My legs hurt. Amazing scenery though.
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Someone's loaned me a mountain bike, I've been out after work a few times this week. I'm saving up to buy my own one soon.
https://www.relive.cc/view/vrqowLwAjKq
Also, I'll be helping with the south coast cleanup tomorrow, cleaning up Taputearanga island with the Wellington sea kayak network.
There's a parking machine on Dixon Street where someone has busted the solar panel, I wonder if it was the same person?
This is an area that's quite familiar to me, as I've done a few circumnavigations of Kapiti, I've also landed on Fisherman's/motungarara before, as well as Brown's island next to it.
The tides through that area are vicious, to the point where a trip in the area has to be planned around them, you can't overcome the flow for any length of time, especially for a circumnavigation.
They were definitely lucky to make the island. I wonder where they landed? There are actually houses out there, on the northern end.
Neat. The area around Auckland Airport is perfectly suited for a hovercraft, come to think of it.
Auckland Airport has a hovercraft?
I've heard that one a few times before actually, it's not entirely unfair either.
The line is out of action while deicing is taking place, but only for the shortest amount of time necessary.
That's what I'm thinking, yes. Although you could pump a lot of heat into the pantograph, and pair it up with a scraper at the same time.
It wouldn't be able to run line speed, but it would be reasonably fast, I'd think.
If she refuses to resign, it will be interesting to see if greens use the "waka jumping" rules against her.
They were against them at the time, as they felt they could be used to silence dissent in the party ranks, so to use them would be an embarassing change of direction for them.
This is how power line deicing works on systems overseas. You need two legs to the circuit, so it would involve either isolating lines from each other on double track, or earthing out the end of the lines, and using the tracks as a return path.
The option I was actually thinking about was having a heated pantograph of some type.
It's been done with power lines overseas, where they somehow increase the current in the lines to heat them up to shed ice.
No idea how it actually works though, I'll have to look into it.
https://www.relive.cc/view/vevWmKKJpy6
This was the south coast cleanup trip.