Re:Solar is now cheaper than some coal, says India energy mi...
by Intermernet on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @09:44AM
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I once drove from Sydney to Cooktown (according to Google, 30hrs over 2720.4km, which sounds about right) and horribly managed to kill 2 birds, 1 wombat and 1 wallaby. I'd hate to think what the truck transport industry kills with every single trip compared to this apparent risk from wind-farms.
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Re:Solar is now cheaper than some coal, says India energy mi...
by ageofwant on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @10:20AM
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Last month I drove from Launceston to Scottsdale, I stopped counting dead wallabys at I recon about 120 (pademelons propably, hard to tell if their spread so thin). Many of those were in pairs, a bigger smear, followed by a smaller, joey-sized smear... Amazingly I only almost killed one, and managed to drive over a echidna (missed him)
Took the fun edge of an otherwise very pleasant island trip.
Re:Solar is now cheaper than some coal, says India energy mi...
by ageofwant on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @10:29AM
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A colleague recalls a trip from Perth to Port Hedland on a overnight bus when she was doing picking up north as a student. Bus has a formidable roo-bar. During the night she was constantly woken up by annoying "pings" from the front. Early morning se got off at a stop to take a piss and witnessed the driver hosing of the roo bar. Something he did at most stops up.