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It's a quote from an FB argument. I had about 4 or 5 months ago and posted here. It was the post that ended me. RIP me.
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Zenithe posted:How viable is solar panels + new tesla battery going to be for Australian households? Here's a pretty good article that goes into detail about costs and such: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2015/5/5/smart-energy/teslas-powerwall-solar-it-could-slash-power-bills-it-worth-it In short, his rough guesstimates come out to be around 11 years to payback the battery expenses, so not especially worth it for financial reasons alone. Though I did read elsewhere that with a straight currency conversion, the PowerWall is about 4x cheaper than what you can currently get in Australia for something with similar storage capacity. So if you're off the grid already, say out in the bush somewhere, this might give you some substantial savings when it comes time to replace batteries. But that's at the current price, and I expect them to have some pretty substantial drops in price over the next couple years.
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May 8, 2015 05:08
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Oh my god the UK. I'm laughing so hard at Nick Clegg.
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May 8, 2015 05:12
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Fun fact: Today marks the 70th anniversary of the first broadcast of Australian Parliament proceedings by the ABC.
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Anidav posted:Oh my god the UK. I'm laughing so hard at Nick Clegg. Tony's got to be drooling while scribbling notes down.
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Mattjpwns posted:Fun fact: Today marks the 70th anniversary of the first broadcast of Australian Parliament proceedings by the ABC. And still no smell-o-vision
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Mattjpwns posted:Fun fact: Today marks the 70th anniversary of the first broadcast of Australian Parliament proceedings by the ABC. And the end of the Glorious Patriotic War  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT2qnM3s0Cc
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May 8, 2015 05:39
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markgreyam posted:Unrelated but for some idiot reason I started reading today's paper after someone put it on my desk. Vladimir Poutine posted:It's weird that stayed in place during eras of reform like when SA decriminalised marijuana or when Dunstan was doing his thing. Actually, I thought only QLD had the gay panic defence. I wonder if anyone would actually be dumb enough to use it as a defence. Yeah, Queensland does have the gay panic defense, and it was used successfully a few years ago. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/no-plans-to-change-queensland-gay-panic-defence-20140821-106wvh.html
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May 8, 2015 05:53
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What is the Greens stance towards the Lucas Heights reactor?
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blacksun posted:What is the Greens stance towards the Lucas Heights reactor? ps: try googling "thing you want to find site:greens.org.au" next time you want to find something like this http://greens.org.au/policies/nuclear-uranium quote:The Australian Greens want:
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May 8, 2015 06:07
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Greens being anti-nuke is dumb given their chosen colour if nothing else.
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I thought you needed a reactor to make certain isotopes. But, I guess you'd get the same deal with a proper neutron source.
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Cartoon posted:You can take the psychopath out of the Immigration portfolio but you can't stop him from using kids for blackmail. So this is just what he did with the children in detention - give me what I want or I'll continue torturing these children. If you don't give me what I want, all the terrible things I'm going to continue to do to these children will be your fault. Doing that once in a lifetime is unforgivable, making it your default position in negotiations - hell, I lack a word to describe it. Evil, monstrous both fit, but they're pretty much comic book words now. Psychopathic? That's a TV police procedural word. How exactly do you succinctly describe a man like this?
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May 8, 2015 06:28
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Senor Tron posted:Tony's got to be drooling while scribbling notes down. Step 1: have a Murdoch controlled media ststem Step 2: Have an opposition lead by a charismaless leader that attempts milquetoast centre-right policy to try to claw votes from the right wing and to alienate the political left. Step 3: Win.
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May 8, 2015 06:29
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Gorilla Salad posted:So this is just what he did with the children in detention - give me what I want or I'll continue torturing these children. If you don't give me what I want, all the terrible things I'm going to continue to do to these children will be your fault. Liberal.
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Birdstrike posted:FYI, D&D already solved our future energy sourcing needs: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3713507 The best part about that thread are the autists who start coming in and treating it seriously
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http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-08/open-drum-why-i-chose-to-have-my-skin-branded/6454040 I'm trying to take this article seriously and i really just can't.
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Lid posted:http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-08/open-drum-why-i-chose-to-have-my-skin-branded/6454040 I can see the point, however branding yourself to make it is dumb.
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SynthOrange posted:
What? It's just the Melbourne Derby in the Wogball. AFL conspiracy. Everywhere.
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quote:Victoria and Australian Federal Police are conducting a police operation in Melbourne's northern suburbs as part of an ongoing investigation. 
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Not even going to post Gerard Henderson today, too tedious.
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Laserface posted:Greens being anti-nuke is dumb given their chosen colour if nothing else. Cherenkov radiation is blue mate
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Not even going to post Gerard Henderson today, too tedious. :Neo voice: Whoa
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He's in a good mood because of the UK election. Next week he will be back to his usual miserable self.
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norp posted:ps: try googling "thing you want to find site:greens.org.au" next time you want to find something like this This is a bad set of policies, luckily the rest of their policies are good.
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GoldStandardConure posted:Cherenkov radiation is blue mate Then why aren't the Libs fighting for glorious nuclear supremacy?
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norp posted:Then why aren't the Libs fighting for glorious nuclear supremacy? Because nobody is paying them to
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Jumpingmanjim posted:He's in a good mood because of the UK election. Next week he will be back to his usual miserable self. There's no end of jobs for dried-up monotonous conservative gits - he should move there.
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At least that loving piece of trash columnist who suggest deploying gunboats to the Mediterranean won't be coming here.
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Splode posted:This is a bad set of policies, luckily the rest of their policies are good. Yeah, their nuclear policy is stupidly absolutist, it's a good thing there is no real debate on this issue and likely won't be in the foreseeable future. It's like saying "We will campaign on keeping wild tigers out of the streets of Sydney"
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May 8, 2015 07:14
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Splode posted:This is a bad set of policies, luckily the rest of their policies are good. it's actually a pretty reasonable set held back by one or two questionable ones and one extremely bad one
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Murodese posted:truly, a victory for the ALP left Could you provide a source for the 30k GWh that falls under the RET scheme? From what I have heard the 33K target will mean that we would have to quadruple our renewables to meet this target. Conversation posted:This means that to meet the newly mandated 33,000 GWh in 2020, the renewable energy sector will have to more than quadruple in size from its current level of output. Encouraging investment will be crucial. Also to be fair the original target was 45 - but we are going to get closer to it if you add the SRES back in due to the high uptake of solar panels. Origin posted:The RET was implemented in 2009 as a fixed volume target of 45 TWh based on electricity growth forecasts that were much higher than what we have experienced in recent years. So 33K + assumed 11K = 44K which is spitting distance from the original 45K. Add in the fact that we are using far less energy than was originally predicated and we are better off than we thought we would be. I am not saying that I am happy about the lowering of the RET, but I think its important to realise that having this bipartisan target is going to spur investment in the industry.
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Freudian Slip posted:
There was someone from the solar industry on ABC radio today saying that under this new deal, there will be no more large scale solar installations built. Not the quote box wanted but "Both the CEC and the Australian Solar Council expressed serious concern at the Government's proposal to retain the two-yearly reviews of the scheme, which the industry had been assured would be removed. "These reviews are the root cause of the crisis that the industry is facing, and a deal which guarantees another review next year could be a death warrant for the industry," Mr Thornton said." NPR Journalizard fucked around with this message at 07:41 on May 8, 2015 |
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Seagull posted:it's actually a pretty reasonable set held back by one or two questionable ones and one extremely bad one Mate let me have my hyperbole.
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Freudian Slip posted:I am not saying that I am happy about the lowering of the RET, but I think its important to realise that having this bipartisan target is going to spur investment in the industry. Precisely the opposite of what the renewables investment spokesman was saying on news24 today: the global funds won't touch Australia for investment, it's a hostile environment and despite the compromise there is no bipartisan will to fund the sector. It's dead, Jim. We will be paying a premium for the investment made in other countries instead.
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ewe2 posted:Precisely the opposite of what the renewables investment spokesman was saying on news24 today: the global funds won't touch Australia for investment, it's a hostile environment and despite the compromise there is no bipartisan will to fund the sector. It's dead, Jim. We will be paying a premium for the investment made in other countries instead. Yeah all this shows is that one party is anti-renewables and the other is spineless and won't stand up for them. Nobody with any common sense would invest in that environment.
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Frogmanv2 posted:"These reviews are the root cause of the crisis that the industry is facing, and a deal which guarantees another review next year could be a death warrant for the industry," Mr Thornton said." Yeah, I didn't realise they were keeping the reviews. I thought they were gone  The whole point of having a target set is so that industry have confidence moving forward.
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Freudian Slip posted:Could you provide a source for the 30k GWh that falls under the RET scheme? Page 9: https://www.cleanenergycouncil.org....port%202012.pdf If the 30k is large-scale only, then the figure was ~27.4kgwh in 2012, the number on that paper (29.6kgwh) includes small-scale solar. e; my bad, fixed the first number ee; they're possibly talking about quadrupling the size of the solar industry, as the paper notes hydro is pretty tapped out Murodese fucked around with this message at 08:01 on May 8, 2015 |
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