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BBC Radio 4 News. Apparently China is going to stand by its commitments to Paris. Does anyone know what they are?As far as I can see China has merely committed to 'try' - and as a UN-defined 'developing nation', they do not have to succeed, ever.
Harry Passfield
golf charlie 1619
+1
I realy hope President Trump selects option 3 and explains fully his reasons. The Paris accord only exists to milk the USA.
Ross Lea
golf charlie 1619
+1
I realy hope President Trump selects option 3 and explains fully his reasons. The Paris accord only exists to milk the USA.
Ross Lea
@TinyCO2, Jun 1, 2017 at 10:40 AM
I don't know how long things, including tusks, last if they're exposed to sunlight and weather.
Pcar
GolfCharlie. (5.44 pm) Get with it, there are already many different bacteria that consume bovine excrement.
Supertroll
BBC Radio 4 News. Apparently China is going to stand by its commitments to Paris. Does anyone know what they are?
I think they involve producing as much power as they like, by whatever means, until THEY decide not to. Meanwhile they are happy to make and sell as many solar panels for the export market, as foreign taxpayers are forced to pay for.
golf charlie
Yes @Tomo I should have spotted that,
but the article seemed to be written the way I wrote .
Online version
"All new black cabs on London’s roads must be able run on electric power only from January,
leaving transport officials with just months to build dozens of electric charging points."
..Not really they've got years to build all the charging points ..bet only couple of hundred taxis are sold each month.
stewgreen
Jun 1, 2017 at 5:15 PM | stewgreen
Jun 1, 2017 at 5:33 PM | Ross Lea
It would be really useful to know how much electricity would be required to charge the batteries of London's taxis, and how many windturbines would be required to produce it over a year.
Obviously the wind does not blow all the time, so how many batteries would be required to cope with the vagaries of supply, to match the fairly consistent demand?
golf charlie
Stewgreen - I think that the rules that all NEW taxis must be electric but I bet they haven't thought about Uber etc. They can't even tax them properly. You'd think that they were trying to kill off the black cab.
TinyCO2
Thanks Pcar - so like oak, maybe even more durable.