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VK6BE > OM 15.11.11 01:05l 58 Lines 3229 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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From: VK6BE@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : OM@WW
Well a couple of comments from me, on your post Warren:
1. Our long distance transmission lines are 330 000 volts AC. Those around
town are 22 000 VAC or 6000 VAC. The wind farm mills generate in DC but
the body of the mill contains a transverter which converts to high voltage
AC. Not sure what the EHT from them is but it looks like 22kv and it is
AC.Remember too that our domestic power is 250 VAC not 110.Commercial
power is three phase 440VAC.I think my figures are close to correct. There
were a few changes a few years back when we changed from 40 cycle to 50.
2. We have the water to grow huge quantities of food in this state Warren,
in the NORTH. The tourist blurbs tell us that Geike Gorge on the Fitzroy
River in the north has enough water running through it to the sea to fill
Sydney harbour every day. That is only one river. The Ord scheme is only a
drop in the bucket so far and could handle much more farming than it has
so far. An Australia author (Ion Idriess) wrote a book about this
phenomenon of too much water in the north just running out to sea in the
wet and not enough in other places. Pipe it south he said. One of our
premiers went to an election on the promise of building a canal from the
Kimberley where the huge water resources are to Perth. He lost the
election. A West Australian engineer, C.Y. O'Connor dreamed of piping
water the 400 miles or so to the dry Goldfield, Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie
and all the wheat growing towns between at the turn of the 20th Century.
He built the pipeline but it took three days for the water to reach
Kalgoorlie and by then the critics had become so vocal that O'Connor shot
himself. His scheme worked.The critics had to eat humble pie. Hope they
choked on it! We always have our knockers.
3. The north of Queensland gets 80 inches of rain a year. Most runs to
waste ior floods the countrywside.. The noises about water shortages come
from the major cities. The north of WA with its abundance of water in the
northern rivers is relatively untouched and so is north Queensland..
The potential to grow food in our north is enormous BUT!!!!!! what about
the trees?? There would have to be some clearing done.No problem in WA
north where there is little forest land, but Queensland would raise a howl
from the Greenies that would be heard on Jupiter.
In my town the sewerage and waste water goes to s sewerage treatment farm
a few miles out of town where the treated sewerage is used to water a huge
tree farm. The trees are harvested for woodchipping, one of our industries
here. Now the howl is " prime agricultural and pastoral land is being used
for trees???" OH DEAR! Those words have a green tinge too.
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE in the green south of WA, green in colour not i politics though
we have plenty of those too. They come here for the lifestyle and then
opppose everytning that looks like development!!
>That reminds me, if you're going to grow it you have
to water it but the greenies have completely stalled dam and irrigation
projects so you can't feed your growing population either, hmmm.
Then too those long EHV lines are DC which requires a lot of silicon
components for conversion,
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