Recent content by Mariner

Motorcycle engine in there as well, I seem to think? I'm old enough to remember seeing one or two of those going around when I was a kid. I'm not sure you even needed a fu licence to drive them!

Sodium ion just beginning to enter production, I think, which ought to drop the price for lower-range models. The batteries should be a lot cheaper than even LFP.

At this point, I'm beginning to wonder if the problem is with Digi and family. Just how good is your driving? :p

Possibly not just the accent, but the fact that they chose an Englishman to play a Welsh character!

It doesn't matter what you know, if you can't do anything with it! It would take decades to catch up with the manufacturing capacity of the big Chinese battery companies and there doesn't really seem to be the intent for this to happen. Not an enormous problem, as long as the Chinese remain...

No doubt that the western countries have been lax in letting the Chinese do most of the work on battery development and manufacturing. Regarding scarcity of important minerals for batteries, I think there is little doubt that Sodium Ion is the solution for many markets, but again, the Chinese...

The words 'drilling' and 'hip' in the same sentence doesn't make it sound like a fun day out to me. Hope it goes well, regardless!

I can't drive at present after developing epilepsy. Even though it is 5 minutes walk to my kids' school and 15 minutes walk to work, it is a real pain in the neck not being able to drive! Public transport not up to much around here and, in any case, it's just as easy for me to walk as to hang...

Meh. What's he going to do? Move to a team with a slower car and stop winning? Just sabre-rattling.

Just to add, unlike one of my friends, I'm not a huge fan of F1. However, I can't help but think that the people running the sport as well as many of the drivers seem to be appalling people. Arrogance, egotism, overt self-satisfaction. Not very attractive traits. But, hey, it makes them very...

You wouldn't know that your boss was married to and had children with one of the Spice Girls, after they appear in a TV documentary series which has been running for 5 years? That would be a remarkable level of ignorance. Especially as Geri is mentioned on a number of occasions in the apparent...

In other words, there was a cover up, and somebody wasn't happy so then leaked messages to prove Horner had been up to mischief. Well, that's perhaps not the best term for apparent sexual harrassment! Has anybody actually read these messages or is it just the media who are keeping the contents...

Yes, I should have been more specific and said the best driver of the team with the best car! It is pretty rare these days that you have two teams with performance on a par so it tends to be swinging from a period of dominance for one team and then a period of dominance for another. End result...

So, the guy with the best car is going to win again this year?

I've just finished watching the most recent True Detective. Very dark and gritty (as you might expect). Some of the characters were just a bit too way out there and the solution to the mystery was clever but a bit daft, but good acting and lots of British/Irish actors in there, for some reason...