The whole app situation is a legitimately shit. The sooner the government mandates tap and go like the EU, the better.

Saving this for when you have an EV and become a smug arsehole like the rest of us.

Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources | 21/04/2026 YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

. @richarddenniss.bsky.social opens by pointing out that the Japanese govt actually raises more revenue from Australian gas than does the Australian govt!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilVp...

I was trying to be generous until I read the part about home charging taking time too 🙄 ... What a sook.

Solar panels that look like copper siding to a building.

A singel solar panel that looks like a piece of copper siding

Solar panels on a modern looking building that are copper colored

Closer image of solar panels with a texture that looks like a natural copper colored building material.

These are solar panels. Holy shit would I pay for this!

"We present a new project we are working on, integrating our photovoltaic glass in 'Corten Steel' color. This glass is part of a collection consisting of 17 different colors, achieving power outputs of up to 160 W/m2." - Onyx Solar

My little community wind farm is mostly merchant and gosh it's stressful!

a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will

- Increase Microsoft's emissions 160%

- Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc...

- Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined

stand.earth/press-releas...

You'd think Taylor of all people would be iffy about people poking around his accounts

That means you're free to just build a cluster under your desk with gaming GPUs now 😄

So it just becomes continuous renewal, but politicians don't get and maybe can't handle lack ribbon cutting ceremonies.

Oh, I didn't know you worked in research compute too!

The brutal depreciation worries me about government bravery for this. I remember much fuss about our cluster of P100s... Can't give em away now.

Mine only goes to about 80-90kW max and never really bugged me... I suspect mostly a problem for hard core road trip people who would rather piss in a bottle than stretch their legs and eat outside the car.

Whoever does brand management for LEGO must be having a very bad month.

I am just like the Artemis astronauts because I too have experienced a terrifying 40 minutes of not being online

Hope you filled a backpack with their free catering and drinks to really bring it home.

Could have been targeted as a payment through Centrelink but we only like the other kind of welfare...

And I am so, so, so angry at the stupid culture wars and deliberate blocks put in place to the nation being able to have energy sovereignty. That any chance we had of transitioning the energy economy was derailed decades ago by fu*kers simping for fossil fuel. Energy security IS national security

Impossible to be too mean to them.

It looks good! Noticeably not fricking gigantic.

Is this a thing @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social ? I didn't Rivian were seriously considering a RHD model.

A Rivian ute doing testing

Lookie what I spotted in Kyneton!

I got my whole family onto this system ... different colours for each though

Curious how much volume is on shorter term contracts that might be affected if it goes on say six months?

I know, they don't exactly leave such things behind on the train when drunk.

I think it might, as that's where the Aus system installation data largely comes from, and there's often a big leap in December.

Probably minor, but then it is looking like a photo finish!

I think there is 12mon to claim rebate here, so it will be quite a long tail..

Get onto it Australia! Plenty more rooftops yet...

I've also heard from them that stock is piling up, so you'd think they'd get moving

Fuckers!

Old thread alert! Apparently Tesla have sorted this and you can add a Powerwall 3 to a 2 now.