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Once upon a time on usenet F Murtz wrote:
> ~misfit~ wrote:
>> Once upon a time on usenet Sylvia Else wrote:
>>> On 11/02/2017 2:47 PM, Phil Allison wrote:
>>>> Sylvia Else wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 11/02/2017 1:36 PM, F Murtz wrote:
>>>>>> It was not the greens that sold the power off but it is the green
>>>>>> inclined existing government that is running  the existing
>>>>>> renewable dependent power grid now.
>>>>>
>>>>> SA needs to install some diesel generator plant.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ** No they don't.
>>>>
>>>> They may need to build a couple of natural gas plants - the kind
>>>> that use turbines and not simply boil water. Thermal efficiencies
>>>> of 60% are possible with 500MW turbines.
>>>
>>> It's entirely a matter of the period during which they're expected
>>> to run. You don't build expensive plant that runs only hours per
>>> year, just to save on fuel. You build cheap plant, even though it
>>> uses more fuel, because you come out ahead economically.
>>
>> While the planet slowly dies... Oh well perhaps they can buy a new
>> one with the money saved?
>>
>> WTF is this shite doing in aus.electronics anyway?
>>
> Mainly because there is no purely electrical news group so people tend
> to lump anything electric into one group which is a better idea anyway
> Electricity is electricity no matter how it is used

I didn't see very much at all to do with electric anything (and I read far 
too long looking...).

To me it smacked of politiking - I saw that the first part of the thread was 
in fact xposted to aus.politics. That's where it should have stayed IMHO. 
Otherwise why did you call the thread "SA Greenies"?

Cheers,
-- 
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy 
little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) 

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I give in F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-11 13:36 +1100
  Re: I give in Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-11 14:08 +1100
    Re: I give in Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2017-02-10 19:47 -0800
      Re: I give in Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-11 15:13 +1100
        Re: I give in "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 12:15 +1300
          Re: I give in F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-12 16:14 +1100
            Re: I give in Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2017-02-12 16:25 +1100
              Re: I give in F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-12 17:24 +1100
                Re: I give in Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2017-02-13 08:26 +1100
                Re: I give in F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-13 13:52 +1100
                Re: I give in Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2017-02-13 15:50 +1100
                Re: I give in F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-13 17:48 +1100
                Re: I give in Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2017-02-13 17:52 +1100
                Re: I give in F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-13 20:36 +1100
                Re: I give in Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2017-02-14 06:49 +1100
                Re: I give in F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-14 11:51 +1100
                Re: I give in Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2017-02-14 11:57 +1100
                Re: I give in F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-14 20:30 +1100
                Re: I give in Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2017-02-15 06:34 +1100
                Re: I give in F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-02-15 12:38 +1100
            Re: I give in "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2017-02-13 00:47 +1300
    Re: I give in Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2017-02-11 14:58 +1100
      Re: I give in Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-11 15:15 +1100
        Re: I give in Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2017-02-10 20:28 -0800
  Re: I give in Trevor Wilson <trevor@SPAMBLOCKrageaudio.com.au> - 2017-02-11 14:56 +1100

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