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Using ingenious detective skills, looks like the farming bit was done by Ashwell, some really nice, picturesque driving roads around there.

Shall have to find an excuse any time work needs to be done at the exchange there to see if they're filming :p

Great episode as always, but I think Top Gear can do no wrong :D
 
spaz said:
Using ingenious detective skills, looks like the farming bit was done by Ashwell, some really nice, picturesque driving roads around there.
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According to my son his school friend was there when Hamster blocked the high street.

(Been through Ashwell many times & it's narrow enough on a Motorbike :eek: )
 
Lashout_UK said:
I assume you mean petrol? Because you have to grow immense tonnages (and hence acres) of it to generate a relatively low output, so it's not viable on that scale.

Also, it reacts with certain plastics and alloys as it's more corrosive so won't necessarily run directly in a standard car.

The final problem is that bio-ethanol only has 70% of the calorific value of petrol so it doesn't make such a big bang, although it does have a higher octane rating, so fuel consumption goes up.



Tractor's not geared for speed!



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Is the one from James Bond - Casino Royale. An ex 747 mocked up with B47 style engine pods. Not a real aircraft but once was.

FYI the whole miami chase scene was filmed there!
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Love the way they used the other engine mounts for drop tanks

;)
 
I quite liked tonights episode,i dont really like the star in a **** car bits though. Was in stitches at the stick nearly flying out the jcb though.....oh god and him bouncing up and down on the seat. :D

The gti vs Lambo was VERY skyline vs mclaren F1 drag. :)
 
Lashout_UK said:
I assume you mean petrol? Because you have to grow immense tonnages (and hence acres) of it to generate a relatively low output, so it's not viable on that scale.
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I havent watched the episode but I remember reading about algae being developed that can produce cooking oil for diesels. Obviously theres rape seed oil but the algae is incredibly more efficent per acre, however it has various problems still before it can go to commercial production.
I have far more belief in something like that compared to hydrogen, etc

Here it is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel


Rapeseed 127 gallons per acre

Algae - 10000 gallons per acre!

In November 8, 2006, Green Star Products has announced that it has signed an agreement with De Beers Fuel Limited of South Africa to build 90 biodiesel reactors with algae as raw material. Each of the biodiesel reactors will be capable of producing 10 million gallons of biodiesel each year for a total production capacity of 900,000,000 gallons per year when operating at full capacity, which is 4 times greater than the entire U.S. output in 2006.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algaculture

It also says algae may produce hydrogen so who knows I guess :)
 
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AcidHell2 said:
what was all that about, I didn't get it..
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Jeremy Clarkson has a couple of donkeys as pets. One of them is called Kristen Scott Donkey. Or so he has said on TG, anyway. You can't be sure of anything that he says on TV (or any media) as he's playing for laughs.
 
dbmzk1 said:
Though sits seems to suggest it was driven by someone else and not Tom from Fifth Gear
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Raised this issue before. It was done as a publicity stunt by VW themselves and the obviously let some journalists have a go for their respective publications. Trust FG to completely neglect to mention any of this back story and make out it was all their own doing. Their lameness knows no bounds.
 
I've had my say before and last nights episode has done nothing to change my mind.

It's soooo badly staged!

OMG Hammonds tractor could barely make it over the ricketty bridge, the only way into the field. It was so close, he nearly died!!!!

Except he managed to get out, drive around the local village and get back in again without any of the former histrionics. So it obviously wasn't the only way in or out.

OMG, look at Hammond blocking up the village and all the irate drivers, what a naughty rebel that boy is. Except the bridge crisis was faked, we all know that now, so we can also assume the irate drivers were all paid to wave their fists and beep their horns and nobody was actually upset at all.

OMG May just dumped the seed all in one go, what a wally, except... and so on. Crashing into the "one and only, special" golf, May taking "over an hour" and then giving up. Clarkson with his dynamite.

Yawn. TG, you are getting way too predictable!
 
Oakesy2001uk said:
Why do people read too much into what is a very amusing TV show. You can find fault with it, but if you take it for what it is it is easilly the best thing on tele IMO!
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exacly, its on for entertainment....all these people that moan about it been fake etc, we all know,but if your so bothered don't watch it.
 
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