Bahahaha. would have to go with Chevron again. did the induction for Barrow years ago and got lectured on turning off tv at the wall to reduce co2 emissions from the LED light, wtf

GreenPat said..
Bloody AGL are annoying, whenever they randomly decide to send me some money for the solar electricity I feed into the grid (which follows no pattern - sometimes it gets credited to my account, sometimes it gets sent to me), they use a bloody cheque! They know my bank account number, they take money out of it when I use more than I sell, why can't they just do a direct credit back into it? It would cost them less for printing and postage, and save me having to deal with a bit of dead tree and take time out of my day to go and get my bank balance updated.
I reckon they are hoping a few people won't bother bank the cheques and they'll improve their bottom line that way...

I think there are a few companies doing that. They probably claim that they haven't updated their refund process, but I am sure that is what they are hoping. I know I have not bothered cashing cheques from some places and its not like they send you a letter a year later asking why not or sending you another cheque.

GreenPat said..
Bloody AGL are annoying, whenever they randomly decide to send me some money for the solar electricity I feed into the grid (which follows no pattern - sometimes it gets credited to my account, sometimes it gets sent to me), they use a bloody cheque! They know my bank account number, they take money out of it when I use more than I sell, why can't they just do a direct credit back into it? It would cost them less for printing and postage, and save me having to deal with a bit of dead tree and take time out of my day to go and get my bank balance updated.
I reckon they are hoping a few people won't bother bank the cheques and they'll improve their bottom line that way...

And finally, three weeks after that post, I've finally dropped the cheque in a reply-paid envelope to my online bank into the post box 50m from my office front door. Imagine if I had to actually go into a branch to deposit it! Bring on the end of cheques in Australia...

Harrow said..

CH3MTR4IL5 said..
Bahahaha. would have to go with Chevron again. did the induction for Barrow years ago and got lectured on turning off tv at the wall to reduce co2 emissions from the LED light, wtf

It's not the power used by the LED, that's negligible as you would be aware. Rather, it's the core-losses in the transformer supplying the LED that occur irrespective of how much power the TV is using that add up.

My point was more that I find it reprehensible hypocrisy that the company singlehandedly responsible for half
of the entire country's co2 emissions increases has the audacity to lecture its workers on turning off appliances at the wall to save 3 kWh. If every domestic householder in the country sat in the dark all the time it would be insignificant compared with the impact of Gorgon.

but yes on your point that the standby power is
not negligible for the individual.

I complain about AGL, hate coal, anti BHP, so I drive a Tesla.

Now it's the government's fault.

(The Telsa is made using all the above resources sshhhh)

Speaking of dirty corporates...

In 2010 Pfizer disclosed that during a six-month period the previous year it had paid $20 million to some 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals for consulting and speaking on the company's behalf. This was the first time the company had made public its spending of this kind.

www.corp-research.org/pfizer

KiteboyDave said..

kiterboy said..
Speaking of dirty corporates...

In 2010 Pfizer disclosed that during a six-month period the previous year it had paid $20 million to some 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals for consulting and speaking on the company's behalf. This was the first time the company had made public its spending of this kind.

www.corp-research.org/pfizer

Damn! Here we go again into the covid denier antivax rabbit hole.

What do you mean?
This is a thread about dirty corporates. The post and link is very relevant and no mention of covid.

So dirty, how can dirty corporates be trusted?

In August 2012 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had reached a $45 million settlement with Pfizer to resolve charges that its subsidiaries, especially Wyeth, had bribed overseas doctors and other healthcare professionals to increase foreign sales.

During the mid-1980s, watchdog organizations such as the Public Citizen Health Research Group charged that Pfizer's widely prescribed arthritis drug Feldene created a high risk of gastrointestinal bleeding among the elderly, but the federal government, despite reports of scores of fatalities, declined to put restrictions on the medication. A June 1986 article in The Progressive about Feldene was headlined DEATH BY PRESCRIPTION.

In 2004, in the wake of revelations about dangerous side effects of Merck's painkiller Vioxx, Pfizer agreed to suspend television advertising for a related medication called Celebrex. The following year, Pfizer admitted that a 1999 clinical trial found that elderly patients taking Celebrex had a greatly elevated risk of heart problems.