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Quote: zooo @ 1st November 2017, 5:50 PMOooh! Special studio for creative stuff - living the dream.
Still haven't written my words yet today.
Are you doing it this year? I finished it twice about 9 or 10 years ago but I started a couple of times since but not completed it since.
Yep. Just got to 1,700 words. (Just before midnight!)
Test drove an electric vehicle (EV) yesterday (a Nissan something)
Very nice - a futuristic cockpit and all.
The sales rep was bigging it up all the way.
No road tax, No exhaust pipe (I think he meant no exhaust = no fumes but he said pipe)
Cheaper to charge than petrol (miles per pence)
And that is where we came unstuck. 5 charging points within 50 miles (but of course there will be loads more when petrol engines are phased out in 2040)
The car was already on a quarter charge with 25 miles left
1/2 an hour charge will get you home - then 6 hours for a full charge at home.
He explained that I would soon get used to charging it every night - a bit like you charge your phone every night.
So if you get a power cut - you arn't going to work tomorrow
He had to put it in eco mode to get back to the showroom. (= no heating or air con or any electric stuff)
The world of the 2040's will be littered with cars with dead batteries.
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 2nd November 2017, 11:11 AMThe world of the 2040's will be littered with cars with dead batteries.
The world of the 2040's will be littered with dead car batteries. Toxic, nasty batteries.
I'd totally buy an electric car tomorrow, if it was practical.
Quote: Lee @ 2nd November 2017, 8:32 PMI'd totally buy an electric car tomorrow, if it was practical.
They'd probably be more practical in the UK than in the United States. I've lived as far as 40 miles from my office, so I don't think anything but a Tesla would have the range I'd need.
Self-driving electric cars would change things, since they could charge themselves and just appear when you need them. Auto ownership will be a thing of the past, you'll just pay to use one as needed.
It will be interesting to see how the real car enthusiasts will handle things. After the resistance, when it has been accepted that gas powered cars are a thing of the past.
A combustion engine is a thing of beauty, it's engineering at its best (bar the pollution part). Hopefully it will not be lost completely.
I can't imagine motor racing without the motor part being as fun. Just silent aerodynamic objects whizzing around a track, so fast that we have to watch it back in slow motion... What am I rambling on about... ?
Will Cam has just come back from a week in Tenerife. The UK is freezing!
Serves you right.
I can see why lots old old wrinkly brits live out there.
Quote: Will Cam @ 3rd November 2017, 4:19 PMWill Cam has just come back from a week in Tenerife.
Site of the worst aircraft disaster in history. Is there a monument of some sort at the airport?
Quote: DaButt @ 3rd November 2017, 4:49 PMSite of the worst aircraft disaster in history. Is there a monument of some sort at the airport?
There must be a memorial somewhere but maybe not at the airport. There is a good Air Crash Investigation episide about that incident and I think the major factor were delays on the tarmac and one of the captains decided to take off before being cleared by ATC.
The worst single aircraft disaster was when a rudder broke off a Boeing 747 making it uncontrolable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123
Quote: Definitely Tarby @ 3rd November 2017, 5:03 PMThe worst single aircraft disaster was when a rudder broke off a Boeing 747 making it uncontrolable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123
I remember that one, too. The only thing worse than a 747 crash is a crash involving two 747s. Luckily the Tenerife aircraft weren't both loaded with 500+ people.
I had been in the Army for 2 weeks when this crash took place:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Air_Flight_1285
They made us all get a second set of panoramic tooth x-rays shortly afterward because it had been standard procedure to travel with them (and your medical records) while being transferred, so they had difficulty identifying the Gander bodies because they were burned along with their dental x-rays.
News reports say that someone killed at least 27 people in a church just outside of my city. It's a very small town. My neighbor is a neurosurgeon and may have to operate on some of the wounded. What the hell is wrong with people?