| Author | Message | ||
     Aesquire |
The NY agency in charge of environment did a study years ago, and found no problems. So the Governor decreed it illegal. You know, because he wanted to. Prosperity and tax income isn't a concern of his. Higher cause, you know. | ||
| Sifo |
Tesla is back in the news again with bleeding edge issues. To be fair, this sort of thing will be coming to many make of cars in the future. It really raises the question of what your trade-in value will be if they shut off $8,000 worth of software! | ||
| Aesquire |
Flooding? In large amounts, yes. Drowning too! Also a near universal solvent. You'd never get it past the Obama EPA! | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/the -left-is-awash-in-money.php When the Richest Men in the world invest heavily in ways to steal your paycheck, you should pay attention. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/the_l ooming_collision_between_electric_vehicles_and_gre en_energy.html | ||
| Hootowl |
Green energy is a pipe dream. Electric cars are awesome.  I give not one shit that the electricity that powers my car comes from fossil fuels. That it is twice as cheap to drive my supercar as it is to drive an economy car is pretty neat, though. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/pla usible-scenarios-for-global-warming.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/star-treks-transport er-terrible-truth-science-behind-the-fiction | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/is- antarctica-melting.php Ok video. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Plastic bags! https://www.city-journal.org/needless-panic-over-d isposable-plastic | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/m ore_than_just_the_antigreta.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.meforum.org/60482/israel-is-pointing-t he-way-to-the-future-of-war | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/e arth_to_climate_alarmists_warming_is_good.html | ||
| Hootowl |
The author is ill informed about the benefit of food-to-fuel to our energy independence. It’s a wash in terms of net power, and it raises food and fuel costs. | ||
| Aesquire |
True. The U.S. food to fuel program raised food prices and indirectly led to the Arab Spring ( Obama's Wars ) and the mass migration to Europe and America by refugees. Plus the increase from South & Central America. Never mind that the corn used to make fuel isn't human food corn. That land, tractor, labor and diesel would have gone to food production if there wasn't a program to subsidize the crop. ( from taxes ) Despite what The Rich Candidate says, farmers aren't dumb. And corporate agribusiness will almost always go to the highest profit margin crop, if suitable. I'm annoyed at myself for buying into the alcohol program to reduce oil consumption. It was sold as using apparently mythical crops like switchgrass grown on otherwise poor crop lands, ( marginal pasture land, rocky terrain, etc. ) but quickly evolved into corn dominated industry. Brazil had gone heavy into alcohol for fuel decades ago, but they already had lots of land growing sugar cane. ( sugar is what yeast eats to make alcohol ) Part of the reason for going but in corn was practical. Decent yield of final product to diesel, labor, & land costs, plus ease and maturity of the technology to turn corn into booze. ( an American Tradition! ) Especially compared to low sugar content grasses. ( The GMO super versions promised don't seem to be a competitive product ) The Other reason for corn as the Choice is political. Quid pro usual. Despite the fracking revolution putting off the end of affordable oil for perhaps decades, it's inevitable that we NEED to develop replacement fuels that are ( I hate the word sustainable, since it's a buzzword for sneaky tyranny ) solar ( plant, algae, triffid ) powered. Some item not dug out of the ground & gone forever. Oil is too precious to burn! We need it for plastic bags! ( or carbon fiber chassis, you get the point ) It's really unfortunate that the Global Warming hoax has taken billion$ and attention away from ACTUALLY protecting the environment and reducing pollution. It's impossible to count the people killed because of the diversion. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/h ow_to_measure_the_temperature_of_the_earth.html As the Late Jerry Pournelle pointed out, NASA spent a lot of effort and couldn't measure the temperature of a 10' room within 1 degree C. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/03/free man-dyson-unpersonned-for-wrongthink-on-climate-ch ange/ Freeman Dyson was one of the Great minds of all time. He is being ignored because he spoke truth. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/h ell_or_high_water.html https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/03/new_s tudy_shows_sea_level_rise_has_been_slow_and_a_cons tant_predating_industrialization.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a31080902 /fusion-energy-hydrogen-boron/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a310 78713/amazon-hanging-cable-viral-math-problem/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://the-pipeline.org/setting-the-record-straig ht-on-the-climate-debate/ | ||
| Sami |
Propagation of Error and the Reliability of Global Air Temperature Projections https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart .2019.00223/full The gist of the article: ''The unavoidable conclusion is that an anthropogenic air temperature signal cannot have been, nor presently can be, evidenced in climate observables.'' (Message edited by Sami on March 16, 2020) | ||
| Hootowl |
I found out yesterday that the Tesla Model Y, which began delivery a few days ago, comes equipped with a heat pump in addition to resistive heating elements. Heating the car with the pump rather than with traditional electric heaters is supposed to reduce power consumption by 300 percent, reducing the range hit electric cars take in the winter. Interesting. | ||
| Hootowl |
Thanks for that link, Sami. | ||
| Aesquire |
Ditto on the link. Smart of Tesla to use a heat pump, since range is a critical item in electric cars. The most efficient electric hot water heaters now use a heat pump with electrical resistance coil aux. heat. https://www.rheem.com/innovations/innovation_resid ential/hybridsavings/ https://www.energystar.gov/products/water_heaters/ high_efficiency_electric_storage_water_heaters/con siderations Also heat pump pool heaters are now available. (Message edited by Aesquire on March 16, 2020) | ||
| Aesquire |
Dad's Prius plug-in gives a report card to you each time you push the power button to shut down. Cabin Temperature settings are nearly as important as driving style for range. Seriously. | ||
| Hootowl |
Teslas, all models, give you the option of preheating/cooling the cabin while plugged in. You tell the car when you want to leave, and it charges “just in time” and conditions the cabin. Saves battery. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a31673399 /permanent-magnets-nuclear-fusion/ | ||
| Crusty |
Yeah, but where do they find the dilithium crystals? | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanexperiment.org/2020/03/darling -is-the-wind-blowing-id-like-to-go-to-the-hospital -for-covid-19/ I've been waiting over 60 years for Fusion to be closer than 20 years away. But to be fair, I've only known that for over 50. Oh, yeah, by the time I was 12 I knew that Fusion was coming...SOON! And what the difference between fission & fusion was. I also understood Bernoulli's principle, and that was how airplanes work. As I got older, I learned Bernoulli wasn't actually the entire answer, and the reasons Fusion was Hard. I admit I was in my late teens before I was designing propellers and my own aircraft, and started building a working Fusor. A real genius would have done so in High School. ( I was flying on my own wings by High school, but I used plans. At first. ) So I'm skeptical every time Popular Mechanics tells me Fusion is Right Around The Corner. Since I've been reading those articles since I was in first grade. Btw, it wasn't until my late teens that my parents realized that I actually was flying, had a motorcycle license, and skydived in international competition... "Mom, I'm going to Florida! Is that ok? Skydiving competition. Yes I'm competing. Uh, 2 years now?" |
