civilengineer

This X account was formerly my only account. Soon after upgrading to paid status I lost access to it - not sure why. So I opened a new account under my name John Bennetts, with pseudonym rotarybloke. I can't now get into the rotarybloke account. Does anybody know how I can choose which account I login to?

@EdnStuff @peter_tulip @clairlemon How Ed came to that conclusion is obscure. The link is to a $35 subscription. Details on the link do not justify Ed's claim.

@peter_tulip @clairlemon The 2000 CDC/Johns Hopkins study finding that vaccines made a negligible contribution to the dramatic reduction in infectious disease mortalities in the 20th century: publications.aap.org/pediatrics/art…

It seems timely to repost one of my favourite tables: cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-m…

@DTDavisPhD @peter_tulip Google is your friend. The information is not hard to find. Maybe start at the bottom of the list here and read up: immunize.org/vaccines/vacci… Alternatively search for vaccines individually, for more details.

@peter_tulip Including the date of licensure would be helpful.

Vaccinations do work. See here for the true story of 99+% success rates.

Refocussing... I am an Australian. I note that you are in London. Lucky Britain, with no ban on nuclear power so the discussion has restarted after a drawn-out and expensive interruption to your nuclear power plans. Australia's national grid manager, AEMO, now faces weekly concerns over banning of nuclear power in a high RE system.

@civilengineer @postcarbonsteve I get about Australia, and the $15.6 billion for Renewables for US, but I see the fossil fuels $20 billion for US is more opaque now. I like SMRs because of fast build, comparable value to conventional plant and surprising power-say 470 MW for a R-Royce, near half a conventional

@KathMorrow90 IMHO, Australia's party system is not a mirror of USA's is primarily due to (a) voting systems for the Senate and House of Reps and (b) Massive confidence in the AEC. We are very lucky.

#Australia has avoided the extreme polarisation of the US so far. Perhaps that's because we have retained the ability to make compromises in our politics.

Oliver, that is not the majority opinion. Renewables now have a pre-paid guaranteed range of subsidies that have no equals in the fossil fuel marketplace. Nuclear power in Australia has been immorally completely shut out for 30 to 60 years and counting. I look forward to seeing FF's shut out by the electrical power market, not due to nuclear power or legislation alone, but due to the combined effects of "All of the Above" in a fair energy market which includes transmission, distribution, storage and firming as well as the value of damage to the public's Commons, all allocated to the users fairly and not lumped onto those with the least capacity to pay: the YOPSI. YOPSI = Young, Old, Poor, Sick & Invalided.

@civilengineer @postcarbonsteve Renewables suppressed on price. A level playing field for state subsidies, or outright removal and fossil fuel up against renewables in an open market driven price war would see fossil fuels destroyed.

@yvonneridley @wmarybeard Google is your friend.

@wmarybeard What is a Bluesky account

I have started a Bluesky account (same handle). I am not sure if I am going to “transfer”. I feel very unsure about what seems to happening (separate platforms for left and right). But I am being prepared.

Ditto, except that in my case the Captcha device in the registration process does not believe that I am human, despite multiple tries. I intend to sit quietly as an observer before deciding whether or not to transfer, but one thing is certain. I can no longer function effectively on TwiXter - it is full of loony posts.

Thanks for taking the time to post. You have explained perhaps 1% of the issue. Tesla and its related companies know no limits to their hunger for public money, whether in USA or elsewhere. German forest clearing, miscellaneous state and national capital contributions abound. Then there are share market antics. Recent rises in Tesla's market valuation exceed the total Of Blue Oval's market valuation. This has nix to do with true value... or does it? It has to be related to shareholder expectation that Brand X will gain substantially from newly establishing access to the inner workings of the US Government, the largest and deepest trough of public money in the world.

@civilengineer @skdh @Mcclainseanm can hold 4 ppl for up to a month. Note that cargo version of SX's HLS will bring 100 tonnes to lunar surface, while Blue Moon will bring 3 tonnes. So, what you call feeding at the public trough, I call smart spending by government.

In my twenties I seriously considered going into politics. I eventually concluded that I have the wrong personality. I'm not a people-person, I'm an idea-person all the way down. Elon Musk doesn't strike me as the sort of person who has the patience or the people-skills to flourish in politics either. So this will be very interesting to see. Incidentally, the main reason I concluded I don't have what it takes to survive in politics was mostly by observing another young woman who lived down the street and who was clearly better at it. Little did I know back then that she would go on to one day become the German minister of the interior.

My expectation is that Elon will, as he has done so often be another pig lining up at the government money trough. The only difference will be that he will be even closer to the deep end and in a better position to control the flow. Which of his public companies do not rely on multiple streams of public money?

@Mcclainseanm Possible, but I guess we'll see.

@CJHarvey56 @AlboMP @TonyHWindsor @RobOakeshott1 I note that you referred to quality Independents and to "the Greens". Given the Greens' aggressive, relentless sniping and blocking of Labor in recent years, I agree. Current Greens do not represent quality in any comparison to the Windsor/Oakshott duo of days past.

Given how pathetic @AlboMP has proven to be, the important thing for Australia is that the duopoly are drained of power. Minority government is essential and the Greens and some quality independents holding the reins of power. @TonyHWindsor @RobOakeshott1 did a sterling job 2010

@xskinn @fretfulpig Still here, Ian? I expected you to migrate by now to where I am going as soon as I can pass an "interesting" Captcha quiz which I failed twice yesterday.

@fretfulpig Morning. Ian

Morning everyone. Kitty Unit Ian

@Craig202120 @crikey_news @BernardKeane Offensive. 2nd strike. Block coming.

@civilengineer @crikey_news @BernardKeane Obviously an engineer with very little brains that also wastes time with childish comments. Ah what is going on the world. abc.net.au/news/2023-08-3…

Opinion | Labor has done a lot on competition, but it should take the bold step of using Rex to end Qantas' price gouging for good, writes @bernardkeane. #Echobox=1731459147" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">crikey.com.au/2024/11/13/lab…

@JonesHowdareyou The mine removes up to 200 metres of soil, rock and coal as it marches across the valley. The total moved on that site is of the order of 1000 million tonnes. It is not surprising that earthquakes happen as the ground adjusts to the changed loads.

Perfect location for one of Peter Dutton's planned nuclear power plants. So clever to choose the Hunter Valley. 🙌 #auspol abc.net.au/news/2024-11-1…

@chrispydog It was a political storm; loads of promising heavy cloud, thunder and lightning but poor delivery. 12mm in the gauge.

BOM Sydney radar, heaviest NNE a while ago but moving away from me and to towards the coast further North. It's VERY dark, some brief heavy rain, but it's touch and go, so I have everything ready to get out and cover the car at the first sign of hail, but the wind is dying down now so hopefully there won't be hail. All very tenuous I must say.

OK, thunder is now just rolling in. On again/off again/on again/off again...the forecasts change by the hour lately. Turbulent times up there now. Better get ready, just in case.

Is not he on gardening leave currently? At $18k or so weekly pay, buying time while doing nothing for the stipend is a pretty attractive wicket. I'm not in the least surprised that he is slow to depart. He eventually must leave an organisation of his own shaping with exactly no runs on the board, despite having plenty of work on its plate.

@Anthony_Klan @AdyLady9969 Because the NACC is a joke now. We will never have faith in it again.

🚨National Anti-Corruption Commission boss Paul Brereton has been caught lying about his own misconduct over Robodebt. Former Supreme Court judge Dr Margaret White says Brereton’s conduct not a simple judicial “mistake” as he claims, but far more serious...theklaxon.com.au/eewj

@Craig202120 @crikey_news @BernardKeane Bullshit, from Craig Manynumbers. Not an ideal outcome thus far, but who really wants Qatar in the box seat?

@crikey_news @BernardKeane The way Labor blocked Qatar from more flights into Australia which would have been great for competition shows what corrupt traitors Labor are. The way Qantas ordered Albo using bribes was criminal.

Another one to add to a growing list of influential supporters of nuclear power. It's time for Australia's electrical & construction trades unions & Greens politicians to rethink their stances or be left further behind.

Then he comes back, claiming 30 years of experience data handling. I could claim more than that, but my point is not personalities... it is factual. Germany's electricity is excessively expensive, is driving industry away and this is despite spending hundreds of billions of euros eliminating nuclear power from their grid while retaining coal and gas. Of course I am sensitive to the German problems, because they mirror Australia's Eastern states so very closely. This will be over for me very soon. I am on my way to Bluesky, but not today. Too busy. Hopefully tomorrow.

Fraunhofer is Green Pravda Central so of course the graph does not explain all the facts! Mr Maroga's point is exactly that: despite all that massive spend they've still got the most expensive power grid. ie "it isn't cheap and it isn't clean". Perhaps you could read it in a different light?

Whilst Germany was urging RSA to get rid of coal, Germany was keeping its fossil capacity (coal& gas) intact, while they ramped up solar & wind. Even that is not helping Germany as they have one of the most expensive power in the world.