Posts by Damian Christie
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"Back In Wellington", sorry, should read.
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Cracker: Audience wanted for lively TV discussion, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
If in the future, we have PV that’s too cheap to meter, we’ll be able to restore wind farms and dams back to their original state. Until then, we should just get on with it.
So you'll be coming along to the show on Sunday then? :)
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Cracker: Audience wanted for lively TV discussion, in reply to linger,
At least under currently available technology, solar makes more sense as an assist to (water) heating than as a main source of electricity.
I was talking this through with a mate who's very involved in solar, he says that with the costs dropping as much as they are for PV, the electricity will be so cheap that it's easier just to turn it into electricity and use what's needed for hot water heating, rather than have that as the as the only option. On the other hand, just cos it's 'so cheap' doesn't mean you should use it inefficiently...
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Hard News: The Perfect Drug, in reply to aimee whitcroft,
Nutt's pretty much my hero. I interviewed him for PA Radio a while back, great man.
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That looks like the beginning of a great weekend...
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Cracker: Audience wanted for lively TV discussion, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I think the problem in much of the developing world isn’t a lack of technical knowledge on how to farm effectively, but rather economic and social conditions that militate against doing that.
I don't know about "much of the developing world", but one concrete example I can give is what I saw in Pakistan, where ex-Fonterra guys are boosting farmers' milk production up to 400%, virtually overnight, with simple advice, such as "give your cow more water". And this is in a place where water is freely available, so it's not an economic issue, it's just they keep doing things the way they've done them for thousands of years. So as for having the sort of technical knowledge that even NZ farmers are only just starting to come to grips with - when to spray effluent, precisely when and how to plant crops, fertiliser uptake and so forth, no I really don't think most developing countries have an abundance of technical knowledge. Not that it won't also take money to implement some of these things of course.
Solar might be more expensive, but costs have been dropping massively of late (far more than gains in efficiency that were predicted). And what we're talking about specifically, is individual households choosing/being encouraged to invest in solar for their own homes - where for most people, hydro/wind/geothermal etc aren't backyard options. Israel has done it, 90% of homes have solar hot water heating.
I'm not saying we should do it, or that it's the best use of our household's economic resources, but that's the nature of the discussion anyway.
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Cracker: Are you Ready to Laugh?, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I wonder whether this is because you don't fit into any of the common categories of targets of humour.
Possibly, although the mother-in-law/fat/red-head comedy doesn't tend to be particularly common these days among the comedians who are talented enough to be brought in from afar for our entertainment, at least not since the 1950s :)
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Cracker: End of Days, in reply to Sacha,
That’s what I meant too – thinking short.
Okay cool, I'll have a scout around.
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@Will, Hindsight you can watch to your heart's content at tvnz.co.nz/hindsight - they're all there. :) And there's a rail one coming up...
@Sacha - sorry, I meant tell me any old clips you'd like to see for my "This Week in TV History" series, Hindsight topics are already locked and well under way.
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...And the rest of you, I'm serious, tell me what you'd like to see again and I'll try and do it. TV, that you want, like in the old days. You know, that thing you all complain about not having ;)