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Post by GO30 on Jun 25, 2024 13:46:13 GMT 12
I have 20 sick days now 18 but how do you use them?I feel guilty ringing in sick. Yes it was John Key who suggested to do away with breaks or not set at times as unions want.2 hrs 10 minute break or 4.5hrs 30 minute unpaid. Under the transport act I need 2 x 30minute breaks in a 14hr period but easy too bullshit,put break in while unloading etc I have 14.27 weeks leave stacked up.
D1 in describing the 2 main parties to her flattie a month or 2 back. The Nats are like Trump, get ya shit sorted, stop fucking around and get on with it. Where Labour is like Putin, you will do as I tell you and if you don't like that please go stand by that open 6th floor window. It was a very funny dinner.
Feeling guilty about ringing in sick is due to your age dude, we came from an era where we were taught if we want shit done get the fuck out of bed and do it. Unlike today where they are told all employers are arseholes out to fuck you over so do it to them before they do it to you. Sadly no one tells these kids the employers know this shit and do adjust pay/conditions accordingly.
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Post by em on Jun 25, 2024 18:59:05 GMT 12
I have 20 sick days now 18 but how do you use them?I feel guilty ringing in sick. Yes it was John Key who suggested to do away with breaks or not set at times as unions want.2 hrs 10 minute break or 4.5hrs 30 minute unpaid. Under the transport act I need 2 x 30minute breaks in a 14hr period but easy too bullshit,put break in while unloading etc I have 14.27 weeks leave stacked up.
D1 in describing the 2 main parties to her flattie a month or 2 back. The Nats are like Trump, get ya shit sorted, stop fucking around and get on with it. Where Labour is like Putin, you will do as I tell you and if you don't like that please go stand by that open 6th floor window. It was a very funny dinner.
Feeling guilty about ringing in sick is due to your age dude, we came from an era where we were taught if we want shit done get the fuck out of bed and do it. Unlike today where they are told all employers are arseholes out to fuck you over so do it to them before they do it to you. Sadly no one tells these kids the employers know this shit and do adjust pay/conditions accordingly.
Yeah na he might be anti electric cars and have the backing of Elon Musk Ox but I don’t think he’s on par with the National party Attachments:
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Post by em on Jun 25, 2024 19:13:14 GMT 12
A pacific without the checks and balances of the US is wide open for china to fuck around with . That leaves us with Indonesia , Malaysia , Thailand and Australia to resist China . Indo and Malaysia have a heap of Muslims so it may not work out well for the Antiopdes . Trump is not good for New Zealand or the South Pacific IMHO
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Post by GO30 on Jul 3, 2024 14:24:11 GMT 12
A pacific without the checks and balances of the US is wide open for china to fuck around with . That leaves us with Indonesia , Malaysia , Thailand and Australia to resist China . Indo and Malaysia have a heap of Muslims so it may not work out well for the Antiopdes . Trump is not good for New Zealand or the South Pacific IMHO China has been influencing Pacific Nations for decades. I spend 1995 in Kiribati and China was active there then. 96 I was in the Sollies and was tasked to suss a outer fringe Island so the Aussies could install a military tower on it before the locals let China do it, for a nice wad of coin into a pollies pocket. Unlike NZ they openly acknowledge their Govt is corrupt.
In my time living around the Pacific the main nation they bitch about is Aussie, the US is second, China was never mentioned.
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Post by em on Jul 3, 2024 20:15:31 GMT 12
A pacific without the checks and balances of the US is wide open for china to fuck around with . That leaves us with Indonesia , Malaysia , Thailand and Australia to resist China . Indo and Malaysia have a heap of Muslims so it may not work out well for the Antiopdes . Trump is not good for New Zealand or the South Pacific IMHO China has been influencing Pacific Nations for decades. I spend 1995 in Kiribati and China was active there then. 96 I was in the Sollies and was tasked to suss a outer fringe Island so the Aussies could install a military tower on it before the locals let China do it, for a nice wad of coin into a pollies pocket. Unlike NZ they openly acknowledge their Govt is corrupt.
In my time living around the Pacific the main nation they bitch about is Aussie, the US is second, China was never mentioned.
Yeah influencing is one thing , having a free run down the guts of the pacific with a flotilla to get yourself a farm , Forest and golf course is another thing . I dearly hope Indo , Malayasia and Thailand are enough of a deterrent to keep them up North . Australia must be a very tempting morsel for China too with all those base minerals and coal and an intelligent work force in place already 😂 |
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Post by GO30 on Jul 4, 2024 18:59:02 GMT 12
To get to NZ China will have to go through Australia first and they won't be allowed to do that until they have taken the US out of the game. Sowe'realong way down the list and by the time they get here life as we know it will have already been consigned to history.
Influence is all they need. They aren't doing it to take control of the countries as such, even if a few are letting them run a litte loose like. They are doing it for votes and numbers.
China + Jim Jong Fatty = 2. No power there
Those toplus a pile of Pac Island nations = 12
Those 12 plus the Sth American countries they are also in = 25
Those 25plus the African countries = BOOM now lots of power, 50 votes in the UN or where ever.
Numbers are just guesses
Plus of course they are scoring some minerals and other goodies as they go.
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Post by fish on Jul 8, 2024 21:28:37 GMT 12
How to call the bluff of climate catastrophists and loonie greenies. In order for Australia to met it's carbon reduction targets by 2030, in must go nuclear.... mwhahahaa I've always said nuclear is the most environmental source of energy, yet everyone gets their knickers in a twist over it for some reason. Zero carbon, zero emissions, zero coal, zero natural landscape impact like with huge hydro dams, wind farms and solar farms as far as you can see. Consistent, reliable. Cheap too, apparently. What is not to like? Dutton has argued that the current centre-left Labor Party government will not be able to reach its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 with renewables such as wind and solar alone. “I want to make sure that the Australian public understands today that we have a vision for our country to deliver cleaner electricity, cheaper electricity and consistent electricity,” Dutton told reporters last month. For many Australians, Dutton’s proposals lit a match under a discussion they had assumed was put to bed decades ago. Under the current government’s plans, Australia is one of the few major economies not using, or planning to use, nuclear energy to provide guaranteed power to underpin renewable sources like solar and wind. “It’s clearly got a fundamentally political objective, which is to differentiate the opposition on energy policy, and has been successful so far in that the government hasn’t yet worked out what its reaction should be,” Tony Wood, the director of the energy program at the Grattan Institute think tank, told Al Jazeera. The chosen sites all host ageing coal-fired electricity plants, which the incumbent government has promised to phase out as quickly as possible. On an optimistic timetable, nuclear energy would take at least 10-15 years to come online. Critics see the policy as aimed at propping up members of Dutton’s coalition in electorates where communities are anxious about the economic impact of the transition away from coal, as well as leveraging a backlash in regional areas against what many rural residents see as unsightly renewables projects. At the heart of the debate are questions about the economic viability of renewables as Australia transitions to net-zero emissions by 2050, a commitment supported by both major parties. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/7/8/in-australia-energy-crunch-prompts-a-heated-debate-on-going-nuclear |
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Post by harrytom on Jul 9, 2024 3:59:42 GMT 12
Hears yesterday.Gkenbrook steel mill going to have electric furnaces soon.Be a starting point for a nuclear power plant.
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Post by jim on Jul 9, 2024 10:38:04 GMT 12
Years ago i read a book about Chernobyl, the first half of it was about nuclear power stations in general with quite a bit of technical detail ,i've forgotten a lot of it but one thing that stood out was once that reactor is cranked up it needs 24hr babysitting by smart and competent humans then after decommissioning (50 years? later) it needs babysitting for another 450 years for the earlier models or quite a bit less for the more modern versions. i have serious concerns about our babysitting capabilities. as a footnote i did a tour of Hunterston nuclear powerstation way back and looking at their grid and control diagrams i asked a few "what ifs" regarding supply to the cooling pumps , it only took 3 from memory to lead back to a big Perkins diesel in a shed with its battery to start it.
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Post by GO30 on Jul 9, 2024 11:25:19 GMT 12
How to call the bluff of climate catastrophists and loonie greenies. In order for Australia to met it's carbon reduction targets by 2030, in must go nuclear.... mwhahahaa I've always said nuclear is the most environmental source of energy, yet everyone gets their knickers in a twist over it for some reason. Zero carbon, zero emissions, zero coal, zero natural landscape impact like with huge hydro dams, wind farms and solar farms as far as you can see. Consistent, reliable. Cheap too, apparently. What is not to like? Fragile structures containing all manner of hell should it escape built on fault lines, dormant and not so dormant volcanic zones in a country that is basically a geological time bomb. I think I can add a nuclear reactor into that equation and come to a result that is very much not to like. NZ does not need nuclear, full stop. We have 100's if not thousands of potential Manapouri's which are safer, greener and cheaper. That's a shed load of power. And then add this. While cleaning my stream/creating my own mini Suez canel. I've watched the water flow which is not large but steady. On sussing I can buy a mini hydro plant which will take about a day to install and produce a conservative 200W 24/7/366 which is 1.8MW per annum. If we install that system into 650 small streams in NZ we will add the equivalent of 2 entire Manapori power stations to NZ generation and do it without the need to run huge fuck off wires and wobbly arsed towers everywhere. 2 Manaporis is the same as a smallish medium sized Nuclear plant, 1800-2200Mw. 650 of those mini hydros would cost 3.5 million to install, a sum a little below the cost of consenting a Nuke plant let alone building one. Each mini hydro sits in a stream and would take less than 1 sq/m so very discreet. A Nuke plant makes even a huge bulls balls glued to a greenies forehead look discreet. When NZ gets angry and the main fault blows it loads which would be better, up to 650 turbines the size of a bucket falling over in a bush clad stream or a Chernobyl. When dystopian NZ arrives the survivors can use mini hydro where a Nuke? again not so much. There is no sound case for Nukes in NZ. |
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Post by fish on Jul 9, 2024 11:45:19 GMT 12
How to call the bluff of climate catastrophists and loonie greenies. In order for Australia to met it's carbon reduction targets by 2030, in must go nuclear.... mwhahahaa I've always said nuclear is the most environmental source of energy, yet everyone gets their knickers in a twist over it for some reason. Zero carbon, zero emissions, zero coal, zero natural landscape impact like with huge hydro dams, wind farms and solar farms as far as you can see. Consistent, reliable. Cheap too, apparently. What is not to like? And then add this. While cleaning my stream/creating my own mini Suez canel. I've watched the water flow which is not large but steady. On sussing I can buy a mini hydro plant which will take about a day to install and produce a conservative 200W 24/7/366 which is 1.8MW per annum. If we install that system into 650 small streams in NZ we will add the equivalent of 2 entire Manapori power stations to NZ generation and do it without the need to run huge fuck off wires and wobbly arsed towers everywhere. Good luck getting resource consent for anything in a stream. Let alone another Manapouri. It is not possible to build new hydro in NZ - the Tribes that were here first will say it breaks the life force of the river. That is the main driver of the fast track consent process. It is almost impossible to get RC for a feckin wind farm, let alone flooding large valleys. That is why the Ruataniwha dam didn't go ahead in central Hawkes Bay. Water storage is the best and only thing for NZ agriculture economy, to pivot away from dairying to cash crops (fruits etc) and to adapt for climate change - but do you think it is possible to get a project off the ground? RC kills everything. Anyway, if any of you guys could read, the article is about nuclear in Australia not NZ. Aust base load power is coal, NZ baseload power is hydro. Per kW of lectricity, Aus do 1.1 kg/CO2/kW, NZ does 0.11kg/CO2/kW. That is why Aus needs nuclear, to meet their emissions targets. How else can Aust meet their emissions targets if they don't use nuclear? Question aimed at the climate catastrophists... PS, If you are emulating Clarkson, the mini hydro in the stream might just be what you need to get hauled through the courts by NRC ;-) |
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Post by Cantab on Jul 9, 2024 12:30:34 GMT 12
I think you got your maths and interpretation a bit wrong.
Manapouri can produce 800MW or 800000000 watts
Your dam unit is at 200watts, you need 4 million of them to do the same.
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Post by GO30 on Jul 9, 2024 13:00:28 GMT 12
I think you got your maths and interpretation a bit wrong. Manapouri can produce 800MW or 800000000 watts Your dam unit is at 200watts, you need 4 million of them to do the same. Opps, yes something went a miss there. Mixed up my KW with MW's bugger. That was a tiny unit though and big creek sized. Get a small stream and the output would increase a lot.
I don't have JC's profile which was a main driver into his council issues. But we are KDC and I am a pasty coloured NZer so my problems will be race based.
Ask 90% of NZers 'Would you prefer nuclear plant or a large expansion of hydro, inc mini and micro schemes, even if it means pissing off a few Maori and happy clappies?' We all know what the result would be, a few Maori and happy clappies.
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Post by fish on Jul 9, 2024 13:47:53 GMT 12
I don't have JC's profile which was a main driver into his council issues. But we are KDC and I am a pasty coloured NZer so my problems will be race based.
Ask 90% of NZers 'Would you prefer nuclear plant or a large expansion of hydro, inc mini and micro schemes, even if it means pissing off a few Maori and happy clappies?' We all know what the result would be, a few Maori and happy clappies.
Yes, but how does Australia meet their climate change targets? |
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Post by GO30 on Jul 10, 2024 13:08:34 GMT 12
I don't have JC's profile which was a main driver into his council issues. But we are KDC and I am a pasty coloured NZer so my problems will be race based.
Ask 90% of NZers 'Would you prefer nuclear plant or a large expansion of hydro, inc mini and micro schemes, even if it means pissing off a few Maori and happy clappies?' We all know what the result would be, a few Maori and happy clappies.
Yes, but how does Australia meet their climate change targets? Easy, the same as NZ and other places, they fuck over the population. |
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