Joel Courtney ☀️ 🔌 💻
@joelmcourtney.bsky.social
CTO @ https://enosi.energy
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Passionate about smarter energy future. DERs, EVs, Management, Technology.
Prev: CTO @ COzero/EnergyLink, smart grid engineering and innovation Ausgrid
Passionate about smarter energy future. DERs, EVs, Management, Technology.
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The AFR siding with *America* over the PBS: drug company gouging is actually "supporting innovation".
www.afr.com/world/north-...
www.afr.com/world/north-...
Australia’s PBS faces heat from Trump’s new drug pricing deal
The UK has agreed to pay 25 per cent more for new pharmaceuticals to escape US tariffs that will revive long-running complaints about Australian drug pricing.
www.afr.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The AFR siding with *America* over the PBS: drug company gouging is actually "supporting innovation".
www.afr.com/world/north-...
www.afr.com/world/north-...
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“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To
More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
I’ve not seen anyone note this, but this UI is awful.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I’ve not seen anyone note this, but this UI is awful.
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I’m a step ahead of the Coalition. 💪🏼🤣
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Think the Liberals are struggling with clean energy? Meet me
I volunteered to make an energy-efficient home for my darling grandchildren. What could possibly go wrong?
www.smh.com.au
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I’m a step ahead of the Coalition. 💪🏼🤣
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Post your favourite 'Transformers' character. Wrong answers only.
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Post your favourite 'Transformers' character. Wrong answers only.
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Evangelicals tend to do this. Rather than solving problems they focus on how hard it is for them. See also Brian Houston and Scott Morrison
Speaker Mike Johnson is "crushed by his workload."
Bitch, please! You've been on a self-conferred vacation the past few months.
Bitch, please! You've been on a self-conferred vacation the past few months.
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Evangelicals tend to do this. Rather than solving problems they focus on how hard it is for them. See also Brian Houston and Scott Morrison
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Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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If Joe Biden had claimed that he redesigned the hulls of Coast Guard cutters, we'd be way over in 25th amendment territory.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
Trump during his Thanksgiving call with service members: "We're ordered a lot of Coast Guard cutters. Brand new, beautiful, the best machines in the world. I'm a looks person. I wanted the hull to be perfect. You know, I sort of redesigned the hull a little bit. The hulls. But we ordered a lot."
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
If Joe Biden had claimed that he redesigned the hulls of Coast Guard cutters, we'd be way over in 25th amendment territory.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
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How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
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Massive increase in empty homes in Melbourne
youtube.com/shorts/CX5Dn...
youtube.com/shorts/CX5Dn...
Massive increase in empty homes in Melbourne
YouTube video by PurplepingersTV
youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Massive increase in empty homes in Melbourne
youtube.com/shorts/CX5Dn...
youtube.com/shorts/CX5Dn...
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Well look at that - the ALP and Greens working together. What next ye gads, dogs and cats living together in domestic harmony? Shows you what's possible when people put on their fully functional adult pants instead of throwing rancid meat to their hangry, rusted on micro-bases.
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Well look at that - the ALP and Greens working together. What next ye gads, dogs and cats living together in domestic harmony? Shows you what's possible when people put on their fully functional adult pants instead of throwing rancid meat to their hangry, rusted on micro-bases.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Alt text: from ABC news, Zero cervical cancer cases diagnosed in Australian women aged under 25 in 2021 - the first time since records began in 1982. (Please use alt text, people.)
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Alt text: from ABC news, Zero cervical cancer cases diagnosed in Australian women aged under 25 in 2021 - the first time since records began in 1982. (Please use alt text, people.)
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Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
End the tax break that makes flying cheaper than trains | Letters
Letters: Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
Look to the financial lobbying to determine how this could possible happen :sarc:
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Look to the financial lobbying to determine how this could possible happen :sarc:
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LOL: The Way Billionaires Are Using AI May Cause Concern They Have Actual Brain Damage
futurism.com/artificial-int…
futurism.com/artificial-int…
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
LOL: The Way Billionaires Are Using AI May Cause Concern They Have Actual Brain Damage
futurism.com/artificial-int…
futurism.com/artificial-int…
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Longi's latest 27.81% efficient hybrid interdigitated back-contact cell is based on passivated tunneling contacts and dielectric passivation layers, but also incorporates both n-type and p-type contacts. I suspected as much.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/20/l...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/20/l...
Longi reveals details of world’s most efficient silicon solar cell
In a new scientific paper, the Chinese solar manufacturer explained that the 27.81%-efficient hybrid interdigitated back-contact cell it unveiled in April is based on passivated tunneling contacts and...
www.pv-magazine.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Longi's latest 27.81% efficient hybrid interdigitated back-contact cell is based on passivated tunneling contacts and dielectric passivation layers, but also incorporates both n-type and p-type contacts. I suspected as much.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/20/l...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/20/l...
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest(s)?”
This violent rhetoric is unbecoming of the Presidency and dangerous in a time of heightened political violence. We all need to lower the temperature. Dangerous distractions when we should be working to lower costs and make life more affordable for hardworking American families are just wrong.
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest(s)?”
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This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
The CSIRO cuts are just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's science funding
Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?