Got me bang to rights on that one. 
As an aside, I heard that Putin is in the process of dusting off one of Stalinâs post war policies by regarding Russian women who decide to have lots of children, by awarding then with stars/badges.
Edit - listen to last weekâs radio 4 Womenâs hour
I might just be able to assist with that DexâŠ
As much as we like reading your ramblings in âBobâs bitsâ, I for one would appreciate it if you didnât include details of your personalised training program in preparation for these specific events 
@Dextrous63 , award stars or badges for high fertility women !!
Does that imply that the tundra is to. be come colonised ?? 
DMan, I think the idea is to generate canon fodder and to replace those heâs lost in Ukraine.
Sorry this is Off Topic
I said it has worsened the situation U.K.
In 2021 imports from Russia made up 4% of gas used in the UK, 9% of oil and 27% of coal. In 2021, imports of gas, oil and coal from Russian to the UK were worth a combined ÂŁ4.5mbillion
There is a genuine shortfall in housing
New housing supply is currently lower than the Governmentâs ambition of 300,000 new homes per year. 216,000 new homes were supplied in 2020/21âŠ
This is lower than the 243,000 new homes supplied in the previous year, in part because of disruption to housebuilding caused by Covid-19 in early 2020.
I strongly believe electric vehicles are the future.
People had a similar opinion to yours way back in the 19th century when horse drawn vehicles made way for the combustion engine.
Too many problems with battery technology. Weight, life expectancy, cost of production being the main ones.
Personally I think that liquid hydrogen is the way forward, once theyâve found an appropriate way to scale up its production and can keep it cheap.
Iâm sure when the first combustion engines came in they werenât all singing and dancing.
With time problems will be solved.
Maybe with time liquid hydrogen might play a part however I donât know enough about it to comment .
Some early designs of the propulsion engines were tried and ruled out (including steam powered), so I wouldnât necessarily rule the current trend (no pun intended) in just yet. But, time will tell.
Just makes more sense to me that hydrogen doesnât need the huge infrastructure that evâs does.
Ooops I edited my comment after your reply .
It is the time scale thatâs against liquid hydrogen âŠelectric vehicles are ready now âŠand itâs action today thatâs needed.
Totally agree, providing that itâs actually got a realistic life expectancy given the cost involved in the change over. Am really unsure about how much raw material exists to create batteries and how long it might last.
Heck, petrol seems to have lasted for around 200 years with associated problems and likely scarcity.
Thereâs also the problem of disposing of batteries .
We are way off topic 
It would appear so, unless of course one were to use the electricity stored in oneâs car battery to help power the house during peak time (and thus run ones washing machine) and then use cheaper tarriffed times to recharge it.
@Ripple , electric vehicles maynbe ready, but the ability to recharge
them isnt, it is that that is the crux of the matter !!
The shortage of generating capacity is why this thread exists. ??Talking of
which, l posted recently about a short term solution for this problem
using liqouid CO2 to drive a turbine which then drives a generator for the
power supply, ( theyâuse CO2 because it is the heaviest gas available)
The expended CO2 is passed into a seperate tank for re-compressing into
liquid CO2 again to be used again to drive the turbine and so on !
There is test site set up in southern Italy , it has allready been running on
a small scale successfully and is due to be scaled up to supply the entire
nearby town!!
This set up only requires one pressure tank, one large tank for the expended
CO2 gas, a compressor to re-liquify the gas!
Plus generators of course, it is meant to serve as a power storage system
where hydro etc are not feasible ??
In theory every small town could have one or even two working in tandem??
Electric cars are on the road now so they are being charged , I take on board more charging points are needed. Itâs not just car âŠships too.
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That will be fun, floating recharge points for shipping.
Well, we have around 39 million vehicles in the UK, and these take more time to charge than filling with petrol. Thatâs a lot of charging points that need to be sorted out.
Stena already have battery hybrid ferries , they are committed to going fossil free âŠI donât mean the passengers.
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Some of us have been known to gently tease others especially when we are bored stupid 
