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[StFly]

It's Hitler Mussolini for me

Here was me thinking you'd go for the obvious Dick Long.

I googled Kash Register because I thought someone was taking the piss. It turns out that Kash Register's life is an interesting one. He spent 34 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder. Was finally released and received $16.7M in compo

Shoulda gone Donald Duck instead for the puns, just your usual casual "multiple dui" American who wanted some fast food, got bored, drank some piss, drank some more, decided to pass the wait time by planting the foot and ramming his van into the car in front of him at a Little Ceasers in Ohio with "soz mate, something's wrong with muh brakes".

So of course, enter duck commentary as police arrive on the scene and "Duck, Donald Duck" also flatly admitted to both having a few drinks, smoking a bit of pot, having both on him in the van, failing everything required and the cops being very serious in stating how "he's a frequent flier" as a direct quote from that county's sheriff since this was like his 6th DUI at this point.

And to make it even more lol, he's a Democrat and his middle name is Norman and he does have someone in his fam as a Patricia Duck. We all know Patricia gets shortened to Pat for Donald Duck and Pat Duck...

 

[Dard Ball Get]

 

[George]

 

[NoisyMinor]

Brain dead to vote Dem in 2024

Just 2024?

Braindead to be neo-communist in any era.

 

[StFly]

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I raise you interested party member.

 

[gringo2011]

Anyone here ever microdose mushrooms? How did it work out for you

A mate does it, I'll ask, I'm catching up with him tonight. Last time I asked him he seemed to think it helped with low mood sort of stuff. He's not the type you'd think would take shrooms either so probably a good person to ask.

 

[George]

Daddy's been on fire lately

 

[PoppedCorn]

Barry Shitpeas
Lol

 

[SaintTwitch]

 

[George]

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Ya ****in cooked campaigner

 

[NoisyMinor]

 

[PoppedCorn]

Prep time

 

[PoppedCorn]

For the real humans

 

[Tyrian Lonestar]

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For the real humans

 

[BigPowerForward]

Accurate assessment IMO

 

[CursingFijian]

What’s his agenda do you reckon?

 

[True Believer]

What’s his agenda do you reckon?

money...........

 

[PoppedCorn]

For those that know
Those specials run for the next couple of days
25 off black barrel

 

[gringo2011]

What’s his agenda do you reckon?

Probably put money into renewables or has miners for rare earth stuff needed in renewables? Either way nuclear is a stalling pipe dream.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Probably put money into renewables or has miners for rare earth stuff needed in renewables? Either way nuclear is a stalling pipe dream.

One issue with Nuclear, is it means you really need to lock into it to get something back for the investment.
If you used renewables as well as Nuclear, you'd need to pay both back.
To only use a Nuclear power station when wind and solar are not available, means you get a few hours a day ( assuming more wind and solar ) to pay back your investment.

Gas is cheaper to build, so you can basically build it as a backup, though no-one will want to build the more expensive co-generation gas plants. They'd rather run the inefficient 1970s ones they already have.

If you look at what batteries are currently costing, to get really useful statewide backup , you're looking at spending as much as a nuclear power station costs.

 

[StFly]

One issue with Nuclear, is it means you really need to lock into it to get something back for the investment.
If you used renewables as well as Nuclear, you'd need to pay both back.
To only use a Nuclear power station when wind and solar are not available, means you get a few hours a day ( assuming more wind and solar ) to pay back your investment.

Gas is cheaper to build, so you can basically build it as a backup, though no-one will want to build the more expensive co-generation gas plants. They'd rather run the inefficient 1970s ones they already have.

If you look at what batteries are currently costing, to get really useful statewide backup , you're looking at spending as much as a nuclear power station costs.

Arguably we need to invest in wave more, as since majority are coastal, and we're a big island, there's a lot of potential in farming the oceans that surround us to then provide the power in the densest spots on the coastlines population wise for secondary renewables. What was it 2 years ago they trialled wave tech in the strait for Tassie to some success, but say, global warming stuff;

Solar in the big middle, as durr, run those lines in the hottest parts where the sun hangs the longest in the sky.
Wave around the coasts, as if you get 50% of totals at present, as the tech progresses and the seas and such swell more and more, you can cover more of the sun and wind with wave.

Whilst gas is cheaper to build, it's not really to run as we export most of it elsewhere anyway.

 

[NoisyMinor]

Everyone's a thermodynamic expert, eh?

 

[gringo2011]

One issue with Nuclear, is it means you really need to lock into it to get something back for the investment.
If you used renewables as well as Nuclear, you'd need to pay both back.
To only use a Nuclear power station when wind and solar are not available, means you get a few hours a day ( assuming more wind and solar ) to pay back your investment.

Gas is cheaper to build, so you can basically build it as a backup, though no-one will want to build the more expensive co-generation gas plants. They'd rather run the inefficient 1970s ones they already have.

If you look at what batteries are currently costing, to get really useful statewide backup , you're looking at spending as much as a nuclear power station costs.

They’re going to have to put batteries on houses and in smaller storage units. Storage big enough for anything serious would be prohibitively expensive. Up in the bush I have several batteries instead on one big pack. Cheap to buy and replace and do everything I need.

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Up in the bush I have several batteries instead on one big pack. Cheap to buy and replace and do everything I need.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Arguably we need to invest in wave more, as since majority are coastal, and we're a big island, there's a lot of potential in farming the oceans that surround us to then provide the power in the densest spots on the coastlines population wise for secondary renewables. What was it 2 years ago they trialled wave tech in the strait for Tassie to some success, but say, global warming stuff;

Solar in the big middle, as durr, run those lines in the hottest parts where the sun hangs the longest in the sky.
Wave around the coasts, as if you get 50% of totals at present, as the tech progresses and the seas and such swell more and more, you can cover more of the sun and wind with wave.

Whilst gas is cheaper to build, it's not really to run as we export most of it elsewhere anyway.

We need commercially viable.
Waves....no-one can build a useful sized commercially viable power station yet.

Solar panels need "light" not heat. They actually work best in full sun on a cold day.
Thermal solar, reflectors to a central heat source use heat, but once again, not horribly viable, though there have been some interesting pilot sized plants.

People keep talking about Electicity like its transportable.
You really need to be within 500km of a power source , and you still get 10% total system loss. ( part of that is transmission loss ).
You can use a DC link, which has less loss over longer distance, but then you can't use it along the way.
A DC transmission line loses around 3.5% per 1000km. It works better underwater, because conductivity is better in the cold.
The conversion at the end is expensive.
If you had a big solar farm at Perth, you could ship the solar energy to Melbourne at prime time, but if you wanted to ship to Adelaide too, you'd need a separate link. New Zealand probably feasible too.

Of course Victoria's government didn't realise this when they promised Alcoa Portland years of cheap power, at the opposite end of the state to where the power stations were.
They were also kind of left trying to come up with a reason they were spending millions on transmission lines...."ohhh uh....we're uh...building a national grid link to South Australia " true story.
If they hadn't needed to get electricity to Portland in huge chunks, we probably wouldn't be connected to S.A.