Have you and @cstross.bsky.social read each other's work?
My most nerdy very short sci-fi story is "The Immediate Sound Of Distant Hammers"
universalshards.com/p/the-immedi...
universalshards.com/p/the-immedi...
December 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Have you and @cstross.bsky.social read each other's work?
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oncoming lights have started producing a lot more strain on my eyes as I age, but the difference between being up in a pickup or down in a low sports car is night and day
this is an underrated aspect of the vehicle size arms war dynamic
this is an underrated aspect of the vehicle size arms war dynamic
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
oncoming lights have started producing a lot more strain on my eyes as I age, but the difference between being up in a pickup or down in a low sports car is night and day
this is an underrated aspect of the vehicle size arms war dynamic
this is an underrated aspect of the vehicle size arms war dynamic
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If we reduce global CO2 emissions over the next ten years at the rate at which we increased them from 2000 to 2010, we will be pretty close to aligning with the 2C budget
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If we reduce global CO2 emissions over the next ten years at the rate at which we increased them from 2000 to 2010, we will be pretty close to aligning with the 2C budget
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/
robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/
One thing I learnt from this episode is that sodium-ion batteries can be built without active cooling.
That's interesting for cost, but also maybe for locating grid-scale projects near residential areas.
Episode webpage: www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...
Media file: api.substack.com/feed/podcast...
That's interesting for cost, but also maybe for locating grid-scale projects near residential areas.
Episode webpage: www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...
Media file: api.substack.com/feed/podcast...
What's the deal with sodium-ion batteries?
Landon Mossburg on beating lithium-ion on cost and safety with a grid storage system that has no moving parts.
www.volts.wtf
November 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
One thing I learnt from this episode is that sodium-ion batteries can be built without active cooling.
That's interesting for cost, but also maybe for locating grid-scale projects near residential areas.
Episode webpage: www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...
Media file: api.substack.com/feed/podcast...
That's interesting for cost, but also maybe for locating grid-scale projects near residential areas.
Episode webpage: www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...
Media file: api.substack.com/feed/podcast...
I'm at All Energy for the third time.
My reflection is that it's so much more boring than 7 or 14 years ago.
There are few crazy ideas. Just stuff that works and is being deployed at scale.
EVs, BESS, flexible retail, policy, REZs etc. It's all just happening and growing.
My reflection is that it's so much more boring than 7 or 14 years ago.
There are few crazy ideas. Just stuff that works and is being deployed at scale.
EVs, BESS, flexible retail, policy, REZs etc. It's all just happening and growing.
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I'm at All Energy for the third time.
My reflection is that it's so much more boring than 7 or 14 years ago.
There are few crazy ideas. Just stuff that works and is being deployed at scale.
EVs, BESS, flexible retail, policy, REZs etc. It's all just happening and growing.
My reflection is that it's so much more boring than 7 or 14 years ago.
There are few crazy ideas. Just stuff that works and is being deployed at scale.
EVs, BESS, flexible retail, policy, REZs etc. It's all just happening and growing.
Do any Aus research students want to see if this replicates in Australia and figure out what the policy implications are if it does?
One of the key barriers to electrification is the ratio of electricity to gas prices.
The tax rate on electricity used in industry is much higher in most European countries than the tax rate on fossil gas.
There are many options for reform: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ember-energy.org
The tax rate on electricity used in industry is much higher in most European countries than the tax rate on fossil gas.
There are many options for reform: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ember-energy.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Do any Aus research students want to see if this replicates in Australia and figure out what the policy implications are if it does?
This cheeky thing has learnt to ride the mower looking for bugs.
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This cheeky thing has learnt to ride the mower looking for bugs.
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26. BNEF’s New Energy Outlook model doesn’t want to just solve the intermittency problem with loads of batteries. This is because the batteries get lower utilization rates the more you build. Batteries cannibalize batteries long before you get 100% clean power.
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
26. BNEF’s New Energy Outlook model doesn’t want to just solve the intermittency problem with loads of batteries. This is because the batteries get lower utilization rates the more you build. Batteries cannibalize batteries long before you get 100% clean power.
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21. Everyone is defining long-duration storage technology wrong. It's not about 6 or 8 hours — you can do that with lithium-ion and probably would — it's about having the capex to add more GWh of capacity decoupled from the capex of adding more GW.
October 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
21. Everyone is defining long-duration storage technology wrong. It's not about 6 or 8 hours — you can do that with lithium-ion and probably would — it's about having the capex to add more GWh of capacity decoupled from the capex of adding more GW.
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13. By 2030 most countries will have spot power prices of zero in sunny hours. This will be passed on to end consumers, to encourage them to shift power demand to sunny periods by electric vehicle and battery charging, preheating, precooling, etc.
October 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
13. By 2030 most countries will have spot power prices of zero in sunny hours. This will be passed on to end consumers, to encourage them to shift power demand to sunny periods by electric vehicle and battery charging, preheating, precooling, etc.
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This is something people who are chatbot-curious should be doing by default: ask it about something you *do know about*, not something you *don't know about*.
As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to give me a walking route in my neighbourhood and to describe the scenery. I've also asked it to describe plot features of movies I've seen. It spews out bullshit.
October 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This is something people who are chatbot-curious should be doing by default: ask it about something you *do know about*, not something you *don't know about*.
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And since we call all machine learning "AI" now - even vanilla stuff like time-series forecasting for wind power, solar power, or electricity demand - it may actually look to a casual observer like "AI" adoption stays flat or goes up even as the LLM hype cools down.
October 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
And since we call all machine learning "AI" now - even vanilla stuff like time-series forecasting for wind power, solar power, or electricity demand - it may actually look to a casual observer like "AI" adoption stays flat or goes up even as the LLM hype cools down.
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look at what covid lockdowns did to Australia's transport emissions
October 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
look at what covid lockdowns did to Australia's transport emissions
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Surely we have to consider the possibility they kicked him out bc he was winning all the footy matches
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Pocock booted from pollie sports club after criticising gambling lobby sponsor
The former star Wallabies player turned independent senator was kicked out of the social sports club after raising concerns about its links to the gambling industry.
www.abc.net.au
October 10, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Surely we have to consider the possibility they kicked him out bc he was winning all the footy matches
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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you get a lot of useful information when you follow links and read the actual papers being reported on :)
October 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
you get a lot of useful information when you follow links and read the actual papers being reported on :)
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Tapping the sign. Also, power emissions stopped falling.
September 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Tapping the sign. Also, power emissions stopped falling.
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Tom Studans now going door-to-door asking media organisations to substantively cover welfare rights issues
September 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Tom Studans now going door-to-door asking media organisations to substantively cover welfare rights issues
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"The sun may not always shine and the wind may not always blow, but neither can they be halted by an embargo or balance-of-payments crisis." lines I wish I'd thought of
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
How to Be an “Electrostate”
The term has two meanings, and policymakers risk picking the wrong one.
carnegieendowment.org
September 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
"The sun may not always shine and the wind may not always blow, but neither can they be halted by an embargo or balance-of-payments crisis." lines I wish I'd thought of
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
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I’m sure this point has been made elsewhere but not only did they openly lie about how many recommendations were in the robodebt final report, the one they erased was to reform FOI and now they’re heading in the opposite direction. Surprise is not a feature of my reaction.
Minister for protecting gambling is now minister for wrecking FOI
Labor plans to make it harder to access government information
A new proposal would introduce a fee for Freedom of Information requests and tighten the rules around the release of documents related to government deliberations.
www.abc.net.au
September 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I’m sure this point has been made elsewhere but not only did they openly lie about how many recommendations were in the robodebt final report, the one they erased was to reform FOI and now they’re heading in the opposite direction. Surprise is not a feature of my reaction.
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People are singing the praises of induction in the comments, as they should, but no one has yet called out how *easy they are to clean*, especially relative to gas. As the kitchen cleaner in the Volts household, this is quite meaningful for me.
August 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
People are singing the praises of induction in the comments, as they should, but no one has yet called out how *easy they are to clean*, especially relative to gas. As the kitchen cleaner in the Volts household, this is quite meaningful for me.
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Commonwealth Ombudsman already smashed them and now not even govt's chosen auditing firm can say if the house of cards system of punitive mutual obligations is legal. Quite literally, they say, it is indefensible. Yet it persists. Even after Robodebt. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
Exclusive: Government warned over ‘legal basis’ of welfare system
Despite being warned in 2018 that jobseekers were being exposed to unfair and excessive decisions, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations ‘chose to continue with the status quo’.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
August 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Commonwealth Ombudsman already smashed them and now not even govt's chosen auditing firm can say if the house of cards system of punitive mutual obligations is legal. Quite literally, they say, it is indefensible. Yet it persists. Even after Robodebt. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
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We’ve been doing a bit of thinking and come to a similar spot conceptually, though with a “keep total revenue of road user charge and fuel emissions charge in the same range as net excise/credits/heavy vehicle charge revenue today” envelope for the early years, for acceptability reasons
August 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
We’ve been doing a bit of thinking and come to a similar spot conceptually, though with a “keep total revenue of road user charge and fuel emissions charge in the same range as net excise/credits/heavy vehicle charge revenue today” envelope for the early years, for acceptability reasons
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Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive theconversation.com/...
Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive
A new road charge mooted for electric vehicle drivers is based on a fundamental misconception.
theconversation.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive theconversation.com/...
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The government will quickly discover that the answer to the question 'how does internet work' isn't magnets.
Anyways - stated vs revealed preferences of public safety concerns etc etc. "We (the public) want YOU to do something, but anything that makes ME do something will not be tolerated"
Anyways - stated vs revealed preferences of public safety concerns etc etc. "We (the public) want YOU to do something, but anything that makes ME do something will not be tolerated"
July 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The government will quickly discover that the answer to the question 'how does internet work' isn't magnets.
Anyways - stated vs revealed preferences of public safety concerns etc etc. "We (the public) want YOU to do something, but anything that makes ME do something will not be tolerated"
Anyways - stated vs revealed preferences of public safety concerns etc etc. "We (the public) want YOU to do something, but anything that makes ME do something will not be tolerated"