I'm guessing it will be an opportunity for providers to charge more per kW/h outside of those hours, possibly treating this like a perk. Much like we often have here with 'free power hour' plans.

Plenty of citizens won't know, and will take the ruse. Much like extended warranties that are redundant under Aus's consumer laws.

It does make getting a 20+kwh house battery an absolute no brainer though.

On the face of it, the numbers seem to work. This site says the average grid cost in Australia is 31c/kwh which seems about right I guess. So assuming you could charge and use all 20kwh every day, you could save $6.20 per day or $2263 per year. $15k AUD or so for a 20kwh battery makes a but under 7 years to pay for itself.

Batteries have a loss of around 10% of the energy during the charge/use cycle, so you'd get about 18kwh of actual use. But that doesn't matter that much because according to this website the average power usage is 3,900 kWh per year, which is 10.6kwh per day. So it may take you 13+ years to pay it off.

Yeah that's pretty worth it. I don't know the lifespan of the battery but it seems it should be more than 13 years. I calculated the pay back on our battery was about 40 years 😬 (assuming it kept full capacity all that time).

This may be pretty smart actually. To solve the problem, many places (including NZ to some extent) are doing grid-scale batteries. But this way you can encourage people to get batteries, you get a grid-scale battery spread over millions of houses and you don't even have to pay for it.

I guess so, unless there's some serious magic thinking happening over there.

It does make getting a 20+kwh house battery an absolute no brainer though.

The power companies will obviously just adjust their pricing to account for the free power period, so this isn't about cost to households is it? If I understand it correctly, it's about how the grid has too much power at this time and they want an incentive for power users to shift their power use to this time to prevent grid issues?

This is really interesting!

That truck weighs 2.5 tonne empty, by the way. The trailer is likely another 750kg, plus all the crap on the trailer. Possibly over 3.5 tonnes, and neither of those vehicles are rated to tow that.

I suspect the trailer would have just refused to turn.

It may not have worked but it would have been pretty cool if it did.

Update: It worked!

Great video Gary.

Thanks for sharing. Looks like the cuntdown site is still up. I’ll give it a go next time I’m shopping there. I find their app annoyingly slow at times.

They've had wonderful success with it too

I think we should seriously look at the Portugal model. Your article only very briefly mentions it, but it's basically :Decriminalise (personal possession and use of) all drugs, provide safe needles, and most importantly treat addiction as a health problem not a criminal issue. They also required addiction treatment, fining those that refused and confiscating their belongings if they didn't pay, which would be good to see some evidence around before considering implementing it. This article touches on it but also talks about how Potugal fucked up by pulling back on resources spent on it and saw unraveling of their success.

As your article mentions, simply decriminalising it so people feel comfortable discussing their addiction with a doctor would go a long way. Your article also mentions another challenge, which is that opponents deliberately misrepresent what decriminalising means in order to scare people into their side, something I'm sure happens in NZ too.,

I used it a few days ago, and it seemed to work 🤷

I hadn't heard of this. Is it a way to get discounts without using a card?

It says on the site its not good in NZ, is that still the case?

Cuntdown still works for me it just takes a couple of tries to find a valid card number sometimes

Damn I liked those websites. I didn't use them all the time but they were very very handy when I forgot my personal card

And it shows! Every time I visit reddit there's somebody posting about their loneliness problems. Seems like discord, full of teenagers.

I deleted my account; as did many others....some of the best came here.

It wasn't much of an exodus given that nearly everyone is still using reddit.

Reddit sucks and in the past I've hosted my own websites, so I'm aware of how much better an independent service can be. I'm sick of slow international websites. We need more websites hosted in New Zealand - then I don't get 400ms latency when I click.

I was part of the Reddit exodus

Dont worry about people making the same stuff. All musicians write about love too. But your personal angle is what makes it unique. Be you, instead of trying to emulate someone elses flavor. A lot of twitch for instance is high energy, but i like watching a low energy guy play the game im interested in.

Subs dont really matter as much as they used to because majority is using homepage to recommend them content. Also just because subs are high doesnt give your next video the right to have high views. You still must create content they want.

If you wanna make political activism, make that your only topic and focus. If you are talking about important topics in a tone of voice and angle people are interested in your audience will find you. Have a look at garrys economics for an interesting take on political videos.

Flyers are fine, but if your target audience is using youtube, the home page will be all the flyer you need. If you are making good content that is relevant, you will get traction. But making good content is the hard part. "Yeah but xyz creator is making shit and getting millions of views" sure. The world is not fair, get over it. Make your stuff better.

If you live on a tiny island and the politics are local, your maximum audience may only be 6k people. But your impact can still be massive.

Rambling is fine if you wanna spend hours editing. But if you can craft a story the way i laid out in my previous comment, the video will nearly edit itself.

Stay tight to topic, be vulnerable and your audience will connect.

Long interviews are more podcast format. They can also be engaging, but its hard for them to be shared. They do however make for great short content if you take bites out.

I dont think creativity is better outside youtube. Sure maybe in cinema. But if someone is poppin off on bitchute and not also posting to youtube, they are wasting their potential. Unless their content is purely anti youtube.

Anyway good luck. Feel free to shoot me a dm or continie the thread if you have questions. Always happy to talk video :)

Damnit I just recorded a video but the audio didn't capture because I think I only plugged in my mic AFTER I opened OBS. Oh well mistake learned!

It's good to have specifics to work towards but sometimes I feel like everyone is trying to create the same kind of video with the exact same intonation.

On YouTube a person can get 300,000 views on a video but then nobody subscribes - subsequent videos only get a few thousand views. That's why I believe it's important to have a community surrounding a channel, maybe if it's political activism it can be promoted with flyers. That's how I imagine doing this, I'd need to reach new people face-to-face and actually be a person who talks about interesting stuff. Not just someone who's online who develops a random audience of people from various countries - that's what I want to avoid. There should be a core audience, ideally a local audience since I live on a tiny island.

Nothing wrong with marketing 101 of course - I tend to ramble! So obviously having a script and editing a video is something I need to work on.

I really admire the long interviews on Rumble by people like Glenn Greenwald. I really don't know his reputation but some of his talks are just fascinating to me. It's a totally different experience to the cheesy-smiley youtubers! Perhaps there's some good stuff on BitChute and Odysee too and I just haven't looked at it for ages. The creativity is better outside of YouTube.