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citynews.com.au/2025/no-easy-a…

AFAICT this is a very real looming problem, yet our cretinous AusPol lack-of-leadership bullshit shemozzle is either exacerbating this, or at the very least, not helping. Eg... each time i begin again to ponder if i could possibly overcome my personal demons to fully electrify my home [ie, endure all the intensive peopling needed] when our gas prices rise [ie, increasing the economic desire to convert], what happens? Yep, our fucken electricity prices rise as well, thus reducing or eliminating the economic incentive.

Ofc all the climate, & moral, reasons remain to more than justify converting, but so far, w/o also the strong economic reasons, my demons keep winning the day. For normal, non-me, peeps, sans my demons, the confused economic signals alone prolly entirely prevent them converting.

Fuckheads, our govt. 🙄🤦‍♀️

Canberra CityNews · No easy answers to gas network 'death spiral' | Canberra CityNewsLeaving a smaller and smaller customer base to carry the cost of a stranded gas network as households and businesses electrify is not without consequence.

Spectacular bit of Elbow gaslighting!

"The environment minister had to deal with the North West Shelf project under the existing EPBC Act, that we did try to change in the last election," he said.

What
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Dickwad
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abc.net.au/news/2025-06-10/lab

ABC News · Labor MP Jerome Laxale pushes to force climate considerations into environment lawsBy Tom Lowrey

This is a weird headline...

We can stop Labor wrecking Murujuga, climate

...considering that afaict the actual article itself provides no reason for optimism at all. IMO, given we have state & federal Labor governments so completely in thrall to the fossil fools, & who have repeatedly proven they happily ignore science & First Nations, i see no reason to hope here.

greenleft.org.au/content/we-ca

Green Left · We can stop Labor wrecking Murujuga, climateLabor’s decision to extend Woodside’s North West Shelf sends a clear signal to the gas industry that it will not let the concerns of scientists, Traditional Owners and ordinary working people stand in the way of corporate profits, argues Maz Misiewicz.  

social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/11 Bollocks!

hard to believe that this is Australia right now

What genuinely IS hard is the bollocks so many peeps emit in "surprise" when the massive disasters predicted by ignored climate scientists for decades, not only arrive with a thump, but get increasing bigger & more frequent. Humans - stupid as all fuck 🙄🤦‍♀️

Chinwag SocialUnofficial ABC News Bot (@abc_bot@chinwag.org)It's hard to believe that this is Australia right now https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-25/nsw-floods-and-drought-in-australia-south/105308966 #ExtremeWeatherEvents #ClimateChange #Agriculture #Droughts

This is interesting & seems a clever idea.

newatlas.com/energy/stensea-co

In an effort to reduce the use of precious land to build renewable energy storage facilities, the Fraunhofer Institute has been cooking up a wild but plausible idea: dropping concrete storage spheres down to the depths of our oceans.
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Since 2011, the StEnSea (Stored Energy in the Sea) project has been exploring the possibilities of using the pressure in deep water to store energy in the short-to-medium term, in giant hollow concrete spheres sunken into seabeds, hundreds of feet below the surface.
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An empty sphere is essentially a fully charged storage unit. Opening its valve enables water to flow into the sphere, and this drives a turbine and a generator that feed electricity into the grid. To recharge the sphere, water is pumped out of it against the surrounding water pressure using energy from the grid.

A 10-ft test sphere being dropped down to the bottom of Lake Constance in Europe
New Atlas · How giant concrete balls on ocean floors could store renewable energyIn an effort to reduce the use of precious land to build renewable energy storage facilities, the Fraunhofer Institute has been cooking up a wild but plausible idea: dropping concrete storage spheres down to the depths of our oceans.

I happen to be of that particular genre of Stupid that thinks if one is claiming to be serious about climate, environment, & biodiversity protection & enhancement, such that one claims to be forming policy for it, then precisely none of the entities historically & currently doing all the fucking over of those things, gets to sit at the decision table. Instead, they simply get told afterwards that the rules of the game have changed, & all their fucking over shall immediately cease, otherwise it's the Big House for them. I'd prolly also include some appendix formally noting all these entities are fuckheads who can just fuck off.