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Thread ID: 75316	2006-12-24 17:18:00	The Official PressF1 "What I Got For Christmas" Thread	Dannz (1668)	PC World Chat

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509254	2006-12-25 19:09:00	Well i'm very pleased with Xmas day.. Armed with a blunt hand-saw i produced 7 sacks of firewood made from packing cases the neighboring businesses threw out, got tired from doing it and a little saw, so i probably got a small increase in personal physical strength as well. The gaps were spent filling my brain with knowledge What a productive day indeed. Hopefully today will have fine enough weather that i may repeat the process, and send at least 14 sacks of firewood out country so my friend can put less strain on the national grid. Eventually the shops will reopen, and i'll be able to get a blade for the skill saw too, as soon as this Christmas silliness is over. Good exersize. Good karma. What a perfect days!	personthingy (1670)
509255	2006-12-26 08:52:00	Well i'm very pleased with Xmas day.. Armed with a blunt hand-saw i produced 7 sacks of firewood made from packing cases the neighboring businesses threw out, got tired from doing it and a little saw, so i probably got a small increase in personal physical strength as well. The gaps were spent filling my brain with knowledge What a productive day indeed. Hopefully today will have fine enough weather that i may repeat the process, and send at least 14 sacks of firewood out country so my friend can put less strain on the national grid. Eventually the shops will reopen, and i'll be able to get a blade for the skill saw too, as soon as this Christmas silliness is over. Good exersize. Good karma. What a perfect days! There is no strain on the power grid in the summer period, its the winter period/spring from memory, and even then we havent had any blackouts. Burning firewood would probably be more inefficient than an electric heater and produce more CO2 than say hydro electricity, meh, hippies and their twisted logic	Tux (606)
509256	2006-12-26 09:04:00	There is no strain on the power grid in the summer period, its the winter period/spring from memory, and even then we havent had any blackouts. Burning firewood would probably be more inefficient than an electric heater and produce more CO2 than say hydro electricity, meh, hippies and their twisted logic Fire gives off a much more pleasent heat than electric heaters	Greven (91)
509257	2006-12-26 09:28:00	There is no strain on the power grid in the summer period, its the winter period/spring from memory, and even then we havent had any blackouts. Burning firewood would probably be more inefficient than an electric heater and produce more CO2 than say hydro electricity, meh, hippies and their twisted logic Talk about the Grinch that Stole Christmas... Ignore Tux's version - and enjoy both how good the exercise makes you feel & how happy the firewood recipients will be. Just wish you were a bit closer to buy some of it myself..	Laura (43)
509258	2006-12-26 09:53:00	There is no strain on the power grid in the summer period, its the winter period/spring from memory, and even then we havent had any blackouts. Burning firewood would probably be more inefficient than an electric heater and produce more CO2 than say hydro electricity, meh, hippies and their twisted logic You might want to check this, just in case you believe that NZ is still almost entirely run of hydro power. We are in fact getting barely over half our energy from that source, and to make it worse hippies keep stopping us building more damns. www.stats.govt.nz Ooops thats a dead link now, but a copy lives below :) Anyway, much of this wood is for winter use, although my friend still has to pay for power summer, or winter. Last time i checked, i think it rained more in winter than summer, although the last week might suggest otherwise. As more people are using air conditioners in summer, and alternatives to direct electric heating is often being used in winter, the summer winter demand gap isn't what it used to be. The South Island runs almost entirely of its own hydro even tho the damns are almost never overflowing, and the North has to use a lot of fossil fuels to make up for supply being increasingly above demand, so if we can let a bit more water stay in the damns just that little bit longer, then it's all good for everyone. As for the CO2 produced by burning wood sourced from industrial waste as fuel, might i point out that this could be a better thing than letting it produce CO2 by rotting in a land fill somewhere or being disposed of in an incinerator? Sorry i posted a dead link I did however keep a copy of what that link provided, which i upload here: something.orcon.net.nz Enjoy	personthingy (1670)
509259	2006-12-26 10:18:00	Thread stickied.... Oh, and I got a Parachute Music Festival ticket, spent a lovely day with the girlfriend, and went to a wedding on Christmas day arvo at the beach :)	Chilling_Silence (9)
509260	2006-12-26 10:34:00	You might want to check this, just in case you believe that NZ is still almost entirely run of hydro power. We are in fact getting barely over half our energy from that source, and to make it worse hippies keep stopping us building more damns. www.stats.govt.nz Ooops thats a dead link now, but a copy lives below :) Anyway, much of this wood is for winter use, although my friend still has to pay for power summer, or winter. Last time i checked, i think it rained more in winter than summer, although the last week might suggest otherwise. As more people are using air conditioners in summer, and alternatives to direct electric heating is often being used in winter, the summer winter demand gap isn't what it used to be. The South Island runs almost entirely of its own hydro even tho the damns are almost never overflowing, and the North has to use a lot of fossil fuels to make up for supply being increasingly above demand, so if we can let a bit more water stay in the damns just that little bit longer, then it's all good for everyone. As for the CO2 produced by burning wood sourced from industrial waste as fuel, might i point out that this could be a better thing than letting it produce CO2 by rotting in a land fill somewhere or being disposed of in an incinerator? Sorry i posted a dead link I did however keep a copy of what that link provided, which i upload here: something.orcon.net.nz Enjoy I never said that hydro energy was running out at all... The wood you speak of from industrial waste could be better utilised to make recycled paper etc. Thus reducing CO2 which you kindly fail to mention.	Tux (606)
509261	2006-12-27 10:21:00	I got: a Bag, A BBC Top Gear NZ Mag, a book "On cars Clarkson", a Leadtek WinFast TV USB II Deluxe TV Box, some $$, a new Micro Sonic power toothbrush, a new per of Sun glasses, a mobile phone holder, a mobile phone bag, a new belt, some Chocolate & other sweets & a few other small things…… And a soft drink that you can only get in Scotland (& now a UK shop here in NZ) "irn-bru"	stu161204 (123)
509262	2006-12-29 17:50:00	Aside from the usual T shirt, chocolate, a Lynx pack and other things that have faded from memory . . . a Canadian friend of mine gave me a bottle of pure :thumbs: maple syrup: yum!! Also got a history book of Decisive Battles of WW2 - nice bedtime reading . :lol: Oh yeah, then there is the $1,000+ worth of house paint to keep me busy :groan: (mostly exterior but also interior jobs for rainy days) while my wife is away for a month in Italy and England . But hey, I thought to balance things out and keep me happy, I bought myself a Philips 160 Gb DVD recorder on sale at DSE and I must say it is nice to be out of the stone age - no more damn tapes - but I just may return the Philips within 2 weeks as there seems to be some features that are missing (e . g . no 3 minute step advance to skip adverts and there does not seem to be a slow motion forward and reverse, and annoying HD data display everytime the pause button is used) .	Strommer (42)
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