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I told you that CentreLink staff are geat if you give them a tad of good manners. So glad that you had a good experience.

There's a group of really good people who can help you with pension applications. They work in a place called CentreLink. If you go to one of their offices and ask nicely you will get lots of help. What I am implying is that these people respond very well to courtesy and politeness. Remember, they have the knowledge in navigating application processes that you don't possess. Trust them.

Settle, petal. Just because someone asks a question does not mean that they are attacking another person's beliefs. Why did I ask about asbestos? Because I had heard something about it. Your response clarifies that what I heard was most likely journalistic hype. Asking a question is the first step in identifying if a problem exists and is the first step in planning to deal with an identified problem. I expect that the question of dealing with coal ash and other stuff coming from power stations has been asked and some sort of plan developed. How effective any such plan is can be determined by monitoring. What we must realise is that everything we do from gathering food to space travel creates some pollutants. That is inevitable. Our task is to minimise what is produced.

Wind trurbines or solar panels??? There have been concerns made about how to deal with end-of-life turbine blades, as some people say they contain asbestos. What are the the end-of-life products coming from solar panels? Do those products give rise to dangerous pollutants? But isn't there a ban in the import of asbestos products into Australia? Maybe the fear of asbestos in the blades is a red herring.

True, but you can discount farm equipment as the site is not farmed. Arson is drawing a bit of a long bow. The point I wanted to make was that a possiblity could have been an electrical short . You could be correct in saying that skynews might have reported this with as much relish as it might report an EV fire.

OOps! I forgot to link the video. While we all agree that skynews leans towards a certain direction, the fact of the fire cannot be denied. I do not know what the source of the fire was. I can only tell you that when the fire happened the air temperature was in the vicinity of 40C. I can't tell you what the fuel load was, but it would have been grass since the site was originally grazing land. Was the source of ignition a malfunction with the solar panels, or from a natural souce? I don't know, but there were no thunderstorms in the area on that day. All I can say is that we await the results of the investiation into the cause.

Solar farm on agricultural land + extremly hot air temperatures + absence of site supervision can give rise to a serious fire hazard. This happened at a very large solar farm at Wellington NSW. I suppose those factors were not realised when the site was approved. You can see from the aerial photo that the site at the time of photographing was not complete. I don't know how old the photo is. Here is a news report about the event. The report is from SkyNews, but there's only a tad of anti-renewable bias in it.

Well. The aforementioned frontal band of rain arrived; pissed down rain for a few minutes, and pissed off. Not even a puddle in an ant lion's hole. The temperature dropped, but it felt very humid. The could is moving to teh northeast, so I suppose the NSW Nortehrn Rivers area will cop thunderstorms tonight.

As I sit here at 4:30pm, my desktop weather meter says it's 40.5C and 17% RH. Wind is gusting to about 35 kts. The radar shows a frontal band of rain approaching, but I bet it will slip away to the southeast before a drop falls on me. This weather, especially the constant days of strong winds, is not normal. At this time of year the winds should be calm and the temperature in the low 30Cs.

Ah! The billygoat farting song! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer_is_icumen_in

This sidetrack into electricity generation and distribution is taking us away from the original theme of this thread. Perhaps there should be a specific thread for electricity generation and distribution to allow a return to climate change.

This is soooo nausiating. Watch the video from the 3:00 mark.

There was a comedy series on ABC called "Utopia". One episode in 2014, "We can Build It", used the idea of a football stadium in Tasmania. The crux of the story was that the politicians wanted the stadium, but the advisors actually put up sensible reasons why it would be a White Elephant. The episode was so prophetic that iit should have been screened in the Tasmanian parliament before the vote was taken.

This is an interesting video.

Any "rock from space" is unconsolidated material from the formation of our solar system. It has to be 4.06 billion year old. Such a rock simply cannot be only 2 million years old. Did the video have the commonly heard narrator? Just another bit of AI-created clickbait it is did.

Consider yourself lucky that you do have rain. The paddocks around my place are bare because there has been no useful rain. Downpours from storm cells don't cut it. I'm lucky that I have a bore for a regular water supply, and a small rainwater storage for drinking water. A neighbour has just had to truck in water for domestic use.

Trumps social media postings. It has been reported that in a five hour period one recent evening, Trump made 160 posts on social media. There are 300 minutes in 5 hours. That means he created and posted something just aboug every two minutes. How long does it take you to create a short post and upload it here? And the grammer, spelling and syntax of his posts are free of errors in those areas. This makwes me think that either Trump has a team of writers, or is using AI to generate the content.

If your doctor requests that you have some sort of test done, say a blood test to check cholesterol, do you have the test, but not ask the doctor for the results? You still want to hear that, don't you, even if the doctor tells you that things are OK? Trump keeps saying that he doesn't know the results of his MRI. That in itself is not normal. Also, Trump's apparent ignoring of his physical condition runs counter to a normal person's consideration of one's mortality. Does Trump think that he will never die?

A very small cohort of members are not sick of it.

Liar Leavett provided reporters with the doctor's summary of Trump's MRI examination. The summary said that the MRI showed that Trump's heart and ciculatory system was just fine, as were his abdominal organs. Can you believe that teh MRI only examined his torso? Given his many physical symptoms associated with muscle control, surely the MRI must have examined the contents of his cranium. But it probably only showed the cranial space filled with sheep shit.

It's raining! It's raining! But it will stop within a couple of hours. Better a little than none at all.

If you travel overseas and take along the habit of looking at a person approaching you and saying "g-day", then you eliminate the risk of being asked if you are English.

During our conversations earlier this year we questioned what the annual sales figures of EVs would be if we looked for those figures in December. I'm curious to see what those figures are (for Australia).

My Mum, who is 100 years old, is cared for in an aged persons' residence by people from the Phillipines. They are lovely, caring people. However, although they are fluent in the King's English, sometimes they do not understand the Australian terms for things in a domestic situation. When you think of the age difference between them and Mum, there can be three generations' difference between them. Mum uses terms that she learned as a child, in the 1930s, when there really was a unique Australian vocabulary. A lot of these terms have fallen out of common usage, so her carers have never encountered them. However, Mum has managed to teach them "hoo-roo" as a parting call.

I wanted to make the distiction between his being king of the United Kingdom, and being king of Australia. The United Kingdom and Australia are two separate things. If Australians ever decided to become a republic, it would be the King of the Commonwealth of Australia who would be replaced with another sort of Head of State. To say that Australia's Head of State is the king of England, inferring that Australia is the subject of a foreign king, is incorrect. King Charles III wears two crowns, and the rights given by those two crowns are independent of each other. In our modern world, does it really matter where the Head of State's place of abode is located?