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On my cargo bike!

Haha, sorry, I missed the news about hurricane Odile hitting there (I'm in Denmark). Thanks for the info :)

Looks like it slid and hit the kerb to be thrown that high.

LOL, true. But the jeep isn't going anywhere up that hill anyway. Seldom do I plan on only getting the front wheel atop of something. Anyway, a Jeep shouldn't attempt to be an RV. Without that stupid, horrendous box at the back, it would have gone up that hill no sweat. I am still amazed at...

A commando Green Lantern.

I like how they themselves show how little it takes to get that huge rump caught: (The rear wheels are not even close the beginning of the hill).

Well, "For a start", you can't walk into an office cubicle and just start working. It takes something a bit more than just showing up to get a(ny) job.

I thought a modern Land Rover wasn't able to get you to the middle of nowhere. ;) It needs to be old, spilling oil, rattle like a maladjusted tractor and be oh, so uncomfortable. You also have to be able to pick the engine apart, recut the pistons and cylinders with hand tools, and have to be...

Yes, I was halfway joking. On one hand, the utmost respect for what the SAS does, but on the other hand, as you say, it also takes a special breed to want to make a career out of following orders and push yourself because some idiot yells at you for a long time. So, on hand, no question they are...

Digging the front of the icon. Until I saw the lights in the bonnet. Sheesh. "The Cimes Tractor" I do like - at least that one doesn't have a lot glossy surfaces, and aren't trying to look like it just came from the polisher's. Black glossy bonnet? I can't even keep a black road bike (as in...

Hmm, breaking three vertebrae is hardly an "achievement", nor is the fall that preceded it. Him surviving that would be more luck than skill. Climbing everest? Well, not sure that is such an achievement in and of itself either. With that said, as far as I know, he has military training, so in...

I don't get it, why people here would even care who is the "ambassador". The cars will stand or fall on their own merits, just like arguments. It doesn't matter to me if a spice girl "designed" a car, or if some self-promoting dickwad promotes the car. If I want one, I get one (funds...

I accidently cllicked on this thread after having been avoiding it. The reason? I thought it read "addiction", not "addition", and I thought it was a thread about LED's up the wazzoo, in all the colours of the rainbow! Anyway, I'm pleased to say I was wrong, and it was a practical thread, lol.

Oh, look, you edited your post to make it seem like you said something differently after I responded to that post. I guess I should have quoted your post in its entirety, but I didn't realise you would be that dishonest. You even removed all that idiotic stuff about doing an exercise where it...

There is a difference between proof-of-concept and actual products. That hybrid car is a whole lot different than a global expedition vehicle. Take note of the words "stationary" and "non-mobile, and it seems you have once again taken a fluff press release as gospel. Case in point. And you...

Aren't you just the sweetest thing. Not as easy as it sounds. Are you now also going to have those things custom made? Because as I already mentioned, even if a conventional turbine can run on diesels, they are usually limited to a very few numbers of hours of that in between rebuilts. And the...

No, I did not quote you. You do so long posts, and when people respond to you, you tend to ignore most of their posts anyway. I was commenting on your tendency to get tech horny when you hear about systems/tech used in other forms of transport - hell, or even as back power systems - to the...

About that sailing yacht with a Capstone Turbine, I take note that Capstone themselves, say it is a "A liquid-fueled Capstone C30". To me, that means it is not running on diesel, even though diesel is a liquid too. Because if it ran on diesel, why wouldn't they just say so? Take a look at...

I know you're thinking of using the "micro" turbine as a generator for a serial hybrid, but again, with 70% of the energy in the fuel expelled as heat, it is still a pie in the sky, until you have made at least some calculations to check how fruitful it would be to use that type of generator for...

Ok, let me rephrase it then: What I miss is adherence to the mission, rather than sci-fi solutions that is not only impractical in general, but moreso on a comparatively small scale (compared to grand sailing yachts and big commercial ships). No, carbon is not sci-fi. Thinking you can apply...