Current Affairs šŸŒ”ļø Weather / climate change

NZWarriors.com

Remove ads
MaybeTop8 said:
Deeply concerning that all of the focus has been on profit extraction and fossil fuels and nothing on renewables or building a resilient supply and infrastructure in New Zealand eh.

Because that's not profitable for the multi nationals. Text book neoliberalism - Sell off the natural assets to your mates, strip them bare, send the profits offshore, push the cost of cleanup onto the public, then fuck off leaving us to pick up the pieces.
Click to expand...
During my time in the industry, admittedly a few years ago, we were paying the Govt around $500m annually in Royalties. Not sure where it went.
 
MrFrankWhite said:
Plus the sizeable economic activity it generates. I suppose it could get replaced by playing whale songs to trees?
Click to expand...
Yes, the economic impact was large. Employed around 12000 workers in mainstream and allied industries so had a big influence not just here in Taranaki but overall in the country. JN will know this as well but to work in the industry/maritime, you don't have to actually live next to the port or rig. Most jobs are rotational and where you live is immaterial. Heaps of FiFo workers in WA still live in NZ and do a 6 or 8/2 rotation.
People often forget that the industry powers not only cars and power stations but has a huge input into most of the materials we use in our day to day lives. Petro-Chemical is actually bigger than O&G

The lifestyle we all have today has been powered by energy since the 1800's and that energy comes from O&G or Coal. Unfortunately the alternatives are nowhere near able to provide the same bang for the buck unless we stop the hand wringing and adopt Nuclear. The other alternative is do what China and India are doing, build 200 coal fired stations.
As an Engineer, to me, the Nuclear option is the only way forward, to get a sustainable, cheap and environmentally free energy source.
 
MrFrankWhite said:

View: https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1972232592104587297?s=46&t=N6rrXot3pBpvv2hdvhmStw
Click to expand...

Your not telling me this is like the:

- 1970ā€™s global cooling crisis
- the ozone holes disappear crisis
- peak oil crisis 1970-2000
- generically modified food crisis
- Y2K computer crisis
- nuclear war threats
- wars over water scarcity crisis

This one must be different?

Weā€™re due to wrap up this climate change hysteria soon so the media can devote some real time to the AI taking over the world potential crisis.
 
wizard of Tauranga said:
Time will tell. We adapted to the rest. I have faith in humanity and science to sort all these existential crisisā€™s.

But when the science and technology is the problemā€¦ šŸ¤”
Click to expand...
My dad bought a smart tv once without realising it needs the internet, which he didn't have. My mother said "you fuckn idiot, why didn't you buy a normal TV? Can't even watch Coronation St now, may as well lay down and die."
 
miket12 said:
How come Australia gets slammed for putting in subsidies for batteries but the NZ government got slammed for removing them for EVā€™s. I never understand the logic processes of someone like Kent Dunston.

Wonder what Kent would think of the Greens policy for a $6,000 grant/subsidy for solar systems in NZ.
Click to expand...
I think it was a humourous comment Mike, pointing out the government's own idiocy, and the success that's being seen in Australia.
 
MaybeTop8 said:
I think it was a humourous comment Mike, pointing out the government's own idiocy, and the success that's being seen in Australia.
Click to expand...
The first solar subsidies offered in NZ were under Shipley but, under pressure from the Greens, Helen Clarkā€™s government removed them in favour of a cheap system, which was the only one with a subsidy offered.

The problem was, they did exactly what this current lot favour and only took advise from those who gave them the outcome they wanted and didnā€™t talk to those within the industry. Back in those days, photovoltaic solar panels were hugely expensive so grants were given to those installing solar water panels. The problem was, standard HWCs off the time available in NZ were galvanised, not stainless steel, so they werenā€™t suitable for solar water heating as they would corrode.

The Greens didnā€™t like that solar water heating wasnā€™t being adopted in huge numbers in NZ so, as part of their confidence and supply agreement, they wrote a specification for the only hot water solar system that would receive the government grantā€¦. and it was so cheap, it covered only inferior products including a galvanized HWC. The installers hated the cut priced system and only two were installed in NZ.

Itā€™s a pity because companies like Sola60 had some really good products but eventually went out of business. I personally specified their products, including German built stainless steel hot water cylinders designed specifically to be used for solar hot water installations for quite a few projects.

One of the heads from Sola60, moved across the Ditch and headed up one of the largest installers of solar panels/batteries in Queensland until he retired a few years ago. Iā€™m still in contact with him as heā€™s a fountain of knowledge when it comes to solar systems.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom