More rocketry, on SpaceX's innovations (linked in a comment at Jo Nova's). Impressive, though it'd be better with a little less of the hero worship of Musk, which is getting to Jobsian proportions.

tomo,
Yeah, Broken Hill has taken "hypothetical" away from the concerns about renewables on the grid. A lot of talk has been about the transmission towers coming down — fair enough — but voices are more muted on the orders to turn off your solar panels so the emergency generators can deliver reliable power.

I'm wondering if there's any situation where the old cliche of every little bit helps truly applies. In my experience, getting a "little bit of help" can often be more trouble than it's worth.

Also wondering whether we'll eventually have a policy of no grid-connected solar panels unless mediated through a battery. Hope so, though I fear I might get my wish, but with the battery being taxpayer subsidised too...

Mailman,
ABC News was brave enough to broadcast the joke. Wasn't much of a joke — the "ocean garbage patch", "Is it Puerto Rico" — but Kamala clutching her pearls — These are fellow American citizens — might have been more convincing if there hadn't been a "deplorables" history on her side; the people of Puerto Rico can say we're all West Virginians now.

Robbo,

Seems there are a large number of very rich people with a vested interest to keep the list of names from Epstein and Diddy ever coming out.

Well, thats what Ive heard on the intraweb anyways.

Tomo,
C4 news carried the story of the Trump rally yesterday...but from the angle that the comedian who DARED to mock Puerto Rico was racist and so incredibly racist was the joke that the news wouldn't air it...because it was that gosh dan rwaaaacist!!!

They then ended with a glib comment that Trump campaign official had distance the Trump campaign from the comment.

What these morons dont understand is that people already know the Trump campaign is not in the business of apologising for using hurty words and what made it was is that this so called person was NOT named.

The left just cannot help themselves with the constant lying.

Also it seems YouTube was doing all it could yesterday to limit the Joe Rogan interview with Trump. People couldn't seem to find it even when searching directly for the video. Again, these clowns just cant help themselves and the end result of this is probably driving even more traffic to the video as people decide to take a look for themselves to see what the fuss was about (and also because people are now sharing it even wider than they would normally have done).

Enjoyed the drollery in the Telegraph's story of the burning electric bin lorry in London:

Cllr Paul Dimoldenberg, of Westminster City council, said last summer that the “trailblazing electrification” would improve air quality and reduce CO2 emissions by 2,000 tonnes per year.

Mailman,
Was covered on the ABC News last night. They couldn't hide that it was a big crowd, but that didn't stop the tut-tutting at the folly of campaigning in a state he couldn't win.

Also on the great divide in the US, Elon Musk has tweeted the top corporate donors to the two campaigns. Besides the obvious skew, and where the big names land, you need to go down to Harris's 10th biggest donor (Morgan Stanley) before you're near the amount of Trump's top donor. More interestingly, you're at the bottom of the page, and Harris's donors are still well above the level of Trump's 2nd biggest.

Will all these companies have done their dough, or will they get the result they paid for? Also musing on how the companies that donated on both sides decided their weightings (e.g. Wells Fargo ~3:1, Microsoft ~20:1).

Robbo,

Trump was in MSG last night and the photos of the crowds both inside and outside are just insane...and this taking place in deepest darkest Democrat controlled NYC!

Can you imagine Kamala going to Florida or Texas and doing the same thing without using Beyonce as bait? People are focking to Trump rallies to hear him speak for a couple hours...meanwhile Kamala has to use Springsteen or the possibility of a Beyonce concert to get anyone to her rallies to hear her talk for about 6 minutes.

Next week is going to be insane with Democrats attempting to cling to power.

tomo,
Didn't watch the Rogan interview (only so many hours in the day), but reading comments there and elsewhere suggests that it went very well for Trump.

Did watch the rocketry one, and Part 2 on the turbopump (which came out 4 years after part 1). Very interesting viewing, and my understanding of rockets has gone from zero to scanty. The presenter, with his homespun models and enthusiastic delivery rates as a boffin, first class. Hasn't helped my shortage of hours in the day!