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[Moriath]

@Wij ?


View: https://twitter.com/P0UNDY/status/1307283985391853573

 

[Wij]

View: https://giphy.com/gifs/french-week-sDcfxFDozb3bO

 

[Scouse]

How the oil industry made us doubt climate change

Energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Embattle]

Butterscotch Angel Delight...yum.

 

[Lamp]

Frankie Boyle:

I know its very fashionable at the minute for people to go "everyone who voted for Brexit is stupid". I really don't think that they are all stupid. I think they're just people who voted to put an end to immigration from Europe because they don't like Pakistanis. Imagine what its like being an immigrant in Britain at the minute and being told you need to integrate more by people who spend their holidays pointing at a picture of egg & chips on a menu



Source: Frankie Boyle Live - Excitied for You to See and Hate This
BBC iplayer

 

[Lamp]

Theresa May had to go didn't she. Towards the end she had all the authority of a Do Not Tumble Dry label. Towards the end her body language had gone. I didn't realise it was possible to limp with both legs. So now we've got Boris Johnson. An evolutionary dead end of the honey monster. A bin bag of albino body parts. A cross between the Incredible Hulk and a Haribo fried egg.

 

[Job]

UK plans to bring forward ban on fossil fuel vehicles to 2030

Announcement expected in autumn to help trigger green economic recovery from Covid-19

www.theguardian.com

So fossil car ban brought forward to 2030.
I just do not see how this is remotely doable.

The National grid seemed to have been forced to claim they can easily handle it, which is patently boloks without serious control over charging times, speed and length.
National grid carefully word a statement that only 10% increase in consumption in the evening.

Juat look at kwh needed to charge for 100m range.



Then theres.

'The question of location is generally one of the hardest ones to answer when it comes to charging points. According to the 2017 English Housing Survey, 36 per cent of homes in the UK don’t have off street parking, which makes getting charging points and cables to the cars tricky. This problem extends to businesses too – and since these, along with parking areas in major public areas, are meant to be the key locations for drivers to charge their cars, this additional difficulty is another hurdle for EV adoption.'

They claim 95% of drivers will be within 50 miles of new charging points

50 fucking miles.

 

[Scouse]

The grid will have no problems. Easy to cover demand like that in the grid.

Domestic use is dwarfed by industrial so adding cars isn't a massive biggie.

They claim 95% of drivers will be within 50 miles of new charging points

50 fucking miles.

Link to this claim though please.

It would be nice to see who claims this.

 

[Gwadien]

UK plans to bring forward ban on fossil fuel vehicles to 2030

Announcement expected in autumn to help trigger green economic recovery from Covid-19

www.theguardian.com

So fossil car ban brought forward to 2030.
I just do not see how this is remotely doable.

The National grid seemed to have been forced to claim they can easily handle it, which is patently boloks without serious control over charging times, speed and length.
National grid carefully word a statement that only 10% increase in consumption in the evening.

Juat look at kwh needed to charge for 100m range.
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Then theres.

'The question of location is generally one of the hardest ones to answer when it comes to charging points. According to the 2017 English Housing Survey, 36 per cent of homes in the UK don’t have off street parking, which makes getting charging points and cables to the cars tricky. This problem extends to businesses too – and since these, along with parking areas in major public areas, are meant to be the key locations for drivers to charge their cars, this additional difficulty is another hurdle for EV adoption.'

They claim 95% of drivers will be within 50 miles of new charging points

50 fucking miles.

It's all 'boloks' anyway - Unless we have the Green party in power in 2030 I can't see the fossil fuel ban happening.

Too much power in fossil fuel companies.

It would be nice to have a post-Brexit UK that leads the world for all the right reasons, but I fear it'll be for the wrong reasons.

Send the Welsh down the pits!

 

[DaGaffer]

UK plans to bring forward ban on fossil fuel vehicles to 2030

Announcement expected in autumn to help trigger green economic recovery from Covid-19

www.theguardian.com

So fossil car ban brought forward to 2030.
I just do not see how this is remotely doable.

The National grid seemed to have been forced to claim they can easily handle it, which is patently boloks without serious control over charging times, speed and length.
National grid carefully word a statement that only 10% increase in consumption in the evening.

Juat look at kwh needed to charge for 100m range.
View attachment 42565


Then theres.

'The question of location is generally one of the hardest ones to answer when it comes to charging points. According to the 2017 English Housing Survey, 36 per cent of homes in the UK don’t have off street parking, which makes getting charging points and cables to the cars tricky. This problem extends to businesses too – and since these, along with parking areas in major public areas, are meant to be the key locations for drivers to charge their cars, this additional difficulty is another hurdle for EV adoption.'

They claim 95% of drivers will be within 50 miles of new charging points

50 fucking miles.

I'd be amazed if 95% of drivers weren't within 50 miles of a fast charger now. There are about 8500 in the UK but like broadband (up by about 50% since the 2017 article you refer to), Wales gets the shitty end of the stick. And unlike broadband, the bigger issue is interoperability.

The off-street parking issue does need to be addressed though; its a pretty perverse logic that means you have to drive your car to a charging station because you can't do it at home. I keep hearing about solutions built into lampposts but I can't help think vandalism/security will be a massive issue.

 

[Raven]

You would also be surprised at the amount of faffing about and expense that is involved in laying 'public cable' and how little there actually is that you can plumb into as it were. Towns and new-builds are better but many rural areas have very limited infrastructure. There would need to be some sort of system involved to metre people's usage, which would involve actual equipment at the side of the road, not just a socket. The solution would be to make points usable and no cost at point of charge, with the cost being added to road tax or something. Plus ofc the maintenance costs of the network.

It obviously could be rolled out but the cost would be astronomical for a tech that isn't actually that great and is essentially a stop-gap before hydrogen becomes viable. There are over 40 million cars on UK roads, plus however many vans, trucks, buses etc. The amount of rare earth metals (that have to be shipped around the world from environmentally questionable sources) would be crazy.

It sounds nice but it's not going to happen.

 

[Raven]

Pepa Pig themed facemasks...disposable on your way back to the car too.

 

[Job]

Its in the article I linked

Also all the figures are for cars only ..not HGV.

 

[Job]

That 10% figure just has to be with them controlling charge.
Most houses have 80amp limit, if a while block plugged in a fast charge the local transformer would trip out.
Say 1000 cars puling 30 amps.
30 thousand amps extra onto the local grid..jesus, the lights would go dim.

 

[Scouse]

Its in the article I linked

Also all the figures are for cars only ..not HGV.

1) No it isn't.
2) HGVs aren't part of the 2030 target.

 

[Overdriven]

^ To celebrate my 12,000 post here.

DIE TO METEOR.

IBTL, Teedles like the CoC, Toth is an old bastard, Deebs is grumpy, Jup is mean and like sticks, Scouse is northern, Overdriven is a cunt, DaGaff likes duct tape, etc etc for everyone.,

 

[caLLous]

Well worth a watch (yes yes it's James O'Brien), even though the type of person it's aimed at (funnily enough the username is made up of James O'Brien's initials) will, to hammer home the point made in the video, choose not to.

 

[Moriath]

Pepa Pig themed facemasks...disposable on your way back to the car too.

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Glenn

 

[Lamp]

Anyone upgraded to Android 11 yet?

After what Android 10 did I'm reluctant (no lockscreen widgets, no clipboard use across apps.)

If I could use my banking apps on a rooted phone, I'd root it tonight and bring back everything I miss from previous versions, including system font style change, synchronise system time, camera shortcut on lockscreen, coloured notification icons, backward compatibility with older widgets and app versions, dedicated notification volume slider control, disable ambient lighting, restrict apps starting on boot, running apps control, always on screen for selected apps, custom notification sounds for each app, etc

 

[Job]

1) No it isn't.
2) HGVs aren't part of the 2030 target.

How weird, theyve anmended it terawatt error and removed that bit as well.

 

[MYstIC G]

View attachment 42568

^ To celebrate my 12,000 post here.

DIE TO METEOR.

IBTL, Teedles like the CoC, Toth is an old bastard, Deebs is grumpy, Jup is mean and like sticks, Scouse is northern, Overdriven is a cunt, DaGaff likes duct tape, etc etc for everyone.,

Gr4tz

 

[MYstIC G]

Anyone upgraded to Android 11 yet?

After what Android 10 did I'm reluctant (no lockscreen widgets, no clipboard use across apps.)

If I could use my banking apps on a rooted phone, I'd root it tonight and bring back everything I miss from previous versions, including system font style change, synchronise system time, camera shortcut on lockscreen, coloured notification icons, backward compatibility with older widgets and app versions, dedicated notification volume slider control, disable ambient lighting, restrict apps starting on boot, running apps control, always on screen for selected apps, custom notification sounds for each app, etc

What about downgrading? Surely you get everything back and keep banking apps?

 

[Embattle]

Anyone upgraded to Android 11 yet?

After what Android 10 did I'm reluctant (no lockscreen widgets, no clipboard use across apps.)

If I could use my banking apps on a rooted phone, I'd root it tonight and bring back everything I miss from previous versions, including system font style change, synchronise system time, camera shortcut on lockscreen, coloured notification icons, backward compatibility with older widgets and app versions, dedicated notification volume slider control, disable ambient lighting, restrict apps starting on boot, running apps control, always on screen for selected apps, custom notification sounds for each app, etc

I'm on 11, it is a little bit clunky at times compared to 10 atm.

 

[Scouse]

I've played wayyyyyyy too many hours of FTL. Way too many.

Anyway. Just completed what has to be the closest victory in the history of the game. For those that have played it and won, you'll appreciate the screenshot

Spoiler

Phew! Took one for the team!

 

[Jupitus]

View attachment 42568

^ To celebrate my 12,000 post here.

DIE TO METEOR.

IBTL, Teedles like the CoC, Toth is an old bastard, Deebs is grumpy, Jup is mean and like sticks, Scouse is northern, Overdriven is a cunt, DaGaff likes duct tape, etc etc for everyone.,

GG and well played sport !!

 

[Scouse]

Video released showing Utah police shooting at boy with autism nearly a dozen times

Salt Lake City 13-year-old survives but remains in hospital after mother called 911, requesting mental health worker

www.theguardian.com

 

[Scouse]

Say what you like about Charlie, but he's got at least some of his priorities straight.

Prince Charles calls for 'Marshall-like plan' to combat climate crisis

Prince of Wales says threat posed by global heating will ‘dwarf the impact of the coronavirus pandemic’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Job]

Yes..he cant be accused of jumping on the bandwagon.
He basically is the bandwagon.

 

[Gwadien]

Yes..he cant be accused of jumping on the bandwagon.
He basically is the bandwagon.

The sheep accusing of bandwagoning.

 

[Scouse]

Yes..he cant be accused of jumping on the bandwagon.

Lets pretend there's no climate warming, for the purposes of argument. Exclude it.

If you measure a 68% decline in mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles since 1970 - i.e. the last 50 years - how is that "bandwagon".

It doesn't rely on modelling. It's "we count these things on a regular basis, and this is what's happened".


So - two direct questions:

1) How is saying "we need to do something about this clear problem" a bandwagon.
2) Do you think we should do something about this.


No waffle please. If you're only going to answer one of them - 2) is the one.