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FandPwithPVC
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Posted: 01:35am 05 Jun 2008

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Hi All
The Australian ,South Australian Government and Local Councils have image problems and must seem to look good at all times. They however sometimes neglect important issues and have "laws unto themselves".Such is the issue with small wind turbines and absolutely no policies.
The South Australian and New Zealand Government have been
have been trying out some Small Wind Turbines They are fully imported from Scotland and are Swift brand .The total overall cost of each of these Grid Tie Turbines is $18000 The Windy Boy grid inverter was $3000 and installation $3000 This makes them very exspensive although I am told they look good, are very quiet and will not hit birds. There are no performance details available The web suggests it is very marginal at best and appears under our own Fisher and Paykel results. A South Australian Company has an order for a further 40 of these units They will be built under license from the Scottish company with locally produced inverters at Woodville S.A. Then they will be installed on Goverment or Council controlled land
This is a double standard and your comments are invited.
Regards Dennis L

petanque don
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Joined: 02/08/2006
Location: Australia
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Posted: 03:05am 05 Jun 2008

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My opinion is that blowing a few hundred grand on testing an emerging technology is a far better use of my taxpayer dollars than giving a hundred million dollars to the Adelaide football club.

If the expansion at west lakes was necessary the Adelaide football club would find a way to do it anyway.

If a community organisation wished to use Football Park they would have to pay a fee and that fee would not go back to the government.

If the Adelaide football club is so poorly run that its business plan is unable to support basic maintenance and growth of the facilities should they get any different treatment than any other poorly run business?

Perhaps they should have put some money aside for maintenance than spending their money on highly paid staff.

Should they have tested other brands?

Maybe, but it seems well established that the real cheapies like the Chinese windmills are unlikely to give a long trouble free service life.

Built locally?

Sounds like a glorified buying jobs exercise I suppose a few Mitsubishi workers will get a bit of work from it.

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