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Car lights; air conditioning etc

I'm told that the more these are used, the more fuel the engine uses. Can someone please explain this.
22:57 Tue 11th Jul 200611 answers, last by Jay70 08:35 Thu 13th Jul 2006
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Wind power

The traditonal windmill has a 'paddle' behind the blades which ensures that the mill always faces into the wind. Presumably modern electricity generating wind turbines change direction - but how?
22:54 Tue 11th Jul 20065 answers, last by BillyBB 02:34 Thu 13th Jul 2006
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Red stained banknotes

Post Offices and bansks used to have notices about these. Occasionally I get offered ones in change in supermarkets etc with a trace of scarlet ink on one edge. Presumably they are likely to be...
14:32 Sun 02nd Jul 20063 answers, last by khana 19:34 Mon 03rd Jul 2006
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Car tracking alignment

My Octavia 1.8 diesel nsf tyre started to wear badly on outside edge so I took the car to Kwikfit and was told the tracking was out by 3-4mm. I paid nearly ?25 to have this corrected. A lot of money...
20:57 Tue 27th Jun 20064 answers, last by JudgeJ 11:45 Wed 28th Jun 2006
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All Greeks are liars. I am a liar, said the Greek.

Origin, please.
19:55 Sun 18th Jun 20061 answer, last by Big Al1st 20:29 Sun 18th Jun 2006
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Exam quotation

Around 1950, in a GCSE or mock exam, a question asked, Define / discuss [or whatever] When the monkey is king, everyone shall bow [or kneel] before him. Any ideas about where this might have come...
19:49 Sun 18th Jun 20061 answer, last by jake-the-peg 12:49 Mon 19th Jun 2006
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Literary Quotation

Many years ago, (1970?) on the Thought for the Day BBC radio programme, the speaker said words something like, Start by loving your neighbour and end up loving his wife. Can anybody pinpoint this...
19:43 Sun 18th Jun 20061 answer, last by jeanyb 22:07 Mon 19th Jun 2006
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Maximum voltage of batteries

It was always said that even if you could build a battery as large as Everest, no more than 1.8 volts could be had from it. The digital camera I bought came with two batteries each marked showing a...
14:28 Sun 04th Jun 200616 answers, last by aidantraffor 14:22 Thu 22nd Jun 2006
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Cherrnobyl

Was compensation demanded from the USSR for damage caused here, to farming in N Wales for example? Or was it not legally possible or unrealistic?
08:10 Wed 26th Apr 20064 answers, last by Segilla 14:18 Fri 28th Apr 2006
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System Mechanic program

It didn't work well on my laptop and they persistently refused to answer questiions, so I had to abandon the trial. The icon remains on the toolbar and somewhere I saw advice on how to remove it. If...
08:01 Wed 26th Apr 2006
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French film - no speech. Not a cartoon

A house with a goldfish bowl with a fish which swims round and round. And a cat which sits watching for his moment. One day, the cat goes out; the goldfish swims round *vertically* going faster and...
14:25 Fri 21st Apr 20062 answers, last by Segilla 15:46 Fri 28th Apr 2006
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Unit & Investment Trust Performance

IThere are plenty of sites which display information about individual UTs &c, but is there one which shows comparative performances?
13:14 Thu 20th Apr 20061 answer, last by james412 21:03 Thu 20th Apr 2006
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Web. Connecting to site

Several phrases flash past in the bottom ribbon before connection but unless 'Connecting to site nnn.nn.nnn.nn'. appears, the connection fails. When started after total shut down, the computer will...
20:15 Sat 01st Apr 20063 answers, last by Segilla 05:21 Sun 02nd Apr 2006
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Battle of Trafalgar - the French view

If possible to briefly summarise, what was the reaction to and consequences of this devastating blow in France?.
20:05 Sat 01st Apr 20062 answers, last by Octavius 14:37 Mon 03rd Apr 2006
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Red central portion of electric hobs

Can someone please tell me the purpose of this. TKS
19:08 Sat 01st Apr 20062 answers, last by stanleyman 19:55 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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Sun's energy

It has always irritated me that the energy arriving after a journey of 80 million miles from the sun, is impeded by a comparatively insignificant layer of cloud. Obviously some of the energy gets...
19:32 Fri 31st Mar 20064 answers, last by nucleardream 05:13 Sat 01st Apr 2006
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What is 'the grosser'

From the journal of Alfred Harris a Glos, Forest of Dean man. Grammar and spelling varies; information fascinating. May 31 1878 When the german iron Clad fleet was passing Deal the Koneg wilhelm run...
22:11 Sat 25th Mar 20064 answers, last by Tatty Rollox 23:08 Sat 25th Mar 2006
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Pro Eric Laithwaite

When I enquired at the desk in the Science Museum London 3 years ago, nobody had heard of this man. I wanted to see anything they had on his linear motor. I saw a TV programme some years ago, which...
20:12 Fri 24th Mar 20066 answers, last by Peter Pedant 00:08 Sun 26th Mar 2006
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Scientific sceptics

BBC TV ran a series of films probably in the 1980s, including one scientist who called into question what he was seeing through his electron microsope. The cells he examined were all on the same plane...
20:03 Fri 24th Mar 20061 answer, last by AGENT X 11:09 Fri 31st Mar 2006
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Bed and breakfasting is no more

But I don't understand the arithmetic of what happens if the same share is rebought during the subsequent 30 days. Shares bought for ?1000, sold for ?1500 = ?500 capital gain. Same share not rebought...
16:24 Fri 24th Mar 20061 answer, last by kags 17:47 Fri 24th Mar 2006

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