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Started by scarface, July 13, 2013, 11:09 PM

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Shadow.97

Quote from: humbert on August 31, 2013, 12:31 AM
Quote from: scarface on August 29, 2013, 10:06 PM
about the transport in Europe Im going to answer in place of shadow.97...
I think you have prejudice. I know you have been in paris but have you been elsewhere?
If you come in Paris you can effectively have the impression that the public transports are very developped in Europe, as its one of the best in the world...(the rer A is the busiest commuter line in the world). Now try to go out of the region ile de France and go on a journey in Creuse, a rural department almost desert (80 000 persons for 6000km²) crowded with dodderers, farmers, and cows. On certain roads Im sure if you are hitchhiking you wont see more than a car per hour, and perhaps a few tractors. In Europe, except paris, london, and big towns in Europe if you have no car you are crippled. By the way I had put a picture of the town of shadow.97 in the topic survive the economic collapse.

Let me begin by saying that nowhere on this planet do small towns have any kind of rapid transit system. They make sense only in large metropolitan areas. In the small towns I've visited outside the USA you can either walk, catch a taxi or maybe a bus. Regarding large European cities, I've been to Madrid, Paris and Amsterdam. In none of these 3 cities do you really need a car. Traveling by underground subway is easy in both Madrid and Paris. Since Amsterdam is underwater, an underground system is impossible, but they have an excellent network or rail cars. By comparison, here in the USA without a car you're dead. Rapid transit is terrible and all you see is a vast road network. It hard to find a place to walk or ride a bicycle, and even if you did the distances are incredible. For example, when I lived in Miami to visit my mother I had to drive 35 km, and then another 35 km to get back home. I would love nothing more than to live in a place where a car is more a luxury than a real necesity.

@Daniil - regarding your comments about people smoking a polluting the ventilation systems, I don't know how things are over there, but here the mindset of those who still smoke is to go outside or to a designated area where their pollution harms nobody. This wasn't the case many years ago, back then they'd smoke anywhere regardless of whether it was bothering anyone else.

@Shadow - assuming your new car has A/C, do you really need to use it? Does your house have A/C? Does the temperature in Vaxjö reach or exceed 30°C for very long? I'm asking because everywhere I've lived, without A/C you're dead. In Miami you've got 32°C and 75% humidity, in San Antonio 38°-40°C and 40% humidity. I estimate my electric bill this month will be around $250, and easily 75% of that is to run the A/C.
In the summer it's not uncommon that a car reaches up to 60C in the sun. I don't know much about humid, but I personally hate heat(25C+) I just don't feel well when I'm in such heat. But when it's summer here it reaches 25-40C when it's the hottest, and at those times my parents usually have semester and we go out with for example the car. Our "old car" which is getting scrapped(crashed but still working) had no AC and my parents have been looking on cars for quite some time.
Also I'm not sure if it's AC we have but it's something that takes air from the outdoors and blows it in when it's hot inside.
We have  something called "Fjärr värme"("something" heat[I don't know what it's called^^]) I don't really know how it works, but they have a massive pillar(which is thick) where they take heat and transport it all over the city, we also have some weird cooling thing which takes the cold from the lakes and takes it to buildings (Which I don't understand why, just use a ceiling fan?)

scarface

A/C needed in Sweden? the global warming is faster than I thought.
Anyway 40° it doesnt happen very often, at least it was never recorded during the last 80 years.
http://www.smhi.se/sgn0102/n0205/temprec_en.htm

Shadow.97

Quote from: scarface on August 31, 2013, 10:54 PM
A/C needed in Sweden? the global warming is faster than I thought.
Anyway 40° it doesnt happen very often, at least it was never recorded during the last 80 years.
http://www.smhi.se/sgn0102/n0205/temprec_en.htm
It only happens when you're behind a window

scarface


Daniil

True, true. Hang it under the windglass, while car parcked on a direct sunlight, and it will reflect sun beams.

Shadow.97

Quote from: scarface on September 01, 2013, 12:19 AM
the best solution:

But it's hard to always have in the car, as it takes up plenty of space when you need to cover the front window, and it should not be used when you're riding in the car.

Daniil

 ;D Ke-ke-ke... ;D Of course you should take it off when you're driving.  ;D
As for place - well, it's not so many. It turns in a small roll (about 8-10 cm in diameter), and you can put it on the back seat or on the shelf behind the rear window.

humbert

When I worked and lived in Miami, I had a sun shield just like the one in the picture. Fortunately today I don't go out as much, plus I have the luxury of putting the car inside the garage away from the sun. Here and in Miami if you can't keep your car out of the sun, a thing like this is a good idea. Summertime temps in a parked car in the sun with the windows rolled up can easily reach 70°C !

Daniil

Yes, in tropical climate thing like that is very important. A crazy idea, but... If make this shield with solar panels, we can recharge car accumulator or doing something usefull while car stays at sun...

scarface