Saturday - 2024 10 February

Who doesn’t know about Mr. Bean? Everyone! Yes, Rowan Atkinson is worldwide popular by his TV show name Mr. Bean. He is an actor, writer, and one of the greatest Hollywood comedians. He was born on 6 January 1955 in England. As of now 2022, he is an inspiration for millions of others around the world. The success story of Rowan Atkinson is all  about self-belief, never giving up and determination. 

    Rowan Atkinson was born     

Rowan Atkinson was born in a financially good family and was good in study. After studies, he found interest in acting, so he joined a comedy group. He had the problem of a speaking disorder that failed him to perform well and later he got rejected by many TV shows. So due to speaking disorder and non-heroic face & body, he faced many rejections. But then he decided to answer all those rejections.

Rowan Atkinson began his own TV show Mr. Bean which drew global success. Thereafter, he did many TV shows and Hollywood films that led him to earn a net worth of $130 million. Now he has become one of the most popular international celebrities with huge success and money. That’s why his life is one of the most inspirational success stories in history and he is one of the most successful people in history.

As you may know, the government has proposed a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030. The problem with the initiative is that it seems to be largely based on conclusions drawn from only one part of a car’s operating life: what comes out of the exhaust pipe. Electric cars, of course, have zero exhaust emissions, which is a welcome development, particularly in respect of the air quality in city centres. But if you zoom out a bit and look at a bigger picture that includes the car’s manufacture, the situation is very different. In advance of the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow in 2021, Volvo released figures claiming that greenhouse gas emissions during production of an electric car are nearly 70% higher than when manufacturing a petrol one. How so? The problem lies with the lithium-ion batteries fitted currently to nearly all electric vehicles: they’re absurdly heavy, huge amounts of energy are required to make them, and they are estimated to last only upwards of 10 years. It seems a perverse choice of hardware with which to lead the automobile’s fight against the climate crisis.


Unsurprisingly, a lot of effort is going into finding something better. New, so-called solid-state batteries are being developed that should charge more quickly and could be about a third of the weight of the current ones – but they are years away from being on sale, by which time, of course, we will have made millions of overweight electric cars with rapidly obsolescing batteries. Hydrogen is emerging as an interesting alternative fuel, even though we are slow in developing a truly “green” way of manufacturing it. It can be used in one of two ways. It can power a hydrogen fuel cell (essentially, a kind of battery); the car manufacturer Toyota has poured a lot of money into the development of these. Such a system weighs half of an equivalent lithium-ion battery and a car can be refuelled with hydrogen at a filling station as fast as with petrol.

If the lithium-ion battery is an imperfect device for electric cars, concerns have been raised over their use in heavy trucks for long distance haulage because of the weight; an alternative is to inject hydrogen into a new kind of piston engine. JCB, the company that makes yellow diggers, has made huge strides with hydrogen engines and hopes to put them into production in the next couple of years. If hydrogen wins the race to power trucks – and as a result every filling station stocks it – it could be a popular and accessible choice for cars.

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