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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 18 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Hawthorn at MCG
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Pressure is not off as the last few weeks we have pushed a wildcard, and now in that position. There's plenty of pressure in  that regard. Depends those if the players feel it is more the point
Pressure is a time and result dependant variable, it can be off yesterday and red lining tomorrow!

Plenty of pressure whenever you're in finals contention. which is much better than wooden spoon contention admittedly.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread
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It's amazing how the political position of many is so plastic, take the case of the data-centers.

Most of these developments come with 24x7 noise and emissions pollution, but they are sold as green, claiming solar and other renewable energy sources. The current round is even being supported by the Green parties.

But every data center makes use of gas turbine generators with Uninterpretable UPS for full online standby. These centers are not like the backup / hosting facilities people are familiar with, the proposed centers are in fact Server / GPU farms built for AI. In effect they use small jet engines that can ramp up and shut off at short notice. The developers will tell you the turbines only really ever run during an outage, that is a partial truth, they only all run to supply full power as part of an outage whether it is planned or unplanned. The reality is in combination with the full online UPS, the gas turbines will be cycled on and off around the clock 24x7. A big data center might have more than a dozen turbines, sometimes with duplicate or triplicate redundancy. That can mean at least one gas turbine will cycle on and off every 20 or 30 minutes somewhere at the facility, such that each generator is run for a small period of time once a day, sometimes more than once a day, and in any given hour there is a generator running for some significant portion of the available time slot.

Hardy green, certainly not environmentally friendly, and nearly always situated in remote locations because of the reasons above!

Now I'm all for super computers and R&D resources, give the scientists and engineers what they need to solve the next pandemic or environmental crisis. But this is not what the modern data-centers are really for, the bulk of the resource is being targeted at 'gaming' the financial sector, shares, crypto and targeted investments.

I'm not at all happy about having our tax dollars fund tools designed to the grow the personal wealth of billionaires. And it's truly ironic that some are all for this type of investment but openly protest a new train line, desalination plant, airport, freeway or power station!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 18 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Hawthorn at MCG
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Dressing room seems a lot happier and united under Fraser and the effort factor from all players seems higher as well,
You mean they are happy when winning, and the pressure is off!

The players are out there selling their wares, the question is why did it take them to arrive at the cliff edge before they switched on?
Pressure is not off as the last few weeks we have pushed a wildcard, and now in that position. There's plenty of pressure in  that regard. Depends those if the players feel it is more the point