Simon Monk ⚡️☀️💨🔋🚘

Climate Investor focused on the Energy transition with extensions to both political and legal outcomes. Follows curiosity. Sydney based.

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@John_Hempton I remember during the dot com bust, Mr Andreesen famously said “the only question you need to ask is whether there’ll be more internet or less internet”. I think here it’s more like x10? 100x? 1,000x?

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Fantastically feisty interview with Da Wei @DSORennie you teased out some interesting perspectives. Let’s hope the CCP was watching & listening too.

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@TheEconomist @DSORennie LOL at your closing comment about ‘not pegging Bolton as an optimist’ 😂

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⁦@annabelcrabb⁩ great read. I suppose they could instantly double their female representation by (somehow) inducing all the Independents back into the liberal fold. Not that that’s ever going to happen! https://t.co/FlXN0a8vwI

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@MrRexPatrick I beg to differ. I’m no LNP fan, but seriously, who would want to have to lead a country through a pandemic? 🤯 He and the other state leaders did a remarkable job. Very Australian.

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@DSORennie A good quote David: “In the end the so-called nation-builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.”

Hard not to agree with Trump…

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@GodfreeTrh @DSORennie Well, they tried hard in Australia, but changed course when that didn’t work.

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@mattjcan There’s a startup business for everything Matt. Plenty of innovation

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Good piece by ⁦@latingle⁩ - where to from here? https://t.co/KrgKIdLHud

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Not sure how many people realize that battery storage already supplies 30% of California’s electricity demand at peak.

Batteries aren’t the future — they’re here now.

[Simon Monk ⚡️☀️💨🔋🚘 @SimonMonk]

👇Yup
“Labor’s extraordinary electoral victory is now coupled with the incomparable political gift of the implosion of the Opposition and a climate and energy-forward crossbench.”
Via Climate Energy Finance

[Simon Monk ⚡️☀️💨🔋🚘 @SimonMonk]

TACO = Trump Always Chickens Out 😂 is what’s doing the rounds in the markets

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Decarbonizing the last few percent
By @MLiebreich

https://t.co/7N7vPnvpQP

[Simon Monk ⚡️☀️💨🔋🚘 @SimonMonk]

… down to the wire with 43 votes - come on people of Bradfield

[Simon Monk ⚡️☀️💨🔋🚘 @SimonMonk]

Tim Wilson in Goldstein down to 292 votes - and falling…

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Perhaps Tim Wilson has claimed victory in Goldstein too soon - his lead is down to 401 votes with 7% still remaining

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59 votes 🫣 59 votes. 😬

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“Had the coalition, when in office in 2015, not scrapped a carbon price, Australia would be collecting A$70bn ($45.2bn) more each year in revenue, says Ross Garnaut”

Precisely.

https://t.co/ArgMbQjjQD

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@BrisMarSci @slsandpet All true … except both the polls and the betting markets had him winning until earlier this year

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@eward246 @simonahac What an appalling situation. Almost no talent anywhere except a lust for power. That’s not going to cut it. Where will the new opposition that holds the government of the day to account going to come from?