Labour / NZ First Government

[Joshuatree]

Good job. Something does smell with this anti 1080 org.One does wonder is orgs like the NRA is funding/ advising them. A lot of these fanatics are hunters.


Man charged over threatening anti-1080 letters

[minimoke]

While I eagerly await to see who will replace Lees Galloway once Jacinda boots him out, with Winston's blessing of course. That will be good for a few laughs.

Decision might not be far away. He's admitted today he didnt even read the full report. Toughest decision in his life apparently. And he only read the bits he wanted. So much for throwing the poor officials under the bus - its all on ILG shoulders now. No wonder he likes to hide behind pillars - but he cant hide for ever

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First KiwiBuild families welcomed to new Papakura homes

We are off.
The demand is such that those wanting to buy the homes had to have a pre-approved mortgage and then enter a ballot.
The musician, Dave Dobbyn, sang 'Welcome Home' to the families while neighbours and representatives from local and central government looked on

According to this govt organaisation 4 completed properties (https://www.hud.govt.nz/residential-...-our-progress/) only 99,996 to go.

Another bad few days for Twyford - remember when Labour promised "To avoid buyers reaping windfall gains, a condition of sale will require them to hand back any capital gain if sold on within 5 years." Well, looks like the five years has been wound back to three years. And the capital gain exposure is now only 30%. Strange how the realities of life strike home after the elections. All those wooly thoughts going out the door now.

[minimoke]

Adern has real problems. Two ministers gone. Lees-Galloway will be next. Twyford out of his dept. And then there is Megan Woods operating in some galaxy far far away from here.

While happy to bin all exploration of oil reserves she relying on storing energy. Doesn't know how. But trust her she knows what she is doing. So what are her plans. Our future needs just requires 4 and a bit wind farms built a year. Well they can do four affordable homes so obviously four wind farms will be achievable.

But just how much energy is she going to store. 6 terawatt hours. That's not much if you say it fast. Its kind of like a MegaWatt which is not too far off a Gigawatt. Easy peasy.

So lets look at Australia who have the worlds largest storage facility. It can do a whole 129MWh. (https://www.energy-storage.news/news...ls-boring-hats)

Now lets get your calculators out. Trust her. Megan is relying on 6,000,000 MWh of storage. So that is 46,500 similar facilities built in NZ.

But Megan is confident. She was at the opening of a 2MWh research site (https://www.energy-storage.news/news...y-storage-faci). The only challenge is that it needs to be scaled 3,000,000 times.

Its scary times indeed.

[BlackPeter]

Adern has real problems. Two ministers gone. Lees-Galloway will be next. Twyford out of his dept. And then there is Megan Woods operating in some galaxy far far away from here.

While happy to bin all exploration of oil reserves she relying on storing energy. Doesn't know how. But trust her she knows what she is doing. So what are her plans. Our future needs just requires 4 and a bit wind farms built a year. Well they can do four affordable homes so obviously four wind farms will be achievable.

But just how much energy is she going to store. 6 terawatt hours. That's not much if you say it fast. Its kind of like a MegaWatt which is not too far off a Gigawatt. Easy peasy.

So lets look at Australia who have the worlds largest storage facility. It can do a whole 129MWh. (https://www.energy-storage.news/news...ls-boring-hats)

Now lets get your calculators out. Trust her. Megan is relying on 6,000,000 MWh of storage. So that is 46,500 similar facilities built in NZ.

But Megan is confident. She was at the opening of a 2MWh research site (https://www.energy-storage.news/news...y-storage-faci). The only challenge is that it needs to be scaled 3,000,000 times.

Its scary times indeed.

If that's the plan ... you notice that the Tesla battery farm has a diesel backup generator which basically is just a small oil burning power station (but a BIG diesel ...). Looking forward to get 46.500 of these into New Zelaand - this will make our air clean and green - cough, cough, cough ...

[fungus pudding]

Adern has real problems. Two ministers gone. Lees-Galloway will be next. Twyford out of his dept. And then there is Megan Woods operating in some galaxy far far away from here.

While happy to bin all exploration of oil reserves she relying on storing energy. Doesn't know how. But trust her she knows what she is doing. So what are her plans. Our future needs just requires 4 and a bit wind farms built a year. Well they can do four affordable homes so obviously four wind farms will be achievable.

But just how much energy is she going to store. 6 terawatt hours. That's not much if you say it fast. Its kind of like a MegaWatt which is not too far off a Gigawatt. Easy peasy.

So lets look at Australia who have the worlds largest storage facility. It can do a whole 129MWh. (https://www.energy-storage.news/news...ls-boring-hats)

Now lets get your calculators out. Trust her. Megan is relying on 6,000,000 MWh of storage. So that is 46,500 similar facilities built in NZ.

But Megan is confident. She was at the opening of a 2MWh research site (https://www.energy-storage.news/news...y-storage-faci). The only challenge is that it needs to be scaled 3,000,000 times.

Its scary times indeed.

Surely you're not suggesting incompetence in Labour's ranks !! What a pity el Zorro seems to be missing in action - he'd sort you out.

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Surely you're not suggesting incompetence in Labour's ranks !! .

I'm thinking the bar is now looking so low, that comment would be insulting to incompetent people.

[Joshuatree]

Some on hear are so scared of the future,and totally blind to the fact ,that we must adapt and change with the times,adapt or perish,embrace the new,or invent new solutions,we cant just keep moving to the next" valley" and stuff that up .

[BlackPeter]

Some on hear are so scared of the future,and totally blind to the fact ,that we must adapt and change with the times,adapt or perish,embrace the new,or invent new solutions,we cant just keep moving to the next" valley" and stuff that up .

Nobody here is scared of the future per se, JT. It is just - we are afraid of the future our current bunch of leaders might get us into.

Take an example - if you are sitting in a bus, you notice the driver has no clue what she is doing and you can't get off - you probably would be afraid, wouldn't you?

But than, the sweet thought of safely reaching your desired destination would be the least of your worries - wouldn't it? You might worry much more about the bus going over a cliff or turning into the oncoming traffic.

Good thing is - bus drivers need to be qualified. Bad thing is - politicians don't.

[Joshuatree]

I see one leader adapting and leading by example.
The other leader? Dead man driving off a cliff.