They definitely do; while interesting, unfortunately a good chunk of that video was basically an advertisement full of half truths. It's also over 7 years old.

'These breakdown over time, but it's perfectly fine, you could take a bite out of these chews one on camera' ... Sure buddy.

You could replace a good chunk of those with a floating barge type thing made of solar panels though, keeping the sun off of the water and collecting the energy.

You'll still need something dynamic around the edges, to deal with the rise\fall of the water changing the shoreline, but there's lots of room in the center.

Really interesting. Thanks for that. I just still wonder whether microparticles of the plastic still get into the water.

Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls On This Reservoir [Veritasium]

Wow, I'd never seen those floating balls till now. I bet they're made of some sort of plastic too, creating more environmental problems.

You'd be surprised! I was surprised and I live here. You would think being such a large, dry, hot continent (in general) we'd have space enough for enormous solar farms, for example. One of the problems are the distances. If you put solar farms in distant places they are not financially viable (transport, infrastructure, etc, etc.

In some regional areas there's pushback against renewable projects sometimes for genuine reasons and sometimes for political reasons. I live in a regional area and have seen some of the attitudes, e.g. 'they're taking away our farming land', 'we don't like how they spoil the view', 'we don't like the powerlines', 'it is hurting our wildlife' (but there's plenty of farmers who don't blink when destroying bushland to create more cattle pasture).

Finding alternatives like putting the solar panels on open water if available, means that in some instances, community upset and land use can be avoided.

Also, floating panels can be very useful on open water projects like wastewater systems and irrigation dams, e.g.

https://www.energymagazine.com.au/largest-floating-solar-array-in-aus-switched-on/

https://australiancotton.com.au/news/saving-water-with-solar-floating-panel-trial-to-reduce-evaporation

The more well-operating renewable projects the better. Different places have different challenges and situations.

I guess each proposal would have to be investigated. I know floating solar has been used in various places successfully.

I feel like Australia is the country with the least need to do this.

Might be a problem for underwater ecosystem. some places have some kind of bacteria or something that blocks the light, creatures die and causes more bacteria in a loop

What do you hope to accomplish with this question? I don't think this is relevant unless you have some numbers to compare

Would make a really nice replacement for the floating balls used to reduce evaporation and UV penetration in reservoirs.

Plus they're already on water, so it would take less effort to clean them regularly to keep up efficiency. (Dirty panels output much less energy)

Queensland can't be trusted to do right with the GBR, or NSW with much of the MDB either.

Just fine them 0.01% of their annual take. That’ll make em think twice before destroying irreplaceable habitat.

That's right, you should not handle snakes unless you know what you are doing.

The trouble with some of the harmless delmas is that they look like brown snakes and are killed by people who know no better.

Snakes are cute when they just wrap around your wrist and have a look about. Not the Eastern Browns though.

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😆 Perhaps when they mature a bit they'll remember what you taught them.

We can live in hope. I think they just found me annoying.

Amazing!

Non-danger-noodles!

It's great you were there to educate them. Hopefully they now know better and can also educate others.

conditioned to believe about different species.

Yeah, i tried to communicate that its definitely a me thing in that comment.

So a few yeara back i worked with a few Brazillian guys. Somehow this snake, it was a beautiful green, got into a closed off garden there at work. As I came out to see there these two drongos are waving a twig in the snakes face. The snake was hissing and rearing up, and I asked them "why they were doing that?", their answer "oh, bit of fun." Needless to say I told them not to bother it and we got a snake catcher to come and take it away later that day.

Lol, these little guys are definitely innocuous but you wouldn't call goannas 'friendly', for example. Goannas' bite is so full of bacteria it can cause serious infections, let alone if their claws got into you. Similarly there are snakes harmless to people and also venomous snakes. It is a matter of perception and what we have been conditioned to believe about different species. Being aware that this is the case can help us not be so harmful to them, not only in how we encroach into their habitats but in how we inflict violence on them. We are a lot more dangerous to wildlife than they are to us. As the video says, just let them be and they will not bother us. And, I'll repeat, if we question our perceptions and realise that they are prejudiced by the way we have been educated or indoctrinated we have a greater chance of being fair and respectful.

Watched the video. Lizards seem so much more friendly than snakes. I think its the rounded tongue for me, just perceive that as less threatening, sorry snakes.

Ooh a spicy one this week!