Australian politics.

[Muz]

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If Bathurst is Bogan Christmas then Australia Day is Redneck Mardi Gras, the perfect excuse for hordes of gronks to imbibe enough alcohol to paralyse an elephant, discard their shirts, and drape...

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If Bathurst is Bogan Christmas then Australia Day is Redneck Mardi Gras, the perfect excuse for hordes of gronks to imbibe enough alcohol to paralyse an elephant, discard their shirts, and drape themselves in their best Chinese-made Aussie flags to match the Southern Cross tattoos that they got in Bali. It’s the one day of the year when the whole country becomes Cronulla.

Australia is one of the few countries that celebrates the day it was invaded, which is a bit like America hosting a Pearl Harbour Day pool party or France hosting any number of events for any number of invasions. Apparently, the most appropriate way to commemorate nicking an entire continent is by ingesting copious amounts of badly barbecued meat and cheap piss before chundering it up again all over the stolen ground.

While particularly beloved by bogans, Australia Day is truly a day for all Australians — bogans get to be a bit racist, and hipsters with arts degrees get something to whinge about on Bluesky before showing off their ‘wokeness’ by performing a Welcome to Country at their vegan barbecue in order to root a white girl with dreadlocks and hairy legs. Everybody wins!

If you’re in a major city, round out the day by watching a spectacular display of fireworks that will terrorise the native wildlife and quite possibly start a catastrophic bushfire. Aussie Aussie Aussie!

 

[vo2Max]

While particularly beloved by bogans, Australia Day is truly a day for all Australians — bogans get to be a bit racist, and hipsters with arts degrees get something to whinge about on Bluesky before showing off their ‘wokeness’ by performing a Welcome to Country at their vegan barbecue in order to root a white girl with dreadlocks and hairy legs. Everybody wins!

Hahahaha.

Nice find, mate.

 

[Lupi]

SA is closing down

 

[Muz]

How's the WOKE cunce giving Australian of the year to some retard in a wheelchair. More bullshit from the left. Pat Cummins has just defeated India at home. He should have been a shoe-in like Border, Waugh and Taylor.

Liberal left fuckwits.



Am I doing this right?

 

[booney52]

I think that anyone betting the house on renewable energy is going to be in for a shock in terms of funding risk and there is certainly lots of financial risk in renewables. The banks are not going to be particularly keen to fund private investment unless there's a big uptick in government funding to mitigate financial risk and incentivize development.

The National Capacity Investment Scheme in Australia goes someway to underwrite risky investments in renewables but it's going to be impossible for any government to fully fund the need of providing certainty for renewable investors. Which is what most are asking for. Guarantee of future revenues if you like??

And the volatility of politics in the new age of political populism is proving that a change of government can severely affect the validity of certainty....

You're going to eat me alive but I think renewables on their own is one for the birds!

Personally I think you need a mixture of renewable, nuclear and carbon. Carbon emissions being captured of course and carbon capture is something that should be looked at.

Nuclear energy is by far the cleanest and most reliable but construction cost blow-outs are running at about 250-300% internationally and 5-10 year projects generally taking 20-25 to complete.

Whatever way it's not going to be easy and may I add not something for the faint hearted!!

You have raised some interesting points worthwhile discussing.As you say renewables may not be able to supply all our energy needs or indeed for most other countries.The use of nuclear energy scares most people and with good reasons.No one can guarantee that a nuclear reactor won't suffer from a natural disaster or technical problem and .Then there is the cost and time lag as well as you mentioned and of course the problem of nuclear waste has not really been addressed.From m

From what I have read and been told carbon capture is difficult to get right and possibly very expensive However technical expertise in this area may improve.

 

[TheSelectFew]

How's the WOKE cunce giving Australian of the year to some retard in a wheelchair. More bullshit from the left. Pat Cummins has just defeated India at home. He should have been a shoe-in like Border, Waugh and Taylor.

Liberal left fuckwits.



Am I doing this right?

What happened to "Go woke, go broke" Pat Cummins? Surely the far-right nutjobs have cancelled him after he has won everything for this country!

 

[Muz]

You have raised some interesting points worthwhile discussing.As you say renewables may not be able to supply all our energy needs or indeed for most other countries.The use of nuclear energy scares most people and with good reasons.No one can guarantee that a nuclear reactor won't suffer from a natural disaster or technical problem and .Then there is the cost and time lag as well as you mentioned and of course the problem of nuclear waste has not really been addressed.From m

From what I have read and been told carbon capture is difficult to get right and possibly very expensive However technical expertise in this area may improve.

Carbon capture is hellishly expensive and not really a thing yet. ($500 a tonne or so.) It's really pie in the sky stuff that likely will never be scaled up in any serious manner.

They'd be better of looking at investing in emerging battery tech like solid state, sodium ion and graphene batteries which will give them more bang for their buck.

We're swimming in renewable energy, we just need a way to store it.

My house alone could power 30 other houses at night with what I generate in a day but the battery tech is lagging, and more importantly, too expensive at the moment.

It's the beginning of battery tech and renewables, not the end. We're literally only a few years away now from a huge shift.

 

[TheSelectFew]

Carbon capture is hellishly expensive and not really a thing yet. ($500 a tonne or so.) It's really pie in the sky stuff that likely will never be scaled up in any serious manner.

They'd be better of looking at investing in emerging battery tech like solid state, sodium ion and graphene batteries which will give them more bang for their buck.

We're swimming in renewable energy, we just need a way to store it.

My house alone could power 30 other houses at night with what I generate in a day but the battery tech is lagging, and more importantly, too expensive at the moment.

It's the beginning of battery tech and renewables, not the end. We're literally only a few years away now from a huge shift.

The only carbon capture that works is wide spread land conservation.

 

[Joparo]

Just south of Middlesbrough in the UK where I was brought up they are looking at building the world's first gas fired carbon capture power station.

The carbon emissions that are captured will be pumped out to sea and stored in the sea bed.

They aim to process something like 20 million tonnes per year by the mid to late 2030's.

Here's the article

Equinor and partners approve execution of UK’s first carbon capture and storage projects

Equinor has announced financial close after taking a Final Investment Decision to progress to execution phase on two of the UK’s first CCS projects.

www.equinor.com

The renewables sceptics do tend to push carbon capture a lot and it is an extremely complex technology that costs a huge amount of money but it is something that can be done and if it does eventually become economically and environmentally viable, why not?

 

[Muz]

Just south of Middlesbrough in the UK where I was brought up they are looking at building the world's first gas fired carbon capture power station.

The carbon emissions that are captured will be pumped out to sea and stored in the sea bed.

They aim to process something like 20 million tonnes per year by the mid to late 2030's.

Here's the article

Equinor and partners approve execution of UK’s first carbon capture and storage projects

Equinor has announced financial close after taking a Final Investment Decision to progress to execution phase on two of the UK’s first CCS projects.

www.equinor.com

The renewables sceptics do tend to push carbon capture a lot and it is an extremely complex technology that costs a huge amount of money but it is something that can be done and if it does eventually become economically and environmentally viable, why not?

Most things are possible. It's just a matter of engineering. Like you say whether it can be done economically is the challenge.

 

[Muz]

Hahahahaha. One of the comments. 'Pro- Israel and pro anti-semite'.

Seems your only anti-semitic if you're brown or an Arab not white.

 

[Lupi]

Just south of Middlesbrough in the UK where I was brought up they are looking at building the world's first gas fired carbon capture power station.

The carbon emissions that are captured will be pumped out to sea and stored in the sea bed.

They aim to process something like 20 million tonnes per year by the mid to late 2030's.

Here's the article

Equinor and partners approve execution of UK’s first carbon capture and storage projects

Equinor has announced financial close after taking a Final Investment Decision to progress to execution phase on two of the UK’s first CCS projects.

www.equinor.com

The renewables sceptics do tend to push carbon capture a lot and it is an extremely complex technology that costs a huge amount of money but it is something that can be done and if it does eventually become economically and environmentally viable, why not?

what is the fucken point of that?

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

Hahahahaha. One of the comments. 'Pro- Israel and pro anti-semite'.

Seems your only anti-semitic of you're brown or an Arab not white.

I wonder which one of the "three scumigos" drove over to Adelaide on the weekend?

 

[tsf]

Hahahahaha. One of the comments. 'Pro- Israel and pro anti-semite'.

Seems your only anti-semitic of you're brown or an Arab not white.

Fuck oath

 

[Joparo]

what is the fucken point of that?

Well it would be great if we could carry on as normal burning coal and gas for our power generation and it not have any effect on the planet.

But unfortunately there's a train of thought out there that carbon dioxide emissions are considered harmful because they contribute significantly to climate change by trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere, leading to rising global temperatures and associated negative impacts like extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and disruptions to ecosystems.

And it's a train of thought that many including myself believe to be reasonably correct.

But I also believe that at least in the short to medium term that renewable energy is not the silver bullet. In the long term yes, certainly but we're going to have to do a lot more work on it

Meanwhile we have to look for alternative solutions. I don't know a lot about carbon capture but I know that Japan is pursuing carbon capture and storage with its coal fired power stations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and achieve carbon neutrality.

Sometimes you have to try these sorts of things to see if it works.

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

Well it would be great if we could carry on as normal burning coal and gas for our power generation and it not have any effect on the planet.

But unfortunately there's a train of thought out there that carbon dioxide emissions are considered harmful because they contribute significantly to climate change by trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere, leading to rising global temperatures and associated negative impacts like extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and disruptions to ecosystems.

And it's a train of thought that many including myself believe to be reasonably correct.

But I also believe that at least in the short to medium term that renewable energy is not the silver bullet. In the long term yes, certainly but we're going to have to do a lot more work on it

Meanwhile we have to look for alternative solutions. I don't know a lot about carbon capture but I know that Japan is pursuing carbon capture and storage with its coal fired power stations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and achieve carbon neutrality.

Sometimes you have to try these sorts of things to see if it works.

Perfectly said.

Engineering and scientific solutions ARE a recourse it all boils down to economics of scale and government willingness....

It seems there may be more than one way to skin this cat, its down to the boffins to make their proof of concept the most appealing one .... sadly it will, like in everything else, be a politicised vested interest shitfight again.....

 

[Muz]

Well it would be great if we could carry on as normal burning coal and gas for our power generation and it not have any effect on the planet.

But unfortunately there's a train of thought out there that carbon dioxide emissions are considered harmful because they contribute significantly to climate change by trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere, leading to rising global temperatures and associated negative impacts like extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and disruptions to ecosystems.

And it's a train of thought that many including myself believe to be reasonably correct.

But I also believe that at least in the short to medium term that renewable energy is not the silver bullet. In the long term yes, certainly but we're going to have to do a lot more work on it

Meanwhile we have to look for alternative solutions. I don't know a lot about carbon capture but I know that Japan is pursuing carbon capture and storage with its coal fired power stations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and achieve carbon neutrality.

Sometimes you have to try these sorts of things to see if it works.

Wasting your time mate explaining anything to these blokes.

Your right about challenges though. It takes 14 years on average to get a copper mine going from discovery to production. To electrify just 20% of the cars on the planet means copper production, just copper, will need to triple in the next 20 years.

Massive challenges.

 

[Joparo]

Perfectly said.

Engineering and scientific solutions ARE a recourse it all boils down to economics of scale and government willingness....

It seems there may be more than one way to skin this cat, its down to the boffins to make their proof of concept the most appealing one .... sadly it will, like in everything else, be a politicised vested interest shitfight again.....

Well in politics you'll see the politicians come along, set out their stall and see if they can take people along with them. If they can they will win elections and once elected if they then fail then they're gone.

Its easy to sit behind a keyboard and poo poo ideas you don't subscribe to but if people didn't try things we'd all still be hunting and gathering.

 

[Joparo]

Wasting your time mate explaining anything to these blokes.

Your right about challenges though. It takes 14 years on average to get a copper mine going from discovery to production. To electrify just 20% of the cars on the planet means copper production, just copper, will need to triple in the next 20 years.

Massive challenges.

Yep massive. But you know, the human race was built on massive challenges. Massive challenges is what made the human race evolve.

Yeah. Deep I know!

 

[Lupi]

Well it would be great if we could carry on as normal burning coal and gas for our power generation and it not have any effect on the planet.

But unfortunately there's a train of thought out there that carbon dioxide emissions are considered harmful because they contribute significantly to climate change by trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere, leading to rising global temperatures and associated negative impacts like extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and disruptions to ecosystems.

And it's a train of thought that many including myself believe to be reasonably correct.

But I also believe that at least in the short to medium term that renewable energy is not the silver bullet. In the long term yes, certainly but we're going to have to do a lot more work on it

Meanwhile we have to look for alternative solutions. I don't know a lot about carbon capture but I know that Japan is pursuing carbon capture and storage with its coal fired power stations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and achieve carbon neutrality.

Sometimes you have to try these sorts of things to see if it works.

carbon dioxide is a harmless trace gas that plants require to flourish

if the atmosphere is a football field, carbon dioxide is the football

there's been several periods throughout history where its been considerably higher in concentration than it is now...

taking it out of the atmosphere is detrimental to life on this planet

there remains no evidence that carbon dioxide traps heat in the Earth's atmosphere at any significant amount to cause climate change