The Earth On Fire: Solving The Climate Crisis

Its not actually true that a 1 litre car is always more efficient than a 3 litre

Efficiency isn't linear with engine speed, something called a brake specific fuel consumption curve for an engine will show how it varies considerably with load and engine rpm

So it depends what you are using the vehicle for and the speed being driven

Small capacity 4 cylinder engines BSFC tends to peak at high rpm, larger capacity 6 and 8 cylinder engines BSFC tends to peak at low rpm

So towing a caravan the 3 litre is probably more efficient... driving at 80 mph on the motorway the 3 litre is probably more efficient... pulling a trailer with 1/2 tonne of decking timber on the 3 litre is probably more efficient...

 

So , a 3 litre guzzler , is more efficient than a 1 litre .
Who knew ?

 

Please re read what I said

 

I have .
Occasionally. Very occasionally. A caravan needs towing.
Stop your nonsense .

 

"Earth on Fire" but I can justify my carbon footprint .
Who doesn't know someone like this ?

 

You can lead a horse to water....

 

BACK to the moon?

 

Anyway back to reality… I find it quite shocking we are creating vast fields of entombed turbine blades, tens if not hundreds of thousands of the things, which can’t be recycled, will never rot, and will be there until the sun goes supernova in eleventy billion years

Surely they should be made of something recyclable?

 

They can be recycled. One company grinds them up and creates house building materials. It just isn’t done much at the moment.

That’s hardly unique to wind farms. Capitalism is currently predicated on making stuff with no responsibility for its disposal. That needs to change from food packaging and toys to big stuff like this.

Frankly if they want to bury a by-product of energy production near me I’d rather it was turbine blades than nuclear waste.

 

Your great great great great..... grandchildren won't be saying that

 

I rather think they would. Plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years. That’s a lot of Mooses to get through before the balance tips against blades, which in any case, will have been recycled into house bricks by then.

 

Exactly. Rather than pushing electric cars, ban the cars people buy just by for ego or status.
There are genuine reasons for some big cars/engines, but most are just for status.

 

What % of your annual mileage is done towing a caravan? Best to rent a bigger engine car when needed and use a smaller engine car most of the time.
You are correct driving style is very significant. 80mph is illegal and wasteful, try 65mph in a smaller engine car.
Yes commercial use is a valid reason for bigger engines as greater torque is often needed.

 

To be fair, if their forebears are living on nuclear waste there's a good chance he won't have any GGGG grandchildren...

 

Well that time I was employed as a caravan delivery driver…

 

So falls under my answer about commercial use then.

 

I didn't say anything about being paid for it

 

Oh my mistake, I didn't realise you were one of the 0.00000000000000000000001% of people who were employed but not paid.

 

Chill out… I’m joking…

I wouldn't be seen dead towing a caravan in my 10 litre American pickup

 

Greed and power is the reason for most conflicts and problems around the world.

 

Was anyone inconvenienced by those tw@ts at Extinction Rebellion dancing around on the motorways this week? From now on I will dump one dustbin bag full of plastic litter into the sea every time I am disrupted by those *******

 

Are they tw@ts - yes
You would join them by dumping waste

 

Do you know, I think you're right.

 

From the website that brings you gems like this also:
https://www.technocracy.news/wind-farms-cause-global-warming/


What's your proposal? Wind turbines eventually create waste so we should just stick to fossil fuels?

Wind turbine blades make up a negligible small amount of what humans put in landfill every year.

 

It’s the Sky zero game today, they’ve been taking a lot about sustainability and the environment which is good and should raise awareness. Good to hear Graham Souness is a fellow veggie.

 

I remember when he existed purely on a diet of raw meat.

 

Is it just me, or is it confusing why is there is an imminent crisis in the UK due to a shortage of CO2 when the rest of the world is burning up due to too much of the stuff floating about in the air?

Surely Boris at this Cop out 26 jolly could negotiate to import some excess French CO2 to make up for the Aussie sub contract?