Fires in Petrol/Diesel vehicles are about 20 times more likely than in EVs.
More data from Norway - at the time 28.3% of cars in the country were electric but they were involved in only 7.4% of total vehicle fires. More data in the article shows that the rate is decreasing too.
I refill with watered down hand-soap (about 3 parts water to 1 part liquid soap). The pump bottle is what makes it foam, it doesn’t have to be a special surfactant, just anything that is low viscosity.
Be careful not to refill above the level of the internal pump - if you do it can get flooded and the extra pressure can break the pump mechanism.
They have a thin plastic mesh in the pump mechanism that does the foaming. If you refill it with a mixture that is to viscous, the mesh can break and the pump won’t foam anymore.
Also, putting too much water in will temporarily stop the pump from working. The device needs a reservoir of air inside as well. If the pump mechanism gets flooded it may need to be left to dry out before it is usable again. Trying to force the pump when its flooded can also break it.
For comparison, in Australia, gas and induction are at price parity (a budget 4-hotplate setup costs about $200-300 either way). You can buy a single-plate induction cooker for $50 that plugs into the wall and has a temperature configurable from 60-200 C.
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PS: Also, electricity is cheaper than gas in Australia, because we have so much rooftop solar, electricity is soon going to be free during the midday peak.
Induction is better for both the global and indoor environment. In some countries landlords aren’t allowed to install gas appliances anymore because of the long term effects on the tenants’ lungs.
Also some newer ones have temp sensors so you can keep a thing at the exact temp you need.
I swear by induction cooking (for both soapmaking and food) for this reason - precise temperature control, even low temperatures that aren’t even possible to get on a gas stove.
Aluminium for instance doesn’t work.
A lot of cheap pans I’ve seen at (AU) Kmart, Big W, Ikea etc are aluminum with a teflon-esque coating, but with a carbon-steel circle attached to the bottom that makes it induction compatible.
Would a cast iron skillet work on one of those?
Definitely, you just need pans with a ferromagnetic bottom, so cast iron works very well.
The outer material doesn’t matter - only the base. Many cheap induction-compatible pans are made mostly of aluminum with a non-stick coating, but containing a layer of ferromagnetic material in the base that will heat up on an induction stove.
I occasionally play bass guitar and keyboards and have found Behringer’s studio-monitoring range of headphones provide excellent quality reproduction for around AU$50 - better than many AU$200 consumer-focused brands. Sennheisers are also good but more expensive.
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If you’re not from Australia - there is a lot of opposition from farming and rural communities in general to renewable energy infrastructure. We’ve had lots of issues with rural groups organising misinformation-fuelled intimidation of people building renewables. There is a need to counter that with more information about how climate change is going to be a lot worse for farming and the rural landscape.
Some background in this article from our ABC: Dangerous anti-renewables rhetoric, bullying and intimidation creates growing chasm in rural communities
There is more background to the comparison in Australia. There is a lot of opposition from farming and rural communities in general to renewable energy infrastructure. We’ve had lots of issues with rural groups organising misinformation-fuelled intimidation of people building renewables.
Another article from our ABC: Dangerous anti-renewables rhetoric, bullying and intimidation creates growing chasm in rural communities:
Hostility towards farmers hosting renewable energy projects is increasing, fracturing rural communities.
A Senate inquiry received submissions detailing threats of intimidation and violence amid worsening rhetoric.
I often take meat-eaters to vegan restaurants in Melbourne, and for fowl (chicken and duck) they say they can’t tell the difference between the gluten-based ones and the animal flesh ones. Some of them have said the best fried chicken they have ever had was at a 100% plant based restaurant.
Red meat is a bit harder to emulate though there are expensive ones like Impossible Burger and Beyond Beef that do well. Many other substitutes cope better in heavily cooked dishes like ragu or lasagna than burgers or sausages.
Yes, when I saw the headline I thought it was shockingly low for electricity generation. Only reading the details of “gross final energy” makes clear this includes fuel for vehicles and heating.
I remember when teflon pans first became popular and the celebrity chefs were all adamant that they were common trash unlike whatever bougie cookware they were using.
If it was the only alternative nuclear power would be a solution to reducing coal and gas, but there’s no point building nuclear reactors if the renewables are better in almost every way. Solar + Wind + Batteries are faster and cheaper to build, require less specialized skills and materials, easier to get approvals for, cheaper to run (doesn’t use any kind of fuel), lower emissions, better safety, more distributed (with the advantages that come along with that like being more fault-tolerant, etc).
Looking at generators all over Australia, Solar, Wind and Batteries are just popping up everywhere partly because they’re cheap and easy to build and run.
ABC news on the Solar Sharer Scheme
One thing the article mentions halfway through is that some retailers already offer free power at certain times. E.g. AGL has 10am-1pm “three for free”, OVO energy has “Free 3” 11am-2pm, Red Energy’s “Red EV Saver”, GloBird Energy’s “ZeroHero” plans. Wholesale resellers like Amber and Flow will generally offer free power anytime the wholesale price is negative (usually around 10-4 most sunny days).
“Worlds largest coal port” should be specific enough, surely.
Some data from Norway you may find informative. - at the time of posting 28% of their vehciles were electric so they have good data comparing ICE and EV safety.