Daz Bambrick

@evcricket Just don't do anything ever, the conservative way. Look at what they're doing with the Budget now. Easier to stomp your feet and say no then to actually iterate and work at a solution

More negative Nelly bullshit. Yeah people don't like transmission. Until you come up with an alternative proposal we're going to need it for a long time

@DavidCKingston @mattyniven @rrothWA @PeterDClack And in that article it said the site received 65m t of ash a year and their plant is reprocessing 50,000 t with plans to upgrade to 1m t. It shows reuse is a drop in the bucket compared to what's statically stored

@BambrickDaz @mattyniven @rrothWA @PeterDClack I imagine that was the cheap option. UK used to do this: powerstations.uk/gale-common-as…

This isn't just a pile of debris - it’s the future of green energy waste hidden in plain sight. Millions of solar panels are hitting their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the coming toxic avalanche. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of solar e-waste. Where is it all going to go? The industry boasts that solar panels are '95% recyclable'. Technically, yes - because they are made of glass, aluminum and copper. But economics always trumps physics. In Australia and the US, it costs roughly $20 to $28 to properly disassemble and recycle a single panel, but only about $4 to dump it in landfill. Because there is no financial incentive, up to 90% of decommissioned panels go straight into the ground. Each solar panel is an industrial 'sandwich' bound tightly by heavy polymers. To extract the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal baking. When they are crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium can leach into the surrounding soil and groundwater, turning 'clean energy' into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem. The crisis is accelerating faster than models predicted. Because solar cells degrade and lose efficiency, and because newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems at least a decade early to upgrade. This compressed lifecycle destroys the narrative of a long-term, stable asset and creates an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.

@DavidCKingston @mattyniven @rrothWA @PeterDClack And the volumes reused are a tiny fraction compared to the amounts generated each year, most ash languishes in large ponds leaching heavy metals for many decades

@BambrickDaz @mattyniven @rrothWA @PeterDClack I've never met an engineer who can't use a search engine. You could also look up advances in coal emissions and filtration for more info on "dirty" coal. The same eco-luddites are stalling clean engine tech.epa.gov/coal-combustio…

@SwizzleSister @MichaelPascoe01 @FinancialReview Yeah they're spent yeeeeaaars crying out for reform, Labor actually tries something and they're all NOT LIKE THAT

@MichaelPascoe01 @FinancialReview How many op eds have they wasted on the need for tax reform, only to get tax reform and then say: "No, not that kind of tax reform. The kind that punishes the poors, please."

@FinancialReview in full campaign mode, trolling readers for Budget heartbreak

@mattyniven @rrothWA @PeterDClack It's significantly less energy intensive to remelt glass, wiring and aluminium then it is to make it from virgin ingredients

@BambrickDaz @rrothWA @PeterDClack Maybe. But again, the energy and infrastructure needed to recycle SPs add even more questions about their validity. I’m not against REs, I do think we have to be more realistic about what we’re asking them to do.

@ijvadasz @rrothWA @PeterDClack This is from just one site that produces 1.4m ton a year, if anything the 100m figure is grossly underestimating the problem. Each power station would produce a million t or more a year

@rrothWA @PeterDClack will need contemporary citation on that 100 million figure there ace

@mattyniven @rrothWA @PeterDClack Solar panels can be recycled, coal ash can't be

You make a good point. I’ll bet the answer lies in energy density? Yes, coal is dirty, (the worst of hydrocarbon choices) but manufacturing SPs, placing them and the additional complex infrastructure needed to use and manage the intermittent power, then subsequent decommissioning? 🤷‍♂️

@PunishedJeanLuc @LaDolceVita_99 @Potstirrer111 Go from 7:45 youtu.be/UoGLvfx-eg4?si… I think the treasury would have more reliable data than some shitty little talking toaster

@BambrickDaz @LaDolceVita_99 @Potstirrer111 Not only are you completely wrong and you're quoting a made up figure, but even the youngest adult generation is more than three times more invested in stocks than you are claiming. Labor piss licker.

Labor has cut the head of the investor snake. After listening and reading heaps from investors on podcasters ect in the last week there’s a divergence now between investors saying they’ll move to new builds (which increases supply and puts downward pressure on prices) and investors that will buy existing stock even though they haven’t eat 20k in losses a year with no negative gearing. AND hope that not enough new stock comes online from the other investors So Labor has pitted investors against each other and it’s absolutely great to see it playing out in real time

@NewsProspector @alexbhturnbull If you're against AI and gov surveillance sounds like it would be a great idea to support building unreliable wind and solar? 🤔

Good luck running the massive data centers that the government is going to be using for AI and for surveillance of the populace come 2030 on wind and sunshine. And as our the current shit government won't consider nuclear guess were going to need more coal and gas, they'll do it quietly though, like a fat fuck on a diet sneaking a snack at 2:00am while everyone else is asleep.

We are going to have carbon wars with a decarbonised grid and it’s going to be the stupidest thing ever seen after 2028.

@PunishedJeanLuc @LaDolceVita_99 @Potstirrer111 Roughly only 10% of Australians own shares outside of their super and that section heavily sits in the highest income brackets, there's not as many impacted as you think

@LaDolceVita_99 @Potstirrer111 Virtually the entirety of this demographic is going to get hit if they offload stocks, or if they take a break from work to look after the child in early years. Your response is likely going to be this is "niche", to which I say fine lets cut NDIS funding to niche ailments

@innanet_man @Spoon_town

@BambrickDaz @Spoon_town You know damn well

*Opens Instagram* No, it's definitely my fault for having a phone.

@innanet_man @Spoon_town Wooooow 1 or 2? What did braz ever do to you?

@Spoon_town I truly wish I trusted someone like this. There's maaaaybe one or two dudes I feel like maybe I could trust like this but even then, idk

@NoelWhittaker The minimum wage is $49,296 per yr and you'd pay $5,576 on that. For $60,000 per yr you'd pay $8,788 in tax, so the trust is paying less than that

@NoelWhittaker Imagine complaining about being taxed for owning a trust that pays out $60,000 a year to three people, that's the equivalent of a $3.6M term deposit paying 5% interest YoY

I'm running numbers on family trusts. If the trust owned by mum, dad, and 19-year-old daughter earns $180,000 a year and they distribute $60,000 to each the tax will be three times $9,000 = $27000. At 30% flat, it's $54,000. That's double - The only way out is to change distributions to wages, but they must be able to justify the wage. It's a shameful attack on business

@Eternal_Saber @AusPoll6

@AusPoll6 44.5% of "australians" are commie fascists!! That being said. If you break this down to 2 party preferred, we could see One Nation get more than 53%!!

Federal voting intention (three-party-preferred) 🟥 ALP: 44.5% 🟧 ONP: 36.5% 🟦 L/NP: 19% Roy Morgan [SMS] | 13-14 May | n=2348

@MichaelPascoe01 @AngusTaylorMP Absolutely ridiculous thought bubble. Would Monto hospital need to register and wait for a new house to be built in Frankston before they can hire a new emergency room doctor?

@MichaelPascoe01 @AngusTaylorMP According to ABC Afternoon Briefing it's one person per house too, not family

Matching migration to housing sounds good, but what does it mean in numbers? Which categories would be cut and by how much? Fudging it @AngusTaylorMP

@twensor Or any first generation migrants

Find it difficult to see how that speech by Angus Taylor is going to appeal to a majority of people under 50yo. #auspol

Absolutely shitting bricks over losing votes to one nation #auspol