💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉

White privilege is what I *don't* have to put up with.

'Liking' a tweet indicates attention worthiness, not endorsement.

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

Nuclear running on empty 1 of 4

With at least 7 GEN IV #nuclear reactors in recent years having massive cost & time overruns, no wonder #SMRs are being pushed.

Just 1 SMR model has passed design with the new tech design/ demo/ full-scale/ commercially available process.

(ctd)

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

@RPR22LR @Climatehope2 Perhaps people are tired of having their fuel supplies being inherently held in danger of high prices and blockade by fanatics and warmongering dotards.

When they see a credible alternative, they go for it (despite what industry relying on ICE usage wants you to believe).

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

@peacefulhumann @nexta_tv Not so bad except in the Northern Territory, parts of WA and northern SA.

My sincere advice is don't land with your parachute on Giant Spear Grass or to some extent Spinifex. Likely to be quite painful.

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

@awkwardgoogle Actually the suits have *dual* airbags. Best used in practice where they can get back to the pits and swap bikes - no change of suit needed.

On occasion in a race, a low side may not damage the bike too much, so they may be able to resume even if the first airbag has released.

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@du_du_duh @awkwardgoogle @Shitpost_44 Yes, in "Flag to flag" races they have pitstops where they swap their bike with slick tyres to the one with wets; or vice-versa.

Always tricky picking the lap to swap. Too early & your wets wear out quickly. Too late & you either crash or crawl round while others zoom by.

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

"Nobody noticed the last 7 inches."

Tell that to Hurricane Sandy. ~4 inches of human-caused sea level rise added $8.1 BILLION in damage, flooded 36,000 extra homes, and put 71,000 more people in the water (Strauss et al., Nature 2021). That's the rise you say went unnoticed.

And your 3mm/yr isn't a constant, it's accelerating. NOAA projects 10–12" by 2050, as much in 30 years as the previous 100, five years before your "7 inch" date. Damage scales faster than depth, so the next 7 inches lands on an already-breached threshold and hits harder.

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

@mick_joseph70 @EVCurveFuturist Prices are dropping from 01 July on many plans in most states. In some cases there will be free power in the middle of the day. Finally enough RE + storage to overcome some of the effects of $15K bids on high demand days.

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

Since there are once again some pretty outlandish claims circulating based on non-peer-review papers, a reminder that the global temperature record of the past decade is fully consistent with state-of-the-art (CMIP6) climate model simulations: https://t.co/wozp1qtvHC

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@mick_joseph70 @EVCurveFuturist South Australia

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

@LucHenderieckx @EVCurveFuturist Of course they don't. But fossil gas peakers are being basically priced out of the market now by Gigapack BESS, and that's in the USA where fossil methane is so cheap they can afford to have leaks up and down their pipelines.

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

@LucHenderieckx @EVCurveFuturist I understand, but for the nervous Nellies out there, we have peaker fuel plants ready to go. The fuel could even be made on-site from super-cheap daytime energy.

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

@mick_joseph70 @EVCurveFuturist Sure. Some sort of peaker gas plant in NSW which might be usable for a few hours a time on a hot day. Maybe RWNJs in Qld will build a new FF plant.

But in SA, a tender which DID allow gas plants ended up with zero gas plant proposals.

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

Things that make you go hmm.

Irish government allows Oligarch owned aluminum plant
to export aluminum to Russia. Almost certainly used in missiles to bombard Ukraine cities.

https://t.co/GihwDmEnSH

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

@prieurdp Actually with the size of cars these days, I would prefer drivers park head-to-tail in a lot. A bit more room on the driving side, and close up on the passenger side (they can get out first).

Makes drivers not slam car doors into other cars whose owners must be stick figures.

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@Peter_Fitz I don't particularly count PHEVs as real EVs, and non-PHEV hybrids are the worst of both worlds.

However, new 🇦🇺 BEVs (real EVs) percentage has doubled in the last year to 20% of the new car market.

https://t.co/I0mXyZao8N

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

@mick_joseph70 @EVCurveFuturist Catch up please. BESS provide multiple grid services INCLUDING grid-forming.

https://t.co/cO3A3qbkUU

[💉💉💉Chris💉💉Jones💉💉💉 @CejSe]

@LucHenderieckx @EVCurveFuturist Sure we can.

If you feel nervous, make sure RE sourced H or NH3 gas plants are on standby for that couple of days a year with a dunkelflaute.

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@mick_joseph70 @EVCurveFuturist Ahh, grid services. That's one thing that batteries are *especially* good at. Proven time and time again in the 🇦🇺 NEM, as well as plenty of other places.

With battery prices dropping so rapidly, there will be no issue installing enough either.

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@luisbaram Actually, coal usage just from this reason probably went down.

The total combined energy required to produce a gallon of gasoline is roughly 40 kWh. Then there is the energy used drilling, pumping, & transporting it. Then only 20-30% is used to turn the wheels.

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@mick_joseph70 @EVCurveFuturist Yes, not perfect. Some provinces decided more efficient coal plants are still useful. (Usage below 60% is typically uneconomical). Increased electrification (EVs, AI, etc) increasing demand.

In the end RE + storage is cheapest which is why they are installing vast amounts of it.

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@mick_joseph70 @EVCurveFuturist China.

The country that has installed more RE in each year for the past 4 years than the rest of the world combined?

The country that is trending that way with storage as well?

Not perfect (coal plants still run at about 52% usage), but turning around fast.