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Tim Lloyd retweeted
I think it is a great idea !
Why should you be able to avoid tax for the wealthiest of your clients ? Closing a loophole like this is common sense . I have no problem with you maximising their returns , but those on incomes under $100 k should not have to subsidise them !
Tim Lloyd retweeted
For the last 15 years, lot of talk about small modular reactors. But solar and wind power much cheaper.
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Tim Lloyd retweeted
~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline.
That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production.
Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.
Tim Lloyd retweeted
If they see storage being exhausted in a few hours, they will forecast very high prices for that time, which will encourage storage to save energy for those high prices. This will in turn increase the present price which will encourage gas to enter the market.
Tim Lloyd retweeted
With the Coalition losing the election, the 7 promised nuclear reactors will now never be built. Which coincidentally is the same as if the Coalition had won the election.
Tim Lloyd retweeted
A commercial solar panel, the size and mass of a sheet of plywood, can generate 720 W at peak.
It takes 9 of them to produce as much electricity as the average American household consumes.
That's the "massive" space and materials requirements of solar - 9 sheets of plywood per household.
When someone tells you solar "takes up too much space" or "uses too many materials," just imagine what type of world they want you to live in.
Where a whole family can't have 9 sheets of plywood of space and we ration materials to the point where <1% of the mass of a house is too much to spend for that house to have it's own energy supply.
The "solar is low energy density" crowd really needs to learn how units work.
A 38 kg solar panel generates as much electricity as 9,000 kg of diesel fuel.
If you're trying to provide electricity in remote locations, solar and storage dramatically cuts down on the amount of mass you need to ship.
That's especially important for things like satellites, which is why satellites run on solar power.
Tim Lloyd retweeted
Wazza, get it right. The Spanish authorities have said the outage was caused by a grid disconnect. It wouldn't matter if the power was renewa, coal, or nuclear, the outage would still have occurred. Good try at another scare tactic though.
BTW, what do you get out of this crap.
Tim Lloyd retweeted
IMO
$100 billion like Hinkley point is not affordable.
Nuclear is no more reliable than renewables.
In the western world, where is was built 50 yrs ago, it is a critical part of the energy mix.
This century, renewables have have eaten its lunch!
It can't low emissions for 20 yrs
Tim Lloyd retweeted
Affects 0.5 percent of Australians, only those with $3 million plus in super.
Oh, but how we should vote to protect them!
The rich sure do have thin skins.
Tim Lloyd retweeted
Affordable ? At 25 times the cost of solar ?
Reliable , yes , as reliable as renewables .
Emissions free ? If you don't count the 20 years of emissions from coal until it is available, yes .
Critical part ? Nuclear built 50 years ago is .
Renewables are more critical today !
Tim Lloyd retweeted
Nuclear energy?
Any AI system primarily dependent on nuclear energy will be hopelessly uncompetitive by 2040 or sooner
By the mid-2030s 24/7 'solar baseload' will be 30-40% cheaper than than the cheapest nuclear energy (China) and much cheaper than anything in the USA or Europe
Tim Lloyd retweeted
That is just so wrong !
Frontier use a $10k /kw for nuclear
Current costs in UK & EU are 25k/kw -$30k/kw
Frontiers cost are amoratise for 50 years & only report to 2050 -Half the cost is missing !
14GW by 2050 ?
Where do you think we are ?
Only China or Korea build that fast !
