Stephen Pritchard
@scpritch.bsky.social
consumer renewable energy, cognitive science
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I do bloody love this chart. Who'd have thought, 20 years ago, that solar would be ~10% of world electricity generation by 2024 - and over 20% in some countries, rising rapidly in others?
Definitely not me. When I started this job I hoped to be part of a solution for maybe 1% of global electricity.
Definitely not me. When I started this job I hoped to be part of a solution for maybe 1% of global electricity.
August 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I do bloody love this chart. Who'd have thought, 20 years ago, that solar would be ~10% of world electricity generation by 2024 - and over 20% in some countries, rising rapidly in others?
Definitely not me. When I started this job I hoped to be part of a solution for maybe 1% of global electricity.
Definitely not me. When I started this job I hoped to be part of a solution for maybe 1% of global electricity.
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Rooftop solar power in Australia is the cheapest power available to consumers in the world, full stop. I wish more people knew that.
July 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Rooftop solar power in Australia is the cheapest power available to consumers in the world, full stop. I wish more people knew that.
Absolutely this!
May 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Absolutely this!
Amazing viewing!
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Amazing viewing!
This.
Really starting to seem like the folks with bags of money buying the influence their ideas can't win don't have the first clue what they're doing. Weird.
April 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This.
Good luck Brisbane and surrounds.
March 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Good luck Brisbane and surrounds.
Back scratches in the in the sun
March 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Back scratches in the in the sun
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Posting this every year until I die
February 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Posting this every year until I die
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When I see libertarians supporting nuclear power in Australia, I often wonder at what point they might ask themselves: what the hell am I doing?
Neoliberalism is dead. So why haven’t Australia’s leaders got the message? | John Quiggin www.theguardian.com/...
Neoliberalism is dead. So why haven’t Australia’s leaders got the message? | John Quiggin
Until centre-left parties can escape the mental prison built by decades of soft neoliberalism, it is what we are likely to get
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
When I see libertarians supporting nuclear power in Australia, I often wonder at what point they might ask themselves: what the hell am I doing?
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I've never thought I've myself as stupid, but I'm finding almost everything incomprehensible at the moment.
January 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I've never thought I've myself as stupid, but I'm finding almost everything incomprehensible at the moment.
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A mom just came in SO EXCITED to find a map store bc her son would LOVE it.
She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid."
I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends.
She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid."
I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends.
December 17, 2024 at 10:42 PM
A mom just came in SO EXCITED to find a map store bc her son would LOVE it.
She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid."
I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends.
She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid."
I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends.
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Terrific piece of story telling here on the 2009 heatwave.
New feature on Australia's deadliest disaster, one you've probably never heard of: the 2009 heatwave.
By me and Tyne Logan as part of the new podcast series The Weather That Changed Us. Stunning illustrations by Stacy Gougoulis.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
By me and Tyne Logan as part of the new podcast series The Weather That Changed Us. Stunning illustrations by Stacy Gougoulis.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Australia's deadliest natural disaster flew under the radar but killed hundreds
Public life ground to a halt, many lost power, and scores of people died behind closed doors. What sounds like the start of a post-apocalyptic movie is in fact Melbourne in January 2009.
www.abc.net.au
December 17, 2024 at 5:20 AM
Terrific piece of story telling here on the 2009 heatwave.
4 million rooftop PV systems installed + 250,000 household batteries in Aus. The latter happened with only patchy State-based support. Aggregated household solar and storage is already the same order of magnitude as total utility scale. Electrification, flex loads and EVs too.
Instead of waiting years for a handful of billion-dollar projects, tens of thousands of electricians can rewire hundreds of thousands of households. It is lower risk and faster than boondoggles like Snowy 2.0.
Energy market review must deliver a “new deal” for consumers
Instead of waiting years for a handful of billion-dollar projects, tens of thousands of electricians can rewire hundreds of thousands of households. It is lower risk and faster than boondoggles lik…
reneweconomy.com.au
December 3, 2024 at 5:01 AM
4 million rooftop PV systems installed + 250,000 household batteries in Aus. The latter happened with only patchy State-based support. Aggregated household solar and storage is already the same order of magnitude as total utility scale. Electrification, flex loads and EVs too.
First became aware of this guy and ABARE in the early 00's, when ABARE was persistently underpredicting oil price rises for some reason, back when $40/barrel was high.
Brian Fisher, an economist employed for decades by the Australian government, was essential to obstructing not just climate policy in Australia but global climate action. drilled.media/news/Ipieca3
The Australian Public Servant Who Helped The Oil Industry Convince The World That Stopping Climate Change Was Too Expensive
Brian Fisher, an economist employed for decades by the Australian government, was essential to obstructing not just climate policy in Australia but global climate action.
drilled.media
December 3, 2024 at 1:59 AM
First became aware of this guy and ABARE in the early 00's, when ABARE was persistently underpredicting oil price rises for some reason, back when $40/barrel was high.
I dislike creating the impression of being a Tesla bro which I am not, and yet this article was terrible, and @ketanjoshi.co is letting his reasonable disapproval of Musk/Tesla lead him to push this story uncritically.
Tesla is a company with an arrogant, greedy and individualist mindset - it doesn't seem surprising that they're intentionally making their battery products lack operability on the grid.
Ultimately this means Tesla is slowing the grid transition so they can rake in bigger profits
Ultimately this means Tesla is slowing the grid transition so they can rake in bigger profits
Elon Musk's Tesla is collecting taxpayer subsidies for batteries that 'deprive' consumers of basic services
They're among the most popular household batteries and eligible for lucrative taxpayer subsidies, but critics say Tesla's products are costing consumers and the grid.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2024 at 12:32 PM
I dislike creating the impression of being a Tesla bro which I am not, and yet this article was terrible, and @ketanjoshi.co is letting his reasonable disapproval of Musk/Tesla lead him to push this story uncritically.
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@davidchalmers.bsky.social is on bluesky. Follow him and tell him not to leave a vacuum in philosophical thought #AGIComics
November 23, 2024 at 6:47 PM
@davidchalmers.bsky.social is on bluesky. Follow him and tell him not to leave a vacuum in philosophical thought #AGIComics
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Some words about my intellectual hero and dear friend, Dan Dennett
iai.tv/articles/dan...
iai.tv/articles/dan...
Daniel Dennett: The man who saw reality's patterns
<p><em>With the passing of Daniel Dennett, Keith Frankish reflects on his life and the power of his thought. Daniel Dennett was one of the greatest philosophers of our age, his clarity of thinking bro...
iai.tv
April 22, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Some words about my intellectual hero and dear friend, Dan Dennett
iai.tv/articles/dan...
iai.tv/articles/dan...
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HEY LOVELIES - here's a fresh new blog post for you 😘
X is something entirely new: it has the clout and influence of Twitter, blended with the hate of 4chan and the lies of TruthSocial.
And it lingers because its users don't see themselves as the fuel poured into the hate machine.
X is something entirely new: it has the clout and influence of Twitter, blended with the hate of 4chan and the lies of TruthSocial.
And it lingers because its users don't see themselves as the fuel poured into the hate machine.
You are the fuel that energises Elon Musk’s hate machine
Twitter is dead. It has been replaced by something we have never seen before: a blend of highly engaged, influential media/political accounts posting happily inside the newly formed infrastructure of ...
ketanjoshi.co
April 19, 2024 at 9:39 PM
HEY LOVELIES - here's a fresh new blog post for you 😘
X is something entirely new: it has the clout and influence of Twitter, blended with the hate of 4chan and the lies of TruthSocial.
And it lingers because its users don't see themselves as the fuel poured into the hate machine.
X is something entirely new: it has the clout and influence of Twitter, blended with the hate of 4chan and the lies of TruthSocial.
And it lingers because its users don't see themselves as the fuel poured into the hate machine.
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Astrophysicists theorize that 85% of the day is spent doing “dark work” which cannot be directly measured but is implied by how tired I feel
March 28, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Astrophysicists theorize that 85% of the day is spent doing “dark work” which cannot be directly measured but is implied by how tired I feel
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Two reasons to look beyond the hype on this announcement: www.afr.com/politics/fed...
PM pours $1b into solar panel manufacturing
The Albanese government will dedicate $1 billion towards the domestic production of solar panels, including in coal-rich Hunter Valley.
www.afr.com
March 28, 2024 at 6:41 AM
Two reasons to look beyond the hype on this announcement: www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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My partner and his family are from Maine, he works closely w/ organizations based in Portland. Last night we both got on X for the first time in months hoping that there might be some chance it could still work as a realtime news source when we didn’t see much here. The answer, absolutely not.
October 26, 2023 at 11:49 AM
My partner and his family are from Maine, he works closely w/ organizations based in Portland. Last night we both got on X for the first time in months hoping that there might be some chance it could still work as a realtime news source when we didn’t see much here. The answer, absolutely not.