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Gizmo

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Posted: 11:15pm 26 Sep 2009

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As anyone who lives on the east side of Australia would know, there's been a bit of dust around the last few days. Today is one of the worst I've seen, I knew there was a 2nd wave coming across but didn't think it would be this thick.

Sore eye's and lots of snot.

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fillm

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Posted: 04:33am 27 Sep 2009

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Heres a shot I took last week of my mills in the middle of the day in Brisbane , the total output from the two for the day was over 10 Kwh

Thats the sun

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Tinker

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Posted: 02:33pm 27 Sep 2009

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Would not dust make the air denser and therefore impart more power to your wind generators?

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brucedownunder2
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Posted: 09:12pm 27 Sep 2009

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absolutely terrible around my place .

We could hardly see the letterbox and as for going outside ,forget that . Under the house with all windows closed ,there is a layer of dust on everything.

1976 ,, I was in a campervan in the Sahara desert near Casablanka. we woke in the morning after the dust storm raged all night to find the van 's wheels perched on little 6 inch high mounds of sand -- so that night we guess 6 inches of sand shifter to somewhere..
end of rave,,sorry

Bruce.

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KarlJ

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Posted: 11:52am 12 Nov 2009

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I was on my way to Darwin the day before and found this 5-600K south of coober pedy. had a quarter turn of steering lock on for 5 hours I estimate crosswind was 50knots or more. Fuel consumption went from 11l/100 to 14L/100.

Luck favours the well prepared

MacGyver

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Posted: 05:08am 06 Jan 2010

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I've never been to Australia. It looks like you folks drive on the left.

Am I astute or what? (Or did you flip-flop the picture when you posted it?)

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