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Killer whales hunting baleen whales in concert with humans of the coast of Australia is well documented and probably predates European settlement - search 'the law of the tongue' for more details.

I would argue actual bills paid (as shown in the camstar data) is important to the average voter vs wholesale price as you have quoted.

there was a bottomless pit of money to pay for advertising on facebook to get it up to critical mass, I wonder where that might have come from?

the question is, are the downvoters paid or incentivised to do so? we will never know.

At what cost? we've saved a few 80 year olds, but lost hundreds of younger people via suicide and created a huge long tail of mental health problems along with poor educational outcomes (Australian here).

thanks that is really great perspective

not similar, but relevant: https://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2014/03/05/3957316.htm

easy to imagine such a thing recording covid status being a pre-requisite to entering hospitals / government buildings. Other options would be offered initially.

Does anyone else see the irony of herding people off beaches to protect them from covid-19?

on currently published numbers the death rate is around one death per 30 infections. (25th January, 41 people dead from 1287 infections). According to wikipedia the spanish flu had a death rate of 1 in 50 (although the numbers may not be that reliable), so until more is known about transmission it should prompt precautions.

My meaning was that it is too far for a transmission line to make sense, and once the transmission line gets to South Australia (the state closest to Western Australia) you have only delivered the power to a state with the same problem - too much solar without enough storage. A better way to solve the problem would be to prohibit new installs of rooftop solar without an accompanying battery system.

This won't happen because it would be politically difficult, and because the power companies would lose a lot of money as consumption fell through the floor. They don't want too much battery for a while because this would require them to move from a usage model to a majority fixed fee billing. To reduce public outrage the changeover needs to be slow.

that comment (while technically correct) is undoubtedly from someone who has obviously never driven across the nullabor.

South Australian here - In South Australia keep in mind commercial scale solar is also generating against residential rooftop solar which is sold back via a feed in tarrif to the generator at a contracted fixed rate. The generators have to pay for (and take) this power. In some cases 20 year contracts where signed some time ago with feed-in tariffs much higher than what they ever should have been. This has resulted in early adapters making thousands in cash every year from residential solar (and still doing so). Everyone else is paying for it of course. Feed-in tarrifs available for contracts signed today are much lower, but some of these contracts still have a few years to run. Without more storage solar will continue to reduce reliability and add costs.

Mentions of China and the US could be swapped in that paragraph, the only thing out of line would be the population estimate.

australia's yearly intake until recently for around a decade has been more than that.

A tool with a camera and other sensors you can log into remotely and drive wherever you like in Washington (for example) and then have it loiter while it beams data back to china. Sounds like a plan!

On remote beaches I have visited in Australia there are large items but nothing like the amount of small items in this photo. I wonder if you could use machine learning to automatically classify plastic in photos like this based on color and shape. People could then submit all photos like this from all over the world to build a database of plastic levels, which could be used with ocean currents to provide source information. Maybe it has happened.

Exactly. Create the right conditions with little grazing pressure and reduced weed competition and regeneration will often happen naturally. There may be technical solutions to bump this along but for most situations this will not be it. Where replanting is being conducted in the third world and this drone is used instead of local planters it might increase community resentment and disengagement. Working with communities on more sustainable livelihoods and helping them understand the reasons why it is better for everyone if some areas are left un-grazed for periods and allowed to regenerate is not easy but without local buy-in nothing will last.

NK will not be going to war, unless by miscalculation. Kim knows that of all the scenarios in a war, none end with him munching on caviar in a palace. There are two major powers that would make certain of that. Why do you think he was so keen to assassinate his half brother?

next dilemma for a startup - figuring out which bit of the splinternet you are going to target - the chinese, the confederate, the islamic or the general part.

as an australian citizen I am interested to know - would this be a ruling a company could push for compensation on under the TPP?

If I was microsoft, I would overhaul minecraft mods and make it possible to write them in c# (maybe with a bridge or something). Get kids into your stack and fix an existing pain point.

unfortunately (for Australia at least) the camel is in no danger of disappearing, it is a very serious pest of the inland desert areas. The number of camels which range through inland arid areas is now around the 1 million mark. They are very destructive too, being able to reach much higher and eat tougher plants than any other native animals.