Eco-towns

WTF is an "eco-town"?

Whatever, they will apparently have 15MPH speed limits:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7311548.stm

More proof that those who spout this bollocks all have chauffeurs. Have
you *tried* driving a car at 15MPH? It's practically impossible without
leaving it in first.

 

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:31:42 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel

I'm not convinced it will reduce carbon emissions to drive at that
speed, either, especially if people are bashing the engine in first.
Then you'll get the lovely revving noises to go with it.

How would it be on a bike? I have visions of people toppling over or
just paddling themselves along.

 

It would also appear the plan is to build mini towns on what is
currently green land, a fair distance from where most people work, and
nowhere near existing rail links..

http://www.notogrovewood.org/grovewood.pdf

Eco-tastic.

 

If you're trundling about at 15mph, you'll either be so bored that you'll
stop paying attention and run into things, or you'll start playing silly
buggers and **** it up badly. Slow just isn't a good option - look at how
many peds come to grief, and they rarely go over 4mph.

 

I REALLY don't want to know.

Wat about this? "Ms Flint has said she wants to see towns designed around
pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users". Nice if yu can walk, but
bit poxy if you can't and I know quite a few who can't.

Maybe we'll hear this "There'll be no place for spazzers in the New world,
so they'll have to be eradicated" from her in he not too distant.

I can't run at 5 mph and buses can't go that slowly either. Well not in
small streets.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

a bit like ebbsfleet, then.

 

I suspect you're right.

Anyway, ISTR reading that transport is only the sixth largest source
of CO2 in the UK, after domestic, industrial and... err, other stuff.
The moral being: to reduce CO2 emissions and in fact all human
environmental impact, controlling the problem at source, i.e
population control, is the best solution.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip Luscher

Nice article in the Torygraph this last weekend. Apparently that nice
Ruth Kelly[1] has suggested that all Government ministers should be
required to be chauffeured around in Toyota Priuseseses (Priii?).

This has been dismissed by other ministers as "gesture politics" and
they're sticking to their Jags. The Head Boy^W^W Prime Minister has told
Ms Kelly to looks at the matter again.

One rule for them...

[1] Could she *look* any more like a slightly gawky Head Girl?

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:

Steady on old chap, my youngest daughter is about to take up the role
of Head Girl at her school. She is far from geeky.


--
Lozzo
Suzuki SV650S K5
Honda CBR600 FW trackbike
Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka
Suzuki GSXR750 L
Suzuki TS50X
Suzuki TS50X

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

I said "gawky". And I doubt your daughter is that.

I meant no disrespect to Head Girls.

Just that useless **** Kelly.

 

If the 150 most polluting power stations in the world were scrapped and
replaced with Nuclear it would be like every car in the developed world
stopping tomorrow. If that was combined with an immediate end of
deforestation it would halt the CO2 problem, if it exists, in its tracks.

Facts the Luddites don't want to discuss.

and Bonners will be forever employed.

 

Fact: In this country coal fired stations are having hundreds of
millions of pounds blown on FGD work so they can keep the tree huggers
happy.

http://www.the-eic.com/News/Archive/2005/Nov/Article1396.htm

If the work is a success then nuclear power, though handy, won't be as
critical as it appears today. Coal will be King again.

I've got work to see me through to retirement without nuclear power
stations. Having said that, BE buy me motorbikes at the end of summer
when we've made loads of money so they're my friends but we're now
looking at something that'll probably keep me interested much longer
than a manky old PWR.

 

Am I mistaken? what has FGD got to do with CO2. I understood that was
dealing with chemical pollutants.

A new generation of nuclear tipped ICBM? more interesting would be Tidal
Power barrages. You could dive and everyfink.

 

Priapisms?
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"A scone and tea at half past three
Makes the day a little brighter
Keep your cakes and fancy tarts
And stick them up your shiter."

 

That's a bit stiff, Sir.

 

Sulphur dioxide is (apparently) one of the main causes of acid rain
and the tree huggers don't like acid rain.

The other big benefit of the new plant being installed is that they'll
be burning more fuel from renewable sources rather than dinosaur bones
and that'll also give the tree huggers a bit of a stiff one.

 

Whew you had me worried for a moment. We still need lots of new Nuclear
then, which kinda gives me wood, or protects trees, or something.

 

in any case, hasn't the total build cost + lifetime running costs for
the Toyota Prius been exposed as pretty ungreen compared to a more
average car?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

I have always thought that leadership by example is the only way to
really go.

 

"Over the top boys"
"After you Sir"