Play Nice Random Chat Thread VI

[Snake_Baker]

Doubt it'll happen in Australia anytime soon.

No, Bandt's policy is to harvest unicorn s**t as a source of power.

Politicians need to step aside and let the intelligent people deal with the big issues.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

No, Bandt's policy is to harvest unicorn sh*t as a source of power.

Pfft, that's just silly...






Everyone knows Leprechauns produce a far greater output.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

No, Bandt's policy is to harvest unicorn sh*t as a source of power.

Hes a lower house MP from a 3rd party.

 

[ferball]

Hes a lower house MP from a 3rd party.

Nah man. He is responsible for everything.

 

[Val Keating]

My money is on Tim Dillon.

Hmmm Tim would try and write ‘Joe Rogan had his way with my mom’.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Hes a lower house MP from a 3rd party.

You take what you can get.

He clearly couldn't qualify as a shithouse cleaner at Flinders Street Station.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Hmmm Tim would try and write ‘Joe Rogan had his way with my mom’.

He's brilliant.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

You take what you can get.

He clearly couldn't qualify as a shithouse cleaner at Flinders Street Station.

No youve missed the point again. You’ve quoted an incredibly well funded lobby group; while pretending a lower house 3rd party MP has any real influence.

 

[Val Keating]

He's brilliant.

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Did you listen to his podcast after he posted that? His auntie had a go at him in his comments on Instagram, he spent about a half hour just shredding her. His best was his dispute with air bnb and the lesbian couple whose house he rented.

 

[The Warlord]

The UK's approach is one to study, as they are relying a lot on market-based solutions rather than a mix-match of public subsidies/private investment like most countries. Not sure it will work as I think it is better to have the best of both worlds, so to speak. The mix-match of nuclear and other technologies is also interesting.

Nuclear Power in the United Kingdom |UK Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear Association

Nuclear energy in the UK, nuclear power in the United Kingdom, the history of nuclear energy in the UK including nuclear power plants and facilities at Sellafield, Sizewell, Bradwell, Berkely, Hinkley, Hunterston, Hartlepool, Heysham, Oldbury, Wylfa, Dungeness, Braystones, Kirksanton

www.world-nuclear.org

• The UK generates about 20% of its electricity from nuclear, but almost half of current capacity is to be retired by 2025.
• Coal-powered stations to be shut down by 2025.
• The UK has implemented a thorough assessment process for new reactor designs and their siting.
• The UK has privatized power generation and liberalized its electricity market, which together make major capital investments problematic.
• Construction has commenced on the first of a new generation of nuclear plants. Chinese investment and collaboration is present. The China energy links is something that can become relevant to Australia rather quickly.

All that is true, but more prosaically, the Uk Tories went nuts over Brexit but stayed sane on climate. Our Tories went nuts over climate.

 

[The Warlord]

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Over to you Adam Bandt!

In a perfect world we would have built nuke in the 60s and 70s.

But we didn't, and they take so long and are so expensive to build, there's no point now.

We can - and will - and go net zero carbon in our electricity generation very quickly via renewables, and with the right approach, be exporting green energy to the region via hydrogen.

Nuke is a dead end in the Australian context.

It's like saying we should have gone all in to get Tom Lynch as a key forward when he was a free agent, then our forward line issues would be solved.

 

[The Warlord]

A consortium led by Rolls-Royce has announced plans to build up to 16 mini-nuclear plants, referred to as “small modular reactors” (SMR). Rolls-Royce and its partners argue that instead of building nuclear mega-projects, the UK should construct a series of smaller nuclear plants from “modules” made in factories.

Yeah and St Kilda had a plan to win the flag this year.

Look what's actually happened in the real world with UK nuke.

Hinkley Point nuclear plant building costs rise by up to £2.9bn

EDF Energy blames ground conditions for rise but says energy bills will not go up

www.theguardian.com

Nuke is a dead end game. If you have it now, yay good, makes life easier.

The future is not building more nuke.

 

[The Warlord]

No, Bandt's policy is to harvest unicorn sh*t as a source of power.

Politicians need to step aside and let the intelligent people deal with the big issues.

Bandt's policy is now also policy at the White House and 10 Downing Street.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Yeah and St Kilda had a plan to win the flag this year.

Look what's actually happened in the real world with UK nuke.

Hinkley Point nuclear plant building costs rise by up to £2.9bn

EDF Energy blames ground conditions for rise but says energy bills will not go up

www.theguardian.com

Nuke is a dead end game. If you have it now, yay good, makes life easier.

The future is not building more nuke.

If it is on RR’s private dime, then let them have a crack at it and see whether it is workable. Miniaturisation and prefabrication is something you are now seeing heavily in the defence industry worldwide.

I’m mainly on the fusion bandwagon rather than fissure, but it doesn’t hurt having a multilayered energy system as you’ve indicated.

 

[The Warlord]

One thing I find fascinating that energy policy is one area where Snake_Baker view is absolutely true.

Electrons don't hold political views. There aren't green electrons or Real Australia electrons or latte sipping electrons.

Yet Snake himself can't actually engage in the debate without crapping on about unicorn s**t and cleaning Flinder's Street station.

The reality is that Green policy on carbon and coal is now accepted worldwide as common sense.

It is the consensus view at the G7 Plus being held right now.

This has moved beyond a partisan political issue to accepted fact in the way we govern our affairs as a species.

 

[Ligma]

I’ve never seen a more cleaner knockout by A YOUTUBER elite faze Jarvis


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[The Warlord]

If it is on RR’s private dime, then let them have a crack at it and see whether it is workable.

It won't be, it never is.

It was government that made nuke possible and the nuke industry has always relied on enormous direct and indirect subsidy to be plausible.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

It won't be, it never is.

It was GOVERNMENT that made nuke possible and the nuke industry has always relied on enormous direct and indirect subsidy to be plausible.

Ergo, the if...

The relationship between private investment and public subsidies is utterly fascinating for nerds like me. I have studied the defence industry in that respect, so I wonder if the same principles apply to CC technology development.

 

[The Warlord]

Ergo, the if...

The relationship between private investment and public subsidies is utterly fascinating for nerds like me. I have studied the defence industry in that respect, so I wonder if the same principles apply to CC technology development.

The defence industry in the US is so hilarious, where bits of planes get built in 30 different states to get the necessary votes etc

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

The defence industry in the US is so hilarious, where bits of planes get built in 30 different states to get the necessary votes etc

Don’t get me started on the jsf program.

 

[Val Keating]

To get an idea of how short Rogan is, here he is next to Francis Ngannou

And here is Francis next to Embiid

Embiid is 213cm and Ngannou is 193 tbf.

 

[Themanbun]

Can any of our medical/science peeps help me out here?

I was just thinking yesterday how indistinguishable the 21st century seems to be from periods before it, and was disappointed at our rate of innovation in treating diseases. In the 20th century we had vaccines for Polio, basically eradicated TB and Rabies from the developed world, came up with treatments for cancer, etc.

It doesn't feel like we've advanced much from that. Is chemo still pretty damn s**t for the patient? How are we tracking on treatments for the big players like dementia, neurological disorders, immune system disorders, various cancers, arthritis, etc?

Obviously we have a vaccine for COVID but the resources going into that were unprecedented.

What are some cool medical innovations we've had in the past 20 years or so?

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Can any of our medical/science peeps help me out here?

I was just thinking yesterday how indistinguishable the 21st century seems to be from periods before it, and was disappointed at our rate of innovation in treating diseases. In the 20th century we had vaccines for Polio, basically eradicated TB and Rabies from the developed world, came up with treatments for cancer, etc.

It doesn't feel like we've advanced much from that. Is chemo still pretty damn sh*t for the patient? How are we tracking on treatments for the big players like dementia, neurological disorders, immune system disorders, various cancers, arthritis, etc?

Obviously we have a vaccine for COVID but the resources going into that were unprecedented.

What are some cool medical innovations we've had in the past 20 years or so?

The Top 10 Medical Advances of the Decade

ABC News and MedPage Today asked our medical sources and a distinguished panel of medical historians to put together a top 10 list of medical advances in the first decade of this century.

abcnews.go.com

Mind-Blowing Medical Advances | Syberscribe

The world of medicine is constantly changing. There have been some miracle advancements in the industry in the last decade, find out what they are.

www.syberscribe.com.au

The 3D printer stuff is astonishing.

 

[DesertRoo]

All that is true, but more prosaically, the Uk Tories went nuts over Brexit but stayed sane on climate. Our Tories went nuts over climate.

Never knew Australia had Tories.. learn something everyday

 

[Themanbun]

The Top 10 Medical Advances of the Decade

ABC News and MedPage Today asked our medical sources and a distinguished panel of medical historians to put together a top 10 list of medical advances in the first decade of this century.

abcnews.go.com

Mind-Blowing Medical Advances | Syberscribe

The world of medicine is constantly changing. There have been some miracle advancements in the industry in the last decade, find out what they are.

www.syberscribe.com.au

The 3D printer stuff is astonishing.

Interesting stuff. Fair call re: keyhole surgery as well, I forgot how much better that is for patient outcomes. A few of the other things look really promising but aren't rolled out as standard yet which is frustrating. I didn't know that re: heart attacks either.