Lithium batteries, not worth it

Sylvia Plath found it quiet effective. You might blow the place up but it was more environmentally friendly than what the Japanese came up with.

No imagination. In a Father Brown episode the vicar kills his gay blade brother by throwing a hammer off the roof.

Definitely not a player in the US market, nor is Dacia or a number of other manufacturers. Too bad. I had a Renault Alliance (Renault 9) rental that was a decent car -- but that was close to 40 years ago. I think they pulled out in '89. My brother had a Peugeot he really liked but they are long gone. The brief rumor that they were coming back to the US died.

No s*it, Shakespeare, and neither is syngas remotely like the natural gas released by fracking. A gas comprised primarily of methane is not the same as a gas that is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

Novel!

The point is that 90% of US citizens are overweight, the roads are wide and straight and the average parking space will take a challenger tank, and gas is relatively cheap.

So the cars are twice as big and feature 3-8 litre engines instead of

There is no demand for a compact car designed for twisty congested European roads that will do 60mpg, and park in a space barely 6ft wide.

Synthetic gas can be made to be like methane.

Syngas is not the term used for coal gas, town gas, water gas or producer gas all of which are made from coal.

If this was just uk.d-i-y I might agree that coal gas is used to describe the gas coming from coal. However syngas is a term used more worldwide to describe a gas from coal gasification:

But low probabity of working.

Yuk. H2S is stinky.

And people wonder why suicides with firearms shoot themselves.

"Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you, drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful; you might as well live."

Dorothy Parker

From what our chemistry taught us many years ago, when it is there, but stops being stinky, it is up towards lethal levels.

I'm surprised they don't use fentanyl. It appears to be very effective and I assume the cops have a lot of seized evidence if they haven't sold it on the side. Instead they use some mysterious combination that doesn't work half the time. I'm not big on coddling felons but if that isn't cruel and unusual punishment I don't know what is.

Factoid of the day: The Germans weren't stupid and realized hydrogen filled zeppelins weren't the best idea but the US had a monopoly on helium production and banned export. The US seems to be up to it again:

Nope, trivially buyable for stuff a trivial as party balloons.

But not problem for stuff a trivial as party balloons.

That's the price in the UK for Lipo batteries.

rbowman snipped-for-privacy@montana.com wrote

Our main seller of helium for party balloons sells a hell of a lot more than just party supplys and is still doing fine.

Its hardly surprising that an operation that does nothing but partys would be affected by covid.

Corse it was.

I never went into the store but I was amazed it lasted. We have a constant turnover of hippy-dippy little ventures with the life span of a mayfly. Not that I have anything against hippies but it must take a goodly quantity of good dope to think you can make a living selling teddy bears with the store front rentals as costly as they are.