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Avoid Mushroom Clouds. Nev

Sir, sir! Please tell me how to digitally migrate away from a physical threat? Does A.I. now have the power to teleport? Need to know as I have holidays coming up.

I note that although the recent official graphs show a slight decrease in domestic electricity consumption, I think they cannot measure most of the locally consumed rootop solar, so they miss that. In my case, my solar has logged as much power as my street meter consumption, but my bill only showed a third of that going back into the grid. So nationally, average household power consumption has increased steadily over the years. Of course bills go up. Consumer lifestyle is the real reason for the increased power bills.

Talking about building new coal generators. How many billions of dollars would it cost to build the building on a previously undeveloped area of land? Leave out the cost of installing and commsiioning the generating components of a power station.

Just doing a 'back of the napkin' calc.... Average Australian wage is circa $100k per annum. Say 30% income tax, leaves $70k real income. My power bill is about $1300 per annum. Isn't that 1.8% of wages going on electricity? Even if the government (who incidentally don't own the power system anymore) make electricity free it hardly impacts the overall cost of living.

It might be time to investigate the purchase of a UPS for the CPAP?

Then cost of domestic electricity is the monthly bill, not the unit rate. To suggest otherwise is misleading. As a consumer I don’t care if a big part of my monthly bill is now going to build power lines across paddocks, or whatever. Just the total. And yes, I have rooftop solar. The blackouts today are not as long as they were a few years ago. But even a short blackout is annoying when you have to reset several clocks in modern devices like the oven. And it is very annoying when your CPAP stops in the middle of the night and you wake up gasping for air.

It was cheap and reliable, but so were model T Fords in their time. Times and technology has moved on, and, sadly for some, the alternatives are cheaper, more reliable, require much less maintenance, and produce less emissions to boot. Model T fords in today's money were about USD $15000 (AUD$21,000). For $19,000 you can get small hatch backs.. now, who is going to buy a car to the Model T spec for $21,000 when you can have the alternatives cheaper? Not too many takers, I would think. Yes, there has to be an investment to bring it on to critical mass, just like there was an investment in coal stations. Remember, all of Australia's power generation was originally government owned because of the investments required - before the governments sold the family silver. I guess candles and horses weren't enough. It's not woke, it's economics - pure and simple. I recall plenty of blackouts as a kid... when it was virtually all coal. And a hell of a lot less demand than today - no air conditoners and the like fo us commoners. When I worked in the industry, the maintenance of coal plants was horrendous compared to even nuclear (nuclear was more expensive due to the standards, not the actual work that had to be done). We live in thereal world, with real data, not some nostalgiv throwback.

One of the more obvious clues is that the ABC is being really nice to Pauline Hanson in the article. They portray as it being Pauline and David Speers against the bank CEO. There's a lot of those types of scams going around quoting various celebrities like actors and celebrity chefs. They probably picked Pauline Hanson because she's been in the news a lot lately with media coverage of recent poll results.

It's a cunning scammy website artfully drawn up as an ABC interview, but it has links promoting scammy cryptocurrency. I wouldn't even click on the cryptocurrency links in the article, it probably goes to North Korean scam websites.

Mushroom does it for me. I hate mushrooms anyway, and will never touch them under any circumstances - but sometimes, some chef or cook will sneak mushrooms into a dish I've ordered and eaten, and I don't find out until my anal region starts exploding, with a smell that makes a sewerage plant smell like a Chanel perfume factory. And the damage keeps up for 2 to 3 days. It also happens when I see a dish, and it mentions mushrooms as an ingredient - so I ask if I can have without mushrooms. This generally results in the cook just scooping out the visible mushrooms, but leaving all the mushroom sauce. The result is the same as eating mushrooms.

I'd have to say Yes. Kenya was a British colony until Dec 12 1963, when it gained independence. Google tells me this much (but it's still subject to variables) .... Birthright Status (1949–1963): Anyone born in the colony between Jan 1, 1949, and Dec 11, 1963, was generally a Citizen of the UK & Colonies (CUKC). Independence Act 1963: On Dec 12, 1963, most people acquired Kenyan citizenship, and automatically lost their CUKC status. The Exceptions: People were allowed to retain British status (becoming British Overseas Citizens or, in some cases, full British Citizens) if they, their father, or their paternal grandfather was born in the United Kingdom or a place that remained a colony. Disparity in Citizenship: This, in practice, favoured white settlers with direct, recent connections to Britain, while many Asian and Black Kenyan residents found themselves in a precarious position regarding their right to reside in Britain or Kenya. SWMBO initially married a bloke in the late 1960's, who was Kenyan born - of mixed descent. His father was British and Anglo-Saxon. But his mother was born in Nairobi, of Dutch-Lebanese/African parentage, and her parents came from the Seychelles. But SWMBO's daughter (my stepdaughter) found she was entitled to a British passport, because her dad, and both his parents, came to Australia in the early 1950's, on British passports.

Tell me one thing that hasn't got more expensive over time.

That was a paper written 8 years ago. Latest scientific research shows the sea level has indeed risen. Physical evidence confirms this. There are numerous reports also. This is googles AI perspective. Tuvalu faces an existential threat from climate change, with rising sea levels expected to submerge much of its low-lying land (average elevation <2 meters) by 2050 and render 95% of the nation uninhabitable by 2100. The sea around Tuvalu is rising at roughly 4-5mm per year, significantly faster than the global average. Saltwater intrusion is contaminating groundwater and crops, forcing the nation to consider adapting through land reclamation or potential digital migration.

Yes Pete, that is a cold blast lantern. The Chinese lanterns these days are like a lot of their stuff; it looks the part but el-cheapo made. I've got one that's a copy of that Dietz blizzard in the above photo and the metal is paper thin. Even with a big tank, it would be lighter full of fuel than an empty Dietz. A lot of the Hong Kong made lanterns were good in the days before it was all China. I think in those days the manufacturers had some pride in making a decent product.

Curried egg and red onion is a potent combination.

Last time I looked, Base rate here is 36c/kwh. Plus about $90 p.a. connection fee. So we pay about $1200 per year for electrons. I recently bought a bunch of used 190w panels for $5 each. The solar installers just want to get rid of them when they do upgrades. If my grid power was so unreliable , i'd whack a couple of kw of them on the shed roof and use a cheap inverter to keep the fridge going during the day.

$0.3699 There's other charges as well, all the funny money they rip out of you.

So, is that one in your picture a cold blast type? I keep a couple of lamps. I have a new Cokeman pressure lamp but it isn't a patch on my dad's old Aladdin that we used when I was a kid. The chinese copies look just like the originals, but seem to be made of plasticine. Not at all sturdy.

Just out of interest, what are you paying per kWh

I've filled 23 1/2 pages of a medium size writing pad with dates and times of blackouts since 2015 - twenty lines per page, and each line represents a blackout. Moreover, I can't see an end to these blackouts. And there's no end to charging more for power.

That is why I tried to expose the complexity of attempting to call out the validity or otherwise of sea level rise. The present satellite averaging measurements are the best we have. We are all aware of the risk of cherry picking a location that 'proves' a particular suspicion of acual sea level then extrapolating it global levels. Time will tell. But changing our energy sources away from fossil fuels will improve global health regardless of 'global warming' effects. Isn't that worthwhile?

I accept my own data, too. About electricity prices. (Not vaxines) I have recollections of capital city outages (back in the 1980's Qld). And my bills back then. Now I have lower electricity bills than ever, in dollar values not corrected for CPI. I now get very rare (brief) outages. Less than ever. My conclusion is that the modern evolving mix of solar and conventional (old school) generation has cut my monthly expenses. And increased continuity of supply.