surprised me as well! i thought this was a fairly straightforward request, i wonder why so many abstained!

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I hate to think how much time this guy is losing by sleeping every night, there’s at least a couple hours in employee leverage he’s losing

as in my other post, they don’t give a shit, they are digging up the majority of their own coal anyway

you want to go into settings > privacy > invites > change to my contacts

that will stop the random channel invites

Oh they know it, they just don’t care, good article:

Producing nickel is causing a staggering amount of climate pollution, and Indonesia knows it.

https://thediplomat.com/2025/09/funding-coal-powered-nickel-in-indonesian-is-a-climate-disaster/

renewables are already the cheapest form of power, there’s no excuse to be building new coal power plants in 2025

if they need cheap energy renewables are the cheapest, especially with the 3rd worlds links to China, building coal power plants is just ignorance

it’s crazy, even 30kw for 7k, i paid $16k for 10kw in jan 2023

feel free to take it up with the countries buying it, or is it just the west that has to reduce its dependence on coal?

few on ozbargain:

[NSW] 50kWh VoltX Solar Battery & 10kW Inverter $6,999 Installed (NSW Metro Only) @ VoltX Energy

[NSW, SA, QLD] NEW Customers Only: 41.93 Kwh Fox ESS Eq4800 Solar Battery from $5,199 @ Aussie Solar Batteries

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/search/node/solar battery

Negative our coal use is trending downwards:

https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=all&interval=1M&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed

We are a bit similar to Norway in that domestically we’re doing great at pushing forward with renewables but we export most of our crap:

The main sources of domestic energy production from natural sources were:

• Black coal (11,092 PJ of which 89% was exported)
• Natural gas (5,724 PJ of which 78% was exported as LNG)
• Uranium (2,725 PJ of which 99% was exported)
• Crude oil, condensates and other petroleum products (750 PJ of which 79% was exported)

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/energy/energy-account-australia/2023-24

So we export fossil fuels but at home we’re number one in the world:

Australia has the highest per capita solar capacity, now over 1.4kW.

We also I’m pretty certain (thanks to the Labor governments home battery subsidises) number one in the world with home battery installs:

“Based on the success of the program to date, we anticipate around 175,000 valid batteries to be installed by the end of 2025, representing around 3.9 GWh of useable capacity.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/households-on-track-to-add-five-biggest-batteries-in-six-months-as-rebate-installs-rocket-towards-175000/

When you can get a 40kwh home battery for 7000 AUD (~4500 USD) to hook up to your solar panels (which are getting bugger all for sending solar to the grid because we now have too much solar being generated now) and just about go off grid, why wouldn’t you?

Sorry for long reply :X

ah thanks!

because they have men willing to throw themselves at a drone, the west can barely keep up recruitment for any position in its defence forces

Anyone speak Russian? Why do they constantly sound like they’re saying “yeah boy” I’m sure they’re not saying it just it sounds very similar

frustrating and painful but ultimately for the better

i’m surprised, i just thought if you couldn’t afford a game these days you waited till it was 90% off on steam

I thought there was something like patient gamers who only played games a year after release or something like this but I can’t find it

what’s up?

great but only downside not made in Europe

Why do we need to offset other countries coal use? They’re the ones buying it and burning it, not us.

In particular Indonesia:

Yet Indonesia added 1.9 GW of coal capacity in 2024, the third most in the world, behind China and India. Some 80% of this new capacity came from so-called captive coal plants, built specifically to serve industrial estates processing nickel, cobalt and aluminum for the booming electric vehicle market.

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/indonesia-defies-global-coal-retreat-with-captive-plant-boom/

How ironic.

Thanks for making Queensland look good I guess? Even our worst state is still doing better than them.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/AU-QLD/live/fifteen_minutes

youtube may be the last american tech that i unhook from, there is simply no where else that has so much video content in one place

i don’t understand how france for example stopped 2 big media companies joining for fear of a monopoly while youtube easily gets far more viewers and watch hours than the two of them combined