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PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 2:11 pm 
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Tesla Motor's stock has skyrocketed 500% in just 2 years. They are worth almost half of the value of General Motors - one of the world's largest auto manufacturers!


http://www.teslamotors.com/en_GB/

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:27 am 
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I love that car.


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 2:27 pm 
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Dont worry

the day the oil dries up all the viable electric cars will appear like rabbits out the magicians hat

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:04 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Dont worry

the day the oil dries up all the viable electric cars will appear like rabbits out the magicians hat


But with energy prices rising every year, will we be able to afford to plug them in


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 9:06 am 
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skippy41 wrote:
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Dont worry

the day the oil dries up all the viable electric cars will appear like rabbits out the magicians hat


But with energy prices rising every year, will we be able to afford to plug them in


you shouldnt need to, batteries are whats holding the leccy cars back, the sooner we get away from electric STORAGE to electric GENERATION the better


http://www.hyundai.co.uk/about-us/envir ... uel%20cell

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:07 am 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Dont worry

the day the oil dries up all the viable electric cars will appear like rabbits out the magicians hat


Aye...but In Scotland It'll need a Wind Turbine strapped on it's roof cause that'll be only source of leccie that wee ecky allows. :roll:


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:10 am 
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In the WW's (both I think) we had vehicles adapted to run on methane, we burn off billions of ltrs the stuff now at landfill sites

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_lib ... _bate.html

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 11:47 am 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
In the WW's (both I think) we had vehicles adapted to run on methane, we burn off billions of ltrs the stuff now at landfill sites

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_lib ... _bate.html


There are other untapped sources of methane as well:

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 12:07 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
In the WW's (both I think) we had vehicles adapted to run on methane, we burn off billions of ltrs the stuff now at landfill sites

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_lib ... _bate.html



What about all the methane that's coming out of the stoppings at the old coal mines? It's just going up into the atmosphere never to be seen again.

Every coal mine has got two methane taps where the shafts used to be, this is draining the methane from underground.

Why can't we use this???


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 12:57 pm 
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Nidge2 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
In the WW's (both I think) we had vehicles adapted to run on methane, we burn off billions of ltrs the stuff now at landfill sites

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_lib ... _bate.html



What about all the methane that's coming out of the stoppings at the old coal mines? It's just going up into the atmosphere never to be seen again.

Every coal mine has got two methane taps where the shafts used to be, this is draining the methane from underground.

Why can't we use this???


Maybe because the MP's who so want to appear to be Green trendy Environmentalists are at heart a callous bunch of tossers who only play the green card to win votes and who in reality don't give a stuff about common sense solutions to keeping the countries lights on. #-o


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bloodnock wrote:
Nidge2 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
In the WW's (both I think) we had vehicles adapted to run on methane, we burn off billions of ltrs the stuff now at landfill sites

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_lib ... _bate.html



What about all the methane that's coming out of the stoppings at the old coal mines? It's just going up into the atmosphere never to be seen again.

Every coal mine has got two methane taps where the shafts used to be, this is draining the methane from underground.

Why can't we use this???


Maybe because the MP's who so want to appear to be Green trendy Environmentalists are at heart a callous bunch of tossers who only play the green card to win votes and who in reality don't give a stuff about common sense solutions to keeping the countries lights on. #-o



I agree, while ever the shaft stoppers are there there's methane to be had, there must be billions of cubic meters of methane underground in this area alone. I'd hate to think how much is underground in Yorkshire, Wales, the North East and Scotland, it must run into hundreds of trillions of cubic meters. That's enough gas to keep us self sufficient for some 200-300 years. What you've also got to think about is, it's always re producing and is always going to be there no matter how much we take out.

The mind boggles. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:33 am 
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Nidge2 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
In the WW's (both I think) we had vehicles adapted to run on methane, we burn off billions of ltrs the stuff now at landfill sites

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_lib ... _bate.html



What about all the methane that's coming out of the stoppings at the old coal mines? It's just going up into the atmosphere never to be seen again.

Every coal mine has got two methane taps where the shafts used to be, this is draining the methane from underground.

Why can't we use this???


you COULD....if the owners processed it


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wannabeeahack wrote:
Nidge2 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
In the WW's (both I think) we had vehicles adapted to run on methane, we burn off billions of ltrs the stuff now at landfill sites

http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_lib ... _bate.html



What about all the methane that's coming out of the stoppings at the old coal mines? It's just going up into the atmosphere never to be seen again.

Every coal mine has got two methane taps where the shafts used to be, this is draining the methane from underground.

Why can't we use this???


you COULD....if the owners processed it


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wouldnt ya just love access to free methane (be it from underground workings, landfill sites or slurry) and run forever for free...

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:41 am 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
wouldnt ya just love access to free methane (be it from underground workings, landfill sites or slurry) and run forever for free...



Hell yeah.


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