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Re: end of world as we know it

To: "" <>
Subject: Re: end of world as we know it
From: "Dave Torr" <>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:49:51 +1100
I would like some evidence that 80% of domestic use is for heating water. I
would suspect that heating the house in the southern states takes a lot more
energy and cooling the house in the northern states (and southern states
summer) would also take a fair chunk. I just evaluated solar hotwater for my
wife and myself in Melbourne and the %age of our gas bill (let alone our
total energy bill) that it would save was pretty small.

On 13/02/2008,  <> wrote:
>
> I rember hearing on the radio that average temperatures in Austrlia
> already went up
> approximately 1 degree just this year?
>
> Regards, Simon Muirhead
>
> Quoting michael hunter <>:
>
> >    Mulgoa Valley is sodden Alistair, most of the pre-drought suite
> > of
> > sightings are back, visible during sunny patches but not quite up to
> > the
> > routine fifty plus on any outing any day. GOLDEN-HEADED CISTICOLAS
> > back
> > after six years, now we have grass, two long-tailed dark-eyed
> > VARIEGATED
> > FAIRY-WREN females with their characteristic call popped up in
> > response to
> > "air-kissing", DUSKY WOOD-SWALLOWS on high dead branches, with
> > DOLLARBIRDS,
> > and RAINBOW BEE-EATERS also on the wires, OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLES,
> > WHITE-THROATED TREECREEPER, VARIED SITELLAS, notable this morning,
> > among
> > many others. A couple of TREE MARTINS but no Fairy Martins as yet,
> > they turn
> > up and nest under our verandah in wet years, but this has been too
> > wet, the
> > mud is all under water.
> >      Also a high-pitched "see-see" from ground-level on the steep
> > slope
> > north of Mayfair Rd which has heavy regrowth , possibly SPOTTED
> > QUAIL-THRUSH.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Michael
> >



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