I've read that enough youth are just taking the surcharge and loading on the chin that insurers have started to worry.
I'm not young, but I'm doing this.
My tiny ideological stand.
Me: Hi, I need some high quality components, you know better than office stuff, and I'm willing to pay a premium. Company: Great, we have a huge range. And as a bonus we've covered EVERYTHING in LEDs! Me: Err, can I get the good mechanical switches and silent fans without LEDs? Company: Ooh, that's a SPECIAL item! 3x the price!
The concept of direct brain interface is both exciting and terrifying.
We struggle to secure offline systems against determined attack, and my brain is not a test bed.
Back in 1909 The Protectionist Party and Anti-Socialist Party put aside their differences to take on the Labor party, which was seen as Socialist.
The founders wanted freedom (Liberty) from what they saw as Labour Union dominion.
Funnily enough, an actual Libertarian party has since popped up and the Liberals challenged their name with the AEC, which as I said is funny because the Electoral Commision correctly pointed out that if ANYBODY has an incorrect name, it's the Liberals.
I can't read it any more either.
Paper Tiger had a kitchen fire a few days ago and will be temporarily shutting down according to their Instagram.
Now B'Churrasco has had a fire.
It needs to be mandated that if you own a rental, it will have a battery and solar setup of a minimum size.
Otherwise renters are a key demographic that will miss out on this.
8 guys on 4 dirtbikes can scatter when a drone starts swooping.
The lada only scatters AFTER the drone hits it.
Finamp beta works with android auto (although I've experienced a bug when starting finamp from the android auto screen).
Hopefully the current Hackathon makes it even better: https://github.com/users/jmshrv/projects/5/views/1
The people that set the price floor currently are the coal burners.
The contracts that they sign with AEMO is why AEMO keeps curtailing the large wind and solar farms, this is why various jurisdictions are getting the ability to stop houses from exporting power.
The maths of supply and demand are tricky when you can literally curtail your competitors supply.
Lower peak prices will have corresponding higher peak prices.
Part of the reason we have the current extreme lows is because the coal that we currently need cannot be turned off and on easily.
In the long term, when we have sufficient storage to time+geo-shift the required cheap renewables to where they are needed, yes, everyone will benefit.
In the next 10-15 years, I predict massive problems as the existing coal infrastructure is run way past end of life, regardless of our eventual goal being Nuclear or Firmed-Renewables.
The only certainty is that coal is a shambling zombie.
I do predict the connection fee going up, and if enough people disconnect (which they will at a certain price point), I see the connection fee being rolled into people rates like the local bin collection - you'll pay whether you use it or not, just because it goes past.
A wide range of experts, including a former RBA deputy governor, are calling for the federal government to introduce household battery subsidies to encourage uptake.
This is suggesting that we use taxpayer funds to offset the installation costs of people who own a house and likely a solar setup already - further reducing their running costs.
But as battery uptake increases, there will be less demand on the grid, so the per kW/h and daily connection fees are going to increase.
So any tax paying renter gets to benefit from this by... paying more for their electricity?
To paraphrase Joe Hockey (and the broader Liberal party), I guess "Poor people don't use much electricity."
Ooh, to quote that ~~ball of shit~~ honourable former MP again, maybe they should "Get a good job and buy a house".
Crisis Averted \s
About 200 Australians have money.
Almost a quarter of it.