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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/534821/auckland-council-s-empty-pensioner-flats-to-be-refurbished-and-rented-out
Is it that those who get management jobs in govt or local govt are making decisions on a whim like children playing with Lego or paper dolls or even Sim City which might be a step-up? If they were doing their job with threat of ‘retirement’ if incompetence and ineffectiveness regularly displayed would that be better?
Is this worth knowing? Will it be good for us or have effects that are bad?
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-found-an-entirely-new-way-of-measuring-time
Did you know about extracting groundwater effect on polar shift or something?
A groundbreaking study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that groundwater extraction plays a significant role in shifting the Earth’s rotational pole, surpassing other climate-related factors.17 hours ago
Groundwater pumping has shifted Earth’s axis by 31.5 inches …
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by KW Seo · 2023 · Cited by 24 — Earth’s pole has drifted toward 64.16°E at a speed of 4.36 cm/yr during 1993–2010 due to groundwater depletion and
Do we look up and study these things just to show how smart we are? Or do we take the information on board and amend our ways for safety, going forward, at all levels of leadership and management, even restraining zealots who are obsessed with present advantage from mishandling the planet. Get your hands off my home we cry, or do we??
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/534807/gas-supply-shrinkage-sparks-fears-of-suburban-shortages
Vector is bringing practical thinking to known future problems, good one. Note the mention of recovery of costs over shorter time also. There is still a lot of planning of expensive facilities etc that foresee cost recovery and profitability over 20th century timeframes. Dreamers and dabblers, GO HOME to wherever mansion or seething money-mountain you came from, and stop trying to rip us off (Simpsons Springfield Monorail). Lessons from simple drawings and Simpson cartoons we need to pay attention to as they are not ‘simple’ they are satirical which is a different kettle of fish, if you understand me!
Vector wants the government to use regulatory tools or some other method to help it recoup its pipeline investments and afford to maintain gas services, even if there’s an exodus of users.
It follows similar discussions in Australia, where some gas pipe owners in Victoria and West Australia have lobbied regulators to let them charge higher network tariffs to customers now, to recover on their gas pipes investments faster.
Faster cost recovery is seen as an insurance policy by recovering money while the customer base is strong, in case there is a smaller group left to pay for pipeline maintenance later.
Green gas and green hydrogen are being pursued as cleaner solutions to replace some of today’s fossil gas.
Gas produced from Auckland’s compost collection is being produced in Reporoa and blended with fossil gas to serve customers of Firstgas’s North Island pipeline network.
Firstgas said the Reporoa facility could produce enough renewable gas for 7200 homes.
But Vector said hoping for enough green or renewable gas to materialise to protect all residential gas users amounted to “running a lottery”.
This –
Green Hydrogen Is Bubbling with Hype
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New Zealand’s interim hydrogen roadmap suggests hydrogen exports of about 0.5 MT/y. Meeting domestic hydrogen demand is challenging enough, but export ambitions add another layer of complexity. Hydrogen is difficult to transport because it is a very light gas that takes up a lot of space.
My dear client up Kaiti Hill in Gisborne in a house undermined by Cyclone Gabrielle, so having to leave 20 Dec, spotted the rare grey warbler while I was there. First the song, then the sight. A darker version of a waxeye. She does a bird calender so she rushed away for a camera but only got back for a few bad photos.
Yes a bird of a flighty sort sumsuch. 20 December client has to be out of house – what a Christmas eh! Hope all goes reasonably well for all, need to utilise opportunities, develop x-ray vision, stay positive, exchange a silly joke regularly, think laterally or actually at least 180 degrees, and then turn for other direction.
Nicely said, GW.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/534887/cost-of-losing-ge-free-label-on-primary-exports-unknown-report‘
Has no-one in authority over the people in this gummint ever said ‘Dont do that.’ It seems that everything that others have done, they want to be contrary and undo. Like mad Talibans. Destroying all that we have built up you sleazy sh….s – choose your own possibilities.