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     Aesquire |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2021/11/03 /california-governor-gavin-newsom-proclaims-natura l-gas-to-be-zero-carbon/?sh=3cbe7f5862ad The funny part is that Newsom might, in a way he doesn't understand, be partly correct. Every ton of CO2 humans and nature out into the atmosphere will be absorbed by the surface of the waters, or bound by plants into their biomass. Much of the CO2 absorbed by the Oceans will be bound by sea life and fall into the ooze as the critters die. It's the complex sum total of emissions and consumption and recycling that give the current, ever changing number. After all, the air you breathe is the same Oxygen and Nitrogen and trace elements that Julius Caesar and Patton and that Epstein guy that didn't kill himself breathed. Or might be, the statistics are fairly easy to work out from available percentages and how many tons you go through in a life time. At any given moment one of those Oxygen atoms in you, was once in Kublai Kahn's horse. Maybe. Cleopatra? I loved the BBC show Red Dwarf, where one character bragged he'd had a hypnotist take him through last lives. He'd always felt a deep connection with Alexander the Great. He found that he had, indeed, one been Alexander's chief eunuch! | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.sciencealert.com/unnerving-study-revea ls-there-may-be-no-warning-for-the-next-supervolca no-eruption I don't dispute this theory, but just point out the difficulty of determining short term events, like a 3 month long rise in the land before an explosion erases evidence of it, using fossil clocks with error bars much bigger than months. Most movie disasters take place at the speed of plot. Otherwise they might be boring. I especially love how some dire fate, like a wall of red hot ash, or collapsing city, can pause so the hero's car can make the corners and stop to pick up a lost puppy. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/11/s aving_the_rainforests_will_not_stop_global_warming _heres_why.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/dum best-energy-policy-ever.php The Biden administration announced on Wednesday a plan to develop large-scale wind farms along nearly the entire coastline of the United States, the first long-term strategy from the government to produce electricity from offshore turbines. Except near any politician's beach mansion. Barry is never going to find his view sullied by a wind turbine farm, as he enjoys his beach front compound. I could only dream of $2 propane. I don't want to agree that we should suffer more to change our opinions of the Klan Party. I don't know how to target those price increases and blackouts by Party. As the Party will by class. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/cli mate-of-dystopia.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/some_ questions_on_climate_change_to_stump_those_at_gabf est_number_26.html | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Ducbsa |
Science! https://nypost.com/2021/11/12/50-years-of-predicti ons-that-the-climate-apocalypse-is-nigh/ | ||
| Aesquire |
Good perspective on a half century of lies. https://spectator.org/the-climate-change-social-en gineering-project/ The editorial only hits the surface mask behind the Climate Con. The Green Party in Germany is a Soviet Party, sponsored and organized by the KGB. That's not speculation, it's been known fact for decades, from escaping KGB officers who fled the collapsing Soviet Union when they found themselves enemies of the Elite like Vladimir Putin. Putin and his faction stole the oil & gas companies and the mining industry. ( When you buy for a pittance in a sale open only to you, that's just stealing ) Some who got mega rich & didn't please Putin are now dead. Some In prison, some assassinated by the Secret Police. Some assassinated in England, using a Signature method ( polonium) that is INTENDED to let everyone know, "cross me, and die. There are no hiding places." too crazy? If there was a murder that used a custom weapon, one not on any store shelf, with, say, a bullet in a size not used anywhere in history or made in any factory, made from a metal only available in nuclear research labs, and used, repeatedly, on only the known enemies of a super rich despot, then your suspect list is incredibly short. As anti gun rights scum keep telling us, no one hunts turkey with polonium bullets. That's all just background. Putin knows the Climate Con is fake. His agency created it. It's INTENDED to wreck our industry, economy, and governments. So is the anti nuke movement. And a few hours research would make that obvious to a reporter, so it's also obvious who ultimately runs the fake news companies that promote the Lies. Not that the minions care, or the Bezos think they will ever be called on their willing Useful Idiocy. The Green Movement in the West was sponsored and shaped by the same organizations. | ||
| Ducbsa |
This is surprising: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/Tesla-ranks-al most-dead-last-Consumer-Reports-16632996.php | ||
| Aesquire |
Despite a drivetrain with far fewer moving parts than a legacy gasoline auto, the moving parts that are left, are exactly the same. Steering systems and AC are powered by electric motors instead of belt drives off the engine in increasing percentage in new cars. Not just Electric cars. Electric water pumps are common with hot rodders now. You still have belt driven systems in legacy machines, everything from Model A Fords to today's latest SUVs, the Old AC & steering pumps will still be in muscle cars and trucks built last century. Until Holley sells retrofit kits, like they now sell complete ( front of V-8 ) pulley bracket kits to improve your Roadrunner and bitchin Camaro. ( and Jeep and pickup and...) Every Old car maker has decades of experience in Quality Control Systems. ( This was my job, once upon a time ) And it's a System and a Culture, to build good cars. Tesla is relatively inexperienced in this specialized art. Up front, I'm biased. I've watched Ford go from mediocre and lying denialist ( Explorer rollovers and electric fires ) to pretty good. ( mechanically ) GM go from mediocre to bad. And Chrysler has been on a roller coaster with extremes from ok, when still domestic, to lousy when owned by Daimler, to improving, until the Fiat buy. ( then Fix it again Tom ) Even the Japanese and Korean brands vary in Quality Control as ownership changes and Company Culture shift. I'll point out that Toyota was initially Very Unhappy with it's new U.S. manufacturing plants. Those impudent Yanks kept hitting the Line Stop button when they caught problems. That was actually written policy, but over time fear of angering management had made that unusual in their Japanese factories. The Americans didn't care about angry suits, they went with pride in their work, and pointed out the BIG SIGNS EVERYWHERE promoting Quality and Pride. And the Darned American built Toyotas were measurably Better with fewer expensive repairs. Toyota management didn't let prejudice overcome Real Numbers that Improved Profit. And took the American Way back to Japan. ( and are #1 today ) The less said about Chinese crap the better. IMHO.  Culture makes a Difference. Tesla needs time to improve their Culture. Body panel gaps are the most visible tells of quality control. Except if the car is on fire. That's a major tell too. ( When the company Tells You to park your Chevy Electric away from your children, it is not great publicity ) And modern "Connected" electronics are a QC issue with everyone. When your Infotainment computer glitches and your heat and AC are literally uncontrollable, today's customers are nearly as unhappy as when they can't text or stream their music. ( one of my own criteria when car shopping, is now "Does the AC have physical Buttons separate from the Infotainment systems?" I live in The North, no heat? No go. For half the year ) | ||
| Hootowl |
The three piece chassis they’re building will go a long way to improve panel gap consistency. Rather than compound errors when assembling front and rear sections from pieces, they are casting as one piece the entire back end of the car, and will soon follow with the front. Each attaches to a new structural battery. Should be very consistent. And quick. Tesla knows they won’t hold a tech lead forever. They plan to out manufacture the competition. | ||
| Chauly |
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/403/nummi-2010 | ||
| Aesquire |
As a student of an acolyte of W. Edwards Demming, the factory & tech transfer in the article Chauly posts above is the Teaching Coming Home. Most ironically, I met and took classes on the subject while being paid by General Motors. ( to fix their systemic problems ) (Message edited by Aesquire on November 20, 2021) | ||
| Ebutch |
Where Is The WARMING ?????   | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.sciencealert.com/hundreds-of-millions- of-birds-have-vanished-across-europe-over-the-past -40-years No mention of windmills. Urban sprawl and destruction of food bearing plants because people have yards of grass and not thickets of wild plants, no doubt covers a few hundred million sparrows. Agricultural improvements where a higher percentage of grains are harvested ( instead of laying about to be eaten ) and stored in metal buildings, ( instead of leaky stone or wood ) are part of the food production improvements that feed the humans on our planet, but not wildlife. But that's affected rats more than birds. The timing of the bird population loss is important. The pop-sci alarmist article has zero facts, just "so and so said" scare quotes. But were nice enough to link to the actual study. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.8 282 So in Figure 1 we see that the trend in bird loss from 1980-2020 is generally down from 1980-2010, and Up from 2010-2020. So killing millions of birds with windmills seems not to have affected the numbers negatively. Also only 2% of the data is from before 2000, the numbers from 1980-2000 are guesses. Might be good guesses, but the data is fragmentary and very thin. A decent analogy is a study that sampled random front pages from the local newspaper to track crime. You have 3 samples a week for the last 20 years, and one a year from the previous 20. Then from one random newspaper page you estimate the crime in that town by how many local crimes are front page news for the entire year. Hey, I understand, it's all the data you got, and you want to draw conclusions from it. It's an accumulated database you are looking at and doing various mathematical models with. And while I won't question the methodology, without analysis, I noticed the editorial people are "biodiversity experts" so there is inherent bias towards seeing things that way. Digging meaning out of big datasets was a past job of mine. I worked in QC, not marketing. So the guy in the front office with the same data pulled completely different "results" than I did. His went into press releases bragging about our company's growth and abilities. Mine were internal feedback to correct problems and reports to the government agencies responsible for Quality of purchased parts. That I was under a different legal and economic rule set than marketing is worth remembering, it wasn't a crime to claim we had increased productivity ( We in fact had ) but it was a Federal crime to claim our attack helicopter parts were good if they weren't. ( I worked hard to make sure we never shipped bad parts ) If he lied, someone lost money. If I lied, people lost lives. ,........... THUS, my conclusion from the article is that there was a big loss of birds in Europe before the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1991. There's even a bump in the trend line as more information comes out of the Former Soviet hells and the horrible pollution eased with introduction of Western technology and regulations to protect people and not military build ups with few pollution controls. A quick sampling of pictures from city centers in Eastern Europe clearly shows cleaner air and streets over the 30 years of recovery from Soviet oppression and uncaring about human life and pollution. And the curves show increased conservation in the post Cold War years may have a lot to do with the Current Improvement in bird population. So my take is, and I can defend this with both this study and independent analysis, is the bird population of Europe is growing as people treat their environment with more care. And there is Direct correlation between bird population and human freedom. Not quite the same headline, eh? | ||
| Aesquire |
Feel free to read the paper, and PLEASE tell me how my analysis is in error. I'd rather be right than win an argument. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Your mention of QC reminded me of the recent story of the steel mill metallurgy manager that lied for years about not meeting quality specs for steel in Navy ships. Lying once is bad enough, but why didn't the person force changes at the company to do the right thing from then on? In my work, we would accept the mill test reports and not check them. A friend managed construction of a R-134a plant and the client required the chemical component testing of the piping materials to confirm the mill test reports and the stenciled marking on the piping, though. | ||
| Aesquire |
Blackmail. Blow the whistle and go to jail. "It's your name on the reports. You go to jail. Blame me and I'll deny I ordered you to lie. And you are a proven liar now, no one will believe you over me! Etc. " And the boss is richer and has lawyers to blame the employee. I used to do the basic testing on incoming bar stock to verify it was, say, 304 or 316 steel. ( different chemical trace elements ) Lightnin Mixers, chemical plant gear. If it's the wrong steel, it rots away fast mixing stuff. A lot of the bigger mixers ( 40 feet across etc. ) were used in sewage treatment plants. The smaller ones? Everything! ( read that word like Gary Oldman in Leon, The Professional ) The metal that mixes brake fluid has different specs than one for boiling nitric acid. Whiskey makers needed props, shafts, and cover plates with zero free iron, so after I tested the metal, welding and machining, I got to spray it with an acid/cyanide solution that made the free iron turn blue. Then back to polishing. Then back to me. Then back... Free iron in a machine shop is like nut fragments in a candy factory, it's high impossible to keep microscopic particles out of the bon bons. ( When the nuts are being crushed and poured in the same building for Rocky Road bars ) Candy companies must use warning labels to warn of allergens that might be a hazard. We had to make sure the stuff we sold met spec or we'd lose money in the long run. Ditto Apache helicopter parts ( different company ) or satellite strong back frames. You might have a crooked boss who wanted to get a bonus and screw the customer, but that hurts everyone long run. Evil can be stupid. | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Aesquire |
https://lawliberty.org/elon-musk-feeds-the-world/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.sciencealert.com/was-math-always-here- wild-new-paper-puts-spin-on-an-ancient-pythagorean -idea The map is not the territory. By golly a good map maker tries to paint a small picture of it. Math is a description of reality. Was the math there before the mind created the math? | ||
| Ducbsa |
That cicada theory is OK the first time, but the next 17 year cycle is 34 years, divisible by 2, never a prime number again. Also, what are these also underground predators with shorter cycle times? Or is that just a hypothesis? I agree that math always existed, man just discovered it. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Latest ocean front house purchase! By San Fran Nan: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/487333/ | ||
| Ratbuell |
Shame Desantis hasn't found a way to keep her ass out of Florida.... | ||
| Ducbsa |
Surely this is WrongThink and we shouldn't be allowed to read it: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2021/11/24/arctic -warming-atlantification/2141637764455/ | ||
| Hootowl |
I’m surprised this article was published. AmericanThinker is usually pretty coherent. This is a mess of misinformation. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/the_s inister_nature_of_electric_cars.html | ||
| Aesquire |
Yet, bizarre enough, most individual facts are true. Yes, a nuclear EMP attack by one of Biden's* paymasters would cause mass starvation. What that has to do with electric cars I have no idea. Yes, there are terrible inefficiency numbers for solar power, converting DC to AC, and whatever, but who cares? As long as the square miles of solar panels are paid for by other people and not ruining your view, efficiency doesn't matter. Etc. Yeah, disappointing. Only 5 times as accurate as CNN. SHAME! The bottom line is... It's far more important that you be able to virtue signal how woke you are than filthy little Chinese and African children live without working and living in toxic mines! I mean, Obviously! | ||
| Hootowl |
Tesla has contracts in place with its suppliers that forbid ‘conflict Cobalt’, has reduced Cobalt to 5% of its battery content, and is eliminating Cobalt from its batteries entirely. There is no power lost in the conversion of sunlight to electricity, there is simply power that is not collected. Vastly different from the conversion of chemical energy, where the majority of it is lost as heat. An EMP would affect nearly every vehicle on the road. Unless you’re driving a vehicle with a distributor and mechanical points, you’re screwed. A single point of failure? Has the author never heard of a holed piston? Broken timing belt? Spun bearing? Many more critical failures possible in an internal combustion engine than a motor with one moving part, and no reciprocation parts. His blind opposition is affecting his perception of reality. I expect that from the left. Disappointing. |
