OT: This could make a few windmills redundant

[Richard]

"harryagain" wr ote in message news:l2dvdg$v4g$ [e-mail]...

FFS, do you understand anything?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Who do you think controls the Greens Roger?

God you are dumb.

(in-ep-toc?-ra-cy) ? a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

[harryagain]

Well you are the one as knows little about inverters an nothing about transformers.

And now it seems you know don't even know elementary ICE theory. What an ignoramous you are! You got a big mouth.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Now harry, thats the theory.

What about the practice of running an engine at low throttle settings using a primitive carburettor to deliver the exact fuel mixture to each cylinder?

And getting the mixture exactly right?

What about the tolerances in things like cylinder head gaskets that making getting an exact compressions ratio hard if you have a wide bore short stroke engine?

What about the valve lift and head design on a short stroke engine?

You see harry, unlike you I knmow MORE than the elementary theory.

[Roger Chapman]

Does anyone? The Greens in TFP's imagination are a uniform force for evil but in the real world their only unifying feature is a vague concern for the envirionment, or parts of it. Which is why you will find Greens in favour of nuclear power and against windmills almost as often as those you will those who represent the reverse. TFP is of course a Green himself with his opposition to the Severn barrage on enviromental grounds (as expressed on this ng in the past). As a policical force in this country the Greens are probably the decendents of those left wing loonies who spent the 50's marching to Aldermaston waving CND placards.

More puerile nonsense from the Fake Philosopher (more cant than Kant).

[Roger Chapman]

I would have thought that would have been a huge problem if, as the previous poster suggested, the bores were actually oval.

[Matty F]

I think not. Did gas mantle manufacturers manage to block electric lights, or horse carriage manufacturers block cars, or telegraph manufacturers block telephones?

[The Other Mike]

We better all go back to two valves per cylinder then as there is no point whatsoever in four valves, and for that high efficiency 4 cylinder 1.6 litre engine the designer should be clearly be aiming for something around a one inch bore and a 31 inch stroke, maybe configured as a flat 4 engine, 6 foot across the heads but with block length of only 4 inches.

[The Other Mike]

Texas Instruments also used it for the backlights in their LCD watches.

[The Other Mike]

Greenpeace and FoE will never allow it as it will destroy millions of 'green jobs'

[Richard Tobin]

You seem to live in some kind of fantasy world. I look forward to the success of this fusion reactor which would disprove your allegation, but unfortatunately I suspect it will be a lot longer than ten years before it happens.

-- Richard

[The Natural Philosopher]

Ah yes, the fantasy world where two European countries are saying they will abandon nuclear power despite the fact that they are both among the lowest emissions and the cheapest electricity prices in Europe?

If only it WERE a fantasy.

EU governments want to utterly control energy. Having it cheap and readily avialable isn't in their interests.

I look forward to the

and probably for the reasons mentioned above....

[Richard Tobin]

No, your fantasy about Greenpeace, FoE, and "green jobs". You want these people to be stupid and evil, so you make up things that they will do.

-- Richard

[The Natural Philosopher]

Have you considered that, on carefully reviewing what they actually DO do, the insecapable conclusion is that they are in fact stupid and evil?

I wasn't born hating greens. I was always on favour of being sensitive to the environment. Then I started to examine what 'green' policies achieved. And the inescapable conclusion is that they serve two purposes only: massive anti-competive afdvantage to certain commercial interests, and a general pandeirng to prejudice and bigotry agianst a technology in general that people do not understand, and do not want to understand.

If nuclear power stations were people with black faces, we would call Greens bigotted racists,

They are nothing but bigotted technophobes being exploited by cynical commercial interests.

[Adrian]

Did he _really_ say that?

[The Natural Philosopher]

yes.

Bigotry and prejudice are not conditional on the presumed worthiness of the class to which they are applied.

Unless you are a green. Or a 'socialist'. Apparently

[Nightjar]

One of the founders of Greenpeace resigned because he thought they had lost the plot.

Colin Bignell

[tony sayer]

In article , harryagain scribeth thus

Invention and development ..

Some do one better then the other...

[dennis]

What about the crank? Isn't that the main reason its easier to make short stroke engines if you want high revs.

Low rev engines usually have a long stroke as its better for many applications.

[Chris Hogg]

James Lovelock, the 'father' of the Gaia theory. He's very much in favour of nuclear power. He sees it as the only practical solution to anthropogenic global warming. Nothing else will work in the time available before it becomes self-perpetuating (due to methane emissions from decomposition of methane clathrates in warmed seas, and from the areas of permafrost). See his book 'The Revenge of Gaia'. AIUI the rest of Greenpeace disowned him.