The Australian Government is currently considering its response to a report into the impact of climate change which recommends emissions trading. It’s a very complex discussion, but as I understand it companies and organisations that produce “bad gas” will be taxed while the production of “good gas” will be rewarded. We managed to localise the [...]
Canunda Wind Farm
I snapped this picture today of these giant turbines at the Canunda Wind Farm between Mount Gambier and Caprneter Rocks near Tantanoola. There are 23 turbines and the farm has a total capacity of 46 megawatts, which yields approximately 135,000 megawatt-hours of electricity per year. This provides clean electricity for about 30,000 South Australian homes [...]
Marsupial lion
Listening to ABC regional radio in the car today I heard about the discovery of marsupial lion bones near Burra in South Australia earlier this year. The marsupial lion is regarded as part of Australia’s “megafauna” which became extinct about 45,000 years ago. These were giant versions of wombats and kangaroos, and in this case [...]
E-waste disposal
We’ve made three trips to the rubbish tip today, getting rid of odds and ends we don’t want to take to Mount Gambier. The biggest items were an old lawnmower that doesn’t work and two unwanted broken hard drives I couldn’t be bothered repairing. Kalgoorlie-Boulder has possibly the only free landfill site in Australia; certainly [...]
Python eats family pet
Overseas readers will be interested to know the story reported in the Cairns Post of a monster python stalking and devouring a family’s pet dog. Daniel Peric said he now would not leave his two children, aged five and seven, alone in any part of the house, after the “enormous” python ate his silky terrier-cross [...]
