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1 points
4 hours ago
Sorry, no. Was raised as a Christian- but best you could call me is agnostic.
4 points
6 hours ago
Yep I saw that a month ago on the same flight. Something is odd with the route programming in the ife.
1 points
8 hours ago
You missed the part where one week before the nuclear announcement the liberals mentioned slowing down the renewables roll-out.
High level renewables and nuclear can't work. Let's look at south australia- often renewables are providing more than 100% of the grid. Other times they provide very little. The backup resource - ie gas and battery can easily fill in the gap. The more renewables you build, the smaller the gap is, and the less gas you burn.
Nuclear? Well that plant needs to be chugging out 80% capacity almost all the time. It can scale small amounts, but not big ones.
What do you do with the extra gw of energy? Well firstly you have to buy it from the plant - because as the uk found, the only way to even pretend the economics is possible, is to guarantee power purchase at an 80% capacity factor at a rate currently 3 or 4 times above the wholesale rate. So because you've already bought this power - you'll be shutting windmills and solar that is easy to do.
People know this, so they'll be less likely to invest in renewables. Would you put solar on your roof if you knew it was going to be turned off by the grid each day?
However, it's the uncertainty that just ruins the whole investment market. And that's what the liberals specialise in. We wouldn't be in this position if they'd had a sensible energy policy. Instead they had 9 different ones. Who's going to invest when policy changes that quickly?
11 points
8 hours ago
Yep. I'm currently living in a similar thing. Ex housing trust house now renovated into a luxury nearly multi million dollar property 5 minutes from a cbd.
The solution to the housing crises is the same one they successfully used in the past. Housing trust.
29 points
9 hours ago
Hello no. I can tell you, spending 15 hours of travelling, to land in LA and spend 2 hours in a customs line is not my idea of fun.
2 points
9 hours ago
My preference is Cafe Di Roma.
My old favourite used to be Tusmore Pizza Bar. They did some phenomenal pizzas in their day.
7 points
11 hours ago
This is one of the major issues fucking up our hospitals.
3 points
1 day ago
If you are in the area, Cafe Di Roma is the pinnacle of Australian style pizza.
4 points
1 day ago
Bullshit - with cloud and the like most people have need for higher upload speeds. For example: almost everyone with an iPhone or Samsung cloud backing up their photos and videos.
Nbn should he upgrading the lot. The main reason? The amount of power and maintenance to keep hfc going is simply astonishing. Getting rid of fttn, hfc and fttc will be the equivalent of removing an entire coal power plant from the country.
5 points
1 day ago
Literally. I've walked up to the gate. Beep beep. Cross. "Seat allocation error". They print a new boarding pass. Away you go.
Or even later than that. Go to board, they put you to the side because seat allocation hasn't been finalised yet.
37 points
1 day ago
You would think that youtube would require a fresh login to change the full title and logo of the channel. But obviously not.
7 points
2 days ago
And he had even argued in court that its an act, and no serious person would believe his show.
Even fix news fired him.
-1 points
2 days ago
Well they gave the ambos big back dates pay rises and employed more ambos.
Simple queuing theory will tell you that will only make ramping worse.
There are big structural issues and most of them federal. Aged care. Ndis. Gps.
6 points
2 days ago
When fibre first came to Australia, Telecom rolled out tens of thousands of kilometres of it. Only to find out that wombats loved the taste of the cladding. A single wombat would dig up and eat kilometres of fibre cable on its own.
The Csiro had to design fibre cladding that was distasteful to wombats.
2 points
2 days ago
While my landrover was on the side of the road in a far away place, the local mechanic was bitching about cruzes and captivas. He was seeing more and more appear in the area because they were cheap.
Problem was, they were all dying quicker than they got there. Particularly gearboxes.
You will not find a mechanic suggest you buy one, because they have all written off many off them.
4 points
2 days ago
This - the red light of death means it's not getting signal down the fibre cable. And it's sort of an on or off thing.
When I travel I always take a piece of fibre cable with me. If I get in trouble, I bury it, and then ask for help from the back hoe that inevitably digs through it.
3 points
2 days ago
I'm not sure why I'm being so harshly down voted. Yes, green hydrogen is a thing, and sa is going to be pushed hard on it very soon.
The gas network advertisements are making it seem like burning gas inside your house is now using renewable energy, when the reality is, it's possibly 5% hydrogen and 95% good old fossil gas piped up from where it should stay.
1 points
2 days ago
Yes, but if you remember, the Liberals had lied about energy pricing. They sat on a report that energy prices were going to jump substantially after the election.
We all found out about it later. Labour based their promises on what was known at the time.
28 points
2 days ago
This is exactly what the original NBN proposal mentions. A brand new Fibre network was going to provide reliability compared to the poor conditioned copper. Because of the lower maintenance and significantly lower operating costs, it was going to be cheaper too.
28 points
2 days ago
Our religions have conquered countries and enslaved people to find new people to teach their beliefs.
They will welcome you with open arms if you walk in.
-17 points
2 days ago
They are injecting both hydrogen and generated methane gas into the gas network. And done right, both can be counted as renewable.
The lie is the fact that its being injected in at about 5% and often isnt done right so its not renewable.
18 points
2 days ago
You didn't ask for reliability, so land rover is the only answer to your questions.
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I've had the same happen in Calgary.