I dropped my Palm / 'phone about an hour ago. Now the screen is bleeding the L from LCD under the skin. Home insurance want almost the price of a PalmOne replacement screen to have it repaired...
Allders still have our money and we still have no mattress.
Some jumped up little oik, presumably from the Ka Klub, thought it funny to put up the same definition of EnthusiastiKa in the Urban Dictionary as was removed a few weeks ago (don't they get bored?).
I have to get up at five o'clock tomorrow morning, it'll be raining, I'm going over the B1225 but the Ka's suffering from excessive understeer 'cos of a broken funky suspension / steering arm thingie.
Just feeling really ticked off that I dropped by PDA...
Not going to happen, don't you even watch working lunch, listen to money box on radio 4 or read the FT? He'll only get the mattress if it's been delivered to the store and the only chance of getting the money back is if he paid by credit card and it cost over £100. When a company enters administration unsecured creditors (customers) are always at the bottom of the list, you are also probably screwed with there warranties.
If he is lucky he will be able to exchange the item he hasn't got for something of equivalent value the store has in stock.
Ah, saw about Allders stuff on working lunch t'other day (i live on daytime TV...)
Don't worry about it :)
Pfff, and a broken gear box mount, you need a nice reliable Peugeot ;)
Yea that would piss me off.
On another note, in case anyone was wondering, i can confirm a nearly new Porsche 911 Turbo is faster than a nearly new Pug 206 XSi. Unless it was just down to the driver...
PalmOS is a fine specimen. My phone's Symbian OS isn't quite as nice, but then the phone's a lot smaller than the Palm ones, so it's not like I had an option (I aren't willing to put up with a brick-phone).
To me it showed exactly why I've not got much interest in racing anymore. When the touring cars were exactly that - with mods limited to just altering basic components, ie the old idea of tuning - it was much more exciting than the current Scalectrix principle of just adding a lookalike body. And almost certainly more affordable.
Why did they make the point about long charging times with the Tesla? If you could afford one a dedicated mains outlet of more than 13 amps would be simple to provide on any house - most have a supply capable of 100 or so and not much of that in use overnight. Li-Ion batteries are capable of being fast charged in theory - no laptop requires as long as they said. Then they mentioned the cost of the electricity versus petrol. Pointless comparison since one has no duty.
Then there was James May on the 'hydrogen' Honda. Until someone finds a way of producing hydrogen efficiently it's in the same sort of position as electric cars which are still waiting for a decent low cost battery.
Because it's a significant probem with battery powered cars. As they pointed out, even if the car lived up to manufacturers claims a long journey would have to be broken down with an overnight stop every 200 miles. If the car runs as it did for them, 55 miles between charges, that's even more of a problem. As with all electric cars the truth lies below the manufacturers claims.
That car can do a 200 mile range *or* it can be driven like a petrol car. Not both.
And in practice. given the size of battery installed in that car, they can't be fast charged because individual cells would overheat. And then there's the physical problem of supplying sufficient current to charge the batteries rapidly.
Laptops have tiny 80-odd WH batteries. Even then when fast charged they can explode or catch fire.
Not a state of affairs that would last long. The price quoted was £3.50 for a charge vs £40 for a fill. But they were factually reporting the current situation. This seems to annoy you for some reason.
Producing hydrogen efficiently isn't the problem. That can be done relatively cheaply and efficiently now. The problem is disposing of the CO2 that is associated with producing hydrogen.
What May's report did show was that the manufacturers seem to have sorted out the supply chain problems with hydrogen distribution. The last time I saw H2 vehicles being fuelled (in Germany) it was a damned nightmare of coupling and uncoupling hoses with a need to dump waste heat from the fuel tank which contained Zeolite to stabilise the hydrogen. Fuelling took almost an hour. Unless May was deceiving us, the filling of the Honda was the same as fuelling an LPG car.
What we didn't get was an analysis of where the hydrogen comes from (from cracking of hydrocarbons). However they were good enough to mention that electric cars get their fuel mostly from coal fired power stations.
Maybe what's needed is a small range of standard batteries (maybe 3 different sizes to cope with different size cars), so that people could literally go into a petrol station with their nearly-dead battery, and swap it for a fully charged one, at a cost of the power plus some reasonable element of profit to cover the storage etc etc. of the batteries. Might work, though the petrol stations would need to carry a huge stock of charged batteries, as once they're out, you can't keep customers waiting 12 hours.
I must admit I'd be sticking a 63a ceeform in the garage if I had a tesla - but the other side of that is that 100k buys a Nissan GTR with all the speed, more comfort and fuel for about 200k miles available at a petrol station near you.
Hydrogen is easy to produce. Use nuke, wind, hydro and solar, or failing that oil, coal and gas.
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