Electric motorhome

[wildebus]

There is a new ship powered by ingesting plastic from the sea and burning it,so doing two jobs .

Now this is something I don't understand is not done more in Power Stations. Instead of putting so much to rubbish to landfill, burn the stuff and release that energy instead of burning it.
Put some real effort into developing effective filtration and trapping - kind of DPFs and Cats for Power Plants - and get clean (or as clean as current ones) power with 'free fuel;

 

[Deleted member 74361]

This thread has concentrated on the policy announcements about only new vehicls being sold after certain dates, 2040 in UK.

Even that policy has referred only to cars and vans, but to date I have not seen a definition of 'van' - has anybody? A 'van' body can be mounted on many chassis of high weights.

I have yet to see any proposals for banning already used diesel vehicles beyond a certain date(s). It therefore seems that currently owned MHs and those bought in the next decade will still be allowed to operate well beyond the declared new policy dates for new vehicles, even assuming those policy desires can be translated into law for technical, infrastructure, funding and legal reasons.

Another difficulty is that these policies have been announced by a handful on National States, but if there is no widespread agreement, what will happen to diesel vehicles sold outside France after 2030(their target date)? Will they be permitted free movement in France? Tomorrow 2030 will be 11 years hence. They need to start thinking fast.

I suggest that for all the reasons for introducing electrical vehicles that current designs of MHs will still be around for a long time yet.

Geoff

 

[ricc]

some interesting reading

Should I buy a diesel car in 2019? | CAR Magazine

 

[Dowel]

Now this is something I don't understand is not done more in Power Stations. Instead of putting so much to rubbish to landfill, burn the stuff and release that energy instead of burning it.
Put some real effort into developing effective filtration and trapping - kind of DPFs and Cats for Power Plants - and get clean (or as clean as current ones) power with 'free fuel;

Waste to Energy (WtE) plants are well established although there probably could/should be more in UK. There is one not far from us in Coventry and the exhaust is clean:
“The Coventry and Solihull Waste Disposal Company Limited (CSWDC) is an independent waste management company and our main business is extracting energy ( heat and electrical power ) from municipal and commercial solid waste. We have been operating in Coventry since 1975.”

There is a list of incinerators in UK although I am not sure whether all of them produce useable energy.
List of incinerators in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

Also of interest are Combined Heat and Power plants also known as Cogeneration plants. Citigen CHP system has been operating near Smithfeild in the City of London since 1993. IIRC there were much earlier schemes operating in UK but I can’t find a reference to confirm the history.
When the second phase of Battersea Power Station was built the station opened a combined heat and power system— the Pimlico District Heating Scheme — which piped hot water under the River Thames to a development of about 3,200 flats from July 1951.
Edison had a Combined Heat and Power plant in Manhattan USA from 1882.
Cogeneration - Wikipedia