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      Aaron The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: University of Adelaide SA
    Russian person for blah, blah, gas export pipeline thingo tonight.

    Something about closing the taps on the gas line ‘which today is filled and operating to the maximum level which is 100%’

    Now to be fair, he is likely speaking in at best his second language - but it’s just funny because he’s a Russian saying that closing Nord Stream 1 won’t hurt Russia so much.
    Posted: 17 Mar 2022 22:37

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      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Richmond Vic
    “Metro Trains Melbourne is supporting a more sustainable network by switching out saloon lighting systems on its X’Trapolis and Siemens Nexas fleets to more modern and energy-efficient LEDs.

    The major lighting refit project will help Metro become a more sustainable train operator by reducing power usage across the network.

    The change is estimated to save up to 40 per cent of average lighting power per train – enough to service 377 houses for a day.”

    Anybody know what size these houses are and how many electrical appliances each one has?
    Posted: 19 Mar 2022 17:49
      Aaron The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: University of Adelaide SA
    “Metro Trains Melbourne is supporting a more sustainable network by switching out saloon lighting systems on its X’Trapolis and Siemens Nexas fleets to more modern and energy-efficient LEDs.

    The major lighting refit project will help Metro become a more sustainable train operator by reducing power usage across the network.

    The change is estimated to save up to 40 per cent of average lighting power per train – enough to service 377 houses for a day.”

    Anybody know what size these houses are and how many electrical appliances each one has?
    Valvegear
    If a single train uses the same power as 943 houses in a day, then my immediate thought is they probably need to be looking at some efficiencies that go beyond changing some lights. It might be right, but it seems quite high without actually going and calculating it.

    Do Melbourne trains run regen braking?
    Posted: 20 Mar 2022 20:30
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    “Metro Trains Melbourne is supporting a more sustainable network by switching out saloon lighting systems on its X’Trapolis and Siemens Nexas fleets to more modern and energy-efficient LEDs.

    The major lighting refit project will help Metro become a more sustainable train operator by reducing power usage across the network.

    The change is estimated to save up to 40 per cent of average lighting power per train – enough to service 377 houses for a day.”

    Anybody know what size these houses are and how many electrical appliances each one has?
    If a single train uses the same power as 943 houses in a day, then my immediate thought is they probably need to be looking at some efficiencies that go beyond changing some lights. It might be right, but it seems quite high without actually going and calculating it.

    Do Melbourne trains run regen braking?
    Aaron
    Yes and no!
    I don't think so but whatever they call it the power doesn't go back into the overhead where it might be of use.
    All as far as I know but open to correction as always.
    Posted: 20 Mar 2022 20:54

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      GrahamH Chief Commissioner

    Location: At a terminal on the www.
    Heard on ABC RN this evening. The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching because the ocean there has been heated by the equivalent of 7 Hiroshima bombs.
    Posted: 21 Mar 2022 20:55
      Aaron The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: University of Adelaide SA
    Heard on ABC RN this evening. The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching because the ocean there has been heated by the equivalent of 7 Hiroshima bombs.
    GrahamH
    That tells you two things, the incredible heat capacity of water, and the actual minuscule heat in an early (and even recent) atom bomb design.
    Posted: 21 Mar 2022 21:39
      GrahamH Chief Commissioner

    Location: At a terminal on the www.
    ABC RN again. Each year one Iceland worth of ice is melted each year.
    Posted: 25 Mar 2022 09:32
      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Richmond Vic
    Nine News Headline: "He left 26 children buried underground".

    I wonder where else he could have buried them.
    Posted: 26 Mar 2022 17:37
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    Runoff from somewhere or other (I don't remember where/from) equates to all the rivers on earth.

    Fatberger in London sewer was the size of eleven double decker busses x two football pitches.
    Posted: 26 Mar 2022 18:24
      Lockspike Chief Commissioner

    New metric alert!

    On 9 news this evening it was reported that an ice shelf in Antarctica collapsed. It was reported that it was the size of New York City.
    I'm wondering if that is a full NYC or the Manhattan Island Lite version?
    Posted: 27 Mar 2022 18:40
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    Channel 9 again.
    Now not advertising forthcoming programs at a specific time but rather as 'after (some program or other) .......'
    We can assume, no doubt, that trashy Channel 9 programs are to be both the new measurement and indicator of time.
    Posted: 03 Apr 2022 19:21

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      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    During manufacture ice cream is stored in stainless steel tanks with a capacity of 125 bath tubs.
    Posted: 16 Apr 2022 23:09
      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Richmond Vic
    The mayor thinks that Melbourne has about six MCG's worth of graffiti. (No; I don't know how you measure that either).
    Posted: 17 Apr 2022 17:05
      michaelgm Chief Commissioner

    The mayor thinks that Melbourne has about six MCG's worth of graffiti. (No; I don't know how you measure that either).
    Valvegear
    As a non Mexican, I’m offended that graffiti is measured in MSGs, we have our own, credit please.
    Posted: 17 Apr 2022 17:43
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    The mayor thinks that Melbourne has about six MCG's worth of graffiti. (No; I don't know how you measure that either).
    Valvegear
    Is that all?
    If that is the case, however, why doesn't the silly b itch do something about it?
    Reducing the size of the MCG would be a good start. Twisted Evil
    Put half the effort into cleaning up the place that she puts into getting her mouth on TV every night might also help.
    Posted: 17 Apr 2022 20:08

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      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Richmond Vic
    Yet another fine effort from Nine News:

    "A man is fighting for his life after his car crashed into a pole in Melbourne's north west.
    The crash happened at 7.30am this morning on Calder Park Drive in Taylors Hill.
    In CCTV footage, the Holden Commodore soars down a slippery road before the driver's side of the car slams into a tree."


    Are the days of sub editors gone?
    Posted: 18 Apr 2022 19:12
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    Yet another fine effort from Nine News:

    "A man is fighting for his life after his car crashed into a pole in Melbourne's north west.
    The crash happened at 7.30am this morning on Calder Park Drive in Taylors Hill.
    In CCTV footage, the Holden Commodore soars down a slippery road before the driver's side of the car slams into a tree."


    Are the days of sub editors gone?
    Valvegear
    Additional work experience journos - it is school holidays. Sad
    Posted: 18 Apr 2022 19:36
      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Richmond Vic
    Nine again:

    "Every day roughly 1.9 million trees — enough to cover about 45 Sydney Opera Houses — are cut down to make traditional toilet paper out of virgin wood pulp, according to a new report which looked into how consumer choices can impact the environment."

    It just keeps getting sillier and sillier.
    Posted: 22 Apr 2022 20:03
      Lockspike Chief Commissioner

    Yet another fine effort from Nine News:

    "A man is fighting for his life after his car crashed into a pole in Melbourne's north west.
    The crash happened at 7.30am this morning on Calder Park Drive in Taylors Hill.
    In CCTV footage, the Holden Commodore soars down a slippery road before the driver's side of the car slams into a tree."


    Are the days of sub editors gone?
    Additional work experience journos - it is school holidays. Sad
    YM-Mundrabilla
    Pole? Tree? Who can tell the difference? They both get in my way as I'm getting about staring at my phone with pods in my ears
    Posted: 22 Apr 2022 22:33
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: In exile
    Pole? Tree? Who can tell the difference? They both get in my way as I'm getting about staring at my phone with pods in my ears
    Lockspike
    That reminded me of an incident I witnessed back in the late 80s/early 90s well before mobile phones etc were in general usage. I worked on George Street, Brisbane. Outside my workplace a guy was walking along the edge of the footpath, looking for an opportunity to cross the street, his gaze intent on the traffic - until he slammed into a parking meter! It was pretty funny from where I stood. Laughing
    Posted: 23 Apr 2022 08:36
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    Doco on TV the other night.
    'Bolts the size of a human arm' fell from a London building.
    Later revealed to be 75 mm x 1000 mm.
    Some arm, but at least we now have a conversion factor.Rolling Eyes
    Bloody idiots.
    Posted: 24 Apr 2022 10:20
      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: In exile
    Doco on TV the other night.
    'Bolts the size of a human arm' fell from a London building.
    Later revealed to be 75 mm x 1000 mm.
    Some arm, but at least we now have a conversion factor.Rolling Eyes
    Bloody idiots.
    YM-Mundrabilla
    I saw a doco where an island was described as being "the size of 4 football fields" the other day...
    Posted: 24 Apr 2022 14:32
      YM-Mundrabilla The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: Mundrabilla but I'd rather be in Narvik
    Scrap rails in Britain are weighed in Eiffel Towers according to a Network Rail bird in a Portillo episode the other day.
    Posted: 04 May 2022 18:21

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      Graham4405 The Ghost of George Stephenson

    Location: In exile
    in a Portillo episode the other day.
    YM-Mundrabilla
    And therein lies your first mistake... Wink
    Posted: 04 May 2022 21:01
      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Richmond Vic
    I think Portillo is a Latin word meaning Pompous A s s.  (printed like this, since the alternative name for a donkey is considered indecent on RP)
    Posted: 05 May 2022 09:21

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