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dennis stanley
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@possibilize (x) . Strange things happen at sea when you run a fleet of robot submarines in the Indian, Pacific & Southern Oceans. All opinions my own
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I love those early prophetic insights. Back in the early 2000s at my uni i went to a talk on renewable energy storage

The speaker said every household already has 3-4 days worth of energy storage ???

It's just tied up in the fuel of their car!

but when cars are electric...

its now called V2G
yes, thanks

that looks like it

Guess i'll have to keep looking for a bird orchid

We saw quite a few different orchids on a very enjoyable, short walk in the Jarrahdale. most of them were common favourites but i expect someone who has their "eye in" would have seen heaps more.
I think i saw one of those (or similar) unfortunately it was a little windy so hard to get a good shot (with by phone) from the angle i took the photo you cant really see the upper green bit but from memory it looked very similar (Jarrahdale , mundlimup timber trail)
you could drive to the coffee shop or cycle.

if you drive you need roads and car parking (at both ends) and petrol stations and ports and ...

if not for cars the coffee shop would be closer...
but we can consume less and maintain our "standard of living" by consuming more efficiently (much more efficiently in fact) its just that, currently, the agenda is controlled by those who profit from our wasteful energy habits. cycling is a great transport efficiency example
Still like that in far north Queensland. My colleague woke at 4:30 am in perth for a 6am flight. Connected in Brisbane then to Cairns (5pm) ahead of a 6am start to drive to weipa to deploy an ocean glider. While he was in transit our charter boat operator cancelled. I notified him on arrival....
There should be an investigation into why the ABC & JCU platformed early (obviously false and easily fact checked) anti renewables activism by Steven Nowakowski
ha ha you go to windfarms on holiday? I bet your partner loves that! I'm only saying because i do too. I went to a lovely enercon one in Austria and got to visit the "observation deck" an early enercon option that placed a doughnut shaped glass enclosed platform below the nacelle
Might be a president though
That's awesome. Got s touch of the slapstick silent movie about it. Speed it up a little and make it black and white. I love he got away by bike where those guys probably had half a dozen trucks between them .
Fusion powered electricity absolutely will power the world! Fusion power beamed wirelessly from space is already the cheapest and fastest growing energy sector ,😉
makes left handed / right handed seem a bit lame
you can't get more bland and geologically stable than Birdsville in outback Australia . but but at 1.3km deep and drawing on hot groundwater, not "deep hot rocks", i don't think it qualifies.
also it has since been decommissioned in favor of solar (whose resource is plentiful at Birdsville
Australia’s Birdsville geothermal power station will see upgrade
The government of Queensland in Australia, is investing up to AU$ 4.3 million (US$ 3.4 million) to the upgrade of the Birdsville Geothermal Power Plant. It is a low-temperature plant and currently the...
www.thinkgeoenergy.com
i love them so much i've made a template for when i don't have an actual envelope 😉
if you aim is to say "climate change is bad, this is whats happening isn't it shit" then its ok to have the right answer for the wrong reason . but if you seek to intervene or predict whats happening next then if one doesn't understand the mechanism one may be in for an unexpected outcome
Remember when you had two punctures in a row and i noticed your puncture resistant tyres and said perhaps things are happening differently. i explained how to test and you found the dislodged rim tape.
Sometimes The Mechanism matters!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15709956/
and there are other processes

for example ocean currents can strengthen (or weaken) and transport energy from the tropics further south. which is what scientists think happened Of WA last summer

climate change is a bit of a bugger in the details
changes in UPPER ocean temp can be rapidly brought about by reduction in upper ocean turbulence

It affects the vertical energy DISTRIBUTION

ie you can have high upper ocean temps without requiring excess energy input

The ocean is SLOWLY warming & there's other factors that complicate exactly how
my take on that chart. is 20% (half of poorest quartile) cycle because it's the cheapest form of transport. The other 80% of cyclists cycle for other reasons not related to income.
but only those with a "nn"
i know that's terrible and all...

but perhaps we could use this point in time to agree on the metric system using SI units & a standard date and time format

😉
Yep and this is largely driven by the "learning curve"

ie: new , more cost effective, battery chemistries are on the horizon and will further reduce costs. as i believe you too have mused with the possible impact of sodium ion batteries on EV prices as an example.
this study uses dodgy accounting

like counting respired CO2 without accounting for the fact that CO2 was taken up from the atmosphere in their food
Its not like the world bank didn't understand offsets they were trading them at the time

A very disingenuous and deliberately provocative piece