To everyone using Medium to post your free articles: If the article requires me to login, I lost me. I won’t create an account and login to Medium for a free article. Sorry to a lot of you out there.
aaaand just received an invite to “Prioritising Your Workload and Knowing When to Say No”, a workshop which runs from 1000-1600. #LifeOfPI#JustSayNo#ZammoWasRight
Scientists warn a poorly managed hydrogen rush could make climate change worse.
A growing body of scientific research is highlighting the indirect ways hydrogen could worsen climate change — and critics say the risks are largely being ignored by the federal government. #ClimateChange
This should be chilling for every American regardless of religious belief. Make America Pray Again? Their candidate proclaimed that parts of the USA were trying to shame them. Anyone wearing this slogan should absolutely be ashamed. #ChristianNationalism#JustSayNo
Peter Dutton's nuclear plan is just terrible public policy.
The truth is that, in an Australian context, with nuclear power more expensive per kilowatt hour than either grid scale solar & storage or coal, nuclear just doesn't make economic sense.
The UK has a mature nuclear industry. Its new Hinkley Point C plant, started in 2016, is now expected to not be complete until 2031, and costs £35bn.
So how much would it cost to replace all of Australia's coal power plants with nuclear ones?
We'll, at current exchange rates, £35bn — that's the cost of just one Hinkley Point C sized reactors — works out to A$67.6 billion.
So building just 10 nuclear reactors the size of Hinkley Point C costs $A676bn, making the AUKUS subs look like Home Brand corn flakes in comparison.
(Just for comparison, ScoMo's AUKUS subs cost $368bn, and Daniel Andrew's Suburban Rail loop is estimated at around $100bn.)
That's assuming Australia, starting from scratch, could build nuclear plants as quickly and cheaply as the UK, which was one of the first nations on Earth to split the atom.
So is it debt & deficit to fund this? Big new taxes? Even by the LNP's own measuring sticks, it's a crap policy!
The big thing that's changed since it was published is that grid solar + storage is now cheaper than coal or nuclear power.
So would you support holding up the closure of coal plants for 15 years until nuclear plants are completed, then paying substantially more on your power bills, while the federal government pays hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies, while also hiring thousands of additional public servants to regulate it all?
For today's #ComicShowAndTell, I have my only comic that was produced in cooperation with the FBI!
This is Captain America Goes To War Against Drugs (pub. 1991). It's 20 pages and was free at the time. This book is full of 90s outfits and tons of #JustSayNo kinds of stuff.
There is a story - aliens are trying to take over humanity by bringing drugs to earth. Meanwhile, Captain America helps a baseball-playing teen quit an unnamed substance.
@Perl when I became Linux Server Amin 25 years ago, I learned Perl. Because I was looking for something beyond Bash and AWK.
I love this script language. Meanwhile I have the feeling that Perl is rather retrocomputing, is my feeling wrong?
They're definitely out there. A previous boss (and current co-worker... 😀 ) did a lot of COBOL earlier in his career - he's no older than me - but still does COBOL recreationally 😂