Thread: Smoky D4 video

Originally Posted by DazzaTD5

I see people driving electric or hybrid cars are shake my head that they somehow believe they are doing anything that benefits anything....

Regards
Daz

There's plenty of cartoons demonstrating the major issue about the environmentally friendly car. The other problem is the limited lifespan of the batteries & the emissions caused by creating the car. Nothing is truly renewable. If we weren't so dependent of upgrading cars so often in this throwaway society we could develop a nuclear powered car.

France generates a lot of power from nuclear. That’s a win win for them. Renewables make up a lot of the rest as in many EU countries that are mandating electric vehicles in built up areas. Petrol electric hybrids will be popular also.

Funny how a lot of France lives within cooee of a nuclear power station quite happily and enjoy low cost reliable power.

The adverts really apply to Australia’s energy situation. It’s a surprise we don’t have a travel warning for France due to the extreme nuclear risk our politicians are so worried about.

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

France generates a lot of power from nuclear. That’s a win win for them. Renewables make up a lot of the rest as in many EU countries that are mandating electric vehicles in built up areas. Petrol electric hybrids will be popular also.

Funny how a lot of France lives within cooee of a nuclear power station quite happily and enjoy low cost reliable power.

The adverts really apply to Australia’s energy situation. It’s a surprise we don’t have a travel warning for France due to the extreme nuclear risk our politicians are so worried about.

Yes just look at the early nuclear submarine - capable of circumnavigating the world at 20knots using a piece of uranium no bigger than a golf ball & not having to surface for oxygen. Pretty good!

What I find interesting is that all the areas in Australia that are Uranium rich are Aboriginal sacred areas so can't be mined

USS Nautilus (SSN-571) - Wikipedia

Nuclear marine propulsion - Wikipedia

Anyway I'm rapidly taking the thread off topic....

Originally Posted by johntins

Posted this before. When doing the tune up on the GM in the M113 APCs the Army had, there was a printed sequence to follow. It was on a clip board. The clipboard was made of 4mm ally sheet. The purpose of this was to slap the clipboard over the air intake in the event of a runaway. Those old V6 Turbos were famous for runaways, probably because they were two stroke.

What's really sad is I still remember the ditty so it's done right and it's been almost 20 years since I last worked on one. - Valery Tickles Gary's Balls Mainly In Bed.
The clipboard was more for stopping the engine revving at full noise (usually due to cocking up the rack balancing) than a runaway though

Originally Posted by DazzaTD5

I see people driving electric or hybrid cars are shake my head that they somehow believe they are doing anything that benefits anything....

Regards
Daz

Im pretty sure people driving Tesla cars for free are very happy using the free charging stations
Head out to Hartley in the blue mountains there is a Solar genius at Hartley solar who pays ZERO to drive his car, its recharged from his panels on display out front of his shop.

If carbon pricing wasn't killed off we would have carbon sequestration at point of production (power stations) reducing emissions significantly. But no, again to stupid to see the forest for the trees and now they have killed off any sensible investment in base load power production..........so we will be in a state of turmoil for some time with power cuts looming.
Coal cant compete at all with renewables, no investment houses will go near coal power production.

Originally Posted by RR P38

Im pretty sure people driving Tesla cars for free are very happy using the free charging stations
Head out to Hartley in the blue mountains there is a Solar genius at Hartley solar who pays ZERO to drive his car, its recharged from his panels on display out front of his shop.

If carbon pricing wasn't killed off we would have carbon sequestration at point of production (power stations) reducing emissions significantly. But no, again to stupid to see the forest for the trees and now they have killed off any sensible investment in base load power production..........so we will be in a state of turmoil for some time with power cuts looming.
Coal cant compete at all with renewables, no investment houses will go near coal power production.

What part of owning a tesla ****box is FREE or ZERO ??? the purchase price $120K and then some or the cost of installing the solar panels etc?
Return on investment looks like the only ZERO thing there.

Motor vehicles account for around 8% of Australia's emissions, the big killer is our electricity production, you know all that nasty coal being burnt. Add to that we export 3 times as much coal as we burn. If Australia (if we actually had a working Government) was serious about our health and that of the planet we would stop burning coal and stop selling it.

Again if Australia was serious about our health they would get rid of Australia's fleet of aging old emissions spewing trucks that are used as inner city deliveries and wharf to distribution centre deliveries. This is where real world answers lay in such hybrid and electric trucks from FUSO / DAIMLER, not pie in the sky bull**** from tesla.

Regards
Daz

And another thread degenerates into an unhinged rant against electric cars.

Originally Posted by bee utey

And another thread degenerates into an unhinged rant against electric cars.

Erm sorry about that - lets get back to runaway 'Screamin Jimmies' or Peugeots...