| Author | Message | ||
     Aesquire |
https://jewishworldreview.com/0722/lowry072022.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://nypost.com/2022/06/26/environmentalists-ha te-the-working-class/ 2 takes. It would take a long term massive evil conspiracy to institute such policies to be deliberately racist. We are talking about a group that uses racism as their primary source of power, say with slave labor. They'd also have to be willing to kill massive amounts of people, like in a civil war, and constantly push laws to discriminate, based on race. Some sort of recruiting and organization of criminal gangs with political visible aspects, ( for recruiting and "legitimizing" the crimes ) to riot, intimidate, murder, and influence elections with threats of violence. Thugs with clubs near polling places. And a distinctive, identity concealing uniform. Hoods, masks, ( and a serious effort to resist unmasking by law enforcement and journalists ) color coded shirts, or pants, ( black has been popular for millennia. Easier to hide in dark places, & doesn't show filth & blood as much ) Remind you of anyone? Or... It's not racism, it's urban stupid. Disconnected from nature and reality in an artificial environment unsustainable without great effort and modern technology. Look at the California water system for the prime example, but it's been a problem since modern technology was animal powered food transport. Short form, there was a plan to meet current & future needs. It got started, and stalled out after the big cities got a steady flow of water far beyond natural resources. The "I got mine, to hell with you" attitude kicks in, and.... My opinion encompasses both. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/07 /20/buttigieg-whines-about-americans-not-wanting-e lectric-cars-n2610523 This is what a transition looks like | ||
| Hootowl |
Every ev owner I know already charges their car in the middle of the night. Not sure asking people to charge at non-peak times will have any effect - that’s already happening. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/abo ut-that-northwestern-european-heat-wave.php Every Ev owner? Huh. I only know one, and she plugs in after every trip as soon as she's unloaded groceries etc. Just a 115volt charging cord. So there's an extra data point. I'd guess the load from charging phones is bigger, today, than cars. That may change soon with current trends. Assuming a continuing increase in Battery cars and bikes we absolutely need more power generation. I think that a continuing increase is very highly probable. We'd still need more electricity generated even if battery cars were banned. There's a general shift towards heat pumps to replace natural gas etc. Plus a general population increase from mass migration from high birthrate areas. Yes, there's a demographic shift down in areas that hit a level of technology and wealth to allow self control of reproduction. ( it's a very concerning phenomenon that inspired the Eugenics movement ) I don't think electric cars will be banned, except in some places where the grid simply can't handle it and they have authoritarian rule. Russia? Seems a long term self defeating policy, but that's normal for tyrants. ( who cares about the Greater good if I'm executed? ) A sensible approach to replacing fossil fuels is to build up the grid so it's not a traumatic collapse. Unfortunately the only available tech to actually generate power 24/7 has been declared Evil. ( although Europe may have started to realize they need nuclear. If that shift is in time to prevent mass death? No idea. ) Remember, a hot summer blackout is annoying and hundreds may die. ( for as long as we've had newspapers in Europe, until AC became common, they've had summer heat casualties, and AC just reduced that ) A Winter Storm blackout could kill ??? It's usually far higher than summer, but not hyped as much, especially in the 45+ years of Climate Con. As population grows and concentration in mega cities increases, the death rate will soar, even with no disasters at all. Basic math. We live in interesting times. | ||
| Hootowl |
Oh I plug in immediately too. But the car doesn’t start charging until later. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://instapundit.com/532852/ On a national level, projects like Exploring Space and building National Parks is both a jobs program and infrastructure improvement, as well as Inspiration for the public. Like any organization prone to the Peter Principle and Pournelle's Iron Law they don't build a lot of Parks or rocket ships anymore. It's actually pretty rare for government bureaucracy to go away. The Great Depression organizations are now "gone" meaning the managers were moved/promoted to different groups and the workers were "let go". And mostly all dead by today. ( as are the military of WW1 ) NASA started with the unique NACA, that did serious research and distributed the knowledge free to promote and advance aviation. ( most such think tanks are dedicated to the military and more limited in scope. ) It evolved into NASA, during the Space Race with the Soviets. Budgets are determined by Congress, and thus are the results of choices made by lawyers after the dog & pony shows presented to get funded. It Shouldn't be surprising that sub-optimum choices result. 2 examples are Apollo and the Shuttle. The smart way to do Lunar travel is to build a space station and assemble the Lander with the TransLunar booster ( shipped up separately ) and sent on to The Moon. Instead, the CHEAP way, was to skip the infrastructure and build the Saturn 5 program. Far more expensive in the long run, but less expensive per yearly budget, on paper. Apollo was also a crash course in developing space travel with Time Pressure jacking up the costs, so following the "conservative" approach, Mercury to Gemini to Apollo, each bigger and better, was thought a safer way, less risky to the organization. ( It worked, so... ) Ironically, the "conservative" ( budget & infrastructure ) approach led to the hardest technological challenge, the One Big A$$ Rocket to carry EVERYTHING up in one launch, while throwing away everything except the cockpit and a box of rocks and film. Ultimately the most Expensive and limited system. The Shuttle Program wasn't under the same time pressure. The Congresscritter technique of "saving money" had a bigger influence. ( Ok, You want $10 bazillion a year for 5 years? That's too expensive & I will lose money for my pet project. How about $5 bazillion a year for 20 years? Then we both win. ) ( The actual numbers are much worse ) The Shuttle had 2 separate wish list Mission Requirements. Ouch. You start designing a ship, plane, spaceship, bridge, whatever... With Mission Requirements. If a railroad bridge can't carry a train, it's a failure. If a ship can't carry the needed weight... Etc. The Shuttle Mission Requirements were to be a reusable reentry vehicle ( A ) that could carry a Keyhole satellite to orbit ( B ) and replace disposable rockets and capsules ( A ) and carry cargo to the Space Station and launch satellites... With a quick turn around. And save money. The B... To carry existing Air Force/NSA Big Telescope Camera satellites dictated the cargo bay size. ( more expensive than needed for most missions, but handy to have. The difference between a Ford F-150 & F-450 ) The A... The replace disposable expensive rockets with a money saving reusable Space Truck, ran into the Congresscritters problem above. Plus the simple fact that while the F-150 might be the most popular vehicle in America, the F-450 costs too much unless you really think you need it's capacity. I have the Congresscritters book on the Program, complete with meeting transcripts. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://nypost.com/2022/07/24/state-department-off icial-alan-eyre-slammed-for-saying-he-prefers-high -gas-prices/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NY PTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow “The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, ​the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles,” Buttigieg told the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. I assume "access" means "afford", but it could be interpreted as "are allowed" or "our kind" ( in the group think vernacular "social justice warriors" use to divide and claim privilege ). There's a steep slope between "encourage" & "Demand" with "The Emergency justifies Force" kicking in as the slide becomes uncontrollable . ( The metaphor is quite realistic to me, being a mountain bike and foot launched glider guy with experience on dangerous slopes. ) There's a "movement" to ban natural gas equipment in new construction. The ban on gas is thus inevitable. Just turning off the flow to existing users would be Very Unpopular, not to mention Mass Murder. But by making it unaffordable, they can threaten and encourage "upgrading to be responsible" and set a distant deadline ( like fossil fuel free by 2050... ) that can move at the whim of the Bureaucrats, ( I mean 2030 ) just as the Deadlines for Saving the Planet shift from week to week. Much like the apocalyptic preachers who repeatedly predict the Rapture on a specific date... Repeatedly updating as time passes. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://the-pipeline.org/piercing-the-electric-car -fantasy/ It is all a ruse anyway. If electric vehicles drop in price and effectiveness, which may be possible with enough brute-force engineering, you can expect environmentalists to turn against them, by noting the huge environmental footprint to make them and the human-rights problems of child labor in Africa mining all the cobalt EVs need. They did it before with natural gas, which environmentalists embraced back in the aughts (2000-2010) as a “bridge fuel” when they thought they could bash coal with gas, and turned on a dime when natural gas became cheap and plentiful. They’ll do the same with electric cars someday. As "activists" slash the tires of "bad" vehicles, SUVs, this month, it's only a matter of time before Teslas get put in the same category. You know, when Elon says Freedom is Good or some other Blasphemy. Much like the Gun Grabbers, aka Disarm the Peasants America Haters, the Greenies use the ratchet tactic. Take, take, take, and never stop until they Win, completely. In the case of First & Second Amendment destroyers, they will not stop until you are silenced and neutralized. They won't stop forbidding you transportation by Any Means Necessary. It's the SUV today, the Frivolous Luxury Murdercycles soon. And I point out that the SUV is now nearly the entire available automobile market. the Big Three only have 1 or 2 vehicles for sale in each lineup that aren't "SUVs"... And the SUV as a category started as a Loophole vehicle as emission and mileage rules made station wagons illegal/unprofitable by design. The need to get the kids to soccer practice and ( regional sport ) hasn't changed. So trucks took the job, despite being inefficient and wasteful. I'd argue that the bulk of sales aren't really off road capable trucks like the old Blazer and Bronco. They are hatch back commuter and family cars that resemble the real thing. A Ford Escape or Toyota Rav4 do have the ground clearance to cross a lawn And get into a driveway ( where a Corvette gets stuck & broken ) but aren't Jeeps or Suburbans in capability. ( most Jeeps are now not Jeeps in capability! Being mini SUV/hatch back family cars. ) The End Goal is No Cars and No Choice. They support Electric today but as the token Gay Transportation Czar sounds like Marie Antoinette with "let them drive Electric" today... It's certain Pete will despise us bikers in the near future & promote bans on Murdercycles. We aren't His Kind. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/gue st-post-ken-green-on-the-ice-that-just-wont-melt.p hp | ||
| Hootowl |
Where will we get biodiesel? The math isn’t any better there than it is for ethanol. | ||
| Aesquire |
Rendering plants. When the biodiesel fad started, you could get free used fry vat lard/shortening mixed with grill grease. It cost McDonald's etc. A LOT to have it taken away as semi hazardous waste. So, sure, take it! Then it got popular and late comers had to search a bit, then it became a "Green" government program, so now the local rendering plant pays the restaurants for the oils, and the free part is quite fringe, if not a near mythic memory. There are places where it's not worth the fuel costs to collect, for example. Almost all big business now. Ethanol was Sold as turning garbage into fuel. Economics and government subsidies have us the insane Food to Fuel program now in operation. It makes sense for ADM to bribe Congresscritters for the subsidies. That the corn is special and not normally eaten by humans directly doesn't change that the acres that could grow food, now grow booze feedstock. Thus we had food shortages that led to the Arab Spring coups, and between U.S. Energy policy and a Muslim Brotherhood supporting Obama, millions have died and more migrated to Europe and 'Murica. That It takes as much if not more BTUs in fuel to make than you get out is just typical of Watermelon Ideology. Solving problems is never the point. It's power and money. ( The used up corn mash goes to feed livestock, so there is secondary human consumption, but a much smaller percentage becomes food than sweet corn or dent corn used directly as feed. ) But biodiesel, can be made from waste oils. Some is. Government programs tend to favor the best bribes, so where and how efficient/sane you get it at the pump, varies quite a bit. Locally, in a big suburban sprawl city, it's from the rendering plant in the sparsely populated gully that was once in the edge of town and is now grandfathered in nearly the middle.  Real Estate agents speak of it in hushed tones. There's little new construction in the gully and you want to hope the buyers visit with a South wind. Several times new people try to shut the plant down, but it's a multi generation company in a town known for... Let's say certain old Italian families. The fix was in back in Grand if not God Father days. And, of course, on a national scale Waste Management is heavily invested in methane recovery and bio-fuel. Will it replace fossil fuel diesel? I doubt it. Supplement with taxpayer money? That's happening now. Most Green Dreams are based on technology that doesn't exist, but will, real soon, they promise. A fraction of the money spent on the Climate Con would go far to cleaning up the messes from using rivers as waste disposal in the former colonial Africa, but China after 70+ years of CCP is an environmental impact area approaching comet strike serious. And the technology does improve. In maybe 20 years, the use of solar Windows with thin film energy absorbing & light dimming layers will be SOP for new construction. In 50 retrofit kits will be a common thing in homes. That is assuming the Watermelon Dream of severe population control and authoritarian rule hasn't wrecked western civilization. Or, the nuclear war begins because President Kamala* laughs nervously at Vladimir, the Emperor of Eurasia. Your guess... | ||
| Aesquire |
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/09/no-science-isnt- social-construct/ "Critical X Theory" is simply a method of lying using logical fallacies and accusations of evil. Have you quit beating your wife? Dishonesty for advancement of the Revolution. Or you can think of it as so-called-adults using lie and bully tactics of a satanic preschooler. Or Marx, same difference. Don't bother to argue. Those minds are closed and lost to humanity. Only a self realization process can save them. Historically this too often takes place as they are shoved against the bullet pocked wall, a bit too late for them and their victims. But a very few catch on before that, then are hounded as Heretics. | ||
| Ratbuell |
What gets me is the whole "fossil fuel" thing. What KILLED dinosaurs? Tar pits. What is tar? OIL. So obviously oil isn't "just dead dinosaurs". The earth obviously makes oil, and has been doing so since BEFORE the dinosaurs. When did it stop making it? *(yes, that's a trick question...) | ||
| Chauly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum More algae and zooplankton decomposing than dinosaurs. "anaerobic and pyrolytic" reactions, they say. | ||
| Chauly |
Years ago, OMNI magazine had an interview with a geologist that hypothesized that natural gas was not derived from oils or coal at all, but that was just where it collected after leaking upward from the earth's mantle through the crust. The sites where fracking is the best don't seem to be associated with oil formations much at all, but wtf do I know, I use petroleum derivatives to make Polyurethane Foam, not produce oil! | ||
| Ratbuell |
More algae and zooplankton decomposing than dinosaurs. "anaerobic and pyrolytic" reactions, they say. ....which are still living (and dying) in plentiful numbers here on this mudball called Earth. Therefore....the earth is STILL MAKING OIL. Inconvenient truth for greenies, I suppose.... | ||
| Aesquire |
Not arguing... I don't know if oil has origin beyond the "buried forest/jungle ... time and pressure" But we definitely are using it faster than it's made. It's not an unusual error to assume things were always like now. Perhaps in the future whatever sentient life is around may be mining for hydrocarbons in our current land fills. Less radiation than the asphalt mining produces. Empires will rise and fall from the refined resources found next to the craters where the Mutants breed. | ||
| Ratbuell |
But we definitely are using it faster than it's made. Curious how you arrived at that hypothesis? General assumption (from the greenies, the "oil's bad, mmmkay" crowd) is that we are using a FINITE resource - i.e. one that is NOT being made anymore. How would one document production, versus consumption? Have we even managed to chart ALL the petroleum below the surface yet? Perhaps it's as plentiful (or moreso) than good ol' water, and we just haven't found all of it yet? | ||
| Aesquire |
True, I make an assumption that the petroleum plant in Pellucidar where it's made, or the Keystone crevices flow rate, isn't keeping up with our pumping it into tankers and shipping it. Perhaps the shallow pockets we have so far found are a tiny fraction of planetary oceans. Oil sure isn't seeping into the salt domes as fast as we pump. But, those are trapped deposits. Cut off from a hypothetical seep system. I've long since resigned myself to accepting that potentially Everything I learned in school may be a misunderstood thing by biased fools. I'm going to continue to assume that oil is in fact being produced deep under oceanic ooze, but until I see evidence, I'm going to assume it's not ready to use yet, or accessible with current technology. At any rational cost. And further, I Assume that there are unfound deposits where the folk from Shell & BP haven't driven a Land Rover over & paused to measure echos. Or parked a ship over with gravitic anomaly detectors. Lots of Siberia etc. Not Yet Explored. It might turn out that someplace North of Shangri la there's a fault just waiting to be tapped for a few centuries use at 2022 rates. There also will be a war over it. So, yes, I Do make the assumption that we are using a finite resource. The planet is a spheroid hurtling through space, with only meteors and radiation adding to our wealth. Until we start mining the rest of the Solar system. | ||
| Aesquire |
Also... Think of low hanging fruit. Hughes was working on a liquid hydrogen & oxygen cooled drilling rig that vaporized rock and promised depths below molten iron temperatures. Might sell you one. We started using petroleum products by sopping it up from leaks that contaminated the earth. Drilling took a few thousand years. We just need to start a rumor, hotly denied! That there  | ||
| Gregtonn |
Most people seem to accept that crude oil comes from "Dead Dinosaurs" and other bio matter. Is there published definitive proof of this and exactly how it was formed? If not, why is the supply assumed to be a finite? G | ||
| Tpehak |
That oil comes from your grandparents bodies. Some day your grandchildrens will ride your old Buell burning your body remains spewing it through the straight pipe exhaust. (Message edited by TPEHAK on July 26, 2022) | ||
| Ratbuell |
Is there published definitive proof of this and exactly how it was formed? I do not believe so. I posit again - many dinosaurs died in tar pits. Tar is petroleum. If it existed WITH the dinosaurs...it obviously comes from another source. Right? | ||
| Aesquire |
Dinos were the tiny percentage of a gigantic mass of Organic material in a limited time frame that became petroleum many centuries later, according to the British Petroleum "oil for children and new employees" cartoon. There was lots of plants long before dinos evolved, or were created by Disney, so if they fell into tar pits, it was much older solar power to life input in long term storage tar. The age of big lizards may be long enough to form oil, so... Haven't been to La Brea in decades. Iirc, it's only thousands of years old and has megafauna mammal bones along with smaller critters. Doesn't mean no dinos fell in tar pits, just that it probably wasn't at la Brea. And I bet you are deliberately using logical fallacies as a joke. ha. ha. I'm not joking about the BP cartoon/training film. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://libertyunyielding.com/2022/07/26/fda-warns -of-brain-swelling-and-permanent-vision-loss-in-ki ds-taking-puberty-blockers/ Blindness is a new side effect to me, but I haven't studied the sexual predator chemical castration protocols, either. note 1 I did know about the bone density and a few other lifetime crippling side effects from off-label use of some of these drugs. I'll skip the irony of the propaganda blitz against off-label drugs to fight Covid-19, while officially urging off-label use of other drugs to wreck growth and development in mentally ill children, by politically motivated unqualified "educators", and go straight to loathing. Keep in mind I am firmly in favor of sexual preference choice, despise bullying of The Different among us, and gleefully mock homophobes, so this isn't about any religious or self proclaimed moral superiority. It's about deliberately indoctrinating, crippling, and murdering children, and for a small, but far too large, minority, grooming for child rape. And anyone who promotes the use of the phrase "minor attracted person" in my presence is inviting.... Redacted. Note 1... I don't agree with experimental drug therapy that supposedly disarms a sexual predator. It's not even decent Clockwork Orange behavior modification. Much prefer removal from society, quickly and permanently. Burial for example, like toxic waste. In toxic waste, optional. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://9gag.com/gag/aYrX5D2 Bionic? Getting there | ||
| Crusty |
That is really impressive! | ||
| Hootowl |
There. Problem solved. There’s not going to be a Lithium shortage. https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/world-economic -forum-calls-reduce-private-vehicles-by-eliminatin g-ownership You just won’t be able to own a car. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://the-pipeline.org/netherlands-sri-lanka-can ada/ Every dollar wasted on pretending to change the atmosphere to fine tune the overall temperature of the planet is a dollar not spent on fixing actual pollution. That those dollars are going entirely to make rich men richer means we are all victims of crimes against humanity. Except the villains. They're doing just great. I'd love to have a spare yacht to "loan" to a child who will promote my business. That's normally called a publicity stunt with paid actors. What did Greta get paid? |
