Posts by 12x7

There's a bit of rust on it. I wonder if that's the reason why it hasn't been sold?

What I like about the new Weber Q range is they're trying to bring innovation to gas bbqs.

Formula E - The Electric Formula 1

EV super van!

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Not quite a regular EV but here's an EV VS a F1 car in a drag race

Ford Supervan drag race

When people talk about EVs people seem to forget we already have lots of EVs and they have been running for decades. They're called electric trains.

In Sydney they have moved many millions of people.

Sydney - Electric trains started in 1926

Sydney’s Transport History – Electrification

This time in Sydney’s Transport History we are taking a deeper look into the electrification of Sydney’s Railways. Sydney’s Railways use an overhead…

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When you look at the end to end lifecycle of an EV vs ICE neither are much good for the planet.

However in the meantime EV's can be heaps of fun if you are a revhead!

Just wanted to show a different side of EVs eg. only owned by Elites, entitled, environmentalists etc etc stereotypes.

An interesting fact is after decades of decline in the sale of sedans EVs are driving demand for sedans.

Swap able battery pack is moving ahead for the everyday motorist and racers

EV battery swapping takes off in China

Top Chinese EV maker Nio has released its second-generation battery-swap station, which can automatically change an electric vehicle's battery pack. The…

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It's going to be interesting to see how battery tech affects racing EV vs ICE racing situations over long distances. With ICE you have to calc fuel load and how it impacts the car's balance etc. With EV you don't have that problem. Similarly lots of research has gone into ICE racing and crashes. I wonder what will happen in a bad pile-up with a EV racer and the racer catches fire.

If the EV battery swapping tech becomes wide spread it will overcome one of the major weakness of EVs which is the time to queue at a charging station and waiting for the car to charge, or if you live in a unit with no/limited charging stations.

You never know what might happen. The EU might classify an EV as an electronic device and you have to use a USB C port to charge it much like they forced Apple with their iphone.

Anyone notice the reels/videos and how the street racers are now driving EVs against hotted up ICE cars?

EVs are a cheap way to get supercar level off the line performance.

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I almost went with the Ziggy triple burner

Both have their strong points. I think in the end buying one over the other comes down to how you want to BBQ as both can make great tasting food.

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So two days later walked past the freezer, and the exact same number of vegan burgers are there (two posts up), seems $1 is far too much.

The funny side is that it is more damaging to the planet making artificial meat to the same protein level etc and making it taste, look and the correct texture etc of meat than the real meat and then have people throw the stuff into the garbage to make the damage to the planet even worse.

Back in the day when there was only two sports, cricket in the summer and footy in the winter we spent more time doing things like gardening and growing our own food in the background a lot of what we now called waste was used for growing food. Paper was used instead of plastic to wrap things and glass was recycled was the main way of storing things. Fast food and all the associated waste didn’t exist. It’s taken quite a few years but the use of paper and cardboard is making a comeback.

Feeding scraps to the pets and the chooks were a good way to reduce stuff going into the bin.

I think one of the problems is we produce so much rubbish nowadays. Once upon a time when rugby league players had a second job as garbos we could live with one bin (refer photo) which is a lot smaller than today’s bin collected once a week.

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done away with the Natural Gas versions of the Family Q and all the Q range..

I saw a Weber reply on Facebook NG will be available In November.

On sale now

I wonder if the old model is on discount?

Also can you use existing accessories in the new model?

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But even then, I don't think i'd enjoy using electric if it's raining. It'd have to be on a covered balcony.

Manufacturers are making portable electric devices you use outside and pack them inside. I saw this multipurpose cooker the other day. In one config you can make toasted sandwiches. Reconfigure and you have a bbq grill.

This popped up on the news feed.

Help, Why does my solar production do this every night?

I am using a POWR316D from sonoff to monitor my solar panels

Answer:

People don’t realise you have to recharge the sun every night.

Where there’s smoke

“Once, my father came home and found me in front of a roaring fire. That made my father very mad, as we didn’t have a fireplace.” —Victor Borge

The low and slow mode is interesting. Eg during bushfire season when you can’t use solid fuel bbqs and for fiat/ apartments/ high density dwellers which more and more people are living.

You have to laugh at generational change.

The free love, peace lovers of the 60s become the greedy Wall Street businesses owners of the 80's, the people they loathed and protested again in their youth.

The recent one is the generation which was fighting to save the rainforests of the Daintree are now knocking down those same trees to build wind farms to save the planet.

We have it easy in Oz when it comes to sorting garbage. Check out Japan and how clean the place is.

They don't tolerate what we call garbage collection in Australia.

https://matcha-jp.com/en/10149

A country that really knows how to keep things clean.

We have to remember a building over there may have 10,000 residents and a few blocks (Called Ward in Japan) may house up to 1 million people.

In Japan they are very wary of foreigns as they don't know how to dispose of garbage properly.