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Who cares about our relationship with France, they've been *** kissing Russia recently over the latest European dramas - didn't Australia help them out in two world wars? France basically ripped us off and hired our own ex defence procurement people to lobby against our own government, it wasn't like the original deal was good for us anyway, now they're salty over us waking up to their scam and partnering with the US and UK in a technology sharing pact. Here's an hour long lecture over the French submarine fiasco going into great detail about the people involved if you feel so passionately about them, it summarises 2009-2020 and the other options that were on the table at the time and how some of the decisions were made. There's also some other dramas brewing with French companies providing services to Australian governments of both colours too, Google 'Alstom' and their involvement in VIC. Before we drag this too far away from energy and fuel dramas, NSW has decided to take steps in case it needs to force some decisions and given itself temporary emergency powers. Quote:
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I'd seriously like to see the forums do E85 conversion threads - if I haven't found them already. Liquid sunshine. Has anyone done the I6 on E85 or E100 for personal transport (not race)? Dave Blume's book is choc-a-block full of good ways to do it - even selling the byproduct after fermentation as high end feedstocks! The chapter I like the most is Chapter 13 'Surprise! Ethanol is the perfect fuel! - We can put E85 in our cars now! Really!' where he outlines the South Dakota growers just putting E85 into their unconverted EFI test vehicles, and it worked too. The way Australia is run, if you're on the ground living in it, you might as well be completely independent as much as possible in your power, fuels (food as much as possible). And agree, it will take more than electrics to get to carbon zero. The really silly thing is the 'developing world' (including those who have space programs), aren't worring about carbon zero at all, and are putting up more and more coal fired power stations... Anyway - can we get a thread on: How to convert an Intech AU six to E100 How to convert and reprogram any 1990s EFI to run on ethanol?
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Also notice how about a decade ago E85 was 30c/L cheaper than 98 when both Caltex (Ampol) and United brought it to market? Now there's only one brand selling it at the pumps (United), its way more expensive than 98?
Brazil has been using E85 for a very long time, the engines coming out of the GM Port Melbourne engine plant going into the Brazilian market were modified for E85 capability. |
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Is it guilt because of the 'per capita' furphy?
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-...jobs/101161446
85 yo business what a terrible situation, muppets eradicating industry
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The country is a joke plain and simple.
The pollies who allowed all our energy to be sent overseas are protected by parliamentary privilege now and cant be made to pay for their failures. Anybody who expects this green energy fallacy to solve their problems is just plain stupid. The transition to green energy should be a 20-30 year process...not a quick "turn it off" and she will be right mate. Japan has clean burning coal technology, yet we are turning off all our coal powered energy. Years of neglect and underinvestment has brought us to where we are at today. All power generation should be government owned and run, these things are not to make profit. We only know how to dig things up and send them overseas...that's about it. Once the so called "green energy" manifesto takes effect we will become a backwater. We are simply told to accept that our energy bills will double and cop it sweet. Great example above in the 85 year old family business forced to close. There will be others.. Our new incoming government looks to be no better and will do nothing except talk legalese to say "its not our problem"
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Anyone else find it ironic we have virtually zero manufacturing industry anymore and yet we're struggling to keep the lights on?
Manufacturing is a massive energy consumer, we have less energy requirements now than when we did when we had manufacturing industries running, but we're on the cusp of blackouts? We were talking about various feedstocks for biofuels recently, the irony is the Russia-Ukraine war has caused supply shortages globally of vegetable oils because both Ukraine and Russia are huge producers of sunflower oil accounting for about 75% of the global supply ![]() Its used in a lot of Eastern European cuisine - Chebureki ![]() Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 18-06-2022 at 09:00 PM. |
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Had a work stopover at Fitzroy Crossing once...
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https://fordforums.com.au/showpost.p...postcount=1479 So it obviously can be done, just needs to be political will which I doubt we'll find due to the nature of the political donations and short sighted nature of our political class. Diesel is way more important than unleaded I reckon, the price of diesel effects everything where as unleaded basically effects you getting to/from work. |
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I couldn't buy any alcohol of any type from say late March 2020 to June 2020 and the price tripled...as certain importers/producer mongrels sold to anyone that came along, leaving their regular clients high and alcohol dry while the resellers made massive profits. I'd say your E85 got stung by the alcohol shortage and price rise on top of the petrol price rise....and the irony is today I can buy as much 1000L IBC's of alcohol being sold by surplus resellers and name my price although the stuff is over 2 years old and probably starting to get contaminated. |
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Yeah, so instead of all the cane farmers producing sugarcane for sugar,
maybe that should go into more Ethanol for biofuels like South America. Farmers struggling to make a buck could switch to sunflower and rapeseed crops on guaranteed contracts from biodiesel companies..something for locals. Lots of things possible but will governments support keeping money and business in this country…. |
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Interestingly I was speaking to my ford dealer yesterday and said some of the people that ordered the new ranger raptor have cancelled and pulled out, based on the fact they need to run it on premium unleaded due to the price of fuel up here now.
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Yeah, didn’t make sense to me either.
Maybe they are mortgaged to the hilt, have purchased on finance and the cost of living, house payments and fuel is starting to bite. Not sure. |
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Yes, I’d see that as a lame excuse too. Kind of tars the would-be owners.
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Most of the seed is dumped at the ports into containers tilted upright for loading then stuck on a ship bound for Iraq, Iran, middle east. Jathropha (from India) is the crop I would grow, 4 times the yield of sunflowers, the berries grow on what act as a windbreak and to keep animals in their fields. I reckon India will be a future fuel supplier the way they are developing this crop while we sit here stuffing around.
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But we're not some ****ty third world country so one assumes we wouldn't starve ourselves, but given what's happening with energy I'm not so sure to be honest ![]() Like everything else we do, we can just buy it from China or some other ****ty exploitative third world country ![]() |
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[QUOTE=Franco Cozzo;6719107]There's concern about promoting biofuels because every farm who plants biofuels crops is one less farm producing food.
[QUOTE] I love hearing this argument from Green groups but they will accept ripping up good coastal farm land for Legoland housing and vineyards so we can **** it up against a wall.
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Even things like orientation of houses being wrong, then trying to fight nature with things like triple glazed windows, makes the house more expensive to build and then you spent a heap on heating and cooling. This is Tarneit satellite view - notice hardly anyone has solar panels either on all these new houses: ![]() Funny how its always the West in both Melbourne and Sydney, no one cares about the reffos, cheap and nasty houses on tiny blocks for all our mechanical engineers working as Uber/courier drivers ![]() Then because everyone uses more energy on heating and cooling their crappily designed and placed houses, we have 'energy shortages' ![]() I live in the middle of nowhere out on the regional fringe of Melbourne, you can see the difference in planning laws/legislation taking effect, guess where the old part of town is and the new estates are in the below satellite photo: ![]() There's a problem and its on the legislation side. |
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