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The Dongara field has been there a long time, it used to be on the right not far before the NW hwy T junction on the Brand Hwy.
Plus Dongara is a top spot, what is the swing? Sounds like a good gig.
The Dongara field has been there a long time, it used to be on the right not far before the NW hwy T junction on the Brand Hwy.Got a dido job offer at Dongara at this place ....
3x1 but I know a few sparkies are keen to take the fishing gear and boats.... lifestyle gigThe Dongara field has been there a long time, it used to be on the right not far before the NW hwy T junction on the Brand Hwy.
Plus Dongara is a top spot, what is the swing? Sounds like a good gig.
If your single, it sounds great, heaps better than the Pilbara or Goldfields.3x1 but I know a few sparkies are keen to take the fishing gear and boats.... lifestyle gig
solar panels and wind mills are kicking arse like they never doSupply in Queensland yesterday:
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Yellow = solar
Green = wind
Blue = hydro
Orange = gas
Red = kerosene
Brown = biomass (there's a tiny bit if you look carefully)
Black = coal
Purple = from NSW
Below the zero line during the morning, those two bits are pumping load at the Wivenhoe pumped storage facility. One pump ran during the early morning, both on for a period after sunrise. This was discharged during the later afternoon and evening. The smaller amount of hydro running constantly being at Barron Gorge and Kareeya both of which are conventional non-pumped facilities
Im producing 40 kw/daysolar panels and wind mills are kicking arse like they never do
pruducts also brought yo you by coal
The oldest son is now completely off grid, so in 12 months I will let everyone know how it is going. Solar/battery,diesel genset, family of 5, heat p/p HWS, lpg cooking.
At the moment all good, but summer in the SW of W.A you would expect that, winter will be interesting, he is a clever bloke so he will adapt and modify stuff as required.A great adventure for them, I'll be very interested in how they go.
based on whos figures?Im producing 40 kw/day
Payed for itself in 2 years....Investoradam
based on whos figures?
does that also include all the land destroyed digging up the toxic materials required to make such a useless toxic product and the omissions & waste doing that, then refining the material and mixing to produce the product?
how about the toxic waste produced in the making of the product?
how about the land destroyed whist erecting the solar panels or windmills, the toxic run off in to the ground, then when the usless products life span is over if it survives all the elements of the weather the solar panels and wind mills end up in land fill.
there is nothing clean about solar penels or wind turbines
Based on the bill I get from Synergy bi monthly......when you move out you will get one toobased on whos figures?
does that also include all the land destroyed digging up the toxic materials required to make such a useless toxic product and the omissions & waste doing that, then refining the material and mixing to produce the product?
how about the toxic waste produced in the making of the product?
how about the land destroyed whist erecting the solar panels or windmills, the toxic run off in to the ground, then when the usless products life span is over if it survives all the elements of the weather the solar panels and wind mills end up in land fill.
there is nothing clean about solar penels or wind turbines
As someone who's seen rather a lot of power stations, I'll simply say that all power pollutes.there is nothing clean about solar penels or wind turbines
Compared with what ?
As someone who's seen rather a lot of power stations, I'll simply say that all power pollutes.
Nuclear, coal, oil in any form, gas, unconventional fossil fuels eg burning raw oil shale, biomass, geothermal, hydro, wind, solar, tidal.....
It all impacts something somehow that I can say with certainty.
Personally I'll argue that the least bad impacts are ones that can be most readily reversed. On that score:
Fossil fuels - cannot be be reversed in any realistic timeframe and for any practical facility also cannot be contained.
Nuclear - cannot be reversed but in theory can be contained.
Biomass - effectively minimal impact in the context of waste, huge impact via land clearing and fertilizer use in the context of land cleared for crops.
Hydro - there are exceptions, the hydro industry has managed to wipe out a few species and flood a few places it ideally shouldn't have, but for a typical generic hydro scheme, the vast majority of them, the impact ultimately is reversible. If it's no longer required then drain the storage, remove the dam and other infrastructure, the land can be revegetated, animals move back in and so on. If someone comes back in a thousand years then they'll struggle to find evidence it ever existed, indeed even in a century it'll be largely gone. Same as any old ruins, nature claims it back eventually. There are individual exceptions where the impacts are permanent but for the vast majority it's ultimately reversible in a substantial but still "human" timescale.
Wind, solar, tidal, geothermal - so long as the facility's sensibly built and operated and nobody's being intentionally reckless then most impact is quite readily reversible simply by removing the equipment from site and either burying it or where possible recycling the materials. Noting that landfill per se isn't a problem so long as it's in a sensible location - bury old wind turbine blades in the desert yes, don't dump them in a National Park. In some aspects the impact is low enough for there to be no real point in removal - a wind turbine foundation buried in the ground or on the bottom of the ocean realistically can be simply abandoned in place, there's no particular reason why it needs to be removed since whilst not zero the impact of leaving it, in the vast majority of cases, isn't really a problem.
They all impact something though. The very nature of extracting energy, in whatever form, from the natural environment ensures that.
Personal opinion - suffice to say I'm not aware of any wind or solar installation in Australia that could fairly be termed an environmental disaster and there's only two hydro projects that have impacts which do seem irreversible, although one of them possibly is fixable only time will tell. That's a far better track record than fossil fuels.
As a general concept if materials, especially metals, can be recovered then it's sensible to do so. So recycling beats landfill but that's for the reason of recovering materials not because putting them in landfill is evil as such so long as it's done sensibly.Do you reckon it's worth recycling solar cells or just dump them ?
moved out of home years ago and have several IPs know all to well about understanding billsBased on the bill I get from Synergy bi monthly......when you move out you will get one too
new CCT coal powered stationsthere is nothing clean about solar penels or wind turbines
Compared with what ?
Now I know why I don't see EVs at night on the road.....cheersnew CCT coal powered stations
nuclear
try reading up on Nikola Teslas kinetic energy original plans
i mean renewables lol
you a baseload power source any ways, sun doesnt shine at night or when its cloudy
the wind mills are near usless. if they spin to quick they cook the bearing and if they dont spin the weight of the blade collapses the bearing so power has to be pumped back so they spin.
lol
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