Darryl Talks About New Zealand

Coffee and No Breakfast EV thoughts. The ability to build batteries at scale for electric cars is difficult. Only the companies which have established battery supply chains will be able to build EVs at scale, and survive into the future. An example: If your company can make or secure some number of batteries for EVs. Say that is enough for 350km cars. You can use that to make 1 full EV car, if you make plug in hybrids you can use the same number of batteries to make seven 50km range plug in hybrid cars. You can also also use it to make fifteen 25km range plug in hybrids. You can use the same amount of batteries to make thirty to fifty hybrid cars. The right thing to do is make plug in hybrids with a modular battery pack. Such that you can add an extra battery, just by bolting it in. A trickier solution is to have the engine as a generator, and have the deign such that you can remove the engine and install, still another battery. Some established car brands are big on building hybrids, and a small number of low range plug in hybrids, because they have been unable to secure battery supply chains, or did not think it was important. If customers demand EVs or longer range plug in hybrids. The companies that did not secure battery supply chains, will have to shrink to match their battery supply. I live in New Zealand, there is a program to tax the sale of inefficient cars and cross subsidise efficient vehicles. This has made EVs US$5,000 cheaper and pick up trucks US$3,000 more expensive. So budget EVs are now in the range that 20% of all vehicle sales were EVs and plug in EVs last month. Note just 0.3% were hybrid cars. The hybrid strategy is finished. Plug in hybrids were 4% of sales. Traditional hybrids were 0.3% and full EVs were 15%. I think almost all of the plug in hybrids were Mitsubishi 4WD models, for people who want a 4WD. The remainder were MG plug in hybrids which are the cheapest model plug in, which people use for regular commuting, but can still make occasional long trips without the constraints of finding chargers. I could not find good statistics to separate the used imports and new imports. Disambiguation: 10,940 new passenger cars were sold in August, the most for any August, and 2,557 were pure electric vehicles, a 23% share. In addition there were 627 PHEVs and 1,626 petrol hybrids sold. That means new energy vehicles grabbed a 44% share in August. 0:00 Intro 0:30 New Zealand car market. 0:55 Clean car discount and fees 1:30 Something for every budget 2:00 15% EVs, 5% plug-in hybrids 2:50 $$$ Clean car discounts 3:10 $$$ Dirty car fee 3:40 Extent of Fast charging network 4:20 EV Market tipping point 5:00 Electricity pricing 5:20 My EV experience 2022 09 07 09 56 23

There are my thoughts on an exercise regime that worked for me, and some people I used to work with. I am currently on day 657 of my basic exercise programme. Summary: Always run or jog when you are outside. If you can't run, walk, walk 10,000 steps per day. Eat only at meal times, have no snacks. Don't have sugar in drinks, no fruit juice, coffee or tea with a tiny amount of milk is ok. Coffee is not a warm milk shake. Don't run on the third week, take a week walking. Stop running and change your shoes if you get a slightly sore knee or ankle. Look at the soles of your shoes, look for wear on the outside edge or inside edge, get shoes with harder compound to even it out. Buy two different pairs of running shoes or cross trainer shoes - alternate the days you wear them. This will help prevent strain injuries that build up day after day. 0:00 Intro 0:30 Exercise and eating program to lose weight. 1:50 Details: Run everywhere 2:10 Details: Only eat at meal times. 2:30 Injury warning 3:55 Controlled eating and exercising 4:05 I am on day 657 of my 10,000 steps per day minimum. 5:00 I have no cheat days on my steps. 6:00 Recap of exercise programme. 6:30 I speculate "fake meat" will be unhealthy in the long term. 7:00 What to eat 8:10 Don't eat rice and pasta 8:45 Complete vegetable protein mix (vegetarian). 11:20 You have to keep walking. 12:30 Don't eat or drink sugar or juice 13:30 This is just my opinion. 14:10 Running shoe advice to prevent injuries. 2022 08 07 11 05 40

I take a look at this nonsense school book reader that the kids walk away from. In my country, ducks don't nest in trees. No school has thirteen busses. We don't have teenagers at primary schools. This story is nonsense. I think this is a product of the common core syllabus that originated from the American education system. My summary is that you cannot learn from a meta book. This thing is not a story book. It has no story, there is not conclusion. It's just a bunch of documents stuck together into a book, but it is not a story. Yes, I do have too much time on my hands. 01:10 Cover. 01:40 What is the concept? 02:40 Does Monster Picnic mean a big picnic? 03:25 13 busses? are there 600 kids? 03:50 Vocabulary 03:30 Structure 04:55 Meta structure 06:30 How about some context, then specifics? 07:50 You don't need to make everything academic. 08:40 The paragraph starts with And --- What????? 09:10 Is this just a practical? 10:00 Ducklings do not live in trees in my country. 10:30 Wood ducks only live in North America. 10:50 Fragments, hanging 11:30 Context, then specifics. 12:00 Swirling and twirling, never gonna happen! 12:30 More hanging fragments. 13:30 Meaninglessness. 14:00 It needs to be concrete operational. 15:00 How about a real name? 16:00 Book structure again. 16:30 Another character is introduced. 17:00 Seth and Tim. 18:00 How about a style guide? 18:40 It's a book in a book. 19:00 So, its inception? 19:30 I have never seen a turtle in the wild. 20:00 Set a good example. 21:00 Day time bats? 21:30 I had to make a video about it. 22:00 More inconstancy. 22:50 Lack of sense making. 23:40 Meta meta. 24:00 No animals, other than humans, make ladders. 25:00 Seriously? Yum! 25:30 Non sequitur. 26:00 Why is he 13? 27:00 Abstract localisation. 27:50 Set an example. 28:20 It does not mean anything. 28:40 Concrete stories that kids understand. 29:20 There is no story arc. 29:40 It just ends. No conclusion. 31:00 They try to cram in words to match a syllabus. 33:00 Conclusion. Lack of sense making. 33:30 It's a clever book for academics. 34:00 It's triggered my rant reflex. 35:00 There is no story in the story. 36:00 The story then.... 37:00 What is this for? 38:00 This book is an academic exercise. 38:40 I don't understand graphic novels and cartoons. 39:00 Conclusion. 39:40 End pont.

NZ Cheap broadband deals: https://econofibre.co.nz/ Cheap Fibre monthly plan, available in most locations. https://www.flip.co.nz/flip-broadband/ Cheap weekly plan. https://www.skinny.co.nz/broadband/ Wireless 4G and Fibre plans available in most locations. https://www.skinny.co.nz/jump/home/ Skinny Jump is a maximum 200GB for $25/month. $5 per month if you don't use it much. You might have some months where you don't pay at all. You cannot get all of these options in all locations. 0:00 Intro 0:45 Flip broadband [Cheap & confusing] 1:55 Econofibre [Fast and cheap] 4:00 Skinny [Pretty cheap, easy install] 5:35 Skinny Jump [Cheapest, easiest install] 6:45 Summary UFB: Ultra Fast Broadband: internet that comes to your home over fibre-optic cables. 4G Broadband: broadband that comes to your house over the 4G mobile phone network. Uses a wireless modem that plugs into any power outlet. ADSL VDSL: The old style internet that comes to your home on a regular old phone line wire. cheap ,discount, budget, wifi, broadband, nz, internet, UFB ,deal What is the cheapest internet in New Zealand in 2022?

In this video, I take a trivial tour of the most extreme locations in New Zealand. Most of them are not the paces that you think. Cape Reinga and Bluff.

In this video I work out how to provide cheaper houses for people in the countryside, by rebuilding older villages and localities. I sometimes come up with these ideas when I have had my morning coffee and had no breakfast, but I came up with this idea yesterday, while visiting my brother, who lives in the country. His house is substantially off grid. The fundamental problem with expensive housing is the cost of land, the land is expensive because it comes with a bundle of reticulated services which are at great cost. All the houses are built on piles so they can be transported or moved. 0:00 Intro 1:10 Villages 1:30 How did we get like this? 1:50 Identify places 3:35 Where to place sections 4:00 Layout for access 4:30 Water and septic system 5:30 What kind of house? 5:50 Lay out a grid. 6:05 Horticultural land is reserved. 7:00 Schools 8:00 What to build 8:30 Kit set house 9:15 Transportable houses 10:00 Finding more village locations 10:50 Prime example of village layout 11:15 Water supply 12:05 Multi Chamber septic system 12:50 Low pressure hot water and grid tied electricity 13:20 Gravel roads, then paving stones 13:50 Summary Conclusion Different things for different people. I would, for sure, sell my house in the suburb and move to what I describe. I would free up cash, I weed prefer to be more independent and substantively off grid. As I said, I would choose places with schools. If there are a cluster of houses, I am sure they would support a dairy or convince store. It is always chicken and egg with the establishment of services. My major complaint, is that you can't do this anywhere in New Zealand, empty land in the country is very expensive. There is not a shortage of land, there is high cost land with services. All the houses in New Zealand would fit in a 100 x 100km square. Every house on a half acre section. All of that would fit on just the flat land in Southland. On quarter acre sections, it would be a square 65km per side. There is almost no option to live on a self sufficient segment of land in New Zealand, probably the same in Australia and Canada, because land use is tightly controlled - for some reason - over regulated. The United States does not have this problem, at least, in enough locations that anyone can buy cheap land - in the order of a few thousand dollars per acre. New Zealand 2022 08 16 09 41 53

This is a drive from Silverstream intersection of SH2 to Kapiti Road in Paraparaumu, through SH58 and SH1 Transmission Gully. 00:00 Intro Map. SH2 01:30 Haywards Interchange SH58 0:2:30 Haywards AC/DC Substation 07:40 Judgeford Golf Course 09:55 SH58 SH1 Transmission Gully Interchange 16:20 Slow vehicle lane 17:45 Major 70m cutting 18:30 Crest of cutting 20:20 Emergency stopping lane 21:30 Old SH1 Merge 22:20 Queen Elizebeth Tramway Park 24:15 Raumati off ramp 26:55 Kapiti Road off ramp

Coffee and no breakfast 2022 08 07 - what I eat for breakfast. 2022 08 07 11 27 49 0:00 Intro 1:00 Fats and oils 1:20 How to measure cereal 2:14 Types of fats 3:37 Milk as a complete food for calves 4:00 The grand scheme of healthy vs unhealthy 4:30 My daily breakfast 5:00 Grains are not a health food 6:30 What was the point of my story? 7:00 Whole milk milk powder is a good food. 9:00 Starving cows, we are mammals. 11:00 low fat milk as a food 11:20 I can't drink a litre of full fat milk 12:10 full fat milk suppress appetite To be clear my muesli is mostly oats. It has nuts and seeds in it, mostly pumpkin seeds, sunflower and almonds. Whole milk milk powder is a health food. Milk fat is a mixture of monounsaturated, polyunsaturated and saturated fats: Milk is about 30% mono unsaturated. 60% saturated. Small amounts of trans and poly unsaturated fats. Fatty acid content of butterfat Type of fatty acid pct Lower saturated (at most C12)  11% Myristic saturated C14 12% Palmitic saturated C16 31% Stearic saturated C18 11% Palmitoleic monounsaturated C16:1 4% Oleic monounsaturated C18:1 24% Linoleic polyunsaturated C18:2 3% Alpha-Linolenic polyunsaturated C18:3 1% Trans (mainly vaccenic C18:1 trans-11) 3%

I have driven an average of 14,800 km/year. Which is very much the New Zealand average. Fast charging Home charging AC charging DC charging

Just some thought I had while reading stuff on the internet during my breakfast coffee. 0:00 Intro Kelvin and Celsius 3:00 A dozen 5:40 Recap of my point 6:27 A litre of cola, liquid measure 8:50 Temperature then 9:30 Special scales 10:35 I suggest a new height scale Heights 3 SDs, median woman, 2 SDs, median man, 3 SDs. I noticed that my audio had an annoying hummmmmmmm.

I discuss where fertiliser comes from, what the chemicals are and how they result in food surpluses that are used for commodity world trade. Applied industrial chemistry 0:00 Intro 2:03 Phosphate rock, birds, seaweed and fish 8:15 Nitrates, Ammonia, Nitrogen 8:58 NPK numbers Potassium 10:00 Natural gas 10:30 More crops, more exports = politics 11:00 Marketing weak product features 13:00 What's my point? I'm sceptical. 14:15 This one country.... imported less fertiliser and fuel. 15:05 One last thought. 15:40 Food surplus vs emissions per capita. EU. 18:00 Net food exporters per emissions.

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I have a difficult relationship with the Brita water filter. Long term product review. Which Should you buy? Conclusion: Don't buy Aluna, do buy Marella. I like the 2.4L design because it fits in the door of my refrigerator. Changing the filter element. Timer on the lid. 00:00 Intro 00:30 What's wrong with Aluna. 01:30 Aluna is terrible because.... 01:50 Timer on the lid. 02:08 Filters replacements. 02:45 What's a water filter for? 03:25 What is wrong with Aluna? 04:00 How to change the filter. 04:47 How to break the jug. 06:25 What model should you buy? Marella. 07:50 Starting the 4 week filter timer. 09:50 How to tell the good Brita models.

I was at the beach the other day, helping a friend with a video project, and we saw this Fur Seal just hanging out. I guess it might be resting because there was a storm the other day. It seemed to be in good condition. We just kept back. The locals see Leopard Seals and Fur Seals here from time to time.

Wellington has a fleet of electric busses which are used for citywide commuter travel. This video has a quick technical look at the EV charging system. The old electric troll busses went out of service around 2017, they were replaced by Diesel busses, the Diesel busses are being replace by battery electric busses. There is another bus company that operates the double decker electric busses in Wellington. New Zealand

Lower North Island Rail Intergrated Mobility This is a video about LNIRIM hybrid electric diesel trains in New Zealand. 22 Train sets, comprised for 4 cars each are proposed for regional trains to extend the electric metro railway, over ground trains, from the Wellington City Railway Station Hub. The trains can and will be used to provide a few day time services, on top of the morning and evening commuter trains. The Wairarapa Line’s rolling stock fleet Fleet type Number of Description carriages SW 12 SWS 3 SWG 3 SE 4 SES 1 SEG 1 AG van 1 carriages have 64 seats and a single toilet carriages have 37 seats, a servery (unused), a wheelchair hoist on each side, an audio induction loop system and an accessible toilet carriages have 37 seats, a luggage compartment and a diesel generator to power the carriages. carriages have 69 seats and a single toilet a carriage has 44 seats, a wheelchair hoist on each side, an audio induction loop system and an accessible toilet carriage has 40 seats, a luggage compartment and a diesel generator to power the carriages a single AG type luggage / generator van with no seated capacit The Manawatū Line’s rolling stock fleet Fleet type Number of Description carriages S 7 S servery 1 AG van 1 standard S class carriages have 60 seats and a single toilet a servery carriage has 28 seats and a toilet a single AG type luggage / generator van, equipped with a wheelchair hoist, with no seated capacity

New Zealand https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2022/07/04/regional-trains-and-electrification/ A story a few weeks ago highlighted that lower North Island councils are frustrated that the government didn’t provide funding in the budget for new regional trains. The Transport Minister has left the door open for 22 new electric trains, after lower North Island mayors kicked up a stink they weren’t funded in this year’s Budget. The four-car trains would replace “vintage” units and quadruple peak-time services between Palmerston North and Wellington on the Manawatū line, while doubling them between Masterton and the capital on the Wairarapa line. ….. Now, Ponter and Horizons Regional Council, supported by 15 mayors, have written to the Transport and Finance Ministers after their $360 million Budget bid towards the $762m project failed. They said they were surprised and disappointed. “We are now working against the clock to replace our fleets of 50-year-old regional rail carriages, which will soon reach the end of their working lives,” the letter said. “The tender process for new trains must continue unabated so we look forward to engaging with you on finding ways to unlock Waka Kotahi and other funding for procurement.” The plan is to buy 22 four-car tri-mode trains – trains that are powered by electricity when under wires and by a combination of batteries and a fuel based ‘compression-ignition’ engine when off-wire – the exact type of fuel is not specified. 00:00 Intro Background 04:00 Regional Electrification Proposal 8:10 Route maps 11:30 Wellington Routes 16:00 Electric and Diesel Hybrid 19:00 Hydro Power 20:05 Multi mode trains

From time to time I like to think about stuff and this is what I think the hydrogen economy is about. Although this video is about New Zealand, Australia and Japan, and to some extent Singapore and South Korea. You can think about what I am saying and apply it to your country too. The factors that are important are important in most locations. Hydrogen fuelled vehicle and fuel trade in New Zealand will harm most kiwi households: *** Some points about the current and near future electrical and hydrogen energy market. 1. Trucks are best for short delivery runs. Major companies are already building and selling battery powered trucks, they are not optimal for long-hall, at the present moment - this will change with better batteries. Electric delivery trucks are for the last mile, from the train or terminal to the destination. 2. Trains are six times more efficient than diesel trucks, ships are six times more efficient than diesel trains, we use a lot of costal shipping. But we also use a lot of long hall trucks in New Zealand. 3. Electric trains are powered in most places by overhead wires, they don’t really need batteries. In some cases, and as a bridging technology, a hybrid train with diesel, batteries and overhead power, is a good solution. We should electrify the rest of the railway, Whangarei to Invercargill, it’s a good longterm project. Complete the North island main trunk route, that would be a start. 4. If you are concerned with exporting surplus power from New Zealand, build a cable from Benmore to Manapouri, and across to Tasmania. An HVDC link would have about 25-30% loss across the Tasman. Which is way better than the 50% loss in hydrogen conversion. Which is compounded by a 50% loss a hydrogen vehicle for a total 75% loss. A cable connection can cary power both ways and change direction several times per day, to cover morning, mid-day and evening peaks in both countries. If you keep going you will get to the natural conclusion. During the process where hydrogen goes mainstream. 1. They will set up export. Which I speculate, has already been negotiated with Japan and South Korea, that’s why we are getting pushed hydrogen cars already. 2. All the surplus hydrogen will be exported. A tiny amount will be stored locally, not for our use, but in tanks at the shipping terminals, to fill the ships when they arrive from Japan or other countries. 3. Once large scale hydrogen production starts in New Zealand, the plants will absorb all the cheap off-peak electricity. Which means the average bid price on the spot energy market will go up, and your power bill and my power bill will go up. It will never go back down, because there will always be a bidder of last resort, the hydrogen company bid up the price, all of the time, all the hours of the night, all the days of the year. *** The conclusion: To say it again, all the people (businesses) who want hydrogen in New Zealand, also want everyone to pay more for electricity. The hydrogen market and the electricity market will be tightly coupled. *** Electric car drivers will pay more too. Because there will be no overnight cheap power rates. Retired people and the poor will pay more too. If you want people in New Zealand to be in energy poverty, then export the energy. This is what the hydrogen people are asking for. People running business with processes that run 24/7 will pay more too. If your factory runs through the night, and you use cheap off-peak electricity to power that factory, you will pay more too. In some cases your company will become unprofitable. So if you want business to go broke, export the off-peak electricity as hydrogen. The reason why I promote a Tasman cable, is because it is more efficient for the planet, as a whole to build it. Energy policies and emissions policies and farming policies, only make sense if you look at the planet as a whole. Which means that emissions need to be concidered per country as a ratio to food production, not to domestic human population. This is a complex paragraph and needs its own explanation. On the cable to Tasmania: South Australia has a huge day time power peak (cheap power), due to all the solar, they also have a breakfast and dinnertime price peak (low supply). They have a battery peaker supply, it is a huge Tesla battery. They are building more of them, because they are better than hydrogen storage, or natural gas powered plants. It already, is better, to use batteries for this, than almost anything else. A cable would be helpful, but it is used in slightly different circumstances, batteries are good for a few minutes or an hour or two. Cables are better for longer duration shortages or surpluses. Examples: a dry season in Australia or New Zealand, but not both countries, means that a cable could supply continuous gigawatt scale power relief for weeks or months at a time. Batteries only minutes or hours.

This pōhutukawa tree is located in Mt Maunganui, near Tauranga New Zealand. This tree is also known as the New Zealand Christmas tree because it blooms with masses of deep red flowers in December.

McLaren Falls Park is a forest park with waterfalls located in Lower Kaimai along State Highway 29 in the North Island of New Zealand. The park is roughly 1:15 from Hamilton, and 45 minutes from Tauranga. 1:10 from Rotorua.

Part of the highways of national significance. This is the project to complete the motorway from Wellington city, 100km north through the suburbs and towns. The highway provides a resilient road with safe and high bridges over rivers and streams which will be safe from flooding or earthquakes. The Highway also provides an alternative route effectively triples the regional roading capacity, for around 500,000+ people driving north south routes. 0:00 Review of Highway Projects 2:50 Levin SH57 SH1 split 4:30 Ōtaki 5:10 Otaki north to Manakau 6:00 Cycle / Walking / Horse path (Shared use path) 7:00 High quality soil vegetable plantations 7:30 Replacement of dangerous bridges 8:00 Wire rope barriers 9:00 Driveways and farm equipment 9:50 Ohau village and lifestyle blocks 11:00 Reconnect cut off roads 11:30 South East Levin interchange 12:00 Arapaepae road traffic? 12:30 Levin Eastern suburb proposal 13:15 Queen Street East 13:20 SH57 SH1 Cross traffic problem? 15:15 Decant traffic out of Levin Main Street 16:15. Palmerston North commute time cross traffic 17:15 Queen Street intersection options 17:45 Waka Kotahi

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In this video I talk about the places I visit the most when I go to Auckland. I lived there for about 10 years. But I did not own a car there. So I used the bus and ferries to visit places. Also my friends had cars so we often went a little further too. 0:00 Airport ($Airport Bus, $$Ride Share, $$$Taxi) 3:20 CBD Hotel area 5:20 Train station 5:30 Ferry to Devonport ($Commuter Ferry Ride) 7:00 Devonport Mt Victoria and North Head ($Free Walking) 9:00 North Head Bunkers ($Free) 10:20 Takapuna/Beach ($Free) 11:40 Long Bay ($Free) 12:40 The Domain / Winter Garden ($Free) 14:00 Dominion Museum ($) 15:40 New Market / Parnell ($$Shops) 17:40 Auckland Harbour Bridge 18:00 CBD Station / Transport Hub 18:20 Around The Bays ($Cafes) 18:50 Orakei / Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium ($$$Touristy) 19:40 Bastion Point Formal Garden ($Free) 21:00 Mission Bay Beach ($Free) 21:20 Mission Bay Cafes ($-$$) 23:00 Viaduct Harbour Silo Park ($Free Walking) 24:00 Viaduct / Wynyard Cafes($-$$)

This is the first Honda Civic off the assembly line in Petone, New Zealand. In 1976. I owned a 2000 Honda Civic. It got pummelled in a hail storm on the edge of a tornado, that was really loud.

This is the first hybrid form Honda. It was designed by the NSX designers to be the most efficient production car. It was also one of the most aerodynamic cars ever produced. It has been surpassed by some EVs recently including the Tesla Model 3. It is very efficient at 3.5L per 100k. I have a CVT version, it gets about 4L/100km 4.5L in sport mode. The engine is a three cylinder one Litre. It has a system a bit like V-tech. the sport makes the engine revs sit around the V-Tech transition, so that when you press the accelerator, it goes into power mode right away. A common fault with this car is the engine gas recirculation valve sometimes jams, and this can often be fixed by putting the car in sport mode and going for a spirited drive.