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The Classic Marque

I have just been watching Ant Anstead buy, repair and sell a Fiat X19. He sold it for far less than expected and just about what he paid for it, not including spares and time. The same happend with a Morgan a few weeks ago.
Worse still is Bangers and Cash Restoring Cars wher the camera crew buy a car at the auction, send it away for restoration and then try to re auction it for a profit. The h...

ChatGpt must use a lot of data processing. My son was redoing a bathroom. He fed in the room sizes and window and door positions and what the fixtures were to be and then interrogated for various information. Chat produced an 8 page report with several layout options, but then went into a lot of detail such as design of pipe runs, pipe sizes, tiling for walls and floor, quantities for tile adhesiv...

"Typical EV uses 3000kWh per year"

That sparked my interest to check my records. Since getting my EV I record every time I charge it, mostly at home (granny charger 5 hrs per night at c.2.6kWh) and about 12% at a variety of (very expensive) public rapid chargers. The car records both its current energy consumption rate and also overall and trip rates. Much as a modern ICE car does. As wi...

There are no free lunches.

The cost of AI.

The island where locals say data centres are taking their water.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj6j7wlxd5eo

I must admit I had to look up what an interactive whiteboard was. So if touch screens are now old hat what the hell are they using now?

Trev

Jeremy
If you're mostly charging at home you're still putting a fair proportion of that 3000kWh (per year I assume) into your ev battery, depending on your mileage of course. It doesn't really matter what rate you're charging at eg granny or 7kW charger. you still draw that 3000kWh (say) from the grid.

That's not a criticism as I also agree that those heat pumps use more. Grid capac...

I haven't used AI for the bbs archive up to now but I would if I couldn't find what I wanted. It's a tool to help you navigate (in this case). What you might question is Google AI's direct answers which it has concocted by scraping the Internet for data. It might be good, accurate information or it might not. I've used it directly several times. Sometimes it tells me something that I suspect t...

The move away from gas boilers to heat pumps may be more of a concern.
According to Electric Insights, an average heat pump will use 4000kWh whereas a typical EV uses 3000kWh.

12 months into EV ownership and I charge with a granny cable and EV rated 3 pin socket, so that's a mere 2kWh.

Didn't Frontline market a Toyota based 5 speed conversion kit for the Midget before they marketed a Ford Type 9 kit (using bell housing from the Morris Minor Centre Birmingham)? If they did it was without using the Australian Dellow bellhousing that was originally imported to the UK by Rooster Racing but by using a backplate. I might even have an old leaflet that shows that (among lots of other ...

As it happens, Anam, he is left-handed but he plays right-handed.

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