Are EVs the way forward?
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My first mobile. You never forget your first
I remember a friend carrying something like a small suitcase in his LWB Station Wagon Landrover it was the very first car phone or mobile phone that I ever saw and quite heavy every time he came to ours he was charging it up. Out of his LR it always accompanied him. He used to travel extensively throughout Europe and Russia and could speak very barely Every European language including Russian and polish and Eastern Europe He also used to have a Sat dish that spanned the entire width of his Landrover. he used to watch Foreign European Languages Especially the ones that he was trying to perfect. The other strange or unusual thing was he would stop over very near to military sites in the Eastern block and quite openly sit watching TV almost well most probably deliberately inviting Police and Military Police to investigate him. Usually the would eventually after enquiries watch TV with him Very extraordinary person very intellectually developed and reasoned and quite happy to explain his reasoning as he brewed up and shared coffee and biscuits with armed men. He was never bothered or troubled by potential problems being totally confident in his own abilities and powers of persuasion that he would win-out and he did of course he was absolutely fluent in those languages. When he dated ladies they where nearly always from countries that had languages that he wanted to improve on. Very mercenary and deliberate.
Ultimately cheaper, there's a thing, despite the 80s Motorola transportables weighing a ton and having to be plugged into the cars power or eating through the docking base battery in minutes, at over £1 per minute too, oh that and the early networks not extending beyond London.
Here's the thing, until oil runs out some people will choose to carry on burning that oil to get from A to B as it's easy, we've done it for the last 100yrs, why not the next and who cares if the exhaust gases anybody?
I understand about exhausts gases from vehicle but they pail in significance to Air Transport which is being increase all of the time. Aircraft are incredibly polluting. If something was offered that was better than what we have today, convenient did the job required and a fair price then I would be interested but I do not like being railroaded on fake or exaggerated premises. If authorities where serious about pollution air travel would be seriously curtailed but no they are even trying to pinch it away from Europe with additional runways.
Plant a tree in '73......
I did my bit Mr Millibund
I did my bit Mr Millibund
Aviation pollution is tightly regulated (with ever more challenging targets) and domestic aviation is part of the government’s net-zero target. Improvements in jet engine efficiency have made a massive difference in recent decades (fuel usage as well as pollution) and sustainable fuels are not far away.
There is also the impact to the UK economy to consider if we were to restrict aviation more than other nations.
wow..."governments net zero target"...and then concern about .."impact on UK economy" from restricting aviation.......I just fell off my chair.
Hope it's a carbon-neutral chair!
This guy nails it
Yeah, but I think he must be marred to an elephant!
Reading his bio on Wikipedia adds a bit of background to his agenda but as Russian pseudo intellectuals go, yes, some people can agree with his observations.
A bit pompous.
Now why can’t government think like that?
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Ouch. Hope it didn’t hurt!!
A counter argument is worthy of consideration - an ad hominem attack, less so.I was referring to went to university but didn't complete his degree, pompous maybe but why masquerade as an intellectual when you're simply acting the part.
I'll take Stephen Fry over this berk any day of the week.
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