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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It's actually a reduction, although article is unclear on the mechanism.. It's like they've built an AI to generate the most clickbait headline based on the training data over time...

Greenwell said the urban benefits of all schools being required to enrol all local students who applied included reduced traffic, house prices and pollution.
“There’s not much point in having a 15-minute city if families routinely hop in the SUV and drive 45 minutes or more to do the drop-off,” he said.

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Share someone who looks stylish wearing a headband

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Money well spent on several levels..

Hardcover copy of Gardening with Compost by F C King
242gbp

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm no expert, but IMO it would have been more efficient for Australia Post to just send me the parcel directly instead of routing it from Oakleigh via the ACT and Sydney and back to Oakleigh..

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A (not) very important observation is that the new dashboard looks like rubbish on mobile...

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And yet... ourworldindata.org/grapher/elec...

Australia has much more solar per person than Germany

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't get it, the VGPR has Vic supply exceeding consumption until 2029 whereas your graph indicates it crossed over a couple of years ago..

From
https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/files/gas/national_planning_and_forecasting/vgpr/2026/2026-victorian-gas-planning-report-update.pdf?rev=5ae2257fc06b45d5bae18c5a247e738c&sc_lang=en

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why do you think there needs to be separate markets for long duration storage? The example linked is 8hrs+ which is hardly seasonal shifting.. And stating that without markets projects don't get built ignores that the vast majority of hydro assets were built by and/or for government.

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Age/SMH continue to find the least sympathetic examples of how policy changes impact the public.. "Families denied their au pairs"

Headline
Backpacker crackdown's unintended consequence
Families denied their au pairs

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sliding doors for a bomber fan - what would have happened if Fagan came to the bombers 10 years? Could he have rescued the rotten culture? www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/ne...

Schwab had wondered if Fagan was genuinely interested in coaching.
After a three-hour meeting, they had their answer.
Lions chairman Wellington, then on the board, said although there were many factors behind the Brisbane turnaround, "the decision to appoint Chris ... I think is the most significant of all the various factors."
At the urging of Daniher, for whom Fagan had served as right-hand man for most of their Demon days, Essendon had sounded out Fagan for their senior coaching role at the end of 2015. The Dons would opt for the safe hands of John Worsfold to lead them through the crisis of mass suspensions.
Fagan's success has re-defined the role of senior coach as one that is

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fuck off Sportsbet, can't wait until these soft rules allowing ads in the pre-game are hardened up.. #aflgf

ACMA rules

Additional rules that apply 5.00am to 8.30pm
The rules are stronger between 5.00am and 8.30pm, to protect children who may be watching or listening.

No gambling advertising or promotion of odds is permitted from 5 minutes before the published scheduled start of play, until 5 minutes after play, including during breaks.

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Always good to get a complimentary service on a new car. Even more amazing that they checked the fuel lines and engine oil on an EV...

Service details for a new EV

CUSTOMER COPY

# TYP JOB DESCRIPTION

1 / 1 FREE FIRST SERVICE - COMPLIMENTARY INSPECTION (FS)

***** INTERNAL JOB *****

CARRIED OUT FIRST SERVICE AS PER MANUFACTURER SPEC
INSPECT ENGINE AIR FILTER
INSPECT BRAKE BRAKE FLUID
INSPECT BRAKE LINES, HOSES & CONNECTIONS
INSPECT BRAKE DISC ROTOR

S
INSPECT DRIVELINE BUST BOOT
INSPECT ENGINE COOLING SYSTEM
INSPECT ENGINE DRIVE BELT
INSPECT FUEL LINES & HOSES
INSPECT PARKING BRAKE
INSPECT TYRE WEAR & PRESSURES (INCLUDING SPARE)
INSPECT VEHICLE BATTERY
INSPECT WINDSCREEN WASHER, ADD WINDSCREEN WASHER
INSPECT HOOD STRIKER
INSPECT ALL ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
INSPECT HOSES & TUBES EMISSION
INSPECT ENGINE OIL FLUID
PERFORM ROAD TEST OPERATION
Labour

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Always hard to narrow down, but the "shouldn't use high heat with a wok" hot take was pretty funny..

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Can't remember specifics, but did save this in my roll on that day..

Message from 5 years ago

Can't stay indoors, house will fall down. Can't go outside, you'll get the virus, can't go into the city, angry mob. #visitmelbourne

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's soliciting DMs so definitely not harmless. I've reported for impersonation, please do likewise if you get a chance

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Economic curtailment? I'm no expert but I can't remember it go -$200/MWh before..

Open Electricity showing prices of negative 199 per Mwh

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Never fear, just scroll down and it has everything going back to the Iphone 5. That's what I call legacy support!

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Great to see the Apple polishing cloth already supports the new iPhone duo, rather than forcing me to upgrade to Cloth 2.0 through planned obsolescence. Disappointed they haven't announced support for Android though, interoperability would be a game changer.. www.apple.com/au/shop/prod...

Polishing cloth screenshot from app store

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Who TF is paying $6k for a phone? I don't think I've cracked the 1k and can't imagine what requirements would necessitate this kind of device...

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

All data from the brilliant Open Electricity site explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?...

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

3 free works for me. If you have a decent amount of flexible load (EV, hot water, dryer, dishwasher, heating) then it's worth it even at the prices mentioned in the article. I still think a price signal to not waste energy is a better idea, in Vic wholesale prices at midday today were $100/MWh..

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Not only the image, but the entire content of the article is AI. These kinds of sites are trash to harness ad clicks. They probably run a similar AI site for pro fossil fuel arguments, just to earn the advertising $$..

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Good to see the headline writers don't understand the difference between 99th %ile threshold and average of the top 1% (the latter of which would be skewed by Atlassian billionaires)..

SMH headline:
In this Sydney suburb you need to earn $6.3m to be in the top 1%: How does your area compare?

In the article, %6.3m is the avg of the top 1% not the actual threshold..

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Good chat between @mliebreich.bsky.social and Paul Simshauser on Australia's energy transition. I will point out that a market cap of $23k/MWh is $23/kWh, and >50k retail customers of Amber will see this either in expensive lamb roasts or massive export income.. www.cleaningup.live/how-renewabl...

So we have, you only get paid when you produce in our spot electricity market. What that means is we have an extremely high market price cap, it's a little over AU$20,000 a megawatt hour on a bad day.

ML
And we should translate that into what people's bills, if you do that on a kilowatt hour basis, it is AU$2 per kilowatt hour, where normally your prices that you'd pay, your average for the year would be 25, 27 cents. Electricity markets can get very, very complex.

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

On a local Australian FB group there's a guy with 115kWh of batteries - a bit crazy.. The average is 20kWh in Australia but lots of people installed 50kWh and more due to subsidies that have since been wound back..

My Efficient Electric Home (MEEH)
Chris Cathcart · 18 Jun · 🌐
May’s bill, while not our best month’s credit, still mind blowing. -$863 for 31 days. All electric house in SE QLD, our only car for 8 years has been an EV. With 28.8kWh solar and ~115kWh of batteries. Thank you LocalVolts for your Peer 2 Peer system.

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm not seeing the flows to shares with fully franked dividends like your post - there's even a big drop in inflows from May to June to Aus Equity which is half big4 + miners (but IMO 1 month data is not that useful - see last 2 years below). CGT Rules start in a year, we'll see what happens then..

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Per Google Trends, it looks like I'm not the only one in Australia who had NFI.. Wordle 1,852 6/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #wordle

Google trends for the wordle word, massive spike in Australia..

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Nah, can't see any world where you'd be able to heat the home, have hot water, and charge the EV all off solar in the middle of winter in New Zealand or any of the southern parts of Australia. We definitely need grid plus hydro and wind. Maybe if you're in Queensland you could go off grid?

My energy use for June including solar, showing consumption is quadruple solar production.

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

That should be long enough..

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Vic has a different regulatory environment, and our scheme is called the "Midday power saver" but other than kicking off from October 1 it's much the same. Some retailers have already started offering it, but I'm not sure what's good for me is good for grid.. www.energy.vic.gov.au/households/s...

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Not much curtailment in the south (Victoria) in Winter. Solar curtailment: June 2026 - 7 GWh Dec 2025 - 126 GWh IMO the 3 free should only be 8 months a year, otherwise induced demand might increase fossil use.. Stats va explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/vic1/...

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Already doing my bit (in Vic some providers have had an offering in the market for a while) with heating, dryer, dishwasher, EV trickle charge.. I wonder when this will have a visible impact on price spread between the 10.55 interval and the subsequent 5 min?

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I've signed up. Peak pricing is 3c/kWh more expensive and off-peak is only 1c/kWh higher. Daily charge is the same. Need to use <2kWh per day in the free period to break even.

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Re "..but also see questions asked about the government’s line that new gas is needed to back up renewables.." Isn't this line coming from the ISP such per below (and further on page 16)?

From executive summary

The 2026 ISP reaffirms that renewable energy, connected by transmission and distribution, firmed with storage
and backed up by gas, presents the least-cost way to supply secure and reliable electricity to consumers
through to 2050, as coal plants retire and while meeting government policies.

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Prohibition hasn't worked with cigarettes. www.abs.gov.au/articles/hou...

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is all inclusive. Subject to fair use policy but I've been hitting it relatively hard.. www.ovoenergy.com.au/vefs/Victori...

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Which Australian state do you think is stuck in a "doom loop"? Vic is only mentioned by reference to the LinkedIn post and I'm guessing most of Europe would be quite happy with average price this financial year of <USD36..

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Opinion from @apsmunro.bsky.social below. open.substack.com/pub/alasdair...

This leaves me to ask, can we ethically randomise patients to not receive a vaccine which we already know is highly effective at the thing it is actually supposed to do: protecting against shingles? I am aggressively pro-clinical trials, and even I find this idea questionable. The commentary completely avoids referencing the control group at any point.

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Why do you think the ABS estimates are wrong? They seem statistically robust and gave gone through peer review. www.abs.gov.au/articles/hou...

The statistical method and assumptions used to produce these experimental estimates were peer reviewed by the ITEC Commissioner, the Department of Home Affairs and the Australian Tax Office

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

But didn't realise claude effort was on medium so downgraded to low and ran in incognito and it gave the IEA figures, but with the caveat.

Fuel
Energy
Emission Factor
MtCO₂-e
Coal
75 TWh
0.341 MtCO₂/TWh¹
25.6
Gas
190 TWh
0.202 MtCO₂/TWh²
38.4
Total

64.0
How it's calculated:
1 TWh = 3,600,000 GJ, so:
Coal: 94.6 kg CO₂/GJ × 3.6M GJ/TWh = 0.341 Mt/TWh
Gas: 56.1 kg CO₂/GJ × 3.6M GJ/TWh = 0.202 Mt/TWh
One flag: if your TWh figures are electricity output (not fuel input), you'd need to divide by a heat rate/efficiency factor first (~35–40% for coal, ~45–55% for gas), which would roughly double the emission factors. Let me know which applies and I can adjust.

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I put your original prompt (no mention of electricity) through ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude 4.5 and 4.6 (all free). The only one that referenced the IEA figures was Gemini but it said this was the thermal value and also gave the correct values for electricity generation.

$Scenario A: Primary Energy / Direct Fuel Combustion Use this if the TWh values represent the heat/thermal energy content of the raw fuels being burned. According to international benchmarks (IPCC/IEA averages), the typical direct combustion emission factors are: Coal: \approx 0.341\text{ }MtCO_2\text{-}e\text{ per TWh} Natural Gas: \approx 0.202\text{ }MtCO_2\text{-}e\text{ per TWh} The Calculations: Total Emissions (Scenario A): 63.96\text{ }MtCO_2\text{-}e Scenario B: Electricity Generation Output Use this if the TWh values represent the actual electricity produced by power plants and fed into a grid.$

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Specify electricity in your prompt and any model from the last 18 months will get the ballpark 160 MTCO2-e.

Using standard Australian NGA (National Greenhouse Accounts) emissions intensity factors for electricity generation:
Fuel
Generation
Emissions factor
MtCO₂-e
Coal (black)
75 TWh
0.91 tCO₂-e/MWh
68.25
Gas (CCGT)
190 TWh
0.49 tCO₂-e/MWh
93.10
Total

161.35

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Here's one I just signed up to in Melbourne Australia. 11am-2pm free 3-9pm AUD0.32/kWh (USD0.23) Other times AUD0.20/kWh (USD0.14)

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Hopefully Vince Rugari is prescient re this world cup campaign and not just our first half of the first game..

Front page of the Good Weekend with the headline "Is Nestory Irankunda the Socceroo's next superstar?" along with a photo

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Source explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?...

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

And just had another false positive, this time related to an insurance company. Wonder if this feature has had much testing in Oz?

Google scam call advice (false positive)

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Andrew Starr @ajsta.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Haven't listened for a while, but have a 🍍 for your quality shitposting on here plus all the research etc..

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