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For more information: Farmers interest in attending these
three-hour workshops at Dalby, Brookstead, Clifton and Condamine can
phone (07) 4662 4899 for further information.

Queensland Country Life, 19/1/2006, p. 29

Source: Erisk – www.erisk.net 

Pipeline takes off from AGL line: Mr Hundt said the pipeline
moved through private property at the Duri pass, near Tamworth, and was
concentrated along roadways and travelling stock routes across the
Breeza Plains, Coolah and Dunedoo districts. The pipeline takes off
from the 283km AGL-constructed pipeline to Dubbo, which itself takes
off the Moomba-Sydney line at Marsden, north-west of West Wyalong.

The Land, 19/1/2006, p. 37

Source: Erisk – www.erisk.net 

However, Energy Minister Patrick Conlon said
the plan would not work for air-conditioners that are purchased
interstate, online or are transferred from house to house. “ETSA
already advises residents to tell them if they are in need of an
increase of power,” he said. “ETSA will still have no idea when
air-conditioners are replaced.”

The Advertiser, 25/1/2006, p. 6

Source: Erisk – www.erisk.net 

Output of less than 50kW: So what qualifies as a
micro-generator? In the UK the term is used to describe generators with
an output of less than 50 kilowatts, but in other countries the term
small-scale can apply to installations running into the megawatt range.

Archimedes screw becomes generator: Even the Archimedes screw
has been transformed into a micro-generator, thanks to Ritz-Atro, a
company based in Nuremberg, Germany. Its devices are capable of
generating anything from 1 kilowatt upwards, from flows a of just 70
litres per second. The company has said they could be used in
situations where the flow is too low for other micro-generators, such
as small weirs or the waste outflows from small industrial plants. Two
small screw generators have been installed in outflow pipes at water
treatment plants near Tubingen in Germany, for instance.

New Scientist, 21/1/2006, p. 37

Denitrification of soil: And while some see nitrogen as helping
to reduce global warming by stimulating plant growth, hence locking
more carbon away, this benefit is likely to be overshadowed by an
increased rate of denitrification in the soil, which pumps NOx back
into the atmosphere.

New Scientist, 21/1/2006, p. 42

Linesmen “skilled and scarce”: Asked how ETSA intended to
prepare for the next heatwave, he replied: “I can’t tomorrow go and
recruit hundreds of new linesmen. We have recruited 32 new apprentices
and 60 linespeople from overseas, but these resources are skilled and
scarce.”

The Advertiser, 24/1/2006, p. 5