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I love the idea that Jeremy Corbyn would give Ed Miliband a job in his Shadow Cabinet:
Mr Corbyn said he would like Mr Miliband to be "very involved" in the area of the environment and climate change, saying: "I would want Ed to be doing what Ed did very well when he was Environment Secretary."More here
Oh dear!
Harry Passfield
Jamesp
I am with you the current DAB technology is rubbish. The current FM stereo is of excellent sound quality and can be received pretty much anywhere and is excellent for listening on the move. (except you cannot get R4 extra but that is the choice of the BBC which is pushing DAB so hard). As we say in engineering " if it 'ant broke don't fix it ".
Ross Lea
tomo
Your link to the guy whose Tesla battery is steadily expiring is nearly a year old. I wonder how much charge it holds now..? :-)
BTW, I just heard an item on R4 about the possibility of hacking car electronics remotely via the DAB radio network (you set up a temporary transmitter and 'talk' to them all at once). Cars with automatic parking systems are especially vulnerable, as they can have pretty well everything controlled remotely!
I never liked DAB anyway (but I'm glad I have an old car!).
jamesp
Surely buses would have been a prime user of quick battery swap tech, as they are always passing depot.
Oh hang on 'Battery Swap is Dead' Delorean Musk isn't doing any more
In his own words "very low take rate" "4 people out of 200 only did it once"
'People preferred to do a FREE 30 supercharge rather than pay $60 for a battery swap'
Before/After video
More video : David T.C. Davies spoke so well in parliament cos he did a longer 17 min version at this public meeting in 2014 May 8, 2014
only 64 views Alarmist Prof James Scourse speaks first,
best jump to David here at min 29
there is part 2 Q&A 59 mins. Beware loud green clapping
DD: "The Risk Assessment - IPCC say the economic cost of GW is 2% if it all goes wrong - Yet IPCC say sacrifice 1-4% now" "Now the risk the public aren't going to buy it" "I listen to the public" "cost of their bills , and I am not going to be the one that drives up electricity bill, in order.."
stewgreen
Ross Lea
yup... I run a "hobby" electric (2kW 30mph) scooter and that experience has prejudiced me against EVs :-)
Batteries still have a way to go.... local guy pretty miffed at reality
tomo
tomo
I agree with you 100%; I was looking much further ahead when the change from fossil fuel becomes inevitable.
Ross Lea
Ross Lea
I'm not certain - but Boris bus batteries are I think being changed from Li-po to LiFePo4 - which is a hit on capacity for the mechanical envelope but a gain in terms of chemistry durability. It's curious that they didn't go for hybrid diesel fueling with LPG - aiui Waitrose are happy with their truck fleet retrofits....
Hydrogen is interesting ... but protons are proving quite uncooperative in the handling and storage departments at the moment - capex is very high as well - RoI has to up in taxpayer Carbon penance territory. Anybody know what a kWh of leccy is in Iceland? ("free" electrons help....) fwiw Reykyavik is about the size of Cheltenham....
LPG is well tried, uses conventional technology, has a raft of positive features for urban use and maintainability, it's cheap - what's not to like? (OK... I run 3 LPG vehicles.....)
tomo
@SandyS This is not the @DavidTCDavies MP for Monmouth. who has spoke up well against Climate Madness June 11th.. great video are there any more?
It is David Davis MP for Haltemprice and Howden.
- I wonder if our DD had anything to do with the govs sudden rationalisations?
- Bus Battery story was covered by Homewood repeated by Tallbloke,but a Homewood commentator actually toldus in Nov 2013
- DailyExpress have picked up the 2013 Ice story What Global Warming? Arctic ice caps have INCREASED in size despite climate change warning
BUT WTF "The findings, which appear in the journal Nature Geoscience, suggest limiting carbon emissions could have an even greater effect on the planet than previously expected, as the Arctic appears to respond quickly to slight environmental changes." ..are they trying a few wind turbines have caused it? cos in reality CO2 has still been shooting up.
- Article attempts to be all things to all men ..ends by quoting Greenpeace.
@RL Hydrogen FCV "The main problem with FCVs is that more energy is used producing the hydrogen fuel and powering them than a regular EV. Pollution is a serious issue as well: FCVs are more expensive to buy and operate than EVs." link
- They seem to imply that if you have electricity you might aswell put it in a battery cos you lose 20% in coverting water to hydrogen step. But then their is lot of advertisng money invested in pushing electric vehicles.
stewgreen
Hydrogen Powered buses have been running in Iceland for over three years very successfully using fuel cell technology.
https://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/newsanddoc/article_3894_en.htm
Why did Boris not do his home work? The Batteries his busses use are well known to be useless; NiFe cells would have been better they have been used before in this application.
In my view hydrogen power is the future for transport; there is currently a lot of research and development going on.
Hydrogen or Nuclear power is clearly the way forward for world shipping (supplemented by the wind when available.
After all the Cutty Sark did quite well !
Ross Lea
@Clipe Thanks for the Porter vs Levant update
- Levant has released his final update. He replied basically 'LIAR, LIAR Liar sad Liar'
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