KiwiBuild was a building programme for privately owned homes, not state house building.
Sure, the pandemic and the lack of a third term are their excuses. But they did face up to the hard issues (UNDRIP etc left by National included). And major health system reform ....fbow.
What they have in mind for the Cook Strait is an unknown.
Oz has the distance from population - less risk of impact to their human habitat. And the technology scale to develop and maintain such plant (heard of AUKUS?). Fusion is without the waste problem of existing nuclear power generation. If the risk to the ...
She might be referring to the outdoor temperature - but clothes on and rug up is old school. It does require keeping the place dry (or use of a dehumidifyer). For the poor, there is thermal curtains or Venetian blind fronts with boards behind them (if the ...
I was fact checking the claim in the link, that Labour achieved nothing on infrastructure, as it was too hard. Housing (total builds and extra income related public homes realised) and the heating and insulation home improvements as well and all still on-...
If adaption does not prevent the loss of the Atlantic current it is the losing hand. Lower cost batteries - more energy stored. If development is on the same course as lower cost yet more data and faster processing chips (the Chinese car batteries etc). ...
Maybe like looking under a rock for something and there is nothing there. Just an empty sea of nothing. We were warned I suppose.
Labour did organise a system for managing the risk of a shortage of supply event and also the work of developing spare capacity (battery storage NI and Onslow SI). And also co-operation to ensure investment in renewable energy. https://www.beehive.govt.nz/...
DPF on Kiwiblog passes on the Brown talking point that it was all about the oil and gas exploration ban. As if the governments return to the old policy - carbon carbon - cookie monster wants carbon - would fix it all. One little problem I am an expert so I...
That answer in parliament exposed Brown as unaware that the issue was not extra generation, but spare capacity (whether the occasional dry year or the calm autumn periods before the winter thermal became available). He has yet to absorb what Woods was ...
Oh stop lying. They are the claims of the Labour Government* on their Labour Party site. None have been disputed by you, or anyone else. Guess why ... * https://www.eeca.govt.nz/assets/EECA-Resources/Warmer-Kiwi-Homes-RetroFit-Map.pdf
His idea of the solution to the problem was more capacity, the issue was/is storage. If not Onslow what? Extra capacity (not used most of the year) is not the solution. Harbord told Morning Report MEUG had two concerns around the wider issue of electricity...
If the demand is predictable ... and the grid can allocate for it.
Maybe but the issue is longstanding concern to the energy industry - as are data centres. Vector They would have to build much more capacity than necessary, if EV charging was not smoothed out by Vector being empowered to schedule it. It was Vector's job ...
It would help if we had an Energy Minister who understood the facts. A few power plants were doing maintenance (no expectation of this level of cold at this time of year) and we have yet to get battery storage* to the level to cope with calm periods (...
If only someone placed a carbon tariff on tradable goods - and ensured an incentive to lower carbon use in production.
It requires battery storage to prevent lack of wind being a problem - Simeon Brown does not believe in such things - fortunately the grown ups in the system do.
For mine golf courses are ideal for little villages for older folk - and should be a Kainga Ora development. Half for such villages and half as a local park as the area around intensifies. The houses they leave free up first home sections for others - or ...
Can you back up those numbers with solid independent evidence? (i.e. not something lifted from the Labour Party website). When you disprove any one of them, I might bother. Go ahead. National never challenged any of it during the campaign.
A land of shepherds looking at stars. https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/05/09/astronomer-hopes-new-zealand-can-achieve-dark-sky-nationhood/
They also had some power plants out for pre winter maintenance - because it was so warm May last year ... the unpredictability factor.
Sure, solar power from buildings can also be stored via battery. And as you note some areas have more sun and less wind and can have solar farms (SI - NE NI) Coast. With Onslow, it is cover for a dry hydro year - though it might not be needed if there was ...
Fact Check Most houses built since the 1970's. 13,000 public homes, the most of any Government since the 1950s. PGF. Plan for Water Infrastructure. Planning for better rail freight rail ferry interface. Looking at coastal shipping as part of disaster ...
Addressing concerns around power shortages heading into the winter, Andrew noted it was a "transitional issue" as the system moved to more renewable resources, such as wind. "It's colder, and there's less wind. We need more fast-start capacity on the ...
Who's who watch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosab_Hassan_Yousef
Sort of - Onslow is cover for dry hydro years - whereas battery is storage for those calm days (cover for wind farms). An emerging problem is building more and more data centres in Auckland - pressure on the existing distribution network and also extra ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAPo0EMfdLw They should ask the retired and those working from home without children to get up a little later than usual. And then maybe water heating won't need to be turned off.
Apparently there is planned maintenance at some power stations also involved - coinciding with lack of wind and a cold period not being part of the now not convenient timing.
Back in 1973 POTUS told the Israeli PM there would be no arms supply if they attacked first (as they had in 1967). One wonders if the 'Rafah" policy will become a doctrine applied to block any future dahiya in Gaza? There have already been sanctions on a ...
The legacy of Oliver Twist. https://foodmatterslive.com/article/the-history-of-free-school-meals-in-the-uk-and-the-changes-needed/ Oz fast following us. https://theconversation.com/australian-schools-are-starting-to-provide-food-but-we-need-to-think-...
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