Notes & borrowings

[julietk]

Observed on my way to work this morning:

• An RV1 with a big notice on the back saying "FUELCELL NO EMISSIONS". It had an exhaust pipe on the top of its roof, occasionally spitting out what looked to be steam - it dissipated almost immediately. Hrm, looks like they've extended this project, & that is indeed just water vapour. Good stuff.
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Comments

[katstevens]

Boo, I had to leave the bike at home today for various reasons and am jealous. I agree with you about the motorbikes - thankfully I don't tend to encounter many on my route (gawd bless her majesty's canals!) apart from the INCREDIBLY STUPID young lads who ride those miniature motorised scooter things up and down the towpath at Bethnal Green, with their knees up by their ears. They're horrendously loud and dangerous and it makes them look very silly indeed. I DUNNO THE YOUTH OF TODAY etc

[mrs_leroy_brown]

i HATE THOSE. evil. loud and the idiots seem to think driving up and down the same stretch of road over and over and over is fun. dudes: there are other streets besides mercury way to annoy people.

[dogrando]

Drummond Road, for example...

[mrs_leroy_brown]

thing is: do they have any idea how utterly lame they look?
sheesh!

[vigornian]

Four wheels good: two wheels better, must be the thinking.

When I first noticed the RV1s it was from above and I thought some vandal had ripped their roofs off. Duh.

[mzdt]

motorbikes all seem to be under the misapprehension that they are bicycles.

when it comes to advance stop lines, so do sports cars, any car costing more than say twenty thousand (I'm guessing here - how much are posh cars nowadays), white transits - and after 9pm, everyone.

chip on my shoulder? me?

[mzdt]

and of course how could I forget any vehicle (but mainly innappriate four wheel drive monstrosities) driven by a Chiswick Mother and occupied by untethered Little Darling(s), mainly climbing over the back of the passenger seat.

[djm4]

Oh. I thought the fuel cell buses *were* bendy buses.

[barrysarll]

That would put me in a terrible bind, morally.

Fuel cell Routemasters, now they'd be the buses of a dream city.

[reddragdiva]

"Zero Emissions" is (in California at least) defined, not as actually zero emissions, but as "the same emissions as would come from an electric power plant doing the same job." Which is fair enough. And is now achievable with tolerable economics with current technology. Which, given California's (specifically LA's) views on emissions, is likely to be mandatory soon enough :-D