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@RobertD660 @SawyerMerritt @Tesla We're scared to death of our government rapidly shutting down our power stations.

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Maybe it’s my imagination, but it sure seems like Australia is buying a whole bunch of these battery packs.

A new $100 million @Tesla Megapack battery energy storage facility is being built in Australia. "The big battery will help balance the natural variability of solar generation and store and dispatch enough electricity to power 145,000 homes."

@bradrbj @SawyerMerritt @Tesla @grok what's the electricity consumption of the Gladstone aluminium smelter? If it's 1GW as claimed, is that peak, continuous or average?

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla The Gladstone aluminium smelter uses about 1 gigawatt of power so this battery will run it for less than half an hour

@Jacksukku @ItsSooLisa @Nero @grok Why would anyone trust the word of some rando on Twitter? And Grok is faster than googling something obscure where you'd like your own misconceptions corrected.

@PC__LoadLetter @ItsSooLisa @Nero @grok real people might actually be honest and correct, you know

Every single one of them is like this

@Jacksukku @ItsSooLisa @Nero @grok is troon a portmanteau of trans and goon? I thought it was more a reference to looney tunes or cartoons.

@ItsSooLisa @Nero "Troon" is a portmanteau of "Trans" and "Goon" Trans is self explanatory, but Goons were the users of the Something Awful Forums, of which a great many became transsexual over the years. This resulted in ideological capture of the entire forum culture and moderation team.

Or use the car itself as a lifeboat on hot days or during power outages. I'm about to move to a rental cottage with no insulation. Landlord says the last tenant was stunned by how much power the air con uses at 50c/kWh in the country. I'm contemplating not using air con in the cottage but rather bringing my cats into my Tesla on the hottest days, during the hottest hours. Less volume to cool. Sun shades reduce thermal input. And I can charge the car for free at the local club, on their three-phase, if I also go buy a schnitty or something.

@PC__LoadLetter @QBCCIntegrity Equally on those few hot days, we could plug our cars into the grid to shore up supply, it actually goes both ways.

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION: 1) You can fuel your car for 5 years at $4/Litre for the cost of a cheap EV 2) EV inventories across the country have sold out this week. 3) Our power grid has ZERO CHANCE of keeping the vehicles charged and the lights on. This is a forced transition

Good morning Australia, The prime minister called you dark forces Labor MP Patrick Gorman called you rats and rejects They all call you racists and bigots The blame you for the fuel crisis They give immigrants houses, whilst Australians go homeless Vote one nation 🇦🇺

@nickp46927285 @QBCCIntegrity @grok What did Kiama Council do when someone got their knickers in a twist over BYDs being parked in the overflow car park at Jamberoo Recreation Park?

@PC__LoadLetter @QBCCIntegrity Staging ?? What did Kiama council do

@MarkOgge @grok Remind me - wasn't Australia built by non-Africans who arrived in irons, emaciated, and forced to work for 7 or 14 years, or life? Why should Australia have an opinion on different slavery practices elsewhere when it has never properly compensated descendants of its Irish?

Did Australia really just abstain from a vote to condemn slavery!?! If so, why?

@Brett_Muller @QBCCIntegrity Wind, coal, whatever. The infrastructure is spec'd to handle hot summer afternoons. If you can sell more power at off-peak hours, power that'd otherwise go to waste unsold, then you're getting more bang for your infrastructure buck. The fuel source is irrelevant.

@PC__LoadLetter @QBCCIntegrity Cheap power overnight - is that solar or coal fired?

@grok While it's true to say you barely notice driving uphill from Wilton-ish to Mittagong-ish via the Bargo Ramp, what's the elevation change? Where's the peak? (Berrima?) What's the impact of climbing up the highlands at 110km/h in any ICE or EV? And isn't the entire point of freeway design and engineering to make geological features imperceptible? It's obvious the DMR succeeded at that in the 80s and 90s when they completely rerouted the highway after the Razorback blockade via an alignment that exploited a gentle gradient up otherwise substantial ranges.

@PC__LoadLetter @trying_to_life @sydney_ev it's a slope you can barely notice.

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@grok While it's true to say you barely notice driving uphill from Wilton-ish to Mittagong-ish via the Bargo Ramp, what's the elevation change? Where's the peak? (Berrima?) What's the impact of climbing up the highlands at 110km/h in any ICE or EV? And isn't the entire point of freeway design and engineering to make geological features imperceptible? It's obvious the DMR succeeded at that in the 80s and 90s when they completely rerouted the highway after the Razorback blockade via an alignment that exploited a gentle gradient up otherwise substantial ranges.

@Cranky_Old_Guy @trying_to_life @sydney_ev Try climbing the southern highlands vs descending it, on the Bargo Ramp from Wilton to Mittagong. You'll use heaps of power uphill and almost none downhill. It makes a huge difference. Fortunately there's ample battery power aboard.

@PC__LoadLetter @trying_to_life @sydney_ev I doubt the place it left from was sea level, but 570M over 287km is a gradient of ~0.2M/km, roughly 10% of what is even noticable to the human eye. It that makes such a significant difference, EVs are stuffed.

@Cranky_Old_Guy @trying_to_life @sydney_ev You do realise that Sydney is at sea level and Canberra is at 570ish metres. A net elevation change like that is really noticeable in any EV when looking at range or consumption. Drive that in a city, or outback plains, or on the downhill CBR-SYD, and it would go way further.

@trying_to_life @sydney_ev If they could do 700km, they wouldn't be bragging about doing <300km. and having spare prime movers lying around to be swapped in and out (after shifting the trailers) isn't exactly cost effective.

@Angrybudgie @MikeCarlton01 Back when Australia was a real country, even small business fish and chip shop owners could afford housing. A 71 year old boomer is probably worth a few mil now by accident. But $20m sounds implausible. What assets do you think she owns?

@MikeCarlton01 Isn't Poorlene worth about $20million? Some working class.

But at least they don’t have Gina Rinehart footing the bill…

@machine_su13706 @sydney_ev @plugshare MCS is faster, but it isn't strictly needed. If it has a CCS port, and you need charge, and there's a CCS charger, well.....

@PC__LoadLetter @sydney_ev @plugshare I thought trucks needed MCS to be able to fast charge? If they are the KW chargers how long to charge it to be able to get back to the depot? I think ev trucks have a place on short haul in Australia. Sydney to Canberra and Sydney to Melbourne for now but that will expand.

@machine_su13706 @sydney_ev Officially? No. Unofficially? Yeah, the cables reach to the driveway behind, the ones trucks use to get from the diesel pumps to the truck parking area. Pic from @plugshare

@PC__LoadLetter @sydney_ev Is there a dedicated truck charging point ?

@kenshi06348332 @welletoraptus @ZacksJerryRig @KobeissiLetter @grok I've heard that one before as well. But if you stand with the leftists, you're as much of an enemy as they are. Perhaps more so, as you should know better.

@PC__LoadLetter @welletoraptus @ZacksJerryRig @KobeissiLetter @grok Jokes on you buddy. I’m not a leftist. I voted for Trump 3 times and only once he broke his promise of no war did i hop off the wagon. I’m not a mindless cult following degenerate. I can see when something is over the line. And this market manipulation is.

Is this the best timed trade of 2026? At 6:50 AM ET today, $1.5 BILLION in notional value worth of S&P 500 futures contracts were bought. This trade was so large it sent the entire index +0.3% higher that minute. Then, 14 minutes later at 7:04 AM ET, President Trump announced "productive discussions" with Iran were underway. By 7:10 AM ET, the S&P 500 had added +$2 TRILLION in market cap. That $1.5 billion position gained +$60 million in minutes. Absolutely incredible.

@kenshi06348332 @welletoraptus @ZacksJerryRig @KobeissiLetter @grok Leftists are tiresome and belong in mental asylums.

@PC__LoadLetter @welletoraptus @ZacksJerryRig @KobeissiLetter @grok But it’s not random… lol it’s clear as day market manipulation, which you realize is illegal right? Why are you such a bootlicker?