They need that.
As I understand it, not having one, they can't be towed like ICE cars. They have to be uplifted completely if being recovered. This is hearsay - I have no experience of it myself.
Prices of the electricity we use to charge
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As I understand it, not having one, they can't be towed like ICE cars. They have to be uplifted completely if being recovered. This is hearsay - I have no experience of it myself.
I "export" a lot of wind sometimes..
But I don't get paid for it, worst luck..
.. I don't even get thanked!
Haha
I don't call it the "Standing Charge"..
I call it the 'Stand And Deliver Charge'
Coz it reminds me of highway robbery
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That is the wrong sort of wind though.I "export" a lot of wind sometimes..
But I don't get paid for it, worst luck..
.. I don't even get thanked!
Haha
I remember a programme on TV where a guy in a remote area was recycling his toilet waste into a fermentation vessel and produced usable methane to heat an out door hot tub. Mind you, I think he may have been putting barrow loads of cow slurry into it. I doubt the gas burner would produce much heat on the output of the odd human. The other thing about bio waste gas generators is that they need to be kept warmish, so the bugs can do their work. This makes them a bit 'ify' at the time when you probably mostly need the heat.
Still, mustn't complain. Most things on this planet work rather well for us, which is why we have reproduced to become the massive pest we are on the planet. Old Malthus - who is now laughed at, was right though. In the end, we WILL exterminate ourselves - or pretty much do it. It is impossible for a species to continually reproduce at the level we are doing and not use up all the capacity of the planet to support them. He predicted mass starvation. It WILL happen eventually, probably through global warming messing with our agriculture - eventually.
The green revolution fans will laugh - until they suddenly stop laughing, and realise that Malthus was right.
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That is largely correct. Not having a true gearbox, just a single stage reduction, they can only have an electrical "neutral" to allow them to be moved slowly a short distance. For example in a conveyer belt car wash, or winched onto a collection truck inclined platform, or pushed to the side of a road in the event of a breakdown.
However, they often have reserves of current. Mine has two, one of normal driving ten miles, plus one of three miles with reduced power.
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(Apparently some batteries dodgy underseat hatches could give unlucky occu-pants, Hot Pants
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That's historic, the early first series Leaf with the lower voltage and capacity battery. There's been lots of changes since then, including the batteries far cheaper now than that quoted £10k.
Here's the chassis and battery of my current model:
Anatomy of a Habitable Planet by Sergio Díaz Ruiz
"This strangely familiar representation of the Earth transforms scientific data through colour mapping to highlight the devastation already inflicted on our world. The image poignantly emphasizes the significant environmental challenges we face and the urgent need to protect and preserve our planet."
– Victoria Lane, competition judge
"This strangely familiar representation of the Earth transforms scientific data through colour mapping to highlight the devastation already inflicted on our world. The image poignantly emphasizes the significant environmental challenges we face and the urgent need to protect and preserve our planet."
– Victoria Lane, competition judge
£800 Balcony Solar Panels in Spain can save one third of the average family electricity bill. You can fit them yourself and plug them in.
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im using 20kw a day and generating 3-500w i have 8 panels and a 3kw inverter.
so to make it work in the winter how many more solar panels would i need to generate the extra 19.5kw i need.
or ill just move to Mercury
Joint development deal on thorium reactors
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Great, Generators can fit them along Motorways. Same as the balcony idea, yes? Brilliant ;-)
What about the grey skies?
Low hanging fruit of Thorium. Higher burnup levels reduce drastically the amount of nuclear waste in conventional uranium nuclear reactors. At the moment, CANDU and PWR generate about 8GW days per ton of uranium fuel. By combining uranium with thorium, the burnup rate can be 8 times greater. A quick way to prolong life of those reactors.
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I just googled the following search on google:
"Active productive thorium reactors".
This is the AI answer:
"There are currently no active, productive thorium reactors, but there are experimental reactors and countries that are developing thorium-based reactors."
Apparently the Indians have a small, low power experimental reactor which is working after a fashion.
It might work, but people have been saying that fusion reactors would produce so much energy it would be free since I was at school, and I will be 74 in less than three months and we are no further forward.
I am coming to the conclusion that a fair number of people are sci fi addicts and really believe that the human species will be living on planet Zog before too long. What they all have in common is that they allow emotion to totally over rule common sense and an appreciation of the practical realities of science and engineering.
The cynic in me keeps popping this question into my head and it keeps nagging at me:
"Nuclear physicists knew about thorium before we ever built any kind of fission reactor. If thorium reactors were a realistic possibility - given the stated advantages, why do we not have them already all over the world, and why, given the real problems of managing waste from the traditional types of nuclear reactor, do we have THEM all over the world instead?"
"Active productive thorium reactors".
This is the AI answer:
"There are currently no active, productive thorium reactors, but there are experimental reactors and countries that are developing thorium-based reactors."
Apparently the Indians have a small, low power experimental reactor which is working after a fashion.
It might work, but people have been saying that fusion reactors would produce so much energy it would be free since I was at school, and I will be 74 in less than three months and we are no further forward.
I am coming to the conclusion that a fair number of people are sci fi addicts and really believe that the human species will be living on planet Zog before too long. What they all have in common is that they allow emotion to totally over rule common sense and an appreciation of the practical realities of science and engineering.
The cynic in me keeps popping this question into my head and it keeps nagging at me:
"Nuclear physicists knew about thorium before we ever built any kind of fission reactor. If thorium reactors were a realistic possibility - given the stated advantages, why do we not have them already all over the world, and why, given the real problems of managing waste from the traditional types of nuclear reactor, do we have THEM all over the world instead?"
Why India wants 1 GeV particle accelerator for thorium
Department of Atomic Energy plans to build a 1 GeV particle accelerator to convert thorium into nuclear fuel, ensuring energy security.
China to build first-ever thorium molten salt nuclear power station in Gobi Desert
China plans to build the world's first-ever nuclear power station using molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium as a fuel source — revealed in a since-deleted report posted on the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics website.
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