Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You can get a very small benefit but it’s generally not worth it as the torque curve is so much broader than an ICE car. Some car companies have talked about putting them in just so they “feel like” and old-fashioned car. They generally don’t have a clutch though. 020
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You seem to be one of those people who is determined to persuade everyone else that there is no hope and nothing can ever get better. I’m going to choose to ignore you. 100
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sure, but we all have a role. We’re not passive in this. 101
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When they got into a coalition in Germany they literally launched the global solar revolution. They might not stay that way forever but they would definitely make changes if they ever got in. 100
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It might not, but it’s sure as hell the only way to ever get genuinely progressive policy enacted again. 230
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Fine on open highways where road trains drive, not in school drop offs or supermarket car parks. 000
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I wish we would class them as heavy vehicles in Australia. It is absurd that they can be driven under the same rules as a small hatchback. Perhaps rather than supporting EVs we could class vehicles on total lifecycle emissions and traffic impacts. 000
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I listen to this and wonder how it is functionally any different from an out and out climate denier. 040
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It is disgraceful but I think it’s a mistake to think that this is a reflection of current times. Women have always been murdered by men. What is different now is that we should have the ethical and legal frameworks to stop it. 020
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Part of the rise to power of the original fascists was whipping up fear of communists. Of course 1920s and 30s Europe did actually have strong communist parties. 010
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s interesting that in the last year or so batteries have pushed a lot of gas out of the grid but they are also affecting the economics of coal as it is losing the windfall of the peak which offsets the losses in the middle of the day. 000
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026To some extent, but if batteries are sufficiently cheap they can do both with solar. I don’t think that’s going to happen but it can partially. I really just mean the balance has shifted and you can imagine 50% solar, 35% wind, 15% hydro grid or something which didn’t seem possible a few years ago. 100
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026While what you say is true, the relative importance of balancing generation profiles compared to storing energy has changed with the huge drop in battery prices. Five or ten years ago we all assumed wind would ultimately be double the generation of solar but that may have reversed. 100
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Just coincidence that they’re voting for the party whose only solution is racism and authoritarianism. 100
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’m sure the numbers are real, I’m just explaining the cause. 110
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The One Nation rise is a social media driven coordinated exercise that has nothing to do with real people. There seems to be 30-40% of the population in every country that can be turned on to fascism the quite easily with the right campaign. 110
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Can confirm - you get very good at evasive driving when your whole car is below the windowsill of most people in the next lane. 090
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Yes, but then all of the people who vote for her as the Labor candidate “because she’s a good local MP” will immediately switch to whoever the party drops in to replace her. Predictable and sad. 020
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Even if the change will predictably make people’s lives better after a very short period of adjustment. 010
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The sad thing is whatever her personal strengths she literally has no choice once she’s joined the Labor caucus. 240
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I’m afraid not - this has been the Labor Party for a long time now. If you want an independent foreign policy the Greens are the only ones consistently on the right side of it. 1131
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026That is the place you get when the coordinates make no sense as it’s (0,0) - that is, zero degrees latitude and longitude. 010
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Greens don’t have billionaires, bot farms, and fascist algorithms working for them like another party does. 1280
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The political turn against data centres has been something to see. 192
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026There’s a dark version that is quite mysterious called Scandium Noir. 030
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026But the point made in the original post still applies wherever the rail line is. 100
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026That may be but is irrelevant to the point and pointlessly argumentative. A road tunnel might cut down fewer trees than a surface road, but it’s still a road. 100
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The function and service type is the same whichever elevation the tracks happen to be on. 110
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Subway is the American word for metro, which is on the chart. 120
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026And playing two roles, in both of which she completely owns the scenes she’s in. 160
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I’m not even in the UK so I have no local knowledge, but I’m just looking at the numbers. We are dealing with a very similar thing here in Australia with One Nation, but once again contrary to the commentary it seems they’ve hit a ceiling. 110
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The 41% is a lot less than the sixty-something percent that voted leave. 000
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I make it 41% and the point of the original comment is that they may not be growing any more. 200
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I believe there’s an opposite problem in which people believe the far right is inevitable. 120
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The point is they’re not winning most of them which is what they would need to do to win government. 1100
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Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Thinking the party is too far to the left would be the position of many Democratic voters. Many people want the party to be more centrist so they get other voters, not in order to get their vote. 000
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Turned out to be a better bloke than I gave him credit for, which is totally on me. 1120
Reposted by Paul KiddJohn Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Controversial take perhaps, but I think you can install air-conditioning and shutdown data centers at the same time. maybe even steal all the air-conditioning units from the data centers and install them in public housing. Then run them off solar and battery while taxing the hyper rich to death 171451373
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026We sold ours and got an electric Volvo and it’s so much better. 060
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I like him but not sure he has Mamdani energy exactly. Much more moderate, which probably makes him more electable to be honest. The only issue is whether the American swinging voters can bring themselves to elect a gay man. I hope they can. 122
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026They also ended up being much more gracious losers than most kids. 000
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I always had the view that I wouldn’t go too easy. When my then nine year old son beat me fair and square at a proper strategic German board game I nearly wept with pride. 110
Paul Kidd @pauldokidd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026My impression with the Slate Truck is that one of the biggest selling points is just that it’s not oversized. 010