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Hootowl
Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 11:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Read the comment section. Universal condemnation. Good to see.
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Aesquire
Posted on Friday, April 15, 2016 - 03:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/04/drone_attack_ during_little_lea.html

I've been wondering when this potential threat was going viral.

RC airplane guys have long had the problem that ANYTHING can be considered a weapon. Training and peer pressure not to ruin the hobby has worked for decades. Few RC flyers spend big bucks on their hobby and then fly near airliners. Their peers want to keep their hobby and don't tolerate morons very well. In RC you tend to have mentors since you need to get SKILLS so you don't throw away hundreds of bucks in toy every time you go out.

Drones don't require nearly the skill level. Any jerk can fly one, (though being useful or good at the task does take practice) & the kids and adults ( legally of age, anyway) using drones don't need or have anything like the RC culture teaching rational behavior. .... what they do have is YouTube and Facebook where behaviour that is suicidal and often potential negligent homicide is rewarded.

Then there's the genius who not only mounted a gun to a drone but posted this shining example of wisdom online.

Soon you will need to register every drone capable of lifting the tiniest possible weapon..... and big data searches will cross index ammo sales with drone sales and anyone who's Facebook page shows disloyalty to the regime can expect armed men kicking down their doors, shooting their pets and children, & confiscating any drones, assault anything ( since assault weapon is a made up term meaning "scary thing to be outlawed") cash ( terrorist funding ) etc.

Experience shows illegal seizure of your stuff results in it never being returned without enough wealth to pay law firms and politicians more than the value of the property stolen.....

This will not end well. Or be pretty. Mark my words.
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Ducbsa
Posted on Friday, April 15, 2016 - 09:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hail the EPA!

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/14/epa-head-named-c onservationist-of-the-year-after-spilling-tons-of- mine-waste/
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2016 - 10:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2016 - 10:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

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Sifo
Posted on Monday, April 18, 2016 - 06:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

This is a very good article on how and why science is failing us today. Oddly, it stays away from climate science, and deals mostly with the drug industry and psychology. I can only imagine that the author recognized that including climate science would have him instantly becoming a pariah in the scientific community. It would only take very minor editing to focus this entire article on climate science. It's a bit long, but worth the read.


http://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/05/scienti fic-regress

quote:

What they do not mention is that once an entire field has been created—with careers, funding, appointments, and prestige all premised upon an experimental result which was utterly false due either to fraud or to plain bad luck—pointing this fact out is not likely to be very popular. Peer review switches from merely useless to actively harmful. It may be ineffective at keeping papers with analytic or methodological flaws from being published, but it can be deadly effective at suppressing criticism of a dominant research paradigm. Even if a critic is able to get his work published, pointing out that the house you’ve built together is situated over a chasm will not endear him to his colleagues or, more importantly, to his mentors and patrons.


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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 08:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/04/19/mit-prof-s ays-carbon-tax-only-way-to-stop-fossil-fuels/

Of course, peak oil was never about making anything better. It was never about solving a supply problem. It was about opposing fossil fuels as such. News out of MIT confirms this motive, as one professor bemoans the development of new production techniques which have made fossil fuels cheaper.

....Cheaper fossil fuel production should be heralded as good news. Increased value at a lower cost is always good. It enables actors throughout the economy to get more done, to be more productive, and thus improve their quality of life. By advocating the artificial encumberment of carbon tax, Knittel argues for less productivity and a lower quality of life. That's morally indefensible.


Not if your religion is anti-human and pro-bunny. Of course that also means you are short sighted, since a poor human population will eat all the bunnies. Then each other.

But if you're inside the Ivory Tower, who cares what the peasants do?
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Ducbsa
Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 08:29 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

The moment I heard that CO2 was bad, I knew it was a new tactic by the anti-progress (except for them) crowd, since CO2 is a product of combustion.
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 06:56 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/cl imate_alarmism_and_the_muzzling_of_independent_sci ence.html
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 06:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/wh ere_are_americas_drowned_cities.html
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 07:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

And in Science that is, yes, disputed, but real, as opposed to pure political power in selling you snake oil.......

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601299/the-curi ous-link-between-the-fly-by-anomaly-and-the-imposs ible-emdrive-thruster/#/set/id/601302/

Could be as big as E=MC2.
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Ducbsa
Posted on Friday, April 22, 2016 - 07:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

1970 predictions


https://www.ihatethemedia.com/earth-day-prediction s-of-1970-the-reason-you-should-not-believe-earth- day-predictions-of-2009

An old column, but applies to 2016, too.
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Aesquire
Posted on Friday, April 22, 2016 - 07:19 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hasn't NYC been flooded since 2015?
Not that it matters since the oceans have died and there's no oxygen back in 2012?

I could be wrong on the time scale. Because we all starved by 2000 so we are all ghosts.

Otoh...... the most pessimistic political predictions only lack this election called off to be optimistic dreaming.
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Aesquire
Posted on Friday, April 22, 2016 - 07:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/24/seven-big-fail ed-environmentalist-predictions/

A slightly more scientific gloat about why we no longer believe the greenies.
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Ducbsa
Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2016 - 05:39 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"'The EPA is also using a recreational standard, which allows 40 times more lead in the river, even though people in three states and the Navajo Nation depend upon it as a primary water source, New Mexico Environmental Secretary Ryan Flynn said in February,' Barton said. In other words, the same bureaucrats who can raise environmental standards to make work for themselves can also lower the standards to avoid work when it suits them."

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/231469/
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Ducbsa
Posted on Monday, April 25, 2016 - 02:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Good summaries

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/04/a-ta xonomy-of-climate-camps.php
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, April 25, 2016 - 04:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Ducbsa, that's a darn good summary.

I figure myself a skeptic, with one big difference.

If you lie to me, year after year, I quit bothering to pick out any part of your b.s. that is factual. You are intellectually dead to me. Dishonesty breeds contempt.

I understand why the exaggerators do so. But understanding is not consent.

I also notice alliance. Since the greenies are allied with the most dishonest authoritarian regimes..... while those same regimes rape the planet on an incredible scale....... and the greenies are outspoken about punishing me, putting me in prison for heresy, even advocating my murder, the entire movement has shown me it's true face.

I also want to point out I use less energy in a year than the Prophet Gore does in a week.

And I didn't get a D in any of the multiple meteorology classes I took. A's. And a glider pilot.
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Ducbsa
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2016 - 06:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"That redistribution dynamic — expensive energy and grinding poverty for the world’s downtrodden, and wealth transfers to the well-connected and the right-thinking — is the tragic reality of Earth Day and all it represents."

From http://www.aei.org/publication/earth-day-and-the-t riumph-of-dogbert/
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Ducbsa
Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2016 - 06:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"Their only real solution is to tax Americans back into pre-industrial poverty."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/04/live -from-omaha-its-james-hansen.php
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2016 - 03:44 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Pre industrial poverty?

As if the whole movement was just a tool to trash the industrial power of the western world.

Which tracks with the initial sponsorship of the green party in Europe by the Soviet Union.

If only there was some analogous situation...... like sex criminal sponsorship of men in girl's rooms.... or an anti-police movement pushed by anti- civil rights forces.

Not that there is current known connections between anti gay Vladimir Putin and the movement to push gay rights past any rational point. Not that CNN would report.......
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Ducbsa
Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2016 - 05:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"The left has concocted a lucrative category of politically correct victims: “climate refugees.” It’s the new Green racket."

http://michellemalkin.com/2016/05/04/tale-of-2-tri bes-climate-refugees-vs-epa-victims/
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, May 09, 2016 - 02:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.scibabe.com/naturegivesnofucks/

WARNING LANGUAGE

The conviction of Italian seismologists for failing to predict earthquakes?

That's not progress.

Laxatives that don't taste like the byproducts of metabolism? That's progress.

(Message edited by aesquire on May 09, 2016)
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Hootowl
Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 03:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

It's about time. Been doing it on trains forever, though without the regen braking.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3068677/susta inable-it/nikola-motor-co-to-release-2000hp-hybrid -semitrailer-truck.html

No reason they have to use CNG either. Turbines can run on just about anything.
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Hootowl
Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 03:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"The truck is nearly double a diesel price at $375K, but it also comes with free natural gas fuel for 1 million miles since we own our own natural gas wells," the Nikola Motor Co. spokesperson said. "This offsets the entire cost of the truck allowing for a return on the investment in first month."

If they can pull this off, there should, by all logic, be thousands of these on the road soon.
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Chauly
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 11:42 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"Turbines can run on just about anything."

I love it: "Fuel- Agnostic Turbine"...
Coffee-grounds, banana peels?
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 12:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Coal slurry, chanel #5, powdered coal, alcohol, low test gasoline, most combustible stuff you can pump through a nozzle.

Not all at the same time, you're going to have to change nozzle size and pumps. Depending on seal chemistry and viscosity.

You want REAL fuel agnostic, go Steam.
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Hughlysses
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 12:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

You want REAL fuel agnostic, go Steam.



Oil (all types), alcohol, wood, coal (all types), charcoal, bagasse (sugar cane stalks after the juice has been squeezed out), coffee beans, and supposedly even Egyptian mummies, at least once. I'm sure there are others.
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Reepicheep
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 12:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Very cool approach, and commercial trucks are a really smart place to start. You can monitize the necessary investment in turbine technology.

I wonder what the warranty on the turbine is.
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Hootowl
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 07:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Good question. It probably isn't very large, since its rpm gives it huge horsepower, and it can run at a fixed rpm since it only has to spin a reduction gear for the generator head. They will have to muffle the intake and exhaust to keep it epa legal. The turbine should last a good long while.
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Blake
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 - 11:46 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Neat idea... Until the price of natural gas rises enough to make the free fuel deal financially silly. That may likely happen sooner than later. Too many electrical generating plants are going from coal to natural gas. T. Boone Pickens isn't pushing for liquid natural gas fueled trucking just for the clean fuel benefit. He needs the price of natural gas to increase and stabilize. Converting trucking to NG would do just that.

Not sure turbines burning anything but NG could meet emissions standards, and aren't turbines horribly inefficient in cruise or idle type conditions? They make perfect sense for trains, planes, and ships. Not sure they can compete with diesel in the trucking market.
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