When I first became aware of this project I was pretty dismissive.
I'm very happy to admit in this case that the project has come further than I thought it would.
Their FAQ says they have 8, paid, full time devs and resources for something like 18 months. IDK how much it really takes to get a browser off the ground but they've got something, at least.
I'm looking forward to their Alpha release in 2026, and really hope they can achieve that.
Yes it's a reasonable request, but it's also pretty meaningless.
It's performative. Like if you break this pledge nothing happens.
However, it's performative in the same way that a marriage is really. I mean you can go to the court house and register your marriage without having a ceremony, but that's very uncommon and in the vast majority of cases you have a ceremony and do all the things.
Achieving citizenship is an important moment in anyone's life. If your own case for example your Mother's citizenship ceremony marked the point at which the work to change the trajectory of her life and all of her descendants had achieved the objective.
If I were left to languish in a nursing home cared for by understaffed nurses and missing genuine human interactions with my family or whatever, and a bot emulating a 7 year old showed up and tried to cheer me up by playing my favourite song, I would start a riot.
In the time you've been disregarding all inputs in favor of this glib "but what about the epstein files" comment, things have gotten progressively worse.
It's certainly true that everyone, including economists, have been saying that tariffs are going to be terrible. If anything, the implementation has been far less terrible than everyone thought.
However, I don't think that these CEOs necessarily thought that tariffs were going to increase profits. Corporations have a way of socialising the bad and taking advantage of the good. So in some ways they always benefit from change, including chaos.
For example, and this was alluded to in the article, if you could stock up before the tariffs took effect, then you can increase prices and sell the goods you bought with out tariffs at the tariffed price. Even after you run out of pre-tariff stock, it's the consumers who are paying the tariffs, and it can't last forever, and all your competitors have the same context.
Sure but, the critical question in this post is how to get solar energy from the desert to the market. You can't just string up power lines because too much is lost in transmission.
In the immediate future, Japan is a target market for Australia's Hydrogen, and that's many thousands of kilometers from Australia's production facilities.
Over this distance hydrogen is the least inefficient method of transport.
Yeah this is how things roll here in Australia, more or less.
We did an initial visit with mum, dad, and twins for an hour or so. Then the next week just with mum again for an hour or so.
After that we just dropped them off and left them there for 3 hours or so, 2 days a week. They would cry for a few minutes when you drop them off, and cry when you arrive to collect them. Generally though they had a great day playing with educators and other kids.
The thing I learned around that time was, crying doesn't necessarily mean sadness. Like when you arrive to collect them they're not suddenly "sad", but they burst in to tears and look very upset. It's just an emotional moment. When they see you they're happy, excited, they feel love, and loss, and yeah maybe a bit angry that you left them there. They're still figuring out all of these emotions and yeah it manifests as crying.
As others have mentioned pwoer transmission is a huge problem. You lose lots of power in the wires between here and there. So Australia has vast areas of desert, but if you put up an array of solar panels you can't really transfer the power to where it needs to be used.
However, there's a lot of investment presently in hydrogen tech. So instead of transferring power by wire, you use it to crack hydrogen out of sea water, and ship the hydrogen to where it needs to be used... in cars and houses.
There are problems in that hydrogen is difficult to store, but the industry is confident these problems can be solved or reduced. Hydrogen atoms are very small and will leak through most materials. It also makes containers brittle over time, so you need a strategy to manage that.
There's a number of water cracking facilities in progress in Australia right now. The WGEH is a gargantuan project, although presently just in the planning phase.
I'm sure a number of experts will be along in a moment to tell me all the reasons why this isn't really a thing that will happen. IDK why Hydrogen tech invokes so much derision. The story is that there's too many problems with Hydrogen and that these projects are just a way to delay proper action on climate change. We will see I guess.
When I first became aware of this project I was pretty dismissive.
I'm very happy to admit in this case that the project has come further than I thought it would.
Their FAQ says they have 8, paid, full time devs and resources for something like 18 months. IDK how much it really takes to get a browser off the ground but they've got something, at least.
I'm looking forward to their Alpha release in 2026, and really hope they can achieve that.