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Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Researcher at University of NSW (..but also I live in Melbourne)
"Those rallies were whipped up by far-right extremists and neo-Nazis. A lot of people were warned about that. I am not in the business of doing ‘there are good people on both sides’ argument... In particular, I haven’t seen a good fascist yet." 💥👏👏👏 #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia’s 2035 target for cutting emissions will reveal how serious we are about addressing the climate crisis
Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 98.5% RE Last 210 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/5)
I’m not sure what comes before “speaking out against Nazis” in the job description of an antisemitism envoy, but apparently there are quite a few things…
The antisemitism envoy saying nothing about the Nazi march, meanwhile her husband donates 50k to the people promoting the Nazi march 🧐
The Nazis are going to steamroll Australia imho. We have a media environment unequipped to do anything other than amplify their views, a federal government that either enacts their policies or creates the conditions for their success, and a liberal populace who think eating dumplings is anti-racist.
I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price
case study of how a non-meaningful tweak to a prompt can result in dangerously wrong output. Search A: prompt has typos in “association” & “blood clots.” AI output has medical misinfo (Yaz&Yasmin ARE NOT drospirenone-only). Search B: same words, same order, correct spelling. Output factually correct
What the actual fuck
ConocoPhillips - and more recently Santos - have had a leaky LNG storage tank in use at Darwin LNG terminal for EIGHTEEN YEARS and not only are we just finding out now, but Santos has no intention to fix it and aren't even required to report its emissions.
Documents reveal the scale of carbon pollution leaking from a Darwin LNG tank was like adding 8,300 new cars to the road every year. It is about to be filled again.
Global societies are adding 40 billion townhouses worth of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year.
As big as the earth is, when you think about it that way, it makes it exceptionally difficult to imagine how our fossil fuel use couldn't be having catastrophic effects.
Something I am finding increasingly interesting - and that I did a bit of here - is to find ways to put greenhouse gas emissions into contexts other than cars off the road.
Did you know one tonne of carbon dioxide is pretty much the same amount of gas that it would take to flood a townhouse?
The Trump plan for Gaza includes genocide.
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub.
Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
President Donald Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.
