It's 1/2 an inch shorter than its predecessor and the pockets are more on the side, but otherwise it's
pretty much a carbon copy.
Except for the fact that Steve Zahn's Al Giordino is rendered utterly sexless — so he doesn't compete with Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) for the affections of Eva Rojas (Penelope Cruz)-- the two male leads are
pretty much carbon copies of Bing and Bob from all those silly movies that ran from 1940 -» 62.
Some time ago, we spotted one at JPJ Putrajaya — the car looked
pretty much a carbon copy of the 2.0 TFSI (down to the 235/55 R17 five - arm cast aluminium «Trias» wheels), except there was no quattro badge.
Call of Duty was
pretty much a carbon copy of Medal of Honor when it came out, and now they're just two games that are exactly the same just with a different name, with Battlefield dancing around the side going «well la - de-fucking-da I have bigger multiplayer maps huhur!»
Strip away the lurid bits and what is left is
pretty much a carbon copy of the other game.
Playtonic's new Kickstarter title is
pretty much a carbon copy of the N64 Banjo - Kazooie games by Rare, and that is by no means a bad thing.
Unless we're missing something, the deals this week are
pretty much a carbon copy of last week (with Walmart swapping places with TRU's deals in many cases), so in a lightly edited, but no less blatant, copy - paste: No gimmicks to get excited about this week.
However, in a certain sense
pretty much all carbon sinks are also carbon sources.
Let's take this from the bottom: human (and all animal) breathing is
pretty much carbon neutral because the CO2 it returns to the atmosphere was already there very recently.
My understanding is that the conventional view (which shows up in
pretty much every carbon - cycle model I've seen; the «Bern» model being a good representative) doesn't use residence times per molecule.
Where used to displace more distortionary taxes (which will happen for
pretty much any carbon tax plan), there is a double dividend to the economy.
It's
pretty much a carbon copy of the iPhone 5, and most people won't even be able to tell the difference at first glance.
Not exact matches
Club soda is
pretty much just water with added
carbon dioxide.
«In midlatitudes, we got that it was basically a wash — the
carbon dioxide effects were
pretty much directly balanced by the physical effects,» Caldeira says.
The double - barreled
carbon release at the Paleocene - Eocene time boundary
pretty much rules out an asteroid or comet impact because such a catastrophe would have been «too quick» to explain the 1,500 - year duration of each
carbon pulse, Bowen says.
Club soda is
pretty much just water with added
carbon dioxide.
Which turns out to be
pretty much everything, from the modest width of the aluminium and
carbon composite body — a whopping 115 mm narrower than a Viper's — to the uninterrupted all - round vision of the teardrop - shaped cabin and the generous ground clearance.
Considering how today full
carbon is
pretty much standard for super cars.
Speaking of the interior, it's
pretty much standard Z06 with a bit more
carbon fiber.
With 755 horsepower the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette zr1 is the most powerful Corvette ever it's also the most technologically advanced behind me are the rolling s's at Road Atlanta and we're here to see if we can reach to the supercar levels of performance afforded by this thing's massive power big tires and the tall wing on the back after that we'll take to the streets to see if a car this powerful can behave itself in public this is a monster of a car I've had some brief track opportunities moving this morning to get used to the pace of this machine which is phenomenal we're gonna warm up as we get out to the road Atlanta and sort of build up to the pace that this car can operate at now initially when you hop in this car you have this shrine to the engine right above you you see the line of the hood it kind of dominates the center of the view you can see over it it doesn't affect visibility but it's immediately obvious and that kind of speaks to what makes this car special it's a monster of an engine listen to that [Music] that is tremendous tremendous acceleration and incredible power but what I finding so far my brief time here at the Atlanta is that everything else in the car is rut has risen to match hurt me while I lay into it on the back straight look you know 150 mile - an - hour indicated we're going to ease up a little bit on it because I need to focus on talking rather than driving but like I was saying the attributes of the rest of the car the steering the braking capability the grip every system of this car is riding to the same level of the power and I think that's what makes it really impressive initially this is undoubtedly a mega mega fast car but it's one that doesn't terrify you with its performance potential there's a level of electronic sophistication that is unparalleled at this price point but it's hard not to get you know totally slipped away by the power of this engine so that's why I keep coming back to it this car has an electronically controlled limited slip differential it has shocks filled with magnetically responsive fluid that can react faster to inputs and everything this car has a super sophisticated stability control system that teaches you how to drive it quick but also makes you go faster we haven't even gotten into exploring it yet because the limits of this car are so high that frankly it takes a while to grow into it but [Music] I think what's impressive about this car is despite how fast it is it is approachable you can buy this car to track dates with it and grow with it as a driver and as an owner I think that's a really special [Music] because you will never be more talented than this car is fast ever unless you are a racing driver casually grazing under 50 miles an hour on this straight okay I'm just going to enjoy driving this now [Music][Applause][Music] this particular Corvette zr1 comes with the cars track performance package a lot of those changes happen underneath the sheet metal but one of the big differences that is immediately obvious is this giant
carbon fiber wing now the way this thing is mounted is actually into the structure of the vehicle and it makes you know loading the rear hatch a bit more difficult but we're assuming that's okay if you're looking for the track performance this thing delivers also giving you that performance are these Michelin Pilot Sport cup tires which are basically track oriented tires that you can drive on the street but as we wake our way to the front of the thing what really matters is what's under the hood that's right there's actually a hole in the hood of this thing and that's because this engine is so tall it's tall because it has a larger supercharger and a bunch of added cooling on it to help it you know keep at the right temperature the supercharger is way larger than the one on the zo six and it has a more cooling capacity and the downside is it's taller so it pops literally through the hood the cool thing is from the top you can actually see this shake when you're looking at it from you know a camera from the top of the vehicle this all makes for 755 horsepower making this the most powerful Corvette ever now what's important about that is this not just the power but likewise everything in the car has to be built to accommodate and be able to drive to the level of speed this thing can develop that's why you had the massive cooling so I had the aerodynamics and that's why I had the electronic sophistication inside [Applause] we had a lot of time to take this car on the track yesterday and I've had the night to think about things Matt today two crews on the road and see how this extreme performance machine deals with the sort of more civil minded stuff of street driving the track impressions remain this thing is unquestionably one of the most capable cars you can get from a dealer these days a lot of that's besides the point now because we're on the street we have speed limits they have the ever - present threat of law enforcement around every corner so the question is what does this car feel like in public when you slow this car down it feels like a more powerful Corvette you don't get
much tram lining from these big wheels though we as the front end doesn't want to follow grooves in the pavement it is louder it is a little firmer but it's certainly livable on a day to day basis that's surprising for a vehicle of this capability normally these track oriented cars are so hardcore that you wouldn't want to drive them to the racetrack but let's face it you spend more time driving to the track than you do on the track and the fact that this thing works well in both disciplines is really impressive I can also dial everything back and cruise and not feel like I'm getting punished for driving a hardcore track machine that's a that's a really nice accomplishment that's something that you won't find in cars that are this fast and costs maybe double this
much the engine in this car dominates the entire experience you can't miss the engine and the whole friend this car is sort of a shrine to it the way it pops out of the hood the way it's covered with coolers around the sides it is the experience of this car and that does make driving this thing special and also the fact that it doesn't look half bad either in fact I think it has some of the coolest looking wheels currently available on a new car this car as we mentioned this car has the track package the track package on this car gives you what they call competition bucket seats which are a little wide for my tastes but I'm you know not the widest person in the world this automatic transmission works well I mean there's so
much torque again out of this engine that it can be very smooth and almost imperceptible its clunky on occasion I think I'd might opt for the manual although Chevy tells me about 80 % of its customers will go for the automatic I don't think they're gonna be disappointed and that's gonna be the faster transmission drag strip on the street - and on the racetrack man it was a little bit more satisfying to my taste though we've talked about the exhaust I have it set in the track setting let's quiet it down a little bit so you can hear the difference now I've set that separately from everything else so let's put it stealth what happened to the engine sound that's
pretty that's
pretty amazing man stealth is really stealth and then go back to track Wow actually a really big difference that's that's
pretty great the Corvette has always been a strong value proposition and nowhere is that more evident than this zr1 giving you a nearly unbeatable track performance per dollar now the nice thing is on the road this doesn't feel like a ragged edge track machine either you could genuinely drive it every day the compromises are few and that's what makes this car so special if you like what you see keep it tuned right here and be sure to visit Edmunds.com [Music]
There are many parts unique to this car,
pretty much all the suspension: the front uprights, two - part upper wishbones, ball - joints in place of rubber bushes, twin coil springs, dampers, lower suspension bushes, anti-roll bars, and the
carbon ceramic brakes.
The
carbon fiber body reduces the overall weight by as
much as 200 kg compared to the standard G63, so the X-Raid is
pretty quick.
The
carbon budgets are
pretty -
much from Table 2.2 of the AR5 Synthesis Report with five - year's - worth of emissions duly subtracted.
In the graph the zero emission temperature plot, after an overshoot, declines
much faster than might be expected by the long term
carbon cycle but still
pretty slow.
Pretty much across the board in energy - intensive consumer goods, it's easy to drop
carbon emissions in half or three quarters — IF you put policies in place that count energy costs the same as capital costs.
Forcing careful accountancy for the real price of
carbon emissions is
pretty much a requirement for providing help of the kind you mention with the distorting effect and inefficiencies of direct subsidies.
While it seems Roe and Baker leave out the more external feedbacks (like the
carbon issue & melting permafrost, etc), we others addressing those factors are
pretty much holding the sun & its radiation constant.
Yes, there are relatively large cycles of CO2 between the atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere... but the point is that this is just moving
carbon around and before human emissions it was
pretty much in equilibrium.
While the corn ethanol bubble has
pretty much popped, serious efforts to find an economically sound and
carbon - smart biological - based fuel continue.
Rud, when I talk to those of the Progressive Left who are most concerned about climate change, and who want the United States to become the leader in finding ways to reduce
carbon emissions, they
pretty much go silent when I inform them that the EPA has legal authority under the Clean Air Act and the 2009 Endangerment Finding to do
much more in placing limits on
carbon emissions than the agency is actually doing.
At this point, very simple physics takes over, and you are
pretty much doomed, by what scientists refer to as the «radiative» properties of
carbon dioxide molecules (which trap infrared heat radiation that would otherwise escape to space), to have a warming planet.
We can build
pretty much anything from
carbon and
carbon compounds and living things already do it.
It's funny until you realize that once the EPA regulates
carbon emissions, this is
pretty much how it's going to be.
But in power plants, you don't get the black
carbon and polycyclic hydrocarbons that you get when you burn coal in a residential heating stove, because the temperatures are
much higher and you have
pretty much complete combustion.
But despite doing «
pretty much [what] everyone's always told me to do,» when he plugged his lifestyle into a
carbon footprint calculator, he found that his CO2 emissions were still double that of the average American.
«The idea is that the
carbon dioxide will be trapped there
pretty much indefinitely,» Mordick said.
Note that they all
pretty much assume that
carbon limits are just a matter of time.
So, if absorption is not water vapor's major effect We can
pretty much ignore the effect of
carbon dioxide
It is this microeconomics that forms the basis of the design of emissions trading schemes (or
carbon taxes), proposals to tax traffic congestion, indeed
pretty much all of tax policy, proposals to break up Telstra, and so on.
Dr. Mahlman has
pretty much given up on that hope, saying that many countries, including the United States, have essentially decided that the focus is going to be on painless, low - cost fixes like growing trees to sop up the most common greenhouse gas,
carbon dioxide, and on adapting to coming warming instead of countering it.
The way I understand Murry's brief presentation is that he has found that natural variations in the
carbon cycle are so large that the human contribution is
pretty much irrelevant.
(iv) We
pretty much know where the missing
carbon goes already (read the AR4), but Salby's presentation does not actually shed ANY light on that whatsoever, he just discusses a correlation.
«Most things are not applied yet on larger scales but we have a
pretty good feeling of things that will work and we can quantify roughly how
much carbon we should be able to remove from the atmosphere with them,» says Rohling.
If you're confused about where to go to compensate for you
carbon - spewing lifestyle — and
pretty much every one of us could use to do that a bit more — you can rest assured that anyone of the 11 projects EDF has selected is the real deal.
Day 1 took us 108 miles to Windsor Locks, CT and was a great backdrop to explain how bicycling is
pretty much the best form of transportation: fast, fit, fun, and free (of
carbon!).
As Pearce points out the definition of geoengineering here includes
pretty much everything under the sun, anything that reduces solar heating or increases
carbon capture from the atmosphere.
The IPCC recommendations and everything green are
pretty much farcical, because they have no program proposed on how we can remove some of the 35 %, perhaps 40 % by now, overload of
carbon dioxide already in our biosphere.
How
much extra
carbon these soils will release to the atmosphere, through accelerated respiration in a warmer climate, has been
pretty much guesswork.
But once you took all of this into account, you might as well throw in the
carbon cycle, vegetation (albedo), soil (albedo), cloud formation (albedo, etc.), evaporation from soil, the spectra for the sun and its luminosity, solar cycles, and once you do that you
pretty much have the entire climate model, including how it evolves over time — or there abouts.
In practical terms, that means that the amount of time it takes to payback the
carbon debt of producing biofuel on that land to replace fossil fuels is even greater than we thought; and
pretty much makes palm oil biodiesel produced in such conditions worse than petroleum - based diesel.