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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
If the democrats want to win, Biden must be replaced at the August Dem convention.

The little I saw, he was confusing millions, billions and trillions.

Trump just makes stuff up.

The tete-a-tete about golf was bizarre.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread
Nuclear needed to be actioned a long time ago (if it is going to happen)

 - There is commentary that the proposal will deliver 4% of our power.  Does this justify the investment?
 - Need water for plants (1,514L and 2,725L litres of water per MWh although a lot is recylced through the plant)
 - Coal power will be gone by the time nuclear will be ready, so need to be ready to replace that energy with a non nuclear solution.
 - There is going to be years of site suitability and type of generator etc discussion
 - Talk of complementing renewables, but to get the best value, would need to run at 100%.  It isn't a Victorian Salinty plant (that's never been used?)
 - There will be a lot of debate about the sites proposed - state forest WA, Perisher, Latrobe Valley, port augusta etc
 - I do hope the 'three eyed fish' from Simpsons doesn't come out - I think they're past that
 - I also hope no politician talks about cheap energy.  Just 'install' the best mix for our country.

Hopefully there will be more detail released and hopefully there can be sensible debate about which option.  This should be bipartisan, but given the the parliamentary state is to oppose each other and be beligerent, it is doubtful that it will happen.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread
No idea about the worthiness of sources, but a couple of things that a reportedly happening in China:

 - China intends to build 150 new nuclear reactors between 2020 and 2035, with 27 currently under construction and the average construction timeline for each reactor about seven years, far faster than for most other nations
 - China is building ‘300 wind and solar’ sites for every nuclear power plant
 - China installed a record 293 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar in 2023 – pushing its total capacity to 1,050GW, according to a new report
 - In 2022, China installed roughly as much solar capacity as the rest of the world combined, then doubled additional solar in 2023.
 - 2022 Electricity generation was 63% coal, 14% Hydro, 9% Wind, 5% nuclear, 5% Solar, 4%Gas & Bio

Yet is still about 70% coal - partly due to not using all the renewable energy generated.

I stress that I have not tried verifying this info - it seems interesting, don't really know its significance!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 13 2024 Post Game Celebrations - Carlton vs Essendon
Quote from: DJC – on
I just replayed the first quarter and took note of the ruck contests.

Goldstein: 17 ruck contests, 2 hitouts, 0 HTA, 3 clearances
De Koning: 10 ruck contests, 3 hitouts, 0 HTA, 1 clean possession, 1 free kick, 2 clearances
Wright: 4 ruck contests, 1 hitout, 1 HTA*
McKay: 6 ruck contests, 3 hitouts, 0 HTA
Cripps: 3 ruck contests, 1 hitout, 1 HTA
Kennedy: 2 ruck contests, 0 hitouts

*This was probably a fortuitous HTA in that Wright attempted to take clean possession and the ball ricocheted to his teammate.

Cripps just shaded Wright as the most effective ruckman on the ground in the first quarter if you're judging by HTA. 

In the absence of HTAs, Goldstein was more effective in the ruck than De Koning in that he had three clearances to De Koning's two.  However, Goldstein's clearances were from second efforts after the ball had gone to ground.  De Koning's clearances were from a clean possession and a free kick in the ruck contest.

It's interesting that there were only 10 hitouts from 21 ruck contests

Don't feed the beast, DJC! :D
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: State Elections
There are some very worthy recipients of awards.

- the nominee is not to be told about their nomination. (I'm tipping this may often be broken, but go with it). Like receiving diplomatic positions, I wonder if this was included in Dan's resignation.

- the award must not be given for paid work. Counts out all politicians whilst they are in parliament and many others.

I had to write a reference for a nominee and the Award people did call to quickly interview and confirm that the work was outside employment.

There would be thousands that aren't nominated - partly because a lot of us just think it's a mate who's doing a lot of good things and mate is humble and doesn't want recognition.

Bit of an archaic thing.

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 13 2024 Post Game Celebrations - Carlton vs Essendon
The excitement is that we beat Essendon. Conversation maybe different if it had been a not so despised rival.

I thought the game was pretty ordinary - interesting B Scott was talking about our polish - while it existed in patches,  wasn't overwhelming- maybe deflection on ineffectiveness of the Bombers?

Very pleasing however, that we didn't rely on big games from big guns and got to cruising mode.  Would have been nice to win be a few more goals to improve our % and hurt theirs more.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Insurance companies justifying increased premiums.  One group says .0012% chance, another is twice as high at .006%.  This is against 0.1% for ICE.



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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Domestic violence and why the government will struggle to attention the problem.
Holy Moly Mantis.  I wasn't going to take you up on your offer of sharing by DM as I wasn't sure as to why I would want the details.  Now you have shared, thank you so much.  What will I do with this?

A mate of my son's parents are going through a nasty separation.   There was abuse in the marriage - nothing like you've experienced, but still there - to the point where the mate was starting to display some of the same abusive attributes.  The kids are also in the same footy team, which has some really well rounded adults supporting and encouraging - they know some of mates situation.  It drives me to help support and be an adult role model for not only mate, but the whole team (as much as you can) and likewise for my son's cricket team and to encourage others to do the same.  Will it make a difference? I hope so. 

Thanks again, Mantis, for opening our eyes to understand more about what goes on behind locked doors.

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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Money - ruining cricket, ruining footy.  Narcicism - ever present in both as well.

For me, this IPL is the one ruining cricket - too many scores of 220+ from 20 overs.  Not a contest between teams - contest between batters.  Bowlers and Fielders merely get in the way.

While Warner should not be in the squad, I think JFM will get worked out - maybe bowling restrictions will work in his favour.  JFM is currently 23rd on the 2024 IPL runs scored list - although has played at least 2 less games than anyone above him - but his strike rate is the best.

World Cup is in USA and Windies, so small grounds will suit.