Posts by william blake
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Ha, kind of sums up the past decade; just paint.
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Geology club this month was three talks about the science going into the Auckland Council from the volcanologists. The general consensus was to run away if a volcano starts to blow; there may be four weeks notice or six hours. Interestingly the models show most Aucklanders heading North to escape not South, which has not so many and poor roads. Northland won’t have power for years if there is a big eruption as there is only one cable, so head South.
One of the speakers was finishing her Phd in putting infrastructure underground in a volcanic area, using Hawaii as a live resource and the Sydney art school to melt basalt for some cool experiments. The research isn’t finished but power could be compromised by cooking the wires or lead to a total loss of power with metres of volcanic reef over the wires. Water and sewage fail when plastic or rubber components melt and a small risk of scalding when running taps. Hawaii did not lose power in the 2016 eruptions because they have power poles.
Undergrounding in the Waitakeres makes sense lotsa trees and it's not part of the volcanic field but for the lowlanders concrete poles and rubber cars might be better.
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I’m not entirely convinced about the argument that cars hitting power poles is a negative. OK obvs not great for the occupants of the car but if the pole is removed what will the vehicle hit instead?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11977418
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At least we aren't sexist or homophobes.
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Speaker: The crisis is all around us,…, in reply to FletcherB,
Now why she felt the need to do this in the first place is a completely different issue?
Richard Griffin?
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Speaker: The crisis is all around us,…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Tom you should go for Hoskingers job with your simplistic, biased, ad hominem, straw-mannered drivel, you should be a shoe in. That is how the modern MSM is, not a rounded, fair, balanced approach to journalism that allows the readers to make up their own minds.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Juliet Moore,
Portmanteau.
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Rahui.
Peakbee.
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The transport experts put in five traffic pacifiers out in Titirangi mainly due to having four schools off the same feeder road but also partly due to a petition that circulated stating that boy racers were attaining speeds of over 300 kph. It is west Auckland but..Anyway the sleeping policeman at the roundabout was so steep that you had to stop before driving up it and the third hump down the hill was next to a speed camera, interfering with revenue, so they both had to go. The practice of slowing stuff down still seems to be in its infancy.
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Hard News: What we learned yesterday…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
We don’t have a referendum on the speed limit.
No, because of engineering, physics and public safety but we should have a referendum on the $ value of the fine imposed relative to the drivers income or the value of the vehicle.