After the Amersfoort meet, mlord introduced me to geocaching. If you haven't tried it, give geocaching.com a look.

I'm heading back to Paris today but thought I'd drop this off first. God speed


Empeg M2

thats awesome!
how do i get one???

COOOL! I take my 5year old every so often... A few of those would be AWESOME!

Where do I get them?

I'll let you know when it arrives

Did you make it or is it one of the ones Rob S's (I think it was him?) son made?

I'd also like one 'em empeg keychain whoozits.

- trs

Cool, it should only take a year or two.

Thanks guys. It's a one off that I made but I heard Nath(Rob S's son) may be doing something similar. If your looking for one, he's your best bet...

Ooooo!

Very nice, Alvin!

-ml

Thanks! I'm hoping it makes it somewhere near the September meet on its trek west.

3 years and 6000 miles later, the bug is nearing its destination in California. Given its progress to date, Cambridge could take a little time.

Empeg M2 Travel Bug

Nath is still making these occasionally to special order, so if you'd like one I could possibly get it organised. He does matching mini-remotes as well (about 4mm square).

I would be very interested in a few!!!

OK - can you say how many, and what colour lenses you want? He does this for pocket money and does them quite quickly as long as you spec what you want.

He can also do empeg bags and Mk 1s as well.

Rob - I'll take one with a blue lens.

How much is pocket money these days?

I'll take one with either a smoke or a blue lens (whichever is easier for him)!

That is so cool!

I've been surprised at the interest in this - OK, he's charging E5 per model with a mini remote control included. There is postage on top of that, but it'll probably be about E1.50 or so.

Stop CO2 Emissions Now! - calculate your waste!

Cute little calculator. It tells me that I am much "greener" than the average American (less than half the average) but it does not take into account that living in Alaska, my consumption of heating oil is about double my consumption of gasoline. If I factored that into the equation...

tanstaafl.

It is an interesting calculator. And I like that it even has the green energy generation variations. That is still a lot of CO2, though...

Interesting. It says electric heating is strictly the worst, without regard for what heating technology is used (here in Virginia where it never gets extremely cold, heat pumps -- which are far more efficient than gas or oil heat -- are very common).

edit: Oh, wait it does take heat pumps into account, just later.

It says electric heating is strictly the worst,

That's because most electricity is generated by coal-burning power plants, which are probably second only to volcanos in CO2 emissions.

I always laugh at people who think that electric cars will give rise to cleaner air.

tanstaafl.

Also, power plants are more efficient at extracting energy from their fuel than cars are at extracting energy from theirs. (Of course, you may lose a lot of that efficiency once an electric car gets to use the electricity.) Also, while alternatively-powered power plants (hydroelectric, wind farms, etc.) may account for a minuscule portion of the country's power production, it's still an infinitely bigger portion than that used by a car. And, regardless of their other noxious outputs, nuclear power plants do not produce air pollution.

I want an electric car just for the simplicity. They could just put a motor on each corner and eliminate most of the mechanical components of a car.

If, Instead of digging a channel tunnel, we had put a dam across with a motorway and railway on top, the tidal surge would provide enough electricity for the whole of Europe, without CO2 emissions ( if's not one of mine, it's an article that I read abour 30 years ago by a Frenchman whose name I've forgotten).

Quote:
Politics and Ideology: Not my bag

Me neither, It's not what I come to this BBS for.

Ohh - how depressing. I score really well on having a very green house, but then I lose a lot with 20000 miles a year in a performance car, and 25-30 flights a year.

Rob - I'd love 2 blue ones if that is doable.

Price seems reasonable.

Cheers

Rory

I'll have 2x blue.