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if you read up on the latest nuclear power plants, they have come a long way since chernobyl and fukashima even. coal powerstation sites also have access to plenty of water to run the turbines and the transmission lines are already in place as well. i have just been to my cousins place in arizona. (not to live there). They are on nuclear and her power bill is $80 per month. they love it.

fair enough. i will drop it . i am still wary of comments directed at me after the one calling me a wife basher because i don't like labor. i have done my fair share of offending . i am trying to behave.

FFS Brendan. That was meant as a joke. I've been trying for days to find a way to pour oil on the troubled waters between us, but I couldn't think of words that would be misconstrued as being offensive.

From what I've seen during travels from grain growing areas to sheep grazing areas in NSW, sheep + solar works on country that it too up and down for cultivation. In grain growing areas, wind power works with grain. Nuclear -v- renewable??? It's a matter of infrastructure. A nuclear plant might not need so much ground, but water for cooling is the main inhibitor in Australia. Also, you can throw up a solar panel farm in a much shorter time than it takes to construct either nuclear of fuel powered plants. Finally, dealing with nuclear waste is much harder than how we will deal with time expired solar panels and wind turbine propellers. There's a lot of work being done to find ways to deal with waste from renewables, and we still have a few years before that ability is very much needed.

If you see mist hanging on a hill and stand at that line , you will see the prevailing wind condense the water as the pressure rises from the compression or the temp cool as the height rises(not sure which) and blow over the hill until it gets down the other side and evaporate again. From a distance it looks like it is just hanging there.

Blades are very long, very high lift wings putting out several thoudsand horsepower, large vortices unless you are suggesting AI. This photo has been around for a long time. The vortices would be traveling down wind. Maybe these guys understand better than you! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19942060.2026.2670003#d1e236 Notably, visual evidence from Horns Rev 1 (Hasager et al., Citation2013) verifies that under suitable humidity conditions, wake-induced cloud generation occurs downstream of offshore wind turbines. The spiral wake induces upward motion of warm and humid air parcels adjacent to the ocean surface, causing adiabatic cooling that triggers vapour condensation upon reaching the dew point temperature. This thermodynamic process has been successfully reproduced using the mesoscale meteorological model Meso-NH coupled with LES (Joulin et al., Citation2020). However, microscale wake dynamics affected by rotor-generated clouds have not yet been comprehensively studied.

i thought the motorbike that hit landcruiser was in a built up area and a 60 zone. the security cam footage of the bike showed it going that fast he may have pulled out before it even registered in his brain. that bike was hammering.

yes. it should be scrapped. what the hell are we going to do with more submarines. don't they have trouble getting submariners already. i would have thought missile batteries around the coast would be more benefit for self defense .

the corruption is all jacinta allan and dan andrews in vic. union puppets. the week before allan was thrown out she was trying to have the rates cap introduced by Andrews removed to gain support to keep her job. she was happy for all rate payers in victoria to get slugged more as long as it benefitted her. i know i will cop abuse for saying that from the left. like that idiot telling me to leave the country. every person i speak too is voting one nation and most of them used to vote labor as i did myself. albo and chalmers plan to bring house prices down is working. my trucks deliver construction materials and our work has dried up. usually from september to christmas i can't keep up and we bring extra carriers in. this year i have trucks parked up. getting about 3 days a week and parked up by lunch time. there are going to be a lot of people hurting this christmas. its ok if your on the big build or a public servant.

how do you plant crops under solar panels. ok for sheep but what else. nuclear is the answer

That's the women's RL World Cup wrapped up making four world cups in a row for Australia. Jillaroos won 34-10 over the New Zealand Ferns.

I wouldn't even take a second look at that speed. I worked the Hume Highway between Canberra and Sydney. I wouldn't set the radar's alarm below 125 kph in the 100 kph areas. I'd rather hang a bloke for a sheep than a lamb. Nowadays the same stretches of the highway are 110 kph and the road itself hasn't been upgraded to any exent.

In 1972 I lived in a sharehouse with a bunch of people and we had a lot of fun with one of those little Z50's. It was a big old condemned house that reminded me a lot of the Addams family house. Built on a steep block, you entered the top story from the street and it had two stories below. All three had verandahs. We used to ride the Z50 in off the street, right through the house and down the stairs to the lower levels. A lot of fun tearing around the verandahs on it. The street entrance was a ramp, not stairs, so the bigger bikes got parked inside the top story, off the street and secure.

I think they called them a monkey bike back in the day.

Jerry, Australia is the antidote to sober

Now that bloke is braver or dumber than me. Those bikes are great for small monkeys. Humans should pick safer 1200 cc bikes.

ome, that reminds me of back in the early 70's when the police used radar, they would often set up behind a tree or bushes so they were not so visible and often at the bottom of a hill to catch people increasing speed on the downhill run. One day a mate of a mate in Brisbane got on a Honda Z50 mini bike and did a run past the radar for a joke. They normally had a top speed of 30mph but it was a big long hill and he lay down flat on the tank and clocked 37mph (2 over the limit) as he went past the radar at the bottom of the hill. It was one of these:

Well, this two weeks has drawn to a close. I am sitting in an airport bar (Melbourne Airport, by the way, is ship.. too small.. and $32 for a glass of wine - WTF - I paid $40 for a much better bottle at a Bellarine Peninsula vineyard yesterday) reflecting on this trip. This trip has been.. in a word... "meh". It has been basically visit mum, back at bro's by 2pm and work until ostensibly midnight, but usually an hour or so later.. And I have had this cold that does not want to be killed. A decent shot of nasal spray just before I board should see me right, though. Sounds crap, right? Well, no.. I can say I don't want to repeat this next time. But I can also say, there was enough great stuff to counter the crap. My usual sojourn to Tocumwal never lets me down. For the first time ever (and I have spent a lot of time there gliding), I visited, let alone stayed at the Tocumwal Palms Hotel Motel (I stayed there, too). Probably the equivalent if the "Union" hotel in a rural ton where there is also a "Commercial", it was surprisingly a fantastic hotel. And if you are staying in Tocumwal, I can honestly recommend their accommodation - clean, modern, spacious, bright, well equipped as a motel. The only thing missing was a table to sit at.. but the pub has plenty of those. This was the first time in my life I have visited Tocumwal and not visited the aerodrome. I cancelled the viewing of the on-aerodrome property I was supposed to look at. I decided I just wanted to savour the town for once. I got there about 3pm, checked in and went for a walk, soaking up the atmosphere. And it is a relaxed friendly vibe. Despite my natural aloofness, people would initiate a conversation. Back at the pub, I got a table; a cold VB (it was 27 degrees outside). I sat on the covered patio (is the best way I can describe it). It was obviously too cold for the flies to come out. Showing my antisocial tendencies, I pulled out my laptop and actually logged into work although I was technically on hols. And then I shit down and dropped a post on here. I am now on my second pot of VB (despite Tocumwal technically being in NSW, they use Vic measurements). Some bloke in a high vis walks up to me and strikes a conversation about the weather - and being now a UK citizen with an Aussie accent, I think to myself, "How British!". He works for a local excavation company, and supports. Hawthorn II forgot to mention, I have my 10 year Hawks membership sticker on my laptop). He doesn't believe I live in the UK and want to set up shop in retirement in Tocumwal. Not that a UK person would want to move to Tocumwal.. but someone would want to actually work in their retirement. Tne intervening Saturday, I meet an old mate (who also worked for me in London, but not the same buy I bumped into in the other thread I just posted to). We are at the Harp and Hound in Queen Street Melbourne. As I arrive in Flinders Street, there is an array for men and women in their evening best - most quite drunk and loud, but having a great time and annoying no one, but those who don't like anyone having fun. It is the last day of the spring racing carnival. I have no ide what the race was, but I have to say, I quite enjoyed the sights of one set of people. In the pub, my mate and I set a 4 pint limit. After which, we have a lime and soda each and after a great night of conversation and the odd interaction with others, bid farewell. The trains are so much better than when I lived here and they run late enough that you don't have to worry about Silvertop Taxis anymore (or is it Uber, these days). Second $32 glass has arrived.. F! Mind you, it is a Yarra Valley wine and I am sure is very average here, is like honey to a bee. Friday night just gone and I have booked the day off work (cost me a day of holiday). I take my bro and sis in law to dinner, We decide we will go to the city - well what was Southbank but is ow Southgate. It has changed a little since I left - many of the businesses have gone, but it is basically the same. But before we cross the Yarra, on the Flinders Street side, there is a river bank restaurant to our left.., with a swimming pool. Only some Melbournian would think that would work. No one was in it as it was a cold night, but the restaurant was well frequented. I suggested if we could find an authentic Mexican restaurant, let's check it out. Well, we couldn't.. but there was a Tex Mex restaurant - La Hacienda or soe such name. To be honest, it was a little shmultzy looking. But I have had Tex Mex in Texas (and mist of the US), Australia (with a fantastic place in Clayton before Taco Bill bought it out), and Europe.. and this was the best I have had. After dinner, we walked over Princes Bridge and around the CBD a bit.. It was fantastic. People having fun... no knives, either. Yesterday, I went to the Bellarine peninsula with my brother. I felt absolutely shit. This cold had taken hold But, afger he tended to his retirement property, we stopped at two vineyards (for me to buy a couple of bottles for my partner), Wine tasting is still free. Then we went to another vineyard that did east bites for lunch, overlooking Port Philip bay. I had Bundaberg Creamy Soda.. OMG, what a treat that was.. Good food (entree calamari and battered zucchini we shared), views (despite grey cloud and drizzle). Mind you, I slept for about 15 hours after that trip.. Today, I fly home. By the time I went to renew the insurance on my motorcycle, it had expired so I have to call them. So rather than ride the 2.5 hours home when I get to Heathrow I will go to work, sort out the insurance while there. My next trip is the end of March next year. I will be bringing my daughter, But it will be four rather than two weeks.. and two of those will be traveling.. Oh, and this is my drinking record on this trip, now I am back on the booze. Fist night... 1 glass of red at my bros... Toc.. 3 pots of VB... Saturday with my mate.. 4 pints of some lager.. Friday.. a 3.5% Peroni, and a glass of chardonnay.. Yesterday 6 sips tasting,,, Today, Would estimate 500mls of decent Chardy..

I read an article in The Age today of the unlikely PHON voters.. It was taken from Pakenham to Gippsland and based on who the journos interacted with. The Sri Lankan community look like they are very much in favour of PHON citing the need to get immigration under control and focus on importing skilled migrants. Of course, the mines and power stations winding down have had an impact. As usual, governments of all colours allow it to happen without necessary transition plans. Replacing whole industries with a few more public servants hasn't cut it. There were those who have also been struggling, and an ex union leader. Of course, it's not statistically valid enough to say what will happen, but as I sit at the airport and reflect, there does appear to be a groundswell of fundamental discontent with the state of play. I bumped into an ex work colleague fro London, who is Australian and repatriated about 10 years go. He is in work but his concern is it may not last for long. His assertion is that as the latest wave ot IT immigrants are climbing the corporate ladder, they aseem to be favouring their own and not being too equal-opportunity focused. I would normally discount it as someone having a bit of a whinge because they are being overlooked for others better than them, but this bloke has worked for me and I know his capabilities. Assuming he was not lying, he described situations where consistently others far more competent were overlooked for those of similar backgrounds - that resulted in near disaster (in corporate terms of course, which mean screing something up but not ending the earth). Whether or not it is true, perceptions matter and sadly most of the electorate take perception over fact. And that weighs on peoples minds. And the corruption - it seems mind boggling (on all three major sides).

That's wishful thinking Marty. Banks offering solar loans. They seem to be continually cutting down what they have to offer rather than increasing it. My bank has closed most of it's physical branches, sacked most of their staff and now only offer housing and business loans, nothing else.

According to Tony Barry, historical preference flows show Green voters don't closely follow their how to vote cards. In past state and federal elections exhausted green votes have gone roughly 85% to Labor, 15% to the Coalition.

In 15 seats they are directing on how to vote cards Greens 1, One Nation last and no preferences in between.

IF that's all they can find to make a fuss of ,they are pretty desperate. It's just Muck raking. Nev

IF you understood things better you would know what you suggest is impossible. The cloud above big Planes wings is caused by low pressure and high REL humidity and it only forms over the wing and moves with the Plane. It's like a Lenticular Cloud in shape. Any contrails are from the H2O formed by Burning Hydrocarbon fuel and they don't form always depending (again) on Humidity. at the Planes altitude Nev

If it was off mike who would know? Politicians are just people after all. The problem lies in the possibility that what they say may be overheard and blown out of all proportion so they should know better.