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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.

I have reached my advanced years without needing an electric toothbrush, electric shaver or electric car. But I really appreciate my electric chainsaw, hedge trimmer, leaf blower and whipper snipper. Have used them all in the last couple of days, great labour savers and easy to use.

That'd give ya the shz. 😄 Deer couldn't have been too sizeable? When I read the first line, I expected to see a Mini totalled.

Veteran Australian presenter Arthur Higgins, whose remarkable broadcasting career in TV and radio spanned six decades, has died aged 85 following a long illness.

Imagine if he joined our forum, non of us would get through all his posts.😂

Saw a funny clip today , on one of their news. This is no shyt they had proof but trump did 150 tweets and rants after 1am for 2-3hrs. 150. Bloody hell he's a crazy bastard.

Hit a deer last night on the drive home from London. Bugger! Did it on the A303, wgucg us a dual lane carriageway (where I hit it), travelling at c. 70mph. Deer went under the car as far as I could tell. I thought I hit it middle on, bit it was slighlty left of centre (or its inertia took it that way as it was coming right to left). As it was in the A303 in a live road, the police had to come first to cordon off the lane. They they recovered it, but I have to do the insurance stuff this morning and have it recovered and hopefully repaired. Airbags didn't deploy, so hopefully not a write off (getting value for a like for like replacement is almost impossible). On the positive, car did astonishingly well; driver unharmed, buut radiator and no doubt some of the undercarriage is stuffed. Would say a minimum of £3k damage:

This seems to be reasonable article re renewables.. prices dropping, but the risks if renewables investment does not continue and mismanaged roll out. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/aemc-flags-fall-in-power-prices-as-renewable-energy-surges/106098392?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

That kind of posting can only be done by a bored potato, so yeah definitely an employee

This is an interesting video.

They will Install Heat pumps FREE and they really cut the Power usage. I had to PAY for mine and it's still the best thing I've done regarding Power. Nev.

Steve Cropper has played his last riff. Co writer of Dock of the Bay and acted in the Blues Brothers movie. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/steve-cropper-dies-aged-84/106100460

The electric hot water that is installed now is generally not the old-fashioned resistive hot water system, but heat pump hot water systems. These systems are very energy efficient compared to resistive electric or gas. I believe there are substantial rebates for upgrading to a heat pump, so probably worth looking into.

But that's what the Vic Gov't want. We have a gas hot water system, had it for 45 years. Within a couple of years we'll be required to replace it with electric.

A lot of counties don't have the sun and wind we have there's also tidal which works every day with the tide going IN OR OUT. When you put steam into the equation it's less efficient and when failure happens it's a sudden Loss of a Large amount and May take ages to fix . It is only efficient at near full output and can't be varied quickly. Brand NEW coal Plant is costly. Carbon Capture and storage is a Myth. Our demand pattern has changed. Most people run airconditioning and have a fair bit of refrigeration. Heating water directly by electricity (Elements) is an expensive way of doing it. Solar by concentration can Produce very HIGH temperatures. That's helpful for specialised processes, yet to be realised. No one can deprive you of solar. Yet. Nev

Like I said, inverter based systems have a lot more to go wrong. Ask Spain. There won't be much on the news about it as it is not what the world wants to hear. No one really heard what happened in SA wasn't publicised either. I had to look at the AEMO report to find out the details. We heard little about it and I was working on a windfarm (not one of the ones that tripped off) when there was a lot of the old steam engines on the grid there was enough inertia to react to load changes. Worked for many years. I am not a fan of coal. As far as underutilised plant, yep the lines may be underutilised in the early morning periods. With intermittent generation they may be underutilised for weeks at a time. The underutisation of coal has been bought in because of the weather dependent intermittent parasitic generation we have put on the grid. We still need it and they still need to make money. Intermittent generation makes power more expensive. Cheap when its running, really expensive when its not. No one said it was just a flick of the pen to extend the life of a NPP but it has been done and obviously economic to do so. Newer plants should be easier, especially if they have 80 years in mind. Is 600 million really expensive for a large plant with potentially a large capacity factor. The windfarm I was on and cost $400 million for 111MW with a capcity factor of somewhere between 29 and 33% 15 years ago. All the large tech companys are looking at using np power. Even looking at restart the remaining TMI reactor. A close on 50 year plant. No one is saying intermittent generation shouldn't be tried but making stupid targets and throwing a heap of tax payers money towards it is not the way to do it. Are you willing to back Australia s future on this. We can see what is happening in the UK and Germany. UK is importing 1000's of tonnes of woodchips from America so they can say they don't use coal anymore. How stupid and ungreen is that . They are also paying windfarms for not being able to get the power on the grid. Is this how the CIS is going to work in Australia. At least they have some NP and building more. The funny thing is Australia has no hope of getting to its targets. We are at currently 40 % after 15 years and want to get to 80% in 2035. The second 40% is going to be a lot harder because of the extra storage and grid infrastructure that is needed. France exporting approx 12 GW at the moment @ 52g CO2/kg Germany 448gCO2/kg UK 218gCO2/kW

Nothing other than Bull$#!t. let's Leavitt at that. It's her Job. Nev

Any "rock from space" is unconsolidated material from the formation of our solar system. It has to be 4.06 billion year old. Such a rock simply cannot be only 2 million years old. Did the video have the commonly heard narrator? Just another bit of AI-created clickbait it is did.

Consider yourself lucky that you do have rain. The paddocks around my place are bare because there has been no useful rain. Downpours from storm cells don't cut it. I'm lucky that I have a bore for a regular water supply, and a small rainwater storage for drinking water. A neighbour has just had to truck in water for domestic use.

Probably because somebody picked it up to have a look at it.

Not looking forward to being under the metal roof at the shed tomorrow. The thunderous rain on the roof on Monday made talking near impossible. Tomorrow will be fine and 34°.

Catering for brief system underutilisation does not equal overcapitalisation. The old capacitor banks are stoll doing their job. Old style mecanical system inertia (to maintain 50 cps system synchronisation) is now being replaced by fast electronic system synchronisation. I know which one is fastest to respond to sudden load changes. Hint:- not the old steam engines!