@drsbaitso @TechConnectify

> But I really think the Overestimate Short Term & Underestimate Long Term problem does a lot more heavy lifting in that regard. Humans in survival mode (as so many of us have been for the past 10-40 years) need to focus on the short term, and thinking about the long term is an unaffordable luxury.

Really feeling this. Looking after your sustainability is totally a thing. But having had some major wins, politically, this decade in Australia, it gives light to the maxim “you underestimate what you can do in a decade”.

We replaced a string of the safest conservative House of Reps politicians with pro-environment pro-integrity conservatives, really rattling the establishment and rejecting post-truth, putting civility back on the floor of the house. It’s the sort of thing 12-year-olds on a school tour can actually watch without cringing (and dying) inside.

@drsbaitso @TechConnectify We need to reclaim “conservative”, because frugality used to be a byword, and even a synonym.

“Stitch in time saves nine” is a whole ethic and way of life

A “Conserve” movement would target the radical conservatism — radical rebellionists in a conservative constitutionalist trenchcoat

@TechConnectify Rent-free energy is here — we collect it, we store it, and in my case, sell it: I make $100pm as an energy producer, instead of spending $150pm being an energy consumer. [update: my inflation stats need increasing haha]

No literally, cash in the bank. I assist the grid via reverse auction, and push down the tariffs of my neighbours. And green the grid.

It’s an “energy trilemma” — in reverse now! I can choose to maximise for reliability, profit or carbon reduction.

Here are my last several power bills in dollaridoos — the “positive dollars” on the last one was just deducted from earlier larger profits.

@TechConnectify You’re using (coining) the term “disposable energy” — I also like “rental energy”

The age of rental energy is over. We are becoming energy landlords.