Originally Posted by Motu
Way too esoteric for me. Lost me after the first sentence.
Mallicious Little Gnome
Way too esoteric for me. Lost me after the first sentence.
"When you think of it,
Lifes a bowl of ....MERDE"
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Same as "biofuels".
The politicians claim they are "Carbon Neutral", the idea being that the plant spent the time it was growing absorbing carbon, and that as that is the carbon released when you burn it for fuel, you are all square.
It would be true if the plants in question were grown where there had only been desert. But they arent. They displace crops which werent going to be burnt at all. Like trees which were going to be used for building.
So they contribute exactly the same carbon as a fossil fuel.
Run out of fuel ?
Not likely in my life time.
Even if all the worlds known resources ran out tomorrow (not likely !) NZ uses about 25000 cubic metres of oil a day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_New_Zealand) or about 20,000 tonnes.
But solid energy is sitting on known reserves of 600,000,000 tonnes of coal in southland, ignoring our reserves of other fossil fuels.
(http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/sto...0E83027AF1010E)
Even at 30% conversion efficiency thats enough to see me out !
So I'll keep running the V8 thank you.
David must play fair with the other kids, even the idiots.
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Take no notice of Mr Motu. He's rambling again. Colliding planets , indeed. Psshh.
Needless to say, oil does NOT derive from a collision with a comet. Let us stick to up to date simple scientific facts, not the outdated ramblings of crackpots like Mr Velikovsky
As every intelligent person knows ,it derives from the collision of the fifth elephant with the planet (there were originally five elephants supporting the universe on the Transcedental Turtle, not four. The fifth crashed)
Who You Calling a Pig
Ive never drivin the Prius but I have had the pleasure of driving its little brother the Yarius.
Bar the electric crap, which the Yarius doesnt have, these cars should not be aloud out of the urben 70kmph limit areas. It is a bad car and a joke, however as these are our new company cars I guess I have to grim and bear it.
For the record Qkkid was in my bed, not the other way round
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At last, another Velikovsky fan!
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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The Earth has plenty of oil yet, but it is becoming more difficult to get at as the easily extracted supplies dwindle. It means it will become gradually more expensive and therefore less cost-effective against the alternatives. The Internal Combustion engine can be made much more efficient yet, again it is a question of cost-effectiveness.
Coal is an exciting prospect, if they can figure out how to use it without so much pollution it promises thousands of years of relatively cheap energy!
Even the Corolla is more efficient than the Prius!
You don't get to be an old dog without learning a few tricks.
Shorai Powersports batteries are very trick!
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Well, based on that it would appear that we are a doomed species. In order to fix the problems created by one type of vehicle, some of the best engineering minds we have, have ingeniously created another type of vehicle that creates even bigger problems. Great.
Of course, the person who wrote that article wasn't exactly unbiased...
My daughter telling me like it is:"There is an old man in your face daddy!"
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That MAY be true Xerxes, but it isn't a hybrid, so you're cool.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Hardcore Biker
But is this really the best way to be thinking? Seems everything at the moment is just quick-fix stop gap measures... What about a total overhaul of the way we think? Beginning with people that drive to work with just them in the car....
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You've been warned hippy.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
The 2nd-most bad arse KBer.
I'd like to bag on greenies, but I don't know if that "report" is accurate or truthful.
All these effiency and carbon netural tests sound like a load of bullshit to me. Who cares about low powerd/city cars anyways?
Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
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No, I think genuinely that there must be a way to utilise these natural and plentiful resources in an environmentally sound way. Technology excites me and I like exploring all options. Solar power must hold great potential as with water-hydrogen.
Logic says that Electric Power Stations are completely uneccessary, each home could be fully self-sufficient on power, why is this not the case?
Popular Mechanics about 35 years ago, showed a small boat that moved under wave power using fins. Could achieve 6 knots in ideal conditions.
Smokey Yunick in the US was exploring high temp compound turbo motors that were achieving amazing economy! I believe the technology is there, but cost-effectiveness is the driving force unfortunately, not the desire for the best technology regardless. Progress, while determined by cost, will always be too slow.
You don't get to be an old dog without learning a few tricks.
Shorai Powersports batteries are very trick!
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how does that work at night time though? you'd still have to have batteries and associated problems wouldn't you?
It would work pretty well with existing power stations though, crank up the power station when the sun goes down
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how does that work at night time though? you'd still have to have batteries and associated problems wouldn't you?
It would work pretty well with existing power stations though, crank up the power station when the sun goes down
Yeah, battery technology needs to progress a lot further, or some other way of storing electricity. But even now, as you say, if solar panels were compulsory for new buildings, the cost-effectiveness would be very quickly advanced and the over all power use from the stations would be dramatically cut.
My Son-in-Law is involved with two companies, a big housing builder using lightweight concrete panel building technology, very energy efficient both to build and own and a plumbing firm. Both are going to be very focussed on efficient buildings using a combination of electricity, gas and solar systems.
You don't get to be an old dog without learning a few tricks.
Shorai Powersports batteries are very trick!
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