Clean-energy technologies now together account for 2.5TW of installed capacity globally, more than coal or gas, says new report rechargenews.com/transition/sol…
Also, now more solar than wind, and more new renewables (solar+wind) than hydro
Lower capacity factors, but factor rising for renewables (esp with storage) and falling for coal (bottom of merit order)
Change is happening, but not fast enough.
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Suppose(!) an Oz government or IR tribunal, wanted to shift the standard working week to four eight-hour days.
Here's one possible path:
Reduce standard working week from 38 hours to 35, a demand of the trade union movement that's been on the books for the last 50 years. With four weeks annual leave and 10 public holidays per year, that implies just over 1600 hours per year (excluding sick leave etc) 1/..
Now move to the four-day, 32 hour week, with the proviso that the full four days are worked in weeks with public holidays. That gives 1536 hours worked in a standard year 2/..
An interesting question asked of Vladimir Putin by Margarita Simonyan (of Russian propaganda outlet RT) at the St Petersburg Economic Summit
Mr President, I would like to show you something that I have brought with me especially. It is juice, and it used to be so nicely coloured. It does not matter what sort of juice it is; you cannot even see the brand here, although it is a popular one.
And now – do you see? A small picture and the rest is white. Why is that? And this is happening on a massive scale.
Because we ran out of paint. The producer of paint for such packaging has left Russia, and the producer of the packaging also announced that they are leaving.
This is the kind of thing that makes journalists distrusted. "The government has previously denied Ms Higgins’ partner David Sharaz’s claims that the PMO media team was “backgrounding” journalists against him." If this happened, lots of journos know and aren't telling.
If not, it ought to be easy enough for someone to do a ringaround Press Gallery and confirm PMO is telling the truth.
But journos won't burn insider sources even when those sources are engaged in borderline criminal behavior and lying about it. They are complicit in the process.
Supposing the Dems win Presidency and both Houses, and override the filibuster, can they legislate the equivalent of Roe and Casey, for example in an expanded civil rights act?
Those decisions found an implied right in the constitution, but it's hard (for a non-US, non-lawyer) to see how SC can find an implied prohibition to replace it. Can they rule it out on states' rights grounds?
If not, issue of expanding SC might not arise unless there is another trigger. 2nd amendment?