Diesel And Petrol Ban

[kanny 19,419]

 

 

 

I assume technology will have come on by then but I can't imagine electric lorries.

Driverless electric lorries?

No no no no no, Thorium reactor engines are the way forward for freight. Just make sure you are not in a 5 mile blast zone radius in the event of a accident!

 

http://www.industrytap.com/thorium-fueled-automobile-engine-needs-refueling-once-a-century/15649

 

Beam me up Scotty ! ... i was going for a unobtainium pulse drive but its proving difficult obtaining the unobtainium for some reason

[trappa 517]

Theorhetically its a good thing. There just needs to be some progress in the electric motor holding charge/further mileage by some leaps and bounds or it aint gonna work.

[ChrisJones 7,973]

Theorhetically its a good thing. There just needs to be some progress in the electric motor holding charge/further mileage by some leaps and bounds or it aint gonna work.

 

Thing is if you have 20m electric vehicles in the UK, you're going to require a lot of charging. Where does the power come from?

[marshman 7,756]

Just been interviewed by channel 4 news asking me my views on the ban. To be truthful I'd just woke up from a nap in the back of my cab and I wasn't on the ball.

I can't mind exactly what he said but he asked what cab drivers think of the ban by 2040 .

I said most of the cab drivers will be dead by then we're that fat an unhealthy .

Hope I don't make the cut and they get an old cabbie to have a rant

[kanny 19,419]

 

 

Saw on the news as well that apparently your going to need to register for porno websites as well in the near future with card details as an age verification. Country has gone to shiit. Electric cars, no porn. Disgrace

 

Couldn't disagree more. Stop kids watching porn and being able to breathe clean air, sounds like win win to me.

Don't blame cars for the dirty air blame the crustys and there bloody candle lit vigils and porn never did me any harm

 

Yours

 

Randy love-truncheon

[Hydropotesinermis 724]

Wont mining the rare earth metals for the batteries be pretty destructive and polluting

[mushroom 12,393]

Wont mining the rare earth metals for the batteries be pretty destructive and polluting

I read an interesting article the other day, suggesting we are going to be sending probes to asteroids etc in the very near future and mining within 20 years. Turns out they (asteroids, meteors and meteorites) are chock fuucking full of elements.

 

The only ones we won't find there are the gases, Helium more specifically. Anybody had an MRI recently? The worlds supply of Helium is nearly exhausted, believe that if you can

[forest of dean redneck 11,190]

My licence is out in 2044 ,so don't give a shit lol

[trappa 517]

 

 

Theorhetically its a good thing. There just needs to be some progress in the electric motor holding charge/further mileage by some leaps and bounds or it aint gonna work.

Thing is if you have 20m electric vehicles in the UK, you're going to require a lot of charging. Where does the power come from?

God knows Chris, like I say, there needs to be some progress. I think electricity storage is the biggie. We can harness wind, tide and solar power pretty effectively but its the storing it that we havent got the hang of. Hopefully itll all come good

[Hydropotesinermis 724]

 

 

Wont mining the rare earth metals for the batteries be pretty destructive and polluting

I read an interesting article the other day, suggesting we are going to be sending probes to asteroids etc in the very near future and mining within 20 years. Turns out they (asteroids, meteors and meteorites) are chock fuucking full of elements.

 

The only ones we won't find there are the gases, Helium more specifically. Anybody had an MRI recently? The worlds supply of Helium is nearly exhausted, believe that if you can

I had an argument with a bloke in the pub about helium escaping earths atmosphere.

 

He wouldn't beleive me.

 

That's some interesting stuff about mining in space. Just like in the film Moon?

[ChrisJones 7,973]

God knows Chris, like I say, there needs to be some progress. I think electricity storage is the biggie. We can harness wind, tide and solar power pretty effectively but its the storing it that we havent got the hang of. Hopefully itll all come good

Absolutely! I read somewhere (and I'm reasonably sure that Clarkson said something to the effect) that the nickel that goes into the Prius battery is mined in both Canada, and Russia. The steel is sourced in the US. It's all shipped to Japan for assembly, then exported for sale. That certainly isn't environmentally friendly. Yet I'm the arsehole that does less than 2000 miles a year in my 30-year-old Dodge, polluting the environment!

 

I just find it a little strange that we all have a device that can communicate in real time, with anyone in the world. We were able to land not one but two space probes on a moving comet. We've been able to double our life expectancy by curing diseases, and have been able to innovate some amazing technology.

 

But we're still relying on what is essentially a primitive, and finite, fuel source.

Edited July 26, 2017 by ChrisJones

[walshie 2,804]

As the government can't seem to go more than a month or two without some u-turn or other, I don't see their plan for 23 years in the future is likely to hold water. And they are assuming they will still be the government in 2040.