The fog is rolling in, the lounge room fire is roaring. No, I'm not up early to join the Rebellion mob's climate demonstrations. It's too cold!

As the kettle boiled, it occurred to me to check where my morning electricity may have come from.

Those Rebellion stirrers hadn't checked their figures last Tuesday morning or they would have realised how silly they looked.

At 6am, breakfast time for normal working people and even some schoolkids, wind nationally was producing about 50 per cent of its claimed capacity.

The night before, 6pm Monday, as electric trains carried city dwellers home to what they hoped would be a hot dinner, wind was producing a pitiful less than 20 per cent of its claimed value!

Here in NSW, wind was producing less than 20 per cent of its capacity when you were having your Rebellion Day breakfast, and only about 10 per cent the night before at dinner time!

The Capital Wind Farm near Bungendore is the largest wind farm in NSW.

It was producing a pitiful less-than-10 per cent at a time when green-leaning Canberra public servants would be smugly catching their pollution-free new electric tram - powered at that time of day by coal, of course.

The ACT will be 100 per cent renewables by October, their former Greenpeace activist Climate Change Minister Shane Rattenbury said. They wish!

Did Bill Shorten ever wake up to why he had a "surprise" election defeat?

Election day was delightfully fine.

Ciderfest at Batlow couldn't have been held on a better day.

Some of my family left Batlow early in the afternoon for a sporting commitment in Sydney.

They rang to say that the Cullerin Range wind turbines were still as they passed!

A bad omen for Bill?

I thought I would check the records. Cullerin had near-zero wind that day, and Australia-wide, wind was producing only 25 per cent of its promised power.

Solar was producing nothing as I enjoyed my Rebellion Day breakfast - as you would expect on a foggy morning when the sun wasn't up!

The previous day solar peaked at barely above 50 per cent of its promise.

Coal produces 70 per cent of Australia's power, but when you are having your breakfast it's closer to 100 per cent.

Gas? We've banned new gas fields, and Victoria has even banned exploration.

Is Snowy expansion at Talbingo our one big hope?

Bob Brown's latest stunt is campaigning to stop a $1.6 billion wind farm development in Tasmania "because it will spoil the view and kill birds".

But wait - isn't this the same Bob Brown that wanted to stop Adani? Well, yes.

He justifies his wind farm ban by saying he protested against the Franklin Dam. He wanted to stop hydro too!

Now here's the dilemma that Zali Steggall, the idealistic new member for Warringah, faces.

She was born in Manly, almost the centre of the electorate which includes Northern Beaches places like Cremorne, Queenscliff, and Mosman.

She went to a local private school and drives a 4WD like most Northern Beaches mums. She doesn't have solar panels on her home.

But she supports more wind power, obviously thinking that it works 24/7. Her maiden speech was all about renewables!

Think locally, act globally? Wouldn't you expect Steggall to support a local wind farm along the Northern Beaches foreshore to take advantage of sea breezes?

In fact, a Wind Farms for Warringah change.org petition had garnered 26,967 signatures by Rebellion Day morning!

Like Bob Brown, climate action is great as long as it's not in your backyard, and as long as it's someone else who loses their job.

Steggall the skiing champion lived with her family in France from 1978 until 1989.

She would have seen some of France's 58 nuclear reactors, which generate 72 per cent of France's power. France exports power to Britain and the rest of Europe.

Real action on climate is 24/7 emission-free nuclear energy. Real jobs need reliable cheap power.

If we are serious about reducing emissions, we will scrap unreliable solar and wind, and turn to nuclear.