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| Thread ID: 56151 | 2005-03-28 11:59:00 | Crazy power hungry Aucklanders | Strommer (42) | PC World Chat |
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| 339107 | 2005-03-29 11:01:00 | We are told continually to reduce our power usage, use power friendly appliances, be more efficient & save, ad nauseum.. There comes a time when it becomes impossible to be any more efficient than we are. It will be impossible so squeez any more out of a Kilowatt than we are doing... Amen. Well said. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 339108 | 2005-03-29 11:17:00 | We are told continually to reduce our power usage, use power friendly appliances, be more efficient & save, ad nauseum.. There comes a time when it becomes impossible to be any more efficient than we are. It will be impossible so squeez any more out of a Kilowatt than we are doing...Yes but there is room for improvement. Next door to me the carpark is lit by 2 tungton halegen floodlites all night every night.....such inefficiancy is not uncommon. Having said that, i must agree that there is little more that can be done to minamise wastage of electricity. :( |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 339109 | 2005-03-29 11:27:00 | Amen. Well said. Here here,amazingly well said. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 339110 | 2005-03-29 21:28:00 | As New Zealand wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for a couple of the earth's plates rubbing together is it really a good place to put a nuclear power plant? Earth quakes & Volcanoes plus Nuclear Power plants, not for me thanks . :eek: There's a lot of research being done in NZ ~ Our world class scientists will come up with a good solution that works here given half a chance . |
Sue (33) | ||
| 339111 | 2005-03-29 21:41:00 | As New Zealand wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for a couple of the earth's plates rubbing together is it really a good place to put a nuclear power plant? Earth quakes & Volcanoes plus Nuclear Power plants, not for me thanks . :eek: There's a lot of research being done in NZ ~ Our world class scientists will come up with a good solution that works here given half a chance . Todays nukes respond to major faults such as terrorism and earthquakes by not being able to run . Older ones, such as the infamous Chernobyl one tended to go bang if not kept in a perfect balance . OK, i'm not going to attempt to quote the details of design, but, there is no comparison between the 2 generations of technology . I found the reading facinating, and suggest those who feel todays nuclear technology is comparable to yesterdays dodgy developments would benifit from doing some research into the CURRENT builds of a nuclear reactor . :stare: |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 339112 | 2005-03-29 21:49:00 | There is very good reasons..... the depth of the ditch and the cost of a reliable 400KV cable suitable for burial might make the project just a little hard on us all. Anyway, a large chunk of the proposed route IS underground, its only when it gets into highly rural areas, where there is the least effect that it is planned to be overhead on pylons. :groan: So you would agree then. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 339113 | 2005-03-29 22:07:00 | So you would agree then.Yes and no. The proposed project, or at least as i last saw it was a compromise between idealism and practicality. I also think farmers would really get upset about a series of 2 metre high and wide ditches getting dug through their land, perhaps more so than pylons? :) |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 339114 | 2005-03-30 05:46:00 | Dunno, if I was a farmer I wouldn't mind having 400kV DC totally free of charge. Digging ditches seems a small price to pay. But then not all farmers have a need for mW's of power for evil experiments like I do... |
george12 (7) | ||
| 339115 | 2005-03-30 05:58:00 | Underground cables for 400kV are expensive. Digging trenches for cables is very expensive. Digging cables up to repair them is extremely expensive. If you only need mWs of power, George, try a copper wire and a piece of zinc (or even a steel nail) stuck in a potato. That will give a few milliwatts. Megawatts (MW) are a different proposition. ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 339116 | 2005-03-30 06:55:00 | Sorry George but it costs many $million for each offtake on a 400 kV DC line . While I agree with Graham entirely on costs, it would be good to see a rational public debate with the cost of underground declared . While I am sure that we simply could not afford it, it would be useful to actually see the $ involved . Underground cable costs for 400 kV would be horrendous, compared to overhead but by how much? |
godfather (25) | ||
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