💧simon holmes à court 🦋

my 2024 manning clark lecture on the politics of energy transition is now available. ⁠we're facing a 'kodak moment'. thankfully, we're the lucky country… again! our politics is broken, ⁠but there's a new hope. video: youtube.com/watch?v=5QFYBK… text: static1.squarespace.com/static/63ccc40…

@kirkbell it’s not v0!

@simonahac Nice, great site. Set a limit on v0 spend for your controlling costs as I’ve heard horror stories of sites getting linked, going viral and you end up with a massive bill.

petrol-vs-electric.vercel.app/elitre i’ve heard anecdotes from two people in car sales that EV sales this month have been off the charts. i knocked up this tiny website that partly explains why…

@pixeltoofar @sxymlbgy @aaronsmith ✅ the fine print at the bottom of my app credits aaron.

@simonahac @sxymlbgy Our good friend @aaronsmith has been looking into this space lately too.

@brendanrcarey nah, just claude code. v0.app any good? i spent about a 6 weeks heavily relying on @Lovable, which is equal parts lovable and hateable.

@simonahac are you a heavy v0.app user?

@jocknalbert 👆 things that didn’t happen.

@simonahac How does C200 justify spending $100k or so currently advertising their candidate in ACM’s Albury paper? Not a good look.

'The project is underpinned by a cooperative ownership structure with each co-op member given one vote regardless of the size of their shareholding in the solar farm – thus removing the risk of takeovers and ensuring democratic governance' reneweconomy.com.au/pioneering-com…

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 98.0% RE Last 239 weeks: 98.7% RE (1/5)

In the same part of Melbourne today, some are paying $221 to fill a 70L diesel tank. Others are paying $2.80 to charge a 70kWh battery. If the LNP hadn’t spent years frustrating the transition and failing to build the infrastructure, a lot more people would be paying $2.80.

if you're in a group/workplace with any AFL fans *and* you use slack, please check out: mrtippy.app it's AFL footytipping — right where your team already hangs out. it's free and dead simple to use. better banter than via the web! (i built this app. long story.)

Cut-price Costello Tim Wilson on Sky just now: "It’s very clear to me that when there’s an increase in petrol prices, Jim Chalmers collects more excise revenue." Excise is not based on price changes. It's indexed twice a year in line with inflation.

Angus " Rhodes Scholar " Taylor gets schooled by a journalist who does his homework .

for those who didn’t bother reading it…

everyone needs to remember that the AFP exonerated angus over the dodgy water deal, so nothing to see there. #watergate

If Taylor wins tomorrow get to the shops early for gaffer tape. Everyone will splitting their sides laughing as he /his supporters trot out the “ unite behind the leader/loyalty ” exhortation. you better tape your sides up. ….or die laughing # liberal leadership

the first time i met the most mediocre person i've ever met in politics:

so, please excuse me if i have little confidence that the man with his hand on the dial — the minister for emissions reduction — has the slightest intention of reducing australia’s emissions.

true story… the first time i met @AngusTaylorMP, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration was 393.5 ppm and the newly preselected member for hume was at the start of his parliamentary crusade against renewables energy. (he'd been fighting as a private citizen for years.)

@DocWSJames thanks!

what is your favourite #AnguishFailure scandal?

Angus Taylor. Shadow Treasurer 2022 to 25…. And he says libs haven’t held government to account…. Whats his explanation for his failure? # liberal leadership