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Quote: Lee @ 27th January 2025, 9:50 PM

What a sad sight the Critique forum is now

I'm not here to dredge up "the old days" but it really is a shame to see a once vibrant 'pit' of creativity, now a baron wasteland.

Do people not want to be sitcom writers anymore? I suppose everyone is putting their content straight on Tiktok these days...
I wish I had been a confident performer, maybe I'd have got somewhere if I'd made my own content.

Anyway, let me taste this shotgun barrel for one last time.

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I keep meaning to get back into the sketch comp.
In terms of critique, I got bored with people not listening.
And as I don't write "sitcoms" and have a pet producer to critique what I write - there doesn't seem much point in putting stuff up.
But, yes, it used to be a good community.

Quote: Lee @ 27th January 2025, 9:50 PM

Do people not want to be sitcom writers anymore?e.

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I don't think they do. Sitcoms don't rule the world anymore, so I don't think people dream of writing them anymore.

I've watched a few videos about hydrogen cars and their progression.
I do wonder why they are not being supported above petrol/diesel and electric vehicles.

In America (of course) they have Hydrogen filling stations - and they are not like what I thought they would be.
I thought there would be massive tanks of liquid Hydrogen and maybe all the inherent dangers that go with that.
No, it's a big container about the size of a shipping container that makes its own Hydrogen on the fly.

It takes 4 minutes to fill a car from empty to full and an American gas guzzler gets 300 miles from that.
Toyota and BMW are working on an engine that will get 1000 miles from a full tank.

Surely it has to be the way.

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 1st February 2025, 8:04 AM

Surely it has to be the way.

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Yes indeed, as I really don't see why they are persisting with electric cars, which are dodos

An interesting article on the subject. https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/why-arent-car-companies-going-down-the-hydrogen-fuel-cell-road/260274

That article was written 3 years ago and things have moved rapidly since then.
They have carbon tanks now - like petrol cars.
1000 miles from one fill up has got to be efficient.
On the videos I watched, it cost $80 to fill the tank

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 1st February 2025, 12:00 PM

That article was written 3 years ago and things have moved rapidly since then.
They have carbon tanks now - like petrol cars.
1000 miles from one fill up has got to be efficient.
On the videos I watched, it cost $80 to fill the tank

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Whoops.
I should have checked the date.
Hydrogen is definitely the future (until the next thing!).
It's just getting to the future that's the problem.
Reading up on it, the inefficiency of production still seems to be the issue.
So whilst the 'burning' of it, so to speak, is super-efficient and green, the creating of it , currently, isn't.

Quote: Lazzard @ 1st February 2025, 2:18 PM

So whilst the 'burning' of it, so to speak, is super-efficient and green, the creating of it , currently, isn't.

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And just how green is battery production?

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 1st February 2025, 2:40 PM

And just how green is battery production?

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Not particularly.
But it's the green-ness of the process end-to-end that has to be considered.
Hydrogen fuelled cars are currently not as green.
Currently being the operative word.
Electric vehicles are a stop-gap./stepping stone.
Which is problematic beacause of the cost.
If we'd started this process a bit earlier - instead of allowing ourselves to be held back by those with a vested interest - we would have been further along the track.
It's all a bit of a mess - but we'll get there,

Quote: Lazzard @ 1st February 2025, 3:39 PM

- instead of allowing ourselves to be held back by those with a vested interest -

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Long, long before this "electric/battery" revolution, I read of many inventions that made petrol cars far more efficient, more economical, meaning less petrol used, only for them to be quietly bought up by the petrol companies and never to see the light of day - now THAT IS CRIMINAL; but I expect there were loads of vested interested parties who looked the other way as brown envelopes were given out.

Bastards!!

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 1st February 2025, 4:15 PM

Long, long before this "electric/battery" revolution, I read of many inventions that made petrol cars far more efficient, more economical, meaning less petrol used, only for them to be quietly bought up by the petrol companies and never to see the light of day - now THAT IS CRIMINAL; but I expect there were loads of vested interested parties who looked the other way as brown envelopes were given out.

Bastards!!

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I can well imagine that..
It's The Man in the White Suit all over again.

Quote: Lazzard @ 1st February 2025, 4:49 PM

I can well imagine that..
It's The Man in the White Suit all over again.

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Exactly. An utter disgrace - I remember one of the inventions was they somehow (in simplified terms and there may have been an additive) atomised petrol and water, which they got to mix in a modified carburettor, making the petrol go 50% further