How are the little darlings

Thanks 19738662
Thats not what I need to know !
My worry is delicate underbonnet electricals that are all chewable and destructable by rodents.
Thankyou for your reply

Are they going for the tyres too?
Probably not the Bridgestones but maybe the tasty Coopers? LOL

Hi Pinko

I have heard that they do not like the light, lift the bonnet of the vehicle and leave a light on under there, supposedly keeps the critters from chewing up the wiring!
Dont know if it works though.

Good luck!

Adding to Stephen's comments...arrive at your destination early enough to allow your engine to cool down before night fall.

The buggers love a nice warm engine to cuddle up to.

Fab.

Hello Stephen,
I'm off to Innamincka in mid October to the power station your son and I did the work at earlier.

The purpose of the job is a general control system clean up after the little devils plagued the place.

Apparently nature has taken its course, at least at this site anyway and they moved on.

It remains to be seen what sort of damage the mice done. Apparently there are some rather plump brown snakes in the area.

Geoff

Hi Geoff

Long time no hear, I hope things are fine for you and your family. It will be interesting to see what those little critters have done, hopefully not much damage. James has spent the last couple of years now up in Roma on the new gas line there, but is about to take a new job up in the Pilbara.

He will be surveying a new 150 kilometre railway line that is to be built, so its all go up that way within the Mining Industry.

Be careful with the snakes. When we came home from our Birdsville and Simpson trip recently, I put a post up on one very big fellow that was not too happy at us entering its territory.

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Take a few images for us to see.


All the Best


Stephen

Hello Stephen,
The family and I are all fit and well! I trust all of yours are the same.

That snake is very definitely put out by your presence. Maybe it's thinking about not having its best skin on for the photograph.

I've been very quiet lately due to starting a new business. I'm self employed now doing what I've always done, the industrial process control. I'm that crazy I've even employed 6 people and looking for a couple more!

I too am interested to see what the mice have been up to at Habanero and what they've managed to chew through in the control system.

Next time you are talking to James you might like to mention the power station is scheduled for startup in June 2012. They are drilling a new well to replace the one that split the casing. So near yet so far, I was booked to go to site for startup on the Wednesday and the case split on the Friday night. (I think that was some time in 2009 from memory)

Fingers crossed from June 2012 Innamincka should be powered by Australia's first Geothermal power station!

Still a lot of work to be done on all sorts of fronts between now and then!

I sure will get some photo's of anything that looks interesting. The main wildlife getting into the turbine house are the goanna's. They come in of a night chasing the moths. Even they cannot eat a full night's worth of moths!

Geoff, getting a bit off-topic, but hasn't Birdsville been powered by geothermal energy for about the past 20 years?

Hello Allan,
You are correct. We are now getting into the semantics of these geothermal installations.

What I should have said was, "In June 2012 Innamincka should be the first place in Australia powered by Hot Fractured Rock Geothermal Power"

The Birdsville installation I'm lead to believe is a Rankin Cycle System using quite cool artesian water (cool in power generation terms) to drive the plant. The capacity of this type of system is quite limited (compared to other geothermal technologies) due to the low specific heat cpacity of the water driving it. (One of the many reasons coal and nuclear are really the only true choices for base load power at the moment)

The big difference and the exciting part of the technology used in the pilot plant at Innamincka is its ability to produce base load power with (whilst running, excluding construction) zero CO2 emmissions in the tens if not hundreds of Megawatt's scale.

Hope that clears it up.

Yes, thank Geoff. It's all clear and I have learned some more.
I hope Fractured Hot Rock power is fully successful. It is a great way to go.

ps. I'm retired Process Control Eng also.

Thanks David
The little #@$%*'s will soon ruin what started out to be a good holiday,
Down at the local electrical wholesalers they have a section of 240v. cable taken from a ceiling. At least a metre of bare wire with no plastic insulation at all.
Stan

This is making me a tad nervous.
Is it just around Innamincka and Birdsville or is the problem widespread but in varying degree's of being problematic?
I have a severe rodent- phobic teen and another (friend of the rodent -phobic) who is coming who has never ever been camping before.
I'm thinking maybe we'll just go as far as Camerons corner then.....safe there?

Good to hear.
Perhaps we'll venture as far as Innaminkca after all.