Vic Wasteland Thread

[Leroy Peterson]

The FT1 isn't the name for the car that it's going to be, it's just a placeholder "Future Toyota 1".

ah, makes sense

yeah? why did they not upgrade the generation capability when they could have?

not quite as simple as that... but 90% of my work is infrastructure upgrade which is a matter of skilled workers, money and time. but increasing generator capacity..., that's a different story all together. (I had to beat them to death with their own shoes).

lots if wind farms have been popping up last few years, but its unreliable and not particularly effect for running more than small towns. the big shit runs into massive issues with greenies obviously, plus the quality of coal in Victoria isn't very good. design, construct and build time for a nuclear power station would be around 12 years not including fighting off protesters plus finding a company interested in running the joint. a lot can happen in 12 years, including efficient solar panels and an effective way to store solar energy overnight..

Hydrostations are in the same boat. large environmental impact, irregular or too small an energy source and most of the large water sources in vic are already dammed or are landmarks/too valuable to people.

natural gas and diesel generators (like new port) are idle for most of the time because the costs of electricity isn't worth the running costs... unless the price goes high (like this week). and that's really the only line of defence for vic. demand spikes, price skyrockets and all these little generators start up and make enough money in summer to keep them going for another year.

also, the Bass link cable (DC supply from tassie) feeds vic most of the time because tassie has excessive amounts of power from all the hydro stations. and a lot of money is made selling it to vic.

Hazelwood and it's 6 generators (I think) power around 25% of the states demands. 1.8GW at full capacity I think. and greenies want it shut down. I think it's run out of good black coal, but not sure how much brown coal it has left. I'm sure it'll become redundant eventually. but at the moment there isn't cost effective, reliable or practicable alternatives. and we need it.

Tip Top Tip: Hazelwood burns most of the good coal at night so you can't see the black smoke from the chimneys, and burn the friendlier stuff during the day.

[Leroy Peterson]

I also forgot to mention the 132kV link to NSW and SA which makes up a national grid so to speak.

and also that just about every single demand peak is in summer (2-3 months of the year) it's hard to justify spending stupid sums of money and years building something that can't afford to run all year round.

it's just easier to school people into not using so much electricity during peak periods. and that's a bit of a fail. everyone loves their air conditioning and running it 24/7.

... which is why they're bringing in a tariff system with the smart meters.... but that's a discussion for another day

(as you can tell I'm not at work today cause apparently bush fires nearby so they said don't come in)

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

I have bought DF alcohol on return from SG. was as martin said.

the 100ml liquid rule doesn't apply to the sealed duty free bags that you pick up after the gate.

I brought back 2lt of spirits in carryon and they knew about it

which means...

RIC'S MATE IS A DIRTY FUCKING LIAR !

Apprentice wouldn't help trent with tuning as he only has 1 dyno... and as they are like $100k a pop.......... well you can work that bit out

New datsun is RAD

[Plattsy]

You should've seen the spider wondering around the garden in lanka.. The thing had 8 legs, + two more legs that had like lobster claws.

sounds like a camel spider. didnt know they where natives!

[Plattsy]

damn sooner than me.

i'll be in grog free kuwait at that point.

you can buy crappy spanner crabs but yeah.

I've love to see american dungaree's crabs done SG style, best of both worlds.

grog free?

you just not looking hard enough martin.....

go see one of the american soldiers at camp doha. they will sort you out! the american px store there is amazing too!

[Plattsy]

awesome ww2 quote there leroy.

[blah_blah]

ah, makes sense

not quite as simple as that... but 90% of my work is infrastructure upgrade which is a matter of skilled workers, money and time. but increasing generator capacity..., that's a different story all together. (I had to beat them to death with their own shoes).

lots if wind farms have been popping up last few years, but its unreliable and not particularly effect for running more than small towns. the big shit runs into massive issues with greenies obviously, plus the quality of coal in Victoria isn't very good. design, construct and build time for a nuclear power station would be around 12 years not including fighting off protesters plus finding a company interested in running the joint. a lot can happen in 12 years, including efficient solar panels and an effective way to store solar energy overnight..

Hydrostations are in the same boat. large environmental impact, irregular or too small an energy source and most of the large water sources in vic are already dammed or are landmarks/too valuable to people.

natural gas and diesel generators (like new port) are idle for most of the time because the costs of electricity isn't worth the running costs... unless the price goes high (like this week). and that's really the only line of defence for vic. demand spikes, price skyrockets and all these little generators start up and make enough money in summer to keep them going for another year.

also, the Bass link cable (DC supply from tassie) feeds vic most of the time because tassie has excessive amounts of power from all the hydro stations. and a lot of money is made selling it to vic.

Hazelwood and it's 6 generators (I think) power around 25% of the states demands. 1.8GW at full capacity I think. and greenies want it shut down. I think it's run out of good black coal, but not sure how much brown coal it has left. I'm sure it'll become redundant eventually. but at the moment there isn't cost effective, reliable or practicable alternatives. and we need it.

Tip Top Tip: Hazelwood burns most of the good coal at night so you can't see the black smoke from the chimneys, and burn the friendlier stuff during the day.

I also forgot to mention the 132kV link to NSW and SA which makes up a national grid so to speak.

and also that just about every single demand peak is in summer (2-3 months of the year) it's hard to justify spending stupid sums of money and years building something that can't afford to run all year round.

it's just easier to school people into not using so much electricity during peak periods. and that's a bit of a fail. everyone loves their air conditioning and running it 24/7.

... which is why they're bringing in a tariff system with the smart meters.... but that's a discussion for another day

(as you can tell I'm not at work today cause apparently bush fires nearby so they said don't come in)

That's quite an essay at 7am

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Like this Aaron?

[Sunkist]

thats exactly it.

[Plattsy]

haha, its a camel spider. not the same as i have seen, and might be called something different locally, but come from the same group of spiders. f**king horrible things.

[Sunkist]

man i got as far away as i could from the thing. was bigger than my hand as well.

[T.D]

Hey phaggs, just popped in to say TGIF

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

[UNR33L]

[blah_blah]

thats exactly it.

Haha if I saw that in my house, id have to kill it with a 5m pole

[T.D]

Anyone know where to get 20" BBS LM reps with either custom offset/widths or decent widths/offset for a commodore? Was contemplating D1Rs but then decided Varrstoens but they only come in 19s

I know BSA wheels do custom offsets and widths but they don't have any designs which even come close to looking like BBS LMs.

[T.D]

Haha if I saw that in my house, id have to kill it with a 5m pole

With a blowtorch attached to the end of the pole.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

Anyone know where to get 20" BBS LM reps with either custom offset/widths or decent widths/offset for a commodore? Was contemplating D1Rs but then decided Varrstoens but they only come in 19s

I know BSA wheels do custom offsets and widths but they don't have any designs which even come close to looking like BBS LMs.

Have heard the LM reps are prone to cracking...

go the varrstoen 19's

[L33SH]

Fun Fact! Camel spiders are classified under the class of Arachnida but they are not actually spiders, they are of the Solifugae order which is Latin for 'flee from the sun.' They are not poisonous but can bite out of self defence... Nothing to be scared of Aaron!

[blah_blah]

Fun Fact! Camel spiders are classified under the class of Arachnida but they are not actually spiders, they are of the Solifugae order which is Latin for 'flee from the sun.' They are not poisonous but can bite out of self defence... Nothing to be scared of Aaron!

Someone is quite aware of Camel spiders