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Re: Americans Ready For Green New Deal

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On 14 Feb 2026, NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> posted some
news:2a11pkdrcm7eor1kf0ia076n0vq2036p6o@4ax.com: 

> On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:44:27 -0500, -hh
><recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 2/13/26 07:07, NoBody wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:30:21 -0500, -hh
>>> <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2/12/26 07:14, NoBody wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:33:51 -0500, -hh
>>>>> <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/11/26 07:19, NoBody wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:51:20 -0500, -hh
>>>>>>> <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2/10/26 17:09, Socialism is for losers wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:37:43 -0500, -hh wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2/10/26 15:20, Socialism is for losers wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:37:46 -0500, -hh wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>>>>> His cite was that in 2024, renewables were less than 50%.
>>>>>>>>>>>> My cite was that in 2025, renewables were now more than
>>>>>>>>>>>> 50%. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Socialism can't bring himself to admit that newer data
>>>>>>>>>>>> supersedes his older data.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I've seen no fuel mix data for Western Australia for 2025
>>>>>>>>>>> that says renewable and solar are the primary source.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Correct, because what I cited reported just that renewables
>>>>>>>>>> were 52%, not the entire breakdown.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> <LOL> I've seen no fuel mix data for Western Australia for
>>>>>>>>> 2025 that says renewables are 52% of the sources for electric
>>>>>>>>> generation.... 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Translation:
>>>>>>>> "Not seen" because they chose to not read the citations.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -hh
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Your own cite:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "The NEM does not include Western Australia or the Northern
>>>>>>> Territory. Western Australia also recorded higher renewable use
>>>>>>> and declines in fossil fuel use, even as the state extended the
>>>>>>> life of a coal plant over longer-term energy security worries.
>>>>>>> Origin Energy (ORG.AX), opens new tab announced an extension of
>>>>>>> a coal plant the same week." 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I never claimed that Australia as a whole was majority renewable,
>>>>>> so all you're doing is trying to move the goalposts to be
>>>>>> continent-wide. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> LAUGHTER!
>>>>>
>>>>> You most certainly implied that.
>>>>
>>>> Original statement:
>>>>
>>>> "Oh, so hitting 52% on the Western Australia grid was impossible?"
>>>>
>>>> Showing that from the start, it was clearly not continent-wide.
>>>>
>>>> And further reinforced with:
>>>>
>>>> "I mentioned Western Australia, the world's largest isolated grid.
>>>> Because in 2025, their electricity generation from renewables
>>>> exceeded the 50% mark.
>>>>
>>>> Need a cite?  Here ya go:
>>>> <https://www.instagram.com/p/DRvnOGoCPi2/"
>>>>
>>>> Keep losing!
>>>>
>>>>>> The problem you have with that strategy is that on a
>>>>>> continent-wide basis, Australia is currently within roughly 1% of
>>>>>> being 50/50 renewables and fossil fuels.
>>>>>
>>>>> Except that it's not through ALL of Australia.
>>>>>
>>>>> LAUGHTER!
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The ramifications are that if their double-digit growth in
>>>>>> renewables deployment continues through 2026 as planned, the
>>>>>> entire continent's electrical grid will be majority renewables
>>>>>> within the next few months. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Care to bet against that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Get your numbers in order and accurate so the discussion can
>>>>> continue. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And that's a "no" from Nobody.  Coward in real life, as usual.
>>>>
>>> 
>>> Your numbers for the nation are where again? Instead of getting
>>> them, you doubled down on stupid.
>>
>>
>>Here's the cite again:
>>
>><https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/?range=30d&interval=1
>>d&view=discrete-time&group=Renewables%2FFossils> 
>>
>>Today's rolling 30 day average is 50.7% FF's / 49.3% renewables, which
>>is once again within 1% of 50/50 parity.
>>
>>So as noted above:
>>
>>"The ramifications are that if their double-digit growth in renewables
>>deployment continues through 2026 as planned, the entire continent's
>>electrical grid will be majority renewables within the next few
>>months. 
>>
>>Care to bet against that?"
>>
> 
> So where does it say that it covers all of Australia?

‘Catastrophic failure’ of transformer at Waratah Super Battery, 
Australia’s ‘giant shock-absorber’ for the grid

https://www.energy-storage.news/catastrophic-failure-of-transformer-at-
waratah-super-battery-australias-giant-shock-absorber-for-the-grid/

Oops.

>>
>>-hh
> 

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