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German Greens are going mushy
http://notrickszone.com/2018/04/21/green-failure-german-solar-industry-crashes-and-burns-solar-jobs-see-blood-bath/#sthash.geVEekRI.dpbs

The only thing you need to know about Earth Day
It really isn’t hyperbole to insist that John D. Rockefeller saved the whales by his making mineral oil products so much cheaper than the cetacean-derived equivalent. And that’s really all you need to know to understand Earth Day and what to do about it.
Greens believe in an imaginary past where happy & content man, beast & nature lived in perfect harmony. It was never thus.

Google "Tesla suspension failure"
This from 2016
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/business/tesla-model-s-nhtsa-suspension-failure.html
"Tesla did not respond Thursday to requests for comment. [On Friday, the company responded in a blog post, saying there was no safety defect with the Model S nor any intent to discourage complaints to regulators.]"
If Tesla state there is no safety defect associated with parts of their cars going in different directions, we must accept their experience.

To paraphrase a well known event in history - for all the good she has not done recently It is time for May to depart .Here

@tomo
Tesla suspension failure cover-up ?
https://dailykanban.com/2016/06/tesla-suspension-breakage-not-crime-coverup/

@DaveS, Apr 21, 2018 at 12:08 PM
Tesla suspension failure is a recurring problem on all models:
http://teslabears.club/t/tesla-suspension-hall-of-shame/78/25
imho weight saving gone too far - aluminium arms/wishbones/rods at ball-joints & bushes is not thick enough.
Components look more like motor-sport where they'd be replaced after each race. Kudos to engineer who made Tesla drop idea to use rose-joints.

Re: STEM Degree course not requiring science/maths A level
Blogger Tim N's verdict
This isn’t about getting women into engineering; it’s not even about engineering at all. It’s about pretending dim middle-class women are cleverer than they are by having them play-act a serious role. They might as well take them to a petting zoo and a garden centre and call them farmers. I shudder to think what my female engineering colleagues think of this.
On "projects": I rather like Formula Student. What are your views?
See google and:
https://www.imeche.org/events/formula-student
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/formulastudent/

YP : Drax to drive biomass costs down from £75 to £50/MWh in 10 years
...well its subsidy ends in 2027

YP : Danish prof says 473mile cable to Boston UK is not viable to make a profit.

Oh Shuckman has answered my point that Bandung plastic situation would be a lot better if #MarieAntoinette rich kids and foreign NGOs didn't keep blocking incinerator projects
He said "Any solution involves trade-offs.
Officials in Banding told me the incinerator plan was taking shape"
OK, he didn't block me at first opp, so that's a start ..he replied to one other person also