in the first comment: it woudlve survived the 9+ superquake (4th biggest quake in recorded history), n it wudve even survived the ensuing tsunami if they raised the seawalls n elevated that diesel generator. And even with aaaalll that…. Had the men on site been given autonomy to carry out watever is deemed neccesary, that huge explosion wudnt have occured. They knew the pressure was far exceeding its limits, n still waited almost a whole day to vent, which by that time was far too late… n pop goes the wiesel

[@kevin54uk2011]

We have the dearest electricity in the the world here in the UK and yet we have decades of gas and coal under our feet green lunacy pensioners freezing this winter

[@plieber9067]

very well said. Dank you MGUY!

[@GDC348]

It's fine the tax payer will pick the tab up

[@bentullett6068]

Along with a £50 million pound donation to now terrorist run Syria.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

How is that?? explain?? Taxpayers in Australia get ripped raw supporting gas and coal

[@jwarmstrong]

The city tax increase removes 1/2 the savings on the electric bill unless you go completely off grid - on grid there are State & City taxes , line user fees, distribution fee, besides the watt hours used

[@nickgood8166]

Solar farms built in fields on a soggy, grey island more than 50° North, is insane. Solar panels should be on buildings.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

we build them on land. works for us... its not so hard.

[@michellewentworth9862]

Wrong! Solar panels have no place on the electricity grid.

[@bigjay875]

Another night of beating baback the winter iec on the roads with my dirty old diesel salting dump truck and im back just in time to catch a new video thanks!

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

very relevant

[@raymondfarrimond2010]

I live on Anglesey and with the latest storm we were without power for less than 2 days the last time it happened we were without power for 4 days. These storms happen every 10 to 20 years I have found out and I have lived on Anglesey 26 years and now have seen the result of 2 of them. Solar and wind are not viable options here.

[@williamgeorgefraser]

So wind turbines = no electricity when no wind and shut down when too much wind. Why does this make me think of the 20%-80% EV battery range? We are developing technology and immediately setting limits on its use? What's the point when we already have much more flexible technology?

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

complain all you want, it works a dream in Australia.

[@garageblitztv3215]

FYI: Real Engineering channel had a feature on the wind turbine generators transmissions only lasting 7 years on average … as this is another incredible expense, it was interesting to see how engineers are struggling to make them last, because most of these transmissions weigh thousands of kilograms, and the generators are usually located in some extremely difficult to service locations.

[@robertball3578]

The big secret in the solar industry is that the inverter has a life expectancy of 12 years, less in hot climates. The most expensive component, and essential to operate the system.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Dutton is correct, GO Nuclear ! I look a bit like Homer, i might apply for a job.

[@DemiGod..]

Labor intend to go nucleur, they firing long range missiles into russia at the moment.

[@christinehede7578]

Better yet keep using coal and gas.

[@blazegarbo6884]

Dutton is taking kickbacks from the coal & gas industry. He knows that it will take decades to build a nuclear power station, & will probably never be built because it is so expensive. In the meantime the gas & coal industry money keeps rolling in, & the rest of Australia gets left behind with obsolete tech.

[@christinehede7578]

@ you have proof on this bit of slander I hope.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

@@blazegarbo6884 Short term gas, long term Nuclear.

[@rlevo]

My 7 year old solar system just crapped is dacks! Looks like the inverter. Yeah, so much for 'free' electricity! And the company that installed it, well, they went bye byes the following year it was installed!

[@Withnail1969]

The inverters are notorious for not lasting.

[@melissasmess2773]

Has it paid for itself?

[@christinehede7578]

@@melissasmess2773off course not.

[@adventtrooper]

Yep, sounds about right. Often the original installed inverter is too small or badly placed (no airflow so it overheats) to maximise profit, and then the installer vanishes. Be careful of cowboy maintenance contracts, they'll offer free safety checks and then always find something in need of replacement.

[@pr5991]

If you do it DIY and become off grid totally, it is way cheaper and almost free.

[@Mine-z6w]

Shit tech for Mo rons

[@Stormcrow_1]

Another thing with solar is, we're fairly far north reducing the strength of sun light hitting them, even on a sunny day.

[@tomaskey6844]

The dark areas on the towers is usually grease and oil but sometimes it is fire. I work in transporting the blades and can verify wind energy is a scam. It makes a huge mess everywhere with cutting roads, trenching cables, running power poles, communication systems, and substations.

[@douglassheffield6300]

It's all about the money and nothing else.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

for the coal oil and gas barons, still making trillions and sucking you lot in and spitting you out on their troll paid for u tube vids, ahahahahahah

[@forbaldo1]

My son's 30th birthday party was 3 days ago 100% of the young people (40? people maby )there were the same age and went to Carranballac P9 College - Jamieson Way Campus. Every one of them there was no standouts, wanted to either work on or work in a nuclear power station in Australia . It was the biggest topic of the afternoon

[@michaelvarble4392]

In the area I live in hundreds of acres of forest has been razed to build solar farms. Recently the oldest orchard in the county has been leased out for more solar junk. Now the trees and other vegetation are gone along with the wildlife that were living there.

[@NotALot-xm6gz]

People have already forgotten what happened in Texas a few years back when a surprise cold snap and snow caused multi week blackouts as the cold froze the wind turbines solid and the snow broke the solar panels.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

mmm i think there was more to it than that.................................actually......

[@thomasm9552]

The irony of putting up "green energy" products because the Earth is warming then to have them destroyed or incapacitated by record cold. 🤣

[@William-t5v]

You are a breath of fresh air !!! Thankyou so much

[@regbarnard2866]

It turns out " Wind Power " doesn't like Wind.... Who would have thought of that.

[@DanThomas-n1e]

Who CLEANS the panels. NO ONE which reduced efficiency.

[@johngreen1060]

These large scale installations are for working around planning laws only. Put a solar farm on a piece of farmland, wait a few years and enjoy owning land under a new, much more valuable classification. I doubt the owner is particularly worried about the damage to the panels. I'm saying that as an owner of a roof-top pv installation - that makes a lot of sense (to me) as it offsets retail electricity prices.

[@raymondreiff8170]

Absolute facts 🇺🇸👍, Make Europe Great again, It's time for some new leadership for sure, As well in Canada and Australia, Good luck.

[@jodargoofmaztica5071]

Why can't we just have a couple more nuclear plants in the UK? Red Ed is a moron, he'd be better employed as a Wallace tribute act.

[@CrowPal]

Excellent research and analysis.

[@suzanneflowers2230]

Those wind turbines kill a lot of birds, too.

[@briantilley3158]

Storm Darragh also demonstrated quite easily why you shouldn’t build on flood plains.

[@phredflypogger4425]

It's simple. Politicians and bureaucrats invest heavily in renewable energy companies, fund the development with taxpayer's money and guarantee the returns to the energy companies (and the investors) whether they work or not.

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

ahhahaahahahahah, they are neck deep in gas coal and oil, get a GRIP. you are beyond a joke.

[@tonypacke6954]

It's remarkable what a few Government subsidises and a number of brown envelopes can achieve.

[@BryanSteeden]

Most of the battery charging stations scattered around the country have got a big diesel generator round the back supplying the electricity fcol

[@lauchlanguddy1004]

ahahahahah, sure they do, ahahahhaahahha santa told you.

[@BryanSteeden]

@ been there seen em , or are u that gullible that u think THE GRID can cope with them all ,derrrrrr

[@phredflypogger4425]

When they came out and stated that renewable energy sources are less expensive than nuclear generators I wonder if CSIRO factored in replacing windmills and panels after every storm.

[@stephenbennett9427]

Great we'll have solar but no food

[@DemiGod..]

To relax you will be able to go for a nice walk in the countryside , I mean solar farms.

[@PeterGardner-e1z]

Yes on top of converting good arable land for Forestry from which the trees will not likely to be harvested just so they can claim the Carbon credits to sell to the continually polluting countries. What a crock of it.

[@roberthuntley1090]

To be fair, the same storm took out a chimney at a conventional power station (in Ballylumpford, Northern Ireland) causing the whole station to be closed down.

[@billsellwood3280]

Who owns EDF ? France isn't it ? Are they our friends ?

[@SolAce-nw2hf]

EDF is the biggest Nuclear power provider in the world. Maybe they fumbled here on purpose to sell more of those insanely expensive nuclear power plants.

[@IvayloIvanov-z8r]

Tax money is being wasted on something ridiculous no one asked for while ordinary people are breaking their backs paying for it. Solar panels make sense on roofs, not on fields. And people don't need to starve to afford energy.

[@simon8864]

On the up side: if a wind or solar farm gets taken out by bad weather there's only slight drop in electric output because they produce such a small amount of power.

[@russingersoll5761]

The same people will profit and the same people will be taxed in order to rebuild them.

[@Raz-iw6fj]

“Scientists have been telling us for decades” Yeah, like: 1960: Nuclear power will kill everything! 1970: Ice Age will freeze everything! 1980: Acid rain will destroy everything! 1990: O-Zone hole will scorch everything! 1999: Y2K will ???? everything! 2000: Ice caps will melt and flood everything! 2010: Lack of bees will suffocate everything! 2020: Climate Crisis will vaporise everything! 2030: Random 🐂💩 pending… Then some people be like: “Climate crisis deniers are dumb, trust the science!” 🤪

[@CrowPal]

You missed the recurring, "oil will completely run out in another 20 years".

[@Pahoe77]

There are some panels set up in my neck of the woods. We get hail numerous times a year. Some goodly sized. Golf ball, baseball, even softball sized. Tears the crap out of them panels. Wind farms are near my inlaws... Right in prime tornado zones. Winter time there, include massive snows with very high winds. Negative temps are the norm. Not a fantastic area for them.

[@kennethboyer2338]

Been saying all of this for a couple of years, renewables are not viable on a large scale. We'd be better off building new nuclear and gas power plants.

[@composedlight6850]

In the UK none of the main media reported on this event. Still the Government saying by 2030 we have to be NET Zero 😢

[@DumbGoogle-yz9cr]

Im awaiting complete grid failure given the current loons it will probably be sometime next week

[@Mercmad]

Dont forget the destruction of the rain forest up near Cairns, so they can install windmills..... Eventually the windmills will occupy a line on the great diving range from Cairns to NSW.

[@waltdisnenycopyright8048]

On a positive note, the sun has reached its solar maximus, meaning a cool down for the next eleven years, probably causing less destructive weather.. I hope someone sharper than me can explaine more about this, thanx

[@richardkammerer2814]

I saw an advertisement headline from a solar roofing company, One Energy, “25 Common Problems with Solar Panels on Roofs”. Turned the page.

[@Urbicide]

When the time comes to replace your roof, all of the panels & mounts have to come off first. Then they get to be reinstalled afterwards.

[@michellewentworth9862]

Unfortunately long after the renewables experiment has failed we will still be paying for it due to the long term contracts providers have entered into. We even have to pay them for electricity they could generate but we don't use.

[@robertball3578]

The courts are sorting out the cross claims for a large solar farm in Arizona; apparently a number of wires rubbed against sharp edges and then shorted to the metal frame, energizing the support structure. No one was allowed inside the fence until after dark due to the risk of electrocution during daylight.

[@thomasm9552]

They get those guarantees because they're well aware renewables are a joke and not a money maker without them.

[@dwayne7356]

At least in the United State, a nuclear power plant is designed to take a jet plane striking the reactor building. The nuclear power plants will be shutdown for hurricane force winds at the plant. This is done in case the transmission lines are damaged during the storm and to ensure that the reactor is in a safe stable state in case of loss of offsite power. If there is no place to transmit the power, the generator will trip off line by the electrical protective relays which in turn will trip the reactor offline. However, once the hurricane passes, and if the the grid transmission lines are intact even miles away from the plant, then the plant will restart. Damage to the electrical grid is the issue, not damage to the nuclear power plant.

[@brianellis4964]

Lights will not be going out because they will not have been able to be switched on!

[@judithtaylor4799]

You are saying everything I have thought since solar panels and wind turbines were first introduced. I could never believe that they got such a foothold in countries that I thought would be much smarter.

[@RalfPinkaire-f7w]

Renewable... Regularly at huge cost, both financially and pollution wise.

[@philipc2025]

The trouble is, that by the time the epiphany hits home billions of £s / A$ will have been squandered on the alter of net stupidity.

[@lauralauren6432]

Do NOT call them FARMS OR PARKS!!!!

[@zippy5131]

Lived on Anglesey for seven years while working there. The solar nonsense is at the 'Circuit' race track former MOD site. But the biggest joke of all is that you have 'Wylfa' nuclear power station on the island and those years I was there the faff that that went on with who was going to refurb it... You could not write it. In the end... No one.

[@hopebear06]

Focus on our overlords.... BlackRock

[@paulthorsteinson1793]

I am a Canadian citizen that thoroughly enjoys your show and watch it lots how can I pass you more than a cup of coffee.