I would blow Dane Cook posted:

hard to get past this

G-Spot Run posted:

Uh yeah. It's not a secret, he gave testimony in the senate hearings about it. Saying the article about the RBAs plan reads like pure capitalism... Yes, the call is coming from inside the house.

Senor Tron posted:

Yeah batteries are more electrically efficient, but the resources required to store x KWH are much higher.

To double the storage capacity of a battery, you need twice as much storage. To double the storage capacity of some thing like hydrogen or pumped hydro you just need a bigger battery.

Senor Tron posted:

Yeah batteries are more electrically efficient, but the resources required to store x KWH are much higher.

To double the storage capacity of a battery, you need twice as many batteries. To double the storage capacity of some thing like hydrogen or pumped hydro you just need a bigger tank/reservoir.

norp posted:

I think what they meant was that a "bigger tank" is expanding the relatively simple part of the system rather than the expensive high technology bit.

Capt.Whorebags posted:

Yeah it's not a surprise, I guess I would have thought the article would include some fop to people doing it tough or at least an acknowledgement from the RBA... I haven't spent time around elite economists so I was naieve to think that they would at least say the quiet part quiet, but from their perspective, it's something to crow about.

Cartoon posted:

MikeJF posted:

I do have to wonder what the cost efficiency of a hydrogen plant is when we still have hydro that hasn't been converted to act as grid storage. Isn't that massively more economical and easier?

MikeJF posted:

I do have to wonder what the cost efficiency of a hydrogen plant is when we still have hydro that hasn't been converted to act as grid storage. Isn't that massively more economical and easier?

Laserface posted:

I work for a company that manages most of the NSW state gov MDM (mobile device management)

the only one with any real MDM security policies (for now) is FACS/DCJ. its mostly about data sovereignty and because a lot of their work involves minors and sensitive/delicate info of people in very lovely situations (DV etc). there is 'approved' apps but they can also just grab anything from the app store if they want. the approved apps list is generally just stuff the organisation uses, but it is in addition to the app store.

AFAIK nothing is overtly blocked from the app store at this time. if there is, they dont talk about it.

most people with a gov issued phone also have a personal phone, so they dont really use anything besides Outlook/work specific apps on their work phone. i would guess it is about 5-10% that have their gov issued device as their single phone.

norp posted:

Doesn't conversion to pumped hydro require two reservoirs to work
I assume it's a significant undertaking to build a lake below an existing hydro dam

thatbastardken posted:

you can also use old mineshafts to save digging

hooman posted:

My understanding that Australia was pushing "hydrogen" industry as this:

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...drogen-to-japan

Basically just doing more fossil fuels but under a different name.

Capt.Whorebags posted:

"Green" hydrogen is a good thing, hydrogen which is produced from renewable energy. I don't think the economics are there yet.

"Blue" hydrogen, as in "blue sky", is a sham marketing term akin to clean coal or natural gas, that is used to justify more fossil fuel exploitation.

Guess which one is the favoured choice of existing resource companies.

Capt.Whorebags posted:

"Green" hydrogen is a good thing, hydrogen which is produced from renewable energy. I don't think the economics are there yet.

"Blue" hydrogen, as in "blue sky", is a sham marketing term akin to clean coal or natural gas, that is used to justify more fossil fuel exploitation.

Guess which one is the favoured choice of existing resource companies.

The Guardian posted:

[Jacinta] Price, the first-term senator from the Northern Territory, was instrumental in the Nationals resolving to oppose the referendum last year - which set the ball rolling for the Liberals to follow suit last week. She will also lead a well-funded no campaign from the Advance conservative lobby group.

The Guardian posted:

Pauline Hanson has publicly called for Price to be named Leeser’s replacement as shadow Indigenous minister.

Synthbuttrange posted:

Nice frontbench you've got there Dutton.

ABC News posted:

WA's nurses' and midwives' union has been compared to Hitler in a legal dispute which it says could see it fined more than $27 million for staging a major strike at parliament house last year.
Key points:

The Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) is claiming the union "wilfully" and "flagrantly" flouted its orders not to strike. The IRC Registrar is alleging 3,590 breaches by the union's members, and a separate one by its secretary, Janet Reah. That included 939 breaches relating to payments made by the union to members who had their pay docked as a result of going on strike. Lawyers for the registrar have not indicated how much they would like to see the union penalised. Both sides are set to discuss that matter at the end of Tuesday's hearing.

Ms Reah and the ANF ignored both an order from the Industrial Relations Commission to call off the strike, and to appear before the commission on the day it was held. The government is maintaining its current offer of between three and 4.5 per cent, plus the implementation of nurse-to-patient ratios. Speaking before the hearing, Ms Reah said she was puzzled why each breach was being treated separately.

"It seems that they just want to maximise the absolute penalty to the nth degree," she told reporters. "It's unheard of, $27 million in potential fines." Ms Reah acknowledged the union had breached the commission's orders by holding the rally. "We've not told anyone any differently. We're just wondering why they want to beat us down so badly."

Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said the imposition of any fine would be "entirely" a matter for the commission. "Bargaining can be tough, and I expect all unions to bargain hard on behalf of their members, but everyone has to listen to the independent umpire. It is there to protect the community as well as employers and unions," she said.

In her opening address, the lawyer for the registrar, Cav. Maria Saraceni, described the union's actions in the lead-up to the November strike, including at a rally where union members voted on a plan for escalating industrial action, ending with the potential for a state-wide strike. Cav. Saraceni said the union had written down what it planned to do and carried it out – comparing its actions to Adolf Hitler, before withdrawing her remarks after they were described as "offensive" by the ANF's lawyer, Tim Hammond. She explained it was the first name that came to her mind, and instead compared the union to Karl Marx.

At a break in proceedings, Ms Reah said it "would have been nice" to have received an apology for that comment. "I'm just wondering what kind of country we're living in where an officer of the court likens the actions of the nurses union and the nurses and midwives of Western Australia, the plan that they had, to Hitler's Mein Kampf," she said. She described how the commission was set up, in part, to resolve industrial disputes, but said that could only happen if all parties played their part, including by following the Commission's orders. Cav. Saraceni told the commission it was "not good enough" for the ANF to pick and choose when it complied with the commission's orders, and that it had engaged in a "deliberate industrial strategy" by ignoring the instructions.

Ms Reah was "thumbing her nose" at the commission and showing "blatant disregard" for its orders, Cav. Saraceni said, when she sent a letter saying the union would go ahead with the strike less than 24 hours after being told not to. The commission was told by Cav. Saraceni that a penalty needed to be imposed both to send a message to Ms Reah and the ANF, but also other unions, that breaches of commission orders would be taken seriously.

The registrar was not seeking the deregistration of the union she said – as had been threatened last year – but only the imposition of a fine against Ms Reah and the ANF. That's despite Ms Reah previously making comments that individual nurses could be fined by the commission. "There is no reason for the union to protect nurses against the registrar," Cav. Saraceni said. "The only penalty is against the union."

Jonathon Vincent, who is employed by WA Health, gave evidence that of the 2252 nurses who were absent from work on the day of the strike, 1,812 were recorded as being on "strike leave". But defence lawyer Tim Hammond questioned how accurate that figure was, with 16 duplicate records included in the data – being people with the same first and last name.

Mr Vincent explained that in some cases, the data was pulled from a system more than 30 years old and running on MS-DOS. He acknowledged the data was only as accurate as what was entered, but that staff had had four months to correct any inaccurate information. The duplicates could result from the same person incorrectly being recorded twice, or because they were rostered on at two different hospitals on the same day. Mr Vincent said it meant as many as four staff recorded as being on strike could have been duplicate entries – potentially making the true number 1,808.

The commission also heard from Dr Tudor Codreanu, the health department's director of disaster preparedness, who was involved in managing the impacts of last year's strike. Dr Codreanu said while the union had said the strike was only planned to last from 7am to 9pm, he was not convinced that would be respected. "We had no idea what exactly was going to materialise in hospitals across the state," he said. "I had to manage uncertainty."

His evidence showed 338 elective surgeries and 350 out-patient appointments had to be cancelled as a result, but he could not say how that compared to normal days. The industrial action was estimated to have cost the health department at least $62,000 in administrative costs and replacement staff. He said while the health system continued to operate at an acceptable level despite the strike, that was "not by luck, by preparation" and wasn't "without risks".

Cartoon posted:

The sheer level of political incompetence required to self wedge your party on what was potentially a complete non-issue really sets Dutton apart. He *shudder* may yet make Scumbo look decent in hindsight.

Cartoon posted:

The sheer level of political incompetence required to self wedge your party on what was potentially a complete non-issue really sets Dutton apart. He *shudder* may yet make Scumbo look decent in hindsight.

hooman posted:

Industrial Relations commission is very very mad at WA Nurses for striking.

Nurses vote to strike, commission tells them 24 hours before they're not allowed to, and they say gently caress you and strike anyway. WA nurses are the best, good on them and hopefully they tear down the IRC completely and reinstate our ability to loving strike in this country.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Can the IRC levy jail time?

If not, the nurses should just keep ignoring it until they win.

hooman posted:

No they can't, they can levy fines, or force the union to disband, but then lol, lmao every nurse individually wildcat strikes and what are you going to do? Fire them all?

If they're going down that route then you probably also get solidarity strikes (even though they're also illegal) from other public sector unions, because at that point gently caress you entirely, and the entire structure of your bureaucracy burns down.

It's kind of telling that they've been hard on the rhetoric but soft on the consequences because they know if they push too hard they just get straight wildcat action and everyone realises they're actually toothless against truly collective action.

SecretOfSteel posted:

Nurses Union being declared both right-wing fascists and left-wing commies is an achievement in itself. I don't think these people know what words mean.