Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Ya I know I think I'll start one... Or at least something like 'onepowers question district'...

I'm not completely new to AP been doing it for a couple of years now.. 3 years almost.. The only thing is I've only ever had small systems and only for about 6months because I move so much.. But I'm finally getting to be at a perminate place so now I can build a larger perminate system..

Since I've never done anything larger than 20sq ft I'm double and thriple checking everything on my design..

And my design is pretty much completely differant from anything else I've seen here.. Its an experiment of mine, micro test and simulations and science shows proves it will work but its always good to thriple check and tweak variables, IMHO that is.

I need to make sure it is stable and safe and productive and can go at a max copasity and doesn't waste space or liters of water(in the FT).

Here where I live it will be $392 a year to run

A lot of Americans nearly get their power for free relative to us.

So much for cheap coal.

That's because Americans want the best for cheap... If you raise the price of something by 1¢ or even .1¢ people riot!

It's the way of the future, not like those pesky solar panels that use the power of the sun.

Also I think it helps that the u.s. has the worlds largest supply of coal.

I can't tell if that is sarcasm or legitimate statement haha but I'm go with sarcasm

You know I'm just wondering how much is a kW in Australia?

Our Prime Minister wants the rich to get richer, and the poor to get the picture.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/ ... 1gh7k.html

In South Australia, we're on 0.31kW for the first 10kw/h day, then up to .37 after that. The highest in the world last time I checked.

They repealled the carbon tax that drove up prices, and then decided that they should increase prices more to pay for convientant increases in gas prices.

In Queensland We were paying $0.2673 cents per unit but they have done away with the carbon tax and we now pay $0.2537 cents per unit and a $0.8441 cents per day service charge. Plus a 10% tax on top of that

About 0.279 cents per unit and 0.93 cents per day service charge after GST tax is added.

Yeah, well check again.

$0.394/kWhr plus connection fee.

Wow here is average 10.1-10.6 per year and people are debateing and argueing about how they might raise it to 11c per kWh next year

As to America having the largest coal reserves that may be true but in Australia we have massive coal deposits that we know are there but they haven't even been surveyed let alone mines planned. Also a lot of it is surface coal so it is very easy and cheap to mine yet still are electricity prices are some of the highest in the world because of the regulatory and market environment of our electricity sector. Despite this our politicians regularly try and convince us that we have "close to the lowest electricity prices in the world". That may be true at the wholesale level but it is certainly not true for the customer.

One of those cases where if you tell a big enough lie often enough and loud enough then people will believe it.

Your guys got the 5-6th largest cal supply they combine you guys and new Zealand together on the charts.

But it is still 1/4 f what the u.s. supply is...

Maybe you guys should make some petition or something to lower prices.

Oh that's funny.

Ehh no. I've got other walls to beat my head against that are thinner.