That's the one :)
psud
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Towns can hire wizards to make teleportation circles to make quick cheap travel to specific places. No one more than an hour's ride from a capital would use any other way of getting there
Rubbish dump methane to electricity is cheap and effective. The Canberra mugga lane tip has had a pilot plant~~, not sure if it's still running~~ generating 37 GWh a year
Hydro on the mainland is pretty much just Snowy Hydro. There was a project from a former government to make that pumped hydro. I don't think it has yet been finished. I don't know whether the project has been cancelled
37 GWh, now that's a "random" number
Solar thermal - yes, the leading technology is a field of heliostat mirrors focusing sunlight on a tower, melting and heating salt. That system can easily hold onto the heat in their salt for use at night
CSIRO in 2014 thought it was possible. I trust they did the maths right.
The other problem Australia has is we have too little need for power. We couldn't build five nuclear plants to allow one at a time to be stopped for maintenance
We could probably use two, but then lose half our baseload supply for maintenance
That 2014 plan was for 100% renewable energy by 2020-something wasn't it?
But you can talk to them and make friends with them
Boats can also move much more than a horse and cart. More than a pair of bullock even
Fantasy worlds really often have sex as something one may select. It doesn't serve the non-binary folk all that well, but there are several ways to pick either of the binary options
My druid always carried a feather fall potion (fantasy parachute?) until contingent spells became available
The trick then is to always fly high enough to quaff a potion in case of falling
https://youtu.be/K2oL4SFwkkw?si=gLjJB3v4Mdr6XQ-2
Now we have methane observation satellites we know that despite natural gas (methane) companies never having reported themselves for leaked methane, huge leaks have been observed (who'd have thought it was a faulty enforcement plan, asking companies to volunteer for fines)
Unfortunately the gas is odourless and colourless in visible light, so it has historically been hard to find leaks if you don't own a natural gas company
Methane is a many times worse greenhouse gas than CO2. On the up side natural gas isn't radioactive unlike coal
Find a 1994 EV in good nick? I can find you 2024 internal combustion cars that won't last 15 years; I can find you a 2024 EV whose manufacturer says will last a million miles (or maybe that's the 2025 version), that's 33.3 thousand miles a year for 30 years. But that manufacturer lies.
Did your car claim a greater than 30 year low maintenance life when new? Is its lifespan typical of the model?
Can we take your position as "has an outlier lifespan car, doesn't want to replace it"? My last car I sold was 20 years old and had seats with worn out cloth (and exposed padding) and broken plastic trim around its adjustment controls
Nissan leaf battery replacements were a minor repair when the first of those needed them. They got much better than new batteries for pretty cheap
Huh. Years ago I tried pocket casts, podcast addict, and podcast republic. I chose republic since it fitted my usage better. They have not gone subscription. I bought the app once years ago and that's been it. I'm not sure if the free version is ad supported.
I would have been very disappointed had I bought pocket casts and then found I was locked out of some features later. I have dropped other apps that did that, after leaving them bad reviews
The "I'll have the beef" way of stating an order doesn't come off as rude or imposing. There are only a few ways of saying what you want and people like variety, perhaps it's that which makes it a normal phrase
If you don't like being wrong ("I'll have the spaghetti"; "no you won't, we've sold out") you can use phrases like "may I get ..." or "I would like ..." or in reply to whatever the waiter asks "the pasta marinara" with no introductory words