Oz-Energy-Analysis.ORG -- Commenting Rules

We understand that contributors come from different backgrounds and age groups, and thus comment, criticise, discuss and question in different ways. We ask everybody to follow these principles:

Civility: Play the ball and not the person. Rudeness will not be tolerated. This includes speculation about motives or what 'sort of person' someone is. Civility, gentle humour and staying on topic are superior debating tools.

Relevance: Please maintain focus on the topic at hand. Specifically, please avoid attempts at solving multifaceted problems with soundbites. Please be as concise as you can.

Banned Topics: to maintain an open and civil website focused on renewables, the following topics are banned:

While each of these topics involves serious and important matters, the focus here is solely on what would be involved for Australia to develop a high penetration of renewables. We welcome everybody, even the Ford drivers. Suitably dispassionate comments that brush up against the list may be allowed.

Citing literature and other sources: citations and links within comments are welcomed, but please DO NOT cite material that you have not yourself read, digested and understood. As a general rule, please introduce any and every link or reference with a short description of the material, your judgement on its quality, and the reason you are including it.

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We are moderating, but are not in the business of censoring criticism. OzEA welcomes hard-nosed criticism. The principal concern is working out how to do Open Science, and do it well. We may reject some comments at our discretion, but will never misrepresent your comment. Comments that break "the rules" a little will generally be posted anyway, perhaps with a note appended by the moderator / offending part obviously expurgated.

Open Science experiments are different to blogs; the pages are not static. Material is developed in waves, usually called 'rounds'. We'll move comments out of default view (while remaining in the 'full comments list'), keeping things making sense. Comments can be linked to, and we use this regularly for our own comments, and yours. We will NOT edit your comments.

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Charles Barton
Subject: Ban on nuclear related discussion
Date: 2010-05-17 (at 08:28:50)

in order to test a common assumption, namely that renewables represent a low cost post-carbon option, I often compare future projected renewable levelized costs, to future projected nuclear levelized costs. Would such comparisons violate the etiquette stipulation?

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Francis
Subject: re: Ban on nuclear related discussion
Date: 2010-05-17 (at 08:34:01)

Hello Charles,

We're a long way from being able to do any costings that are sensible.
In context I would have no great problem.
However, the focus here is on the renewables - and the variability problem for the time being. Not on renewables vs. nuclear or similar (you can do that in many places already).

My personal view (and it's just a guess) is that on purely economic terms nuclear probably makes a lot of sense, but so does gas, and even coal. It all depends what you believe, and what you reckon society as a whole is doing. Endless fun in there - preferably with beer. But not on this site any time soon.

cheers,
Francis

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francis
Subject: the rules (?are they ok?)
Date: 2010-07-20 (at 00:45:24)

I like Charles Barton because he asked a question about the rules. Anybody else?

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Rod Adams
Subject: Definition of renewables
Date: 2010-12-20 (at 21:01:22)

Francis - in the context of your site, how do you define the word "renewable"?

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francis
Subject: Re #6 - Definition of renewables
Date: 2010-12-20 (at 23:29:43)

No particular definition...
What the man in the street would mean, but restricted to technologies that are more-or-less viable now. Thus we focus on wind and solar. Things like geothermal remain developmental, and so while that would fit with the everyday idea of renewable power, it is not helpful to include them in the work here.

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