Ronald Brakels

50% solar & renewables tweets from a blogger. 50% insane gibberish. And that's about as good as you're likely to get.

[Ronald Brakels @BrakelsRonald]

@AaronMandell @CA_DWR The trouble with that is farmers generally pay under 10c a tonne for water in California and desalination is likely to cost at least 5 times as much. So a bit of a non-starter.

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@Waksman84 Here's what wind & solar have done to gas generation in South Australia. Gas (orange on the graph) has gone from 60% of generation to 21%, while wind & solar have risen to 73% of generation.
https://t.co/a2cNW1bXwG

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@DrSimEvans French reactors, quite tragically, pay more for fuel than Australian brown coal power stations. So if they can reduce output without large increases in maintenance costs, they will, because solar & wind have no fuel cost.

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@doodgerz @adamscochran Note a large number of Ukrainian deaths are civilians, including children. Russian deaths are nearly all fighting men. The ratio is roughly 4 Russian soldiers dead to 1 dead Ukrainian soldier.

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@DogeHogee @JessePeltan @elonmusk Like I said, this is beyond us.

Australian Tesla sales are down 66%. There could be other factors, but I'm blaming the lack of an indicator stalk.

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@elidourado But on the bright side, humans consume about 30 times more energy than ants and termites combined. (With termites being the elephant in the room, which is a good thing, because if it was an actual elephant the ants would eat it.)

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@JessePeltan It's about US$1,000 a year to run a small car in Australia, provided you're a cheap bastard. But now EVs are becoming cheaper in Australia than the US.

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@adamscochran The best thing the Nobel Committee could do right now is declare that Trump will never get a Nobel Peace Prize. Or, to avoid Trump nuking Sweden, award Nobel Peace Prizes for the next 5-10 years now.

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@adamscochran @SirWirtz In Australia, electoral redistribution is handled by the independent Australian Electoral Commission, so there is no Gerrymandering. I presume the US could have something similar, given a small surplus of goodwill over ill.

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@adamscochran @kylascan I liked having my mother read to me, but when I let it slip that I could read, she stopped doing it. That would have to be the worst mistake I made last year.

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@TrentTelenko Putting more Russian women into armaments manufacture would require wage & price controls to shift consumption from households to invading Ukraine. This wouldn't be popular. Russia is bending over backwards trying to keep up the supply of butter while trying to produce guns.

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@BretDevereaux Just as we would have sold global warming by now if people felt the cold *less* as they got older, we'd likely be living in utopia if people were able to clearly distinguish between joint pain and the decline of society.

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@adamscochran

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@malucopapi @adamscochran US GDP is 13 times larger than Russia's & this year Russian occupied Ukrainian territory has expanded by under 1%. If the US decides to, it can allow Ukraine to drive Russia out of its territory through donation of material alone. The power imbalance is that great.

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@WallStreetApes If the interest on a $427,500 loan is $897,840 over 30 years, then the interest rate is over 9.5%. Don't pay 9.5% on a home loan. However, since the US appears to be heading for stagflation thanks to the Trump admin, you may soon have no choice.

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@BretDevereaux @LMandrakeJr DARLING: I'm as British as Queen Victoria!!"
BLACKADDER: So your father's German, you're half German, and you married a German?

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@adamscochran It's hard to beat nuclear for what they have planned, but what they have planned makes no sense. If Australia had been 1st to put people on the moon we wouldn't be trying to "beat" China. Instead, we'd spend our days giving them crap about how our granddads already beat them.

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@dsquareddigest An immediate Taiwan invasion is unlikely, as I know China is privy to the secret histories, kept hidden from American school children, in which the US did not immediately lose World War II after President Roosevelt died.

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@dsquareddigest "For you, the day you found 6 tonnes of cocaine in a shipment of bananas was the greatest day of your life. But for New Zealand, it was Tuesday."