I've just seen the news story on the Spanish actions taken to produce power from sunlight focussed by mirrors. So what does our present Government advocate for the future? Something non-polluitng perhaps? No. We'll burn more coal, and dig up and use uranium, a substance with a half life which guarantees it will remain a pollutant for eons.
Here at TAFE I still regret the loss of the Renewable Energy teaching team to QUT, what a magnificent case of mismanagement on behalf of BNIT.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Monday 30 April 2007
Soon we will be celebrating both our birthdays, and Bernadette's graduation as a Patent Attorney. The certificate she received looks very impressive, with gold embossing and green background, so we plan to somewhere special. Life in Library world is less than spectacular at the moment, we are short staffed, and training in the new software applications has been minimal and fairly basic.
I'm going to be investing in ( ie buying some of) the new sliver cell photovoltaic technology as soon as Origin energy get it onto the market. These cells should be significantly cheaper than the current cells, and even if not, it is by far the better alternative to nuclear energy. I am excited by the high levels of electrical output from these solar cells, they appear to be far more efficient at capturing and converting solar energy than previous pvc cells.
No rain, no rain, then wind and no rain. We are bucketing grey water onto our trees, and they are struggling on. We had our first custard apple of this season tonight, it was about the size of a tennis ball, and had over 20 seeds. It tasted good but there was very little flesh in it. Our rain water tank probably wont arrive until the middle of May, but there has been no rain anyway. the tomatoes have all got viral wilt, every variety I planted. The zucchini also appears to have some sort of viral wilt, and the citrus all have the worse case of leaf miner I have seen here, due to the dry weather. The local dam, the Wivenhoe, is now down to less than 20% of its capacity, water restrictions are at level four, which for us means bucketing water for our vegetables on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday between 4 and 8 pm only. Which is pretty good considering some of our friends are having to buy in water for their cattle, and have only tank water themselves (when it rains). The three well established pink Euodia (a native rainforest tree) which hosted an annual visit from a flock of Rainbow Lorikeets and other birds, and are located directly behind our back fence, are wilting and appear to be dying from lack of rain.
Last weekend was our first weekend away in the tent in three years. We went to Noosa, and it rained in Noosa, but not in The Gap. We booked a campsite in the National park, but the roads were impassable, even for four wheel drives, so we decided it better to take our station wagon somewhere else. We spent a Friday night we wouldn't want to repeat at John's Landing, then moved the Noosa Counci l beach site the next day. The site was great but the weather was very windy, and overcast. Kyaking was very difficult and disappointing. On Sunday on the way home, after we had stopped and got the large and unidentified spider out of the car, we drove to Kenilworth for lunch, then stopped for a paddle in the Mary River, so as to enjoy it before the dam is finalised. I couldn't resist touching the unmarked live electric fence that some idiot had strung across the river, I thought it was a discarded fishing line!
I'm going to be investing in ( ie buying some of) the new sliver cell photovoltaic technology as soon as Origin energy get it onto the market. These cells should be significantly cheaper than the current cells, and even if not, it is by far the better alternative to nuclear energy. I am excited by the high levels of electrical output from these solar cells, they appear to be far more efficient at capturing and converting solar energy than previous pvc cells.
No rain, no rain, then wind and no rain. We are bucketing grey water onto our trees, and they are struggling on. We had our first custard apple of this season tonight, it was about the size of a tennis ball, and had over 20 seeds. It tasted good but there was very little flesh in it. Our rain water tank probably wont arrive until the middle of May, but there has been no rain anyway. the tomatoes have all got viral wilt, every variety I planted. The zucchini also appears to have some sort of viral wilt, and the citrus all have the worse case of leaf miner I have seen here, due to the dry weather. The local dam, the Wivenhoe, is now down to less than 20% of its capacity, water restrictions are at level four, which for us means bucketing water for our vegetables on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday between 4 and 8 pm only. Which is pretty good considering some of our friends are having to buy in water for their cattle, and have only tank water themselves (when it rains). The three well established pink Euodia (a native rainforest tree) which hosted an annual visit from a flock of Rainbow Lorikeets and other birds, and are located directly behind our back fence, are wilting and appear to be dying from lack of rain.
Last weekend was our first weekend away in the tent in three years. We went to Noosa, and it rained in Noosa, but not in The Gap. We booked a campsite in the National park, but the roads were impassable, even for four wheel drives, so we decided it better to take our station wagon somewhere else. We spent a Friday night we wouldn't want to repeat at John's Landing, then moved the Noosa Counci l beach site the next day. The site was great but the weather was very windy, and overcast. Kyaking was very difficult and disappointing. On Sunday on the way home, after we had stopped and got the large and unidentified spider out of the car, we drove to Kenilworth for lunch, then stopped for a paddle in the Mary River, so as to enjoy it before the dam is finalised. I couldn't resist touching the unmarked live electric fence that some idiot had strung across the river, I thought it was a discarded fishing line!
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