Electric cars and the grid..... it has begun.

[stuvy]

So you can’t remember on Christmas Day when the lights used to go out late 80’s for me as a child due to everyone turning the oven on at the same time

 

[Greeves246]

I remember the three day week and having to have candles and a camping stove to cope with the electric being off for four hours at a time.

 

[dobbslc]

Maybe I should start up a new company making candles!

 

[brightspark]

I remember the three day week and having to have candles and a camping stove to cope with the electric being off for four hours at a time.

just dont put the camping stove on the electric cooker ring and forget it was turned on when the electric comes back on it blows up and totaly demolishes the kitchen and blows the windows outi saw it happen

 

[stuvy]

just dont put the camping stove on the electric cooker ring and forget it was turned on when the electric comes back on it blows up and totaly demolishes the kitchen and blows the windows outi saw it happen

I have heard of a girl putting an electric kettle on the gas hob as that’s what she had at her house

Took me ages to clean it off

 

[julianthegypsy]

You know what the biggest difference in between the bike tyres is? Rolling resistance, and ride quality. That's what you feel.
The biggest reason for slicks in the dry is to reduce tyre temperature buildup from the tread blocks moving around, the extra contact patch makes little difference.

As for accelerating. The buggy does 0-60 in 5 seconds with mud terrain knobblies on the back and they're a hard compound too.
In terms of accelerating from a standstill it'll make little difference. The wide tyres are for stability and heat buildup at sustained high speeds mainly.
As I said earlier. The difference, on road tyres, of even DOUBLING the weight of a vehicle for the same tyres - providing it's still within the carcass loading - is only around 12-15% in outright grip.
Most of the thing with wider and differential tyre sizes is in response and transients to control the way the car goes into a corner and apex, and chassis engineers controlling the way the car feels, rather than outright grip changes.
And when you get to road cars, with wet weather, snow, etc to deal with. You can definately over-tyre a car. Especially when it comes to aquaplaning.

Fat tyres are useless on snow too...

 

[brightspark]

I have heard of a girl putting an electric kettle on the gas hob as that’s what she had at her house

Took me ages to clean it off

when i had electric wallpaper strippers i hired them out and some dick put it on the gas ring and buckled the outer plastic case the mind boggles another one trying to remove wallpaper with a carpet cleaner he thought you sprayed the wall and it sucked the paper off brought it back and said it didnt work . jesus christ the mentality of it

 

[premmington]

I remember the three day week and having to have candles and a camping stove to cope with the electric being off for four hours at a time.

I recall this as kid - "three day weeks". "Candles and camping stoves". 1973/74 (I was six or seven).

We lived in an old house - Mother cooked stuff in the fire place (soda bread) - boiled kettles - baths on Thurs and Sun night.

Huge lamb stew with dumplings cooked on the fire in a huge cast iron pot.

Jacket potatoes wrapped in tin foil cooked in the fire ash tray. Dripping in salty butter.

Mother had been thru the war - when there was little or no food.

Having loads of food and no electric to cook with - was no problem to her....

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Jacket potatoes wrapped in tin foil cooked in the fire ash tray

But it wasn't needed for hats back then.

 

[bricol]

not that long ago grangemouth lost their gas supply due to a fractured main pipe, Scotish Gas Networks gave households with gas heating or cookers a hot plate and a fan heater as a get you by until the problem was resolved, unfortunatley the grid couldnt cope and the leccy went out too, probs a lot more demand than cars charging but it shows the weakness of the system.

Happened here a few years ago - builders on a big site on outskirts of town went through the main gas main to 4000 homes on Good Friday weekend at silly o'clock - their permissions excluding working at that time, Bank holidays and sundays . . .

Gas lot handed out all the heaters and plates and within a day there were requests to stagger useage as things were over heating . . .

We gained a LOT of vans from all over the country as they brought in people from all over the country to reconnect supplies . . .

 

[premmington]

But it wasn't needed for hats back then.

Chesnuts cooked in an open fire ash tray are nice as well.

Mother would take you dog walking in Oct/Nov/Dec collecting chesnuts.

I remember she would peel them hot for you - you could not touch them they were so hot - but it never bothered her (asbestos hands)

 

[R Kraft]

A small news bit on national oil companies

NOCs, Not Big Oil, Are Responsible For Most Emissions | OilPrice.com

Big Oil has been blasted for its slow transition to cleaner practices, but the emissions of privately owned oil companies pale in comparison to the enormity of state-owned oil enterprises

oilprice.com

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Happened here a few years ago - builders on a big site on outskirts of town went through the main gas main to 4000 homes on Good Friday weekend at silly o'clock - their permissions excluding working at that time, Bank holidays and sundays . . .

Gas lot handed out all the heaters and plates and within a day there were requests to stagger useage as things were over heating . . .

We gained a LOT of vans from all over the country as they brought in people from all over the country to reconnect supplies . . .

Same around here.

Developer behind gas mains chaos which leaves 6,000 without heating, hands out sandwiches!

The developer behind the fractured gas main which has left 6,000 people without gas for three days in Ampthill, Maulden and Clophill has come up with a novel way to say sorry - sandwiches.

www.google.com

Developers hit the main then filled it with concrete. Traveled miles down the pipe both ways. Just missed me

 

[dobbslc]

Jacket potatoes wrapped in tin foil cooked in the fire ash tray. Dripping in salty butter.

That sounds awesome. Me mouth is watering!

 

[mike os]

That sounds awesome. Me mouth is watering!

Banned because they only contain natural products

 

[stuvy]

That sounds awesome. Me mouth is watering!

Surely youv done this before?

 

[dobbslc]

I think I'll have a go this winter

 

[stuvy]

I think I'll have a go this winter

Buy the butter now before it goes up too much

My house mate came back from the supermarket with out any cheese that I needed for dinner.
He said it was too expensive and he wasn’t getting any

 

[premmington]

Surely youv done this before?

If you have an open fire - pick at cold winters Sunday afternoon - when there is nothing on the TV. Sweep the fire ashpan out - light a good fire. Open a bottle of wine or two. Go thru the fridge - wrap a few things up with oil in tin foil. Cheap pork slices and veg/mushrooms/peppers/jacket spuds - light a few candles. Pretend you are poor. Pretend it is the 70's. Far better than a BBQ. Sleep it off on the sofa in the warmth of the fires embers.

I think I'll have a go this winter

Celery hearts - wraped in bacon - in tin foil with butter

 

[stuvy]

If you have an open fire - pick at cold winters Sunday afternoon - when there is nothing on the TV. Sweep the fire ashpan out - light a good fire. Open a bottle of wine or two. Go thru the fridge - wrap a few things up with oil in tin foil. Cheap pork slices and veg/mushrooms/peppers/jacket spuds - light a few candles. Pretend you are poor. Pretend it is the 70's. Far better than a BBQ. Sleep it off on the sofa in the warmth of the fires embers.



Celery hearts - wraped in bacon - in tin foil with butter are one thing I love.

Your an old romantic

Although, if the bills keep rising I won’t be pretending I’m poor