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You’re over thinking it.
I tried Luteolin at clinically insignificant doses both as a nutritional supplement and in this really expensive hair care product and not only did it regrow my receding hair line, colour my hair unnaturally black, and marry someone half my age, if you buy one month supply right now at this exorbitant priced we’ll throw in a set of stake knives.
IT REALLY WORKS!
It shows only that the Australian government expresses concern over the capability, which doesn't seem entirely unreasonable and also politically motivated.
Oceania has always been at war Eastasia, and all that.
If the geothermal plant isn’t ran at or near capacity all the time, the capex takes longer to recoup.
You can’t just, say, run it at 50% for a while, and then at 150% later, because a) ya typically can’t run plant at 150%, and for power generators ya can only run them at whatever you’re contracted to supply, so you’d typically want to run geothermal at capacity all the time.
This is true of anything that requires capital expenditure.
I don’t understand how you think capex works?
You outlay x on capital expenses to get the plant running, that’s all the plant and equipment. You run the plant at 50% it takes you twice as long to recoup your capex.
Always happy to be corrected.
It can’t be both not quire and the same.
All else being equal, a five billion dollar geothermal plant running at 50% has the same problem as a five billion dollar nuclear plant running at 50%: where’s my profit?
Sure, load following is trivial with geothermal, but nuclear generally isn’t trying to compete in that space, so we can discount the difference there.
So, the same as nuclear, wind, solar, gas, and coal, all of which which largely don’t work without significant government support.
In about five billion years the sun will run out of hydrogen and expand, engulfing Mercury, Venus, and likely Earth.
In the mean time, you could respond to the argument I actually made.
The level of organisation at the state level required to build a working nuclear weapon, along with the forces working against that, eg. how difficult it’s been for Iran to get across the line, and the fact of the near miss you mentioned, allows most of us, it would seem, to sleep well at night.
There’s no evidence that is the case.
It has been eighty years since a nuclear weapon was used in an act of aggression.
It would appear a state sort of only really comes to have nuclear weapons when it has got its act together sufficiently to be well enough behaved to not use them.
A sort of maturation process, if you will.
The meek[1] shall inherit the Earth, and all of that.
If we’ve got data, let’s go with the data. If all we have is opinions, let’s go with mine.
1. this is best as interpreted as those who have the ability to use force, but do not use it, except maybe to defend themselves.
I’m willing to bet the mods have notifications for such.
Also, doesn’t HN have an API, which, if I understand correctly, has more capability than the web page.
This is probably a good time to mention:
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Giving money to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
The very to extremely wealthy run nations, why would giving them control of more money, someone else’s money, be a reasonable idea.
I suppose the argument is tax the rich more, and the poor less.
Nah, there’s got to be a better way, like maybe tax everyone less.
Further to the parent comment, if you park your money in gold or crypto, you’ve given that money to someone else, and so on and so forth.
But there’s a balance to be bad, if no one actually spends anything other than acquiring investments, they starve, and the economy suffers.
How does this work? Where do the poor get wealth, on a continual basis, for the rich to take? If the poor have so little, and have had their fraction of the wealth taken by the rich for three decades, assuming things have got worse for the poor since the end of the eighties, where’s all this wealth coming from?
I’m not singling out here, this is a question for the general audience.
What exactly did you mean by this? Let’s follow it to its logical conclusion.
I think you’re massively overstating that, and probably misinterpreting what the Quran actually says.
English translation, which probably misses some of the nuance of the original text:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstruation_in_Islam
And they ask you about menstruation. Say: It is a harm (painful situation); therefore keep aloof from the women during the menstrual discharge and do not go near them until they have become clean; then when they have cleansed themselves, go in to them as Allah has commanded you; surely Allah loves those who turn much (to Him), and He loves those who purify themselves.
For anyone who’s lived with women who have a hard time of menstruation, that’s not entirely unreasonable advice, and it indicates women are given less strict rules to follow due to the difficulties they’ve to contend with as women, which also seems not entirely unreasonable.
There are other versus that deal with the treatment of women specifically, and those versus also have at least some not entirely unreasonable advice, especially given the context of a world with less advanced medicine, I mean historically, as did we all, and the idea that menstruating / pregnant women ought be given additional consideration.
Anyway, if you move to, say Germany, and are naturalised, or otherwise granted voting rights, and you vote for a regime that tightens immigration control, then do you not, in a sense, have a right to stop them letting other people in.
Elsewise, would you mind if someone had an opinion different to yours, and expressed that opinion, here in this forum, which, if I understand correctly, is based in the USA, a country known for its elevation of the principal of free speech?
Just a place with slightly different geography, but everywhere you went the culture would be largely indistinguishable from a place half a world away, where there were no Japanese, no Swiss, no Aussies, just, what? Earthers?
Opinions / data, let's go with the data.
It's really not. Australia is mostly uninhabited, with most people living in very few high density places.
The average commute distance in Australia is 16 kilometres; 90% of Australians live on the East Coast; 73% of Australian's commute less than 20 kilometres.[1]
Even Western Australian has people living outside of Perth, which, by the way, is the most remote centre of commerce in the world, has an average commute distance of 20.4 kilometres.[1]
The average Australian vehicle travels about 12,100 kilometres annually, that's all vehicles including freight vehicles.[2] The average household in Australia owns 1.8 cars[3], so very many Australian's would be well served by owning at least one purely electric vehicle, but don't.
Plug-in hybrids are mostly not a thing here.[4]
1. https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject...
2. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-trans...
3. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-trans...
If all we have is opinions, let’s go mine. Fortunately, we have data.
Take Australia for example.
1. We had a carbon tax, sort of, briefly, but no one wanted it, and still doesn’t.
2. Fuel for vehicles here, petrol and diesel, has become wildly expensive, but cars have become huge to gigantic. Approximately no one drives a small car, approximately everyone owns at least two 4x4 and or SUVs, and those that don’t tend to drive a turbo charged Skyline or Subaru or similar.
Everyone drives relatively new cars compared to, say, 30 years ago when half the population drove a rusty floor pan around, you were luck to have anything resembling an actual car hanging off it.
No one here gives a shit about climate change, except maybe our Australia Broadcasting Corporation, but approximately no one consumes any of their media, and even if ya do 97% of the time their performing their mandate of proportional representation by publishing media aimed at the LGTBQI+ fictious community 100% of the time.
To the point where electric vehicle sales here in Australia have fallen off a cliff, and one hundred down ten to one the current buffoons get voted out and replaced by a potato promoting nuclear.
Good.