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Scottish Scientist
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Independent Scientific Adviser for Scotland

Renewable Energy Science Blogger
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The UK botched the phase out of nuclear in Scotland - didn't build pumped hydro, demolished Longannet-biomass for backup power, peddled the deadly CCS-scam.

The clueless SNP still take bad advice from those UK poodles who misled the Tories.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Bardsley's🤡Onslowsaurus🦕🆚pumped hydro for NZ🥝

ISLAND South🦕🆚North🥝
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh🥝
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week🥝
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW🥝
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?🥝
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#NZpol #NZenergy
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
New Zealand has more than enough renewable energy for a low cost solution.

The choice away from RE100 was made in 2011 when NZ stopped building wind farms, bucking the global trend.

Ardern resumed building but far too slowly to meet her 2030 target.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Is "Pumped Hydro Holdings" a “Producers” scam?

Is the intent to embezzle money from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, where Rodger CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST Finlay is the Deputy and acting Chair until a new chair is appointed?
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#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Onslowsaurus 🦕
🆚
NZ's real pumped hydro needs.✅

My report on the valid alternatives to Lake Onslow
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ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Pumped Hydro Holdings Ltd has to be a “Producers” scam – the intent seems to be to embezzle money from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, where Rodger Finlay is the Deputy and acting Chair until a new chair is appointed.
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#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
October 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Bardsley's folly is deader than a dinosaur called "Onslowsaurus".🦕
Realistic pumped hydro needs✅

ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
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October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🤡Megan Woods's ministry-groupthink Onslowsaurus 🦕
🆚
NZ's real pumped hydro needs.✅

ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅
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October 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🤡Bardsley's Onslowsaurus 🦕🆚NZ's real pumped hydro needs.🤓

ISLAND South🦕🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh🦕🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year🦕🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW🦕🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion🦕🆚a few $ billion?✅

#NZpol #NZpolitics #NZenergy
October 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
When Kate Forbes leaves us, she’ll take away the better part of the Scottish Government.

Here's why
China’s Big Wind is welcome to Scotland
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#ScottishGovernment #SNP #ScottishParliament #ScottishEconomy #Holyrood #ScottishEnergy #LetsDoNetZero #Scots
October 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
So no problem with the science of #RE100 but there are massive problems with the governance and politics.
An obsession with the deadly carbon capture and storage scam, energy ministers who won't take good science advice, incompetent officialdom.
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October 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Scotland can host 100s ❌ more pumped hydro than we have now. Biomass serves as dispatchable backup power.

We scientists can model 100% renewable energy solutions, making tools to tabulate rows of different mixes of wind, solar, storage & backup.
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October 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The Lake Onslow hydro project is deader than a dinosaur named Onslowsaurus.🦕
Earl Bardsley 🤡is a hydrologist who conflates a vast surplus of water, in wet years, with a mythical "surplus of hydroelectric energy" when there are insufficient turbines.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Wind & solar without the storage is more useful than Onslowsaurus - huge empty storage without the power for the pumps.

Dry years problem solved, more wind power, North Island pumped hydro – New Zealand 100% renewables without Onslow
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October 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Onslowsaurus🦖is dead.

The ❌s 🆚 ✅s of the pumped hydro / battery project that NZ actually needs to go 100% renewable energy electricity.

ISLAND South❌🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh❌🆚<50GWh✅
STORAGE TIME inter-year❌🆚intra-week✅
POWER 1GW ❌🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion❌🆚a few $ billion?✅
October 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
A cost-effective 100% renewable energy electricity solution for New Zealand.
October 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Thanks. It was a shame when this guy was so quick to block me on X.
It really was his job to report the full range of scientific opinion on the Onslow project. There seemed to be a government-led group think where dissenting opinions were suppressed.
September 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Onslow is more like 1 man locked up in an empty vault big enough to store a year's supply of nuts on the South Island where nuts get delivered from the North Island for cracking & return.

The solution is 3 men each with a nutcracker based on the North Island. Cheap, fast, sane.
July 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Shame on Armitage Shanks🙈 for blocking me & my plan to cut energy bills now while accelerating investment.
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SACK Red Ed & Armitage.
Replace them with me & experts who follow the science.

#GreatBritishEnergy #GBEnergy #DESNZ #OFGEM #LabourParty #NESO
July 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Here's your 70% question.
Rachel-from-accounts is a stupid _ _ _ _.
What in Scunthorpe exactly?
#RachelReeves #LabourParty
July 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Onslowsaurus was the dinosaur.
Follow the science - NORTH Island pumped hydro.

Lake Onslow Project🆚 Economic alternatives
ISLAND South❌🆚North✅
ENERGY STORED 5,000GWh❌🆚<50GWh✅
POWER 1GW ❌🆚up to 3GW✅
COST $16 billion❌🆚a few $ billion?🤔
July 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"credible worst-case scenario"

- is actually a scenario where there is gas poisoning disaster (worse than Bhopal) when thousands of people are killed by carbon dioxide leaking from the pipes and stores for the deadly carbon capture & storage scam.
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July 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Megan Woods was captivated by Earl Bardsley, a hydrology prof at Waikato Uni, who promoted the Lake Onslow project.

Hydrologists pump water up to reservoirs to manage water resources but not for energy storage & power regeneration per se.

Bardsley is not an energy scientist nor engineer.
July 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
There are multiple sites on the North Island suitable for the sort of pumped hydro which New Zealand actually needs (unlike Onslow, which was never the correct place to build pumped hydro).
July 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Swinney & the SNP know nothing but assume that if ministers take the bad advice of UK civil servants then at least, the UK won't have them arrested, as they should really be arrested.
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July 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM