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Terry Riley
@dankatriley
Interested in politics and effective policy, strong believer in the independence of the CSIRO and technological solutions for all fields of endeavour.
Australia Katılım Nisan 2014
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@cydney0071 @AntiEVidiots @Peston @g__j Have heard of this new amazing technology called large-scale batteries that run for up to 8 hours?
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@AntiEVidiots @Peston @g__j It’s a fact. If the wind ain’t blowing your output is zero. Regardless of how many turbines you have.
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Those bloody solar farms wrecking the environment. bgr.com/2121733/china-…
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I'm out of diesel. All the farmers are out of diesel. This is it. We're done for. Albanese and Bowen are directly to blame. This is serious. I promise you. All other countries have diesel, and it averages $1.80 per litre in most countries in the Asia Pacific. But not Australia. Albanese is up to no good. This is crippling.
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@AofahKoff Fuel degrades unless properly stored and even then it will degrade over time to a point that it needs further refining to bring it up to spec. Still worth something degraded ut nowhere near what customers paid.
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@D_Preacher_1 Can't see the point. It was written by men for men as an explanation of things they could not understand and reintepreted by men with vested interests for other men to control people. The book itself relies on fantasy about a nonexistent person. And I went to Catholic schools.
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@hot_rails Our gas use might taper off considerably in ten years, as we move away from fossil fuels. Meaning there would be fewer and fewer users. This would likely make each kilojoule less profitable and more expensive for consumers who also end up paying a larger share of cost recovery.
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Australia has plenty of gas, but most of it is in the Northwest Shelf, isolated from the populated east coast. The West-East Pipeline would unify the national market, connecting cheap WA gas to the expensive eastern states.
A 2017 feasibility study estimated construction would take two years and cost $5.8 billion, and reduce east coast gas prices by $3/GJ - a benefit of over $2 billion per year! That’s narrow peacetime benefits only, ignoring the project’s strategic value and national resilience.
If coupled with a gas-to-liquids plant in South Australia, it would underpin true liquid fuel security for a nation increasingly aware of its dependence on maritime trade.

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@hot_rails Gee, big spend for what is likely to become a stranded asset in ten years. Then you have the east coast piplines, particularly those from north to south and vice-versa, which are currently near capacity.
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@dankatriley Economically, 3-5 years from lower gas prices across the east coast. But very little of that value realistically capturable by a pipeline owner (limited throughput, need for low margins). This is a government funded national infrastructure asset, not a PPP tollway.
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@BilsonhBilson Like I said, I am not defending the LNP for anything. The fact is, these were commercial decisions by the oil companies. Apart from government ownership, no amount of subsidies would have kept them operating. It is a bit like trying to keep old coal fired power stations open.
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How much has the cost the country now?
Why did they let it get to that state, it’s so frustrating to watch the LNP’s lack of vission they were too busy rorting the public with gov grants & contracts for family & cronies🤷♀️
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@BilsonhBilson @BConn39 Not an LNP supporter but to be fair, our refineries were old, small and uncompetitive. Keeping them running would have meant paying a fortune for fuel. Building a mega refinery like Singapore has, made no sense and was not even close to being commercially competitive.
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@StuddertNatalie @brisbanecityqld Oh, so it is not a state-wide policy then? Very socially conscious thing for a Lib to do. Good to see, not just about dollars for a change. I couldn't see the current state mob doing that given its dollar driven agenda devoid of any social conscience.
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@dankatriley @brisbanecityqld No Labor hasn’t been on the Brisbane city council for decades now! I think the Lord Mayor is left of the political spectrum and is extremely environmentally conscious. Probably why he’s been in so long! Never understood why he is a lib tbh.
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I drove through the Brisbane city yesterday to pick up my daughter who was sick. There were practically no cars! I wondered if transport services were running more regularly since the uptake.
I’m please to say a lot of our buses are now electric. @brisbanecityqld
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@BilsonhBilson @BConn39 Also, 90% of the fuel we import from Asia is a finished product with no further refining necessary. Australia is too far away from crude supplies to supply finished product to anywhere but Australia to warrant a mega refinery. Shipping alone makes it uncompetitive.
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@BilsonhBilson @BConn39 Not an LNP supporter but to be fair, our refineries were old, small and uncompetitive. Keeping them running would have meant paying a fortune for fuel. Building a mega refinery like Singapore has, made no sense and was not even close to being commercially competitive.
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Didn’t anyone tell them about windmill cancer??
Science girl@sciencegirl
China powers smart street lights with vertical wind turbines, harnessing wind for greener cities
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I was thinking of one word to describe Dan Tehan and landed on "underwhelming" #AfternoonBriefing

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So, Angus Taylor says halve fuel tax for 3 months, which will increase demand. Just going back to my point here: smh.com.au/politics/feder…
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@Redcar51 @marggilroy Stokes partisan shit show. They only put to air one side of the story, deliberately.
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