There is a world where you can put power monitor plugs on outlets, poll with home assistant, and send a signal to a micro inverter with battery to increase the output to compensate. But I live in NZ where we still don't have plug in solar or plug in micro inverters. so this stays a far away dream.

Wide screenshot of the RNZ website this afternoon, with my arrow added for comparison… even the automated “related stories” column is calling Luxon out on his BS now. #NZPol CC @BobLefridge

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

It's my dream to have a 7am funeral so that all the guests reflexively say "good morning" and then feel quite awkward.

Now the English is an official language of New Zealand I expect all posts to use your, you're, there, their and they're correctly.

Hey Siri, who was in power when unemployment was last this horrifically high? … The same people? But I thought they were good at the economy?

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 15h ago

National backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high

Dang. High capacity single phase inverters are expensive. But upgrading to three phase also expensive, and more complicated, despite cheaper inverter for capacity-cost ratio. I guess I will be looking at how to snake mc4s across the lawn to dump into a big battery safely 😅

'For Hickey, there is a deeper structural challenge. “You’ve got an economy which just doesn’t know how to operate without house prices rising”.' #NzPol

As unemployment hits 11-year high, how does it look under the hood?

Bernard Hickey breaks down the numbers released today.

thespinoff.co.nz

The economy will recover when actual nation builders not parasitical wealth extractors are on the Treasury Benches Vote Greens to give Labour backbone these elections www.nzherald.co.nz/business/slo...

It’s too late for the economy to save National now

OPINION: The economic recovery has stuttered too much to lift the voter mood by November.

nzherald.co.nz

Not sure of the point of this article - #SolarGrazing or #agrivoltaics is hardly new. 🧐 Is being successfully used already in NZ on solar farms, in the UK, China, US, Canada, and Australia. Panels and paddocks: How effective solar farm sheep grazing really is www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...

Panels and paddocks: How effective solar farm sheep grazing really is

A new solar farm in Morrinsville is set to double as pasture for grazing sheep, a dual-use model agriculture experts say is promising but largely untested in New Zealand.

rnz.co.nz

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

It’s pretty clear that’s not what happened at all and this is like the 3rd different outlet I’ve seen saying as much

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · 22h ago

So the US military killed everyone on a medevac plane by testing a GPS weapon. futurism.com/science-ener...

“There is at least one important section of society where little shittery is rampant, destructive and harmful to the environment of the workplace. It’s actively impeding the ability of well-behaved people to perform well & limiting productivity. I’m talking, of course, about parliament.” No notes🙌

The little shits are coming from inside the House

Act wants to deal with the little shits in the classroom. Perhaps they should clean up the ones on their own turf first.

thespinoff.co.nz

Beware NZ, I know social media bans for teens sounds like good policy. But this is the ultimate destination. Age verification laws ends up putting the entire population under surveillance. #nzpol

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the arc...

404media.co

NASA: Warming Effects of Carbon Pollution since the 1800s. Wait for it. Since human’s industrialized the Earth has warmed 1.5°C/2.7°F due to heat-trapping greenhouse gases released from the burning of fossil fuels, changes in land use, and the feedbacks of both. This may not sound like much but 1/

Medical misogny. “Ruby Hill had Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (HEDS), Dr Burling believes, a condition that helped explain how and why she was suffering. If the diagnosis had come sooner, and the response been different, it could have saved her life, he believes”. #nzpol

Sent home to die: What a missed diagnosis says about the medical establishment

At 23, Ruby Hill starved to death. A missed diagnosis nine months before raises deep questions about the medical establishment.

rnz.co.nz

Any thoughts on this term? zuzai.org

Zuzai, a new word, indicates the absence of AI

About the word zuzai, coined to denote things made or done without artificial intelligence.

zuzai.org

Do we have a "made without genAI" badge or digital sticker that science communicators and artists can use so people know that our work is for humans by humans?

Hey folks, This is your friendly reminder to stock up on flour. We're still buying last year's harvest but global supply reductions due to war/climate change/politics mean price increases are likely soon, potentially 50% more. It's currently cheap but that won't last long so get shopping.

"She made music jump into 3D": Wendy Carlos, the reclusive synth genius www.theguardian.com/music/2020/n...

#VoteBinface www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...

‘A 99 with a Flake? That will be £7, please’: what’s behind the surge in ice-cream van prices?

From the cost of milk and chocolate to diesel and electricity, every part of producing the summer treat has been hit by the climate crisis and other shocks

theguardian.com

There’s been a lot of talk about children this past week - how to punish them, how to breed them, and how business people are like them - but none of it about child welfare. My #cartoon today #NZpol

We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.

Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again

The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".

news.sky.com

The world is not controlled by people who wish to preserve it, or even build it up. But by a handful of people who are happy to destroy it, so long as they might profit from it.

Echo the Australian magpie annoying a tuxedo cat named Gilbert in Thames, New Zealand. The pair are known to be friends, though the magpie is often described as an annoying sibling that frequently pushes limits. They are part of a group called "Tuxedoes Unite" located in Karangahake, New Zealand.

I didn't even know realme had uptime issues. And that guy from the NZI was seriously suggesting using it as an identity verifier for social media without doing any improvement to it. What a good joke.

Idiot/Savant@norightturnnz.bsky.social · yesterday

DIA: "Everything must use RealMe!" Also DIA: "RealMe won't work at random intervals, so neither will everything else. Not our problem, lol!" www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

DIA: "Everything must use RealMe!" Also DIA: "RealMe won't work at random intervals, so neither will everything else. Not our problem, lol!" www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

'Unacceptable': Voters face online disruption days before roll-switching deadline

Te Pāti Māori called the timing unacceptable for voters switching rolls.

nzherald.co.nz

Oh yeah nah full scale anarcho-fascism could never happen in Australia, could it, it's not like the fossil-fuelled #AtlasNetwork has taken over the LNP and is now pumping up racism and One Nation.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · 6mo ago

After using billions of US tax dollars to win another election Javier Milei introduced the 12 hour work day to Argentina. This is after doubling the poverty rate in the country. More work more poverty more police brutality = anarcho capitalism