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@Barry, I have just recently seen @shadow79 get down and dirty with cleaning the lines on my R50's AC lines to make sure the new (used) compressor will not face the fate that his Rav4 went through and I can totally understand. I hope Saleem Bhai considers me to be one of his better customers.

Finally the "Most Awesome" video has been released. Many thanks to @vivian because of his second camera angle this video turn out to be an absolutely amazing. Around the UAE in one day - 7 Emirates in 7 minutes..... Enjoy guys, and thanks for making this success.

@Richard Mellish In this part of the world there are mostly mechanics who have learned the trade from their piers and its mainly a trial and error situation. They do not understand the vehicle and where the problem is originating from, just try to make repairs for it to run for a time without problem and than there is a bigger problem to tackle. When you go back they will justify by saying that this problem was not there before and how could they fix something which was not broken then. As a result you end up paying twice for the same job. Among the very few I have come across who actually bother to tell you where the problem is originating from and needs fixing before the issue at hand can be fixed, start from the very bottom of the problem and work up. It is in my nature to thank and appreciate their work. Although I have not had the pleasure of meeting you, but @Barry and @shadow79 are 2 of them on this forum who really impress me. Looking forward to meeting you soon @Richard Mellish, seems like we can really hit it off well.

@Rahimdad, Its not often to hear praise for us mechanics who have learnt our trade. I hope I speak for my fellow tradesmen in saying "Many thanks." @Rahimdad and also to @shadow79 for his diligence and professionalism.

With the regards to overnight storage of electricity generated from solar, Tesla are currently building the worlds largest lithium ion battery, 130 MWh iirc, for a wind farm in Australia. Wether this will be used for long term storage or like a giant capacitor to balance things out, I'm not sure, but it does show that we are moving in the right direction. Obviously though, it will not be possible to build thousands of giant lithium ion batteries due to the limited supply of lithium and the impact on the environment. Maybe Zinc-air will become a viable solution? There is also the option of building huge salt water batteries. Salt water is something we're not short of.

Cool video bhai

@GauravBhai awesome bossss..! great Vdo of all time.

What you say is true, but the problem with solar power is that it only works when the sun shines, and presumably, the millions of electric cars will all, or mostly, be recharged at night. So far, nobody has worked out a way to store large amounts of solar-generated power for any period of time, which means that when the sun goes down, solar power effectively disappears for everyone but those who have small-scale domestic systems. However, as you say, fueling the power stations is still the overriding factor/problem that prevents large scale electric car production, and at this point, it seems that nuclear power is the only viable option, even though it is inherently dangerous. Water and wind can never generate enough power, but what little of it there is, is always welcome. Nonetheless, some years ago it emerged that the Russians had been planning setting up huge mirrors in space to reflect sunlight into agricultural areas at night to extend the growing season in far-northern latitudes, but several international treaties put a stop to that. If that could be revived and made to work, we could maybe have solar power at night too, even though the astronomer in me will fight this idea tooth and nail, since all the stars will effectively disappear from the night sky.

Eek I hate doing cooling system flushes. It's simple but time consuming and customers know it's simple so they expect it to be cheap and argue when it's not but what they don't realize is that it can take you a full day of messing about between doing other jobs, filling it, bleeding it, running it up to temperature, draining it, scalding your wrists in the process and doing it all over again 5-6 times.

Building new power stations is an issue but what's more of an issue is what's being used to fuel the power station which is mainly fossil fuels, i.e. coal, oil and gas which have limited supplies and as the supplies dwindle, the cost will go up. Some stations are using semi renewables such as willow but even that isn't a proper solution as growing it takes up a lot of land. We're a long way off nuclear being a safe option, look at Chernobyl, Sellafield, Three Mile Island, Fukushima, it takes very little for things to go wrong very quickly and when it goes wrong it really goes wrong. I think it was only last year that the sheep on a mountain in Ireland, thousands of miles away from Chernobyl got passed for human consumption due to fallout. The real solution is all around us. It's the wind, water, sun. All completely renewable and all completely free. I still can't understand why the UAE is using gas and working on nuclear plants when there is a vast expanse of desert that could be planted with solar panels. These particular methods, wind, water, solar aren't like building a traditional power plant. You can install the units one by one and hook them up to the grid as you go along and add more to increase capacity as and when required.

@Ren13 you have given whole lot different meaning to this thread. Amazing find bro. Pictures speak louder than words, awesome