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There are many upsides to the virus restrictions;

 

1. The road toll is down in most states.

2. Crime levels are down, by up to 30% in some areas.

3. Drug dealing has been curtailed severely by the movement restrictions and constant police roadblocks. A mate "in the know" says the junkies are doing it tough, the price of meth has apparently doubled.

4. Traffic congestion has gone back 20 years. I love it!

5. There are little food vans and coffee vans everywhere, as people in the restaurant/cafe business turn to alternative styles of income.

6. I don't miss the fairly constant commercial aircraft noise, and the skies seem to be clearer, as regards air pollution.

7. The parcel and freight people are grinning from ear to ear, business has never been so good.

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About that Clean Air,

Is it the road vehicles,

OR

Those jumbo jets that spew so much smoke on takeoff.

That fuel used on a jumbo takeoff, will power many cars, for One year, so I,ve been told !.

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Global Jet fuel consumption is around 8% of the worlds fossil fuel production. But even as air traffic movement has dropped to less than a third of what it was previously, there has also been a large decline in petrol and diesel use, as people are not moving around on the roads, like they used to.

 

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/world-jet-fuel-demand-could-drop-by-70-due-to-covid-19/1778544

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I was told many years ago, a jumbe uses 20 to 30 TONS of fuel on takeoff .

Not counted is that fuel used when cruising.

One litre per kilo, is that 30,000 litres, ?.

spacesailor

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One litre per kilo, is that 30,000 litres, ?.

 

That's a bit of an over-estimate, but on the safe side. One litre of water weighs one kilogram at Standard Temperature and Pressure. Avtur is less dense than water, about 800 grams per litre.

 

30, 000 x 0.8 = 24,000 kilograms.

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I don't see modern jets spewing smoke. The early 707's etc certainly did but they were primitive designs compared to the later high bypass ratio and high TGT engines. At low levels jet engines use a lot of fuel.. That's why they don't hold or hang around at low levels. The descent is planned to be done at flight idle which is about the lowest fuel flow rate at which the engine is stable.. Nev

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That dark haze behind a big plane taking off is just the air being compressed as it supports 300 tonnes of aeroplane. Denser air equals harder to see through.

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One personal upside of the enforced stay at home routine is learning new ways to do business online. An evolution from dinosaur to modern human is taking place. Have registered for internet banking which is great; I can check account balances and transfer between accounts without driving 20klms to the bank. Likewise the car parts; paid online and delivered cheaper than if I drove in to get them myself.

 

And then there's the vehicle registration. This is the first email renewal I've ever received. It came in a PDF format, so the dinosaur plan was to hook up the printer, print it out and then drive into town and pay it. First snag was that the PDF pages wouldn't fit on an A4 sheet; the bottom section was cut off with - you guessed it, the bar code for payment. After trying all sorts of printer and PDF settings and going through a ton of paper and ink, I gave up. The next genius brainwave was to ring the Transport Department, and after 20 minutes on hold only to finally get cut off, that plan was going nowhere.

 

The final and successful brainwave was to see if I could pay it online. First off, did the internet banking to juggle money between accounts, then went to the department website. Entered the details, whipped out the credit card and bingo.... all done. Turns out the printer wasn't needed after all. And all this from the comfort of an office chair in front of the home computer.

 

Moral of the story is that these newly learnt methods will be ongoing after Covid-19 is dead and forgotten. Saves time, money, fuel, pollution etc., and much less tearing out of hair. Hello 21st. Century.

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Because of social distancing, they can't shoot any more episodes of Home and Away. :evil grin:

Maybe they could rename it to simply Home.

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One of the upsides of the lock down has already disappeared. For about a month I picked up very little rubbish on my morning walks. Today I got half a Coles shopping bag full. Nearly back to normal.

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Covid9 will Most likely never be dead. Neither is immunity guaranteed and you'll never get 100% vaccination. We eliminated TB and smallpox and laxity has caused resurgence of more virulent forms of TB and measles kills. Flu comes around in a new form each year. HIV and STD's are increasing in some areas. China just lost all the Pigs with swine flu not 12 months ago. Do we never learn? These things don't have legs and crawl over the ground like cane toads do. They travel on and in people and people's interaction spreads them usually via Jet transport, where you're crammed in like cattle for hours and all use the same dunnies and handles and cough all over each other, and when you get to your cruise ship, you can finish the job and take your time. Nev

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These conspiracy theorists (and anti-vaxxers) absolutely take the cake.

 

Some of the theories doing the rounds:

 

There is no virus - it's a plot and a con by Bill Gates and the like to cash in. The statistics are all fabricated.

Next breath - the virus is spread by 5G.

The lockdown is so that the Gov't can install 5G towers everywhere.

 

Can these people (?) even tie their shoe laces?

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One thing I find quite pleasant about the Covid restrictions - no chuggers outside the local Coles supermarket.

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One thing I find quite pleasant about the Covid restrictions - no chuggers outside the local Coles supermarket.

What are "chuggers"? We have "chiggers" down here (people who live in the suburb of Chigwell) but never heard of chuggers.

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Chuggers are charity muggers, the people employed by commission agents of charities to harass everyone going into the supermarket. Where I live, they are usually outside Coles which explains why more people shop at Woolies.

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