My sympathies, I have size 12 and it’s enough of a struggle

finally feels like KiwiRail is growing up by using tools like this

It's not like the Guardians of the Super Fund aren't trying - taranakioffshorewind.co.nz

all the govt has to do is get out of their way for this one...

I will point out that the NZ Super Fund is literally the 24th largest sovereign wealth fund in the world (by assets)...

Literally higher than the Ireland example he gave

okay reading this - it's just advisory for overseas investors. It's not a soverign wealth fund.

Don’t we already have a sovereign wealth fund?

Bialetti Induction Plate A practical and versatile tool for the kitchen, this induction hob adapter was designed by Bialetti to allow aluminium coffee makers to correctly function on induction hobs. -Suitable for coffee maker...

surprised they don't offer this in an induction-compatible version.

but something like this may work? c4coffee.co/products/bia... but I guess it may have the same problem the traditional electric stove had of not being concentrated enough

this graph is fascinating - what's driving the inflation?

Thankfully we are in the midst of another surge:
Tauhara, Te Huka U3, Ngā Tamariki U5, TOPP2

yeah.... that 2005 to 2015 surge went a long way to reducing fossil fuel reliance (and reduce the impact of a dry year)

interesting, I wouldn't be surprised if a figure as a % of total capacity would put NZ near the top.

We're often hitting up to 30% of our total electricity production being geothermal at times, so it is quite dominant.

New Zealand is now has the 5th highest installed Geothermal capacity in the world

It's a balance...
Undergrounding services is very very expensive, so undergrounding existing infrastructure should be a relatively infrequent thing to do.

Although I suspect they could build a business case here from reduced maintenance alone.

Orion can charge the residents an additional fee to cover the cost of undergrounding?

In terms of geo flexibility - I’m surprised they aren’t more flexible.

Apparently some plant if you shut it down you’ve got to wait 24 hours before it can run again 🤷‍♂️

Probably technology dependent

No pumped hydro. There was a proposal (look up ‘Lake Onslow’) a few years ago which ended up in the ‘too expensive’ basket.

Biggest issue we’ll have in oversupply scenarios will be our large Geothermal baseload supply. Very inflexible, similar to nuclear in that regard.

Wow. NZ is lucky for now - as by and large any solar is displacing hydro generation (so effectively using the lakes as a battery).

Still very early days, but eventually (at least 5 years away imo) we’ll start to have significant oversupply/spill issues

Meridian is about to commission their first grid scale battery - Ruakākā.

When full, it can provide 100MW of peaking capacity to the grid for 2 hours - which will be especially useful during cold, windless, winter mornings.

New Zealand residential users are usually on either:
- Time of use (metered in half hour blocks). E.g peak/off peak plans pictured below
- Fixed price

Most retailers provide a fixed price for solar offtake, although some do provide some variability/spot market exposure but that's pretty limited.

imo it'd be a lot better if the base literacy and numeracy stuff was separated out.

then the more job-specific stuff can stay with the credit system, and the base literacy and numeracy is it's own certificate.

as someone who did NCEA - yuuuup it's trying to be everything for everyone

I work in a heavily regulated industry and I see quite frequently said regulations being used to justify doing fuck all.

When the reality is that you just have to challenge the regulator on stupid points in their regulation and they cave pretty quickly and let you do something sensible.

I feel like this is true for most big companies.

The laziness seems inevitable

A council having a private art collection is crazy

the mayfair is far from manhattan size

the city to sea bridge that people are fauning over was built in the 90s! but that's reached the status for some people to treat it like an ancient relic.

to be more poetic - cities are supposed to evolve and change over time.

that's part of the fun of living in a city - the mix of the old and the new.

if you don't allow the new, we rob future generations of 'new' heritage

i don't think it's the council's job to police how you must design your house.

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