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Garbage Land
Garbage Land
On the Secret Trail of Trash
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Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can. Along the way, we meet an odor chemist who explains why trash smells so bad; garbage fairies and recycling gurus; neighbors of massive waste dumps; CEOs making fortunes by encouraging waste or encouraging recycling-often both at the same time; scientists trying to revive our most polluted places; fertilizer fanatics and adventurers who kayak amid sewage; paper people, steel people, aluminum people, plastic people, and even a guy who swears by recycling human waste. With a wink and a nod and a tightly clasped nose, Royte takes us on a bizarre cultural tour through slime, stench, and heat-in other words, through the back end of our ever-more supersized lifestyles. By showing us what happens to the things we've "disposed of," Royte reminds us that our decisions about consumption and waste have a very real impact-and that unless we undertake radical change, the garbage we create will always be with us: in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we consume. Radiantly written and boldly reported, Garbage Land is a brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.
About the Author
Elizabeth Royte is a contributing writer for Outside magazine. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, National Geographic, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone.


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Marriages That Don't Quite Go the Distance
In a less-than-stunning turn of events, New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries and reality-TV star Kim Kardashian are heading for divorce—already. This comes after just 72 days of blissful matrimony.
Of course, this isn't exactly the first time that a high-profile marriage involving a professional athlete has ended badly. Seventy-two days, though: That's a new record in this arena.
Athletes and celebrities have been marrying—and quickly divorcing—for decades. The most famous short-lived union was Marilyn Monroe and Yankees legend Joe DiMaggio, who were married for about 9½ months in 1954.
More recently, the most prominent athlete-celebrity divorce was San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker and "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria. Marriage length: about three years, four months.
In this realm, that's actually pretty good. Mike Tyson and Robin Givens lasted less than half as long. Greg Norman and Chris Evert, an athlete-athlete pairing, split after about a year and a half. Rebounder extraordinaire Dennis Rodman and celebrity Carmen Electra lasted just five months.
But these star-studded marriages don't always fail. Kardashian's sister, Khloe, has been married for two years and counting to Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom—an eternity in this world.
—Jared Diamond
Fun While It Lasted
High-profile marriages involving professional athletes that ended in divorce:
|Marriage (Year Began)
|Kris Humphries-Kim Kardashian 2011
|72 days
|Dennis Rodman-Carmen Electra 1998
|5 months
|Joe DiMaggio-Marilyn Monroe 1954
|9 ½ mos.
|Mike Tyson-Robin Givens 1988
|1 yr 4 mos.
|Greg Norman-Chris Evert 2008
|1 yr 5 mos.
|Andre Agassi-Brooke Shields 1997
|2 years
|Tony Parker-Eva Longoria 2007
|3 yr 4 mos.
|David Justice-Halle Berry 1992
|4 ½ years
|Rick Fox-Vanessa Williams 1999
|5 years
|John McEnroe-Tatum O'Neal 1986
|8 years
|Ahmad Rashad-P. Ayers-Allen 1985
|16 years
Source: WSJ research; *-Approximate

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Toronto, May 30 (EFE).- Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said Thursday that Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold must comply with all of the Andean nation's environmental laws if it is to continue with its Pascua-Lama project.
Piñera commented during a press conference he and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave in Ottawa.
"Canada is one of three biggest foreign investors in Chile. And over the past decade it has become the largest. So I would like to begin my remarks by saying that Canadian investment is welcome in Chile," Piñera told Harper in response to a question from the media.
"The investment by the Canadian company Barrick was approved in 2001 and approved again in 2006. And they must comply with what we call an environmental impact assessment. But the company has not complied with everything set forth in that assessment," the Chilean president said.
"And we've identified 23 areas in which Barrick will have to improve their behavior with respect to the environment, and the company has agreed to that," Piñera said.
"And therefore, I hope that if they comply with all the conditions that were set from the beginning when this investment was approved, that the investment will be able to continue," the Chilean leader said.
Chile's SMA environmental watchdog said last week that it had imposed an 8-billion-peso (roughly $16.2-million) fine on Barrick and ordered it to halt the Pascua-Lama mine project over environmental violations.
The measures were adopted due to one "very serious" violation and four "serious" violations of Barrick's environmental permit.
Pascua-Lama is a gold and silver project located high in the Andes mountains and straddling the Argentine-Chilean border. Barrick is developing the project at an investment cost of $8.5 billion and expects to start production in late 2014.
The SMA says the world's largest gold miner has not built a system for containing contaminated and non-contaminated wastewater and must do so before excavation activity can begin.
The company also has not adopted temporary remedial, safety and control measures nor delivered information requested by the environmental authority.
In addition to the fine, Barrick was ordered to take urgent steps to correct the violations and to halt construction of Pascua-Lama until it has built the wastewater management system to the specifications of its permit.
According to Barrick, Pascua-Lama has 18 million ounces of proven and probable gold reserves and 676 million ounces of silver contained within the gold reserves.


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Against the wind
It's strange days indeed when environmentalists, who usually oppose development, actively support building huge power generating edifices across the countryside. While those conservatively minded country folk instead of applauding regional development are dead against them. Max Rheese discusses the opposition to wind farms.
Paul Comrie-Thomson: Michael, there are some who say all this talk about the wonders of wind power is a lot of hot air. So what's going on?
Michael Duffy: Wind farms have created enormous conflict in communities around Australia. Some say they are an expensive and subsidised and unreliable way to produce electricity, raising the question of whether they are worth the unhappiness they often cause. In these matters and others have just been considered by the Senate Community Affairs Committee whose report is yet to be made public. Today we talk to Max Rheese, executive director of the Australian Environment Foundation, that's an evidence-based group of environmentalists. Our subject is the AEF submission to the senate enquiry. Max, welcome to the show.
Max Rheese: Thank you Michael.
Michael Duffy: How expensive is it, relatively, to produce electricity from wind?
Max Rheese: Well, if we take Grant King, the CEO of Origin Energy's word, and I have no reason to doubt it, he is on the public record as saying that every megawatt of wind power costs between $120 and $130 to produce. If we compare that to the likes of natural gas, and again, he states $54 per megawatt hour, or coal which is around about $38...
Michael Duffy: Do you have any idea why wind is so expensive? Wind, after all, is free.
Max Rheese: Yes, and that's a good point, and that is one of the parts of the populist narrative that people have succumbed to, that of course wind is free, we all know that. But it's the turning of the energy that is garnered from the wind into electricity that is not so free. The reason for that is because of the expense of wind turbines, we are talking about...an industry benchmark of around $2.5 to $3 million per megawatt to construct a turbine. But it's also the erratic nature of wind that only produces power for a small portion of the time therefore there is not a good use of the capital that is being sunk into all these wind farms. And then there is the renewable energy certificate which is granted for every megawatt hour that is put into the grid by the energy company, and currently they are around $40, $45. They are supported by the taxpayer. So the taxpayer pays for every one of those certificates, and that's a component of the cost of every megawatt of power that is produced by wind.
Michael Duffy: So is that in effect a subsidy.
Max Rheese: Oh, my word.
Michael Duffy: And a subsidy that makes wind feasible or at least more feasible than it would otherwise be.
Max Rheese: What it is doing, it's turning something that standing on its own is uneconomic and unviable, and it is therefore subsidised by the taxpayer to make it somewhat economic and viable to compare to fossil fuel.
Michael Duffy: Max, do you know if there is any prospect in terms of the technology getting cheaper in the foreseeable future? We know that there has been considerable improvements in nuclear reactors over the last decade or two, we are told that solar power technology is improving fairly quickly. Do you know what the situation is with wind?
Max Rheese: Most commentators regard wind power as a mature technology. There will be some small gains in the design of the actual turbine blades and things like that, but it's a fairly mature technology, it's been around for several decades, and the incremental improvements are small. So one would not expect that there's going to be a major change in the efficiency of turbines.
Michael Duffy: On the bright side maybe, is it at least fair to say that wind-produced electricity does at least cut down some carbon emissions?
Max Rheese: Again that's part of the populist narrative, and the facts show otherwise, and depending on who you talk to you get an answer of there is zero contribution to greenhouse gas emission reductions, or fairly small, and I tend to be in the camp of fairly small reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Michael Duffy: How can that be, given that this electricity is produced by wind?
Max Rheese: Any wind farm in Australia is rated at around about 30% of capacity. So whatever the nameplate capacity of that turbine is, 2 MW, 2.5 MW, the expected capacity will be 30% of that just because of the erratic nature of wind. So a large portion of the time, turbines are operating but not producing any electricity. During this time they are drawing on the grid because they have air conditioning, they need to keep the machinery cool, other machinery...these are vast engineering feats, these enormous turbines, and they have a lot of machinery that needs to be kept cool and kept operating. Whenever the turbine is not producing electricity, it is drawing on the grid.
Michael Duffy: So you're saying that even if the blades are not going around, they are not producing their own electricity, the electricity has to be provided to these things.
Max Rheese: Yes, and they are actually drawing that from the grid, but that is probably the minor part. What happens, because wind electricity or wind energy is so erratic, they need to be backed up in the grid by open cycle gas turbines which are running in spinning mode while wind electricity is being generated. As soon as the wind drops away and the grid operator needs to keep the supply of electricity up, those natural gas generators which are in spinning mode are brought on line. But when they are operating in spinning mode, which is a significant amount of time, they are burning natural gas but not producing any electricity. This is one of the things that offsets any value that wind turbines might make in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Michael Duffy: What you've told us is interesting. Another question, not quite in the same area, but if a carbon tax or a carbon price is introduced by the government, will that improve the feasibility of wind power?
Max Rheese: It will probably draw it closer to the fossil fuel because the intention of course of a carbon dioxide tax is to make fossil fuels dearer, which I am sure that will happen, which is why everybody is concerned about electricity prices going up. Electricity that is generated by coal-fired generators and to a lesser extent natural gas-fired electricity, will become dearer. So that will draw it closer to the price of wind power. But what we need to remember is that currently wind power is around three times the cost of coal-fired electricity. So if anybody who was keen for a tax on carbon dioxide said 'here is the proposition, we're going to make coal-fired electricity comparable with wind power', well, watch out.
Michael Duffy: Turning to another part of the subject entirely, tell us about some of the major effects that wind farms have on people nearby.
Max Rheese: A rather distressing series of effects, and what we need to keep in mind is that not everybody suffers from these, which is one of the things that makes it so hard to pin down. But what we generally see in communities where wind farms start to operate is that a proportion of the population become affected by low frequency sounds and infra-sounds, and this affects them in numerous ways that mainly relate to headache, loss of balance, racing heart, high blood pressure, waking in fright in the middle of the night, waking up with nosebleeds, these sorts of things which generally make life very unpleasant for people who are living in the vicinity because they cannot escape it.
Michael Duffy: How close to you have to be to suffer those effects?
Max Rheese: Well, that's the subject of study. And we have seen people with anything up to five kilometres away. Other people have claimed even further. But it is fairly well recorded that anything up to five kilometres away from wind turbines, people can be affected.
Michael Duffy: The AEF calls itself an evidence-based group, we've had a lot of evidence over the years for various forms of new technology causing health issues, mobile phone towers come to mind, for example. How sure are you that someone who lives five kilometres away from a wind farm would suffer those sorts of effects?
Max Rheese: Well, I'm sure that people are because we have spoken to these people, I've talked to them face to face, and we have many documented cases from around the world. What we are saying is that this is a very strong prima facie case that calls out for further investigation and scientific study undertaken by government. That is where we're at. Prove us wrong. If this is not the case, if all these ailments from hundreds of people from all these different countries around the world, different states in Australia, is imagined, and it's nothing to do with wind turbines, have the government who are so keen to expand the wind industry undertake scientific research that will prove us wrong.
Michael Duffy: Is there any research claiming that there are no ill health effects?
Max Rheese: No, and that's a very interesting thing, that currently there is not a single credible research paper in the peer-reviewed literature stating that chronic wind turbine noise is harmless to health. So while people say there is no peer-reviewed evidence to say that wind turbines cause harm, to which we agree with that statement, there is no peer reviewed evidence because there have been no proper studies undertaken, and...
Michael Duffy: It's time someone did it.
Max Rheese: Yes, there is not a single government around the world that has yet had completed scientific research to look at this problem.
Michael Duffy: You said earlier that not everyone who lives within five kilometres, or whatever the distance might be, is affected. Do you have any idea what proportion of people tend to suffer some effects?
Max Rheese: We do, yes, Doctor Daniel Shepherd from New Zealand has done studies, as have other people around the world, and they have identified that it's around about 10% to 15% of the population. And this is one of the things that I came across while researching this issue, that in fact this has been identified, and that's a rather large number when you think about it, 10% to 15% of any population anywhere in the world is more sensitive to noise than the general population.
Michael Duffy: Yes, I guess one option might be that the people who set up these wind farms just simply buy all the properties around, which brings me to my next question; given the current state of affairs, what effect does a wind farm have on adjacent property values?
Max Rheese: This again is argued highly by wind industry supporters, that there is no evidence to show that values are affected. We would contest that and say there is evidence from around the world, and most of it, because of the recent nature...and this is, again, the same with the health issue, this is a very recent phenomena, particularly in Australia, we are only now becoming aware of it, but there is certainly a lot of anecdotal evidence to show that wind farms will have an effect on real estate values. When you talk to real estate agents or look at some of the literature on this, the real estate industry states that the values are set largely by perception in the marketplace, on anything, not just wind farms, on anything. The perception of the market is what tends to set the value. And if there is a perception, particularly a negative one, such as wind farms or a piggery or a feedlot in the area, that is going to have an effect on the value of any adjacent properties.
Michael Duffy: That would seem to make sense, wouldn't it, for two reasons. One is that they look ugly. I know a lot of people in the city find them deeply attractive, but I've spoken to very few people who actually live near them who feel the same. And then the other thing is these suspected health effects. It would make sense if property values dropped.
Max Rheese: Yes, and you've just touched on a point there...many of the supporters of wind farms don't live anywhere near them, and so they drive past them on a weekend out and they view them from a distance of a few hundred metres and think wonderful, graceful turbines slowly turning in the rural landscape and they look wonderful.
Michael Duffy: Yes, I've often wondered why they don't put a string of them down the coast of Sydney, there is certainly lots of wind there.
Max Rheese: Yes, well, the effect is more alarming when you live nearby, and that is one of the things that became apparent in the submissions to the enquiry, that many of the supporters had very little to do with turbines or with wind farms.
Michael Duffy: Let me just finish by asking you about those. I understand there were a large number of written submissions, I think they might have been even approaching 1,000, which is quite a lot for this sort of enquiry. I know you could look at a lot of them. Was there a general trend? What did you pick up from that?
Max Rheese: Yes, I started to read a few of them, just went through them one by one, and I became intrigued that there appeared to be in this two sets of opinions; those supporting wind farms tended to based their submission on beliefs, they had no evidence or facts to support what they were saying in the broad sense based their submission or beliefs, they had no evidence or facts to support what they were saying. In the broad sense of most, there were a couple there that had some facts and evidence, but mainly they expounded their beliefs and what they believed should happen with wind power and renewable energy. And they had no experience of wind farms, whereas many of those who were arguing against wind farms and wind turbines had first-hand experience, were alarmed at the prospect of wind farms in their district, and supported their arguments with facts and evidence. And this was a very stark difference between the two lots of submissions.
Michael Duffy: Max Rheese, executive director of the Australian Environment Foundation. Submissions to the senate enquiry into wind farms have now closed, but if you want to have your say you can comment on this story at our website. And the senate report should be public on the 1st June, 2011.
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Comments (41)
Alicia Webb :
09 May 2011 4:35:19pm
I couldn't disagree more with Max's summary of the Senate responses. The Senate received over 880 written submissions, 835 of which are available to read on their website. Of those, around 55% were pro-wind, 36% anti-wind, and the remainder neutral or unknown.
The pro-wind responses were far more grounded in science than the antis. All kinds of Australian experts from outside the wind industry responded, including Peter Seligman, who worked on the bionic ear who said that the human ear can not detect infrasound, otherwise we would all be deafened by our own heartbeat. The Australian Psychological Society wrote that wind farm syndrome is a symptom of stress among community members and is not directly caused by wind turbines.
As I understand the issues, it appears that a lack of understanding of the nature of noise, vibrations and health is creating fear among some members of the community.
David Cunnington :
09 May 2011 4:51:49pm
I've just been listening to Max Rheese doing a snow job on your presenter. Comparing costs of wind energy with coal-fired power Mr Rheese merrily accounted for all the costs and benefits of wind energy, in a detailed and no doubt accurate way. When it came to the cost of coal-fired power the rigour ceased and we never found what the costs were, e.g. of building and maintaining the power stations, water costs for cooling, government infrastructure subsidies, and most of all the CO2 pollution generated and dispersed into, I guess, the 'free' atmosphere. Where is your evidence based analysis here Mr Rheese? And not one question from your presenter! I'm happy to listen to evidence and argument but this blatant propaganda from what looks like a fossil fuel pressure group is surely cheap content for the ABC.
Georgia Phillips :
09 May 2011 4:56:29pm
AEF was established by the Institute of Public Affairs, "a conservative right wing think-tank". Spokesperson
Kersten Gentle, is Vic Manager for Timber Communities Australia. Their aim is to '"secure long term access to natural resources to generate employment and a future for regional communities'
Director Leon Ashby was Convenor of Landholders for the Environment and is a dairy farmer in SA. He has stated that the grazing of cattle in national parks is a viable option for bushfire prevention.
Another Director, Tom Bostock, is a climate change sceptic.
These are the people you are giving air time to????!!!
G Green :
09 May 2011 4:58:50pm
Further information on the conservative, right wing AEF at http://www.greenwashreport.org/node/34
They don't deserve airtime.
David Olds :
09 May 2011 5:11:41pm
Counterpoint has not acknowledged that 'Far from the conservation-based ideals the name is intended to conjure up, the AEF is a conglomeration of pro-logging, pro-nuclear, pro-GM and other resource industry interests, with links to well-funded conservative think tanks.' (quoted from Friends of the Earth Australia website), or that Max Rheese 'appears likely to be the founder/operator of the VLA. (Victorian Lands Alliance)'(quoted from Envirowiki website). Shouldn't Counterpoint be subject to normal standards of professional journalism?
Alen :
09 May 2011 7:50:12pm
I have always been amazed at the massive size of the individual generators on wind farms. I have seen a far smaller, do-it-yourself, wind generator described on uTube, that you can install in your own garden. So I would like to know if any engineering study has been done on the optimal size of a wind generator for wind farms! Might it not be better to have a large number of smaller generators, than a few massive machines that generate sound pollution etc.?
Dr Mark Diesendorf :
10 May 2011 11:37:40am
Your interview of the CEO of the Australian Environment Foundation rehashed several discredited arguments against wind farms.
For instance, the interviewee attempted to sow fear about alleged health impacts of wind farms, for which, he eventually admitted, there is not a shred of scientific evidence. His challenge to supporters of wind (the vast majority of people) to prove that there are no health impacts is rhetoric without substance, because scientists understand that you cannot prove a negative. However existing scientific studies find that levels of infrasound from wind turbines are almost undetectable at a range of a few hundred metres and are generally much lower than infrasound coming off vehicles travelling on distant roads.
The AEF statement implying that gas turbines have to be kept operating continuously to back-up wind farms is false and unnecessary. When required, gas turbines can brought from cold to full power in under 10 minutes; and hydro in much shorter periods.
The whole intermittency myth is busted in my recent article at http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=11956/.
The discussion of subsidies to wind power ignored the fact that all energy sources are subsidised, with nuclear (overseas) and fossil fuels (everywhere) receiving the the lion's share. According to Chris Riedy's study, direct economic subsidies to the production and use of fossil fuels in Australia are at least $10 billion per year. Failing to include their environmental and health costs in the prices of fossil energy adds several more tens of billions per year.
Jeremy :
10 May 2011 8:06:24pm
Let's judge the quality of what he says, rather than who he is, yes? Play the ball, not the man.
Damien :
11 May 2011 1:44:58am
Here is a new report from Britain's Committee on Climate Change which shows Nuclear Power to be a 'cheaper option than offshore wind farms.'
Wind and solar energy is pie in the sky.
Hot Air :
11 May 2011 10:56:21am
Any new technology that threatens vested interests will always bring a few Luddites out of the woodwork.
Derek Bolton :
11 May 2011 1:43:55pm
Re power demand by idle turbines, Rheese grossly overstates the case.
"over life-time, a turbine produces 17-39 times as much energy as needed for its m'facture, constr'n, operation and decommissioning. A Danish study found the ratio to be 80".
So clearly it's not a question of net production being low.
Variability is a valid issue, but Rheese's analysis assumed gas power whenever the wind falters at a single turbine. With geographically diverse farms in the one grid it's much better. Better still when coupled with solar power, best of all with CST + salt storage.
Health impact from noise is a concern, even if it's largely (as some experts claim) a nocebo effect: you think you'll have night terrors so you do. Similar occurred when elec'y grids and TV came in.
Rheese was wrong to say there are no peer-reviewed papers concluding modern wind farms do not generate enough infrasound to be a health problem at usual remoteness. See the extensive literature references at http://www.nhsec.nh.gov/2010-01/documents/101012appendix_52.pdf. But these all seem to be based on what is known about the human ear, etc. It is true that there are no peer-reviewed *epidemiological* studies. Such as there are show such a small percentage of complaints that, in that paper, the expert panel concluded "... existing case reports ... are insufficient to advocate for funding further studies". However, I would say the level of public concern does justify it.
Issue or not, for the large scale wind farms we need to make a serious contribution to the grid, adding 1km to the footprint radius only adds a few % to the cost.
As you remarked, the coast is the windiest region, but the land values and pop'n densities are much higher there too.
Finally, the statistic "10-15% of the pop'n is more sensitive to noise than the general pop'n" is tautology. Take the most sensitive 10% and you will find they are more sensitive than is the general pop'n. What point was he making?
Derek Bolton :
11 May 2011 1:44:49pm
You failed to mention that the important fact that AEF is a denialist organisation. E.g. http://aefweb.info/media805.html:
"[AEF] is of the firm view that there is no evidence to support a significant link between CO2 emissions and GW."
The $120/MWh Rheese quoted for elec'y from wind does not reflect the fundamentals.
http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/ems/reports/bnl-3716e-es.pdf (2009), a report for the US wind industry, quotes wind power cost rising from $32/MWh for plant built in 2005 to $61/MWh for plant built in 2009 (2009 USD).
It rose because demand outstripped supply. The inflation-adjusted manufact'g cost would have gone down, not up. Since then, China has entered the market big time.
Bloomberg (http://www.the9billion.com/2011/02/09/cost-of-wind-power-now-on-par-with-coal-fired-power-in-some-regions/ Feb 2011) quotes USD68/MWh.
In terms of $/MW constr'n, Rheese quoted $2.5-$3m. http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/02/oversupply-causes-drop-in-wind-turbine-prices (Feb 2011) says European prices last year dropped below AUD 1.3m/MW for the first time since 2005.
The Chinese Three Gorges of Wind plan is to spend 120bn Yuan for 20GW - about AUD 1m/MW.
By both measures, Rheese overstated the cost by a factor of 2.
That said, Aus windfarms to date have cost over $2m/MW. While the technology is fairly mature the market is not. There is no significant manufacture here and prices surged for a while with the uptake elsewhere.
Rheese quoted $38/MWh for coal, but if you add in the public health costs it's far more. A US study says triple (http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/61230). In Aus, coal-fired power enjoys large subsidies. E.g. as part of the NSW power sell-off, the generating companies are to get coal at well below market price. CO2 capture would make it more expensive than wind.
The IEA (http://www.iea.org/textbase/npsum/ElecCostSUM.pdf date?) gives these figures (USD/MWh, levelised lifetime costs, no CO2 capture or price, no health costs, discounting outliers):
Discount rate 5% 10%
Coal 25-50 35-60
Gas 37-55 40-60
Wind 35-60 45-90
Were Rheese's figures all at the same rate?
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gordon :
11 May 2011 6:07:39pm
Coal might be evil incarnate but it is the cheapest 'lectricity going around. Inescapably therefore everything else including wind is going to be more expensive in fees, taxes and whatever. The subsidies paid to wind & solar to bring them up to competitive w/ coal tell you how much that is, and it's quite a lot. You can argue all you like about the "cost to future generations of CO2" but unless and until punters here & now will pay a bunch more real cash for their electricity then we are all wasting our breath. A 10% "floggings tax" or whatever would not have got rid of slavery.
John Leslie :
11 May 2011 11:38:34pm
As a consulting engineer who has worked in the electricity industry for 40 years and currently with a firm whose clients include coal fired power plants, gas turbine power plants, wind farms and almost everything else, I can say that Max Rheese's comments on wind power were certainly NOT evidence-based. His was a highly biased presentation that used exaggerations and selective information to make wind look bad.
Much of Rheese's comparative cost information was in conflict with the most authoritative modelling, published by the Australian Energy Market Operator. Coal generation cost is between 100% and 200% of the figure he quoted (3.8 c/kwh) which is at the bottom of the range and applies only for the dirtiest brown coal generation with extremely low fuel cost.
The capacity factor of Australia's better wind sites is around 40%, not 30% which is the lowest level being considered for possible future development. The cost of gas-fired generation varies over time due to wide fluctuations in gas prices. Rheese chose a low point in the price cycle. Most Australian gas-fired power stations run only at peak periods when wholesale market prices are high. They average much lower capacity factors than wind farms. They may be contracted to back up coal, should there be a plant failure, so that 100% of the coal capacity can be pre-sold.
The capital costs of well-sited wind farms and proposed new nuclear stations are comparable for the same annual energy output. But the cost of wind generation is falling and nuclear increasing. In operation the wind is free and does not have the continual energy consumption, costs and risks of the nuclear fuel cycle.
The claimed 5km infrasound impact of wind generators is a huge exaggeration. In many places rural property owners themselves are seeking to establish wind farms on their properties.
The output of wind farms is predicted from the weather patterns and taken into account in scheduling generation of all types. When one wind farm is off line, another is generating, and generation of all types shares common backup.
Don Quixote :
12 May 2011 2:10:59pm
Damn those evil windmills and their heretic electrickery!
My friend Catweazle is right!
Stick to burning coal, or we'll all burn in hell!
Max Rheese- concludes :
13 May 2011 1:24:00pm
With due respect to John Leslie and his concern about the exaggeration of the health effects of low frequency sound, his stated expertise does not match that of Dr Daniel Shepherd, qualified in pyschoacoustics or Dr Christopher Hanning director of the Leicester Center for Sleep Disorder and many other medical professionals around the world who have serious concerns about adverse health effects from wind turbines. However, as stated in the interview, AEF is calling for independent medical studies to put this issue to rest once and for all. It amazes us that wind industry proponents, who are so sure turbines do not cause harm will not join with us in advocating for independent studies. Nobody is claiming that all rural residents are affected by low frequency sound, just as not everybody suffers dementia or cancer, but it is arrogant in the extreme to blithely cast aside people who are in serious distress, many who supported local wind farms until the turbines were turned on, in the absence of medical research to validate or denounce their concerns.
If one chose to ignore the very serious health issue completely, we still maintain that wind farms do not have any environmental or economic rationale to justify their existence. They are nothing more than a means to transfer wealth from consumers to large energy companies in a market distorted by government regulation [mandates and taxpayer funded renewable energy certificates] to make it look like governments are 'doing something' about climate change. Good for energy companies, good for governments – all pain and no gain for taxpayers and rural residents.
Max Rheese- continues :
13 May 2011 1:24:31pm
John Leslie says "When one wind farm is off line, another is generating" While undoubtedly true in some instances, this reliance on geographical spread of wind farms in Australia has been rebutted here by Mark Lawson from the Australian Financial Review. "About the only piece of evidence, one way or another in this part of the wind debate, of which I am aware, is a paper by weather analyst Andrew Miskelly and Tom Quirk, a former deputy chairman of VENCorp which managed Victoria's transmission network. The paper, Wind Farming in South East Australia (Energy & Environment, 2010), looked at the generation figures for wind farms in South Australia and Victoria at five minute intervals for one month, June 2009. The figures are available from the website of the Australian Market Energy Operator, which now operates the connected grids for Eastern and South Australia. The pair found that when the wind died, it did so right across the two states. The paper found that collective average output of the farms was about 30 per cent of installed capacity (this is in line with overseas experience) and, thanks to the spread of wind farms over two states, about 10 per cent of their capacity could be relied on for 90 per cent of the time. That's not bad for a bunch of wind farms, but still nowhere near good enough for a grid."
Miskelly A and Quirk T, "Wind Farming in South Eastern Australia", Energy and Environment, Volume 20 No.8 2009/Volume 21 No.1 2010, Multi Science Publishing Co. Ltd.
Max Rheese- :
13 May 2011 1:25:05pm
With regard to coal generated electricity prices raised by John Leslie in his post see http://www.ret.gov.au/energy/Documents/facts-stats-pubs/Energy-in-Australia-2011.pdf [page 20]. These are federal govt figures that confirm production prices of $38 - $40 per MW as stated by me. Wind and natural gas generation prices were direct quotes from Grant King, CEO of Origin Energy, a significant wind farm and natural gas generator see http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/KGB-INTERROGATION-Grant-King-pd20090820-V43N8?opendocument&src=rss As to confidence about reliability of wind, King said this in the same interview "Secondly, Origin, for example, and the evidence is in the proof, or the proof is in the evidence, in that we're building what will be a 550-megawatt open-cycle[gas] power station in Victoria, because as a retailer we don't want to be exposed to any potential unreliability in the system. Whether or not that unreliability arises because of an increasing amount of wind and the intermittency of wind, or whether it arises because of end-of-life issues in respect of base-load generation plants." King's statement also goes to the issue of capital costs quoted, which Derek Bolton in his post agrees broadly with my figure, and this leads to the issue of whatever wind MW capacity is put into the grid means it will have to be matched with reliable capacity from gas or coal for grid stability – this doubles the capital cost http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/electricity-prices-set-to-soar-as-a-result-of-government-policy/story-e6frg8zx-1225911616174
As for capacity factors, see this extract of evidence at the Moorabool Wind Farm Planning Review hearing from Sustainability Victoria "Sustainability Victoria emphasised that it has conducted long term studies from other Wind Energy Facilities in Victoria since 2002. These studies indicate a long term average capacity factor of 32%. SV indicated that based on the wind resource a capacity factor of 35% is indicated for the Moorabool project." http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/52142/Moorabool-Wind-Energy-Facility-Panel-Report.pdf.
Derek Bolton in his post is quoting U.S. and Chinese figures while I am quoting Australian figures, since we are talking about wind farms in Australia. This article by electrical engineer Peter Lang highlights that wind and solar are the most expensive means of reducing electricity generated emissions http://bravenewclimate.com/2010/01/09/emission-cuts-realities/
Graham Hunt :
13 May 2011 1:28:51pm
I am listening to this broadcast and wonder what is the Australian Environment Foundation that is spreading such negative stuff about wind energy and who is behind it?
From Wikipedia - see below. Seems like Michael Duffy has supported them in the past.
Australian Environment Foundation
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The Australian Environment Foundation is a front group founded by the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), a conservative Melbourne-based think tank.
The director of the environment unit of the IPA, Jennifer Marohasy was the founding Chairwoman and is listed as a Director in the organisation's documents with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). Mahorasy is also the listed registrant of the group's website, although the address and phone number for the website registration are identical to the address and phone number for the Victorian office of the logging industry lobby group, Timber Communities Australia. [1] [2]
In July 2005, the month after AEF's official launch, it was announced that former television celebrity Don Burke had been appointed chairman. [3]
ASIC documents also listed Mike Nahan, the former Executive Director of the IPA, as one of the other founding directors. The documents also listed AEF's registered place of business as the IPA office. (Nahan was ED of the IPA until mid-2005). Pdf copy of ASIC registration - 11kb
In a column by Nahan in the Herald Sun, he described AEF as "pro-biotechnology, pro-nuclear power, pro-modern farming, pro-economic growth, pro-business and pro-environment." [4]. The head of the AEF stated that it is a group set up to protect timber interests and stop resources being taken away from the industry in an interview on ABC Radio station Triple J's Hack program
Graham Anderson :
13 May 2011 1:36:04pm
On the cost of wind generation - see page 56 of Ziggy Switkowski's 2006 report: http://www.ansto.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/38975/Umpner_report_2006.pdf . Comparison should be on the basis of carbon neutrality - given that carbon constraint is the point of the exercise. On Ziggy's calculations wind comes in cheaper than nuclear or any fossil fired generation with carbon capture and storage.
Mikawa :
13 May 2011 1:44:24pm
Why didn't you say up front that the EFA is the "environmental arm" of the Institute for Public Affairs?
And why didn't you ask for costings for running coal-fired power stations? There probably is something in Mr Rheese's claims about wind-farms not being all lovely and green, but you didn't ask him anything at all about fossil fuels.
So much for presenting a "balanced" view.
Very poor interviewing indeed, but then, Counterpoint is not actually interested in balance, is it?
John Appleseed :
13 May 2011 3:36:52pm
Sad to see the ABC giving airtime to coal industry spokesman Rheese. Turbines cause "nosebleeds at 5km" -- I laughed so loud my neighbour's dogs started barking. It's time the ABC took a stand and stopped giving a platform to denialists and industry astroturfing groups like this.
Mikawa :
13 May 2011 8:57:13pm
So on balance, is it better to keep ignoring the documented health effects of large numbers of rural people in the Hunter Valley from coal mining, and instead focus on a few people who may or may not have lesser health issues from a few wind turbines??
Alan Langley-Jones :
13 May 2011 11:03:09pm
Pity this discussion has mostly degenerated into a comparison of windfarms with coal fired power stations.
Returning to windfarms in their own right, they seem to achieve 2 somehow desirable objectives. Firstly for governments they create the illusion of progress whilst postponing the need to tackle real issues of waste and the cult of bigness. Secondly, for true believers they are wonderfully totemic - with all that that implies.
Phil :
14 May 2011 2:00:05pm
The information given by this program, about how unsatisfactory, inefficient and costly wind turbines are, can be applied to many mainstream methods of power generation.
All steam and diesel generation plants make extreme levels of noise.
They all use a greater or lesser amount of the energy they generate to keep their station plants running and available to commence generation when required.
Coal and gas fired generation plants require significant amounts of energy to provide water and hydrogen for machinery cooling, hydraulic control and lubrication oil equipment, air compressors, water purification plants, chemical injection equipment, general plant lighting, air conditioning and ash disposal. The list goes on and on.
Coal and gas boilers use diesel fuel to a greater or lesser extent to ignite and stabilise the coal and gas combustion.
All power plants on a simple or interstate grid system require spinning reserve to stabilise the system from sudden changes of load and to control the system power factor and voltage.
Wind turbines, solar and hydro combined with geothermal could provide a very significant part of eastern and central Australia's base load requirements with gas fired boilers and turbines and jet engine fed turbines as emergency backup.
This Counterpoint radio program provided biased and misleading information. It was very selective with the facts given and the facts with held. The ABC and Counterpoint should hang their heads in shame.
martin friedel :
14 May 2011 4:02:26pm
I laughed so much at the scary thought of the terrible health danger posed by wind turbines at 5km that my own nose started to bleed! Take note Max Rheese: another serious health effect caused by wind turbines! .
Seriously Counterpoint team, why dont you do a little research into your topics and guests? learn a little science 101? You dont need come up with any grand new theory. You dont even need to agree with all that "mainstream science"has to say about everything.
You just learn enough to question your guests more thoroughly & sometimes even generate your own little gust of understanding to blow away the chaff from the grain. Otherwise you'll end up as a radio comedy show without jokes.
chuck dyer :
14 May 2011 4:30:07pm
1. thanks for a great show- I'm a fan of you guys and your format
2. rheese is an apologist/lobbyist for timber and coal interests, this doesn't mean he is a bad guy, or doesn't believe in what he does, just you, as professional journalists, should have pointed it out for the listener who doesn't bother to google stuff.
3. there is an inherent irony in the name AEF - the 'E' stands for environmental. WTF?
4. One modern wind turbine will save over 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, according to a peer-reviewed non-fringe source, rferenced by the WHO committee.
5. Rheese confuses running cost and capital cost in his so-called 'analysis'. The very point is that, perhaps they cost a shirtload to put up, and occasionally lose a blade or two with spectacular results, but they have almost zero running costs. this makes them as sustainable as hydro without the risk of flooding downstream communities.
6. there is so much peer reviewed stuff on wind power and health, that it is not just wrong, it is bloody embarrassing for your guest to make claim the contrary-just google it!- if you dare.
7. michael and paul, please don't tell me you liked what this fruitcake has to say. he's either a nutter or a cynical bullshit artist.
8. for the record, I think the jury on the human contribution to global warming is still out- we just don't know enough about stuff...yet.but hey, we cope. if there is one thing homo bloody sapiens do par excellence, is COPE.
PatrickB :
15 May 2011 10:48:20am
I'm getting a bit sick of hearing these radical fringe opinions on Counterpoint and, after doing a bit of research, finding that the speaker is from a group that is clearly ideologically opposed to the topic under discussion. When is someone at the ABC going to apply some reasonable disclosure standards to Counterpoint? Duffy clearly agreed with is interviewee's position and thus was completely unable to challenge the speakers more outrageous claims. Pathetic.
dusty slim :
15 May 2011 10:02:55pm
Well done Counterpoint for giving this fundamental issue of a fair go for all some clear air. Wind Industry and their sycophants have been in denial for too long. Some people ARE getting sick in proximity to turbines. This is well documented and beyond dispute, and it is encouraging to see the industry acknowledging this at long last (of course they say it is 'all in peoples heads-nothing to do with turbine operation') It is in everyones interest to find out why adverse effects are forcing some rural folk from their homes and farms. And to site them more appropriately. (if they are in fact a valid environmental strategy). Bring on the independantly funded well designed scientific reasearch into cause:effect/dose:response issues in relation to adverse effects from proximity to industrial scale windturbines. And stop the victim blaming by proponents once and for all. The unconscionable commercial 'divide and conquer' conduct of the industry in their quest for profits should be a topic for another counterpoint. But expect serious industry protest and lobbying. They have a golden goose to protect...
dusty slim :
16 May 2011 12:23:58am
'almost zero running costs'? Dont tell me-you Googled it?
Industry records indicate that many wind farms are on sold and traded at an alarmingly regular rate,often just prior to turbine warranty expiry. Isnt that why government vehicles are onsold after nominal kms? To avoid escalating maintenance costs from accelerating wear and tear? Turbines with almost zero running costs? Take off your green tinted glasses please. Its a cynical money game, and the sooner political leadership calls a halt the better. At least Victoria has made a start..
dusty slim :
16 May 2011 12:51:23am
Mikawa, I would suggest that BOTH affected groups of residents be focussed upon and taken seriously. Both are being screwed. And in fact they have at least one issue in common driving people from their homes-infrasound pollution. So your coal affected Hunter residents might have more in common with windturbine 'collateral damage'/'road kill' (insider wind industry terms) than you think. 'Coal versus wind' is a fallacy promoted by industry and their cheer squads, such as is on the public record with Premier Rann, spinmeister of SA in his media comments at the Waterloo opening recently.
Max Rheese :
17 May 2011 12:03:01pm
Mikawa, nobody is suggesting we should ignore health or environmental effects of coal mining; we are only trying to raise awareness of the effects of wind farms before they are embedded in the environment across every state. This is what AEF is about, putting a counterpoint to uninformed or poorly discussed public policy on the environment. The wind industry is more than capable, and to date very successful, in putting their side of the story through their own lobbyist group, the Clean Energy Council, as they are entitled to do.
Phil raises the excellent point that all power generation methods have a downside, but this has generally not been acknowledged with wind power. We have to make judgements and compromises with whatever method we choose to encourage, but this is very difficult for the community if all the facts and evidence are not available or discussed. As for the 'bias' in talking only about wind energy, I was introduced as speaking about the AEF submission to the senate inquiry on wind farms, which is what I did.
The data makes it clear that wind power is a very expensive way of producing electricity and reducing emissions. On the health issue the data is insufficient, which is why we are calling for independent medical research. We find it curious that so many are resistant to broadening their knowledge on possible health effects through targeted research.
Max Rheese :
17 May 2011 12:05:01pm
Briefly, before turning to matters of substance, how throwing mud at groups such as AEF with unsubstantiated claims of being coal/timber/ oil advocates is useful in teasing out the issue under debate is beyond me. Anyone who can provide credible evidence of such, I will buy a beer. Those who resort to such tactics generally have nothing of value to contribute to the issue discussed. AEF does not allow corporate membership, has only ever had minor conference sponsorship from corporates, and has had zero corporate sponsorship or donations in the last three years.
If anyone thinks the coal generators are the slightest bit concerned about the less than 2 per cent of wind power generated into the grid when increasing annual energy demand outstrips that small contribution they are seriously delusional.
Those who wish to see another community perspective, on the health issue particularly, should view this article from the weekend http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/ipad/an-ill-wind-blows/story-fn3o6wog-1226054674376
Patrick B somehow draws the conclusion that AEF is ideologically opposed to wind farms when in fact as little as five years ago many AEF members, myself included, thought wind farms were a good idea. Examination of the data and evidence finished those thoughts.
AEF members have stood in the cold and rain with community members on more than one occasion protesting at the lack of information and consultation by energy companies over wind farms that will have consequences for local communities. This concern of local communities is backed by comments from Associate Professor Richard Hindmarsh from the School of Environment and Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University in a 2010 paper on wind farms and community engagement "Current governmental policy responses to the problem of social conflict and community contestation of wind farms thus appear more about empowering wind farm development than effectively addressing the important issues raised by those directly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of wind farms."
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Murray May :
18 May 2011 10:54:14am
I have not read all the arguments put below, but it's clear to me that the assumption that wind power = green is way too simplistic, and that serious attention should be given to the noise issue. Why can't turbines be placed well clear of people, say at least 5 km away? The devotees clearly lose their critical faculties by being so committed to a cause. One sees a similar thing with high speed rail, the general assumption being that HSR = green. There are many holes in that argument as put by green advocate Prof. John Whitelegg in the UK. Discussions located somewhere between "you are either for em, or against em" are none too easy these days.
Dr Adrian Flitney :
19 May 2011 3:11:47pm
Rheese says there are no studies of the health effects of wind turbine noise. A few minutes with my favorite search engine came up with:
Although the study was funded by the wind industry the expert panel are independent academics and medical professionals. There are plenty of articles cited in this paper though I have not had time to check look at these.
A newspaper article discussing the paper is here:
I have no problems with the ABC airing all views (the program is called "Counterpoint" after all) but the affiliations of the speaker should be made clear.
Murray May :
19 May 2011 5:00:44pm
A useful overview of the environmental impacts of wind power is also provided at:
Apparently intelligent researchers such as Nina Pierpont MD PhD think there are issues of concern around noise and vibration. Why is this so for someone who is ecologically committed? See her book at:
Also her testimony at:
Consider the parallel with the mobile phone industry where industry funded studies find no problems. In contrast there are some highly qualified academic neurosurgeons who are sounding the alarm via published research on the increased risks of brain tumours after 10 years regular use.
There are varying degrees of sensitivity to noise and vibration in the population which definitely need further consideration in my view. The NHMRC has not always been at the front edge of recognising developing environmental problems.
Damien :
21 May 2011 11:26:37pm
Adding to the other environmental concerns, wind turbines are built from rare earth metals that come from China which is one of the worst polluting countries in the world. Consider this report on the toxic effects that rare earth mining causes to the environment;
Ian :
24 May 2011 8:29:47am
To be honest I was astonished to hear that wind power has little or no impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. So I did some research on two of Max Rheese's claims.
The first is that "...they [wind turbines] have air conditioning, they need to keep the machinery cool...". So I called one of the largest managers of wind farms in NSW: Epuron (http://www.epuron.com.au/). I put this claim to spokesman Martin Poole. He replied that Epuron's wind turbine have simple radiators that move heat away from the turbines when they are operating using similar technology to that used in our cars. They do not have air conditioning that operates at all times, even when the turbine is not spinning.
The second claim was that "wind electricity or wind energy is so erratic, they need to be backed up in the grid by open cycle gas turbines which are running in spinning mode while wind electricity is being generated".
Martin Poole replied that this is definitely not the case. He said that in NSW, for example, wind energy contributes <200MW to the total 16,500MW generating capacity. To illustrate why it is not necessary to have 200MW of capacity running in "spinning mode" Martin gave the example of a large Aluminium smelter suddenly switching off it's demands on the gird. Such a smelter might use 600MW. The east Coast grid, he said, is so resilient that it is capable of absorbing this instantaneous change without having a negative impact on consumers' experiences. Martin added that the Bureau of Meteorology and the the CSIRO have done a lot of research that helps to predict fluctuations in wind energy supply, meaning that variations are not sudden nor unpredictable. As a result the impact of changes to wind energy supply is even less likely to require "just in case" generator capacity to be sitting there chewing natural gas without contributing energy to the grid.
As Max did not specify which companies have turbines that use 24/7 air conditioning or which areas have gas turbines in spinning mode, I could not check his specific claims. But the claims that he did make certainly do not appear to match reality when checked against what is happening on the East coast of Australia.
Dr dusty slim :
25 May 2011 11:08:11am
Dear Dr Flitney
there is a difference between empirical studies collecting clinical and acoustic data compared to desktop literature reviews such as the CANWEA document cited and the NH&MRC rapid review. Both of these reviews rely extensively on wind industry generated material. Interestingly the NH&MRC are increasingly unhappy with the way wind developers are ignoring their suggestion to adopt a precautionary approach and are holding a workshop in early June to re examine the emerging evidence of serious adverse health effects being reported in residents living adjacent to windturbines.
I guess you are also happy to accept tobacco and asbestos industry sponsored research for their use of independant academics?
Damien :
08 Jun 2011 3:10:07pm
More reasons to prefer nuclear over wind turbines. Many golden eagles are being killed by wind turbines in California
Also, turbines decimating bat populations which leaves many insects without a natural enemy leading to significant crop damage
But none of these facts will matter to green romantics.
Mike Barnard :
25 Jun 2012 6:36:38am
Max Rheese managed 14 whoppers about wind energy in 17 minutes in this 'interview'. Read the entire dissection of his disinformation here: http://reneweconomy.com.au/2012/fourteen-wind-energy-myths-debunked-97695
Mr. Rheese appears incapable of accuracy when it comes to wind energy. Given that the AEF and the Australian Climate Science Coalition have run $35K in the red while he took $22K from them over the past two years, it's obvious Mr. Rheese doesn't just have a truth deficit.


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Karlstad is situated half way between Oslo and Stockholm on the northern shore of Lake Vanern in the county of Varmland. Karlstad was founded in 1584 and has about 80 000 inhabitants on 1200 square kilometres and is the county capital of Varmland.
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Just because your child is ready for a larger car seat doesn't mean you have to give up all the safety features you've grown to expect. The Performance Sport Harness Booster Seat gives your child the same protection within a more appropriate silhouette.
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Whether you're an avid hiker or you are planning an ambitious road trip, you will definitely want to make use of a GPS app on your iPhone in order to plan your route and orientate yourself if you should happen to get lost. The following is a list of the best GPS apps for the iPhone with many features, functions and capabilities.
gps4cam is an awesome utility that enables you to add location tags to your images with the use of clever barcode functionality. When you start using this app or you have to do is tap the Start Trip button and select the intervals at which you would like your location to be logged, and you will then be able to see all of your tagged locations pinned onto a map so that they can be attached to your photographs with ease. You will also be able to share your pictures on websites such as Flickr, Picasa, and Panoramio.
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A stable discretization for the simulation of two-phase flow
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In [Abels, Garcke, Gruen, M3AS, 22, 2012] a model for the simulation of variable density two-phase flow using the diffuse interface approach is presented. Due to an additional transport term in the Navier-Stokes system this model enjoys consistency with thermodynamics. To preserve this important property in the numerical simulation we propose a time discretization that uses a carefully designed weak formulation and delivers a time discrete variant of the continuous energy equality. The spatial discretization is enriched by a suitable post processing step to ensure the energy inequality to hold in the fully discrete setting. An a-posteriori adaptive procedure is proposed that deals with the errors both in the Navier-Stokes and the Cahn-Hilliard system.
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