| Author | Message | ||
     Aesquire |
https://www.wsj.com/articles/toyotas-chief-says-el ectric-vehicles-are-overhyped-11608196665 Since going to Electric cars requires more power generation, and the Watermelons refuse to allow that, expect bans on charging electric cars during hot, cold, and woke spells. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/hamburg-offi cial-tells-residents-prepare-hot-water-rationing-a mid-energy-crisis As a tech history buff, I am fascinated by solutions to problems people have come up with over the centuries. Sometimes you have to laugh at the result, and often there's an underlying scam. Gunpowder is a simple mixture of 3 reasonably common chemicals, all generally mixed as powdered solids. But just dumping them in a bucket and stirring them together has a couple of "issues", including uneven burning of poorly mixed powders, and catching fire while mixing, which often leveled the neighborhood. Then some genius invented "corning". A simple trick used by bakers for thousands of years, wetting the ingredients before mixing them, gives far more even mixing, and greatly reduced blowing yourself up. ( dust control is a safety issue in bakeries to this day, flour dust can explode ) Then you take the wet "dough", and extrude it through a board with holes to make fairly uniform small blobs, ( an idea taken from making pasta ) which you can then much more safely dry in the Sun to make far better burning gunpowder. All very informative, but where's the humor? In the early days, when the mercenaries with hand cannons were highly specialized troops that could win wars for you, the folk hiring them were often as ignorant of the Radical new technology as a typical peasant. Fire and destruction on command was like witchcraft. And gunpowder a not something you ordered on Amazon. The gunners had to make it themselves. So the gunners, insisted the best liquid to make corned powder with, was urine. And since one of the secret ingredients was often made from nitre scraped off the walls of the castle/town where the bathrooms were, ( dried crystals from urine soaked bricks & stone work ) that made sense. But not just any urine! No, had to be special from the expert gunners. And the best gunpowder was made from urine from expert gunners drinking good wine! Lousy wine just wasn't good enough to win wars! ( water worked just fine, actually, but that doesn't get you the good wine, right? ) End obscure history lesson. Today, Dutch farmers are dumping manure in the Capitol as the Greenies order them to kill their cows, quit using fertilizer, ( starvation to follow with rationing controlled by the same politicians ) because the New Myth is that Nitrogen angers the sky spirits, or is a greenhouse gas that will burn us all as the seas boil. I haven't heard the rationalization on how the literally most common element in Air changed it's chemical nature by regulation. But I bet the people that are pissing off the farmers insist on the Good Wine, so that's my tie in to the above history lesson. | ||
| Zane |
Aesquire, One correction to your history lesson. According to James Burke in his book Connections, the best gun powder was made from the urine from wine drinking bishops. | ||
| Aesquire |
Of course the Bishops would say so. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/the -geek-in-pictures-go-nuclear-edition.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/nuclear-war-would-cr eate-dire-worldwide-hellscape-scientists/ A. Nuclear Winter is a myth and thus article MAY BE utter lies. Even the scientists that originated the idea said it was a ploy/lie to stop nuclear war by making it apocalyptic. Apocalyptic beyond the billions outright murdered with blast, radiation, & fires, then starvation and radiation poisoning, then cancer and atomic AIDS. ( Radiation wrecking immune systems. Yes, I know that's not on their lists, they haven't updated their mythology to match research, because it would shatter their lies ) B. The concept of Nuclear Winter is a blackmail ploy by the Soviets, now the Puta-ist Russian kleptocracy. After murdering millions, they can threaten Armageddon by going over an arbitrary number of Nuclear explosions to trigger the Climate Crisis. A real one, supposedly, not the current lies part of the Authoritarian freedom stealing Greenie Fraud. This isn't speculation, it was Soviet Doctrine. ( leaked after the fall of the Soviet Empire ) And still is. Putin murders mass numbers in Ukraine and threatens to murder millions more if there is resistance. It's a bully tactic older than bronze. C. I was making crude jokes about this myth over 30 years ago. Such as, "If you believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming, then you can't allow 3 billion Chinese to drive SUVs. But don't worry, the only way to stop China from becoming an industrial disaster is to mass murder them with Nuclear weapons, which causes Nuclear Winter, ending Global Warming and modern civilization at the same time. Win win, for the Greenies! Right?" Been pi$$ing people off with that one longer than most of ANTIFA has been alive. Not joking. ( look how long this thread has detailed the Greenie lies. And how many times they've said the world will end if they don't get their way. ) D. could the Nuclear Winter Myth, a deliberate lie by some well meaning people, Actually Happen? Even though it was a deliberate false alarm? Yeah. Maybe. We know that the interlocking Climate factors are chaotic and ( probably ) Abrupt changes occur. There's some argument about that. https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/science-magaz ines/earth-science-gradualism-and-catastrophism#:~ :text=Gradualists explained geological features as the result of,10%2C000 years%29 or over many millions of years.The Arguments in multiple disciplines. https://pediaa.com/difference-between-gradualism-a nd-punctuated-equilibrium/#Punctuated Equilibrium Personally, I'm in the Catastrophist camp. (Ironically like some people I vehemently disagree with on other subjects ) I see the phenomenon in diverse facts in THE REAL WORLD, like how an airplane wing stalls, avalanches, earthquakes, and politics. ( It's the basis for Communist conquest. Push till it tips over. ) So, could the above models be possible predictions that might happen? Yes, although with over half a century of deliberate lies, it's ( deliberately ) hard to discern propaganda meant to influence you with from rational theory. After all, one reason my crude joke has angered people for decades is because it's a very uncomfortable and inconvenient possible truth that shoots holes in the Climate Con. I really don't want to find out if nuclear winter is a valid theory by experimental results. Neither do the people who made it up in the first place. That's WHY they spread it. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/07/09/watch-prot esters-storm-presidential-palace-in-sri-lanka-afte r-climate-hysteria-destroys-the-nation-n591691 See also Europe. Dutch farmers and Climate Con. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.independentsentinel.com/italian-farmer s-join-the-dutch-farmers-rebellion/#:~:text=The Farmer’s Rebellion in The Netherlands is the,them with a centralized dictatorship in world organizations. They told the World at the WEF that this was it. Totalitarian control by the richest men. Sure, They're Using Religious Excuses, but in the end it's greed and power. https://www.weforum.org/agenda They'll own... Everything. Their propaganda. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx3DhoLFO4s None of the good things here will happen. You only get great advances with the wealth freedom permits. When it's all stolen by a few Elites, they sure as climate change won't give you a trip to Mars or allow you to ride a motorcycle, unless it's as their servants. Yep, richest a-holes on Earth flew their limos on jets to a party to announce you can't burn gas. | ||
| Hootowl |
Thanks greenies! Email from ercot today. “Potential Rolling Blackouts! The Electric Reliability Council of Texas is asking Texans to conserve electricity between 2 and 8 p.m. ERCOT said the extreme heat is driving record power demand across the state and it may not have enough supply. The state grid operator is not expecting system-wide outages, but it’s projecting a shortage in energy reserves and is warning of potential rolling blackouts. During those peak hours, Texans are asked to turn up the thermostat to 78 if possible and postpone running pool pumps and major appliances like laundry machines and dishwashers. The projected shortage in energy reserves is due to triple digit temperatures and low wind generation.” | ||
| Hootowl |
Good thing I have a natural gas standby generator. Also that, for reasons I will get into later, I am summering in Seattle, where the overnight lows are in the mid 50s.  | ||
| Hootowl |
“Texas Grid Update! How about some good news? We spoke to contacts at ERCOT and they confirmed that rolling blackouts are a worst case scenario/last resort and very unlikely to occur this afternoon. That said, ERCOT is still asking Texans to conserve electricity between 2 and 8 p.m. During those peak hours, Texans are asked to turn up the thermostat to 78 if possible and postpone running pool pumps and major appliances like laundry machines and dishwashers. While we're talking conservation, if you have an electric vehicle do your best to charge it later in the evening than you normally would for these next few super-hot months.” | ||
| Rparnel1 |
You can go to ERCOT's website (www.ERCOT.com)and see some pretty graphs of various grid load conditions. Don't know how real time the data actually is, but its pretty close Also shows how much wind and solar power are being generated. Generally, usage peaks around 5:00 pm and the capacity runs about 3500MW greater than the demand. All it takes is for one or 2 generation plants to go off-line for the grid to start having some issues. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby071222.ph p Science has devised a set of rules of thinking, of analysis, which, although there are exceptions in individual cases (scientists being humans just like everybody else), nevertheless, on average, are responsible for the remarkable progress of science. And you all know, certainly, what these rules are. Things like arguments from authority have little weight. Like contentions have to be demonstrable. Like experiments must be repeatable. Like vigorous substantive debate is encouraged and is considered the lifeblood of science. Like serious critical thinking and skepticism addressed to new and even old claims is not just permissible, but is encouraged, is desirable, is the lifeblood of science. There is a creative tension between openness to new ideas and rigorous skeptical scrutiny. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://issuesinsights.com/2022/07/12/theres-no-de spot-so-tyrannical-as-a-green-politician/ Religious dictatorships are not bound by limits felt by Republics or traditional Monarchies. God, their Diety, is their excuse for ANYTHING. Anything. No constraints on lying. No limits on murder, rape, looting. No limits. Even a ruthless warlord cares about the lives of his followers, understand his power comes from coercing the obedience of the conquered. Compare to the Iranian Mullahs or the Watermelons. | ||
| Blake |
Jeff, I was looking at the demand chart. It's interesting. Like you said, it peaks around 5 p.m. similar to temperature, but what surprised me was that it stays at near peak until 8 or 8:30 p.m. and even by 10 p.m. it's still at 90%. All solar is gone well before that. That's when the rolling brownouts took effect wasn't it, around 9 p.m.?   | ||
| Aesquire |
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points -of-information/today-blacklisted-american-scienti sts-questioning-big-bang-theory-protest-censorship -of-their-work/ I don't know, or have strong opinions on the Big Bang/Dark Stuff conflict. Needing to invent magical spirits to make your math work out & fit the observations seems to violate Occam's Razor. Dark Matter & Energy are the current Popular Fudges. OTOH the Razor is just an idea to sort theories. A fancy way to say KISS. Not an inviolable Law. Lots of particle physics is invented magical spirits. Lots of Greek & pseudo Greek words like Dryad and Electron, Nymph and Neutrino, etc. Description of observed phenomena. We give names and describe behavior. There's a lot of our language that's anthropomorphic, gives human characteristics and words related to people & animals to Things. Rather encourages thinking that a Proton being repelled from another is like human sexuality or wolf pack society. ( yes, such papers have been published ) Nope, it's Charge. ( a fairly well understood magical entity ) My Guess, is that Dark Stuff might be the first glimpse of the Gravity Demons reality, or an illusion hiding the gravity/electro/weak force triad. Yes, I'm deliberately mixing mythologies with physics. So are the Watermelon Authoritarian Shamans of Pseudo Science, by censoring anything that they disagree with, and condemning as heretics and evil anyone who questions their Holy Wisdom. Don't know how/why the Greenies got connected with the Dark Stuff theories, ( I have Very cynical guesses ) but under their reign of terror, it's now Dogma. Like Neutrinos having mass. Question the High Priests and he cast out, or burned at the stake. That's Religion. Science is never settled. Questioning is The Idea. | ||
| Hootowl |
Blake, That wasn't me. But yes, solar is done when there is still near peak loads. Not sure how much solar plays a part in TX, but unless it is coupled with storage, it's not very helpful. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/gue st-post-evs-are-not-the-future.php You want to convert from cane sugar to saccharine? You need more saccharine available. Ditto gasoline to diesel, or both to batteries. Better have giant amounts of juice ( generated power ) being built. Politics, wishing, or propaganda doesn't change the physics and math. When the Obama-Biden* energy destruction policies run into reality, people will die. A few dozen this summer, a lot more in winter. Negligent homicide? First Degree Murder. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lenno x/2022/07/13/sri-lanka-is-the-future-the-global-el ites-want-for-everyone-n1611148 ESG... extreme suckers Grifted? https://www.bookwormroom.com/2022/07/13/professors -challenge-the-canard-of-anthropogenic-climate-cha nge/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. ( you can tell that was written by a conservative. ) That's the masthead statement on the website, not in the article. Like the Democracy Dies In Darkness creed of the Washington Post, an organization dedicated to covering the lights with lies. The Article is about testimony to Congress on the Climate Con, and well worth reading, if only to grab quotes from actual geniuses. “If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it is science, it isn’t consensus.” Government Opinion. Nobel physicist Richard Feynman put it clearly: “No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles.” The Meaning of It All (1998), p. 57. Against such succinct summary, my verbosity is unnecessary. ( as I'm sure many believe daily  ) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/67999.html Heatwave in Europe, and attitudes on heat. I grew up in the Great Plains and moved to next to the littlest Great Lake. Very different climate. If you visit Florida during a Cold Snap, you can tell the time people have lived there by clothing. More than 2-3 years? Hoodies, jackets, etc. Short timers? Shorts & t shirts. You lose weather tolerance over time. When I moved from SD to NY, I wore sweater, gloves and hat, while my classmates wore snowmobile suits and moon boots. A few years later, I'd lost that cold tolerance. I did gain a new equilibrium when I did winter sports in jr. High on. And again when I got an outdoor job year round. One of the human things that has long amused & annoyed me is amnesia. Real big plot factor in Soap operas and in real life a selective blindness. I understand that the majority of "adults" have completely forgotten childhood and adolescence thought processes. The less developed brains ( maybe, in a lot of "adults" I have doubts ) and different bath of chemicals can make understanding your former self's thinking hard to grasp. ( I remember doing stupid stuff, but not how I made those choices, sometimes ) But... So many seem to have erased even the general attitude of their own past. Seems like a Lot of geezers don't recall being teen horndogs. For just one example. Weather has had this amnesia thing as long as I remember. South Dakota is very hot in summer and very cold in winter. Some years got more than a Hundred and Fifty Degree Fahrenheit spread, which you get in some deserts. ( 115 to -30 was normal ) One thing I specifically remember is that I was a kid during the 20th century cold times, and an adult during the second warmest. ( the peak in 1938 was before my time ) And I was doing "wind related sports" ( sailing, soaring, kiting ) the entire time. So I not just paid attention to weather, I studied it in college and beyond. And not just current weather. The Medieval warm period is of particular interest to any history buff who likes Viking ship voyages. ( if I was a billionaire, I'd plant a longboat wreck on the moon, just to mess with people ) Do you remember your past weather experience? Few seem to. Ditto in places there are brush fire seasons. California burned every year going back to when Terror Birds chased down Sabertooth for lunch. Experts and sane people have pointed out government policy is stupid there for half a century plus. Yet every annual fire season.... | ||
| Aesquire |
https://instapundit.com/531113/#respond Germany is returning to wood for heat. How soon before dung is the primary heat source? And they are counting on a depression to reduce industrial demand for energy. Way to see a bright side! Btw, making anti tank weapons might be a higher priority than the leaders think, today. Ditto a bit of fuel to practice for the armed forces. People keep posting Trump's warning to Germany that their energy policies will make them hostage to Putin. ( on Eurocentric meme sites ) | ||
| Aesquire |
It ain't rocket science or political on the face of it, and we don't have a F$%& BMW thread that I know of, so... Here you go. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2022/07/bmw-star ts-charging-subscription-fees-in-some-countries-to -use-already-installed-hardware/software My initial reaction is to void the warranty and hack the computer on the car. But BMWs have a crap warranty. They already sell an expensive service contract series, with smart customers shelling out an additional $12k+ ( last I looked some years ago... ) to avoid the $40+ cost of repairs ( per Consumer Reports ) you will have as the planned ( according to BMW engineers ) high cost of fixing an unfixable by consumer car. Basically BMW management knows their cars are a Pain to work on, and Want it that way. There's a Youtuber, who takes his newly purchased Rolls Royce or Ferrari or Ford to his "car wizard" ( another youtuber ) But his BMWs to a specialist. Because the wizard won't touch them. Labor is too stupidly complex. Needless to say, I'm biased. I've owned Dodge vans that cost less to fix for 270,000 miles than changing a filter on a BMW. ( that one you have to drop the engine and remove all accessories and intake system, to get to. That needs replacing every 40,000 miles, IF you change the oil like clockwork. If you're lucky. And you WILL have to replace it. ) So second thought is to use the heated seats without paying a subscription fee, you can't get the car fixed except outlaw car shops. I'd probably be upset, if I wasn't swimming in schadenfreude. ( and been rudely cut off by BMW car drivers twice. Today. ) And the government is seriously working on making old cars illegal. So that late 70's hippie van I want, or any car that the FBI can't control, remotely, may soon be available only to the oligarchs. We live in a Golden Age of vehicles! And the end may be nigh. | ||
| Ducbsa |
I worked with a German engineer 40 years ago and he said that their laws required all sorts of things to be replaced periodically, I think he said even windshield rubber gaskets. | ||
| Hootowl |
From the same site: Finally, someone built one. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2016/11/nissan-i ntroduces-new-bizarro-world-hybrid-e-power/ | ||
| Ducbsa |
Reminds me of the meme of an electric car towing a diesel generator that is connected to the charging port. The article says, "It also keeps the oil companies somewhat happy." The author has about the same level of ignorance as most of them. | ||
| Hootowl |
I think it’s great. Running an engine at a fixed RPM can significantly increase its efficiency. Cams, intake length, and exhaust can all be tuned to produce a narrow and tall torque curve, while the electric drivetrain retains drivability. I don’t think 60 mpg is out of reach. | ||
| Aesquire |
Serial hybrid. Like a diesel locomotive. Optimized efficiencies, at the cost of more weight. A good example is the Toyota hybrid line. Yeah, I'm biased, but Toyota has had years to develop them and arguably... Take the "regular" hybrid, the parallel design used throughout their line. Currently in the Prius and Rav4 a 2.5 liter Atkinson cycle gasoline engine at a relatively wimpy 167 ponies. ( compare to a 200 pony VW 2 liter turbocharged ) The engine is optimized for economy. ( I suspect you could get 200 ponies out, but not as efficient ) Add to the engine 2-3 electric motors to get over 200 hp total, and a battery that fits under the back seat ( in the Rav4 ) and you get a 40mpg econobox with 450+ miles range on a 12 gallon tank, and you treat it like a normal gasoline car, 5 minutes for gas and snacks & you're on your way. The Plug-in versions have half again as much electric motor power, and a LOT more battery. ( taking the entire bottom of the Rav4 behind the firewall, or more than half the hatch area space in the Prius Prime ) They too, can be treated as a normal car, with the quick visit to the gas station on trips. But the Plug in versions also offer about 40+ miles on pure electric at highway speeds, and the ability to plug in even you get home, or a few hours charge on the road. ( with the 115 included portable cable/charger you can keep under the seat! Faster with other options ) My Mom's with her short range needs, used zero gasoline for over a year. Still wouldn't have burned any, except I make sure to run the gasoline engine so it won't dust solid from not being used, when I drive her anywhere ) The plug in versions are still parallel hybrids, but they have the heavier motors and battery to a lesser extent, you need for a working serial hybrid. Physics. Enough motive force has to be in the electric gear. In fact, to get the same performance, you need Bigger motors for a serial hybrid, since the IC engine isn't driving the wheels directly, than a parallel hybrid. This isn't a deal breaker, although it's a factor in using "range extender" serial hybrid systems in aircraft, where weight is more important. ( because you don't just have to PUSH the mass, you have to LIFT it. Meaning bigger wings, more mass, then bigger airplane, etc. In a cascade effect aeronautical engineering is obsessed with ) One oddity in the Toyotas is the Plug in hybrid is, despite the much heavier battery etc, noticeably more powerful than the regular hybrid! ( So it has better electric only operation ) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2022/07/15/the-wages- of-green/ You are the Carbon they want to reduce Make no mistake, they WILL take away your privilege to ride a motorcycle. Breathing too, if you let them. | ||
| Gregtonn |
Had to chuckle at the irony of what the sponsored prize was in the middle of the clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85-p9EIEVUA&ab_cha nnel=PhysicsGirl G | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/bre aking-free-from-china.php Next time some brainwashed by media fool tells you we need renewable energy, NOW! Remind them that slaves are a renewable resource used to make solar panels, the minerals for wind power, and batteries. How many Blood Batteries do they want to buy? Explain that you understand if they hate Muslims and support the Chinese Communist Party genocide and use of them for slave labor & organ farms. Nice to be able to buy a fresh liver or lung, right? Gotta keep those Nikes and Apple phones coming to make those billionaires richer! And congratulations to them for supporting Planned Parenthood and the Congo mines. Since they obviously see the advantage of a eugenics program to preserve their Racial Purity! You get the trend, right? And don't forget to block, when they lash out in fury. |
