Australia and Chile could shift over 50% of the new solar generation they added in 2025 with new battery capacity Large-scale solar shifting is emerging first in markets where solar already dominates the generation mix. Markets like California, Australia and Chile are leading the way. Among these markets, Australia and Chile stand out for adding relatively small amounts of battery capacity in absolute terms, 9 GWh and 4 GWh respectively, but large enough relative to their solar growth to make a material difference. Chile added enough battery capacity in 2025 to theoretically shift 76% of the new solar generation it added in that year, while Australia added enough to shift 53%.

I did not know this - Australia added enough battery capacity to shift *more than half* of its solar generation

I said it before, but Indian chillies will come over to borrow salt, get chatting, stay for dinner and then hold you up at gunpoint after dessert, mexican chillies will smash your door down, grab you by the collar and haul you outside for a solid beating

World of Small Things
Win
Diabetes Boy has stable blood sugar today 🥳🥳

Labor will choose mediocre 🤷‍♀️
Can't upset the lobbiests

Can anyone confurm if this is the legit account?

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

If the Albanese government can’t even put a tax on gas in an era of war profiteering ….

Finally- a week under 30

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Point well made

This was a brief pop-in but I did mention @ember-energy.org's new report showing demand for gas is seeing weakening growth particularly in Asia - Australia's main customer

We want a managed transition, not a chaotic painful one. Tax helps achieve that!

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@richarddenniss.bsky.social
Clear speaking.
Knows his subject.

Panel from FDOTM cartoon "Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death?", with nice drawings of two kinds of turtles, with very long necks. Even more perversley the NSW government has hired a bunch of wetlands scientists to rescue the remaining turtles and take them to the zoo."

Turtles!
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Currently have a very confused Australian cat trying to find where that bloody woodpecker is...

Jewish man among first charged in pro-Palestinian slogan crackdown that reminds some of 1970s Queensland Stephen Heydt says he spoke in a custom-made T-shirt and was ‘charged with two offences: one for the shirt, one for the chanting’

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The Amazon business model profits from human slavery, price gouging & collusion.
Just don't give Amazon your money

World Curlew Day | Days Of The Year Discover the story of the endangered curlew, why this iconic wading bird matters, and how World Curlew Day inspires global conservation and education.

Today, Tuesday 21 April, is World Curlew Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-c...

Also, International Loch Ness Monster Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/interna...

And it’s happy 60th to musician Michael Franti of Spearhead and The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...

Let’s pretend no longer – gas’ time for tax has come. It’s just about what kind Isn’t it peculiar that we get to this week in April and suddenly the impossible seems so inevitable that we start hearing about all the “sensible” compromises? Six months ago, any sort of talk about a...

"The culture war against #renewables in Australia in the past 30 years has been knobbled by reality, with energy security as national security clearly understandable by all but the most ideological." @amyremeikis.bsky.social

Tax gas now. #auspol
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Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices Data shows 224,000 new EVs were registered in March, with Norway leading way in terms of switching

"As Donald Trump has repeatedly criticised Europe’s “windmills” and push towards greater use of renewable energy, the figures suggest the US-Israel war on Iran is accelerating the move away from combustion engines"

Winning.

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Chuckle, cry, chuckle!

Orchids aren’t just beautiful or rare – they’re ecological time capsules that offer clues to the long-term health of ecosystems.
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If only they knew how angry we truly are

Of course they have...

This is a joke, right? I spent a good year doing EV stories with The Guardian. Nine in ten cars in Norway are EVs. It's 2026 and we're being treated to stories that read like it's 2019 in a fossil fuel crisis. There is no mention of climate change. The reporter is impatient. That's all we get.

Just waiting for approval for an EV in regional QLD.
Its basically for comnuting with the iccasional longer trip.
Which I'll plan

Have they kept doing that rebooted version of Q&A with David Speers? Or did they just do that one episode on how Israel should be not critcised for genocide and leave it at that?

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, says there are no plans for a new round of talks with the US, adding that Washington is not learning its lessons from past experience and that this will not lead to good results.

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@wolfierankin.bsky.social

collectorsonline.com.au have cymbidiums available

Israel had a bad week in Europe. Does it herald a wider shift in EU relations? With Orbán gone and Meloni distancing herself, EU sanctions on trade and settlers are looking more likely

The sanctions are long overdue

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‘A white man’s fantasy’: if we want to rebuild social cohesion, we need to acknowledge where it all started to unravel Australia has a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent. Koori civilisation has been torn asunder ever since the convict ships dropped anchor

" Is promoting “social cohesion” a valid goal in a liberal democracy? Or is this the same old assimilationist bullshit being served up in a different bottle, designed only to silence dissent?"

Melissa Lucashenko, one of my favorite authors, hits the bullseye

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