@timinclimate
Australian climate researcher and advocate on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Burgeoning neo-luddite. More anarchist with each passing disaster. Not interested in your white supremacy. To hell with fascists, crypto and cryptofascists.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. His graph shows a price spike in German 1 year forward electricity contracts (!) in ~August.
The axis of fuckwit started bombing Iran on Saturday.
It’s not exactly a reasonable comparison.
(I need to get out of your replies. It’s getting weird. G’night!)
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, I guess.
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Iran acknowledges they are targeting AWS and Azure data centres. "The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Was good to write a positive story, though there is plenty we don’t know about these guys and there are challenges ahead to make sure they remain not extinct. But here’s to positive news.
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“The new calculations reveal that following a relative sea level rise of 1 metre, it is estimated that 37% more coastal areas will fall below sea level, affecting up to 132 million individuals.” Oops!
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SMH headline: Australia faces the threat of war with China within three years – and we’re not ready Are we prepared for full-scale conflict? Our panel of national security experts says no. March 7, 2023 | Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott
Happy final day before Australia's full-blown war with China kicks off day to those who celebrate
He actually said Australians being on the sub is "one of the big pluses behind the Aukus arrangements". What the fuck are we doing
Definitely fair on B.
I think my unconscious assumption was that where OCGTs go, reciprocating engines follow shortly behind due to the high potential for substitution, but I guess that's likely to be a lot messier in the real world than in my head.
I haven't looked into this for a while - my attention has been focussed on sectors other than electricity - but isn't there also the issue of sourcing the generators themselves? Last I heard, that supply chain wasn't going well.
Can we protect our water and electricity from the data centre boom? www.nationalaccount.com.au/p/can-we-pro...
Ok. But then you have to pick a replacement from the existing front bench...
Solved. None of that is happening any more. I fixed it.
If there's anything I can say for 2026 so far, it is that it's on.
How do we fucken turn it off?
You're welcome.
Nah. Not anymore. I fixed all that.
Out of curiosity, how much did you put on them compared to new? I have a two year old set of my own that I may sell. I'm trying to work out if it is worth doing.
Eh. Lots of people have butchers in their family. 😛
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One of mine ran a dyeworks that dumped heavy metals into the water table around Melbourne's inner south east (Elwood, I think) - ultimately leading to it being fire-bombed in an act of eco-terrorism.
The other was a butcher.
Extraordinary from the Liberal Party's 2025 election review: not all shadow ministers are "equipped" to develop policy.
Their main job is to "cultivate relationships" with interest groups, who are "keen to assist in policy development".
Private donors are keen to assist too.
Just had to block someone for trying to trojan horse anti-Jewish hatred on my feed, so I feel compelled to once again post the terms of engagement for my socials.
^^ by @ryancropp.bsky.social
+ @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social in @reneweconomy.com.au in 2019 ->
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Just learned that if you disable "Copilot and Other AI" in your Teams lecture, it will also disable automatic recording/transcription. This is to "prevent Microsoft 365 Copilot from accessing any sensitive information that may have been shared"
On World Wildlife Day, we learn from @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social's FOI-based report that while the federal environment dept "decision brief recommended that the original decision to allow salmon farming should be revoked" the Albo govt chose toxic, industrial salmon farming over Maugean Skate survival
hahahahahaha these fucking freaks
Please please please get on this
This conflict is likely to drive global gas prices through the roof.
Because the Australian Government gives most of our the gas to Big Gas exporters for free, and the PRRT is broken, Big Gas will make massive windfall profits and Australians will get virtually nothing.
Just last week the German government gutted the heating law which was supposed to drive a transition away from gas.
The timing could not have been worse: Gas prices are up 50% today and this crisis could worsen significantly. This will happen again and again and the consumer pays the price.
"The environment" is just a scam to separate us from our money and hope we won't push back
An actual comment I just saw on linkedin.
A real adult human - in fact a former MD of an Australian metals company - wrote this.
