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When the sea level rises the first places to be affected here will be Port Adelaide.

Farewell hallowed ground at Alberton.
 

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Really ike this idea, and I dont see why it cant be applied to passenger vehicles.
In that new world your local servo would have a rack of swap batteries. Cars would drive in and the batteries exchanged for a fee.
It would mean a redesign of vehicles to get easier access, and as the website suggests, the whole thing could be automated.

Let's face it, tax revenue has to be sustained to keep the country running, and this is possibly an easier way to do it. That can be managed at the point of exchange.

It also allows stronger control over spent batteries by allowing inventory monitoring.
Spent batteries and recycling are pivotal to success of EV technology, otherwise we will just transition to a new set of environmental issues.

First electric logging truck to be trialled in SA's Green Triangle forestry region
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Diesel engine conversion technology sparks electric logging truck trial in SA's south-east

A harvester in one of Australia's largest forestry regions has electrified a former diesel engine B-double in a bid to make its freight movements greener.
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Remember Port Augustas once in a 100year rain at the start of the year? Just had another one, with hail this time. Was crazy.
 
Lawnchair Larry said:
Really ike this idea, and I dont see why it cant be applied to passenger vehicles.
In that new world your local servo would have a rack of swap batteries. Cars would drive in and the batteries exchanged for a fee.
It would mean a redesign of vehicles to get easier access, and as the website suggests, the whole thing could be automated.

Let's face it, tax revenue has to be sustained to keep the country running, and this is possibly an easier way to do it. That can be managed at the point of exchange.

It also allows stronger control over spent batteries by allowing inventory monitoring.
Spent batteries and recycling are pivotal to success of EV technology, otherwise we will just transition to a new set of environmental issues.

First electric logging truck to be trialled in SA's Green Triangle forestry region
www.abc.net.au

Diesel engine conversion technology sparks electric logging truck trial in SA's south-east

A harvester in one of Australia's largest forestry regions has electrified a former diesel engine B-double in a bid to make its freight movements greener.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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NSW start-up Janus Electric
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Terrible idea already, can it.
 

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Nord Stream 2 had been completed in 2021 but has never been used. So how is there any gas in it to leak out? Because the operators of the line had filled it with 117 million cubic meters of gas in order to commission and test the line. As pressures rapidly decline the dramatic half-mile-wide Baltic Sea bubble show will fade.

Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reportedly said the Kremlin was “extremely worried” and that “no variant can be ruled out,” when considering the cause. “This is an absolutely unprecedented situation that needs to be resolved quickly.”

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Sabotage Suspected As Russian Gas Leaks From Ruptured Nord Stream Pipelines In The Baltic Sea

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time, it’s enemy action.” —Ian Fleming
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I was once taught that the Great Dividing Range, on the east coast of Aust, generated a rain shadow, with much diminished rainfall to the west.
Well, now it is being attacked from the arse, with warm, moist air from the NW hitting and dumping west of the ranges.
This persistent NW stuff seems prolonged to me.
I predict that in the future, Adelaide and even more so, Alice Springs, will become major Australian cities, protected from the buffetting of climate variation by the east and west coasts.
Not in my lifetime, however.
 
We are about one inch (25mm) off breaking the all-time annual record and that is extremely significant because records at the Sydney CBD site go back to the 1850s,”

170 year old record about to fall. Not just fall, but with 3 months to go, smashed.

It's hard to imagine what kind of climate terror there's gonna be by 2100 or so.
 
sobrave said:
We are about one inch (25mm) off breaking the all-time annual record and that is extremely significant because records at the Sydney CBD site go back to the 1850s,”

170 year old record about to fall. Not just fall, but with 3 months to go, smashed.

It's hard to imagine what kind of climate terror there's gonna be by 2100 or so.
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And I'm sure despite it going to keep happening that all the politicians will leap to photo ops of 'We'll rebuild!', rather than 'Even if Australia gets zero carbon China and India amongst others won't any time soon, so we're going to buy up the properties in these low lying areas, rather than rebuild/repair them over and over like idiots'.

That and if this is likely to keep happening then surely can get in more dams / diversions so all this water can be stored for when it's not raining or pumped inland. Yeah, it'll cost, but why not use it to open up more of the inside of Australia as being habitable / available for farmland?
 

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Open as much as you want inland up for habitation but the people of this country just wanna live near a beach, and they'd rather bring the beach to them.
 
Just had a chat to an old mate of mine, an educated scientist and former progressive MP, about the travesty of no nuclear power in Australia. Good to see there's some sane people out there that tried to get things going in the time they needed to happen who were stopped by those spreading fear and making dollars.
 
One senses a real change of late. Hopefully not too late.

Big Power oligarchs worldwide will continue to fight against it with their $$$$ and disinfo campaigns filtered through bought extreme right wing politicians and social media entities plus amoral media personalities.


 
OneGreatClub said:
One senses a real change of late. Hopefully not too late.

Big Power oligarchs worldwide will continue to fight against it with their $$$$ and disinfo campaigns filtered through bought extreme right wing politicians and social media entities plus amoral media personalities.


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When people say Nuclear isn't financial feasible, then propose this?

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edgie said:
When people say Nuclear isn't financial feasible, then propose this?

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because nuclear still has significant externalities, no matter how much pro-nuclear bros promote it. you still have the waste to deal with, plus the risks involved with natural disasters/terrorist attack etc.

climate change is an existential threat so it's definitely something that should have been considered as part of the mix, but it's higher risk than renewable sources.

do you post anything in this thread other than "we shoulda done nucular"?

30 years ago, if the world divested from fossil fuels and went nuclear we'd be in a shitload better position. same if we went hard renewables then. but the fossil fuel lobby is powerful.

don't you have anything positive to say about wind, solar, wave, geo-thermal, anything else?
 

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