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I seem to remember an even older version with Marty Feldman if memory serves.

You tell kids today and they don't believe you. (Said in a Yorkshire Monty Python accent). Going on for 3 months was amazing.

With air holding more moisture we might see much more snow. I dont remember the winter of 62/ 63 as i was only 1.5 years old. Saw lots of snow in Canada in mid 60s even though our latitude same as south of France ie in Toronto area. Recall we had lots of snow on Dartmoor winter of 1980 think it was. We had temperature of -20c in 2010 with freak cold spell here in Worcester. Prefer it to 38c and local town like Stourbridge and Pershore catching 🔥. Going to be interesting. Perhaps feet of snow in the winters and 40c plus in the summers. The number of heat related deaths will be huge. Couple of thousand in UK in 2003, 70k in Europe. Suspect we will see half as much again than this for this year and more again in years to come.

One can see why Trump wants Greenland !

I think we would be not too bad in the English Midlands but north of Birmigham could be not pleasant weather wise. 4 wheel drive vehicles will be needed much more. Was quite impressed with Toyota's system on the 4 wheel drive Prius. Only 10hp to the rear just to get it moving and keep moving. Much easier to do on an EV whereas on an ICE car means big weight increase and big in the already inefficient power to movement figures and cost.

It is the slowing and stopping of the Gulf stream that warms Western Europe that worries me due to the melting of the north pole and Greenland ice blocking the Gulf stream. Eastern Canada is much cooler for the same latitudes as the UK. Life will be very different in the UK ! China and Russia already working on using the Artic ice free route to move their goods even quicker to Europe.

The haze that was causing 30 to 40k life shortenings in the uk and millions worldwide ?

Carbon is the enemy. Biofuel is a paperwork con. Still it is dumping carbon into the atmosphere and recent heatwaves, fires etc will give even more impetus to rediubling the pace of removing vehicle that emit carbon. The island we share will our Irish cousins are offering huge scrappage amounts, over 10K Euros, and this might be a better way to get ICE vehicles off the road rather than just new EV price reduction on sales to those changing one EV for another. Public charging prices can be very cheap, especially with a TESLA subscription which is quite cheap and soon pays for itself and means one can access prices similar to home charging without the hundreds of pounds some of gave to fork out for hone charging equipment where as public charge users only pay the cost of energy in most cases appears to me. BE EV chargers also do cracking deals if one does not like David Coleman, I mean Elon Musk.

It's what Nett means, 90% from recycled carbon, 10% from mineral carbon. Just as dirty for the Earth. Might burn a bit "smoother" and give slightly better mpg but fundamentally still carbon polluting. One good plant trees or carbon capture for each kilo of fuel produced but it will then compete even more badly against real renewable ie electricity used for cars from real purely renewable non carbon polluting source for vehicle propulsion.

The solar eclipse power down results are in with Octopus and I have earned an hour of free electricity between 1300 and 1400 ie when our local fusion generator, Sol, is at its peak without the Earth's moon interjecting. Will try and download around 16 KWh of lecky in that spell.

CO2 production would be very similar. What might be different is that 90% of the carbon released has come from "renewable" ie organic source. Airline are moving thus way as well as F1 etc. Still adding to atmospheric carbon dioxide and adding to the global warming that we are seeing the consequences in weather change, fires, crop reductions etc etc.

New owners very different to what was !

Might have caused some diesel drivers a bit of shock. It is looking like the supply of diesel to diesel car and van drivers is going to get worse. My uncle with his fleet of trucks would buy diesel by the tanker full and store in his truck yard tanks. Expect haulage firms and emergency services will get priority if there is a shortage. Going to be very good for second hand prices of EVs, not so good for second hand price of diesel cars and vans !!

We know the running cost gap between EV and ICE is growing but did not think it was that much...

The £10 was pending i seem to remember but now shows not pending ie will appear on next statement. Dont mind paying full rate just confused by the nature of the process and the timescales, thanks fir your information. At least it was not a £45 like MFG takes as a deposit, or more !!