It was always obvious that the barriers to success of a clean electricity system based on tiny generation components were going to be reaching the required scale integrating the millions of components. The rest is trivial.

Just jogged around St. Kilda Cemetery. Google tells me 53,000 people are buried here. I reckon I’m older than 90% of them. But I’m too lazy to check my guess. That’s because I’m older than 90% of these dead people. I’m allowed to be lazy.

Feel the irony! "John J. Hanley, inventor of the uninterruptible power supply, obtained a patent in 1934 for "Apparatus for Maintaining an Unfailing and Uninterrupted Supply of Electrical Energy." Now in 2025 it's the fully interruptible variety we embrace! Strange world.

Microsoft just seduced me into signing up for Edge. Which then refuses to let me log onto X. Computers really are stupid!

Is #Wordle getting tougher? There’s been a couple of recent words I’ve never used in my long life, though aware of them. I fear the team is out to get me! How’s that for paranoia?!

Problem with Australia's energy policy - all about influencing public opinion Glorify solar & wind, demonize fossil fuels, ban nuclear, set the future in concrete Scope for nuances, trade offs, flexibility? Forget it Nothing left but hope So let's all hope together! Yeah, right..

Did you know that Australia's (i.e. Minister Bowen's) "per cent renewables" target bears no mathematical relationship to the quantity of green electricity the nation generates. There's just a vague connection, a bit like third cousin twice removed. Useless.

Wordle 1,527 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Hit my 100 streak today. My secret? Simple. Don’t forget to do the Wordle! That was always my biggest mistake. Travel and illness are growing threats. Will I get to 200? We’ll see.

Thirty years ago I retired from CSIRO. They gave me a pen. It still works perfectly. I treasure it. And CSIRO? Not so sure.

Recently bought a new pair of Australian Ugg Boots. Look exactly like my old ones. But they're 80% heavier! Thick soles, stiff uppers, very uncomfortable. Do hikers wear them now?

It's 1968. In the lab talking nuclear power with mate Me: Anti-nuclear folk IRRATIONAL He: Risks tiny, outweigh (zero) benefits Me: Good point, concede Fast forward now Risks still tiny, benefits HUGE In 60 years not one 1968 antinuke I know has shifted ground DEEPLY IRRATIONAL!

How quaint! 50,000 lb! Old habits die hard. When they start selling tons of the stuff we'll know it's getting serious.

Look what we've got here! X marks the spot. Our former beloved leader, Premier of Victoria, Covid Alarmist Supreme, with a bunch of comrades. Or maybe it's just a lookalike?

Imagine a world where every new electricity generation unit needed an electrochemical battery to make it usable. No, you don't to imagine. We have it today in Australia! The lunacy of banning nuclear energy.

Just finished dishwashing from Sunday breakfast. As is my habit I put on Beethoven's Pastoral symphony. Perfect length, finales synchronized. Surely Beethoven didn't wash dishes too!

Just wondering if today's Wordle is the only English word used exclusively after "Don't". Can't think of any others.

This popped up. How to Discipline and Document a Toxic Employee. Suggestion: Don't eat them. And if you really must, don't swallow.

Call me fussy, but before my world gets turned upside down by the ideas of a Swedish adolescent I'd want to be damned sure they work.