Re: Wind energy a boon for farmers - tenfold returns !

From: Jim Greenfield (greenfield_7_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: 29 Nov 2004 14:08:56 -0800

jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote in message news:<YfWdnYixr4BUrTbcRVn-jQ@rcn.net>...
> In article <3c4afb26.0411281639.37b0bad3@posting.google.com>,
> greenfield_7@hotmail.com (Jim Greenfield) wrote:
> >jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote in message
> news:<OJednbbtXZa0IzTcRVn-1Q@rcn.net>...
> >> In article <3c4afb26.0411280057.76cb7b4a@posting.google.com>,
> >> greenfield_7@hotmail.com (Jim Greenfield) wrote:
> >> >jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote in message
> news:<w4Gdnbth__X2BTXcRVn-jA@rcn.net>...
> >> >> In article <3c4afb26.0411231519.6919b620@posting.google.com>,
> >> >> greenfield_7@hotmail.com (Jim Greenfield) wrote:
> >> <snip>
>
> >> Stobie pole? I've never seen that noun.
> >
> >Named for a bloke called Stobie who came up with the idea; two H
> >section steel giders with concrete between to form a pole. Ugliest
> >things in the landscape! They are ubiquitous and unyielding.
>
> I don't remember seeing them.

You are lucky! They were probably invented/allowed here, because we
have a shortage of straight hardwood trees from which to get poles.
>
> > .. New urban
> >developments are increasingly putting the lines underground,
> >thankfully.
>
> That's damned expensive. The only good thing about
> putting wires underground is the hurricanes can't get down
> them. That's the only good thing. Water can get them; critters
> can get them. And upgrading and/or maintenace required the road
> to be dug up and then that has to be replaced.

Bushfires often cause blackouts here in the summer; underground might
avoid that
>
> > ..That is far too expensive for long distance transmission.
>
> >A general shortage of tradesmen here to! Trades became "uncool" with
> >the boys when they discovered computers :-(
>
> My nephew thinks that he can make tons of money by getting a
> computer <spit>science degree. If you want to make tons of
> money, learn how to plumb.

$40/hr isn't bad, eh?
>
> I had one those male two-legged critters come in because I
> had a pipe that was leaking. He looked at the pipe,
> pronounced, "Lady, you have a leak." and left. Then I got
> his bill for identifying the problem. I guess he presumed
> that my followup would convince him to fix the leak. I
> estimated that I get the water to stop flowing about three
> paper rounds later. So I duct-taped it.

Put a couple of those screw tightened hose clamps over it, and it will
last for years. A piece of bike tube, even better- stretch it as you
wrap it around, then clamp. Dry as!
>
> >>
> >> > ... Ours used to be artesian, but now
> >> >has to be pumped out of the ground to a header tank. Water quality is
> >> >pretty average (so I stick to beer)
> >>
> >> Drain it through sand.
> >
> >lol The aquifer it comes from is known as the Knight Sand, and the
> >water has been filtering through from The Grampians, a mountain range
> >200 kms east, for tens of millions of years!
>
> So why is the water not potable?

Just not pleasant to the taste, and leaves a lot of calcium/iron
deposits in the kettle etc. It would probably be better if I charged
the softener more often :-( The iron might be coming from the old
mains, and the water supplier probably overkills with Cl

> The pump prices for diesel (fuel put into semitrucks) here is over
> $2. Most of last year diesel was more expensive than gasoline.

So that is about half ours.
>
> The fuel oil I use for heat had its price frozen at $1.79 this
> year. I kept telling the oil guy to buy the futures last spring
> but he didn't.
> <snip>
>
> >> >Any shoplifter worth his salt will quickly find a dozen ways to rort
> >> >it. Will the stores just up the price of everytning, to maintain the
> >> >bottom line?
> >>
> >> Most people are honest.
> >???????????????????????????
>
> Thanksgiving Day somebody forgot to lock a Stop&Shop grocery
> store. A lot of people went in got the stuff they needed
> and left the money on the counter. A few people went
> in and stole stuff. Like I said, most people are honest.

Sounds like you live in a good neighbourhood. Our little one boy (14)
crime spree has left here thank goodness. We know damn well he
committed at least a dozen breakins, and was arrested at least three
times. The police maintained they couldn't do a thing, as the local
magistrate bailed him out continuously, and he just carried on
laughing. Someone would have taken the law into their own hands soon.
Bloody dogooders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jim G

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