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This is an interesting short film about Broken Hill, made in 1953. Where I lived for 12 years.

But you can’t make beer out of the hops.

When people say that wind and solar are free, they need to explain. Oil gas and coal are just as free, they are sitting in the ground waiting to be taken. On a cost per unit of energy, oil, gas and large open pit coal can be very cheap. So it is simply a choice based on lifetime capital and operating costs for the whole energy system. We distort that by applying subsidies.

Agreed, it didn’t interest me.

My response was on two items, I should have been more specific. One was energy density, which Siso has addressed. The other is the UK powering itself by wind. That is like the old saying that ten litres of a toxin was enough to kill everyone in the world. Maybe, but it ain’t going to happen.

In the Christian context, the word catholic (with a lowercase "c") comes from the ancient Greek word katholikos, meaning "universal," "whole," or "all-embracing." When used in historic Christian creeds, it describes the entire, worldwide body of believers united in Christ, rather than a single specific denomination.

I was taught that all the Christian flavours are Catholic, just not Roman.

I worked on that project in the 1990s. It takes a while to get mines going.

Absolute rot! Wind alone? What have you been reading?

Yes they are. That would provide perhaps 10% of what they need, same as Australia.

The middle east runs on oil they pump from the ground. However, they are looking to nuclear for the future. Iran has the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant: this plant has one operational reactor and provides around 2% of the country's electricity. It was completed in 2011 and is part of Iran's extensive nuclear program (!) Barakah Nuclear Power Plant: Situated in the UAE, this plant consists of four reactors and is expected to add two more. It generates about 25% of the UAE's domestic energy needs. Egypt's El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant: This facility is nearing completion and will have a total installed capacity of 4,800 megawatts. It is part of Egypt's comprehensive energy strategy and aims to provide clean electricity for sale abroad.

Logic goes out the window with you guys. There was no electric system before we had coal power. It was a nation building technology. The grid was built around it. Hydro and gas were just icing on the cake.

More IS being ordered. New plants around the world. USA alone has 96 reactors and is building more. France exports power. Etc.

I helped a friend pull the engine out of his car yesterday. The problem for both of us was getting up again after we got down underneath to undo bolts.

I think a near missus does give Donald the chills. She is scary.

Needs explaining to me.edit OK just took a while.

Now we know who they are we can start master baiting.

I found this book description on line. Is it AI or just garbled translation? I think AI would do better. The book itself is in English. This book is written as a practical field manual to effective. Each geolOgist has to develop his/her be used by geologists engaged in mineral explo­ own techniques and will ultimately be judged on ration. It is also hoped that it will serve as a text results, not the process by which these results and reference for students in Applied Geology were reached. In mineral exploration, the only courses of universities and colleges. The book 'right' way of doing anything is the way that aims to outline some of the practical skills that locates ore in the quickest and most cost-effective turn the graduate geologist into an explo­ manner. It is preferable, however, for an individ­ rationist:. It is intended as a practical 'how to' ual to develop his/her own method of operation book, rather than as a text on geological or ore after having tried, and become aware of, those deposit theory. procedures which experience has shown to work An explorationist is a professional who search­ well and which are generally accepted in indus­ try as good exploration practice. es for ore bodies in a scientific and structured way. Although an awkward and artificial term, The chapters of the book approximately fol­ this is the only available word to describe the low the steps which a typical exploration pro­ totality of the skills which are needed to locate gramme would go through. In Chapter 1, the and define economic mineralization.

You don’t think PF was closer to old Isaac than you are? Strange arithmetic.

Pink Floyd was much closer in time to Isaac Newton than you are today!

OK, if we have a white European children's day here in Australia, is that racist?

"No child will live in poverty..."

If anyone thinks it is OK for Senator Mehreen Faruqi to say that about the death of our Queen, then they don't believe in the Australia that I do. But it isn't just Australia. Most nations have expectations about loyalty to the flag, respect for what our forebears fought for, and so on. I can respect the Turks, for example, as equals to the Australians in WW1 because they believed just as strongly in their own country. I have no right to go over there and tell them they are racists built on stolen lives etc etc. Which argument could be equally made about Pakistan times one hundred, given their support for terrorists in recent decades. We have enough enemies trying to subvert our society without members of parliament doing the same. We urgently need our politicians to affirm that we have only one flag, and fly only that one in official places, and that we have a history to be proud of.

An astronomer has claimed the moon is part of "indigenous sky country" after being asked whether Australians should be concerned about a SpaceX rocket which is set to crash into the lunar surface this week. Rebecca Allen, the Co-Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, also said the moon was important for aboriginal storytelling, and therefore “not just something for us to go and explore”. Late last year The University of Newcastle was given more than $500,000 in taxpayer funding to “embed aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge in Australian space policy’’ via a project that also used the term “sky country”. The university said the $528,491 Australian Research Council grant will “help shape culturally respectful and environmentally responsible space exploration”.

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