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Posted 13 years ago #
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Although putting a brave face on things, Prince Charles' environmental credentials took a blow on Sunday after his new Duchy Cleaning company managed to shrink Big Dave's prized town bike while his colleagues tittered in amusement.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"where does one's driver sit?"
I wonder if there's a bike rack on the Royal Train. They were making such a song and dance about it being fuelled by "biodiesel" on the wireless.
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Doesn't need a bike rack. Train will have a whole carriage with room for bikes.
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"They were making such a song and dance about it being fuelled by "biodiesel" on the wireless."
Chip fat apparently.
Wind-up wireless??
Posted 13 years ago # -
Certainly the most abundant fuel in Scotland followed a close second by politicians hot air.
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Lots of issues about bio-diesel. Recycled chip fat gets my vote though.
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"Recycled chip fat gets my vote though."
Yeah, but there's not really that much!
Biofuel from agricultural land ought to be a non-starter.
Rainforest - soya - cows - burgers isn't exactly 'equitable' either, but it's happening.
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"Biofuel from agricultural land ought to be a non-starter."
The problem is that in a lot of cases it is hard to know what is 'agricultural land'. One issue is land used by pastoralists (govts love to grab this, it looks under-utilized), but also just that given crop prices and problems of access to markets in Africa, land may not be being used for agriculture, but in theory still be 'agricultural' land.
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"The problem is that in a lot of cases it is hard to know what is 'agricultural land'."
I was meaning land currently used for food crops, but clearly there are places harder to define.
I don't know if crop price/access to market means it would be easier/'better' to use such land for biofuel crops(?)
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"I was meaning land currently used for food crops, but clearly there are places harder to define."
There is a long practice of foreigners thinking that land looks 'unusued' or under-utilized' -- see arguments made by settlers in kenya, south africa, zimbabwe etc. or just not 'properly' utilized eg 'scientifically used'. when in many cases, use was actually well-adapted to conditions, soil type etc.
"I don't know if crop price/access to market means it would be easier/'better' to use such land for biofuel crops."
It may be profitable for multi-nationals to 'lease' land and grow biofuel crops on it, even where it is not profitable for local people to grow foodcrops. Perverse, but true. Influenced, of course, in part by the lousy prices we pay, subsidies to farmers etc. If they provide work it may not always be a 'lose-lose' scenario, but....
Posted 13 years ago # -
Yeah, but there's not really that much!
Exactly. It's in all the people and not available for refining purposes!
Posted 13 years ago # -
"not available for refining purposes!"
Apparently in London (and no doubt elsewhere), fat from takeaways blocks the sewers and has to be shovelled...
Posted 13 years ago # -
Train will have a whole carriage with room for bikes.
Seven, to be precise :) that's an awful lot of Bromptons!
On the note about it being ecofriendly as it ran on rendered-down chipfat, the point is pretty moot - those 7 carriages (approx weight of a Mark 3 carriage being 35 tonnes) were being hauled by 2 x 88 tonne, 3,200 hp locomotives. This peasant calculates that to be roughly a mere 421 tonnes and a trifling 6,400hp.
Posted 13 years ago # -
And for the caption competition:-
"I remember these things. My grandfather had one but I recall that the front wheel was much larger."
Posted 13 years ago # -
Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images Europe
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/ftc_aNUcMFN/Prince+Wales+Duchess+Cornwall+Visit+Hackney
Posted 13 years ago # -
"This is a girl's bike. I need a skirt to ride it!"
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