Transgrid flags “tipping point” as NSW coal-dominated grid charges towards 90 pct renewables Transgrid predicts a “tipping point” for the grid as households embrace rooftop PV, minimum demand falls to zero and renewables race to 90 pct share by 2035.

Transgrid predicts a “tipping point” for the grid as households embrace rooftop PV, minimum demand falls to zero and renewables race to 90 pct share by 2035.

Chevron boss’s gripe about Australia: be more like the US or the Middle East | Temperature check Mike Wirth, CEO of company responsible for more greenhouse gases than any other independently owned entity, thinks Australia should adopt US policies to attract fossil fuel dollars

Australia is a petrostate. Yes, we do vote governments in & out, but they only survive if servicing Big Oil, in direct conflict with the public interest of not burning away our country & future. Yet Chevron would prefer a more authoritarian petrostate? #Auspol

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Cool and normal.

Wasn't this prefigured in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025?

Advance is a propaganda pop-up started by & funded by board members & veterans of the IPA & Centre of Independent Studies, key to the Aust. arm of the #AtlasNetwork.

The Liberal Party was founded in 1944 by the same mining corps who founded the IPA in 1942-1943.

How it started, how its going.

Sydney has had more cumulative 🌧️ during the last 6 years than any previous 6 year period across almost 175 years of records. We can never tease Melbourne about rain ☔ again

Finally! Major Upgrade for NRMA Gundagai & Goulburn Charger Sites, Tesla Provides Alternatives Nearby Finally! Major Upgrade for NRMA Gundagai & Goulburn Charger Sites, Tesla Provides Alternatives Nearby

EV drivers travelling Australia's busiest interstate route can expect significant improvements to charging infrastructure at two crucial locations, with The NRMA announcing major upgrades to their Gundagai and Goulburn fast charging sites along the Hume Highway
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Jim Chalmers says environment laws need overhaul to stop people ‘burning cash waiting for approvals’ Treasurer says ‘status quo is no longer acceptable’ on Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act as Labor pushes to build 1.2m new homes by 2029

All of a sudden the reason Labor's housing policies aren't working is the EPBC Act. Next level cynical and wrong.

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Dune: Awakening is a hauntingly beautiful RPG A masterpiece of interwoven designs, the game Dune: Awakening – which proposes an alternative timeline to the famous books – is hauntingly beautiful.

More games coverage in Australia please - Dune: Awakening is a hauntingly beautiful RPG www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/game...

I feel similar pressure on the sciences. Scientists are being labelled as “subject matter experts” which actively shrinks their capacity to contribute to broader debates. But the significance of both the Arts & Sciences is the exploration of ideas beyond orthodoxy. Both fundamentally important.

Australia is facing an existential tsunami. But Jim Chalmers’ economic roundtable risks putting lipstick on a dinosaur | Julianne Schultz Bob Hawke excelled at finding the middle ground. Can it be found with a treasurer urging boldness and a more cautious PM?

Julianne Schultz on the challenges facing the economic summit ‘… an existential tsunami building on the horizon – climate change, policy paralysis, geo-political realignments, militarisation, digital colonisation and intergenerational “bastardry”.

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YouTube video by Electrifying Everything - Neerav Bhatt BYD Atto 3 V2G/V2H "Flogging Battery" Sigenergy Bi-Directional Charger - Mike Jones Interview

I interview Australian BYD Atto 3 and Zeekr X owner Mike about his V2G & V2H experiments as the first QLD civilian to test Sigenergy Bi-Directional Charger intensively for vehicle to grid and vehicle to home transfers youtu.be/EaaC4E3eFok

YouTube video by Electrifying Everything - Neerav Bhatt Farizon Supervan - 9.9kW V2L, Tows 2 Tonnes, Drive By Wire, No B Pillar. Ultimate Electric Van?

Is this the ultimate electric van for City Tradies and Campervan Holidays? youtu.be/fue_FgRGZZY The Farizon EV Supervan has amazing Vehicle to Load (V2L) capability: Triple 3.3kW outlets providing 9.9kW total V2L capacity and 10kW high voltage discharge interface outlet

Jim Chalmers says environment laws need overhaul to stop people ‘burning cash waiting for approvals’ Treasurer says ‘status quo is no longer acceptable’ on Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act as Labor pushes to build 1.2m new homes by 2029

Not a huge chance of a great outcome of reform here when a rushed process is being designed by big tech, fossil fuel companies and big developers (and timidly waved through by offsetting-friendly environment groups)

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* Each year, man introduces millions of tons of gaseous materials such as oxides of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur into the atmosphere. However, natural sources of these gases must not be overlooked. Studies of nitrous oxide and carbon monoxide, trace gases in the sea and atmo- sphere, have been advanced by improved analytical techniques that were reported at the Symposium. Mea- surements arrived at by using these techniques show that these gases are produced in the sea water by micro- organisms. These studies also give a deeper understand- ing of the dissolution of gases in the sea via physical processes such as bubble injection and ocean mixing. Such processes also act on air pollutants, depending on their saturation levels and the turnover of deep water. At present about 50 % of the man-made outpout of ten thousand million tons of carbon dioxide (CO,) per year by fossil fuel burning goes into the atmosphere. The rest is stored in the forests (10-15 %) and the oceans (35 40 %). The seasonal effect on the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere (322 ppm in 1970) is very pronounced (3-5 ppm) in the northern hemisphere (Fig. 1), but the yearly increase of 0.7 ppm per year during the years 1959-1967 has risen to 1.0-1.2 ppm in 1968-1971, thus indicating that input may be as high as 3 ppm per year in 1980. At this rate the total in the year 2000 would be above the 380 ppm estimated by Lester Machta, director of Air Resources Labora- tories, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A. (Fig. 2). Our knowledge of the turnover of ocean and forest reservoirs of carbon dioxide has still to be improved and rudimentary Keeling curve

54 years ago today, (August 16, 1971) a Nobel Symposium on“The changing chemistry of the oceans.”

And carbon dioxide build up is being mentioned, of course.

Atmospheric C02 was 325ppm. Now, 428ppm and rising sharply.

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Australia, why are you still obsessed with freeways – when they’re driving us away from net zero? Expanding freeway networks undermines climate action. It points to a deep-seated flaw in Australia’s urban planning systems which must be solved.

“Expanding freeway networks undermines efforts to reduce emissions and encourage cleaner transport. It points to a deep-seated flaw in Australia’s urban planning systems which must be solved.”

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The end point of Trump’s climate denialism.

And as he’s also gutted NOAA and the EPA there will be no longer be any US agency doing climate research.

The ultra-wealthy have exploited Australia’s tax system for too long. It’s time to ensure everyone pays their fair share | Sally McManus When the very wealthy pay less tax than a bus driver or an aged care worker, something is very wrong

“The ultra-wealthy have exploited Australia’s tax system for too long. It’s time to ensure everyone pays their fair share” - @sallymcmanus.bsky.social

#auspol

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NRMA EV Charging Team Overnight Crane 9 Tonne Battery To Enable Crows Nest DC Fast Charger Site NRMA EV Charging Team Overnight Crane 9 Tonne Battery To Enable Crows Nest DC Fast Charger Site

NRMA Energy has successfully overnight craned three massive 3 tonne Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) at its Crows Nest fast charging site, offering a rare glimpse into substantial upfront costs required to establish high-powered multi-bay DC electric vehicle chargers zecar.com/reviews/nrma...

EV drivers set to pay road user charges as record number of electric cars selling in Australia PM says sustainable revenue for roads is needed as report shows nearly one in 10 new car sales are electric vehicles

I mean, if you’re worried about falling revenue, the govt could just stop giving away $10bn in fuel tax credits, which even the OECD says is just an industry subsidy that should be dumped.

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Hyundai Australia V2G/V2X Roadmap Revealed Hyundai Australia V2G/V2X Roadmap Revealed

Hyundai Motor Company Australia is adopting a cautious, research-driven strategy for vehicle-to-grid technology implementation, prioritising comprehensive testing over rapid market deployment zecar.com/reviews/hyun...

Ford announced plans on Monday to deliver a $30,000 mid-size all-electric truck in 2027, in a potential shakeup of an EV market that’s been plagued by high costs. But the truck — which is rumored to revive the retro name Ford Ranchero — wasn’t really the main news. The pickup is part of Ford’s plan to “reimagine the entire way it builds EVs to cut costs, turn around its struggling EV division, and truly compete with the likes of Tesla,” Heatmap contributor Andrew Moseman wrote, which the company has dubbed its second “Model T moment.” The strategy embraces a more minimalist, software-driven method of car design that EV-only companies such as Tesla and Rivian employ, allowing them to make mechanically simpler vehicles with fewer buttons and parts and more functions run by software through touchscreens. The push could “change everything” and “disrupt the U.S. auto industry,” wrote Inside EVs.

enshittifying cars to make them more dangerous for both occupants and externals, more frustrating to use but also cheaper to build is not really 'disruption', it's what everyone is doing

How We Won a Gas Ban in New York City #GasFreeNYC How #GasFreeNYC Won a Gas Ban in New York City About 2,000 new buildings per year will be fossil free It usually takes years to win major policy change, if at all. After all, it takes a lot to overc...

When we won an end to gas in new construction at the nyc level, we used the hashtag #GasFreeNY. That was much better! Then we won at the state level, and nycc used similar messaging.

Read about the successful campaign, including the messaging, here:

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But don’t call him fascist.

The crime wave in Washington DC

These goobers are so incompetent they need 3 months to work out how to rig them.

untruth & insanity

Risks of climate crisis to Australia’s economy and environment are ‘intense and scary’, unreleased government report says Sources say delayed risk assessment includes modelling of effects of climate crisis in ways that have been little discussed in political debate so far

Let’s talk about the cost of net zero.

“…the commonwealth was already spending $1.6bn a year on disaster recovery, but budgeting only $215m.”

Already in 2025 climate change has caused a $2.5bn hit to our economy.

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Ukraine Support Tracker: Europe now leading spender on weapons production for Ukraine In May and June 2025, Europeans maintained a consistently high level of support to Ukraine, particularly with regard to military aid. A significant proportion of the weapons provided no longer come fr...

Interesting update of the Ukraine Tracker from the @kiel.institute - showing both that Europe has overtaken the US in overall military aid to Ukraine, and that the majority of new aid now comes from (European and Ukrainian) defence industry, rather than stockpiles:

Aukus laws will mean anywhere in Australia could be potential nuclear waste dump, critics say Greens senator David Shoebridge says communities will have ‘no way to protect the land’ from waste that will be radioactive for millennia

Story just keeps on getting better by the day - l’m willing to put money on the likelihood l’ll be long dead before we see any of these bloody things delivered…if at all…
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X post: Andrew Bolt arguing against people being able to work from home... "I work from home, but l'm employed to do a specific job...and if it doesn't get done, l'd look like an idiot" "That's a task, and I'm paid to do the task, and I do it from home" Exactly, you idiot.

Andrew Bolt had full fibre NBN installed at his home so he could work from home by the way, after spending years complaining about the NBN.

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