cars-planes-gardens

[tonyurmate]

Its true sir,about the eletric car,which was featured in the american movie crazy beautiful. the reason im up so late or so early in ireland is because im on my holidays from work, and im a half vampire,and of course im watching red dwarf on you tube also first discovered your goodself on youtube.

I really must sleep now as ive been given orders to paint my kitchen tomorrow.

Keep posting your vids and good morning to you.

[vancitycanary]

Who waters your spuds when you are away? :P

[BigglesPiP]

Bad science! How does adding more energy states, and piping the electricity 100s of miles make it more efficient than burning the fuel where it's used. I'm going to watch that video now, and If I don't like the science you can bet you'll hear about it!! :P

Electric card will be popular when:

They cost no more.

They perform similarly.

They go as far.

They can be refilled as fast.

And for me, when they are as exciting.

[gnoxycat]

The biggest problem with electric cars is range and cost. If you look at the Tesla for instance it cost about $10,000 for every 25miles you can drive give or take. It performs at its cost of a $100,000 sports car but it has no range and cant be refilled as fast. Here is an idea for the times. When my remote dies for my TV I replace the batteries why cant I do that on the road at a service station with my electric car? Pay them for the charge leave the dead batteries and have a nice day.

[BorgCymru]

Getting a bit of a belly there Bob

[hianda]

nice shirt

[tvhackmjb]

hey just a recommendation for two books, that you may have read already, but here goes, the Last Oil Shock:( A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man) by David Strahan, and also Internal combustion (how corporations and governments addicted the world to oil and derailed the alternatives.) by Edwin Black. If you get the time or inclination have go at these two. They both fill in allot the blanks of why we are in the situation we find ourselves in today.

[MendelsonShape]

They have the ZENN (Zero Emissions No Noise) cars in Canada. They're developed in Quebec, but the province does not allow them on the road. They are allowed in B.C., but nowhere else. This world is insane.

[Mongothegr8]

the petrol companies need to start thinking about having charge up posts where we can pay to charge our electric cars then shouldn't they?

Its a bit like the cigarette companies who knew about cancer etc and also know how to make cigarettes that dont contain the tar but they wont because it is too expensive.

When there are no people to buy the wretched oil or ciggies, they will start wishing they had listened to the scientists but hey, it will all be too late then wont it?

[espermatazoide]

urm sorry about that long comment. i was a bit hyper.

[irishmanufan]

i think scrapheap has already finished. why not pop over to the forum on robert llewellyns offcial web site and find out .

[espermatazoide]

robert um YOUR AWESOME! hehe anyway

i wish i had known that you where going to drive the BIGGEST digger thingy in the world down in malaga! for gods sake i live literally less than half an hour from there in a little town called "Alora" oh yeah... PLEASE DON'T END SCRAPHEAP!!!

please write back =)

[Spoonfoon]

100,000,000,000,000 x $200 = $200,000,000,000,000,000

Or in lamens terms - Assloads.

[arvensis68]

sickenly true comment about the electric car.Greed...cant beat it. PAH!!!

[LittleMickyFingers2]

arvensis68: Hi Babe! How's tricks? Hope you're all well - thanks for sending me this. A very enjoyable video.

Love to all, Michael xxx

[truthseekers666]

Your off to Atlantis... how did you find it? Ive been looking for ages. Benefit of being a star.

Water cars.. running on hydroxy... no thats not hydrogen car... hydroxy made from water running on nothing but water in your tank. They bumped off the guy who developed it. Patents on it starting to lapse and Japs have delevoped it. Needs refining but the idea could mean free energy for us all. Yes all very much dissalowed technology.

[Kathphlox]

Youtube is pretty bad for letting us know when something you're subscribed to is posted. I get no email or anything.. hence I'm a week late in viewing your video..grrrr

I get emails from forums when I subscribe, it can't be that hard can it.

Or.. am I doing something wrong?

I enjoyed the garden bit as I'm a keen gardener myself, although I only have a very small patch. I'll be a little potato every time I come on here now :D

[LittleMickyFingers2]

Kathphlox: Well said! Is YouTube getting too big? My channel is a nightmare at the moment ... I don't receive videos from people I'm subbed to ... internal emails do not reach their destination ... comments evaporate into thin air ... in conclusion us little "spouds" have got to stick together. Mine always do ... lol

Phlox are beautiful flowers in the perennial border!

May peace, love and happiness be your constant companions.

[krytenmechanoid]

Interesting points made. It's just a shame one of our greatest commodities also happens to be one of our natural rescources. When will we ever learn the consumption of greed leeds depletion. Everything comes at a cost, and not just financial.

[ravenmerc]

It will be warm 90s or above but the humidity will make it feel hotter

[sheltiemanva]

I am watching you.

Would you like to get involved in an electric conversion that anyone could bolt onto a transmission of any car??

[dsb456]

What a legend!!

[terrorbite]

Ah no, it's just a film. I think the director was on the Alex Jones (infowars d0tc0m) show recently which is what made me look it up.

[terrorbite]

Grr. I hate the way the new "subscription center" looks/works. I've only just discovered this video despite it being uploaded 5 days ago.

[richandnik]

Do a vid for llewtube from the Golden Gate bridge if you do go to SF, that would be cool......

[GRANDMASGANNAMAULYAS]

A petrol or a diesel car takes 3-4 minutes to fill a tank. An electric car takes 3-4 hours!

I would sit around, waiting for my eco- friendly, electric car to charge at one of my plug sockets or however they charge them (some cars do, some cars don't), BUT a lot of people won't want to do that

Plus, like you said about wealthy people at shell and other companies wanting to change to hydrogen so that they can still get money is also a very valid point!

[GRANDMASGANNAMAULYAS]

Plus, you' re awesome!

[GRANDMASGANNAMAULYAS]

Also, the government would not like the industry to die because of tax for it, if they let that happen a large amount of funding will be lost! SCARY ISSUE!

[xjet]

No, the newer lithium technologies (lithium iron phospate or LiPO4) can be recharged from dead-flat in just 15 minutes. That's longer than it takes to get served at most of our petrol stations :-)

[GRANDMASGANNAMAULYAS]

never knew that thanks for that

[terrorbite]

I can't see it being too hard to develop electric cars with interchangable batteries, so you can charge one while driving around with the other etc.

It's funny this video should be about "Who killed the electric car?" cause I heard something about that recently myself, and was thinking of watching it (isn't it based on a book, or has an accompanying book?). Might look it up on Google Video.

[bobbyllew]

Actually, there is already battery technology around that can take a full charge in 15 minutes. There are ways around this problem and finally there are some really clever people with financial backing having a go at solving it. Stay tuned!

[GRANDMASGANNAMAULYAS]

Thanks man

[patcondell]

"Hello there, you tubers." Are you talking to us or the potatoes.

[bobbyllew]

That is the funniest comment I've ever had. Hello there, you Tubers! I want to do a podcast to my spuds now. Thank you.

[Hypergumby]

I agree, that is very clever. Every time you open with "Hello there, you tubers" I'm going to feel slightly spuddish, particularly kennebeccy.

Gold patcondell!

[SciFiAssasin]

HELEN LEDERER!!!

Blimey!

[squalloogal]

I sit and look at my little fuel powered car and realise my city is full with every kind of vehicle running on petrol or deisel. Will it ever change? How long will it really take ? People using pedal power because it is our only mechanical alternative. Would we start using horses and large sail ships again? Produce our own food? The way we live our lives is going to have to change.I still really like my little car. It would be funny plugging it in at night to recharge next to my mobile phone.

[Hypergumby]

Oh wow bob, never heard of a Tesla Roadster but after doing some research I've put one on my christmas list (as if I'll ever afford one haha, a G-Wiz is more in my price range). Amazing vehicle. 0-60mph (100kph) in about 4 seconds. No clutch. Reminds me of a Scalectrix car set on the lounge room floor. Just the name Tesla has me conjuring up images of danger and power. Old Nikolai had a lot going for him. Hope your spuds are doing well. :)

[mutoid12]

good on you bob. how true , how very true. its very annoying that they make hybrids so much more expensive. I would love a totally electric car. bring it on i say.

[TheNilvarg]

Robert, it was 98ºF two days ago, but it's been raining today, so it was cooler today.

Don't be surprised if it gets to the 100's when you're here, though.

[professormoog]

I do like your videos Robert and I'm not having a go, but all this flying around, how does it concern you regarding your carbon footprint etc.

When you made that light hearted remark about your neighbours aircraft I thought about your trips across the pond.

Keep up the good work :-)

[TheBlindjedi]

Hydrogen isn't expensive to make and the oil companies won't be the only ones who can provide it. All you need to produce hydrogen is some water a couple electrodes and electricity and then someway to compress it to whatever compression ratio they end up using. All hydrogen is is a high density battery.

[professormoog]

And Hydrogen is Extremely flammable!

think Zeppelins! :-)

they need a way to keep it safe also.

[TheBlindjedi]

No more flamable than gasoline. The Hindenburg went down because of poor bag design. If you made a zepplin with modern materials it wouldn't have that issue, but no one wants to even touch hydrogen after that incident.

[keltoi2000]

Welcome to SEATTLE!

[xjet]

Oh Robert, you got sucked in by that "Who killed the electric car" video :-(

Think about it for a moment -- capitalism... there's been *NOTHING* stopping *ANYONE* else from creating an electric car for decades, but none did. Why is that? Because the technology hasn't been there at all. Even now, most of our battery technology sucks and falls far short of the good old internal combustion engine in so many areas. Don't believe everything you see or hear - challenge these claims!

[lunabrd]

oh oh come to san francisco! we'd love to see you in the Bay Area! you should go to the SF Ferry Building market - my uncle runs the wine store and on saturdays there's a faaaaabulous farmer's market!

[TheNilvarg]

I can really hear someone from San Francisco saying "faaaaabulous". Ugh, terrible place.

[lunabrd]

well aren't you charmingly polite about my home.

[TheNilvarg]

It's a disgusting modern hippy commune. It's not your fault.

[NegPhil]

Howdy Bob, It's so cool your coming back to Seattle!!! We have the hippest PBS station in America. I hope you can shoot more "Red Dwarf" material. That stuff with Kryton at the Space Needle was classic. While your here you could stop by the Science Fiction Museum and have a chat with Paul Allen. You guys could have an epic nerd conversation about Mac and green technology plus he could finance the Red Dwarf movie. Two birds,one stone.

[vincevl]

How are the strawberries?

I'm jammed up to my eyeballs with them this year:)

[RentTheSpokeMan]

Do you think these companies do it all for power and power of presence?I mean they must make enough to live a vert affluent life style so why are they so desperate for more?I think its more of an ego thing than a greedy thing. A more of 'My penis is so much bigger than yours' kinda thing.Its just such a shame these people are so insecure imagine how different the world world would be if they were like 'ok we have enough money to live comfortably now so we are do whats in favour of the rest

[RentTheSpokeMan]

of the world so we can all be happy.You would think they would get a sense of power from that but allas that doesnt seem to be the case.. and poo i meant to say "we are gona do" not "we are do" oh well.

[OhSmeg]

Hey is anyone else from RD going to be with you in Seattle Bobby?

[xxSniperK2xx]

Great update Rob...

:)

[neep28]

zane1os

As far as the oil companies are concerned they can never make too much money. So why would they willingly give up a profitable part of their business.

[zane1os]

Good point. But if you have a commodity that every one wants.i.e. the raw materials to make plastic, synthetic clothing etc. and there is no other source for this raw material (oil) then you can set the price to make the profit that you want. As we see them now doinging to make as much money as they can from the petrol/deisel market. Is this bacause they know that they will soon lose this market so are milking it for all they can!

[DwarferAimi]

Robert, what kind of plane does your nieghbour have? :)

I want an electric car. I've heard that they aren't as powerful, that they can only go upto 50mph or something, but surely they can develop that, if that were a true fact that is :p

[bobbyllew]

Exactly my point. Land speed record for electric car, 388 mph. T zero electric car, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds, that's formula 1 fast. Don't believe what anyone says about electric cars being slow, that's what they want you to believe.

[zane1os]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought petrol was a by-product of the oil refineing process. We use oil for a million and one other things (just think about everything thats made from plastic these days) so surely if the automotive part of the oil industry dissappeared because we all drove electric cars the industry would still exist to feed our appetite for all the other products of oil.

[bobbyllew]

very good point. However I imagine a fairly large chunk of their income comes from fuel in all it's various forms

[thestalkinghead]

i wanted to get an electric moped but it was far to expensive even on ebay so i bought a big elictric motor and some batteries and i am going to attach it to a peddle bike but i havent got round to it yet but i will attach it sooner or later

[johnkerfoot2003]

yes 10000ft

[brettvonallen]

The best way to get electric cars on the scene is to persuade the rich & powerful to use them. I was looking at electric cars at the motor show, but they were all too small and ugly. If they made an electric Maybach, then I would be interested. The type of people that would use that, would be the type of people who could bring about the change you're looking for. Oh, you can get a hybrid helicopter, by the way, but there very rare.

[bobbyllew]

Google the TESLA roadster. I want one. Very expensive but pretty cool.

[n14e5o15]

The electric car story sounds familiar. The same thing happened to inventions such as the long-lasting lightbulb and unladderable tights. Bought up and not developed as they would have reduced the profitablity of the sector.

The problem is that capitalism revolves around maximising consumption.

[iatebobby]

Good luck in America have loads and loads of fun, i'm still looking forward to your new series(s) and glad i've got scrapheap challenge to fill the gap for now, so kudos to you.

[WePuTtHeMdOwN]

Love your videos rob!!

[RedDwarfObsessive]

Woo Good Luck At Your Red Dwarf Anniversary Party. :-D

Thank You

[Phil, RDO]

[JakeF4]

I understand that one of the first motorized vehicles ever built was in fact electric powered.

I guess the problem was that the battery technology just wasn't reliable enough 100 years ago, so the new horseless carriages of the day hit the lead, and never looked back. Until now that is.

[xXxLadyLushxXx]

luv it.xx

[Redshift21]

As ever Bob a great video, you might like to take a look into peak oil as well.

[DannyJiggles]

awesome, a new vid

you'll have to tell us how your trip goes and that. bye

[LuminolBlue]

Hi Robert, you are very insightful. I really enjoy watching your videos.

Have a very safe trip to the States and I do hope to see more videos from you.

-Am

[dismutased]

Great points, who killed the electric car really opened my eyes. I'm hoping electric cars become popular sooner rather than later.

Oh.. and the expletives laden barrel roll in the plane was such a laugh!

[bobbins05]

i personally dont think its petrol / oil that runs our cars and country its greed!.

also whats is your opinoin on google street, personally i think it might cause some people drama.

[Timmzy11]

im looking forward to seeing Car pool when you get time to record and upload it.

[BaubleRob]

It's a shame those petrochemical companies can't switch their focus, like BT is in the process of doing, becoming more of an internet company. Hopefully the demand for electric cars will increase soon.