It's hilarious (or would be if it didn't involve killing people), the same dullards who wanted to "drill, baby, drill" have accelerated the move to renewables in a way they would have struggled to do if they were the most greeny administration ever seen.
Which is pretty much what Australian average price is. Average Australian domestic tariff is around AUD 0.30/kwh which is USD 0.21/kwh.
None of this touches on standing charges, I don't know how that works in the USA, in Australia for an average household it runs at AUD 1.00/day to AUD 1.50/day (USD 0.70/day to USD 1.00/day). For an average household the standing charge is going to add 15 to 20% to the tariff.
I'm assuming that standing charges are like meter fees here. I've paid as low as $0.25/day and as high as $1.25/day depending on where I lived. There's not much uniformity.
May not be much in world terms but here in NZ national demand maxes out at around 5.5GW so bringing another GW on stream would be quite handy. Most of the geothermal is a lot closer to Auckland* than our hydro is so so that would be another positive aspect.
* Auckland has 25% of the population so a corresponding amount of energy has to be pushed its way.
Masked passwords were boring when passwords were typically 'goeagles' but now they're 'Justlongenough22!' they're a real barrier to anybody who doesn't type the string multiple times a day.
If you really think that someone staring over the users shoulder is a genuine risk factor than allow people to turn it on, not (if the user is lucky) allow them to turn it off.
I'm not advocating on BG's behalf but your suggestion pre-supposes that his activities exceeded those he has already admitted to. I don't know whether they did or not, but I think it's worth noting that Epstein was very keen to make contacts with influential people and then boast of those contacts. It's at least worth considering what while boasting he made up some stuff about the nature of his activities with those people. For that reason I'm not willing to assume that everyone who ever had contact with Epstein was involved in child sex crimes.
> In emails, Epstein wrote that Bill Gates had come to him to facilitate trysts with married women and to get medication to treat an STI from "sex with Russian girls."
> Epstein also claimed that Bill Gates wanted to try to give that STI medication to Melinda French Gates in secret.
> "To add insult to the injury you then implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis," outlined one angry email from Epstein.
Bill has done nothing but attempt to minimize his connection to Epstein, and done so poorly.
If you're not British please don't assume that "ejecting heriditary nobles" from the upper house of parliament is automatically going to increase the quality of governance.
For more than a century the majority of those who sit in the House of Lords have been "Life Peers", appointed by a politician and without any heriditary aspect. They include such towers of statepersonship as : Evgeny Lebedev (Russian businessman, son of a KGB officer); Alexander Lebedev (another Russian businessman, he's actually been in the KGB); Charlotte Owen (junior aide to Boris Johnson for three years) ... the list goes on.
This isn't new (although in recent time the dodginess has risen to new highs) and many of those appointed to Life Peerages meet the goal of having significant life experience they can use to illuminate aspects of legislation that might otherwise be missed. Equally heriditary peers are not all some Wodehousian stereotype of bumbling idiots.
This is more an argument against political appointees than it is an argument for hereditary peers. I agree that the system has been abused. It's need reforming
If you don't see any difference between people who won US presidential elections and those appointed for political favoritism, then I don't know what to tell you. Also, if you look at the current state of the UK vs US and don't see any difference then you need to get out more.
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