Co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale discuss the week’s news with Cathrine Dyer on climate & Robert Patman on geopolitics, plus guests Sanjana Hattotuwa on disinformation & Kate Day on energy poverty
16:30 Great to hear Cathrine Dyer touching on the reality of energy storage for intermittent renewables in the 'dry year problem'. I think you really need to get a technical person from the energy sector on your pod to explain the situation for New Zealand. Claiming that solar and battery are the answer is bulletproof conceptually but it's not that straightforward. To throw that in there to a non technical audience and without analysis to back it up as you did this week was a bit irresponsible and out of character I feel.
I didn't catch anything on batteries for intermittent renewables in the climate wrap but yeah it was a good listen. Good to hear the beginnings of acknowledgement that our typical house designs tend to overheat with the new insulation standards
Hi Bernard, I reckon a great person to start with would be Dr Susan Krumdieck (MNZM), ex thermodynamics professor from UC mechanical engineering, currently based in Scotland. She is media friendly (numerous interviews RNZ), has spent decades focused on the energy transition, and is very much solutions focused.
Morena team! Listening while I do my Sat morn' chores. Yiur thoughts on Yanis Varoufakis's opinion that electricity supply is NOT a market...since you only have 1 power cable entering your house, not a choice of 6 different cables?
Including Sanjana Hattotuva on The Hoon was brilliant. His point about the ways in which the local/global distinction has blurred and merged in terms of the disinformation media landscape is truly significant. The global is local in real time with material consequences and impact.
Bernard, I am deeply frustrated by the way Peter constantly interrupts you and the interesting people that are invited onto The Hoon. I stopped listening for several months because I found it so maddening that no-one is given the opportunity to finish sentences or fully answer questions. I tuned in for this week's episode and left after 7 minutes because I couldn't stand all the interruptions. Peter, you are clearly very well informed and have interesting insights and questions, but the subscription is for The Hoon, not the Peter Bale show. Please respect your guests and co-host by giving them the space to do their thing. I'd be very interested to hear you and Bernard interview Michael Bassett on why he supports the Hobson's Pledge (and Don Brash on his position on monetary policy for that matter) because I am baffled by people who hold such views, but it would only be illuminating if they were able to speak for long enough actually explain themselves.
Sanjana Hattotuwa and Robert Patman discussion was particularly interesting.
Personally I have no interest in tuning in to The Hoon to listen to the likes of Bassett. It concerns me to hear Musk described here as "one of the worlds cleverest men". I was pleased to hear Hattotuwa dispute that assessment.
The limited time nature of this show makes it the wrong place, in my opinion, for people like Bassett - it simply provides them an oportunity to amplify their message. If I want to hear his views I can tune in to other platforms.
I much prefer to come to The Hoon to hear from the likes of Patman, Dyer and Hattotuwa who can expand our understanding of complex issues - not with their personal or politically motivated opinions and observations, but as Hattotuwa articulated "accademic research based, analytical grounded observations ".
Kashmir was mentioned briefly. Arundati Roy has described Kashmir a world flash point.
I would have liked to ask Hattotuwa about Arundati Roy, who now faces anti-terror prosecution in India for comments she made about Kashmir 14 years ago.
16:30 Great to hear Cathrine Dyer touching on the reality of energy storage for intermittent renewables in the 'dry year problem'. I think you really need to get a technical person from the energy sector on your pod to explain the situation for New Zealand. Claiming that solar and battery are the answer is bulletproof conceptually but it's not that straightforward. To throw that in there to a non technical audience and without analysis to back it up as you did this week was a bit irresponsible and out of character I feel.
I think I hear/ detect Dyer pushing back on silver bullets?
Dyer had more oportunity to finish her sentences on Weekly Climate Wrap.
I didn't catch anything on batteries for intermittent renewables in the climate wrap but yeah it was a good listen. Good to hear the beginnings of acknowledgement that our typical house designs tend to overheat with the new insulation standards
Thanks Mark. Who would you suggest as an expert who could talk publicly on the issue of batteries and intermittency?
Hi Bernard, I reckon a great person to start with would be Dr Susan Krumdieck (MNZM), ex thermodynamics professor from UC mechanical engineering, currently based in Scotland. She is media friendly (numerous interviews RNZ), has spent decades focused on the energy transition, and is very much solutions focused.
Fantastic. Thanks Mark.
Morena team! Listening while I do my Sat morn' chores. Yiur thoughts on Yanis Varoufakis's opinion that electricity supply is NOT a market...since you only have 1 power cable entering your house, not a choice of 6 different cables?
He’s right.
I'm frustrated at the way Peter Bale constantly interrupts you Bernard.
Including Sanjana Hattotuva on The Hoon was brilliant. His point about the ways in which the local/global distinction has blurred and merged in terms of the disinformation media landscape is truly significant. The global is local in real time with material consequences and impact.
Also loved hearing about Kate’s work. Thank you!
Bernard, I am deeply frustrated by the way Peter constantly interrupts you and the interesting people that are invited onto The Hoon. I stopped listening for several months because I found it so maddening that no-one is given the opportunity to finish sentences or fully answer questions. I tuned in for this week's episode and left after 7 minutes because I couldn't stand all the interruptions. Peter, you are clearly very well informed and have interesting insights and questions, but the subscription is for The Hoon, not the Peter Bale show. Please respect your guests and co-host by giving them the space to do their thing. I'd be very interested to hear you and Bernard interview Michael Bassett on why he supports the Hobson's Pledge (and Don Brash on his position on monetary policy for that matter) because I am baffled by people who hold such views, but it would only be illuminating if they were able to speak for long enough actually explain themselves.
Sanjana Hattotuwa and Robert Patman discussion was particularly interesting.
Personally I have no interest in tuning in to The Hoon to listen to the likes of Bassett. It concerns me to hear Musk described here as "one of the worlds cleverest men". I was pleased to hear Hattotuwa dispute that assessment.
The limited time nature of this show makes it the wrong place, in my opinion, for people like Bassett - it simply provides them an oportunity to amplify their message. If I want to hear his views I can tune in to other platforms.
I much prefer to come to The Hoon to hear from the likes of Patman, Dyer and Hattotuwa who can expand our understanding of complex issues - not with their personal or politically motivated opinions and observations, but as Hattotuwa articulated "accademic research based, analytical grounded observations ".
Kashmir was mentioned briefly. Arundati Roy has described Kashmir a world flash point.
I would have liked to ask Hattotuwa about Arundati Roy, who now faces anti-terror prosecution in India for comments she made about Kashmir 14 years ago.
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