Honoring some other ancestors. My great grandfather was born in this house (on the left, I think) and his brother died in Paschendale in 1916.

We live in the future.

Basic idea: dating app, free tier includes say 20 message points per month. Whenever you send a message, you transfer a point to the recipient. Paid tier gives you more points and also the ability to cash out points if you don't spend them, or accumulate a lot, so it's a no lose…

Driving around Newcastle NSW I'm struck by the contradiction between the property market, which is booming, and the local industry, which is derelict apart from coal transloading. A microcosm of the Australian economy. Where is the productive capacity? Who is actually making…

AFAIK no one has yet made a dating app where the cost of sending messages is increased if you're a creep. This would be technologically easy to do, and would let the market solve the problem.

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Wind and solar have grown faster than any other sources of electricity in history.

It took just 8 years for solar ☀️ to go from 100 TWh to 1000 TWh ⬆️

One of my favourite charts from our Global Electricity Review 2024 that just launched today 🚀

The natural end point of this trend is massively reduced demand for power transmission, but no one wants to talk about that yet.

🔮⚡️Mystery electricity mix #4

Coal is gone, wind is here. Which country's mix are we looking at?

What is the authoritative blog post on actual limits to growth posed by atoms present in the crust and solar energy?

Can a data genius make a plot of solar market penetration as a function of latitude and date?

This sort of steel form innovation reminds me a lot of the Kaiser Shipyards in WW2.

This is where I put the stuff I want to forget I own until I move. 💯

Here's mine.

I'm back on the NSW central coast and observed a linguistic oddity in the wild which previously I only noticed in myself: an occasional tendency to refer to a collective plural as a singular. Eg 'are there lamingtons?' 'There is plenty of lamingtons.' Instead of 'there are'.

Is…

The Sun unleashing a spectacular solar flare and coronal mass ejection, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.

Imagine being good enough at architecture to design Tribune Tower and the American Radiator Building and then do the Art Deco masterpieces McGraw-Hill and Rockefeller Center.

Congrats, you're Raymond Hood.

Sitting on a delayed train in Gosford NSW, due to a driver replacement affected by another delayed train.

Browsing Twitter on my internationally roaming pocket supercomputer.

Which conveys news of the steady expansion of self-driving cars.

But a train service needs a human…

Good tips if you want more followers etc, but IMHO the Twitter user experience is not improved by fame.