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Wonder how they'd go fried in batter.

I just picked up my car from a service. The dealer gives me a little bag of jelly lollies. I don't know whether this is common practice, I'm afraid to try another dealer in case I don't get the jelly lollies.

Arnott's has undergone several ownership changes over the years: 1997: Arnott's was acquired by the Campbell Soup Company. 2019: Campbell's sold Arnott's to the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), making it a subsidiary of KKR.

I guess I am a serial offender. Just published a second book on gold mining history. https://www.echobooks.com.au/books/gold-beneath-the-hill

Jerry those free electricity hours will only be available to users who get a smart meter and sign a new contract. The new contract is expected to have higher rates at times outside the free time. Unless carefully managed with a lot of use in the free time, consumers will end up paying more than they do now. This is explained in a piece on the ABC news site.

Thanks, Octave for well argued AI analysis. As you might expect, it doesn’t change my point that there are studies ( indeed books) that challenge the science. And as for the political arguments from others, no further comment needed.

There are several studies that challenge the ice core data, and show that it is incompatible with actual conditions. For example https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396389619_Historical_CO_levels_in_periods_of_global_greening

Yes CO2 as been much higher in the past.

The trolley wire Kiruna trucks were quite popular in Europe. But they failed at Mt Isa as they produced too much heat from braking downhill. They did not have batteries, just produced the braking effect by sending the power into big resistor banks. Many mines in Europe and Canada have heaters at the surface just to stop the intake shaft from freezing up.

Trailing cable electric excavators have been around for fifty years at least.all the really big shovels and draglines are electric. Also the bucket wheel excavators in the Latrobe Valley. Electric wheel haultrucks, with diesel engines driving generators, were developed in the 1960s and widely used. Underground, we had trolley wire electric haul trucks from Kiruna at Mount Isa in the 1980s. The first trolley wire electric locomotives were used in Victorian gold mines and at Broken Hill South from 1902 onward.

And this is the sign on the dunny door. It means one in all in and you can identify a anything you want.

Visiting the art gallery to see the Archies. Map they gave us is not all in my language.

Don’t confuse site power with total power which includes loaders, trucks etc.

We are off to Sydney today for a week. Haven’t been there for fifteen years. Broome would be better.