OnPoint: Brownlee: Now 93.5% fact-free!
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"a wiki-styled website which fact-checked politicians and promoted transparency by hosting source data."
I'll have one of those.
Great reporting Keith.
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Yeah, about that website: I'm prepared to donate money or labour, or just a spare ethernet cable.
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The pseudo-market thing for electricity is dumb, especially when over 80% plus of the suppliers to the "market" are simply different arms of the state.
It would be perfectly possible to develop a model that calculates the optimum usage of generating capacity to minimise CO2 emissions and/or energy cost while maintaining reliable supply. More effecient resource allocation, and if they gave it a (read-only, natch) web interface you could log in and watch it working.
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It would be perfectly possible to develop a model that calculates the optimum usage of generating capacity to minimise CO2 emissions and/or energy cost while maintaining reliable supply.
Wash your mouth out yo :)
Back in the ol' skool NZED days they also used to account for wear and tear on the system. Each 24 hours, a designated generator (machine not corporation) used to be run at variable speed (higher wear) to match supply fluctuations. Now each company has a generator doing that. They also used to avoid overclocking their plan. And with the network management not detached from generation, they could also maintain the grid in a more stable fashion, rather than having links near maxed out, or close to collapse... -
Thanks Keith, you always help to nudge my despair with journalism in a more positive direction.
A fact-checking web site would be a massive drain: as an alternative, what about a Bullshitometer for key (!) politicians, agencies and... journalists?
We could have a ballot to pick 8 important mouths or mouthpieces, then look for volunteers to fact check their blathering.
I nominate the leaders of each party plus Police as a starting point (only because I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the transparency of plod over the last year or so).
I'd be happy to help build a system for calculating a bullshit%. We could then just run a series of gauges on a site. It might even be valid in a qualitative sense!
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Actually, what would be super helpful is if you could let me know if you come across a significant statement that has the waff of bullshit. I can take it from there...
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It'll be just like the bat signal shining over Gotham's night sky.
A big turd picture, posted on PAS.
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Awesome post Keith.
Makes me so happy to see good journalism in NZ!
It'll be just like the bat signal shining over Gotham's night sky.
A big turd picture, posted on PAS.
I'll be looking out for it..!!
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