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Nathan Palairet

@palairet.bsky.social
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Life Cycle Assessment | Sustainability Engineer | Infrastructure Consultant WLG now ADL

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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Working on an infra project at the moment where we need ~50m piles into a former waste dump with asbestos and hydrocarbon contam. It can definitely be done, but it's bloody expensive & we've had to make massive changes to compensate for the pricetag. And this is way smaller scale than WHC!
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In the Bunnings carpark, I found the solution to people driving urban emotional support utes:
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Accidentally tried one yesterday when another team left cut-up pieces in the kitchen after a morning tea: was not expecting savoury so a bit of a surprise. Sharp spice, a nasty chemical aftertaste, but no real flavour if that makes sense? Kinda empty mouthfeel. Can see why they were the leftovers.
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 20/11/2025
NZ is on track for a 98 percent renewable power system by 2030, a sweeping new report on the energy system has found.
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No 'gas renaissance' in landmark report charting NZ's energy future
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
NEW: Ladies and gentlemen, this is the big one! 112 slides of how The #Electrotech Revolution is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy⚡ Update your slidepacks! Which slide is your favourite? ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Glad you enjoyed!
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I had wondered about that latter point given how loose the association is — it's not like he has creative control of a project that happens to be done by a mate and their friends for example!
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I've seen the wider stable referred to as the Nate Bethea Extended Universe — @oldmatecans.lol surely someone's done a map of them all somewhere, feels like there must be well over a dozen by now?
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The latest season of Masters of our Domain @mastersofpod.bsky.social (formerly a Seinfeld podcast, now watching shows set in the ancient world) has been covering this, if it's something you're into.
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This was a genuinely interesting conservation story on RNZ — trained ferrets going after another introduced pest. But then, this little snippet about ⅔ through. I can't be the only one thinking this a SUPER weird set of names to put together?? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
New article from @drilledmedia.bsky.social out today that links a lot of the current trends in NZ climate action together. Very comprehensive, worth a read! drilled.media/news/new-zea...
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“Ideological Sludge”: How New Zealand Is Quiet Quitting Climate Action
New Zealand once stood out as a world leader on climate change. In June it became the first country in the world to abandon a commitment to phase out oil, gas and coal.
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Talked to the roaster who owns our local here in Adelaide the other day. (AUD $18pw subscription for unlimited coffees, unreal deal!) He's still going on a stockpile of green beans from last year, as he bet on prices peaking in H1 2025. Harder if you've had to buy roasted beans from wholesalers...
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 16/06/2025
A world-first legal challenge targets the decades-long reliance of successive NZ governments on planting trees to offset emissions from burning fossil fuels.
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NZ's carbon forestry offsets on trial in High Court case
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A former AU sub guy has been talking about this in the media as a plan b for a while, but it screams IREX-style "the price has now gone up" negotiations with the French. The wider questions of "why manned subs" at all are the more interesting ones tho tbh www.aspistrategist.org.au/aukus-risks-...
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AUKUS risks are piling up. Australia must prepare to build French SSNs instead | The Strategist
Australia should start planning for acquisition of at least 12 submarines of the French Suffren design. The current AUKUS plan for eight nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) has always been flawed...
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Always seemed wild to me there's no discernible give way signs at this weird wide painted-slip-lane one next to the school! Almost turns into first-come-first-served.
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
So we've gone from "noooo you can't put a price on our emissions, there's no technological solution" to "we can't use that solution to reduce emissions, there's no price signal"
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Will Shane Jones' pet project mine near Reefton be exempt from US import tarrifs, or is it going to be subject to the antimony laundering rules? www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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China bans export of key minerals to U.S. as trade frictions escalate
The restrictions are on "dual-use" minerals gallium, germanium and antimony, that have both military and civilian applications.
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
www.kickstarter.com/projects/out... Very similar mechanics & the same team designing/developing. With the evolutions in rules between BbB reprints, seems like the next step! Looking forward to my copy arriving when they release!
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
With you & J being such big fans of Bloc by Bloc, have you seen Defenders of the Wild?
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Spot the difference....
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Back in NZ after 3 weeks' holiday in Japan and Korea. Big takeaway from having infrastructure brain the whole time: we deserve nice things in NZ, and we need long-term plans for transport and concentrated growth to get them.
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Is it basic to have gone somewhere purely because we saw it on a Netflix show? Probably. Was the ~1hr line worth it? Definitely.
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Stock reduction or caps (via the nutrient limits?) would be one way to avoid the rebound effects of efficiency boosts too
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
The actual data isn't in the RNZ story (although, weirdly, the LIC corporate emission are) so had to dig around on the LIC site a bit. Their best-performing stock seems to be 15-20% below baseline. NZ's methane targets are: -10% by 2030 -24-47% by 2050
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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Special Report: Air pollution is behind one in every 10 deaths in New Zealand, shattering our self-perception as a clean, green nation. What are we going to do about it? www.newsroom.co.nz/the-invisibl...
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The Invisible Killer: New Zealand's Air Pollution Crisis | Newsroom
Special Report: Air pollution is behind one in every 10 deaths in New Zealand, shattering our self-perception as a clean, green nation. What are we going to do about it?
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Nathan Palairet @palairet.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Newshub finally deliver on an "explosive, game-changer" poll result:
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