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- Thu Dec 31, 2020 2:59 am
- Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
- Topic: COVID topic vol 2
- Replies: 865
- Views: 90539
Re: COVID topic vol 2
Ok so now we have news from China saying the actual figures were ten times what was reported. This after Russia admitted death toll was 3 times what was reported. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-coronavirus-chinese-government-says-wuhan-outbreak-10-times-larger-than-reported/NZL7WXFFJFNNG...
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 3:29 am
- Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
- Topic: COVID topic vol 2
- Replies: 865
- Views: 90539
Re: COVID topic vol 2
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved in the UK today.
In other news we are going to extend the delay between the two jabs to 12 weeks.
In other news we are going to extend the delay between the two jabs to 12 weeks.
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:39 pm
- Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
- Topic: Electric Vehicles
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11250
Re: Electric Vehicles
Clearly the recycling isn't a problem. The lack of availability of cheap cars might be for some people.Riggerjack wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 12:33 pmScrap.
So after the car is all used up, all those refined rare earths are in concentrated form, and in an established recycling system.
How is this worse than the ICE car that gets scrapped?
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 12:25 pm
- Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
- Topic: Electric Vehicles
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11250
Re: Electric Vehicles
I think that by the time facilities have switched over to EV charging, personal ownership will also have greatly declined except in rural areas. Once the battery has degraded enough the car is only good for scrap. If you look at early Nissan Leafs, after ten years the battery is only good for 30 or...
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:37 am
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: Collapsology- What's Your Intuition?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 24761
Re: Collapsology- What's Your Intuition?
@tony France is a great country, of course, but the forces that have the highest chance to control it in the next 20 years are very authoritarian. Of course, if the collapse is total (no more state), it's not that bad if you like fighting. But otherwise, one is better of leaving. And what forces ar...
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:51 am
- Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
- Topic: Electric Vehicles
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11250
Re: Electric Vehicles
Again I find myself agreeing with Alphaville. An electric car is only greener if you know that your electricity is coming from alternative sources. There are still coal plants producing electricity in the US in some places. That argument gets debunked all the time. Even burning coal, EV's have lowe...
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:00 am
- Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
- Topic: Electric Vehicles
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11250
Re: Electric Vehicles
I did the maths last year when my wife's car (our only car) needed replacing. I couldn't make it work financially, we don't do much mileage but we do have 200+ mile journeys once or twice a year. In the end we bought a 3 year old hatchback with 13,000 miles for half the new price which in itself was...
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 12:45 pm
- Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
- Topic: Trump News Network: Implications for the Individual
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7302
Re: Trump News Network: Implications for the Individual
I expect he is going to be spending most of his energy on fending off bankruptcy and staying out of prison.
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 12:42 pm
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: Collapsology- What's Your Intuition?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 24761
Re: Collapsology- What's Your Intuition?
Back when the price of copper was higher the UK railways were having problems with people stealing cable from the side of the tracks. At the same time the value of all the cable British Telecom owned was more than the market capitalisation of the company.
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:46 am
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: Collapsology- What's Your Intuition?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 24761
Re: Collapsology- What's Your Intuition?
The country isn't safe now. Imagine how it will be when the CAF stops paying handout. Effective tax rate is arount 70%. You can go to prison for writing books or commenting on the internet. A huge part of the youth wants to apply Sharia Law. OTOH in eastern Europe, you can walk home at night as a w...
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:17 am
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: Collapsology- What's Your Intuition?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 24761
Re: Collapsology- What's Your Intuition?
I was watching a talk by Tyler Cowen today and he said that isn't the case, that the general opinion among economists is that most consumption isn't for status.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pk654J8-5c
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 2:12 am
- Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
- Topic: COVID topic vol 2
- Replies: 865
- Views: 90539
Re: COVID topic vol 2
I thought I heard reports of people catching it twice and/or this was a rapidly mutating virus. My understanding is neither of those is generally true. It doesn’t evolve that quickly and there have been just a handful of cases where people have had it a second time without having a compromised immu...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:30 pm
- Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
- Topic: COVID topic vol 2
- Replies: 865
- Views: 90539
Re: COVID topic vol 2
Yup, although the Dutch had it easy as its a small ,flat, very densely populated nation with no oil and an urbanised long before cars were ever thought of. The Dutch had a car culture in the seventies. What changed that was a lot of political campaigning because so many children were dying on the r...
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 3:22 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Food and climate change
- Replies: 317
- Views: 35874
Re: Food and climate change
Ireland isn’t part of the UK.Hristo Botev wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:36 pmNo doubt. But Kingsnorth got his acre in rural Ireland, no?
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:03 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Food and climate change
- Replies: 317
- Views: 35874
Re: Food and climate change
Like for like cities are more efficient. However the reality is 50% of the worlds population live in cities but they consume 70% of the worlds resources. The reason is people in cities tend to be wealthier and so consume more.
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:26 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Food and climate change
- Replies: 317
- Views: 35874
Re: Food and climate change
Its possible I think I some regions but you would probably have to move well outside the south east to a less affluent area. Do they have libraries up north? :lol: Being serious it's family ties that will keep us fairly close to where we are. Hopefully we will find somewhere with available allotmen...
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:33 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Food and climate change
- Replies: 317
- Views: 35874
Re: Food and climate change
I am also in the same boat exploring options for city living. I wonder if there is a Goldilocks population density where one can live car free and still have some outdoor space to grow productive food? We've been looking at moving within the UK and one of my key criteria is shops/cafes/library/doct...
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 10:08 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Food and climate change
- Replies: 317
- Views: 35874
Re: Food and climate change
You should tell them squirrels and deer are a good source of protein as well.
- Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:35 am
- Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
- Topic: A Conservative Policy Solution to Slow Down Climate Change?
- Replies: 521
- Views: 40982
Re: A Conservative Policy Solution to Slow Down Climate Change?
If you compare that to driving. Burning a gallon (US) of gasoline creates about 9Kg of CO2 so you are talking about 100/9*25 = 275 miles of average US driving. It's enough that you don't want to discard it before the end of its useful life but owning an iPad is nowhere near as bad as a long commute,...
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:04 am
- Forum: Politics, and other eternal disagreements
- Topic: A Conservative Policy Solution to Slow Down Climate Change?
- Replies: 521
- Views: 40982
Re: A Conservative Policy Solution to Slow Down Climate Change?
We already have that to an extent, it's the price. I'm somewhat doubtful you can do much better than that as the incentive for the vendor is to downplay the embedded carbon in whatever you buy.