Recent content by rafezetter

maybe - or just go back to dredging the rivers and channels like they used to - lots of england is built on a flood plain, but infrastructure has been left to go to pot. I read about that flood in scotland where the people in a smallish town were saying the flood defences had done nothing to...

I have to agree with AES - years ago my father, who is now 78, decided to get winter tyres for his car for some reason or other and was amazed at the difference in driving even in and around SURREY which is not known for it's snowy winters. His wife thought it was a waste of money too, until he...

I'm sorry I was broke - I need a new tablesaw.

Depending on the type of garage door it might be possible to contrive your own insulation system - a standard up and over is largely just a flat pressed steel surface with raised sides. If the locking mechanism is one of those twist handle types with two bars that go either side, it might well...

I have to say - I must be incredibly lucky with my car insurance, it came up for renewal a couple of months ago, just around the time this situation became news and..... I expected my renewal to be higher, and much higher than the normal bump (that I always managed to talk them down), but it was...

I've not read all the replies so I might be repeating it but insulated plasterboard just isn't going to cut it. - in the USA where this happens a lot the MINIMUM R value of insulation between a garage and a room above is roughly TWICE the thickness of insulation used elsewhere because the only...

It was windshields not engines and yes they hadn't defrosted them. New turbofan engines during development routinely get shredded during stress testing - I have a friend who works at Rolls Royce in Bristol, the plane engine arm of the company and I asked if I could go and see one when they do...

yes. several people have been sucked into the larger turbofan engine of the larger passenger aircraft - happened in the USA last year iirc.

Just on this topic we had mice a few years ago, only mice, no rats that I could tell, and I'm not bothered about mice much. One evening I had a late bowl of cereal in liu of a proper meal (I'm lazy sometimes) and put the empty bowl on the floor sort of beside / behind me at my desk, anyway...

Tell that to China, and India and Russia and all the other MORE PULLUTING COUNTRIES. In business, and generally life too, most people put the most investment where it will do the MOST BENEFIT. Yet right now the UK and other western countries are looking at spending TRILLIONS to reduce our...

How do climate scientists get funded? Corporations and groups with an axe to grind. Wind moves. Pollution moves with it. If you don't think it does, feel free to move INSIDE a ULEZ where the air is that much cleaner you and your family will all live to 100. I'm certain you'll be overjoyed at...

I agree - but what can you do except keep offering evidence until they learn?

Personally I think that the notion that this is all happening "solely on the contribution of humans" is ideological hogwash. We have scientific evidence from core samples taken of ice from multiple places on earth showing the earth has had periods where it was WARMER than it is now. Do I think...

I didn't say it wasn't noteworthy, what I meant was it's not the "eureka" moment EV evangelists claim it to be. Efficiency and design are two different things. My take on what you wrote was you were claiming the engine and technology had changed in a way that could be considered significant...

If the customer agreed, you did the work and he used it, there's little the customer can say in a small claims that will make this go away. This seems a case of either buyers remorse, or trying to pull a fast one, which has happened to me once. Having said all that - from what you said you...