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I have been to Bayeux and have seen the Bayeux Tapestry. It was quite interesting. They had headsets you put on and as you walked down looking at it the various sections were explained to you. It was the week after Princess Dianna was buried. I was doing a job for a couple of weeks over in Ottawa and the guy I was working with we had decided before we left here to have a 7 days off in England and France on the way back. I wanted to do the aircraft museums like Yoevilton and Duxford etc and he wanted to do the beaches at Normandy as we was a war/military fan. It so happened I was having a drink at the bar next door in Ottawa when the news came through on the tv about Dianna. Could not believe the flowers everywhere in England after the funeral. I find it interesting how many people dont know about the Tapestry and the story of it. Sorry for the ramble here but the Tapestry bought back memories that at the time was a very important time in my life

integrity???? LMAO governments dont know that word None of them do

Well I dont think we are afraid of change as in my 60 years there has been a lot of change....the change that Labor wanted to envoke was way too much and way too fast. There is the old attidge of the young bull and the old bull. The young bull says to the old bull lets run down there and knock off one of those cows..the old bull says lets walk down and knock them all off We can certainly make the changes necessary to get things done but if you are really honest with yourself Marty is it going to make any REAL difference to the world problem?. We could all convert to renewables right now and you may as well be pissing in the ocean for all the good it will do for the current CO2 issue the whole world has. It is akin to going into the outback with a can of Mortein and spraying a few flies...it might make you feel all warm and fuzzy but in the scheme of things it didnt do anything. Is it a matter of wanting to be seen to be done ?...because the real facts are it wont make any discernable difference on a world scale...and its a world problem. Again I am not saying dont not do anything we all need to do something but everyone in the world needs to be doing something. Labor's agenda would have broken this countries economy and there would have been a lot more on the poverty line than there is now. Status quo is also not a option for th long term either. The country needs to grow especially if you want to add 200,000 extra people in immigration every year...we dont have enough in place now for the piddling 25 million we have here now let alone adding a million extra every 5 years added then on top of population growth by natural means. They say the world can only really support 6 billion people and we are almost up to 8 billion now...so maybe we may have to take the fast approach here and put a age limit on people and euthenais them as well to get things done fast to help the earth. The debate is not sensible anymore not only in this country but also around the world. The process of getting the change to our environment should have started 40 years ago but it hasnt so trying to fit 60 years of improvement into 20 years just does not work mathmatically or practically.

The media should be hung out to dry..they dont have real journalists anymore they only have headline grabbers ...it doesnt seem to matter if there is or is not any truth to what they print they live for this "news cycle" crap. Yes question time is just disgusting...I watch it occasionally until it get beyond stupid...maybe 5 or 10 mins max. As I said I hate bot major parties..also some of the idiotic minor ones but I am told I am a prick because I think we need a benevolent dictator for while to sort the wheat from the chaff. Too many cooks in the kitchen now...they either hate each others menu or want to buy different food for each others menu. My belief is to toss the lot out and try to start again but this time with real people...not lawyers and those straight out of uni that then join the "young" major party and become a union rep then into politics....most are silvertails...no matter if Labor or Liberal

Seems there are a lot of disgruntled Labor voters on this thread :) My opinion is we dodged a bullet. The proposed Labor changes were way too fast and way too much and I think that is what scared people the most. As far as telling porky pies during the campaign geez there are a lot of short memories on here. The last election and also the local by election up here in my electorate produced some of the biggest lies I have ever heard being told by Labor. My best outcome for the election has happened here in Longman..we go rid of the laziest federal member ever...bye bye Lamb...thank god..she was just useless. My personal opinion is I dont like either major party they both tell lies and certainly have way different agendas. Labor have gone far left and are influenced by the lunatic Greens and the libs have gone too far right. What ever happened to a centre....cant anyone ever seem to use common sense anymore. If I was in power there would be lots of changes....admittedly I would be doing things that both major parties had on their agendas. This is what gets my goat. both of them re as bad as each other..just because one party thinks it up it seems the other party just has to oppose it

The Bradfield scheme was proposed back in 1938..things are way different now and the technical details and what can be done is very different. The current govt back in 2015 allocated money for 100 dams but the qld govt will not allow it on "enviromental grounds" ..the greens influence as its a labor govt here. They piped water from Perth to Kalgoorlie a hundred or so years ago Here is a interesting article even done by the left biased ABC Giant new dams proposed for northern Australia I think there has not been any real investigation done on this. Surely there must be engineers out there that can come up with maybe different ideas

Litespeed so a company you worked for and left more than 10 years ago makes you responsible now for decisions made now?????? how do you work that out. Glad I am not held responsible for decisions I made when I was working for Energex. Do you honestly think he would have had any input in that way in the decision...Oh by the way labour bought from the exact same company when they were in power...the price is only reflective of the market..supply and demand

hahaha no way the ABC is so left biased now it is ridiculous. Its all a beatup for the election typical throw enough mud and it might stick...when was the last time you asked the company you bought stuff off where they put their money?...the land had to be in the right place to be able to buy it for a start...the murray darling is now so stuffed that buy back didnt make much difference....another argument was "it was flood water anyway" ALL the water is rain water so essentially its all flood water...water is water it depends how much falls. It was a buy of land/water to try to alleviate and unsolvable problem with the current stunted thinking by the idiots in power and not just the current ones all of them The issue wont be fixed until the stupid pollies and major parties finally get off their arse and dig a massive trench or two from NQ and send the water into that murray system...oh but the greenies wont allow dams...boo hoo friggin nut jobs as well. In the USA if you go anywhere near Hoover dam and Las Vegas and any of the desert places you see massive water canals done out of concrete walls going hundred and hundreds of km..you look at them flying or driving over the USA they are everywhere..how do you think these desert places all look green and have millions of visitors and locals living there in some of the worst places. Our pollies are too self absorbed in staying in power by giving all of the countries taxes to the bludgers not to the pensioners and the people that actually need it let alone the farmers. Water is life and they treat the issue like it is folly I am passionate about this one subject and I stick it to my local pollies every single time I see them...they run the other way now I am sure when they see me coming

In metro QLD basically if the electricity is running past your house it doesnt matter if you pull your service down or disconnect from the mains you get charged the access fee its a day rate borks out about $120 a quarter. You can see mine is 112 cents per day plus the solar meter charge etc...pricks. Its the same as the water rates here ..you can disconnect or not use the mains water but they charge you about the same because town water runs past your house [ATTACH]50040._xfImport[/ATTACH]

Talking about powerfactor correction the distribution and generation authorities have always done PF correction. There are large capacitor banks installed for just that purpose and have been ever since I was a apprentice back in the late 1970's. More of them have been installed...well that is up here in Qld not sure about you mexicans south of the border. Our grid has always been far more robust than any other. The solar feed into the grid is causing major issues though and is costing a lot to alieviate it Case in point is right outside my house. Energex installed a 200KVA pole transformer just for the purpose of handling the reverse power (for a better word that is easier to understand for non electrical people). The normal transformer around the road is a 300kva it can only pass that amount of energy and more it will overheat and crap itself eventually. There is so much solar in our area what happens during the day is that solar power generation doesnt disappear it goes out to the grid on youe low voltage connection and gets inverted up to the 11kv back out to the distribution mains. A transformer passes it both ways so there is more going back out to the grid than 300kva so the transformer is stressed. The installed the 200kva about 500 mtrs away for it...outside my house to deliver that backfeed into the grid as well so it unloads the 300kva around the road...so now we have 2 transformers and its not for the download of power to the grid its for the upload. Now this is daytime NOT nightime..at night of course its totally different all that power is being fed from the grid back into the houses. I have lived here now 15 years and I can tell you that all the houses in my street do NOT have any form of battery attached and from my driving around the area I have not seen any batteries at all externally..thats not to say they are not there of course but the amount of them around would be very very small I can tell you now I am not spending 10k on a crappy bank of batteries that is max rated for 2.5kw only output or there abouts at any one time..yes it maybe a 10kw bank but thats all it can deliver....a kettle is 1200 watts thats 1.2kw....Also the time that battery lasts has to be taken into account...most forget that batteries have a cycle time usually 3000 or a bit more cycles in them. 3000 days (as they get cycled every day) is 8 years and then batteries start falling off in what they can deliver in their capacity it doesnt take long to look at the figures to see you need a crap load more of batteries......to run my house I need a heap more capacity. It is no where near cut and dried at all this argument...people need to look behind all of the hype and actually look at what it takes to run the system and all the other problems associated with it all. There are so many factors involved that people are not told or they dont know or dont want to know because its great to jump on this new tech bandwagon. I am a realist about it all and we do have to change but that rate of change can not be at the speed that all these new age people seem to want or expect

" Blinded by ideology... A environmental vandal... Prepared to impoverish the future for the present... Have a extremely poor understanding of economics, even if just free market capitalism. Or to paraphrase, Evil." I am none of those by the way I am a realist not a pesimist..my point is that as our population is continually growing at a unsustainable rate for our current infrastructure and there are many power outages now well certainly down south there is how do you propose we solve the power issue for the next 30 to 40 years without spending trillions of dollars into green tech to keep the lights on ? Qld is feeding our power generation down south by huge amounts..remembering that I was involved in the electricity generation and distribution here in a former life.....so I still have many friends in that industry and at AEMO who do all this selling and distributing for the national grid We are running out of baseload power in a very big hurry and I dont see any solutions currently that will suffice...as I said in that post its a stopgap the clean coal power until a better solution can come into play There is NO storage even anywhere near developed or proposed that can carry over the night time usage....you maybe able after spending so much money its mind boggling to supply what is needed every single minute of the day in sunlight not to mention the physical space to do this and the hardware to convert the DC into AC for transmission of this power all over the place like it is now. How much power you have to generate if you had that storage capability to use what you need during the day AND store for the overnight usage it just a unbelievable situation...I really dont think you grasp the amount of numbers we are talking about they have so many zeros on the end of that KW number. Add say another 500,000 EV onto that list and the energy required to charge all of those EV..throw that onto the top of what we already are using.....lets face it most EV will be charged overnight so where is all our storage capacity during that time to charge from a "green source". EV are a great thing and will be fantastic ...in the future when the tech can catch up but as I said drag this thread back out in 10 years or even 20 and lets see where we actually are.

You also cant tell this later generation that the new clean coal power station can actually be way cleaner than what we have now and would be a good stop gap until something better comes along but no...we are all evil masters and should die a dirty death because we are older than 45

Fuel cells are a whole different matter and I think they should have been developed a lot faster and implemented long ago. They have been around for a while now..of course you can believe the conspiracy dudes that the big oil companies keep buying out the IP for it. They make far more sense for storage and energy use

Octave "I agree that the infrastructure in this country is way behind many other countries but that is why it is important to prepare for the future." Mate it is stupidly behind because all the govt of the past 20 years literally vow not to spend money on infrastructure its taken 5 years to put an extra lane on the gateway motorway..11KM of road for christs sake and only 1 lane each side...who makes these stupid decisions..The Gateway is highway #1 the Bruce Hwy if you have ever been on the gateway in the mornings and afternoons you know what its like

You missed my point...with what power generation are you going to charge all of those EV with.....possibly during the day lots of renewables but what about when the sun goes down and the wind certainly up here doesnt blow at night None around my way and I am half way between the sunshine coast and Brisbane... There is one and its not even anywhere near the main centre of town The others are almost at least 30 to 40 km away so in my little piece of the world..which by the way is a outer north suburb in real terms have 1 hahahahha They better get moving installing a lot more to that dirty filthy coal fired grid [ATTACH]50032._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]50033._xfImport[/ATTACH]

As I said EV is the way of the future for sure..we all want a cleaner planet but it will take time and much money to get it there but all the do gooders want it done yesterday and it just cant happen. Labour are talking about subsidies for the EV sector to get their 50% in a ridiculous time frame. Infrastructure is no where near what it would need to be and neither is the storage tech

See this is still the chicken and egg argument..you currently need coal fired power to power the charging stations so if the discussion is ONLY on the EV as a tool then thats fine but the bigger picture and all the hyperbole about EV is the "green" side of them. We dont have hydro here so we cant use "natural" power when the sun goes down as there is no bulk storage for renewables. I see the lot of this all tied together but in different ratios of course

I was surprised at someone who was a environmentalist would come up with that article. Yes it is a bit biased towards about killing the large birds with wind generators and he is right about cats that just like to kill things but dont forget whether you have a EV or a IC vehicle you are still going to run over the same amount of animals. So yes he has a bias when it comes to that but I thought his opinions and the facts he posted about the power generation was very good and had weight

I do believe that EV will be the way of the future it just is no where near it needs to be in my opinion to be even useful to 50% of the population in the formats we have now. That format will not change that much in the next 10 years until a new style of power is developed/invented. Batteries are really very old school and have been around a long time. Yes they have come a long way since first developed but for long term use and capacity for a EV there needs be be a whole new development for storage or fuel cell to make it viable for the majority of the population

I am involved in tech and I just cant get excited about EV.....well not for my usage anyway. I drive way too many long km stretches for them to be practical. Fine if your a city dweller whose life revolves in about a 30km radius. Finding a EV point to charge up at where I live is a joke...nothing out here at all let alone on the way out to where I work. The expense has to come down a lot more for a car and anything that has some size to it is big dollars let alone anything that can tow a trailer 300km in one hit carrying about 700 kg. EV has a long way to go yet as far as I am concerned. But like everything in this renewables push it is all trying to be done in a extremely short time and it just isnt practical. As far as subsidies from the govt let it happen under its own developments. I saw Abbot say something a week ago that surprised me but what he said was true..did the govt subsidize the changeover from horses to automobiles..it evo;ved naturally with companies having a idea and a product and funded it themselves. I read a very interesting article the other day about renewables from a guy who has been a environmentalist most of his life. Read the whole article not just a bit of it..he makes some compelling arguements and also stated some facts that I was not aware of...probably because I am not out there doing what he does. https://quillette.com/2019/02/27/why-renewables-cant-save-the-planet/?fbclid=IwAR0xShYoG1-LrhL-_08e3QTYHZoWm6MHcEPFzSKH1Pxl73qxjq3sspb_hlU

Shit usually happens in threes I get it all the time too...your not on your lonesome there Peter

Hey Phil you need to get that guy to be PM. Every single word spoken was so true and it is almost a mirror image of the bullsh1t that is happening here. Thanks for the video its a ripper

I agree with what you say but there are not a lot of people who can get ahead when renting..these are the ones with jobs that is. I know my daughter pays $460 a week for her house but just cant get the 50K within a reasonable timeframe to afford the deposit for a house. Building affordable housing creates jobs for lots of people and trains apprentices. The government supplys the houses at a reasonable rate so people can actually save some money towards getting their own houses. People who dont have a job and on welfare cards will have to make sure they take care of any housing they get and pay a rate for of course out of their 80% but any damage or such like you see they are immediately thrown out with all their crap on the footpath and they will never get another house and will have to pay market price rent. Work for the dole would be enforced as well and compulosry There would be some sort of bank scheme probably govt based to allow young people to get deposits for houses quickly and get them into their homes quickly even some type of wage garnish to ensure payment. Its a huge job to sort all this out now because its all been right royally stuffed up for years and years so a mamoth effort would be needed. The problem is to do all this you need a revolution to get rid of the numbskulls that are there now. A coup is not likely here thats for sure

Put me in...there would be a lot of changes.....but then again too many cooks in the kitchen....the Head Chef HAS to be the boss...all the others are Sous chefs they do their jobs on what the head chef says.....thats the only way it CAN work There would be a lot of changes if I was in...trouble is it cant be a fast change otherwise the populus will get pissed off. First thing would be make every single multinational pay the tax they are supposed to...none of this profits to Ireland crap... money earned here stays here...if they dont like it then piss off Then I would start building affordable housing for the lesser fortunate as there just isnt enough but along with that goes rules...like the welfare card...80% on living expenses and 20% as free cash. All below the age of 30 without a job now go into the army or similar for training and the army also start doing community work like road cleaning and seaside clearing of rubbish Tax incentives for local companys to employ people. More infrastructure projects like a pipeline from northern australia. A big emphasis on apprentices and traing people. University will be free for people who want real education and ambission...none of the arty farty courses they have...you want the arty farty course then you pay for it but for teachers and nurses and doctors all of these sort of professions if you score high enough at school you can go to Uni free....well thats a small start :)

By the way I am not a commo in the corner...I like to think I am a realist with a touch of idealism :)