Posts by graham crocker

Blimey - Sounds Too Good To Be True - Help Please.

Story sounds great - But vague. I'm not at all clear how the nuclear waste reacts with the graphite to produce huge amounts of energy. Can somebody explain how this all works?

Can Someone Tell The BBC ?

This disaster has been creeping up on us for a decade - I remember ridiculous renewable energy targets - "10% by 2010" was one, now "20% by 2020" . Utterly crack-pot numbers, pushed into the public domain in what amounts to a campaign of deception. Can someone out there get to the media luvvies, in their Norfolk farm cottages start to tell the truth?

Help please.

Get A Doctor!

Some examples seem incredibly obscure - Sorry I mean VA6E.

Teenaged Girls Sexually Provocative !!!

Full marks to the ASA for putting a brake on this disgraceful notion that teenaged girls might be sexually provocative.

This is clearly a step along the slippery slope of behaviour that could lead to copulation, pregnancy and the continuation of our species.

What is the world coming to?

Panic 'ut Mums' Net?

Women's groups have long campaigned against these tests - even to the extent of advising mums to hide the children's underwear when the "Ex" visits.

It's likely that a considerable bunch of dosh is currently being spent supporting the children of gentlemen that escaped the memory of the mother during divorce and maintenance discussions. Quelle surprise.

80% Charge in 3 Minutes!?

Blimey - I don't fancy standing anywhere near an electric car battery-pack stuffing itself with megawatts* of energy! Could be a great 'forecourt emptier'. (*OK ,Megawatt seconds - pedants).

Could be useful for cuddling up....

A useful role I can imagine, for such a manouverable craft, would be to mosey up to other satellites and then 'zap' them if required.

A Marvellous Initiative

Top marks to the Trading Standards people.

Only the other day I was on my way to buy a top-of-the-range plasma TV (Small-print APR 35%) when I spotted a young man who could easily have been concealing an internet-available knife. I turned around and went straight back home.

How Do They Get Funding???

Blimey, Guv. - How on earth and who on earth is funding this stuff?

It really does look like the output of people with much too much time on their hands.

A Practical Electric Car - Maybe.

If the claimed energy densities are correct, this could finally make a practical electric car a reality - Unlike the various still-born jokes trumpeted to-date, by the ignorant rich, tree-huggers and arts driven media.

Brit Sattelite Still in Orbit After 30 Years

I'm sure I recall the launch of a UK satellite on a UK rocket - Blue Streak, I think - In the 60's and still in orbit now.

Your article is a wonderful view into the educational background of those in the media. This gem certainly sits alonside the "Reefs" horror put on screen by the BBC during the recent Rememberance Day TV coverage .

Pro Encon Anti Bullsh*t

I'm impressed that claims of 30% efficiency are being made in this debate. Germany - Which has easily the largest wind-generation plant in the world - recorded approx. 17% of rated capacity in the last full reporting year.

The uncomfortable truth is that wind power is a poor contributor to the energy mix and is likely to remain so. The public continues to be mislead by vested interests (including the 'Green' movement) fully aware of the general public's poor understanding of physics and engineering.

At Last! - A Reasoned Counterweight to the Media Eco-Mafia.

Common sense at last! I remain concerned that the 'eco-mafia' - The highly eloquent, highly paid, arts biased opinion formers -Will pull out all the stops to obfuscate the truth and mislead the public.

At heart is a truth that many will not or cannot grasp elementary ideas in the sciences and much prefer a world in-line with their cherrished misconceptions.

Same Woolly Logic Gave Us Low Energy Light-bulb Crusade

Technical ignorance is rarely a check on eco-campaigners in full cry. The same people are foisting Low Enrgy Lightbulbs onto a (cold) Northern European population where any savings will be miniscule. We will however be just able to read of the triumph in the shimmering, eerie glow of a 15W neon lamp.

Phone Shock or Maths Shock?

Someone should check the decimal points here! 900 Kv would give a spark nearly a metre long!

Holy incineration, Batman!

M & S Must be Reg. Readers

Wooden feet maybe, but not feet of clay. Page seems to have been corrected already.

Clarification Factoid

At the risk of sounding too much like a train-spotter, it's worth mentioning that 1 megajoule is 1 megawatt for 1 second.

Once this is clear, the whole article is much easier to understand - For example, the 100 megawatts to provide 64 megajoule is actually a burst of energy lasting roughly half a second.

ASA & Ryanair - hats Off to Ryanair

Full marks to Ryanair for standing up to the ASA. As they say, they are "unelected" and "self appointed ". If they were "dimwits" life for the rest of us would be much easier. Unfortunately they appear to be either 'spineless' - for not standing up to 14 whingers out of a pool of 60 million - or carrying the flag for a puritan agenda sometimes associated with stroppy feminist groups.

Don't Confuse Wolves With Darts

Interseting article about the new navy destroyer. However I'm pretty sure that the "antique Silk Worm" missile was shot down by a Sea Wolf missile not a Sea Dart. The Sea Wolf is still a serious piece of kit and well capable of bringing down a cruise missile - Antique or otherwise.