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Fortunate that generally such ego pilots rarely fly bigger stuff. Sad outcome but stupid trumps brains way too often. We need to be very proactive to keep our sport and reduce the idiots. Yet again someone reaches for a Darwin award. Glad no innocents were harmed.

Here is a new article about installed wind costs and subsidies in the UK. The subsidies are really just the level of payment for future contracts of supply. As the price installed drops so does the cost the UK will pay for power contracts. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/20/new-windfarms-taxpayers-subsidies-record-low "Most of the projects will receive as little as £39.65 for every megawatt hour of electricity they produce. The most expensive projects to win a subsidy contract will cost £41.61/MWh." "The sums were nearly half the £92.50/MWh awarded the year before to Britain’s first new nuclear power site in a generation, Hinkley Point C. The plummeting cost of offshore wind is attracting more interest from major energy companies." And that nuke power gets a many decade price fix at twice new power costs. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/11/huge-boost-renewable-power-offshore-windfarm-costs-fall-record-low https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/25/hinkley-point-nuclear-plant-to-run-29m-over-budget But you claim wind is massively subsidised? the base expected cost is a standard of $40 mwh any less and not considered a susidy. So new round power subsidy of a max One pound and 61 pence per mwh. The long term subsidy for gold plated nuclear is a 52 pounds and 50 pence per Mwh. These are the UK governments figures on contracts signed- so no possible argument on the numbers In simple terms the wind gets 3 cents in the dollar for every $1 given to nuclear for the same power- which is baseload. The wind contracts have no public liability for profitability. The nuclear is a public backed profit machine for a private group. All real costs and risks the public pays including the outsize profits- all for at least 30 years. This Nuclear project is for latest available tech and in a country that has subsidised the nuke industry for 60 years. The model is considered flawed by the builders and governement and any future Nuke power will come at substantially greater cost to ensure viability for investors not the public. the extra cost will be a even greater public subsidy. So the most expensive power on the planet long and short term is admitted to only get more expensive. This in a country which has all the advantages of small space, high population and lots of fresh water. Maths is not hard. Science is not hard. Been ethical is not hard. Been good to the planet and its people is easy if you can use the first three. It can also be a lot cheaper to do the right thing and it only gets cheaper.

What you are afraid I might be right? Not just my science or logic. The legions of science and even pushers of nuclear industry all agree. All the major financial markets, government bodies, and even builders of nuclear power agree. But you can choose your own reality, but not the planets. Snide remarks just reveal bias and demonstrate a inability to see others views. If my logic or science or ethics are suspect, then demonstrate. I stand by my comments, how about more than just spitting the dummy?

Yes big holes in the ground can be used for pumped hydro. A good solution for certain areas. But the thousands of holes we have are far in excess of any practical use. A perfect example of mining never cleaning its mess and always shifting the cost to the public. Glad your onboard, pun intended. Funny we don't see the deniers condemn such waste of our money. But will scream murder about even a free shovel for renewables. Please be careful of mentioning the beneficial uses of holes in ground. Some could see that as justifying all the bomb craters in Vietnam, since some are now used for prawn farming. Perverse I know.

Before anyone complains about the idea of a "industry policy" , it is something responsible governments do. So I accept you may never have seen one. It is not a picking winners thing- it is ensuring the losers don't get placed on the podium and handed the prizes.

Building a nationalised nuclear grid would take at least 30 years minimum and that assumes we could get the money. Nuclear has a role if you have already built and own it. We have not. Even UK are finding they can't build one economically. They have ample experience. Assuming we could build it- we do not have the water to either cool them nor for the steam to power conversion. Steam turbines use huge amounts of water that must be fresh. Or should we build nuclear to run the desal plants needed to provide water to run nuclear. A losers game for a dry country. How is helping sheep farmers going to solve it? I will help them as its my heritage since 1832. But a fibre industry that uses mass water and chemical for low jobs and inedible produce like cotton should be discouraged. As a matter of industry policy. Wind farms do conduct like others, they pay big income to farmers who still get their land to use. Or did you mean the most subsidised industry like mining and coal power, who get govt money, trash the joint, suck up all the water and leave a big hole in the ground and economy?

I am happy to take any challenge you make but will be very busy solving the problems created by others. Help is appreciated. I am more than happy to defend my ethics. Take a shot.

It is obvious that, no matter what some people think, they must get on the same planet as the rest of us organisms. Or should get off, the dead rock they so earnestly strive for is called the moon. Gaia said its OK,they can all go and do as they wish. Just leave it how you found it. Anyway ........ As demonstrated by a chief sceptic, who eloquently demonstrated with his wonderful prose, and high praise it was indeed. The only solution is to accept the most gravest task...... I accept to be your benevolent dictator. I will rule with science, compassion, ethics and a love of all creatures. Even the those that by their actions have shown their greed over survival of others. Even those that are full of shite. At least we can grow food from them.

I think it might be like gravity. You have to drop them from height head first. We might have to do multiple repeated drops.

Amazing how some will use anything to shoot the messenger. Their blindness to reality is amazing at times. Or He doth protest too much. You know they are jumping Sharks when they claim it is offensive to do the right thing.

Amazing how some will use anything to shoot the messenger. Their blindness to reality is amazing at times. Or He doth protest too much. Maybe some need to get a job with a crane company. The ability to cherry pick and hoist straw men is amazing.

Or the most expensive restaurants ripping of millions in wages and then claiming the laws are unfair, too hard to read and understand. So justify stealing from wage earners. But it is not theft. Just good business practice. Steal $50 go to jail. Steal $5 million, blame the greedy staff you steal from and the unfairness of system, get away with it.

The ex fire commissioners report states Australia has actually risen on long term average by 1.9 degrees. That's a huge change for the driest continent. No one has more to loose country wise- bar flooded islands. But we are doing the absolute opposite of what we need to do. What a pathetic lucky country we are.

But fellas there is a massive skill shortage. Just ask any business, they try and get staff but Aussies want to be paid and have those commie things like work rights. So we fill up on often low skilled, underpaid visa staff or do one better like Jetstar and claim the flight is a international sector flight. So use massively underpaid cabin staff from Asia on Asian rates but working on local routes. Australia, the lucky country one day, and a morally bankrupt tax avoider the next.

Careful there Methulsa, Next you will expect us to think critically. You know knowledge and science is scary? Best just to shove heads in the sand and wait for Schmo the Munster to inform us from the rear.

Scomo the schmo, our prime Munster. Not just a religious fairy worshiper but a Pentecostal but. Religions right wing happy clappers who believe not only is greed good but godly for them. So believe they have a right to exploit the globe and everyone else. Who did he want to take to the states on his trip, when he went to a Pratt box factory Instead of the U N? Brian Houston of the millionaire Hillsong church as his spiritual advisor. Who is also still to be charged for covering his dad abuse of children, as per the royal commission. Even the Whitehouse said No farkin way. Looks pretty clear Scomo does not care if the future and children get farked over. Its all OK, folks shutup and pray. The Munster loves quiet obedient Australians.

I think your been a bit rough on the women and Judge. It is obvious the mechanic gave the women very bad advice and should have known the likely outcome of his advice. He only had to say, it can be damaged if you drive without cooling. Simply. Legally the same if the car had one wheel but but, she asked for help, mechanic looks at wheel missing all but one nut and only says, no nuts here go across town. Wheel falls off on trip, accident etc. Would he be liable then? Mechanics are a legally regulated trade and considered experts by law and the public. They have some responsibility even if it only not to provide negligent advice. The women did everything a reasonable person would expect, the mechanic did not. Getting paid or not is irrelevant. He is not a mate helping but a professional. It may be a case of a dodgy mechanic finally getting some payback. Been in bussiness is not a licence to do anything without care.

Four doors down from my place. Now just a mechanics of slow cars. Dainty was the quintisential Aussie creative engineer.

Don't forget the others as well. A goodie was the beer..... Two dogs firetrucking.

It just amazes me that some can use any excuse or creation of facts to suit their argument. All to excuse massive rippoffs of market failure. But always the first to scream for a government handout or rules to suit themselves. Economic sociopaths is a apt term. If you think I am pointing a finger in your direction? You would be correct

I am all for proper testing and accreditation with compliance of the rules been the norm. It is the ability to be dodgy by bending rules or plain ignoring them, that have Boeing in this situation. The effectual regulation gap in the USA is so big Airbus could fly a A380 through it.

Thankyou, that is appreciated. I never want to make those with greater qualifications or any, think I am deriding their knowledge or experience. I am just looking at it from a I treated bystander perspective. What I see I do not like. I agree cracks happen but this is a still major safety issue. Given the number of effected airframes with even low hours been detected, my argument stands. All should be grounded for inspection regardless of hours. They claim only a half day to inspect- so just do it. No crack- no problem, check again in 500 cycles. To wait till it is a Boeing mandated cycle number is asking for trouble and a number derived at by profit not safety. It is not my intent to flame every aircraft with a crack. But when the manufacturer has a big reputation for been dodgy, non compliance and fraudulent paperwork, fake parts etc. The concern is warranted. Yes, parts can be repaired, but I still contend the special nature if the part, its shape and the placement of the cracked fastener make a proper repair difficult. It is not a flat simple surface.

We need to see the criminal negligence in all of this. Forgetting the dead and talking purely poor corporate practice allows the culpable to get off. They get paid huge sums and know the decisions they make can kill. They knew of the potential for a safety after profit culture could lead to failure. They actively sought as a management group and some engineers to ignore the required best practice, choose to hide the functions of MCAS from pilots, airlines and regulators to ensure pilot training and fundamental safety were ignored for profit. A perfect example is the indicator light for MCAS activation was a high cost option. They charged something like $50,000 just to tell the pilot it was on. This demonstrates clearly they have chosen to not just downgrade safety but monetised it. This goes far beyond mere negligence and even criminal negligence. At the least it is negligent manslaughter for those complicit. I would in American parlance think it is really negligent homicide with hundreds of counts. Mass negligent homicide as the participants illegally conspired and this was a potential outcome. For Boeing as a entity just like in human terms it is guilty and must be treated as such. The ability of a society to sanction humans or corporates is fundamental. We can not blame the workers in general of Boeing and to dissolve the company would be unjust punishment on those not actively involved, and the broader local economies etc. But the need for punishment and deterrence is the same. You can not really jail a corporate entity but you can take control and ownership of its shares, management etc. The state becomes the owner and the victims families get a share. The shareholders have gambled on a company that lost betting against peoples lives. Deterence must penalise them. Lots of people have died because a group at Boeing were involved in a criminal conspiracy that lead to the foreseeable death of hundreds of people. Long jail sentences are required and a suitably punitive approach to the company.

I never ever claimed to be a Lame or anything. Never would but that does not discount my opinion nor my concerns. I do however have a science background and two eyeballs. How can the part be repaired to its pre cracked strength and also be sure it will not crack again? The fundamental answer is ....it can't without replacing the part with one that is new and proven to specs. It is not a skin or even a spar- they can be repaired in some cases. The pickle fork shown and many hundred others have been shown to not be up to the task they were designed and installed for. It is 1 major load point of only 4 in the lower part of the fork. No simple drill stop technique and a patch with new fastener will work. It is a substantial monolithic part. It is no simple bracket. For those that know more, please demonstrate.

I suggested if it is cracked, it needs replacement. If it is not cracked, it needs very regular inspection. The normal repair method does not suit the part at all. It is not a skin crack in one of thousand s if rivets. It is one of four. Its design does not allow for a patch. If that seems unfair or not normal practice, I suggest a crash course in physics is needed. Would any seriously use a aircraft that had 25% failure of your spar/ landing gear connection to the airframe on one lower side? Would you accept the word of your builder? After they are caught lying about their next model? Would you accept their cheap fix assurances? When the complexity of the parts indicate that as not a standard fix? Some will say, but that's normal practice or be reasonable. They need to take off their pilot hat or vested interests. The public needs to be safe and insular " we know best " thinking is why we are in this Boeing mess.