For a sparse and largely unpopulated country like Australia hydrogen in either ICE or Fuel Cell will eventually become the fuel of choice as you can transport, store and pump it largely like traditional fuels. It just won't ever make sense to roll out recharging infrastructure in regional areas it where will barely be used.
Cities are a different issue, and I expect at home off grid overnight charging to become a thing once battery and SolarPV technology get to a sensible point of efficiency and capacity but it's no even close yet. In my own area the power companies have already replaced two substations in the last year due to overload failures at night, prior to that they had replaced one in the last two decades.
My R&D associates tell me retail SolarPV efficiency has to double, while the energy battery storage has to increase in both reliability and longevity while the cost per kilowatt falls. In effect you need each and every "average" house generating and storing about 20kW of clean energy per day in winter. At the moment most home roof space taps out at between 6kW and 10kW maximum in summer, a big sun facing roof might deliver 15kW in summer but the average for a 15kW install is about 11kW.
ps; By average house they mean parents and two children average, two cars, gas stove and water, no boat or pool, for all electric the daily requirement increases to 24kW. My understanding this is also qualified for suburbia, where vehicles might not need travel a full charge range each and every week.
Drop won't kick in until tanks are re-filled. All petrol currently in the sevo tanks has full excise paid.
It's like arbitrage, they keep the price high when taxes fall delaying the cut, but when taxes rise the price rises instantly even though tanks are already full. They screw the punter both ways and blame politicians.
Labor have backtracked after saying they wouldn't cut the fuel excise last week and have bowed to public pressure and have cut it in half which I think is a sensible move short term.
They set the start date in the future to stop people panic buying, it was a smart tactic that buys time for vendors to restock.
But I do know many drivers have been laid off, so I doubt there is the capacity to restock in 72 hrs.
HOK also needs a spell, give Ready another crack and light a fire under his feet this time.
I think HOK needs game time, if Kemp goes out I'd push HOK forward and put Derksen in D50 for Dean. HOK is also a viable tall alternative target to McKay.
Also if Xerri goes out, I think bench time could be reversed this week, with Pitto on the sidelines more and HOK rucking.
HOK is hardly getting any game time, we need to better manage the bench and then maybe Pitto has a chance of competing against the likes of Gawn late in games.
Pitto is not a genuine solo ruck option against the likes of Gawn, but HOK's limited game time delivered little advantage.
I think Kemp has been disappointing, Gov has been OK, I'd be open for Kemp out Derksen in a reshuffle.
As much as I like Dean, that right foot effort was a tad embarrassing, now the opposition have seen it they will push him to his right every opportunity they get. It's going to get bad for him before it gets better.
The best way to do it drop players who are sub-par.
I think that works on transient issues, but we've had this fade out problem persisting across MC regimes and variety of player selections.
Off field we have new fitness, new MC, new executive but the same problem, and to me the early signs of this problem go back to the end of the Judd / sMurph era.
It can't be fitness, and we've had odd games go the other way as well, in which we've set out like slugs and come home like trains, but it's an understatement to say not often. It wasn't that long ago the media was full of argy bargy about our slow starts, with much the same playing list.
Balance seems to be the thing that is impossible for us to find.
The biggest concern I have is clubs are playing rope a dope against us. Lull us into a false sense of security, and then up the intensity, and once they get on top we have no answers.
I doubt it's rope-a-dope when you go almost 10 goals down.
We had two bog standard as easy as it gets shots at goal from 35m out and b0rked both of them to let go of a 10+ goal lead! We did all the hard stuff 100% correct and f0rked up the easy finish.
But are we surprised, quite a few of us mentioned the inability to the pull the trigger in the pre-game thread. it's a headspace issue not a fitness or skill issue. Some of the same people missing easy shots from 30/35m dobbed goals from 50m.
How do we get the squad in the right headspace, somebody must see this mindset developing because it stands out like proverbials to the fans?
young kemp o hollands harry florent chesser HOK Carroll is over 1/4 of the team that is on the park and are all absolute numbnuts with the ball in hand.
I seriously doubt OH was a problem this week, in fact he was probably up there in our best, had a heap of footy, intercepts, score involvements and I can only recall one obvious clanger that was more about being left high and dry by those around him than an individual error, although he will have to wear it because of the end result.
If Norf go the hammer turn it into battle of Britain the return. It's payback time.
Line in the sand time. If you don't like it ....off, clean out your locker and hand in ya keys
Modern footballers do not have it in them and they will just pack up and leave if you tell them to bring the gloves, which is exactly what I was thinking we need but we do not have any players of that type.
You can see Clarkson slowly moulding Norp into a more brutal side, although without the skills they need at the moment, even so you could see the impact of that against the bruise free CheatsFC. It was a shizen game but at the same time never in doubt.
I'm assuming Xerri will be absent, but expect Larkey and Zuhaar to resume business as usual.
Respectfully Micky, how do we know the coaches did nothing to curb the momentum? I know what the players didnt do because that as plain as the nose on my face to see. I saw the player opposed to Kosi at the centre ball up lose touch with him far too easily because he gave him way too much space. I would much rather he gave away the frees for holding than let him stream out. I saw lots of attention to detail by the players missing when the game ramped up. I saw no leadership from the senior players. I saw players man and ball watching. The above costs you games and careers. The coach also mentioned in the presser about not sticking to roles.
I have to agree, I saw the opposite in that I saw coaches trying stuff and getting nothing in return. It's not the kids although they weren't perfect, for example young Dean let his opponent lead him to the ball too often, and more than once in his vigor he took out team-mates instead of opponents. In fairness to Dean he is a beginner and Kemp did this twice as well. It's like they are happy to hit each other and not the opposition!
But the real problem is the older heads, when was the last time you saw a senior Carlton player use his body in the contest like Byrne did? BigH basically got brushed aside by smaller lighter bodies and was no resistance to the likes of Gawn, Gov started OK but resorted to limping as a sympathy tactic, Weiters hobbles away from every marking contest, Cripps tries to play the tough man but it's not naturally to him and costs him what he is really good at. Young I can't talk about I'll be spitting out too many teeth.
An exorcist would help us way more than yet another regime change.
We have a play safe mentality that allows a naturally aggressive player like Kosi to turn even our talls to submission.
This is not new, we've had it for years, the cure will be players who make the rest of our list uncomfortable.
Our situation is quite ironic given the way our coach played, he was borderline murderous in his unrelenting attack on the footy and the poor bastard is trying to coach a squad full passive aggressive.
It will be interesting to see what happens regarding Xerri, because he is one of the prime bully boys at Norp, and what a coach like Clarkson will do if Xerri is absent.
On a positive note, Talor Byrne had a great debut for the club. A great first game. A goal with his first kick after using his body to edge out the Melbourne player and a couple of great bumps to clear the way for a couple of goals. Nice work young man and good luck for the future.
Mercedes are fast and top of the game (for now) strategy wise.
Like most F1, fast in front is not the same as overtake fast. They can all run away if in front with clean air, and today Antonelli won the lottery with the crash allowing him to pit without loss of time. Seconds earlier or seconds later and Russell or Piastri win.
