- 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 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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