' OMG ! ' ' He's got diesel under his fingernails ! ' ' That's so racist ! ' Sounds insane, looks insane, must be insane. Pelosi mob insane. ' Make them an offer they can't refuse. ' fjb and pelosi too.
Hah... I wonder where I got this video from. I had it open in one of my tabs, and watched it last night, and then wondered how I got there. He totally got that thing running... but it was still busted at the end. He donated it to someone who was going to completely restore it.
Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]: Hah... I wonder where I got this video from. I had it open in one of my tabs, and watched it last night, and then wondered how I got there. He totally got that thing running... but it was still busted at the end. He donated it to someone who was going to completely restore it.
Curious about the case of the original owner going to prison for 2-years for filling a wetland.
The dump site that made the EPA relevant, and why it is evidence of corruption.
Hazardous to human life... all life.
Lining up twenty barrels making ten tons, then imagining seven hundred rows of twenty barrels, seven thousand tons of the chemical compound. Encasement, a massive project to contain the seeping disaster, a festering sore, a concrete tomb pumped around the untouchable cesspool. Still there a century later, pushed some clean dirt on top, a cover-up, massive bribes greasing the way, politicians happily holidaying far, far away.
Look it up, no-one went to prison for the contamination, those compounds leach into Lake Ontario and waters downstream to this day.
Curious about. You could look it up, the landowner dozed some soil onto the wet spot in his yard, didn't get a permit, didn't pay bribes, didn't have competent legal counsel. The law is applied inversely proportional to the weight of the bank accounts, clearly.
The social media networks that create memes like that one (posted by Wichita) are cackling about "anti-science" leftists.
"U.S. Fossil-Fuel Reserves Alone Could Put Global Climate Targets Out of Reach"
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A new fossil-fuel tracker tallies global oil, gas, and coal reserves and projects to show how current production could drive the world above the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Originally posted by rinselberg: ... I'd like more current information on it, but I would have to do more searching online.
"First U.S. eHighway Launched In California By Siemens" Mark Kane for InsideEVs; January 31, 2018. [URL=https://insideevs.com/news/336589/first-us-ehighway ...
Really, ? Are you serious, ? 2018, ? Why are you not a billionaire ? Tell us again how that environmental bullet train is doing ? Tell us again how much money it was supposed to cost. Tell us again how much more was spent. Don't tell us it ain't done yet, we know that.
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Originally posted by rinselberg: ... this modernized overhead electrification system for trucks takes the old city trolley systems that he remembers to a new level of flexibility and sophistication.
I have a better idea if one really believed that changing our power's best interest was gonna' save the world. Really, I do have a better idea.
I would be remiss if I did not remind you that Kalifornia, and Californians can't even maintain present overhead power lines.
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Originally posted by rinselberg: As far as Cheaper2keeper, he should stop taking stupid pills. What a dumb-ass comment from him, that I quoted at the start of this post.
Cheaper2keeper ought to electrify his brain, because lately, whenever he comes online here to post his asinine trolling of me (a new thing on this forum), his brain isn't working worth s**t.
The other day, on another thread, he called me a "manky little muppet." For now, and for at least this one message, I've decided simply to respond in kind. But if he keeps it up, with more of the same childish insults and trash talk that he's been posting for my attention, I may take it up with the forum moderator. (I've had some recent success, in that way.)
Cheaper2keeper needs to address whatever topics are being discussed more directly, and keep his opinions about other forum members out of the conversations.
Really.
Whoopie !
Go ahead and complain that he hurt your feeling while violating the same rules, when you did the same thing.
Why are you not a billionaire ? Tell us again how that environmental bullet train is doing ? Tell us again how much money it was supposed to cost. Tell us again how much more was spent. Don't tell us it ain't done yet, we know that.
One of the things that Commiefornia and the "Granola people" and Atmospheric Autistics that support the nonsense out there do best is peddle multi-billion dollar wet dreams and unicorn farts along with their own paranoia,... which of course is what the whole "green movement" really consists of.
Commiefornia is like a bowl of Granola. Whatever isn't fruits or nuts....is flakes.
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Originally posted by cliffw: Whoopie ! Go ahead and complain that he [Cheaper2keeper] hurt your feeling while violating the same rules, when you did the same thing.
I didn't say that Cheaper2keeper hurt my "feeling". I said (in so many words) that he's being an arse wipe. Because if he wanted to argue or discuss anything that I said, he had every reason to do so, directly, without being an arse wipe about it, and no reason whatsoever to be an arse wipe about it. He's the one that started it.
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Originally posted by cliffw: I would be remiss if I did not remind you that Kalifornia, and Californians can't even maintain present overhead power lines.
I have not been talking about long stretches of overhead power lines criss-crossing the entire state. Just overhead power lines on certain, specially selected stretches of roadway for EV cargo trucks, and especially trucks that would be shuttling back and forth between a destination at one end and a destination at the other end. Such as between a container ship port and a railroad freight terminal.
Germany has had one of these Siemens eHighway installations that stretches for about 70 miles from one end to the other, and that's in an environment where winter ice and snow are not uncommon, in contrast to the areas in California and particularly, southern California, where this has been talked about.
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We can argue politics all week, I dont give a crap. As an ex-pat from Cali i'll rip you a new hole right out the taco and and tickle things doing it....****en left-coast wierdo.
Now is not the time to play those games, dude....
Get the frack off your ass, pack up some money, food cans, sweaters, jeans, whatever and send them to the rebel boys (and girls)...
They got hit hard this time...
Pretty sure your local church is organizing something...
I have not been talking about long stretches of overhead power lines criss-crossing the entire state. Just overhead power lines on certain, specially selected stretches of roadway for EV cargo trucks, and especially trucks that would be shuttling back and forth between a destination at one end and a destination at the other end. Such as between a container ship port and a railroad freight terminal.
Germany has had one of these Siemens eHighway installations that stretches for about 70 miles from one end to the other, and that's in an environment where winter ice and snow are not uncommon, in contrast to the areas in California and particularly, southern California, where this has been talked about.
rinselberg quotes rinselberg... to post a correction. Germany has three of the Siemens eHighway installations with overhead electrical lines for a total of just over 6 miles, altogether, of electrified highway. The longest of the three stretches for just over 3 miles.
rinselberg quotes rinselberg... to post a correction. Germany has three of the Siemens eHighway installations with overhead electrical lines for a total of just over 6 miles, altogether, of electrified highway. The longest of the three stretches for just over 3 miles.
So, I wasted my time watching that video. Why did I waste my time? I was hoping that the video would explain where the electricity powering those overhead power lines come from. Not mentioned. Wind FARMS? Solar panel FIELDS? Unicorn FARTS? Am I missing something?
Originally posted by WonderBoy: So, I wasted my time watching that video. Why did I waste my time? I was hoping that the video would explain where the electricity powering those overhead power lines come from. Not mentioned. Wind FARMS? Solar panel FIELDS? Unicorn FARTS? Am I missing something? This is more load on the grids, is it not?
The electricity has to come from somewhere.
This forum thread was started in reference to California, but these Siemens eHighway setups cannot be installed anywhere on the planet without looking at the requirements that would be imposed upon the "grid".
The Biden administration has been pushing for new offshore wind energy projects. There's at least one that's being visualized for California. There has also been reporting on a plan for a new wind energy project in Wyoming that would include the long distance grid connectivity to bring some of that power to California. I've posted in this forum recently about both.
I like the aesthetics of this overhead electrification technology, but I am not here to say that it's a "no brainer" that California should have this. Maybe not. Maybe there is more upside to the opposed piston diesel engine technology that I posted previously in this thread: https://www.fiero.nl/forum/...HTML/000377.html#p23
What I've been trying to do is to bring this thread around to the idea that there is more to CARB (California Air Resources Board) than "woke", which is a reference to how this thread was started.
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You cannot destroy the oil and gas industry without a viable alternative. So CARB is woke with their nonsense. Your gov better come up with a plan to charge all those vehicle batteries and soon. It takes years to build the required infrastructure.
Originally posted by Hudini: You cannot destroy the oil and gas industry without a viable alternative. So CARB is woke with their nonsense. Your gov [sic] better come up with a plan to charge all those vehicle batteries and soon. It takes years to build the required infrastructure.
Part of the plan is developing more offshore wind energy for the West Coast, including California.
Floating Offshore Wind Turbines concept; YouTube video (2 minutes).
DOI [U.S. Department of the Interior] also announced a new goal to deploy 15 GW of installed floating offshore wind capacity by 2035—enough clean energy to power over five million American homes. This builds on the Administration’s goal to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind [floating and seabed anchored, combined] by 2030. DOI’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will advance lease areas in deep waters for floating technology, starting with a lease auction off the coast of California by the end of 2022. Achieving this ambitious target will spur billions of dollars of economic opportunities and avoid an estimated 26 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually.
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West Coast Ports Analysis: DOE announced a nearly $1 million project funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to reduce key infrastructure challenges by outlining a network of West Coast ports and upgrades needed to deploy commercial-scale floating offshore wind.
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West Coast Transmission Analysis: DOE announced an analysis to review existing transmission studies and identify research gaps related to offshore wind integration in California, Oregon, and Washington. This work will help inform future analysis efforts that will aid in transmission planning and buildout.
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Originally posted by Hudini: Sounds great. Until the wind is calm.
Offshore winds are more reliable. The farther offshore, the better on that score. That's why the interest in wind turbines that float. It makes it more feasible to install wind turbines farther offshore and in deeper waters.
Wind, and offshore wind, is only part of the "game".
Originally posted by olejoedad: So you admit that Green Energy is gaming the population? Whodathunkit? 🤔
Not at all, When I ended my previous remark with the word "game", I set it off with quotation marks to indicate that it is a figurative or metaphorical reference, not a literal reference.
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"Offshore wind [works in tandem with] solar energy by providing [zero carbon energy] at the end of the day and into the evening..."
"... [upwards of 2000 MW] of offshore wind [energy] by 2030 and 25,000 MW by 2045, enough to power 3.75 million homes [by 2030] and 25 million homes by [2045]."
I didn't need to go searching online to be able to say with the utmost confidence that the meme that just emerged on this thread is "bull"—but I searched and found this:
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Wind turbines produce no greenhouse gas emissions during their operation. It takes a turbine just three to six months to produce the amount of energy that goes into its manufacture, installation, operation, maintenance [and its] decommissioning after its 20-25 year lifetime. During its lifetime a wind turbine delivers up to 80 times more energy than is used in its production, maintenance and scrapping. Wind energy has the lowest ‘lifecycle emissions’ of all energy production technologies.
It's from WindEurope, a newsletter that is sponsored by the wind energy industry, so not an inherently objective or unbiased source. Nevertheless, I would probably die instantly of a heart attack if anyone on this forum would actually substantiate the meme that "a windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it."
With an incentive like that, what's holding anyone back?
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Solar and wind are NOT viable alternatives at this time. The reason is because batteries cannot store enough energy during times wind and solar are not producing power. If your goal is to reduce CO2 emissions you need nuclear power at this time.
Destroying the coal and gas industry then begging OPEC for relief is beyond stupid.
Did someone say "nuclear"..? From Hudini's lips to Greta Thunberg's ears...
"Greta Thunberg challenges German Greens on nuclear power"
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The German right has found a new and unexpected ally: Greta Thunberg. Invited to journalist Sandra Maischberger's popular talk show on public broadcaster ARD, the Swedish environmental activist said on Wednesday, October 12, that Germany should continue to run its existing nuclear power plants rather than rely on coal-fired ones. "If we have them already running, I feel it’s a mistake to close them down in order to focus on coal," said the founder of the Fridays for Future movement. In July, the German government had announced the reopening of 10 coal-fired power plants by spring 2023.
There's appreciable media "buzz" about how the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act is expected to revitalize the nuclear power industry, although the Cato Institute isn't so "bullish" about "nukes"... https://www.fiero.nl/forum/.../000262-13.html#p513
Did someone say "nuclear"..? From Hudini's lips to Greta Thunberg's ears...
"Greta Thunberg challenges German Greens on nuclear power"
There's appreciable media "buzz" about how the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act is expected to revitalize the nuclear power industry, although the Cato Institute isn't so "bullish" about "nukes"... https://www.fiero.nl/forum/.../000262-13.html#p513
Ohhhh.....Greta "feels" it might be a mistake. Probably feels regret too. It shows on her face...
Yea, we know....
Except, most of us call that feeling and face "constipation" or "morning strains" and it comes from a quadruple-cheese pizza with not nearly enough beer to thin things out. Yet we never learn with those things, less pizza or more beer. Just keep on doing the same thing....But then there is only room for so much, and a man HAS to have priorities when choosing.
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As I just said in this thread (a few posts back), there is appreciable media "buzz" about how the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act is expected to revitalize the nuclear power industry, although the Cato Institute isn't so "bullish" about "nukes"... https://www.fiero.nl/forum/.../000262-13.html#p513
The Cato Institute... what else would you expect from them?
The Democrats in Congress and the President are the Inflation Reduction Act, and almost everybody (except the Cato Institute) is bullish on the prospects of the U.S. nuclear energy sector getting a substantial boost because of the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. In the core of a nuclear reactor, neutrons are like the spark plugs in a gasoline engine, and President Joe Biden, aka "Dark Brandon", has been depicted in a way that suggests laser-like beams of neutrons streaming outwards from his very eyes! "Nuclear Joe". . .
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I expect nothing from them, Rinse.....except more B-S.
Even 6 months ago nuclear was the big-bad-wolf.....now it gonna save us. 6 months ago EV's were gonna save the planet, now people are being told not to charge/use them
It's one giant cluster-****.
How about just leaving things the way they were that has worked for HOW long ? And stop trying to micro-manage every living (and non-living) thing on the planet.
It's a good thing that Wichita has memes to put the spotlight on the "Just Stop Oil" people who splashed the contents of a can of soup onto a museum piece, leaving the Van Gogh painting itself undamaged because it's behind protective glass, but inflicting some small vandalism on the frame that surrounds the painting.
Thinking about these "Just Stop Oil" activists (barely beyond teenagers) who went to the museum with mischief in mind, Wichita's a genius by comparison—but then, so is a doorknob.
Everyone who doesn't think like Wichita must be exactly like these "Just Stop Oil" miscreants.
How could it be otherwise?
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? Are you serious, 
6 months ago EV's were gonna save the planet, now people are being told not to charge/use them 
