- April 13, 2009
- Humphrey Hawksley and the Chip Fat Conundrum
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment
- Tagged with: Africa, air powered car, America, anger, Asia, bank, battery, BBC, Bollox, climate, CO2, Conundrum, country, creativity, desert, Diesel, disaster, Earth, Electric, energy, Environment, filter, food, Fuel, George, George Bush, good, graph, guy negre, Health, hell, holiday, house, Human, India, Lithium, mind, Office, performance, pollution, power, problem, Rome, soya, Sport, state, tank, The West, Times, Transport, trial, vehicle, water, Website, World
Humphrey Hawksley in an article on today’s BBC News website has reported the (blindingly obvious, some might say) results of a 25-year American study into the effects of air pollution (specifically vehicle and industrial) on life expectancy. City air pollution ‘shortens life’ Basically, it’s bad! I live next to an A-class road, busy with holiday [...]
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- December 9, 2008
- The Man Who Ate the World – by Frederik Pohl
- Posted by Strangely
- Art, Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: air powered car, Airport, Amazon, attack, battery, BBC, bonus, book, business, capitalism, Christmas, climate, country, credit crunch, Daimler, Earth, Electric, England, Environment, Fantastic, Freedom, future, good, Government, guy negre, happiness, Head, headline, Hero, HOPE, house, HSBC, ID Card, India, infrastructure, legal, Mad, man, market, money, Moon, Mortgage, nation, OPEC, Oxford, panic, Police, power, price, project, Protest, radio, Resource, rights, Sex, snow, Sport, technology, threat, Transport, trial, Vocal, warning, Website, Wikipedia, World, YouTube
Many moons ago I read the short story with the above title. Although not one of Pohl’s best works, it has nevertheless left an obviously lasting impression on me. Written in the mid-fifties, it’s a future tale of consumerism gone mad. In the tale, it’s illegal not to consume as much as possible. The hero [...]
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- December 7, 2008
- Mini E – an Enviromental Disaster Looms from Muddled Thinking
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Life, Technology
- Tagged with: advert, air powered car, America, anger, bank, battery, BBC, bloke, BMW, Chile, Chrysler, climate, comment, computer, Contact, crash, Cycle, Cyclist, Design, Diesel, disaster, dodgy, Dream, driving, Earth, Echo, Economic, election, Electric, Encounter, energy, engine, engineer, English, Environment, Express, Factory, financial, Fuel, good, guy negre, Human, industry, licence, Lithium, market, Marketing, mentality, Mistake, money, monster, Mortgage, nation, night, novel, Obama, Office, Petrol, power, problem, project, Rocket, Rome, safety, sense, speed, Sport, street, tank, technology, traffic, Transport, Twat, vehicle, Video, Website, Wikipedia, winter, World, YouTube
Truly this car is the pits. -and here’s how.. The engineers seem to have responded with the most short-term planning possible to a demand from the BMW marketing department to make the company look green now that sales of their monster cars are down 40%. Some “ad” bloke has said “clean electricity, that’s the way [...]
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- November 11, 2008
- The Air Powered Car – Better than Batteries
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom, Technology
- Tagged with: air powered car, Alaska, battery, BBC, Biofuel, business, climate, concept, Conundrum, creative, credit crunch, Cycle, Cyclist, desert, dynamic, economy, Electric, energy, engine, Environment, Factory, Fuel, future, good, guy negre, industry, Lithium, Mankind, market, Nature, Nuclear, pessimism, pollution, power, problem, release, Resource, Sport, Stagger, state, Sun, technology, Times, Transport, United States, vehicle, water, Wikipedia, World
Finally it’s starting to dawn on a few people that battery powered cars are not the way out of our low-carbon energy conundrum. Bolivia holds key to electric car future. In this piece, the BBC note that Lithium, the 3rd element in the periodic table, a major power source for everyone’s laptops and mobile phones, [...]
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- September 25, 2008
- EU Law Leaps Forward while UK flatfoots in Energy Wilderness
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: air powered car, America, Apollo, Atlantic Ocean, August, bank, battery, battle, BBC, bonus, Britain, business, Chrysler, climate, CO2, comment, corporate, country, Court, Daimler, driving, duty, Earth, Economic, economy, Electric, energy, Environment, Europe, fair play, Fantastic, Farm, fault, fear, financial, Fossil Fuel, Fuel, future, Germany, good, Government, Great, greed, guy negre, History, HOPE, Labour, labour party, market, mind, money, nation, Nuclear, nutter, ocean, parliament, party, Politics, power, price, program, project, Protect, public, race, RBS, Resource, safety, Sale, Security, September, sheep, Sport, state, SUV, Thatcher, Transport, trial, Twat, vehicle, World
Some wonderful news this week for people worried about the real future of our world. The EU are hammering down on car emissions! EU rejects efforts to delay CO2 limits on cars RPT-UPDATE 2-EU lawmakers snub big carmakers over carbon curbs Blow to carmakers Climate package: Carbon-free cars? (pre-vote EU Parliament post) Reducing CO2 emissions [...]
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- February 13, 2008
- Finally, a bit more on the air powered car from Guy Negre
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment
- Tagged with: air powered car, Alternative, bank, battery, BBC, Biofuel, climate, collapse, concept, Copyright, country, Creuse, CUBA, disaster, dodgy, Electric, energy, engine, engineer, English, Environment, France, Fuel, guy negre, heart, Historical, house, index, industry, install, knowledge, Machine, motorway, night, Petrol, Politics, pollution, power, problem, Sex, Sound, Sport, tank, Technique, technology, Times, town, Transport, trouble, winter
Guy Negre’s air-powered car could be a life, jobs and environmental saviour.
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- January 22, 2008
- Future Energy Sources for Mankind.
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment
- Tagged with: air powered car, anger, Australia, battery, benefit, Biofuel, bomb, brick, climate, computer, concept, consumption, courage, creative, decor, dodgy, Earth, Electric, energy, engineer, Environment, food, fool, Fossil, Fossil Fuel, Fuel, future, guy negre, Human, Mankind, mind, Nature, Nuclear, Photo, power, problem, scientist, Sport, tank, technology, Times, Transport, uk politics, water, World
Here’s something (link now dead – originally at http://72.232.216.38/manahmanah/44990/Nuclear_I_spit_on_you.html? ) I posted on an Australian blog that caught my eye. I just had to speak. Sorry. It’s about the various options for transport and other energy policies, paying special attention to Guy Negre’s air-powered car concept. This is the text as posted: The thing is [...]
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