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Great article! Had no idea he has a Master in electrical engineering!

Alifatisk 3y ago
If you didn’t mention this, I don’t think I would ever find out, that’s so cool!
defrost 3y ago
and plays a pretty mean church organ to boot. I met him and Ben Elton when they were on some kind of Brits abroad | wife hunting trip in the antipodes - Elton found himself a Jam Tart [1], Atkinson was chasing bigger game whom he once shared an organ with [2] and lucked out. Many conversations about dinner tables were had and at least one book resulted [3] But this was all very much in the early 1980s pre mega stardom days - R.A was introduced to me as an engineer rather than as a comedian. [1] https://freotopia.org/music/jamtarts/index.html https://freotopia.org/music/jamtarts/index.html [2] https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/robyn-owens https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/robyn-owen... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel)
isthatafact 3y ago
It mostly reads like a really bad article, disinformation actually, to me. The complaints about the greenhouse emissions during production of an electric car without considering the emission over its lifespan are less than helpful. Then the author claims that cars are "fast fashion" items and seems to not understand the difference between leasing (renting) and owning. Those 3 year old cars are not sent to the junkyard after the lease expires, which the author sort of acknowledges while still insisting that passing your usable car to someone else in order to drive a new one is a terrible thing. Then the implicit suggestion that we should keep old internal combustion cars around in hopes that someone might someday develop a practical synthetic fuel sometime in the future is just weird, even if it might have some validity simply due to the environmental cost of building a new car, but is really just unsupported opinion. It finally closes by recommending that people should simply continue driving their dirty old smoker cars unless "they do a lot of city centre motoring", but does not even mention public transit or bicycles.
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If you didn’t mention this, I don’t think I would ever find out, that’s so cool!

and plays a pretty mean church organ to boot. I met him and Ben Elton when they were on some kind of Brits abroad | wife hunting trip in the antipodes - Elton found himself a Jam Tart [1], Atkinson was chasing bigger game whom he once shared an organ with [2] and lucked out. Many conversations about dinner tables were had and at least one book resulted [3] But this was all very much in the early 1980s pre mega stardom days - R.A was introduced to me as an engineer rather than as a comedian. [1] https://freotopia.org/music/jamtarts/index.html https://freotopia.org/music/jamtarts/index.html [2] https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/robyn-owens https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/robyn-owen... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel)

isthatafact 3y ago

It mostly reads like a really bad article, disinformation actually, to me. The complaints about the greenhouse emissions during production of an electric car without considering the emission over its lifespan are less than helpful. Then the author claims that cars are "fast fashion" items and seems to not understand the difference between leasing (renting) and owning. Those 3 year old cars are not sent to the junkyard after the lease expires, which the author sort of acknowledges while still insisting that passing your usable car to someone else in order to drive a new one is a terrible thing. Then the implicit suggestion that we should keep old internal combustion cars around in hopes that someone might someday develop a practical synthetic fuel sometime in the future is just weird, even if it might have some validity simply due to the environmental cost of building a new car, but is really just unsupported opinion. It finally closes by recommending that people should simply continue driving their dirty old smoker cars unless "they do a lot of city centre motoring", but does not even mention public transit or bicycles.

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