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Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
Replacing fossil fuels may not be nearly as daunting a challenge for governments as that persistent 80%-plus share of primary #energy suggests. Because burning fuels to generate power, drive vehicles and heat buildings wastes much of those fuels’ energy as heat, about two-thirds of the primary energy that goes into the global system is lost before it does anything useful. A growing number of energy analysts point out that the energy transition does not require all that waste energy to be replaced, joule for joule, with renewable energy. Believing otherwise is what Canadian chemical engineer Paul Martin has called the “primary energy fallacy”. Or as the Oxford professor Jan Rosenow says “we don’t need to replace waste”. Rosenow is the lead author of a forthcoming study that attempts to quantify the scale of the primary energy fallacy by modelling a highly electrified global economy running on renewable power. It suggests we could get exactly the same amount of useful energy we have today with about half as much primary energy.
#climate
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Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
All women need to know that Pauline Hanson has consistently voted against bills in parliament that support or improve the rights, welfare and security of women in our society.
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
We built ships, canals, vast storage tanks, caverns, heaps, pipelines, refineries, grid, pumped hydro, inventories and even cartels in an attempt to make intermittent fossil fuel generation reliable.
If we build storage, grid and interconnectors for Renewables people go mental.
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
Tesla just had the biggest residential Virtual Power Plant event in history.
During peak demand in California yesterday, 85,774 homes with @Tesla Powerwalls delivered 601 MW to the grid, with the total fleet peaking at a record 634 MW, roughly the output of a large utility-scale power plant.
These Powerwall owners also got paid for the energy they sent back to the grid during this event 🔋
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
Okay I had severely underestimated the extent to which fraternities—in all their scorched earth endlessly perpetuated toxic masculinity—run the United States. celestemdavis.substack.com/p…
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
"It has never been about a shortage of money". @Lochinvar001 on the failure of domestic violence response by authorities/govt
#auspol
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Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy.
We don't need to replace all fossil fuels. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task.
Great to see @IEA Electrification report finally measure this.
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
Hi @PaulineHansonOz
If you believe accessing $44 of their Super each week will help struggling Australians so much, why did you oppose a $56 per week increase to the minimum wage?
Kenny x
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
You want to know what actual free speech looks like in the American context?
Edward Snowden told the truth about what the government was doing to its own citizens.
He is in exile.
Chelsea Manning told the truth about what the military was doing in Iraq, including footage of a helicopter crew killing journalists and laughing.
She was imprisoned.
Julian Assange published documents showing the gap between what Western governments said and what they did.
He spent years in an embassy and then a prison, and the country that lectures the world about press freedom led the effort to destroy him.
Meanwhile the people who lied about weapons of mass destruction and launched a war that killed hundreds of thousands:
They are on the speaking circuit.
They are on television as analysts.
They have libraries named after them.
This is not a paradox. This is the system working correctly.
Free speech, in the empire's operating definition, means you can say anything that doesn't threaten the machine.
The moment the speech has real consequences for real power:
You discover exactly how free it is.
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
🚨This is happening right now 🚨
Labor + Coalition + One Nation just cut a secret deal to pass laws on ASIO's power to detain and interrogate you without charge with a warrant issued by a politician. They're trying to do this while media is distracted.
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
Peter Cronau: I weep for my country…Today the Australian Labor Government declared war on the free people of Australia…today th-Albanese led Labor Gov declared the people who’ve granted Labor privilege of government R now classified “…enemy…” without a shred of justification.
ASIO is preparing. Parliament is complicit.
▪️Refusing to be questioned will get you charged under new ASIO laws that the major parties themselves refuse to be questioned on.
▪️Liberals and Labor — two factions of one big ruling party — too afraid to challenge ASIO’s ever-widening grab for power.
▪️Ramming new laws through parliament in the dying hours of a sitting week — while hiding in their offices from the eyes of the voters.
▪️There is however someone from another party, the real opposition, who is standing up and speaking out for proper scrutiny of overreaching security laws.
Thanks due to @DavidShoebridge
📖 Bookmark this excellent takedown of another significant government step towards a ‘police state’ — download it, resend it, show your colleagues, show your kids, teach them, take it to meetings, plan your next steps, support independent media, post it on socials, keep it to remind yourself.
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Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
The Coalition missing in action yet again. Not one in the House on a series of votes to protect Australians from the harms of gambling.
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
The Liberals spent years opposing EVs for no discernible reason beyond a spectacular commitment to dumb ideology.
Ironically, the thing ruining the weekend is not an EV. It’s paying $250 to fill up the Ford Ranger they told everyone was freedom.
#insiders
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
@AustralianLabor you know legislation would be popular in #Australia right now?
Truth in advertising laws to cover all political advertising.
And throwing in disclosure laws as well. I have to disclose and dealings in my YouTube vids, why not political ads? #auspol
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
Imagine if you asked a realestate agent to sell your house, and instead of getting a good price for you, they gave it to their mate for free!
You’d be furious
Well, that’s exactly what the Australian Government is doing with your gas resources.
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
Isn’t it absurd that Annika Wells says her govt wants to protect children with their social media ban, yet won’t ban gambling ads being served to those same children?
#auspol
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
Speak to most Australians and they'll tell you you can't leave the city in a Tesla and you need a "4x4 with all terrain tyres" and a lift kit, yet here's Harald, 12x around Australia, and this time 100% on FSD in his Model YL in 10 days! 😎⚡
On this my twelfth circumnavigation of Australia since 2018 in an EV, I covered 13,285km in a Tesla Model YL in 10 days (227 hours) in June/July 2026.
An entire continent has been encircled using @Tesla @TeslaAUNZ @teslasi Full Self Driving (Supervised) V14.3.3 with 100% (car verified) usage.
Adele Craven 🌏 🇦🇺⚡️ retweeted
Labor needs to close the loopholes that allow the Big 4 to behave like marauding cowboys. They must be taxed, face the same transparency obligations as other big firms & banned from political donations, & we need an authority that actually supports & protects whistleblowers.