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@IFocus Just getting to have a squiz at what's being posted today.
Our rooftop solar system is 8.6 kva and a hot water solar system also.
@IFocus Just getting to have a squiz at what's being posted today.I have a 6.6 kw solar... how big is yours
@Smurf1976 Well here in the Swan Valley is an excellent salvage yard, many acres of all and everything.Not putting myself on a pedestal but I'm sitting at home right now in the spare bedroom used as a home office.
The desk was bought second hand. Not sure exactly how old but if I said circa 1980 that would be about right. Steel frame with fake wood veneer look that was common 1970's and 80's.
Now that's one desk but point is if we all stopped replacing things for the sake of it then there'd be an incredible saving of resources and energy.
About a year ago I went to buy some bricks. Only needed a small quantity, I turned up with a car not a truck, and was thinking this would be dead easy. Given the incredible number of 1960's houses that are knocked down around here, and the bricks I wanted seem to have been an extremely popular colour back then since they're pretty much everywhere around Adelaide, I figured a salvage yard would have heaps and getting some would be dead easy. Not so..... As they told me, when houses are demolished everything still there at the time goes straight to landfill so the salvage business is more about things of higher value that the owners took out and brought in first or that came out during renovations. So old shower screens or chandeliers yes, bricks no.
So we're demolishing perfectly good houses literally on a daily basis but it's nigh on impossible to get hold of the bulk materials even if you're willing to pay. All straight to the dump, the whole lot.
I did eventually get a few bricks, but wow.
There's an awful lot of waste in society.
That is so true, I'm on the council of owners of the group of units we are in.Not putting myself on a pedestal but I'm sitting at home right now in the spare bedroom used as a home office.
The desk was bought second hand. Not sure exactly how old but if I said circa 1980 that would be about right. Steel frame with fake wood veneer look that was common 1970's and 80's.
Now that's one desk but point is if we all stopped replacing things for the sake of it then there'd be an incredible saving of resources and energy.
About a year ago I went to buy some bricks. Only needed a small quantity, I turned up with a car not a truck, and was thinking this would be dead easy. Given the incredible number of 1960's houses that are knocked down around here, and the bricks I wanted seem to have been an extremely popular colour back then since they're pretty much everywhere around Adelaide, I figured a salvage yard would have heaps and getting some would be dead easy. Not so..... As they told me, when houses are demolished everything still there at the time goes straight to landfill so the salvage business is more about things of higher value that the owners took out and brought in first or that came out during renovations. So old shower screens or chandeliers yes, bricks no.
So we're demolishing perfectly good houses literally on a daily basis but it's nigh on impossible to get hold of the bulk materials even if you're willing to pay. All straight to the dump, the whole lot.
I did eventually get a few bricks, but wow.
There's an awful lot of waste in society.
@sptrawler I am assuming we are both warbling on about the same salvage yard.That is so true, I'm on the council of owners of the group of units we are in.
I noticed there is no spare tiles and the units are 34 years old, I eventually hunted down 20 up at Bullsbrook in a salvage yard, I bought them and they are in my garage.
So it is a good heads up for people surf, things do become obsolete and it is awkward to find alternatives sometimes.
Closest I could find in Adelaide was one that had tiles, tiles and more tiles but not bricks.Well here in the Swan Valley is an excellent salvage yard, many acres of all and everything.
Bricks by the million.
Yes weird place, just north of the roundaboit, had to come from Mandurah to get them.@sptrawler I am assuming we are both warbling on about the same salvage yard.
A treasure trove of a place with everything imaginable tucked in there and everywhere.
Ok, Ok, but climate change, = extra heavy rainfall, broken tiles causing bad leaks leading to resultant hysteria.
And Sydney has a desalination plant, because the dams would never be full again, yet the hysteria constantly say, it is a precise science.Back in 2007, the BBC made the following prediction.
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Here is a chart of the arctic sea ice.
It may have been published somewhere , but I have not been able to find a retraction from the BBC for an obviously wrong prediction.
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Mick
And Sydney has a desalination plant, because the dams would never be full again, yet the hysteria constantly say, it is a precise science.
Which history constantly proves, it isn't.
IMO there is no doubt the climate is changing and also IMO if we can reduce emissions due to technology we should do it, as it is common sense.
The Earth is surrounded by an oxygen envelope, we need that to be as clean as possible, to survive.
But to be crying wolf on any excuse, just to feel significant, undermines the integrity of the the issue IMO.
It is an issue, it does need to be addressed, it doesn't need hysteria, much the same as the power system on the East Coast.
All that the hysteria does is feed the politics, which make it a vote chasing issue, rather that a social issue that affects everyone.
Funnily enough, a lot of this politicising is proving to be counter productive for politicians IMO.
Crying wolf is going to be part of the reason for a tide change in acceptance of billions of public money flooding into unreliable energy.
On SP decel pant observation he forgot WA has two and building a 3rd without them we wouldn't have any water crying wolf try this
Streamflow for WA below but you already know this.
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Yes W.A does need even more, I was pointing out that the desal plant in Sydney, was built on the fear that the dams THERE would not be able to be filled.On SP decel pant observation he forgot WA has two and building a 3rd without them we wouldn't have any water crying wolf try this
Streamflow for WA below but you already know this.
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No, didn't know this. Reference?
No, didn't know this. Reference?
There's a known drying trend in SW WA that's no secret and has been subject to considerable research.On SP decel pant observation he forgot WA has two and building a 3rd without them we wouldn't have any water crying wolf try this
Streamflow for WA below but you already know this.
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Yes W.A does need even more, I was pointing out that the desal plant in Sydney, was built on the fear that the dams THERE would not be able to be filled.
it would be nice if you played nice and didn't warp the narrative, in order to deride people, I have actually stated many years ago why in fact the the desal plants in perth were more viable than the Ord pipeline.
You do hang onto this trait of bending the truth to fit your narrative, otherwise it would be great to debate with you.
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