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Toshiba were the first into this decades ago with their "nuclear battery" design: "If we lived in a world where everyone was (a) smart and (b) trustworthy, Toshiba's micro-sized nuclear reactor, small enough to fit in the basement or a large shed, would be a slam-dunk solution to the...

Good to see this sort of consideration for a minority group, and not treating them as disabled. They could perform well in any cycling terms with very short cranks which suit high cadences. Typical bike cranks are 175mm, but much shorter ones of 100mm have been use in some cycle racing. One...

That's history and I know that of course, I am not being disingenuous, I quoted the BBC accurately on what they reported Zelenskyy did late yesterday in phoning Putin. They said pleading and there was no mention of asking or meaningful. The point was made that he repeatedly asked for...

As Oyster commented, Autovaz is very much a Renault subsidiary, today with 67% interest in the company. Their technology is very much Renault's, as you'd realise getting into one and seeing the touch-screen infotainment system. They've even got three fully electric Lada models, obviously...

I hear Ukraines President Zelenskyy has phoned Putin pleading for talks and mentioning compromise repeatedly. A bit late after all this destruction, killing and maiming. The time for compromise was at the beginning of this situation, or years before, as I've long been maintaining in this...

They are, but they have a fine range of modern cars now which have been praised by Autocar who've reviewed them, so in this respect sanctions won't trouble them. Even if they didn't have Autovaz there wouldn't be a problem. Look at blockaded Cuba still driving their 1960s cars. .

Autovaz, the Lada car manufacturers make a Lada supercar now:

Of course after 26th February, I clearly posted that. You replied to my post containing this: "Failing that working and Russian forces massing on the border years later should have been met by him taking the high moral ground with Putin with this message to him, made public worldwide:" Note...

They're paratroopers, experts in going down. They need assistance to go up. .

They'll be ok so long as the territory isn't extreme. No-one actually has 21 gears since many of the sprocket pairings are just duplications. The gears chart below I produced using a common front chainwheel setup of 32-44-52 teeth and a Shimano 8 speed cassette. The the sets of green bars...

All wars go too far, ultimately they never achieve anything or solve anything as the persistence of war and the way all empires die shows only too clearly. We are the human race, the most intelligent species this world has ever known. We have the capacity to stop them ever happening, but not...

I agree this will hopefully happen, I posted yesterday that it is the best we can hope for. But at what horrific cost. It's possible to deal with dinosaurs like Putin in future without this level of carnage, but it needs far more brains than have been applied so far. Meanwhile, we let the...

Not if Russia wins this war. Such attempts will be ruthlessly dealt with, compounding the carnage. .

And since it wasn't, it should have been said currently. .

Who co-operated in the maiming and killing, reducing the cities to rubble, forcing millions to seek shelter underground? The Ukrainians who knowingly and defiantly chose that course of victimhood instead of making every effort to avoid it. They've fought and will end up with all the harm and...

The juxtaposition of the two sections I've enlarged in bold is what is intolerable to me. Killing and maiming so many, creating a huge refugee crisis and destroying so much infrastructure is inherent to that policy of fighting, totally unnecessary and not benefitting the whole of humanity. Did...

I find that a very strange point of view. I think this is a far greater issue than oligarchs, who are not the big issue that some in the West like to make them for their propaganda purposes. It was after all Putin who cracked down so hard on them in 2000 after his creator Yeltsin had created...

Ah but you know the usual Tory line. It's all the fault of Labour in power for the first two years of that long period since. .

Possibly, but I don't think this or EU membership matters in this situation since the EU isn't yet a military alliance. It's something they usually duck away from each time a European Army is proposed, let alone a whole defence force. .

I think definitely rather than may be. I can't envisage Georgia, Ukraine or Moldova meeting the strict EU fiscal requirements to become a member for a very long time. And I can't see the EU relaxing those on emotional grounds. .