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The person you are replying to is not the person that made "the Reddit style posts".

> Except big gas, who cannot turn a profit on a renewable success story. If only. Chevron’s Gorgon project will be ongoing for decades and making money hand over fist flogging LNG …

Rio started touting "amazing progress" a decade ago. Today, a couple of battery powered trucks is where they are at. Private car owners generally don't have full stack control to c…

"Yes" - TBH I'd be surprised if it's still "lost" - not further reported on because [ XXXredactedXXX ] is more likely.

Err, I'm not sure I follow. Australian mining moves > billion tonne per annum in W.Australia alone and that mass is blasted, excavated, moved by trucks, and then often by train, ru…

Yeah, I know it's rhetorical, all the same, there are a bunch of ways to query environment variables: * From a windows CLI type SET and all environment variables will be listed alo…

What I'm hearing here is that it's yourself struggling to imagine life w/out data centres. > ask your friend to imagine his life As for friends, I have a number of friends not diss…

> Peasants were always in a constant state of having more labor available than the land they worked required With the significant exception of post plague periods during which some…

It's an AI article. Looking for Chernobyl signature in cave during the late 1980s / early 1990s does seem daft - far more likely for them to be looking for residual "trace" from th…

Before 1986 there have been twelve "public" core meltdowns, and at least six, likely more, incidents not public on nuclear subs, etc. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_ra…

The hype was genuine enthusiasm, the reality is somewhat Sisyphean :( eg: Fortescue- Feb 2026 Fortescue launched two battery-electric locomotives this week, rounding out its fleet …

Mineral exploration / production VCs are salivating (well, experimenting with memes): https://xcancel.com/robert_ivanhoe/status/208546990089877138... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Regrettably the big Australian miners (Rio Tinto, BHP, Fortescue, etc) want electric to work and are vocal about their efforts in that direction but the four or five stand alone fu…

As the article stated, in this specific case the bank used an "invisible" character (a minus sign) to assist in alignment .. which resulted in errors when parsing the text nodes by…

Geology is most probably largely how the sealed claim has been made .. it was open to the world when the limestone was forming, formed (Speleogenesis) by sky water (rain) permeatin…

That quote, from the AI generated article, simply asserts the cave was sealed, it doesn't explain how the cave came to be sealed, nor how it is that modern humans infer the cave ha…

We've still got a crate full of engraved ashtray's lovingly made from various sizes of naval gun shells; "prizes" my father won during his service time taking out most comers in op…

"Artificial" geothermal works well enough to store energy from sunlight months for use during colder months. Artificial in the sense of using solar energy (direct or electric) to h…

Mini hydropower on gentle farm hills are sufficient to store and stabilise small town power - such topography is relatively widespread. eg: (old page, project is now complete and w…

Blade recycling is only becoming mainstream now as 15 year old farms start to change out blades in bulk: eg: (2026) Australia is home to 31 wind farms with turbines over 15 years o…

It might help to revisit the complexity of the bleeding edge tech that got a human filled rocket to the moon. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer There's also …

Not the North Sea, nothing to do with transmission in Germany. Bad summary, bot(?). German energy company RWE has said it will abandon its offshore wind projects in the US after re…

Chevron’s Gorgon project LNG plants on Barrow Island also absolutely do not look cool.