You have to laugh....again
With impeccable timing BBC 4 put on a programme last night about the diesel engine.

The surprising story of the hidden powerhouse behind the globalised world - the diesel engine, a 19th-century invention that has become indispensable to the 21st century. It's a turtle versus hare tale in which the diesel engine races the petrol engine in a competition to replace ageing steam technology - a race eventually won hands down by diesel.

Splendidly, car enthusiast presenter Mark Evans gets excitedly hands on with some of the many applications of Mr Diesel's - yes, there was one - original creation, from vintage submarines and tractors to locomotive trains and container ships. You'll never feel the same about that humble old diesel family car again.

Google is now celebrating its 17th Birthday with a little cake on my search page. My genuine congratulations, and thanks for making the internet a more interesting and less spammy place.

And no global warming in the satellite record for longer than Google has been alive!

Thanks Alex, that quote is a keep. I can see myself using it more twice on future occasions. Near future.

Here's the transcript of Meirion Jones, ex-BBC but now consultant to Greenpeace, being interviewed on the Media Show:
https://sites.google.com/site/mytranscriptbox/2015/20150923_ms

Well, you know, I've been a campaigning journalist for years - I know you're not supposed to be that, at the BBC, but I managed to do that...

Re the rugby, I live a few streets away from the stadium at Twickenham, and it does seem a little quiet out there, for some reason this evening...

Conrad Black

...so let me be clear that in these matters Michael Mann is a sleazy charlatan, and he is welcome to try the same legal trick on me, in Canada, where there is a civil legal sanction against defamation, for which, as for much else in this country, I am grateful.

@ Lord Beaverbrook (Sep 24, 2015 at 8:05 AM) apologies, I've just been catching up on Unthreaded and read your comment from 2 days ago, will have a go at transcribing the Media Show segment on Greenpeace & hope to post the link shortly.

As there is quite a big anti-cyclone parked over the UK bringing chilly nights to a chunk of Europe I did a quick check of the total wind generation for UK, France, Spain, Germany and Denmark. The total was almost 10MW. Which was easily exceed by the UK's Coal and Nuclear combined.

The Solar Impulse 2 plane was launched from Abu Dhabi, amid much media fanfare, on March 9 this year. Today, almost 200 days later involving 8 legs, it is now stuck in Hawaii and it is not going anywhere. So much for the dream.........

Today, some six months later (almost 200 days), we see the solar contraption has yet to even reach the halfway point of it’s planned around the world journey. The plane and its pilots are firmly grounded in Hawaii due to an array of technical problems. In comparison a fossil-fueled jetliner would have completed the trip hundreds of times by now, and that while carrying a payload hundreds of times greater.

http://notrickszone.com/

Oh dear, what a pity! :)