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Australia’s solar surplus can push daytime power prices negative. Home batteries shift some of that energy into the evening, and governments are also encouraging households to consume power when it is abundant.
The thread’s real dispute is architectural: pay households to own storage, or build utility-scale batteries and use electric vehicles as a distributed reserve.
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The article's core finding is counterintuitive: across cohorts, more sun exposure tracked with lower blood pressure and lower all-cause mortality, and high blood pressure kills far more people than melanoma does. The implied driver isn't vitamin D the pill, but the sunlight itself.
An Australian in the thread cut it short: "the skin cancer capital of the world — no, no it is not." Another pointed to the ozone hole Stone Age humans never lived under, so sun exposure is simply more harmful now than the evolutionary argument assumes.
Reuters rounds up a wave of near-simultaneous laws restricting minors' access to social platforms. A reader back in the UK described the lived version: he can't read half of X without handing over a government ID to prove he's an adult.
The argument wasn't whether kids should be protected, it was the mechanism. Engineers sketched cryptographic age-proofs that reveal one bit and nothing else, then asked why the actual laws reach for face scans and license uploads instead.
