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Dyson is an interesting case, he argued to maintain manufacturing in the UK until it was no longer feasible. When you are prototyping you need access to parts and people.. where was he to go to get small lengths of aluminium tubing quick access to plastic parts. When you have a multiplicity of...

... I don't know where you are going with this. Are you applauding the notion that simplistic slogans and external hacking thus flustrating normal politics is to be encouraged . It worked once in the UK, twice in the USA but are the French likely to fall for the same a third time?

Be fair Tom, many who voted exit are also intelligent, but for any of a number of reasons including national pride (and prejudice), knowing that it might cost them in financial terms did so. My daughter and her husband voted for opposite sides and I am not prepared to consider either of them...

Whoosh just a number of points .. you cannot get more European than the British, comprised as they are of Celtic, Viking, Saxon, angles, Norman , Picts And last time I looked the UK seemed to be stuck somewhere on the European side of Ireland. The UK leaving the EU will hurt the EU it leaves a...

No not exactly, majority voting will work if the EU negotiating team bring agreed proposals to the EU parliament. Unanamous agreement on variations would only become necessary if the UK wanted to vary the duration or even to step back . The article 50 and linked articles are very specific and...

There are some parts of the body that even the gym cannot tone. Homework is necessary... Enjoy!

... Well we may as well rib him now. I am now withdrawing from this contest as it's getting to close to the knuckle.

Was that a humerus comment?

Hi flecc, I appreciate the explanation, my estimate is that the unsprung weight per wheel would double, with a 10kw motor per wheel.

... I don't understand the unsprung weight condition as a limitation , and I would appreciate being enlightened. ( Not a wind up) . The complications of multiple motors rotating at different speeds and torques could easily be handled by the electronics. I would have imagined that multiple...

The original poster referred to a medical condition renauld s condition which was exerberated by age and cold. Fortunately I do not have this condition and have little difficulty cycling even in these conditions wearing sandals, ordinary wool groves and a feather lined anorak, often left open.

.... I would agree with the above and pure electric cars e.g the leaf would meet the majority of these needs. The problem arises when one needs to take the occasional long journey eg London to Edinburgh . I think would improve uptake if a single car tax or insurance premium covered both an...

We are only at the start of the hybrid car evolution. The shape of current cars is driven by the "form following function " of a central motor driving a gearbox and then more gears in the form of differentials driving wheels. Adding a battery pack to this and yet another gearbox and a single...

Could it have been a gas turbine? Rover did produce such a engine in a car as a test bed. I remember seeing pictures of it

.... As we Irish rugby supporters found out last week!

......He is very consistent... Every one of his tweets is a rant or a complaint, it's just that he changes the object . He is an equal opportunity ranter.

..... ... Having looked it up Glaubers salts , which can be obtained from any pharmacy, would be even more suitable. The phase change is at 32 degree. It is chemically non irritating non toxic and cheap. Crystals packed and sealed into balloons or other plastic flexible tubes, also obtained in...

... Still carrying on my argument, there is no particular requirement that the duty cycle be 50% the charging voltage could be much higher as it is average charge to which the battery responds. The motor must be constrained to the 48v to meet the EN standard. The bike would still meet the EN...

... Being deliberately provocative.. It would be relatively easy to make an electronic switch which would disconnect the battery from the motor during the charging cycle and disconnect the generator during the charging cycle. With say a stop time of 5 microseconds between phases and a cycle rate...

....... It's not it's true melting point which is at 1100 C but there is a a specific form at 48 c when it changes structure. I have never verified this but I do recall it being considered as a thermal store