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sorry i will try to be more positive even though i am so god damn furious right now 😃
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12·2 days agoThat’s really cool that they’re producing so much stuff, but I don’t give a shit, I don’t care if they’re the #1 maker of carbonated dildos, and the US and EU have no market for building those things, it means nothing to me being #1 in renewables manufacturing and yet having co2 emissions go up, it means that even though they’re producing a lot of renewables they’re still sucking compared to the USA and EU and rest of the western world when it comes down to the cold hard facts, they’re not reducing their co2 output
SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (Reuters) - China started construction on 94.5 gigawatts of coal-fired power in 2024, the highest volume of new builds since 2015, hampering the country’s transition away from fossil fuels, researchers said in a report published on Thursday.
Compare that to the UK:
UK’s last coal-fired power plant officially closes as ‘ambitious’ energy transition takes hold
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-30/last-coal-fired-power-plant-in-uk-officially-closes/104378430
And Australia:
The current coal capacity in the NEM is 23GW, and 1.6GW in the SWIS, totalling 25GW in Australia
We’re shutting ours down not starting them up
consumption per capita
Is silly imo, it’s quite clear that actual co2 output in the billions of tons is far more important to reduce than Fiji doing 10x the per capita rate than China but outputting a grand total of hardly nothing
Its going to drop very fast.
Yes that’s what I’d like to see
2·3 days agoabsolute legend
that’s just the tates
I get it but even with all these drawbacks we’re doing pretty good, I’d like to see China and India have their lines start going back the other way
Also he didn’t mention much about batteries, which are fantastic for arbing cheap solar during the day and expensive power at night
3·4 days agoABC 2 years ago:
If the Liberals fail to tackle the issue and listen to women about why they’ve been abandoning the party, Reynolds said, it will be statistically impossible to win majority government again.
And fourthly, in Australia, because of its particularly brutal gender politics, quotas have to be part of the answer.
ABC the other day:
Peter Dutton most likely to be next prime minister, according to YouGov poll
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-16/peter-dutton-anthony-albanese-election-polling/104941326
What a change in 3 years eh?
Most of them I want gone
Same, I’m down to just Youtube and Iphone as the two things I could not replace…but how would the rest of Australia do
How would corporate Australia handle it if Trump did some truly insane things like an export tax on all Microsoft products +100% or banning American software in Australia?
He’s saying he wants to make Canada the 51st state of America so I’m not sure where the stupidity of him ends
How quickly would we go as a nation from Yeah Fuck Trump! to nooo don’t take my facebook!
The Greens have thumbed their nose at Labor and housing groups representing the nation’s most needy, joining the Coalition to refuse to pass legislation for the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/blinken-holds-candid-talks-with-china-s-qin-20230619-p5dhka
Explained: The government’s stalled housing agenda, and why the Greens are opposing it
Can’t build shit when the greens and coalition block them at every opportunity
7·5 days agodw buddy i understand what you were trying to say, natowave ain’t quite the same without the americans
it’s one of the things that sucks about a democracy, my fellow aussies are about to vote in an potato, i won’t be but unfortunately we get dragged along with the crowd :(
some great nato videos https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5rIFci5vs and https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iAkolDpQNfs
I expect Trump to pull out of NATO by end of his term
Hopefully the next American president can set things right again but it will be more difficult from now on :\
How can it be too little too late? are house prices not still high?
1·5 days agohttps://www.ft.com/content/0d474498-4d9b-4c1b-8502-71248c720c04
European gas prices hit a two-year high on Monday as colder weather boosted demand, accelerating withdrawals from the region’s fast-depleting storage facilities.
I think the ‘long, hard’ is an exaggeration (my wife agrees) but afaik cold weather is definitely correlated to higher gas prices
Dec 30, 2024, 10:30 AM CST
Northwest Europe is bracing itself for what is expected to be later this week the coldest snap so far this winter, hours ahead of the expiry of the deal for Russian gas transit via Ukraine to central Europe.
Temperatures in the UK, France, and Germany are expected to plunge at the end of this week, which would raise gas demand for heating and electricity generation.
This happens as Europe is burning through its natural gas in storage at the fastest pace in years.
Temperatures in the big European capitals London, Berlin, and Paris are all expected to plummet below freezing and below the average for the past 30 years, according to weather forecasts cited by Bloomberg.
It certainly seems unusually higher for January compared to the rest of 2024?
Conditions are also cold in northern Europe, meaning that European gas storage stood at 47% full at the start of this week, 5% below the 5-year average and 20% lower than in 2024, according to analysts at UBS, in a note.
In week 6 of 2025, European gas imports rose and exceeded 2024 weekly import levels. This was driven by higher liquified natural gas (LNG) imports
https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports
Unless someone has other ideas of what is suddenly consuming a whole lot of LNG I guess chilly weather it is
I’m no expert on this topic, but I’ve previously read that when a thing is made free people stop valuing it.
I read that as well and had trouble finding it but this sounds about right:
Why not make the fares free in Queensland? One reason can be found in the experience of the Miami Beach Transportation Association in the United States. The Association launched free shuttle buses along the coastline. However, the lack of fares led to a diminished sense of responsibility for the upkeep and care of the transit system, ultimately negatively affecting both driver satisfaction and passenger experience. Whilst passenger numbers initially surged, studies show problem riders resulted in raised personal security concerns as transit crime increased. Examples include increased assault, damage, and theft for users, becoming a deterrent for both new and existing riders. An attempt to resolve these issues was introducing a $0.25 flat fare, leading problem riders to avoid the service. Consequently, these negative factors began to rapidly decline, such as vandalism decreasing by 90% whilst passenger numbers remained steady.
Good to see UK!