By Jo Nova
Just when you thought EV’s could not get more deadly
Eric Worrall alerts us to the new experimental Burning Battery Ejectors at WattsUp.
A Chinese group has invented a James Bond style ejector for EVs to solve those embarrassing moments when the battery reaches thermal runaway, and there are no handy swimming pools to park the car in.
It seems like a great idea for all the times the EV starts to smoke while you idle next to a pit of fire retardant foam. Otherwise, it seems a bit tough on pedestrians. This could not only kill school children walking down the road, but take out their bus too.
Imagine if a hostile power had remote control over 500 kilogram covert bomb launchers, and they infiltrated our cities?
In case of thermal runaway, this proposed EV battery ejection system is designed to send a flaming, venting one-tonne battery pack several meters to the right of the vehicle … and may the gods help anything in its path.
(h/t https://t.co/QpsFvjruwZ) pic.twitter.com/Wyu5NIsuKM— Engineer Brains (@HHackenbecker) September 24, 2025
Simon who wrote Australian Climate Madness for years, first spotted the ejector battery and explains the crazy on youtube (at least as much as he can):
People would certainly learn never to park beside one.
If heavy vehicles need to beep when reversing what kind of noise should an EV make before launching?
Much safer is not to own an EV
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Much cheaper too
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Normally the battery is tightly integrated into the structure of the EV for reasons of minimising weight and volume of the battery pack. They are not easy to remove.
Making the pack easily separable like this will mean more weight and volume but it does have the advantage of a design that could be adapted for battery swaps.
However all attempts at battery swapping have been failures.
And as pointed out this is dangerous to pedestrians.
Unfortunately the availability of this technology will be used by the Left to say the safely problems of EVs have been solved. In the silly woke countries like Australia “researchers” will get taxpayer grants to work on this idea.
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My first thought is that this should be tested in Canberra, but then there are some valuable buildings there.
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The buildings are only as valuable as what goes on inside them. I’d be sorry if it caused damage to the contents of the art gallery or the War Memorial Museum.
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not only dangerous to pedestrians, but a danger to our environment…..imagine a 42 degree day in the hot tinder dry forest and one ejects the battery. goodbye forest, burnt to the ground.
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Nice piece of lateral thinking !!
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On second thoughts, perhaps this type of battery might be used as a weapon. What foreign country would threaten us if they realised flames (from drones) coming down from heaven?
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Very lateral…
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Should be fun in the confined space of a garage or multi-storey car park. Was in Cairns yesterday, lots of EVs with QG plates. Well, several but I bet there’s more. One costs $100k. OPM
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I think that QG is Queensland Government for oversees viewers
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“If heavy vehicles need to beep when reversing what kind of noise should an EV make before launching?”
INCOMING!!!!
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Aztec death whistle 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKwUBtZYdYs
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The fact that this has been invented speaks volumes for the issue and the danger of these vehicles, not just in confined spaces, but generally.
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Then there is the risk of damage to nearby vehicles. Whose insurance will pay for the repairs?
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Yes…And there is also danger to first responders, emergency workers, good samaritans etc.
Imagine that you have been involved in a MVA (vehicle crash) and you are trapped in your “Battery ejection” EV..
and… the ejection system has not deployed… So the BE could possibly be functional. But we don’t know if it is..
How do our Rescue Crews extricate the trapped occupants safely, without the possibility of having our legs scythed
off?
How do we work in a multi vehicle accident scene with one of those BE Bevs involved????
Hmmm… Our Industry BEV risk assessments are getting quite lengthy now..
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Is it true that first responders have had instruction on what to do with a burning EV with trapped passengers and their instruction is to leave it alone and look after themselves?
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Imagine if a car ejaculated one of those batteries into the Bush on a total fire ban day in Australia.
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Bring new meaning to the saying eff me sideways…
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Not sure how adjacent cars are saved when you launch a burning battery at them. Also have to ask if a battery already in meltdown can be ejected successfully.
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Wait till the kids learn how to set the charge off using the latest software patch.
If they can steal your car by introducing a replacement/new key then setting this off should be child’s play.
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We should “just” eject the passengers. Zero zero seats have been around for decades. Not so great in underground car parks, but hey nothings perfect.
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Imagine attending a crash of one of these cars and the battery has not yet been ejected.
Can you safely work on rescuing a person from that side of the vehicle or must you remain on the far side to avoid delaying the battery’s departure?
And if the battery doesn’t eject, should the car be approached or should it be left alone, cordoned off for a set period of time, a little like a chambered round of ammunition that fails to discharge when the trigger is pulled. Maybe you just point the car in a safe direction and wait for 30 minutes or until the battery ejects, incinerates or goes cold?
I think TdeF may have missed the /s tag on the above message. Or maybe TdeF is trying to recover some government issued social credit points, lost in previous correspondence. I guess I’ll never know, (unless TdeF responds….)
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Great idea near a school bus or in a busy city street full of people, but will the normally ignorant woke types even allow this lunacy?
But does it really matter much when the battery is ejected in your garage at night and still burns down your house while your family are asleep?
But easily fixed, just refuse to buy one of these loony, toxic disasters.
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“But does it really matter much when the battery is ejected in your garage at night and still burns down your house while your family are asleep?”
Ah, but wait! There’ more!
Your garage is hooked up yet another over-priced box of electronics called a V2G unit that allows the grid to suck your battery dry any time it is connected. Currently under trial in Melb-
“Connecting an electric car to a bidirectional charger, so its battery can feed the grid in peak periods, could be a powerful tool to support decarbonisation of Australia’s electricity system as it shifts from coal to less predictable sources such as wind and solar, energy companies say.”
If you cut a slot in the garage wall beside your car it will eject the burning battery outside, where it will set fire to your V2G unit!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/turning-your-ev-into-a-giant-battery-is-a-step-closer-20250924-p5mxio.html
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Having finally seen the video on my desktop, I have decided this is a Youtube click bait joke. But a simply removable battery would be a great development.
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TdeF, all modern EV battery swap schemes have failed. The most notable one was probably Better Place in Israel in 2007-2013, a start-up that lost US$850 million on the project. If it could work anywhere it could work there. Because of the small size of the country only 37 battery swap stations were needed. Plus the people are highly technologically literate and willing to accept new technologies. But it still failed.
With much larger countries you need an infeasibly large number of battery swap stations and compatible cars.
Nevertheless, there was successful EV battery swapping in the United States from 1910 to 1924 by the by Hartford Electric Light Company, with the GeVeCo battery swapping service.
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I am always going over the inventions of WWII, inventions German and Japanese scientists and engineers thought impossible or low priority. And how they changed the war.
Time on target. Microwave centimeter radar, the British Cavity Magnetron which changed everything for submarines, aircraft, night fighting, airborne radar. The proximity fuse was a miracle of miniaturization of existing valve electronics in a shell which suffered 20,000G, 3,000C and incredible rotation. And it worked in the air war but especially in bombardment, making trenches and foxholes obsolete. Even when the Germans and Japanese found the shells, they thought it was a hoax. Chain Home radar. Discarding tungsten sabot rounds. Even penicillin for D-Day. No one had antibiotics. At the time US supplies of antibiotics fit in a teaspoon. So they called in the brewers of America. And in the battle of Normanday, 98% of those injured recovered instead of dying of septic infection. It changed everything in medicine. And micro refrigeration for fresh food. Microwave cooking. Mass precision manufacture itself, so that every US Garand was a semi automatic where the Germans had bolt action. It’s endless in so many medical, engineering, science fields. The world was changed for the better by WWII and hasn’t looked back, until the UN’s hoax of Climate Change.
The development of the proximity/radar fuse which changed the war took more funding and scientists and people than the Manhattan project. Indestructible micro tubes embedded in padding.
And still no one can produce EV removable batteries. They would change the viability and safety of electric cars.
I just wish some of the $20Trillion a year trying to control the gas CO2 was spent on fusion energy. We would never need fossil fuel again, but chemical storage is still 10x the efficiency of battery storage so it remains a massive problem for portable energy. Still the drive of Elon Musk has created the world’s first total telephone and internet network without wiring. We could have saved a fortune on the NBN. If you leave all the money to politicians, they spend on themselves and their friends, like China and the UN.
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Wow man. (That could be a number plate). That is wild. Interestingly, the British were very accomplished innovators. They understand what real progress means.
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Understood
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Our own briefly Labor MLA Evan Thornley left Victorian parliament to pursue the battery vehicle dream with Better Place and has since moved the focus of his entrepreunerial zeal to housing; ever the prodigy, there’s no telling where he’ll be next.
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It is not just about battery swap. Repair. Maintenance. Replacement. Fire. Range anxiety. Safety in shipping. There are a host of benefits far beyond battery swap stations, a business proposition. As there is against adequate charging stations at public expense.
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When I first saw this video, I took it as an AI joke.
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I had not thought of AI. It’s not even April. And I wonder about Andrew Forrest with his supposed electric prime movers for his iron ore. It’s hard to know what’s real. And having cost the taxpayer billions in support for his mad Green hydrogen, he quietly goes away. Like the owner of Liberty One Steel and many other steel works and distribution who has been feeding ‘Green’ Steel to governments across the world while the Chinese just keep making traditional steel with our coal and Forrest’s iron ore.
It’s frustrating with so much of the carbon Green dream is sham, lies, a giant hoax from which a few make enormous profits while bureaucrats use our money to feed the insanity. At least Donald Trump is calling them out at the UN, no less. The original culprit still looking to profit massively from the scam, while playing up to Donald Trump who is paying the bills in New York. And they turn off the escalator and teleprompter and shut down the volume. The UN is a nest of carbon vipers with enormous privilege and arrogance.
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I see Twiggy is now yapping about Trump’s speech at the UN and believes he should come to our shores to learn more about our dangerous CC.
Funny thing is that nobody can find their so called dangerous CC , because we are living in the safest period in Human history.
Twiggy should just spend a few minutes online and then start to wake up. SFA $ cost to go online, so what’s his problem?
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He staked everything on Iron ore and it has made him unbelievably rich. But not clever. Beware the self appointed genius. And like so many, he is totally compromised by his biggest client, the country profiting massively from the Climate hoax.
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Probably FAW using a spectacular idea to get their battery swap program noticed. It is so obviously a ridiculous concept. Using the power of social media to get free advertising.
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“She canna take anymore Captain, she’s gonna blow ”
“Scotty, eject the warp core!”
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Let us visit the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill, the one that flew the Chinese flag on a public Council building to satisfy its large Chinese population. The public Box Hill hospital is quite large and it employs many staff whose valued status earns them both a company vehicle and a dedicated parking spot beneath the main building, complete with personal EV plug-in charging port.
A few months ago I drove down to this lower level because the usual top level was chokkers. There, to my surprise, I saw some 10 to 12 new white Chinese made SUVs, all in a neat line at reserved parking by their charge ports. Impressive expenditure on vital medical care, I thought.
Today, after reading this battery ejector article, my mental image of this row of new white matching SUVs strayed to “what if?” territory.
What if there were newer models bought, ones with the ejector battery. If one at the end DID eject its burning battery, straight into the one next to it, could there be a spectacular chain reaction, kachong, kachong,kachong a dozen times until it ended with possible damage to an innocent citizen’s car beside the last SUV?
Then I thought “unintended consequences” as the 9 storey hospital building burned down, a local suburb version of 9/11. Geoff S
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Geoff here’s a short video of parked EV buses that catch fire and one after the other.
Very scary stuff and your hospital scenario could easily take place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T71cVhxG_v4
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Due to the large Chinese population in Box Hill, some have starting referring it to Bok Hill 🙂
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So what happens when one of the batteries starts a catastrophic fire at one of the battery changeover stations?
I would’ve thought it’d be the most dangerous place in every suburb in every city.
Just think about the toxic disaster when hundreds of batteries are ignited and little chance of removal and clean up for many hours and days.
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The changeover facilities would need to be situated so far away from populated areas that they would defeat their own purpose and as a consequence, would be useless.
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But, but …
we’re on the verge of new battery breakthrough technology.
It’ looming.
Just around the corner.
Not even looming.
It’s already almost arriving.
It will change everything.
As in making stuff work that is currently disappointing.
Aspirational manifest engineering.
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Very ingenious. It’s always good to see innovative and thoroughly thought through solutions arriving in the EV marketplace. Logically we will soon see a version for the much bigger ICE segment with tank ejectors or maybe foam dispensors seeing those fires can be extinguished. The future is bright.
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I have an idea.
Let’s just change the definition of ‘battery’.
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Fark!, whee! or cha-ching!😆
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Sounds like a variation on the failed EV battery exchange theme. There was a start-up electric car battery exchange business back in 2008, A Better Place.
Former Victorian, Brumby Labor government, internet millionaire, wunderkind Evan Thornley resigned from parliament back in 2008 to go to A Better Place, a company offering EV battery switching services. The company was billed as a leader in the emerging electric car transformation. But the much heralded Better Place new dawn turned sour when Thornley, then Better Place CEO, was fired in 2013 not long before economic reality set in and the company went broke.
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BTW if we were stupid enough to change to toxic EVs we’d also need thousands of battery changeover service stations in every large city. Plus the dangers from fires would be horrendous in every suburb and our fire brigades would have an increased workload to add to their normal fire fighting activities.
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“our fire brigades would have an increased workload to add to their normal fire fighting activities.”
But the extra fire fighters (‘firemen’ once upon a time) would be termed “GREEN JOBS” … by some desperate polly.
Come to think of it, the builders, rebuilding after the inevitable fire, would slso.ve included ….
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Quick, tell Chris Bowen, he probably thinks it will be a good idea.
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The Australian, Albanese’s speech at the UN.
“As Xi Jinping announces Beijing’s 2035 target to reduce emissions, Anthony Albanese urges him to close more coal-fired power plants.’
What? China is opening two new coal power stations a week and Albanese says they should be closing some? Beam me up Scotty.
And spending as little as possible on defence, Albanese is pushing for an Australian seat on the Security Council? To do what? Vote with China?
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Well, China is closing coal fire plants. They’re closing their old smaller ones – then replacing them with new, bigger more efficient types. So, what ANAL says is sort of true. Bit of a yeah/nah situation.
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Yes, and they can say they are closing some, but it’s a lie. They are updating them with later, much more efficient plants. We are the only ones blowing them up and making sure no one can use coal again. In Victoria the Labor/Green government has even changed the Constitution to make sure we cannot extract gas or use uranium or thorium or fracking unless a new goverment has 60% control and can remove these abominations.
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Is there anything that would allow a change back in the constitution to permitting oil, coal, gas, as depriving us of its use amounts to a treasonous attack on the country?
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You need 60% of the parliament. And control of the upper house. What they have done is change the rules. At a Federal level you need a plebiscite. It’s Fascist stuff as Hitler did when his first move was to outlaw other parties. Labor and the greens are Fascists.
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China has recently converted a couple of coal fired boiler system to nuclear
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This sounds like a quote for the periphery –
““Here lies the body of William Jay,
Who died maintaining his right of way.
He was right, dead right, as he sped along,
But he’s just as dead as if he were wrong.”
― Boston Transcript”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/14050632.Boston_Transcript
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“If heavy vehicles need to beep when reversing what kind of noise should an EV make before launching?“
EXCELSIOR!!
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Up a little at Comment 23, TdeF mentions this: (and while it’s perhaps a little off the EV batteries topic, it’s worth responding to in this manner I think, so sorry Mods)
That almost got me into trouble when I first mentioned it back in 2008.
I started what I do back in March of 2008, when I was asked to contribute at a U.S. blog site. I had no idea on how to go about that, but the site’s owner said it was just a blog site, and that anybody could write anything. So I thought ….. something about power generation. Kevin07 had just signed us up to the Kyoto Protocol at Bali, to reduce CO2 emissions, (and the big emphasis was on coal fired power) so I wanted to explain how difficult that would be when it came to closing down coal fired power plants, and trying to, umm, replace them with renewables of choice.
I had to submit my Posts via email, every third day or so, and he would Post them at the site. After a Month or so of this, and now thinking I was going to ‘keep at it’ (and I suppose to save him the work) he gave me the ability to Log into the site and write the Posts straight to the site. I was certain the whole thing would ‘tap out’ after a dozen or so Posts, but that original series that started me out (my Kyoto Series) went to more than fifty separate Posts, and then, thinking that was it for me, what I found was that I was only scratching the surface.
For my third Post, I had started to get ‘into it’, but you can still see that when it comes to writing, I’m still a bog standard amateur.
I emailed the Posts to Ed, he read it, and immediately emailed me back asking about the last paragraph where I mentioned China opening up between one and two new coal fired plants every week, and would be doing so for many years to come. He was dumbfounded and asked me if it was actually true, or perhaps I was embellishing it a bit. I emailed him back with the link to the article where I read it. He emailed back saying ….. let’s just leave it at one a week.
When I saw the Post up at the site the next morning, I saw that he had actually put that paragraph in bold.
He emailed me me and told me all his friends who read the blog were astounded and that no one actually believed it.
I also mentioned that perhaps China might be doing this for ten to fifteen years.
That Post was written 17 years ago, and China is still bringing them on line at that rate. Those plants are two and three levels of technology higher than existing plants here in Australia, and they have even perfected how to refit those older large plants with the newer USC technology.
Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 3) (dated 26 March 2008)
Tony.
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And our politicians avoid this fact today. And control the media, burying the story. So Albanese’s ‘fun fact’ to distract from his utter hypocrisy.
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Does it come with a count down? Or just a “DOWN!”?
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The only reason we are considering EVs today is because of their so called dangerous CC and therefore we must try and change the climate back to the earlier 20th century.
The data obviously proves the extremists are wrong and just look at the big improvement after 1950 where deaths from extreme weather, floods , droughts etc are compared from 1900 to 1960.
Very few people before 1960 compared to today and another 5.2 billion more people at risk in 2024.
It seems that the more atmospheric co2 we have the safer and longer life expectancy we now enjoy today.
Just look at the flatlining graph after 2000.
And this only takes a few minutes online and definitely no reason to WASTE TRILLIONs of $ on toxic, unreliable W & S.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/natural-disaster-death-rates?country=Wildfire~Flood~Extreme+weather~Extreme+temperature~Drought
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EVs are good. But they are a private indulgence not a public benefit. Public money should not be spent on the buying whims of individuals. Especially in Australia. In Amsterdam and Bruges for example they are worthwhile.
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I vote for the original Star Trek “Red Alert”.
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If you get T-boned on the ejection side press ‘driver eject’. Better still, to avoid thermal runaways, don’t buy an EV.
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This once again leads me me to ponder over the many teams that must have toiled to bring this project together, get it approved and funded and decide it would make a great media event.
They all thought this total lunacy was a good idea.
Still I guess there was Suncable and the Victorian Government and Energiewende, so they arent alone.
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New slant on assault and battery
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Assault with a battery!
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I had to go and check my calendar as it seemed like we had time travelled to April 1st. But then the whole of Net Zero seems to be an April Fool.
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Surprise!
(EVs, the gifts that keep on giving)
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