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Just as in an early posting there is no such animal as a terrorist,.. every terrorist is somebody else's freedom fighters or liberator, just so there is no Agression, it's just defence in depth, .. preferably on someone else's land. Perception is everything . The Chinese and the Russians see the...

From what I was told, the western alliance had a perfectly feasible defense plan in the 1980s .. send whatever tanks they had available to northern Germany , say Luneburg heath and allow them to engage with the Russian hoards, when inevitably after 15 minutes and overwhelming odds they were...

Zatlan, I am not a petrol head or particularly interested in cars, but of the three brands you mention are they not in foreign ownership, according to wilki. Or in any event engaged in engine development with other companies like Mercedes-Benz or Toyota.. In any event the jaguar is actually an...

My comment was directed towards those piece parts used by oems as was wooshs prior posting. There is certainly a market in the ultra luxury markets where perception is everything and snob value to be cherished. But consider those branded products to which you refer owe their value to the...

Zatlan, we are continually going around in circles on this one. You accuse the EU of being interventional and simultaneously accuse it on not intervening. Long ago I tried to explain that it has allowed the competent authority in each state to determine local priorities . It assumes goodwill on...

Yes but the reason you buy German product, is because you can buy it cheaper than tooling up to make it. Likewise the same British companies could at present buy their widgets from Korea, perhaps with a little bit of tarriff, but the lower wages there make it affordable...

Zatlan, in my experience, politicians do not usually lie. They prevaricate, they boast, they explain, they exaggerate, they qualify their committments ..". I would do the following if elected and subject to the suitable .... ". But barefaced lieing is novel at least in the recent past. The...

Woosh that is pie in the sky thinking. If the UK has a trade deficit, it's because it buys in more than it sells . Unless post Brexit it magically stops needing those items it buys , it still buys them. There is no law which requires the UK to only buy and sell EU, otherwise how could it have a...

Hydrogen cannot be solidified per sec. it can be located and trapped by adsorbtion into a variety of substances ,including grapheme , so that the vapour pressure is significantly reduced say 2 atmospheres and quantities comparable with heavy steel bottles can be stored at very low pressures. It...

Tilson, your knowledge of the dangers of dealing with kerosene fumes is colouring your expectations regarding the use of hydrogen. It's characteristics are utterly different

There are alternatives to heavy bottles storing gases under pressure, the cyrogenic containers comprising light aluminium and polyurethane foam can store large amounts of liquidised and adsorbed hydrogen for the periods required. In the event of an adsorbed hydrogen container breaching,, the...

I find the distance is about 3 miles one-way, as being a perfect distance for an ebike into town. Just long enough to gain the advantage, short enough not to get cold or hot and bothered ,will suit any ebike of whatever vintage, as most any battery is good for 6 to 8 miles.

I must disagree regarding health the depleted uranium , is still radioactive as well as being toxic , as many of the heavy metals are. Thr human body has no mechanism for excreting heavy metals and they normally cause kidney damage. During the battle phase the uranium will form gaseous and...

Not so , there is much credible evidence in the wilkipedia about the small tactical devices..,

The word tank has a number of meanings , including the main battle tanks to which you refer. The name is also used to cover mobile artillery, and tank killers etc and it is battlefield mobile artillery where these small nuclear weapons were intended.. a 10 15 mile range Against massed armour...

The history of that time is more nuanced than your description might portray.

Come on zatlan, that is just not on... I once drove an Audi, have worked in electronics , and at one stage earned 50 k.. mind you , with the reduction in sterling, my pension in Euro is close to it. And I am not common.!!!! , As my mother would have said I am superior!!..

With current storage techniques, I would agree with you, but the future and present are different. Using electrical motors it has been shown that enough thrust can be develope to carry payloads. The energy storage in cryogenic hydrogen oxygen for short term use, and even Trans-Pacific flight is...

Even a good walker will take 30 minutes to cover 2.5 miles, average and less able up to an hour So an elderly neighbour carrying her shopping might spend a total of 2.5 hrs just travelling from your bus stop to your door round trip. Sounds like a case for a small ebike! . Those neighbours whome...

.. it depends on what you want to optimise. Public transport is about service not efficiency. Part of the problem, now to a certain extent alliviated by Flexi hours is that if everyone is going places at fixed times, there is congestion at fixed times... Public service vehicles including...