Queensland Election

[facthunter]

With an earth return CB (compulsory) it will trip before you are affected.. Lead Paint, Creosote, Mercury Arsenic(accumulative Poison) Tars, Diesel particulates, Moulds PBC's , Pollen . Artificial sweeteners. Alcohol is a poison. There's a known lethal dose. Radioactivity. Plenty of human produced and common food additives in processed foods are definitely not conducive to a long life. being Obese is life threatening. Smoking and vaping  Bush fire smoke, Wood dust in factories. PLASTICS are in everything.. we are mucking it up big time and there's too many of us to ignore the effects. Last 300 years.  Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

You know sooner or later I will come up with a YT video:

 

[red750]

This was posted on Facebook -

 

[spacesailor]

When the decommission ' coal fired ' power stations .

The land could be utilised for nuclear a fuelled  power station .

then all those obsolete ' rail sidings ' could be used to house our politicians. 

spacesailor

[facthunter]

You can still use Land that's producing solar and wind for other things at the same time. Plenty more rooftop space not yet covered with solar.. WHO wants a nuclear power station near them when a war might be possible. What about the wasted heat with the vast amounts of cooling water needed and the required water is not necessarily at the Coal Power sites designated. This just a Brain Fart idea by the LNP to  keep coal as long as possible and confuse the renewable energy  roll out.. Nev

[onetrack]

The land occupied by the nuke plant is the least of anyones worries. It's the mind-boggling cost of constructing a nuke power station, and the time taken to build one, is what matters.

Many nuke power stations still aren't finished after construction started 20 or 25 years ago. The cost overruns are notorious on nuke plants.

Every single thing in the construction has to be radiation-proof, so thousands of tonnes of concrete and hundreds of tonnes of lead shielding. Then there's the safety codes to be met, with a huge number of stringent requirements, that all triple the cost of everything.

Every component has to be manufactured from costly exotic steels that are corrosion resistant, and many other components are exotic materials as well. 

Coolant systems are exceptionally complex, they have to have triple redundancy - and then the protection systems still fail, and reactors overheat.

And at the end of the day, the nuke power plant still produces nuclear waste that is dangerous for thousands of years - and no secure place to store it on this planet has been found yet.

No-one wants nuclear waste stored anywhere near them, and the number of sites that are suitable geologically, are few and far between.

Overall, the nuclear power plant industry is one that has a poor safety record, and it's an industry that isn't expanding - unlike renewables.

 

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Plenty more rooftop space not yet covered with solar..

Unfortunately, while the uptake of domestic solar power generation has been really good, the problem the grid now has is that there is too much electricity being produced during daylight that it is becoming difficult to keep the grid balanced. The only way to handle the excess electricity is to store it in batteries, and there's the problem. 

 

The commercially provided infrastructure is lagging behind.  Of course you can purchase your own battery with prices ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 depending on capacity. A 13 kWh battery installed costs about $15000, with 10 year warranty. Of course these prices should drop in the future, but we know about waiting.

Info source: https://www.solarquotes.com.au/battery-storage/cost/

[facthunter]

The economics are there for private enterprise to build storage and  buy if for say10c and sell it for 23c OR some crazy price in an emergency till  they do something else., Battery power is INSTANT. Nev

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

The economics are there for private enterprise to build storage ........

Battery power is INSTANT. Nev

So, do you have one?

[spacesailor]

I have been offered a ' forklift battery ' 72 v for $1 000 it had one 2volt crook cell . it would have been rejig'd to24 volt with the amp-hour tripled. 

It would have been just the ticket to run the essentials .

But as a " low income " home we do not qualify for any

Solar grants  .

spacesailor

 

 

[facthunter]

From anything I have investigated a battery is the BIG step to make in  an individuals situation.  Better done for a community project  All the batteries Musk put in SA were retained by successive governments (even LNP) Morrisson Rubbished the idea that Musk said unless it worked you didn't have to PAY anything. .. Nev

[onetrack]

Any componentry to do with forklifts has suffered serious abuse, and is normally worn right out. They're they most abused machine around, everyone jumps on them and drives them, but no-one ever does any maintenance on them.

I've got 7 forklifts in various stages of disrepair, and all but one (my best operational forklift) needs major work on them. Four are getting motor rebuilds, one is getting a complete steering system overhaul (including a reconditioned steer axle and a complete new steering box!), and the other one just needs a number of repairs, such as brakes and cooling system overhaul.

Battery-powered forklifts get their batteries discharged excessively on a regular basis, and the batteries cost a fortune to purchase. I've never seen a worn out forklift battery that was still useable.

 

Edited November 5 by onetrack

[spacesailor]

I just got a quote  on a used 24 volt 620 ah battery at $1,139 ,

With a two year warranty. 

Sounds OK to me .

At the moment I have a stack of used truck type batteries for my garage inverter . Plus three brand new

4X4 batteries. 

Not enough for a house , the first ( 72 v ) was too heavy 

To work with .

spacesailor

 

Edited November 5 by spacesailor

[Siso]

On 29/10/2024 at 11:30 PM, Jerry_Atrick said:

don't think that is an entirely accurate statement. Spent fuel is normally considered high level waste and is by far the smallest amount of waste produced. There is low level and medium level (and I think VLLW and VHLW, as well, but let's leave these out of the equation.

 

High Level waste, according to the WNO takes 30 - 50 years to be safe for transport to storage. From teh WNO's website (https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-waste/radioactive-wastes-myths-and-realities)  :

There are different parts to the spent fuel. The fission products that is the high level waste which needs to be stored for 10 half lives (about 300 years) and it will be back to background, this is the nasty stuff and is really radioactive but decays reasonably quickly. Unused fuel(uranium 235 and one of the isotopes of plutonium 239?) which can be reused in the reactor. Light water reactors only use about 3 % of this so it can be recycled and the long lived waste which is not very radioactive and can be stored safely underground. You would need to eat this for the radioactivity to hurt you- Alpha radiation. I wouldn't because it is still a heavy metal. This needs spent fuel reprocessing  to separate these parts. France currently does this.

[willedoo]

The way I understand it, Alpha particles can't penetrate very far and don't penetrate the bare skin. With old aircraft gauges the radium paint breaks down over time to form a very fine dust inside the gauge. The danger with opening them up is not so much getting it on your skin as that can be safely washed off, but the big danger is breathing it. Internal tissue is soft enough for the Alpha particles to penetrate and do damage.

[spacesailor]

That " luminescent " painted numbers on my expensive 

Sailing compass just dropped off .

spacesailor

[facthunter]

It needs some enlightenment.  Hang a magnetic torch near it. You don't want a deviant Compass.  Point it in the right direction..    Nev

[facthunter]

 Anyhow we are off topic. Stick to  what Benito Crisafulli is up to. Nev