For more than one hundred years it has been obvious the best way providing rotational energy to wheels is via electric motors. Which is why 99.9% of railway locomotives are powered this way today, either through an external system or through on board diesel powered generators.”

It is something I have looked into, basically a prius like set up, rather than having to charge up your car at a wall, you have an engine running at optimum efficiency keeping the batteries charged. Problem is making everything strong enough, electric motors have a flat torque “curve”, that is the same right from the very first rotation. easily snap the axles if your tires are too sticky.

1. Promoting New Zealand as a holiday destination – cut down on unnecessary international flights, which do far more damage to the environment than our – partly hydro – power generation.
2. Promoting vegetarianism, providing incentives for switching land use from livestock to crops.
3. That’s about it, really.

But switching off lights can probably make people feel like they’re doing something, and it’s nice and non-offensive in a culture that bristles at the thought of sacrificing their holidays to Europe and steaks.

(yawn..!..)

always been a bit cut/nose/spite face..?

have you..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/

Did Helen buy her job with our Money?

Submitted by Whaleoil on Sat, 28/03/2009 – 12:44pm
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* Helen Clark
* Ian Wishart

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That is the question that Ian Wishart is asking in TGIF.

He has looked at the accounts for the UNDP and seen something a little awry;

Figures obtained by TGIF also reveal sharp spikes in the levels of NZ Government donations in the periods leading up to the 2005 and 2008 elections, both of which were tight-fought political races.

According to United Nations Development Programme’s published accounts, New Zealand contributed:
US$2 million in 2000,
US$4 million in 2001,
US$3.9 million in 2002
US$5 million in 2003
US$11 million in 2004
US$16 million in 2005
US$10.8 million in 2006
US$12.5 million in 2007
US$12.5 million in 2008

It isn’t just the UNDP that sees similar spikes of our cash flowing into UN coffers, The UNFPA got about US$770k in 2001 but a whopping US$3.7 million in 2004 and then US$5.2 million in 2005, the figure drpped back to $2.7 million in 2006 and 2007.

Same goes for UNICEF. US$1.6 million in 2001 and US$5 million.

Is Helen buying insurance for herself before each election?

This is even more alarming when you look at our contribuitions beside Australia’s. Wishart says that on a pro-rata basis our contributions should be about a fifth of Australia’s, in fact in each case listed we have contributed more.

It looks on the surface that Helen Clark has used her position as Prime Minister to effectively buy herself a job and to buy it with our money. It seems that Helen Clark has an unhealthy appetite for stealing our money to buy things like elections and high paying jobs for herself.

Oh gawd, just like they did immediately Hitler was defeated? What a joke your arguments are. You really need to stop drinking that left wing Kool Ade Reid, its often the cause of irreparable brain damage.

..and you need to read. I said the terrorists were defeated, and the war was won, but not that the war was over. See what I mean about leftist brain rot? Perhaps you need to see someone about restoring your state of consciousness to the real world.

These scum are like the left. Like rust, both terrorists and their bosom buddy leftists never sleep. One must always be on guard.

..and you’re worried about acts to protect us from terrorists when so many of our liberties are threatened by the left anyway? Look at what they have done in the UK, once one of the nations with more respect for liberty than any.

By means of political correctness, they’ve turned it into a poisonous and dying totalitarian leftist hellhole, as bad as anything from 1984. …and they’ve done it while you’ve been whining incessantly about the Bush government and Iraq. Get real man, you’re so completely manipulated by leftmedia you don’t have clue.

And from a wide which would probably have been called had “Bazza” not showed why he’s in the running to the best keeper/batsman since Smith.

I’m glad you think the war on terror is over.

I therefore look forward confidently to the dismantling of all the legislative apparatus western govts have enacted to “protect us from the terrorists.”

When do you think that will start to happen RB? Next month? Maybe by end of May perhaps? Surely not longer than that.