Bicycles, Jet Planes, Departure Lounge, Coal, Amanda

stolen from "Departure Lounge" on flickr

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Bicycles Bicycles

Yamaha electric bike
..a direct methanol type fuel cell (DMFC) unit with an output of 500W ..a new type of business-use bike for the near future. The fuel is an easy-to-handle methanol-water mixture... GPS navigation and camera-equipped rear-view monitor. It is also equipped with a 300W AC outlet so that it can serve as an electricity source..
gizmag has heaps of gadgets...


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Aprilia's Electric Assist Bicycle - sensible inner city commuter

..29kg..there wasn't a single person who rode it who didn't rave about the experience. ..The Aprilia Enjoy .. combination of electricity and human power and until you feel the way in which the microprocessor blends the electric assist with one's own endeavours, you won't understand how compatible the two power sources are...
Electronic sensors monitor the speed at which you are pedalling and the force being exerted on the pedals, sending real-time data to the micro-processor to activate the motor when it is needed - most noticeably when starting off or negotiating a hill. Electric motors make their torque at the bottom of the rev range.
..a sharp rise and the 200-watt motor kicks in..a range of 40 kilomtres..three hours to recharge using mains power..
Sadly "velorution" is no longer a bike blog... it may be again


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from the SMH letters column 18/03/2005

Aus immigration officials at the request of the Government are sent into primary schools in broad daylight, to imprison six- to 12-year-olds in the Villawood detention centre because they are "illegals" and defying the laws set down by the state. Not Stalin's Russia. Not Mao's China. Not Honecker's East Germany. Howard's Australia, March 2005

When I was 11 I was forced to go to an all-Jewish school. We were not allowed to go to non-Jewish schools at the time. My class started with 40 students. As the parents were arrested by the Gestapo, the Dutch police came to the school and forcibly removed their children from the classrooms.

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18/03/2005 10:31AM
Autism ....in Texas counties as mercury emissions rose..for every thousand pounds of .. released mercury, we saw a 17% increase in autism rates," ..48 tonnes of mercury USA from coal-burning plants.
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Air Wars:
"We expect the 777-200LR to ..consume 25 percent less fuel per seat..than the ..the A340-500."
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"the Airbus 330/340 ..is more economical than the Boeing 777 because of lower fuel consumption."
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jal say on a 900km leg 777-300.."40 km-person/litter" which is 94miles/gallon
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http://128.173.204.63/courses/cee5614/a3_sol_ce5614_04.html
say Boeing 777-200 HGW Fuel per Seat-Mile (lb./seat-nm) 0.0918
which I calculate to be 65 miles/gallon