turboplanner

22 minutes ago, Old Koreelah said:

Maybe. Japan, the world’s biggest car builder (are they still?) drive from the rhs like us.  

Domestic Japanese vehicles are RHD but they primarily build oversease now, main production for the Japanese is Thailand which can achieve top quality and lower cost of production and they build both LHD and RHD.

I once needed a quote for four tilt-slide trays for the Pakistan Army, emailed Japan about 830 am had the quote for LHD in Pakistan Army equipment level and colour by about 3:30 pm, to meet the Pakistan Tender deadline of around 4:30.

......zinc coin mint. Not many people know that bull has been working on a parachute policy for all the bitcoin traders for when the whole empty space implodes leaving millions of people with their last ten dollars. That's all bull needs to ship the, ZincCoins, a new version of the old gold coins we used to use. His Mint in Zeehan was under construction by Turbine Mints Corporation (TMC) which doesn't have to pay taxes because Zeehan is a Mining town, so bull's getting it cheap.

Across the street is ........................

21 minutes ago, FlyBoy1960 said:

Ford also offers an F-150 Lightning Pro model, which strips out luxury features, adds unpainted black plastic bumpers, vinyl seats, and enjoys a starting price of $US39,974 ($55,000)

 

how could we get one in Australia for less than $150,000 ?    they should be $55,000 plus a little bit extra for shipping and may be GST, but say $66,000 ready to roll. Absolutely no chance that this could ever happen in Australia

They used to be under $5,000.00 for many years.

Our biggest problem in Australia has become sourcing Right Hand Drive because the overseas manufacturers have begun turning away from RHD, and are unlikely to ever come back, particularly for tiny markets like ours.

I'm predicting that some time in the next 50 years, which is a short time in terms of platform design-to-production, Australia will switch to LHD and Pandora's box will open up for us.

...............challenge to the mainland by digging a tunnel under Bass Strait.

He was instantly surrounded by all the biggest contractors, being taken to the football, up to the ski fields by helicopter, on CT's Yacht in Port Phillip Bay, invited to endless lunches, and forgot to tell the Premier, who could be a nasty piece of work when crossed, and who had announced to the press that it wasn't going to happen. There was only one thing for ...........

............re real men mine coal.

However, there's no need for Interstaters and in particular Wags as we call people from Wagga Wagga, because it was just Dan turning the lights of so we could all watch his daily slide show at the same time.

He started by reassuring the people of DG not to worry about the emerging train line and that Gladys had the responsibility of building it through NSW but had overshot the mark, not knowing where NSW ended, despite the lines of armed guards up and down the border, the dog patrols and Vicpol helicopters, including the new military green SWAT helicopter gunship designed to machine gun anything on the ground so save valuable time arresting them, and the same line of Force along the Queensland border Eh.

But trouble was brewing in ........

The Victorian State Government has just announced the Consultation and Engagement phase of this proposed Plan which sets the future of all Council Plans in Melbourne for the future.

It includes the site of the proposed new Eastern International Airport.

It also classifies Moorabbin Airport as a Transport Gateway, and while both Moorabbin and Essendon Airports have tended to have a Wild West development because of the 99 year leases, the Planning force of the State Government will tend to preserve Moorabbin.

I couldn't find Essendon Airport in the Plans, although the stack of documents is huge and I could have missed it, but so far it looks as if by 2050 Melbourne will have three Airports, Tullamarine, Moorabbin and Koo Wee Rup.

Information Link: www.planmelbourne.vic.gov.au

9 hours ago, onetrack said:

Meantimes, back in the real world of automotive production, Ford are readying to launch their 2022 electric F-150 pickup - and pre-purchase orders have reached double the company projected levels .....

 

https://www.drive.com.au/news/demand-for-fords-new-electric-pick-up-exceeds-expectations-report/

 

Yep, that's Ford. Good on them, that will cover development costs and bring it all to a head much faster.

It would appear that when NSW says schools are closed they mean that literally and they are not operating online schooling. If so, that will be a disaster, possibly costing all students a year. Can anyone conform that?

.........someone called bull with a lower case B, involved in a scandal where he paid an indian doctor repeatedly to.................

12 minutes ago, nomadpete said:

OK, I'll back off a bit. They claimed that initial "proof of concept" motors have been running. Doesn't that mean that the concept has been proven? They claim to have a number of larger motors "in production" which implies the motor prototypes were made and successfully tested?

 

I should wait until somebody buys one and reports that it actually works as claimed.

A saleable engine design has about 4 failures per 100 engines to total target hours.

The testing goes on for months and over a period of years with the failed components being replaced but the rest left to see how far they go.

It would be unusual for a new concept, where only renderings (as against manufactured product and test results) were displayed, and vital information missing) to be a ready to sell product at the same time.

32 minutes ago, jackc said:

For me, private schooling was a total disaster…….teachers had ‘pets’ and if you were not one, you were doomed.  The cure?  Get expelled, worked for me!!!

You already told us that.

1 minute ago, skippydiesel said:

When tough economic/social times come (& they will) the tribal/religious indoctrination will rise like an infection, with each tribe polarising & looking after itself.

The result will be disastrous  for the social cohesion of our country.

Australia has never had the religious affinity of everyday citizens as Ireland had, thanks to our healthy injection of convicts who thumbed their noses at the lot.

Then we had the European immigrants who just wanted to forget the crap

Then the Asians who were busy making money.

1 minute ago, skippydiesel said:

I am not against private schools of any kind, as long as they meet the minimum education standards of the State and dont get a $ from the tax payer.

It was a very very bad mistake to allow tax payers money to be used to fund private schools of any description.

They are able to do some things not available from the State system.

It's not unreasonable that they received payment for the things they do that the State requires, and would otherwise have to pay for in terms of tuition, infrastructure, school buses etc.

.........Hindu classes by teaching returned "Australians" flown in by SCOMO Airlines how to fill out Visa forms and the fourteen stages (all costing a modest amout of money) of becoming a hindu and night manager of a Secrice Station before being ...............

19 minutes ago, FlyBoy1960 said:

Where are the video's showing engines  running ?   if you go to the video channel it has zero videos looks like vapourware

Good pick up, the link also only shows lines and renderings (notice that the highlights and shades are all perfect).

Importantly Torque and RPM are missing along with power and torque curves and a fuel map, so we don't know (even though one version has props) where this engine is suited to constant load/constant rpm applications, intermittant applications or whether it has the torque curve and power development to suit variable power requiremennts like motor vehicles.

Remembr that the Sarich concept also looked very good to the extent that GM gave him a contract, but despite throwing a lot of money at it, it couldn't do that last example.

Of course it's also coming on the scene where it will need near-zero CO2 emission.

Also don't underestimate the direction the automotive industry is going by lowering CO2 emissions using much smaller amounts of fuel to get the same result; those vehicles have already started to appear on the roads. The goal posts are shifting.

..........and the noise started to bother the residents of DG who were mostly retired Qantas Captains and..........

....so they called in Turbine Train Extractions Inc TTE. the Red Adair of extracting trains nogged to the guts in mud, but not before.......

1 hour ago, Flightrite said:

I have to agree there Spacey, school for me was for learning about hard knocks, daily fights behind the shelter sheds, lots of wogs (which was the accepted word during the day, no harm) giving it to us whites but oddly enuf we where the best of mates outside of the school yards, hmmm...nothing academically worth remembering. Growing up in a commission area and attending the public system meant you learnt by the strap, 6 of the best pretty much every other day, then again at home. I probably deserved it anyway and as mentioned didn't do many any harm:-) At grade 6 it was time to be divided up, clever kids (which where few) went to high school, the rest of us trouble makers went to a tech school, we where the ones that failed tests regularly. I saw form D (the lowest class( for the 4 years I was in secondary school, came away with practical skills but zero smarts, the crazy thing is I retired as a jet Capt, go figure:-)

Thread drift, as already said maybe we need another thread about education, or lack of it!

 

I'd hate to be in the public system these days also!

But you lived in a Country which allowed you to break through and get to the top.

The public system these days works on behavioural psychology; a much easier ride to the point where, having worked in it for about six months, I'm wondering why teachers and parents did it. I'm in awe at the skill of a teacher, entering the online class which at that point is a screen full of cross-conversation yelling, and a text panel that looks like a fast foward, and by calling a few names and settling them down, untangling a couple of disputes, has the class quiet and compliant in 30 seconds. A much better way than we had.

............Adam's electric car was still stranded 800 km south of Adani Mine. It;s wheel motors had been pouring out smoke fr days as it tried to pull the generator trailer, painted in camouflage colours from Melbourne. As we know know the Greens never made it to Adani, mistakenly driving in to Clermont with their banners, and arrogantly buying up all the pies in Clermont as the local miners found out at lunch time. The locals grebbed them all and corraled them in the stockyards as the local oval, and were about to massacre them in what would have become famous as the "Massacre at the Clermont Corral" when the local Sergeant brokered a peace deal and told the press not to say anything. The Greens were hoping to get the Coal Industry to ..............

5 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

[To bring NES readers up to the cutting edge of transport technology, adding to the very helpful information provided by Cappy in the unnumbered post (4 fingers back), this is a Heavy Combination Vehicle in ABConverter DollyAB configuration. Why anyone would build a road train this way is a mystery but probably to confuse the new Regulator, NHVR which already has one of the biggest staff levels in Australia.

 

 

........and so the NES forgave Cappy yet another full stop. (for the uneducated Cook, yer need more than one (1) (Wun) for continuation (ter go).

However Cappy had made a mistake and this was a real train and a real coal train at that, 2 kilometres of it with six Autonomous locos hurling it along at 180 km/hr. The coal industry, sick of the carping of the Labor Rainbows and the Greens, and wanting to avoid the chances of any production restrictions had built the long forecast VFT route from the Bowen Basin to progressive Victoria with a grant negotiated by SuperDan with his mate Xi to use the Belts and Roads Budget. The only tiny mistake they made was at the end where it came to the surface at Darraweit Guim, and ...............(see C, multiple dots)

......and waiting, but Turbo has given him a nice comment (by comparison with what could have been revealed).

At that point Turbo thought he heard another train coming and ducked...........................

9 hours ago, Captain said:

That's nothing OT. As 2 posts ago Ratty had bull chasing bull. So your beloved Captain is losing it, officially, the dopy old XXXX.

Turbo respectfully adds the AABBconverterdolly45'trailer - the 5pack so beloved of Queensland operators west of Mitchell and out of sight of any regulators.

However he falls short of OT's last epithet as a result of a prvious episode where Cappy reacted like a sixteen year old school girl and dobbed him in.

I wouldn't worry too much. I'm into about my seventh month of online schooling. The teachers are doing five year course at uni now including behavioural psychology, and I'm in awe at how they can pull and online class into gear and get through a lessons with questions coming in every few seconds and the kids totally focused on the lesson. Effectively its Zoom, but for some classes we go straight into the US system alongside US kids and no one even blinks. A book review for nine year olds includes identifying the narrative, what the writer intended, the use of persuasive adjectives etc - deconstructed and reconstructed in way more depth than 30 years ago. There's less of the stuff we never used and more day to day issues  one last week being to organise and cost a theoretical camping trip, costing materials and food etc. It was good to see the result of a well thought out online programme when Victoria came out on top of the other states in the NAPLAN tests.

...sauce.

Turbo and Cappy sat down for lunch, surrounded by flies. A kelpie lay semi-conscious on the floor worn out from chasing cars all morning. Turbo hadn't helped by pretending to drive past then slamming on the brakes. The kelpie was looking more like a boxer now.

"Just thinking about those WA Utes with the hay" he said "that's probably for Turbine Farms in Queensland. About 20 years ago there was a bad drought around Aramac, and we were all on our knees with no feed for the cattle so someone from Henty organised a hay bale convoy, and paid to deliver 4,000 tonnes to a big paddock near town. It had rained by the time we got there so we didn't need it but we were grateful for their generosity. We haven't had a drought for 20 years, but every year there's a hay bale run. We don't need it and they drive through waste high Mitchell grass to deliver it out into the paddock. We sell it off at retail and it pays for an overseas holiday every year, cruising on the Rhine, sight seeing around the rockies and it doesn't cost us a cent. Next year we're .........