Snake oil?

[Rig Pig]

Offshore wind turbines.

 

[AdrianH]

Offshore wind turbines.

Aww, I thought they were good!

 

[Spark plug]

Electric vehicles! being Green

Yeah I know, I saw a red one today

 

[AdrianH]

Yeah I know, I saw a red one today

On green subjects I need something explaining to me. Coal is said to release lots of CO2 and be the worst of the green house gases, Coal is super aged wood, so how can wood burners be better for the environment., if you left the trees there long enough they would become coal?

Adrian

 

[Rocketman]

"Directional" audio cables, including this quote that "All cables - yes all cables - have signal directionality. By 'directional' I mean that in one direction, the sound is slightly louder, has lower distortion, is cleaner, smoother, sweeter, and has a deeper bass and overall wider dynamic range"

Bollx.

I can't hear you the cable wasn't good enough

 

[Kayos]

"Directional" audio cables, including this quote that "All cables - yes all cables - have signal directionality. By 'directional' I mean that in one direction, the sound is slightly louder, has lower distortion, is cleaner, smoother, sweeter, and has a deeper bass and overall wider dynamic range"

Bollx.

Just in the sprit of this thread I'm going to say I do have directional audio cables

No, I don't believe the flow of electricity needs to go one way, but the cables (I made my self) have the shield source grounded so should only be connected one way round.

I highly doubt the stuff Russ Andrews et all sell are the same thing, and you can buy a silver plated plug to go with your fuse, I'm sure it will make a huge difference

 

[ajlelectronics]

Surge protected mains extension sockets, alternator protection devices for welders, Splitfire car ignition units (same seller at the shows touts the fuel catalyst too. No idea how he sleeps at night).

 

[Kayos]

Surge protected mains extension sockets, alternator protection devices for welders, Splitfire car ignition units (same seller at the shows touts the fuel catalyst too. No idea how he sleeps at night).

Probably on a pile of money

 

[Spark plug]

Those magnets you put round your car fuel line to "align" the fuel particles thus increasing fuel efficiency.

 

[ajlelectronics]

FOR SALE: Elephant proofing widget. Brand new on the market, this fabulous invention is absolutely guaranteed to keep elephants from living in your 'fridge. We promise to refund ten times the purchase price to anyone who can prove* that an elephant has indeed taken up residence inside. Offer applies to domestic customers only. £15.00


*Proof must include footprints in the butter.

 

[Kent]

My daughter used to buy loads of different shampoos, normally recommended in some magazine, whatever happened to be the flavour of the month.
When I pointed out that it was all the same basic detergent with different colours and perfumes in and fancy containers she scoffed until I took her along as my 'apprentice' to do a job at a chemical works. She was shocked to see the different brands of shampoo all being produced on adjacent bottling lines including fabric conditioners and dog Shampoo's and they all started with the same detergent!
Now she just buys the basic stuff and says her hair is the same as its always been.
Me, I just use bar soap.

My wife an daughters wouldn't even believe they were all the same if you showed them in production, the claims on the bottles are incredible to say the least. We must have up to 20 in the main shower at times and then the different conditioners!

 

[bill_gj]

Don't know if it's still about, but there was a product made by Shell called TEEPOL that was rumoured to be the base for so many cleaning/shampoo products.
I used to buy it by the gallon to clear up the messes I used to make with car things.

 

[Kent]

Depends where they are sited, some areas are better than others...ditto onshore wind turbines...have to laugh at the elderly nutters who join groups like x against SPIN, No industrial wind factories etc....claiming that wind turbines hardly turn in winter etc etc...funny...I live on top of a hill and can see several different sites within visual range...never see them stopped (apart from maintenance) even in the dead of winter....

On the subject of "potentially" dodgy audiophile products...check out Russ Andrews - £25 plug fuses... O.o

if they aint stopping them regular then they are wearing them out quicker without feeding into the grid. the reason they are often stopped is its very hard to get the right cycle rate to feed into the grid (same with tidal , that's why they are now talking lagoons so they can control the flow hence cyclic rate). Wind can simply turn them too fast or too slow to be of use
A wind turbine just about reaches co2 payback in its life span (lots of concrete, steel etc). Issue is though they meet targets (another pet hate of mine targets were you choose your target after firing the shot effectively)

 

[CRB]

I dunno but I squeezed one in a vice to see if there was Turtle wax inside and it didn't end well, it left awful streaks on the bonnet and was hell to buff off with mutton cloth, it's a no from me.

Wiping turtle off with mutton.

 

[Kent]

On green subjects I need something explaining to me. Coal is said to release lots of CO2 and be the worst of the green house gases, Coal is super aged wood, so how can wood burners be better for the environment., if you left the trees there long enough they would become coal?

Adrian

No, neither will coal just become diamonds.

 

[RonA]

Theory being that plant tree, grow tree (tree absorbs CO2), cut down tree, burn tree, tree then releases CO2 - ergo carbon neutral

coal on the other hand is millions of years old so raises the atmospheric CO2 level

(personally I reckon man made climate change is bunkum....given that the dinosaurs lived in temps up to 10-15C hotter than we experience now...the world isn't going to end...with a 2C rise..despite what Comrade Chairman Al Gore claims about 20-50 METRE sea rises....alarmist nonsense...)

I'm with you on this one. Given the Second World War saw the greatest period of industrial production the world had ever seen (mainly powered by super polluting coal) , why didn't we see global warming in the immediate post war years.
My money is on solar activity (over which we have no control), supposedly the sun emits enough energy in a second to power the whole of the USA for a year.
My other pet gripe is electric cars. Apart from the annoying fact that most of the power is generated outside of the cities that push the use of these things to keep their environment clean, where do they think the energy to power them comes from. Additionally if we all switched to electric cars, could our UK power grid & power stations cope. The simple answer is no, experts on the system are already predicting we haven't enough generating reserve to cope with current demand.
RonA

 

[brewdexta]

Copper and magnetic wrist bracelets, crystals, horoscopes, etc etc.

 

[Kent]

I'm with you on this one. Given the Second World War saw the greatest period of industrial production the world had ever seen (mainly powered by super polluting coal) , why didn't we see global warming in the immediate post war years.
My money is on solar activity (over which we have no control), supposedly the sun emits enough energy in a second to power the whole of the USA for a year.
My other pet gripe is electric cars. Apart from the annoying fact that most of the power is generated outside of the cities that push the use of these things to keep their environment clean, where do they think the energy to power them comes from. Additionally if we all switched to electric cars, could our UK power grid & power stations cope. The simple answer is no, experts on the system are already predicting we haven't enough generating reserve to cope with current demand.
RonA

What to the fire brigade do when they get to a crashed car but cut the battery cables, your driving round a bomb! We haven't enough power in the UK to cope with the plants that need de-commissioning Nuclear is out only hope or a lot more cheap coal fired like China are doing.
I do believe we are influencing climate change, so much has changed from the 1940s (look at air transport for one) the issue is its all political point scoring and mis-representation around the fixes (to make money in the main) We are a little island look at what is happening in China and Africa and its obvious we are trying to bale out an ocean liner with a tea cup

 

[Cobbler]

Electric vehicles! being Green

There was a Nissan Leaf that had an electrical problem on a steep & narrow hill near us one week end evening. The breakdown service came out to move it, couldn't as the systems shut down, brakes on & locked. Apparently they rang Nissan help line to find out how to get in & disable everything, & they had gone home for the weekend. The road was closed until Monday morning when they could get the information needed.

 

[Cobbler]

A wind turbine just about reaches co2 payback in its life span )

I asked this question about co2 payback when there was a meeting about a wind turbine near us, good few years ago in the early days. They refused to answer said I was asking irrelevent questions. When I insisted, saying that if it made more co2 being manufactured than it ever saved there was no point. The person answering tried to belittle me & virtually escorted me to the door, me laughing all the way.