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  1. My understanding is that that is what a typhoon tempest engine was...on walk-about, will dig up more at home.....but a quick search says that typhoon engine was a Napier sabre.....up to 3000 ps monster ..... a 24-cylinder piston engine with sleeved valves. Actually it is better described as two 12-cylinder horizontally opposed engines*, fused together in an ‘H’ cross section, as opposed to its famous ‘competitor’ the V-shaped 12-cylinder Rolls Royce Merlin......perhaps it was a Napier Bentley
  2. Nah, it was a while lot bigger than that ... Rolls-Royce Merlin engine with a 3rd bank of cylinders grafted on 1 side
  3. in the 80s watched a typhoon? engined 30?s race car go around pukekohe track at a wings and wheels owner/driver said he liked the pukekohe back-straight as it was the only place he could get the car into top gear didn't like that the power would destroy the narrow classic car tyres can't seem to find any mention of it on the web but did find something similar in brutus https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/300387755/meet-brutus-the-most-dangerous-car-in-the-world While Brutus was actually built (well, started being built) in 1998, aero-engined cars initially rose in po
  4. and of course our own smash palace road race pity aspect ratio is wrong
  5. now the team have publicly come out to say they are not for sale seems dalts is too well entrenched
  6. rolling out the big guns https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/americas-cup/126245824/team-nz-wont-win-americas-cup-without-grant-dalton-says-sir-stephen-tindall
  7. story back again https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/americas-cup-could-stay-if-dalton-leaves-team-nz-claims-rich-lister-tnz-questions-intentions/PDJN5KDVCNG327LDG6APPJJG4A/
  8. never got to theirs we had our own little local one for the kids to burn away bad luck stuff, a dondonyaki
  9. we just keep rolling our tickets over at least we hope that's what air new zealand are doing
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    cup talk

    Moves are being made by a Kiwi rich-lister to see if the defence of the America's Cup can be held in Auckland after all. Mark Dunphy, CEO and chairman of Greymouth Petroleum and on New Zealand's rich list with an estimated worth of $230 million, is at the helm of the move to hold the 37th America's Cup in Auckland – most likely with a mix of private and Government funding. Dunphy has been speaking to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, the holders of the Cup, but says the squadron and Team New Zealand now need to answer the question: are they committed to a local defence if the mon
  11. He believed it could be from as long ago as the very early 1800s or even the 1700s. Willis and fellow expedition members Mark Willis and Dale Hedgcock unearthed the cannon late last month. They were at a Chalky Inlet beach when they spotted a small, deep orange patch among the stones. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cave-mystery-and-a-shipwreck-ship-drawing-names-cannon-found-at-chalky-inlet/P5CTEGZ5S64KFTN4OA6TYIWGBI/ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Chalky+Inlet&atb=v177-1&ia=web&iaxm=maps Willis said team members were now waiting for the Ministry of Culture and Heri
  12. i seem to remember muldoon's "think big" motunui methanol plant took natural gas that could run a car 500?km and turned it into synthetic petrol that would run a car 200?km (rather than turn that science project into a factory it would have been better/cheaper to simply give nz'ers free cng/lpg conversions for their cars) https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/8935/motunui-synthetic-petrol-plant https://teara.govt.nz/en/oil-and-gas/page-5 Efficiency[edit] In 2013, the round-trip efficiency of power-to-gas-storage was well below 50%, with the hydrogen path being able t
  13. heard a dunedin? scientist on the radio this morning saying the huge green-hydrogen plant at tiwai just isn't going to happen apparently the science experiment they would like to scale up would require A LOT of platinum not a metal in great supply... Fast forward five years and gold now is more than double the price of platinum, even as platinum is considered to be 30 times rarer than gold, and more expensive to mine, Caruso said. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/green-hydrogen-is-opening-doors-for-higher-platinum-demand-11605902071 might be time to swap my hoarded t
  14. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/go-nz-a-luxury-cruise-in-fiordlands-doubtful-dusky-and-breaksea-sounds/AVTIBBPVTN4JDEX5O7NC6GUNOQ/
  15. hi all, new member hilly asks Hilly 0 Posted 3 hours ago Hi everyone i have purchase Twisted Sister back in 2018 and i would like to know if anyone know its history ie what year was it built and so on. Cheers Hilly
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    superlight

  17. looks like it could well become the big hydro-battery they're looking for In 2019, the Interim Climate Change Committee proposed that the lake be used for a pumped hydro-storage system to provide backup electricity generation in dry years. The project had first been proposed in 2005 by hydrologist Earl Bardsley of the University of Waikato.[1][2] In July 2020, Minister of Energy Megan Woods announced that the New Zealand government would fund a detailed feasibility study of the plan.[3] If progressed, the scheme would be the biggest infrastructure project in New Zealand since the 1
  18. central otago, middle of nowhere, lake onslow https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lake+onslow&atb=v177-1&ia=web&iaxm=about was cold, but once down out of the clouds and on the eastern side the sun came out and made myself a coffee
  19. when i was younger i wanted to fly all of the; swooping, climbing, banking, wind in the face freedom appealed but top gun never happened and cessnas + commercial aviation seemed very constrained however motorcycling ended up being the best source of those vitamins currently enjoying the back roads
  20. still no one knows what to do with the waste canada - In 2005, the NWMO decided to build a deep repository dedicated to store the spent nuclear fuel underground. The $24 billion price tag of this 500- to 1000-metre underground vault is to be paid by a trust fund backed by the nuclear production companies. The spent fuel bundles would be placed in steel baskets wrapped together 3 by 3 (324 fuel bundles total) in corrosion resistant copper to form containers designed to last at least a 100,000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Canada
  21. we can learn from the cautious scandis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Finland 5.5 million 30% nuc power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Sweden 10.1 million, 40% nuc power denmark 5.8 million, no nuc power stations https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/denmark.aspx norway 5.4 million, no nuc power stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_energy_in_Norway
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  23. INEOS TEAM UK and Challenger of Record Team Principal Skipper Sir Ben Ainslie is behind the push into Hydrogen power on the water, https://emirates-team-new-zealand.americascup.com/en/news/526_EMIRATES-TEAM-NEW-ZEALAND-TO-DRIVE-INITIATIVE-IN-MARINE-INDUSTRY-WITH-HYDROGEN-INNOVATION.html?fbclid=IwAR0jpxT-lfKjLCu-OhnJs4KuR2ZufXFCngIHaiDHLoweeUVAsJxoiAMfii0
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