How does a plug-in hybrid work? A hybrid car is like two cars in one: it has a conventional gasoline (petrol) engine for fast freeway driving and an electric motor for more economic, pollution-free travel (or idling). In different designs, the wheels are driven by the engine, the mot...
It’s a good idea to ask a local how much they are paying for their bus journey. DON’T 1. Get too carried away Bargaining for your goods in a local grocery store or attempting to haggle for your alcoholic beverages in bars or your dinner in restaurants is not appropriate and will get...
In a steam-boiler the burning fuel is enclosed either by fire-brick or a "water-jacket," forming part of the boiler. A water-jacket signifies a double coating of metal plates with a space between, which is filled with water. The fire is now enclosed much as it is in a kitchen range...
Much of this is nearly alien to Thai style traffic where the concept of avoiding hindrance to others is nearly absent. This is especially so for tuk tuk and red pick up trucks, which behave like a mafia anyway, but also for other uneducated road users....
There are chemical extinguishers, but my fire station friend didn’t seem to think much of them, at least not for large lithium fires. I guess you might be able to smother a large lithium fire by dropping a Chernobyl style sarcophagus made of steel on top of it, or possibly made of so...
The problem is that far too often, the idiots still try to do something and DO keep getting in the way. Idiots in positions like that far to often end up in the actually competent people burning out or leaving because they have to spend far too much time managing/"being managed by" th...
So no, music isn't rare, even if it is important. So is it valuable? Well. That's not really a word that means very much unless you narrow it down a bit. My baby's smiles are valuable, but you can't get a penny for them in the street if you ask people (apparently). The ...
There are a few examples of thiskind of vocabulary change, but they are mostlyuncommonwords and are not likely to changeBritish English too much. The British are stillusing“mum” rather than“mom” and“petrol”rather than “gas".But when we start thinking of language morein terms of ...
(you'd need to get there by around 7 for a direct bus to Reykjavik, and the ship arrives in Seyðisfjörður at around 9), so I hitchhiked to Akureyri instead and then car-pooled from there (I contacted a driver in advance through samferda.is and paid my share of petrol),...
Even before the pandemic, the level of corporate leverage was beginning to cause alarm. At the end of last year, the IMF issued a striking warning: as much as $19tn of business debt in eight countries led by the US — or 40 per cent of the total — could be vulnerable if there wer...