New cameras on A77

You could well be right. I have heard rumours that the EU want to bring
in an EU wide 100kmh speed limit to "save the environment" and make more
cash. Well they didn't mention the last bit.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, gazzafield amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

<Shrug>

99% of why I write is based on feeling and opinion.

I don't read the papers and I don't watch the news, see. Pollutes yer
brain, dunnit?! I mean, you've only got to look round here for proof of
that.

 

i.e. bollox

Your brain is obviously very "pure".

 

Whinging Courier wrote

Two things.

first, if you think about it is equally silly to have your petrol
delivered a spoonful at a time to a hole in the ground the other side of
town and have you spend time money and precious natural resources just
going to queue with your neighbours just to get yours.

second they may actually be directly measurable benefits in not using
petrol direct but in using it in a more efficient form despite the
losses converting it to mains electric

third even if it isn't actually efficient in it's own right there may
also be benefits from reducing of losses arising from large scale
conversion at the power station opposed to the small scale effort you
use in the car which could swing the balance. Think about recycling the
waste heat for a start.

I was told about this new sports car recently. 100mph flat out
including speedo error but it gets there in about the time of a top fuel
dragster, 40 mile range or summat silly. It's there though.

 

you thick ****. It's perfectly possible to generate the required
electricity in a "green" manner.

 

Such as?

 

Hamster farms.

 

flash wrote:

Nookular power. YKIMS.

 

Flue gas scrubbers. 100MW produced in even a coal-fired power station
is significantly cleaner than 100MW produced by individual car
engines.

 

wind power, hydro power, solar power.

Duh.

 

These methods would provide sufficient engery to enable us all to have
electric cars?

 

Eiron wrote

Not fission. Dunno about fusion.

Having seem what we[1] are facing as a result of us simply not knowing
50 years ago, not to mention the downright lies as well, about how we
deal with the pollution from fission reaction I would still have
reservations enough to promote renewables first.

[1] Not we so much as you cos I am outtahere soon enough that poisoning
of our environment is not likely to be quite the issue for me as it is
for you lot.

 

Wind farms could potentially **** up the weather patterns/climate, with one
study saying that a wind farm consisting of a 100 x 100 array of turbines,
100 meters tall and placed 1Km apart showing that ground temperatures around
the farm can increase by up to 2C at night time, plus an increase of
ground-level wind speed.



Wind farms. Enviromentally friendly? My arse.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

By a spoonful I take it you mean a tankerload? I'm coming round to the
idea that this may be wasteful as you've also got the fuel burning of
getting the spoonful into the hole in the ground as you so eloquently
put it

According to my car owners manual. For every three minutes you sit and
leave the engine running you could do a mile at 50mph - That'll account
for the crappy fuel return round here then.

I'm not with you here. Are you talking about using petrol in a gennie to
produce power/electricity?

OK, so you could produce electricity via steam if you go with that
theory. Hell, you could even bottle the evaporated water and flog it!

This is a good thing. I'd be tempted by an electric car but there are a
couple of inconveniences that need to be sorted. Power and range.
Obviously if the 100mph and 40 miles is true then it is doable but I'm
wondering how much it costs in cash and resources to get those 40 miles.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, darsy amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Silage fucking stinks, you lemon!

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, flash amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Exaclty. They're all well and good in a prototype/test environment but
to be worth doing on a large scale they need to be reliable. At the
moment solar power only works when the sun's out or to a lesser extent
when it's light. It wouldn't do any harm to have some rechargeables in
there when the vehicle's not being used but then you've got the range
issue again when it gets dark, unless of course you put solar panels in
front of the headlights.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Champ amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

And that's the way I like it.

 

We knew perfectly well 50 years ago. The Magnox reactors were
deliberately designed to be plutonium producers first, energy producers
second. This made them both inefficient and dirty. Look at how the
canadians have done it for clean, efficient fission generation.

At the end of the day, we'll kill ourselves. Mother nature won't even
notice.

Tiff

 

Whinging Courier wrote

Yes but 50 miles away and you storing it overnight in a battery for use
next day.

Apart from purely mechanical devices such as wind and water mills that
is exactly what they do. The better/newer ones recycle the waste heat
back into early part of their system or even sell it to food producers
or homes as low grade heat.

They probably do all ready.

I suspect that the designers will pull every stunt they can in order to
get the price down as low as it will go as soon as it will go. Range
really isn't an issue for most of us if we are honest about it. And if
Ivan and his buddies even get near to cracking room temperature
superconductors it never will be ever again and they can't be that far
away.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

I don't see the point of that unless what you're getting as is to make
running a car so inefficient that to use one at all is just not worth
the aggro.

Coo! The things you learn. I'm really not thick but I didn't pay
attention at school. If they'd had all this stuff back then I might be
doing something that was worth exercising my brain for.

Range = True. I mean most of my journeys are less than 10 miles if I'm
honest. It's only the odd few when petrol powered or the equivalent is
useful. I liked the C5 when it came out but that's probably more to do
with the fact that I was a kid and kids like that sort of thing than it
being any use.