kgwilson

Liquidators are there to sell the assets and distribute what's left after their exorbitant fee. Administrators are there to to run the business back into profit if possible. That's why businesses go in to voluntary administration as per my earlier post. If that doesn't happen then they turn in to liquidators. Either way they extract pretty high fees.

Chapter 11 in the US is a bit like voluntary administration here. In the Australian case an administrator is appointed to oversee the situation and hopefully get the company back to solvency, though more often it is a wind up & then working out the cents in the dollar to secured creditors and unsecured creditors after other things like wages, salarys etc have been worked through. Vans has a fantastic reputation and their designs are as valid today as they always were. Just like the Cessna 172. I understand that owners of Vans aircraft are going to leap to the defence of the organisation, but you do not reach a point of insolvency through bad luck. This is through some bad business decisions often in response to a market downturn or shift in customer needs or demand. Sometimes what may seem at the time like overly harsh measures have to be taken. It is owners of companies they have founded with a high level of emotional attachment who most often fail to see the wood for the trees. My earlier comments still stand.

He's not, just advising a replacement. And yes I have a curtis fuel drain valve. I have replaced the o-ring 2 times in 8 years. These things are pretty much bullet proof.

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Once the writing is on the wall companies often take ever more desperate measures to keep afloat and sometimes these measure come back to bite them. For example getting parts laser cut was a very bad decision but I presume because it was fast and relatively cheap they did it but suffered the consequences.

The 60 cent deal disappeared some years ago in NSW. This started the rooftop PVA revolution and nearly sent the Labour government broke in 2010. In NSW you got a subsidised rooftop PVA system. Then a 1kW system cost around $10,000.00 installed & used all Australian panels & inverters. Early adopters were paid 65 cents/kWh for all power they produced including what they used themselves. This was at a time when peak power prices were less than 30c/kWH and most ended up with huge credits and eventually a cheque would arrive in the mail. Crazy but true.

My average daily usage is 7.5kW. I installed a grid connected solar system 11 years ago. It is 2kW. Tiny now but average at the time. My EV has 64kWh of storage and has V2L. The cars inverter is capable of delivering 32 amps. The induction cooker is the most power hungry appliance followed by the electric jug, toaster and aircon. The 520/175 litre fridge/freezer and upright 305 litre freezer operate 24/7. Hot water is from a heat pump that only runs from 9am to 4pm, consumes 450 watts, 95% of which is from the solar supply. Theoretically my cars battery with appropriate management could supply all of my power needs for 8.5 days. There are 2 of us in a 200 sq metre modern insulated house but with single glazing in a sub tropical climate on the coast 30 deg South. I still give about 40% of the solar energy back to the grid & get 5 cents/kWH for it. I have looked at a battery but there is no cost benefit & now that I have a mobile one it is no longer a consideration.

25 million panels & 3000 wind turbines on 15,000 sq km is able to produce more than the current output from everything we have now.

Trevor Jacobs is a complete idiot. This has been a long time coming. He is lucky he only got 6 months.

The problem in Australia is that each State has different laws so what is a requirement in one State in not a consideration in another.

I don't think there is an age limit for a CASA medical. I read of a 90 something year old still flying Tiger moths in the Melbourne area & the CFI at Coffs was still training at age 90, and he smoked like Chimney. That's (lung cancer) what got him in the end.

Whether windmills will withstand a cyclone or not doesn't matter. There are none in Australia. We do have quite a few wind turbines though and as far as I know none are actually in cyclone zones. The owners of Eraring, Australias biggest coal fired power plant, Origin refused a takeover offer due to a major Superannuation investor tipping the vote. Eraring is losing origin a fortune as like all coal plants it has to run pretty much flat out all the time and during the day green energy from solar and wind has reduced the spot price so much it sometimes goes negative. The price of coal is hastening its own demise as it cannot hope to compete with cheap renewable energy. I reckon that if Origin invested heavily in huge battery storage close to Eraring it would be able to use the existing infrastructure both to store cheap renewable energy during the day and supply it at night.

Brendan, your position is quite clear and I respect that. I visited Calder Hall, the worlds first Nuclear Power Station in Cumbria in the 70s. It took 3 years to build & was originally built to produce plutonium for nuclear warheads. It was shut down in 2005 and full decommissioning will not be complete till 2027 when radiation shielding is completed and it will remain like this forever. 3 years to build, 22 years to decommission and 3000 years before the waste decays to its half life and no-one can go near it for that time. The UK has 7 Nuclear submarines that have been decommissioned & they are stored in Rosyth dock in Fife & another 14 in Devonport waiting for someone to figure out how to get rid of the nuclear waste. Locals are very unhappy about this and the official line is progress is being made but they have been there for years with no end date in sight. The problem is worse in the USA & in Russia they don't care. Do you really want a similar situation here in Australia?

Nuclear fission reactors are now old technology. No-one is building them any more as the capital expenditure, operational risk, timeframe to build, operational cost, disposal of waste cost, water supply required, as well as opposition from the populace are all far too high. None of the so called new technology has been proven in practice yet. Rolls Royce have a modular small reactor that will power a submarine for 30 years but it won't run even a small town & the sub has all the cooling water it needs. Scaling such things presents usually far more problems than they resolve. Now if you are talking Nuclear Fusion I am all for it and we already have it. It is just 150 million km away & provides us with more energy in a day than we will ever need in a lifetime and it is called the sun. There is a proposal to set up around 15,000 sq km of solar with 25 million panels and and 3000 wind turbines somewhere around Esperance in WA which would produce more energy than all of the current combined coal and renewable energy along the Eastern seaboard combined and use a lot of this energy to produce 3.5 million tonnes of green hydrogen a year. A MOU has been signed by WA & Korea Electric Power Corporation. It is a 20 year project, will employ thousands and there is no waste or fallout.

I doubt that many owners of amateur built aircraft whether they are GA or RA registered, have bothered to get an approval. The only time it will be required is if you crash into someones house and there is an investigation. Many aerodromes controlled and uncontrolled are close to populous areas and a lot have approach paths over populous areas. I have never heard of a prosecution because an aircraft did not have an approval to fly over populous areas.

It was a pretty lame goose. That's the only flight it ever made & that was its maximum altitude.

You don't. I just thought you may be interested to find that solar and agriculture can co-exist productively together. In this particular instance the owner has decided not to do this. Possibly this is due to the fact that it would cost a bit more to raise the panels higher or most likely that the income from solar is pretty much guaranteed whereas prices for meat swing wildly and getting worse with the large weather changes we have been seeing in the past few years.

Studies have already been done. Crops are sown & harvested and stock are quite happily grazing under and around solar farms. Google it. There are heaps of real world examples in Australiua

It doesn't matter if you provide real world experience, anyone who has pre conceived ideas will believe whatever supports those. The daily mail article was clearly false & I said so & especially the 31/2 hours of charging time I subscribe to the MG EVs community forum and on return from Noosa to home in Corindi Beach I posted the actual stats for the return trip. "Topped up at the Evie charger about 50 meters from where I was staying in Noosaville last night while I had dinner & left at lunch time today with 96% charge. I needed a pee at Chinderah but carried on to Ballina where there is a BP pulse 75kW charger. SOC was about 19% & by the time I'd had a comfort stop & snack it had charged up to 80% & I left for home. "I set the car on ECO, OPD & LKA off with the Aircon on all the way. Total distance was 491 km & 15.8 kWh/100km. I'd say 80% of the trip was at 110 km/h with a couple of slow road works for 5-6km & the rest 100km/h other than the starts & stops. 35% SOC when I arrived home."

The figures I quoted are not sales talk. That comes from actual testing. Also a bloke just around the corner has an Ioniq5. I haven't spoken to him about it but he is well aware of this sort of rubbish. The Daily Mail and other UK based tabloids have been rubbishing EVs for years and is largely why Fully Charged created their "Stop Burning Stuff" web site to debunk these false claims and narratives. Social Media and Youtube is full of it. The claims are almost all just opinion with no evidence to back them up. Just like what an orange ex president does all the time.

I don't need to look at the social media baying hound mob to realise that the person who posted this has no idea about charging an EV. The timeframes provides show this person was likely charging to 100% which is the dumbest thing to do. Charging especially with fast chargers slows down dramatically as the battery gets past 80%. I assume the battery uses NMC technology. This is the most common with highest energy density.The last 10% will take as long as the first 60% if not longer. It all depends on the battery management software. 10% to 80% will take about 18 minutes in an Ioniq 5 and a 5 minute charge at a fast charger will provide 100km of range in 5 minutes. So what was this idiot doing charging for 3 1/2 hours. Just after a sensational headline to appeal to ICE addicts and get clicks. So if they had started with 100%, all they would need is 2 x 20 minute charges on the way. Only just enough time to have a couple of quick toilet and food breaks.

What do you expect from the Daily Mail? My 1100km trip cost me $53.00. One charge at 30c (50kW charger Helensvale), one at 50c (50kW destination charger Noosa) & one at 55c (75kW charger Ballina). At Noosa the charger was next to the hotel so I topped up to 100% while at Dinner. I had 100km local travel around Noosa - Coolum The other 2 were 20 minute charges one on the way there & 1 on the way back. The same time as I would normally stop for a bite. I left home with 100% which I pay 19.5c/kWH for & got back with 35% left so add another $7.80 so $61.00 total. I would fill the old car twice on that trip so $236.00 at $2.00 a litre so allowing for fuel left when I got back home the cost in fuel alone is about $190.00 to $200.00. Then of course very low maintenance and absolutely zero emissions. Then daily driving is all at my home off peak rate. I only have a small solar system so don't charge during the day. If I had an 8kW system (pretty average size these days) I'd charge during the day as my wall charger is 7kW & I charge from about 10% to 80% once or twice a week between 11pm & 5am. None of this is rocket science but there are some dumb people out there. Spend about 5k on a decent solar system & running costs are virtually zero for daily running once the payback is complete. What is not to like about that.

Hybrid maintenance is somewhat higher than pure ICE largely due to the complexity of the combination of drive trains. The fire risk is also 300% higher than pure ICE. At this point they are a good option for many who are obsessed with range. I had one stop on each of my 500km journeys for 20 minutes to top up the charge. This was on fast DC (50-75kW) chargers and not 350kW superchargers which would have chopped the charge time in half. I cruised at 110kmh most of the way. Time to destination was no different than in my old ICE car. There is so much less stress in the EV. I don't know if that is due to no vibration or noise from the engine or what but I felt fresher after 400km than I felt previously. As an EV owner I am of course biased but I have been bitten & am now smitten.

Most caravanners spend a large amount on the assets and a large amount of fuel. Most say it is the lifestyle that counts. For me I'd rather get there fresh with someone else doing all the work & spend the money on 5 star accommodation & hire something to get around in or just get taxis & buses. I can do this once or twice a year for less than the depreciation on the giant caravan & 4WD let alone maintenance & fuel.

Servicing is once every 2 years or 40,000km & that is about $250.00. The brake fluid is replaced every 2 years as well as the A/C filter. Other than that the service book has lots of Check statements. In year 4, 8 etc the cost is $900.00. What they do for that I don't know other than replace the transmission and battery coolant as well as the brake fluid. The book justs has a lot of Check statements again. It sounds like a rip off to me given Teslas require nothing. If you don't do it you void the 7 year warranty & the free roadside assist, so I guess I only need to do it once after 4 years & then find a good EV service outfit. I am assuming by then there will be a lot more than there are now. When I took it back for the free 1000km check the service people didn't even know how to start the car so I spent a few minutes showing them a bunch of things.