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     Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/the_s tampede_of_green_lemmings.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/on- energy-the-chinese-russian-one-two-punch.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/put ins-best-friend-in-the-west-environmentalists.php | ||
| Ducbsa |
When the alarmists panic over the ocean rising, do they see if the shore is sinking or wonder why AlGore has Cali beachfront property and the LightBringer has Martha’s Vineyard and Hawaii beachfront property? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/media _want_you_to_be_very_afraid_the_ice_melting_has_ca used_a_oneinch_rise_in_oceans_over_the_last_hundre d_years.html BTW, the author comparing the avg depth of the ocean the rise seems flawed. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/the -climatistas-are-lying-again.php Ocean rise? First, how is it measured? Tidal gauges, aka a stick with markings on it. A lot of them, in harbors world wide. Naval bases, weather stations, etc. In richer countries it's a toilet float and a sensor, but basically you measure the low & high and record the numbers. I don't know what faked data is used today. I do recall a few decades back where they based the entire rise on one sensor in Hong Kong harbor, since none of the other thousands showed a rise. A slowly passing ship at the right time and you get a new peak. Yes, there are sinking areas. Venice and Atlantis come to mind. Pumping water out from under the city, and the loss of favor of the gods explain both just fine.  That's Plato's story, anyway. It may have had a different cause, like the Thera Eruption, or a comet strike, or an undersea landslide like the feared Canary Islands volcano might cause. ( and have been caused by giant sediment collapses off Hawaii, we have geologic evidence on the U.S. Pacific coast ) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_eruption https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/volcan o-watch-canary-islands-mega-tsunami-hypothesis-and -why-it-doesnt-carry Just search Hawaii mega tsunami, and enjoy. It's certainly possible Atlantis fell because of a big quake, like they are waiting for off Washington and Oregon. ( and previous quakes sent waves well up the mountains. See the excellent series of lectures on the Pacific northwest. ) Or was a garbled or entirely fictional tale, like most modern politics. | ||
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| Hootowl |
Nick has many really good videos out there. Give the "ancient rivers of the pacific northwest" video a try. That was my gateway drug to his stuff. | ||
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| Aesquire |
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/present-bewilderm ent-richard-powers-energy-ukraine/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.thecollegefix.com/scientists-must-not- cower-to-the-latest-political-ideologies-physicist -challenges-die-dogmas/ } | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/a-m oment-of-peak-stupidity.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/09/eu-russian- energy-plan-gas-storage-and-rooftop-solar-energy/ Since I live next to one of the cloudiest cities in the country ( 2-6 depending on criteria ) rooftop solar is a great rich guy show off. Virtue signalling for the rural wealthy. Anyone from the Southwest who wants to brag about their energy bill savings go ahead. My costs doubled this year. I blew my money on a heat pump water heater. And since I've spent literally Years of my life sitting on hill tops and driving hundreds of miles to find soarable conditions, ( which can be roughly defined as steady winds over 15 mph. With the right vector. ) I can tell you wind power is a joke, a Bad one on your pocket and an ecological disaster in multiple ways. Basically, the Soviet Union and then the Russian Federation and now the Russian Empire under Vladimir the Cruel have sponsored and manipulated the Greenie Watermelon destruction of Western Civilization since The Great Patriotic War. Or for us bit players, WW2. ( Sure, a Brit or Yank might point out that without the heroic sacrifices of our merchant marine, industrial production, and the distractions of Invasions in France and Italy, Russia might not have defeated the Nazis. That's OUR bias, not the history taught in the Empire. ) With the partnership of Barack and Hydra, the Barry Regime 3 folk that run our government, and the ownership of the Biden* Crime Family by the CCP and Russian & Ukrainian & & mega rich there is zero intention to allow rational choices. Just watch the days ahead. If you thought the Aussies, New Zealanders, and Canadians were ruled by tyrannical lunatics last year, with a minor plague, just wait for full on energy rationing and imprisonment/Shaming/Confiscation of Wrong Thinking Scum. Like the Evil Rich guy with his solar panels not supplying The People's Needs and selfishly hoarding electrons in Defiance of the Holy State. ( But not the politicians in their walled compounds with armed guards ) Bet you. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/ger many-backslides.php Yeah, that idea we had for reactivating and not shutting down their fission power plants? The Russian sponsored Greenies won't let them. The government is a fractured mess so to form a majority they had to give Finance and the Environment to Putin, I mean his plausible deniability minions. No gruel for you! Personally I don't worry about CO2, because there are far more immediate threats to life that our Environmental groups should work on. Like recycling rare Earth metals and cleaning up the incredible mess the Socialists and Maoists leave the planet. And unlike the ignorant, I WANT another 2 degrees C rise in climate. Give me the climate we had when Jesus walked the Earth in corpus. Or the nice climate of the Colonization of Greenland, not the plague ridden cold & Dark Ages. But if you're looking at CO2, then the German Greenie policies are disasters on disasters. But that might be a temporary problem. Since the first thing Vladimir will do if he conquers Germany is to send them to an unmarked grave, secretly. Because He knows what their job is. | ||
| Hootowl |
https://fortune.com/2021/09/14/tesla-cofounder-jb- straubel-redwood-materials-battery-materials/amp/ | ||
| Aesquire |
Don't agree with every detail in the article, but sure seems like good business decisions & good news overall. Now we just have to figure out how to generate the power to charge all the electric cars with the sustainable and seemingly unlimited supply of politicians, Karens, and pedophiles. While not increasing pollution too much! | ||
| Hootowl |
I don’t either, particularly the bit about Lithium ions flowing between the cathode and anode - pretty sure it’s electrons doing that. But the author’s ignorance - or mine, if he’s right - shouldn’t detract from the thrust of the article, which is that throwing away metals in old batteries has been recognized as asinine, and that someone is doing something about it. | ||
| Hootowl |
Electric cars are massively more efficient than internal combustion. It cost me $9 in electricity to charge my car over the last 30 days. I think you are overestimating the quantity of additional generation necessary to compensate for the shift. Cars charge at night, AC runs hard during the day. The transmission and generation capacity is already sufficient to run AC all day. All that has to happen is for plants to run at night like they do during the day. We’ll still use less net fuel burning oil in power plants than we would burning oil in cars. Grid solar is a pipe dream. Until someone figures out fusion (they’re 20 years away, and have been for 40 years - and may always be) fossil fuels are necessary. Home solar with battery storage is a proven and viable off grid option, but it’s massively expensive - something like a 25 year payoff. Not practical for most people. Still, for the remote home, it is cheaper than running power lines to the grid. Plenty of youtube channels dedicated to that sort of thing. | ||
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| Aesquire |
. I think you are overestimating the quantity of additional generation Nope. I take it as Given that the electric car turns energy into movement with greater efficiency than a gasoline engine. There's a gazillion BTUs of fuel turning our engines in vehicles. ( assign any arbitrary number or unit ) Assume double the efficiency from well to pump/charger. That's a minimum of half a gazillion BTUs ADDITIONAL grid energy required to be generated. The number of Terawatts required varies by prediction. But double today is probably a good start ( for vehicles alone ) and not even close to replace fossil fuels totally. That's closer to 3-4 times NEW generators. If I were King, that could be done in a decade, and cleanly, as I would have Thorium reactors installed to greatly increase capacity, and stop burning natural gas to make electricity as much as possible so all the people could heat their homes. But I'm too old to conquer the Continent. And the Greenies won't allow a corrupt regime to fix the problem. They want to rule by Any Means Necessary. And battery storage for intermittent generation is just expensive for your house. Too expensive for all but the wealthy. It's literally impossible for a country our size. There aren't enough battery minerals available. ( why I'm pleased with the recycling article you posted! ) There are only 2 scenarios that can fix that. Utter, genocidal, tyranny and strip mining, or Pay Elon to mine the asteroids. I'd prefer #2. The Greenies want #1. Oh, and that $7 fill up you love has doubled locally. In one year. With current "punish the peasants to make them obey" policy, expect $30 of juice in 2022. You'll still have bragging rights! My hybrid will need over $100. | ||
| Hootowl |
I guess we’ll see. Whatever changes are required will happen organically. There weren’t gas stations on every corner 100 years ago, and there are now. Supply and demand. Capitalism. It works, if we’ll let it. | ||
| Gregtonn |
"Cars charge at night, AC runs hard during the day.") In warm summer climates that's true. In cold winter climates energy to heat houses and charge cars is at peak during the night. I also wonder how states like California who already have brownouts, blackouts and transmission line issues during the summer will deal with the additional load. Then there is the question of charging the thousands of 18 wheelers parked at truck stops. How long will that take? How many charging stations and how much parking area will that require? Will every truck stop have to have its own electrical substation? Many tractor-trailer rigs travel over a million miles in their lifetime. How many batteries will they go through during that time? Just some questions to consider before diving into "all electric". G | ||
| Aesquire |
Oh, charging stations I agree, the car makers will sponsor some, and organically is nicely put. There's a local family diner chain that has a row of chargers. Not too far off an expressway so it makes sense to plug in & spend money inside. It's the bigger picture of Grid infrastructure. Stuff like How much & How you make juice, and the hardening needed. Slick ideas are nice, like a Superconducting backbone so you can load level across time zones and climates will help with the increasing percentage of intermittent Greenie Virtue Signalling aka sustainable Wind & Solar. No wind and cold in New Jersey? Feed solar from Arizona. Etc. But the profit? That's a lot of power just to run the Nitrogen separation and cooling. Like many ideas it may have to wait until we get better, nearly magical, materials. The CHOKE POINT is always the limiter, and Production is one of them. Or more accurately, the Government. If you can't get the permits to build the coal dust burning magnetohydrodynamic generators, they won't exist. Or Gas turbines. ( quick start high output generation you can throttle down to zero to load level ) Especially the need for Fission to ride us over until that perpetual 20 years in the future they've been promising for 80+ years with Fusion. | ||
| Tpehak |
I use my electric bicycle now. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://nypost.com/2022/03/11/high-prices-and-suff ering-americans-are-not-a-bug-but-a-feature-for-th e-establishment/ | ||
| Hootowl |
“ How many batteries will they go through during that time?” One. The tesla powertrain is designed for 1 million miles. They expect to recycle used batteries into new cars. | ||
| Tpehak |
It is almost $6 per gallon of 92 gasoline here is Seattle. | ||
| Aesquire |
Hoot, I'm impressed by both the recycling company & the Tesla cars. Let me know when they make the Van version. Take the extremes of my shopping for a replacement for my rusting Caravan, as seen on Craigslist... As the template/range for the vehicle I want Tesla to make. Grand Caravan, sized for hauling 4x8 sheets, plywood etc., Fold out passenger seats in back. Intermediate.. Pro Ram delivery vehicle, low floor, high top option for hauling motorcycles. Full sized Ford Van 350 w/7.3 Powerstroke Diesel. Basically an enclosed aero box with the capacity to tow trailers, haul lumber and toys, expressway cruise with some comfort, and camp in. The minimum minivan version would be great. Better yet a delivery van like a Ford Transit, or best a chassis I can bolt a second generation Dodge Van body on. A shorty, 109" wheelbase, by choice. | ||
| Tpehak |
My electric bicycle with Yamaha motor is equipped with the battery for 1000 cycles. Full charge allows 20 miles at full assist mode. So the battery will be useless in 20000 miles. 1 battery cost about $1000. So the mileage cost is $0.05 per mile. My Buell makes 27 miles per gallon,or 27 miles per $6 or $0.22 per mile. So Buell mileage is about 4 times more expensive than electric bicycle. |
