Hi Hasbeen,

Last week, the last power-house chimney was blown up here in SA, at Pt Augusta. No more coal-fired power stations in SA.

By an amazing coincidence, I had a black-out on the Monday night (so I missed Q & A as usual but still had an early night), and again, twice, on the Wednesday, the last one (so far) for around 24 hours. So I did my bit in the spirit of renewables.

It's a wonderful thing, not to get too smug, not to take essentials like electricity for granted. For bringing me back down to earth, back to real life as it must be in Third World countries without any electricity at all, with only wood and dung fires for cooking, I warmly thank the Greens.

Cheers,

Joe

There are thousands of tons of firewood along NSW country roads thanks to Green influence, once upon a time locals used to clean up the fallen timber on the roadsides, and the Council would tell you where there were recent falls (saved them money).
Sadly, no more, it's now worth a possible $5,000 fine for collecting dead wood along a road, with the exception of collecting near Council provided fireplaces for immediate use.

Diver Dan,

"Hand feeding giant snapper which haven't been seen on this site since 1970’s, when ..."

Good work, Dan, makes it so much easier to get them with a hand spear.

Greenies; Pfffttt...

They'd be living under lean-to's in unwashed clothes they stole from the Vinnies bin and wiping their bums with leaves if we left things up to them...

Cant we just feed them to some malnourished animal species and say we were helping the environment?
- They'd do the same us if the nutters had half a chance...

Where are all the starving and endangered snapping turtles?

Loudmouth Joe, oh the joy of it, my $1.000 dollar battery backup solar insulates me from blackouts
Yes a grand, 310 for three deep cycle batteries, now ten years old, two hundred each for three panels, green energy!
Neighbors hate me
They like me have rooftop feedback, more than me, but they run lights outside 24/7, killing cost reductions dead
My outside lights never run out of free power

Hey Belly,
You should upgrade mate.
You can pick up second-hand panels for about $45 a pop now.
- Less if you buy more -

I'd like to take all the second-hand panels we have in Australia now and build huge solar farms out in the desert for second hand panels 'end-of-life' use.

- Where do solar panels go to die? -

And no stealing my business ideas and slogans. NO

Plenty of second hand systems with good inverters for sale on Gumtree.
You should be able to build a 4 or 5 kw system for about a grand.

- Don't forget the isolator switches on the panels and the inverter.