Wow, at this point I am basically not in a good mood. I really feel I might be getting slightly sick or some thing. Right now is the type of days in which it is always just about all I can do to lug myself away from the bed. With luck , you actually would be having a more desirable time than me. On the other hand I do would like to get the site up-to-date and so heres a story I uncovered about car detailing that really should be of some kind of importance.
THE BEST WAY TO BUY A USED CAR
Well, the first thing you will need to decide is when you need to buy a car. Most second hand car purchases are decided by circumstances, IE something has happened to bring on the change of vehicle, eg car accident, growing family, extra members of the family, current car failed its MOT or broken down etc etc…
In this article we will only be talking about used cars from garages because deals on new cars change so quickly depending on the marketing programmes available at the time.
You will need to be clear on how you intend to fund the purchase, there are several options to choose from; you can pay out of your savings, credit card (although this will normally incur at least 1.5% additional charge as this is what the dealer has to pay), bank/building society loan, finance from the garage you are buying from (which there are some really great deals available depending on your circumstances) , and internet loans. The options will all need to be explored to work out what is going to be right for you when you need to buy .
What sort of car you will need to suit your needs. The choice of cars available in today’s marketplace is vast, every manufacturer has a list of shapes and sizes to suit most needs. From the new super mini with £35 a year for its annual road tax to the people carriers that seem so cavernous and can fit many people inside. Work out your requirements and the type of driving and uses you intend to get from the car. Many of the people carrier style that offer 7 seats will also have the ability for the rear 2 seats to fold away completely, a great example and pioneer of this is the Vauxhall Zafira. At our garage, we sell many of these because of their flexibility.
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Fuel. it really comes down to petrol or diesel. Traditionally diesel was seem as a smelly dirty alternative to petrol, these days this is not really the case. many of the diesel cars are now in some of the lowest CO2 emission categories. The general rule of thumb is that if you are doing under 15,000 miles per a year then a petrol car is probably the right choice for you, over that then go for a diesel.
Always make sure that you ask he garage where you are viewing cars to see the HPI Check certificate to make sure that there are no hidden things lurking in the past, these can include being written off, stolen, on finance, or anything else you would want to know before parting with your hard earned money. Ask to see the service history and the registration document to check these are all in order.
If you are intending to part exchange your current car, do yourself a favour and get more money for it by getting all the documents and history together and then give the car a really good clean. If the dealer can see a well maintained, bright and shiny car in front of them they are bound to give you more money for it than a dull car with a few bills as the history.
The negotiation on the price is really down to how confident you are, and whether you really want to buy the car. many people can get a really good deal on a car, but please make sure that it is the right car for you. there is no point in wasting everybody’s time if you get a great deal on a car you don’t even want!! we often find that the best way to make a deal is to get “price to change” that way the garage values your part exchange, then adjusts the price you have to pay out. If it is too high then you can ask about what the best price is then, don’t let the dealer confuse the issue by quoting trade terms that don’t mean anything to the the customer such as “over allowance”, “SIV”,”trade car”, “margin” etc.
We hope that this arcticle helps you in your quest for a new car. I have included a link to our website which there are over 100 quality used cars available for you to view.
www.whitleybridgecarsales.co.uk ; www.eastbournevauxhall.co.uk
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Question by Michael K: Does Yahoo know about Synthetic trees? Global Warming?
Apparently, some scientist guy has come with a way to fight global warming. For Real. A scientist has invented an artificial tree designed to do the job of plants.
But the synthetic tree proposed by Dr Klaus Lackner proposes does not much resemble the leafy variety.
“It looks like a goal post with Venetian blinds,” said the Columbia University physicist, referring to his sketch at the annual AAAS meeting in Denver, Colorado.
But the synthetic tree would do the job of a real tree, he said. It would draw carbon dioxide out of the air, as plants do during photosynthesis, but retain the carbon and not release oxygen.
If done to scale, according to Dr Lackner, synthetic trees could help clean up an atmosphere grown heavy with carbon dioxide, the most abundant gas produced by humans and implicated in climate warming.
He predicts that one synthetic tree could remove 90,000 tonnes of CO2 in a year – the emissions equivalent of 15,000 cars.
“You can be a thousand times better than a living tree,” he said.
Carbon sinks
For now, the synthetic tree is still a paper idea. But Dr Lackner is serious about developing a working model. His efforts suggest the wide net of ideas cast by scientists as they face the challenge of mitigating climate change.
Dr Lackner believes that carbon sequestration technology must be part of the long-term solution. Global reliance on fossil fuels will not decrease any time soon, he said, and developing countries cannot be expected to wait until alternatives are available.
The technology calls for two things – seizing carbon and then storing it. Direct capture of CO2, from power plants for example, is the simplest, according to Dr Lackner. But this doesn’t work for all polluters. A car can’t capture and store its carbon dioxide on-board; the storage tank would be too large.
“It’s simply a question of weight,” he said, “for every 14 grams of gasoline you use, you are going to have 44 grams of CO2.”
The alternative is to capture emissions from the wind. In this case, a synthetic tree would act like a filter. An absorbent coating, such as limewater, on its slats or “leaves” would seize carbon dioxide and retain the carbon.
Dr Lackner predicts that the biggest expense would be in recycling the absorber material.
“We have to keep the absorbent surfaces refreshed because they will very rapidly fill up with carbon dioxide,” he said. If an alkaline solution such as limewater were used, the resulting coat of limestone would need to be removed.
Dr Lackner is considering other less-alkaline solutions to prevent carbonate precipitation.
“There are a number of engineering issues which need to be worked out,” he said.
Home use
A synthetic tree could be planted anywhere. A small one could sit like a TV on the lawn to balance out the CO2 emitted by one person or family.
But more practically, said Dr Lackner, a device the size of a barn would sit in the open air, near repositories for easy transportation and storage of carbon.
He estimated that 250,000 synthetic trees worldwide would be needed to soak up the 22 billion tons of CO2 produced annually.
But not everyone is rooted to the idea. Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer Howard Herzog thinks Dr Lackner’s design won’t hold together on the scale he proposes.
He said you would expend more energy in capturing the CO2 – in keeping the slats coated in absorbent and disposing of it – than you’d save.
“Once the solvent captures the CO2, it holds it on tight,” said Dr Herzog, “and it’s going to take a lot of energy to break those bonds.”
He said that much more research is needed on the technology.
“The idea of air capture is seductive and would really be great to have,” said Dr Herzog, “but it’s important to separate out the concept from the technical details.”
‘Early days’
Meanwhile, Dr Lackner is pursuing his idea for carbon storage. While he was at the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, his team worked on a storage method based on a natural chemical process known as rock weathering.
When CO2 binds with magnesium, it creates carbonate rocks which, according to Dr Lackner, retain carbon permanently and safely.
Currently, he said, the process is still too expensive to develop on a large scale.
But Dr Lackner is optimistic that the costs for carbon capture and storage will come down.
“This is still the early days of climate solutions,” he said.
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Answer by grizzbr1
Old news, and we don’t need to see the three page cut and paste about it please and thank you. Try the Discover Button if you want to know what was asked months ago on Y!A.
And actually, his daughter thought of it first.
Replace real trees with artificial trees. Doesn’t that sound a bit backwards anyway?
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