MRAA (ie MRAV) bashing

I always wondered what that scar was...


G-S

 

Not at all. My question was how many Muslims do you know and you came back
with his name.

Theo

 

We three kings of AusMoto are;
Bearing knowledge we traverse afar,
Field and fountain,
Moor and mountain,
Following yonder bars... [1]


G-S

[1] Well beer had to come in somewhere!

 

I got it Tim.

JL
Newspeak is in the Liberal lexicon, Doug is good at it.

 

By the time you've mined the uranium ore, processed it into nuclear
fuel, built the nuclear powerplant, hollowed out the mountain to hold
the radioactive waste and so on, all using gurt big diesel-powered
earth-moving machinery, you have to wonder,

a) how much net energy you've actually produced by the whole process, and
b) how much more greenhouse gas would you have produced if you'd
generated that same amount of power by conventional means.

The geothermal reserves the Outback sits on are a lot greater than the
uranium reserves, and we've got a lot more empty coastline and windblown
hillsides to seed with wind turbines and wave-energy powerplants than
any other country.

Instead of contemplating a solution involving us importing idle foreign
expertise yet again, we should be looking at greener (quite literally)
pastures, technologies on which nobody has a stranglehold yet and which
we could develop, then make other countries pay us for it.

But, nah, much easier to point to France and say "Look, they made
nuclear power work."

That said, Australia's geological stability, emptiness and abundance of
great big huge faken holes left over from mining in that same emptiness
does make it ideal to store the world's nuclear waste... big sign out
the front; "$25,000/tonne/year. No cheques."

 

I must be overdue for an appointment with the optometrist; I've read
over that three times, and I can't find a single mention of the new
laws, just some guy with an Anglo name saying that the arrests of last
week are a good thing for the Muslim community in Australia.

 

X-No-archive: yes
Tim Moran wrote in message ...

I believe this story about as much as I believe all the other lies the US
Govt has put forward as justification for the invasion of Iraq.

 

X-No-archive: yes

Wow; so you hate them so much you don't even think they're people now?

 

None that I know of. I'm not big on asking people's religion.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:16:26 +1100

He didn't even say that.

He said "to the extent it stops you buggers from being so paranoid they
are a good thing"

How far that extent extends is left as an exercise for the reader...

Zebee

 

You should eat broccoli as it helps produce healthy intelligent sperm and
thus smart offspring.
Clem
(Admittedly there hasn't been a whole lot of research to support this
theory but it IS known that George Bush Snr wouldn't eat broccoli......)
http://www.usatrivia.com/biobush.html

 

Go away you nasty little man!

Johno


Coopers mate?

 

That's probably pretty handy when you need to demonise them an' all...

 

stop being rational Clem, that's not allowed in the new world order,
there's a 5 year gaol sentence for that.

JL

 

Another unfounded allegation. Scraping the bottom out of the barrel and
digging down deep.

 

I'm going to have to go into therapy now....

 

I like they way you snipped out the reference to Muslims (you know; those
"Islamists" you keep on-and-on about) before you try this "I'm so hurt you
could accuse me so ..." line.

Yes I am scraping the bottom of the barrel but I think there's still
sufficient logic left in you to make the effort worthwhile.

 

.....and I thought you didn't care!

Hammo

 

People say that about Wilcannia, and they live in Sydney!!

Hammo

 

The open cut mining of uranium and the open cut mining of coal are not
that disimilar in energy requirements, but uranium mining is mined as
part of copper mining in parts of Australia which makes the estraction
of uranium (piggy backed onto the copper), much more energy efficent
than coal mining.

As for building the power plants... the figures I've seen suggest about
1/3rd of that produced by building a new coal fired plant of similar
output with the advantage (greenhouse gas wise) increasing each year as
the coal fired plant continues to output green house gases.

I don't have a problem with wind turbines... or wave-energy plants and
to be honest I'd like to see a mix of solutions that are non greenhouse
gas producing.

However I've noticed that the green lobby have been campaiging against
wind towers strongly in Victoria at every location they've been placed
(or suggested to be placed).

Now that's a head in the sand attitude if I ever saw one (see boxer...
I'm not left... like I said, I'm middle

It makes sense to do both IMO... it provides a 'not all of your eggs in
one basket' batch of solutions.

Wasn't it Sweden or Switzerland doing nuclear well that someone in
Ausmoto quoted as an example earlier in the thread ;-)

Make it 2.5 mill $ per/tonne/year and I might consider it [1]


G-S

[1] Low level only of course