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Long term you still have the servicing and maintenance factor that an EV doesn't have. Once the fixed cost servicing has expired and the warrantee. Nev

Considering the Cost of ignoring climate change has to be part of the PLAN. Nev

No, I think it will be less though in the long run. Maybe not for me but definitely my kids. It will also be better for industry. Paying large industry to cut back production as a part of energy security seems a bit backwards. I feel we don't look into the future enough. That is one thing China has going for it. They have a multi decade plan and pretty well stick to it. Our governments are only looking at now. Easy just to blame previous governments. Just I trade off. Still rather what we have, otherwise we wouldn't be able to have these discussions as easily if at all. I do definitely think there is a place for intermittent generation, just not at the expense of the generators that can run every day, 24 hour a day. If you have a look at open NEM there is always a black and brown line at the bottom with the intermittent swinging wildly above. It would be good if we could wipe that out with some synchronous generation. I have provided a link to a page that shows the " spillage" that SA already has and will get worse as the penetration of renewables increase. He calls it dumping. Someone will be paying for this spillage. While the graph looks pretty good in the article as far as renewable coverage, We are going to have to remember we are going to have times like the screenshot from June this year.(SA grid) https://substack.com/inbox/post/178755915 Open nem.pdf

I had a heat pump in my last house and it was tied in to the solar system so I never paid anything for hot water. My current property has solar hot water with a manual electric switch for the internal resistive element. Since the 4th of august i have switched it on once for about 3 hours when we had a week of cloudy and rainy weather. In Victoria I imagine the elctrice system would need to be on more often.

Whatever way we go, there are costs. Do you really think that building nuclear power plants will not impact your bill?

I think you will find the fuel economy is pretty good for a larger car, especially around town. Still take some time to pay back the monetary difference of the fuel but over the buy price.

There was a comedy series on ABC called "Utopia". One episode in 2014, "We can Build It", used the idea of a football stadium in Tasmania. The crux of the story was that the politicians wanted the stadium, but the advisors actually put up sensible reasons why it would be a White Elephant. The episode was so prophetic that iit should have been screened in the Tasmanian parliament before the vote was taken.

Notice with price dropping they only talk about the wholesale price of electricty, not the actual price to consumers which includes all the extra infrastructure, transmission, syncons etc

Have heard that one at least 100 times this morning alone...

Did you say 'deer oh deer'?

Rubber ducky you’re the one you make bath time lots of fun

You are the sun, you are the rain, that makes my life a foolish game

I interpreted it as 'which is'.

The insurance company want to total it.. I am discussing it with them now.. It wasn't a huge deer, no... Agree.. Although I still should have taken the bl@@dy motorway! More burger or stew than haunch (in one piece)... No idea! Should probably have been "Was on..", but sometimes I wonder if it is me or the Bluetooth conenction from the keyboard getting signals mixed.

That is also my plan

I like the concept of having independant power sources. Once I get an EV I won't care who owns all the oil wells. My driving cost is not going to rely on some foreign cartel setting the price of fuel. I won't care about the anti renewable lobby. nor will I care about grid stability. Furthermore, I suspect that quite a lot of others are following this same path.

Well they passed the stadium. Only this bunch of losers (and I lump together both major parties and the spineless independents who voted yes) could take leave of their senses, bend the entire state over a barrel, and pimp our collective arse to the AFL. Only they could ignore the planning experts and every economist, all of whom comprehensively rejected this monstrosity, and approve something which will cost well over $1b, bring in revenue of less than half of that, dominate the historic Hobart waterfront, and has no parking or public transport. Oh, and when in use will block up traffic on the busiest street in the city. At a time when Tasmania is already holding historic levels of debt, just been downgraded by S&P, and is crying out for staff and services in health, education and justice. This guy puts it better than I ever could. Victoria, stop complaining about your state government, I think we've got it worse right now. https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/tasmania-macquarie-point-stadium-cost/

That's exactly what he said, as the deer went under.

Tributes flow for legendary Irish-Australian comedian Brian Doyle after his death at age 88: 'The lights are now dimmer' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15336145/Tributes-flow-legendary-Irish-Australian-comedian-death-age-88-lights-dimmer.html?utm_social_post_id=610508847&utm_social_handle_id=1565601097008288&ito=social-facebook_Australia

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15351971/EU-plan-seize-80billion-Russian-assets-Ukraine-justify-Putin-going-war-Europe-Kremlin-official-warns.html?utm_social_post_id=614011197&ito=social-facebook&utm_social_handle_id=164305410295882

Did you at least bring home a haunch of venison?

Maybe he uses the equivalent of an autopen...

After a lot of rain I spent two days in the garden, pulling weeds and trimming edges. Then today it was windy and a large branch fell across the garden right where I had been working. Chainsaw today and tomorrow.

Thank goodness you weren’t on the bike.