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Congratulations. Very beautiful car. Enjoy.

Summer 2022 is warmest summer ever recorded. Third time in a row. Sooner or later, we can go summer holyday to Svalbard. No need to apply for visa. All are welcome, just bring cash enough.

You are right. Said something like this more than a year ago; and all the EV fans thought they could make me believe I was stupid then. Solar cells do not last forever but probably long time enough to fill an EV car as their batteries also are rather short lived. Wind mills also do not last forever and especially the wings are hard to decompose. Only power source on the planet that is steady (sun does not shine always, wind does not blow always) is magnetism. As long as the moon is circling the planet the sea will have high and low tide, which is enormous power, and all that need to be done to turn that into electricity enough to make hydrogen, that is a power source that is recycling itself going back to water to be reused, is a bit of hardware.

We were younger then. Life was simpler then. Better?

Had a Nakamichi radio with cassette player. No autoreverse. Want to hear the other side - tape out and turn around. Good sound then. Miss this: You need to understand Scandinavian in order to understand how funny this is about how sound evolved to how it is today: Michael is the guy behind much of the Abba sound.

You are right. Not even the ones we create. Greed is a virtue for (some) business people.

Maybe they were searching for their friend the cat you have hidden in the exhaust system. 😇

Seems it is a dangerous country you are living in. Police getting caught with bad habbits, having bad things written about them and maybe being criminal themselves so not doing anything to the other criminals.

You had a good answer to the question. Do you also have a solution to how to stop shipping companies to send useless poisonous ships to poor countries to be cut up? Iron from the ships can be reused, but asbestos and other dangerous things in the ships are not being dealt with in decent manner.

Do you think that will stop the idiots throwing plastic and other garbage in the oceans? Or will they say: the idiots are cleaning after us so we just continue?

Malcolm, you like salmon? So do I. What are we to do with the idiots throwing plastic in the oceans so whales die with 29kg plastic in their stomach and create new continents of garbage? https://www.iberdrola.com/sustainability/plastic-island-in-pacific-eighth-continent

And extremely sweet. Some places a bit too much of the cane sugar they use. But Moroccan mint is fantastic. Here we can buy it dried.

I am sorry. Do not though consider Starbuck a place to expect to be served very good coffee. In an airport while waiting a cup from them is as good as a cup from most other airport coffee bars. Strong taste, yes. Taste of real coffee, no. Roast any coffee bean enough (too much in my opinion) and the coffee will taste strong. Many places in Turkey you can get good coffee, tasting of what it is supposed to - coffee. Some think that highest amount of caffeine show that the coffee is good. Some think that the coffee that tastes like real coffee beans, fist dried in sun and then roasted very lightly is good.

Maybe from one of these: As you see, there are many of them. The blocked one can be seen on YouTube and it is rather critical but also rather long.

Very many fine things he said. And in a calm and close to pleasant voice without behaving like a fool. Shutting down combustion engines will mean disaster. EV cars will in no way be sufficient to transport all the things we think we need. Batteries cannot move the airplanes we need to go to other countries on vacation. Neither can they power the big container ships. He did for some reason not mention H2. Luckily not all smart people agree with him as well as really smart people do not agree with or trust politicians. H2 is on its way, the ball started rolling and it cannot be stopped. For the time being there is no other energy source that is eternal. Fossil fuel is lees abundant than it was, we are wasting it, just like he said. Natural gas is also not something that will be available forever. Water that is turned to H2 and when having used the power in it return to water is the only energy source that is reliable and regenerating itself no matter how much we use it. Sun does not shine all the time and wind is not blowing constant. He is saying things we know, so all he says must be right. The only constant power source we have on this planet come from magnetism of the moon and that is the tide. It is there and it is more or less constant. The biggest most reliable power source on this planet, as far as I know. Just a little bit of mechanical problem turning that into useful power. He is smart and probably know that and for some reason did not mention it. CO2 is not dangerous in levels that are now or levels that supposedly will come the next 50 – 100 years but if CO2 level keep climbing, they will become just that. If we are OK with the probability that in a few hundred years humans will have problems breathing, then Mr. Musk certainly has found a golden opportunity to spread humans to other planets hoping they will do better there than here. He will of course make money on it. That rain is not sufficient many places is a disaster, see Africa where people are having problems not just with the idiots that want to be president instead of the president. That the water around Greenland is getting warmer is no problem (best quality shrimps and salmon come from cold water, but we can live without?), ice will just melt and that there below the ice in Antarctic also is rising temperatures in the water and the ice layer there is far less stable than before is also no real problem till some of the colossuses break and fall into water so sea level will rise so much that not only the island that are now having sea water to their plants which make them not grow will be completely gone as well as all low level areas will need to have dams around them in order to still have people there able to walk around with dry feet. Look at Holland. No problem we can all just move to higher ground or build dams around all the areas where we want to live. So: Go tell it on the mountain.

Maybe Toyota is a bit smarter than many other companies. When speaking gigantic batteries glued together in order to be reliable, they are risking customers that are not happy when having small accidents that damage battery just a little and the insurance company find car not worth repairing. The smaller hybrid batteries are not so expensive that car will not be repaired just because the battery is damaged. Happy customers are returning customers. A reputation takes long time to get, but short to lose. LS, IS and some other of the older models made it, it many problems with newer models, that reputation may get hurt.

Thank you, Malcolm. I learned something today. Always thought they were old aristocats (miauw) with gout, the preferred ailment of the upper class, according to Mrs. Bucket and have never been in the outside world of the poor people, because they were driven from their castles in RR to their place in the government with sofas where they could talk about golf and other very important things while having a cup of ? Whatever! You must continue to educate me.

And they are supposed to be brighter because they are not elected?

You know I do not trust politicians, so no! Politicians make rules about things they do not know what is, but as long as more than half of them agree, they are right. Are they? Ice cores from ice that is from several hundred thousand years till hundred ago can be showing more than it was just water that turned to ice because it was cold. And! Yes! I do believe some scientists. Decaf or good strong Mokka? Not that over-roasted cheap coffee the Italians call espresso. Stay healthy, swimming is good!

When was the last time Earth had 400 ppm CO2? Between 2.6 million and 5.3 million years ago. The last time the concentration of CO2 was as high as 400 ppm was probably in the Pliocene Epoch, between 2.6 million and 5.3 million years ago. Until the 20th century, it certainly hadn't exceeded 300 ppm, let alone 400 ppm, for at least 800,000 years. So maybe it is an issue. That politicians know very little is common knowledge, but that does not mean that CO2 is not an issue. There's a lot of debate about both temperatures and CO2 levels from millions of years ago. But the evidence is much firmer for the last 800,000 years, when ice cores show that CO2 concentrations stayed tight between 180 and 290 ppm, hovering at around 280 ppm for some 10,000 years before the industrial revolution hit. Much CO2 make brain activities less efficient, causes dizziness and headache. Maybe humans were thinking better before. Another very worrying “virtue” of humans is common greed. Unfortunately, that is not a new one.

Are these houses built of wood you want to climb up in: I would not mind living in a house built of natural wood. Resale value ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Trees to suck up CO2 and reduce use of cement. That we need to reduce CO2 is common knowledge and a way I was not informed about before is to plant trees. Some trees are more efficient in that way and one has potential to be a super helper. Paulownia is the name of it. Super-fast growing with big leaves and according to what I have read sucking much more CO2 than any other plants. It is hardwood and has been used in building houses and furniture. The trees grow at lightning speed, and to do so they must absorb large amounts of CO₂ from the air through photosynthesis. When the CO₂ is stored in the trees in the form of carbon, the trees can be felled and used as timber, among other things. In this way, the carbon can be kept out of the air for many years to come, while new trees absorb more CO₂ out in the plantations. Sucks carbon out of the atmosphere Paulownia consists predominantly – like other plants – of carbon absorbed from the air, and since paulownia grows very quickly, it also requires a very fast absorption of CO₂. You stick a cutting the size of an index finger into the ground in spring, and in autumn you have a tree that is three to four centimetres thick and up to one and a half meters high. You then cut that down until next spring, and then the tree grows back and is suddenly three meters high. - In two years! It's very big in China and in fact paulownia is part of President Xi's plan to make China CO₂ neutral from 2060. UN looking at the tree thinking it could be the way to stop the expanding desert: https://www.unccd.int/our-work/ggwi One of the problems in desert areas is that pretty much anything that can burn will. When people lack fuel, trees and bushes are quickly cut down. However, Paulownia has the advantage that it shoots again when felled. In fact, it can easily be cut back from full growth to virtually nothing six or seven times over its lifetime. On top of that, the big leaves can be used as food for animals as well as for humans. Very big leaves Living off dirty water – and cleaning the earth. In addition to the large absorption of CO₂, paulownia also has the advantage that it can be watered with so-called grey water, which can be utilized in the large, green wall. It can be water from swimming pools, waste water from industry or even regular sewage, as long as the dry matter is filtered out. - The grey water can be used to drip water the trees out in the desert. It is in itself fantastic that you can make a tree grow in the desert, and it can actually also help against pollution. The Paulownia trees go into symbiosis with fungi and soil bacteria and thus help with the purification of the soil. Although paulownia grows quickly, there is no danger of it spreading into the wild. Paulownias have been sold for horticulture under the name “Imperial Tree” for more than 50 years, and they have never spread like other garden plants. In addition to the storage of carbon in the tree itself, as with other plants, some is also stored in the soil in which they grow, in the form of so-called humus. Humus is the biological material associated with rich topsoil. And the biological material in the soil consists of carbon, which the plant originally absorbed through the air. So again, another climate benefit. There are more than 200 hectares of paulownia in Denmark. Paulownia is calculated to be able to absorb as much as 20 percent of Denmark's total CO₂ emissions in 2035. - We know very well that we have to build more sustainably and thus not so much in bricks and concrete anymore, and then there is simply a big advantage in paulownia. It just grows back every time we cut it down. We don't have to go out and plant new ones. It just keeps going. 1 hectare of paulownia absorbs more than 52 tons of CO₂ per year. Unfortunately, all good initiatives needing governments funding are often delayed due to the lack of knowledge of our politicians. https://www.unccd.int/our-work/ggwi/great-green-wall-accelerator

What I wanted when starting this was to inform that there are other ways to go than the dead-end road our politicians wanted us to go. I did not want to inform about the reasons that batteries are not a solution for future transportation as that information can be found so many other places. I wanted to inform that one of the other ways to help future life of our children as we humans stupidly enough think that we need to transport extremely many things half way around the world in order to live cannot be done with battery powered transport systems. One of these is H2 as fuel and I just wanted to inform about the progress within that field that has come to my knowledge. If some know about progress with other ways of reducing the damages, we are making to the planet that hopefully shall be living place for those coming after us, I will appreciate it, but comments just trying to ridicule that there are other ways to go than our politicians in their immense wisdom have ordered us on are not welcome and will be commented on in decent but precise language. I am not blaming those having bought battery powered cars. They have been misinformed and that is too bad as some of them are realizing. That the heavy batteries in cars will have polluted more than they have helped is not something I will spend time proving. It is a dead-end and there is no reason to continue writing about that. At least not for me.

Had a Golf 2.0tdi DSG 2005 a long time. 200K km, no real problems , just service. Before going to IVA (MOT where you live) I did drive around in sport low gearing - fast 10 - 15 minutes and the exhaust was clean and did pass the test. Short tours are bad for diesels. Never start it if it is not to be driven at least 10 - 15 minutes while warm.

Neither brain power nor taste can be bought with money. You either have or will never get.