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Sorry Jerry, I never thought to take any at the time. He's sold a couple but said it works out to about $1 per hour for the work that goes into it.

It should not Be "Debated" as It's a Contest of effective Presentation that determines the winning TEAM., Here we should be examining the facts with the aim of understanding and solving the Issue. You are trained to debate well. he time Might be better spent doing Science, Probability. Communication. Expression and Logic. Nev

A treaty should work as it has been agreede to; If the treaty has agreed that around any sacreed artefact there is a 10m (I assume metrre) protected ground, then so be it. Of course, that was (intentionally) harsh and not necessarily heart felt by myself. As they say, the road to hell is paved with good - even noble intentions. And often there are unintended consequences - and sometimes they are not. But, one of the problems is people to these negotiations are usually not willing to accept the world changes, and, in the case of Australian first nations, to get to true reconciliation will require compromise - on both sides. And both sides have to undestand they may not culturally comprehend where the other side is coming from. For example, does evey sacred site have to be protected by a 10m radius? Is there a different level of sacredness? How is the object/location/landmark determined to be sacred? Often, these sorts of questions are overlooked on any negotiation about anything. The world changes and with most changes, there are going to be winners and losers - and this is not absolute. In this case, your daughter has presumably lost the right to have different people enter a 10m arc on her land without having the local mob/clan bless it. She has not had a total loss to the land or the right for people to enter it; it just as a condition that is at the moment quite invconvenient. Is that loss disproportionate to the loss of a cultural aspect of the local mob/clan? To your daughter, I woudl suggest it is disproprtionate. To the local clan/tribe - they may have wanted more. Who knows? But, can we say your duaghter is that disadvantaged? Can we say that the mob/clan should have whatever cultrual right to that tree reinstated? It will come down to a judgement call? Would it be reasonable to have a carve out under certain circumstances? And even, what happens to the sacred site if the treee dies or is burnt down (in a bushfire, of course)? If the site is damaged, does the sacredness of that site extinguish, for example? I am all for a treaty, but it has to recognise the past wrongs to be righted, how righting those will affect a way of life established since, and it also has to recognise the changes that will come with the future. The world doesn't stay still, and it should be abot ensuring everyone get's fair treatment going forward. A treaty is an acceptance there has been significant change and accomodates how that change will be mangaged going forward. Of course, where there are dependencies such as obligations to be performed, then both parties have to be held accountable for performing them in reasonable time, after which, where possible, it can be deemed to be done by default. My point with the above rambling is that treaties can be complex to accomodate every possible outcome, but there should be circuit breakers for both sides when things clearly are not working, or there are emergency/urgent imperatives. Things have changed a lot since I left Australia. It is going to be an experience coming back.

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The old mate mentioned in the previous post who is building guitars showed me a reject. It was the back and sides (no top) of an acoustic guitar. He'd built it in humid weather and when it dried, the timber back section shrank and the wood grain separated in a lot of areas. You could hold it up to the light and see light through it. A hard way to learn a lesson; a lot of work had gone into it.

Sometimes the anthropologists on projects can be a problem, more so the inexperienced young ones fresh out of uni and on their first job in the real world. I remember in 1983 when the pilot survey line for the Moonie/Jackson pipeline was going through and it got held up at Cunnamulla. The job ground to a halt for four days because the young anthropologists has found some axe cuts on some tree roots where the pipeline was to cross the Warrego River. They were metal axe cuts and generations of local whites had camped and fished there as well as the local aboriginals, so it was anyone's guess whether a white or black person had used the axe. The anthropologists thought they were doing the right thing by checking with their bosses in the city but it was in the days before mobile phones and email, and head office had closed up on Friday afternoon for the long weekend. Eventually when their office opened the following Tuesday and contact was made they approved the crossing. It cost some companies a lot of down time money, but the anthropologists thought they were doing the right thing. Their inexperience was a bit of a problem in that area. The issue with a metal axe is that any object made by non aboriginals that aboriginals use is deemed to be a post contact artifact. That's where the grey area comes in. A shard of a broken beer bottle that some ringers left on the ground can be taken to be a possible knife used by aboriginals. The archaeologists I've worked with have generally been a fair bit more sensible than some of the anthropologists, probably because their field is more defined and direct and less guesswork involved.

But then aren't you part of the problem? You could take the ethical stand and disconnect your panels for the good of the grid. Here is the issue as I see it. Twenty years ago, we had an "old grid" which was well-suited to "old generation" methods. We now have "new generation' and an "old grid" I think you are saying we should match the generation method to the old grid. What I and pretty much every authoritative source are saying is to match the grid to the new, lower-cost sources. If we were to halt all new renewables and storage, what would we do? We could build new coal or nuclear. You must surely realise that this would be incredibly expensive, and if you think electricity is expensive now, you would not like what this would add to bills. I do actually have the predictions, and I am happy to post them. Another issue is this. What if we said no new renewables? People would still be installing solar and batteries. The technology is only getting cheaper day by day. An example I use is the system I designed and installed on my bush house in 1990. I still have the receipts for the panels. I installed 60watt panels at a cost of $595 per panel. That was a lot in 1990 dollars (adjusted for inflation, that would be $1515 today). For that price, you can now get a 700W panel. People will have an incentive to have their own residential power system to save the increased cost of building new coal or nuclear, and I suspect disconnecting from the grid might become more popular. Here, we do have some points of agreement. I believe we have to ensure some equity. As I posted earlier, balcony solar is coming. Buying into a shared panel installation is also a thing that is being done. When it comes to the new scheme to make electricity free for 3 hours a day, you will probably again say "it's not really free" I would suggest you knock on your neighbour's door and say, "if you were able to use electricity for 3 hours a day and not be charged " I suspect they would (will) love that. This scheme is taking electricity from solar panels that would ordinarily be "curtailed" and thus wasted. Surely this is a good thing. I can't think of many countries that are not adopting more and more renewables, and I don't believe this is purely for ideological reasons. Of course, there might be glitches along the way, as there have been with all developing technologies. Aviation is only safe and cheap now because in earlier times, people saw the potential and pushed on solving problems as they went. Going back to 20th-century technology is not the way to go. We can argue points back and forth here, but the point is renewables are growing, and will continue to grow.

Who would really Know? There's many voting Booths and Large distances to cover and Postal as well. If I had to make a guess I'd think it is/ was not unusual A lot of temporary workers Involved for something that doesn't happen very often. Nev

The purpose of the post was not in regard to One Nation or their candidate, but to draw attention to the slackness of the South Australian Electoral Commission. It is safe in hindsight to say the number of missed votes had no effect on the outcome, but very well could have. How can locked boxes of votes go neglected?

You can't erase that from the History books easily, but Trumps HIS STORY of Himself is a great work Of Fiction and Falsities and Self aggrandisement. Just how VAIN can a Person BE? Nev

Been watching the price closely in SA since 2010.(was working for a windfarm) Limited intermittents on the grid back then. Price use to be between $45 and $65 every day all day. As the penetration of intermittents increased so did the volitility. Its parasitic because it eats at the stability of the grid that base load generation can provide. Has not always been volitile as above Because I can save money at the time and still do. My next door neibour who hasn't got panels and my kids unfortunately.

The maximum I have seen on the wholesale market is 25 cent/kWh at between 6:30 & 7:00pm. There is no solar being produced then so it is only export from batteries that can get that much. For most of the day the wholesale export price is 5 cents maximum to negative 3 cents. The best retail solar export plans I have seen are 10 cent/kWh & that is only for the first 10kWh per day then it reduces by half but this is countered by their high kWh charges when importing.

Since Jeff Kennet Sold Victoria's Poles and Wires they haven't been Painted once. People get revved up about High tension wires and towers. IF you want Electricity distributed, you Need Power Lines at High Voltages. Nev

Once again, good news for One Nation.

Tis is the first time I have heard that anybody is still getting those old FIT's. Anyway, regardless of the money side of it, Our energy system is evolving. And any system that is undergoing major changes (such as integrating new generation into the grid), there usually are some teething problems. Surprisingly, the grid is coping really well so far. But then again, technological advancements have always impacted the grid. And over the 30 years I was involved (in Qld), there was a constant learning curve and very few hiccups along the way. So far, so good. I do have an issue with the privatisation of the retail end of the power industry. Just putting up a bunch of offices really adds to the cost to the consumer. After all, instead of paying one retail outlet, the consumers collectively foot the combined costs of multiple CEO's, multiple databases, multiple help desks, multiple staff, etc. This simply has to cost more than one payment system.

Anyone can contribute to "The Yarn" if they sign up. All in all It's probably a Plus but at the end of the day it's just another Opinion. Anyone can Cherry Pick a List of Articals. Nev.

Baseload is a term that used to describe Coal Fired generation as it couldn't be turned off and had a very limited window of generation variation. The only people who use this now are those who are living in the past or conservative politicians who don't understand electrical generation, usage or demand. Terms like "we have to keep the lights on" and "what do we do when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine" just displays their ignorance. The generation industry, distributors and anyone with a smidgen of intelligence know the problem is "Peak Demand" so we need available energy to meet this. For many countries this occurs in the middle of Winter when heating demand stresses the electricity supply but in Australia it is in the Summer when heat waves stress the network due to massive use of Air conditioning systems. Rooftop solar has had a huge impact on reducing this during daylight hours and now with large multi megawatt batteries and home batteries set up as VPPs the problems are reduced. Add community batteries and pumped hydro and other storage to the mix and we go a long way to a fully sustainable renewable energy nation. Already rooftop solar produces more energy in Australia than all of the fossil fuel energy producers do combined during the middle of the day.

So why do you have panels on your roof? If you are actually getting 50 cents a kWh, then your retailer is making a loss with every kWh you export. Who is paying for this?

There's something wrong with that Link. Check it for security, or don't risk it at all. Nev

Well america sure said 'Death to all Iranians'

A little vague and perhaps misleading. Yes, the government will take investment from super funds that wish to invest. My super fund Ethical Investments does not invest in military areas. It does raise the question of what returns could be expected if your Super fund decides to invest in defence areas. Igf returns are poor, people will vote with their feet. When the above post says "the government wants to tap in to $4+ trillion dollars of super" it makes it sound like they are going to rip out this money from your super. As far as I can see, they are offering opportunities to invest and it is up to the various super funds to make a commercial decision as to whether that is the best way to invest., Areas of investment are likely to be shipyards and submarine infrastructure, Ports and logistics, advanced manufacturing AI etc.

Sorry, Siso, but that statement is a contradiction in terms. I cannot see any facts to support this. The generating market has always been volatile. Speaking in terms of prior to the new solar and wind contribution, It was mostly predictable on the demand side, but unpredictable on the generation side. With all the generators involved, every day there is a combination of planned outages and unplanned outages (breakdowns). The National Market regulator just deals with it. Sometimes i saw the wholesale price rocket from $30 to thousands of dollars whilst an extra power station got up to speed. All part of the way the grid works. Renewables are simply another source of electrons. Sure, there are more things to consider now. But the management is evolving to cope with each change. Renewables are not causing much trouble. Nor are they parasitic.

Those kinds of scripts - short sentences, lots of padding, trying to build up drama are common in many internet videos. Unless I've missed something in the link, if all he said was "Let's call it what it is", then I've just wasted a few minutes.

Siso, what language are you writing in? It certainly isn't English.

This is an article about what David Attenborough had to say about Trump. Disregard the video, It's basically a 10 minute travelogue of America - doesn't contain the Attenborough speech. https://wealth.cafex.biz/posts/david-attenboroughs-unfiltered-moment-when-quiet-voice-turned-into-global-hoangle123-team-prism-f812