QOTD Tim Winton on our land: โThis is why we write about it. This is why we paint it. From love & wonder, irritation & fear, hope & despair; because, like family, it refuses to be incidental.โ Australia, we refuse to be incidental โค๏ธ๐๐ป
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Busy and CO2 age: 338.96EntrepreneurGundungara CountryJoined January 2008
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RIP - a legendary human. Gone to soon. Infectious laugh. Adventurous spirit. Hell of an engineer. Itโs a sad day for the world. Iโll miss you mate.
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Idea for Netflix: Mad Max, but instead of looking for gas we cruise around in EVs in search of GPUs and multicore processors the govt confiscated. The kid with a boomerang is replaced by a kid that can frisbee a WiFi 6 AP. There's a giant base made out of a Z-series mainframe.
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It couldnโt have been anything other than 13-12 could it!!!
Epic. Honorific. Poetic.
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mountain climbers call this type 3 fun
- Not fun in the moment (like icecream, that's type 1)
- Not fun right after (gym, that's type 2)
Eventually you remember it fondly and deem it as having been worth it.
IMO founder success is often capped by max acceptable type3
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Imagine if Australia had a news publication of ' stature with an editorial board with
๐THIS๐level of clarity & urgency
Editorial: Weโre cementing climate denial with every fossil fuel project
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The fossil fuel industry does not underpin Australia's economy. It employs very few people, pays minimal tax and often imposes a net cost in terms of clean up, subsidies, and environmental harm
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Congratulations to Credit Suisse on their $3bn exit. People think of startups as an overnight success, but they'd been grinding away since 1856. Sometimes you have to ignore the noise and stick to your vision.
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No joke, Atlas is one of the most promising product products Iโve seen in a while. Itโll probably appeal to 5% of teams in the world who are ok with how opinionated and โsimpleโ it is, but it works.
(I have absolutely no connection to )
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The Kings hold off the Breakers to emerge with their second chip in two years ๐
Congratulations to your #NBL23 champs, the ๐ฅณ
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$368 billionโฆcan we please never ever speak of โthe cost of tackling climate changeโ again. We are a rich country. We can spent fortunes protecting against any risk & we choose not to avoid or prepare for climate catastrophe. Its not about money #auspol
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I'm becoming increasingly doubtful of the idea that Australia will be a mass exporter of hydrogen. Check the thread on Europe's likely need for hydrogen imports.
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I think its high time we grapple with the fact that the target setting process for the EU's 2030 hydrogen targets last year was driven by hydrogen hysteria. The numbers are complete nonsense with no sound analytical basis whatsoever.
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i believe that if Silicon Valley Bank were instead called Farmers Bank Of Santa Clara (they bank a lot of winegrowers!) we would have had this easily resolved.
unfortunately it became somewhat political.
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Meanwhile, despite naysayers saying batteries won't help much, batteries have often been supplying 7-8% of California's electricity demand during demand peaks before sunrise and after sunset for the past several months (~2 GW out of ~27 GW)
caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/
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It will take until 2030 to reign in the current bout of hydrogen mania, embark on a real plan to eliminate the 2.3% of emissions currently caused by 94 Mt/year of grey & black hydrogen, and target its use on a few otherwise hard-to-decarbonise sectors. We are in the foothills. 1/
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Utahโฐ๏ธ You were beautiful and this ALLโญ๏ธ was amazing ๐๐พ Ryan and Ashley Smith, thank you guys for leading the way. There will always be more work to do but I applaud the efforts that you both are making! Iโm proud to call yโall my friends๐ซก P.S work on your โ ๏ธ game ha
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It can tow. It goes all weekend. You can work in it, camp with it or just roll with it (quietly). No better way to believe it than to see it, feel it, sit in it.
Electric utes are here ๐๐ป
Thanks !
#electronsnotmolecules
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Remember when we were told EVs would end the weekend?
Only 10 months ago the now deputy opposition leader told us there were no electric utes anywhere in the world!
Thanks @solarcitizens for bringing your ute to Ballarat and showing the regions that there are EVs for us too.
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Ever seen this many EVs on one delivery truck before? Over the past two days we've taken delivery of 10 of these truckfulls. Massive things happening in our world of transport decarbonisation.
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Imagining half a million children with new opportunities, discoveries and dreams. Thank you , & for your friendship and partnership.
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We're thrilled to share that our longtime partner @Atlassian has helped Room to Read benefit more than half a million children! Our work would not be possible without the support of partners like #Atlassian in helping students access the quality #education they deserve.
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. is the purest lefty I know โฆ and one of the purest humans.
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#MountainMike will live on forever. Itโs been an honor for every Jazz fan to have had him wear the jersey. Will miss him and Mary
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Nothing about your chart shows how demand is best met. Demand for phone calls and airline flights, look just the same, but no one thinks the way to meet it is by having dedicated baseload bandwidth, or baseload aeroplanes. It's just not how network planning is done this century.
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1 Baseload is dead
2 Wind and solar are cheapest electricity almost everywhere
3 Batteries can fill most supply gaps more cheaply than โpeakingโ plants
4 We must deploy the technologies we have today to go net zero fastest
Facts, via
economist.com/by-invitation/ #climate
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Big things happening for the Jira suite. If only we had Jira Product Discovery when and I were building Jira Software. The hours it would have saved us searching for where we wrote our random ideas down.
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Today, we announced 3 BIG Jira updates that better connect business and engineering teams.
Jira Product Discovery!
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๐ค If itโs the size of a bus or two with a balloon on top and we canโt be sure what itโs forโฆ can we be sure no one dived off it?
Maybe should paint the thing blue to make it less threatening and more fun. twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: New independent system cost study from on decarbonising heating is out.
Result: Green hydrogen for heating is more 2-3x more expensive, less efficient and has more environmental impacts than electrification.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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1. A short thread on a fundamental trend in economics of physical stuff that's highly relevant to the conversation about nuclear & renewables:
A. Manufacturing things gets cheaper with scale.
B. Constructing things in the field gets more expensive with time.
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Because the Netherlands is a sunburnt countryโฆ waitโฆ
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Australia has lost the mantle of global solar leader (solar capacity per person)to Netherlands.
Time for new policies to enable Solar for All focussing on low income and social housing.
(Graph from BP 2022 Energy Review thanks to @KetanJ0 )
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Important debunking of more of Toyota's aggressive anti-EV lobbying. I've seen evidence of this one deployed to stakeholders in Australia.
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I see @Toyota's chief scientist Gill Pratt everywhere with his seemingly 'sober' claim that scarce lithium should be used in small batteries for hybrid cars (that Toyota is market leader in of course).
He's calling out "EV-only extremists".
And it's such utter bollox.
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Doesnโt get more Aussie than this.
Respect Dad! Legend ๐๐ป๐ฆ๐บ
When the road between two places is cut, you go around. 4,770km around.
For reference, the length of Europe - Gibraltar to Moscow - is only 4,752km!
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For xmas, mum and dad drove from Kununura to Broome and then flew down to Perth (cheaper than flying from kun). Then a biblical flood came and destroyed the only road connecting Broome and Kununura, stranding their car in Broome..
.. until dad got permission from mum to do this:
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1.5 years ago Germany imported more than 60% of the gas it consumed from Russia.
Since late August 2022 it is 0%.
The scale of this change is incredible and would have been thought of as impossible in the past.
cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/ger
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1/ "Leadership is a repeatable skill, not an art." Over 25 years ago, I attended a leadership session at Netscape, run by Jim Barksdale. It was a single hour that profoundly impacted my career.
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I'm going to get it out of the way and point out that Donovan Mitchell and Robin Lopez combined for 72 tonight. Hashtag Historic Game.
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Key Lesson 1: Life is probabilistic. So, we should think probabilistically -- not deterministically.
For example, suppose David's skill gives him an 80/20 advantage over Goliath.
In this case, David nearly always overcomes Goliath's size advantage (~94% of the time):
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