The recycling bin may no longer be full of discarded newspapers, but holy moley I'm chewing through some online reading...
Editions for the week ending:
Phew. That's it. Must keep on top of this a bit better...
Showing posts with label ActewAGL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ActewAGL. Show all posts
2 October 2012
What I've been reading and writing - a bit of a catch-up
This is a catch-up of my reading and writing lists as auto-compiled into e-zines by Paper.li. As usual, it is mostly for my own reference down the track, but maybe someone is interested.
1 March 2012
Overflow of half-built new Cotter Dam in timelapse
Canberra's water shortage solution, the massive expansion of the Cotter Dam suffered a major setback tonight when the current consistent rains led to the half-built dam overflowing. A diversion tunnel couldn't cope with the inflow and over it went, for all to see on the webcam set up to show construction progress!.
MNeuling has captured the every-40-second webcam shots and converted them into a timelapse video:
Well done.
It came up incredibly quickly, giving testament to what a strong catchment the expanded dam will have.
The work crews were very busy this afternoon removing what they could from the site and evacuating.
Hopefully not too much damage is done to all the equipment and scaffolding that couldn't be removed in time.
MNeuling has captured the every-40-second webcam shots and converted them into a timelapse video:
Well done.
It came up incredibly quickly, giving testament to what a strong catchment the expanded dam will have.
The work crews were very busy this afternoon removing what they could from the site and evacuating.
Hopefully not too much damage is done to all the equipment and scaffolding that couldn't be removed in time.
7 August 2009
FIT attack misguided
ActewAGL head Ivan Slavich is missing the point with his claim that their Greechoice option is more effective than the ACT's Feed-in Tariff (Canberra Times, "Ageny's warning on green wording", 6/8/09).
All green energy schemes that require payment of a premium are inherently flawed because they are requiring people who doing the right thing by the environment to pay more for the "privilege" of doing so. Seems about-face to me...
The Feed-in Tariff turns this right-way round by rewarding people who are investing significant amounts of their own money in equipment that will produce green energy. This reward is then defrayed among users who don't. So people who choose dirty energy pay a (very small) premium, which goes directly towards off-setting some of the environmental damage caused.
And with ActewAGL always banging on about the risk of only having one grid entry point for all of the ACT's energy supply, I would have thought that a distributed internal energy supply base would be something they would get behind, instead of trying to undermine?
All green energy schemes that require payment of a premium are inherently flawed because they are requiring people who doing the right thing by the environment to pay more for the "privilege" of doing so. Seems about-face to me...
The Feed-in Tariff turns this right-way round by rewarding people who are investing significant amounts of their own money in equipment that will produce green energy. This reward is then defrayed among users who don't. So people who choose dirty energy pay a (very small) premium, which goes directly towards off-setting some of the environmental damage caused.
And with ActewAGL always banging on about the risk of only having one grid entry point for all of the ACT's energy supply, I would have thought that a distributed internal energy supply base would be something they would get behind, instead of trying to undermine?
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