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by tonyedgecombe
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...
by tonyedgecombe
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.
by tonyedgecombe
Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:39 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: Electric Vehicles
Replies: 70
Views: 11250

Re: Electric Vehicles

Riggerjack wrote:
Wed Dec 16, 2020 12:33 pm
Scrap.

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?
Clearly the recycling isn't a problem. The lack of availability of cheap cars might be for some people.
by tonyedgecombe
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...
by tonyedgecombe
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...
by tonyedgecombe
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...
by tonyedgecombe
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...
by tonyedgecombe
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.
by tonyedgecombe
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.
by tonyedgecombe
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...
by tonyedgecombe
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?

Jean wrote:
Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:20 am
In short the book's thesis is that most consumption is for status
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
by tonyedgecombe
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...
by tonyedgecombe
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...
by tonyedgecombe
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

Hristo Botev wrote:
Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:36 pm
No doubt. But Kingsnorth got his acre in rural Ireland, no?
Ireland isn’t part of the UK.
by tonyedgecombe
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.
by tonyedgecombe
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...
by tonyedgecombe
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...
by tonyedgecombe
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

7Wannabe5 wrote:
Sat Nov 28, 2020 6:52 pm
A friend of mine has two mature English Walnut trees and he never beats the squirrels and the deer try to munch his fruit trees to death too. Luckily, the birds spare him some bramble fruit.
You should tell them squirrels and deer are a good source of protein as well.
by tonyedgecombe
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,...
by tonyedgecombe
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.