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LET'S ELECTRIFY
FOR CLEANER TRANSPORT
AUTOMOTIVE A TO Z CHARITY CLIMATE CHANGE CONTACT EVENTS SITE INDEX
LONDON
PROTESTS - Extinction Rebellion climate change protestors in Bristol and
London make their mark for 3 days in April 2019. The British
Government refuses to meet for talks, instead police use terrorist laws to
thwart peaceful protests. OUR
FIRST CROWDFUNDING CALL GOES LIVE END OF APRIL 2019 - Children love
playing games on smartphones. What better way to help them learn about ocean
pollution than to let them clean the oceans of marine litter with a solar
powered vacuum ship. We only need to raise £15,000 to make this happen. Your
children can have a lot of fun steering a SeaVax
vacuum cleaner through a series of oceans to catch marine waste. In playing
the game children and young adults learn that marine pollution is a bad thing
- and that if we don't keep on top of it, we lose. How much do we lose?
Potentially a very serious loss where plastics
are sponges for carcinogenic
toxins that are entering our food chain. We are poisoning ourselves
through ignorance and inaction at the rate of 8-12 million tons a year! As a
result of your generosity this game will be available on popular App Stores
for every youngster to download free of charge. If
this game is successful, we will release a Climate
Change game, subject to funding. A
SMALL contribution from you this year can make a BIG difference collectively.
By working together we can CHANGE THINGS for the common good. Click on the
picture above to see more. CALL
TO ARMS - They are school kids temporarily sacrificing their education
in order to save our futures from dangerous climate
change. What stars. On
November 30, over 15,000 boys and girls went on strike from school in
every capital city and over 20 regional centres across Australia. On
March 15, they are going even bigger and inviting adults to join them in
solidarity for a Global Climate Strike. We're in! CLIMATE
CHANGE - The United
Nations'
climate talks (known as COP = Conference Of the Parties) took place in
December 2018. During these global discussions action for climate policy is
negotiated. The 24th climate summit took place
in Katowice, Poland. Before the event started, 50 high profile companies
published an open letter to the
UN
calling for more action to curb climate
change. So far
with over twenty-four years of haggling the arctic ice is still melting - and
faster than ever. No wonder so many high profile people and corporations are
worried. In the UK we we are still granting planning consents for houses
without solar panels or electric
vehicle charging points.
What are our politicians doing? It's criminal. But who elected them. Yes, you
did. And that brings us to Brexit.
With the natural world crumbling from our carelessness, do we really need so
much in-house fighting. United we stand, divided we fall. EEVC
EUROPEAN
ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE CONVENTION This
is an important venue to discuss what is working and to think about ways
to implement a practical future infrastructure for electric vehicles that
are battery, fuel cell or hybrid operated.
SMART
SERVICE STATIONS
- This concept EV forecourt offers between 7.68 - 15.36MWh of solar
assisted energy storage with a capacity of between 48-96 battery
cartridges on a continuous charge cycle. Five of these stations (76.8MW)
could recharge (refuel) up to 10 trucks or cars a minute at peak times. During
rush hour, up to 300 vehicles might be serviced in one hour if drivers
don't dawdle, as in get out of their vehicles for any reason - there is no
need using automated billing - but this would require registered users.
The truck shown in these AutoCAD drawings is 3.55 wide x 3.5 high x 7.7M
long (8 x 11.5 x 25 feet). This station could accommodate trucks 4.46M
(14.77 feet) high as shown, or with a raised roof, almost any truck
currently on the market - though longer thinner trucks are more fuel
efficient. During
an eight hour day 2,400 trucks might be serviced using five forecourts on
the assumption that we start every morning with 96 x 5 = 480 slow charged
cartridges from off-peak supplies. The same forecourt might be used to
service fuel-cell
cars powered by stabilized hydrogen.
One size fits all. The secret is to KISS
the design (Keep It Simple Silly). There are only 28* moving parts in this
station, not including the gearbox for the solar powered drive motor. This
is possible because with this system the vehicles load the cartridges
themselves.
PANIC
STATIONS
- Back in 2011 the UK got a shock as world oil prices soared. The
population panicked and filled up their tanks in short sighted fashion,
only planning one tank full ahead. What happens when that runs out dum,
dum? You could just sit at home and twiddle your thumbs. Our
politicians seem to be doing the same. They cannot seem to think far
enough ahead to come up with an infrastructure action plan that stands a
hope in heck of succeeding. This is the kind of 'Pothole Politics' that
dooms us to failure - when Mrs May appears to be shouting from the
rooftops about wanting the UK to lead the world as a clean nation. Maybe
we should start repairing our roads and then put into action a plan to
electrify Britain.
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