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decrepit said..
Instantaneous electric aren't very efficient and use a lot of short surge power. But storage heat pumps can be used off peak, or as you say from solar.

Agreed, but people are happily turning to electric resistance hot water heaters to siphon their excess solar energy into. It may not be as efficient, but its better value than exporting the energy to the grid and then heating water at another time or from another source. If you need to heat water each day and do it cheaply, why not via the PV you already have?

Even when they attempted/announced the ban they seemed to have forgotten that off-peak hot water was one of those things that helped the stability of the grid a bit by being able to absorb some of the base-load.

I think its just one of those things where a direction from government in one area didn't align with government in another area. And why should it as no doubt they get different agendas.

Since the OG was about Utes this made me chuckle

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fangman said..
Since the OG was about Utes this made me chuckle

Anything you can't put a full sheet of ply or a wave board in the back of is just pretending to be useful. This is not an opinion, it's a man-fact determined during my search for the meaning of life.

While we are discussing oversized utes, I want to rant.

Why do they have to reverse in and have their big arse towbar hanging into the next spot? I sometimes reverse into spots, but I can see the bumper and the towbar and funnily enough the line between lanes. If they lined it up, no problem. If they drove nose in then it wouldn't be a problem either. But because some of these are long, they take up the spot and the first few feet of the next one. I have front facing cameras on two cars, but should I need this just to park in a regular spot?

Just as bad is the side step utes that park close to you. They can get out no problem, but their sides steps block your door in a regular car and you get less space then they do.

I don't care what size car people drive really, but it annoys the crap out of me when they can't park. I understand why a lot of people reverse into spots, but at least stay in one spot only.

If they're parked that close to you then it's good cover for you to put a match head or small paper spit ball inside their tyre valve caps.
its slow but effective and the gift which keeps on giving.
the tyre eventually goes flat, they pump it up and put the valve caps back on and the cycle begins again. Generally gets sorted out eventually when they take it to a tyre place.

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elmo said..
If they're parked that close to you then it's good cover for you to put a match head or small paper spit ball inside their tyre valve caps.
its slow but effective and the gift which keeps on giving.
the tyre eventually goes flat, they pump it up and put the valve caps back on and the cycle begins again. Generally gets sorted out eventually when they take it to a tyre place.

I think I have finally grow up to where I don't retaliate to these things and just get on with my life. I have figured out that it doesn't change things and just makes me stressed for no reasons. I used to live in a place where people would regularly park across my driveway. If you do something to one idiot there are plenty more waiting their turn and nothing changes.

Seeing towbars taking up part of a spot just because some RAM owner wants to reverse his 6.5m car into a 5.5m spot bugs me though. More so because I will be the one with damage if I drive into the spot normally and they get no disadvantage.

Yep my days of petty vengence are behind me also.

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Brent in Qld said.. Anything you can't put a full sheet of ply or a wave board in the back of is just pretending to be useful. This is not an opinion, it's a man-fact determined during my search for the meaning of life.

Too right
van - 8x4 in the back
proper Ute - 8x4 in the back

$150K and red bits underneath to look lifted but never gets dirty? Nup.
bit like all the 'cruisers that have to tell us they're a 300 series on their personal plates. Yes we know thanks, wnker

Anyway back on topic. remove his towbar and place it on the bonnet

Oh no, nah uh , no way . I`m not touching another man`s tow bar .


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Gestalt said..

decrepit said..
Just a matter of fact.
Flex has been using his Tesla to do Perth- Albany windsurfing trips for years.

If we get vehicle to grid working, EVs could help solve the energy transition.
They can charge during cheap low use times, at night or the middle of the day.
Most EVs these days have enough storage to do several days for the average city commute.

There is an "EV" rate that is very cheap at night but more expensive during the day. If people aren't charging from their solar panels, I'm sure that's what they'd be doing.

Where does he charge. That's an 800km round trip. It's simply not possible for me to do that at the spots I go without sitting at a charge point for an hour+ either before or after the beach.

toyota were working on a hydrogen / electric system that would solve that issue.

not keen to buy a nazi car anyways.. so limited to mg or byd

BYD new chargers in China 5 mins for 400km ?si=f88QrThQ-WvriOou 3.50m

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Yawning said..
Oh no, nah uh , no way . I`m not touching another man`s tow bar .


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That's generally a sign of three things

1. She got more than the house and car in the divorce settlement.
2. There's a c0ck in the car.
3. The driver likes balls bashing their bumper (Grace Jones sung about that)

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Ian K said..

You don't have to argue about the numbers net zero is what it will take. The last time CO2 got high was due to prolonged periods of "higher than average volcanism". At the moment we're putting in 60 times as much CO2 as current volcanic activity. All cutting back does is prolong the inevitable. We're 427.49 ppm atm. On the 18th July last year it was 424.83ppm. (This time next year will be a guess, Donald is shutting down the observatory). We get sleepy at 850ppm, that's 121 years down the track. If we halve our CO2 emission that's 242 years down the track.

Ian, I am curious. If CO2 levels were higher say 1M years ago, where does the CO2 go? Does it naturally dissipate somehow? Does it get absorbed by plants and reduce the level?

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FormulaNova said..

Ian K said..

You don't have to argue about the numbers net zero is what it will take. The last time CO2 got high was due to prolonged periods of "higher than average volcanism". At the moment we're putting in 60 times as much CO2 as current volcanic activity. All cutting back does is prolong the inevitable. We're 427.49 ppm atm. On the 18th July last year it was 424.83ppm. (This time next year will be a guess, Donald is shutting down the observatory). We get sleepy at 850ppm, that's 121 years down the track. If we halve our CO2 emission that's 242 years down the track.

Ian, I am curious. If CO2 levels were higher say 1M years ago, where does the CO2 go? Does it naturally dissipate somehow? Does it get absorbed by plants and reduce the level?

I'm not the expert but in general it is taken up by photosynthesis on land and in the oceans. Uptake by trees, algae etc is close to being balanced by decomposition but a bit of excess in trees and coral reefs can be put away sort of permanently. I gather erosion puts nutrients in the ocean that enhances CO2 falling to the bottom and staying there. But we've burnt thousands, maybe millions of years accumulation of trees falling in swamps and being fossilised in just a hundred years. Volcanoes upset the balance a while ago and CO2 rose higher than what we've done. But it probably took the high volcanic activity thousands of years to do what we've done in 100. Hope any experts out there correct me if my rough idea is wrong .


And of course some of the sinks, trees etc, might start locking away carbon at a higher rate if the atmospheric CO2 is higher. I think the oceans have upped their intake and taken in some of our excess but then I've heard that oceans might get saturated. And then there's those huge peat bogs under the permafrost that will decompose letting more CO2 into the atmosphere. They're unknowns that will affect how long CO2 will remain elevated after we hit net zero. All a bit unknown and hard to predict. The experts aren't too sure so they won't correct me there.

to much time

Says the man posting at 4am

in more than one thread

I'm on smoko, so leave me alone... haha