₦airaland Forum

wirinet:
Yes, there is power in the human mind, but the only power in the Nigerian mind is Power of oppression, power of enjoyment. It is the European minds that conceived of airplane, phone and satellites ( and they have not been able to conceive of an efficient cost effective and light-weight battery yet), while our mind conceive of how to enjoy the things conceived by others. We are also adept at conceiving witchcraft, superstition and especially religion (how to ferry more favours from higher powers).

I know a lot about alternative energy and until our crude dries out, the most cost effective way to power small vehicles will always be hydrocarbons. Even if you use battery it is diesel and petrol that will still provide the electricity and a lot of energy is wasted during the charging process.

The cost of solar equipments necessary to charge one bank of batteries of about 800 AH, needed to charge just one car to run for a couple of hours would run into millions of Naira

The most annoying aspect is that even if you somehow are able to provide cheap electricity and super efficient batteries, are you ready to wait 6 - 8 hrs at a charging station to fill up your batteries?

I also know alot about electricity. i am an electrical engineer by training and profession. I have done alot of research into batteries, batteries charging, solar panel and some other sources of electrical energy. I know some challenges that are likely to be associated with these types of vehicle. Some of these challenges, you have even mentioned. But rather than being scared by challenges, why dont we look at ways of overcoming them and go ahead with plans that we believe might have an eventual benefit on the society at large and even lead into the kind of development we run abroad to seek.

I think the bone of contention here is not about electric vehicle being economical or whether we have a ready means of maintaining them but rather that electric vehicle provides a sure and better alternative in eliminating the problems of pollution that running of our combustion engines on fuels have always produced. it is a question of saving our environment, our world and our planet no matter how much monetary cost it takes us to do so. And I think this is more important than considering economic factor from a stand-alone point of view.

there is power in human minds. human minds conceived the airplane, the mobile phones, the satellites and other big inventions. So let us allow government to do what they plan. at least they are aware that the cars would need a source of charging and I want to assume they might be making provisions for this source alongside.

one thing i am sure of is that if lagos continues the way it is going, other states and federal government will take a que and follow lagos steps.

Facebook is more social, more entertaining, more corporate, better organised, a bit informative, but NAIRALAND is by far more informative and educative. NAIRALAND' information cuts across every sphere of life. but if i have to rate, i will rate facebook higher.

even galadinma and yaradua should follow

Zizou, Zizou, Zizou

I mean a pure moralists who refrains from all the SINS normally preached against by most religions but whose instincts are based purely on morals and not due to religious beliefs.

Babsongudus

[b][color=#006600] [color=#990000] I am Nigeria , I have millions of acres of arable land and billions of cubic litres of water, but I cannot feed myself. So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion to import milk. I produce rice, but don't eat it. I have 60 million cattle but no milk. I am hungry, please re-brand me.

I drive the latest cars in the world but have no roads. I lose family and friends everyday on roads for which funds have been looted. I lose my young, my old, and my most brainy and productive people to the potholes, craters and crevasses they travel on every day. I am in permanent mourning, please re-brand me.

My school has no teacher and my classroom has no roof. I take lecture notes through the window and live with 15 others in a single room. All my professors have gone abroad, and the rest are awaiting visas. I am a university graduate, but I am illiterate. I want a future, please re-brand me.

Malaria, typhoid and many other preventable diseases send me to hospitals which have no doctors, no medicines and no power. So my wife gives birth with candlelight and surgery is performed by quacks. All the nurses have gone abroad and the rest are waiting to go also. I have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world and future generations are dying before me. I am hopeless, hapless and helpless, please re-brand me.

I wanted change so I stood all day long to cast my vote. But even before I could vote, the results had been announced. When I dared to speak out, silence was enthroned by bullets. My rulers are my oppressors, and my policemen are my terrors. I am ruled by men in mufti, but I am not a democracy. I have no verve, no vote, and no voice, please re-brand me.

I have 50 million youths with no jobs, no present and no future. So my sons in the North have become street urchins and his brothers in the South have become militants. My nephews die of thirst in the Sahara and his cousins drown in the waters of the Mediterranean . My daughters walk the streets of Lagos , Abuja and Port Harcourt , while her sisters parade the streets of Rome and Amsterdam . I am inconsolable, please re-brand me,

My people cannot sleep at night and cannot relax by day. They cannot use ATM machines, nor use checks. My children sleep through staccato of AK 47's see through the mist of tear gas. The leaders have looted everything on the ground and below. They walk the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private jets. They have stolen the future of generations yet unborn and have money they cannot spend in several lifetimes, but their brothers die of hunger. I want justice, please re-brand me.

I can produce anything, but import everything. So my toothpick is made inChina; my toothpaste is made in South Africa; my salt is made in Ghana; my butter is made in Ireland; my milk is made in Holland; my shoe is made in
Italy; my vegetable oil is made inMalaysia; my biscuit is made inIndonesia; my chocolate is made in Turkey and my table water made inFrance. My taste is far-flung and foreign, please re-brand me.

My people are cancerous from the greed of their friends who bleach palm oil with chemicals; my children died because they drank ‘My Pikin’ with NAFDAC numbers; my poor die because kerosene explodes in their faces; my land is dead because all the trees have been cut down; flood kills my people yearly because the drainages are clogged; my fishes are dead because the oil companies dump waste in my rivers; my communities are
vanishing into the huge yawns of gully erosion, and nothing is being done. My livelihood is in jeopardy, and I am in the uttermost depths of despondence, please re-brand me.

I have genuine leather but choose to eat it. So I spend a billion dollars to import fake leather. I have four refineries, but prefer to import fuel, so I waste more billions to import petrol. I have no security in my country, but would rather send troops to keep the peace in another man’s land. I have 160 dams, but cannot get water to drink, so I buy pure’ water that roils my innards, I have a million children waiting to enter universities, but my ivory dungeons can only take a tenth. I have no power, but choose to flare gas, so my people have learnt to see in the dark and stare at the glare of naked flares. I have no direction, please re-brand me.

My people pray to God every morning and every night, but commit every crime known to man because re-branded identities will never alter the tunes of inbred rhythms. Just as the drums of heritage heralds the frenzied jingles, remember - the Nigerian soul can only be Nigerian - fighting free from the cold embrace of a government that has no spring, no sense, no shame. So we watch the possessed, frenzied dance, drenched in silent tears as freedom is locked up in democracy’s empty cellars. I need guidance, please re-brand me.

But then, why can I not simply be me, without being re-branded?

Or does my complexion cloud the color of my character?

Does my location limit the lengths of my liberty?

Does the spirit of my conviction shackle my soul?

Does my mien maim the mine of my mind?

And is this life worth re-branding?

I am not yet born, please re-brand me[/color][/color][/b]

Shameless buffoons !!!!!!

they only know how to steal money.

why is Yar'Adua always interested in emergency committee that will eventually fail. he promised to set up emergency committee on power which never came into existence. now he set up a presidential committee for world up as if it is committee that will go and play football. they will not do the right thinhs and then they will start setting up a committee.

you imagine nigeria still planting grass on stadia three months to under 17 world cup. when FIFA threatened they started their emergency.

arrant NONSENSE!!!!!

This kind of thread never merits the FRONT PAGE. SEUN, let your moderators censor the kind of threads that should make the front page.

arsene wenger ------------ aro wenger, arsenal wenger

edmundo -------------------- animal

rabiu afolabi --------- robo cop

puyol --------- baba lati

rest in peace

white rice with specially made sauce like that used for ofada rice.

events are gradually unfolding. I thought CBN should have completed the audit of all the banks before coming out with any decision. Well we are watching

pray for direction

This post is possibly from OPPOSITION. they are looking for every possible means of breaking the duo so they can hijack the state in 2011.

go for eyes check up/test

zeeno:
Sometimes i wonder what it would have been, if i did not know how to read or write. But many people today are illiterate have u ask urself how these people feel living in a civilized world and lacking behind greatly. Ask urself if u are an illiterate how will u feel? Think and let us know ur mind, God Bless Nigeria

If I dont know how to read or write, I may feel a little bad but If I have skills that people can value and that can earn me great respect in the society, then I will not not bother. For instance if I can play football like Okocha or sing song like Michael Jackson and I dont have university degree,then there is no cause to feel disturbed.

Where on earth, I mean which city or geographical location in this present day world is the GARDEN OF EDEN where ADAM and EVE were banished?

thank you biina for the schedules. UP GALACTICOS

none that went came back. but the best way is for you to sleep and pretend it is death

No doubt, these three are the best anyhow we want to arrange it.

bomakris,

marketing inside marriage

Krayola:
relax now . . .Cantona tif ur wife?

na you wan tif my thread for cantona

Krayola:
Well, I think I can argue that if there is one player that has single handedly carried a team to greatness it is Cantona. But it'll be tough

pls what is your bone of contention? even Pele was not put in the list and you are talking of Cantona.

dayokanu:
Johan Cryuff us highly regarded. He was voted best European player on last century ahead of Beckenbauer, Platini Muller, Baggio, Eusebio and Zoff

How can anyone mention Cantona in this type of thread? We are discussing gods and someone is mentioning Cantona.

maybe the person was trying to compare Cantona with Beckham