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Private investors have put their own money into Joule, Tesla and all the EV vehicle companies would not exist without tax payer funding. Absolutely nothing that Slow Wing supports would be remotely commercial without subsidy from governments Have you read the Tesla report I've linked to Slowy, read ...

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Is The Tesla Model S Green? read the report and weep! Highlights Range 15-20% less than claimed Charging inefficency at least 15% (kwh consumed during charge cycle compared to kwh stored) Vampire loads > 5.4 mile range loss/hour in cold/hot weather while stationary (battery management draws power),...

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Youtube linky to BBC Horizon Special on Joule Unlimited Worth watching for all those who still doubt the technology, if you share TMWF's social guilt there's no point in watching, there's no encouragement here for the dismantling of western society or forced population reduction from 7bn to 1bn The ...

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Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference – Washington DC – April 15, 2013 – Joule today announced another industry first in renewable fuel production: the direct conversion of waste CO2 into the essential components of gasoline and jet fuel. ... Joule has engineered photosynthetic biocatalysts that ...

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Genetically engineered cyanobacteria which 'shit' ethanol & diesel, can't believe that even the BBC are wanking about Joule's prospects I suggest there'll be Joule style 'fuel' plants (geddit), across the world, growing a fossil fuel replacement crop to fit into our existing infrastructure long befo...

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BBC 2, Horizon, Now, 10 mins on Joule Unlimited at their New Mexico pilot production plant

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Peugeot have made a hybrid with a difference, one that dumps the batteries and electric motor for a compressed air energy storage system. The system can propel a 208 on fresh air, at speeds below 43mph. The Hybrid air system is claimed to reduce use of the accompanying petrol engine by 80% in town,...

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NSIDC Admits Recent Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Scare Is A False Alarm The melt extent algorithm used by Greenland Ice Sheet Today has been overestimating the melt extent, and as a result, daily images posted on this site in February and March may have indicated melt where none occurred. While the alg...

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Planet Rugby needs this for the anti-science brigade. Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense When he tired of arguing with climate change skeptics, one programmer wrote a chatbot to do it for him Don't understand reinventing the wheel, couldn't he just have pointed them at Scomical ...

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Bjorn Lomborg in the Wall Street Journal A 2012 comprehensive life-cycle analysis in Journal of Industrial Ecology shows that almost half the lifetime carbon-dioxide emissions from an electric car come from the energy used to produce the car, especially the battery. The mining of lithium, for insta...

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Heh, heh Slowy you are a silly billy... How many 'Superchargers' are Tesla putting at each location in their 'network'? I can just see the owner of an $80,000 car waiting half an hour for the guy in front to get his half charge. And you and Tesla still haven't come up with a solution for the electri...

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It's just a shame diesel fumes are choking major cities to death, but then as long as your car keeps running you really don't give a shit about anyone or anything else, do you? Air pollution, oil spills, wars, propping up shitty regimes, don't care, got fuel to burn, got roads to drive. :lol: :lol:...

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Modern cars use so much gas because they're equipped with tons of fancy gizmos, starting with A/C, and are too heavy because they carry hefty noise-insulation and trendy upholstery. Ignorance personified, the 300 mile range battery pack in the Tesla 'S' weighs 540kg, that's the weight of three BMW ...

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Modern cars use so much gas because they're equipped with tons of fancy gizmos, starting with A/C, and are too heavy because they carry hefty noise-insulation and trendy upholstery. Ignorance personified, the 300 mile range battery pack in the Tesla 'S' weighs 540kg, that's the weight of three BMW ...

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Where to start? Tesla have produced the first long-range premium-quality electric car accepted by the mainstream motoring press. More than accepted: all the leading magazines have lauded it as the best luxury car produced in America and at least the equal of the E Class and 5 Series. It's game-chan...

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FA, if you are claiming that Chevrolet Volts continue to cost $80,000 a piece to produce - the incremental cost - then aren't you saying they cost the same to produce as a nicely loaded 85 kWh Tesla Model S luxury sedan with a 500 km all-electric range? No. Slowy As Tesla made a $150,000 loss on ev...

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Planet Earth calling Slow Wing, you are running out of time, please advise retraction date well in advance Feb 2013 2013 YTD Feb 2012 US Auto Total Light Vehicle Sales 1,192,299 2,235,537 1,170,945 US Auto Hybrid Light Vehicle Sales 40,173 74,784 57,979 US Auto Plugin Light Vehicle Sales 5,405 10,08...

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Paul Dennis on Marcott Thus the paper is an unremarkable Holocene record that loses definition on time scales of less than three to five hundred years. As such it would not be considered by Nature or Science for publication. If it's not publishged in Nature or Science then it doesn't impact on the ...

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Marcott :lol: :lol: :lol: Here is a graph from his 2011 Phd Thesis http://climateaudit.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/thesis-short1.png Here is the same graph using exactly the same data after statistical 'advice' from the reviewers at Science http://climateaudit.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/figure-1c.p...

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Why has sea ice been freezing faster this winter than in recent years, here's the DMI Arctic temp record for 2011 through 2013. Sure looks like this Feb/Mar has been 5-8degC colder than the recent past https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-obaFwc518HQ/UUehJcARR_I/AAAAAAAABT0/kwPB5NS2R_s/s817/arcticTemp...

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6rouch, can you read a tephigram, I read them most days, so I know how high convective cloudbase will be when I fly Air at any given temperature can contain a limited amount of water vapour, the point at which the rate of evaporation = the rate of condensation is known as the Saturated Vapour Densit...

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Slightly off topic I know but I wonder if Slow Wing would comment on the scientific integrity shown by the University of Copenhagen and in particular lead author Aslak Grinsted, on this bullshit paper on storm surges More Hurricane Surges in Future , there on the Press Release page is this image htt...

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The chart shows that globally, observations confirm relative humidity has falled, despite global mean temperature rising 0.8degC in 150 years, contrary to GW theory as programmed in every GCM... By the way, the chart above, admittedly only updated to 2008, shows total column water vapour to have dec...

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Atmospheric relative humidity has declined, not increased http://www.climate4you.com/images/NOAA%20ESRL%20AtmospericRelativeHumidity%20GlobalMonthlyTempSince1948%20With37monthRunningAverage.gif Relative atmospheric humidity (%) at three different altitudes in the lower part of the atmosphere (the Tr...

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Way to miss the point. It's the cause of the amplification that you need to be concerned about, you arse. All Earth's 'weather' is a result of the temperature difference between the poles and the equator. Observations indicate the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, thus reducing ...

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The additional melted ice inn the arctic vanishes during summer when the sun shines 24/7 :roll: On the Arctic circle at noon the angle of incidence is a maximum of 46.8 degrees and at midnight it is 0 degrees. As the Earth rotates once every 24 hours, the whole of the 4.4% of the Arctic surface abo...

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Die Kalte Sonne

In which Fritz Vahrenholt demolishes Rahmstorf's argument, guess which one outsells the other in the German market, here's a clue, it's not Rahmstorf

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Meanwhile, in Professor Stefan Rahmstorf's home country, which has a far higher percentage of 'renewable' energy generation than the UK, much longer experience (30+ years) of industrial scale production and a much stronger and much more effective 'green' political movement the first of 20 new 'multi...

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Since my last post net sea ice area anomaly has increased to 635,000 km2, Antarctic anomaly, at 917,000km2 is the highest for the date (4 weeks past peak ice) since satellite records began. Earth net sea ice anomaly has now been positive for 4 weeks! https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1gTGp3lP-bc/UU...

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http://cdn.arnoldclark.com/images/franchise/honda/pages/2012/95987-honda-civic-diesel/95987-header.jpg This new 1.6-litre diesel model is the best Honda Civic you can buy right now. It makes the 2.2-litre i-DTEC all but superfluous thanks to its punchy power delivery and excellent fuel economy. CO2...

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I've already posted this 2012 paper from Zwally, of NASA GISS, who was the source of the "ice free Arctic by the end of summer 2012" statement nonsense in 2007 Mass Gains of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Exceed Losses H. Jay Zwally. Jun Li, John Robbins, Jack Saba, Donghui Yi, Anita Brenner, and David Bro...

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6rouch,

like Farva, you are either drunk on the obscene profits you are making from exploiting the CAGW meme or more likely running away from FACTS that you don't like

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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4lyPPUdrvGY/UH_aDYJbYBI/AAAAAAAAA4E/tkNwvlqZC5U/s603/hadCrut4hadSST2decadalTrends1990on.jpg Complete, unmitigated tosh. Here's the data https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-on51T-ZfrQ0/UTOC0BiwKKI/AAAAAAAABRo/GWkZ458JVZo/s324/hadCrut4HadSst2DecadalTrendData.jpg Plot...

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Almost one third of all CO2 ever emitted by man was emitted during the period 1998-2012 during which time the warming trend declined and became a cooling trend, what's up with that? C02 overlays other trends. All drivers are loosely coupled to temperature. A lot of contrarian woo is predicted on th...

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Nah, I think the labelling is just not very clear, Groucho. The graph is only for the slice of ocean down to 700m. It is being heated from above but is also losing heat to the deeper ocean. Farva has already posted the graph on the preceding page (and you have already reposted it) that includes mor...

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Since the cognitively challenged are unable to comprehend the significance of the 30 year trend chart I've added CO2 to it, I'm not sure what else I can do to show that CO2's forcing on global temperature is dwarfed by natural variations, now perhaps you can explain 1. Why the temperature trend rose...

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Seldom have I seen such cognitive fail https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-8UIgcTvqZc8/UTDPMibDYCI/AAAAAAAABP8/zsQrtci9og8/s600/antarcticSeaIce28Feb2013.jpg Antarctic sea ice area is currently, in summer, substantially above not only last year's level but that of the average level of the modern warm ...

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Oh Dear, Ted in another ice melt FAIL, here's some more up to date info than 2009 Embracing data 'noise' brings Greenland's complex ice melt into focus, November 27, 2012 Details such as these can help scientists better understand the interplay between Greenland's glaciers and factors that influence...

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Excess Winter Mortality oh and 6rouch, you're getting to be as silly as Slowy, as is typical of all on shore wind installations and as you well know, the UK's wind hardware generates at best around 30% of nominal rated capacity on an annual basis but the owner operators don't care because the tax p...

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