…caused by a 45% decline in the cost of stationary battery storage

I want oil prices to go down

Rory surely with a supply glut at the beginning stages of an S shaped adoption curve for EVs, the oil market is now in permanent bear territory? Demand destruction will start to bite

Credit: @tonyseba.bsky.social

8% a little disappointing… was hoping for 20%

That may have been true pre circa 2017/2018 when renewables were more expensive than fossil fuels. That has changed. Now there is no downside in decarbonising

So you would constrain housing supply due to the risk of corruption, rather than seek to address that problem in some other way? Seems pretty strange way to approach the problem

Ok I’ve read it. With respect, long, waffling, and very ambiguous about what you are actually proposing to solve the absurd crisis that planning system has created. And largely a defence of the status quo/treatise against change. The corruption concerns are fair in NSW, but we have icac for this

Phillip the existing planning rules have delivered us the most unaffordable housing markets on planet earth. To advocate for the status quo at this point is insanely negligent and selfish

More housing is good imo

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

The following is the text of the email that Penelope Hegseth sent to her son, Pete Hegseth, on April 30, 2018, as he was in the middle of divorcing his wife, Samantha. One sentence was redacted by The New York Times for privacy reasons.

Son, I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out.. You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. I am not a saint, far from it.. so don't throw that in my face, but your abuse over the years to women (dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling) needs to be called out.

Sam is a good mother and a good person (under the circumstances that you created) and I know deep down you know that. For you to try to label her as "unstable" for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you? She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand. Neither did Meredith. I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side... bunk... we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont' care) Don't you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us... that's what babies do. It's time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women

We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted] And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply) I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But... On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself... Mom

a man who gets an email like this from his own mother should be legally required to reveal it to every woman he ever meets ever ever

A line graph titled "There are just two Northern White rhinos left in the world; both are female" outlines the decline in the estimated population of Northern White rhinos from 1960 to 2021. The vertical axis represents the estimated number of rhinos, ranging from zero to 2,500, while the horizontal axis spans the years from 1960 to 2021. In 1960, the estimated population was approximately 2,230 rhinos. The line sharply declines, indicating a significant drop, with the population reaching about 350 rhinos by 1981. The downward trend continues, with a note indicating that by 2018, only two females named Najin and Fatu remain, following the death of the last male, Sudan. Data sources are listed at the bottom as African and Asian Rhino Specialist Groups (AfRSG), with a Creative Commons attribution notation (CC BY).

Only two Northern White rhinos remain, and both are female

Disruptive innovation is a term popularised by the American academic Clayton Christensen.

This is a prime example: learning effects lead to reduced cost of solar leading to more adoption resulting in more learning effects because of modularisation.

Killer graph from @ember-energy.org

This is new vehicle registrations I take it, not total

Do you discuss the impact of demand destruction from EV adoption in these weekly notes?

With ever rising EV adoption the oil market is surely in a permanent structural decline

86 people were arrested for holding identical signs?

It’s also India

It’s basic economics now not ideology so it’s unstoppable

Now do Australia

Australians have had reverse cycle air conditioners for like 40 years… they’re everywhere.

And China is reaching its emissions reductions targets ahead of time too. Big players making big progress

Add Australia to this

We’ve used them in Australia for at least 50 to 60 years…

AI is a sham technology honestly! What ground breaking technology needs to lie constantly?

Tradies don’t price by the hour or day or worker and they refuse to do this because it would expose their outrageous overcharging and eye watering hourly rates. The whole industry is in need of a major reform it’s appalling

Yeah in Australia a single unit installed is $2500 AUD. Is this a whole house ducted system?

In Australia a heat pump costs $2500 AUD which is around $1600 USD. How on earth are you being quoted $22k?

Other countries have been using these for maybe 40 years, it’s not leadership it’s belated inexplicably slow progress