In todays news...

[Mr. Dazzle]

I've just watched the latest Harrys Garage clip and he's with Gordon Murray, who is suggesting they're having a big rethink now because of the EU turnaround on ICEs, so that sublime Cosworth V12 might be around for a while longer yet.

The last project I worked on at my old Carbon Fibre job was stuff for the GMA T.50...the carbon fan in particular was my baby.

The V12 indeed sublime but it's little things which get me. The switchgear for example was developed at great expense, Gordon Murray hates the very slight free play you get in the switches even in million pound cars. So he paid to design it out. Truly a man who cares about every part of the car, not just funny brum brum noises.

[Bike Breaker]

No-one has flashed me yet.

Probably still trying to find the stalk after being blinded

So that's why you're called Mr Dazzle?

[Mr. Dazzle]

You've no idea how far ahead I had to plan that email address.

[Horse]

https://www.energylivenews.com/2023/03/ ... ive-water/

Residents near a nuclear power plant in Minnesota have raised concerns over public officials’ delayed notification about a ‘400,000-gallon leak of radioactive water’ containing tritium in late November.

According to reports, the incident at Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant was only publicly confirmed for the first time on Thursday.

...

A spokesperson for Xcel Energy told ELN:

“We understand the importance of quickly informing the communities we serve if a situation poses an immediate threat to health and safety. In this case, there was no such threat. With no immediate safety risk, we focused on investigating the situation and containing the affected water in concert with our regulatory agencies.

“Now that we have thoroughly investigated the issue, contained the leak, and mapped out a path forward, we are at a place where we can share with the public not only what has already been done, but what we’re going to do next. This timing allows us to provide the most accurate and complete understanding of the situation.”

[Mussels]

https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/

CAN injection

How to steal a car without the key. Hint: your Faraday cage won't.

Two Teslas parked next to each other, both keys operated both cars. It's back to 1970s Ford standards.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/15/tesla_key_mixup/

[Horse]

https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/

CAN injection

How to steal a car without the key. Hint: your Faraday cage won't.

Two Teslas parked next to each other, both keys operated both cars. It's back to 1970s Ford standards.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/15/tesla_key_mixup/

A mate of my dad, back then, went to an event at Wembley. Came out, no car.

Off to the local police station, copper asks: " Is it a Cortina?"

Chap suddenly cheered up "Have you found it?"

"No, it's always Cortinas"

[ZRX61]

It's been 24 hours since 34 felony counts were filed against Trump. Some interesting things have come to light...
He's been accused of writing checks in 2017 to influence the 2016 election...
He's been accused (by a State prosecutor) of breaking a Federal election law that the Feds say doesn't actually exist...
The statute of limitations on all the charges ran out four years ago...

[Potter]

But what he has done is gone around doing whatever he wants and then thinking that he can pay them off because he's rich.
I'd like to see an end to it and an example made.

Unfortunately, making an example of him (or Biden for taking Chinese money) won't work, because its endemic, all they do is occasionally pick out someone that they don't like and go after them, whilst a lot of other people carry on. Epstein and his assistant is a great example, he's dead, his assistant silenced, but what about all the high-rolling monsters that used his services?

[ZRX61]

The funniest part of all this is watching the talking heads on the leftie MSM look completely deflated after they had high roller lawyers on to explain the charges & being told they amount to the fat end of sweet fuck all. I'm surprised a few of them aren't on suicide watch.

[wheelnut]

But what he has done is gone around doing whatever he wants and then thinking that he can pay them off because he's rich.
I'd like to see an end to it and an example made.

Unfortunately, making an example of him (or Biden for taking Chinese money) won't work, because its endemic, all they do is occasionally pick out someone that they don't like and go after them, whilst a lot of other people carry on. Epstein and his assistant is a great example, he's dead, his assistant silenced, but what about all the high-rolling monsters that used his services?

I’m naive enough to believe that the Potus (or president or PM of any significant country) should be a person of reasonable integrity with a decent moral compass. I am. You are. Why can’t they be? I don’t have to agree with their politics, they just need to be a decent human being. That any significant portion of the US public supports Trump says something pretty alarming about America tbh.

And this isn’t a defence of Biden, surely the Democratic Party (and the GOP come to that) can find a couple of less tainted (and less doddery) candidates.

[Mr. Dazzle]

There's a pub in Portsmouth called The Honest Politician. There are probably a few pubs called that.

I think the name is a joke.

[irie]

So over 7 times more EV charging points by 2030 than currently available. Sticking to my IC car for the for the forseable. A slo-mo debacle in the making ...

Figures released in February by the SMMT showed that just one new public charger was built for every 53 electric cars sold last year, putting the adoption of the green vehicles under strain.

There were around 37,000 public chargers across the country at the start of 2023, according to official statistics. The Committee on Climate Change has suggested that 280,000 chargers will be required to meet demand in 2030

[Horse]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65158947

An Australian man has been charged after allegedly stealing a platypus from the wild, taking it on a train and then showing it off at local shops.

[Mr. Dazzle]

So over 7 times more EV charging points by 2030 than currently available. Sticking to my IC car for the for the forseable. A slo-mo debacle in the making ...

Figures released in February by the SMMT showed that just one new public charger was built for every 53 electric cars sold last year, putting the adoption of the green vehicles under strain.

There were around 37,000 public chargers across the country at the start of 2023, according to official statistics. The Committee on Climate Change has suggested that 280,000 chargers will be required to meet demand in 2030

Someone should probably do something about that.

Oh....

"By 2030, we expect there to be around 300,000 public chargepoints as a minimum in the UK, but there could potentially be more than double that number"

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... rategy.pdf

[Potter]

By 2030 Rodney….

[Mr. Dazzle]

Well it just half irritates half amuses me.

"There's not enough charging, they're banning ICE cars without thinking about X Y Z"

Actually means "I haven't bothered to look into the government plan and assume there isn't one".

[DefTrap]

"By 2030, we expect there to be around 300,000 public chargepoints as a minimum in the UK, but there could potentially be more than double that number"

Shifty Sunak &Co needs a bit of time to work out how to outsource all this to his mates.

[Screwdriver]

If Trump paid Stormy Daniels $130k to keep her mouth shut (after he'd finished presumably) and she has gone around shooting her mouth off; does he get his money back?

[Potter]

If Trump paid Stormy Daniels $130k to keep her mouth shut (after he'd finished presumably) and she has gone around shooting her mouth off; does he get his money back?

To be fair I’d never trust a politician or a porn star.

[MrLongbeard]

Someone should probably do something about that.

Oh....

"By 2030, we expect there to be around 300,000 public chargepoints as a minimum in the UK, but there could potentially be more than double that number"

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... rategy.pdf

Sneaky buggers, no mention of them being working installations, just at least 300,000 installations