Recent content by Eagle1

Now if you are ambitious you use this method just build the lever and chains then use tractor instead of horses.

You can try this

Don't get me started on that subject spent 2 hours finding the valves for my AC gauge set, I just had out less than week ago...... Turns out is set them behind something but on the correct shelf. Then a schrader valve destroyed my tool and itself. 2 more our to extract the pieces, and make a...

Get ready to throw out that CO2 generating Log burner and only use the approved electric heat powered by renewable clean electricity. Just don't look at the CO2 involved in building that clean power. Now since you started it, how can you use an evil and verboten heat source. Wood burning is one...

NZ is a temperate climate. I do not think they get the temp swings we see in the midwest. Even here in southern mo I've seen -20F and above 105F not counting heat index. I know they get extreme temps in the mountains but not many live that high up.

No worries just a little taste. In some places in the US the rates have more than doubled in a very short time....... I'm just glad I retired and stopped getting $3500+ bills during vacations season. They surcharge businesses here and our rate was .15 per KWH. Down to $500 bills during this heat...

I just saw this "Under current projections, by 2030 the New Zealand government has committed to buy up to $30 billion in offshore carbon credits to make up the difference between the country’s gross greenhouse gas emissions and the amount we have signed up to emit under the Paris Agreement – our...

Ok 8 billion for phase one of grid upgrades. How much for phase 2 and then all the other stuff you listed. I would guess some place near a trillion for your country. Will your population be able to pay for that over the next 10 years on top of current tax burdens. Then add what it will cost...

Take a look at EV busses, the track record is dismal. Here is one example you can find them from all over world. We have a ways to go to make heavy diesel fleets work on batteries, diesel electric would work today...

Is there are big push to upgrade power gen and distribution systems in NZ. If you go the EV direction you will need to double if not quadruple those capacities. Here we see planned truck charging stations not being build because the local utility has NO way to provide the amount of power...

Look I pay my bills. Fell behind years ago during a rough patch and am almost paid off now. No hiding from anything. Now retired and living where I want to die but on a fixed income and really don't want (or can't) to go back to work or doing a bunch of side hustles. All I own now is some old...

Well once they get everything you own you are that type of person. Medical debt and others can accrue irregardless of your best intentions. Sometimes lives change and a debt you could comfortably afford is now more than you can do. Injury, layoff, divorce, etc can make you poor in short order...

SO are you ready to buy lease an EV class 6 truck or a new EV dozer? Sounds like you guys are in the same place of trial and error. How many EV fishing boats are on trial? Sure the governments can spend money on dreams how many small businesses are doing it? I'm not against change but against...

I would love to live in NZ if I could afford a big chunk of remote land to run livestock. Gorgeous county. I would question with all boats and ships used on the coast, are all of them going to be battery powered? I'm a couple of thousand KM from an ocean and much that is imported comes here via...

True since escaping to MO I have not had to deal with fire ant and I sure do not miss them. All flavors of wasp are much much easier to remove. IMHO. I like bald face hornets if you don't mess with their nest they catch flies all day long and don't bother anyone. ;) I sit under their nests...