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    Quote Originally Posted by husaberg View Post
    Nah we couldn't we settle it with a couple of bottles of Wine (from a vineyard I own in a blind trust which is kind of an odd coincidence that I know about it)
    Either way I was out of the country at the time. Enjoying my US citizenship.
    We could offer you Judith Collins if a couple of bottles of wine is insufficient.
    But rest assured I are not a shape shifting alien.

    Ahh yes the vineyard of the brand Chateau nerve of you, it is popular with the high flyers i hear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AllanB View Post
    Hmmm makes you wonder what will happen if the world decides cows milk is out of fashion ..............
    china is working on it

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    Never been there, will get there....ghosts or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gadget1 View Post
    Ahh yes the vineyard of the brand Chateau nerve of you, it is popular with the high flyers i hear.
    Not the young ladies though they find it distasteful
    Yes the vineyard produces great young full bodied spirit with a kick in its tail
    I can grasp it with both hands.



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    Quote Originally Posted by husaberg View Post
    Not the young ladies though they find it distasteful
    Yes the vineyard produces great young full bodied spirit with a kick in its tail
    I can grasp it with both hands.

    Hair, hair!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gadget1 View Post
    Hair, hair!
    Pretty Sure Shachi and Shachi can spin this.



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    Quote Originally Posted by PrincessBandit View Post
    My dad was born in Westport and spent his childhood there. The family moved to Whanganui (sorry, it was spelt Wanganui back then) but Balu and I have gone to the Coast a number of times checking out the family history - mainly in the cemeteries... and on the last trip went to the Denniston Incline. That was something we'd wanted to do for a long time.
    They breed 'em pretty tough down there, and I'm not sure if I could ever live there. Balu, though, has tried to convince me a few times that it could be a place we end up once we leave the rat race of Dorkland.
    If you sell you house in Auckland you could buy a street in Westport at the moment.
    Westport has a pretty decent Climate, Dennison on the other hand has climate all of its own.



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    Quote Originally Posted by scumdog View Post
    Hmm, it is not too far off if you use prices as a guage of it's desirability world-wide..
    ...the milk cost me as much as the beers I bought today...both necessities mind you...

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    Quote Originally Posted by willytheekid View Post

    ...And the effects on the country if just ONE of those 7 dormant volcanos decide to rock n roll?? (Not to mention all the poor bastards who will TRAPPED due to Aucks shitty and all ready overloaded infrastructure & roading )...yup!, crippling.
    7? There are 50 individual volcanoes within Auckland's boundaries.
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    7? There are 50 individual volcanoes within Auckland's boundaries.
    Does anyone know how we can set them all off?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    Does anyone know how we can set them all off?
    Fracking. Someone tell Len Brown there's oil shale under Auckland please.
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    Fracking. Someone tell Len Brown there's oil shale under Auckland please.

    That'll confuse him even more, he's got too many voices in his head now by the look of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Banditbandit View Post
    people are diversifying energy production and coal is no longer desirable ... it's too polluting, too expensive ...
    Spoken like many who have no idea about coals and how they're used.

    Coal from the Stockton Mine is largely a coking coal. It's used as an ingredient for the manufacture of steel -- a reductant that removes oxygen from iron ore and adds carbon. Coking coals are not used for their energy value. It is extremely difficult to manufacture steel without coal.

    Other coals from Stockton are used as ingredients in a variety of other products, such as cement ("clinker' is derived from coal), silicone, activated carbon for coal and water filters and also carbon for carbon fibre. There are few coals sources in the world for carbon fibre. Stockton is one of those.

    Even in such high-end niche uses, coal is still a commodity. It is a low-margin business, not helped when it has to be railed too far to a capacity-constrained port and shipped in too small quantities to international clients.

    Even as an energy source, coal labours under poor public perceptions, but is neither expensive nor polluting when used in modern technologies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Spoken like many who have no idea about coals and how they're used.

    Coal from the Stockton Mine is largely a coking coal. It's used as an ingredient for the manufacture of steel -- a reductant that removes oxygen from iron ore and adds carbon. Coking coals are not used for their energy value. It is extremely difficult to manufacture steel without coal.

    Other coals from Stockton are used as ingredients in a variety of other products, such as cement ("clinker' is derived from coal), silicone, activated carbon for coal and water filters and also carbon for carbon fibre. There are few coals sources in the world for carbon fibre. Stockton is one of those.

    Even in such high-end niche uses, coal is still a commodity. It is a low-margin business, not helped when it has to be railed too far to a capacity-constrained port and shipped in too small quantities to international clients.

    Even as an energy source, coal labours under poor public perceptions, but is neither expensive nor polluting when used in modern technologies.
    Would carbon fibre manufacture, and associated end products be a viable industry for the coast?
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    Quote Originally Posted by buggerit View Post
    Would carbon fibre manufacture, and associated end products be a viable industry for the coast?
    We don't make shit in NZ, we import low cost cheap rubbish with a 100% markup and export commodities for 50% of their value without seeing it anywhere near our books. Best light, sweet crude in the world for diesel fuel off the coast of Taranaki. We sold the rights to it for $150million and it goes in a big tanker and buggers off to be refined.

    Why would we do things differently to keep coasters off the dole? (j/k)
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