Sometimes we should’ve built things properly (“gold-plated”).
Immediately Transmission Gully comes to mind:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
The same pattern as SH1 near Ōtaki I believe!?
a screenshot of excel
a chart showing total global ev consumption
iea data centre demand
Fun fact: total global data centre power consumption is about double the power consumption of total global EVs (including two-wheelers, trucks, everything)
(about the same, for hyperscalers only)
15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas.
We are about to feel a very painful food shock.
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Stuff note : “The Speaker, Gerry Brownlee, wasn’t keen to say much about the meeting. I just asked him why he decided to attend this meeting - which is unusual - and he would only say, “because I’m a member of the caucus”.”
Feels a lot like Brownlee was the deciding vote to me.
Why else would he be there?
Speculating though… 🤷♂️
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Did Brownlee get called in as a tiebreaker?
Apparently so,… 😢
Something fitting about a party which has spent this term trashing Wellington at every opportunity being consumed today with internecine dramas, indifferent the city's attempts to dig itself out from a disaster.
Agrivoltaics anyone?
Broccoli 🥦 is amongst the crops benefiting the most from heat stress protection and have BETTER yield!
www.solarpunkhq.com/en/blog/best...
Great buy! 👍 I've only heard good things about it.
I was sceptical of what Luxon negotiated in with the India FTA, but a 🧈🐓🌊 butter chicken tsunami sounds amazing ❤️ - I'm all for it!
NZ also needs more/better tacos!
Is that a Silvia V5?
In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.
12.29GW is a whole lot of power ⚡💪
Very impressive California!
Soo, the freight sector relies on Kiwirail? Interesting,...
NZ Govt has taken a huge bet on fossil fuels. NZ was already spending $8 billion a year importing fossil fuels, and now the global fuel crisis is going to make that worse. Betting on fossil fuels has turned out to be a losing bet for NZ. This is the 14 point policy record of 2 years of the NZ Govt:
Climate science deniers, funded by oil companies, told people climate change was all a hoax. They lied. They were paid to lie. www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
WFH is the worst for employers (for some reason) until it’s potentially life threatening to get to the office. Then it’s ok.
Wellington’s extreme deluge was caused by an unfortunate combination of weather factors. But a warming climate is upping the odds of more of these events in future.
American Petroleum Institute estimates a 38% decline in 4 years (and steeper for Onshore U.S. shale)
www.api.org/energy-insig...
Not defending mining BTW - that's often very bad for the local environment.
Most mining is done for coal and could be replaced by renewables - maybe even reducing the amount of mining. www.icmm.com/en-gb/resear...
Not even mentioning the constant need for drilling for oil and gas.
Pretty sure Fortescue did that just to save fuel and move an OpEx to a CapEx (solar farm), that they can depreciate over time, gain assets and save on tax.
If it doesn't make financial sense people won't do it. Regulations can have a guiding effect to make something cheaper or not - e.g. RUC+Rego💰
As the spectrum article laid out it mostly comes down to economics with supply and demand.
Capacity was ramped down, because there was not enough demand and now that there is they'll ramp up again.
Maybe that's why some of the new data centres installed a bunch of local gas turbines instead?
All the metals we mined 2021
Obligatory this article that discusses if clean tech is better for the environment than fossil fuels: citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/blog/ar...
This contains the interesting "All the metals we mined" chart from elements.visualcapitalist.com (❤️)
Maybe we then shouldn't build another multi-billion $ road (Petone-Grenada) that's equally prone to extreme weather - requiring extensive maintenance spending!?
...negative feedback effects are pretty minor today, but may become big limiters of electricity transitions in the years to come. Solving them will require reforming electricity markets, possibly fundamentally, or moving to ownership structures less dependent on wholesale markets.
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing an assembly of renewable energy solutions - solar panels, battery storage, high speed rail, electrified truck freight, EVs and charging infrastructure, wind turbines, and bicycles - put together in a shape that resembles a military tank. A different approach to a massive increase in military spending that would increase Australia's security and sovereignty in times of global unrest.
Best defence.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
Sure, but why not export at roughly wholesale price?
Isn’t that what other generators get too, outside contracts?
When Flick offered that they got bought out and shut down by Meridian. 🤷♂️
(Noting that it’d be very low during Summer)
Maybe Oceania should do that too,..
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Germany insisted on delaying phase out of combustion engine. Iran war caused energy shock, et voilà:
BYD was one of the fastest-growing brands in Germany in Q1, with a 135% rise in purchase queries for the Chinese EV heavyweight during that period.
www.reuters.com/busi...
10MWp just from a roof! 😍☀️
If Aldi is doing it you know that it makes economic sense!