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It's all about the rate of change. It won't stop, so you may as well enjoy the ride. The future is here and you are part of it.

Brisbane, Queensland
Joined October 2013
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The Energy Institute has just released the 2025 data for the Statistical Review of World Energy for 2025. Each year I update a chart to see how much wind and solar is being deployed per day (in TWh) and compare that to a 1 GW nuclear plant. /1
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Which “unelected politicians”? Asking for a friend.
Fact: if you want cheaper groceries, the first step MUST be to lower energy bills. From the diesel in the tractor, to the irrigation pumps on the farm, the refrigeration in transit, the processing plants and the lights in the supermarket, energy is one of the biggest costs at every single step from production to the consumer. Yet unelected bureaucrats and politicians force inhuman net-zero policies - which are NOT saving the planet. They're sending electricity prices through the roof. And when energy costs soar, the cost of everything soars. Deliberately driving up the cost of energy raises the cost of living. The Liberal government started every economy destroying climate/energy policy.  Then the Labor-Greens government turbo-charged each policy when it was their turn. Only One Nation will scrap the climate madness, unleashing our abundant, cheap Australian coal and gas. We will restore common sense to our energy market so families, farmers, workers and industries can prosper once again. #AustraliaFirst senroberts.com/3VbKDdo
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💧 David Mitchell retweeted
Breaking: China’s CO2 emissions fell 3.1% in Q3 of 2026, the largest drop since 2022 Covid lockdowns. High oil prices and EVs pushed down oil demand, clean energy growth displaced coal power, steel and cement emissions fell, and coal-to-chemicals industry growth kept slowing.
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This is incorrect.
Replying to @ryankatzrosene
Why would people celebrate solar overtaking nuclear? Nuclear could power the whole grid for less cost and fewer resources than solar ever could (because you have to accommodate the instability of the resource).
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Wrong question. Why isn’t it popular everywhere else?
I’m really curious why WhatsApp is so popular in 3rd world countries.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
WhatsApp it's the most used messaging app in the world with more that 3 billion users including "first world countries" like most western Europe. linkmobility.com/blog/the-most-… sinch.com/blog/most-popu…
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That’s for “everything”, not just the electricity generation infrastructure. So all new cars, trucks, plant & machinery and industrial process. 🤦‍♂️
I know the left goes crazy when I post these external analyses of the ludicrous cost to Australia of changing the clouds but Net Zero Australia is a left leaning body! #climate #netzero #AUSTRALIA
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What are you going to do Dave? Pee in their glass?
We are coming for these senior bureaucrats just like we are the MPs. With the country heading towards 2 trillion in debt, every private business on its knees, the party is over for these greedy lazy fat cats who are drunk on taxpayer blood.
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WET would like to enter the chat.
FTC exists for the exact same reason that the GST exemption exists for business, you stupid old fuckwit. It is preventing double taxation of the consumer. Every single business that uses heavy machinery off-road can claim it. I’ve never seen a single one of your ideologically retarded morons claim that we “subsidise” anything other than coal and gas. It’s not a subsidy because it is not industry or business specific. It’s good to know that leftists don’t get any smarter with age.
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Batteries
Replying to @Tw_timerAlder
You don't want to burn coal, we can't build nuclear because it is regulated beyond economic sense and you don't want to burn gas when I reliables do what unreliables do. What do you propose. If you say batteries, just fuck off. Then fuck off again.
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Replying to @AssaadRazzouk
Let’s not forget that you require between 10 to 100 more mined ore for a ton of rare metals to a ton of coal. Makes a mockery of your figures,
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How do shut down evolution? By this argument we should cut down all the rainforest. This is not to say the consequences of high density animal husbandry should not be made clear.
This is basically a classical dangerous Gain of Function (dGoF) experiment. I wish the US government would shut it down. A while ago, Stacey Schultz-Cherry and I wrote a commentary (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…), that ends with this sentence:
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Lots of this is being electrified. Starting with Fortescue. As for the “we import all this”, why? If you want to fuel security, use renewables.
$266 BILLION OF AUSTRALIA'S EXPORTS RUN ON DIESEL. WE IMPORT 87% OF IT AND HOLD 31 DAYS. Ask any politician what pays the nation's bills and they'll say exports. Here's what pays for the exports. Last financial year Australia exported $646.6 billion. Iron ore, coal, gold, alumina and beef were $266 billion of it, 41% of everything we sell to the world. Add gas and mined commodities are nearly half. Every tonne of ore, coal and beef is dug, hauled or farmed on diesel. Mining and its trucking use 11.5 billion litres a year, 35% of all the diesel in the country. Our biggest export, iron ore, and coal account for more than 80% of mining's diesel. Now look at where the diesel comes from. 87% is imported. South Korea alone sends 8.7 billion litres a year, then Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and India. We're the biggest diesel importer on earth, about 10% of all diesel shipped by sea. We used to make our own. In 2020 our refineries met about 42% of fuel demand. By 2025 it was 21%. BP closed Kwinana and ExxonMobil closed Altona in 2021 under the Coalition. Three more were closed between 2012 and 2015, under both sides. Western Australia, home of the Pilbara, hasn't refined a litre of its own fuel since 2021. And the buffer? 31 days of diesel nationally, by the Minister's own figure, down from 33 in April. WA's emergency stockpile is 20 million litres. Rio Tinto gave up 8 million litres of its own delivery to help fill it. In fairness, both parties let the refineries go, importing is usually cheaper, and the government has announced a $3.2 billion reserve and higher minimum stocks. But the reserve has no date, the refineries aren't coming back, and $266 billion a year of exports depends on a fuel we barely make and hold about a month of. That isn't a fuel problem. It's a national security problem. Same standard, every side. Cold Hard Facts. Corrected when wrong. No misinformation. What's your thoughts…? Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺 Sources: DFAT, Australia's top 25 exports 2024-25; IEEFA, Digging mining out of diesel dependence, Oct 2026 and Managing Australia's diesel squeeze, Apr 2026 (citing DCCEEW Australian Energy and Petroleum Statistics); Australian Petroleum Statistics, via NRMA, Mar 2026; ABC News, 24 Sep 2026; Argus Media, 10 Feb and 10 Mar 2021; NAB, 10 Apr 2026; Chris Bowen, LinkedIn, 24 Oct 2026; WA Government, 6 May 2026; Australian Mining, Apr 2026. Export totals and shares: author's calculation.
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If your support is so strong, why exclude the “unsure” category from your analysis? Why don’t you release the real results?
Nearly 2/3 of Australians support nuclear energy being considered. New polling Nuclear for Australia commissioned with YouGov shows rising support for nuclear power. ⚛️ Take Action & Learn More: LiftTheBan.com.au
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💧 David Mitchell retweeted
Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 100% RE Last 269 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/5)
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This guys lives on the other side of the world and weights into a debate about EVs in Australia. 🤷‍♂️ #justawanker
David here lives on the other side of the world yet somehow knows all about my circumstances and transport needs. David is yet another #EVwanker
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😂😂😂 What a moron.
Replying to @CraigSarg73
We don’t have ability to supply 24/7 on demand energy at industrial scale. The issue isn’t houses
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💧 David Mitchell retweeted
Launched today: @ember_energy has EV sales data. 56 countries, and calculations of energy demand impacts ember-energy.org/latest-insi…
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Yep. JB is an advocate of paper reactors. 🤷‍♂️
Tomorrow one of the world’s leading nuclear experts, MIT Professor Jacopo Buongiorno will be in Parliament to educate politicians about nuclear ⚛️. He’ll be speaking to politicians across the aisle at a time where power demand is growing and technology is rapidly advancing.
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And today Project Energy Connect is on the grid. Brilliant timing.
Why is investment in utility solar drying up? South Australia in past 7 days shows why. Utility solar threw out (13.7)more electricity than sold (9.5). In the past 12 months utility solar threw out 42% of generation. Wind is better, but houshold batteries will kill that also.
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Yes
Do you ever book your flight based on the aircraft type?
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💧 David Mitchell retweeted
Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 100.0% RE Last 267 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/5)
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