Tag: Tasmania

  • Make Sure to Keep a Diesel in the Shed

    Make Sure to Keep a Diesel in the Shed

    by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2024 (Apr. 22, 2024) — A Diesel in the Shed. You can have your solar panels              and your turbines on the hills;You can use the warmth of sunshine              to reduce your heating bills. You can dream you’re self-sufficient              as you weed your vegie bed;As long as you…

  • Andrew Wilkie: Australia’s Ultimate Lounge Lizard!

    Andrew Wilkie: Australia’s Ultimate Lounge Lizard!

    7 November 2023 Dear Editor, In siding with those “slugs at the bottom of Nan’s lovely little garden,” the Australian Greens, and teal moral-termite, Kylea Tink, to erase a bipartisan statement that Australia stands with Israel (a Western democratic society) after Hamas’s ineffable, barbaric butchery of so many of Israel’s tiny infants, helpless elderly, girl-children,…

  • Biofuels Baloney

    Biofuels Baloney

    “THE MINDLESS WAR ON COAL” by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2019 (Aug. 14, 2019) — Burning forests to generate electricity is probably the worst green energy stupidity. It destroys forests, creates its own pollutants, is less efficient than coal to harvest, handle and burn and has a low heat value. If all…

  • A Diesel in the Shed

    A Diesel in the Shed

    IS ENERGY-PRODUCTION HEADED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION? by Viv Forbes, carbon-sense.com, ©2017 (Apr. 13, 2017) — You can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills; You can use the warmth of sunshine to reduce your heating bills. You can dream you’re self-sufficient as you weed your veggie bed; As long as you…