Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "John Anderson Media" channel.

  1. The problem with this discussion is that it is simply 2 people agreeing with each other in front of an audience who want to hear what they want to hear, but they are right about a few things. I am an engineer and there is some very valid points in this like the fact that electric trucks have failed and there is no electric alternative to diesel tractors. The other industry that wont be changing at all is the metallurgical coal for making steel. They are also right that the integrated plan will NOT WORK, but the real reason why is something these 2 clowns don't talk about. But on so many other points they are either WRONG or they are just leaving out facts they should be telling everyone. One major thing they do not tell you is that the nuclear option will cost EVERY HOUSEHOLD in Australia at least $25,000 in high energy bills while it gets built. It will simply take at least 25 years to build out what's proposed and that will mean your power bills will stay the same for the next 25 years costing you at least $1000 each year. The real cause why our energy bills are so high is because we haven't built nay major power stations in 25 years. the last reasonably large (but still under 1,000MW) power stations were Millmerran and Kogan Creek in Queensland. The 3 biggest power stations in Australia at Eraring & Bayswater in NSW and Loy Yang in Victoria were all built in the 1980s. Meanwhile the population went from 15 million in the 80s to 20 million in the early 2000s and its now 27 million. WE SIMPLY HAVE NOT BUILT ENOUGH POWER STATIONS. The real problem with the Integrated plan is that our renewables HAVE NOT BEEN PLANNED. Its all be dictated by the foreign companies building it. Its NOT been well planned and that's why its a mess. As for coal to be used for power is a dead industry and they all know it. Even the Chinese have stopped building coal. They're building nuclear and renewables side by side. In fact the Chinese have installed more renewables in recent years than the rest of the world combined. In some of their provinces 80% of homes now have roof top solar.
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  2. WHAT THEY DON"T SAY ABOUT KEPCO the South Korean company that makes the APR 14000 nuclear reactors. 1) Kepco were caught falsifying records, test reports and other paperwork by the South Korean Government. So forget it as a "Reliable Supplier" 2) The reactors built in the Middle East took a similar time (8-9 years) as the American designed AP1000s took in China and if you look at actual construction time (without the standdowns) it was also similar to what it took at Vogtle in Georgia. I am in favor of nuclear power being PAR of Australia's future BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE RIGHT and for the RIGHT REASONS.
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  3.  @charisma-hornum-fries  Good and valid point.
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  4. I was about to say the same. If you can find it there's a video from when Phil Donahue interviewed Milton Freidman and questioned Friedman on "greed". Freidman basically argues that everything that's good in the world has come from people being greedy. The arrogance with which he delivers it is legendary. It's the classic "I'm the professor (with a Nobel prize) and your just little people beneath me." FYI - I'm an aerospace engineer and he was talking about technical innovation and claiming its always been via greed, which I know as an engineer to be total BS. He mentioned Henry Ford as on innovator. Henry Ford paid his workers TRIPLE the standard wage and the rest of the business community went bonkers. Henry Ford's claim was they'll work better and more importantly be bale to buy the products they make. Nick Hanauer (the billionaire) talked about in his TED talk "Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming" back in 2014.
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  5. Actually they have stopped build NEW COAL and started tearing down older coal. They are building nuclear at a impressive rate and in fact right now they are arguably the worlds experts in building nuclear just because of how many they have built. What you and others ignore is that the Chinese have also installed more solar and wind in recent years than the rest of the world combined. In some provinces 80% of homes have rooftop solar.
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  6. The problem with this discussion is that it is simply 2 people agreeing with each other in front of an audience who want to hear what they want to hear, but they are right about a few things. I am an engineer and there is some very valid points in this like the fact that electric trucks have failed and there is no electric alternative to diesel tractors. The other industry that wont be changing at all is the metallurgical coal for making steel. They are also right that the integrated plan will NOT WORK, but the real reason why is something these 2 clowns don't talk about. But on so many other points they are either WRONG or they are just leaving out facts they should be telling everyone. One major thing they do not tell you is that the nuclear option will cost EVERY HOUSEHOLD in Australia at least $25,000 in high energy bills while it gets built. It will simply take at least 25 years to build out what's proposed and that will mean your power bills will stay the same for the next 25 years costing you at least $1000 each year. The real cause why our energy bills are so high is because we haven't built nay major power stations in 25 years. the last reasonably large (but still under 1,000MW) power stations were Millmerran and Kogan Creek in Queensland. The 3 biggest power stations in Australia at Eraring & Bayswater in NSW and Loy Yang in Victoria were all built in the 1980s. Meanwhile the population went from 15 million in the 80s to 20 million in the early 2000s and its now 27 million. WE SIMPLY HAVE NOT BUILT ENOUGH POWER STATIONS. The real problem with the Integrated plan is that our renewables HAVE NOT BEEN PLANNED. Its all be dictated by the foreign companies building it. Its NOT been well planned and that's why its a mess. As for coal to be used for power is a dead industry and they all know it. Even the Chinese have stopped building coal. They're building nuclear and renewables side by side. In fact the Chinese have installed more renewables in recent years than the rest of the world combined. In some of their provinces 80% of homes now have roof top solar.
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  7. Really then why is he lying about Trump being cheated in 2020. That's done and finished. Even Ivanka Trump has admitted he lost. This is disgusting that a former Deputy PM is pandering to this sort of garbage.
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  8. POINT 1: Gigi Foster is NOT a medical doctor and no qualifications at all to be handing out pandemic response advice to anyone. POINT 2: You at 73 are exactly the sort of person Gigi said we should let die because you're worthless old person with high medica costs and we'd be better off spending the money on other things. Go watch her interview on 60 Minutes for which other professors at UNSW criticised her for. POINT 3: Jay Bhattacharya was heavily criticised by other scientist for his STATISTICAL analysis where he claimed that 80,000 people in Santa Clara had COVID. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bhattacharya#COVID-19_pandemic POINT 4: These 2 have repeatedly pointed out during this 1h11m discourse that we should not allow our society to be dominated by powerful full rich people and yet they are also representatives of a number of extremely powerful American Billionaires. The Great Barrington Declaration Jay co-authored was funded via the Brownstone Institute which is an American Libertarian Think Tank funded by Anarcho-Capitalist Jeffery Tucker. POINT 5: They lied about the data, notably about Sweden and where Australia actually sits. But that's a longer discussion and I will happily present anyone with the facts of those lies. FYI - I'm an Australian who went to University in America. The American Libertarians are the most radical of America's political ideologies. These include people like the Koch brothers one of whom ran against Ronald Reagan because he thought Reagan wasn't conservative enough. Consider that Gigi wants to put a number on what she perceives as "your value to society." That's what her "qualies" are really about. That's the same type of idea the Nazis to justify their experiments on orphans and mentally ill patients to find out what combinations of drugs killed fastest. The simplest way to describe these extreme Libertarians is to sum up their ideology in the simple sentence. "I want what I want and I don't care what it does to your life or what it costs you."
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  9. Really then why is he lying about Trump being cheated in 2020. That's done and finished. Even Ivanka Trump has admitted he lost. This is disgusting that a former Deputy PM is pandering to this sort of garbage.
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  10. Sorry but Willian Happer has been dismissed as a complete fraud. NOTHING and I MEAN NOTHIGN he says stands up to scrutiny.
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  11. Good to see there's at least 1 thread calling out the bullshite and hypocrisy of these 3 liars. And they are LIARS in big capital letters. POINT 1: Gigi Foster is NOT a medical doctor, she is an economist and no qualifications at all to be handing out pandemic response advice to anyone. POINT 2: Older people need to be advised that Gigi said we should let older people just die because "they'll die anyway." Go watch her interview on 60 Minutes for which other professors at UNSW criticised her for. POINT 3: Jay Bhattacharya was heavily criticised by other scientist for his STATISTICAL analysis where he claimed that 80,000 people in Santa Clara had COVID. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bhattacharya#COVID-19_pandemic *POINT 4: *These 2 have repeatedly pointed out during this 1h11m discourse that we should not allow our society to be dominated by powerful full rich people and yet they are also representatives of a number of extremely powerful American Billionaires. The Great Barrington Declaration Jay co-authored was funded via the Brownstone Institute which is an American Libertarian Think Tank funded by Anarcho-Capitalist Jeffery Tucker. POINT 5: They lied about the data, notably about Sweden and where Australia actually sits. But that's a longer discussion and I will happily present anyone with the facts of those lies. In simple terms go look at the data and this source is accurate. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ In simple terms if were had the same outcome as Sweden we'd have approximately 50,000 dead Australians instead of 15,000 because Sweden's fatality rate is about 3-1/3rd times what ours is. Australia looks like we have a much higher incidence of COVID because we kept testing and recording the data and America STOPPED because Donald Trump ordered testing to stop.
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