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Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:30:46 +1000

Inspired by Venice 2010 Piazzasalone a road trip exploring Australia, cars and architecture.

...and what better place to start than our own pioneering iconic building.

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info — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:47:35 +1000

marxican alternative.

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brunotautinstitute — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:41:47 +1000

Looks like a Foord Taurus to me. An interesting car a few of which were sold in Australia. The third generation Taurus introduced a design treatment which appeared to borrow heavily from the work of Salvador Dali in his soft clock phase. They looked like they were melting. No one liked them unfortunately. The idea is getting a re-run on a block of flats in StKilda though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Taurus

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info — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:25:01 +1000

Ford Probe, a favourite with proctologists in the 90s. Likes to wear boots.

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brunotautinstitute — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:59:46 +1000

Ford Probe.......you'd think they'd have seen that one coming wouldn't you.

Time was when in the USA word association linked probe with space with an American in command. Then along came Eric Cartman.

Still most self respecting architects wouldn't be seen dead in a Ford.

http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?frbg=13995483&fctN=facet_frbrgroupid&fctV=13995483&frbg=&dum=true&vl(1UI0)=contains&vid=MAIN&srt=rank&indx=1&tab=default_tab&vl(11480836UI1)=all_items&doc=SLV_VOYAGER1695559&vl(10247183UI0)=any&ct=display&scp.scps=scope%3A(SLV_DIGITOOL)%2Cscope%3A(SLVPRIMO)&vl(freeText0)=peter wille robin boyd own house&fn=search&mode=Basic

With luck this link will take you to the back of Walsh Street and let you see Robin's DS and Patricia's Fiat 500. God they were cool.

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:06:37 +1000

Didn't work did it.

When you get to the State library search page just add to peter (already there) wille robin boyd own house.

If you are unaware of the Peter Wille collection just browse around it a bit.

Australiasalone

info — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:03:58 +1000

Does anyone care what Robin BoyD drove.
He didn't. He drove a rambler bruno.

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brunotautinstitute — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:59:31 +1000

Interesting you should ask info. Probably just seduced by celebrity I suppose.

What interests me about Robin Boyd's cars is the progression from the early optimism of a second hand Standard 8 at Riversdale Road through a series of Citroen DS which, despite their mechanical problems projected an air of European sophistication to, if Geoffrey Serle has his facts right, at Frederick Romberg's suggestion, a Studebaker Hawk with dodgy airconditioning and ending with a Dodge Phoenix hardtop and increasing frustration and despair with the progress of his professional career.

I'm unaware of the Rambler but I'll take your word for it.

I drive a Camry myself and keep a picture of an FJ Holden in my carport.

Don't know what those guys at Merchant Builders were thinking about but if you put a real car in there you just can't open the doors.

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info — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:19:07 +1000

As if you'd take a knob like Romberg's advice on a car? You just explained why his career went down the toilet. If he was smart he would have driven a Brougham to go with his suits.

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:22:11 +1000

Well it just shows you can't be too careful choosing your partners.

Now just south of the border down Marxico way you can find the Murray Valley Private Hospital.

When the photo below was taken it was still the Clyde Cameron College, a nest of trade unionism planted by the Whitlam Government which was finally stamped out by John Howard in the early 90's.

The now Murray Valley Private Hospital was designed by Architects Group. Now these were partners you might want to have, Kevin "Tubby" Borland, former communist, mate of Bob Hawke and Citroen driver, Osrick Spence, retired Commonwealth Bank manager/architect, Phillip Cohen, gun detailer and nice bloke and Max May, engineer/architect and occasional Porsche driver. A lot of now middle aged architects worked in their office in Peel Street Collingwood and look back on their time there with affection.

It interests me that it seems to have been turned into a hospital with almost no apparent alteration to the building.

See also this link for some earnest architectural blogging:
http://blog.adonline.id.au/clyde-cameron-college/

Australiasalone

info — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:23:09 +1000

Didn't burnthard browneye & arsesohChates do that? What he says!

Stumbled over it short time ago. Its taken a deep breath, expelled all its air and sagged after looking like a french chick for 30 years - will probably fall down now.

love the cuban hearse and lurch door bell in the port coat chair.

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info — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:16:04 +1000

Got any shots of the Harold Holt with a classy-less vehicle bruno?
Tubby had partners you wouldn't want to have ----- pockets now lined with filthy rupiah.

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/games-lootfest-is-a-grotesque-humiliation-for-india-20100925-15rjg.html

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:03:46 +1000

No photos yet info.

I drove past yesterday and it was bearing the mark of Kane.

With luck it will become something rotund and clad in black neoprene with flippers but with Jacko and a lot of middleaged Brutalist sentimentals watching Peddle Thorpe's every key and mouse stroke I suspect not.

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:22:18 +1100

Auburn Kindergarten and Childcare Centre. Design v Workmanship. Ross Ramus' 70's antiformalist statement of gasketed fibreglass panels extended in blueboard. The panels with the little windows for the kids to look out were re-used.

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info — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:43:26 +1100

Sack all the trans tasman, west of Ceduna and Gaggiaville gangsta fudgers and give you the history gig job bruno.

Keep em rolling.

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brunotautinstitute — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:16:33 +1100

Westgate Bridge fell here 40 years ago exactly at 11.50 Friday 15 October.

http://www.westgatebridge.org/

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brunotautinstitute — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:07:27 +1100

Australia world's 'dumb blonde'? Looks like your worst fears are true info.

http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/australia-worlds-dumb-blonde-20101013-16k09.html?autostart=1

Any thoughts anyone?

Australiasalone

info — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:22:48 +1100

but they do dye it....., those blondes who have still got some.

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brunotautinstitute — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:50:34 +1100

Sam may be smarter than he is often given credit for....

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greenhaus — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:44:52 +1100

Give you 1 guess on ze hair before he vas a POW.

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info — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:29:38 +1100

Blondewood burl with copper tips.

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info — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:32:49 +1100

Not Strawberry Blonde.

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greenhaus — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:44:33 +1100

Blonde is a perfect 10?

http://www.gbca.org.au/media-centre/industry-news/pixel-gains-highest-green-star-score-ever/3113.htm

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greenhaus — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:45:07 +1100

Or a pale imitation
http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=a93edd5ab8a84d4ca4ee9d1a1&id=1f6c39f5b9&e=dd71a5456e

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info — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:48:56 +1100

Post Capitalism Blonde.

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info — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:55:19 +1100

New Paradigm Blonde.

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greenhaus — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:53:28 +1100

Marxican Blonde with Pink Batt dog.

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greenhaus — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:00:43 +1100

Still life with a pink dias, old paradigm blonde & beard.

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b_n — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:09:33 +1100

this is my ride, shame it's not my garage behind...

one of the chaps in the previous photo is rumoured to have wanted one, doubt he'd fit, Italians not known for being tall...

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:39:04 +1100

Italian style with concrete the wonder material. The autostrada takes you everywhere.

Nice to have a new voice I was beginning to suspect that info and herr greenhaus were the only other people still alive outside the pineapple bunker.

^^^^^^^^
In terms of the Smithson's concept of active socioplastics I still think it could use some black neoprene and flippers.

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:46:42 +1100

^^^^^^^^, ^^^^^^^
Good point greenhaus.
Green stars are not the be all and end all and GBCA is a bit like the Catholic Church. Discussing sustainability is a bit like medieval theology. There will be Reformations and Counter-Reformations but ultimately we all must seek salvation through our good works.
So keep nailing those theses to the door.
I'm looking forward to the diet of worms myself.
.....and if you want to reduce your electricity related greenhouse gas emissions by 20% minimum just build your Victorian building in any other state than Victoria. Mr Brumby could achieve his emissions targets tomorrow by replacing brown coal with black coal from Queensland. Now that would really give the QR float legs. A fast bulk freight line down the Newell Highway from south east Queensland to the La Trobe Valley, that's an infrastucture project.

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:52:36 +1100

On a lighter note here's how not to light a bust of Sir Robert Menzies.

Scary Bob! Take the kids down to Kew Library after dark and he'll give them nightmares for weeks.

Can't wait for the companion bust of John Howard.

Australiasalone

greenhaus — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:59:30 +1100

^^ GBCA seem more like the exclusive brethren of green.

The Eyeties do a good tunnel entrance. Go well with mafia staff cars.

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:35:58 +1100

Getting close but I'd say more like Hillsong or one of those crazy south east asian business/fundementalist christian organisations based on fear, faith and money, they're jollier than the Exclusive Bretheren...but some of us are just compulsive joiners or heretics looking for a pyre. The Catholic Church was just an analogy by way of a large international organisation the rest is just theology and populism.

Getting back to the Pixel Building. Put a scoring system on something and some of the boys just can't help themselves and try and turn it into a pissing competition. They ruined surfing too.

Greenstar, LEED, BREEAM scores are like organised religion when what we really want is spirituality.

For Grollo I'd say they're also part of a re-branding process as they expand into a global market, but who knows, maybe they get the spiritual side too. Hope so.

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info — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:15:18 +1100

Know whats really blonde? Pecha Kucha.

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brunotautinstitute — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:48:21 +1100

info you're not a Methodist are you? It is OK to have fun, even though it might lead to dancing.

How about this orange blonde? The car the DS wanted to be. The body but with the SM Maserati V6 and the SM self centering steering which could break your wrist if you weren't careful. Good for 200kph on 3 wheels. Only 2 built.

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:50:44 +1100

Priceless

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brunotautinstitute — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:59:57 +1100

"Phwoar!!!!" Roland Barthes

cf Barthes' response to the DS with its original engine: http://www.usounds.com/the-citroen-ds-by-barthes

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brunotautinstitute — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:26:23 +1100

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sod — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:10:35 +1100

plenty of dick sucker architects have them or want them - good car tarnished by fan boys

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brunotautinstitute — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:13:36 +1100

Come on sod enough of the self loathing. Architects are OK, even the gay ones. We are just prey to our visual sensibilities.

As I've gone on record before I drive a Camry myself, a car which has been described as "whitegoods on wheels" but which comes with an incredibly sophisticated advertising campaign headed by the Toyota Chicken.

Australiasalone

greenhaus — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:37:37 +1100

Citroens were technological fakes that have evolved into rebranded taxis - hence their enduring appeal to architects and the political class.
Engineers, beautiful french chicks and cosmonauts lay down in their matras to pick up the baguettes - since these sorts of people are now extinct in continental europe the vehicle died out with them.

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info — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:46:59 +1100

Like the nun I am catholic bruno. And this is a very honest citroen display because they have removed the troublesome wheels.

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info — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:57:37 +1100

f$%kin A to honda. Totally in context.

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sod — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:34:52 +1100

Bruno, u need a lot of self help therapy to think architects are OK

fckn A to jap eurotrash killers in an oz blonde context.

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:37:20 +1100

^
Nice!!!

Just in from a GBCA tent revival meeting, aka: Master Class.

Halleluja, sell coal and buy solar and wind.

Dr Andreas Luzzi tells us that those crafty Germans have leant on the Swiss financiers of a couple of Australian coal fired power stations proposed for the Fatherland and stopped the projects.

Don't they know that coal is blonde?

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:43:26 +1100

A windscreen shot taken this morning of Neville Quarry's old house at 23 Duke Street, Kew.

That lovely hippy lady who used to teach building science at Melbourne University,was her name Blanche, also lived here until a few years ago.

It'll be interesting to see what happens next.

Australiasalone

greenhaus — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:25:12 +1100

Blanche rocked. So does that house. The gutter leaked and she didn't care.
The site shed is a bad sign.

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info — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:58:39 +1100

Marxico....... the writings been on the wall since the 70s.
Aborted woulda-shat-on-a-corvette against debbie/does/danny backstop.

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brunotautinstitute — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:32:43 +1100

^Phil Zmood rocks

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brunotautinstitute — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:38:38 +1100

^^^^
Anyone like to get hold of some beautiful red clinker bricks.
^^^
Greenhaus was right about that site shed. ............but hey, Some great buildings leak but not all buildings that leak are great.

Australiasalone

greenhaus — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:20:09 +1100

^ Mofos.

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info — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:41:29 +1100

Its not pretty - there is a 44 gallon drum in the back.

Inside is a rotting corpse.

Given it would fit in just about anywhere in marxico - What would you park it in front of?

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:11:25 +1100

Maybe here. http://unhappyhipsters.com/page/6

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brunotautinstitute — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:37:33 +1100

Gone.

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brunotautinstitute — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:28:37 +1100

"These walls are wondrous. Destiny destroyed them.
The courtyards and battlements are smashed. The work of the giants is crumbling."

from "The Ruin" The Exeter Book

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info — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:27:25 +1100

- shagged out baby boomer detritus. crush the rubbish, its taking up valuable space.
...................- face it bruno, marxico's wheels fell off a long time back.

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:24:35 +1100

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greenhaus — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:23:20 +1100

Its a nice place.
Enlightenment suburb with Irish bailout refugee overlay.
Plenty of cars no architecture.

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info — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:29:51 +1100

VSGA advises marxican dictator to expand his power base. Green wedges will be relocated to inner city roof tops.

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brunotautinstitute — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:02:52 +1100

The abolition of stamp duty for first home buyers in regional areas, (called the country when I grew up there) proposed by Labour looks set to inadvertently create a green ring just inside the urban growth boundary surrounded by a "regional" development doughnut.

Read the references and marvel.

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/labor-eases-stamp-duty-for-4000-buyers-20101121-182dh.html

http://www.theage.com.au/business/property/melbourne-jumps-its-boundary-20101121-182kb.html

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info — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:48:35 +1100

green ring or yellow bruno? -

- the black heart is under stress from invasive but impotent green algae bloom.

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brunotautinstitute — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:09:38 +1100

It hardly matters info. Green, yellow, black...........who cares?

Some guy from The Club of Rome introduced me to this graph at the RAIA Sunbury Convention in 1972 and I'd say we are about where the blue and purple lines cross for the first time now.

The sad truth is there's not much you, me or green(haus)building council can do about it.

Ava Gardner may have been right.

Australiasalone

brunotautinstitute — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:12:19 +1100

...and the graph

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greenhaus — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:05:57 +1100

^ the inane farce graph.

Measuring the march of Adam Band-aid (failed lawyer/spouse of former Gillhard staffer), as he is fired from a cannon and parachuted back into his own electorate - who equipped with the facts de-support the first private members bill of the first environmental party elected to the lower house?

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/jacktheinsider/index.php/theaustralian/co

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info — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:16:07 +1100

Charlie Brown wanted it to be a bill to regulate unrecycled toilet paper.

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info — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:18:55 +1100

back on topic.

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brunotautinstitute — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:08:38 +1100

^^

Why stop at green gay marriage?

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greenhaus — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:44:54 +1100

^^Sandown?

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info — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:02:37 +1100

The ship deserting the rats?

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info — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:06:49 +1100

Signage on Dorcas Street

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brunotautinstitute — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:15:47 +1100

Could it be preparation for Big Ted & Mr Guy's Urban Renewal Authority? Retro planning policy looks set to be the Coalition way.

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greenhaus — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:17:15 +1100

Directions to a "safer" place, when the BAL 40 apartment tower in inner city melbourne burns down during a wildfire triggered by a melted tram on the above ground tracks.

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brunotautinstitute — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:09:47 +1100

There's no substitute for saying it with bricks. It's the Australian way.

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brunotautinstitute — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:14:03 +1000

Could it be that a Frank Gehry Limited Edition Mazda 6 is on the streets.
Contrary to Gehry's usual approach it looks perfectly normal from the front and the distortion is concentrated at the rear.

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brunotautinstitute — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:37:38 +1000

A few weeks ago I enjoyed the community celebration as the Hepburn Wind turbines were intalled at Leonards Hill. Even cowboys are part of this community. I have a 12000th share, about 450mm2. Theoretically this offsets about a third of my electricity consumption in Kew.

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brunotautinstitute — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:51:23 +1000

On Saturday I took a drive up to Waubra to listen to the turbines. 129 turbines around a small rural town. Some people are very distressed by the sound, or is it just their perception of the sound? It's an interesting question, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment.
Is a windfarm an industrial landscape?
Are we still stripmining rural amenity for urban gain?
It's not easy being Green.
Here's the view from the road.

Australiasalone

peter — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:37:30 +1000

They make a bit of noise, but perhaps it needs to be seen in comparison to the dirty coal stations in the Latrobe Valley. They are surely worse blots on the landscape, and the smoke plumes and pollution are worse than humming rotors. Unless you live next to them. I guess the coal stations and power lines in the Latrobe become less ugly to locals as they provide them employment, and have become part of the valley's identity.

How did you buy a share of a wind turbine?

PS I have demoted the forum link on the front page of butterpaper due to lack of activity. If activity increases it'll go back on. I realise that's a bit chicken and egg, but there hadn't been a post in here for so long I wondered if it had died. Still, checking the stats, there are a lot of readers in here, even if they aren't posting.

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brunotautinstitute — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:16:25 +1000

Buy your wind farm shares here
http://hepburnwind.com.au/ or http://www.futureenergy.com.au/

Here at the BTI we have $1000 invested in the Hepburn Wind community wind farm co-operative and have just had Origin Energy's photovoltaics installed on our roof. On the back of an envelope this offsets our LaTrobe Valley brown coal electricity consumption.

Still need the transmission lines though for the odd moment when the sun isn't shining and we need power from the windfarm, or we have an excess of photovoltaic to feed into the grid, or when the sun isn't shining and the wind has stopped too.