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...magic unicorn and SonOfChurchill, who was a Pom. "it's climate change" said mu, and raced down to the Native Titles office and made a claim on DG Airport so he could declare it an EV park. (We are not talking about the average zombie here) "What's your ancestry" asked the bored official. mu bristled; he was not about to tell anyone he was illegitimate, then realised what the BO wanted and said "I'm a Magunic Man from Darrawim" and the stamp dropped with a bang. nu now owned the Darraeweit International Airport worth $350 million. He immediately consulted his tribal elder Socadji and they declared it an EV Park. Then they made their encampment, had a smoking ceremony, and sat down for a feed of rabbits.

This was a big mistake, because you didn't mess with CT anytime anywhere. The 203 people who sat down in front of him at the 2015 Falls Festival can vouch for that, because...............

.....this particular region was known for its gas reserves. The problem was that wen these gases were mixe in with those there was a reaction which nobody expected and..........

..........but when one escaped it told all the others and the greenies went and annoyed the meat producers.

There they met their match...........................

......but that was too much for Cappy's stomach and so they decided to sub let the runway repairs to

Aroma Runways Inc. who had the expertise, filled main streets and also did the paperwork to rename them "Memorial Drive", which was a nice touch.

The following week CT dragged out his Electric Drifter.............

.....do it all again tomorrow when six black suited Calabrians, marched in heading for CT and CP.

CT passed a Haveock knife to CP under his coat; CP who was a dirty fighter underhanded it into the forst Calabrians guts,  then sprang forward grabbed the knife and underhanded it into the next Calabrian etc etc until there were no Calabrians left standing. "Care to dance? Cappy asked CT who had already started to back away........

.....recyled as sustainable aquarium fish food which was supplied to Brisbane pet shops.

The only problem with this fast growing business of CT's was that when the body gassed up it squeezed a little hole sized slug of earth up on the runway, causing aircraft to have to zig zag around them, and sometimes ..................

Turbo did laugh at Cappys deep joke; he laughed so hard that he dislocated his nose and had to patch it with duct tape, and missed the next line.

.....trued borehole....

.....a stand up.......

strangle CT and throw him in as well. CT whipped inside dressed in black and when he came out no one could tell him from the others and he was able to sil;ence them all with a Havelock No7  rabbit knife.

CT now had a Chrysler 300 to drive, so he changed the plates from "DA MAN" to the Playboy Bunny, and put two fine gold stripes along the sides, then ................

.....CT Farms, a producer that totally confused the other growers at the Mafia-run (NTTIAWTT) Melbourne Poduce Market, because of the specatular size of his broccoli. This had caused a scare for CT Farms when Bruno Tizzoni the head of the local Mafia, known as "Tizz" to his friends and "OneTit" to his enemies had some CT brocoli analysed and it showed lead contect, The Department of Agriculture followed through but didn't find anything and it was assumed that some lead from a packaging process contaminated that one piece of broccoli. Tizz was a bad loser and put a horse head in CT's bed. CT, known locally as "12Gauge" wasn't a wimp and retaliated with a string of four dozen rabbit heads along Tizz's front fence. One of the looked like his daughter and Tizz ....................

... well known feline steaks., the felines being Indian Leopards from the province of Rudrapayag where Turbo employed Grades 2, 3, 4 and 5 making his "Turbine Swimwear" which is sold in the US for Real Americans, meaning obese blobs that no one manufactures for anywhere in the world.

He needed to buy an Airline to carry the volume, and the aircraft he used exclusively were ................

47 minutes ago, onetrack said:

The majority of fuel exhaustion events are caused by incorrect tank valve switching or faulty valves.

The Cherokee selector just rotates; it's only an outside thought. At the busy airports it not unusual for the student to be asked to organise a fuel tanker if he/she finds it down on preflight. Still could be anything.

24 minutes ago, facthunter said:

THAT is nearly always a consideration including incorrect selection . A few people have been known to run out of fuel while doing circuits, but if he had done only one solo, then How?  Nev

The 12 circuits before the student went solo?

4 minutes ago, aro said:

1) Most of the time, vehicles plugged in won't actually be charging because charging from empty is rare.

2) Chargers can distribute available power depending on how many cars are being charged. e.g. if your charger has 20KW available, 1 car can get 20KW, 2 cars 10KW each, 10 cars 2KW each etc.

What do they plug into? Remember he was talking about multi-unit - 100 to 200 units in maybe a 4 story cluster with no plags in the car park for car owners.

30 minutes ago, Ian said:

I don't really rate your fire services engineer. This is a henny penny type argument, it is a basic infrastructure problem and it's an easy problem to solve from a design perspective, electrical engineers design standard circuit types to be deployed in these environments which are specified in Australian Standards, if a standard can't found it should designed by a qualified engineer. For example in some environments low smoke flame retardant non-toxic insulation TPE/TPU is mandated (specified in Australian Standard). Sounds like it would be suitable for deployment in an underground car park with limited insulation. (We did have a discussion earlier of whether there's a difference between a university qualified engineer with a BEng or someone who has put the word engineer in their title)

 

The technology to solve the peak load problem exists and has been in existence for years and yes even Governments know about it. Essentially it's a modern version of off peak power but smart enough to tell the difference between I need the car charged now or I need the car charged by 9am tomorrow.

https://www.smartgrid.gov/the_smart_grid/electric_vehicles.html

Unsurprisingly power companies are also  looking at using your car batteries to stabilise the grid https://www.agl.com.au/residential/energy/electric-vehicles/smart-charging-trial, I wouldn't participate in this unless there is a very large payback, your car batteries wear out.

 

 

 

I haven't spent the time to check how many of these developments have occurred in Melbourne but let's say half a million, What we were talking about was now, the ones which have been built.

Yes, the next one coming up for the design phase could have the changes you suggest, but if one of those half million families decides to buy an EV now, it's ind the nearest commercial charging point.

The peak power he's talking about is the coal plant fully fired up.

Have you been able to get any off peak electricity? I tried about 8 years ago, bought a hot water system with off peak charging timer. The electrician was forst told it must be wired separately to a se[parate switchboard meter, then when he'd done that, the issue was kicked upstairs and the company said they no longer offered off-peak rates. The renewables have been undercutting the coal-fired in this low demand area to the point where coal fired has to charge more to recover costs.

I wouldn't worry about the BE; this guy has serious industry credentials, but he didn't ask me to hire him. We all should be talking about kWH so we know we are talking about the same load and same capacity.

52 minutes ago, octave said:

I am sure I wont convince you of anything.   You say it "can't work" if you are correct the next few years will support your view. 

Octave sometimes it pays to read a post before you start typing.

I posted, in quotation marks information I received from an Industry professional for the benefit of people interested in multi unit complexes and to a degree street charging.

He has the qualifications to inspect the buildings and do the calculations, and is entitled to his, professional, opinions.

In relation to our discussion about EV charging in Multi Unit complexes, I asked the opinion of a professional fire services engineer.

He said:

“It’s a huge problem, just cannot happen. This is the problem with politicians and ignorant narrative.

They are already making EV chargers compulsory in Class 2 (residential apartment buildings) in underground car parks which is a major fire risk problem and many other issues.

The major issue these people haven’t understood is there is no electrical power capacity in these existing buildings to charge these cars.

Charging uses a huge amount of kilowatts.

When people come home and plug their cars in it is typically at peak power demand time of the day.

Unless they put delay start timers on these chargers it will cause an instant power overload on the electrical infrastructure in the building, but timers still don’t solve the problem.

Even with timers, the power demand will be huge and the maximum demand calculations that are used to calculate capacity in main switchboards, consumer power mains, sub main risers etc. will be woefully inadequate when you start to add EV charging power demand.

The second problem is that there are no individual power circuits in basement car parks that come from each unit’s switchboard so that the power can be charged against each consumers power usage.

Even if there was a 10-amp power point, that is woefully inadequate for car charging unless you are prepared to wait 10 hours.

The third problem is if all the apartment building stock wanted to install power for EV charging, the street and locality power distribution infrastructure (poles, wires, substations etc) does NOT have the capacity.

The fourth problem is there is no baseline power in the system despite what the dreamers say."

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26 minutes ago, kevinblack said:

Hey, thanks.

 

Yes a couple of hours a week (not that cheap), BUT the cost of ownership of a Warrior II is significantly more than an LSA. War story: Almost went into a three-way share on an older Cherokee 180. The buy-in was $15k, the first annual was $88k (pretty much twice the purchase price). Sure, that's an extreme example and luckily I was out before it got to that. Even before that, the hourly cost of owning was in excess of the hourly cost of renting (I see your point). LSA ownership looks far more attractive.

Why did you ask then?

4 hours ago, Roundsounds said:

You cannot be PIC and not be in the aircraft. All solo flights are logged by the pilot as PIC. 
Student pilots cannot fly unless under the supervision of a flight instructor. ie they can’t simply jump in an aeroplane and go flying, they must be authorised by an appropriately qualified instructor. The supervision includes a briefing / debriefing on the sequences to be flown, weather and any pertinent operational considerations. 

What about fuel exhaustion?

..."Greetings Comrades past present and emerging, and Ita..........",but he got no further becaise someone noticed he didn't have an LBGTQM armband on, and that ............... 

9 minutes ago, kevinblack said:

My RAAUS type flying is essentially a few hours in a Jabiru J160, a few more in a J170 and a couple of right-seat trips in the early (low wing) Brumby LSA (which I found incredibly squirrely). I have a couple of hundred hours in Cessna 150/172, Cherokee 180 and Warrior II.  The one I liked the most was the Warrior II, I just gelled with the handling etc etc.

 

With a possible opportunity to get back into flying (not really interested in the PPL side, but would keep the controlled airspace rating) is there anything in LSA type market that handles like a Warrior II? It doesn't have to be a clone, but something with similar flying and handling characteristics.

 

Price would be an issue, so doesn't have to be new. As an observation, I see J240s in the $60k-$80k price range. I don't know what the upper limit would be, but certainly nothing more than $150k (the actual upper limit could be quite below that, but it will definitely not be above that figure).

 

Thanks......

The answer after flying a few RA is "No" - not even close.

Flying is a bit like gambling where people think they're winning but the house percentage takes them out over time.

Regardless of the Warrior cost the number of hours required to stay current is very very low.

.........the new Turbine Finance BitBamboo currency, said to be worth its weight in gold.

Jabiru who always keep a close watch on the NES for new technical developments, jumped at the concept of bamboo TUK TUKs and paid BtBOO 3.5 million for a licence to build them. powered by their Gen5 engine it looked like it might be a winner for OUtback Mustering, so they ................

........after you've already had to put out three fires, and jump wire the lighting circuit with a swiss army knife, as well as ................

5 minutes ago, Blueadventures said:

Turbo is this fact or fiction as I don't recall reading that statement by Rogin.

Mackay and Witsunday Life interview - phone Rachael.