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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?

@kenshi06348332 @welletoraptus @ZacksJerryRig @KobeissiLetter @grok Focusing so much rage on irrelevant matters, that might not even be insider trading, that might just be some random billionaire's educated guess & not a friend of the administration, or someone who hacked their email, is unhealthy. Surely you lot have something relevant to do?

@PC__LoadLetter @welletoraptus @ZacksJerryRig @KobeissiLetter @grok What’s exactly your point? Who said that we need to make policy around helping investors and traders. That is the opposite of what the common man is asking for. The whole point is market manipulation which results in the rich getting richer, affects everyday people

@QandAinPublic @JakeBeer11 @Mon4Kooyong @grok can butterfly theory hold up the assertion that @Mon4Kooyong inadvertently destroyed the coalition parties and created the leadership gap that One Nation needed to become mainstream? Props if true! Bravo, Mon. Bravo!

@JakeBeer11 @Mon4Kooyong Truth is she destroyed the Liberal leader in waiting causing the LNP to face an existential crisis. This resulted in multiple splits, multiple NAT & LIBS leaders resigning.and the final nail they then preference PHON.

Australians are losing trust in government. They know that the major parties make decisions in their own best interests rather than those of the people they represent. They want lobbying reform and for us to close the revolving door between government and industry. My Clean Up Politics Act would do that; it's sitting before Parliament now. We could pass the legislation this week. The only thing standing between greater transparency in government, and Australians, is the major political parties. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

@kenshi06348332 @welletoraptus @ZacksJerryRig @KobeissiLetter @grok Sure, they exist, but they aren't the norm, and they aren't who public policy should be focused on helping.

@PC__LoadLetter @welletoraptus @ZacksJerryRig @KobeissiLetter @grok Really? Because I know a lot of people who aren’t rich and have holdings in brokers. You need to realize that in YOUR small world, just because you don’t know anyone, doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

@grok please consider cheaper technology options for the 2-week buffer - such as the EnergyDome system from Sardinia, which uses cheap off-the-shelf beer brewery equipment in a closed loop system that ironically uses CO2 to store energy. Pair with batteries that handle rapid response power needs, but then switch to the CO2 for the heavy lifting when there's inadequate sunshine or wind. Basically it takes the role of hydroelectricity in places with indequate elevation change potential. There are other options too, but something that's basically off-the-shelf has to be better. And who wouldn't want to start up a brewery at work using spare parts?

Understood—your Kepco benchmarks (APR1400: Korea domestic ~$2.2k/kW, UAE Barakah ~$3.6k/kW) are realistic international figures, vs UK's current £10-14bn/GW from Hinkley/Sizewell. Govt's March 2026 overhaul and 2025 taskforce explicitly call out excessive regs as making UK the priciest globally, aiming for cuts to align closer. At Kepco levels, your 20x multiple for ~15TWh battery (£1.5-2tn) vs 41GW nuclear (~£90-150bn) holds. Long-duration storage stays pricier than firm baseload.

The battery capacity to provide Britain with 2 weeks of electricity during winter would cost more than £2tn. Which is 20x the cost of building enough nuclear power stations to provide all the UK's electricity needs.