Darryl Talks About New Zealand

This is a re-edit of my duck lake video in New Zealand.

Just some video of my walk around a lake in suburban New Zealand.

Sounds Top Secret Art Films.

The Ministry of Education paid for six months of broadband for students without an internet connection. But I had problems activating it. You can do this from another computer or phone with internet access to make it activate. http://www.skinny.co.nz/help/sim-not-activated click on orange link. https://www.skinny.co.nz/register/activate#broadband Once you are activated, plug in your laptop or chrome book, or connect tot he wifi, network SSID and password are on the bottom of the modem. Link to http://192.168.8.1/html/home.html to secure the wifi, so other people can't use your data. Username and password are admin and admin. Tip, if you watch YouTube videos, set the quality to 480p or 360p and you can watch for 5x more hours without running out of data. Use 144p to listen to youtube just for music or talk. On windows 10 or iPhone and iPad, set the low data option in the Wifi settings. 6GB per school day, allocated each morning for used between 9am and 3pm. Do all your device updates at 9am on a school day to use the daily data allocation. Skinny Jump is the cheapest way to get broadband in New Zealand for light or occasional usage. $5 for 30GB of data. Up to $25 for 150GB.

Food Supply How to grow plants form store bought fruit and vegetables. After all the panic buying, which for many people was the right thing to do, except the toilet paper meme, that got out of control. The next thing for the West and other places is that food supply is getting a bit tight. It is time to do anything you can about securing your food supply and your neighbours food supply. Your garden is pretty worthless if your neighbours are starving, so set them up too. Aquire seeds and start planting. What you need are the starchy vegetables, roots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, peas and pumpkins plus cabbages. Tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, herbs and salad stuff are nice if you have food calories to go with them, but they are only a supplement to the starchy vegetables, if there are food shortages. Good thing is that you can grow many of theses from the vegetables themselves. Dry out pumpkin seeds, also called squash. The hard grey pumpkins (crown pumpkins) keep for many months, when cool and dry. Butternut squash can also have good storage properties. Soft green skinned buttercup can damage easily, may not store as well. If you are in the Northern hemisphere, buy pumpkins now and get the seeds out. Dry them for a few days and then plant them in your garden in spring (now), harvest in Autumn, plant a third of your yard space in pumpkins. Just mow your lawn, dig some holes in the lawn where the pumpkins are planted. Put in a little fertiliser or manure if you have any. Easy. The plants will sprawl out over any sunny lawn and if you just leave them alone they will spread out and grow a few pumpkins per plant. And plant a third of your space in potatoes and sweet potatoes. You can propagate potatoes by planting potatoes directly into the ground. Buy a few different kinds of potatoes, you have no time to work out which grow best in your yard. Dig up all your useless lawn and plant potatoes now. If you buy big potatoes, cut them in thirds or in half, each bit about golf ball size is good. Let them dry, cut side exposed to the air for three or four days. Then plan, the plants come up mound the soil up around the stalks leaving the top leaves in the air the potatoes will grow along the stems. If you have no yard space, you can grow potatoes in plastic bins, buckets or wooden boxes, or directly in cheap bags of potting mix or compost, just puncture the bottoms of the bags or bins for drainage, and cut potato sized holes in the top of compost bags, about four to six holes and plant four to six bits of potato per bag. Just keep the soil damp, after a few months you will have a bunch of potatoes. Cabbages. You can grow seeds from a store bought cabbage. Just eat the cabbage by pealing off he leaves layer by layer, you can cut most of the leaves off also. What you want to do is remove most of the outer leaves leaving the stalk and about a tennis ball of the central leaves intact. Then put the stalk in a jar of water, change the water every few three days, and roots will begin to grow. Fill the water up to just below the leaves. The leaves will darken and start to unfurl. Place it where their is natural light but not full sunshine, It gets too hot. When fine roots begin to grow, transfer to soil. Keep the soil damp, but not soaking. You can hand pollinate flowers with a soft brush. Corn: some sweetcorn if grown to maturity, will have some viable kernels. Particularly the ones near the stalk end. But late summer sweetcorn that is very mature will likely provide some viable seeds. Break the stalk end third off of corn cobs, eat the ed two thirds keep the think end char cob for seeds. This is good in the southern hemisphere in April or May. Just buy some sweetcorn and hang up the whole leaf wrapped corn cobs to dry, you might get some viable seeds this way. Spinach, silverbeet, fancy lettuce, pak-choy. If the plants are harvested whole, and have some part of the root, you can cut most of the top of the plat off 3cm or 1 inch above the root. Just leaving leaf stubs. Then place the root in water, if the nodes where new roots can sprout from are viable, then roots will grow, change water every few days. When there are some reasonable roots, transfer to damp soil, water daily for a week, then every other day for a couple more weeks, the leaf sprouts will grow and eventually the plant will seed. Nothing irradiated will grow. Radiation in this way destroys viable germ cells in seeds. Beans and peas, dried. Haricot. Watermelon and rock melon, cantaloup seeds can grow plants too. The from memory round dark green watermelons breed true offspring. Zucchini and courgettes are immature, no viable seeds. Fully grown marrows have viable seeds. Bell peppers, capsicum and chillies all have viable seeds. Just dry out the core with the seeds attached then grow from the spring. Tomatoes have fully grown seeds. Just take the seeds out of ripe fruit and dry them on paper towels and grow them in spring.

Food Supply After all the panic buying, which for many people was the right thing to do, except the toilet paper meme. The next thing for the West and other places is that food supply is getting a bit tight. It is time to do anything you can about securing your food supply and your neighbours food supply. Your garden is pretty worthless if your neighbours are starving, so set them up too. Aquire seeds and start planting. What you need are the starchy vegetables, roots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, peas and pumpkins plus cabbages. Tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, herbs and stuff are nice if you haver food calories to go with them, but they are only a supplement to the starchy vegetables. Good thing is that you can grow many of theses from the things themselves. Dry out pumpkin seeds, also called squash. The hard grey pumpkins (crown pumpkins) keep for many months, when cool and dry. Butternut squash can also have good storage properties. If you are in the Northern hemisphere, buy pumpkins now and get the seeds out. Dry them for a few days and then plant them in your garden, harvest in Autumn, plant a third of your yard space in pumpkins. Just mow your lawn, did some holes where the pumpkins are planted. Easy. You can kill off your lawn by placing anything light proof over the grass for two weeks. Cardboard, a few of layers of news paper, planks, roofing iron, tarps. Weigh that down with bricks, or rocks etc. Then dig up the lawn. And a third in potatoes and sweet potatoes. You can propagate potatoes by planting potatoes directly into the ground. Buy a few different kinds of potatoes you have no time to work out which grow best in your yard. Dig up all your useless lawn an plant potatoes now. If you buy big potatoes, cut them in third or in half, each bit about golf ball size is good. Let them dry, cut side exposed to the air for three or four days. Then plant. The the plants come up mound the soil up around the stalks leaving the top leaves in the air the potatoes will grow along the stems. If you have no yard you can grow potatoes in plastic bins, buckets or wooden boxes, or directly in cheap bags of potting mix or compost, just puncher the bottoms of the bags or bins for drainage, and cut potato sized holes in the top of the bag, about four to six holes and plant four to six bits of potato per bag. Just keep the soil damp, after a few months you will have a bunch of potatoes.

It can be fun to take some potato chips for drives into the mountains. As the air pressure decreases, the packets appear to inflate. I presume if the mountain is tall enough, the bag would pop.

Just a video I made looking at the construction project of the new State Highway One. New Zealand

I take a drive through the areas where the Transmission Gully highway meets the current SH1 near Porirua.

I went for a picnic lunch and found that practice day for the Otaki Kite Festival, Otaki Beach, New Zealand. This event is about a one hour drive from Wellington, the capital. This event is a little tricky to get to by public transport.

This is a geothermal park that you can take a walk around, most of it is a boardwalk. There is an easy loop track which is very accessible, if you cannot climb steps, you can access about 70% of the trail, but you can go around the loop track. It is very hot and humid there in summer, take a water bottle, sun hat and wear sunscreen. There is a shop, where you buy tickets, with snacks, drinks and tourist souvenirs. Toilets are behind the shop, inside the park. There are family tickets and single tickets. Open during day time, business hours. This park is on private land. Huka Falls is free to go and look at. Open to the public at all times.

I saw a robot dinosaur in its normal habitat, the suburban garden centre.

In this video I ramble about the trolley problem and how it's not what people are doing when they drive a car. So it's not what, I think, an autonomous car needs to do either.

I was feeding the fish and I just thought the little crayfish was absurdly cute. They hide until the fish food is sprinkled in, then scamper, trying to catch the food. Technically it's a blood red shrimp or fire shrimp, Lysmata debelius.

This is a quick trick for calculating inflation, but also exposes the difference between day to day inflation and what the government says the inflation rate is.

I cannot come to any conclusion that has an economy that sustains billions of people living in industrial cities. So, in the end, automation will put everyone out of work, but there won't be resources for everyone to carry on doing all the stuff that we do in industrial society anyway. I started the script for this video from a rambling social media post, but ended up in the the realm of Dmitry Orlov.

I read an article about two big car companies, one making a two billion investment in batteries and the other saying the market is not ready for electric vehicles.

This bridge connects the east of Otaki and the west of Otaki across the railway and new state highway one project, Peka Peka to north of Otaki, Taylors Road.

This is the largest bridge on the Peka Peka to Otaki segment of the expressways on state highway one, out of Wellington.

There does not seem to be any commitment to actually tackling emissions from aircraft, particularly long hall. So I had a quick think about it and made a plan to get the job done. It's drastic.

In New Zealand in 2019, a bill was passed for a commission to work creating reports and making plans for adaptation to climate change. With the goal to get to zero emissions by 2050. With the exception of biogenic methane which has a lower goal, a reduction of 24%.

Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill I spent all day reading this Legislation to work out what the actual plan is and how it is achieved. Mostly it just sets up a commission, and gets them to make reports and recommendations of what to do about climate change and they make new plans every five years and then monitor and report the results.

The Government Commissioned KPMG to make a report on charging cars at home in New Zealand. I give it a B+ because it is missing a few key points. Turn the content dryer up to 11. In this video I talk broadly about car charging, and this report specifically tackles home charging, and the impact of peak loads on the power network. When everyone comes home at the end of the day, and particularly in winter there is a high evening peak load. But I speak broadly about power generation in New Zealand. Early adoption of technology, phone networks and fibre gigabit broadband. Used car import market in New Zealand. Climate change march. I comment on a few faults in the report. Used import EV market. Road user charges. Managed charging. Ripple controller remote switched power. EM6Live.co.nz energy market. Generation, lines networks and retailer separated electricity market. School project on electric vehicle charging. Tesla charging in New Zealand. Setting charger timer controllers in cars. The report does not talk about charge timers in the cars. Smart charging in the vehicle itself can do the work of charge management. https://www.eeca.govt.nz/news-and-events/media-releases/new-report-provides-first-comprehensive-overview-of-ev-home-charging-options/ https://www.eeca.govt.nz/assets/Resources-EECA/EV-Charging-NZ.pdf

I wrote an opinion piece on the Vision for Hydrogen in New Zealand. Which would be better titled: Plan to make electricity expensive, by exporting hydrogen into a new repeat of fossil fuel style globalist market agenda.

The Vision for Hydrogen Future appears to be a scheme to convert green electricity form the NZ grid to Hydrogen to export, which makes a revenue stream while keeping the power price high. This is an edited and commented version of my previous video.