quasi Report This Comment
Date: October 29, 2025 08:00PM

Matt Tilleard, graduate of University of Melbourne, forward thinker.

History has been written by whoever controls the dominant fuel of the era — until now, says renewables entrepreneur Matt Tilleard. He explains why, as the clean energy transition ramps up, we’re moving from a world where energy comes from burning fuels to one where it will come from using technology. Learn why this could change everything about global power dynamics — and why the future belongs not to those who control resources, but to those who build and share technology. (Recorded at TED Countdown Summit 2025 on June 16, 2025)

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woberto Report This Comment
Date: October 30, 2025 08:21AM

What a fucking idiot.
"...to one where it will come from using technology."
Yeah you that famous equation E = IT squared that rocks.
No matter.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: October 30, 2025 10:12AM

So he's the typical lad from Melbourne. Got it. He does make some very good points, though. One thing he doesn't mention are the advances in sodium ion batteries which could change the equation immensely. Still, burning things for energy is the end of their usefulness even if you're not concerned about the atmosphere and climate change; single use items are inefficient. It's neanderthal tech that makes the cartels rich because there is always the need for more, more, more. The sun and wind will be there for billions of years, and coal, oil, and gas are just stored solar energy, batteries of sorts, that will one day be empty while the sun still shines. I may be old, but I'm not one of those old fucks that have always been around saying, "But that's the way we've always done it!" There's tradition, there's practicality, then there's long term practicality that of necessity often breaks with tradition. I'm thinking about my grandchildren, their grandchildren, and their grandchildren. We've got Anon going on about social abuses from centuries ago that reverberate today, what will be our legacy in future centuries when it comes to use of resources?

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: October 31, 2025 01:19AM

Woberto people who live in theory, with no hands on background, can really muck up. In the late 80's I was one of about 30 standing around watching someone who did 4 Unit Calculus, and was well paid for it in his job, literally blow up $500 every time he made a mental calculation and gave instructions accordingly. The only one sitting was the boss. I wasn't around for that conversation. I still wish I was.

Quasi I puzzle if that isn't the best post you've put on here.

It's funny to say that about Melbourne as it's the way we from New South Wales are brought up. There's a photo from the late 1800's of a row of men with their muskets standing in front of the pub at Manly, in Sydney, as they thought the men from Melbourne were coming up. Nothing's changed, except pubs are no longer key positions.

Batteries are improving in multiple directions and it's fascinating, the world will change. Think of the impact of mobile phones.

I spent $20k on a patent application for a new electricity generator and dropped it when something better turned up: Goran something or other, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Belgrade, made Tesla's 2nd air coil work - by reducing the number of coils and adjusting their spacing - he put in 2 volts and and got 2 million out - from the atmosphere. (Cosmic radiation striking the upper atmosphere ionises it - positive and negative - this takes about 3 months to make its way down to the troposphere, where we live - the French sent up a satellite and lowered a copper wire into the upper atmosphere to measure how much electricity is up there and blew the satellite up.) We can and will have endless electricity powering buildings, vehicles, boats, planes, anything you like. We just need the link between energy companies and political parties to be broken. It's currently backed by the Pentagon's war machine and the CIA. Hopefully they get killed soon. Then nations will grab their freedom. You and Kim be glad you live where you do.

Legacy... only an imbecile wouldn't agree with that, even if views on the best way forward are incompatible. The only way for internal combustion engines to survive is for the price of fuel to collapse in real terms. In the 1970's Australia found a vast amount of oil under the Great Barrier Reef - we should be part of OPEC+. Apparently Washington threatened war if it wasn't kept for yanks to own when convenient. It hasn't been exploited.

Me going on about social abuses... That list has just finished. I was in the Mitchell Library in Sydney researching old English Chronicles (I can read the old forms of English) for something completely unrelated and noticed those, started again and wrote it down. I also found a list of weather records from the late 1100's to early 1200's that sound just like the strange events we've seen since the '90's. Cyclones in England that blew down castles! They must have been built in the French manner - the Normans were from France after all. After that they imported stronger stone and built in a much stronger architecture - historians have commented on it but not realised what started it. There it was right in front of me. If it's a weather cycle it will last 70-80 years, so until 2060 - 2070. If the winds pick up and you have a corrugated roof, it will be time to buy roof screws and strengthen around the edges, not only the first line but a new one 1/3 of the way to the second. If you're building, insulate! I mean that: frosts so cold most small birds in England died for lack of food, intermixed with heat waves so bad people died. Snow so deep its melt washed away bridges and houses. Dramatic crop failures intermixed with bumper years. It all happened. They may have also described tropical diseases, I'm not sure on that one as the descriptions are brief. I also never studied virology.

What I was researching I found more than I expected. I'll post it here next week. Pulse is thick skinned (just volunteered you Pulse) so he can take the outrage, ridicule and libel that will be fronts for controlling information and directing/controlling discussion. Think of the free publicity! I'll cop it personally for so many weeks, then God can count the dead and the devil reap his own.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: October 31, 2025 09:14AM

Thank you Anon, sometimes I manage to put cogent thoughts together. As far as the Melbourne thing, I just began my 20th year on plus613 and I've heard enough from pulse and woberto to know how they are. They're not too different from we obnoxious yanks.

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: November 02, 2025 12:43AM

Not everyone from Melbourne is bad. I quite liked a girl from Melbourne whom I met through her piano teacher. Her father gave her permission to speak to me. A medical event and house move meant I wasn't around. That didn't stop descriptions of her and her relatives giving pet names reflecting character: repartease, indignuance, candesce and illume. It's amazing a whole extended family can be single young females with pleasing characteristics? She regularly visited friends who were neighbours of friends of mine, and were at their son's wedding. So I was thinking of the way her cheeks dimpled when she smiled. In the car park beside Gordon train station on a day trip to Sydney I was about to say hello to her mum when she gave me the dirtiest look you can imagine. What did I do?

I've since read their name in a company report and know what I wasn't supposed to. Money is a dirty subject.

Then there's the other Melbourne: two perfectly good houses near Map 59 were bought, demolished and replaced with a 'Villa from Tuscany!' Painted bright white walls with a bright blue roof, the downstairs toilet didn't have an external window, the indoor pool was beside the dining room (chlorine) and the upstairs balcony, that should to come off a common space, was only accessed from the walk in robe beside the Master. Strangely, it was soon for sale.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: November 04, 2025 12:19AM

Yet another step toward making solar energy more affordable, from Australian researchers.

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