The Earth On Fire: Solving The Climate Crisis

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Moose, Aug 10, 2021.

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Can dangerous climate change be halted?

  1. Yes it can and it will

    13.8%
  2. Yes it can, but it won't

    51.7%
  3. No. It's too late

    31.0%
  4. What 'dangerous climate change'?

    3.4%
  1. 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...
     
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  2. Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett Reservist

    So , a 3 litre guzzler , is more efficient than a 1 litre .
    Who knew ?
     
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  3. Please re read what I said
     
  4. Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett Reservist

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

    Davy Crockett Reservist

    "Earth on Fire" but I can justify my carbon footprint .
    Who doesn't know someone like this ?
     
  6. You can lead a horse to water....
     
  7. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    BACK to the moon?
     
  8. 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?
     
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  9. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    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.
     
  10. Your great great great great..... grandchildren won't be saying that ;)
     
  11. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    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.
     
  12. FromDiv4

    FromDiv4 Reservist

    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.
     
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  13. FromDiv4

    FromDiv4 Reservist

    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.
     
  14. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    To be fair, if their forebears are living on nuclear waste there's a good chance he won't have any GGGG grandchildren... ;)
     
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  15. Well that time I was employed as a caravan delivery driver…
     
  16. FromDiv4

    FromDiv4 Reservist

    So falls under my answer about commercial use then.
     
  17. I didn't say anything about being paid for it
     
  18. FromDiv4

    FromDiv4 Reservist

    Oh my mistake, I didn't realise you were one of the 0.00000000000000000000001% of people who were employed but not paid. :rolleyes:
     
  19. Chill out… I’m joking…

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

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    How about someone liquidating the Bolsonaro creature and his supporters ? A thoroughly disgusting specimen of humanity and thick as two short planks. His land grab bill from the indigenes passed the Lower House in Brazil last week sadly. This article disseminates some of the crucial events going on in the political sphere in Brazil. The neo Hitler could even try for a military coup for all we know.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-will-collapse-if-bolsonaro-remains-president

    Record numbers of environmental activists and guardians have been murdered this year by unscrupulous money and power mad animals. Rabid capitalism, the material culture has to come to a stop and have a serious look at itself.

     
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  21. FromDiv4

    FromDiv4 Reservist

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

    Lloyd Squad Player

    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 *******
     
  23. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    That's a highly mature response.
     
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  24. FromDiv4

    FromDiv4 Reservist

    Are they tw@ts - yes
    You would join them by dumping waste :(
     
  25. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    Do you know, I think you're right.
     
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  26. lm_wfc

    lm_wfc First Team

  27. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    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.
     
  28. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    I remember when he existed purely on a diet of raw meat.
     
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  29. AndrewH63

    AndrewH63 Reservist

    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?
     

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