Is that an ironic flag, or what?

White house paint still had lead in it in Australia, just at much lower levels than before the ban

Oh, absolutely. I just worry that American authorities won’t see it that way.

The same thing should apply to private property, especially in cities.

Pretty sure it was so publishers (printing press owners) could have a guaranteed profit. Those two things (publisher and artist profits) were correlated at the time. Not so much anymore. Streaming/subscription mentality is like planned obsolescence for IP.

Sounds like a risky move

How often do you think it would need to supply a whole state? Australian states are massive.

I’m in NSW, and from memory, I can think of a few power outages that took down a few tens of thousands of homes for a few days. Most are much smaller. That’s in a state with a couple of million homes. So at most a few percent of the state. So even in a worst case scenario maybe you still get a day at full power. If you ration it out to essential services, then a lot longer.

This is all ignoring the fact that most outages are grid related, not generation related, which means that nuclear would be of no help, but a somewhat distributed battery backup system could be massively useful.