The Brick Balloon
The Australian Snowy 2 hydro scheme plans to use electricity to pump water up hill to get some of that energy back by running the water downhill again.
Some Australian mining companies are planning a dry version of Snowy 2 â a huge brick-powered battery using the force of gravity to drive a generator when solar and wind energy are on strike.
Each unit of this brick-powered battery would comprise a 30 storey tower enclosing a 35 tonne brick which is hauled up using surplus renewable energy (around noon on any clear windy day) and then released to turn generators when there is no renewable energy being produced (every still night or calm cloudy day).
A house built on sand Half of Americans believe Trump is guilty of incitement, to be barred from standing for re-election. But Trump loyalists or those indifferent, have handed him a get out of jail free card. The GOP refused to concede, consequently turning the tide in his favour. These few Retrumpians , have thrown his Vice-President Pence under the bus. Pence is now a target, for carrying out his Constitutional duty in declaring the Biden victory. (I believe) Trump s presidency, like his life, was based on a pattern of a sense of entitlement, delusion and lies; 30,000 lies over the four years.
Working for the community I have worked years ago for our community as a teenager when there were major crime problems as there is today. I was working for about 150 dollars a week on a rural property and purchased from GoPrint, a government department at the time, a copy of the
Penalties and Sentencing Act worth 80 dollars. The people at the time were screaming for justice and an open public forum was announced to address the issue with the former state Attorney-General, Dean Wells and I needed the document to prove a point. The issue that I saw was that criminals were being let off with a slap on the wrist, while victims suffered and I pointed out in the