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Refugee from the great Reddit crisis of 2023
Great and all, but this is a literal press release. It could be PR spruiking, it could be pumpānādump play, it could be friggin genuinely great. No way to know from a press release.
Corned beef is pretty good value. Cook low for about 6-7 hours with onion, carrot, celery and pepper. Colesworth also sell āgravy beefā and āchuck beefā. These are usually cheaper and very tasty when slow cooked. Perfect for stews/etc. 6-7 hours on low in a stock works great.
Itās mass that holds heat. Rammed earth is great if you donāt let it get too hot (so needs shading), or if itās insulated (the best way).
For almost all of Australia bar the tropical north, the best construction is insulated mass - ie cladding (lightweight or not), then a cavity, then loads of insulation and a Vapor membrane, then masonry.
This is one area where Apple has it pretty right. A Mac will do somethings when āasleepā like download emails and texts. It also can broadcast its location if the āFind Meā function is on. If itās plugged into power then backups will also run, and background app updates will happen. It does this in a low power mode, so it wonāt get hot enough to need fans. Itās worked flawlessly for 20 years. Meanwhile all our PCs are set to ānever sleepā and just get shutdown when not in use. I never trust a PC laptop to wake successfully from sleep just by closing the lid.
Itās not even quite that - the article suggested they raised the commercial equivalent of the 12% through competitive auction. These allow the bidders a set price over 20 years.
So itās cheaper than buying in fossil fuels, the suppliers get certainty, and they achieve close to complete decarbonisation using private investment.
How good is that?
Itās a big WHOOOSH, but I actually do respect all the people getting as far as reading āhttps://twitā¦āā¦ and saying āfuck thatā.