The end is nigh

[GeoffCapes]

I get that it's bad that we cut down the trees in the rainforests for obvious reasons (apparently Brazil's rainforest shrank by an area the larger than Greater London this year!). However, when they say that the rainforests are the lungs of the earth, they're not, well, they are to a degree, but they are not the main absorbers of CO2 on the planet.
Algae is. By a huge margin, I read recently that 2 KG of CO2 is absorbed by 1KG of algae, sometimes as much as 3KG of CO2.
This would suggest, that the best way to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere would be to create more wetlands and swamps, stop building on flood plains and let nature get back to what it does best.

 

[GeoffCapes]

Audi have announced they are pulling out of Formula E and going back to WEC, Le Mans and IMSA and a new Dakar programme.

Another Hypercar entrant for Le Mans?

 

[Oneball]

Another Hypercar entrant for Le Mans?

Audi will leave Formula E at the end of the 20/21 season

And it’s going to take on the Dakar and LMDh series, instead

www.google.co.uk

 

[Delmonte]

...and this. From the guardian as well....

‘Why did it take nine hours to go 130 miles in our new electric Porsche?’

A Kent couple love their new car – but their experience suggests there are problems with the charging network

www.theguardian.com

 

[Wattie]

I can’t ever see the day where the infrastructure to provide the necessary charging points for all exists to enable the majority to run electric cars.

 

[Gazcw]

...and this. From the guardian as well....

‘Why did it take nine hours to go 130 miles in our new electric Porsche?’

A Kent couple love their new car – but their experience suggests there are problems with the charging network

www.theguardian.com

Spent too long dogging where the was no charging facilities?

 

[zagatoes30]

Another Hypercar entrant for Le Mans?

Not Hypercar LMDh, which baffles me as it now seems we have two top flight classes when even one struggled to get entrants over the last couple of years

 

[Geo]

I just can’t wait to see the high reving V eight super armature non turbo, non geared, non exhaust soleless Italian roller skate.

 

[philw696]

 

[alfatwo]

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As long as it doesn't effect you, you mean?

Dave

 

[Wack61]

Had a similar conversation today
Houses too are becoming white goods
People seem to just want to move in and have an instant home
They don't seem prepared to work at it. Is this lack of ability or the amount of new dwellings available?

Given the price of property they don't have the money or skills to fix them up so they want it ready to go, move your furniture in , turn on netflix and open the wine.

I've just looked at the figures to buy a 300k house today with a 70k deposit , 230k mortgage over 25 years

The repayments are £1152 a month at 3.5% , look at the bank of England base rate in the 80s and the difference those rates makes to the payments

Even if it goes up 1% it's £1278 , another £126 a month which could be enough to see them handing the keys in .

We were lucky to be born at a time when property was affordable and had no choice but to fix it up

My first house was a wreck , took me a year of evenings and weekends to transform it , I was 23, had some basic skills , learned the rest from a readers digest diy manual

 

[philw696]

As long as it doesn't effect you, you mean?

Dave

It affects all of us Dave and it's shocking to see people in dire situations today.
The real eye opener for me was living in New Zealand and that's why we took part in the Pork Pie Charity event for kids.
That personally cost us lots of time and money.
The only sponsorship we got was from another Charity still trying to work that one out nearly 4 years later.

 

[Wack61]

I was listening to Jeremy vine , they were discussing a BBC programme about poverty in Burnley when he said he'd been to get his eyes tested in a high end opticians in London

The optician told him a guy needed new glasses , after the test he was looking at the frames and asked which were the most expensive
These , solid gold , 10k
I'll take 2 pairs

It was at that point the optician said I may as well charge 20k a pair because they'll still pay it , the money in this city is unbelievable.

 

[MarkMas]

I can’t ever see the day where the infrastructure to provide the necessary charging points for all exists to enable the majority to run electric cars.

Presumably someone, in around 1900, said "I can’t ever see the day where the infrastructure to provide the necessary fuelling stations for all exists, to enable the majority to run petrol cars."

 

[philw696]

Having watched Harry's Garage with the electric Porsche and his visit to a charge station in Banbury where two other cars were charging was how slow it was.
If all the points being used it would be even slower.
The other point was you don't get the range that Porsche claim.

 

[Wattie]

Presumably someone, in around 1900, said "I can’t ever see the day where the infrastructure to provide the necessary fuelling stations for all exists, to enable the majority to run petrol cars."

In 1900 a handful had cars.
The majority didn’t.
Now the majority already have cars and if they are to change what they run on they’re gonna need hundreds of thousand )if not millions) of chargers everywhere.

 

[philw696]

Majority of us today have more than one car too.

 

[2b1ask1]

It will take a step change in our (society) thinking; we currently consider driving our rite and so much so some of us have a vehicle for every occasion! Our children own their own, our partners and so it goes on. Particularly city dwellers will need to give up their cars, rural inhabitants will have to pear back their range of vehicles massively. If you consider 2020 to have been a social experiment I’m sure there are many out their have found virtual meetings just as effective as face to face and many, many less miles travelled by air and road with in many cases increased productivity!

 

[Motorsport3]

Having watched Harry's Garage with the electric Porsche and his visit to a charge station in Banbury where two other cars were charging was how slow it was.
If all the points being used it would be even slower.
The other point was you don't get the range that Porsche claim.

I saw the video i thought that it was very expensive, no ?
He paid £2.50 for 23miles. That is gasoline price type of cost.

 

[safrane]

Saw that myself... was quite surprised at the cost, but I don't know the breakdown and if the tariff drops.

I use Pod Point at the village for free, would cost £1.60 to charge at home for the equivalent range of one gallon.