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by dwd 7y ago
Turn the mine into pumped hydro. A lot of mines will fill with water once you stop pumping it out. The cooling pond would become the upper reservoir but may need to be enlarged for more potential as a battery. That keeps jobs in the area. E
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by dwd 7y ago
Yes, definitely pursue both. My point was more as far as where Gov funding should be prioritised given their relutance to throw funding at new generation and rely on market investment while providing incentives to buy electric vehicles - th
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by dwd 7y ago
It does show how insignificant electric cars are in the mix of things, and counter productive (unless recharged off-grid) compared to putting Gov rebates and incentives into alternate generation that gets these plants offline as quickly as
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by dwd 7y ago
In a way your are comparing apples to oranges unless you can choose between either mode of transport for the same trip. Trying to directly compare car and plane journeys doesn't really make sense. Cars vs buses vs suburban trains, or p
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by dwd 7y ago
I can only see one scenario where there would be a need to depose the Bolivian government in the short-term as the lithium isn't currently being mined. That would be if they were planning on giving a Chinese company a 50-100 year exclu
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by dwd 7y ago
I planted a poinciana on my nature strip about 6 years ago along with 2 dozen or so native grasses and shrubs to fill the area along the fenceline. Legally it is council land so they could rip it all out if anyone complained. What we found
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by dwd 7y ago
Sorry, but ITER is far from a "total system"; just a proof of concept for controlling the plasma for a short period of time. They're not even going to convert the heat to electricity. The more you read about it, it's qui
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by dwd 7y ago
Try this article instead. You wouldn't think they were talking about the same law. Totally different story. https://news.motors.co.uk/news/all-new-cars-to-require-breat... All new cars will be required to have the
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by dwd 7y ago
Nah, I would think he's their friend as his role is likely to mostly involve promoting "company culture" in all-hands meetings and via the corporate blog. It's facts that they all avoid or diligently rework to fit their
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by dwd 7y ago
Yes, but why just ITER? Can we really wait until 2035 at which point it's still just a PoC before working on DEMO, and how many DEMOs can we build quickly after that? There is promising work coming out of Lockheed's Skunk Works, u
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by dwd 7y ago
It would be interesting to see the amount of carbon reduction that 7 billion in annual subsidies generates compared to what you would get investing it in replacing coal plants with the equivalent pumped hydro. The current US Government inve
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by dwd 7y ago
Unfortunately there are no realists in a position to really affect Government investment. Why is every nation not committing an investment on the scale of the Apollo/Manhattan Projects? Politically it should be sell-able as a near-term
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by dwd 7y ago
James Altucher, who's posts used to appear frequently on HN maybe 6 or so years ago and had a few good ones about how he would write down every idea (10-20 a day) and his methods for validating them. I haven't read anything of hi
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by dwd 7y ago
Life imitating art... --------------------- If you knew the trouble I had getting an AI to read and duplicate facial expressions. You know how I cracked it? I don't know how you did any of this. Every cell phone, just about, has a micr
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Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017(journals.plos.org)
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by dwd 7y ago
They mentioned moving water uphill with the Wivenhoe pumped hydro which is about 3000km away in Qld. This is also where the NSW interconnect will help as most pumped hydro is in NSW.
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by dwd 7y ago
There were articles in July 2017 about Volvo's self-driving cars not coping with kangaroos (they bounce) which make up the majority of car/animal collisions in Australia. A kangaroo is a lot bigger than a bird but couldn't be
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by dwd 7y ago
They do remove VOCs, but you basically need to be living in an indoor jungle with 10-1000 plants per square metre. Back in the 80's I remember visiting the home of the town mayor that had a lounge room sized atrium overflowing with fer
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by dwd 7y ago
It's the same as attributing the Sterling crash in '92 just to Soros. He had a large position and enough to move the market but he wasn't the only player, and probably small in comparison to all the retail investors who would
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by dwd 7y ago
In most Australian states, refusing the breath test without a valid doctor's certificate or attempting to avoid the test area and getting pulled over on a side street will result in far higher penalties - including jail time. The fine
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by dwd 7y ago
This is the same as most Australian states where failing a breathaliser results in leaving your car, handing over your keys and doing a blood test for a more accurate reading. You're fine to go if you're under; also the penalties
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by dwd 7y ago
Probably in relation to this: https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/09/chinas-new-cybersecurit... Whether it's real or not or even likely to be effective, there's a chilling effect and businesses are obvious
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by dwd 7y ago
Sucks to have such a retarded Gov. In the case of Chinese-based employees the assumption is that anything they did would go through Chinese Government controlled networks (there's VPN ban even for foreign businesses) and likely result
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by dwd 7y ago
Brisbane, Australia is one place that should really be on permanent "daylight savings time" relative to Melbourne and Sydney, or to put it a different way, be UTC+11 rather than UTC+10. Sunrise tomorrow morning will be 4:57am and
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by dwd 7y ago
I agree that he didn't reject life and living, just that he was of the mind that there is no overriding meaning to it. I tend to think of a nihilist as someone like Dawkins. It's not just that there is no god, but that there'
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by dwd 7y ago
Sort of, there's a lot of similarities to be said of Florida and Queensland though Australia mostly sits in line with Mexico latitude wise. Hervey Bay is about the same latitude as Miami with the Great Barrier Reef aligning with the Ca
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by dwd 7y ago
Yes, he tried and push theology to a perfect interpretation, but never took the next step of abandoning it in the way Nietzsche did. "God is dead...and we killed him" to paraphrase the madman. While Nietzsche lived later and embra
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by dwd 7y ago
The comment above about our Gov doing fucked up things could be more on point. But we do a lot of interesting things, often without the fanfare you see in the SV bubble that's worth talking about.
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by dwd 7y ago
Basically it's a time zone thing. It's currently 6/7pm on the Australian East coast and America is still asleep.
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by dwd 7y ago
Who forgets they have a boot full of rocket launchers? Heads should have rolled in the army for this lapse, but makes you wonder if weapons go missing all the time.

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