A good solar array means you're basicly not paying power bills in summer (or maybe longer, depending on size and useage). That definitely has an impact on your cost of living www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...

Statue of New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford splitting the atom and discovering the nucleus

Qingpu Statue Garden, Shanghai, China

Note that some artistic liberties were taken with Rutherford's appearance!

#histsci #physics #science #historyofscience

So a little random 'did you know...." The 'kiwi' as we know it was originally called a 'Chinese Gooseberry" ...The furry brown fruit somewhat resembled the New Zealand kiwi and the name stuck! The KIWI itself is a nocturnal bird native to New Zealand..

They been sold as an an integral part of the visitor economy in Ao/Nz 🤷🏼‍♀️ Aside from the environmental impacts, there is a significant amount of tourism leakage as in $$ not staying local and heading offshore. It’s a rinse & repeat cycle every season 🤯

Please no.
1,000 cruise ship port visits is ultra-high emissions, low value dumb tourism. Stop it.

www.nzherald.co.nz/business/cru...

For those tracking #SARSCoV2 variants🧪

- you can add #NZ to the list of countries with it now

Official statement from Manatū Hauora / Ministry of Health⬇️