An electric Roller at 300+ MPH???

[FakePilot]

All these coal fired powerplants. It would be easy to retrofit the boilers with electric heaters. Everything else could stay the same! If interested, contact Walt Investment Group.

[tail wheel]

Wot?? No cigarettes, Whiskey and wild wild Women??

Concentrate Pinky - I said...........

"The rest of my income I spent foolishly!"

BEACH KING... and the very best of seasons greetings to you and yours!

The rest of my income I spent foolishly ON JAGUARS

Alas, the E Type and the XJ40 are long gone. Under my asset replacement program, the E Type was replaced with a Mazda MX5 and a 10 meter Searay cruiser that packs a pair of 300 HP V8s!

[jonkster]

Originally Posted by tail wheel

If one subscribes to Albert Einstein's first law of thermodynamics, the Law of Conservation of Energy, energy can neither be created nor destroyed

Grumpy Old Man Pedant Mode on...

Einstein's? Lord Kelvin would be peeved. Especially as Einstein's theory of general relativity casts some ambiguity about the first law.

[libellegeoff]

Ask the Aussie's about fuel contamination ...

[tio540]

Battery powered, electric aircraft will fail, just like man powered aircraft, and for the same reasons. Due to a lack of energy.

[WingNut60]

Originally Posted by Ixixly

Carbon Neutral is a very loose terms these days Tail Wheel, often something is Carbon Neutral by paying for offsets elsewhere, ie you're creating pollution doing something but pay to get a butt load of trees planted somewhere else to offset it.

Except no one really cares how the 2nd bit is carried out, or if it's carried out at all.

Planting a butt load of trees (in return for a butt load of money) is just a license to double the felling rate 5 km down the road. It frequently finances the felling.
You don't really think that giving money to a Malaysian (or Indonesian or otherwise) logger will actually result in a reduced felling rate, do you?
And you don't think that the government officials tasked with monitoring the end result really give a sh..t about said end result do you?

[Ixixly]

Originally Posted by WingNut60

Except no one really cares how the 2nd bit is carried out, or if it's carried out at all.

Planting a butt load of trees (in return for a butt load of money) is just a license to double the felling rate 5 km down the road. It frequently finances the felling.
You don't really think that giving money to a Malaysian (or Indonesian or otherwise) logger will actually result in a reduced felling rate, do you?
And you don't think that the government officials tasked with monitoring the end result really give a sh..t about said end result do you?

Never said it actually worked :P just pointing out it's a fancy term, lol.