nomadpete

Here's a positive.... After months of grey, wet days of 5 - 10 degrees, Yesterday was a sunny 26 degrees! Thank you Simpson Desert for sending us some warmth!

Old news, allegedly from Trump Facebook page. But probably fake....

A drunk and a draft-dodger walk into a crowded room…sorry, the joke is too revolting, I cannot go on.

Hey Jerry. Nothing personal!

The road to misery is paved by gamblers....

Here's a Random Thought for ya..... Why is China referred to as a 'developing country' (that term was used in the news tonight), when its economy is growing ever larger, But USA is not?

Thank you mods, for putting out the garbage.

That plumber is going to track you down.....

Banks and cash. A long time ago when I had a small retail business, I watched a teller (what DO they tell), count my takings. They were really fast, they double checked, and they didn't make mistakes. Contrast that with recent experience. We were'tidying up' my mother-in-law's home. We ferreted out some long forgotten cash she had hidden from the burglars. After a lot of lifting up furniture, etc, we totalled over 17,000 in notes, put away over the years in many places, and another 600 in coins. The old dear was a squirrel in a past life! To the bank we go. What with modern automated counting this won't take long! Coins, ok. Notes, well when they are all neatly stored in small piles secured by ageing elastic bands..... no. It took most of the afternoon to separate and count by hand. Automation has no way to deal with sticky decaying rubber bands around notes. We're still waiting for a call from the money laundering division of ATO.

That's your conspiracy theory!

I would be very concerned. Seems like they are stealing your car's identity. Make sure you park in tonight, so it doesn't go to it's new owners during the night.

No no no! Don'tlisten to this false news. Eceyone knows it's the vaccine microchips that do it!

Take a look at Wivenhoe dam / Splityard Ck pumped hydro storage. In Qld. It is piped, was built in 1980 by the forward thinking state owned power station commission. It has a low head I think about 65mtrs at lowest. It has been in service all this time with low ongoing maintenance costs. It has two turbines totalling 600Mw. Which is available on demand within seconds. Sadly, the governments (& privateers) have made no significant steps to building such infrastructure which is needed to support the renewable power generation. It is foolish and ridiculously expensive to rely solely on privately owned batteries to back up the grid. The only exception might be off grid personal household solar/battery. At present pricing, there is an amortisation of 20 years on this (for my home), which proves that at that level, solar is not only viable, it is financially cheaper than wholesale grid supplied electricity. I don't believe the arguments against solar on cost grounds will stand up in the long term.

Just when you think 'it can't possibly get any worse'.... The circus really is coming into town! Will they have gilded carriage rides, too?

Thread title: 'Albo to the Rescue' Albo (Trump lite) is unlikely to Rescue anything other than foreign owned salmon farms and fossil fuel interests.

Really? Which 4?

So, tell me.... Did you put all that in your letters to MP's?

Better than a mural, I believe it was a timeline showing the relationship seemed to be more than just a fleeting meeting.

I think the poms did well. Charles gave a speech. Professionally as expected. Anyone who looked closely would have seen the King cringe when Trumpet was stumbling to read his crazy speech. And many in the world (including USA) were laughing at his rambling, halting efforts. And Chump asserted that he was the first US pres to get invited to visit? Ha! Anyway, all that is not about the Kirk story. I think all the brooha and martydom about Kirk highlights the shameful absence of outrage over previous assassination of politicians and spouses who happened to be Democrats.

You don't really want to come. It's raining, and miserable, just like the 'old country'.

Seriously, I think the pic in question should not have been taken. There is nothing special about the subject matter.

Not really. They play business with long term goals, not short term profit. The asian mindset is that business is like war. They act for the long term good of china, which does not always mean selling stuff.

That sounds good. I hope the experiment works out (including whole-of-life costings, decommissioning & disposal of waste). When they finish developing it, will they share their new technology with the rest of the world, or keep it to themselves?

Maybe I'm just critical, but I object to the publishing of that aweful picture. It has dreadfully poor lighting. The subject is poorly framed. The focus is way out. Clearly the photographer needs serious counselling. Why on earth did you post it, Peter?

Based on present pricing, it is cheaper to ditch the grid entirely, and run my own solar/battery/inverter.