Speed limit crackdown to cut emissions

Don't you go calling me names, now. I was *never* one of them.

 

Ah, now we come to one thing that really does bother me. The digitisation
of our history, and the fact we're leaving no footprint (other than carbon)
of our time on this planet.

Paperless office as anti-history. Discuss.

 

I can get that out of the fuglypla, mpg in the low 40s. Lately the mpg has
been in the mid-30s, though.

 

Whinging Courier wrote:

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Mine does 90 at 3000 rpm in sixth. I seem to have enough gears.

 

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Yeah, but do you know about *timer* switches?

 

Don't talk shite. Wind resistance is not the only factor in how many miles
per gallon you get at a given speed. I can drive on a motorway and get a
better mpg figure at 85 than I do at 70, because the car is set up to run
that way. As far as I'm aware I'm not violating the laws of physics when
this happens.

 

Good man. I think 10mpg would be within reach, surely?

 

Sounds downright unhygenic to me besides anything else.

 

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Indeed, but that's not what the statement said.

Actually, the difference between 70 and 80 on my car is almost
immeasurable. I actually tested it last year on a 300 miles each way
trip. it did about the same each way in MPG, although I purposely stuck
to 70 on the way there, and generally did 80 on the way back.

Of course the usual YMMV applies.

Another thing to take into account, as far as pollution goes, at lower
speeds you are polluting for longer!

 

I've known a few greenies who would campaign against the wasteful
society, yet wouldn't practice what they preached at all.

Otoh, I've also known a couple who lived the environmentally-conscious,
nature-friendly, waste-reducing life and didn't go on about it all the
time.

Trouble is, you can't make a telly or PC out of wood.

 

What Simian says, plus the fact there's still a helluva lot of the older
fluoro battens around with nothing but a choke/starter/tube in them, the
choke providing an inductive load across the timer contacts which will
arc and burn out or stick together. You still can switch fluoros with a
timer if you derate it from 13A max resistive load to 2A or 4A
inductive.

 

Unless you want to be artistic about it

http://www.turdtwister.com/?ref=19&sid=100

 

Spare paper often comes in handy.

 

Do you know what 'mpg' stands for?

 

oh sure - you can get the real-time fuel-consumption down to almost
zero in the right conditions (pedal to the metal, up a steep hill), but
I've never seen a trip average in single figures.

Still, it's something to aim for.

 

I pray that's *nothing* like reading tea leaves?

 

Oh, wake up and join the 21st Century:

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/137663e9e698ce56

 

"Cross my palm with Savlon"

 

I fancy a De Lorean style jeep with a surface hardened matt finish
stainless body, oh and mousse filled tyres too.

'Hog

 

Ok, let's do some sums. You would need to have 10,000 cups of coffee in the
same ceramic mug to equal the amount of energy it takes to make 10,000 foam
cups. : Assume you have four cups of coffee a day at work on a five day
week. That's nine and a half years before it becomes more efficient to have
used a ceramic mug. Except that you have had to clean and dry it 10,000
times too. That's a lot of water and detergent.

Multiply that by the number of ceramic mugs that people have at home (must
be about 25+ lurking around my cupboards), and that's a lot of wasted energy
and resources.

Well I'm not referring to original styrofoam (as producing it involves large
amounts of greenhouse gases), but the modern foam coffee cup will biodegrade
in a couple of years

For geological values of "eventually", which isn't really a lot of help in
the immediate future is it?