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Great and all, but this is a literal press release. It could be PR spruiking, it could be pump’n’dump play, it could be friggin genuinely great. No way to know from a press release.
This is one area where Apple has it pretty right. A Mac will do somethings when ‘asleep’ like download emails and texts. It also can broadcast its location if the ‘Find Me’ function is on. If it’s plugged into power then backups will also run, and background app updates will happen. It does this in a low power mode, so it won’t get hot enough to need fans. It’s worked flawlessly for 20 years. Meanwhile all our PCs are set to ‘never sleep’ and just get shutdown when not in use. I never trust a PC laptop to wake successfully from sleep just by closing the lid.
It’s not even quite that - the article suggested they raised the commercial equivalent of the 12% through competitive auction. These allow the bidders a set price over 20 years.
So it’s cheaper than buying in fossil fuels, the suppliers get certainty, and they achieve close to complete decarbonisation using private investment.
How good is that?
This is literally the “This is fine” meme.
It’s entirely possible to drink lemonade on 40deg days while not being complacent. The impact of climate change isn’t ‘one day I’ll be dead’. It’s an ‘it’s going to get worse before it gets worse’ situation. It’s a future where you might not even be able to get lemonade or Bundy rum with caps you can’t put back on the bottle.
Mate, come on, that’s not fair at all. Get your head out of your arse.
ABC have been covering this heaps. They broke the Afghan files story in the first place. Adele Furgheson has literally been writing articles about whistleblowers and David McBride for weeks in the lead up to this. Latest one from looking at the ABC website here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-18/david-mcbride-guilty-plea-whistleblower-protection/103120544
Fairfax is also literally the news link at the top of the OP post here!
There are always excellent reports coming from the ABC & Fairfax with a quality of investigative work that FJ doesn’t even come close to matching. ABC & Fairfax may have their faults, but this is not one of them.
This must be insanely frustrating. Only more the reason to have a decent suite of whistleblower protection laws.
Ahhh, Port Kembla. I mean it’s already a whale graveyard what with all those massive container ships chopping them up all year and the massive sewer outfall gassing them out. A few measly pylons just adds a bit of spice to the game!
This is a really interesting story behind the story. If you remember how much Turnbull public resisted any kind of inquiry or Royal Commission, you get a sense of how powerful an influence the bank was able to exert on any ‘fair’ process.
There’s a mouthful. Free market except when….
Bloody Koalas partying all night on drugs, clubbing themselves to death. We need a Liberal government to post police at every club and strip search these buggers. Especially the 13 year old girls koalas in NSW.
You know what also works synergistically with renewables? More renewables!
Ahhh Bronwyn! I could Nazi that coming!
On a side note, I’ve just finished installing a whole lot of vertical searchlights at her home for the annual Christmas celebrations. I hear all her guests will be Gobbelling down the drinks while saluting some kind of whole potato.
Pretty much. There’s an enormous crossover between the people spruiking pie-in-the-sky nuclear projects on forums, and the people pumping small cap uranium mining stocks on Hot Copper. Pump’n’dump is the name of the game, although recently they managed to sucker in the Coalition to spruik for them.
Amazing.
Sometimes you need to take a hard line. I get it.
But indefinite detention is fucking barbaric. And I hope that those affected now have legal recourse due to this decision.
It was never the only solution. It was an expedient solution, and it’s wise to remember that when the architects of that shit show are in power and need to make hard decisions. Because the decision will be the one that maximises their political leverage - it won’t be the one that addresses say…catastrophic climate change, or over irrigation in the Murray basin, or falling education standards, or….
It’s good to see the evidence, but it was no real secret that the big private mining company owners were all scared as hell about the Voice.
Of course they can’t come out and admit that. But it’s still hilarious (in a really shit way) when people still proudly admit that the voted ‘no’ to keep Australia ‘fair and egalitarian’.
Err, no. At least 20% of the population was swayed through some astroturfing by Australia’s most wealthy toffs.
This is kinda like comments from the alien site circa 2010 which have aged pretty badly.
“20% renewables is the absolute maximum that can be achieved, anything over that will result in Armageddon!!!”.
Many of the reasons they’re “in deep shit already” come back to governments making unilateral decisions for easy media and corporate donor ‘reasons’ - specifically targeting Aboriginal people (as allowed under the constitution) rather than listening to what the communities actually need or want.
Hence the Voice. But now we can keep doing the same old shit, targeting the same old Aboriginal communities, but 60% of the population can keep kidding themselves there’s no victims and they’re absolutely not racists at all, oh no no.
From what I understand, although Australia has a large number of native bee species, our main pollinators were birds, which is why we have so many flowering frees with ‘robust’ flowers.
In our (inner city) garden we have at least 3 hives, all naturally occurring. Two are euro bees and 1 is natives. There’s at least 1 other native hive in the garden or nearby - we see a lot of blue banded native bees on some flowers.
I really like your thinking, but I’ve become much less convinced about the natives only in the cities. A lot of natives are really well adapted to cities, and the ones that do well don’t necessarily create the right environments for critters.
As an example all our hives live exclusively in camphor laurels. I think it’s because that the camphor’s have a lot of good hollows and they create a lot of shade. Bees don’t like it too hot and they need protected places to build hives. I don’t suggest that you go around trying to plant camphor’s because they are a real invasive species, but they’re definitely good for critters and a really hardy and fast growing, and suit suburbs well. There’s probably are more suitable alternative (ours are very old), but most suburbs are so devoid of significant trees that something has to be better than nothing.
We’ve got a mix of natives and introduced plants here, which all flower at different times. I think this means that there much more certainly and diversity of pollen for the bees. For example the early spring all the rodedendrums were out, wattles were flowering a few months ago, and then the jasmin start and has just finished. The bees bloody love the jasmin. The calistamons are about to go off now, and then all the other summer flowers will take over.
I like the idea of turning vacant land into something useful, but there’s also so much we can do with our own gardens that create permanent habitat that isn’t just grass. We’re part of a strata in a major city, so if we can do it I’d encourage everyone to give it a go themselves.
Fuck around and find out that stocking shelves for a one day event with cheap plastic crap that isn’t selling well is a bad idea?
‘Help help, I’m being repressed!’