@AaronMandell @CA_DWR The trouble with that is farmers generally pay under 10c a tonne for water in California and desalination is likely to cost at least 5 times as much. So a bit of a non-starter.
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Ronald Brakels
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50% solar & renewables tweets from a https://t.co/4Crz2ARkxl blogger. 50% insane gibberish. And that's about as good as you're likely to get.
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To achieve true water sustainability CA could build ~10 strategic coastal desalination plants the size of Carlsbad (50MGD) - this would permanently balance supply & demand and limit fresh water withdrawals.
But @CA_DWR can't even say the word 'desalination'.
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@Waksman84 Here's what wind & solar have done to gas generation in South Australia. Gas (orange on the graph) has gone from 60% of generation to 21%, while wind & solar have risen to 73% of generation.
explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/sa1/?ra…
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In case you're wondering why natural gas companies all subsidize and promote solar/wind projects while opposing nuclear, this is why.
They know that in reality, solar/wind can only ever be a minority source of power and must be partnered with something like gas.
Mason Hamilton🛢📊⛽️@T_Mason_H
Fun Fact: Natural Gas has been the fastest growing energy source this decade according Energy Institute data.
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@DrSimEvans French reactors, quite tragically, pay more for fuel than Australian brown coal power stations. So if they can reduce output without large increases in maintenance costs, they will, because solar & wind have no fuel cost.
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Great chart from the FT showing the French nuclear fleet is now routinely flexing down, to accommodate rising solar generation
(People often talk about how some reactors CAN flex; but it's often assumed that they WON'T, due to economic incentives)
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@doodgerz @adamscochran Note a large number of Ukrainian deaths are civilians, including children. Russian deaths are nearly all fighting men. The ratio is roughly 4 Russian soldiers dead to 1 dead Ukrainian soldier.
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This is Russian propaganda.
Ukraine has not lost 1.7m men in the war.
The estimates from Western intelligence sources are around 100k lives lost, and 300k wounded.
With Russia at 250k dead and 800k wounded.
The 1.7M number is an estimate of population decline of Ukrainian’s who left the country.
This news is being released to pressure Ukraine in the negotiations and make it seem like Russia is strongly winning the war when they are not.
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NEW - Ukraine has reportedly lost 1.7 million men in the Russia-Ukraine war.
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@DogeHogee @JessePeltan @elonmusk Like I said, this is beyond us.
Australian Tesla sales are down 66%. There could be other factors, but I'm blaming the lack of an indicator stalk.
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@BrakelsRonald @JessePeltan If you’re going straight in a roundabout. Indicate left.
If you’re going straight. Don’t indicate.
If you’re going right, indicate right, when you take the exit.. the indicator will turn off automatically.
This is extremely easy. @elonmusk did PERFECT on the steering wheel 🙏
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After driving the Cybertruck, I am pro turn signal buttons (at least for steer by wire), but I still want a stalk for gear selection.
Or maybe even buttons, but I’m not a fan of using the screen for it.
Nic Cruz Patane@niccruzpatane
I personally love the steering wheel turn-signal buttons in the Model 3. If I bought a new Model 3 that had stalks, I would miss them.
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@elidourado But on the bright side, humans consume about 30 times more energy than ants and termites combined. (With termites being the elephant in the room, which is a good thing, because if it was an actual elephant the ants would eat it.)
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On the Kardashev scale we are closer to ants than we are to a Type 1 civilization. Sad!
Casey Handmer@CJHandmer
Kardashev Level 1, 2 and 3 correspond to using the power of an entire planet, star, and galaxy respectively. In terms of steam engines, that's 10^16, 10^26, and 10^36 W. This rather neatly allows us to generalize the Kardashev levels to non integer values, using the formula (Log10[P]-6)/10. Currently our P is about 10 TW, or Kardashev level 0.7. Pre-industrial consumption, mostly based on agriculture, was level 0.5, comparable to the power consumption of all ants. The Roman Empire at its peak was about 0.36.
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@JessePeltan It's about US$1,000 a year to run a small car in Australia, provided you're a cheap bastard. But now EVs are becoming cheaper in Australia than the US.
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You can lease a Tesla for less than the fuel and maintenance on a gas vehicle.
Nic Cruz Patane@niccruzpatane
Scratch that, as little as $156/month
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@adamscochran The best thing the Nobel Committee could do right now is declare that Trump will never get a Nobel Peace Prize. Or, to avoid Trump nuking Sweden, award Nobel Peace Prizes for the next 5-10 years now.
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When you start realizing this is all about Trump lobbying for his image as a “peace keeper” because he wants the Peace Prize in October - then it all makes sense.
Tim Miller@Timodc
Genuinely don’t understand the point of having this press conference before the meeting? They have nothing to report
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@adamscochran @SirWirtz In Australia, electoral redistribution is handled by the independent Australian Electoral Commission, so there is no Gerrymandering. I presume the US could have something similar, given a small surplus of goodwill over ill.
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that's dumb.
If they do it, its eye for eye.
But, I agree in the sentiment of a way to end gerrymandering, either by revising the make up of the house (change Wyoming rule to 2 seats per half pop of smallest state, to create average sized districts and an expanded house) or a federal ban on gerrymandering some how.
It's getting ridiculous and both sides are being dumb with it and playing the "they started it" game
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Ok this shirt goes hard.
Arnold Schwarzenegger@Schwarzenegger
I’m getting ready for the gerrymandering battle.
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@adamscochran @kylascan I liked having my mother read to me, but when I let it slip that I could read, she stopped doing it. That would have to be the worst mistake I made last year.
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@kylascan wtf all of the points in this report are insane.
Reading to your kids daily is like the number one thing you can actually do to change your child’s life trajectory.
The fact parents aren’t doing it is wild.
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"The report also highlighted that boys and girls are treated differently, with only 29% of 0–2-year-old boys read to ‘every day/nearly every day’, compared to 44% of girls in the same age group"
Nick Kapur@nick_kapur
Gen Z parents don't read to their kids anymore because "it's so boring." Just 41% of parents now read to their kids, down from 64% in 2012. Not only is this creating a future generation of illiterates, but will eventually collapse the market for books and bookstores.
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@TrentTelenko Putting more Russian women into armaments manufacture would require wage & price controls to shift consumption from households to invading Ukraine. This wouldn't be popular. Russia is bending over backwards trying to keep up the supply of butter while trying to produce guns.
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In WW2 the USA, British Commonwealth and the Soviet Union put women into their war industries to free men for the fighting.
Why is Putin's Russia not following the Soviet "Great Patriotic War" example?
ChrisO_wiki@ChrisO_wiki
1/ The war in Ukraine has resulted in so many Russians joining war industries, the army, dying or being crippled that the Russian government needs to import millions of Indians and North Koreans to replace them. Ordinary Russians aren't keen, calling them unhygenic or robotic. ⬇️
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@BretDevereaux Just as we would have sold global warming by now if people felt the cold *less* as they got older, we'd likely be living in utopia if people were able to clearly distinguish between joint pain and the decline of society.
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Amazing to find out there are folks so nostalgia blinded to take the position, "I liked the lead poisoning, especially when it came with a menial, low-wage job."
The lead poisoning was better, I suppose, when you also got to order around a low-wage worker.
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Liquidate the faithless.
Ignas | DeFi@DefiIgnas
$1B in shorts will be liquidated when ETH hits $4.3k on Binance, OKX, and Bybit alone.
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@malucopapi @adamscochran US GDP is 13 times larger than Russia's & this year Russian occupied Ukrainian territory has expanded by under 1%. If the US decides to, it can allow Ukraine to drive Russia out of its territory through donation of material alone. The power imbalance is that great.
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The people prefer a negotiation than a fight. A deal should be struck and could have been a few months post invasion. What do you think will happen if they continue to fight? Do you believe they stand a chance without direct involvement from American troops? Do you think Americans should be involved?
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@malucopapi What a daft take.
If we had that attitude throughout history the Paris and the UK would be speaking German today.
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@WallStreetApes If the interest on a $427,500 loan is $897,840 over 30 years, then the interest rate is over 9.5%. Don't pay 9.5% on a home loan. However, since the US appears to be heading for stagflation thanks to the Trump admin, you may soon have no choice.
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This is going to blow your mind
“Me and my wife went and did the pre approval process for a mortgage loan yesterday and what the f*ck are you talking about”
“We're looking at the numbers, looking at our income, looking at our credit, and they have us at $450,000 — They have our mortgage after PMI, after insurance, after taxes; at $4,636 a month. What the f*ck are you talking about”
“For the average American, this is way f*cking far out of reach”
Interest terms in this country are out of control and should be federally illegal
A $450,000 home now costs $1,668,960 after interest and fees on a 30 year mortgage in America
Total cost: Principal ($427,500) + Interest ($897,840) + Taxes/Insurance/PMI ($343,620) = $1,668,960
You just paid $1,668,960 for a $450,000 home…
This is how much it costs to buy a home in one of the most affordable states in America, Texas
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@BretDevereaux @LMandrakeJr DARLING: I'm as British as Queen Victoria!!"
BLACKADDER: So your father's German, you're half German, and you married a German?
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@LMandrakeJr The royal family was speaking German over English deep into the 19th.
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The United Kingdom, as implied by the name, is literally a composite state composed of four constituent nations. You know, England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
And the 'English' have always been understood to be a composite of Angles, Saxons, Normans and possibly some Celts.
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@adamscochran It's hard to beat nuclear for what they have planned, but what they have planned makes no sense. If Australia had been 1st to put people on the moon we wouldn't be trying to "beat" China. Instead, we'd spend our days giving them crap about how our granddads already beat them.
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@dsquareddigest An immediate Taiwan invasion is unlikely, as I know China is privy to the secret histories, kept hidden from American school children, in which the US did not immediately lose World War II after President Roosevelt died.
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just cause you're mates with the owner of Axel Springer, doesn't mean you can just go "it therefore clearly follows..." the way they do.
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@dsquareddigest "For you, the day you found 6 tonnes of cocaine in a shipment of bananas was the greatest day of your life. But for New Zealand, it was Tuesday."
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New Zealand customs always search diligently through every shipment of cocaine in case someone is using it to snuggle a banana
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Six tonnes of cocaine found in banana shipment bbc.in/3W8D5EG
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