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So... that's lie 30,001? It's probably easier to count the number of true things that come out of Trump's mouth. It'd be a very small number.

If the LNP were fair dinkum about power prices and/or climate change they would have gone to the CSIRO and said "What is the best mix, location, storage and distribution of generation which results in the lowest cost to consumers and can be up and running the quickest?" Instead they start with a solution that is NOT quick, not costed, and has countless legislative barriers. No thought, no planning. If that's how they do policy then why would you want them in government?

Wouldn't they be better off living in treed areas AWAY from the highway? (Roadkill...) Talking of which, I almost hit an owl on Friday morning when driving early. He was perched on a flattened wallaby. I braked for him and he managed to fly off about 2 inches in front of my grille. First time I've seen one for a while.

No problem at all.

It defies logic that any vehicle (or any other enclosed space for that matter) where humans use and have the potential to get trapped in, would not have a manual way of opening the door from the inside. That doesn't help the toddler of course, but you can always put a rock through the window from the outside.

I wish all these brainwashed Republicans would wake up and realise that their grandfathers / great-grandfathers went to Europe and fought a man who shared a great deal of similarity to the one they currently worship.

I thought "are" too, but "darest" threw me because I knew it wasn't a word.

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Are they the things around blue balls?

Tiny!

A recent Grand Designs episode showed a house with a new all-solar roof. Yes it was a big footprint but it was producing up to 250kwh a day. For comparison the average house uses about 8kwh. So for all new developments just legislate rooftop solar of sufficient capacity to power twice the number of dwellings, and a neighbourhood battery with the capacity to provide a week of power. Hey presto. No grid, bills that only cover maintenance of the system, and all clean.

Great, maybe you can buy it, subsidise the electricity costs and dispose of the waste. I'd rather have wind, solar and storage - battery and pumped hydro - which are all achievable at lower cost, have much lower ONGOING costs, and guess what - zero radioactive waste.

Over 150 roles in a 60year+ career. Whether he played the lead or a villain, he was always watchable.

Because it's a desert island, not a chocolate island?

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I call it upper-class welfare - enriching the shareholders at the expense of all taxpayers.

Why would you need a surfboard in the snow? 😄

It wasn't a bad tail!

Normal operating procedure for government (usually conservative) is: - use / waste taxpayer's money to produce the asset - charge taxpayers more money to use the asset - as soon as the asset starts making a profit, sell to private enterprise - private enterprise reduces service and raises prices. Either way the public is screwed. As soon as I can I'll be getting more panels, battery, and stop making the power company richer.

Yes, they are. But what worries me is the kind of unthinking agreement they'll get in a certain segment of the population. Hell, see the first response to the original post. What makes it worse is that they will appear to be striving to bring in a "clean" energy source, whereas they'll cynically drag it out, blowing out costs and wasting tens of billions of our money, to give their fossil fuel mates more profitable pollutin' time. I really hope a majority of Australians see through this charade and soundly reject the LNP.

I've been there but didn't kiss it Seeing a bunch of other tourists stick their lips on it kind of put me off.

If it makes financial sense, why won't private industry do it? There are heaps of wind and solar companies out there. Wind farm applications in many places around Australia. Yet the LNP, cheerleaders for free enterprise and unrestricted capitalism, are against that and only for expensive long term solutions which the government itself will fund? Why?? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-17/nuclear-investment-case-coalition-reactors-viable/103978266 I can't read your AFR post because it's behind a firewall. Could you tell me who the scientists are that the reporter used, and why they're more qualified than the CSIRO?

You're being agnostic, remember. To put it in a shopping metaphor (electricity being your product). You're at Coles, looking at the Electricity shelf. You know the product is exactly the same regardless of the brand. But different brands are different prices. Which one do you buy?

I think that says more about Toyota EV's than EV's in general. No one with a fully charged Tesla/BYD/MG would blink at a 200km round trip.

My question is based on cost. Let's agree that we should be agnostic on what the power source is. (Hey, even throw coal and gas in there if you want to). If you were presented with the following megawatt/hour cost chart, which one would you choose? And which would you NOT choose?