Chorley is dry

Being the 'most accurate' doesn't imply 'accuracy' let alone adequacy. The weather forecast is almost always wrong. Just watch almost any 5 day from the Met Office over a week and see how it changes update by update.

Paul

 

Paul - are you suggesting the met office are incompetent or merely that they are attempting to do the impossible?

Michael.

 

I doubt it's impossible. After all the entire 'Climate Change' lobby is predicated on the basis of 100 year weather forecasts, you'd think a rough estimate for 5 days would be possible.

Paul

 

5 day forecasts of any real accuracy for regions with very unstable weather patterns (like the UK) are not possible with current technology.

Climate change models are entirely different. They are predicting things like average annual temperatures, not wether we'll have showers with sunny intervals in London on 14 Sept 2067.

Michael.

 

Still got 3/4 of a tank which will last for a while. If it gets bad then I have two plans:

A. If they limit it to essential staff I send the wife out in my car to fill up. Will feel slightly guilty but it's a price worth paying.

B. Find a friendly farmer and fill up on the old red stuff! Can't imagine a tank or two would cause the engine too much grief.

Matt.

 

This would be good, we'll actually be able to get hold of a tradesman for a change.

The car has a lot to answer for, its changed the way people shop, all the local shops and postoffices have closed, why, because the car ownsers are going to the out of town shops, sow where does that leave the no car drivers? Very rarely is there a bus to these places.

Its changed the community, no one lives and works in the same area these days, I live 4 miles away from my work place, I'm willing to hedge a bet that apart from Dom that's the closest here!

 

Your joking right? 1, so you expect your wife to blink her eye lids a couple of times to cut in the queue? 2, you'll distroy your cat, not to mention clogging up the injection system and blocking your injectors, (I'm assuming your talking about putting diesel in a petrol car), it would be cheaper to get a push bike!

 

Duh!

You only put half the equation!

Seed + 2CO2 + 3 H2O + Sunshine = Ethanol + 3O2

It's a perpetual cycle with no net effect on the atmosphere.

Unlike oil. Unfortunately the cycle for putting that back in the ground lasts millions of years

 

Lee, Matt has a Diesel, I don't think any sane person would consider putting diesel in a petrol car!

 

oh phew, fair enough, oh I've seen it happen a lot of time, actually a mechanic at the garage I used to work did this, beleive me he never lived it down, wonderd why his car smoked, hum even I could tell what he had done! muppet.

 

place yer bets,i'll open the bidding with just over 1/4 a mile,or enoigh time to smoke a roll up if i walk slow

 

So why offer them?

Not really. The same underlying problems have to be solved. 'Climate change' models do however have the advantage of not being easily falsifiable...

Paul

 

About 25 feet from bed to office.

Paul

 

Fair enough!
How am I supposed to know all that bio nonsense, when I was a chemist nothing existed outside the laboratory!
However, I think there are still better alternatives to be explored than the carbon neutral one.. Though when they'll work weel enough is anyone's guess.
Cold fusion, anyone?

Careful - "fuel crises" are just the sort of time when Police would dip a diesel looking for the red stuff!
I knew of someone, however, who attached their filler cap to a dummy tank containing about a pint of ordinary diesel, which was dipped by the Police. The main fuel tank was filled from a filler underneath the back seat, and that used agricultural red diesel, or central heating fuel!

 

A - wife is a doctor so qualifies as essential staff (and may or may not have filled up my car for me the last time there was a fuel crisis).

B - I drive a diesel but I was half joking about the red option - not sure a newish BMW diesel engine would take kindly to that roughish agricultural derv - in fact knowing BMW the ECU would probably grass me up for using red diesel the next time the car is in for a service and the police would be immediately informed!

Matt.

 

I think they still have to have a good reason to stop you. I've read a couple of reports of people being caught (and fined around £750 incidentally) but in each case their number plates were scanned and returned something else dodgy about the car e.g. no tax and so the police had every right to stop them.

Matt.

 

No idea. However, if they're right more often than they're wrong it could be worth basing decisions on them in the long run.

Yes and no. The more "macro" a level you look at the earth's weather systems the more linear they get so the more easily predictable they become.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that

Michael.

 

There's always one, oh I expect Julien2002 would qualify too i guess, luck gits being able to work from home !

 

So abusing the system then.

Arr right ya I woudln't risk it, I expect the ECU would phone the police direct, or just switch off, (joking) know how much technology they pack into these things these days.

 

Alternative to the car

This was posted on our works noticeboard, I'll risk it by posting it here as I think it qualifies as topical

Now right in thinking these things don't need a licence? No need to visit the petrol station with one of these, and if really cheeky plug it in while at work