Haaa yes! But then they'd refuse cause they're too much climate skeptics and wouldn't believe...
And believe it or not, that is not the outback- Not even close to our outback. It's defintely out back yes that's for sure. But our real out back is mare like what you'd see in New Mexico...Arizona...I'll dig out some old photos from about 1994-1997 one day and show you cause I did live out there once. In fact my oldest brother now lives over there driving road trains- trucks that have 4-5 trailers attached and he does I think 12 hour shifts- 2 drivers to each truck and they don't even pass any towns, straight to the mine out in the real desert and then back to the port on the coast...
But yes, It was so incredible to be allowed to go onto the wind farm and film up so close!
I wish I could show you the footage...One day...
Yes, I know its not the real outback. I'm Australian originally and own property in Collerenebri, a remote north western NSW town.
I've driven from Melbourne to Brisbane via the inland route and spent lots of time west of the great divide.
Wow yes Collerenebri is definitely getting out to the sticks- heading out towards the back o' Bourke...lol...
And near Lightening Ridge. My old Science Teacher from Bega High used to own a lease there and gave my brother lots of opal shards which he used when making his clocks out of tree burls.
To be honest, I haven't ever been there- I've been up and down a 100 times but on the eastern side of the great divide... that coastline is sensational... And now you're in the states eh.?
Yes. Colly is very close (in outback terms) to Lightning Ridge. It’s the closest place with a supermarket open on a Sunday and a fun funky place.
I live in Tel Aviv, Israel these days.
As far from Colly as you can imagine, in every way.
OH WOW- from one extreme to another!
How exciting and adventurous!
I must hear more about your adventures one day!
Funnily enough, Collarenebri is how I got into cryptocurrency.
I have solar electricity farms out there and when the solar feed in tariff got reduced massively I was looking for other things to do with the electricity and started investigating Bitcoin mining.
I started mining ETH at home in Israel to try out the concept.
ETH GPU mining proved to be not set and forget at all and thus not suitable for a remote location like Colly but I continued to be involved in many ways from that unusual crypto beginning.