That’s convenient. If your definition of “permanent” is “over 100 years” you will not be around to find out that you are wrong.
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Please dont link to the Mail, you horrible, horrible man. 
I’ve never gone anywhere near the site since the day they did that dishonest hit job on Hird, who was seen with a “mystery woman”, photos and all, implying he was having an affair… Turns out, which they knew all along, the woman was his sister. Farkers.
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When we next have coldest-ever temperature records broken on a routine basis, let me know.
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Just for the sake of balance…
How many hottest days ever vs coldest days ever have there been since 1990?
In this case I’m happy to make an exception on sexist, misogynist fat-shaming. She’s that bad.
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Only because I have arrived this morning to heat the place up. It does need it.
Just saw this. They are kidding right? Huge water resource and they went to test polluting it?
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Why anyone is still bothering to try carbon sequestration is beyond me. Nobody has made it work cost effectively.
Fark them all, and fark what appears to be a zealous new spellcheck on Blitz. All the worst people are loving not having to even pretend anymore. They know it’s all going to crash, been making sure it does and making sure they’re up on the top branch looking down.
Well I think that southern victoria has had cold records broken for more than 1 day, last year & close to it again this spring:
But you don’t hear it in here cause ……. it doesn’t fit your warmest agenda. weather changes from season to season & year to year, always has.
Perth is a hot place & whilst I admit its a weird one this early before xmas, I’d be looking to polar jet stream changes (going “wiggly”). Of course climate scientists have tried to link this to global warming due to polar temperature increases. This is hotly contested by other scientists however & acknowledged by the IPCC that their models do not use any Jet Stream variation data as inputs
Carbon sequestration as a emissions reduction measure is utterly useless. Carbon sequestration as a PR stunt to pretend that fossil fuels can continue to be burned and fossil fuel companies continue to operate profitably without endangering the existence of the human species, is extremely valuable to a bunch of wealthy corporate psychopaths.
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Yeah, the Gina’s and Clive’s of the world.
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Bringing this from the Space thread where I was chatting with @Albert_Thurgood. Seems a better fit here.
Yeah, battery cycling is a real issue. But there are commercial ways around that.
I can see people signing up to a commercial agreement where they were paid for access to the battery instead of just the energy exported.
Instead of companies building new grid scale batteries, they would pay 100,000 car owners for access to their battery. The payment would cover the costs of the early battery replacement, but would avoid most of the capital costs of designing and building a large industrial asset.
Grid scale batteries have the same cycle issue as car batteries. They still make money and deal with replacing cells, so there’s no reason a distributed battery couldn’t do the same. If we don’t tap into the cars (and other behind the meter batteries), we are leaving half the storage capacity unused. The trick is to cover the costs to the owner of getting their battery replaced early.
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And the inconvenience of no juice when you need it
Would you notice 80% in your tank compared to 100% when you drove to work?
Clearly nobody would sign up to have their car fully drained, but most people would be happy to be paid for small amounts of draw. Especially if they can charge for almost free by plugging in during their work day. And you would just take the car offline before a long drive.
There’s so much potential for entrepreneurship and innovation here. There’s literally free electricity going to waste in the grid right now because society isn’t smart enough to make use of it.
You could even be paid just to stabilise the grid, absorb peaks and discharge into lulls using only a few % of the battery. You could be paid to turn off the charger during high demand periods. You could be paid to use the battery to stabilise the frequency of the grid. There’s all sorts of things we can do with batteries that would make the network cheaper and give income to households.
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Why do you persist with your ‘warmest agenda’?
As we all run around snapping up a bargain in the Black Friday sales, the planet continues to die. What an absolutely crazy time we are living in. Every now and then it hits me how absolutely nuts this all is.
The people with all the power would rather die that go backwards. Going backwards is not an option. I think it’s the same for a lot of us, but especially the super rich. This guy lost half a billion Euros out of a 9 billion fortune, but that was too much.
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