Darryl Talks About New Zealand

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The Nissan Sakura is a new electric city car which is perfect for a second family car or for people who don't do much long distance driving. This car is cheap, this car could be the cheapest new EV available in New Zealand, when it become available. It is hard to estimate prices, but I figure it could be around NZD $30,000 with clean car discounts. The car has a 20kWh battery which cost about $6 to recharge over night at home. The car can charge from the regular power outlet in your garage in about 10 hours. The vehicle also has a DC charger connector which can charge the car to 80% in 40 minutes, for busy days and longer trips. A 20 minute charge will give about 80-100km of driving for about $10. This car is on sale in Japan in the middle of 2022, but It will be available through used imports to New Zealand likely before 2023. The vehicle is the very popular cube or box shape which is perfect for a city car, but still capable of 130km/h for motorway and freeway driving. The car seats 4 people. The vehicle comes in three fit out grades, S the simple one, X with a few extras ad G spec, the Greatest set of features and options. This car could also be good in Australia from Queensland down the coast to Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. There are a number of DC chargers around Perth too.

I made two videos 11 months ago contemplating a cableway as an alternative tot the walking and cycle path. I got a bunch of text messages yesterday telling my that my idea had got mainstream attention. Original Gondola idea: https://youtu.be/YSctTMZ2U2E Route Visualisation: https://youtu.be/RctYQbJl9i8 0:00 I am excited 0:40 You can't walk across the bridge 1:00 A better idea 1:40 Wind resistant gondola 2:00 Bridge walks as tourist attractions 2:30 Gondola advantages 4:00 Visual 4:20 Bus exchange map 5:00 My initial route 5:45 Bayswater route 6:20 Connects to central Takapuna 7:10 I am still stoked 7:20 Haters gonna hate 7:40 Zero emissions transport

New Zealand is currently consulting to change how road maintenance is costed to vehicle drivers. You can't collect road tax in petrol tax if people drive electric vehicles. http://rules.transport.govt.nz/consultations/road-user-charges-consultation/road-user-charges-consultation-2022/using-the-ruc-act-to-do-more-than-recover-road-costs/ 0:00 Intro 2:40 User pays 7:33 How do we measure road use? 9:10 Bill solution in RUC or Fuel? 10:40 Statistics on dangerous vehicles ACC. 11:40 Pollution from burning fuel 12:45 Lawn mowers are worse than cars 14:00 PHEVs 14:35 RUC for all vehicles 15:20 Fairness for ACC and classic cars 16:50 Graduated light vehicle RUC class weights 18:25 Lightweight Kei Cars 19:35 Light weight new vehicle classes 20:15 Delivery vehicles 21:05 Enclosed Mobility 22:50 Weight Classes 23:20 Power to Weight: Zippy danger 24:20 Accident story 24:50 Kei cars 26:20 SUVs and UTES 30:15 Phase out terrible engines 32:20 Very efficient vehicles 33:00 RUC discounts

This is a look at the site where the new highway bridges are being built near Ashhurst, about 10 minutes from Palmerston North. 0:00 Inro 1:25 Accident story 2:12 Construction project 2:38 Pretty walk way 4:48 Mountain & Rivers 5:48 Property tips 6:35 Boulders 7:24 Under the old road 8:00 Description of new road 9:15 Wind farms 9:35 Fantail Piwakawika 11:10 Roundabout Realignment

This is a look through of some of the areas on the Ōtaki Expressway 2:10 Ranui Road Bridge 4:50 Art Details 5:35 North On/Off Ramps 7:50 Levin Expressway Options 8:20 Gorge Road Interchange 10:05 Ōtaki River Bridge 11:05 Drainage Swales and Plantings 12:40 Gorge Road Roundabout 13:10 Te Horo 15:15 SH1 South

I was on an aircraft and took this short video out the window on approach to Auckland. I might use it for a title sequence in another video.

I take a drive though the interchanges and link roads. Cannons Creek, Eastern Porirua, Hutt Valley and Porirua. I drive around the roundabouts. 0:00 Intro 0:20 Kenepuru Porirua 1:20 Roundabout loop 4:00 Heading East & North 5:40 Large Bridge 8:00 Whitby Waitangirua 10:35 Waitangirua 13:25 Whitby intersection 15:00 Navigation Drive 15:55 Roundabout loop 18:00 Pauatahanui Hutt offramp

There is a runaway vehicle lane on the new highway to the Kapiti Coast, 45km North of Wellington on the new Transmission Gully Highway. There was an unexpected "test" of the deep gravel stopping lane on opening day. https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/wellington/300554942/police-accidentally-drive-into-runaway-vehicle-pit-on-transmission-gully--and-prove-it-works

4K version of a drive through with my commentary. A beautiful drive through the hills leading into New Zealand's capital Wellington. This is 27km, about 20 miles of new motorway, connecting the outer coastal suburbs to the inner suburbs, the road replaces the coast road, which is one lane in each direction and it prone to coastal flooding and slips. The new motorway is designed to be serviceable in a one in 2500 year earthquake. It is also all significantly above sea level and will be safer in stormy weather. It cost about 1.25 billion NZ dollars, was budgeted to cost 850 million. About 800 million USD. 0:00 Intro 6:20 New Highway 8:20 Peak Cutting 275m 11:40 Battle Hill Farm 16:30 Pauatahanui Whitby Hutt 18:30 Waitangirua Whitby 21:10 65m tall bridge 22:40 Porirua Kenepuru 25:45 Tawa

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I drive past the on ramps and off ramps of the "miracle of modern engineering" that taunts me cruelly.

From April 1 2022 all efficient cars will get a discount, this discount will be funded by fees on gas guzzlers and inefficient vehicles. This will make the difference across the range up to $13,800. This means that many Electric Vehicles and hybrids will be cheaper to buy than non electrified models. Many small efficient vehicles will also get a discount. go to rightcar.govt.nz to search for discounts and fees. These fees and discounts are only when a car is first registered in New Zealand, so that is new cars and used imports, when they are first imported and sold in New Zealand. Only buy a hydrogen vehicle, if 1, you work at a place that has a hydrogen filling station and 2, you can fill it at work for free, 3, are not paying for the car from your own pocket, and 4, can live with 40% depreciation per year.

New Zealand Freedom Village protest, camp out, festival, thing. No body really understands what it was event with loads of good dogs.

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New Zealand Freedom Village. What was it actually like at the peak? 2022

New Zealand Protest (Music Festival). Please subscribe, thanks. This is what I actually saw, unedited, so you can see what actually was happening, please study it in your history lessons and projects. I called this Music Festival, because it looks like a lot of people camping out at a music festival. The crowd, seemed to have a lot of Christians and Hare Krishna people. There was a lot of food trucks and free food, or by donation, I think I saw that. I could not find any kind of mean people like they people on TV keep saying there are. You can think of any categories of mean people, but I did not see any. I think I may have seen a person with a motor cycle club jacket. There was a first aid tent and a first aid truck. There were a lot of dogs. Dogs like music festivals. I attempt to read the comments in the live stream and answer questions as I walked around. The audio and shaky video are a bit rough, sorry about that. Freedom Village was written on a sign at the gate. This is an alcohol and drug free event. I did not see any. There were people taking care of the rubbish and recycling. People were parked on the street lanes, but generally left one lane open so cars could negotiate the area. The music in the video was filtered by YouTube to fix a copyright claim, because I walked past people playing protected music. I tried to use a close in microphone so you could hear what I was saying. I am not pro at audio.

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Concept: replace all supermarket packages and unpackaged goods with systematic renewable and reusable and biodegradable packaging. Goal to eliminate all plastic packaging and disposable plastic supermarket goods within five years order to prevent plastic from entering the global ecosystem. This would require a standard for renewable reusable stackable glass jar and bottle packaging and reformulation of some products to eliminate plastic components and packaging. Glass packaging would have to be designed with automation of cleaning and filling as a priority. The jars may need to be produced with keyways to align them in machines so that labels and lids can be applied. Glass packaging design should not be done by committee, but by a group of companies that designs machines for cleaning and filling jars and for ease of stacking and safe transport. Almost all liquids that come in plastic bottles could be in standard reusable glass bottles. Hand wash, soap, detergent, cleaners could be packaged in glass bottles different in design to food grade glass bottles. Large diameter openings can be designed to allow for proper fast cleaning. A range of standard design sizes can be made to make automated cleaning and filling rapid and lower costs. Some reusable packaging can be designed for customers to refill their bottles and jars in store where hygiene is not a problem, eg some detergent liquid and bulk liquids like vinegar. Some supermarkets could clean and refill jars in store. This could be used for over the counter deli products. This will help reduce bulk weight of jar transport. Reusable system of box packaging for carriage of glass jars may be needed. A crate can be used by customers to shop for items that come in glass bottles and jars, and they can slot into a crate to hold them safely. This will need standardisation of diameter sizes. (Metal food cans already come in such standardised sizes). A deposit and repayment scheme of returning washed bottles to the supermarket can ensure the bottles are properly reused. But also the glass bottles can be cheap enough to be considered disposable, however packaging can be returned for reward. This will mean that recycling as a service is self funding. (This proposal will eliminate most glass recycling by replacing it with reusables). There would be design differences for food jars and bottles and chemical jars and bottles. Legislation my be required to make it an offence to put chemicals into standardised food containers. However the glass can have embossed writing and symbols for international use to avoid confusion, possibly embedded RFID or QR codes in glass. Labels for glass packaging ought to be removed by dissolving ing in water, so that they wash off easily. It I possible that a coded jar or bottle has no labels at all, but can be looked up with a QR scanner or RFID scanner. The idea is to have a fully systematic approach to supermarket packaging. The lids for bottles and jars would also have to not contain plastic. Many steel and aluminium lids have seals in them. I don’t know enough about this. Most products should be reformulated as dry formulations so that they can be packaged in paper, waxed paper and card board boxes for design and advertising purposes. Products that come as liquids, where a dry version is available ought to be changed to dry versions: liquid soap - soap powder. Some products that come as liquids, eg soup, could be frozen into portions and the portions could be packaged in to boxes and sold frozen. Frozen items can still be frozen in grease proof paper packaging, eg free flow frozen vegetables, ice cream on a stick. Frozen meat products can be sold in waxed paper board boxes. It is conceivable that some products could not be packed in any renewable method. These production should be conceded as non renewable, obsolete and not sustainable. Soap into bars into paper Yoghurt into jars, Margarine into foil or paper like a block of butter. Meat into foil and card board Fresh meat and fish into waxed/ greaseproof paper. Make liquid goods into dry goods, soap liquid into powder. Every product that can be Toothbrushes into paper and card board the tooth brush an be wood, bamboo or PLA. Shrink wrapped PLA can be used for some products that may need to be sealed like cheese. Disposable items to be made from PLA plastic Bread bags PLA or waxed paper Cotton or hemp bags can be use for some dry goods. Cellophane can be used, as it already is, for dry packaging where a window is wanted. Pasta and rice can be in paper bags Some products can be reformulated into powders, toothpaste for example.

This is a Machinist x99 x99-rs9 with Xeon E5, E5-2650 v4. I recommend E5 v3 processors after my experience. I bought the motherboard, cooler, cpu and ram cheaply from Aliexpress. I recommend buying form the Machinist Official Store: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/5789538 I recommend buying a Kit Set. Kit Set will come with CPU RAM and Motherboard. You will also need to buy a cooler: Snowman Official store: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/5361263 Buy a 4 pipe or 6 pipe cooler. Buy a tube, plunger pack, of thermal paste (you need this). Choose a budget E5 2620 v3 Or better a 2630, 3640 to 2550. You can get 6 cores, 8 cores, 10 cores or 12 cores. It needs to be v3, I think this will be better than v4. 8 or 10 cores is probably a good number. CPU feature comparison: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleCompare.php https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Xeon-E5-2640-v3-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2650-v3-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2630-v3-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2670-v3-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2650-v4/2365vs2344vs2386vs2337vs2797 0:00 Intro 5:45 Core affinity. 7:00 Disable hyper threading. 9:45 CPU loading. 11:00 Disable two cores 10/12 12:00 4 cores disabled 8/12 13:30 6 cores disabled 6/12 14:10 What does this mean? 15:25 That's six cores. 16:20 Change to 4 cores. 17:00 Any conclusion? 18:55 Low frame rate on 4 cores 20:15 Optimal with 6 cores then. 20:50 Choose a E5 v3 processor then? 22:30 Fewer cores, higher clock speed then. Afterword: this CPU is so powerful, it only needs about 35% to run the game, so it still works ok on 4 cores, it seems that the GPU would make the FPS higher.

I have a quick look at the Auckland Light Rail plan. I like light rail. But wow, is it expensive. Thumbnail image: John Cowper.

This is an x99 x99-rs9 with Xeon E5 E5-2650 v4. I recommend E5 v3 processors after my experience. I bought the motherboard, cooler, cpu and ram cheaply from Aliexpress. I recommend buying form the Machinist Official Store: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/5789538 I recommend buying a Kit Set. Kit Set will come with CPU RAM and Motherboard. You will also need to buy a cooler: Snowman Official store: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/5361263 Buy a 4 pipe or 6 pipe cooler. Buy a tube, plunger pack, of thermal paste (you need this). Choose a budget E5 2620 v3 Or better a 2630, 3640 to 2550. You can get 6 cores, 8 cores, 10 cores or 12 cores. It needs to be v3, I think this will be better than v4. 8 or 10 cores is probably a good number. CPU feature comparison: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleCompare.php https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Xeon-E5-2640-v3-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2650-v3-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2630-v3-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2670-v3-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2650-v4/2365vs2344vs2386vs2337vs2797 Contents 0:00 Intro 0:30 x99-rs9 10:00 Cities Skylines

In this video I show a bunch of graphs showing the rate of EV adoption. Electric Vehicles. How many cars there are: 35,000 = 0.89% of all cars. 4 million diesel and petrol vehicles. How much we drive them: 12,000km per year for EVs, 9,000 for petrol and diesel. How much power it will require: a 17% increase in electricity generation. EV sales spike to 2,250 vehicles per month in late 2021, but are tracking around 700 vehicles per month, and going up. Affects good and bad, of subsidies and shipping delays. Data: https://www.transport.govt.nz/statistics-and-insights/fleet-statistics/sheet/monthly-ev-statistics

In this video I look at a report on New Zealand Vehicle ownership and Usage. The take aways are: 80% of New Zealanders have cars, that is to say we own about one car for each person with a drivers licence. We drive about 9,000km (6,000 miles) per year. This was around 14,000 km 20 years ago. We drive new cars more and old cars less, this may account for the parent decrease in the above paragraph, we keep the cars longer and drive them less, but drive our new cars mainly. About 45% of our cars are imported from Japan as used cars, and theses tend to be 10 years old and have 1.6 to 2 Litre engines, they are more economic than the average new car. People who buy new cars, tend to buy 2.0 to 3.0 Litre petrol cars, and 2.5 to 4.0L diesel vehicles. The average age of vehicles is about 14.5 years, (in EU, UK and US, this is around 11 years old), we had a younger vehicle fleet 20 years ago, at about 11 years old, at that time we tended to import younger cars at about 6.5 years old. 2022 01 14 12 26 37