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I half expected that the Pound will tank at least for the next few months until the BoE can up interest rate to 4%-5%.

KK's mini budget: short term 2-year treasury bond yield went up from 3.3% to 3.9%. Billionaires are not buying them as enthusiastically as they did until now. That should tell LT and KK loud and clear that growth won't materialise. They try to woo back fintech companies that fled to the EU after...

zelenskiy fights for independence from Russia, Putin fights for the old Russian empire. Surely independence is a more motivating, don't you agree? Also, they are fighting in Ukraine, the locals will always have superior number of manpower. As far as I can see, Putin will fail, it's just a matter...

Truss-onomics is a lot of hot air. It's not so much what she wants to do on the economy, government borrows to controls energy price and removes moratorium on fracking, it's the noise that government tries to whip up as if it would energise the population. It's the same with tax cuts, Truss...

it isn't an irresistable force though, because Putin is calling up 300,000 to send to Ukraine. Russia is a country blessed with incredible riches which its dictator decided to use to wage a WWII style war, so unlike China's Xi. Putin is way past his sell by date.

sooner or later, I prefer it sooner rather than later, the Russian people and Putin will realise that his decision to invade Ukraine was wrong. His and their only way is for somesone else to take charge of the situation and negotiate a way to end this war. If he does not take responsibility for...

if Putin deploys nuclear weapons, even only low yield, it won't end the war. It will destroy Russia completely and most of Europe's capitals. WW3 will be for real. As you said, NATO has superior manpower and weaponry. Russia can't win. Soon enough, China and India will have to choose side and...

contrast the way China wants to re-unify with Taiwan and Putin with Ukraine. China will get there more quickly and pretty much bloodless.

it's the same as LiFePO4 (Lithium Iron Phosphate). LPF stands for Lithium Ferro Phosphate. Neither name is ideal because the cathode material is a compound of LiFePO4 and other elements like Aluminium, Cobalt, Manganese and Titanium. The compound forms a solid structure of 'blobs' a bit like...

you can't cut down to much less than 36V 10AH because the battery has to be strong enough to provide maximum power you need for hills. A 36V 10AH = 360WH can give you about 360W * 1.5 max, about 500W without overheating. If you half that, like using two Bosch 36V 2AH tool batteries, you'll...

If your priority is lightweight, then consider a bag battery and keep the controller inside it. For your 18 miles, you would need 36V 10AH to avoid range anxiety. A typical lightweight kit is thus something like Aikema 85SX with 36V 10AH (2s10p in 21700 5000mAH cells), 15A controller, the lot...

I think she knows of the difficulties but did not want to broach the subject. The problem is it's expensive to stay at the top table and the indigineous population steadily gets older and fatter. It's been a generation now that we rely on immigrants for growth.

now that Truss' economics is announced, government will borrow lots and lots of money to pay more than half of our energy cost in the hope that those energy companies are going to invest in the UK, let interest rate and inflation rip by market forces. She reminds me of Norman Lamont when the UK...

I do sell batteries on their own but my prices are not competitive compared to those on amazon or ebay. I use only Samsung and Panasonic cells and SANS chargers. It's the kits that I sell only with batteries unless you already have one from us and need a second identical for a second bike. This...

LiFePO4 batteries for powerwalls are specified for 20 years / 6000 cycles, about right for powerwall applications.

Wasn't it true that HP was started in a garage of their founders? inside the HP200A, first commercial product hand built by the two founders: that was well before they shifted production to China.

there is a small but inherent risk of fire with anything electric, from your toaster to your fridge, TV, washing machine, laptop etc. The fire risks of e-bike batteries attract more attention because of the larger amount of heat produced by the batteries. You need to be careful with batteries so...

Adding to the issues that NealH mentioned above, recelling is difficult to scale up.

the situation of a large organisation such as ebay, amazon and Philips is substantially different from smaller ones. 1. freight cost. Small organisations have to rely on the post office. Sending a first class large letter (100g) to EU tracked and signed: £8.65, send in a motor wheel to France...

the cables won't cause a problem if you go for a BBS01 kit. Still, you have the option to fit a rear hub if you so wish.