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You would probably do very well, as foreign tourists will be very comfortable with a tuk-tuk driver who speaks very good English. Your height is irrelevant seated under a tuk-tuk canopy. The only snag I would see is being a victim of your success, when the BIB cotton on, and start demanding tea money.

You have the option of reporting my posts if you consider they are abusive. I was unaware we had a decorum detective in our midst. I am curious, why are you leaping to the defense of others? They may find the inference they can't fend for themselves offensive. Or are you just what the Americans term a buttinsky?

If the OP gave up spending $5K a month on women in the USA for just six months, he would easily make the 800K baht for a retirement visa, then would not need to think about the income route. He would also have more than enough to live very well in Thailand, as he has stated he already owns a condo in Pattaya. I can't see what his problem is, apart from a deficiency in brain cells.

I am using the classical English spelling, not the American version which tries to condense vowels. Just as well you guys left the elements alone after aluminium. Sodium pronounced the way you pronounce Al is quite impolite.

I see you still fail to understand the concept of stored energy. You have a link which proves the electricity in a LFP battery differs from that of a Li-ion battery?

It is apodeictic we all forget. Allow me to turn the proposition on its head. If you said you remembered everything, how would you know?

One can argue either way on whether the fire started in an EV, or somewhere else, maybe even an ICE. You are not wrong in saying the older and still predominant batteries are the main risk in terms of a self-sustaining reaction. The point is once an EV got involved, of any battery type, one is looking at an uncontrolled release of up to 60 KWh of stored energy. The First Law of Thermodynamics says all forms of energy are inter-convertible. Properly directed, the electrical energy in an EV becomes enough converted kinetic energy to take said EV 400 - 500 km. If the electrical energy becomes heat instead, thermal runaway up to 900 C, or more. Anything organic in that environment becomes part of the conflagration. It would be an interesting experiment, if somewhat expensive, to park three ICE's together, then measure the rate of spread and intensity from the middle vehicle after initiating combustion there. I suspect both variables would not be as extreme as with three EV's parked together.

The biggest problem came with replacement. IIRC, having to shell out AUD $38,000 to replace a failed battery on a vehicle that cost AUD 50,000 new. That's a repair bill which would make anybody's eyes water.

If you put your phone in your shirt pocket, as I do, you would find it takes the same amount of time to access it as it does to lift your wrist to eye level.

When I read other threads about changes to Immigration law, e.g. increasing financial requirements, buying any property in Thailand does not make sense. It looks even less sensible, when some of the new condos are probably built from toad s##t, ceiling wax, and duct tape.

I remember things that are important to me. I forget things that are not. Why should I want to remember how many flavors quarks possess?

Not on the Nissan Leaf, they don't. That's another Cadogan rant.

I suggest you talk with ALDI. Like others, I have found the one year period to be far better than other telcos in Oz. Very easy to top up online too, when I want to extend my expiry date.

Should last longer than that. My OPPO A37 battery is still working after about 6 years.

The only reason I don't marry my GF is Centrelink in Australia would start paying me a married couple's pension, about 5000 baht/month less. As she is not an Australian citizen, she gets nothing. I explained these facts to her when she proposed to me, and she accepted my reasons. A practical woman.

I see, mobile phones don't get stolen now.

I did not know the Ford Taurus was available in EV. That car always looked as if it had melted in the sun.

Not at all, you can be rational on the odd occasion. There are always improvements to be had in any technology. One I like is a gold-based battery for mobile phones which can handle recharge cycles 100 - 1000 times the recharge capacity of current lithium-based batteries.

If you ignore a poster, none of their past or future posts are displayed to you. Unless they are quoted by another poster.

You can bet your left nut marine insurance companies are watching mixed EV/ICE shipments very closely. As Ian Fleming wrote, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it is enemy action. Packing a mix of said vehicles like sardines is looking more and more risky, in the light of videos showing EV fires. It would not surprise me if insurers either hiked their premiums, or refused insurance unless suitable isolation of EV's is adopted. Either way, that cost gets passed on to the car buyer.

John Cadogan rants about everything. That is his style of presentation. Underneath that is solid engineering and physics. The Fremantle fire is an example of probabilities and logic. Look at the number of shipboard fires arising from transporting vehicles that are solely fuelled by gasoline and diesel. Then look at the ignition temperature of said fuels, about 210 C. It takes an external heat source to get a fire going. It only takes a short circuit for an EV to go into thermal runaway. OTOH, there are now two shipboard fires where a mix of EV's and ICE's were being transported. The greater intensity of EV fires is undeniable. On balance of probability, it is almost certain both fires were started by EV's, as the ship's crew could have contained an ICE fire with foam, powder or water. As explained, EV fires supply their own fuel and oxygen. Occam's razor.

The temperature, according to the video, reached 900 C. That's red hot. IMO containing the heat under a blanket of a thermal runaway would be a foregone conclusion for initiating thermal runaway or gasoline explosions in adjacent vehicles. The blanket would actually make things worse. Heat up any rechargeable battery to 900 C, and see what happens. Stand well back when you do. The point on the impolite issue - I was directing the comment at another poster, not you. OTOH, you chose to butt in with the Prince Charming post after said comment. Score is actually 2 - 0. I have yet to see you admit you were wrong with the "nonsense" post.

I designed my successful diet based on reading, and YouTube videos. Maybe BARD could have helped with that, or confused me. I am a firm believer in the KISS principle ( Keep It Simple, Stupid ), BARD adds complexity.

So you have been impolite twice, and I have been impolite once. I suppose that works for you.

It's a good example of experimental design formulated to give a favorable result. The fire blanket works in an airfield or whatever. In real life, in a confined space, it would be as useless as tits on a bull. Advertising spin. It reminds me of a pharmaceutical company testing a product on mice for teratogenic properties. The company reported the mice were born "visually impaired". What actually happened - the mice were born without eyes.