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by caf 4y ago
It was clear that Nirvana had something before Nevermind - when the album blew up they were on an Australian tour at the time, Ken West brought them out to support the Violent Femmes at the Big Day Out. If you're touring international
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by caf 4y ago
As I moved the last piece I was 75% expecting to be rickrolled.
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by caf 4y ago
It's a weird bit of asymmetry to the husband-of-queen title being decided on an adhoc basis... The asymmetry derives from an asymmetry in the titles themselves: the title "King" outranks the title "Queen", rather
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by caf 4y ago
Hence the phrase "detained at Her Majesty's pleasure" .
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by caf 4y ago
Note that the Queen referred to there is Queen Victoria.
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by caf 4y ago
Are not the Cardinals the "traditional nobility" of the Vatican?
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by caf 4y ago
It is my understanding that it has long been known that many viral infections have the potential to cause heart inflammation.
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by caf 4y ago
Yes - these are necessary in houses designed to minimise air leakage, because without them they can end up so well sealed that they do not allow enough air changes per hour.
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by caf 4y ago
Australian prices have to include 10% GST (sales tax), so the Australian price is probably actually a little cheaper.
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by caf 4y ago
Sure, but the cost to Tesla was one car, one camera, one video transmitter and probably the most expensive part, a license for David Bowie's Starman. Perhaps that's "significantly more costly than the vast majority of ad cam
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by caf 4y ago
Japan manages to run on LNG imports. If Germany had the import infrastructure and started waving it's chequebook around, the ships would come.
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by caf 4y ago
Sure, but you were talking about options to avoid the crisis before it happened.
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by caf 4y ago
The grid is always managed such that any single plant or transmission line can trip at any time without causing voltage or frequency collapse. Clouds going over your solar farm is like the plant tripping but not as bad.
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by caf 4y ago
Not sure how much it matters, but I suspect that lots of wires would be required. Sure - the model scales up existing wind and solar generation assets, so you would need transmission infrastructure to those same areas to scale up as well
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by caf 4y ago
It says this: Eleven months later, and new CIA research shows the pipeline of proposed storage has grown enormously, to over 26 GW of announced projects. The individually enumerated projects in that article appear to be only a subset of t
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by caf 4y ago
That wouldn't solve the problem though, because the NEM is a very long thin grid.
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by caf 4y ago
Or build LNG import terminals.
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by caf 4y ago
On my reading of it, "Other" is the gap between the other modelled sources and the actual demand.
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by caf 4y ago
A new east-west interconnector is in progress: https://www.projectenergyconnect.com.au/ In general though, BESS & overbuild seems to be working out cheaper than very long interconnectors.
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by caf 4y ago
That's the whole point of what the author did. He didn't model putting solar out in the Western Desert or something - he scaled up the existing wind and solar generation on the NEM, implying more generation in the places wher
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by caf 4y ago
120 GWh is not what most would describe as "little storage". The largest hydroelectric storage facilities in existence are in the single digit or low double digit GWh. And this is for a country with a relatively small population.
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by caf 4y ago
The South Australian government has changed hands twice since the Tesla big battery. Electranet, the South Australian transmission operator, commissioned four new synchronous condensors in 2021 in order to reduce the minimum number of gas t
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by caf 4y ago
The US also has their population spread out a bit more (and therefore their load centres closer to potential generation sites) - Australia actually has a higher urban population % than the USA.
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by caf 4y ago
The devil doesn't need an advocate. Is this because the devil is a qualified attorney himself?
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by caf 4y ago
Kind of like what you'd get if you asked GPT-3 to tell you about George Hotz?
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by caf 4y ago
Suggested search term: geohot
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by caf 4y ago
As does "normalization of deviance".
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by caf 4y ago
The article mentions 300MW, which is a large connection to be sure but not unheard of. At that size it would be a scheduled load, like the pumps at a pumped hydro station or the potlines at an aluminium smelter.
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by caf 4y ago
This is right - the whole point with money laundering is to have a legitimate business where extra money can come in, apparently from real but untraceable customers, that is really dirty money you control.
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by caf 4y ago
Might as well get annoyed at people for celebrating anniversaries. It turns out that noting arbitrary patterns in numbers is just a common way to observe changes in continuously-measured values.

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