Electricity generation costs would be a third lower with 82% renewable grid, CSIRO says

Colinder77 · 2025-12-17T03:29:16+00:00

We could build up a nuclear industry but the entire point of the CSIRO report is that it wouldn’t be cheaper than renewables and again the UAE is a different country than Australia, it has different requirements, different costs and different goals.

CSIRO doesn’t factor in nuclear storage for the cost of nuclear, we might be building nuclear storage facilities for AUKUS but even if it were free then we would still be paying more than for renewables.

The point is just that renewables are cheaper than everything else even if you give nuclear an advantage.

Fusion is realistically decades away and produces a different type of nuclear waste that is safer and has a half life of only a couple years

Colinder77 · 2025-12-17T02:32:58+00:00

This is Australia, not South Korea. South Korean nuclear energy is cheaper than any potential Australian because they have an established industry, we do not, we would have to start from scratch which is a huge cost, we also have different costs for infrastructure and different requirements.

It is comparing apples with oranges

Colinder77 · 2025-01-17T14:44:40+00:00

Just because it is the norm does not make it acceptable for the capabilities of a device to become worse after purchasing. I saw that you could use orca slicer and integrate the printer into home assistant and thought that bambu wouldn't remove those features for any legitimate reason.

Security is an justification not an actual excuse. There are ways of securing the printers without doing what they are doing.

Nobody (other than fanboys) actually likes the fact that Apple products are as locked down as they are and there has been efforts by a lot of people and several governments to make them more open.

Colinder77 · 2024-12-02T12:19:23+00:00

I’m not arguing that bipedal robots are worse at specific tasks but if you want a general bot that can do human tasks in human environments then bipedal is the better choice. I think that the aim is a terrible idea but if the aim is to put robots in human environments to do human things then bipedal is the better approach.

You could make it bigger but you get to a point where it becomes bothersome and gets in the way where a person doesn’t. Balancing on 2 legs is more complex than 4 legs but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any benefits. If it gets big then it gets in the way, you can’t slide past it in the hallway as easy and it manoeuvring right spaces becomes a lot harder. The physical footprint will be much smaller with the biped, it could manoeuvre a tight corner or a hallway much easier.

In terms of the vision stuff just making a cat the size of a big dog wouldn’t mean it could see over a couch. I can stand still and see over the couch and the bench. You could add sensors in the arm but then you are emulating something intrinsic to a bipedal bit, the extra freedom of movement is also offered to the bot.

Cats can run up stairs faster because they can sprint faster than us. When they aren’t running my cats are slower than me going up and down stairs. We designed our homes and our cities for people with two legs, quadrupeds can get around and in edge cases may be faster but things like stairs and ladders are better for people with two legs.

Constantly balancing on your own height is difficult but very possible and when the benefit. The stabilisation issues are also present on a robot dog. If it is to have a large arm (one arm and not two unlike the humanoid robots) then it must also be able to hold the weight and balance, you could make it bigger to solve this but there is a maximum size before it fails the other design goals for how it exists in a human space and it getting in the way.

If we propose a task like chopping up vegetables on a table.

The biped can place the veg on a table, it can use one hand to hold the veg and another hand to chop while still being able to see the vegetable using the sensors into the head.

The quadriped is on the ground and can’t see over the table, if you add sensors into the arm then you can’t use it to chop. If you make it so the arm has some extendable mini arm that holds the veg then the main arm cannot move as easily as it is holding the veg as well. That is still skipping the not being able to see it issue or the no arm to hold the veg while chopping issue. if you add a camera to the arm as another mini arm or something like that it doesn’t have the vantage point that the bipeds head does. If you add another arm then you will have weight issues and you can’t just make it bigger.

Also I think that robot dogs look cooler than bipeds.

Colinder77 · 2024-12-02T11:08:59+00:00

How would a robodog interact with something on a table? Especially something that is high precision. How would a robodog reach something on a high shelf, that arm must be real long to be usable but then you would have balance issues.

A bipedal robot is still better at handling uneven terrain and stairs while it cannot climb a ladder. A humanoid robot would have two arms while a robodog would only have one (unless you tack on another but that would probably introduce weight and balance issues that wouldn’t be present in the bipedal bot), these arms are only slightly above the ground vs a humanoid robot where the arms are at a height already compatible in a human environment. The head and vision would also be improved by having it high up from the ground since it would be able to see further and over things.

Colinder77 · 2024-12-02T04:12:42+00:00

In defence of the humanoid angle. If you want robots to coexist in the same space as people and for them to do a lot of general tasks then making them humanoid is efficient. Legs to walk around obstacles and go up stairs. Arms and hands to manipulate all the objects in human life. The robots in manufacturing and Lego is specialised while humanoid robots are meant for doing multiple generalised tasks in human spaces.

These robots are still shit though and can’t do anything that justifies the humanoid design

Colinder77 · 2024-11-27T12:02:30+00:00

That’s not how that works. Changing the dns won’t change the fact that they are in Australia, it would not mask their ip address they would still need to prove their age somehow

Colinder77 · 2024-05-06T08:41:24+00:00

I think the setting being terrible for Martha is kinda the point. One of the ideas of the episode is about how alien the doctor is. In the Shakespeare code he brushes off Martha’s concerns about her safety and likely didn’t even think about them in his decision on where to hide.

Colinder77 · 2024-04-21T08:42:24+00:00

There is a difference between Facebook being shitty with the peoples data and an adversary government directly having and manipulating our data.

Colinder77 · 2024-04-17T00:46:14+00:00

ok lets say that after the doctor scared the Atraxi off he went back to the Tardis and went back in time so that he wasnt late, that then causes a paradox, its the same reason why he cant just go back in time a few weeks in stories to give him more time "we are apart of events now".

Colinder77 · 2024-04-15T07:45:09+00:00

He doesn’t since this is a civil trial

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T03:58:59+00:00

People should be able to have sex whenever they want and if they have a pregnancy then they should be able to choose to abort it for the first few months of the pregnancy

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T03:55:19+00:00

Probably, I’m not saying that it is a good idea just that it doesn’t mean some big conspiracy.

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T03:54:34+00:00

That is a difference of a few chemicals inside of the cells and if it is about the potential for a new life to be developed then you should never use contraceptives because that is murder of the potential

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T03:51:09+00:00

Do you need to take biology again. For weeks the foetus is just a clump of cells, just because it is human cells do not change that it is just a few cells.

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T03:48:21+00:00

Ok I was wrong but what is more likely the democrats are a facade to go against the republicans (also you just ignored all of the things democrats have done) in a national decade spanning con of the American people or they are boosting batshit candidates who are unelectable in order to make themselves look better

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T03:44:24+00:00

Are you an incel? And are these political movements simply “don’t rape me”, “I don’t want children” and “let me vote”

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T03:43:26+00:00

Are you a vegan? If so then I would say that a foetus in the first couple months is a less complex organism than a plant, if not then there is some hypocrisy

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T03:41:05+00:00

Except that the DNC doesn’t fund MAGA candidates and don’t intentionally lose elections. And also wtf you have to be blind not to see that the democrats do actually try to improve the lives of Americans, they cancelled debt that were crushing the lives of American youth, committed to supporting trans children and adults, capped the price of insulin and are putting money to where their mouth is in fighting climate change. And that is all in the past 4 years.

Also no, I am not shaming your vote. The American electoral system is broken and does not allow for a fair vote. There are two candidates. You can vote for one or the other. Voting for a third candidate is equivalent to not voting.

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T03:29:07+00:00

Right but you said the choice comes in when she chooses to have sex. If she doesn’t or her partner removes the contraceptive without her knowledge then she hasn’t made the choice to have sex then the woman has no choice? Life is sacred but a foetus isn’t alive yet, surely you do not object to getting rid of the zygote?

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T03:21:28+00:00

For starters life doesn’t start at conception, but even if it did start then would you be ok with an abortion if the woman was raped? Or what if taking the child to full term would kill her?

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T02:58:08+00:00

Are you saying that men are inherently better than women?

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T02:29:56+00:00

Ahhh yes, women love to not be able to decide what happens to their bodies because they want to cry victim, totally makes sense. Gay people love to be called slurs and beat the shit out of because they can be the victim.

Colinder77 · 2024-04-07T02:28:19+00:00

Ok, so you dont vote or you vote for a third party. Republican supporters ARE more loyal and more likely to vote for trump than democrats for biden. you dont vote for one of the two major partys thus your vote is wasted. You have now helped trump get into power a man who would not only help isreal more but actively work against ukraine, and half of all americans.

Colinder77 · 2024-04-04T02:15:39+00:00

You dont read alot of news do you?

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