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Post by fish on Aug 12, 2024 20:52:06 GMT 12
Perhaps someone undid all the bolts to clean them? |
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Post by ComfortZone on Aug 28, 2024 16:40:01 GMT 12
Just another example of government's hypocrisy - USA this time, do as we say, not as we do!
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Post by Cantab on Sept 2, 2024 19:28:36 GMT 12
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Post by GO30 on Sept 16, 2024 15:24:03 GMT 12
Yesterday I tried to buy an electric vehicle. 100km of battery installed next to 700km more of generation capability. Finally a battery car with genuine usability at long last.
And the price looks to be bearable, a saloon version sells here for 58K.
But there are none for sale in NZ as yet.
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Post by DuckMaster on Sept 16, 2024 18:41:19 GMT 12
Yesterday I tried to buy an electric vehicle. 100km of battery installed next to 700km more of generation capability. Finally a battery car with genuine usability at long last.
And the price looks to be bearable, a saloon version sells here for 58K.
But there are none for sale in NZ as yet.
BYD Shark. Should be available soon.... these are epic (on paper). |
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Post by em on Sept 16, 2024 19:01:51 GMT 12
Yesterday I tried to buy an electric vehicle. 100km of battery installed next to 700km more of generation capability. Finally a battery car with genuine usability at long last.
And the price looks to be bearable, a saloon version sells here for 58K.
But there are none for sale in NZ as yet.
Your nzsailing man card has hereby been revoked . |
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Post by GO30 on Sept 17, 2024 12:07:15 GMT 12
Cancelled that fast? but loving the efficiency, get in and get it done, Nice  Current Ssingsong ashtrays are full so it has to go but towhat is the question. Ford - I don't like mechanics or paying a premium for low spec wagons full of 19th century technologies. Nissan, Mitzi, Toymotor - again big coin for low spec and reliance on century old technologies. Gt Wall - Hmmmmm, poor history and it pushes no buttons LDV - yes maybe Cybertruck - just after that colonoscopy with a ball of barbed wire. Rivian - bland and expensive Ssingsong - the new ones will be 100% battery but there maybe some run out stock around BYD - great reviews and from Americans of all people, the ability to wind up wokies due to battery reliance on the internal ICE. Far newer technologies than the mainstream names and at a similar price. RAM, Dodge, F150 - I said ute not a small house. Thinking about it there are 2 paths - one is the status quo old school all be they with new lipstick or diving down a whole new path.
Don't know if it has a ashtray, it's more the approaching 60K, 20 of which she was being used as a tractor  |
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Post by em on Sept 17, 2024 12:56:08 GMT 12
Cancelled that fast? but loving the efficiency, get in and get it done, Nice Current Ssingsong ashtrays are full so it has to go but towhat is the question. Ford - I don't like mechanics or paying a premium for low spec wagons full of 19th century technologies. Nissan, Mitzi, Toymotor - again big coin for low spec and reliance on century old technologies. Gt Wall - Hmmmmm, poor history and it pushes no buttons LDV - yes maybe Cybertruck - just after that colonoscopy with a ball of barbed wire. Rivian - bland and expensive Ssingsong - the new ones will be 100% battery but there maybe some run out stock around BYD - great reviews and from Americans of all people, the ability to wind up wokies due to battery reliance on the internal ICE. Far newer technologies than the mainstream names and at a similar price. RAM, Dodge, F150 - I said ute not a small house. Thinking about it there are 2 paths - one is the status quo old school all be they with new lipstick or diving down a whole new path.
Don't know if it has a ashtray, it's more the approaching 60K, 20 of which she was being used as a tractor The hybrid BYD should be very good in 4WD if it has it ? At very low speed it should run on the electric motors which have really smooth , controllable throttle response , kind of like your tractor in its lowest gear . Engine braking on a steep slope should be very good too on electric . Our hybrid is really good for trailer work around the property doing light duty 4WD , it has on demand 4WD and Yokohama possum fucker tyres . If it had the ground clearance of a Subaru outback it would be a bit of a sleeper farm vehicle |
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Post by GO30 on Sept 18, 2024 12:57:36 GMT 12
The Sharks wheels have no connection to the ICE under the bonnet, the wheels are full time electrically only driven.
The ICE, a 1500cc petrol I think a turbo, is only a generator to refill the batteries when they get low.
I believe it has 2 electric motors, one drives the front, one the back.
I spoke to a salesperson yesterday re the price. They are asking for 'Expressions of Interest' for the first shipment. Once they come in they will set the price. Or in other words if they see huge interest the price will be up there, if there is little interest the price will be lower. Cheeky fuckers but hard to blame them as they are also fully aware the wokies are willing to pay over the top. Time will tell us the price and with that what sales will be like.
As I told sales dude, I can by what I 'need' for 30 something K, I am prepared to pay more to get a few personal wants and a few things but there is a limit on how much more.
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Post by ComfortZone on Sept 21, 2024 14:38:00 GMT 12
Owen Jennings www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/09/guest_post_now_heres_a_funny_thing.htmlAirlines have trees to offset their CO2 Greenhouse Gas emissions. That’s recognised and acceptable. More than that it is encouraged and subsidised.
Farmers have grasses to offset their CH4 (methane) Greenhouse Gas emissions. That’s not recognised and it’s not acceptable. More than that, they are heavily criticised and are threatened with severe penalties.
Humans emit CO2 Greenhouse Gas. We are not penalised because we are part of a closed, natural cycle where we eat greens that are grown by photosynthesis that uses CO2. That’s IPCC policy.
Cows emit CH4 Greenhouse Gas. They are to be penalised even though they are also part of the very same, closed, natural cycle where they eat greens that are grown by photosynthesis that uses CO2. That’s IPCC policy. But is it equitable?
I am told size counts. Airlines produce 1.0 billion tonnes of Greenhouse Gas a year. Humans breathing, 2.94 billion tonnes. The world’s sheep and cattle produce 4.03 billion tonnes of Greenhouse Gas a year. Pretty straight forward facts? Well, no, they’re not actually. To get the 4.03 billion tonnes the world’s climate experts multiplied the actual figure by 28. The true amount of methane gas emitted was a much more manageable 144 million tonnes.
Why multiply by 28? Cows and sheep emit methane, and the experts want us all to believe methane is 28 times more of a warming problem than CO2, the gas that aeroplanes and people emit. But is it 28 times stronger, in fact? It’s not, and any school kid doing science could demonstrate why it is not.
Remember the silly question we asked as kids – “what weighs more a tonne of feathers or a tonne of lead?” The explanation included the reality that the feathers took up a huge amount more space. And thereby lies the simple mistake of the ‘28 times’. It’s the reverse to the feathers. The “28 times” proponents use weight instead of volume or mass. Their proposition is that every extra tonne of methane added to the atmosphere does more warming than an extra tonne of CO2.
The fallacy is that warming is done on a molecule by molecule basis, not weight. Methane has an atomic mass of 16 (C=12, H=1), whilst CO2 (O=16) has a mass of 44. So, one kilogram of methane has 2.75 times the number of molecules in an equal weight of CO2. If equal volumes of the two gases are compared, rather than equal weights, the “28 times” is grossly over-stated. Molecule for molecule, the warming ability of methane compared to carbon dioxide is 28 divided by 2.75 times (44/16) – i.e. a much more modest multiplier of 10.2.
The difference between 28 and 10 times is massively significant when the gun is at every farmer’s head to reduce or pay.
But wait, there’s more.
Using weight measures shows that the mass of CO2 currently in the atmosphere is 3000 gigatonnes, as compared to methane at only 5 gigatonnes. By weight, atmospheric methane is a mere one six-hundredth (0.0016%). It is widely accepted, by the IPCC and sceptics alike, that doubling the weight of CO2 in the atmosphere is likely to cause a direct temperature rise (without feedbacks) of about 1.0°C.
Doubling the weight of methane in the atmosphere adds only one six-hundredth as much greenhouse gas as doubling CO2. When multiplied by a multiplier of 10.2, this would produce warming of only (10.2/600 x 1°) or 0.017°C. Now, factor in that all ruminants worldwide, domesticated and wild, are only responsible for 15% of the methane entering the atmosphere so their contribution is now a lowly (0.017C X 15%) or 0.00255 C.
At the present rate of increase methane will need 360 years to double. That means all the cows and sheep on the planet, at the very most, are warming the planet by (0.00255C divided by 360) or 0.000007 C per year.
New Zealand has just 1% of the world’s ruminants so that makes our cocky’s contribution a heroic 0.00000007 degrees C per year. Yes, it’s absurd and beyond all comprehension that many New Zealanders from our “climate-woke” Prime Minister down to the tea person at the University can believe that Kiwi farmers are still a problem.
All these ridiculously miniscule, inconsequential numbers are utterly meaningless because no matter how much we multiply and divide and argue decimal points the simple fact is that farmers are using as much Greenhouse Gas from the atmosphere every day as they put back, if not significantly more. There is literally no scientifically based case to tax ruminant emissions.
As cows consume grass, they stimulate its regrowth, which sequesters additional CO2 through photosynthesis. While cows emit methane as a byproduct of digestion, this methane eventually breaks down into CO₂ and water, completing a natural cycle.
Moreover, livestock contribute to carbon sequestration by storing carbon in their bodies and the soil by enriching it through their waste, promoting further grass growth. This creates a positive feedback loop, enhancing the pasture’s ability to capture more CO2. Methods of increasing soil sequestration are emerging, so several tonnes of carbon per hectare are locked away permanently. Consequently, New Zealand’s pasture-based farming system is acting as a net absorber of greenhouse gases, challenging the notion that livestock farming solely contributes to emissions.
The great tragedy is that New Zealand’s leaders over the last 30 years or so haven’t bothered to learn the facts or even tried to convince the UN and its IPCC sidekick that ruminant methane is not a problem using the available science. Too many of our scientists are unwilling to challenge the prevailing IPCC conclusions – its job threatening and odium producing. Farmers feel sold down the creek. DPF: Note scientists say it is not just about weight. MIT notes:
Let’s say a factory releases a ton of methane and a ton of CO2into the atmosphere today. The methane immediately begins to trap a lot of heat—at least 100 times as much as the CO2. But the methane starts to break down and leave the atmosphere relatively quickly. As more time goes by, and as more of that original ton of methane disappears, the steady warming effect of the CO2 slowly closes the gap. Over 20 years, the methane would trap about 80 times as much heat as the CO2. Over 100 years, that original ton of methane would trap about 28 times as much heat as the ton of CO2.
DPF's note is somewhat nonsensical, if the methane has broken down it is gone, you cannot make the extrapolation he is claiming.
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Post by Cantab on Sept 21, 2024 16:21:32 GMT 12
My sons year 9 social studies class is a fullon left woke propaganda hive.
He said they split the class into small groups, teacher took them to another room, focus group to drum in cc message.
He was in the smart kids group and left until last, they was quite looking forward to it, heaps of questions.
Teacher decided not to do that group.
Same every week though, socialist welfare promotion, diversity, identity, colonisation bad, indigenous rights, Maori treaty priciples, climate change doom, sea level rises.
Most of the kids no it's all bullshit already. Shoving down their throats is actually causing them to reject it too, bit like Maori language.
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Post by sloopjohnb on Sept 25, 2024 13:51:54 GMT 12
Crikey the sea has been raising for years. 110 meters in 17,000 years =6.5 mm per year |
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Post by ComfortZone on Sept 27, 2024 4:26:26 GMT 12
from USA www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-9-21-why-there-will-never-be-a-zero-emissions-electricity-system-powered-mainly-by-wind-and-sunexcerpt The official line is wrong. As the build-out of these wind and solar generation systems continues to progress, it has become increasingly obvious that there will never be a zero-emissions electricity system powered mainly by wind and sun.
The reason should be obvious to everyone although, for some reason I cannot understand, it is not. The reason is that the intermittency of wind and solar generators means that they require full back-up from some other source. But the back-up source will by hypothesis be woefully underused and idle most of the time so long as most of the electricity comes from wind and sun. No back-up source can possibly be economical under these conditions, and therefore nobody will develop and deploy such a source.
No thanks to current catastrophists insanity, NZ is reasonably well placed for now with the bulk of power generation (~85%) from hydro and geothermal, but with gas supplies dwindling and the forced transition to electricity in industry together with an increasing population we too are going to face a train smash if the current mindset continues amongst decision makers
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Post by em on Sept 27, 2024 7:42:49 GMT 12
from USA www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-9-21-why-there-will-never-be-a-zero-emissions-electricity-system-powered-mainly-by-wind-and-sunexcerpt The official line is wrong. As the build-out of these wind and solar generation systems continues to progress, it has become increasingly obvious that there will never be a zero-emissions electricity system powered mainly by wind and sun.
The reason should be obvious to everyone although, for some reason I cannot understand, it is not. The reason is that the intermittency of wind and solar generators means that they require full back-up from some other source. But the back-up source will by hypothesis be woefully underused and idle most of the time so long as most of the electricity comes from wind and sun. No back-up source can possibly be economical under these conditions, and therefore nobody will develop and deploy such a source.
No thanks to current catastrophists insanity, NZ is reasonably well placed for now with the bulk of power generation (~85%) from hydro and geothermal, but with gas supplies dwindling and the forced transition to electricity in industry together with an increasing population we too are going to face a train smash if the current mindset continues amongst decision makers
Fuck does no one take heed of what Germany did at least a decade ago ? Massive roll out of subsidised grid-tie solar panels on homes and businesses but no batteries . Long story short the Govt had to pay power Co’s to keep their plants on standby ….and standby is actually full noise so they could generate straight away if a cloudy front came through somewhere in the country . |
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Post by fish on Sept 27, 2024 9:23:36 GMT 12
from USA www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-9-21-why-there-will-never-be-a-zero-emissions-electricity-system-powered-mainly-by-wind-and-sunexcerpt The official line is wrong. As the build-out of these wind and solar generation systems continues to progress, it has become increasingly obvious that there will never be a zero-emissions electricity system powered mainly by wind and sun.
The reason should be obvious to everyone although, for some reason I cannot understand, it is not. The reason is that the intermittency of wind and solar generators means that they require full back-up from some other source. But the back-up source will by hypothesis be woefully underused and idle most of the time so long as most of the electricity comes from wind and sun. No back-up source can possibly be economical under these conditions, and therefore nobody will develop and deploy such a source.
No thanks to current catastrophists insanity, NZ is reasonably well placed for now with the bulk of power generation (~85%) from hydro and geothermal, but with gas supplies dwindling and the forced transition to electricity in industry together with an increasing population we too are going to face a train smash if the current mindset continues amongst decision makers
Fuck does no one take heed of what Germany did at least a decade ago ? Massive roll out of subsidised grid-tie solar panels on homes and businesses but no batteries . Long story short the Govt had to pay power Co’s to keep their plants on standby ….and standby is actually full noise so they could generate straight away if a cloudy front came through somewhere in the country . So, lets talk technical. I know that in a standard power network, resonance and harmonics are major issues. This is in the frequency of the power (hertz) because we distribute alternating current power. Electrical engineers can be very strung out trying to manage this. Examples are things like North Harbour Stadium causing an area wide blackout because harmonics caused a supply system trip. Other examples are high powered motors such as wastewater pumps that used variable speed controllers to manage peak start-up currents, but require stringent harmonic filtering. Hell, we can even trip the National Grid because of solar derived electro-magnetic pulses. So, if you have a very large number of dispersed electrical generation points, such as household solar on every house in a new development, and a cloud comes over, how do you handle the sharp dips and surges in the network? I assume the basics of having solar everywhere is so you reduce baseload demand so we can keep more water in the hydrolakes. So, if a cloud comes over Auckland, and they need to open the penstocks down in the Waitaki Valley, how do they actually manage that wave of extra energy surging up a couple thousand kilometers of transmission lines, through the DC-DC interisland link, into the substations and into the local distribution network, all without tripping something? Even better, how do they handle the sudden peaks and drops of power from large scale windfarms? Nephew is a freshly graduated electrical engineer at a refinery near Melbourne. It takes a lot of work to de-energise distribution assets once the power has stopped down through them. It must get devilishly complicated if you have surges and dips of high voltage transmission infrastructure all the time. |
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