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I haven't started my mower for two years.

Smelters should Near where Castings are done, but the Major Part of the energy is in the Smelting. Being a smallish island adds cost to everything done in Tassie. Nev

Albanese is attempting to do Just what you ask for. Value add and be More self sufficient. Address Balance of trade.. Nev

Always spectacular. Worse when storage affected or it's an OIL well. Remember Red Adair?. The Bloke who specialised in extinguishing Oil well fires. Nev

So you Keep saying. but are we Jumping the gun (Not a very scientific saying) or Being slow on the Uptake and held up by the NO People and Coal worshippers with THEIR Vested Interests.? Nev

I'll take your word for that but wouldn't it depend on the Relative Humidity and how long since it died as to how dry it was. The height of the cloud base gives a fair idea of the RL. Have a rock and cactus Garden and think of the Lawn mower fuel you are saving. Nev

Make sure AI will do what it's told before you start it..Nev

Midsomer.

I thought those small vilalges with high murder rates were only in Midsummer.

I can't see AI doing this sort of job.

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Not at my place. Therfe was more moisture on a dead dingo's donger than came from the sky.

Well, this isn't good. I live about 5km from here, luckily, so far the wind seems to be blowing away from us. This surely is not good, given the fuel situation.

Not being negative, just being realistic. Australia is/has become a quarry and I am concerned for my kids and grandkids future. Recently did a course with some workers from Bell Bay. All were in their early 20's, I wander how they are feeling! Build a new plant. We need some industry. Exporting our carbon emissions overseas is not good for Australia prosperity or the worlds carbons emmisions anyway. Far better to do some value adding here economically or environmentally even if it does mean keeping our coal for longer. Even if intermittents are going to work, we aren't ready for them and jumping the gun is costing us.

Tasmania has always needed supplementary fossil fuel to supplement hydro power availability for the Bell Bay smelter, which uses about 25% of Tasmania’s power. Hydro is at capacity without new dams, which are unlikely to be built. The Basslink interconnector now smooths out supply. If the smelter closes Tasmania should not need any fossil fuel.

Barnaby French is a detective in a small village in Provence with a high murder rate.

I never thought you were real.

Gee Jerry. Thanks for the update. I think we are in for an interesting rollercoaster ride. My attempt to digest all the implications is like trying to predict what chump is going to say or do next.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_French https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Magyar Can't find anyone with a surname of Australian, New3 Zealander, Canadian, or Kiwi (but there are a few people with a first name of Kiwi): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Camara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Chow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Gardner And there are a few others if you care to look.

I maintain that we produce a higher grade of bullshit than AI could.

That fish should be thrown back.

I agree. these are dexterity professions at the end of the day, for which robotics isn't there, yet. But, if we look at the medical profession, there are already AI based diagnostic services that can do a better job than very well trained practitioners: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-ai-powered-service-launched-transform-cancer-detection-and-care There is AI assited surgery: https://www.brainlab.com/surgery-products/overview-platform-products/robotics/?gad_campaignid=22014774702&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw7vzOBhBxEiwAc7WNr-bTvUhd2xifCHStu-okO4oq5o9MSC5hM48hvZBSMAE9fO_DBJGuXxoCINwQAvD_BwE There is robotic drain/sewerage cleaning systems: https://www.srodrobotics.com/product/category/dredging-and-sewage-suction?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22856888573&gclid=CjwKCAjw7vzOBhBxEiwAc7WNr2fW35dyHvXA8NWv2txpE0rvVH7wI4sUCAIgCWA-ispgrIf3n7nfshoCHWYQAvD_BwE There is AI assited teaching.. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/teachers-to-get-more-trustworthy-ai-tech-as-generative-tools-learn-from-new-bank-of-lesson-plans-and-curriculums-helping-them-mark-homework-and-save All designed to improve productivitty and outcomes. If you improve productivity, you require less production - in this case humans. An ex employee of mine who suffers clinical depresseion (thankfully he still works with our company, but has been promoted and moved to an area where he wants to be - far more cerebral than what my team does), when suffering an episode calls for a large scale mass nucelar war to reset humanity. However, there are nefarious and ethical actors; AI represents a huge opportunity to improve everyone's lives and hopefully remove the mass inequities that fuel hatred, wars, and the like. Of course, we are miles from there, but maybe not as far off as people think.

Don't worry ome, there's a reason the presenter asks the question at 0:47 in the video. They've been wrong about El Nino for the last couple of years. They told us El Nino would produce a drier than normal summer and we had one of the wettest on record, so there's hope at your place yet.

A few named English. The only French I've known of was one of our local lads in my dad's Batallion, got a posthumous VC at Milne Bay.

I'm so not looking forward to this.