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Cheap, virtually indestructible plastics are a by-product of hydrocarbon fuels, if we weren't using the oil for fuel, those plastics wouldn't be economically viable.

There is some kind of car scrap yard over the other side of the bypass on the Pulau-U road, I don't know what happens there but there are old wrecks stacked up.

No idea what your interests are. Mine took me to Stuttgart. Why?

An excellent beer festival!

If you want to travel by rail, you could cover most of the major cities in Northern Europe in two weeks but I would consider avoiding London as it's a bit out on a limb. You could do something like Paris, Brussels, Amsterdamn, Hamburg, Berlin, Prague, Munich, Zurich. But you won't see hardly anythi...

If you want to travel by rail, you could cover most of the major cities in Northern Europe in two weeks but I would consider avoiding London as it's a bit out on a limb. You could do something like Paris, Brussels, Amsterdamn, Hamburg, Berlin, Prague, Munich, Zurich.

I've just found this House of Commons briefing paper that explains the backgound of restricting state pension increases overseas:

Frozen overseas pensions
http://researchbriefings.files.parliame ... N01457.pdf

A big advantage of reducing emissions a 100% by using renewable energy for most countries would be that you stop giving huge amounts of money to people that hate you anyway, in either Russia, the Middle East or now, even Trump's America.

Small-Scale Solar Is Bound To Expand Rapidly After New EU Renewable Energy Deal https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/15/small-scale-solar-is-bound-to-expand-rapidly-after-new-eu-renewable-energy-deal/ "The agreement between the European Parliament and EU governments establishes the right of European ci...

I saw a new Tesla X the other day in Europe and that is a good looking SUV if you have that kind of money to spend on cars, as well as ridiculous acceleration:
https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/modelx

kangkung*** Why is the fried kangkung here nothing but thick inedible stems?

I'm no expert on culinary arts but my perception is that it needs to be cooked when it's very fresh and most places don't have that level of freshness.

I think it is like a lot of other things here; the HiSo's that can afford the cars have their own little clique and it is not run to show them off to the peasants,...

They don't want loads of people turning up with 1960's Datsun pickups! (Which is a pity, because I wouldn't mind one.)

I've never eaten much Japanese food Pete but when I lived in Indonesia, I ate tofu all the time without any problems. They had another dish, Tempe, also made from soya and I loved the stuff, used to have it for lunch every day.

What if Canada had spent $200bn on wind energy instead of oil? https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2018/jun/15/canada-oil-sands-pipeline-trans-mountain-what-if-invest-renewable-wind-energy In explaining Canada's decision to nationalise the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5b...

To be honest, there isn't all that much thinking to be done, the world is about to change to a new era of cheap, sustainable energy:

New US Solar Record — 2.155 Cents Per kWh!
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/14/ne ... y-storage/

That Honda city car in the video above is similar to the Renault Twizy which has been around in Europe for a few years now. You see quite a few of them around where I am in Luxembourg city, I think mainly because you can find places to park them on the small old streets in the centre of town. I know...