Posts by Gareth Ward
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I'm sure I'll get owned by the dictionaristas of PAS here, but refute does have a meaning "to deny" in most dictionaries (as opposed to just prove incorrect), even if there is some dispute.
Although, yes, common usage should see rebut or repudiate used instead. -
I look forward to OneNews crossing live from Mexicali as brave Kiwi stalwarts continue to purchase the pork quesadilla ...
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and now we cross LIVE to our reporter with the latest on Tony Veitch! Amber, what can you tell us?"
God help us all if Tony Veith gets swine flu.
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Until someone can actually confirm the veracity of those comments, they're on the best-friend's-sister's-dog-walker-said level of accuracy.
Your best friend's sister has a dog walker? Fancy.
the Guardian report is slightly alarming:
"It's all psychological," said 20-year-old Edgar, an emo whose fringe covered most of his face. "I think it is a plot by the government to control us,"
Well, the first 90% of that story is interviewing said emos and someone who revealed that "you can't see it". Not really insightful analysis, but I agree that the final point about the pattern of infection is an interesting one. -
This would make for an interesting Media7 Russell - the clash of a health system with every good reason for over-caution, and a media system with a genetic-level love of hysteria.
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Powershop will come into it's own as more of the smart meter/Glo Bug meters come onstream. That's where Google's Powermeter project is heading too - it's the live info of your usage tied into purchasing that will setup some real savings I imagine.
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But is contacting and making offers to customers on this basis anti-competitive, or just good retail competition?
I'd call that good competition, albeit only offered under the gun of leaving.
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Fair point, although conceptually they are bundling the bill of the lines companies and generation companies. Those companies would otherwise have to bill those themselves with the accompanying cost and margin - if we changed models the functions the retailers currently undertake would have to be done somewhere.
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all the retailers are competing on is how much they will cut the markup to buy the right to bill you.
Well yes. Which, in the existing split-role model seems like a good thing to me. As I said though, I was contrasting it only with a "single distributor bills you the power they purchase" model with generation and transmission the same as current. I'd rather not have one company as my "choice"
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My "alternative" there was the alternative in the existingmarket setup btw. Obviously there are completely different systems possible, like Rich's example.