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Not really, they class 100 year flood events by the ferocity of the flood, not the number of floods. Of course actual flooding events have decreased, but massive floods they only expected every 100 years, have become common, even though there is less of them. One always has to take into account the sensationalism of the press, who will dramatise anything to get more viewers, no matter what the subject and climate change is no different. That doesn't mean climate change is not happening, all the science says it is and increasing temperatures, fire storms and massive downpours are ample proof of that reality. It would be lovely if climate change was a hoax and had no effect on life, but that is not that case, the opposite is true. It's starting to have a big effect on land sea and atmosphere. We have made extinct so many species already, but climate change caused by humans is going to make extinct thousand more species, including emperor penguins and many birds, animals and sea life. This will break the food chain, which we rely upon to survive and when you add we are using more and more chemicals, burning more and more fossil fuels, clearing millions of hectares areas each day. What other outcome can there be but disaster after disaster and when you add unstoppable massive population human growth, demanding more land for food and bigger ships for fishing, whilst we are almost at the point of denuding the oceans of life. Only the deeply deluded would deny we have a problem. There is no other outcome than disaster and it matters not what we think or say, the results are already set in stone and can't be reversed except by removing ideological humanity from the planet. Even doing that may not make much difference for a century or two and none of us will be around to see the final outcome. Denial is the biggest problem humanity faces, everyone is in denial of the reality of their lives and the planet, even if they believe in climate change. They still live in denial during their daily lives by what they eat, use and throw away. Even those marching and demonstrating to try to get something done, live their lives in denial and continue to support by their lifestyles, environmental destruction and consumerism.

The difference between now and the past is, back then floods were a regular thing every winter, caused by steady rain over days and could last for many days. Now they are mostly caused by flash storms that drop huge amounts of water in very short times, creating much more damage. Years ago floods used to rejuvenate pastures, now they wash them away. Same with bush fires, they used to burn at much slower rates and were controllable. Now they are ferocious, creating fire storms and tornadoes, making them very deadly. That's what climate change is doing, you can't judge climate change by the number of events, but by the ferocity and damage they cause.

He just used water, the hot water tank works on a heat exchanger, then the water is circulated through the house and back to the stove. There was a leak in one radiator, but we soldered that and in the years he's had it, never leaked. The radiators are brass and copper cores, so shouldn't rust at all.

My solar and stove hot water system constantly boils over, you can walk outside and there's steam emanating out of the overflow pipe most days. As my house sits at between 20-25deg year round, there's a bit of waste of hot water. A neighbour uses their solar/stove hotwater to heat their home in winter, we got some old car radiators, put one in each room and fed them through copper pipes. Used car electric radiator fans thermostatically controlled, the whole project cost less than $500, excluding the stove and solar hotwater system. In summer he pumps cold water from tanks under the house through the system which keeps the house at a comfortable temp and runs on a couple of extra solar panels. For those interested, I built a pantry cool room, using peltiers. Have dual peltiers fitted into the floor, they draw air from outside the house which is cooled by the peltiers and exhausts through the roof. The peltiers run on solar panels separate from the house system, they only run when the sun is out and the pantry sits at 8-14 deg all year round. It's heavily insulated and sealed except for the peltier inlet and roof outlet, which means air is circulated 24/7. during the day it sits at 8 deg and in summer at night it reaches 14 deg on really hot days. You can lower you building heating and cooling costs a lot with a little bit of innovation, peltiers are great, but draw a lot of power, hence they run on a separate panels. Also built a big peltier cooler for the truck from an old large esky, it sits in the back where the dogs live and keeps food and water at lovely cool temps.

Very ingenious indeed, like the idea. Yep pine is weak, hate working with it and always avoid using it when strength and durability is involved Like your brick floor, laid a few if those way back in another life, along with paths and driveways. Was a bit of a trend, used them on a display home and everyone wanted brick paths and drives for awhile. Then burnt orange took over homes and concrete pebble paths were in. 😄

My house runs on 700ah lifepo4 with 4.2kw solar and small wind generator, uses between 8-12kwh a day. Having been off grid for decades, you learn how to use your system to it's best advantage and not go overboard with usage. All my lights are LED, appliances including dishwasher are inverter controlled, which really drops your power usage. Do washing etc in mornings when the pack is full, as it only takes a couple of hours to top the pack up and most days when the sun goes, the pack is full. The accept charge so fast, can do the washing, vacum the house, charge all the battery packs and still have a full pack. My neighbour runs A/C on her 500ah pack on very hot days and has 4.2kwh of solar. Took her a while to get things right as she tended to leave lights and chargers on and never planned her power usage, after her first year off grid, she had it together. Soon learnt if you don't switch off things, or plan your power usage properly, you can find yourself without power. The pack controllers are designed to disconnect at 12v, so your DOD is within limits that add life to your pack and not diminish it. Having things on standby power, draws a huge amount of energy no matter what they say. I have usage meters on all my house circuits, that way can see what draws what and make adjustments as needed. I try to keep my usage to around 10kwh per day and that covers the entire house.

I'm a builder by trade, have a reasonable workshop and do most of my work at home with hand tools, using wood from my farm and waste wood from the waste transfer station near me. But I'm a musician by choice and profession, so that takes precedent and my house with is over 25 years old, is still not finished. All my own homes I've built over the years, are all dowelled and jointed together, not a fan of modern matchbox chemically saturated humpy's that burn instantly. But I'm really slack and after a day turning dowels of various sizes from tree branches, tend to lose interest so once they have been put in and the structure is workable, that's it. Really admire those who have the patience and tenacity to persevere to produce such nice work. It's always nice to produce good items from scrap, my neighbour is always dropping off scrap metal she thinks I can turn into something cool for my place or hers. Been using dulux epoxy anti rust paint lately for finishing and it's excellent, presently making a metal wood holder to sit each side of my wood stove/heater with a rack above it for drying things and have some lovely wrought iron to work with.

Some chinese goods are fine, have lots of their junk and a MF backhoe frontend loader which comes from the 1960's, which still works fine, but a bit sloppy. Have a medium size Kubota 4x4 for the last 20 years and it's a great little tractor. My ebay $199 chinese bore pump has outlasted my neighbours $1500 grundig and it runs on my portable lifepo4 pack which sits in the workshop. Simply love lifepo4, such a massive advancement in energy storage and with most of my tools being cordless, means can work anywhere in the farm.

Agree with your comments, always wonder why people can't discuss without being abusive derogatory or belittling. Seems if their viewpoints aren't accepted, or the comments interfere with their ideological programming, they get angry and go on the attack. Which means they learn nothing new, or gain an understanding of how others think and operate. Love your woodwork, mines sloppy and lazy. Hope you're ladies operation is a great success and you have many more years together.

Just about all ideas should be investigated when it comes to most subjects involving humans. As we discover new forms of energy/generation, other problems or hurdles will arise followed by research and answers. Our understanding of batteries and energy, may be still in the nappy stage, or earlier. Sure would be if stars were the other side of black holes in another universe or reality and that would explain a lot. There is a logical scientific argument for it, 🤔

When I first heard of iron air batteries way back in the late 1970's, they claimed they would be on the market for off grid within 5 years. In the 1980's a number of companies went the iron air direction, including Westinghouse and none of them could get it to work as claimed. The problem was and still is they can't get the rate or cycle stability right to make them practical. From what I've read in the past, the iron negative electrode causes the low energy cycle instability and the air positive electrode is causes the low rate capability. It's seems they have yet to overcome those problems and doubt they will, like nuclear fusion being promised for decades, but it's all theory. I think nuclear fusion is a fallacy, and I feel stars don't work that way, but that's another story. It would be great if they were successful with both forms of technology, but, like many of our theories they get dismissed when new understandings come around. Doubt they will get much better batteries for either off grid storage or EVs than lithium for the foreseeable future and they may well be a combination of lithium/graphene and graphene super capacitors. They've been trying to get flow batteries working since the 1980's as well, but can't get them to work consistently, or to the claims they keep making.

Iron air batteries have been around since the 1970's, the problem is they are extremely heavy and big, much to big for an Ev of any size. You will soon be able to get people movers with 300klm range, which would make excellent campervans. Add some solar panels on the roof and a couple of fold up panels, small lifepo4 house pack and you would be close to self sufficient on the road. https://www.drive.com.au/news/2021-byd-t3-australias-cheapest-electric-vehicle-now-on-sale-from-35855-drive-away/ These are our E bikes, they fold up and were designed for special forces use, was lucky to get hold of over a decade ago and they are great for going anywhere.

The Aus constitution states both senators and house of representatives, must be elected by direct vote, not preferential or by a party and there is no provision within the constitution that allows for political parties.

He was real driving force and creator of Dundee and Hogans success, if it hadn't been for John Cornell, there would never have been a Paul hogan show and it was excellent.

I'm sure you don't know and it wouldn't be worth the time to try to explain it to you, the correlation is something most would fervently reject, because it exposes the vulnerability of their social belief systems and subconscious alignment with others on a psychological level, so they freak at that. Angry people never listen, can't comprehend the reality that surrounds them and are fixated on their ideological understanding. I'm saying this so you know I won't respond to angry attacks, been there done that and I learn from listening to peoples viewpoints even if they greatly disagree with mine. Most people are paranoid about thinking outside their box, so get angry and frustrated because they believe it is only their view that's important. I'm the opposite and think everyone viewpoint is important, even if it goes against the accepted theory.

There are many things they are discovering that defy the law of physics, after all our physics is just a concept we've constructed to try to understand the universe and may have no relationship to the true universal reality revolving around energy creation. As we never went back to that area, have no idea whether his machine did what he said it would and didn't study the setup. Did see it operating for an hour or so, then we had to leave to get to our next gig and he had an amazing workshop. As a flywheel stores energy, wouldn't a small motor driving a small flywheel which drove a bigger one which drove a much bigger one, be able to produce more energy that the small motor used, using the stored energy of the flywheels to drive the alternator. Would assume getting it all going would use a fair bit of energy and until it was at it's peak operating speed, you wouldn't connect the alternator. He did say it took a bit to get going and each flywheel had to be turning when it was connected to the one driving it, so assume he would have each one turning by hand so when the energy came from the driving flywheel, it wasn't a big strain on the stored energy. But I'm only guessing.

I grow weary of those who don't look at the whole picture and cling to the woke PC approach, which having been in control of societies this century, is revealing it's results. In my opinion, the psychological problems besetting the planet, revolve around what people put into their bodies, which are overflowing with mind altering chemicals in foods and urban air. We can always find examples of something which supports our stance, that's how people justify their positions, especially ideologues, who totally discount the overall picture in the hope no one will notice the truth. Brought my two youngest up by myself, know how hard it is to provide kids with both gender aspects of subjects and upbringing, it's impossible. During that time had the opportunity to be around many single parented households, kids without a male or female figure in the family they could trust, were not that happy when they dropped their guards and showed confusion. My daughter always steered herself to the mothers of her friends and others without a real dad, towards the 3 single fathers in the group, including myself. Even though she felt and did talk to me about everything, there were aspects of life she much preferred to share with other women and that made me feel a little inadequate and felt sad when watching the kids who didn't have that male or female role model around them. My main gripe with same sex having kids, is those that use sperm donors and surrogates to get children. This means one of the partners has no biological attachment to the child, which down the track can and does create confusion and doubt in the child, especially when they grow up and wonder who really is their biological mum or dad. There are many of them around, but only personally now of one friend of my son and he has spent years trying to find out who his father is and has completely severed ties with his biological mother and her female partner, because they refuse to help him find his biological father. Luckily now that's available to those on that position, so they can find their missing link and there are thousands going down that track to try to make sense of who and what they are. Off course you will always find those who are born thinking they are a different sex, which is fine. But when it comes to sport, how often do you see a women who has supposedly transferred from female to male, competing against other men, particularly when it involves strength regimes. It would have to be a very big strong woman who could compete with the blokes in Aussie rules, or the drunken, drug addicted thug sport.

I have no problems with peoples sexual preferences, just don't think it's right men posing as women competing with women. Same as I don't think it's right single sex couples should be able to adopt or have children and the only reason for that is I believe a balanced upbringing can only be attained by having a biological mother and father in the relationship with the child. Now they allow those with absolutely no biological association with the child to be classed as a father or mother, we sure have slid down the drain of ethical responsibility and social sanity.

There are two types of ice engines, compression and combustion. You can't run a diesel on petrol and the same with petrol, can't use diesel to run them. We use methanol to make bio diesel, but prefer pure seed oil which means there is very little change to the fuel system and less work.

The machine I saw had a small 6v motor driving the small flywheel which drove the other flywheels. According to the bloke the motor driving it used less 25% of the energy the alternator produced. That's why he claimed it as perpetual motion it produced more than it used.

If you are born biologically a man, then you are a man, irrelevant as to what your head trip says and in my opinion supposed transgender people should not be allowed to compete against their biologically opposite gender. It's all a head trip, not biological just a bent head trip and they are welcome to that and are entitled to live their lives as they please. But not when it comes to competing against women when you are biologically a man, that's an unfair advantage and no amount of suppressant drugs will change their biological reality.

Think I've found the flywheel for my perpetual motion generator,😁😇🤐 just need a big crane and no one looking.🤫

Gyroscopes would have some natural lift in them with their rotary action, wouldn't they. When I was young used to watch them working in a big wool and skin store and they had a small motor driving a huge flywheel that drove wool presses and lifts, all with big long belts. Which is why the flywheel generator seemed interesting and plausible, however as I have no idea of the physics involved.

Problem with drones is, wind has a big effect on them and they already have drones which drop missiles and bombs that fly through doors and windows to get their target. You can also jam them with high powered microwaves which would cook their components and warp their plastic bodies.

Really interesting stuff, did they use actual gyroscopes or fly wheels, which is another interesting subject as fly wheels can provide a lot of benefits. A few years ago at a gig got talking to a bloke who was interested in my solar setup on the bus and the 300w inverter I built, back then it was very uncommon to even see solar panels and almost no one had heard of inverters for home use. He claimed he had invented a perpetual motion generator and asked if I wanted to see it, said yes and he gave us directions to his farm. Next day we dropped in and he took me to a shed, inside was a machine that consisted of 3 different sized flywheels attached to a very small motor and car alternator. The small motor of 6v turned the smallest flywheel, which turned the next bigger flywheel which turned a much bigger flywheel and that turned the alternator that charged a set of old telstra 2v x 500ah cells in series and that powered his house and an inverter he build. No noise, just the hum of the little motor and alternator which constantly topped up the batteries. The biggest flywheel was over 1.5m tall, said it came of a stationary engine from a wool store and was very heavy, the smaller one came from a steam powered roller and the smallest, from a stationary steam engine at an old mill. He claimed it had been running for over 3 years non stop and never looked like stopping, but did say getting it going takes a bit of time and energy but once up and running, all the little motor did was to keep the smallest flywheel turning and once the 3 flywheels got up to speed he switched the alternator on and it trickled charged the battery banks 24/7. The small flywheels went in the opposite direction to the large one, which he said counteracted the forces created but the big wheel which could make the whole thing spin out of control and take off, so it was bolted down to the concrete floor He did start with full batteries, and trickle charging means there is no strain on the system and it could put 20amp into the batteries before there was a noticeable slowing of the system. Never saw him again, but have thought about his invention and whether it was true or not. If had the money would give it a go and see if it worked or was a hoax, he went to a lot of trouble for it to be a hoax and gauges were certainly registering volt/amps. Would be nice to have a setup like that running all the time providing us with almost unlimited energy along side solar and wind.