wow. guess someone did not like that
well. i like old camaro's and corvette's. and late 60's shevy's.
but the goverment dont like like it. and strip you down to your boxer
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lets see.........
in the UK we pay $2.40 a liter - theres roughly 3.4 liters to a US gallon / 4.54 liters in a UK gallon.......
petrol cars average 45mpg here, deisels get close to 55mpg average.
our roads are narrow here, some thing like 7 - 9ft lane width, hence we have smaller cars.
Oh, and we pay a tax to drive our cars on the road - V8 Range Rover (prolly a dinky toy in the usa) costs £450 ($720) per year, factor in 15mpg.........
you'll get the idea
4 kids..........hmmm, we have what you'd describe as mid size mpv's/station wagons 6 / 7seaters that'll do 40-45mpg.
my own car only does 24mpg at the very best, but i come from a family of cyclists, so the 57mile round trip to work is considered as a training ride and my boss dont mind me being wet, sweaty with a potty mouth (insert rant about car drivers here).
Luke, my friends place is made of old car tires, bales of hay, logs and has 1 wood burning stove and 2 propper fire places, if the place caught fire he'd be diddled, cos the lane he lives down isnt wide enough to get a fire truck down - the lanes 1 1/2 miles long.
in the UK we pay $2.40 a liter - theres roughly 3.4 liters to a US gallon / 4.54 liters in a UK gallon.......
petrol cars average 45mpg here, deisels get close to 55mpg average.
our roads are narrow here, some thing like 7 - 9ft lane width, hence we have smaller cars.
Oh, and we pay a tax to drive our cars on the road - V8 Range Rover (prolly a dinky toy in the usa) costs £450 ($720) per year, factor in 15mpg.........
you'll get the idea
4 kids..........hmmm, we have what you'd describe as mid size mpv's/station wagons 6 / 7seaters that'll do 40-45mpg.
my own car only does 24mpg at the very best, but i come from a family of cyclists, so the 57mile round trip to work is considered as a training ride and my boss dont mind me being wet, sweaty with a potty mouth (insert rant about car drivers here).
Luke, my friends place is made of old car tires, bales of hay, logs and has 1 wood burning stove and 2 propper fire places, if the place caught fire he'd be diddled, cos the lane he lives down isnt wide enough to get a fire truck down - the lanes 1 1/2 miles long.
18mpg is probably quite good for for an SUV.
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I think the straw gets some sort of plaster, it may actually be mud but Im not sure. I expect they are very warm as that's the whole point of going down this path.
From memory the walls were going to be several feet thick. He is very energy concious and I quite like what he's done. I expect having LED lights and not having as freezer are not so bad once you get used to not having them.
The green movement is quite interesting, the company I work for has built several buildings, data centres and re-engineered it's IT to be green. The next generation of kids, ie my 6yo, are so concerned with animal habitat and pollution, its quite amazing and I'm sure they will be hugely green, and perhaps so they should be.
Are the tyres shredded, thats interesting construction, why the tyres?
Im surprised that he got permits to build, as it seems like a fire hazzard.
Still my wife is German and they put candles in pine trees for xmas, they cant understand why I find this incredible.
Shingles yes tin roof yes... The rest no. I am interested now. Feel free I'm your sponge.
The car info was cool I had no idea. Wow gas is cheep here!
55Mpg is amazing. I had a 6Liter desiel that got 23mpg I thought that was great
Thanks.
the tyres are whole and stacked one on top of another, tied together with wire and filled with earth, wattle n daub inside and out with lime render, the hay bale and log cabin parts of his home also utilise WnD/lime render - the roofings are shingles, corrugated tin, cedar shingles / tyre belt shingles.
he has two 'guest lodges' - their on stilts formed from living pine trees, made from pine logs, WnD/LR, one has tyre shingles, the other cedar.
the whole lot is classed as 'agricultural out buildings' and his father, one a local town mayor, owns the land
he has two 'guest lodges' - their on stilts formed from living pine trees, made from pine logs, WnD/LR, one has tyre shingles, the other cedar.
the whole lot is classed as 'agricultural out buildings' and his father, one a local town mayor, owns the land
wow. guess someone did not like that
well. i like old camaro's and corvette's. and late 60's shevy's.
but the goverment dont like like it. and strip you down to your boxer
Please don't take it that way.
I realy don't care, cars are like speakers. Pick one you like you drive it.
I was asking. Truely. I had no idea our mpg sucked that bad.
55mpg is only an average - in the 90's Citroen and Peugot brought out diesel cars that hit 70mpg.
VW make the Polo BlueMotion which hits 80pmg and the McClaren MP4/12C, a 200+mph hyper car, does 30mpg with its twin turbo v8.
Toyota's Prius is a sin in reality, the materials that make up its battery travel the equiv to once round the planet before they get into the car, Top Gear worked it out that you'd have to drive one for 20 - 25yrs before it became carbon neutral.
Gods forbid the day the UK government / Euro crats cotton on to the fact that music lovers like amplifers that use more energy than a tin box on wheels...... Shudders at the thought of the 'Class A tax'.
Luke, I'll find some links for you regards the 'eco re-cycled' home building thing if you want, im fairly certain theres gonna be another 'tyre walled' build gonna happed localy this summer so i might be able to get some photos....... expect a pm.
VW make the Polo BlueMotion which hits 80pmg and the McClaren MP4/12C, a 200+mph hyper car, does 30mpg with its twin turbo v8.
Toyota's Prius is a sin in reality, the materials that make up its battery travel the equiv to once round the planet before they get into the car, Top Gear worked it out that you'd have to drive one for 20 - 25yrs before it became carbon neutral.
Gods forbid the day the UK government / Euro crats cotton on to the fact that music lovers like amplifers that use more energy than a tin box on wheels...... Shudders at the thought of the 'Class A tax'.
Luke, I'll find some links for you regards the 'eco re-cycled' home building thing if you want, im fairly certain theres gonna be another 'tyre walled' build gonna happed localy this summer so i might be able to get some photos....... expect a pm.
Toyota's Prius is a sin in reality, the materials that make up its battery travel the equiv to once round the planet before they get into the car, Top Gear worked it out that you'd have to drive one for 20 - 25yrs before it became carbon neutral.
I always thought that it can't be good.. carbon comes from almost everything made.
Good on the pocket book, maybe. Untill you have to replace the batts. Bet those cells are some coin!
No tax for Diy please! We all could gang up on them. Tell them we won't work on their stuff for free when it breaks any more.
I always thought that it can't be good.. carbon comes from almost everything made.
Good on the pocket book, maybe. Untill you have to replace the batts. Bet those cells are some coin!
No tax for Diy please! We all could gang up on them. Tell them we won't work on their stuff for free when it breaks any more.
So what ??? pure BS ! That's what the very bad mpg car makers / car makers who weren't smart enough to invest into hybrid technology (and preferred to bet on monstruous SUVs) try to make you believe
Truth is : They travel by boat in a container. You have no idea what fuel efficiency these have, compared to a car... I can tell you it's several orders of magnitude lower. The fuel consumed during transportation is a tiny fraction of what the car will consume in its entire life!
The Prius is a great concept. Not yet perfect, but it's definitely moving in the right direction
I find it especially funny that after proving so un-knowledgeable about cars fuel efficiency (ref. your thinking 23 mpg was efficient LOL!) you come and throw such unverified BS.... I would have kept low profile IIWY....
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What are we going to do with the battery acid, Im picking we pollute rivers and landfills instead of the atmosphere. I recall the first generation Prius had the same fuel economy as a Corolla. I am not sure swapping co2 for batteries is a scalable solution or it is moving in the right direction.
Also there is no need to get personal, clearly not everyone is as passionate on fuel economy as you are.
I dont know about them, must do some googling. I do recall reading about batteries a few years ago and them not scaling due to to the availability of the raw materials.
I cant remember the name of the electrified Lotus Elise thats made in the USA, i did read some where that the car costs £88k and £30k is in the cells.
As i said in my first post, I once ran hifi from batteries, 2x lm3875 running on 4x12v car batteries, sounded REALY good, but figureing in the cost of charging kit, cells and the pita factor, it wasn't worth it. The guy who introduced my to 'propper hifi' and DIY ran his modded, deeply biased Hafflers and turntable from cells for a month - I still get goose bumps thinking about the listening sessions and funnily the 'tangy taste' from the gasses given off by the masses of lead/acid cells comes back every time I look at a car battery.
If it was slightly easier to find the bits, I'd build Hiraga's LeMonstre, first and only time I heard one my jaw dropped so fast it nearly fell off. On my 'to do' list is the battrifying (battrifrying if I get it wrong) of a Technics SL-PG380 cd spinner, cost me £10, me step-father has promised the use of his 12v solar charging pannel so all i have to do is buy some leisure cells - if it dont work I'll use the case for a battery powered pre amp.
As i said in my first post, I once ran hifi from batteries, 2x lm3875 running on 4x12v car batteries, sounded REALY good, but figureing in the cost of charging kit, cells and the pita factor, it wasn't worth it. The guy who introduced my to 'propper hifi' and DIY ran his modded, deeply biased Hafflers and turntable from cells for a month - I still get goose bumps thinking about the listening sessions and funnily the 'tangy taste' from the gasses given off by the masses of lead/acid cells comes back every time I look at a car battery.
If it was slightly easier to find the bits, I'd build Hiraga's LeMonstre, first and only time I heard one my jaw dropped so fast it nearly fell off. On my 'to do' list is the battrifying (battrifrying if I get it wrong) of a Technics SL-PG380 cd spinner, cost me £10, me step-father has promised the use of his 12v solar charging pannel so all i have to do is buy some leisure cells - if it dont work I'll use the case for a battery powered pre amp.
IMO,It's simply foolish to use such an inefficient amplifier from a source as 'dear' as solar. Solar is $pendy. It's cheaper to power your home from the grid..you simply cannot compete with the cost of mass-produced grid power,it's dirt cheap in comparison.
Also, the FIRST rule of off-grid generation,is conservation. It's much cheaper and easier to cut back on your power usage,than it is to install more panels (or wind,or hydro,etc.)
If you've got several thousand dollars that you just can't figure out what to do with -Go for it. Otherwise,start with a (12V powered) Class-D amp,panel,and a deep cycle battery and go from there. Get a "feel" for it first.
Also, the FIRST rule of off-grid generation,is conservation. It's much cheaper and easier to cut back on your power usage,than it is to install more panels (or wind,or hydro,etc.)
If you've got several thousand dollars that you just can't figure out what to do with -Go for it. Otherwise,start with a (12V powered) Class-D amp,panel,and a deep cycle battery and go from there. Get a "feel" for it first.
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