[small update] So now the car’s gone and the experiment begins. I’ll be keen to see how it turns out. First I’ll have to get a CityHop card…
One of the things that just went wrong last week was that the Mitsubishi dealer took a look at my car and mumbled something like “$4000 in repairs”. For that I can buy two used Mitsus! That has sealed the fate of this car. It’s now up as wreckage on TradeMe. Hope that somebody can [...]
Join the protest at 12:30 on the 19th. Go here for more details.
Peter Dunne is making some sense of 92A. He’s calling for it to -at least- be delayed. I’m really keen to see what happens in the next weeks. I still can’t believe this is going to go in without a fight…. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/connect/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501833&objectid=10556606
Continue reading about 92A sense making some headway in the Beehive
I’ve said time and again that I think hydrogen propulsion will be a solution only for trucks, planes and motorbikes. The reason being that batteries would be impractical in these vehicles. But at least on the latter I stand to be corrected. Have a look at this beautiful creation…. I’d say that is a very [...]
We read a lot about how datacenters need to be more energy efficient. PCs are becoming more and more energy efficient. That is true and is happening but what’s alarming is that we use ever more of the energy efficient stuff. Where we had single core systems in the past we now have quad/eight-core systems. [...]
IKEA is a household name all across the World. All the World? No. Two small islands in the Pacific resist the trend. New Zealand has NO IKEA! Here in NZ we live without the cheap but quality goods. Especially Europeans miss their favourite furniture store. There are hundreds of rumours around the so-called Auckland-IKEA. It’s [...]
Miraz has blogged about a subject that’s been worrying me for a while now. The new section 92a of the Copyright Act. This is the free-for-all for the music and film industry to go on a feeding frenzy. Come March NZ’s ISPs will mutate to being cops & judges. If you want to know more [...]
While blogging and thinking about those electric scooters I’ve finally thought my way back to the power source (again). I’m still terribly angry at the present government for going back on the whole coal for energy thing but that’s a separate rant. So what are we supposed to do?! The effective energy sources destroy the [...]
Continue reading about Tokamaks & Stellarators for the Future
Miraz has put together a cool list of the current offers on EV scooters in NZ. I have been watching the market too and in the last months it has really started developing. The high petrol price and the heightened sensitivity around emissions is doing its part. There really is nothing that can get you [...]