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by defrost 2mo ago
Have you read the IPCC report? Do you have any kind of physics education and experience in real world thermodynamics at scale? Have you read, for example, Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity
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by defrost 2mo ago
Bear in mind the US electoral system is far from the best that can done. Not all democracies are equal and the US system is barely "democratic" - it's spiralled in a two party not broadly representative Hotelling's Law s
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by defrost 2mo ago
Meanwhile, in realPolitik, they are Australian, they are subject to AU government pressure, and the AU government is deeply intertwined with and compliant to US government wishes, AUKUS, Pine Gap, Harold Holt Sub communications, Over the ho
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by defrost 2mo ago
I'd love to hear how this will actually, really, pragmatically work. Currently the largest Carbon capture and sequestration project on the planet is operated by Chevron as part of it's Gorgon Basin Natural Gas extraction project.
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by defrost 2mo ago
> Once again, that isn't a case of the peasants experiencing a labor shortage It's your assertion that * no peasants died during the Black Death, * peasants owned "family farms" * no peasant owned family farms suffere
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by defrost 2mo ago
The person you are replying to is not the person that made "the Reddit style posts".
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by defrost 2mo ago
> Except big gas, who cannot turn a profit on a renewable success story. If only. Chevron’s Gorgon project will be ongoing for decades and making money hand over fist flogging LNG out of Australia to overseas customers. It'll be a m
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by defrost 2mo ago
Rio started touting "amazing progress" a decade ago. Today, a couple of battery powered trucks is where they are at. Private car owners generally don't have full stack control to custom order from manufacturers bypassing deal
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by defrost 2mo ago
"Yes" - TBH I'd be surprised if it's still "lost" - not further reported on because [ XXXredactedXXX ] is more likely.
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by defrost 2mo ago
Err, I'm not sure I follow. Australian mining moves > billion tonne per annum in W.Australia alone and that mass is blasted, excavated, moved by trucks, and then often by train, run through processing plants, stockpiled, excavated a
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by defrost 2mo ago
Yeah, I know it's rhetorical, all the same, there are a bunch of ways to query environment variables: * From a windows CLI type SET and all environment variables will be listed along with their values. * From a windows CLI type
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by defrost 2mo ago
What I'm hearing here is that it's yourself struggling to imagine life w/out data centres. > ask your friend to imagine his life As for friends, I have a number of friends not dissimilar to Jill Churnside: https:/&#x
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by defrost 2mo ago
> Peasants were always in a constant state of having more labor available than the land they worked required With the significant exception of post plague periods during which some big changes occurred wrt landholder / serf relati
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by defrost 2mo ago
It's an AI article. Looking for Chernobyl signature in cave during the late 1980s / early 1990s does seem daft - far more likely for them to be looking for residual "trace" from the atmospheric tests that doused the plan
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by defrost 2mo ago
Before 1986 there have been twelve "public" core meltdowns, and at least six, likely more, incidents not public on nuclear subs, etc. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident... You shou
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by defrost 2mo ago
The hype was genuine enthusiasm, the reality is somewhat Sisyphean :( eg: Fortescue- Feb 2026 Fortescue launched two battery-electric locomotives this week, rounding out its fleet of 70 diesel-powered machines hauling precious iron-or
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by defrost 2mo ago
Mineral exploration / production VCs are salivating (well, experimenting with memes): https://xcancel.com/robert_ivanhoe/status/208546990089877138... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rober
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by defrost 2mo ago
Regrettably the big Australian miners (Rio Tinto, BHP, Fortescue, etc) want electric to work and are vocal about their efforts in that direction but the four or five stand alone fully electric trucks (Rio) trotted out for pressers aren&#x
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by defrost 2mo ago
As the article stated, in this specific case the bank used an "invisible" character (a minus sign) to assist in alignment .. which resulted in errors when parsing the text nodes by layout. OCR of a digital image generated from tho
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by defrost 2mo ago
Geology is most probably largely how the sealed claim has been made .. it was open to the world when the limestone was forming, formed (Speleogenesis) by sky water (rain) permeating down and eating out a limestone void, and "sealed&qu
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by defrost 2mo ago
That quote, from the AI generated article, simply asserts the cave was sealed, it doesn't explain how the cave came to be sealed, nor how it is that modern humans infer the cave has been sealed and for how long.
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by defrost 2mo ago
We've still got a crate full of engraved ashtray's lovingly made from various sizes of naval gun shells; "prizes" my father won during his service time taking out most comers in open sight target shooting ship V ship &qu
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by defrost 2mo ago
"Artificial" geothermal works well enough to store energy from sunlight months for use during colder months. Artificial in the sense of using solar energy (direct or electric) to heat mass insulated by earth and later extracting t
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by defrost 2mo ago
Mini hydropower on gentle farm hills are sufficient to store and stabilise small town power - such topography is relatively widespread. eg: (old page, project is now complete and working as planned): https://www.westernpower.com.
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by defrost 2mo ago
Blade recycling is only becoming mainstream now as 15 year old farms start to change out blades in bulk: eg: (2026) Australia is home to 31 wind farms with turbines over 15 years old. Over the next decade, countless blades will require
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by defrost 2mo ago
It might help to revisit the complexity of the bleeding edge tech that got a human filled rocket to the moon. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer There's also an interesting series of web page
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by defrost 2mo ago
Not the North Sea, nothing to do with transmission in Germany. Bad summary, bot(?). German energy company RWE has said it will abandon its offshore wind projects in the US after reaching a $1.2bn (£892m) payout deal with President Donal
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by defrost 2mo ago
Chevron’s Gorgon project LNG plants on Barrow Island also absolutely do not look cool.
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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects(bbc.com)
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Windows Tracks You with Hidden ID. We Built DeGDID to Block It(windscribe.com)
8 points by defrost 2mo ago|1 comments

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