oscarsdad

Finally - someone talking sense with the right experience. I have some having been to med school - I will having vaccine as soon as I am able to and hope my parents have it much sooner than that. I am sick of people saying these vaccines were rushed. They were not rushed, they were prioritised. Researchers didnt need to ****** about writing applications for funding grants, they had unlimited cash and more willing volunteers for trials, so the normal vaccine development timeline was significantly bettered, not through shortcuts, but through a massive effort from science around the world, working on tech which they had already started in some cases, to get us out of the mess this virus put the planet into.

I don’t know but I suspect not very far (yet) - the £100k government grant suggests that it was miles away from production rather than being something we will see in a couple of years as that’s a small grant allocation.

Tens of years away. 30kwh battery is ~ 300kg. 100kwh which would give range of 200ish miles depending on vehicle and application is ~600kg. Lithium batteries will never get the energy density needed in your suggestion, we would need different cell chemistry which is a long way from industrialisation.

Cancel bt and take up the best deal you can find and bt will then end up calling you with a better deal to keep you - I switched to John Lewis broadband earlier this year (which is plusnet) and bt called me once the switch was initiated and offered £19.99 a month for line rental and unlimited super fast fibre plus their newest router so I stayed with them.

Since the majority of those people were probably caravan dwellers they tend not to follow the laws of the land anyway...

I’d tell him you are not comfortable with the home visit - suggest doing it over FaceTime or similar - I wouldn’t want them visiting at this time with the disease still highly prevalent and it’s a renewal so presumably they have already inspected before. my own sgc moved area during the first lockdown and they didn’t come out at all, just did it all over the phone and asked about security, cabinet mounting and alarm etc and it was fine.

You can travel for outdoor recreation, just like could under previous tier system.

A cheat and a druggie doesn’t really deserve the amount of praise he is getting today in my view - he was certainly not a true sportsman.

I’ve been on a range in Florida having a play with handguns as we can’t here, 9mm and .45 - not much safety in terms of hand over passport and given handguns and ammo and shown the door to the range. Luckily I was competent and very safety conscious. In the lane next to me, was a local....with his .50 desert eagle cannon. He was shooting a target at 8yds. Didn’t hit it once and then the air con blew his spare target down the range...he ran after it immediately, waving his cannon around as his did so despite others shooting either side of him! I jumped out of the way and legged it to the door of the range out of the way! He genuinely couldn’t see what he’d done wrong when another local rather colourfully pointed out...

I honestly really cannot understand such a strong objection to mask wearing. It’s not like the government are saying you have to have your nose amputated. It’s a mask, you have to wear it in some settings, then you can take it off and doing so will reduce the spread of disease that kills people. An increasingly selfish attitude that minor inconvenience is too much to prevent you causing the death of someone’s loved one.

This.

It’s not animated. It is real actors with a stylised computer filter over intended to look just like an old war comic. It’s pretty good actually and worth persevering.

Yes I would - some discomfort for you for a short time for the sake of the greater good for the population.

Nope - their opinion on shooting doesn’t endanger other people - not wearing a mask or refusing a vaccine does.

If I were in power not only would I make the vaccine (and all other vaccines) compulsory, I would also erect guard towers in all towns and cities, anyone seen without wearing a mask or not socially distancing gets a rubber bullet to the nuts. Same treatment would apply to any man carrying a handbag / wearing skinny jeans / having a man bun

Google was probably responsible - you can turn this off in privacy settings.

Honestly, dog licensing (although probably too difficult to police / implement) would be my suggestion. along the canal through my village I’ve now met the same stupid woman 3 times. Every time one of her designer mongrels has tried to bite my aging border terrier even tho she has it on a lead she still lets it pull as we pass. My dog is well trained and doesn’t react - yesterday I told her I’d had enough, it it happens again I will let my terrier react and her dog (despite being quite a lot bigger) will regret it. She seemed offended by this and that her dog wasn’t doing anything wrong!

Asian countries used them from the start - e.g South Korea - look at their virus rates

A nonsense study as it failed to address the fact that wearing a mask protects others not the wearer.

I agree it is all small scale, IUK spreading a few tens of £millions sized projects about isn’t going to get the UK into battery manufacturing. I am not sure what happened to Dyson - can’t help but think that setting up in one of the most expensive countries in the world wasn’t the best move from the outset!

Tesla yes...they have very recently revealed a tabless cell which should have a massive impact on manufacturing techniques. Panasonic I would say no - Samsung and LG are probably the two largest cell manufacturers. I quite fancy a Tesla Model X but I would want the twin battery one just for ludicrous mode and would therefore run out of charge very quickly lol!

A very difficult question to answer which I have spent the last year trying to answer. In my view, it will all come down to volumes. The UK absolutely has the brains and the technology to design and produce better cells, management systems and therefore battery packs than anywhere else. But, without the volumes it will impossible to compete on cost with Far East (mainly Korea and China) which is still where most of our cells come from even if packs are assembled in the UK. If the big OEMs were to club together to get volumes high enough then we could compete I would think. Whether they will do that remains to be seen. There is a big push from government to make this happen with funding support but I fear there are too many independent attempts to achieve this rather than a joined up UK effort. I do often wonder whether we UK industry should jump towards the next gen chemistry of cells and get ahead of the game, leave the Chinese behind and become a world leader - but that needs cash which we currently are spending on the pandemic so won’t be able to invest in R&D to the levels needed.

Agreed, I wouldn’t want one with no warranty on the battery

There is a lot less to go wrong on an EV than an ICE vehicle. Effectively a battery, some harnessing and motors replacing an awful lot of very complicated / tight tolerance / high maintenance components which need servicing much more regularly than EV power train.