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Yes. Each carriage on one of those trains would carry one container which would be one less truck on the road. It would reduce the number of trucks on the inland road route between Melbourne and Brisbane, but not so much on tthe Sydney-Brisbane or Sydney-Melbourne road routes. They did say that they would establish a transfer station at Parkes to link with the rail to Sydney, but I don't know if that railroad could bear the weight being carried. There is still a great deal of local road heavy haulage going on along that inland route.

Yeah. Not a word of praise for the people who risked injury to carry out the seach, and the effort needed to retrieve the body. I thought the the Police officer controlled his emothions pretty well. He seemed to be empathetic to the fact that the woman had died, and how the parents felt. But he really showed self-control when these hacks kept pushing the mistaken message line. You have to remember also that he wasn't at the command centre, so he was dealing with relayed information and most likely had never been in the area himself. I'm not just sticking up for him because I remember working with him when he was a fresh-faced Constable. I lost track of him thirty-odd years ago.

The sad news today was that an 18 year-old young woman who had been missing in bushland southwest of Sydney was found today, deceased. Police participated in a meeting with members of the Press. It appears that all the Press could focus on, and seek to blame Police for, was a report that a message had been passed to her parents that she had been found alive. However, within eight minutes that error had been corrected and the parents given the sad news. The members of the Press, who struck me as being young, posed questions that seemed to be aimed at making the police look incompetent. The senior officer who was speaking to them obviously did not have every minute fact, since the deceased had been found in wild country. I know that country as it was part of my patrol when I was a policeman. It is what some call 'tiger country'. Dense bush, steep cliffs. If any of you has flown west of Camden, or come in on the Bindook locator, you will know how bad the country is. Searchers, who were SES, Police, Army and volunteers were using handheld radios for communication. Ther would have been no 'line of sight' from down in that steep country to the Command centre above. Mobile phones would have been useless. Nevertheless, these budding journalists, none of whom were likely to have any knowledge of the terrrain searchers were working in, kept plugging away with a line of quesioning that seemed to have only one object - to make out that police incompetence had cause undue distress to the parents. This would have been held in the afternoon since the deceased was located about 11.30am. The Police officer tried to give as much information as was available, but I doubt if by that time he had to details that the Press might have been seeking. The deceased is in such an inaccessible location that recovering her might recuire her to be carried out as an air lift does not seem safe. I noticed that the evening news broadcasts concentrated on that incorrect information. Here is the report of the meeting.

When you do, some of your questions might be answered. I thought the information in the video was straight-shootin' (unbiased).

Just found this video filmed at the Janus facility in NSW. Very interesting. It does mention the fact that most trucks on our roads are involved in local work only. It also shows how a battery exchange depot could be set up. I'm less cynical of the idea now.

Sounds a bit like buying a cordless tool from Bunnings. Buy the skin with one battery but then you have to buy another to have charged up to keep using the tool. I can see truck battery changing stations working in with driver duty hours. The minimum "break" for a driver is 15 minutes. However each company would have to either have its own change depot or contract it out. And the long distance hauliers between the east coast capitals all start their journeys around the same time and travel in convoys, so they would all hit the swap depot towns at the same time, resulting in waiting times. HOWEVER, we are in early days. Such logistical problems would no doubt be worked out as demand increased.

I wonder how many of those trucks are used for long distance haulage like our. However, I would think that in Australia, most trucks are used for local work. Even the mud carters associated with infrastructure construction would not need to put up too many kms doing their daily work. We probably only need diesel for long haul where stopping to recharge would destroy schedules. Comments??

I have long suspected that Trump was not creating his own posts on his social media platform. The posts, while full of sh!t, were coherent and grammatically correct, whicn does not line up with his unscripted speech. This little clip might provide the answer to who has been writing his posts.

It's getting that way that if there's no thread drift, it must mean that no one is reading the post!

GON, if you have nothing to say that is relevant to the topic, then pull your fingers away from the keyboard. You've done nothing to the discussion. but introduce a diversion which detracts from it.

Nope! Just aware.

I started this thread to free the discussion from the "climate change debate" thread which seems to deal with power generation. This thread will give a place to talk about other climate-related matters.

The severity of temperature and lack of rainfall in the Northern Hemisphere in the summer of 2026 could be the lead in to a famine that would affect the whole of Mankind. The high temperatures, and especially the lack of rain are already having deliterious effects on the economies of European countries. Allied to those are the effects of the war in the Ukraine which produces a great deal of Europe's grain. We don't know much about what is happening to agriculture in Russia, nor China. Here in Australian we are looking towards another summer of high heat and low rainfall. The high temperatures and low rainfall are without precedent in recorded European history. Thre have been famine years, but never before has such a huge population been affected.

I wonder what would have happened if the voters had really decided to protest and elected Lord Binface. His candidacy was an insult to the thousands of ordinary people who have fought and died for the right to elect those who represent them in parliament.