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Alex St John
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Policy peep. Interests in climate & energy, science, research, higher ed and #auspol. Lapsed chemist. Skews wonky. Likes greyhounds and applied underwater physics.
Post this morning from Chris Bowen about additions to battery level storage, using the non-standard energy unit of a Toast. But suspect the real story is deeper here, and fully expect commentariat to be examining whether the quantum of Vegemite applied is appropriate, politically or culturally.
September 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Supplementary props to whoever at unimelb put together this flowchart to eliminate catastrophic apostrophal decisonal paralysis:

web.archive.org/web/20190105...

(It even includes fun self-quizzes to assess your level of mastery of the comma that gets above its station)
September 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Moment of energy nerd joy - my solar app has become a Sankey diagram. Now kind of want to add in energy harvested from the environment via heat pumps as well.
June 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
And to revive this.. a new level of hatred is unlocked by derived units. Seriously.
May 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
April 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
A heat pump that delivers heat up to 250ºC.. and it looks like a V8. (Or a V6 I suppose). And uses helium as a working fluid. Surely everyone's got to be on board with this...
businessnorway.com/solutions/en...
January 9, 2024 at 5:27 AM