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- Fri Nov 06, 2015 6:13 pm
- Forum: In The News
- Topic: Driver jailed after filming himself driving at 192mph
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13594
Re: Driver jailed after filming himself driving at 192mph
Maybe Bedfordshire police should be giving him a medal for his contribution to their funds?
- Thu Nov 05, 2015 10:44 pm
- Forum: In The News
- Topic: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 21963
Re: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.
+1 to your Dad! I was involved in building a 'commercially green' church annex; big hall, rooms on 2 floors, lift etc. The problem was not keeping warm but being too hot in some rooms at any time of year. This was despite all the software modelling under the sun (pun recognised) including solar gain...
- Thu Nov 05, 2015 4:48 pm
- Forum: In The News
- Topic: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 21963
Re: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.
It gets one of my two votes... ;) I think the other half of the coin is about reducing energy demand. This isn't simply about reducing (eg) car use but about the energy efficiency of the 'stuff' we have. In my small middle class ;) 1960s semi Its about low as I can get I think. LED bulbs throughout...
- Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:07 pm
- Forum: In The News
- Topic: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 21963
Re: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.
Solar/wind are never going to be capable of supplying base load. If you're worried about Co2 emissions, you should be pushing the government to build massive nuclear facilities (and preferably ourselves, not with foreign investment). That gets my vote, Jon. It gets one of my two votes... ;) I think...
- Thu Nov 05, 2015 1:47 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: New to this
- Replies: 20
- Views: 20212
Re: New to this
Slaidburn... Forest of Bowland.... NE? That's the dark lands of Lancashire surely. :D still to a Merseysider it's probably near enough... ;) No, it's very close to the Yorkshire border. The parish of Slaidburn is in the Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales, lying as it does well within the histo...
- Thu Nov 05, 2015 9:43 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Confessional
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18371
Re: Confessional
devonutopia wrote:Go and do two bloody marys or whatever you're meant to do.
Protestant aversion to that here...
Anyway I'm religiously for single malt..
- Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:20 pm
- Forum: In The News
- Topic: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 21963
Re: Audi, Porsche join VW scandal.
TV tonight reports sales down as well as shares.... No surprise there..
- Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:38 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Confessional
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18371
Re: Confessional
Consider yourself forgiven...
- Wed Nov 04, 2015 1:38 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Autonomous vehicles - driving test
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7239
Re: Autonomous vehicles - driving test
Horse wrote:Revian wrote:Horse wrote:Hmmm . . . does the steering control system 'motors' use pull-push? If the magnets could be set up appropriately, perhaps they could?
Autonomous... Predictive Steering surely....
Hmmm Don't know what you mean - give me a hint
Get a grip man....
- Tue Nov 03, 2015 5:32 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Autonomous vehicles - driving test
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7239
Re: Autonomous vehicles - driving test
Horse wrote:Hmmm . . . does the steering control system 'motors' use pull-push? If the magnets could be set up appropriately, perhaps they could?
Autonomous... Predictive Steering surely....