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[Simon Brown]

That isn't going to happen now, we have been doing planes and cars for too long now.

[Simon Brown]

Facts, actually.

Irrelevant to the fact that their oil and gas is government owned and so is quite a bit of their hydro too. You can't get any more socialist than that and when their GDP per capita is fourth in the entire world, only a fool/bigot would be stupid enough to claim that that is anything like a failure.

It clearly did not in Norway.

Or anywhere else that has a govt owned public road system, and govt owned education system.

Cheaper is clearly more effective with that type of technology.

Yes, but that has nothing to do with more effective.

[Simon Brown]

Of course they are when the government owns the oil and gas and much of the hydro industries.

[damduck-egg]

Is that wishful thinking about Harry?

G.Harman

[Simon Brown]

Leaves Britain for dead on GDP per capital and a host of other areas as well.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Hey. I'm an eccentric pensioner and drive a BMW. ;-)

[Simon Brown]

What gets added to the atmosphere by nukes is much less than coal fired power stations alone.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Do you really thing apps are a serious breakthrough?

Inventing the transistor was a serious breakthrough. Not coding up a bit of java

[The Natural Philosopher]

Could well be

My mother drive slap bang into a stationary lorry and wrote her mini off. 'I forgot where the brake pedal was'.

She forgot almost everything before the end.

Her last words to me apart from 'it hurts' were 'I've been out for a walk with my mother'

She (her mother) died in 1968.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Its invisible, It lasts for billions of years, people have died of it.

Its CARBON DIOXIDE - almost as lethal as dihydrogen oxide.

[Simon Brown]

Some of them are, most obviously with an app that can for example listen to a bird call and show you what bird it is.

Yes.

That can be too when it does something that hasn?t been done before.

[Alan Braggins]

Though the thread did start with a link to

which is specifically about diesel.

[Simon Brown]

No one has died from the CO2 from a coal fired power station.

[Chris Hogg]

ROTFLMA! It seems you have no concept of what is meant by a serious breakthrough! Are you going to discover the Higgs boson in your shed, or confine a plasma to achieve nuclear fusion, or understand Dark Matter? I think not!

[Simon Brown]

We'll see...

A viable flying machine was produced in someone's shed.

Viable flying machines are a serious breakthrough.

You did get that right.

[newshound]

Not green enough! Surely needs one of those Spanish / California type focussed solar arrays.

[Chris Hogg]

To quote Harry from further up in this thread:

The Wright brothers were over a century ago. Sikorsky's helicopter 75 years ago. Hardly qualify for 'these days'! Anything else is derivative.

Oh, a smart-arse!

[Simon Brown]

Yes, but Wozniak produced a significant breakthrough rather later than that.

Not with apps.

[whisky-dave]

Why not just havest all that wasted energy I'm sure the green have a way to do it :-)

[tabbypurr]

an odd proposition :)

NT