Will Naim continue when the oil runs out?

There's always snakes.

What will continue when the oil runs out?

George

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Originally posted by GFFJ:
What will continue when the oil runs out?

George

Hmm ... difficult, but I could always try cooking the chips with butter.

... on a log fired range? There will still be beef dripping to cook with! Renewable fuel such as wood is what we shall come to unless there is break-through with Nuclear Fussion...

ATB from George

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Originally posted by James Fraser:
.....just a thought for the future as the time is nearly there when oil goes for good....

It never will completely run out, it will just become too expensive to go after as it gets harder to get at.

Most (possibly all) of the components don't contain oil either but again do require electricity to produce. If you live outside the UK you might have to wait longer for delivery as a practical load carrying electrically powered aircraft is still a couple of weeks off.

The biggest hit to Naim products, their performance anyway, is likely to be local legislation requiring all electrical devices to be completely powered down when not in use. I seem to recall something about the Australian government talking about banning Plasma TVs due to their excessive power consumption so legislation requiring complete power down is not that unlikely.

Steve

What someone needs to do is find a generator/car/power station that runs on CO2. Problem solved.

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Originally posted by BigH47:
What someone needs to do is find a generator/car/power station that runs on CO2. Problem solved.

I always wondered why people didn't eat the locusts.

I'll get my cloak.

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Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
I always wondered why people didn't eat the locusts...

Perhaps they could be moulded into low resonance locust fibre cases for Hi-Fi equipment, the hooks on the legs helping them bind together. There is certainly enough dribble on these pages, some of which I no doubt contributed myself, to act as a resin.

Steve

They can always do a HiFi version of this:

Hand driven radio

JohanR

When the mineral oil runs out, there is still renewable vegetable oil. It may be (and probably should be) too expensive for use as a fuel but should keep the plastics industries ticking over.
For fuel, nuclear and renewable sources will need to be used much more. Thatcher's "dash for gas" was a stupid jump in completely the wrong direction.
Ken

Oil, uranium then hydro electricity...or wind or very large area covered with solar panels......no problems here, you need energy, ...call us.

Ken,

There are a couple of long running threads over on the Navitron forum about the use of waste vegetable oil powering old Lister engines see here and there. Clearly this option is not for the faint hearted, and requires a lot of technical ability and practical skills.

Wind turbines are also an option if you live in the right place, but leaving your kit powered up all the time will probably be a thing of the past!

Regards

Nic

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There's always snakes.

Don't you mean SNAIC ?

As for the use of "waste vegetable oil" this annoys me as if I throw it away - no problem, If I give it to someone to power a car (I don't drive) then they get done unless they declare it and pay the fuel tax.

While I don't agree with biofuel as a fuel source - what about waste cooking oil? If this was collected and used as fuel this could make a difference. But tax barriers make this silly, if you use cooking oil as fuel you need to pay duty. But if you just pour cooking oil down the drain - illegal by the way - no one knows but it causes a lot of problems.

What do you do with your old cooking oil?

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Originally posted by Stuart M:
What do you do with your old cooking oil?

You may not really want to know the answer to that...

Steve

Rebound effect

Sarah Kennedy was muttering about this earlier this morning; one of the challenges as ever, is how to deal with human nature.

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As for the use of "waste vegetable oil" this annoys me as if I throw it away - no problem, If I give it to someone to power a car (I don't drive) then they get done unless they declare it and pay the fuel tax.

There was an article in the Guardian supplement "Money" recently which said that the regulations had been amended, and that use of vegetable oil was OK unless you were supplying it commercially.
Ken

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2007/oct/27/motoring.motoring

Ken

Guess before the oil has run out...some stupid EU regulations will have killed off our beloved brand....

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The biggest hit to Naim products, their performance anyway, is likely to be local legislation requiring all electrical devices to be completely powered down when not in use. I seem to recall something about the Australian government talking about banning Plasma TVs due to their excessive power consumption so legislation requiring complete power down is not that unlikely.

But naim products have power down buttons not standby buttons. It is outside naims influence when their customers choose to leave their product on.

I guess there's always batteries

Cloakroom please!

Andrew