Youtube comments of David H (@DavidHalko).
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The problem is…
… if we had to stop creating gasoline/diesel ICE today, the copper & rare earths for batteries becomes a bottleneck for any battery cars & H2 fuel cell cars (ignoring issue with electrical generation & transmission)
… if we had to to stop creating gasoline/diesel ICE today, H2 ICE could replace it with relatively little effort (ignoring issue with H2 generation & transmission)
The electrical grid issue for EV’s is a huge nut to crack. The spikes in power usage, around rush hour & when people get home, will be immense. Massive local batteries can be used, to mitigate, but that wipes out carbon footprint benefit EV’s offer. Not enough attention is given to this.
The hydrogen generation problem is significant, but can be addressed in many ways, from natural gas being used with H2 mix & transport over existing natural gas pipelines, replacing natural gas infrastructure with H2 piping as mix levels grow too high, transportation via truck to fill up sites like existing gasoline/diesel, to local H2 generation (using local solar & wind) into local hydrogen storage, slowly over time, for rapid fill ups.
No technology is perfect, but locality & availability & supply chain issues & temporary storage issues must all be considered.
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“Do you think small countries will establish themselves as…”
The current situation where a large country, like the United States, spends its treasure to safeguard trade routes, for no tax, is an anomaly in history.
The day the US fails, due to debt crisis & internal political struggle from centralization of power [vs decentralization of power via Federalism] will be the end of the significance of small countries being able to be independent.
Then, the norm occurs, with Islamic Caliphates conquering, British & French & Russian Empires, Byzantine Empire, Roman Empire, various Chinese Empires, etc.
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4:37 - “Britain’s confiscation of their land to be handed over to Jewish settlers”
Ummm, no.
The land was not confiscated by Britain, the Ottoman Empire owned this land for 400+ years, committing slow genocide against indigenous populations who were non-Muslim, people of multiple religious backgrounds lived there, and once the Ottomans stopped administering the region, the British helped Muslims & Christians to stand up one nation & Jews to stand up another nation.
Only the Jews survived to stand up a state, while the Egyptians conquered Gaza, the Jordanians conquered the West Bank, the Muslims committed genocide against Christians & Jews in their territories, and Jews allowed non-Jews to flourish in the borders of their stood up nation-state.
(I don’t use the word Genocide lightly, Ottomans did not easily allow building of worship places or readily defend peoples outside their Islamic Tradition, Ottomans built slave armies of non-Muslims to fight other infidel nations, the Armenian Genocide occurred to Non-Muslim peoples, and occupied areas of Palestine by Egyptians & Jordanians experienced radical population reductions of non-Muslims as Muslim populations grew in both Palestinian territories & Israeli nation over the decades to follow.)
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@ChernobogStudio - “wolfsangel”
This tool & symbol had been used across East & West Europe for hundreds of years before the short rise & fall of Fascism in Western Europe. It is used on forest Ranger uniforms, flags of small towns carved out of the forest, etc.
You and I likely never needed to kill wolves, who attacked our villages from the forest. Sure, we have fairy tale books, but that is about as close as we get. These are no poodles, they are massive predators!
Wolves being aggressive animals, which attack & kill prey, the tool is representative of Europeans who have carved out civilization & safety.
Honestly, with the Russian “wolves” coming in to destroy the Ukraine, as they fight a defensive battle, it seems to be a historically applicable symbol. Destroying villages & killing the people, in their packs before retreating to their forests, seems to more closely align to the wolf than the bear.
Considering the Red Russian invaded Ukraine ~100 years ago, before the real rise of Fascism, it is clear that this invasion has nothing to do with fascism, but rather Putin trying to make a name for himself in the history books, likely before a natural demise.
That all being said, NI interposed stands for National Idea, the understanding that Ukraine is a nation.
It is kind of flattering that the century old European symbol is being associated with this Ukraine forces, since it demonstrates Ukrainian history of carving out their nation in this region, even demonstrating Ukraine’s association with Western & Eastern Europe (vs more Asian Russia), but NI are initials for National Idea.
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@Omer1996E.C - “gdp shrinks when it is taxed” - but it makes the conquerors rich, so the can invest & build, when they would not have the capital to do otherwise in their economic system.
Foreign non-Muslim civilizations were forced to pay protection taxes (effectively Jizya) and that became a direct injection of funds into the conquerors, increasing GDP.
The U.S., for example, when they became independent from Europe, disbanded their armed & naval forces, because they planned on being peaceful citizens of the world & never get involved in European affairs. Well, that lasted as long as the first Islamic Pirates, whose pirates ships captured & held them for ransom. The Islamic nations took huge sums of money from the US treasury… about ~50% to cover the US for the rest of that year! THAT is some nice GDP! LOL! The US fought 2 wars over it. In the end, it was Islamic Pirating that caused the US to create The Marines & maintain a standing army. All to avoid the yearly Jizya.
Furthermore, sacking & raiding caravans & ships from foreign civilizations increase conqueror GDP since those losses were absorbed by the foreign civilizations being stolen from. In the end, it was this action that caused Gengis Khan to invade Central Asia, Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Islamic GDP boost eventually had its disadvantages.
Islamic empires always had imperial conquests for exploitation. The Arab Slave Trade took their Black Gold from Africa, eunuchs were valued higher than non-eunuchs (because so many slaves died when cut & buried to their necks until the fever passed.) Ottoman Turks took a percentage of the most fit children from Eastern European Balkans for their slave armies, to die in battle against future conquests. The Persians took fit children from the Caucuses, for their slave armies, to fight against their conquests.
Perhaps Islamic law prohibited unjust exploitation, but if the population being exploited were Kafirs, it was considered just. And there in is the problem. Once they run out of Kafirs to exploit, they had to expand their exploitation to find new ones. We saw this in North African conquests… North Africans were told to pay the Jizya, they said they were Muslims and did not have to pay. They were continually charged until there were revolts. Then, they got into the business, and decided to conquer farther west & across the straight to the Iberian Peninsula.
Islamic conquerors just could not get enough of the booty & Jizya from conquered people groups, until they were forced not to, then their economies ceased growing quickly.
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5:15 - “deal Trump made with Taliban”
You mischaracterized the cease fire /peace agreement between the US and Taliban. I don’t know if it’s due to ignorance or just have an axe to grind with the former U.S. Republican President.
All wars must come to an end with a political arrangement between the parties.
The Taliban ran Afghanistan before the invasion, they hosted & protected Al Qaida [who attacked the US repeatedly, during Clinton & Bush years.] The Taliban was at war with the US during the Obama & Trump years.
The Taliban agreed during the Trump years that they would not host/protect terrorist organizations belligerent to the U.S. & would cease attacks against the U.S.
In cooperation with The Taliban meeting certain hard metrics, the US would not attack the Taliban & withdraw soldiers from Afghanistan. This was a reasonable agreement.
During the Biden years, he decided to ignore the part of the agreement where the Taliban was obligated to meet their metrics, and decided to cut & run… even though The Taliban held up their end of the agreement to not attack the U.S. & not willingly host terrorist organizations hostile to the U.S.
Why Democrat Biden cut & run, not holding the Taliban to the rest of the signed agreement, when the son of the Afghan President was a Democrat community organizer for Candidate Biden, is puzzling to me.
Biden did not force the Taliban to uphold their agreement, so it should be no surprise the Taliban are not holding up any other international norms. Biden cleared the road for which the Taliban would continue to travel during his Administration.
If you are going to tell the story, you should tell a more complete story, with all it’s odd twists & turns.
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“Whose land is it?”
It was the Ottoman Empire’s land.
After they lost WW1, they became turkey, lost their colonies across the Middle East & North Africa, and independent nations needed help being stood up.
“made entire nation their slaves”
The Arabs Muslims did.
The decided that neither Palestine 🇵🇸 or Israel 🇮🇱 would become a nation, Egypt 🇪🇬 annexed Gaza, Jordan 🇯🇴 annexed The West Bank, they were not strong enough to take over Israel 🇮🇱, but Palestine 🇵🇸 became the slaves of the surrounding Arab nations.
Palestinians were made little war slaves.
Little war slaves like the Turkish/Ottoman Janissaries.
Little war slaves, just like the Iranian/Persian ghilman.
“Committing genocide since decades?”
Gaza & West Bank had their own land, create violent riots which kill civilians. The latest incursion, just days ago, is another example, how babies were decapitated, women raped & killed, people of all age shot… in civilian areas & a concert.
Targeting civilians for ethnic cleansing is genocide. Very clearly, Palestinians have been committing genocide, even as recently as days ago.
“Who is funding the illegal occupation of Israel”
Palestine 🇵🇸 is.
Egypt 🇪🇬 gave back their annexed Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority, under a treaty, expecting Palestine to stand up a state.
Jordan 🇯🇴 gave back their annexed West Bank to the Palestinian Authority, under a treaty, expecting Palestine to stand up a state.
The Palestinians decided to not stand up a state, give their borders to Israel to guard, gave Israel the responsibility to tax, and then sat back & receive a check for doing nothing… via a treaty.
The same treaty agreed that Palestine 🇵🇸 & Israel 🇮🇱 would agree in a treaty to trade land for peace… but Palestine 🇵🇸 continues initiate killing civilians & lose land in repetitive wars.
Yep. Palestinians are funding the occupation, made legal by their own treaty.
The world is tired of Palestinians & Israelis killing each other.
Palestine should end the treaty, stand up a state where they are at, start collecting their own taxes, guard their own borders, pay for their own police force, and agree to recognize their neighbors in peace - like a normal nation.
50 years is too long.
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I know a young person who had some issues, went on a journey to South America, came back a different person… far worse in many ways.
Much of the life previously known was gone, no longer even a memory of it. No desire to work. Does not like it that work is required to exchange for others to provide basics like food & shelter. Now questions things like if taking controlled substances are bad, after consuming & being in an abnormal state.
College educated. Before, used to work as a safety engineer. Now, does virtually nothing, currently dependent upon a disabled elderly parent.
Some will call this anecdotal, but the behavior difference is clear & employment history are hard facts. In my youth… we called such people “burn outs” for a reason. Similar behaviors are exhibited.
Not wanting to work for food & shelter, when physically able, is not a beneficial side effect of such things. Care must be taken, with powerful chemical agents.
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@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 - “Putin did drive Ukraine eastward… selling oil and gas”
But that was too little, too late.
Ukraine had already been working with several exploration companies, where Ukraine would have been supplying their own oil and gas.
What is better? Harvest your own oil & gas, or pay Russia for it? Clearly, paying Russia was not enough.
“EU deal that would have required Ukraine to raise prices by at least 100%”
That is speculation. The EU deal would have opened up new markets for Ukraine’s existing grain products, oil/gas products which were under exploration, and Ukraine had been working to become a Hydrogen Exporter to Europe. This would have caused inflation, due to the immense number of jobs & cash flowing to Ukraine, but the standard of living would have raised for everyone!
“U.S/NATO regime change outfits”
I am sorry to tell you, but large bureaucratic organizations don’t change courses quickly, it takes immense pressure to make them change course. Something like an invasion of a nation & committing genocide. Invading Georgia did not cause a response, because of limited Russian intervention. Invading Ukraine in 2014 did not cause a response, because of limited Russian intervention. Invading Ukraine again in 2022 caused real support from western nations.
“… commenced their work in Ukraine”
Unfortunately, Russia
- invaded Ukraine regions in 2014 with gas/oil exploration
- created killing fields of civilians in occupied Ukraine territories
- deported children from Ukraine into Russia
- castrated POW’s, to limit new children to be born in Ukraine
- depopulated nearly all males from 18-60 in Russian Occupied Donbas by ensuring they would all be killed in the meat waves against fellow Ukrainians
- mined the Ukrainian dam circa 2022 which provided water for grain production, so Russia could starve Ukrainians again like the original Holodomor
- later blew up the Ukrainian dam in 2023, the water store for Hydrogen cracking
- possibly just mined the nuclear plant, where Hydrogen would be produced for Europe
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12:45 — “voters wanting a far right nationalist party… see crime… from refugee or an immigrant…”
No, Jake misunderstands the same problem in the US as he is misunderstood in Europe.
When people come legally, they can integrate.
When people come illegally, integration is inhibited because they must repeatedly break the law to survive.
People & governments facilitating illegal immigration are causing law abiding people to break the laws of a host nation, undermining that government.
People like Jake facilitate weaken the governments they rightfully want to support Ukraine against a Russian invader — it is crazy & contradictory!
Illegal population are used as semi-slave labor, threatened with deportation if they draw too much attention to themselves… US liberal Democrats use illegal immigration as an end run around the US Amendment Equal Protection Clause which helped codify the end of slavery… Liberals & Democrats want their slaves, in the US they get them as illegal immigrants.
Honestly, this has been pointed out to Jake & other Americans repeatedly, for decades… so they are not mistaken, they are willfully conflating illegal & legal populations, so liberal Democrats can get their slaves that they lost through Republican President Abraham Lincoln emancipation & future federal laws/amendments when Democrats were locked out of the a Federal Government.
I don’t know if there is a similar dynamic in Europe, among the liberal elites. Someone there would have to comment.
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@beanapprentice1687 - “did you not watch the video?
Yep
“entire video was about how storing enough hydrogen in an H2 car for long range is impossible”
It is being done in California & Japan, so it is not impossible.
The video was about an 8 cylinder vehicle, with space already taken up for gasoline tank and possibly batteries, could not store the H2.
That is very different.
Use a smaller engine, shed the gas tanks, and poof - it works, as it is working in multiple nations.
Small Tuk Tuk’s in the Third World are already running on Natural Gas, can run on H2 mix, and are working towards running on H2.
It is coming, because there is not enough copper mined for electric motors, nor is there enough rare earths mined for batteries.
Even if wealthy nations move to batteries, H2 will drive the Third World
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@YKSGuy - “You can’t ignore H2 generation, transportation, and storage”
Which is why if you read the second half of the message, I addressed it.
“Video… example… H2… would STILL not work well”
But, H2 works well in vehicles today, in the US & Japan & other nations.
The videos uses a vehicle with space taken up by a gasoline tank and an 8 cylinder guzzling engine… what the video shows is if you don’t reuse the space for a gasoline tank and want to run with an inefficient 8 cylinder, there is not a lot of room left.
Sure, I agree with that.
Technically, this is called a “straw man”, which is a logical fallacy.
The reality is, how many companies would sell a car with a gasoline tank that is unused and use the spare interior space in order to use an 8 cylinder engine?
Absolutely none
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Ukraine existed as a great power, before Russia existed as a people, when Moscow was a backwater village — Ukraine holds the history that Russia wants to have.
Ukraine is the pathway for Russia to invade Europe.
Ukraine held the brains for creating much of the existing Soviet Era weapons systems… including nuclear weapons.
Ukraine created the ships Russia had seen sunk during Russia’s most recent invasion of Ukraine.
Russia stole the only aircraft carrier they had, from Ukraine, during Ukraine’s vote for independence from the USSR.
Putin knows Russia needs Ukraine to be a world power.
Russia lost half their tanks to Ukraine during Putin’s invasion, Russia lost most of their important naval ships during Putin’s invasion, Russia lost their warm water port in Syria during to being distracted by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia lost nearly half of their energy production infrastructure during Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and Russia lost most of their voluntary humanity in meat waves during Putin’s invasion.
Without Ukraine, Russia will be half of what they were, before Putin’s invasion.
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Regulations in the US are a huge problem with home construction.
If you want to do something different, it is a nightmare, so in order to survive… builders & workers do what is regulated, because government regulations keep you from doing anything better.
I ran into this, when designing my own solar panel deployment… I want a 100% glass solar panel roof, but regulations & international fire code keep me from doing so, without a lot of extra effort where the qualified people who would be acceptable to forge the exception process cost thousands of $USD/hour
Regulation in the USA keeps things from improving quickly.
The next issue is insurance. They don’t have models for unusual homes, so getting insurance is difficult, unless you do so on an exception basis.
If you can’t insure, then you can’t fund unusual homes through a bank.
In the end, you have to live in rural areas, where there are virtually no building code enforcement, where you can self fund, and also self-insure. People do this in the US, but you have to make friends with people who are sympathetic to your ideals.
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@richardacevedo280 - “Is it time to limit the effort or totally pull out…”
I spent some time in Eastern Europe, as well.
Families in a Eastern Europe, who lost in wars against Russia, emigrate and fight along side other countries against Russia. This occurred for generations (ie Korean War, Vietnam, etc.) Support for delivering blank checks to Ukraine, from countries like the US, come from these generations of expatriates who are part of the political systems. Traditionally, they have been more conservative, fighting against the Communists, but it conservative politicians abandon them in their time of need, they may float to the politicians helping their homeland, and this is a very dumb political move to cede a massive voter base to progressives, and progressives want to write blank checks to capture this voter base.
Also, counties like The Ukraine have intrinsic value. They were the ones who built much of the tank, nuclear, and naval infrastructure for the Soviet Union. If The West wants that skill set to return to Russia, that is up to them, but if The West wants those skills, and the lower cost labor, then full NATO support is likely a much better option.
Then, there is the need for a food exporter. Whichever side controls the food exports from Ukraine, wields a lot of soft power around the world.
There are also precious minerals in the Ukraine, which Eastern & Western chip industries need to operate with, which are not readily found elsewhere.
Coal and Steel reserves are significant, and steel is important for ships, tanks, and general construction. Wherever these pieces of Ukraine show up, after the war, has the potential to become fairly rich. The same areas have natural gas reserves, so new smelters can be done with gas, in the future.
Ukraine also has some of the largest natural gas storage on the continent of Europe. Wherever Ukraine lands after the war, will control European land based energy storage systems.
Ukraine was seen as a future a Hydrogen partner for Europe, so wherever Ukraine lands after the war will help control a future energy supply for Europe.
Basically, Ukraine is a key to Central Europe, foreign nations tried to control them for thousands of years, and it is in The West’s best interest to have a free Ukraine instead of being enslaved to an antagonistic Russia controlling it.
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Universal health care sux because only known treatments are paid for.. if you need a different treatment plan, you are on your own or traveling to another nation.
In the US, the poor & ages get universal health care, the middle class pays for it, the upper middle & rich pay for new health care options that gets invented, and everyone who is brought to a hospital gets serviced, regardless of ability to pay.
I pay a lot of money in premiums, which I seldom use, with family members paying 100% for other treatments that insurance does not cover. If I was in a universal health care system, new taxes would still go to the same system that I seldom use, and a lot of the treatments that we purchase would be outlawed… so many in the US are quite happy with not having universal health care.
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@surajitmondal823 - it really depends on what the fundamentals are that the group[s] conserve.
If they conserve fundamental Modern/Western Values, then all is good in the world.
If the conserve Social Darwinistic values, that drove Europe into WW2, there is a serious issue that may bite others, especially minorities.
If they conserve non-Western values (ie slaving because they are of the wrong ethnicity or religion, like was done in the Balkans of Europe, Caucuses of Asia, or coasts of Africa, for over 1300 years), that is serious problem that may bite The West (that problem did not start getting thrown off until invading slavers were kicked out of the Western European continent 1492, it took several hundred years for Western Europeans to figure out that slaving was bad for them to do as was done to them, and slaving did not completely get thrown off the world until WW1 brought legalized slavery all to an end.)
The Communists still commit genocide by ethnicity in countries like China, as they did in Soviet times (ie Holodomor of Ukraine, Famine of Ethiopia, etc.)… Communists still slave, through work camps & concentration camps like former Soviets & North Korea & Cuba, sending laborers & military & doctors to kill & help others in exchange for hard currency to their sponsoring socialist government (while keeping family home so they don’t flee) like North Korea & Cuba & China.
That was not long ago for some of these, and fairly isolated to only a few nations today.
This has been a painful process to get here, and now we can talk to people around the world, instantaneously! 😀
Fundamentals are an important thing to conserve, when it is the bedrock of Western/Modern Civilization. It took us a long time to get here, with a lot of stumbling along the way. We live in a special time, never similarly experienced before in the history of the world. The fundamentals for where we are must not be lost.
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@alecstetzer2018 - “why use it [energy] to generate Hydrogen when you could just charge a battery and minimize losses”
1. Energy by itself must be stored for mobile applications
2. Storing energy in H2 is like storing energy in a Battery
3. Batteries [due to rare earths] today are scarce, vehicles require a lot of [scarce] copper for electric (and fuel cell H2 vehicles are also impacted by this problem.)
4. Hydrogen can be easily stored using conventional technologies
5. Hydrogen can be easily created &!stored & combusted in ICE engines using conventional [locally available] technologies
6. When needing to create mobile vehicles around the world, ICE H2 scales best, Fuel Cell H2 will scales ok, battery vehicles scale worst… H2 also solve the problem of how to locally store energy from intermittent energy sources (like sun & wind) for stationary & mobile use [using locally sourced supply chain technology.]
7. Supply chain issues with batteries can easily shift production to H2 Fuel Cell batteries
8. Supply chain issues with copper will stop H2 fuel cell & Battery vehicles
9. Hydrogen is largely immune from supply chain issues, with locality of nearly all components (if people just decide to create & use it.)
Sometimes, efficiency is not required, but availability of useable technology is required… scarcity of copper & batteries [rare earths] will delay world wide implementation, while hydrogen can be made readily available (can be easily generated anywhere brackish water exists.)
That being said, battery recycling is still a huge challenge, while basic components for Hydrogen are easily recycled.
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@RobertHancock1 - “Apparently you didn’t watch the video”
Actually, I watched the whole video!
“using hydrogen in combustion engines is completely impractical?”
Actually, very practical… one just has to make a decision not to use an 8 cylinder in a small car! ROTFL!
An 8 cylinder may be great in a larger truck!
Try a rotary engine… tiny, can burn hydrogen, adds lots of space for more fuel.
Once rare earths & copper become available, transition to H2 fuel cell.
“low level engineering scale for hydrogen production”
As of March 2020, Japan opened 10 MegaWatt H2 Production Plant
I guess you missed that ;-)
“low level engineering scale for hydrogen… distribution”
In January 2020, natural gas supply at UK’s Keele University was successfully blended with 20% Hydrogen. The 20% proportion was chosen because the blend won’t affect gas pipes & appliances. Natural gas heating generates about a third of the UK emissions driving global warming. 20% blend in Britain would reduce emissions of CO2 by six million tonnes - equivalent to taking 2.5 million cars off the road.
As of June 2021, ~160 hydrogen fuel stations in Japan, 1000 projected by 2030
As of Oct 2021, Japan has 4,000 hydrogen cars on the road, meeting 10% of government targets. It takes just three minutes to fill the tank with 5.6 kilograms of pressurized gas.
As of Oct 2021, Californians own more more than 11,000 hydrogen fuel cars… and there are places to fill them up!
In Jan 2022, the first Liquified Hydrogen carrier from port of Victoria, Australia arrives in Kobe, Japan
“Infrastructure for mass fueling of hydrogen vehicles does not exist”
I this we discussed some of those, above, already. Can be done in existing gas stations, with additions not much different from today’s processes… as that is what is happening today.
Infrastructure for EV charging does not exist, and it is a HUGE problem!
An EV takes like 2.5x an average house’s daily power consumption to fill up an EV car battery, and must be done in minutes??? That is CRAZY!
The problem with EV charging stations is HUGE, trying to be able to supply fast chargers to multiple cars at the same time??? That is a HUGE problem, with those power draw spikes!!!
A local H2 cracker & compressor can be installed anywhere there is water & electricity, with a constant load on the electrical system, or using renewables… storing Hydrogen in tanks, constantly being produced, for the next random fast fill up.
Also, wind turbines can create a steady stream of hydrogen, for sending to anywhere, especially off-shore, where water pressure can push hydrogen from below the surface, where it would be cracked.
For today, start with natural gas, like much of the Third World, mix H2 to 20%, then problematic infrastructure can be replaced as you go higher in percentages. They already do NG public transportation by me, H2 is coming!
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The reason people throw out used appliances is related to failing batteries, becoming broken, and code bloat resulting outgrowing old appliance CPU/Memory form factors.
Former Sun Microsystems did it right by creating a Thin Client, which was effectively a Keyboard / Video / Mouse (ie KVM) combination, which was able to last efficiently for decades (ie SunRay), since the main compute power was somewhere else.
This type of technology would work very well as a wireless rugged KVM, which could effectively last forever, where new models could be released for newer video display technology.
Using a super capacitor to hold charge during non-use times could provide price points, depending on the amount of use time required.
Terrific for any kind of wireless instrumentation, like a house HVAC monitoring, house alarm system, visual pressure valve on home water lines, etc.
A beacon could be used, to emit a pulse, so garbage trucks don’t pick them up for disposal, to enforce recycling.
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@Erin-Thor - you did pretty well with your description about Sun!
One of the things that Sun did well was bundle all their software in a single package:
- networking built in, Microsoft needed network stack
- email built in (Microsoft needed a UNIX gateway, then email client, and individual client licenses for the software)
- printing built in (Novell or other print software was needed for Microsoft)
- compilers built in (Microsoft required purchasing of compiler software)
- GUI built in (Microsoft needed Windows on top of DOS)
- graphical debuggers (really no equivalent under DOS & Windows)
- Remote Desktop capability (Windows NT needed partners like Tektronix & Citrix)
Some high end apps excelled under Solaris:
- FrameMaker Desktop Publisher (no real equivalent in Windows, for awhile, and MS Word still chokes on large documents today)
Honestly, Sun was likely cheaper than the PC World of nickel & dime’ing people to death, but small departments with shadow IT could get PC’s and individual licenses, which allowed them to grow organically, under the radar of IT, who only had the budget for large inclusive minicomputer systems like Sun or DEC.
This presentation did not seem to understand how the business models differed & contributed to Sun’s downfall.
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38:17 - “…buy United States weapons are in Europe”
Right now, the US & Europe can not keep up with the ammunition demand in Ukraine.
Right now, the US can not keep up with weapon shipment requirements from Asia… where the next war is about to break out.
Europe MUST scale up, 5 years ago, for Ukraine.
US MUST scale up, now to avoid a seemingly inevitable war in Asia.
The US can NOT be saddled with weapons & ammunition supplying to Europe, when the future Asian threat will have orders of magnitude more soldiers on the battlefield.
Trump is not concerned about the US defense industry losing business to Europe, but about losing Asia.
The US can not go it alone, as they have been, supplying both hemispheres with weapons & ammunition… the US NEEDS Europe to step up, and Trump knows this.
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Honestly, anyone who visited Eastern Europe could understand the fallacy of this thought.
- no running water 💧 in many towns, older than the United States
- outhouses constructed on rivers, so overflows clean 🧼 out feces, poisoning above ground water
- pipes are so small for toilets 🚽 that did exist, you had to take your poop 💩 paper 📄 and put it in a garbage can
- rationing of toilet 🚽 paper 📄 to a number of squares per trip to the few public restrooms, handed out by government officials
- black & white TV’s manufactured, when analog color HD was being manufactured in The West
Today, during the invasion of Ukraine, Russians are ripping toilets 🚽 off the floors and shipping them back home, because they never saw them before (even during the days of the Soviets.)
Focusing their best brain 🧠 power for decades, to only build a single better gun, that they could not even manufacture in mass, demonstrates how the centralized socialist society was an absolute failure, in comparison to decentralized societies where freedom is given to people with individual passions to profit from achieving their dream goals.
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@lukerediger8431 - “no one in their house has a 600v DC fast charger”
I never claimed anyone did or did not.
Whether they do or do not is irrelevant.
“If you’re home”
This is a great place to charge a car, if you charge off peak hours.
This is great, until California or Texas tells you you can’t charge your EV, due to threatening the health of the electrical grid during a heat wave.
The problem is with high density living areas, with large quantities of apartments, where fast chargers will be required.
People will not be able to easily charge at cheap times, because those chargers will be shared, when people can get access to them.
“no clue”
Perhaps you are just out of touch with normal Americans, who live out of apartments.
65% of Americans under 35 rent.
They are not the rich people, who can afford Tesla’s, where they can charge their car at home over night, at a good rate.
64% of millennials regret owning a home.
These people will find it expensive, after abandoning home ownership, to own an electric car.
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@greglockyer4335 - “petrol is not a dangerous combustible fuel”
Petrol, by itself, is fine. It must evaporate & have an external ignition source.
If a petrol storage container is pierced, then it evaporates, vapor hovers near the ground, but still needs an external ignition source.
H2, in some ways, is much safer… a piercing of a container will see the h2 float into the air away from the container & dissipate very quickly, likely avoiding external ignition sources close to the ground.
Lithium Lion batteries can be more dangerous than petrol, with battery piercing causing thermal runaway, even without without an external ignition source.
All energy is dangerous & dirty.
Energy must be respected.
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When trade routes become unsafe, civilization disintegrates.
If you think that the airline industry, shipping industry, tourist industries, relocating jobs, visiting families, mail, etc. are remotely possible without overseas bases & hard power… you would be sorely mistaken.
The US completely disbanded their military after the Revolutionary War… and it was the Islamic Slave Traders of Africa & Middle East who created a need for a standing military of the US, due to piracy. It was only after the US helped end of WW1 that Islamic Slave Trade was legally eradicated [with revival of multinational slave trade in lawless areas after the US Obama Administration in countries like Libya, Syria, Iraq, etc. through organizations like the Islamic State.)
Properly wielded Hard Power disrupts the most wicked of human behavior, while Hard Power restraint permits wicked behavior.
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The world hoped Russia would become more than they did, after they liberated themselves from the Communists, who slaughtered sizable civilian populations across two continents.
To be quite frank with you, Russia has a population problem. Killing hundreds of thousands in an Eastern European war is doing nothing for the population problem Russia has, and has weakened Russia.
Russia has squandered it’s military equipment & ammunition, slowly saved up since WW2, it is disappearing by the day, and the means of production to replace it fast enough does not exist on Russia’s 2x continents.
Cheap fossil fuels to India does not make an alliance.
Cheap fossil fuels to China (who can get fossil fuels from any other nation) & Russia outsourcing their production to China does not make Russia stronger.
Once China is satisfied with how weak need Russia becomes, China might take back some of the land China ceded to Russia via treaty.
At that point in time, Japan might take back their islands.
Other European countries may take back their naval base, as well.
Ukraine is likely to take back Crimea, denying Russia of another port… the Ukrainian port which Russia stole their sole aircraft carrier from. (Russia got many of their strategic bombers & missiles from Ukraine, after Western Powers made Ukraine concede them to Russia, for a lousy piece of paper that Russia & US & UK signed for the guarantee of Ukrainian borders.)
In the end, and I don’t know why, Russia spanning 2 continents has nothing but people willing to die for their motherland, when the motherland can not even provide toilets & washing machines for their peoples spanning 2 continents. Stolen or coerced nuclear, naval, aerial, and missile technology is the only difference between Russia of 2020’s and Russia of 1800’s.
What a disaster for Russian peoples. They were capable of so much more, but how many have already died in the Ukrainian meat grinder.
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@marcwinkler - “leakage of natural gas… nothing compared to what hydrogen leakage”
There is no real data demonstrating a massive increase in h2 leakage over ng leakage, as of 2020… concerns are extrapolations, no real numbers, highly speculative at best.
H2 is already being produced, shipped, contained, piped, and used in: Australia, Japan, US, UK, and mainland Europe… India is on-tap to become a major producer & consumer!
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@JoseDiaz-zi2mh - “who controls the air space… sea water”
Who the Palestinians wanted. Palestinians were given their land back, which was invaded & annexed by the Egyptians & Jordanians… and instead of standing up a state, they told Israel to manage it all & send them a check.
Palestinians clearly never wanted a state, air & water & border controls, control over taxation… they just wanted a reoccurring check.
If they really wanted a nation, they would implement their own police force, judicial system, prosecute terrorist activities [instead of outsourcing it to Israel], tax their own people, raise an army to protect the opposing sides of the same border crossings as IDF, recognize Israel, and all these issues would go away.
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@peachulemon - “when it’s a business all that matters is profit margins”
Yep!!!
One must have profit to pay people for their labour, have a cushion for when components break down or disasters occur, so they can be replaced.
One must have profit to have an aggregate savings for expansion of operation, and deliver an increasing benefit to the community.
One must have an aggregate savings from profit, for investment into greater efficiencies of the operation, to decrease prices, and deliver benefit to the poor.
Profitability from Capitalism drives continuity, sustainability, expansion, fair compensation, and access to everyone including the poor!
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Hi @koeniglicher -
I own 4 of the 8s4p batteries, from a MachE, I started backward engineering the pin outs, I now know enough pins to make it useful, but not enough to figure out what the manufacturer of the connector is.
I tried to go to ford, to buy some cabling, but they wanted a VIN, which I do not have.
I just need a stationary application.
I used breadboard to header pin wire extenders to connect to the 2x sockets on each battery, but those wires are very thin. I may be stuck with them. 👎
Maybe I can take some more photos, zoom in more, and take your suggestion…
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20:00 - The CIA analyst thought Russia would have the whole south of Ukraine, before fall was over of last year… and he was clearly wrong
22:00 - The CIA analyst though Russia would not use artillery against Odessa, due to cultural significant sites, but Russia has used artillery & crushed every city they took. Russia is crushing Odessa UN Heritage Sites now… he was clearly wrong.
29:00 - “lend-lease act… missile shot… bill comes due” is completely incorrect, as per this CIA analyst’s assessment. Months after this interview, lend-lease had not been exercised, but drawdowns & grants have supplied all Ukraine needs. An example quote:
“As our defense stockpiles dwindle, it’s absurd for the Biden administration to sit on its hands and ignore the Lend-Lease authority from Congress,” Sen. JOHN CORNYN (R-Texas), who led the effort to pass the legislation, told NatSec Daily. Using Lend-Lease is “a much better plan than continuing to give them away for free.”
Interesting the CIA analyst said Trump was disinterested in CIA intelligence, and Trump looked for his own private Intelligence.
The CIA guest has made it clear why Trump did not believe him. 30 minutes into a 4 hour video and it becomes clear he did not understand Russia, Ukraine, or even US laws passed regarding it.
Trump is not the first president to be dissatisfied with CIA intelligence. G.W. Bush saw the Intel failure of 9/11 & looked elsewhere. Reagan pushed hard against Russia & saw the Berlin Wall fall, instead of nuclear war other analysts predicted. Carter’s following of Intel resulted in the fall of Iran & expansion of radical International Terrorism.
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2:00:16 - “Trump… most massive tax increase”
Incorrect, everyone paid less taxes with the tax cuts passed”
“Tariff… Chinese…”
If companies moved their production out of China, the tariff would not be paid… so in the end, the cost of the product from China had the cost of the tariff built in, while the same product from Vietnam did not, and price pressures were put on China to be competitive with nations like Vietnam, so yes… China paid the tariffs.
When did China not pay the tariff?
When business people decided not to move their US production out of China, and they decided to raise prices, until competitors provided alternatives at a non-tariff’ed price, and then we are back to condition #1, where China would start paying the tariffs again.
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@jasonjaafar - “the battery will be recycled”
Not really happening yet. Maybe someday, hopefully someday. These are not lead acid batteries.
“Once gasoline is burned”
Once the electricity is used, you have to generate more.
The battery is equivalent to a gas tank on an ICE car. A battery is just a big expensive gas tank that is not as easily recycled as a steel gas tank in an ice car.
“Petroleum is a finite source”
Not really. You can make it from CO2. Natural gas and hydrogen can also be used instead of gasoline. Petroleum is just easy to get, since crude has seeped out of the ground for thousands of years.
“Petroleum… mining is also destructive to the environment”
Oil spoils the environment, by just existing. It is better to clean up the tar sands by removing it & using it, rather than just letting it spoil the land.
It will eventually bubble up out of the earth & spew into the oceans with a small earthquake, so we might as well not let it go to waste, and just use it.
Harvesting petroleum will not stop with the advent of electric vehicles… it is used for water bottles, cups, disposable silverware, disposable plates,clothing, carpets, house siding, roofing, flooring, paint, electric motor windings, electric wire insulation, plastic car parts, battery separators, etc.
Moving to electric cars will do little about harvesting oil. The amount of copper mines opened for all the wire needed for EV’s & charging stations is outrageous. And petroleum is used for all that mining & transport & refining of copper.
None of this is to say that EV or plug in hybrids are bad things, the better we can conserve petroleum, the better for humanity. There are just better ways to conserve it.
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@dyhppyx - “we aren’t there, yet”
When the people who are there,
are committing social suicide,
we only go back to the dark ages.
When Western Europe was slaved by the previously conquered & converted Muslim North African Moors, Eastern Europe was slaved by the previously conquered & converted Muslim Turks… it was Western Europeans who decided to not lay down & die, but build faster sailing vessels, to escape the Islamic Pirates 🏴☠️ who would catch & slave them… the Eastern Europeans needed to wait until the end of WW1 to eventually win their freedom (to only be enslaved by Soviets.)
We were technically there, in the late 1960’s
We are absolutely there, in the mid 2020’s.
Those who can, must…
… those who dither, die
(Attributed to me)
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@lukerediger8431 - “hydrogen burns so hot…”
Which is why it is burned lean
“Only specialized engines…”
Existing engines & burners can take a 20% mix of Hydrogen with Natural Gas today… which is actually GREAT since we can start the transition now by mixing H2 with existing Natural Gas. Mix of 20% H2 with NG is being done in UK homes today as well as in states like Georgia US for power turbines.
Existing diesel engines can burn more efficiently & reduce emissions by injecting Hydrogen, and this is being done in Europe today.
“Cannot feasibly over come thos issues by a ‘tweaking’ “
Mazda demonstrated their rotary engine can run on Gasoline or Hydrogen in 2003. Same engines, with a tweek.
Cummins announced redesigns of existing popular B, L, and X series diesel engines to become fuel-agnostic, to run on hydrogen or diesel or natural gas, from 6.7 Liter to 15 Liter displacements. This was announced February 2022. Same engines, with a tweek.
Transport Enterprise Leasing (TEL) signed letter of intent to purchase the Cummins X15H hydrogen engines to integrate into their heavy-duty truck fleet. This was announced September 2022.
The first v12 dual fuel Diesel / Hydrogen tug boat built in Spain, delivered to Belgium, hydrogen system installation at the Port of Ostend, and tug trials by the end of this year. Hydrotug 1 to be fully operational at the Port of Antwerp during the first quarter of 2023.
Clearly, the industry had dive so, and they are doing it now.
“If you are going to replace all existing anyway…”
We don’t need to replace it all, except for EV fast charging stations.
A single fast charge will take the 3 days of a typical home’s energy in 30 minutes??? ROTFL! How many fast charging stations in a gas station??? THAT is going to require A LOT of new electrical lines!!! That is going to be EXPENSIVE electricity to buy, NOT residential rates!!!
Fuel cells have the same copper shortage problem that EV’s have. To replace the cars in the UK with EV’s - it would take 1 year’s worth of worldwide copper production.
Natural Gas refueling infrastructure already exists: all of the mass transportation by me runs on natural fast today; we had EV charging stations near me for the past 20 years, they have been getting closed up, and only a single charging station exists near me at a Walgreens.
Hydrogen can be delivered to the same service station locations, without the the service station needing to be close to a substation which received massive power upgrades.
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@lukerediger8431 - “energy… H2… compare to an EV”
I have 4 EV modules at the house… where a typical EV would have 10. My house can run for 24 hours, including my HVAC system… so charging an EV requires about 2.5x the amount of energy that my house takes… and that needs to be delivered in 20-30 minutes in a fast charger?
It costs a lot of money for that kind of draw, over a short period of time.
Generating H2 and compressing can be done, any time, and added to a tank through compression. The power consumption to do this is gradual, can be spread out, at a reduced charge from the power company, or H2 generation can be done when energy is cheap.
If done with solar or wind, the energy from intermittent sources can effectively be stored by converting to H2 & stored in a tank. The tank is cheap and lasts the lifetime of the car, not being a consumable.
EV’s require fossil fuels to mine, ship elements, manufacture batteries, ship batteries. The batteries are a consumable in an EV, where EV’s replace batteries occasionally. (My friends have needed to, including my next door neighbor.)
After the EV is running, it will take somewhere between 41k-93k before the CO2 deficit for the battery is recovers, and that CO2 deficit is an analogue for energy used to ship, manufacture, and install. The battery will need to be replaced at least once, in the average life expectancy of a car.
Better to go with H2, where the CO2 deficit is tiny for the H2 tank, which is an analogue for energy spent to ship & manufacture & install, and spend a more on fill ups, but at least it can be clean energy.
“adding thousands of dollars to… ICE”
With EV’s, tens of thousands of dollars are being added to a chassis… and the electrical infrastructure to do fast charging is far more ridiculous.
“You have no idea what you’re talking about”
Having friends & neighbors with EV’s and using EV batteries… I have a clue.
I also use quite a bit of natural gas, as well as the mass transportation in my area. Moving to a higher percentage of hydrogen is something I am looking forward to!
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@lukerediger8431 - “apartment complexes… the grid in those areas have no issues with rapid chargers”
In my area, every former bank & restaurant & laundromat has been getting purchased by… big oil gas stations!
Is the gas needed?
No.
There has been enough gasoline stations for decades, with the high density apartment complexes.
The real estate is needed for electric cars that are coming, because they can’t plug in their cars to charge at their townhouses.
The plug ins are a problem… these will all become fast chargers.
“The grid in those areas have no issue with rapid chargers”
When an EV battery requires 2.5x days of the power an entire house uses, in 20-30 minutes… then repeatedly over & over again, by people coming home from work… the power spikes will be incredibly high during rush hour & immediately afterwards, until dinner time, or early in the morning, before the sun comes up, before going to work.
For normal rich people, electric car can charge at home, it does not really matter when they suck the power from the grid, it can happen when power is cheap.
For the poor, their charge time will be rush hour. For the poor, it will be around the time school busses are running, because they work when the kids are in school and they are taking care of kids at home.
How does the grid handle this?
This new unusual power usage amplifies spot power demand, which will be delivered by fossil fuels. Solar is at it’s peak during lunch time, so it is useless for charging the EV’s. These fossil fuel spot generators have a much higher cost than efficient base power.
Charging an EV on a long road trip, dominated by fast chargers, costs about the same amount of money per gallon of gasoline in my car, at pre-Putin invasion gas prices of 2019.
Once the poor in apartments start getting EV’s, the spot energy will rise. Around rush hour.
“Generating hydrogen on the spot costs more…”
But H2 can be created all day long, at the cheapest electricity rates, where storage tanks can be filled and emptied as people come in. Savings & Profit incentivizes the use of storage tanks, the same way existing gasoline & diesel & e95 & propane tanks re filled up off hours to make energy available during peak times.
Contrast this to electricity, which must be generated on demand, as people are needing it, as hundreds & thousands of cars need fast chargers… each EV 2.5x the power of an entire house, in minutes. Then, as soon as people start dinner with their kids, those generators must be turned off. If there is not enough supply or too much supply, the grid collapses.
That is expensive & complex & dangerous.
But H2 can come through an additional pipe, the same way natural gas comes through an additional pipe, and not through the bottleneck of the grid.
But H2 can come through a truck, the same way propane & gasoline & diesel & e95 comes through trucks, and not through the bottleneck of the grid.
“Another level of complexity”
The grid was never designed for mobility.
The additional level of complexity of H2 solves a problem that the electrical grid has… satisfying the needs for spikes in demand by spreading the load across a 24 hour interval.
EV charging is basically the same problem with of Wind and Solar intermittent power, but in reverse… EV charging is intermittent discharging when there is no sunlight.
H2 complexity solves the power charging & discharging intermittency.
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Hey @theJerkson - I never claimed primarily home 🏡 based charging, by the rich, will cause an issue with massive spikes, but rather urban areas will incur the problem… where the least amount of Far Eastern sourced renewable energy will be available, during the narrow time slots (when people are getting to their flats, before dinner 🍲 with their families) when charging power will be needed.
Watching the “investments” by Big Oil in charging stations is incredible. This will be the cheapest return on their investment that they ever did, with the least amount of risk.
The irony is the shift from dependence of oil ⛽️ in the Mid East to batteries 🔋 in the Far East , with Big Oil being paid by government “infrastructure” laws so there is no risk.
It is no wonder 💭 why popular politicians get so rich 💰 from their buy-offs while citizens just get poorer through inflation.
People get poorer when energy is not harvested domestically, because the government borrows money 💴 and just pays foreign nations, who basically buy everything up with cash 💰 when interest rates are too high for domestic guests & citizens to get a loan. The guests & citizens just become slaves on plantations owned by foreigners who bought off the politicians. The new imperialism, through corruption.
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AI and Robotics will consume meaningless work (ie add weights to bottom of lipstick 💄 containers, which I know people who did that for a living some 25 years ago)
The deal with AI is we need to watch for AI systems which will decide to wipe out the excess people, who are not needed to maintain their systems. There will always be people needed to maintain the AI systems.
That being said, no humans, no civilization.
1500 years ago, earlier nations cleared the area known in J North America as The Great Plains, for firewood 🪵& Buffalo harvesting.
The Amazon Rain forest 🌳 used to be agricultural farming centers for South America, with irrigation trenches going on for miles.
Their civilizations no longer exist, in their nation building status. Lack of desire to promote Western Civilization will merely allow other civilizations to grow, like Islamic civilizations dating back to the late 600’s, where slavery was normal, women were breeding stock, and non-believers are relegated to slaves, death ☠️, or second tier Justice system of slow genocide under Sharia Law.
There are only two options right now, on the face of the earth.
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Hi @terjeoseberg990 -
My first job was ~60 miles in each direction and I had an apartment… so I could never charge an electric car at home. It would basically need to be charged daily, since it would be too risky to try to do 240 miles on a 300 mile charge. Fast charger would cost extra money each day. My original 4 door car got 40mpg highway, and could do ~500 miles between fills. I would fill up 2x a week.
Now a days, traveling to see family, various trip times are between 12-16 hours, 8 hours to drive to my remote workplace, I do each with 1 stop, stop for 20 minutes when traveling with others or 15 minutes on my own, get to the destinations in 1 day. Sometimes, 2 stops for a 16 hr trip (when I can’t be careful about the fuel usage.)
I am well aware of the cost, just did a long trip, about $50 now for a fill up at a station… absolute highway robbery. $100 for 2x fillips. This problem is political incompetence with their raising the cost of energy on the poor.
Replacement of batteries must be added into the cost of the electric fuel: $13.5k per battery swap, the cost of an almost new ICE economy car. Compare to gas @$2.5/gallon, drive 100k in an economy car ~= $7.5k… almost half the cost of a battery swap! Now, start adding the cost of electricity!
IF the EV car cost the same amount of money as an economy ICE car… an EV car is far more expensive in battery & electricity than gasoline fuel cost.
My last car lasted 19 years, before I recently totaled it. I have another 20+ year car, as well. Never an engine or transmission problem. Well over 200k miles on each.
I would have likely needed to replace the battery on an electric car about 2 times per car, due to use or age - incredibly expensive. Wrecking the one car with a brand new battery would have been an incredible loss where I would never have recovered the cost from insurance.
A lithium fire burning down my house could be fun, I would want a non-attached garage with an electric car. I would not buy an electric car without a range extender, which is what I priced the last time when I was replacing my last totaled car.
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“capitalists were forced to make concessions for fear of revolution”
You don’t understand Capitalism.
Capitalism is the free, non-compulsive, exchange of goods & labor between free agents.
In the US, during WW2… the Americans discovered, through compulsory work conditions to produce weapons, that too many days / hours resulted in reduced efficiency & less reliable end product.
Capitalists figured out, in America, that the workers have additional value via training & good health [in contrast to short term untrained replacements of a sickly variety] produce a better product & still produces a profit.
Europeans, who did not go through the American Revolution [where absolute freedom was the starting point, vs Europeans wrestling away one right at a time from a monarch/dictator], seem to have gotten confused with pseudo-social science… while the Americans used straight science, with the guardian of God providing individuals innumerable individual rights, to promote the health & safety of humanity in the workplace.
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@jacqueslee2592 - “born into economically struggling families”
I understand that.
“did not have a good family role model”
I grew up next to a railroad, literally on the wrong side of the tracks. Substance abuse in my family. Physical abuse. Mental abuse. Divorce. I hear ya.
“wouldn’t want to repeat that experience for my child”
I recognized my situation, and in the end I found resources on radio & in college to help me repent from bad behaviors & mentor me towards better behaviors. Now, I mentor other young adults, so hundreds won’t have the same experiences that I did, as a child.
How did you find a way to change, so you will not emulate what was modeled to you throughout your childhood?
“bad career choice”
I know a young man who immigrated to the US, learned English in High School, graduated HS, is on his third career change, starting in a bakery, then aircraft mechanic school, now real estate.
Have you considered doing a career change? You can do it!
“… what a young man needs in his prime”
You can do it. I know you can. If the circle of people you are in believe you need those things, you need a new circle of friends. Once you have a new circle of friends, not looking to physical things, you will find that there are a ton of young ladies around who are desperate to find a nice young man!
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@tnickknight - “America has way more than enough of it’s own crude”
But Democrat Biden blocked the Keystone XL, which was supposed to pipe US crude to refineries in the South.
“He [Biden] cares more about Americans, stable genius”
Which is why Democrat Biden screwed the energy producers in North West US.
Now that the illiberal Democrat screwed the Democrats in the North West US, and the native Americans who were earning money on the US energy production, no one can trust that a permit from the US government will not be revoked.
This is not stable, but ripped any sense of stability out of the regulatory agency, so US energy will limp along until there are guarantees that an unstable President, like Biden, will not arbitrarily rip the rug out from under them.
It is just another example of the corrupt #BidenCrimeFamily, looking for a kick back, instead of caring about their liberal North West states, their liberal northern neighbor of Canada, and their liberal European neighbors on the other side of the pond.
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The first 3 minutes of this video was complete trash… waste of time.
7:30 - You also mischaracterize the racism of the woke movement. Woke movement promotes racism as normal & teaches people that it is normal to be racist, then treats people differently according to the color of their skin.
8:30 - Parental rights act does not delay sex education. There is nothing about “don’t say gay” in the law, at all.
10:30 - you mischaracterize Disney using the money of parents spending money for their children’s entertainment to groom children for sexual exploitation.
11:07 - ESG criteria is terrible, since it forces investments to be made in money losing opportunities
11:16 - DeSantis does not have power to ban abortion
12:00 - carrying firearms has always been a constitutional right, until recently, where illegal gun assaults & deaths started rising
13:00 - the US does not turn a blind eye to illegal immigration, illegal immigrants can’t legally work and there are a whole bunch of other consequences. Also, an executive does not have the ability to unilaterally increase penalties under the law, like you incorrectly said he did.
13:57 - trump is pro-immigration, Trump is anti-illegal immigration, where illegal immigration is funding the mafias in Mexico, causing unbelievable killing of innocent people in Mexico, as well as kidnapping of Mexican children. Trump set the framework for people to come into the US legally, bypassing the drug cartels, via MPP protocols, denying former slave holding Democrats the ability to deny a another class of people in the US borders of Equal Protection… this time, the unequal & unprotected class are Illegal Aliens, not slaves from Africa, not indentured servants from Europe.
16:00 - the Federal Government under President Biden’s policy is to treat illegal immigrants like cattle. The Federal Government has been illegally flying illegal immigrants to other states around the nation, as well as shipped illegal immigrants by bus & train. DeSantis merely is sending people to where they want to go, instead of being dumped where they don’t want to go by Democrat Biden.
18:00 - DeSantis is wrong on Ukraine.
18:31 - It is very clear leftist prosecutors have treated Trump differently from other former Presidents.
19:15 - blaming Red Communists for stomping on Hong Kong on another without evidence is ridiculous.
20:10 - DeSantis does not have the legal ability to expel people! Where are you getting your information from???
20:54 - solve Ukraine in 24 hours with a phone call… Trump did the last time, when he threatened to hit Moscow and the massive Russian invasion did not happen on his watch.
I have NEVER seen such a poorly researched video from your channel!
It makes me wonder if there is any truth to your other videos!
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@extragoode - “everywhere in the world that isn’t using coal…”
The world is building more coal plants. In 2023, it was well known that global coal consumption climbed to a new all-time high. Coal will continue to grow.
Sure, a relatively small number of nations are rich enough to adopt clean energy, outsourcing the dirty energy production & dirty air jobs to the third world.
The reality it, any improvement in mobility efficiency will help the world, and abandoning improvements in ICE will hurt the world more than a few rich nations moving to EV’s with a small numbers of rich regions in that small number rich nations moving to a less polluting form of energy production.
“Midwest… 80% electricity… wind”
According to Wikipedia, reading about the Midwest, states like “Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Kansas each had more than 20 percent of their electric power generation come from wind.” That was not north of 80% created from wind. As of 2023, Iowa is producing 64% wind, which is amazing… I don’t think we have a grip yet, on the cost (in energy & co2) of maintenance of wind turbines, as blades fall apart, but we will see over time.
“Cherry picking” is thinking that the rich buying expensive cars, living in a rich area where energy prices are high due to newer energy components [being largely created where energy is dirty] is somehow going to make a difference as the vast majority of the world will burn coal & manufacturer with energy from coal plants.
We know where the coal plants are being constructed: China, India, Africa, South America. Anything we do is a drop in the bucket, as soon as The West stops ICE improvements, all these other nations & continents will see only declines in their air quality, and what we have done will be nothing but virtue signaling.
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Just because France employs worker in Morocco & French is the language of commerce in Morocco since French Colonization… it does not mean there is not also a special relationship with Spain, as the relationship between US & Mexico is special.
Morocco is closer to being a border country with Spain, than Morocco is with France.
The Moors from Morocco invaded Spain, not long after Morocco was conquered by the Arabs & Islamized. On 1492, Spain officially threw off the yoke of the invading Moors.
Later, central Morocco became a protectorate of France, while the North of Morocco and Western Sahara became protectorates of Spain.
This seems key to understanding Spain’s recognition of West Sahara becoming part of Morocco… Spain used to administer it, there is a good relationship between Spain & Morocco, some Spanish cities remain in Morocco, and if natural gas is found in West Sahara… Spain has those historical relationships with Morocco (and the pipeline) to make future gas harvesting flow to Europe. Also, Morocco has a huge undersea power cable to Spain. Also Morocco has the opportunity to create green hydrogen via solar and ship it to Europe via Spain’s undersea pipeline.
Morocco has historic ties that pre-date & post-date French colonialism… even if French is the main language of commerce in Morocco.
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@bjjkickboxing7876 - honestly, I am less concerned about theories, like some YouTube publishers are.
Hydrocarbons are located in the Caribbean, at the poles, etc. Liquid form can be extracted from the CO2 in the air, and people don’t like that energy & organic compounds will be so difficult to control, once it is no longer escrowed under the earth.
Hydrocarbons are everywhere. It has been seeping out of the ground since the days of Noah, where ancient writers wrote about early uses to waterproof wooden structures.
Hydrocarbons come in convenient universal forms, to hold the naturally recyclable precursor for energy & nearly all manufactured end products used by humanity… from heating homes, to cooking food, from clothes we wear to the carpets we lay on, from dashboards on cars to the roads we drive on.
That universal liquid form, once it can not be found naturally, will be manufactured… because it is so easily piped, held in tanks, and can be changed from a liquid state into any basic form like long threads and even printed into objects using 3D printers.
Any talk of oil running out is not only willful ignorant, but honestly a petty scare tactic, and demonstrates a degree of scientific misunderstanding that dates back to the stone ages.
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@ignaciofernandezclavel3535 - “millions of years of concentrated solar energy”
You bring up a good point, but millions of years are not needed to organically concentrate solar energy.
There are only 4 bonds needed for a Carbon atom, sugars are made in real time from photosynthesis, and the aggregated sugars are at the core of organic energy storage & usage. Plants 🌱 pipe the sugar around through xylem & phloem.
Prometheus produces liquid fuel ⛽️ directly from CO2 in the air, by mixing it with salt water, pass electricity through it, and the fuel is separated from the water.
NASA produces liquid fuel directly from CO2 in the air using solar powered thin film devices. The photoelectrochemical cells produce hydrocarbons directly from the air.
Carbon Engineering from Canada has been harvesting CO2 directly from the air for 8 years and converting it directly to fuel for 6 years.
Sun Fire in Europe has been producing fuel directly from CO2 in the air, using high temperature electrolysis.
South Korea 🇰🇷 is combining H2 with CO2 from the air & water with a catalyst to produce diesel fuel.
Oxford University is using Iron catalysts to drip 💧 jet fuel from the CO2 from the air, hydrogen, and water.
These are not the only methods, but just a sampling, and the secret is to de-escrow the carbon from the earth 🌎 to make it readily available to everyone across the earth.
Honestly, there are so many ways to create hydrocarbons… and we don’t have to burn it, but can continue to make whatever we need to. We will never run out.
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@ignaciofernandezclavel3535 - “require massive amounts of FF to be manufactured”
H2 is the key 🔑 factor in many of those technologies. Hydrogen can start replacing FF today, without little special changes.
H2 can be introduced into existing Natural Gas appliances & turbines today, up to 20%, to stretch natural gas.
H2 is being introduced to existing diesel vehicles in Europe, today, to stretch diesel longer.
Existing NG infrastructure is being upgraded to handle greater percentages of H2, all the way to 100%, and this can be done as existing NG infrastructure needs to be repaired & renewed.
H2 transportation exists today and is increasing around regional hydrogen hubs.
H2 & NG turbines are being released, today.
H2 & Diesel dual fuel engines are being released in ships, today.
H2 & Diesel dual fuel engines are being released for large trucks, today.
The first H2 powered test planes ✈️ are being flown last year & this year.
H2 can be cracked from salt water, today, using nuclear ☢️ facilities located by existing ocean 🌊 waterways.
In the end, H2 can provide everything we need, today, without incurring the mining, manufacturing, repair issues associated with brand new all electric infrastructure.
For the electric ⚡️ heads… Solar ☀️ & wind 💨 are both intermittent energy sources, which H2 production can mitigate by H2 being used as a storage for a percentage of the energy produced, for when there is no solar & wind… and excess can be used for transportation.
Carbon fuels are superior energy carriers, where waste is naturally recycled by living things, but H2 offers an immediately achievable alternative with cleaner & more efficient options in the future with fuel cells.
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“war crime is because…”
of use against primarily civilians
Honestly, it does not matter the weapon, targeting primarily civilians brings up war crime status.
For example, when Russians & Turks & National Socialists marched civilians [or even disarmed soldiers] to large pits, shoot them with rifles, and bury them… these are war crimes, even done with rifles.
It is unrelated to nationality & even weapons used, but the target of the action often determines the status.
(There are some other examples, like dam breeched, nuclear power plant targeting, etc. which falls into the war crime arena)
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@pmpowalisz - “you are ridiculously misinformed”
That is an ad-Hominem, a logical fallacy, a passive admission that you have a bankrupt position which can not be sustained in dialog.
I have been involved in the refugee community for 2 decades, before that, family lived there, and follow local news in foreign lands & personal life stories of escapees today.
I have a pretty good understanding, although I don’t know everything.
“extremely biased against Democrats”
I just call Democrats as I see them.
- The party of continual war
- The party of slavery
- The party who tried to split the Union, using the power of the gun, to keep slaving
- The party, who could not be coerced to stop slavery, until after they lost a civil war, and Republicans temporarily removed their states from the Union, to guarantee equal rights as per the Declaration of Independence
- The party who created gun control laws on a local level, to disarm freedmen, before their KKK community organizers would lynch the disarmed freedmen gun owners
- The party who introduced segregation into the federal government & revived the KKK during WW1
- The party who bragged about getting those N* to vote for them for 100 years
- The party of Nazi eugenics, who tried to sterilize & convince freed people to kill their own offspring through abortion
- The party who restarted the slave trade in Middle East & North Africa
- The party who had congressional law to intervene when terrorists annexed Iraq from Syria & refused to do anything
- The party who bankrolled Shia & Sunni international terrorism & armed Sunni Islamic Fascists
- The party who started shipping back fleeing Cuban refugees to Cuba, who arrive at the border, when fleeing Communism, but allowing everyone else in
- The party who is reintroducing racism into the Federal Government again, about 100 years later again, categorizing some people by genetic traits , to give them special privileges, and declaring other with different genetic traits have privilege & superiority
- The party who is now stopping refugees from Venezuela, from entering the United States along the Southern Border, fleeing Red Communism, but allowing everyone else in.
Democrats are not all this way, I know a lot of Democrats who are truly anti-war & anti-slavery & anti-racist & compassionate to immigrants… but they just don’t realize that the politicians they endorse have a different agenda.
“Extremely biased against… Shia followers”
Not at all!
When the terrorists took over Iran, they repressed the Shia peoples of Iran, from day-1.
Disagreeing with Islamists who conquered Shia peoples is not the same as bias against Shia people… I have very close relationships with many Shia people. Once I demonstrate a strong understanding of their history, they understand my perspective, even if we have different opinions, and the relationships continue (for decades.) We respect one another, even in areas where we disagree.
“no credible quotes”
When your good friend, who has Shia family members back home, had his brother disappear, and later government recovers his body from a mass grave, because Democrat Obama/Biden refused to hold the Iraqi border against the Islamic State soldiers who were invading with US training & US weapons… the DNA & weapons & training are credible sources.
When Democrat Obama/Biden decided to fund & train & arm many of those terrorists, who defected to the Islamic State, in order to carve out a Sunni homeland from the Shia governments of Syria & Iraq… one understands the mistake which was made.
Democrats wanted revolution. Sunni’s wanted regional independence. Either way it turned out, Genocide would be the result.
Primary sources, from human refugees, asylum seekers, broadcast video, local news… are stronger sources of evidence than people who have not lived or do not live or can not speak/read native languages.
I can back up everything that I have typed about with sources, if you like, but this may not be the right forum. I am willing, if you are interested.
“at least we agree on Putin…”
You will find it amazing, how much people of different economic & political persuasions can agree on, one we don’t attack the other person, and try to look at things objectively.
We also agreed on GW Bush’s mistake.
I find it disappointing that your historical perspective is sufficiently limited, where we can’t come to a reasonable understanding of some of the previous Democrat mistakes.
Democrats & Republicans all made decisions, some are poor, some are good.
The best decisions are made when people are trying to coerce you into something via a false dilemma, using a logical fallacy to make you do what they want.
Republican G W Bush fell for this. Republican Trump was more likely to find a different way, which infuriated the people on both sides, who would find profit from either-or decision, but they both get pissed when neither gets to profit from the decision. This is one of the reasons Trump was hated by Democrats & Republicans - he did not play their games. Trump being hated by both sides created a terrific check & balance, that we don’t have today with Democrat Biden, or previous Democrat Obama.
Trump did fall for a false dilemma during the pandemic, ceding too much power to Democrat leaning CDC, and it cost him his Presidency. Dumb move, to shut down the nation, with no quick way to unshut it (when the Democrat party of fear leveraged fear to coerce simple minded people into false dilemmas) sending unbelievable quantities of citizens into suicide, drug overdoses, students losing measurable man-months of education, creating unbelievable quantity of debt for our less-smart & smaller quantity of children to later pay back.
It might be good for you to better understand history, before accusing others of ignorance, or having bad feelings towards groups of people. Sometimes, we really just care about people, and don’t like when people are abused.
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@pmpowalisz - “did that New York Times article say the US government’s training and weapons program to Syrian rebels exist at the start of the Syrian civil war, I don’t think so.”
First of all, I don’t know how you could be 300+ messages into this thread and not read the news enough to understand what was said, even after I provided you name of the program, the administration who started it, the administration who canceled it, a trusted liberal source regarding it.
The math is pretty simple:
- 2011 - Syrian government ban on female veiling in universities enacted
- 2011 - Sunni protest break out
- 2011-2012 - Sunni military insurgency breaks out
- Summer 2012 - the period the NYTimes reports Arab states funding & weaponizing Syrian Civil War, US Democrat Obama CIA arranged weapons sales from Croatia to Saudi Arabia to Syrian rebels
- Summer 2012 - proposal by Obama CIA Director for Timber Sycamore Rebel training, but Obama initial turns him down (weaponizing the rebels seemingly was thought to be enough, from Croatia through Middle East ally to Syria Rebels)
- Late 2012 - date liberal NYTimes reports Obama CIA Director lectured Arab Allies on providing weapons to Syrian Rebels without coordination
- Late 2012 - lobbying from Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel (maybe others) eventually convince Obama to support the Syrian rebel groups with weapons & training - Operation Timber Sycamore identified with date, The Daily Beast
- 2012/2013 - Reuters, liberal The Guardian, German weekly Der Spiegel, are reporting the first 200 US funded & armed Rebels in Syria completed 3 months of training on 2013-03
- 2013 - liberal New York Times confirms US clandestine military training & weapons support took place, but reporters are too dumb to do the math since the first U.S. trained rebels had already been completed
There are more news paper reports of how the US was involved in the training & weaponizing of the Syrian Rebels. Someone has to be living under a rock to not understand what happened. It was one of the reasons the electorate turned on Democrats starting wars around the world towards Trump, to turn the war weaponizing & training & funding off.
“Why would Obama be so gun hoo in immediately supplying weapons to Syrian rebels when he only supplied non-weapons to Ukraine?”
This is a good question.
Why would Democrat Barack Hussein Obama supply weapons immediately to Sunnis in Syria to start a revolution and not to Ukraine being invaded?
This falls into the realm of speculation.
Maybe you should look to Egypt & the seating of largely Sunni Muslim Brotherhood leaders during his travels, just before the MB rise to power in Egypt?
The Sunni extremists in Egypt are, by some accounts, far more dangerous than Wahhabi of Saudi Arabia, since there is a degree of authority an absolute monarch has over them in Saudi Arabia. Once the dictator in Egypt was gone, the radicals are free to act, in a nation where Islam legally reigns supreme over a secular constitution.
I might suggest to you to read the history of Obama’s mother and her cooperation with Sunni Islamic revolutionary movements in Indonesia.
I had done extensive reading on this, pre-2008 election, in various Chinese state media, who at the time was pretty proud of the Sunni Islamists were put down in Indonesia, and Obama’s mother & CIA were on the losing end.
I might speculate, from Obama’s history, that Obama has a greater affinity towards Sunni Muslims than he does towards Eastern Europeans.
“The Iranian Prime Minister…”
Had a very short period of time in any kind of authority.
“The bay of pigs”
Was a failure by Democrat JFK, by pulling air support of an integrated operation, and the Cubans trying to take their nation back from a Communist revolutionary dictator lost.
Democrats did the same thing with Vietnam, after peace was signed under Republican Nixon, the North Vietnamese restarted the war under Republican Ford, and Democrats refused to supply funding for air support, as per the peace accord, and South Vietnam fell in weeks.
“… raising a stink about politicians and oil industry colluding to not keep oil prices constantly low”
Supply & Demand drives prices.
Raising a stink abroad is not helping that much for Democrat Biden, who previously cut the legs out of the energy industry in the US, by revoking permits and closing exploration. Energy is now 2x higher than it was under Republican Trump
“Simply absurd Americans have to pay high gas prices”
Agreed.
“Democrats aren’t destroying fossil fuel production, they are merely limiting it…”
Which creates high gas & plastics & asphalt & housing shingle & housing siding & floor planking prices… and many other oil derived goods.
By the way, I think Housing Prices also went up significantly, during the Democrat Biden administration.
“Environmentalism is a pretty big deal for Democrats…”
It is also a big deal for Conservatives & Republicans… we live in the same earth. Sometimes, people want the same ends, but with different means.
“pretending Covid-19 wasn’t a domestic problem”
The effort expended by Trump, with daily briefings, progress made on a daily basis, and making sure stockpiling was not interfering with availability of PPE was amazing, during his administration.
There was no pretending that it was not a problem.
“My mom…”
I am still sorry for your loss.
“most of the deaths were under trump”
Dec 14, 2021… liberal The Daily Beast publishes ‘800,000 Americans Dead: COVID Deaths Under Biden Now Equal Those Under Trump’
Dec 16, 2021… anti Trump National Review publishes ‘Covid-19 Deaths under Biden Surpass Deaths during Trump Administration’
With all the PPE, Vaccines, treatments, behavioral changes, and border security created during the Trump emergency actions… within 1 year, there was no reduction of deaths under Biden, just a doubling, and then increasing.
It could mean that PPE, Vaccines, behavioral changes, lockdowns, and Treatments meant nothing to stem the pandemic.
It could also mean that Democrat Biden ending border restrictions and sending millions of untested & sick migrants across the border on public transportation into the rest of the nation was a contributing factor for actually causing more deaths in the United States.
I tend to agree with you that vaccines & treatments were helpful in stemming Covid deaths.
This leaves Democrat Biden #SuperSpreader policy at the southern border at the core of why Covid deaths equaled Trump’s deaths within 11 months of Biden inauguration and then exceeded with 1 year.
“Trump not created a bogus treaty with the Taliban and pulled the US military…”
Military was not all pulled. Military was reduced under Trump after the agreement, and things continued to be stable, with no losses of US troops due to Taliban.
The major pull out of military support happened during the Democrat Biden administration. As military support was pulled back, Afghani region after region fell.
It was during the Biden administration that the US military base & airfield was given by Taliban to militaries of China, Iran, and Pakistan to use.
“could have lasted for decades… afghan people elect a functioning government”
This was the Trump plan, in writing.
Target times were given, dependent upon Taliban negotiations with Afghan government for a process.
But it did not work out the way US negotiators intended.
Democrat Biden decided to cut & run, said the Afghan government could hold it all together, the Afghan Government’s President’s son was a Democrat Biden Activist & Supporter, but Biden turned on him, Biden turned on the President of Afghanistan, Biden turned on the country of Afghanistan… and now Russia is hiring US trained Afghan special forces to fight in Ukraine.
“Trump’s final pullout deadline was in July”
The agreement literally said… ‘Coalition will complete the withdrawal of their remaining forces from Afghanistan within 14 months following the announcement of this joint declaration and the U.S.-Taliban agreement, and will withdraw all their forces from remaining bases, subject to the Taliban’s fulfillment of its commitments under the U.S.-Taliban agreement.’
So no, July was not a hard deadline.
The US could wait, indefinitely, ‘subject to the Taliban’s fulfillment of its commitments’, to negotiate with the Afghan government.
Democrat Biden pulled out, refusing to wait for Taliban & Afghan government negotiations to complete.
This is 100% of #CutAndRun Democrat Biden
“The worst thing I wrote about you were misinformed”
You did more than that. You omitted the word before “misinformed” in your accusation of me. You might want to see the accusations & attributions of my person to various unseemly groups. People can clearly read the thread. The personal belligerence towards myself from you is self evident.
So far, I have repeatedly updated nearly every point with citations from liberal news sources, your own standard, as well as primary sources (ie Joint Declaration between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the United States of America for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan), so it is clear where the misinformation lies.
If you don’t like the way people treat you, perhaps you should treat them the way you would like to be treated (ie repeatedly referring to someone as “dummy”, “extreme”, “misinformed”, etc. does not help the cause for serious dialog.)
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@andrewcombe8907 - “don’t know why US police departments need these beasts”
Along the southern border, state police get into shootouts with drug cartels crossing the southern border with military vehicles, who are shooting at the state police using 50 cal mounted machine guns
During the 2020 election cycle, hours and hours of footage was aired on the news with cities being burned down, police cars being destroyed, police cars being firebombed, police being assassinated in police cars, etc.
Firemen and Ambulances were getting shot at, during the 2020 election cycle in the US, when responding to people calling 911 during the riots.
Clearly, the past few years demonstrated the need exists to transport police & other first responders safely to a hot spot, not necessarily for day to day use.
Before I saw the craziness during the US 2020 election cycle, I agreed with you. Then, reality set in.
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[Or Ka] -“US and EU imperialism”
[David] - “Ummm… PKK is designated at a terrorist organization in the US, for a very long time.”
@orka6848 - “I’m… living there”
If you’re living there, then you would know that the PKK was designated as a terrorist organization and suggesting that a terrorist organization designation, at the request of Turkey, is in any way related to imperialism, is nonsensical.
There is no way for the US to colonize Turkey by designating the PKK as a terrorist organization. The designation is a request by Turkey, to cooperate with Turkey, in Turkey’s protection of it’s citizens.
There is no way for the EU to colonize Turkey by designating the PKK as a terrorist organization. The designation is a request by Turkey, to cooperate with Turkey, in Turkey’s protection of it’s citizens.
Turkey is an EU partner, by treaties initiated by Turkey. Turkey repeatedly initiating relations with the EU has nothing to do with the EU colonizing Turkey.
Where did you ever get the idea that designating a terrorist organizations and cooperating with Turkey, when Turkey is requesting cooperation, is somehow trying to colonize Turkey?
I am uncertain how anyone can reasonably come to that conclusion through formal logic.
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10:05 - @ArturRehi “Trump and Elan are guiding the country in a fascist way, authoritarian way”
No, if the unelected in government refuses to follow civilian leadership, where the civilians elected a new executive & legislature, and the government employees get fired when they refuse to follow lawful policy of the elected officials — then this is called Democracy!!!
When unelected officials work AGAINST citizen voted & elected leadership, then this is the antithesis of representative government… this is a coup, where some unelected figurehead somewhere is calling the shots & keeping the people’s will, which was legally & overwhelmingly voted for in an election, from being realized. That unelected figurehead leading the coup, the authoritarian.
This is the way, for better or for worse, that an elected government is supposed to work… especially when all branches of government, through the elected process, are in agreement.
Who the heck are unelected bureaucrats, that they can reject the executive & legislative branches of government, when the judicial branch gives the elected government permission to change policies? The unelected bureaucrats are nobody but servants of the people, servants of their elected representatives… if unelected bureaucrats are not servants of their elected representatives, then they should be fired… otherwise they are the authoritarians who are left to remain in power & rot a nation from the inside.
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@husniabdelqader6669 - “since you buy the Israeli narrative”
On the contrary, I read the Hamas Charter and buy their narrative.
Hamas is ok 👌🏽 with not waging war against non-Muslims, as long as Muslims are in charge, as per article 31. Hamas is most certainly an apartheid regime, at best. At worst, it is an advocacy of fast [war] or slow [apartheid] genocide. It is the most bigoted founding document 📃 in modern existence.
“Would you admit there are two sets of laws”
One for the nation of Israel 🇮🇱, one for the almost nation of Palestine 🇵🇸. Eventually, Palestine 🇵🇸 should administer their own laws.
“One for the Palestinians and another for the Jews”
Only in the territories of Palestine 🇵🇸 where Palestinians almost governs.
In Gaza, for example, Jews & Christians must live under Muslim rule (according to Hamas charter) while there is no such religious restriction in Israel 🇮🇱.
“Apartheid… Jim Crow”
Yes, people understand this perfectly.
In Arab countries, they put your religion on your identity documents and treat people differently under the law, depending on their religion. The territory of Palestine 🇵🇸 tries to do the same thing.
“why is this different?”
Israel 🇮🇱 does not tag people according to their religion & administer them differently, unlike the Apartheid Arab regimes.
“you’re just willingly ignorant”
When the Arabs conquered Palestine 🇵🇸, the Arab Invaders instituted a different set of laws for the conquered Palestinians [Christians & Jews & Muslims are differentiated under Sharia Law] than Israel 🇮🇱 [law is attempted to be implemented uniformly for Christians & Jews & Muslims, with Arabs given preferential treatment over Jews in areas like educational scholarships.] (full disclosure: personally, I disagree with any existing preferential treatment for majority groups in Palestine or minority groups in Israel.)
Jordan 🇯🇴 & Egypt 🇪🇬 gave Palestine 🇵🇸 back the land that they conquered, with the intention that Palestine 🇵🇸 would stand up a state. Palestine 🇵🇸 never stood up a state.
Instead, Palestine 🇵🇸 outsourced their military & tax collection to Israel 🇮🇱, in exchange for a check 💵, and a promise to negotiate borders, which never happened. (This was a perverse incentive, since Palestinians get money 💴 for the status-quo of not standing up a state.)
Palestine’s 🇵🇸 outsourcing results in different laws for their territories, as per the agreement the Palestinian Authority made with Israel 🇮🇱… Palestine 🇵🇸 apparently want laws of Egypt 🇪🇬 & Jordan 🇯🇴 , the UK 🇬🇧 administration, and Ottoman Empire before that. Palestine 🇵🇸 has a “tossed salad” 🥗 of laws, compared to Israel.
At some point, Palestine 🇵🇸 needs to stand up a state, and stop expecting Israel 🇮🇱 to help administer laws set up by foreign nations like Egypt 🇪🇬 & Jordan 🇯🇴 & UK 🇬🇧 & [non-existent] Ottoman Empire.
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This was an amazing overview!
The choice for the dual solar charge controllers and dual inverters was interesting to me and I decided to go a different route.
I am trying to simplify setup, reduce components, drive down idle consumption, reduce cost, plus run A/C from my panels to the house instead of higher current D/C.
I decided to go with ~34 kWh of Li-Ion automobile battery modules, so as not to worry about bus bars, compression, and where to recycle in the future.
I picked up a single discontinued Delta H6 6 KWh grid tie inverter for panels, to avoid solar charge controllers. (The power will directly run my household needs.)
My single Genetry Solar 12 KWh whole house inverter (on order) will charge batteries from excess power on the outputs (generated by my solar panels through H6 grid tie inverter), throttle the H6 grid tie when there is excess power & batteries are full, and enable the mains from the electric company when batteries are too low.
I plan on picking up 5 KWh of used panels this upcoming weekend.
I love the way you did your batteries!
You definitely sold me on the JK BMS!
Getting ready to order that, to add to my existing battery bank.
Why didn’t you just parallel an East Roof strings with a West Roof string?
Just curious since I would think as the sun moved from East to West that the parallel strings would help give longer consistent power on the same wires, albeit with a higher peak at high noon?
I did not know if this was a no-no with panels or just a choice on your side for isolation purposes?
You have been an amazing help, thank you for what you do for the DIY community!
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@Spencergolde - “salt water has high resistance”
Make the plates closer. Done.
I just built a nice electrolyzer about 2 months ago, had a chance to make some H2, O2, and HHO…
“Complexity… many valves”
Humanity has been harvesting & using H2 since the 1800’s. Cold War Russia even had an H2 plane flying around!
Humanity has been doing this, for ~150 years, it is not insurmountable.
“…bulk energy storage”
Natural Gas is already contains a percentage of H2, it is stored in bulk, and it is piped around. H2. South Korea is using H2 as an intermediary so they can charge EV’s without straining their grid.
The problem is not technical, but political.
Before the Ukraine invasion, EU was engaging Ukraine for H2 storage & to be an H2 producer.
H2 solves the issues we currently have with other renewables, that only natural gas paired with turbines can solve.
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Your comment was thoughtful and intriguing.
I would suggest to you, that your last sentence is less than congruous with the rest of your comment.
Russia, formerly with a GDP of South Korea, is not able to conquer the U.S., since Russia can not project hard or soft power like the U.S. Russia can no longer take over a neighboring nation, like Ukraine, even though Ukraine is fighting entirely with their own soldiers.
China is interesting. The world hoped for so much more than what they had become. Largely, it was the US who kept China from extinguishing Korean Culture, with early Chinese occupation of Western Koreans [inland from their peninsula], then the Red takeover & subsequent Chinese propped up puppet dictatorships of North Korea, and finally with a million Chinese soldiers being beaten back to the current border of South Korea.
The imperialism & genocide of people & cultures by nations like Russia & China [through the power of the gun] is less preferable to people making their own decisions via influence by soft power.
The US has demonstrated their willingness to preserve peoples, vs destroying them (like Russia & China.) There are cultures in the US which are highly destructive [like woke culture], but the US is also a protector of various minority cultures both domestic & foreign [as long as they can maintain their cultures through their own due diligence.]
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“still pushing for natural gas and nuclear plants instead of wind and solar”
Ummm… solar NEEDS natural gas peaker plants.
Computer data centers require constant power 24x7, well suited for nuclear.
Electric car fast chargers (40% of US residents rent, so charging at home is mostly for the wealthier home owner) get peak usage right before the sun comes up and at the end of the work day as the sun is going down, slightly missing the solar curve, requiring natural gas peaker plants.
Air conditioning and heating costs exist when the sun goes down, people return home, and there is no sunlight for PV panels. Sure, we need batteries, with their hazardous materials, but we are no where near where we must be to recycle them. Batteries have a relatively short life expectancy when heavily used. Recycling batteries required incredible amount of heat energy, which is never accounted for in efficiency ratings.
Sure, batteries to supplement power sounds good, but this brings a whole new issue.
We need energy solutions with no hazardous materials & easy/efficient to recycle.
Lead acid is easy to recycle, with north of 98% recycled, but load acid still has hazardous materials. Lithium is the worst of both worlds, with lithium in water linked to autism in children, close to 95% is dumped & leaching into water supplies, and recycling still has hazardous materials remaining for anything disposed of.
Maybe salt batteries. 🙏🏼
Wind kills birds, as does thermal. Wind mills still have a recycling problem. Wind blade recycling is a nightmare, with huge wind blade dump yards appearing around the globe.
All energy is dirty & dangerous. Carbon based fuels are still the best for recycling, if we could just grow more green plants to recycle CO2, capture CO2 to turn into fuel directly, and just be more efficient… but people are still producing more CO2 than is being recycled.
Hydrogen looks like a good bet for recycling. ♻️ If only H2 production was not linked to solar ☀️, wind 💨 , natural gas, oil, and coal. Tidal production of H2 looks like it could be a truly viable solution, since H2 can be stored, transported, and conversion to energy can be done in low-tech combustion or through high tech fuel cells — allowing for a gradual ramp up of existing well recycle ♻️ technology to newer technology.
Honestly, the recycling is the biggest problem we are not taking seriously enough. Anyone who says we have a solution is either disingenuous or ignorant.
We need more energy. Period. We need it all. We need to figure out how to recycle ♻️ whatever remains. What recycles best should be increased, what recycles worst should be minimized. We need all energy forms, to avoid crisis when there is a bottleneck (example bottlenecks included: 1970’s embargo, power line constraint in California, polar vortex which caused blackouts in Texas & Mexico, electrical outage across North East & which extended into Canada, etc.)
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@klepow - the problem is that rail is generally half duplex, one train 🚊 travels on the rail at a time going into a city. Maybe 2 trains 🚂 on a line, in the same direction, but not traveling the same line in opposing directions. Large segments of rail are shared. Sharing is more limited.
With airports, multiple planes can be in the air at a time, hovering in queue, at different altitudes, and they are landing 🛬 one plane a minute. All day long. They look like strings of beads in the sky. It is more like a full duplex network line.
Sure, we may have multiple rails entering a city, like multiple runways to an airport, but those runways are constantly in use by multiple planes, coming and going fairly rapidly within x mins, and the planes ✈️ can all be coming in and out, without the need to build the rail infrastructure between each point… only at the end points.
To increase simultaneous usage with rail, more rail must be built & maintained, more rails between each & every point.
To increase simultaneous usage with air, more planes ✈️ take off and land on existing runways, and adding a runway is easier than adding a rail, since the sky does not have to be built or maintained.
Trains 🚂 are so 1800’s. The amount of energy & co2 required to make the steel, crush the rocks for the rail bed, create the ties of wood or concrete, swap the ties on a regular basis, inspect the rails, dispose of the old rails & ties, railroad ties are dumped in stacks on old railroad 🛤️ land (I used to live by such an area). Concrete is buried in landfills. It is outrageous! The energy used & waste is unbelievable!
For the planes, we use radar to make sure the air is clear, we don’t inspect the air for flaws to replace the air when a defect is seen (just avoid occasional storms, which clear up), don’t need to dispose of bad air with defects (storms drop their rain 🌧️ and all is good). Plants 🌱 grow from the CO2. Nitrogen becomes fertilizers for the plants 🪴. The rain 🌧️ waters plants. Cows 🐮 eat plants 🌱. We eat burgers 🍔. All is good 👍🏼 in the world 🗺️
Honestly, air travel is much more economical & environmentally friendly.
Once we have flying cars, this discussion will be so irrelevant.
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@Ecaea - “indiscriminate bombing regardless”
Actually, that is Hamas’s plan. They launch rockets at civilian sites, by the thousands! (That is why Hamas is referred to as a terrorist organization.)
On the other hand, we know that Israel tracks where the rockets are launched from, they have maps, then they target the launch locations. If those launch locations happen to be next to civilian infrastructure, which we know happens, that infrastructure is negatively impacted.
“In the history of every single war, nobody planned to mix…”
Nope, happened all the time.
“we NEVER HAD ANY KIND OF SOLUTIONS to this kind of issues?”
Sure we did, it is called the Geneva Convention.
When combatants mix with civilian attire & perform attacks, they are unlawful combatants, and they are not give the same protections of civilians or military personnel. We colloquially call them terrorists.
When terrorists launch attacks, disguising themselves as civilians, regarding infrastructure, that infrastructure becomes legitimate targets in war, and there is no protection.
“Did you not read what Israel had in its plan for war?”
I saw the published maps with red dots on various rocket launch sites, so yep… we knew exactly where they were going to bomb, because they knew where the missiles are being loaded & launched from.
“They planned to bomb Gaza first, before sending in the troops”
They better bomb those locations where rockets were being repeatedly launched, before sending in soldiers, since they would be more likely to hit the terrorists who were launching missiles from those civilian sites, therefore eliminating many of them and saving civilian lives.
“indeed seem themselves as superior over…”
As I read the Hamas charter, it is pretty clear who considers themselves superior. The opening section has:
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it"
During WW2, this type of behavior was called Islamic Fascism, and they aligned with the losing side of Hitler. These are the dregs of survivors, many of the European Muslim fighters under Hitler were imported into Palestine, as mercenaries, to destroy Israel, the surrounding Arab nations destroyed Palestine, kept them from standing up a nation, but could not destroy Israel.
It is time to stand up a peaceful Palestine, so their people can live normal lives, instead of allowing them to be treated like the children extracted from the Balkans (who became Janissaries) to be weaponized slave armies, or the slave armies of Persia which were extracted from the Caucuses.
This is the 21st Century, this has to come to an end.
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@JHM52 - “Obama inherited…”
…enough cash from the Bush deficit to run a budget surplus, but failed.
Obama was a senator, who not only contributed to the economic disaster, through the laws he passed during is time as a Democrat lawmaker.
The Democrats, a few decades earlier, passed the CRA, which enabled blackmailed rioters to blackmail banks into providing subprime loans in exchange for being allowed to open new branches in new neighborhoods, and then their policy led to a banking crisis in a few decades from too many banks going under.
In order to resolve the Democrat created banking crises, Obama & McCain both agreed with Bush to take massive loans out of the Bush administration, to stabilize the economy.
Obama & McCain agreed to the huge Bush spending deficit, because the loans were paid back [with interest] during what would be their future administration.
Obama should have run a surplus, with all the Bush deficit money loaned to banks which was paid back with interest to the federal government, but Democrats were as incompetent to create the banking crisis, as they were with the incredible gift to make it possible to balance the budget.
So incompetent, the Democrats who wrote the spending bills for Obama, still could not balance the budget, and Obama was incapable of getting people back to work by canceling the rules which encouraged people to work instead of receiving government benefits, and his political party was responsible for the failure of the a king system through their little blackshirts & brownshirts.
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Agreed that Battery Technology [largely controlled by Asia] will not be able to supply the needs from simple swings in weather, as experienced in Texas when the windmills & solar panels froze over, for many days.
We saw when the Texas wind & solar froze over, even if the wind & solar did not freeze over, they would not have been able to boost their output to meet the peak demand of heat required… and the Nuclear plants could not peak high enough.
This left the Natural Gas plants, which had incredible peak capabilities, but there was not enough natural gas to supply Mexico & Texas… which resulted in blackouts across Central & North America.
In the end, the US would likely be better off generating Hydrogen (from excessive wind & solar & nuclear), storing H2 in huge storage facilities, having large H2 cracking facilities on-shore & off-shore which could turn on to replenish the H2 reserves in a pinch, and use H2 in already existing turbines which can run on H2.
Hydrogen means every nation with a coastline can make their own batteries (in the form of an H2 tank) and create peak power on demand, without ever running out of Natural Gas.
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[David H] - “Battery technology… not be able to supply the needs from simple swings in weather… experienced in Texas”
@alexstergaard3551 - “That is also not true. It depends on the type of battery chosen to do the task”
Dude, you’re on drugs.
Instead of Natural Gas running 10 gigawatt hours and occasionally peaking at 20 gigawatt hours… the minimum NG energy production was 20 gigawatt hours, then 30 gigawatt hours, then 40 gigawatt hours, then hovering 30 gigawatt hours… while peaking around 50 gigawatt hours for weeks!
The only thing holding down energy consumption were blackouts, an area the size of much of Western Europe, for weeks.
To think that 3x of the largest amount of energy Nuclear could produce will be supplied by batteries, for weeks, in the event of another weather downturn, is delusional.
A typical Redox installation is 1 megawatt, for under a half day. Texas would need about 40,000 installations for a half day, then for 2 weeks, assuming the best opportunity of 12 hours to complete drain, they would need 1,120,000 battery installations. Then, they would need to keep them all charged, somehow.
They will never build & maintain that much battery power, no matter how nice redox-flow batteries are. This is the wrong use case.
Batteries, with their low energy density, can not replace peak generators. Batteries can [and should] smooth out the grid, with unreliable generators like Solar & Wind.
To be honest, H2 is needed in a carbon free future, to perform peak generation roles that only carbon based Natural Gas can fill today, without coal & oil. Ignoring that increases sole dependency on Natural Gas, which is dangerous.
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@GiorniVenibato - Democrat Mayor Ed Koch of New York City signed an executive order restricting city employees from sharing information about undocumented people with federal authorities.
Democrats Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio pushed through three laws that placed more restrictions on city agencies cooperating with federal officials.
It is hard to metric illegal alien crimes when you can’t easily share the data. (Some data may be shared, like if an illegal immigrant is convicted of a murder, for example.)
Administrative retainers issued by ICE are not honored in similar cities, resulting in repeated criminal conduct.
Let’s look at one case…
Yohenry Brito, 24, of Venezuela crossed illegally into El Paso TX, apprehended by border agents May 9, 2023, and was released into the US under the orders of the Democrat Biden / Harris Administration’s DHS on May 17, 2023.
he allegedly helped savagely beat the two cops alongside at least two other migrants tied to the ruthless Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang.
Brito was charged in the sanctuary city, released with his 6 accomplices, another approximately 6 perpetrators were never caught. 4 of the released escaped by bus, headed possibly to California.
It was later revealed to the public that he had two pending misdemeanor theft cases, was eventually ordered held on $15,000 bond (because beating people is not enough to hold an illegal immigrant in a sanctuary city.)
The activist & not so Rev. Juan Ruiz of “sanctuary church” Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, put up the $15,000 for his release.
Two months later, caught trying to steal children’s clothing and “fragrances” from Macy’s Herald Square flagship store, let out again.
He robbed a Sephora in July when he cut security wires on display cases to steal perfumes.
He robbed a Sephora in early August when he ripped off $1,358 worth of merchandise from store shelves before fleeing with an accomplice, who was not arrested.
By the way, this has been 12 months, no convictions to count on crime metrics being reported.
After an arrest, Gomez-Izquiel, another of the police beaters was followed by ICE on social media and snagged him for deportation upon release, even though New York City did not share with ICE the beaters illegal immigrant status.
Deported illegal immigrants prior conviction of all crimes & illegal immigrants escaping a jurisdiction prior prosecution do not get their crimes tallied as illegal immigrants.
There were a lot of illegal immigrants in the thread of crime above, who were never caught & prosecuted & deported for the criminal actions listed above… 1 of 12.
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Hey @agr18181 - water may be at the poles, a robot may have to do a run & harvest some, using autonomous programming. 40 years ago, I programmed a BigTrak to go around my house and drop off stuff at a destination… systems are much more intelligent today!
3D Printers may produce various building materials required for a dome.
Living quarters would need to be underground to some extent, because it is so cold, robots could dig those… that material could then be processed to create the material to print the building materials with… I have seen 3D printed domes made in the US - quite interesting!
Really, the transparent portions of the done will need to be transported… unless they could make glass up there. If not, just transfer sand, or pick up the sand on the moon before sending it to Mars.
Anything is possible with some robots, 3D printing parts, and enough energy. We have what we need today.
The problem of getting off Mars, after arriving, is a bigger problem. SpaceX is closer to anything we have ever seen, with rocket boosters that can land vertically.
Nuclear engines can be used to handle the propulsion between the planets. The need for solid or liquid fuel to get out of the atmosphere & gravitational fields is still a problem.
Take people out there, excrement will be available as organic material for soil conditioning.
Plenty of people don’t want to have children on the earth, they are perfect candidates for living on Mars, since they are not concerned about any next generation, so they would live well there.
In some ways, it would be like early settlers leaving Europe and headed to the New World. Most died at first, but some flourished.
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0:30 - “Trump… abolishing department of education… demolishing state funding of public schools”
Nope, this is incorrect.
Education has been fascist in the United States for some time. The Democrat Biden government forced males to use use female locker & rest rooms, which resulted in girls getting assaulted, both physically & sexually assaulted in the US… and the department of education was used by Demoncrats by threatening to withhold federal lunch money funds for children.
When the parents of victims went to local school board meetings, the Democrat Biden Administration went after them by investigating assault victims for terrorism via the Justice Department. I know of at least one father who was arrested when he spoke up about his assaulted daughter… all because Biden used Department of Education to decline lunch money to potentially millions of children to enforce his assault on girls agenda.
The Department of Education funding is to be block granted to the states, directly… cutting the fascist department of education in the federal government completely out of the loop. This means more money per student, by cutting out the political middle-men & middle-women, who provide no tangible benefit except coercing opportunities for physical & sexual assaults.
The US voted to stop the sexual & physical assaults on their children, to stop the Democrat empowered federal government from sending in their black shirts & brown shirts to silence the family of physical & sexual assault victims. Trump did that with an executive order, and is now removing the mechanism by which they can do it again, once he is out of office.
Downvoting video because you have no idea what is happening in the US.
I am ashamed of you, Artur.
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Homogeneous means groups don’t fight with each other, they realize everyone benefits when they succeed!
In countries like the US, sometimes labor fights against management, sometimes poor pitted against rich, sometimes ethnicities fight against other ethnicities… usually when someone finds a way to profit from making division, by holding the greater hostage to some compromise that is not beneficial for the whole.
This negative behavior, repeated, eventually destroys the whole.
In countries like the US, as long as people see themselves as “Americans”, not as labor, not as an ethnicity, amazing things are possible… but this is getting harder and harder with destructive thought like critical race theory, which teaches dumb concepts encouraging people to concentrate on differences, instead of unity & the whole.
For example, iron by itself is great! Take Iron & combine with carbon, manganese, phosphorous, sulfur, silicon, and sometimes nickel & chromium - one gets various grades of steel, which is far superior to iron alone, but if one is taught to only concentrates on carbon & ignore iron & other elements, superior steel is never possible. Piles of iron, carbon, chromium, nickel, etc. which never mix, never can make steel, they must mixed together and the end products become piles of homogeneous steel products.
Homogeny is an important thing in society. One must see themselves as part of a bigger thing, ignore superficial differences, and build a better everything.
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@FieryCoal - as cancer eats our body parts away, maybe these batteries can just run replacement systems for nearly everything that needs replacement?
Kidneys, eyes, heart, maybe multiple little hearts, multiple oxygen exchangers instead of 2x lungs, new ear implants, etc. Super capacitors collect the regular charge from the batteries for usage, expend as necessary.
Certainly would make great ends or exoskeleton batteries, which charge super capacitors when we sleep.
Cost could be offset by low power broadcast (BlueTooth like protocol) of images seen by artificial eyes, pressure measured by artificial ears, etc. where Google World could map the world via receiving signals from participating Android cellphones?
All ad funded, graft funded by supporting various politicians for political office, propaganda funded by having access to huge markets that would have ordinarily locked them out [for merely filtering content as the political entity/entities desires], etc. like today.
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14:12 - “America is like an oligarchy… where the wealth goes from middle class and poorer classes… to the rich”
In the US, the poorer classes do not pay income tax. The upper middle & wealthy classes pay most of the federal income taxes.
Under the previous Democrat Biden Administration, they created tax incentives to create the oligarchy, and then used government organizations like EPA to pay their new oligarchs. Democrat President Biden transferred $2 Billion to failed US Georgia Governor candidate Democrat Stacy Abram’s newly (just days old) created non-profit, as Biden was leaving office.
In the US, the oligarchs are created by Democrats through government corruption… and controlled via money, in exchange to their obedience to control the population.
The capitalists, like Trump, create wealth through building stuff.
There is a difference between corruption and winning by playing by the rules.
Republican Trump is ripping apart the infrastructure paying the corrupt oligarchs in the United States.
Artur, you need to not take the side of the oligarchs against the elected people, who are trying to defund the oligarchs!
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I don’t know how you could be right in so many points but wrong on some key points.
The Trump Administration sees increased US & Saudi Arabian production to be the key to bringing down energy prices, not solely “drill drill drill” (which is half the puzzle.)
Furthermore, this will also bring pressure to ending the war in Ukraine, as it will drain the remaining reserves of the Russian government.
This will reduce inflation, as well as a strong border policy, which will end more people living in the US than what the US permits for housing… these two things will end inflation and bring a temporary quantity of deflation as markets are “right sized”.
The building of pipelines, which is also strategic, will also bring better energy independence, which is in this president’s agenda.
I wish someone would build a pipeline from Texas to California — we need to end oil shipments via port. Those ports in California are a problem.
Also, a pipeline from Alaska via Canada, possibly to connect to Keystone, would be fabulous!
Offshore oil accidents are a nightmare.
Let’s hope for the sake of North America that a lot can get done in 4 years.
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Hey @ouethojlkjn -
3 cylinder with turbo, that is a lot of complexity, I don’t think I would specifically seek that engine out. I’ve heard about reliability issues, but no personal experience with them, or people I know. (I am sure a turbo is more fun than my car! 😀)
Ford & GM EV cars batteries older than 6-8 years seem to have battery life expectancy & availability & cost issues. Maybe Tesla will be better, as they age, as you suspect.
I am glad you like your purchase!
I considered EV, but too expensive for my budget, and I make 1000 mile / 1600 km trips 1x or 2x a year. I guess I could rent a car.
I almost bought a plug-in hybrid Ford CMax, but I bought a pure ICE 4 cylinder Ford Focus. The plug in hybrid was a little too expensive & trunk/hatch/boot space a little too small.
The mileage on the 4 cylinder focus was competitive. I am pretty happy. I’ve hauled thousands of concrete block with the split fold down seats, and most recently hauled 39 10’ steel Unistrut /w a passenger for my solar panel project. Not sure I would feel OK doing the home projects I do, with an EV that costs 3x more.
Enjoy your car! 🚗
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00:25 — Democrat Joe Biden “is only interested in more money and power” for himself & his political cronies
- Democrat Bill Clinton, whose wife became Biden’s Secretary of State, made Ukraine give up their nukes & rockets & bombers to Russia (which Russia is using bombers & rockets to hit Ukraine now)
- Democrats Obama & Biden sent no lethal aid to Ukraine during Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in the 21st Century
- Democrat Joe Biden sent his son to skim money from Ukraine Energy Sector during his Vice Presidency
- Democrat Joe Biden threatened to withhold military aid, when Russia already invaded Ukraine, unless the prosecutor who was investigating his son’s energy company employer was sacked
- Democrats Obama & Biden & Clinton sold off US Uranium Assets to Russian oligarchs
- Democrats Obama & Biden shut down the US manned space exploration funding of NASA & outsourced it to Russia, to fund their rocket development (rockets are now being used to bomb Ukraine)
- Democrats National Committee & Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election cycle funded & used Russian propaganda to create a false dossier to keep Trump from being elected
- Democrats National Committee & Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election cycle funded the use of Russian propaganda to create a undermine President Trump’s Executive Branch during his 2017-2020 term
- Democrat Biden took money from Russian Oligarchs
- Democrat Biden was elected President in 2020 largely through Russian propaganda fed organizations during country wide Election Year 2020 riots (the signs were the same signs signatures they appearing during other elections where Democrats tried to come to power, over the past decades.)
- Democrat President Biden rewarded Putin by making Russia the #2 energy supplier of the US
- Democrat President Biden rewarded Putin by repeatedly promising Russia that the US would send no soldiers to Ukraine when Russia invades a second time
- Democrat Biden sent Vice President Harris to “fix” the border problem in Ukraine, after she failed miserably to fix the US border problem with Mexico
- Democrat Biden’s military training was to train Ukrainian forces to foster civil unrest after Russia would take over Ukraine
- Democrat President Biden refused to send retiring Cold War era A10 WortHogs to Ukraine when the second Russian invasion of Ukraine started (another page out of the do-nothing for Ukraine when Russia invades playbook)
- Democrats President Biden was shamed into sending lethal aid to Ukraine, after Zelenskyy rejected his secret carpet ride out of Ukraine (like Biden evacuated Afghan president out, to give Afghanistan to the Taliban!)
- Democrats President Biden still has done nothing about the US Clean Nuclear Energy that they sold off to Russia, no Ukraine sanctions on it! (Green New Deal funds China & Russia!)
- Democrat President Biden killed the 2023 Ukraine Funding Bill by having the Democrats in vote 100% to eject the pro-Ukrainian House Leader… leading up to no Ukraine war funding for 6 months
- Democrats President Biden has been dragging his feet on sending air support, for years… finally promising F-16’s, which have not arrived
No, Biden & the Democrat Party were paid off, in money for personal gain & propaganda for their elections — and were willing to help Russia every step of the way
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“randomly falling corn” was the worst part of the video, where Jason could have applied his time speaking about pragmatic concerns like farm equipment reuse, land reuse for different types of corn, expertise gained to make the land appropriate to switch in a single season between human food, animal food, machine fuel… as well as the added benefits of long term storage for each in food jars, food cans, animal barns, as well as storage tanks.
He looked like he was mocking something he did not understand, while concentrating on a few finer points solely related to engines.
During a time of crisis, like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, planting some more fuel grade corn may be the ticket to helping in the current energy crunch we are in, since solar & wind do not power our existing portable infrastructure today.
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Hi @lenny5774 -
I am glad you are “anointed by God” - maybe you can tell us what prophet anointed you & how your life has been different since you have been anointed/separated onto God’s work?
“do wrong, God will forgive you”
This is where compassion is: when one admits to God the wrongs and repents [turns away from their wrong behavior], one can be forgiven. This is not corrupt, it is personal, between an individual & God.
“The Crusades”
People have made pilgrimage to religious sites for a thousand years, interfering with those pilgrims creates risks with the governments they originate from. Ultimately, when Jerusalem was conquered and pilgrims were abused, instead of being protected, negotiation with the conqueror failed because the conquer refused to honor the Muslim tax on unbelievers [Jizya] for safe passage, and the Crusades began with governments from Europe going to liberate Jerusalem & guarantee the safety of their citizens. It was successful, with Pilgrims having free access to Jerusalem to this very day.
“No such thing as evolution”
The Bible is silent on evolution, although Darwin was educated in a Christian seminary and modeled Evolution on Genesis 1
“Religion… second most polarizing”
It does not need to be, if people merely speak respectfully & without judging others. Those who act judgmental create a problem with dialog.
“Where in The Bible are the Commandments for running a country?”
There was only one set of commandments for running a specific country in The Middle East, listed in Leviticus for the first people to return to their ancestral homeland [but they refused to go], repeated again in Deuteronomy [the second giving of The Law] to the next generation who would return to their ancestral homeland. Those laws applied to a group of people in a particular land for a particular time.
Christianity does not have a legal framework for government, unlike religions like Islam. No chopping off hands for stealing, burning down your house for not showing up for prayers at the designated prayer area, etc.
Christianity has a framework for personal interaction with others, where principles for personal interactions can be extruded to benefit larger societies, like: love one another, love your neighbor, your neighbor is a person who may be of a different religion & ethnicity, etc.
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Hi @lenny5774 -
“Your sarcasm towards my quote ‘Appointed by God’ “
No sarcasm, it was a legitimate question for a claim you made.
“Leviticus is a system of barbaric…”
You need to be more inclusive and be less judgmental towards that group of people.
“Muslims and Christian’s called each other heathens since… Jesus Christ”
Islam came about over a half millennium later, so your assertion is clearly incorrect.
“They won’t collaborate running any country”
Happens in the US, all day long, since liberals around Detroit imported people from the Middle East to diversify their workforce, since liberals felt there were too many people of color working the assembly lines.
“Neither religion will allow it”
Well, assesses that incorrect assertion.
“Quran and the Bible are both filled with contradictions on how to treat each other”
The Quran was written down over a half millennium after The Bible was written, so there is no reference to Muslims or Islam in The Bible.
Your assertion is clearly faulty.
“Both religious have a longer history of brutality than benevolence”
Loving your Enemy, Hospitals 🏥, Schools 🏫, The basis for the Scientific Method, Multi-branches government with division of power, and ultimately Western Civilization are rooted in Christianity ✝️.
In the 20th century, ~100 million civilians died at the hands of Atheistic Communists in 100 years - nothing of that brutality could ever be compared.
“Seminaries… Darwin’s time”
Darwin, a person of privilege, went to university to become a doctor, like family members before him, but but dropped out and went to seminary. Darwin was a theologian.
When you read Genesis 1, you will notice that the ordering of creatures in Darwin’s evolutionary tree looks very similar to the ordering of creature listed in the text.
“Timeline of the Bible to Jesus…”
Darwin did not write of Jesus, he was becoming his own prophet, for his own profit.
“Crusades were the design of colonialism”
Colonialism was not an activity by the European ethnicities at this time, rather Europeans from The Iberian Peninsula, the Balkans, and Caucuses were being enslaved by Muslims during that time.
The colonialism was being done by the Arabs & Persians, and Moors… committing genocide across the Middle East, North Africa, and Into Central Asia.
“Christians felt they had a right to be there, anyone else be damn”
You missed the fact that there was no issues with Christians making pilgrimages there, mostly for a millennium. They did not care who were in charge. After the crusades, Christians did not care who was in command as well.
All Christians cared about was safety of their person in travel. Personal safety, and not being slaved is not too much to ask.
“Not covet thy neighbor’s ass”
Perhaps read around the whole section, and it becomes clearer:
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” - Exodus 20:17 NKJV
It seems pretty applicable today, with all the Adultery and Divorce we have today, not to mention transportation theft like car jacking & scooter hijacking’s most recently.
Just because you and I think we know things does not mean we can’t have a civil conversation. I think we did ok 👌
Best wishes to you!
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@garysmith5025 - “solar panels… replaced”
I bought 40 solar panels, that were about 7 years old, saving them from the land fill.
Over half of the panels I manually sorted through under-produced electricity & were left behind… to be disposed of.
I have seen whole solar panel farms turned over, buried in pits, and new housing put on top of them.
Why don’t solar panels make it 25+ years?
So many reasons…
- value of land rises faster than the value of solar panels in producing energy (due to the horribly low energy density of panels)
- high cost of deinstallation & reinstallation, so when roof work needs to be done, old panels in reasonable shape are disposed of with new panels installed
- hail, destroying solar panels over incredibly large areas, in a single storm, then disposed of
- fire, panels igniting, burning down a home, and the panels then being sent for disposal
- electronics go bad on microinverters, and it is just easier to rip up the whole solar panel installation on a roof
- rodents eating away at piping, roofing, wiring… under a roofing installation. Such experiences encourage people to deinstall, to repair the roof, and never bother installing again, leading to disposal
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18:05 - “that is the mission which should have been focused on and supported… Iraq… false pretenses… Afghanistan… blew up into something that became about regime change, governance, the taliban, and less focused on Al-Qaeda & Osama bin Laden”
This was a very long run on sentence, but I can only agree with most of what she said.
Democrat Bill Clinton’s policy of “containment” of Iraq 🇮🇶 required US troops in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Osama bin Laden’s Fatwa to make attacks against the United States 🇺🇸 was due to Americans [unbelievers] stationed in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦[the nation which hosts the “holy” cities of Mecca & Medina.]
Multiple Al-Qaida attacks on the US escalated during Democrat Bill Clinton’s administration including the first attack on the World Trade Center, which culminated in 9/11 during Republican George W Bush Administration.
The war with Iraq 🇮🇶 had the objective of regime change so the Bush Administration’s goal of removing soldiers from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 could be safely done… soldier removal from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 was achieved under Bush very early, the capture of Saddam Hussein occurred much later.
There was a long list of reasons for the Iraq 🇮🇶 war, they were all delineated in the law passed by a Democrat controlled Congress, but the War on Terror required the removal of soldiers from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 in order to remove the Islamic Legal Framework for Islamists around the world to attack the United States 🇺🇸
Some us think a different path could have been chosen by America 🇺🇸, but to suggest Iraq 🇮🇶 was a distraction is not entirely truthful, or the comment is made in ignorance.
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@dannywitz - “please look into the amount of energy consumed to make hydrogen…”
Renewables suck. Peak solar usage is so high that there is no value in selling it back to the grid. They shut down wind turbines because the grid can’t handle it. When the sun is down & wind stops or is too fast, they have to crank up the natural gas turbines. H2 solves all these issues, by consuming the solar energy that is negative in cost, keeping turbines running when they are overproducing, and can be stored to be used for peak power so natural gas is no longer needed. Refrigeration is not required, is can be pumped underground for storage & retrieval, the renewable energy is wasted now anyway, so we might as well use it.
“Lead acid batteries have a very high recycling rate”
True, north of 95%!
Lithium batteries have a low recycle rate, south of 5% worldwide… and lithium batteries are being used more.
“Hydrogen… needs expensive materials”
Aluminum is not expensive
“Electrical infrastructure is everywhere”
So is water, for H2 production.
“Electrical infrastructure… easily reconfigured”
Price getting a 50 Amp plug on the other side of your house and see how expensive that is.
An EV charge is north of 4x the electricity a house uses, at least my house, and the EV has to be charged in 15 minutes???
Sorry man, think about that, when people are driving home to their apartments (~30% of Americans) and they all want to charge up before they park their cars in a lot… or on the way to work because they could not get a slot before dinner!
This is a NON TRIVIAL problem.
The size of the electrical lines and power will require unbelievable peaking during those times, and local power generators will likely be required. They are already deploying diesel generators at EV charging stations, today.
NON TRIVIAL.
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@ChristianWagner888 - that is an amazing amount of work, done to your grandparents home!
My stick built home is over 50 years, now. A lot of work done, I will likely be here another 20-30 years. While most Americans may not desire durability, I made this purchase for durability, even as stick built.
My home is over 50 years old, my childhood home over 70 years old, my wife’s childhood home over 120 years old… all stick built: two houses had all the windows replaced, two of those houses added a bedroom, the third house added 3 bedrooms, one expanded a full bathroom, another added a laundry room & kitchen.
I’ve heard it said that a home is never really your own home until you make a significant addition. Perhaps, that is an American ideal.
I’m still not sure how this all scores on durability… perhaps durability is in the eye of the beholder. Enjoy your home!
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“humanism… religion… ethnocentrism”
At the heart of Ethnocentrism is family… extended family… grandparents… marriages… blood…
There is shared responsibility where people are willing to self-sacrifice to share with their own “flesh and blood” with extended family of Ethnocentrism.
Faith traditions which exalt care for & voluntary inclusions others of other ethnicity & religion (ie Jesus’s teaching on The Good Samaritan, Jesus’s Great Commission, historical account of Pentecost, etc.) had been historically tied to bringing Europe together, ending huge issues with Viking raids across Europe, East Asia, North Africa, and Western Middle East.
Humanism, where people are expected to care for all others, for the sake of their genetic makeup as humans, is just another take on Ethnocentrism, expanding the same old blood lines a little wider, brushing over other concerns, discounting the supernatural experiences many have. Greed is a competing factor, which struggles against humanism. We’ll see how it eventually works out.
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@allahkakafirbanda1939 - “they themselves were the biggest invaders” - after Muslim pirates took Americans 🇺🇸 captive & wanted a yearly ransom [ie Jizya] to “prevent” future raids [when the US did not have a standing army] & the US had to create a standing military force to deal with them, then they did it again & there was a second military conflict, there was WW1 which the US got sucked into after many dead innocent Americans 🇺🇸 & then the US finally got involved, there was WW2 where the US got involved after having ships sunk & homeland invaded where Hitler aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe, there was Iraq 🇮🇶 where a bomb maker killed Americans on the US Homeland & retreated into Iraq 🇮🇶 & refused to give him up & an invasion later happened, there was Afghanistan 🇦🇫 where people who orchestrated the bombing of the US homeland were not given to America 🇺🇸 when requested & resulted in an invasion.
It seems to be correct, had it not been for a very small minority of blood 🩸 thirsty Muslims who attacked America 🇺🇸 repeatedly, the US would not even have a standing army, military actions would have been completely unnecessary, and many forced invasions would have never occurred. Imagine a world where the US had no standing army - that would have been the world had Muslim Nations not started raiding US 🇺🇸 ships & killing Americans 🇺🇸.
Interestingly enough, after the objectives were complete, the US left the various nations in peace, instead of annexing them like colonizing Islamic Caliphates, which committed genocide as they took over nations across the world. 🌍
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With 241 coal power plants in the United States… there is not much opportunity for new energy production.
The electrical lines already being run is the most significant benefit to switching to new base power technology.
This small number of geothermal plants, in a land mass area, makes me feel very good, to be quite honest.
Drilling millions of bore holes to transfer thermal energy to the biosphere would create tremendous anthropomorphic global warming, with no opportunity to recycle the heat, that we get with carbon based carriers and 100% recyclability.
Drilling millions of bore holes into the earth, to transfer the heat, would slowly cool the earth, slow the movement of molten iron, decrease the magnetic field protecting the atmosphere, allow the solar wind to blow more atmosphere from the globe, resulting in evaporation & blowing away of water, and finally resulting in our blue planet turning into a dead rock & no life existing.
These are heavy prices to pay for A/C to stay cool for a little while.
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“Ukraine was not transparent…”
US 🇺🇸 President Biden sent Vice President Harris to make Zelenskyy to capitulate to Putin. Why would they be transparent?
The initial white line is where the energy deposits are located in Ukraine 🇺🇦, what Russia 🇷🇺 want’s, and Ukraine 🇺🇦 can’t lose that area if they are ever to rebuild & not be solely a farming nation.
Later white lines, further West, is less acceptable since Ukraine 🇺🇦 becomes a land-locked farming nation.
Ukraine MUST push Russia East, to keep their high-value natural resources like Coal for steel smelting, must push Russia out of the South East to keep one of the largest steel plants in Europe (needed, again, to rebuild.)
Hard for Russia 🇷🇺 to guess how resolved Ukraine 🇺🇦 is???
Think: Holodomor - Ukraine 🇺🇦 sees another Genocide since this is the ~100 year anniversary of the last Russian 🇷🇺 invasion.
The US thought Ukraine 🇺🇦would fold in 3 days, Biden went to his home state on the eve of the invasion. The fact Ukraine 🇺🇦 survived for weeks & months with no US aid, there is an incredible proverbial “bang for the buck”.
I don’t know what’s in your book 📖, but the survival of Ukraine 🇺🇦 is at stake, and the weakening of Russia 🇷🇺 is desired by The West… so Ukraine 🇺🇦 is that very battle inflection point.
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@Meatball2022 - “most of the world is having a water crisis”
Which is exactly why we should be cracking salt water, turning it into hydrogen, so when it is oxidized we will have water vapor, which will turn to rain & replenish the reservoirs & aqueducts.
“why do you not consider the ‘bottleneck’ problem of where this hydrogen all comes from?”
Because h2 has the potential to fix the problem.
“The electrical grid is not a problem at all”
When charging EV consumes more power in a short period of time than a house consumes for days, the electrical grid is a huge problem.
“It’s not an issue here”
It is an issue, everywhere, since liquid fuel holds far more energy than people understand.
“Most EV charging happens in off peak time”
This is the case for the filthy rich and well off, who are the people who can afford to buy EV’s & charge them.
Some 36% of American citizens rent, and a large number of them will not be able to charge overnight, in their apartments & condos.
Ironically, the excessive overproduction of power produced by solar happens during the day, and unfortunately the wealthy with their panels will be largely be topping off their EV’s using fossil fuels during off peak hours, when solar is not producing… or massive batteries with huge carbon footprints & produced through child & slave labor, will be temporarily used until they need to be thrown away to repeat all over again some years later.
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@javadog6288 - “water and electricity for your H2 cracker ? Hydroelectric dams”
Yep!
They are being built, all over the place, right now. NY had a hydro cracker started, a PA canceled hydro cracker occurred due to some odd endangered species magically being uncovered, etc.
The same crowd opposing Hydrocarbons are opposing Hydrogen. They traditionally got their marching orders from Soviet Russia, now getting their marching orders from Putin, because any dearth of energy now can be filled by Russia later [once political climate is ok… Russia became the US’s the #2 foreign supplier of energy, just before Ukraine invasion.
“How do I charge my car?”
Without a close charge point, it will be a fast charger, at a gas station.
A lot of apartments where I live, and every piece of real estate on the main drag is being purchased by gas stations… not because people need gas, but because they will need charging stations in the future. 🤦♂️
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@GibbyBlatongs - “conveniently leave out… more people using solar and storage the less the grid has to support”
I did not leave it out, conveniently. It is relatively irrelevant. Charging a car takes multiple house-days worth of electricity.
Best case scenario: all people using 100% storage for their homes, living off-grid, with a single car needed 4 house days worth of electricity, will still require the electrical grid capacity to increase 800%, with 2 cars per household. What makes it worse, is that with large percentages of people renting, that power will be needed right before & right after rush hour, which means fossil fields during winter seasons since solar will be unavailable.
“Too much power and power companies have to start ‘shedding’”
Because the power is at the wrong time of the day.
“Limitless electricity”
Problem is, energy at the wrong time is energy wasted. It would be better to create & store H2 and feed the grid from stored electricity, where it can be managed, instead of being driven by the sun. It would be better for cars to be driven from stored electricity like H2, where tanks of H2 can just be replenished continually, and cars can be filled from these local storage locations.
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Teddy spoke of loyalty & not convenience —
He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”
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Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.”
Matthew 26:39, 42 NKJV
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@royh6526 - “how about less dirty”
Heavy metals buried in the ground mitigated by energy expensive industrial systems to try to isolate the heavy metals from batteries & solar panels???
Compared to burning natural gas or butane hydrocarbons, held in a steel tank which is 100% recyclable, which consumption produces plant food that is naturally recycled?
I definitely prefer the less dirty solution.
I am not against batteries, we need batteries for very portable solutions, like cell phones, laptops.
Liquid fuels store much more energy than batteries, which is why people use butane powered soldering irons and gas powered welding torches (and not battery powered irons & torches.)
The right energy source should be used for the right job, so as to best use our energy resources efficiency.
Carbon has the ability to form 4 covalent bonds, meaning living things can create & break down sugars as fuel, in an indefinitely recyclable process.
Indefinite recyclability is clean, this should be the goal of humanity. Anything else produces waste and to some degree becomes morally wrong.
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Hi @kensmith5694 —
Sure, a fuel cell is great, but the need for rare earths like Platinum make it great for occasional outer space usage, but not for day to day needs of the average human. Strip mining for rare earths from the third world is so colonialist.
The ICE engine is recyclable, smelting back into iron & aluminum. The hydrogen is readily available through electrolysis along any coast line (where most people live), making great use of occasional renewable power like solar &!wind. The combustion of H2 recycles back into water vapor.
The efficiency of the combustion may be less, but the reduced strip mining, readily available fuel, and recyclable nature of the entire package is amazingly sustainable!
Pipelines of water to remote inland areas, where hydrogen can be harvested via renewable sources, offers other benefits of water such as reversing desertification, without the strip mining of Africa to make it happen,
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Dave - “basically a factory”
@Stefan_Dahn - “NOT a factory, just offices”
Power tools, air compressors, warehouse level high raised ceilings, moving vehicles around, tearing vehicles apart in the facility, etc.
So, maybe not a factory, definitely not offices. Something in between? I think so.
“ALL IN for renewables”
If so, a second natural gas pipeline would not have been getting built from Russia.
“gas storage full faster than planned”
If renewables was 100% functional,
Germany would not need gas storage.
Renewables are needed, we should increase usage, but we must introduce renewables where each source is capable of delivering base power when their windmill is not spinning or the sunlight is not shining.
There are many solutions, they need to be implemented, with every installation.
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Hi @EatMyShortsAU -
I might suggest that it is not as much of a one way street for cost, as you suggest, in American weapon systems.
There are military requirements. There are normally bids. The lowest bids that meet the requirements normally win the contract.
Because American Soldiers have a high cost, the weapon systems are designed to preserve American life.
If that means the use of a weapon is to keep Americans out of harm’s way by increasing the distance, the lowest cost for this is accomplished in the bid. The operator is considered in the cost, via requirements.
If the cost is so astronomical for the weapon, the work is spread between various manufacturing points across the nation, to increase likelihood that more state representatives will approve funding. If weapon systems are to be voted by foreign legislators, even if the cost is not so dramatically high, manufacturing may be spread to multiple nations, to put their skin in the game if a bid is lost, so it impacts their nation’s jobs.
If the cost is so astronomical that the US military alone can not afford it, it seems some manufacturing is done with overseas partners who will also bear the cost through future purchases, that their legislatures must vote to fund.
There are both budget constraint & budget expansion pressures. Bang for the buck is not the sole measure for the cost of a weapon system, so is the cost of operator training & cost of a lost operator.
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Hey @Hunterchuck - “doesn’t have all the answers… being humble… not lying in your face”
I never thought anyone way lying, but making a system where people can not attempt to live in 100% freedom (self sufficiency, take care of own needs, take care of own security) and voluntarily participate academically, is really awful.
If there is someone who should be able to personally volunteer in society, it SHOULD be the person who has it all together, because they solved problems many have not.
“doing away with capitalism” is really a nightmare. When people can not buy what they want, sell what they want, as long as there is no coercion / deception, everyone suffers, because there truly is no freedom.
Capitalism & Freedom was a great set of essays, that should be required reading for anyone getting out of middle school.
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@Hunterchuck - “not 100% free right now right?”
Yep… socialists censor what we want to say, under the direction of socialists in government. Sometimes the socialists virtually kill someone off, by removing virtual entity from virtual public forums.
Socialists weasel their way into everything, then apply principles of coercion & death ☠️ upon minorities. Socialists love the power of the Government Gun, to physically or virtually kill off those they do not like, or get in the way of their power.
“Take care of needs and security… privileged”
Everyone has this opportunity, unless they are compelled by socialists to remain in a contract which disadvantages them.
I have friends under Union contracts.
One lady will have to work for a certain number of years or lose all their retirement benefits, even under horrible working conditions. (For me, I gradually build up my retirement & it is portable, where I get it no matter if I am terminated or if I leave.)
The Union boss’s first job is to create a group of people which can be manipulated, then show the Boss’s value to an employer, then the Boss can keep the money 💴 flowing to the bank by sending a portion of the group’s wages to politicians to keep the Boss in a favorable legal position, when the workers are suffering & can’t escape without incredible detriment.
Unions are sexiest, using women unfairly.
“Working class constantly getting screwed over”
This is the result of unholy alliance between Unions & Politicians. (Poli-tic’s… multiple blood 🩸 sucking ticks 🕷️.)
Real wages went up when the supply of workers slowed. Real wages went down when the supply of workers increased.
Just look at the past 10 years. Union Bosses helped elect a government where workers were diluted, their wages were diluted, and there is no outcry against the workers getting screwed, because the executive politician of the current US government is in bed with big business, they want cheap labor, and the politician the Unions supported with workers wages 🩸opened the border to destroy worker wages and increase worker housing 🏠 & food 🥘 costs by creating a huge drain on those limited resources in an uncontrolled way! (ie number of government permitted southern border crossers have been roughly 2x the number of government permitted housing, creating inflation, destroying the real wages of workers.)
It is a form of National Socialist Fascism, or Socialist Communist gulags, which the Union Bosses control the workers to keep them on their concentration camps or forced work camps.
“workers wouldn’t feel the need to fight for Unionization”
Few fight for unionization in the 1st world, except for the extremely privileged (ie Starbucks employees recently) who already get a great wage for what they do, but have become complacent & greedy.
Once employees are in a Union, they are often screwed.
I have another friend, different Union, different locality of the US. She must work where she is at, and her health benefits will be bound to the locality where she is working. This means, when she retires, she can not move to a lower cost of living area. In the end, the Union screwed her, giving her a carrot 🥕 and guaranteeing her to a life of poverty in her retirement, and she did not realize that they would do that to her in her negotiated package.
“Capitalism has many problems and socialists point those problems out”
The only problem that Capitalism has is when Socialists figure a way to assume the power of the Government Gun and removes freedom of individuals.
In another region, my mother told me the story of watching when a particular Interstate Highway was being built, as trucks were lines up to deliver asphalt, they gave the Union reps $100 bills for each truck, for the privilege of delivering their asphalt load.
Did the Workers get that money 💰? Nope. They did not. The coffers of the Union Bosses were filled, so they could influence politicians.
“unsatisfied with an answer a socialist would give you”
Then it is likely because the socialist has not been around long enough to see how their actors corrupt the system, or they are one of those actors profiting from corrupting the system.
I personally suffered under unions, in my first job out of College. I was a contractor, servicing my employer renting space in a building where the dominate employer was a Union shop. I moved my PC from one desk to another. A Union Grievance was filed, the Union employees did not work for our company!
The Union boss tried to compel a different company, to file work requests, to be billed back to the primar company. Unthical. In the end, I set up a bank of computers 🖥️ on a table so the Union Workers could get their Union email, without asking them to move computers, and they stopped their issues. It was just another form of graft, sucking the blood 🩸 from another company.
In the end, the Union Bosses are leeches, sucking the blood 🩸 from the workers, indirectly through wage deductions, or directly through cash 💰 payments from the worker’s own pockets, and then leave the worker destitute when they can no longer work (retire.) Blood 🩸 Suckers 🦟 bosses.
“Fix the problem”
End the Unions, Union unholy alliance with rich politicians, Union graft, disemploy Union bosses, and give workers freedom to carry their retirement to where they want, including their health benefits accrued.
We have contract companies today, unions are obsolete with the way Union Bosses act like little Tzar’s controlling their serfs
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Which is why Republican Trump threatened Putin he would hit Moscow if Russia resumed invading Ukraine?
Which is why Republican Trump was the first administration to supply lethal aid to Ukraine, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine? (Democrats Obama / Biden sent non-lethal aid like food, blankets, old vehicles, etc)
Democrats Obama / Biden supported the Fascist Muslim Brotherhood coming to power, after Clinton Foundation funded MB political actors. (The MB were the allies of Hitler during WW2, by the way.)
Democrats Obama / Biden allowed Russia to invade Ukraine, after pumping Russia full of cash via selling off energy assets to Russia & outsourcing manned space missions to Russia.
Democrats Biden / Harris allowed Russia to reinvade Ukraine, after pumping Putin’s coffers full of cash by making Russia the #2 energy supplier to the US.
Democrats Biden / Harris saved the crumbling Maduro dictatorship by allowing them access to Western energy technology & funding (via Chevron.)
Heck, the US Democrats Party Oligarchy even forced resignation of an elected Presidential Candidate, to appoint a presidential candidate who never won a Presidential primary… now THAT is AUTHORITARIAN! LOL!
These Democrat Authoritarians love other Authoritarians!
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@BlackShardStudio - honestly, it is very readily tested… you can do it!
When I read an account to elementary school students, they can repeat it back almost word for word. Try to get them to draw inferences, they can struggle a bit. Often, with blank stares.
When I read an account to a middle schooler, they don’t retain the information, word for word, as well. Ask them to repeat sections, they often give a blank stare. They can draw inferences slightly better, but sometimes get confused.
When I read an account to a young adult, they not only get much better at drawing inferences, but better at self application. 25 years is when males get a lower insurance rates… 25 year old males clearly & statistically start making better decisions, so self application from inductive learning is finally demonstrating positive results!
Having taught young people, for a long time, I found various ages to be very interesting! We must teach to the strengths of the child, age is only one indicator. Not saying we can’t accelerate development, but we can’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
Have a great day!
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“Those calling for a cease fire are”… anti-Palestinian.
There was apparently no way for Palestinians in Gaza to get out from under the yoke of Hamas, whose leaders are billionaires, illegally siphoning the aid dollars, living lives of luxury outside of Gaza, and causing the civilians to live in horrible conditions. This is Gaza’s Palestinian’s first chance, in over 15 years, to be freed from this regime.
“why is USA giving aid to…”
Because the Iranian supported Hamas terrorist organization kidnapped Americans and Biden is too cowardly to go in after the kidnapped Americans with US soldiers, the same way Carter was too cowardly to go after kidnapped Americans in Iran with US soldiers.
“Why is the USA aiding a government that does not respect the rules of war?”
The US is not aiding the Hamas government, who was legitimate for a little while until they threw opposition off of buildings & canceled future elections. Hamas unilaterally killed American civilians in Israel, unilaterally kidnapped American civilians into Gaza, placed weapons of war in civilian infrastructure in Gaza. These actions all violate the Geneva Convention. The US is working through legitimate governments who did not violate the rules of war.
“Why are we suppressing voices in this country”
We all see protests for Palestine.
We all see protests for Israel.
The question is: where are the protests for the kidnapped Americans?
444 days of captivity for Americans prisoners under Carter was unbearable.
Americans seem prepared for a third party nation to level Gaza and lose those Americans, so as not to live through 444 days of captivity, so Biden does not look like Carter.
Americans seem to be more ready to mourn for the dead than mourn for living captives & lose political capital for another Democrat President.
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“Deaths…”
The amount of deaths from Nuclear are MUCH higher, just look at all the dead Russia Soldiers, who dug trenches in the Red Forest of Ukraine.
The deaths due to coal & oil are exaggerated. Many of those deaths could be attributed to smoking tobacco cigarettes & pot joints & water pipes.
Now, fake numbers for deaths by natural are being created.
This being said, we need all the energy & all the diversity (solar, wind, nuclear, coal, oil, natural gas, hydrogen, co2 from the air, etc.] & energy delivery options [train, pipeline, truck, ship, etc.] we can get, so supply chains must compete with each other, and to keep oligarchs from holding large numbers of people captive.
Eliminating energy types & delivery types only empowers oligarchs & holds humans captive to evil people.
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@yurichtube1162 - “Western Sahara… Morocco… Algeria is pissed”
Algeria was conquered & colonized by the Ottoman Empire, Morocco & West Sahara were not… Algeria has no reason to be pissed.
I know people whose family were killed by government thugs In Morocco, and they were not revolutionaries, just merely religious non-conformists.
“EU are snakes who can’t be trusted… overthrow Algerian leadership”
Like Russia, who:
- sent soldiers into Ukrainian territory last decade, violating RU/UK/US international treaty with Ukraine
- invading Ukraine again this decade violating RU/UK/US international treaty with Ukraine
While the EU looks for political change when a problem is seen, RU looks for colonization when a problem is seen.
“0 trust here”
There is negative trust of Russian imperialists…
While NATO was waning, repeated invasions & colonization of Ukraine by Russia just made NATO relevant, for the first time since the Cold War.
In the case of Algeria, there has been no example of EU colonizing anyone, since it’s instantiation. Nations have to go through an application process, and nations can leave (ie Brexit.)
It is silly for Algeria to have any recent historical concern regarding the EU, in relation to what is happening with RU
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Hey @NeilBlanchard - this is a problem with fertilizer, in general, not a specific type of fertilizer.
Water runoff from synthetic or natural fertilizer both potentially cause water 💧 problems.
Without fertilizing, food production is effectively halved. 3.5 of 7 billion people in the world are fed through fertilized land.
No one wants dead ☠️ zones, but more progressive states, like Georgia US, force people to build water 💧 retaining areas to compensate, end direct runoff of water 💧 to sewers, and encourage better water conservation policies.
Once better water conservation occurs, much of the dead ☠️ zones issues will naturally resolve themselves.
Converting fertilizers to natural processes like roofing, ends additional application, and runoff redirected to green areas will help sink more CO2 & build thicker turf to replenish our soils more effectively.
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@NeilBlanchard - “Organic farming does not have a fertilizer runoff problem”
2015 study says organic fertilizers reduce runoff problems by ~15-18%, reduce is not eliminate.
Too much chicken manure, for example, can lead to nitrate runoff, even if composted correctly.
Other things like Epsom Salts, in small quantities, can help with blossom production, plant wall thickness, deter pests, chlorophyll production, etc. This is inorganic.
Of course, proper quantities of everything is important. Best to test the soil.
“fertilizer we use kills… the living organisms in the soil”
If that was the case, then nitrogen fixing bacteria 🦠 would not be alive to create plant 🌱improvements in 3-5 days of application.
Some damage occurs if too much is used, or if exclusively used for long periods of time.
“ruining the soil” can be reversed by adding organic material.
Heavy metals in Chinese grown produce 🍉 🍎 & herbs 🌿 may be such a sign of over-aggressively using inorganic fertilizers. Fertilizers can encourage uptake of heavy metals.
Similar issues are seen with with supplement & pharmaceutical precursors & active ingredients… many come from China 🇨🇳 (They show up on mass spectrometers, but only prescription based products are tested frequently, repetitive human analysis is largely why they cost so much.)
“Adding more of the problematic fertilizer”… plants 🪴 can fix nitrogen using bacteria from organic & inorganic fertilizers, as well as from lightning ⛈️ created nitrates.
As long as the nutrients exist in reasonable quantities, all is good in the world.
Some soils are naturally missing inorganic elements like Selenium, which can result in aneurisms for mammals eating 🍽️ produce exclusively grown on the soil. Naturally composted materials from that region, will not fix such deficiencies, without correcting with inorganic soil supplementation.
“erosion… pumping”
I think there is a place for inorganic work on the soil. Also, pumping from underground aquifers, without replenishing them, is problematic.
I keep seeing articles about destroying dams lately… aggregated waters💧replenish aquifers.
If politicians really cared about aquifers, they would not be blowing up dams across North America, instead they are contributing to the problem of aquifer over pumping, by reducing replenishment.
Before this, a previous politicians tried to gain control over farmer water retention ponds, which often helped eliminate fertilizer runoff and recharge aquifers. The response was for farmers to rid themselves of these beneficial features on their farms, to remove the liabilities, but an election fixed that issue.
The runoff & aquifer problems are real, but it seems politicians are doing everything they can to throw the baby out with the bath water, make the problem worse, and penalize farmers who are trying to resolve these problems on their own.
There are some reasonable common sense solutions, which can be encouraged.
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@terjeoseberg990 - I am looking forward to an electric with range extender, when the 20+ year old car retires / is totaled.
I would be happy with a smaller battery, a small Mazda rotary engine, and a small gas tank. The battery replacement cost would be vastly truncated, short trips would not require gas, and the magnificence energy storage characteristics of liquid fuel could still be leveraged for those long trips every month or so.
I will be adding used solar panels to my 4x used EV battery modules, to supplement my house energy consumption. Hard to believe 4x EV modules can run my house for 24 hours, while an EV requires 10x of those modules. I find it hard to believe that electrical company will be able to supply so much energy over wires, which was normally delivered via pipelines & tanker trucks.
Honestly, I would rather fill up my car with NG at my house, than gas at a station, with all that infrastructure already existing. There is no reason we can’t run our cars or range extenders on H2 & NG mix, compressed at our home & pumped into our vehicles. (Most people have air compressors.) Even propane could be used for cars & range extenders. (Grocery stores & Walmart supply propane.)
Cost is the big problem now. Cost must be addressed, so the poor can have an environmental option. Political Policy in power right now subsidizes the rich with the high energy prices on the poor. Energy policy is anti-progressive & immoral right now, and must change.
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@terjeoseberg990 - “takes energy to compress the natural gas”
Sure, it also takes energy to fill a battery, through heat. There is also energy loss through electrical line resistance. There is always energy loss.
I think the big difference is whether the energy loss in compressing NG & compressor component mining & compressor manufacturing & recycling the compressor is better or worse than the mining & manufacturing & recycling of batteries.
We can buy tire air compressors for $15 today, electric tool air compressors for $100, LO tanks from $20-$200. It would be hard to buy a battery & fast charger for that. Not sure whether a compressor & tank would last as long as a battery.
The NG or LP produces less poisonous emissions than the ever increasing world-wide amount of coal being consumed to supply the energy for straight electricity needs & charging batteries.
Countries are shutting down nuclear and using portable NG as a fixed location burning for energy… where compressed NG is really needed for portable usage (ie TukTuk’s in the Sub-Continent, Middle East, etc. are all compressed NG.)
Fixed location fuel should be used for large scale energy production, portable fuel should be used for portable energy usage. Anything less is a brutal misuse of natural resources.
Honesty, compressing NG with Solar is marvelous, escrowing portable energy from fixed location energy collectors. Solar could also crack H2 from water, and compressing that into the compressed NG tank.
The conversion of non-baseload energy to make other energy portable is critical in the modern world.
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Hi @terjeoseberg990 - “batteries is about 95% efficient”
Efficiency at a component level is important, but it is not everything.
Nuclear produces a lot of energy, but radioactive ponds sit around reactors with barrels of storage that must go somewhere. Maybe a Space 1999 solution? LOL!
Efficiency at a lifecycle level is important. 1/2 million gallons of water ton produce 1 ton of lithium. How many batteries are needed to equal the running time of an engine? Recycling lithium batteries is expensive while cores of an engine are not.
Also, the degree of energy in a compressed natural gas or liquid fuel is so great, efficiency is not as necessary to get a usable & affordable result in an application. India, Egypt, Turkey, now Iraq, other places uses compressed natural gas to move small vehicles around all over their nation… placing large batteries in them, with all the weight, would cost a great deal of money and likely reduce range. The cost effectiveness of the solution is such where it is already in deployments across multiple continents at a price that the poor can afford.
There are catalysts today, which will drip liquid fuel from the sky, extracting CO2, and this can also be used, once the cost comes down. #DrillTheSky
Over time, fuel cells will appear on the market, at a reasonable cost, and be able to replace a combustion engine, as well.
There are so many options today, we need to be able to use them all, diversify our energy supply needs, and not fall into the danger of central planning where our energy needs are satisfied through a single medium where failure can cause catastrophe for civilization. (EMP will result in the deaths of millions in a matter of weeks, a war technology that is readily available, I personally don’t feel comfortable with electrifying everything. Electricity is a significant helper to automate manual processes, the same way oil made slavery obsolete, but unless there are multiple media in case of a disruption — we will return back to a world of slavery by those who have the most military power.
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@tarik6990 - “There is no such thing as a ‘racial group’ when it comes to the Ustase [sic]”
If you would have said there is no such thing as a racial group, I would have agreed with you, but with the Ustaša, Croats of different faith groups (Muslim & Catholic) were historically bundled together by alliance & by blood 🩸. The Serbs & Gypsies were not. We will talk about how this “Croat” ethnic group came into existence.
I am well aware that the National Socialists of Germany considered Slavs as inferior. The Muslim Croats of the Balkans were different, selectively bred by Ottomans for almost 700 years, from the Balkan Croat peasantry. Serbs were running the state since they were the majority & fought for the Allies in WW1. The Ustaša provided Hitler with former unselects & selected [Muslim] “Croats” from the Balkans, needed to secure the Balkans through an ethnic Croat insurgency. The Croats were formerly ruled by / as the Ottomans, and formerly allied with the losing Germany 🇩🇪 of WW1.
https://youtu.be/7VffNtUxScs
“Read about the Bosniaks (Muslims) who helped shelter and save Jews during World War II… also read about the Sarajevo Haggadah”
There are good people everywhere, who were doing the right thing, in difficult times.
People who do the right thing during difficult times are certainly to be celebrated, but we fall into repeated patterns when we ignore the butchers of the past.
There were significant quantities of Croat Partisans & Serbian rebels at the time, fighting against Germany.
“Situation in Bosnia TODAY”
Actually, it makes a very clear understanding of how WW1 & WW2 & Today’s ethnic conflicts evolved.
We know the Ottomans slaved the Slavs of the Balkans, to be Janissaries. A percentage of Balkan children were taken (only the highest quality children), converted to Islam ☪️, fought in Ottoman armies against infidels, and survivors returned to the Balkans as administrators of the Muslim regime. When they returned home to the Balkans, the other looked like them (same ethnicity), but they were of the economic class of the slavers. The administrative positions open to the Muslims offered wealth, in contrast to the peasantry who provided a percentage of their children (only the finest were selected) as slave payments to the Ottoman occupiers of the Balkans.
This group of wealthy [Muslim] surviving slaves and [largely non-Muslim] victims of occupation who breed a percentage of their children to be selected [superior] slaves were of common ethnicity. This group, of former WW1 German Allies, now becoming WW2 Allies, would eventually form the core of the “Croat” Ustaša. Those who did not join the Ustaša were persecuted.
They fought with Germany during WW1,
fought again with Germany during WW2, and
fought against the Serbs in the 1990’s.
This, in no way, gives the Serbs a pass for the atrocities they committed, but it is clear that the distrust between ethnicities were only bottled up under Tito, and never healed.
Interestingly enough, National Socialists of Germany did not invent the concentration camp, neither did the Ustaša, but they learned it from the [Muslim] Young Turks of failing Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide of WW1… in the quests for Turks to make an ethnically pure state of Turkey. They inspired Hitler. Hitler said the end of the 1939 Obersalzberg Speech, "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"
While we had the genocides of WW1, WW2, the “Croats” of former Ottoman Balkans, and we still have ethnic tensions which led to the breakup of Yugoslavia after WW2, along similar lines to religio-ethnic lines of WW1 & WW2.
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It’s called becoming an endangered species.
Farming animals forces humanity to promote continuity of animal species. Eliminating animal farming eliminates animals.
Once living things are no longer needed for humanity to survive on, those living things become a problem, and they are eliminated… just like Buffalo in North America.
No one wants to deal with the danger of animals roaming into areas where we live.
There is a human societal impact, as well.
The death of animals, for their produce, regardless of what is done with that produce, should remind people of their own disconnect from God via their own sin, should demonstrate the awfulness of their sin, and should encourage repentance.
The avoidance of animal deaths seem to be an avoidance to confront one’s own sin. See Genesis chapters 1-4 (animal skin coverings after sin, animal offerings to make one acceptable.)
No one wants to deal with their own sin, which requires the shedding of blood.
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“Do you think… it is reasonable to bring such radical groups into the government?”
This was broken wide open, as soon as liberal parties made it illegal for people suffering from various mental illness to voluntarily seek psychological help from the medical community… effectively forcing them on a train where the only legal “help” for them was medical experimentation, chemical castration, amputation of organs… where humans arriving at the final destination incur remarkable rates of suicide or survivors attempts to revert their bodies back but find it is relatively impossible to undue the damage that money hungry medical experts had encouraged down this road to ruin.
Interestingly enough, the surrounding Arab nations, Sunni & Shia, may actually agree with the new government of Israel on some of these issues, calling into question the survival of Liberal politics in the greater Middle East. The irony of Islamic & Jewish cooperation, on a broad scale, because of human rights violations by Liberal Fascists. The irony of it all.
And now, radicals on the Left had forced this on humanity, reminiscent of the experimentation of Fascists of Nazi era Germany, and now center right people have to make a deal with those with unsavory national ideological goals to help basic human rights causes, combatting pure evil on a human spectrum?
Sorry, this ship 🚢, regarding radical groups being welcomed into the government by unsavory liberals on the left, had sailed long ago.
Making suicidal people have only one legal medical option, resulting in higher rates of suicide, while getting rich on money extracted from them through genital mutilation, is about as radical as it gets… and the left had already made their deal with the devil.
Choice should always be available in medical communities, never forcing experimentation & irreversible surgeries as the only option for the mentally challenged.
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1:11:00 - “nations… in relation to each other, nations that are anarchic, it’s an anarchy”
When anarchy reigns, without rules, it is hell. For example, Somalia 🇸🇴, Libya 🇱🇾, Yemen 🇾🇪, etc.
There must be rules, agreed upon by all parties.
We don’t need centralization… but we do need heterogeneity where we are abiding by the same basic rules.
The internet was developed like this, using RFC process, with small expert groups in control of small data sets. Larger systems are RFC’s based upon underlying RFC’s.
In the end, centralization fails, democratization fails, but multi-layer federalization is where civilization has been successful in bringing The West to this point of amazing advancement unparalleled in humanity.
This being said, centralization & democratization must not be applied to AI. We have seen where this goes - horrible human devastation.
We must move AI towards federalization. We saw where large centralized learning went (ie Microsoft old bot which went Nazi genocidal online, in a short period of time.) Small datasets with small groups of experts can feed their data upstream. Federalization.
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@sH-ed5yf - “only if Americans are willing to saw clothes”
[David H] - “Americans were always willing to sew clothing”
[s H] - “then name a huge clothes manufacturer”
[David H] - “a local seamstress…”
[s H] - “so you don’t know any major clothes manufacturers in America”
Actually, I don’t know ANY major clothes manufacturers… period.
I know local seamstresses. Another time, we bought one a sewing machine. Ability to locally source demonstrates Americans are willing.
[s H] - “Thanks. I was right then.”
No, you were asking about people who saw’ed clothes. I had a chainsaw hit my leg once, cut some jeans, so technically I know myself.
Now, I know local Americans, so I know your statement is categorically false if you misspelled “sew”, if you were talking about sewing.
Manufacturing was never your question, saw’ing was. Get your question right, because you were wrong 2x in the same thread, and are not doing well.
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The amount of materials to make EV’s replace ice cars are not strip mined in necessary in quantities, yet.
To replace every car in the UK, an island, the entire world’s copper supply would be needed for a year, for the vast amount of copper needed for motor windings & wires. We’re not even talking about batteries 🔋
Hopefully, this can become more widely considered, especially in rural & suburbs, where lawns & flower gardens exist.
This is probably not helpful in the hellscapes of very dense urban cities, where there is very little life besides humans 👨 👩 , rats 🐀, and cockroaches 🪳
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@stephanspielmann240 - we supposedly reached “peak carbon”, decades ago, multiple times. We know how those predictions turned out.
Some carbon production is abiotic. There is likely a peak of usage vs natural regeneration.
Since everything living (and dead) around us is made with carbon, once we truly meet usage at supply, we will generate new carbon sources.
If peak carbon was truly a problem, we would be looking at a lot more than energy. Think: asphalt roads, asphalt roofing shingles, nylon clothing, plastic items, vinyl flooring planks, graphite in batteries, vinyl siding, etc. etc.
That being said, all energy sources are needed. Solar is near impossible to effectively use without natural gas peaker plants.
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@ArawnOfAnnwn -“ very generous way of looking at it”
Someone had to keep the roads between city-states open during the times of the Roman Empire. They were brutal, but people could travel safely. Then, the Byzantines did so, until the roads were unsafe from Islamic Raids, and city-states were Balkanized & they fell. It was the raids of traders in Central Asia, when they sacked the wrong caravan, that brought Genghis Khan to conquer from the East (his caravan was the wrong religion, when traveling across Islamic conquered Central Asia.) Then, Islamic Pirates would kidnap people on ships (off coast of Libya & Somalia), until Europeans built up large enough navies to keep the seaways safe. Now, the US is the primary force keeping the seaway open against Islamic Pirates (off coat of Yemen) & Chinese aggression in South East Asia (the Philippine Christmas Resupply Convoy was harassed, and Vietnamese fishing vessels had been sunk in the past.)
Sometimes, you have to look at things the way they are. The natural state of man is pretty brutal & viscous, when there was no one to protect them against sacking, kidnapping, slavery, and death. It traditionally took a pretty significant brutal order to allow people to live reasonably free when moving between locations. The US does not tax the world, for flying airplanes & sending ships around the seas - yet their blood & treasure largely makes it reasonably safe, today (after WW1 & WW2, where European forces are a shadow of what they used to be, with significant monies redirected into socialized programs for their populations from their former militaries.)
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@keinjuan - “China basically stands alone… no option but to build their own”
That is because they steal military technology from Russia 🇷🇺 and US 🇺🇸- so no one trusts them.
They would purchase a couple items from Russia 🇷🇺, then disassemble & build something themselves, never making additional purchases from Russia 🇷🇺
Honestly, China 🇨🇳 has done this for a long time in civilian technology, so of course they do this with military technology.
I remember a friend buying an Chinese iPhone knockoff, which looked identical, came with 2 SIM cards instead of 1, sported a camera with 4x the resolution, and had identical icons on the touch screen… the plastic touch screen was not well secured, when you clicked an icon, it brought up text versions of 2G phone menus, the photo quality was crap, and we never had a need for the spare SIM card.
Anyone doing any manufacturing business with China 🇨🇳 gets a terrible consequence of getting your junk backwards engineered, losing your technology, and then having them duplicate it without having to spend any in the R&D investment to pay back.
Would I WANT to buy a product from them, where any maintenance must go back to them where they effectively have no R&D?
Nope. When there is a software bug, or enhancement needed to handle a slightly smaller incoming missile, I want to go back to the original R&D developer - not the knock-off
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The international building codes require offsets of panels from the peak of the roof & edges.
Keep in mind, solar panels can catch fire, due to oxidation inside inside the glass panels, and the fire can cause your underlay roof material to catch fire, burning your whole house down. The underside of traditional solar panels are made with a hydrocarbon based backing (ironically, the back of a panel gets hotter than the sun facing side!) I had to translate a German fire study on the topic into English, to find out more about it.
My original plan to put solar panels on my house evaporated, once I found out that I could only fit half the panels I wanted to put on, with my design, if I wanted to follow the international fire code. (Note, local building code does not necessarily require following international fire code, but I researched it for the safest implementation.) There needs to be safe places for the firemen to walk on the roof, and places to put axes into the roof to break out the wood so water can flow into the home from above.
In the end, I decided on a stand alone 5.5kWh solar array, which I am still working through all the details. I decided to use panels with glass on both front & back, to reduce / eliminate fire hazard.
All I have to say is that building codes suck with implementing solar. Honestly, the technology for Solar sucks today. The building codes are constantly changing because the technology is evolving in real time, everything is complex, everything is contorted, and everything looks horrible in the end with panels with hydrocarbon backing [flammable] secured above traditional roofing materials (asphalt shingles [flammable], tar paper [flammable], wood [flammable].) Solar panels on roofing is just a fire sandwich waiting to happen.
If I was able to ignore all building & fire codes, I would have a glass roof over my house, which conducted electricity, where the panels overhung the house on all sides at the shape/size of the panel that was most affordable, supported by steel instead of wood, without combustable materiel under the panels. It is vastly more affordable. Not allowed.
The building codes suck.
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@joshuanine7690 - batteries 🔋 today are not eco friendly.
Old lead acid are 98%+ recycled. Lead causes learning delays in children. Lead is easily recycled. Lead offers fewer deep cycles until retirement.
Lithium ion are ~5% recycled. Lithium in water is linked to autism in children. Lithium batteries require high temperature to recycle. Lithium offers greater deep cycles until retirement.
Today, toxic lithium batteries dominate renewable energy, and this is currently a huge recycling problem, now.
Maybe Redux Flow. Easily recycled. Huge capacity increase by increasing tank size. Most commercial electrolytes are toxic today.
NiCd are toxic, I recycle them, most people don’t. Fallen out of common use due to toxicity.
NiMh are less toxic, falling out of common use, for more toxic lithium batteries.
Maybe salt batteries. These seem like the least risky, most eco friendly, but they are not there yet.
Honestly, batteries are not where they need to be, for massive grid scale deployment. Maybe redux flow, but it is still not eco friendly with toxicity of commonly used electrolytes.
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@profounddamas - “European country, whatever that means”
It should mean you have options.
Honestly, we all have options, as long as government does not get in the way.
If you have land, you can farm & raise animals… you can live & sell your products. The first hydrogen air vehicles held hydrogen in Ox bladders.
If you have trees, you can cut them down, make lumber, and create things. The first airplanes & vehicles were made of wood.
If you have wind, you can build a windmill, to capture energy and do something with it.
If you have a stream, you can build hydro power and do something with it.
Old discarded washing machines, being discarded, provides the raw materials for many things todays. I have watched plenty of YouTube videos on rewinding washing machine motors to create hydroelectric generators or windmills.
You can collect old solar panels & create your own energy, to do create solar energy and do something with it. I have been collecting, and now building a structure to support them on.
If you can’t find old discarded stuff, shop around for it from other places, trade for it.
If you decide you don’t want to DIY anything, you can always move to a city & have someone pay you to do something.
If you decide that it is too hard to go it alone, get married, share the load, have children, and those new people can help build wealth! Money is merely a representation of human work and wealth is the aggregate of that work.
When I was in Moldova, some years back, I really saw a market for electric bicycles, or custom carts using electric bicycle wheels, where intermittent energy sources could be used to charge those batteries.
I also saw a market for internet access, where WiFi could connect houses and centralize on a single good feed. Now a days, not sure what options were in your area. Barter for what you need, to save money for what you can resell.
Honestly, we are only limited by our imagination. Poor is a state of mind, not a state of being. I grew up poor, collecting what others called garbage, but they were my treasures, and I built things with them. I still do. People value my skills. Now, I am not.
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@gamingmarcus - “why would manufacturers voluntarily invest in a longer lasting product?”
Because existing batteries limit the use cases where a battery can be used, therefore they can not sell as many batteries.
For example, with lead acid batteries, full featured internet based cell phones were not truly possible, but with Li-Ion batteries, this technology is everywhere, and many more batteries are sold.
Another example, with lead acid & nickel cadmium batteries, electric cars were not able to be realistically used in the 1970’s during a time of the oil embargo… electric cars are possible and manufacturers are selling tons of Li-Ion batteries for cars.
Incremental improvements in battery technologies increase market opportunities, and limit the possibilities that newer technologies will take them by surprise & put manufacturers out of business when they are not reinvesting their profits into R&D.
Manufacturers must always be performing incremental improvement, otherwise old stuff can’t be incrementally replaced when it fails, eventually old infrastructure can not be renewed, and the proverbial “cash cow” will die.
A prime example of not properly reinvesting profits for incremental improvement is Venezuela. The nation had among the highest standards of living in the Southern Hemisphere, but they voted people into office who took profits instead of reinvesting them, and their infrastructure fell apart as the rest of the world moved on. Wealth creation comes from productivity improvements, so incremental improvements in batteries & other technologies are all a part of that progress!
Another example is Cuba. While the rest of the world was investing in cars, they did not reinvest their profits into incremental improvements after their revolution, and they were left behind. They could have built the first electric cars in response to their isolation, but they chose not to, because people higher on the political food chain wanted programs for their failed concept of paradise. They could have built the first cell phones, led the world, but chose not to, and had to suffer with aging technology instead of investing their profits in batteries & technology.
The world is not a static place, people always do things in an improved way, reducing effort & dependencies on expensive resources, people who did things in a old & expensive way die off, old stuff breaks, and old stuff must be replaced.
Paradise is never based upon a picture of what others have today, but only a vision into the far distant future of what no one has. The prior is the problem of coveting & theft, the latter is the result of incremental improvement gains that makes seemingly un-achievable things possible.
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@nickidaisydandelion4044 - “Vladimir Putin is…”
- a war criminal, authorizing bombing of civilian infrastructure & admitting it on television
- psychopath, involved in the murder of expatriates in foreign nations, sometimes using WMD
- sociopath, isolated & shown to not even touch many Russians, sitting long tables away, with huge rooms between him & others
“rescues whales” and bombs theaters labeled as having children inside, as they hide in a bomb shelter… and then sends contractors in to just cover the bodies with concrete, covering the war crime, instead of giving them a decent burial
“Biden… who” warned Putin was planning invasion for months
“Zelenskyy who” publicly refused to believe Putin would invade, until the invasion started
“keep pushing for war” is what Putin is doing, by continuing to attack Ukrainian cities, to this very hour, from Ukrainian land temporarily occupied by Russia
“news media lie”, and Russia is still occupying Ukrainian land
“freedom of speech”, which Russians do not have, since they will be thrown in prison if they publicly speak against the Russian war against Ukraine
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@williamsmith1741 - “I am not familiar with what you are talking about”
Executives at the Illinois-based utility Exelon, nuclear energy proponents, contributed at least $227,000 to Obama's campaigns for the United States Senate and for president.
Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, were among Obama's largest fund-raisers.
This is long before 2010, 2009, 2008…
September 2009, White House visitor logs show Exelon CEO John W. Rowe, former chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, visited Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, for nearly an hour.
Regulators in October 2009 then sent a letter to Westinghouse, which is designing new nuclear facilities proposed for Georgia and South Carolina, the NRC called for modifications to the shield building -- a steel and concrete structure that would be erected around the reactor to protect it from earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, or even a terrorist attack.
Follow the money… dynamically changing regulation on long term projects is a way to blackmail others & facilitate indirect payments.
The problem is not with regulation in the US, but with political graft. Unfortunately, regulation is a primary mechanism to drive graft in the executive branch. The longer a project runs, the greater the opportunity for political graft to rear it’s ugly head, and hurt the general population since we all pay the bills.
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@williamsmith1741 - “I am not entirely sure what kind of connection you’re trying to draw”
I did not make the connection, the news did.
Tom Clements, Southeastern Nuclear Campaign coordinator for Friends of the Earth drew the connection, the news did the investigation.
“a $227k contribution to one candidate”
It was more than just one donation, it was to more than just one election, and it was more than just donations.
ABC reported Chicago-based Exelon EVP Frank M. Clark and Exelon Director John W. Rogers Jr. were among Obama's largest fund-raisers, at the time when Obama was becoming politically established in Chicago.
“where was the regulatory graft here?”
NRC Office of New Reactors Director Michael Johnson had been delivering edicts to Westinghouse about the shield redesign since 2008.
In September 2009, Exelon CEO Rowe, former chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, visited Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, for nearly an hour.
Regulators were continuing to pressure Westinghouse, in October 2009 they sent Westinghouse another written communication regarding modification to the shield design.
In February 2010, President Obama announced this week that he would offer $8 billion in loan guarantees, extolling the safety of the design, while regulators had been arguing for safety changes for years.
In this case, the news was gathering evidence of the link between the President Obama and the undercutting of the regulator authority, at the hands of the nuclear industry individuals sending donations & nuclear industry bundlers. The income made by these bundlers in the industry indirectly funded campaign donations.
“Obama Administration and NRC”
After Chicago’s Obama was funded, Obama, elected, and Obama greased the wheels… Southern Nuclear named Stephen Kuczynski, a former Chicago-based Exelon executive, as its chairman, president and chief executive officer.
Shortly afterwards, Southern Co.'s nuclear subsidiary hired a second former Chicago-based Exelon Corp. executive, Bradley Adams, to its management team as Southern Nuclear's Fleet Operations Support vice president.
Oligarchs in WW2 Germany worked through regulation of government. Oligarchs of the Soviet Union worked through government. Oligarchs in Red Communist China works through government. Today, graft builds political oligarchs via bundlers, regulatory system is manipulated, other friendly funding oligarchs are rewarded. This is how the US oligarchy is built.
“How come the South Carolina project died…?”
The South Carolina nuclear project relied on tax credits and the 2 units had to be finished by 2020 to qualify for $2+ billion in federal tax credits or over 20% of the cost.
There were multiple time over-runs, projected future cost over-runs of 150%, project was canceled, and executives went to prison.
Contrast this to GA Southern Co’s hiring & protecting Obama fellow Chicago-based oligarchs [their organization pumped money into Obama’s coffers] - the rate payer is picking up the tab for massive cost & time overruns. No Justice.
“first early site permits… Vogtle… wasn’t 16 years”
Southern Company filed an early site permit in 2006 with the NRC. Now is 2024. GA plants still not powered up & delivering power in production.
Ok, it is worse… ~18 years
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Pollution produced would be reduced by: decades of not having humans strip mining Africa for Lithium, cadmium, copper, etc.; expensive lithium recycling processes; expensive disposal processes of materials in solar panels.
When a prolific IoT needs to be recycled in 50 years, DIY people will strip these batteries out of units, by the millions, stack them in plastic tubes, and replace their old solar panels with them… until the houses need to be torn down.
It all starts with telling kids:
- you can use your music player unit for as long as you can power it for, here is a box of IoT for you to recycle…
- you can play your PlayStation/XBox 105 unit for as long as you can power it for, here is a box of IoT for you to recycle…
- you can ride your powered bike for as long as you can power it for, here is a box of IoT for you to recycle…
- you can drive your car for as long as you can power it for, here is a box of IoT for you to recycle…
We keep our kids alive so they: learn IoT, learn power, learn each of these technologies… and what they will create in the future will be amazing!
Soon, people will wonder why there were poles outside, to carry power to houses, they will think it was as antiquated as the train technologies from the 1800’s we use today, but are hidden behind the areas of town no one wants to go to.
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@williamsmith1741 - ‘“explosive power” for dispersion”
If you are ignorant of how to disperse radioactive materials, without significant explosive capabilities, to poison a region — I do not feel it is wise or necessary to educate you & others on the internet.
I suspect you are well aware, if you have not been copy-pasting your arguments from other internet documents.
‘ What incentive would… have to “not count the numbers?” ‘
International agencies work through national governments. There is not much value for humanity in Eastern Europe, much of the remains of the old Soviet Systems do not really care about Eastern European peoples [especially those who are not ethnic Russians.]
Even during the Soviet times, government officials often lied about numbers reported, from the lowest levels of government, additional lying occurred climbing up the chain, lying again before releasing to other external agencies.
Russians, and later Soviets, were renown for human relocations by cattle car, mass graves, and not counting deaths.
Even Russians invading Ukraine, sending largely Asian fighters, are not bothering to pick up their dead.
Why such a lack of value on human life?
Some of the issue is related to racial beliefs.
Part of it is cultural, dealing with shame.
There are so many reasons.
Even outside scientists of prolific peer reviewed articles have been found to falsify radiation studies [for unknown reasons], such as Anders Pape Møller.
Having been to Eastern European villages & cities, this is not hard to comprehend.
“international conspiracy led by the…”
Your previous posts obsessing over conspiracy theories are unnecessary. These are “straw man arguments”, which are logical fallacies, a passive admission to a bankrupt position.
Since I see nuclear power as a reasonably positive thing, I don’t understand why you felt necessary to go down this rabbit hole of illogical thought.
“Chernobyl cleanup”
Not much was cleaned up, much effort was done with containing.
Many peoples were not evacuated, until years after the incident. Others refused to leave exclusion zones. Governments allowed many to just remain. What happens to those people [who were in or are in exclusion zones] are not always diligently followed, as per previous reasons cited.
Belarus got a huge amount of the nuclear fallout, and they had started resettling people back into various radiation zones.
Even some of the less dangerous contaminants only have a 30 year half-life, and it is now 38 years since the disaster. The death of flora & fauna has been immense, genetic defects in both, and measurement of populations in regions demonstrate the danger of such areas to living things [because attempting living things die or can’t replicate without insignificant genetic defect due to radiation.]
Later rainstorms & wildfires raise radiation rates for a short period of time, every so often, so it is still an ongoing issue.
“radioactive waste largely isn’t an issue”
If it was truly not “an issue”, Nuclear Fuel Lifecycle would not be internationally regulated as tightly, regionally regulated so tightly, there would be far less perceived risk, and nuclear electrical energy would cost next to nothing in this day & age.
The problem is: people are not honest about the risks & benefits.
Disassociating radioactive materials from spent fuel, effectively atomizing it, mixing it with soil, and returning it to the ground it came from, is a cute mental exercise, but a disingenuous way of dealing with the risks, and falls into the realm of dishonesty since such disposal techniques are not actively being seriously considered.
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The irony of a Conservative leaning Roman Catholic promoting the position of a jihadist organization, whose goal it is to establish an Islamic State over the land between Syria & Egypt.
The 1988 charters opens with:
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
And then goes on to define how to establish their Islamic Caliphate, with the first article:
“The Movement's programme is Islam. From it, it draws its ideas, ways of thinking and understanding of the universe, life and man. It resorts to it for judgement in all its conduct, and it is inspired by it for guidance of its steps.”
Article 7 continues in the written text:
The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).
There was a previous time in history when an Islamic Caliphate was established in the region, non-Muslims were expelled, the Roman Catholic Pope offered to pay the Jizya tax for safe passage for pilgrimages, the entrance of Catholic Pilgrims were denied, and The Crusades begun. They only ended when Richard The Lionhearted was able to extract guaranteed safety for pilgrims into the Holy Land.
Sometimes, this stuff amazes me.
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@ReekieReels - “the architecture of American. Global Power projection… was handed to it by Britain”
The US did not want this role. The US disbanded their military after the revolution. The US wanted to be an isolationist nation, on the other side of the world.
It was the Islamic Pirating from the Barbary Nations in Northern Africa, that caused the US to institute a Standing Military. America is largely where it is at today, with their navy, because of Islamic Piracy. Sure, Americans learned from Britain, but had this standing navy seed not been forced upon them, there would have been no reasonable naval infrastructure for fighting during WW1.
The Brits paid off their war debt from WW2. There is no war debt reason for the UK to not have a stronger presence in the globe. With the US Deficit & Debt, the UK will likely need to step up again, sooner than later, until the US can control their budget.
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@patdbean - “power saved by not refining the oil you are no longer using”
Oil is used to produce everything from clothing to plastics to carpets to flooring to siding to roofing to streets… the refining will continue to happen, and a percentage of lighter weight fuel ⛽️ oil will always be produced from a barrel of oil.
As demand drops for fuel oil, the fuel oil will be given away at under-cost, just to avoid dumping into the water, since the other oil based products will still be required. Finding a way of ecologically disposing of fuel oil will be subsidized by the raising of prices on infrastructure & clothing & plastics in a world where EV’s are mandated.
I bet, in a 100% EV environment, inherently portable fuel oil will be burned for creating electricity to be stuck in batteries 🪫 which will need to be recycled ♻️
In the end, plug in hybrids are probably the way to go, to avoid the dumb idea of taking a portable energy source [fuel oil] & consuming it in a fixed location, and taking a fixed energy source [many kWh of electricity ⚡️ from wires] & consuming it in very large mobile vehicles 🚗
Fuel ⛽️ oil is much lighter per energy unit and takes up much less space per energy unit over batteries 🪫
People need to stop 🛑 being so religious over this topic, allow the market to decide, via technology & cost, what the best way to come to transition & when.
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@patdbean - “CO2 output per head”
That is a crazy comparison, compare both:
- 8.37/10 cars/American vs 2.19/10 cars/Chinese
- 90% of Americans have A/C vs China’s 60%
- America homes are heated, Chinese southern homes are largely unheated
- Air in China’s north is toxic, far worse than anywhere in US! pollution from gov’t heating!
China is not more efficient, they are just far less developed, more toxic where China is developed.
China’s CO2 production is closely tracking their population, which is in decline.
How long will China 🇨🇳 be able to keep their slave class in the South, out of the cities, and continue the genocide in East Turkistan with their concentration camps?
As Chinese kept in poverty by Communists equalize [today, China makes it illegal for rural people to enter cities, keeping rural peoples in poverty], China’s so-considered CO2 “efficiency” will be comparable or far worse than the US, not to mention the poisonous air will be far worse in China, especially with new coal plants coming on-line)
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@patdbean - ‘my point is “liquid fuel”… didn’t say anything about batteries’
That is the only real political choice, today.
[patdbean] - “aircraft… may well be hydrogen”
In 2001, American President GW Bush spoke of the promise of Hydrogen. It is 2022 now. Talking about hydrogen in 2050 for airplanes ✈️ , is a fairy tale.
I like Hydrogen. Let’s start burning H2 now with CH4 while yearly adjusting the ratio, in ICE engines & ICE extenders & gas heating & gas cooking. Transient energy [solar/wind] or any other base power [hydro/nuclear/coal] can crack H2O into Hydrogen. Transition off coal & nuclear as stored H2 can replace the medium. Transition ICE to fuel cells when they can be mass produced.
No reason we don’t have H2, except corrupt politics & religious whackos. Existing natural gas pipelines are ubiquitous and can carry hydrogen.
Politicians were bought off by China 🇨🇳, who has the monopoly on solar cells, batteries, and increasingly rare earths. Media took the crony-capitalism hook, line, and sinker while promoting propaganda. Weak minded people have irrational religious fervor against natural organic & water based solutions… and anything involving a dam & pipeline.
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@patdbean - the question with how much energy does it take to make & recycle hydrogen & a fuel tank is the measure with how much energy does it take to create a battery, recycle a battery, and energy to fill a battery.
A hydrogen fuel tank can be made of easily recyclable materials, not so with batteries. It is more expensive to recycle a battery for lithium than to mine it, and the rest of the battery becomes unsustainable land fill junk.
How much energy expended to create & recycle a fuel tank vs Li-Ion battery? (Huge difference in energy cost!)
Cost & energy are not the only issues.
A hydrogen fuel tank does not depend on sparse materials where they are largely controlled by a single foreign nation on a different continent, which is the case with batteries.
A hydrogen leak will quickly dissipate into the sky, while a lithium-ion puncture will cause a huge fire.
The internet repeatedly says Hydrogen holds more energy than an equivalent amount of gasoline, so going shorter distances with hydrogen than an EV (which goes shorter distances than ICE) means someone is lying. Transitive property in mathematics.
There is always trade offs, the same way banning slavery was made obsolete through oil & ICE engines, moving to batteries controlled by a single international actor, using slave labor to make it super cheap, is not a morally acceptable alternative. H2 at least is potentially available everywhere, just like carbon based organic liquid fuels, and less likely to be abused by bad actors.
Honestly, with a catalyst 24x7, organic liquid fuel will drip from the sky, being available in the center of Asia, Africa, Australia… and it can be held in a convenient cheap container, even deepest in the desert, while such is not the case with an expensive single source battery container that must be refilled by single source solar cells during part of the night needing single sources specialized electronics for charge controllers & singe sources specialized electronics for inverting to make usable. (Of course, the only thing holding Russian economy together is ICE @ Organic Fuel… we see where the rest of this junk got them with embargoes! ROTFL!)
In conclusion, there is always energy lost when converting non-movable energy to a transportable form… comparing just the energy in the container instead of the cost of the container & energy over a lifetime is a false comparison, a logical fallacy, and we must be cautious of propaganda [especially by single source foreign actors with historical evidence of anti-competitive behavior & buying off politicians & pushing agenda through punitive measures against the press & media.]
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@patdbean - “UK… 189twh+ it will take to make the hydrogen?”
Honestly, UK decided to pay China to generate the energy to keep on making batteries, with all their new coal & nuclear plants… they are moving the problem with energy to make batteries. (See previous comment.)
The UK is a freekin’ island surrounded by water, they have a tremendous advantage!!! produce the hydrogen off-shore:
- at windmills off shore
- solar farms on existing or old oil/gas rigs
- using tidal energy
and pipe the hydrogen back to the mainland as gas in pipes, along with electricity. The mainland can collect, distribute, and store the gas for mobile car use, cooking, heating, etc.
Every dam has hydrogen making potential.
Every nuclear power plant has hydrogen making potential… honestly, nuclear produces hydrogen more economically because of the existence of high temperature steam already as part of the system.
Since it is storable, in tanks, there is no need for batteries.
The UK has 100% technological & geographical advantage with hydrogen, over other nations.
I don’t know why Britains just want to cut their own throats by becoming 100% dependent upon a bad foreign slaving actor on the other side of the globe… someone people are getting paid a lot of money to make citizens of the UK think such stupid thoughts of becoming dependent upon such!
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@patdbean - “tank… batteries… cycles”
500-1000? Doubtful a tank will have a smaller life expectancy than EV battery. I know more people who replace EV batteries than gas tanks today, and there are a lot more tanks out there. (Yes, I know organic liquid fuel storage & hydrogen storage are not the same, but I have never seen people replace home propane tanks, either, and a lot of Americans in rural areas use home based propane.)
Cost of making a tank vs EV battery? Tank cheaper, 100% of times.
Energy to make a tank vs EV battery? A lot less energy. A lot less resources. A lot less for a tank.
Japan & US are already working with transporting hydrogen in existing natural gas pipelines, to existing turbines. There was just a recent completion of such a project in the state of Georgia in the US, using existing turbines & infrastructure.
There is loss with energy on wires & in batteries, there will be some loss with hydrogen in pipes & tanks. The question is not 0% loss, but acceptable losses.
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@patdbean - there are a variety of suitable tanks for hydrogen, the same way there are a variety of tanks for different other kinds of fuel. Straight steel & aluminum tanks are available for hydrogen, just as they exist for petrol tanks. These are 100% recyclable, as are petrol tanks today. They have the potential to be economical as well, with natural gas vehicles running around the third world.
Being an owner of 4 EV batteries right now, I would not be able to do such a thing in the 2000’s, how many EV batteries do you have in your possession that you are using today?
As far as battery life is concerned, there are different cycling characteristics for different chemistries… and different environmental characteristics. EV batteries get a lot of abuse.
Sure, oversizing batteries help hide cycle times, but calendar age kills them, they do not last that long. I have learned this with some of my Chevron batteries.
As far as loss on power lines vs hydrogen conversion, those are two different numbers you are comparing. Loss in power lines is comparable to loss in hydrogen transportation.
Comparing the energy loss in generating hydrogen and sticking in a tank all locally created in the UK needs to be compared to the harvesting of rare earths in Africa by their child labor, Lithium from South America, drilling & refining the oil from the Middle East for the battery plastics, transporting it back to China by oil burning trains & ships, mining the aluminum for the shells, smelting the the different metals, manufacturing the batteries using the maintained slave labor, shipping the batteries to the UK around the southern continents in supersized cargo ships, installing the batteries, and then creating electricity.
That local conversion & storing of hydrogen in a steel tank is looking better & better all the time!
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@patdbean - “you are missing the point…”
No, I have never missed your point a single time.
You consider cost energy filling a battery/tank 🪫.
I consider aggregate costs of battery & tank, energy into battery & tank, recycle ♻️ the battery & tank, locality & ethics of these choices.
The massive cost difference in vehicle types plainly indicates you have fallen for a false analogy, a logical fallacy.
There are reasons the cost of an EV is so high, the massive cost of the battery 🔋, which is expected to be amortized in investment by electricity ⚡️ cost benefit to liquid fuel ⛽️. Without government subsidies & mandates, this largely does not exist.
Lithium from seawater takes an immense quantity of energy, at 0.2 parts per million. This merely increases energy consumed for EV, in totality.
The cost of EV cars 🚙 plus estimated electric cost vs cost in liquid fuel ⛽️ in an ICE vehicle 🚗 cost demonstrates the immense cost in energy for EV vs ICE that is hidden by outsourcing, slave labor, child labor, and genocide… and it still can’t compete today.
Locally sourcing your power & unlimited hydrogen fuel ⛽️, even if less efficient in transferring into a tank, is vastly more beneficial.
The current EV battery 🪫 production dominance by slavers must end. Western consumers are enamored by slave owners, it is hard to think about them releasing slaves, but it must happen. The advocate for the slave owner is little more than a slave owner by proxy… whitewashed sepulchers.
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@patdbean - “hydrogen will need…”
There is a lot of energy use to mine cobalt in Africa, mine Lithium in South America & Australia, a lot of energy to move that energy to China 🇨🇳, a lot of energy to mine copper, a lot of energy to move that copper & batteries 🪫 to the rest of the world 🗺 . There are sink holes forming in South America, from the unsustainable lithium mining, so that will not likely last long.
The problem… batteries 🪫(takes a lot of energy to produce, which translates into the high cost.) Battery 🪫 companies use slave labor to compensate for high energy requirements & produce profits that others can’t compete with.
Battery 🪫 companies then use their slave profit to buy rock lithium mines in Africa, buy automobile manufacturers, steal manufacturer designs on cars like Toyota & Mercedes, poach employees with manufacturing designs from foreign products, and wreck local manufacturing across the world. It is not worth it.
Places like the UK 🇬🇧 could use offshore windmills, produce hydrogen off-shore, remaining saline is easily be remixed into the ocean 🌊, hydrogen piped back to mainland, and all existing stations can just resell the domestic energy… with tanks which take far less energy to produce than batteries and the evils that come along with batteries🪫 are avoided.
The energy/cost of the tank & hydrogen ⛽️ is less than battery 🪫 & electricity. For an island 🏝 like the UK 🇬🇧, there is basically an indefinite quantity of energy carrier (Hydrogen & Tank) which is not limited & morally compromised like electricity energy carrier (Copper Wire & Batteries)
But we have been through this already… you obsess over cost of electricity, a small piece of the system cost, I am looking at what people must buy: the energy & storage carrier.
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Hi @patdbean - ‘BUT all the energy that goes into mining gives you that metal “forever” ‘
The batteries 🪫 are not cheap like Lead Acid, which are recycled some 95%… so guess what? Non lead-acid are still expensive.
“250,000 miles… then 5 years grid storage”
Nope.
Too high of individual cell failure rate for almost usable modules, in the end. This is what I see in practice.
Any large company needing grid storage will not mess with underperforming batteries 🪫, because it costs too much in human effort to send people around all the time, when there is a failure. Buying new, on a schedule, and using warranty for the outlier batteries 🪫 is how it is done - I work in a data center.
All my friends with hybrids & EV’s who tried piece meal replacing individual batteries with properly rated cells 🪫 have chucked their packs in a short period of time… because the modules/packs suck as they become too unreliable. Grid storage solutions will not be used with those used packs.
I happen to be using recycled EV batteries 🪫, for my personal DIY solutions, but I have only bought modules with <100km on them.
This is a brave new world 🌎, lithium ion battery waste is incredibly under-regulated & poisonous ☠️. Li-Ion Recycling is young. The energy needed for recycling is immense & under-measured. All DIY’ers I have personally seen are dumping underperforming lithium ion into the garbage. Commonly used modules moved to grid storage is a pipe dream. 😴
“3% of lithium ion batteries are recycled… early 2010’s”
Modern progressive battery recyclers like GreenCitizen claim in 2022 that 95% of lithium batteries 🪫 are just thrown away, of the remaining 5% are only 50% recoverable… which means closer to 2.5% of battery 🪫 mass is recycled as of 2022.
With 50% recoverability, even at 100% batteries 🪫 recycled, you still have 50% waste. Batteries are a toxic nightmare.
The amount of energy to create batteries 🔋 is phenomenally high. The amount of energy to recycle ♻️ batteries 🪫 is immense. The amount of batteries 🪫 waste is immense.
We need batteries 🔋, but this use case is quite literally a waste.
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Other efficiency & hazard concerns…
EV batteries 🪫 in cars are incredibly heavy, approximately an order of magnitude more than the human transported… ~1/3rd the weight of a small car, full or empty. This is a terrible inefficiency. At least with consumable fuel, the vehicle 🚗 get lighter as it travels.
My 4x recycled EV battery 🔋 modules are 86lbs/39kg… a typical car 🚘 uses 10x modules, and we have not spoken about bus bars, wire, fire 🔥 protection case, etc. super heavy, and I am paying to haul 2x 🔋 battery equivalent of weight, using 5x my own weight? This is dumb!
Batteries 🔋 are bombs on wheels… kind of like an order of magnitude more dangerous than gasoline/petrol ⛽️ tanks, since gasoline/petrol ⛽️ need an ignition source when pierced, while batteries 🔋 just need oxygen to turn the ground into a flaming hell pit… burning 🔥 gasoline is reasonably safe, while combustible batteries 🔋are extremely hazardous with 20mg to 200mg of hazardous Hydrofluoric acid a high corrosive & hazardous gas emitting from consumed lithium-ion batteries 🪫, never mind the carcinogenic outputs.
Idiots are pushing this earth destroying, sink hole making, slave subsidized, high energy consuming to create, high energy to recycle ♻️, hardly any recycled, highly corrosive, and very hazardous ⚠️ mobile 🚙 fuel containers (known by tow truck 🛻 drivers as mobile bombs.)
All energy is dirty. Batteries 🪫 are horrible. H2 is superior in virtually every environmental way.
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Hi @patdbean - “EV 3 times as far as it drives a hydrogen car”
In 2021, the Toyota Mirai was driven 845 miles on a single tank of hydrogen, setting a Guinness World Record for the longest distance driven by a fuel-cell vehicle without refueling. This was done in rush hour traffic, about 2x the distance of the best EV’s. On the open highway, it seems to still be better than EV’s.
[pat] - “I don’t buy your fire figures”
As far as fire 🔥, lithium has serious fire risks from lighters to scooters…
https://youtu.be/8nz5ijXcckI
When we talk about electric vehicles, fires 🔥 not only create a problem for the vehicle 🚗, but everything around it. EV Car battery emit 2 types of gas:
1. Flammable & explosive gas
2. Noxious & poisonous gas
Issues;
- Batteries on the bottom of the car inhibit extinguishing the fire.
- Water does not put out the fire well.
- Techniques in Europe include submerging EV in water to stop fire
The problem is significant:
- Example of 55 busses in China catching on fire from a single bus experiencing a thermal runaway event at a charging station.
https://youtu.be/XWq-Mq1Uqpw
The issue is significant for surrounding cars & such. Look up The Felicity Ace, a fairly new car transport ship that sunk in the Atlantic, after a fire 🔥 spontaneously burst 💥 out on board. Almost $1/2 Billion loss.
I never heard of an ICE car, sitting shut off on a ship 🚢, sinking a ship 🚢.
[pat] - “degradation figures…”
Hard to post scholarly papers on YouTube. Comments with such links often get deleted. Battery 🔋 chemistry 🧪 is pretty well understood.
[pat] - “8 year 100,000 warranty”
Wait until they figure out that used under cold temperatures can cause a battery 🪫 thermal runaway event. The scholarly articles explain the risk.
Most EV manufacturers have done massive battery 🔋 replacements, costing $$$ Billions. By charging between 80%-20%, time can be extended. Once again, the scholarly articles are easily Google’able, and I am doing this with my slightly used BEV batteries.
[pat] - “second life in grid balancing”
Good for that guy, building a baby battery 🪫 system for a baby 1 megawatt solar facility!
With California, land of Fruits 🍉 & Nuts 🥜, bankrupting small daytime solar providers who don’t have storage by basically not giving them money for feeding the grid during peak solar times, there is really no choice but to fund storage.
Interestingly, I have been tracking small decommissioned solar farms, and used panels from them are pretty readily available… citizens in Spain have a huge problem with the same issue. Government regulation asking people to take risk & then bankrupting them.
The comments on that video were quite telling. It is getting hard for people to find used batteries 🪫 at a reasonable price… not surprising since individual DIY’ers, like me, are buying them. Observers expect about 3 years, before thermal runaway or time to replace those EV batteries.
The mandatory solar installations and lack of grid storage problem in California is really a huge problem… a problem so large that it negatively affects the country of Mexico 🇲🇽, whose grid it tied to California, which trickles to Texas, who must send natural gas to Mexico 🇲🇽 to maintain their spot generators to maintain Mexico’s 🇲🇽 & California’s grid.
The renewable energy problem must be solved, used EV’s batteries 🪫 at small facilities by DIY’ers, will never make up the difference.
But honestly, thermal runaway may reduce the need to recycle ♻️ these batteries 🪫
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1:50:40 - “fiber… cable to node, copper to house… dreadful”
Actually, this is not a bad plan, because this is what the US did, to get fast internet in the beginning!
When telco was socialized with a monopoly in the US, people had analog 56k modems and we had to spend super high $$$ for 128k digital ISDN.
Once it was broken up, the US quickly killed it, moved to DSL where copper to the house was able to increase speed 100x & 1000x… which is basically what AU did.
Moving to full fiber is an easy process, after that, change node to edge equipment later, which is simple in comparison to ripping up streets to run the significant initial fiber.
This interview is the perfect reason why a philosopher does not understand technology enough and then looks like an idiot when criticizing a political group he does not like.
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Hi @ivanvitanov5193 -
Suggesting Kyiv was not part of the plan, after so much equipment was brought out there and multiple attempts to encircle Kyiv were blocked (ie winning an area & then losing the area, repeated several times) is a silly suggestion. We watched weeks of this, over satellite, with reports from the ground.
Suggesting an huge aggressor country with virtually unlimited resources will get what they want, after destroying a smaller nation, is not a significant achievement.
I honestly did not know Russia was so weak, until we saw this invasion. Wow. Putin’s Russia is really nothing much more than a third world nation. Putin squandered so much, since the breakup of the USSR, depending so much on old WW2 era military equipment, only 1 more working landing ship in the Black Sea.
It is sad to see what Russia had become, in such a short period of time, under Putin’s guidance. All that oil wealth squandered, instead of invested into making Russia great... and now the military is being largely destroyed by some small neighboring country that he decided to invade.
It all makes me so sick to my stomach.
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@gregorytheblackkitten9422 - “you seem to be very knowledgeable about this”
I know a little bit about this since the Americas was “discovered” by Spain on the same year they gained their independence from the Moors.
Just because people toggle between colonizers and colonies, like Spain & Morocco, does not mean the cultural bounds disappear.
In the same way, the UK & US still have strong cultural bounds, even though the UK largely colonized them (and Spain and France), yet the US helped bail the UK (and Spain and France) out of two world wars.
“where are you from?”
I am from The American Colonies, but don’t start thinking that most Americans are like me, my ethnicity is not Western European.
The separation from ethnicity helps me see things more clearly for what they really are, without bigotry or personal hard feelings or guilt / self hatred. Things are what they are, we have to get over them, appreciate the lessons learned, and continue:.. no earthly civilization past had figured this much stuff (go to the moon, wired communication, wireless communication, going to Mars, sending craft able to communicate with us from outside the solar system, etc.)
Forgiveness of people towards each other offers opportunities for the future.
Repentance & Forgiveness drives Restoration & Reward for all parties in all relationships… from personal to national levels.
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@jameshisself9324 - “local dc only”
If you are going to use 12v accessories, like automobile accessories, sure… run 12v cigarette lighters & 12v barrel jacks around the house, all over the place.
I did this for awhile, making sure all of my security cameras, routers, some local lighting, and Ethernet switches were all 12v.
I have to warn you… changing lead acid batteries got really old, after over a decade.
Moving to 48v DC (which i am trying now) is no panacea. In some ways, it is better, with 0 gauge wire available, but expensive, and enough current can be transmitted from batteries to turn over an HVAC compressor @240v A/C. In some ways, it is the worst of all worlds, with breakers & fuses being expensive, needing an adapter to step down from 48v to 12v for common uses, then using adapters to step down from 12v to 5v for common USB equipment. New Ethernet routers can use 5v, new security cameras can use 5v… but lighting is still 12v minimum, while new LED bulbs are 120v a/c without electronics circuit to step down the voltage, and new 120v A/C outlets include 2x USB power outlets. There are efficiency losses at every conversion point, and cheap equipment is notoriously inefficient (and noisy with EMF emissions.)
Can you get refrigerators that operate on 12v DC? Sure, portable, but they are not very energy efficient, the 120v A/C models are better, 240v better for larger installations. If you are looking for going off-grid reliably, investigate propane for heating, cooking, instant on hot water… then D/C becomes easier.
Once hydrogen becomes more mainstream, it looks like a far superior solution than batteries for off-grid living. Use solar to create hydrogen, store hydrogen in a tank (big battery), convert H2 to electricity through fuel cell (preferably, scrapped from a car) or generator (immediately available) as needed, burn H2 in a furnace or on demand water heater or for cooking as needed.
Since H2 is not mainstream, I have used natural gas to limit my exposure to the electrical grid (in ~25 years, I only lost natural gas once, when an excavator hit a pipe down the street from my house, but lost the electrical grid countless times… multiple times a year.) Most wild fares are anthropogenic, when crazies & whackos are not setting fires, high tension power lines are likely the culprit (ie likely cause in Hawaii island burning to the ground.)
I guess it really depends on what your needs are and what you are trying to accomplish. 120v A/C is convenient, local D/C can be hard when you are trying to use your energy wisely with batteries. 12v is definitely easier, with the availability of automotive solutions, but wire is super expensive, and you better put your battery system in the center of your house to reduce runs to D/C outlets on short runs to interior walls.
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@jx14aby - circa WW1, the League of Nations, and later circa WW2, the United Nations 🇺🇳, offered Palestine 🇵🇸 an opportunity to stand up a nation… since they were ruled by the Ottoman Empire for over a half millennium. For the past 75 years, they have not stood up a nation.
If they were born there, they must decide to stand up a nation, instead of pursuing worthless endeavors, forever being the grapes of wrath 🍇
People always have a choice, one leads to life, the other leads to premature or permanent death.
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Hi @jx14aby - “do not have a choice”
Every individual has a choice.
“Born inside a prison”
They are not born inside a prison.
They are born in the territory they control,
the same way people are born in any other.
People in their territory had been committing acts of war & terrorism against neighboring Arab Egypt & Hebrew Israel.
Both nations closed their borders.
When the borders are re-opened,
people from the territory commit atrocities again,
the borders are closed again.
The choice is not to commit acts of war & terrorism against multiple nations.
The choice is to make personal actions to stand up a functioning government which will not commit acts of terrorism & acts of war.
“It was the Zionists…”
If this was the root cause,
then Egypt would not have closed it’s border,
so this is not the issue.
“not born in Palestine”
That is a racist argument.
Other nations welcome & give citizenship to people not born in their borders.
Lots of people live in the US, who were not born there, and they all can become citizens… including people born in Palestine, ironically.
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Everyone wants Palestinians to stand up a country. When they stand up an ethical nation, it could be like The Garden of Eden, the borders would be opened, the world would flock to go there, and the taxes from visiting friends & families would fund the nation!
They have a choice.
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@ignaciofernandezclavel3535 - “technology you mention are subsidiaries of fossil fuels”
Nope 👎
Liquid fuel ⛽️ directly from CO2 in the air, by mixing it with salt water, pass electricity through it, and the fuel is separated from the water… only requires electricity ⚡️, which can come from any source… and does not explicitly require fossil fuels.
Liquid fuel directly from CO2 in the air using solar powered thin film devices. The photoelectrochemical cells produce hydrocarbons directly from the air… does not explicitly require fossil fuels.
Harvesting CO2 directly from the air for 8 years and converting it directly to fuel for 6 years… does not explicitly require fossil fuels.
Producing fuel directly from CO2 in the air, using high temperature electrolysis… does not explicitly require fossil fuels.
Combining H2 with CO2 from the air & water with a catalyst to produce diesel fuel… does not explicitly require fossil fuels, H2 can come from nuclear or solar electrolysis.
Iron catalysts to drip 💧 jet fuel from the CO2 from the air, hydrogen, and water… does not explicitly require fossil fuels, since H2 can come from nuclear or solar electrolysis.
Carbon based liquids will be around a long time.
“energy return from these processes is less than 1:1”
That is the case from every process.
There is always loss, that is academic.
There is also loss in recycling process, which makes carbon based energy very efficient (in comparison to spent batteries 🪫 )
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The US always reaches it’s debt limit.
They will spend, there is no tomorrow.
You missed the open border in the US, where more illegal aliens are crossing every month than there are housing permits, not to mention legal immigration & births.
When people need places to live, they buy / lease housing & furnish housing, regardless of how much it costs.
Once the southern US border is limited, fewer people will consume the little housing that is permitted, eventually housing pressures will subside, purchasing will decrease, and inflation will come under control.
The savings are being used to help fund what is happening, and once that savings is gone, there will be a huge problem, if the illegal immigration at the US Southern Border is not controlled.
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@ritchirodenbach8972 - I had a conversation about this, some years back. After looking into it, the African Currency link to Libya seemed like an element of truth in a greater conspiracy theory of misunderstanding of how things work in humanity & on a global scale.
The currency would need to be linked to something significant, like Swahili language, disassociated from the Arab invaders & slave traders of the past 1300 years. (Libya is slaving again, after the fall of Gaddafi, some things never change.) A police force to protect people [from thieves] is needed. A military to protect against invaders [who thieve] is needed.
France is merely a small nation that provides a degree of legal stability & security, with the ability to project stability & security for those who want their help. Nothing more. It has little to do with their currency.
Security & Stability create a super power, because these things allow people to create without having their stuff get destroyed, without having their stuff get stolen, without being kidnapped to provide their unique labor for free, without having their women & children molested & killed [so the created things are passed down.]
Until people understand that creation, security, and stability is the tripod on which civilization stands… people will be in endless cycles of theft & those regions remain poor. Gold is not necessary. In North America, $1 has a colloquial name of a “buck”… because a Buck Skin (skin of a deer) had that value, and people would trade the skin (because it held it’s value… not the fur, but embedded in the fur was the work to harvest & clean the animal, and the meat fed the harvesters along the way.)
Gold is not necessary, it can be a renewable resource like animal skins. Creation [human work], Security [to keep creations from breakage & theft], and Stability [to appreciate & value] are at the heart of civilization… super power is the ability to project those positive attributes & defend from the negatives to other localities.
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@jordinagel1184 - “Trump discussed pulling out of NATO” after large European powers refused to live up to their end of the international treaty, for decades!
Trump gave them the ultimatum: live up to your end of the Treaty & not abandon it, or we will just acknowledge the major European nations leading & call it what it is… obsolete.
The reaction was clear: Trump moved US soldiers from nations, who were abandoning the NATO international treaty requirements, to nations who were meeting the NATO international treaty requirements.
Respect for international treaties, like NATO, comes from words & actions, and Trump threatened & punished nations who disrespected the Treaty, while rewarding nations who respected the treaty.
It was clear: NATO leadership needed to move East, as The Western nations of NATO refused to meet their treaty obligations.
Trump was right, and the nations not meeting their international obligations were wrong.
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@pmpowalisz - “Trump dealt with most dictators by saying kind words to them”
You mean like Obama, who bowed before the dictator of Saudi Arabia?
“straight up appeasing them”
Or Pelosi, who wore a head covering in Syria, where it was not customary for Christians to wear head coverings, before starting a civil war there?
“a sign of weakness”
Like Obama/Biden sending food & clothing as a sign of weakness, when Putin invaded Ukraine the first time?
Like Biden repeatedly promising not to send troops in an invasion by Putin, for months preceding the invasion?
Like Biden sending Harris, who bragged she had never been to Europe, to get Zelenskyy to capitulate, to an invading Putin?
Like Biden offering Zelenskyy a ride, when he wanted ammunition?
Weakness is illuminated by Democrats, causing wars by merely mismanaging world problems, repeatedly over the decades… many decades.
“Trump… wants absolute power”
If that was the case, he would be “President”, but he is not, and therefore your speculation is baseless.
“publicly looked up to Putin”
And privately told Putin that if he invaded Ukraine, he would hit Moscow.
“Our nation’s institutions…”
We’re demonstrated to be corrupt, by election processes not being adjusted by legislative bodies, but by autocratic executive branches, during the 2020 election cycle, states not abiding by their own constitutions.
“avoid being prosecuted and imprisoned for his various crimes”
Like the foreign election interference by the Democrat Party, using a UK source, to distribute Russian propaganda, in order to unsuccessfully try to sway the 2016 elections?
Like Hunter Biden, repeatedly breaking the law, and Secret Service disposing of evidence?
Like Biden publicly bragging about his role in getting Ukrainian prosecutor dismissed (who was prosecuting the company Biden’s son was taking oil cuts from), by threatening to withhold military aid, with a megalomaniac like Putin wanting to take over their country?
Like sniffing Biden, whose daughter wrote in her diary about her bringing little girls to their house and Biden having “inappropriate showers” with her?
Sorry man. I pine for the days of the US having a real President, like JFK & Reagan… not for the days of never ending wars, driven by ineptitude.
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@pmpowalisz - “biggest, richest, and most powerful”
NATO is HQ’s in Brussels, not Washington.
Until the Europeans figure out that they are the heart of NATO, and not just working girls looking for a handout from their sugar daddy, they place themselves in grave risk.
The US can not do much, from the other side of an ocean, by the time a well oiled armor machine rolls across Europe, the US would barely be able to get their armor across the Atlantic!
“Smaller members skimping on their share of obligation”
Germany is not a “smaller member”, they are huge, conquered Europe twice, running Europe long before the rise of the US, and was pumping their wealth into Russia [who was invading neighboring nations, for decades.]
The “smaller nations”, as you called them, were proverbially “sleeping with the enemy”, and was funding the invasion & reinvasion of Ukraine.
So was Biden, by the way, by shutting down energy exploration in the US, and passively watching Russia become the #2 oil partner to the US, surpassing Mexico… repeatedly promising not to send troops to uphold the U.S. end of a multilateral security treaty & sending VP Harris to get Zelenskyy to capitulate was unbelievable. Biden was shamed into supporting Ukraine, at least he did not just send blankets like he did the last time.
Liberal nations love dictators like Putin, not in their words, but by their deeds, and by the bribes they take.
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@lostcat9lives322 - “hatred of reality”
I hated the past couple invasions of Ukraine, as a result of Obama/Biden & Biden/Harris mismanagement; the civil war of Syria, as a result of Obama/Biden/Pelosi intervention; the civil war in Libya, as a result of Obama/Biden/Clinton intervention… so many more.
Hating war is not such a bad thing.
The Democrat Party has been the party of War, ever since it’s founder, Andrew Jackson, illegally invaded Florida… then WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, the loss of Vietnam (when Democrats in Congress refused to authorize air support to the South Vietnamese government, who had experience an end to the Vietnam war under Republican President Nixon); the loss of Iran to an Islamist terrorist organization under Carter; the invasion of Iraq under Obama/Biden by The Islamic State…
War exists everywhere a Democrat fiddles with it’s fingers. The Democrats have long been the party of war, leveraging the Russian propaganda machine for their benefit during Vietnam & into the future.
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Hi @pmpowalisz - “President Obama waiting two years just to give weapons to moderate Syrian rebels”
Obama/Biden/Clinton overthrew pushed for Egypt Libya to funnel small arms into Libya causing the civil way in Libya in Feb 2011 and started funneling Libyan arms to Syria, whose civil war started in March 2011.
Obama/Biden/Clinton were funneling arms to drive the Syrian civil war, from day-1.
“Obama and Pelosi were respecting local traditions”
Syrian Christians did not need to cover in Syria, when Pelosi went there, to the site where previous civil wars started against the Shia regime, and this occurred before Obama was President.
“Trump withheld… from Ukraine”
He withheld nothing. This was never proven, which is the reason Trump was exonerated.
Actually, when Obama & Biden sent Ukraine food and blankets, Trump came into office and started shipping Ukraine heavy weapons.
“Shady investigation”
Joe Biden bragged on withholding money from Ukraine, until the investigation was dropped against the company involving Hunter Biden… idiots impeached the wrong person:
“guy was so corrupt he leaked the name of informants”
Sounds like the US FBI during the Trump Administration, who were so corrupt, that they knew Trump was innocent, but kept leaking names to the public on the fake Russia probe, which turned out to be Hillary paying a UK informant to pay a Russian propaganda artist.
“Trump praised Putin… changed his tune when Putin started shelling Ukrainian cities”
Trump bought time with sweet talk, tried to get Europe to arm up, tried to get Germany to stop funding the Russian war machine, armed up Ukraine, and then started talking hard with Putin.
This is not dumb… is trying to negotiate from a position of strength, after Obama/Biden we’re shipping blankets to Ukraine after the first invasion:
“Trump wanted absolute power”
That is bull. Trump had the same political positions, for 30 years. The times changed, to fit his perspective, Trump was elected.
“Trump appeased Turkey’s aggression”
Actually, Trump made the Kurds withdraw, then forced Russia to extend their lines & fight to the border of Turkey.
Honestly, it was genius. It caused Russia to have to spend treasure, they would have spent invading Ukraine, on dealing with Northern Syria, so the US did not have to.
Russia has the GDP of South Korea, every Bomb dropped drained Putin’s arsenal, and drained Putin’s treasure chest… which is likely half empty now, so the Ukraine war can not be fought any more than one more year, until Russia runs out of cash.
“Appeasing the Taliban”
The Taliban made an agreement to not host terrorists who would attack the U.S.- which was the reason the U.S. invaded Afghanistan after 9/11.
There was a protocol in place, the Taliban did not meet the protocol, and Biden withdrew early & chaotically, throwing the father of a major Biden activist (the father was President of Afghanistan) under the bus.
This demonstrated there was no honor among thieves.
“Why would Putin feel the need to invade Ukraine…?”
It was roughly the 100th anniversary of the Soviet Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Putin pined for the old Soviet Union.
It was the 100th anniversary under Trump, but Trump started arming Ukraine, pushing US troops farther East, pushing for NATO allies to arm up, pushing NATO allies to stop buying energy & filling Putin’s war coffers.
Biden did Putin’s bidding by shutting down US oil exploration & drive US imports of Russian energy, which actually helped to fund the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Reagan… Rewarding companies short term profits”
This is not the cause of a President.
It is the law that stock holders can sue a company if they do not put the fiscal interests of their stock holders first.
This problem is a Congress problem. That law can be fixed, or a company can decide to not be public ally owner. Some companies go 100% private, for that very reason; long term restructuring.
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@pmpowalisz - “Iran… Saudi Arabia”
The US was allied with both nations, until Democrat Carter screwed up Iran and Democrat Biden is pretty close to screwing up Saudi Arabia.
“radical Sunni Islamic religious sect… attacked the US”
Saudi Arabia aligned themselves with the US, where SA kicked out Osama bin Laden, and SA worked with the US against Iraq [when Iraq invaded Kuwait & were preparing to invade Saudi Arabia, when OBL wanted to declare a Jihad against Saddam, and OBL was upset with the US once SA went to the US & the US put infidel soldiers in Arabian Peninsula.)
It was after Saudi Arabia rejected OBL & aligned with the US that OBL writ an Islamic Fatwa for justification of global Muslims to war with the US [for US infidel soldiers being housed in the nation that houses the holy cities of Mecca & Medina], and Al-Qaida started attacking the US with the help of other Muslims around the globe:
- bombing of US Embassies in Africa
- bombing of USS Cole
- bombing of US World Trade Center using Iraqi bomb maker in 1993
- bombing of US WTC & Pentagon 2001
Democrat Bill Clinton’s inadequate response to deal with a global religious war against the US with local police response lead to repeated escalations & eventually 9/11.
Saudi Arabia partnered with the US, because the US helps SA survive, since Democrat Carter’s mismanagement of Iran in the 1970’s put Saudi Arabia at great risk.
By the way, Obama/Biden/Clinton partnered with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a largely Sunni controlled terror group out of Egypt. The MB founder was an invited guest of Hitler in Nazi Germany, during WW2, and there was cross pollination, with Mein Kampf becoming translated into Arabic & distributed, and Islamic ideals feeding Nazi ideology.
Historically, Obama/Biden/Clinton’s Muslim Brotherhood partners aligned with Hitler during WW2, approved of extermination of Jews, raised 2 divisions of SS out of European Muslims for the Axis partners, and fought against the US & Allies.
I still can’t believe that the Democrats partnered with Islamic Fascists of WW2, in order to control Egypt and overthrow Libya & Syria.
There is a fine line between today’s democrats & Fascism. What a shame.
“Shia based terrorists only attack Israel…”
Not correct, at all… here are a few, another 30 or so that I did not include:
1982-1983 - Tyre headquarters bombings
1983 - US Embassy bombing in Beirut
1984 - United States Beirut embassy annex bombing
1985 - hijacking of TWA flight 847 & US navy sailor
1992 - Embassy bombing in Argentina killing 29
1994 - Community center bombing in Argentina killing 85
1994 AC Flight 901 attack killing 21
1996 Khobar Towers bombing, killing 19 Americans
1998 - Iranian assistance in US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
2000 - Iran trained & provided logistics to Al-Qaida in Bombing of the USS Cole
2001 - Iran trained Al-Qaida in destroying large buildings in Lebanon
2001 - 8 of 10 hijackers travel facilitated by Iran border guards
Iran protected family members of Osama bin Laden post 9-11
Iran protected retreating terrorists retreating from Iraq when pursued by American forces
2003 - Iran complicity in 2003 Riyadh compound bombings
Many Many bombings & attacks on Americans in Iraq
2011 - foiled Iranian attempt to kill ambassador and bomb 2 embassies in the US
2012-02 - Iran bombing in New Delhi, India
2012-02 - series of bombings in Bangkok, Thailand.
2012 - two Iranians carrying explosives for terrorist attack in Kenya
2018 - France froze Iranian assets due to bombing attempt in Paris
2018 - 2018, Denmark foiled Iranian bombing plot
2018-12 - Iran plotted terrorist attacks in Albania
2022 - US foiled bombing plot against former national security advisor & Secretary of State
2022 - US foiled Iranian kidnapping plot against woman journalist in US
“Russia interfered in 2016 election”
Duh… I confirmed it a few times, Russia funneled propaganda through Hillary Clinton repeatedly, and it was being leaked throughout 2016.
Other included:
- Russian ad for Bernie Sanders superhero promoting gay rights
- Russian ad endorsing Black Panthers as fighters against the KKK
- Russian ad for a Confederate flag and a call for the South to rise again
- Russian ad for yellow “No Invaders Allowed” sign posted at the United States border
- Russian ad attacking Trump
- Russian ad attacking Sanders
- Russian ads for “woke blacks”
- Russian page called “Don’t Shoot” regarding anti police violence
Everyone was well aware of the 2016 election interference by Russia…
“Democrats have been hating on Russia ever since 2016”
Oh no, it did not start in 2016, but with the Democrat Bill Clinton led NATO bombing of Orthodox Serbs during the revolution in Yugoslavia. Putin used the West [Democrat Clinton’s] attack on Orthodoxy & support of Muslims [who aligned with Hitler’s Nazi’s during WW2] to create a storyline.
The Democrat Clinton mismanagement of this & perceived alignment with Nazi’s re-created an antagonistic relationship with post WW2 Russia, and Putin came to power immediately after that.
Democrat foreign policy mismanagement created Putin’s Russia… and ultimately the seeds of the two Ukraine Invasions [Putin justifying the invasion for de-nazification] are the fault of Democrat Bill Clinton for mismanagement, Democrat Obama/Biden for emboldening Putin by sending food & clothing & nothing but defensive weapons during the first invasion of Ukraine, Democrat Obama/Biden/Clinton for supporting Nazi aligned Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt/Libya/Syria, and Biden/Harris emboldening Putin to invade Ukraine again [in their denazification quest] by promising to not send US soldiers when Russia invaded Ukraine.
“Trump… Ukraine”
You are speculating over a delay in shipment of weapons, of a number weeks, before a scheduled call, and there was never any threat of withholding weapons (like there was of Biden threatening to withhold aid if the prosecutor going after his son’s $$$ company was not fired.)
Once again, Trump was the first US president to authorize & send heavy offensive weapons to Ukraine, like The Javelin… while Obama/Biden sent food & clothes & defensive electronics & small arms
Trump told Putin he would Hit Moscow if Putin invaded, vs Biden who promised for months that the US would not send troops
What we know are the results:
Obama/Biden, Putin invasion
Trump/Pence, no invasion
Biden/Harris, Putin invasion
The record speaks for itself
“Why did they receive it months late”
If you remember, back immediately before the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the former Ukrainian President said he would sign a law to do closer trade with Europe, but turned on a dime back to Putin.
Trump committed to lethal Ukraine aid, that Democrats were afraid to send, Ukraine just elected a new President, and people were uncertain where Zelenskyy would stand.
Sen. James Lankford had just finished visiting Kyiv, and was asked why The Whitehouse was delaying, and said, “there was due diligence, and the administration has been active in trying to get lethal aid to the Ukrainians in the past.”
Anything else is pure politics.
“Bush… dismantling the old [Sunni] government”
I agree with you, there. That was the biggest mistake, not because Bush did not know how things worked there.
Bush had Middle East involvement for decades, he knew how things worked there.
Bush knew that regime change in Iraq would no longer necessitate the housing of US soldiers in Saudi Arabia (to continue Democrat Clinton’s containment strategy, which resulted in a religious war against the U.S. and justified the 9/11 attacks.)
Bush knew debathification would help remove Saddam supporters, to keep Saddam from coming to power again, after a new government was set up.
Bush miscalculated how Iran would turn Iraq into a puppet state, and cut the Sunni Middle East in half, with an Terrorist Shite line of power from Central Asia to the Mediterranean Sea between the Sunni Turks & Sunni Arabs.
This was my biggest fear, and it occurred.
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@pmpowalisz - “Shah… Iran… brutal dictator… Iranian people could vote… less restrictive towards women than SA was in till recently”
You have no idea what you are talking about.
You clearly were not alive back then.
During the time of the Shah, women lived reasonably normal Western lives in the cities, look at the photos & you could not differentiate them from Women in The West.
When the terrorists took over Iran, women were forced to cover, and they were beaten in public for non-compliance.
The terrorists took over, they never allowed people to vote for anyone the terrorist cell did not approve of. Representatives the people wanted were taken off the list & were stuck in prison. Iranians could never vote for who they wanted.
“Over the past decade…”
During the FIRST decade, after the terrorists took over Iran, Iran used kidnappings & prisons & assassins & bombings, both domestically & abroad, to control their citizens & other citizens.
The Shia started to radicalize, and in return the Sunni’s in Saudi Arabia started to radicalize.
When the Shia radical terrorists took over Iran, the Sunni radicals tried to emulate and tried take over Saudi Arabia, they performed a Siege of Mecca, and the Saudi government killed them.
During this time, Sunni’s in Saudi Arabia & other nations started to become more radical. It was after this point, women started to be forced to cover up, and the photos of women all over the Middle East & North Africa stopped showing normal Western lives in the cities and started showing covered women everywhere.
I had family members, who were safe for decades in the Middle East, and only after the terrorists took over Iran and terrorists failed to take over Saudi Arabia, did they suffer risk of kidnapping. My family members were nearly kidnapped twice.
Iranian terrorist cells used the drug trade in Central Asia & Central America & South America, to fund their other terrorist operations.
“Over the past decade the Iranian government had…”
Continued the same policies of repressing people, except they were emboldened & funded by Democrat Obama/Biden sending them plane loads of cash, which Iranian terrorists used to finance their terrorist operations all over the Middle East, turning Iraq into a puppet state, killing politicians in Lebanon, fighting the U.S. Democrat proxies in Syria, starting a civil war in Yemen, helping hold Venezuela in an iron grip, and continuing to hold Iranian citizens in the same iron grip where they can not choose for the people they can vote for…
“Bin Laden may have left SA but was still supported and funded by influential groups within the country”
Just like Democrat Obama/Biden sent plane ✈️ loads full of cash 💵, to prop up Iran 🇮🇷, when Iran was on the ropes. Does that mean the policy of the United States was to support terrorists?
Just like Democrat Obama/Biden/Clinton & later Kerry funneling billions in money 💴 & weapons into Syria 🇸🇾, to pay Muslim Brotherhood to fight a civil war? Democrat revised Libya would eventually restart the Arab Slave Trade in Africa. Democrat funded & trained Sunni terrorists would eventually migrate to The Islamic State, who partnered with the Muslim Brotherhood, to invade Iraq & commit genocide & restart the Arab Slave Trade in Iraq & Syria.
Are Democrats or the US responsible for restarting the Middle East & Africa Slave Trade, since Democrats covertly restructured the Middle East & North Africa with money 💰 & Weapons?
The policy of Saudi Arabia was not to support OBL. In this way, Saudi Arabia was far better than the US government, controlled by Democrats, towards terrorists.
“To this day the Saudi Arabia. Government still allows the same radical religious sect that many Sunni terrorists still…”
The religious sect are allowed to exist, under a degree of control by The King. At the same time, they are powerful, and could overthrow the King, so there is a dance they play.
The US still allows Democrats, who fund terrorism in Central Asia & Middle East & North Africa, when Democrats overthrow nations & send plane loads of money & funnel stockpiles of weapons from overthrown nations to fight civil wars.
The US still allows Democrats to exist, even though the founder of the Democrat party was a violent imperialist, who invaded Spanish held Florida, and later became President… when Democrats fought for slavery in the US… when Democrats restarted the slave trade in North Africa & Middle East… when Democrats created a new class of slave in the US by flooding the nation with illegal aliens that they could exploit for their labor to bypass Equal Protection clause of the US constitutional amendment they voted against after the end of slavery & beginning of the civil rights movement.
Nations must find accommodations for large groups of wicked people, Saudi Arabia must find accommodations for potential Sunni terrorists, and the US must find accommodations for potential Democrat slavers & terrorist finders.
“Muslim Brotherhood was once a terrorist organization but the Egyptian branch has gotten a lot more moderate”
By staging Islamic Terrorists in Sinai Peninsula, hosting Al-Qaida in Sinai Peninsula, freeing terrorists convicted of bombing from prison once they took power, applying pressure to the US to release people convicted of bombing on American soil, Bombing Christian minorities in Egypt proper, Bombing MB dissenters in Egypt proper, Bombing Egyptian libraries & museums, Bombing tourist locations, threatening in Arab media to March Egyptian soldiers to Syria & overthrow the Syrian government.
Their reign of terror was overthrown by moderate Muslims of Egypt, who saw the MB “moderate” brand of terrorism - bombing all over Egypt. It was a nightmare, and the nation was brought to a stand still. The MB government was forcing the military to shoot their family members in the streets, when civilians who refused to work, and eventually the MB fell.
You clearly don’t have family out there, telling you what was happening. The main church in Cairo was bandaging the wounded Muslims, that the MB were trying to kill. I’ve listened to the stories of peoples & their families, who had to deal with the MB. Shortly after this, I spent a nice evening with a young Muslim university student, who came from the home town where the Fascist Muslim Brotherhood started, and he told me his adventures in trying to overcome the MB terrorists who tried to overtake Egypt.
“Cheered on by the nation’s politically inept liberals”
Because Islamic Fascism is bad.
No matter how much Democrats try disagree with it, there is some base instinct that calls them back to government power of the gun, to repress the people.
“I notice you don’t seem to care for elections”
There is a difference between rigged elections, in terrorist controlled states like Iran, where the terrorists hand pick who can run & not run.
There is a difference between elections, where those who come to power came to power through election interference (Obama/Biden/Clinton pumped money into Egypt to sway that election), elected officials free convicted terrorist to burn down the libraries, Bomb the museums, host foreign Islamic Terrorist cells in their nation, and try to sway the nation to invade a sovereign nation elsewhere in the Middle East.
It is also the right of the people to protest, and they did.
When the MB Islamic fascists tried to coerce the army to continue to kill unarmed [largely Muslim] protesters, the army decided their orders were illegitimate.
In the US, we have a little thing called Freedom of Speech, freedom of Association. The military has a little thing called the Geneva Convention. When government calls for violation of the Geneva Convention, the government become illegitimate.
When Muslims call Muslims to unjustly kill other Muslims, the Muslims called to do the killing consider the ones giving orders to not be obedient Muslims, and they are overthrown. Egypt is a place where the Islamic Law reigns supreme over Secular Law, and good Muslims have a religious obligation to rise over the terrorists, paid for & advocated by foreign actors like US Democrats.
“Imagine if Republicans were allowed to re-write the US Constitution”
They would put teeth into it, to keep Democrats from profiteering the #NewSlavery, when Democrats get their new slaves by facilitating entry of illegal aliens, to live in a 2 tier legal system, where they are forever trying to get civil rights, and are coerced by Democrats to do what they want in order to hopefully get a bread crumb thrown to them.
Democrats are disgusting, the way they refuse to apply the same laws at the ship ports, the air ports, and the southern border. Democrats always hated Equal Protection, fought against the constitutional amendment, and hate Equal Protection even today. Democrat Slavers in the beginning, Democrat Slavers to the end… Republicans need to end the slavery Democrats do.
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@pmpowalisz - “if Putin used a weapon of mass destruction in the Ukraine”
It is really a good question.
The US is tied by international treaty to guarantee Ukraine’s sovereign borders, in exchange for Ukraine giving up nuclear weapons.
David Patraeus said the US should sink the whole Black Sea fleet.
If the US decided to abide by their treaty and protect Ukraine’s sovereign borders, could that be a reasonable enough response?
If the US wants to get out of their treaty obligation to protect Ukraine’s sovereign borders for Ukraine giving up their nukes, as the US avoided for almost a decade, perhaps Ukraine should be allowed to have nuclear weapons back, for their retaliatory use, with the decision to how & where they could use it?
A radius the length of the Kerch bridge, on the other side of the Russian Kerch bridge, looks like a reasonable place to retaliate for a first response for Ukraine.
A tract of land, the radius of the land bridge across Southern Ukraine, on the Russian side of the land bridge, may be another good retaliatory strike area.
These are things that I don’t have good answers for. Whatever is done, it should be done by the Ukrainians, because it is their nation which is being taken over by Russian invaders, who broke their international treaty guaranteeing the sovereign borders of Ukraine.
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Hi @pmpowalisz - “You know Saudi Arabia funded Isis along with many other Sunni rebels in the first few years of the civil war”
And Democrats Obama/Biden/Clinton did, from the beginning… and then Obama/Biden/Kerry continued in earnest.
“If only Obama had just funded the more moderate rebels from the start”
I had already pointed this out, several times, Democrats Obama/Biden/Clinton funded & weapon used the rebels in Syria from the beginning, with Sunni Arab allies.
The covert CIA program:
Timber Sycamore
The public military program, which happened later:
Syrian Train and Equip Program
“You claim I lack understanding of history”
Because you keep saying things like the Arab countries were funding things & Obama did public funding later. We are talking about weeks to months, from when Obama started covert CIA funding & training & weaponizing… along with the Arab allies.
“the most liberal party”
Liberal and Conservative have no meaning without a standard. Today’s Republican Party conserve The Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Amendments, and Faith Traditions which founded the nation. Todays liberals, liberate themselves from those things.
“an extremely egotistical… is not to change it for the better”
The policies were absolutely correct:
- energy independence (not dependent upon Russia & Middle East)
- energy export (to help allies in case of war, which we now see is 100% right!)
- tolerance for both renewable & carbon energy (the more diverse our energy, the better for the world!)
- protection for US Solar industry from China
- trade deals with China to balance trade deficit (which unfortunately, fell apart after weakening of former President)
- strong border security, discouraging illegal entry (distracting border patrol from blocking slavers & drug traffickers)
- sending more judges to deal with asylum cases at southern border
- path to citizenship for dreamers (rejected by Democrats)
- migrant protection protocol, discouraging abuse of Amnesty laws
- NAFTA replacement with USMCA (fixing issues with financial & information & patent arenas)
- piping energy from North West US, instead of using Train (trains inflate cost & supply chain delay of food & manufacturers goods)
- piping energy from Canada, across the border, to make Canadian energy better available to US & Europe & Mexico
- expand exploration in Alaska (Alaska Pipeline in running around half full, due to lack of exploration)
- heavy weapons shipped to Ukraine (javelins have done very well against Russian armor & air)
- agreement of Taliban to not host/protect terrorists targeting America (reason for Afghanistan invasion)
- defunding of Obama/Biden/Clinton/Kerry covert CIA funding & training & weaponizing program to overthrow Syria secular government [with an Sunni Islamic government]
- recognition by multiple Middle East & North African nations of Israel, officially ending hostilities post WW2 (Middle East peace)
- encouraging equal treatment of people, regardless of skin color (conserving the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Amendments)
“We need a leader with…”
Agreed, but we have not had a candidate like that since Republicans like GW Bush, Reagan, and Democrats like Carter in recent history.
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@AdodgerWho - “what do you mean…”
My previous car was 19 years old, bought new @ $10k price, only died after a wreck. Great car, no maintenance with exception of consumables (ie oil, tires, brakes.) Manual everything (transmission, windows, seat), cloth interior.
This car was slightly more, Automatic everything (transmission, windows, seat), bought 1 year old, leather interior.
This whole $30k for a car, that will likely need a battery before 20 years & 200k miles, is a rip off… especially when gas @$2.50 a gallon costs as much as buying electricity at a charging station. (Sure, a year or two of “free” electricity at a charging station is nice for the filthy rich, but most cars are used longer than that… and 30% of people renting means they will need charging stations.)
“pretty much standard for nearly 20 years”
Yep… use of a car is far less for the filthy rich.
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@AdodgerWho - good for you!
At the 10’s of thousands of apartments around me, it’s not going to happen any time soon.
Big Oil knows it, and every building along the main drag is getting demolished, with gas stations taking their place, paid for by government subsidies.
Who knows where the power will come from, for these people charging their cars before & after work, on rapid chargers.
The days of a few gas stations near by the interstate are rapidly coming to an end, as gas stations are being build miles away from the interstate, along every former store front, for 30 year old apartments that are everywhere here.
Massive power lines will eventually have to be constructed, where there are none… but that is not their problem, that eye sore will be our problem.
Lottery tickets, beer, cigarettes, and charging will be the cash cow for Big Oil, since they made virtually no money selling gas.
Government has taken out loans in our names to make Big Oil the gate keepers for EV’s for at least a third of the US population, likely more when people will be traveling longer distances.
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@geemy9675 - “gasoline receives way more tax incentives than EVs do”
You are on drugs. The number of gas stations on our main drag tripled… it is not because more apartments were built, not because more gasoline was needed, it is because energy companies are jockeying for real estate to open charging stations, and those are driven by EV infrastructure subsidies.
“Put politics aside”
But we can’t, because China is in every politicians back pocket right now
“better to remove $20B/y of fossil fuel subsidies”
You mean all those Clean Energy subsidies funding all the fossil fuel gas stations opening everywhere, so they will have EV charging stations because 1/3’rd of America is renting & can’t charge at home?
Once those subsidies are gone, there will be no funding for EV infrastructure… but they know that, because they don’t make their money off of Fossil Fuels… but human addictions will be increasingly needed to support the increasing footprint required by EV infrastructure.
There is a bizarre thought that somehow energy companies are fossil fuel companies. There is nothing farther than the truth. They make virtually no money on oil/gasoline at the pump… their money is in vaping, beer, lottery tickets, tobacco, marijuana, and next will be EV charging stations.
“semis pay for the road they are destroying”
And the EV’s pay for the road they are destroying, since they are heavier than fuel based cars, per tire footprint. EV’s are getting a pass on their fair share of road they are destroying.
“Fossil fuel air pollution on healthcare”
We have cleaner air than any time in the past 100 years? Health care spending has been rising both per capita & in aggregate. Life expectancy has been decreasing. There is a more important pattern to see.
“Air pollution cost… per people”
With life expectancy decreasing of people and air pollution decreasing, no one gives a proverbial pile of steaming doggie squeeze 💩 when this [suspect] number is not what is killing people. Clearly, number is either wrong or chasing this is a bad investment of societal resources. In essence, it is irrelevant.
“48K is the average new car price”
Nope 👎🏽
Not without child labor in Africa.
Not without slave labor in China.
Not without government subsidies.
Not without Genocide in East Turkistan.
Not without coal plants being built across Asia at a pace that people can’t comprehend.
EV’s are driving this, unfortunately, and the exorbitant price per car comes at an exorbitant human & environmental price.
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@teddycooke8145 - “the rich will tell you to…” to depend on government handouts, so they can be slaves on their plantation, bound to the land, and bound to the person they vote for to continue their handouts.
“most people who… don’t have the capitol [sic]… to buy a second property as an investment”
There is a family I know, who came here from Iraq, the second eldest boy went through High School, worked labor, went to aircraft mechanic school, worked labor, and eventually moved into investment properties.
With the excessive spending of Democrats, constantly trying to buy votes, saved wages are worth nothing, and real estate is an asset one can invest physical labor into in order to receive a return on investment.
As long as Democrats keep an open border, to supply their new plantations with slave labor, where housing permits number fewer than the border crossers… the value of land will increase and they will continue to make tremendous money [as the value of money continues to deflate from deficit spending.]
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Carbon in the atmosphere will effectively drive the democratization of energy, since anyone can harvest it, anywhere around the world, with very little effort.
Today, we have:
- machines to suck it out of the atmosphere, which can create liquid fuel for escrowing & easy consumption
- silicon based devices, to create liquid fuel for escrowing & easy consumption
- many different catalyst processes, to create liquid fuel from the air for escrow & easy consumption
The problem is, everyone can do it, literally everywhere, which means no one can control it… and this could start the process of actually removing CO2 from the atmosphere to solve global warming, but it is not really about solving global warming.
Drilling can be controlled by a few nations, Solar is controlled by a few nations in The East, Wind turbines are controlled by a few nations.
Until people finally realize that the problem is really about control of energy [which everyone needs], people who want to profit & control [weaponize] energy will continually to fight over shutting down various energy sectors to remove the competition, instead of dealing with the CO2 issue head-on by harvesting it.
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@bobg9 - Out of 237 nations, only 89 countries are able to replace their current birth rate, with 148 nations not experiencing enough birth rate to replace their populations.
The reality is, genocide of 148 different sets of many people groups, with the replacements having excess, will only cause a situation where any goal of population control will fail since the increasing groups will gain political control & population will skyrocket even more aggressively, with a more homogeneous set of peoples, leaving a world lacking human diversity.
Sure, Racist Social Darwinists, who hate diversity, like what is going on, but the rest of us are not so filled with hate.
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1:00 - “highest GDP to debt ratio”
This is a nightmare, you are right.
They have to stop spending like a drunken sailor, but Democrats in Congress traditionally drive this, and US voters are addicted to government services.
3:30 - [US Presidents speak on debt]
The US found out during the Trump administration that when Trump did not spend the money allocated by Congress, Democrats sued President Trump for not spending what Congress budgeted.
It was the craziest thing I have ever seen, in my lifetime!
5:43 - “white house continued to raise the debt ceiling”
This is not the role of the White House or President.
6:35 - “debt ceiling… serves no function except to generate political tension”
This is completely false. It is through the debt ceiling mechanism that the US congress has been able to force deals to constrain spending by other members of Congress.
The reason the President is needed, is because the President is the leader of a major political party, in this case the Democrat Party [which is addicted to uncontrolled spending], and the President must tell his political party members to fall in line & vote for the debt control measure, otherwise they vote against the debt control measure to bring home $$$ pork 💵 to their constituents.
6:54 - “Republican Gephardt… Gephardt rule”
This was a nightmare, as you suggested.
7:46 - “White House addicted to debt”
Once again, the White House is not the driver, Congress is the driver
Usually, if the opposing party is in control of congress, there are 2 paths:
1. Congress drive spending to make the White House look bad (ie Democrat Congress under Republican Trump… resulting in a 1 term President when his voting base did not come out to support him)
2. Congress drives less spending and can make the President look good (ie Republican Congress during Democrat Clinton… extending him to 2x terms during scandals)
8:40 - “checks written by the White House”
You really don’t understand how this works in America. The White House does not really control the spending.
11:25 - “social security… funds projected to run out… take out more and more debt”
They will merely increase the payroll tax or facilitate more illegal aliens so illegal aliens must steal social security numbers to work & therefore pay into the system & not get that money out when they retire. This is how Democrat President Biden’s policy is buoying Social Security.
14:20 - “pensions will have to financed with debt”
No, previous debt from other departments must be paid back, and those departments must start paying back their borrowing from Social Security… so the social spending will come to a halt pretty quickly before there is a default.
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This video was a far-left hit piece, by using all kinds of tropes & left wing charged language.
If the video maker was trying to be centrist, accusations using charged language would have not been used, and just explaining the facts without identifying left & right would have been used.
I did find it interesting that Israel lacked a written constitution, but instead relies upon some kind of basic law scheme, which is basically a progressive constitution.
Is it right to have a judicial branch, which can override the parliament passing laws, which in effect has the responsibility to pass central laws which have the power of a constitution?
That does not seem to rightly abide by traditional Democratic Balance of Power. I wish there was more detail on how central laws with “constitutional authority are passed in Israel. Maybe, it is quite reasonable.
Should the government [with infinite money 💴 supply], be able to force legal proceedings against any citizen [with limited financial means] , to prove they broke the law, where they can’t make their case over 3 years???
That does not seem to be right, by any stretch of the imagination. This is well beyond the bounds of of any Democratic governmental system, and is more akin to Soviet “show me the man, I’ll show you the crime” authoritarianism.
This video just seems alarmist and pro-Authoritarian.
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@CHANGLA34 - you can drive to the Exxon, instead of the BP, than you can set up solar panels.
By the way, I have been reading about the permits to set up my own solar panels, it is a freekin’ nightmare, with requiring a state licensed engineer to sign off on a structure, building inspectors, electrical conglomerates, HOA’s, etc. - a freekin’ nightmare. A sub panel must be a minimum of 1’ away from the main panel, but if doing a service tap, different rules for 10’ vs 25’, so many feet of clearance from the door opening on the panel, so many feet from the ground, not higher than so many feet, an inspector looking for a bribe, etc. etc. etc.
As far as refining your own gasoline ⛽️, people have been recycling/collecting oil from restaurants & running vehicles on it.
Plenty of videos on YouTube of people recycling plastics into liquid fuels. If that day comes, everyone will be doing it on their balconies, after raiding their neighbors’ garbages. The carcinogens in the air will skyrocket, from the highly regulated environment we have today.
Once the panels & batteries 🪫 need to be disposed of, they will likely be recycled to someone in a rural area, who will use them until they are cracked by hail, then they will be buried, creating mini-superfund sites everywhere.
In 30 years, the environment will be ultimately screwed by all of this… at least the carbon based fuels will eventually be broken down by natural processes. Nothing is going to break down the crap 💩 we are building for damaged Solar & dead Batteries 🪫. Sure, 90% is recycled ♻️ (ie glass, aluminum frames 🖼️), but the glass & aluminum are not toxic… it is the toxic stuff they can’t recycle ♻️ yet
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@option7 - “PKK helped US fight ISIS”
The PKK’s grievance is in Turkey is when Turks in power decided to choose the path of Genocide, by outlawing the Kurdish spoken language, written language in newspapers, and audio/video broadcast media in their borders. PKK attacking civilians, is just as bad as the state run genocide by Turkish Nationalists. Neither can be condoned, and any attacks on civilian populations by the Turk government or Kurd Paramilitary groups are reprehensible!
That being said, what is happening in Syria is much different. The Arab Islamic State terrorists were targeting non-Arab groups within Syria & Turkey. The US provided assistance to indigenous Yazidi peoples of Syria, but they were unable to defend themselves, with large segments of their population ending up in mass graves & sex slave auctions to the Islamic State fighters. The US provided assistance to the YPG & PYD, who also accepted & trained surviving fighters other groups including Yazidi, Shiite, moderate Sunni, and other groups targeted for summery destruction… while the PKK remained north of the border in Turkey & unsupported.
Helping an indigenous people [Kurdish people in Syria & North Iraq] survive extermination [by the Arab Islamic State] and kick out the aggressor terrorist organization [who had a documented history of extermination of minorities] through assistance, and then later ramping down support once the threat had expired, is far from Imperialism.
The buffer zone created by Turkey along the Syrian border and US withdrawal of forces after the objective of Islamic State suppression demonstrates that imperialism was not in the U.S. cards. Actually, the statements by former President Trump regarding the withdrawal officially stated the US expected Turkey & Russia & Syria to take up the vacuum along the border, so the Northern Syria policy was clearly an anti-US imperialist policy.
Russia did help fill some of the gaps, along the Syrian northern border, so it could be perceived as Russian Imperialism, along the Turkish border… but you seemed to omit that clearly resulting Russian Imperialism at the Turkish border, in your writing regarding imperialism. With the Young Turk’s WW1 extermination of Orthodox Byzantines (the Armenian & Assyrian Genocide) within the Ottoman border, they shifted their power (through extermination) to Moscow from Constantinople. The Turk’s obsession with Genocide created a stronger Russian influence, resulting in Russian imperialism in Syria. This was an unfortunate miscalculation for Turkey, which they are making the exact same mistake with the Kurds. 🫣
Suggesting that US helping the victims of incurring Genocide is imperialism is the likening a bystander trying to stop a rapist from raping a woman, assisting in the imprisonment of the rapist, granting the rape victim emancipation, and then others calling the rescue a “policy of extending power and influence through diplomacy or military force”. It is a crazy association. It makes no sense. The imperialism association is flawed, at it’s core.
Indigenous people must be allowed to co-exist in society, without threat or practice of extermination thrust upon them. The actions of the Arab Islamic State was abhorrent, and support for a sizable indigenous group to fight for their own survival is admirable. Turkey’s previous genocide created Russian imperialism at their border. Continued Turkic genocide of Kurds may create additional imperialism… while Turkey changing their tune to this suppressed minority group could actually enhance Turkey’s influence in the region.
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You are not too far from the truth.
Gaza’s Hamas being backed by Iran is all about Iran trying to gain more influence in the Arabian Peninsula.
It is really less about the oil, as Cappy unreasonably pointed out in his pretty reasonable video. The US was oil independent just 1 President ago, and can be again with a little regulation loosening.
During different periods of time, Iran/Persia controlled large swaths of the Middle East.
Iran already indirectly controls the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala after the second gulf war.
Eventually taking control over Jerusalem (The Temple Mound / Al-Aqsa Mosque / The Dome of the Rock), Medina, and Mecca would place Shia Islam on the top of the world pecking order.
With Iranian Houthi dominated Yemen (holding the 2nd largest Army in the Arabian Peninsula) to the South [fighting Saudi Arabia & declaring war on Israel], Iranian supported Palestinians in Gaza starting the latest war with Israel, Iranian controlled Hezbollah firing from the North in Israel… the Holy Cities all lie in a small stretch in between Iranian backed forces.
Once controlled is gained by Iran, they announce they are a nuclear power, and it is checkmate.
This has the potential to be a nightmare, after Russia set the stage for Persia/Iran by destroying a lot of food exports from Ukraine to the Arab regions.
The US is really a minor blip in this ethnic turning religious conflict, dating back thousands of years…
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@twocansams6335 - “scan over the horizon”
That’s why “unsinkable” carriers like Japan 🇯🇵, Taiwan 🇹🇼, Guam 🇬🇺, and Philippines 🇵🇭 all exist. 😅
That is what we have satellites 🛰️ communications for, now a days… to get data from “unsinkable” carriers, to whole fleets & air players.
Honestly, I believe Phalanx guns, in large quantities, are needed to deal with “over the horizon” risks, that lasers miss at the horizon l, for all targets that are coming in too fast.
Nearly every defense ship in the navy has a phalanx gun, carriers have 3 or 4.
After Ukraine, where Russia launches 🚀 20-30 cruise missiles at a time at various targets, it is clear to me that the U.S. needs more phalanx systems, in addition to laser systems.
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“the colonizer is always RIGHT”
When Jordan illegally annexed large sections of Palestine, on The West Bank of the Jordan River, Jordan illegally relocated peoples to the area they occupied, without ever issuing land deeds. Jordan colonized The West Bank.
Jordan, to their credit, gave refugees 1 opportunity to become Jordanian citizens, many took it, and led a good life afterwards, when Jordanians felt like their land was invaded & occupied by foreigners (which it was.)
When Israel was being stood up, surrounding Arab nations imported European fighters into Palestine, who formerly fought for the Axis Powers of WW2, many of which were formerly from the 2 Muslim Battalions under Hitler, gathered through the leadership of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood [who Hitler hosted in Germany during WW2.]
Many of those Egyptians & Balkan fighters never left Palestine, and colonized these indigenous lands, committing genocide against indigenous peoples who had a historic right to the land from the Ottoman Empire days.
When Israel was stood up, Arabs refused to allow Palestine to stand up, and Palestine was colonized by Egyptian & European Balkan extremists who did not want peace, but only war.
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@carholic-sz3qv - “oil… pave roads”
Yep. Liberals mismanaged US cities, turned them into concentration camps, where people are discouraged from living in them: refuse to enforce law, make it illegal to protect one’s self, implement bad schools, don’t zone family friendly housing (just studio housing), put planned parenthood on corners to encourage people kill their own offspring, don’t zone proper food purchasing stores, discourage personal transportation options so those who are enticed to live there are trapped, and only the rich can get out alive.
My mother & father grew up in an American City, they made it out alive, my father being former US military had an intuition about security, they got out when they could, and my family only goes back in via long asphalt highways… we live in a county where we can better guarantee our own personal security, and those laws which protect people who enforce their own personal security makes all the difference in creating a safer environment for all.
Liberals in the US want labor in the cities, don’t want families, so they outsource the family creating to the rural environments, to collect raw humanity for their cities where wealthy single people live for awhile in relative security, the rest do not, and many are trapped.
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@Assimilator1 - there is no conversion cost for a car, a car can run on H2 or Gas, like this car does, and people can just fill up on H2 or gasoline. This is really the proverbial Holy Grail… kind of like a plug in hybrid.
Honestly, gasoline will likely never go away in anyone’s lifetime, today. Yard equipment, existing cars, portable generators, etc. The energy density of liquid fuel is amazing.
As far as NOx, hydrogen produces fewer than existing combustion engines. H2 is being used in Europe, to inject into existing diesel engines, to reduce NOx emissions, today. NOx can be reduced, over time.
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@HedgehogZone - how many of the patent files were retrieved & saved by the US for Germany, when Germany was shipping fragile patent books to Poland & holes in the ground!
When the US figured out what was done, with the books that were falling apart, the US understood the value of them, separated non-concluded parents, microfilmed them at close to 3,000 a day, and the films were handed over to the German patent office, re-created in the 1950’s, for gratis.
The US restored to Germany the patent wealth of that generation, in a way which the Socialist Germans of WW2 did not care for them, of their own volition.
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@DAVID-io9nj - the archival of photos on Kodak PhotoCD was an interesting product in film development stores, but it never took off.
I drove people regularly to the local film store, until I did not, I did not even think about it, to be quite honest with you. What a shame.
I suppose it should have been sold with every film development opportunity…
…but then, Kodak should have had something to do with the PhotoCD’s — like a jukebox to put them in, index & order like a library catalog, play on a TV or video monitor, attach the printer to it. Eventually, connecting the internet to it. Could have been used for medical uses, educational uses, consumer, etc. Later, sell bigger jukeboxes, later converge onto hard drives & flash, later to the cloud. The film stores should have been the retail places to release each of these phases.
The PC today, is tied to operating systems that must get upgraded, building an appliance could have simplified the market. I am tied to a Mac, where I have to upgrade my machine every so many number of years, just for my photos. I have to do so, now as we speak, because my phone is no longer compatible with my old MacOS and the hardware does not support a new OS update… so I go to an Apple Store, for my photo storage update needs.
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Honestly, Jake is a nice guy, we approve of his support of Ukraine, but he has no idea about who Trump or Trump Supporters are.
Trump supplied the first lethal weapons to Ukraine, during his Administration, as Russia was committing genocide in Ukraine lands occupied by Russians.
Trump pushed to expand American Energy and pushed Europe to not buy energy, to stop funding the Russian war machine
Trump pulled US troops from Western Europe & moved them East, when Western Nations refused to increase their war spending, especially after the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Biden under Obama sent non-lethal aid to Ukraine… blankets & Jeeps & some small arms.
Biden, when he turned President, turned further strengthened Russia by making them the #2 foreign supplier of US energy, and funded the second Russian invasion of Ukraine
President Biden predicted the Russian Invasion and promised to not send US soldiers when it happened. Biden encouraged the Russian invasion.
President Biden sent CIA trainers to Ukraine to fight an insurgency, assuming Russia would win an invasion.
President Biden sent his Vice President, who could not secure the US border, to help Ukraine secure their border!?!! LOL!!! 😂
President Biden was begged for A10 Wort Hogs to battle Russian invaders, but Biden refused to send any retired planes to Ukraine.
President Biden did nothing except offer President Zelenskyy an escape plan… because Biden, who took Russian & Chinese money for decades, always planned on giving up Ukraine to Russian invaders.
When the 2023 pro-Ukraine Republican Speaker of the House was negotiating an Ukraine funding bill… Democrat Biden directed 100% of Democrat House of Representatives to vote with a half dozen Republicans to remove the pro-Ukraine speaker, destroying the Ukraine war funding for the past half year.
Sorry, comparing Trump to Biden… Trump supporters to Biden supporters… Jake has no idea, but he is blinded by his own political bias, ignorant of the side he hates.
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So, temporary China deflation does not help West’s inflation, but temporarily & artificially hides it.
The US inflation is pretty simple & you missed it, migration across the US Southern Border has been occurring faster than housing permits [for ~2 years], which has been driving increased housing prices, which increases taxes, which increases housing rents, which all decreases real wage value, which increases requested human wages, while the government spends like a drunken sailor, and all of this is creating inflation.
The increased need for higher wages leads to a tightened labor market, where US workers can not afford to take a job which they essentially lose money working at… thus people don’t go back to work.
Everywhere around the world which sees immigration + organic human population growth > government permitted housing starts, for years, sees inflation… the U.S. is no magical place which is immune. 😢
The US inflation is 100% due to their own executive branch policy of not enforcing the law at the Southern Border & printing free money to cover up their disaster.
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@NickSteffen - “charge Medicare below list price… still making a profit”
Ummm… no… not necessarily.
Many health care providers provide services to Medicare recipients where they do not make a profit, then they admit a large enough number of other customers to make up the difference.
There are a some unscrupulous providers, looking to scam the system, by charging things they did not do, in order to make up the difference. I have family members where they noticed this, and stopped using those doctors.
Many doctors stop working, because the government Medicare & Medicaid cuts are too great & they just can’t make the ends meet.
We lost older doctors like this, who were Frank with us about why they left the profession.
We watched younger doctors decide to go into medical real estate types of business, so they could pay back their medical schooling loans.
We occasionally go to other doctors, who only take cash, because they don’t want to deal with the headaches of Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Insurance, with all of their regulations… they give a rock bottom price, can make ends meet, and take care of our problems & problems from friends.
Doctors are people, too.
Hospitals are often just facility owners with doctors being contractors. The older the facility, the higher the cost. The closer to urban centers, the higher the taxes. I just watched another hospital start closing, on the news, tonight.
The reality of making ends meet applies to everyone,
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“on the verge of derailing”
The number of illegal immigrants being allowed to enter had been greater than the housing permits to be built for approaching 4 years.
Large investment companies are trying to buy 30%-40% of all housing, they have been renting to illegal aliens who had been working to pay housing costs, multiple people per rented household.
This had driven inflation in all segments: housing, food, furniture, white wares, etc. Inflation, over the past 3.5 years, was like 30% in the US.
When the illegal immigrants leave [as is typical] with a recession, the investment firms will tank, there will be a fire sale, and life will become terrible in a flash.
Executive Branch regulators, under Democrats Biden / Harris had done nothing to crack down on this risk.
Sorry, this mess is bound to have a correction. The investment houses will crash, I already see many of these former investment houses going up for sale, now… to bail out before the future crash.
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If you are going to live all the time in the motor home, then the question to power is more related to your consumption.
If you have everything as 12v and lower (ie cell phones, iPad, etc), with the exception of a couple occasional & low wattage use items, then 12v is best.
If you have the choice to buy computer monitors that have a brick, and the brick is a 24v DC brick, and you use that all the time… you may want to build a 24v system.
In the UK, you may not have a serious need fir A/C… if you had a very serious need for cooling and the cooling is done as 110 or 220, 48v would be a better choice, to handle the constant high current draw whenever the compressor has to kick on. (The LRA Locked Rotor Amps must be repeatedly accommodated.)
To sum it up:
- The higher your wattage need is, the more important higher battery voltage is
- The more wall worts your have, dropping voltage down, the more opportunity there may be to eliminate the wall sorts by using the DC voltage directly (ie 12v lighting off a 12v battery with no converter.)
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@NdxtremePro - today, the brine is underground, has lithium in it with other metals & minerals, the brine is pumped out, brine spread over large land areas to evaporate the water, then the salts are harvested for lithium extraction.
The water 💧, unbelievable amounts of water 💦, is evaporated as a waste product.
The reality is, the water 💧 is a precious commodity that should be captured & reinjected into the ground, to keep the caverns from collapsing. As the caverns collapse, the harvesting of lithium will deteriorate… more likely, they will take fresh water 💦 for human & agricultural consumption & inject it into the ground, to sustain the mining in the future.
Lithium mining is so bad, on so many levels. It is like watching a train 🚂 wreck in slow motion. We know what is going to happen, as we see the symptoms already.
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@cashewnuttel9054 - humanity is a mixed bag. Some would, some would not, usually a minority stands up and fights.
For 600 years, Arabs & Jews lived in the Middle East around Jerusalem… under the rule of a non-Arab and non-Jewish ethnicity. They were effectively ruled by Aliens 👽
Palestine 🇵🇸 just needed to stand up a government, the same way Jordan 🇯🇴, Syria 🇸🇾, Lebanon 🇱🇧, Iraq 🇮🇶, Turkey 🇹🇷, and Israel 🇮🇱, and as many others also did… they were all part of the same occupation.
Had it not been for the US 🇺🇸 entering the world wars, Palestine 🇵🇸 would never have had the opportunity to stand up their own nation, even though they refuse to for 75 years.
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@Noxcho-li8pn - “the Kurds don’t know what they want”
In Kurds have been historically known for a few thousand years, partnering with the Assyrians to rule an empire, partnering with Babylon to rule an empire, partnering with the Persians to rule an empire. They were historically seen as the spoiler, required for any ethnic minority to rule. It is all in “The Book” [as Mohammed (PBUH) called it.]
The Kurds negotiated with the Turks during the fall of the Ottoman Empire for their own state, but they did not get it. Kurds stretch from Turkey 🇹🇷 in the North to Syria 🇸🇾 & Iraq 🇮🇶 & Iran 🇮🇷 going West to East.
The Kurds would be needed to hold modern day Iraq together, with the Arabs to form a majority, but Saddam Hussein screwed up and tried to rule it all with his own religio-ethnic Sunni-Arab group… and today’s Iraq 🇮🇶 effectively has Kurdistan partitioned, on their way to becoming a state, some day.
“Fight amongst themselves”
Like the Arabs don’t? ROTFL! 😂
Civil wars in Syria 🇸🇾, Lebanon 🇱🇧, Iraq 🇮🇶, Yemen 🇾🇪, Libya 🇱🇾
Wars between nations: Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦& Yemen 🇾🇪, Palestine 🇵🇸 & Israel 🇮🇱
The reason for it… the Arabs are not a homogeneous group.
- Arabs came from the Arabian Peninsula, invaded Mesopotamia
- Arabs slaved people who were not part of their own religion, and now Muslims only slave the remaining (ie Yazidi)
- When no one is left to slave, they fight against themselves in their own historical ethnic groups.
The Kurds want their own nation, and they don’t fight themselves to get it… unlike the Arabs who annexed pieces of Palestine 🇵🇸
“besides Sunnis nobody should rule the Middle East”
In Iraq 🇮🇶, the Shiite are the majority, so Majority should not rule? 😂
In Lebanon 🇱🇧, the Shiites hold the majority of illegal military power, so they should not rule?
This type of thinking 💭 that only Sunnis or only a single religion should rule a nation is what got people killed, over and over again, for thousands of years in the Middle East.
Ruling by one’s religion, because one thinks their religion ruling by the power of the gun/sword over all others is superior, will only perpetuate the wars there.
It is a shame. It really is.
The only reason the Middle East has any modern things is because The West has figured out that Religion should not rule, but all citizens, regardless of their religion, should be treated equally under the law.
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The battery electric vehicles have the same problem as the organic fuel combustion engine… the battery & fuel are both consumables.
After 5-7 years, the battery will be disposed of and need replacing. The gasoline just needs to be replaced faster (weekly). The same way we may run out of oil, we may run out of battery precursors (lithium.)
The hydrogen fuel cell becomes the [expensive] consumable with Hydrogen cars (that are not burning/oxidizing hydrogen, which is less efficient.)
For sustainability reasons, Hydrogen combustion or Synthetic Fuel combustion is preferred. (100% recyclable & precursors accessible everywhere.)
There is nothing to say that Hydrogen or Synthetic Fuel can not be made at someone’s home or in fuel stations, so the transportation issue disappears.
Hydrogen or synthetic fuel hold a lot of power per liter, both are effectively limitless, both are 100% recyclable, Both can be transported via existing transportation networks.
The loss of efficiency can be overcome with technology, and if not, the sustainability aspect still trumps the others… if for no other reason than to burn in an electric car as a generator driving super capacitors (no batteries needed.).
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The amount of energy held in liquid fuel cars is absolutely amazing!
I have 1/5th of the batteries from a Mach-E at my house, enough to run the house for 24 hours. People really don’t understand how much power is in an EV.
Where I live, there are tons of apartments, no way to charge EV’s, so now all the spare retain space is being purchased by gasoline stations… not for gasoline, but for the anticipation of EV charging points. These will all be fast chargers.
Honestly, for the rich and upper middle class, EV’s are a benefit. For the rest, it is an expensive tax on the poor, and a huge liability to the power grid.
Imagine pulling 5x the power needed in a day to keep a home running and sticking into each car, in 20 minutes, multiplied by hundreds of cars along a road leading to multiple apartment complexes… when people are going home and going to work every day… when solar power is not producing much power.
This means all this power is all going to be driven by carbon based fuels, to supply peak power demands.
This is going to be a nightmare.
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@jnawk83 - “do this overnight”
Read the previous post.
In high density apartments, this is impractical… so filling stations with fast chargers 🔌 are buying up all the retail space. Apartment dwellers will not park their cars 🚙 at filling stations overnight
“toaster or air conditioner”
The car 🚙 will require the same number of KW, charged slow or fast. The number of amps, for the fast charge, is much higher, as you are trying to suggest!
An EV is no toaster or AC. Even ovens & AC pause as temperature targets are reached, EV’s suck unbelievable quantities of power, continually, until charged… the power needed is massive!
Even charging at slowly at night, with a car taking 5 days of the energy of a home 🏠, and ~2 cars per home, this means an incredible amount of energy is needed at night, when solar panels are not producing energy, this means cars 🚙 are charged using carbon fuels... marginal carbon savings.
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Hi @anaeusrex2014 -
Regarding economic effect… being invaded always comes with a bleak economic impact, but the structuring of the lend-lease agreement with the US effectively means that every item used by the Ukraine and destroyed by Russia during the war is free… so as long as Ukraine fights the invaders, cost burden is not on their people.
As far as the loss of humanity, huge quantities of are being lost on both sides. This is a tragedy for this region, as the population was already imploding. Demographics is a huge problem, only becoming worse for both nations by this idiotic invasion. The irony is that the invasion has caused expatriate Ukrainians to return [even from 1st world nations] & fight for their former home land, without pay… it is a strange situation, where Ukraine first encouraged it, but is now reducing the pool by increasing requirements, since more are returning to fight than can be efficiently absorbed into the Ukrainian military. Contrast this with Russia, where my friends are not willing to return to fight in Russia, pay rates are increasing, only small numbers of prisoners seem willing to fight with pay & amnesty… and even with a 1:1 death ratio, this could offer significant long term issues.
Regarding economic collapse, the fact Ukraine still exists, after a supposed first world army invaded from 3 sides, makes me doubt the collapse. Most in the US expected Ukraine to fall in 3 days, and this continues. Ukraine must retrieve their land in order to have infrastructure to rebuild, so the war will continue for some time.
As far as the US occupational areas in Syria, you will find little disagreement with me, with the exception that the Kurdish government is the recipient funds from those reserves. Legitimate sovereignty of a people shows when they seek independence to run their own affairs, not merely cede the land they Governor to a foreign invader.
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I am glad to see this conversation continuing.
For years, I had been suggesting moving overflow from the Mississippi to the West. It really can also be used in the South East.
The question about storms and water predictions is really unnecessary, to start. Infrastructure is needed to start.
AI is not really needed, each water storage area could just make a desire to purchase, just as neighboring electrical grids publish a desire to purchase electricity… the software already exists. People in charge of other water sheds already do emergency discharges, they could then allow the water to be sold.
It is wise to use pipeline & electrical rightaways, for pipelines, to avoid bickering by the crazies & whackos, who merely want to stop progress, for the sake of stopping progress.
Oil is not going away due to a shift to more electricity, the either-or is a false dichotomy, a logical fallacy, and reduces the likelihood that this good idea will be disregarded as hubris. Oil will always be needed, for things like clothing, asphalt, plastics, vinyl, roofing shingles, paint, wire insulation, plastics, etc. These other areas have not even has serious consideration. If we truly care about water, only adding pipelines to existing right of ways will bring unity, without objections, except from anti-progressive movements.
Energy Pipelines will also be needed to conduct hydrogen, ammonia, synthetic fuels (taken from CO2 combining with H2.) Canada is also well poised to be a supplier to the US, for these things, as well as water, so any pipeline right of ways from Keystone XL should be welcomed.
As more western land becomes terraformed, energy needs will increase.
Taking away from existing & future energy needs & eliminating existing infrastructure is foolish & not forward thinking enough into the future.
If The West wants water, they can fund it through purchases, investors can put up the money through corporate bonds, and the industry can small, with a few pipelines… and expand as investors see stability in the investment.
Honestly the issue is whether the regulatory infrastructure can facilitate saving The West and terraforming large segments of the continent. Some two headed lizard or three headed frog will miraculously show up in order to stop progress in The West. With current state of permits being revoked at any time, with the election of a president, long term investment in US projects is really now at risk. There needs to be guarantees, in the law, that puts controls on the executive branches, to bring stability to infrastructure investments, since another President could just come along an kill it.
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@Spencergolde - “large resistive losses”
Welp, they’re doing it, and other methods of making H2 exist: direct from solar, nuclear, traditional electrolysis, newer electrolysis where bubbles don’t have to go through liquid, etc.
“Overcome a complex problem”
They have been doing this for over 100 years.
It is not that complex.
“Opposed to grid scale batteries”
Batteries are expensive & are needed for mobile uses, ranging from phones, to laptops, to skateboards, to bikes, to cars. We don’t have enough batteries.
It is better to diversify our energy on grid scale and not sink batteries into it. Pump H2 into the ground, when not needed, pull it out when you need it. Easy.
“Stacking giant blocks… skyscraper”
I am good with that! We need to diversify our energy storage, to free up for technology for their best use cases.
“Getting 50% out of what we put in”
Solar panels are no longer allowed to dump power on the grid in California, wind turbines are shut down when the grid can’t take the power. If renewables are going to increase, H2 is a good way to use the power, instead of shutting off production or being charged for dumping your solar power on the grid.
“Develop dumb ideas that should have never gotten off the ground”
Like telling people they needed to have solar panels on their house, and now the grid has too much power during the day & needs a a way to burn the energy.
Like creating huge wind farms where they have to shut off the wind towers because they make too much power for the people consuming the power on the grid.
Increase natural gas peaker plants, to keep the renewables from destabilizing the grid, even though turning turbines up & down makes poorer / less efficient use of the hydrocarbons.
In the end, the more renewables we deploy, the less efficient all of the renewable & hydrocarbon use becomes.
Renewables should NEVER be deployed, without clean storage to stress hydrocarbon peaker plants.
“Hydrogen”
Should be produced for peaker plants, because reliance on peaker plants is renewable’s dirty secret.
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Cuz the Jones Act really does not matter.
Any country can ship directly to Puerto Rico, but their ports are not big enough to receive massive container ships from around the world. The Jones Act does not change that.
Only high cost from the US to PR or High sale value cargo to the US from PR cargo is covered by Jones Act.
Whenever there is a natural disaster, the US President waves the act during that emergency, anyway.
If China wanted, they could easily acquire a whole port in PR, by offering them construction & dredging, with a payback at 8%, which PR may fail to pay, and it would become Chinese territory for 100 years. The Jones Act limits colonization from other players like China, by limiting foreign options to exploit PR ports from shipping to the mainland U.S.
In essence, the Jones Act offers PR to build their own maritime fleet for transportation, which would be cheaper than US mainland shipping because of their cheap taxes… if only Puerto Rico would decide to execute on it & start undercutting mainland US shipping.
If PR is ever to become an independent nation, they need their own maritime fleet, which the Jones Act protects them to build, before independence.
If PR ever wants to become independent, they will need a Coast Guard / Navy, and the Jones Act is helping to facilitate building a merchant marine which could be conscripted after their independence.
I am not sure why PR does not use the Jones Act to their fiscal benefit… to eventually become independent.
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@MrJacobegg - “you’re correct that resistive electric have higher rates of injury”
And 340% higher rate of death ☠️
“not because of things like electrical fires… you were originally claiming”
Are you suggesting that people who buy electrical stoves are just more stupid, to be injured at 260% higher rates vs gas, and die at 340% high rates than people using gas appliances???
So, only the stupid buy electric, disfigure themselves & eliminate themselves from the gene 🧬 pool in Darwin Award moments?
Sorry, but if I accept this argument, I really should not be listening to you, since you are advocating electric ⚡️ stoves! 😂
“not supported by the NFPA report… is contradicted in that report”
Incorrect.
NFIRS 5.0 introduced in 1999 only counted the heat element caused ignition. Change 290 in 2006 included any equipment of principal heat source. Change 337 in 2012 metriced heat source or other operating equipment… but broader cause of fire was removed from 2015 data, so electric fires 🔥 were never completely counted before and not completely counted now.
They just don’t count all the electric ⚡️ stove fires 🔥 by electrical fault today, by their own admission.
“ignoring the health impacts”
Pilot lights in the report were found to create significant portions of emissions, when not cooking, but no one talks about that.
How many gas appliances have you seen with pilot lights??? ROTFL 😂 I saw some, prior 20 years ago!
I am VERY concerned about health.
Emissions by gas pilot lights
Poor gas plumbing installation practices
260% higher injury rates by electric ⚡️
340% higher death rates by electric ⚡️
If people were REALLY concerned about health, there would be a focus on eliminating the few pilot lights left behind, improving piping, mandating installers to use emission detectors to ensure installations were done correctly…. Instead of pushing people to early disfiguring injury 🦵 & death ☠️
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Hi @dirkkarmel5209 -
Russia 🇷🇺 would have preferred to never have needed to build such a bridge, the land-bridge they made through invasion is much preferred, since bridges take ongoing maintenance. Putin’s decision to annex Crimea cost Russia 🇷🇺 absurd quantities of money in the bridge & desalination plants.
The money 💴 and human power to build that bridge & desalination facilities in Crimea could have been put to use in other projects, like building a proper dock for the almost-aircraft carrier Russia 🇷🇺 stole from Ukraine 🇺🇦 during the Ukrainian Independence vote 🗳. Because Russia never built a proper place to dock the almost aircraft carrier, the boilers are worn out and the ship 🚢 belches black smoke, when it is not stalled in a waterway requiring the use of a tugboat 🛥 to keep it moving & men on board are not scurrying for their short period of time to take showers when a boiler is working. At first, I laughed about it 😂, but later I felt so sad 😞 what had happened with that almost aircraft carrier. Russia 🇷🇺 should have continued turning Westward, and The West & The East should have been friends. 😢
There are ice breaking ships 🚢, so just because a bridge is able to withstand 1 meter of ice (not that much) does not mean that the bridge would withstand a burning 🔥 oiler at a pier or a ship 🛳 making contact. Destruction of steel & concrete structures do not need to be done by the short explosive 🧨 nature of a bomb detonation, but collision & lingering affects of fire is sufficient… 9/11 had taught the world that.
Protecting this bridge is a waste of resources for Russia 🇷🇺, as accidents occur on the bride due to people wrecking their vehicles 🚗 whenever Russia 🇷🇺 belches smoke 💨 over the bridge to protect it.
Honestly, this is such a shame, that Russia 🇷🇺 & Ukraine 🇺🇦 are at war, for what was the Ukraine entering into a trade agreement with the EU. The Independent Ukraine was not entering a NATO security treaty, yet Putin decided to “pull the trigger” on violating their international signed treaty to not violate Ukraine’s 🇺🇦 borders. Then Putin decided to invade the nation again, shortly after the 100th anniversary of a previous Russian 🇷🇺 invasion.
Putin suffer’s from short-man syndrome, and the young men of Russia 🇷🇺 are paying the price with their lives, and the people of Russia 🇷🇺 are paying the price with weapons stockpiles for their security if their nation spreading 2 continents, to attempt to annex a little nation who did nothing but want to form a trade agreement. A weakened & de-armed Russia 🇷🇺 is not a good thing for the world, even if they de-arm themselves by wasting their ammunition & vehicles of war & young men of their own volition.
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@callawaymotorcompany - “party strong enough to knock out the grid”
EMP from North Korea or Iran. Does not take much. Just some low life, petty third world dictatorship. Just a nuclear weapon blown up in the sky, no where near the surface of the earth.
“farmers… 1000 miles away… cows or not”
In an electrified society, the one who has milk to drink in the day, cheese to provide protein on demand at night, cows provide locomotion to farm fields, till soil, plant, and harvest. Cows provide locomotion to move things. Cows, themselves are a mobile food source, walking refrigerators. Everyone else has nothing. Everyone else is screwed.
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@LowValueMan - “it will crash the price supply/demand”
With people in China, India, Africa, and South America wanting the creature comforts of the 1st World — it will take a half millennium before there is any true crash in demand. Supply will be indefinitely needed (even solar panels use vinyl backings.)
We really need to be working on synthetic supply, if we are going to be realistic about it. Population growth in non-1st World nations will demand carbon based needs like fuel, plastics, roads, vinyl planking, vinyl siding, polyester clothing, 3D printers for their own production needs, paints, carpets, electrical wire insulation, etc.
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@manvbees - “one culture being superior to another is spread throughout history”
This is true. Persian Muslims conquered non-Muslims in the caucuses to enslave them & send them to the battlefield. Ottoman Muslims conquered non-Muslims in the Balkans to enslave them & send them to the battlefield. Arabian Muslims enslaved Africans and sold them as Kaffirs around the globe, buying mostly eunuchs for those imported into The Middle East.
With the rise of the Islamic State, they reinstated Slavery in occupied areas of Iraq & Syria, in our life time.
With the instability of Libya, we see the rise of African Slavery again, in our lifetimes even today!
Europeans pushed to ban slavery, so we can see which civilizations felt culturally superior.
“Colonial powers did little to integrate into existing civilizations”
On the contrary, Europeans clawed their way back from being extinguished by Islamism from the Iberian Peninsula to their West and Balkans to their East, pushing towards the middle.
After rolling back Islamic Slavery of their own peoples, they ended global slavery [largely driven by Islam] with the end of WW1.
Colonial powers ended slavery as they knew it, enabled global peoples to flourish by spinning off nations, one after another, after introducing literacy to their civilizations, enabling them to have the potential for self-rule.
No civilization, in the history of the world, did more to help the rest of the world, than the colonial powers of Western Civilization.
That does not mean there were were not big mistakes, significant abuses, but near universal access to water, medical care, education, communication (telco & internet), representative government, and safe & affordable transportation would be impossible without the colonial powers… and my ethnic heritage is not even from a colonial power.
We just have to be honest about this all, stop playing the victim card, and start moving forward with what we have been given, for the benefit of the whole world!
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2:50:00 - “wide spread voter fraud… how easy the base are it up… no compelling evidence that I saw”
WSB TV News in Atlanta 11pm live news aired video of someone stuffing a drop box with ballots with a knapsack sack of presumably ballots… using security camera footage, in Georgia. They were counted and not set aside as provisional.
People were thrown out of ballot counting location for identifying boxes of ballots which did not have the security locks & stickers guaranteeing their secure handling. They were counted & not set aside as provisional.
I watched the hearings in the Georgia State House with legal observers who were ejected. They showed their photographic evidence that they presented to security, for which they were ejected.
A leaking bathroom knob was used as a precursor to ejecting legal state observers & other legal observers, before a small number of people started to tally votes from we don’t know whether they were from boxes with valid security locks & paperwork demonstrating proper handling. Those ballots should have all been counted as provisional. Security camera footage was made available of what happened during the illegal counting of what we don’t know since the Georgia State Observers were ejected with a lie.
The Georgia State House public hearings went on for days, even weeks… weeks of different witnesses & experts presenting evidence to the Georgia State House, presenting evidence, demonstrated wide spread tampering to the people who watched it live. I was one of those live watchers for Georgia.
There were other states, going through similar activities.
Honestly, Lex needs many many many hours of interview to deal with all of these issues, plus the many other state issues where these types of ejections were occurring.
Another state, an observer was ejected because the observer noticed that ballot people were repeatedly mis-reading ballots and putting the same wrong candidate on the official ballot which would be recorded (while the old ballots would be destroyed.)
This election was just so crazy, so corrupt. I don’t think Biden had more people vote for him than Obama. I don’t see it as possible.
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@ThePatxiao “how much data… collect and manage that information would be INSANE”
Ummm… we are there, today.
Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. They know who we are, where we are [with every mouse click], how to contact us, what we say we like, what we click on & really like, what we buy, what movies we watch, what we read, etc.
Then, there is the governments, which escrows packets from internet taps, even encrypted packets they can’t unencrypt.
AI merely needs access to harvest it all.
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@sparkybob1023 -“rail is the… solution that nobody is talking about… in America”
Because rail 🚂 is from the 1800’s. It is good for heavy goods, traveling from clear endpoints, like a port to a city.
Human transport is not like this. How many people in your neighborhood work at the same location requiring transport by train 🚂 ? In my neighborhood, 0. Literally no one.
In some countries, where there are occasional, highly dense cities, it is much more useful, but not in places like the US, where people are spread out.
A rail may go in and out of a city. Once this is done, people drive their cars 20 mins to a rail station, park their cars, just to get on a train to ride somewhere 30 minutes later, to walk 20 mins to a destination? They can drive to the destination in 40 minutes. A waste of time.
People get robbed & raped at the public parking areas, cities are inherently unsafe in the places like the US now a days, because incompetent politicians were elected by people who are dumb. The policies are such where you have to walk through homeless encampments, avoiding the needles 💉, and the human fecal matter 💩.
Everyone is talking about high speed rail, indirectly, when they are taking about crime 👮♀️, drug addicts 💉, poop 💩 maps 🗺️ of streets in major cities, 2nd Amendment rights for the individual, and working virtual.
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It is illegal to kill raptors and the US National bird. Such birds are often endangered and are killed by some of today’s wind turbines. Outdoor cats are not killing these types of endangered birds, which target rodents, and clean up dead rodents infected with diseases like bubonic plague. Comparing the two distinct & important problems is a false dichotomy.
Windmill also cause significant regional warming… raising surface temperatures by measurable quantities, much the same way urban areas do.
Small Windmills at the shore, where wind is always blowing, breaks small wind turbines fairly quickly, as demonstrated in public parks, where they are often down & under maintenance as often as they are working.
Windmills also require energy to heat them during freezing temperatures, to keep them safe & usable.
Power lines to locations where large scale wind can be leveraged, don’t exist today, to leverage energy generation that we need to implement today.
Power traversing over power lines is lost via resistance, creating heat, ironically contributing to regional warming.
At home wind power is absolutely a technology to leverage, since those power lines exist, and localized energy production & consumption should reduce the heat generation due to energy traversing long distances.
We need to harness wind technology, the same way we need to harness all energy. Energy is dirty, all energy is dirty. Minimizing and ignoring the negative impacts is not helping us solve the real problems of our energy needs in our biosphere.
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1:49:00 — “this time was different… Biden”
Biden, as Vice President, accepted bribes from Russian Oligarchs
Biden, as VP, was involved in approving US nuclear uranium mining sales to Russian oligarchs
Biden, as Vice President, helped the US use NASA to supply US $$$ to Russia via purchasing Russian rocket engines from Russia via NASA
Biden, between VP & President, would have his political party leverage Russian propaganda to weaken his future political opponent who became President
Biden, as President, made Russia the US #2 supplier of foreign energy
Biden, as US Vice President, refused to supply lethal aid to Ukraine
Biden, as President, refused to send US soldiers to Ukraine
Biden, as President, refused to send US Wort Hog planes to Ukraine, when Ukraine begged the US for them
Biden, as President, sent US military trainers to train Ukrainians to fight an insurgency (presumably after Russia would win)
Biden, as President, offered Ukrainian President Zelenskyy “a ride” out of Ukraine, to give Ukraine to the Russians
Biden was different from others Presidents & Vice Presidents — Biden personally profited from Putin’s Russia & sold parts of the US to Putin’s Russia & provided massive US $$$ to Russia to fund Russia through energy & science sectors of the United States.
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31:38 - “or can they rely on their allies”
Nope. A nation that can not defend its own border is not a nation.
Look at what happened in Israel: an Islamist terrorist grouping, which took control of the Gaza Strip by killing all their Muslim opponents, invaded a neighboring nation, r@ped women until their pelvises were dislocated, shot women in the process of r@ping them, stuck infants of the invaded nation into ovens, burned people alive… and when Israel stared hunting down the terrorists in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist terrorists started shooting civilians (especially non-Muslim women Palestinians in Gaza who wore no head)
What was the response of Canada? Discuss ending weapons shipments to Israel?
Nope, liberals in The West demonstrated that every nation needs to supply enough weapons for their own self defense needs, because a day always comes when nations are invaded, and there will always be a left leaning group of people in that nation who are happy to just let it happen, because they think it does not matter.
France experienced this when a sizable portion of their population associated with the leftist workers movement refused to mobilized when Axis powers were invading their territory. The US is experiencing it now when their left leaning base refusing to enforce their southern border, prisons emptied from other nations crossing illegally into the US, illegal crossers stealing & assaulting & killing, liberal jurisdictions freeing them on bond instead of turning them over to ICE, arrested criminal illegal crossers travel elsewhere to other liberal cities to cause mayhem, and prison exporters refusing to take their hardened criminals back when some are actually deported.
A nation without borders is chaos, the sole purpose of national government is to use military guarantee safety for all citizens, residents, guests by enforcing the borders… all other tasks of a national government is icing on the cake.
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“Slash oil production”
Democrat Biden just wanted to help lower oil prices during #ElectionYear2022, to help his political party at the polls.
But looks like Saudi Arabia was right,
the oil market has been dropping,
due to a world wide recession,
so The House of Saud understood the world energy market better than the Biden family.
“Prince… Al Salman”
He is no different from previous leaders, except he has enacted freedoms for women that have never been seen in Saudi Arabia.
“towards an authoritarian government”
Dude, they are a kingdom.
If the King or his designated authority gives freedoms to women, the US should be happy, rather than being upset about the changes.
“Decreasing oil production”
Democrat Biden can increase production in the US by merely stopping their oppressive regulatory actions & unreliability of the US Federal Government by canceling permits.
“authoritarian governments”
The US President Biden canceling permits to build energy pipelines and fill existing energy pipelines, running at 50%, is pretty authoritarian.
“create closer ties with [Russia and China]”
When US Democrat President Biden castigated the family of the House of Saud Prince, it was dumb.
Back channel communications should have managed the situation, and flying over on a photo op is the way a political actor like Biden should have done with ANY royal house.
“Saudi donors… terrorist groups”
The US looked past it because the US government, under Obama / Biden did just this, in Syria.
The US turned a blind eye to the Islamic State as they marched into Iraq, with US trained terrorists & US weapons which they were trained on
“US withdrew patriot air defense”
When Iran 🇮🇷 is pumping missiles into Yemen, the U.S. should never have done this, demonstrating themselves as an unreliable security partner.
The population of Iran makes Saudi Arabia look like a back water village, Saudi Arabia is fighting for their existence, surrounded by Iranian controlled:
- Iraq 🇮🇶 , Syria 🇸🇾 , Lebanon 🇱🇧 , Gaza
And soon to be Yemen 🇾🇪
There is really no way for Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 to protect itself, from every border, from militant & nuclear aspiring Iran 🇮🇷
“Not… burn bridges with Russia”
Uhhh… yeah… because the US has demonstrated themselves as unreliable.
“US… completely pull… missile defense”
This is a mess, there is no reason to pull missile defense from UAE 🇦🇪, never mind Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦, with Iran 🇮🇷 building missiles with no end.
“World Peace… our values”
Iran 🇮🇷 is hardly aligning with US values.
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 aligns much more closely.
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 king is not calling US Big or Little Satan, Iran 🇮🇷 is.
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@bloodwargaming3662 - “why no industries like Mexico?”
An aggregate of factors.
[BLOOD] - “not about taxes”
Incorrect. Taxes are an important factor.
Taxes buy some things:
- security for industry
- security for workers
- security for customers
- infrastructure for industry (power, heat, water, transportation)
- infrastructure to educate workers
- infrastructure to allow worker movement
When taxes are not successfully buying those things, the business must spend a portion of it’s profit providing those things, which is in effect an indirect tax on their existence in that nation or location .
Mexico has locality advantages to Columbia: close to the US market, where goods can quickly & easily move to market via road, rail, plane, and water.
A country needs a people who willingly pay taxes, to support infrastructure for their children & their own jobs (businesses.)
A people who desire others to pay taxes & provide them services is an immoral people.
Ethical businesses can not survive with immoral workforce or surrounded by immoral community or government.
Ethical governments can not survive with immoral citizenry, surrounded by immoral businesses.
Government is not someone else, it is us.
Business is not someone else, it is us.
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David H - “You should try a Genetry Solar inverter”
@OffGridGarageAustralia - “why?”
They use high capacity components, so your chance of burning out these little baby components should pretty much disappear, like you had to deal with in this video.
Genetry Solar makes a 6,000 continuous watt inverter with 18,000 watt surge capacity.
I have a Genetry Solar 12,000 continuous watt inverter on order, peaks with a 36,000 watt surge.
I needed an inverter that would turn over my HVAC compressor at 130 locked rotor amps @240v… and their 12k fits the bill since their 36,000 peak surge covers my 31,200 watt surge requirement.
Super small company, nice guys, trying to build a quality product. Their firmware is upgrading all the time, with new features requested by their customer base.
I will be mating a pair of JK BMS’s (thank you for your review) with 4x recycled EV batteries 🔋in my possession, to mate them to a GS12k. Finishing my build as soon as the JK & Inverter arrives!
They pay attention to making sure they are not using junk components.
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@antonmorozov5193 - “can’t use fresh water”
Actually, you are more correct in that statement than you think. Electrolysis does not require freshwater, but a salt is needed to transfer ions, so salt water is a good place to go, and we have LOTS of salt water.
“we are going to need a lot of H2… need desalination”
Nuclear requires LOTS of fresh water. H2 production has unlimited salt water to draw from.
Off-shore wind cracks salt water allows H2 to pump to shore via water pressure, nearly being a passive system. Recycling used hydrogen is consuming freshwater. Nuclear requires a huge supply chain that is expensive & complex, and creates nuclear waste for everything the radiation touches.
“problem of water vapor”
There are Solar Panels which produce H2 directly from sunlight using the water vapor in the air, which does not require electrolysis. Nuclear creates an immense amount of water vapor from the cooling towers.
“so it seems that the best way is to switch to…”
Hydrogen, since it solves all the problems of Nuclear.
Also, Hydrogen solves the problem of oil & gas, since there is a never ending supply, recycling easy as oil & gas does.
Also, Hydrogen solves the problems of Solar & Wind, where their energy output is erratic in nature, and H2 provides the natural ability to store until needed, and storage can occur at point of use or anywhere along the way, in inexpensive tanks. Solar & Wind require expensive tanks (ie batteries) to hold temporary energy for peak usage.
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@antonmorozov5193 - “electrolysis does not require freshwater… where can I read about this?”
hydrogen production by chlorine-free hybrid seawater splitting
The secret is low voltage
“Nuclear…. Water… returned to the river downstream”
Steam from cooling towers
“H2 will consume the water”
As stated before, off-shore hydrogen production via wind, on-shore solar to hydrogen production without water (using water vapor in air.)
“Production of H2 from solar/wind”
search:
Offshore Hydrogen
Also, hydrogen is being produced at hydroelectric dams
A sampling of articles & dates
2021-03-02 - Hydroelectric H2 in NY
2021-09-20 - Solar H2 in Fresno, CA
2021-06-10 - Solar H2 in Camden, GA
2022-10-14 - Solar H2 in Kingslsnd GA
2022-10-21 - A new large-scale project was announced in March 2022 by the US startup Green Hydrogen International called the Hydrogen City.
2023-01-09 - 900 megawatt wind & 400 megawatt solar to produce 1.4 gigawatts for Austin, TX for 200,000 kg of H2 produced per day
Green H2 production is petty massive right now, plants in GA are already online, plants in California will take years to come online due to their heavy regulatory restrictions
Right before the Russian invasion, Ukraine was entering into agreements with Europe to supply hydrogen…. Russia just blew the dam next to the nuclear power plant, that was a great Blue Hydrogen plan.
“large scale storage”
I have not investigated this topic thoroughly, but I will since you brought it up.
Today, Ukraine was the largest storage provider in Europe for natural gas. It was projected to be so for Hydrogen.
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@paperplane-db8qf - “Palestinians were not any race or religion”
I don’t really disagree with you on this point. When the Ottomans ran things, the various dhimmi communities lived there. Druze were there, some others.
“some religious disharmony, but that’s normal”
The Hamas charter quotes some of that “disharmony” in Article 7 and it is by NOT NORMAL, “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."
“Then the Europeans and Americans got their own country there”
That is partially true. During WW1, Ottomans sent in their shock troops from Albania, to try to restore order in Palestine, and many of those European Muslims never left.
During WW2, many of Hitler’s disaffected Muslim allies from Europe’s Balkans were sent in as mercenaries into Palestine to keep Israel from standing up a state, and many never left.
The Jews who were there. They got their own country, an opportunity to have self-rule again, after a long time of not having it.
And the Africans, Middle East, Anatolians, Persian/Asians Jews all got their own country there, once they emigrated back to Israel, who invited them. (Much of the pressure to return was because of the widespread publication of Nazi literature through the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and Israel became a safe place.)
The rest of the Palestinians never got their own country, with those Europeans, once Egypt & Jordan invaded the land, and kept Palestinians from standing up their own nation.
“Deir Yassin massacre happened there”
Yep. Arab militias under Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni blockaded the corridor from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, preventing essential supplies from reaching the Jewish population. The massacre happened while trying to break the blockade. Palestinian historian Aref al-Aref counted 117 victims.
Oct 7 massacre was the latest massacre, done by whackos who believe in the Hamas charter and the religious sources it quotes. They killed over 10 times the number.
Honestly, this is a good reason for people to have self-rule by government: people surrounding you are bent on killing you creates terrible effects. Their government should handle the power of the gun, through rule of law, not civilian militias.
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@hrothgeirrH - “export means that the product was being sold at a higher price in a foreign market rather than…”
Nope. When the domestic market is saturated with a commodity, people just don’t start buying more oil to drive more miles. Storage tanks fill up, production shuts down, if there is not another buyer for it.
In the US case, the switch during the last administration to the new administration saw tightening of regulations to the point where the US was making Russia the #2 foreign supplier of the US, and was funding the first invasion of Ukraine & propped up Russia to start their second invasion. The US offered Zelenskyy a ride out of the Ukraine, like the former leader of Afghanistan, but Zelenskyy shamed the US into performing minimal support (the US is retiring Worthogs, for close infantry support, Ukraine begged for the drawdown Worthogs, but Biden decided to send nothing to help Ukraine’s air offensive need against the Putin’s invading Russians.)
The US could have propped up Europe with energy, but the beggar-in-chief went to Russia’s allies, hat in hand, and offended the House of Saud enough to not receive help, and created a world wide energy crisis by merely being a pain with regulations.
“Exploration… didn’t benefit consumers”
Sure didn’t, when Biden was filling Russia’s war chest with US currency! ROTFL!
Every dollar not spent on exploration was lost US jobs.
Every dollar lost in the Canadian pipeline was lost US & Canadian jobs.
Inflation from increased energy costs destroyed consumer confidence, destroyed US citizens buying power, and turned back the clock on wage gains by the Middle Class and Minorities.
“Canceled permits wouldn’t have benefitted US supply…”
Every well needs a pipeline to be permitted, otherwise it has to be transported by truck or rail. Every truck & rail used to move oil means less train cars & trucks to move other goods (or grains, food, cars, etc.) and creates inflation on all the goods needed in America. That spare trucking & rail capacity could also be used to bring on immediate energy supplies in a pinch (like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Biden chose to just screw Americans & buy more Russian oil, to fund the invasion of Ukraine.)
The Biden administration was just so corrupt, profiteered from Russian blood money & indirectly taxing the poor through inept energy policy. Biden even tried to sell off US oil assets to China during the time he was pressuring their profitability through regulatory pressure. What a scumbag.
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35:12 - “Monarchies… opposed to political Islamist movements like the Brotherhood”
A whole lot more than the monarchies are opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood.
It was the Muslim Brotherhood’s Al-Qaida, which increasingly committed terrorist attacks against the United States 🇺🇸, culminating in 9/11, creating the multi-decade War on Terror during Republican President GW Bush.
It was the Muslim Brotherhood who launched the civil war in Syria 🇸🇾 with the help of Democrat President Obama.
Muslim Brotherhood supported Islamic State was opposed by Shia Islamist Iran 🇮🇷, Shia controlled Iraq 🇮🇶, Kurdistan controlled Northern Iraq & Northern Syria, Russia 🇷🇺, the United States 🇺🇸, Syria 🇸🇾 government, etc.
Muslim Brotherhood supported Hamas conducted horrific political killings in Palestine’s Gaza, terrorist attacks in Israel 🇮🇱, shooting of [non-muslim] civilians in Palestine’s Gaza after the Israeli response, etc.
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“Leaks in natural gas infrastructure”
Natural gas will always leak out of the ground, so it is better to harvest it & burn it, while allowing a little to leak out, than just allowing it to leak out. Natural gas is far better to use for transportation than liquid fuel. At some point, catalysts will be affordable enough to create electricity without burning. Hydrogen can be cracked from water using renewables & nuclear to be fed into the same natural gas lines.
Electricity, traveling over wires, loses energy as the distance increases over from the generators, creating warming. We have the same problem with this widely used technology.
The electricity generation & transmission upgrades needed to replace incredibly energy dense fossil fuels & multiple distribution channels that energy takes today (ie pipelines, tanker trucks, trains, etc), is enormous… it is growing with the population increase happening in continents like North America with human migrations putting an even greater strain on existing resources.
The big question will be, can we mine enough copper to build out all this new electrical infrastructure, supply coils for motors, and create enough concrete & steel to hang it all up in a reasonable time?
I don’t think so, it takes time to move massive populations to new technologies across continents. I am glad the move is happening, but we have to be realistic and continue making less efficient technologies more efficient, as we reach for the Holy Grail.
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“Hydrogen combustion… not worth doing?”
He mentioned in the video that there were disadvantages to port based fuel injection, this technology is ~20 years old, and better ways exist as he also said in the video, if the goal is also to get more horsepower out of it.
Hydrogen is still likely a superior solution for high torque needs, like fully loaded tractor trailers and goods transportation over mountainous inclines.
Since gasoline exists today, this concept car is a great way for regular daily drivers to run on hydrogen, where gasoline can be used for those stations where hydrogen is not yet available. This was a realistic car for a short term transition (maybe 10—20 years) from gasoline to hydrogen, using ~20 year old technology.
“Ethanol… carbon neutral fuel”
Since ethanol can be created out of CO2 in the atmosphere, plus a little water, this is a great option, as liquid fuel holds a lot of energy in a very condensed space! If the engines are designed to run on ethanol & gasoline, then this is a great transition option!
The modern shift to gaseous hydrogen with fuel cells is a notable shift, reducing complexity, as electric components become more readily available, eliminating the battery problem in EV’s.
The option of injecting hydrogen into a diesel engine, after filling up your vehicle with diesel & water, with on-vehicle electrolysis, is a great combustion fuel extender… producing less emissions & better mileage on a vehicle.
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Sometimes, these types of videos are counter-productive, turning something helpful into a general gripe session.
I am personally well aware of the consequences of lead, after a friend’s child invested lead post home-improvement project on porch with white paint.
Griping about lack of centralized regulation, which effectively expanded the lead problem to begin with as you so effectively illustrated, is part of the reason for the problem.
Reducing the regulation, so expensive certificates are not needed to make an engine run lead free, is the best option, and allow people to go lead free on their planes.
When The Market has a choice to stop poisoning themselves, they will do so, as soon as they can affordably do so, as long as there is not a mind/physical altering addiction involved.
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@jamesengland7461 - - “Bolt sales were terrible…”
Not many were produced, because there were not enough batteries 🪫
“Before the supply chain broke”
This has nothing to do with the manufacturing of EV batteries 🪫- which was practically non-existent in the US and other continents outside of Asia. That is changing, now.
“Cars like Coronas and Civics have been profitable for a half century…”
They have traditionally cost more than typical American compacts.
Their primary markets were foreign, with small car 🚘 needs, which became US domestic. Ironically, the civic will be withdrawn from the Japanese market.
But none of those [un]/profitable small cars had to sport a huge & expensive battery 🪫, where the supply was low, and the battery 🪫 cost more than the car to produce.
“GM has always done poorly with small cars”
GM built lots of sporty Pontiac Sunfires, nice affordable Chevy Cavaliers… enough cars 🚙 were built to meet various standards: an aggregate of the cars sold by a manufacturer had to meet x MPG, so the incentive was to sell profitable vehicles while the smaller vehicles were an afterthought & often produced in quantities to meet their US fleet MPG requirements and keep their costs down by sharing parts with international market cars (which demand smaller vehicles, while US demands larger vehicles.).
“always been profitable”
Rick Wagoner, former CEO of GM, former president of GM’s North America Operations said it was tough to make a “net, net, net profit on small cars anyway.”
For every Ford Escort sold, when it was the #1 selling car in America, Ford lost money 💴 on every car. Moving manufacturing to Mexico helped bring down costs.
The luxury brands of the American Cars 🚗 always subsidized the starting cars for the poor… until recently. The #WarOnThePoor has taken it’s effect with car companies being less concerned, especially since used cars were crushed a couple administrations ago.
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@BobIzam - “lifecycle assessment comparing transparent PV to windows” - yes, I believe you hit the nail on the head.
Windows normally go into a landfill, which is upsetting, but window glass & pvc & wood & aluminum don’t normally result in poisoning land & water.
Heavy metals in abandoned opaque PV manufacturing potentially create superfund sites, when cleanup is required, unlike an abandoned window factory. It is not clear to me if transparent PV offers similar sustainability risks with nano particles & heavy metals that opaque PV’s offer.
Honestly, if transparent PV is more sustainable, from a recycling perspective, with no heavy metals, the lower efficiency should be better tolerated, or at least a recycle back to manufacture deposit should be paid into a bond to equal out the sustainability costs.
Poisoning our land & water is a tangible concern, that is seemingly overlooked.
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@ColtonRDean - “why bother with the hydrogen?”
Hydrogen can be made in any nation,
Hydrogen can supplement & replace NG,
Hydrogen can supplement & replace gasoline & diesel,
Hydrogen can take unreliable electricity ⚡️ from Solar 🌞 & wind 💨, store it in compressed gas or liquid or ammonia form, and then release it for energy production during peak usage times to stabilize the grid.
Hydrogen based Ammonia can also be used to create plastics, which wind 💨 and solar ☀️ panels have no way of replacing from drilled oil.
Hydrogen is inherently portable, not requiring the strip mining & child labor & slave labor used to make large batteries 🪫 needed to make electricity portable, where lithium battery recycling is energy & labor intensive & not really widespread.
Hydrogen solves so many renewable energy problems, that solar ☀️ and wind 💨 have not addressed, there will be an abundance of H2 which can also be leveraged for automobile 🚙 & truck 🛻 & train 🚊 & airplane ✈️ usage… today…
Until H2 is widespread, gasoline can still be available for the transition, until gasoline is no longer available.
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@rp9674 - “decline in population growth”
When populations are not replacing themselves, that is the time to be concerned.
Longevity of people obscures the catastrophe to come (using population growth as a sole metric) for another half century… longevity obscures recovery for another half century.
By the time the population is in decline, it may already be too late to recover civilization… because there are not enough fertile people to sustain civilization, care for elderly, and may not be able to birth enough children to turn around the situation (at a minimum, for about a quarter century.)
Average live births per woman is a better metric to watch. Needs to be slightly higher than 2 in order to sustain civilization. Needs to be slightly higher in case of disease, genetic defects, war, accidents, mental illness (suicide, gender dysphoria, sexual stimulation/preference, etc.)
For every woman not having children, some other woman needs to properly raise 4+. This is a huge burden to place upon fertile women for the sake of human survival & civilization… this is a huge burden to place upon responsible men, who father those children.
It is pretty selfish of people to put such a burden on others, when they are fertile, intelligent, and earning any kind of pay check.
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@notone4540 - “never went to the moon… no flag on the moon, no LRO”
Mirrors 🪞 were left on the lunar surface, by multiple manned lunar missions, and generations of scientists have been firing lasers at the moon 🌙 to measure the distance from the earth.
Anyone can use the mirrors, not just NASA or government… since the mirrors are available for anyone to use.
The McDonald Observatory, run by the University of Texas at Austin, used the mirrors & firing lasers over time, to discover that the moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of two-and-a-half inches a year.
Those mirrors 🪞 exist, were out there by someone, and third-party non-government people have been using them for decades.
France sent a reflector to the moon 🌙, via an unmanned Soviet mission on November 17 in 1970. Soviet lander & rover stopped reporting in on September 14 in 1971. Circa February 2010, high-resolution camera on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) obtained images of the landing site. On April 22 in 2010, laser pulses were sent from the 3.5 meter telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. They re-discovered the lost Lunokhod 1 reflector, pinpointed its distance from Earth, and triangulated the reflector's latitude and longitude on the moon.
It is hard to believe that the French, Russians, and American government could keep a secret about all of their manned & unmanned moon 🌙 visits are fake… with generations of scientists & college students faking it all.
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@jocko4598 - “Putin’s best friend”
Democrats President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton all approved of Russia 🇷🇺 buying US Uranium mining Assets.
Democrats President Barack Obama & Vice President Joe Biden shut down the U.S. Space Shuttle program & started funding the Russian 🇷🇺 missile program through carrying U.S. people to the international space station.
Democrats President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton all did basically nothing when coming to power after Russia 🇷🇺 invaded Georgia 🇬🇪 during the election 🗳️ season.
Democrats President Barack Obama & Vice President Joe Biden basically did nothing when Russia 🇷🇺 invaded Eastern Ukraine 🇺🇦 & Crimea.
Democrat President Barack Obama stuck to his refusal to provide weapons or other lethal military gear to Ukraine, despite a passionate appeal for help in fighting. Republican McCain said, “The Ukrainians are being slaughtered and we’re sending them blankets and meals. Blankets don’t do well against Russian tanks.”
Democrat Vice President Joe Biden threatened to withhold military aid if Ukraine 🇺🇦 did not terminate the prosecutor who had Hunter Biden’s oil company job providers in the scope of corruption investigations… and admitted it on public TV.
Failed Democrat Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton paid for Russian Propaganda to be assembled into a dossier through a foreign former agent, for her political gain and later attacks against her political enemy [Trump.]
Trump administration cleared lethal military aid to Ukraine in December 2017, though it was commonly characterized as “defensive lethal aid.”
“Finally this day has come! Today, for the first time in Ukraine, the launch of Javelin missile complexes took place,” Poroshenko wrote.
Democrat President Biden’s energy policies turned Russia 🇷🇺 into the #2 oil supplier, pumping Russia’s 🇷🇺 coffers full of cash 💰 to invade Ukraine 🇺🇦
Democrat Biden promised Putin, for months, through innumerable public speeches, that he would not sent US troops to Ukraine 🇺🇦 when Russia 🇷🇺 invades Ukraine 🇺🇦
You need to stop reading Russian Propaganda and actually listen to what primary sources say… Trump was the only one in recent memory who was not in Putin’s pocket, and was found not guilty in the senate of the impeachment charges… ROTFL 😂
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Hi @fransmith3255 - “children are expensive to raise everywhere, probably even more in the US where there is no free healthcare”
In the US, they have federal tax credits per child, health care is free for children in many states, and college is free in states like Georgia for high performing students… so children don’t need to be a significant burden beyond the first boy & first girl (from a 1 bedroom home to a 3 bedroom home.)
“Are you going to arbitrarily tax or reduce tax on family attitudes?”
If people do not marry, their senior care taxes should be the highest. A discount should be given, for marriage.
If a family does not have children, raise their taxes necessary to care for elderly (because they have no one to care for them in the future), reduce elderly care tax for those who have children (because they have children to care for them to some degree, in the future)
Tax differences should be escrowed, it becomes a “use” tax, because they did not contribute to the community & must pay for the use of others to care for them.
These higher tax rates will encourage people to make more realistic social contract arrangements, by ensuring people understand there is a cost to their decision.
Having just spent months driving 12 hours each direction, to spend 1-2 weeks at a clip to care for my mother, children do what they must for their parents. I know many people who traveled long distances to care for aging parents. The alternative of The State caring for our parents is more expensive & less humane… the same way it is more expensive & less humane when the state must care for children.
“Money certainly is important to people here, but it isn’t the main issue”
It will become an increasingly important issue, as there are fewer younger people to care for the elderly. This is the time to deal with it, by taxing & escrowing the money for the future... a similar way children are an investment for the future for society.
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Hi @shelbysycamore637 -
“being single and not having children doesn’t put a burden on the tax base”
When you are elderly; fall down, and break an ankle — you will be stuck in a nursing home at $600/day… that is absorbed by the tax payer.
Children collect their parents from the nursing home to take them back to their own homes, to care & feed them, the same way parents cared & feed their children.
“having children takes more resources”
Children are an investment, money is a representation of human work, those children will get jobs, work, and create wealth.
“worker shortage… immigrants”
Those immigrants will have children, because they are likely not infected with the mental disease of socialism that many western people are infected with [self hatred mixed with fear of children & wealth]
In the end, the savings of short-cutting children [who eat relatively little food, require relatively little living space, whose language & culture learning is fast] with immigrants [who require greater living space, language & culture learning is slower, and must also learn & gain credentials in the destination nation] is really bogus.
I know several excellent dentists, who are immigrants, who can not get their credentials moved, and they are sidelined. This is a huge shame for learned immigrants in our community.
The amount of public services for immigrants, regarding health care, housing, food, education… is not well counted, as it is hidden in many other social programs, both public & private.
I help mainstream immigrants, so I have a clue… amazing people, disadvantaged in so many ways, by various legal barriers, set up to make them slaves to those who want to import them.
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@therailgun_8299 - “where does it end?”
If Ukraine would have gotten when they begged for, on day 1… it would have ended already.
When tanks were lined up in columns, Ukraine begged for Worthogs, to destroy the tanks lined up, and The West was training Ukraine in insurgency operations for a fallen nation while offering Zelenskyy “a ride” out of Ukraine.
Ukraine did not get the Worthogs to destroy the Russian tanks & artillery lined up in their territory, rejected the ride, so here we are today.
Ukraine is a NATO partner, so they deserve anything NATO can provide to them, since they fought & bled along side NATO in every NATO conflict since their independence.
Some think that it sux that an invaded NATO partner did not want to be the scapegoat, but decided to be the sacrificed goat that fought back… but kudos to Ukraine!
Ukraine has balls of steel, while NATO got soft with the US nuclear umbrella. It ends when the invaded country of Ukraine kicks out the Putin flunky bastards who: invaded Ukraine , killed Ukrainian men in mass graves, castrated Ukrainian survivor men, raped & killed Ukrainian women, and stole Ukrainian children to move into re-education camps for future front line meat waves.
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@monoblock. - use H2, CO2 concerns evaporate
Rail is a great technology for moving heavy cargo.
Trains get stuck in traffic jams because a single rail line is half duplex, while roads are built full duplex.
In the US, roads are used heavily at night for cargo, that comes from sea, air, and train ports. If roads are not heavily used in Europe at night, that is an inefficient use, causing congestion problems during the day for normal human travel.
It makes sense that heavy items travel by rail, goods travel by night, normal human transportation occurs during daylight hours when the average person is awake.
Honestly, automobiles by road should be disappearing in another 40 years, for better autonomous options where we can move through the air & not be so tied to roads. We need to look to the 2100’s and not the 1800’s for human travel options.
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@christopherwaggoner7125 - “we subsidize highways” - which are needed for military transport, so people are using military infrastructure.
“Train… running every couple mins or so” - people don’t need to travel in those quantities between cities in places like the US.
Once people are dropped off in a city, there needs to be transport to other places around the city. Where people live in the suburbs, there needs to be transport from homes to a HSR rail. People buy cars to get to the places the rail does not go, so that private infrastructure will not go away. I have to pay to park my car somewhere, to get the the local public transport. The time from 3x public transportation systems vs the time for the car, when I had the choice I chose to just use the car since it is faster & I can come/go when I want.
In the end, this infrastructure is all a black hole. Most neighboring cities are merely 2 hours by car, so why bother to use rail?
Rail is 1800’s technology. Maybe something like light trams & monorails, which are used at airports, where there is constant local transportation. The future will be air, where expensive land will not take up by transportation. The air is 21st century travel, since expensive rail & roads will not need to be maintained.
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“knock their profits”
This is a dumb statement.
The cost is merely passed down to the buyer. If a profit can’t be made, the bank will not loan money, and housing will not be built.
Builders always make a profit, building more expensive merely raises the cost of housing.
Profit is not the motivating factor, it is the cost of housing, so you clearly never understood the issue, from back in the 1980’s.
“fixation that everyone should own their own home”
When people own their own homes, problems like crime are decreases, social cohesion increases, performance of students in schools increase, the next generation of citizens is more productive than the previous, and a nation grows in wealth.
Yes, there is a fixation on decreasing crime, having people get along, caring for the children in our neighborhoods, and making sure the next generation lives better than we did.
This is a good thing!
“Thatcher”
Oh, how those of us who grew up during the days of The Iron Lady, wish there were politicians like her around on the world stage. All we have today are drug addicts taking bribes to engorge their families on a world stage.
The UK helped to lead the world, and now an incestuous man who sexually assaulted female workers & sniffs young girls, along side his drug addict son who secures bribes [with Russian & Chinese prostitution proclivities] is doing so.
Maggie was such a breath of fresh air!
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You can.
When I was young, I built a crystal radio, to listen to AM radio, for free. Powered by the radio waves. No powered amplifier needed, enough power in the wave to make an earphone create audible sound. Crystal radios still works, today.
NCR used to manufacture smart store shelf tags, powered by radio waves, constantly keeping LCD tags up to date. Water bottles & cans filled with liquids could be problematic.
I used to build low powered lights using LED’s, once I saw how fast incandescent lights killed by batteries. Now, this is becoming the norm, except batteries die in these lights, and they are just thrown in the garbage.
Then, there were self winding watches, which would wind from human movement. Also, solar powered LCD watches (I used to own one.) I bet they don’t really exist any longer.
Solar powered calculators were the rage for awhile, no batteries required, just use in a lit room.
People spend way too much time trying to build higher powered batteries and not enough time building every day devices which truly need little to no power.
Now a days, high powered lithium batteries cheaply supplied by strip mines of the Southern Hemisphere & slave labor in the Far East have spoiled us, no one REALLY cares about saving energy any longer. We just want high powered battery based devices, eliminating previous generations of super efficient devices, which harvested energy from our surroundings.
There is so much unharnessed power, all around us, that is just untapped. It heats the air, from just existing. A complete shame.
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@marcbuisson2463 - “absolutely not the case. Decent transit is not a money pit”
Watch the video. Money pit.
“It’s just the people that make the most money out of it…”
Then raise the prices on the tickets, to accommodate the cost, so it is not a money pit. Proper costing encourages innovation. Proper costing also controls pricing of the land surrounding the metro (people do the cost-benefit analysis.)
“In Paris…”
It is already built. I understand standardization benefits. Many short stops where the trains remain in the densely populated area seem to be used well there! Keeping those lines purposefully built, with connections from elsewhere via other technologies was smart.
There is a cost to ripping & replacing railroad ties, rails, wheels, trains, etc. Extremely expensive. A hidden cost that subsidies hide.
We are in the 2000’s. Lighter & less expensive technology that builds 3D (to consume space in the air) can accomplish a lot. Newer technology may be able to add higher degrees of privacy, as well (to discourage pick pockets.)
Maybe other competing older technology can achieve similar goals.
I am a fan of Gondolas, used in places where retrofitting trains is unfeasible. Add more & remove some as needed on always running lines. Low infrastructure & power requirements, cars provide privacy. Redundant cables for safety, like elevators.
Above ground tunnels joining buildings in urban areas with walkways & moving walkways are nice. Used those before. Ticket usage on static & moving walkways for above ground tunnel maintenance.
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Perhaps Task & Purpose should have delineated the acts of terrorism committed against US peace keepers in Lebanon, dozens of terror attacks in multiple nations, and added that to video (in short form, listing dates & locations & bombing targets)
Perhaps Task & Purpose should have mentioned that Iran August 2015, under the Road-map, Iran denied to the IAEA the existence of any program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive device, and in particular denied the existence of the AMAD Plan
Perhaps Task & Purpose should have mentioned that the JCPOA merely delayed Iran’s publicly working on a nuclear weapons program.
Perhaps Task & Purpose should have mentioned the 100,000 document dump that demonstrated Iran misled the IAEA about the AMAD Project, where Iran’s AMAD project mission statement was to design, produce and test five warheads, each with ten kiloton TNT yield for integration on a missile.
It was after the AMAD document dump, which misled parties to the JCPOA, US announced withdrawal from JCPOA, May 2018.
We know this video was by an average infantryman, but killing service members & misleading the IAEA regarding nuclear warhead & nuclear missile development in the JCPOA are kind of important points.
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Piracy off the cost of Somalia and other North African countries date back much farther than the early 1900’s.
The United States, upon winning their independence in the late 1700’s, disbanded their military, and disengaged from world wide conflict.
Until…
Pirates in North Africa decided to kidnap Americans and hold them for ransom… if the non-Muslim Americans would pay the Jizya, then they would receive “protection” from the Muslim pirates (it was forbidden for Muslim pirates to steal from fellow Muslims… some exceptions were made if the booty was big enough & the target was the wrong kind of Muslim), then Americans would be preserved for a year.
A standing Navy later & creation of The Marines resolved the issue after two successive wars.
Islamic Piracy dates back to sacking caravans in the early days of Mohammed coming to power, in the late 600’s. Somalia became known for piracy afterwards as Islam conquered West to the Maghreb, and started pushing South.
Countries like Libya even had their hand in tolerance of air piracy, during the late 1900’s
Modern Somalia is just another nation in a ~1400 year old history of piracy, on land, air, and sea.
So now, we know why the US has a huge standing Army & Navy & Air Force… it was due to piracy & tolerance of it by Muslim dominated nations of North Africa (because it was a good way to make money, since the days of Mohammed.)
Other examples of land piracy, by sacking the wrong “unbelieving” caravan… well, in Central Asia, a little guy named Genghis Khan… but that is another story.
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Trump did a lot of terrific reforms, but he did not have the expertise of The Left, which took over buildings & disrupting judicial appointments, just months earlier.
In the case of The Leftists, the proxies went to jail for short periods of time, because the proxies had several levels of indirection, these proxies were “useful idiots”, and were not able to [or compromised government was unwilling to] directly trace back formerly treasonous activities [stopping appointment of government official in the judicial branch] to an individual, so their violence kept the hands of leftists in power quite clean.
Trump attempting to direct protests, fell victim to those he could not control: registered Democrat family carrying a civil war rebel flag, global warming animal ski wearing dude who leads occult prayers while carrying a spear everywhere, militia with x-military trans activist who formerly protected BLM rioters, Antifa & BLM rioter who called days earlier to storm the Whitehouse & rip Trump from his chair while organizing a leftist rally wearing Trump hats, and many others just looking for a riot… these types were also charged (some convicted) of storming the legislature building.
Trump made the mistake of having a rally & telling them to peaceably make themselves known.
Dumb move… Trump should never have directed anything to the protesters, even to do something “peaceably”, and even tried directing them to “go home peacefully”
Sure, leftists direct protesters through speeches & media to “get in their faces” and “never give them peace”… but seldom tell them to do anything “now”.
Trump may have a high price to pay for making the mistake, thinking that only his supporters, who would follow his directions, would be in DC at that time. Dumb move.
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@Mr_Tech_Geek - “information is wrong”
You mean the part about Egypt annexing Gaza or Jordan annexing The West Bank?
The part about Palestinians making an agreement with Israel to collect taxes & deliver them a check?
ROTFL!
Better look it up.
“Why only Middle East and Asian countries at war”
Because war happens where people dehumanize others, to make others subject to destruction.
“in Europe only animals live”
So, are you from the Middle East or Asia?
LOL!
“they only cry when their own is hit”
My information was not wrong.
Iraq invaded Kuwait, Iraq was isolated, Iraq kept on firing on planes enforcing a “no fly zone” where Kurds lived, and eventually the UN weapons inspectors discovered missiles manufactured during the cease fire period which violated the agreement.
The final discovery [post 9/11] of the illegal missiles was the last straw, an ultimatum was delivered for Saddam & his family to leave, they chose not to leave, they took the money from the wealthiest families of Baghdad, and the invasion occurred where Saddam & his family then used virtually unlimited funds to hide out & fund an insurgency until the Iraqi people sent him to be hanged.
One of the families Saddam’s family extorted their money from, are friends of mine. I mentored one of their children. It did not matter that Saddam was part of the same religious sect of his victims - Saddam’s family stole from Sunni Muslims.
Don’t start talking about junk you have idea about. He is no hero.
Saddam used chemical weapons against non-Arab Muslim Kurds, he stole from Sunni Arabs, he wiped out entire Muslim Shia villages, he singlehandedly created the modern day suicide bomber by paying poverty stricken Palestinians families for their children to become walking bombs, and promised Palestinians that Kuwait would be their homeland after he took it over. (Would Palestinians really move to Kuwait, under Saddam’s rule??? ROTFL!!!)
Saddam Hussein used everyone and everything he touched.
I love Iraq, I love Iraq’s people [all of them, not just a faith group], and I hope for a brighter future for that nation whose existence & history dates back to the first book of the Jewish & Christian Bible.
Iraq is beloved by many, don’t soil Iraq with gibberish regarding a short & sorry period of their amazing thousands of years of history.
People feel pain during conflicts when we do not dehumanize others by groups.
Dehumanization is Satanic. People who dehumanize others are followers of Satan.
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@evilsimeon - “1/3rd energy density and requires energy to produce it”
Yep. Many renewables outside Hydro don’t have a way to store their power for any period of time, making them inherently unreliable & less valuable.
What makes energy valuable is the ability to store it until it is needed. The sunlight is available about half the time & not truly valued.
How much energy does it take to cut trees, split wood, stack wood, and move it to to be burned? It is not a terribly efficient process. Wood is still used as a renewable energy source, largely because it is local.
Sure, H2 can be a carrier of energy, but it can be 100% used in Europe, by Europe, for Europe, making Europe energy independent. H2 can be local. H2 can be made more portable than wood, by storing in portable tanks. H2 is more easily transported in pipes. H2 usage basically creates clouds, to rain somewhere else.
Efficiency is is not as important when it becomes unavailable. Civilizations need reliable & portable ways of storing energy, for later harvesting, more than they need efficient ways.
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“criticism of MAGA treasonous stupidity”
It was the MAGA folks who were mad when US democrats sold US Ukrainian assets off to Russians… as those assets funded the invasions of Ukraine.
It was the MAGA folks who were the victims of Russian Propaganda, funded by the Democrat Party & and Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election cycle, 2 short years after Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
It was the MAGA folks who started shipping lethal arms to Ukraine, instead of the blankets & small arms that Democrats thought was worthy of shipping Ukraine after Russia invaded them.
It was the MAGA President who put serious pressure on NATO nations to increase their military spending, after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 & was threatening a future invasion.
It was the MAGA President who pressured Germany to stop funding the Russian war effort after the 2014 invasion of Ukraine through the Russian energy pipelines.
It was the MAGA President who told Putin that he would “hit Moscow” if Russia invaded Ukraine on his watch.
Treason is when the current US President refuses to enforce the laws along the US border.
Treason is when the current US Democrat President decided to make Russia the #2 energy import partner of the US, to fill their coffers after the 2014 invasion of Ukraine & before the next invasion of Ukraine.
Treason is when the current US Democrat President, after receiving payments from Russian oligarchs a short time earlier, tried to offer Zelenskyy a ride out of Ukraine when the invasion was happening, instead of supplying the lethal aid that Ukraine needed & begged for (Ukraine still has not received the retiring WortHogs that they asked for on Day-1!)
Treason is when the Democrat Party ejected a pro-Ukraine speaker of the House, and wrecked the deal to get 2024 Ukraine funding out the door, making it more likely that the US will have to send soldiers to Eastern Europe to fight later.
Ukraine had stood by the US as a NATO partner, since their independence, fighting alongside Americans in every military conflict along the way. The US & Ukrainians deserve a lot more from US Democrat President Biden & their petty supporters who put Ukraine & US security second to cheap political wins.
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“reliance on fossil fuels is a liability”
Actually, a single supplier is the liability.
Fossil fuels has shown it’s resilience, since there are multiple suppliers, if those who are dependent upon them have multiple ways to receive the energy.
Solar cells, predominantly coming from one national manufacturing nation, is now highlighted as an incredible risk.
Batteries, predominantly coming from one national manufacturing nation, is now highlighted as an incredible risk.
The dependency on renewables, like solar & wind, on Natural Gas… is also now highlighted as an incredible risk.
Better for Europe to be investing in Natural Gas, hydrogen production to replace it, and European H2 to fill the renewable gaps.
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Your concerns are valid, but the blame on boomers is poorly reasoned.
Housing permits have been lower than illegal immigration across the southern border since this past election cycle. This has driven the cost of housing higher, for everyone.
The increase in humans from unmetered southern US border has depressed wages for Americans.
Oil pipelines & infrastructure have been blocked, forcing oil to be moved more by train & truck, raising the cost of transportation for goods, and ultimately creating supply line stresses, since the last election cycle.
People are increasingly turning to drugs, which inhibit natural drive & decrease productivity, which reflects in lower wages due to lower efficiency.
Covid lockdowns have resulted in many small businesses going broke, replaced by Chinese products shipped directly to our homes without a middleman, and those small business had formerly been drivers for [minority] employment & living wages.
Boomers leaving the market place, will not likely help 40-something year olds. People who understand how things work & are not strung out on drugs need to be running things as younger people need to learn how it all works so they can take over when the time is right… and we are the age the boomer are today.
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@hasinabegum1038 - “what Islamist terrorists”
Geneva Convention declares militants are not to mix civilian with military… to suppress civilian casualties.
Terrorism is violence against civilians to cause governmental change.
Hamas places military detention centers under hospitals, controls for launching rockets in Mosques, rocket launchers in children’s scouting centers, etc.
Hamas went into a neighboring nation, decapitated babies, raped women, killed men, abducted survivors, and these were all civilians ranging from a music festival to the homes of individuals.
The charter of Hamas declares themselves the “Islamic Resistance Movement”, linking their professed written name with their repeated actions clearly declares them Islamic Terrorists.
Terrorists have been controlling Palestine for years, and the Palestinians have suffered for it.
It is time to give Palestine the opportunity to stand up a state, instead of Turks & Arabs & Persians encouraging them to fight the wars they are too cowardly to fight.
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“life expectancy of a house in the US… low”
Part of that is because of mobility.
In 2000, the average American lived in a home for about 3 years. American society is very mobile.
Part of mobility is about security.
Liberals don’t like to enforce the law in the US (unlike some other nations), so people vote for people who don’t enforce the laws, people die, families move out, other families in worse places move in, eventually those families figure out that it is better a little farther out, they move out, and the land is redeveloped as something more expensive, then more people move out, then the land turns into big shopping plazas, more people move out, they become warehouses, then when there is no one left, high rise building businesses are made, and people only go back for work while they find their security elsewhere for their families.
The average US family is not wealthy like Matt, who produced this video. The average family is trying to find a good school where their kids won’t get beaten up in school, their wife won’t get robbed, their daughter won’t get raped, and their car will not get broken into. Matt speaks of regulations, large numbers of people speak of families & security first, and cost is a significant factor in escaping liberal urban insecure zones. No one wants to run out of energy / fuel in one of those liberal insecure zones, along the way while going to/from work.
Security is more important than energy efficiency. Saving $90 a month on electricity is insignificant when your wife is dead.
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@ian3580 - “would have made a… more affordable truck”
Well, that is not what was introduced as a prototype that people went Gaga over.
They trimmed it back some, taking inches off the truck, to make it more affordable, people complain, but it was still brought to market. Good for them!
Will I buy it? No. I guess we will see if someone else buys it. I think the answer is yes.
“Vanity project from the owner”
Like “Back to the Future” and “what Blade Runner would drive”… this is less than a vanity project, it is a brand building project.
This is a Tesla Truck, to build their brand, and people will buy it. Will they build another lower cost solution? Tesla has different model cars, they started with one car, added more, so they likely will add another truck later.
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@alterbart7916 - “carbon dioxide… has no use”
On the contrary, Carbon must be harvested in liquid (oil), solid (coal), or gaseous (natural gas) form, using expensive mining methods.
CO2 collected in an easy to harvest containment system provides endless use cases of a reasonably safe gas… into any other substance.
Plants, for example, turn CO2 directly into sugar, with a little sunlight. When excess CO2 is pumped into a plant containment system, plants produce more sugars, and plants grow faster.
CO2 can also be used to produce fuels through combining with hydrogen.
CO2 can be used to produce biodegradable plastics.
Carbon has 4 bonds, making it incredibly useful. Whoever has CO2 reserves will do well, in a future economy.
Whoever extracts CO2 from the atmosphere will find themselves saving the planet, if the Global Warmies are correct.
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Agrovoltaics: Rich Silicon Valley investors exploit break-or-bust by the season farmer.
The Rich need the land space for this new solar money scheme, want to avoid land taxes, and want to profit from the cheap Xinjiang & prison slave labor to manufacture cells, leveraging virtually free land cost paid for by the farmers… while increasing the farmer’s tax liability by improving the land, therefore locking them into providing that land forever through tax liabilities, and then neighboring farmers are coerced through increasing tax evaluations via the government to sell/lease out space & also be locked in to the same arrangement.
Former independent Farmers basically become tenant farmers, share croppers, vassals… to their new feudal Lords.
It always comes down to this, it seems.
Once the farmers become wise to what happened, they sell the farm to escape, the new buyer [of the increased valuation land] applies for a waste disposal permit, the solar panels are bulldozed under the ground, housing is built… future home owners plant gardens in their back yards, thinking they have pure soil, but they really have contaminated soil from heavy metals associated with the solar panel disposal. (Saw this happen in Eastern Pennsylvania.)
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“How cool would it be…”
It could potentially be very cool, with millions or billions of bore holes, cooling the earth core by extracting that heat, reducing the movement of the molten iron in the core, reducing the magnetic field of the earth, reducing the protection of the atmosphere from solar wind, watching the solar wind blow away the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect disappearing, every living thing in the face of the earth dies, and the earth becomes a floating rock in space.
10, 100, 1000, 10000 years?
Depends on how catchy the technology is… if drilling is basically done with energy lasers, it has the potential to be really cheap, and this blue ball we live on becomes something closer to The Moon.
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@Taskandpurpose - the Mossad / Hamas conspiracy theory is quite fun, but I would suggest to you that your questions are similarly answered by looking historically at the US seemingly irrational & suicidal political activities.
Let’s reframe the conversation:
A: Ever hear of CIA? That’s how The Ayatollah is propped up.
B: you would have to explain why the US would want to support The Ayatollah. Then explain why the Ayatollah would want to work with the US and accept money from the US. Then explain why the US went through great lengths to destroy all aspects of The Ayatollah.
The reality is people come up with crazy ideas 💡 to use money 💰 to try to sway people to our side.
Putin did this with Kadyrov, never pushing Chechen fighters too far, happy with them on the 3rd line of defense, shooting the infidel deserters from the 1st & 2nd lines of defense.
The US thinking 💭 they can buy off Iran 🇮🇷 & Israel can buy off Palestine 🇵🇸 is hopeful, but difficult, when one does not ultimately control the security around the person[s] being bought off & refuses to be realistic about the requests made of them [they can’t be asked to deny their nature.]
I enjoy your videos, love your humor, but until we read documents like the Hamas Charter & theological justifications for the existence of The Islamic State - I don’t think 🤔 we really can understand what is going on with these movements.
The knowledge that Hamas links themselves to The Muslim Brotherhood, whose leader was hosted by Hitler during WW2 Germany 🇩🇪, gives me a very different perspective than most internet readers & watchers. The MB is not something to be trifled with, as Obama/Biden did during the Arab Spring, the same way the MB / Hamas is not to be trifled with in Gaza.
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@richardfranks2831 - ‘why do you say this solution “requires oil” ‘
The compressed CO2 solution…
Iron mining, iron ore transport, steel smelters, earth movers, trucks to move steel into a location, etc. needs oil.
Same problem with renewables…
Lithium mining, copper mining, cobalt mining, earth movers. mineral ore transfer, lithium & copper smelting, metal movement, battery manufacturing, battery movement, silicon mining, silicon transportation, silicon refining, energy to make glass, energy to move glass & silicon panels, etc. all needs oil.
All renewable construction requires oil.
Most oil for energy can be replaced with natural gas, and natural gas can later be replaced with hydrogen… renewables merely delay the inevitable.
CO2 is be converted to sugar through living processes, which is converted to alcohol (replacement for oil)… this is also delaying the inevitable.
Oil is used for everything else (ie clothes, carpet, moving parts, plastics, wire insulation, paint, electrical tape, house siding, roof shingles, roads, Tupperware, forks & spoons, sippy cups, A/C wall plates, A/C boxes, water 💦 pipes, etc.)
Honestly, the need for oil never goes away, we will always need it, we need to find ways to conserve it (reduce energy consumption of it) while harvesting more.
We will never eliminate the need for oil, renewable energy merely adds more sources so we may possibly burn less of it, but I am doubtful that we are actually burning less oil.
Renewable energy is important, but anyone suggesting oil will go away is living in a dream world 🌍 and anyone advocating less harvesting is suicidal at best, delusional in reality.
1. We need to diversify our energy carriers with renewables from oil, but 2. we must harvest more oil to meet our needs, and anyone not thinking about #2 is ignorant, brainwashed, or a mass murderer of the next generation.
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Hi @ronaldking1054 - “by that logic, oil construction required oil so the claim we should go back to the stone ages?”
A lot of lubricants & lighting was provided by hunting whales 🐳 for their whale oil. It was a 100% renewable resource! A lot of people want to return to 100% renewable resources.
The use of black oil also eliminated black slave labor from Africa, the Muslim Arabs & Turks [formerly Ottomans] acquired & sold slaves [until WW1] before they completely transitioned to selling oil. The elimination of oil could mean the revival of the African Slave Trade, since people are a renewable resource.
Eliminating oil is, indeed, going back to the proverbial “Stone Ages”.
“how do you harvest something when your global supplies will last at the current rates of consumption in 45 years or so?”
If this was really the problem, we would be looking at replacing oil, not merely shifting the control of energy from domestic sources of our representation government to a dictatorship of China 🇨🇳
“harvest it less unless you advocate abandoning all 20th century technology”
All solar ☀️& battery 🔋 & nuclear ☢️ power is 20th century technology. We clearly have seen the limits & risks of them (transient & explosive 🧨 & millennia of radioactive ☢️ poisoning in Chernobyl)
No one has thought about the massive needs of oil in our economy & replacing it. Organic oil, indefinitely recyclable without human effort, it is not going away. CO2 in the atmosphere is available for everyone to use. Oil will be created, like we create diamonds, before oil goes away.
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[Ronald] - “by your reasoning… oil to harvest oil… Stone Age”
[David] - “whale oil… renewable”
@ronaldking1054 - “whales by the 19th century were not a renewable resource…”
If you look carefully, your assertion regarding my reasoning was proven faulty. Renewable whale oil was used for many sources pumped oil is used today.
Oil was able to replace the use of renewable whale 🐳 oil.
As you astutely just pointed out, it would be difficult to return to your “Stone Age”, a world without pumped oil, replaced by renewable oil that set up the transition to drilled & pumped oil.
[Ronald] - “lack of ethics of Europeans”
Well, you decided to let your bigotry or ignorance show, by disregarding the history of Europeans ending the legal Slave Trade with WW1, after they ended it in the 19th century on their continent [after Europeans were victims of slavery for 12 centuries] by the same actors.
The historical fact is that oil enabled Arab & Persian Slave Traders to end their slave trade [at the behest of Europeans], transitioning slavers to a non-renewable resource of pumped oil. It is not “nonsense”, and a world without drilled & pumped oil risks returning to the “Stone Age”, as you put it.
Banning slavery world-wide (except in Communist nations), would likely not have been possible without drilled & pumped oil. Without oil, going back to your proverbial “Stone Ages” is not improbable, looking back to what occurred in the Middle East with their so-call Islamic State reinstituting it.
[Ronald] - “you are claiming that 34 billion barrels of oil is produced a year by…”
Nope 👎
Only you have made that claim.
(Continue with oil ⛽️ & nuclear ☢️ next)
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@markpukey8 - “expect to store that hydrogen?”
Hydrogen can be stored using six different methods and phenomena:
(1) high-pressure gas cylinders (up to 800 bar)
(2) liquid hydrogen in cryogenic tanks (at 21 K)
(3) adsorbed hydrogen on materials with a large specific surface area (at T<100 K)
(4) absorbed on interstitial sites in a host metal (at ambient pressure and temperature)
(5) chemically bonded in covalent and ionic compounds (at ambient pressure)
(6) through oxidation of reactive metals, e.g. Li, Na, Mg, Al, Zn with water.
The most common storage systems are high-pressure gas cylinders with a maximum pressure of 20 MPa (200 bar). New lightweight composite cylinders have been developed which are able to withstand pressures up to 80 MPa (800 bar) and therefore the hydrogen gas can reach a volumetric density of 36 kg.m(-3), approximately half as much as in its liquid state.
When mixed with natural gas, the same old natural gas storage facilities can be used.
“you will lose most of your hydrogen in transit”
Hydrogen is being mixed into Natural Gas in low percentages, today, in existing pipelines & equipment.
Hydrogen is being shipped across oceans, to nations like Japan.
“How much do you consider acceptable losses”
Whatever is necessary to not require blood gas from Russia, colored with the blood of Europeans.
Use small H2 percentages at first in existing natural gas lines. Infrastructure can be updated, as higher percentages of H2 are added to existing Natural Gas lines. Eventually, all the infrastructure can be replaced, decades from now.
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@markpukey8 - thank you for the complement in the copy paste!
“You keep imagining…”
That Australia built & shipped Hydrogen to Japan, New Zealand & Canada are building hydrogen export facilities, Georgia [in the US] had successfully run existing generation facilities on 20% H2 mixed with NG, Japan opens 10 MegaWatt Hydrogen Plant, Japan has 160 hydrogen filling stations, etc.
“is more expensive…”
Spot energy prices rise to be more expensive than the energy produced by burning hydrogen, so if hydrogen was only used during peaks - it would be acceptable to existing markets today, allowing NG to be used for non-peak times. Once production is done in mass quantities, it will get cheaper.
“there’s a reason we’re not doing it right now”
Europe cited Ukraine as a future Hydrogen partner… so yes, there is a reason: Germany decided to partner with the belligerent nation that would invade Europe’s perspective H2 partner, Ukraine, not just once, but twice.
The reason is: stupidity. Maybe that was too harsh: self hatred & suicide. Pay the wolf to kill the chicken who was about to lay the proverbial ‘golden eggs’ for Europe.
“help Germany and Europe next month”
They could have started injecting low percentages of hydrogen into existing NG pipelines. It sux Germany was so unprepared after Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia, Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine, and now 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Japan can import H2. Oh well.
Germany is now accelerating investments into Hydrogen. New liquid LNG ports will be able process H2 as: synthetic LNG, Green Ammonia, with reasonably simple adaptations.
Transport of hydrogen into Germany by sea will likely happen via liquified synthetic LNG or green ammonia at these ports.
H2 will eventually replace NG.
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“hooked them up to two 50A batteries… real world?”
I don’t know anyone who would hook a BMS to 2x 3.2v batteries, except for motorcycle starter batteries, and that is not Andy’s use case. Therefore, your suggested test is not a real world test.
A real world test would be a series of LiFePo4 batteries in a 12v, 24v, 36v, or 48v system… with a minimum of 4 cells, and Andy satisfied the real world test, many times over, with this nightmare scenario that he had.
Daly stinks for larger systems like 48v batteries. A slow balance to only 1 battery at a time on a large battery bank during charging is terrible!
For your suggestion, Daly would likely be great on a 2x cell LiFePo4 motorcycle battery with a multi-week trickle charger, would likely perform as good as any other BMS in that real world scenario, but that is about the only real world scenario that I could think is remotely relevant, and that is a far reach!
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@armandsimonis7992 - “a battery for EV’s can be made without any cobalt”
But this is not happening for a reason, the energy density of those batteries suck. Gasoline holds an order of magnitude more energy.
“Child labor… not used for cobalt used by…”
As Sept 2021, of the 255,000 Congolese mining for cobalt, 40,000 are children, some as young as six years.
Chinese rechargeable battery industry accounts for around 60% of global cobalt demand… how many of the EV batteries are coming from China?
China is not very clear on their supply chain.
How about the slave labor being used in China, in East Turkistan, for battery manufacturing?
Tibet, a toxic chemical leak from the Ganzizhou Rongda Lithium mine poisoned the local Lichu river, your batteries come from there? (This has been going on since 2005 and still happening!)
How about the sink holes forming around the lithium mining in South & Central America? (Sucking brackish water out of aquifers, to evaporate & harvest lithium, and the holes occur.)
This dependency on this crap has to go.
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“EV being charged in West Virginia will produce more carbon output than a hybrid”
@armandsimonis7992 - “Total nonsense”
Absolutely not nonsense.
An EV would need to drive between 41,631 miles to 93, 827 miles to just break even on Carbon, assuming clean electricity… the amount of carbon used to mine batteries, ship raw materials, manufacture batteries, ship batteries… it is incredible!
If the electricity is being generated from Coal, as it is largely in West Virginia, a hybrid will save more carbon over the lifetime of a car.
It is not just West Virginia!
Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Wyoming, Utah… EV’a create more carbon than Hybrids in each of these states, in addition to West Virginia!
Other states, the carbon produced by EV’s are close to equivalent to hybrid cars: Ohio, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Colorado
“Enormous amount of energy to refine crude oil”
Solar & Wind have a significant dependency Natural Gas, which is also refined, and required in large quantities to compensate for unreliable solar & wind generation, is also included.
Heavy producers of electrical energy by Nuclear reduces the carbon load of EV’s, over the lifetime of an EV, but only The South East can benefit from nuclear power expansion approvals by Democrat Obama in the late 2000’s… problem is, that carbon negative calendar for EV’s reset as soon as one of those carbon intensive manufactured lithium batteries must be replaced.
If an EV is wrecked before break even, the person might have well been driving a gas car, since it would have taken less global resources, produced less carbon, and cost a lot less in money. New drivers should all be given cheap ICE engine based cars.
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6:23 — “it is not even true that democratic states are more permissive of crime”
Don’t use the word democratic, this is incorrect unless you are comparing a state to dictatorship.
But large Democrat run cities, where most of the population is for Democrat run states, are absolutely more permissive of crime, and this is where people are leaving.
- cities in various California cities have live updated “poop maps”, where people are warned about where they have to walk
- in declining Democrat run cities, needles litter the ground, to be washed down storm sewage systems and into the coastal waters
- in declining Democrat run cities, drug laws are not enforced, but rather people are encouraged to peruse their addictions with Democrat city supplied drug paraphernalia, addicts live homelessly for awhile, and die in the streets (thus how Democrats resolve some of their drug addiction & homeless issues.)
- criminals are declined to be prosecuted, so they are not arrested, they immediately commit more crimes again, and people just become numb to it & eventually leave
If you don’t understand what is happening in the Democrat run cities of the US, you should not talk about it
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Your concern is actually the same concern that I have, whenever geothermal comes up.
There are some things which are critical to literally not killing [everything on] the planet.
Capitalism is less of a problem than the power of mass production producing affordability.
Let’s say mass production of boring machines, 1 billion families on the planet able to afford it, 1 billion bore holes, earth cools down in 10 years, magnetic field decreases, atmosphere blows off from solar wind, everything is dead… with plenty of fossil fuel & solar energy left to harvest on the planet.
Sure, people may take issue with the napkin math above, but let’s say 100 years, or 1000 years… any way we cut it, the planet becomes a floating piece of space rock.
This is a much better idea on an uninhabited planet.
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@mcnally211 - “Chechens… cannon fodder”
Right now, Putin is sending to the front lines other ethnicities with Chechens killing those who retreat, so once again, Chechens are serving a role in killing other less-ethnic Russians.
If Putin can kill off some of those Chechen soldiers in this conflict, that would reduce his risks of having to deal again with them. So yes, cannon fodder for Putin, as well.
It has nothing to do with Chechen performance, but the risk of non-ethnic Russians to Putin’s Russia with Putin’s support base in Moscow & Saint Petersburg.
“Ukraine… marching on Moscow”
Ukraine does not want Moscow. Ukraine wants Muscovite’s to leave.
“Bakhmut”
If it falls, it will be with devastating losses to Russia. At that point, a flattened city will be acquired, known for supplying salt.
Tens of thousands of Non-ethnic Russians dead for salt. Maybe a hundred thousand dead non-ethnic Russians for salt. Putin thinks this is a good trade. Apparently, Putin does not believe the Prisoners, Eastern Asian Conscripts, and Chechens from the Caucuses are even worth their weight in salt.
Yep. Cannon fodder.
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@davidford3115 - The Turks exported all of the Armenians around WW1… to dug holes in the desert, to the bottom of wells, to the bottom of the Black Sea. Turks gave promises to the Kurds, to get their help.
Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran all have Kurdish populations. They were all against partitioning for the Kurds.
Saddam “poisoned the well” between the Sunni & Kurdish populations. If they played their cards right, Iraq would not basically be. Satellite country of Iran.
Minority Sunni’s, locked out of jobs, are still suicide bombing Majority Shia controlled government facilities.
People made decisions with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, people tried their best, and things are still working through it all.
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Hi @ChristianWagner888 -
‘disposable homes… this type of house construction does not seem to be very “sustainable”’
Well, in some ways it is VERY sustainable… home usage change dramatically over time.
For example, when I was young, we had this large console radio & record player. It took up a large section of a whole room.
In a short number of years, it disappeared, since we moved to a vertical rack. Then, it disappeared entirely.
We had a large tube TV on a large table, with video games underneath. It disappeared entirely.
We had a wood burning stove, as we used it to survive the energy crisis in the 1970’s, with a large stove pipe that went through the wall & hung on the house. That disappeared.
Now a days, flat screen TV’s hang on a wall.
Homes of the past did not have much window space, to save space for book shelves & other large items, and also because of the energy crisis of the 1970’s.
Bathrooms were much smaller in older houses, literally water closets.
These same homes are easily modified by people, to meet their needs.
Stick built homes are more “forward looking” - people add kitchens, expand walls for bathroom features, add additional bathrooms, add media rooms, add home offices, add home school rooms… in the future, the large dining rooms that are disappearing in newly built homes will likely re-appear as holographic rooms.
My brick home is built to stay, but blowing out a brick wall is not trivial, to expand my bathroom, for a garden tub, or a hot tub… and a missing garden tub something that was regretted since buying the home 20 years ago.
Can work be done to concrete homes?
Sure, but adding a second kitchen, an extra wall, was effortless with stick built wood home… without assistance from external contractors.
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@Silver_Prussian - “Europe nor the US can triple or double the aid unless they decide to give Ukraine stuff that’s currently in use”
There is a lot of old Cold War stuff, that costs too much to decommission, that is currently in use.
The point being, it is currently in use, not because it is very useful, but because it costs too much to decommission.
Ukraine is the new Decommissioning facility, for 50-70 year old weapons, and it is better that more of them will be decommissioned north & north east of Ukraine in Russia.
There is a lot more to give, especially from the US, more than what people can imagine. There are desert bone yards, as far as the eye can see, which can be harvested.
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I was doing a similar thought experiment, a number of days back, and I was thinking about the wires.
My conclusion was not to use wire, but to use pipelines. A pipeline, used for transferring oil or gas, could conduct electricity, we have pipelines today, and the great surface area would not require complexities of high voltage DC.
The pipeline could also act as an oil / gas / water pipeline, for immediate profitability & reduced investment risk.
My major concern is with salt water being conductive, as well as any moisture in the ground being conductive. Any small problem with insulation could be absolutely deadly, to a lot of stuff nearby, including people.
I still like pipelines, maybe a pipeline coated in fiberglass, but a leak of saltwater in the ocean could still be catastrophic. Maybe a pipeline coated in aluminum or copper, then coated in fiberglass would be acceptable.
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@fatemad4012 - “how can we sustain our modern civilization”
Synthetic fuels are the first step. Carbon capture, hydrogen generation from water, creation of hydrocarbons from there. This can satisfy some of the lightest carbon needs, but heavier carbon needs from asphalt roads to roofing shingles have no solutions.
There are some discussions around turning more food into plastics, the same way we turn food into fuel like ethanol, but these are probably not the best long term plan.
Honestly, we need CO2 capture & escrow. If there is a day when Earth based abiotic production of carbon based resources is exhausted, the only resources left will be what we collect & harvest from the biosphere. Recycling (what a concept.) The air will become the second greatest resource, escrowed CO2 being the greatest resource. If CO2 & exhaustion of carbon from the earth is REALLY an issue, we would be escrowing CO2 (not embedding it into concrete, which can not be easily recovered.)
There is really no end in sight, the earth is huge, but that does not mean we should not conserve what we are harvesting by recycling it, and there is huge pushback by environmentalists for the first step in recycling CO2, through escrow. Recycling needs to be done, to create the aggregate sources through CO2 escrow, which can be harvested on a massive scale for the next step: production of new goods like plastics, vinyl, clothing, carpets, synthetic rubber, 3D printing filament, etc.
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@schumanhuman - “population… not a major factor”
More people needing to live in a house than housing that exists most certainly creates a major factor in prices.
“why doesn’t supply rise to meet demand”
The governments must issue permits.
“US has plenty of land and lots of skyline to fill?”
The governments must issue permits.
“Land prices… monopoly price determines by taxes and bank credit”
As long as people are willing to buy the land at a higher price, the taxes go up since the value goes up.
There are land prices by Detroit are cheap, as miles upon miles of land area was abandoned, and that land is cheap… but there are no jobs. There are also no government services, because the land is cheap & taxes so low.
There must be job opportunities in an area, before people can settle there.
If there are no job opportunities, then there must be a degree of wealth independence, in order for it to be like an extended vacation/retirement.
“If migration is lowered”
Or if housing permits are increased, this would solve the problems
“developers always seek to maximize profits”
As do all families, in order to save for a rainy day.
“views on immigration”
It is simple:
1. Government permit more housing
2. Government limits immigration
Either way, the government has control, they have to do something about it.
“not the key to affordable housing”
Affordable housing is a longer term problem.
Right now, we are just talking about the general inflation in & out of the housing market, caused by some dumb, really dumb, politicians… who wanted to get rich at the expense of the poor & middle class.
This is not rocket science.
There are idiots who think they can increase population faster than what they are permit houses to be built.
Those same idiots think they can do it for 2 years.
Clearly they knew the consequences,
which is why wealthy investors, supporting the idiots politically, were snapping up land everywhere.
I have no sympathy for the Lords who want to own the land and make the serfs suffer with super high rent.
They cause the inflation in the US, now they need to suffer a little, like the rest of the poor & middle class
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@katrinoy1 - “Taiwan’s unification”
That would be great, if the CCP dissolved, and Taiwan took over the dictatorial oligarchy in control of China today!
“same ethnicity”
Much of the East of China, nearby the Korean border, are actually ethnic Koreans.
The CCP is generally controlled by the Han Chinese, exterminating other ethnicities in China.
The Red Communist revolution, with their genocidal “great leap forward” to kill civilians they did not want, did not kill off all of the non-Han Chinese.
There is plenty of Han Chinese exterminations occurring, today.
Taiwan has other ethnicities on their island.
“same language”
The first action of the CCP was to change the language of the mainland Chinese.
Subtle changes in the language were instituted, to facilitate the brainwashing of the Chinese, at the hands of the genocidal Han controlled CCP… like the removal of Heart from the character for Love — the CCP’s Chinese version of Love is Heartless
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Hi @katrinoy1 -
“Do you forget the Vietnam War?”
Not at all. There was a peace agreement that was won by the US, during the Nixon Administration.
During the next Ford Administration, the lying North Vietnamese started invading the South again, and a liberal US Democrat controlled congress decided they would not pass a spending bill to send air support to the South… South Vietnam fell to the invaders, the US took unbelievable quantities of refugees, there was genocide which took place in the South at the hands of the merciless Communists (as what typically happens with Communist invasions & revolutions.)
Now a days, the survivors of the CCP’s involvement in Vietnam suffer at China’s hands.
Vietnamese women are taken as breeding stock for Chinese men, since the Communists facilitated the killing of their own Chinese women for decades under the inhumane 1 child policy.
Vietnamese men are lured to work in Chinese factories, but they have to pay multiple middlemen months of wages up front to work & have their passports taken as they work as indentured servants to their Chinese overlords.
Vietnamese fishing boats, who sail in their own international waters, are attacked by Chinese boats, Vietnamese boats are sunk, Vietnamese fishermen are killed.
“Taiwan will face the same fate”
Unfortunately for the Communists, people have figured that out. If people of Taiwan look at the evil China has committed against Vietnam, they will be less likely to go quietly.
“Taiwan will be reborn as a great CCP…”
Breeding stock & Slave population for the Communists, because they have so mismanaged their mainland, and must find more victims for their meat grinder.
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@gigabyte2248 - “Battery recycling generally involves…”
- discharged Li-ion batteries🪫 are not safe
- discharged Li-Ion still combust 🔥 on pierce
- Lithium fires 🔥 occur at recycling plants
- Toxic fumes result from lithium fires 🔥
- not 100% of toxic recycled Li-Ion batteries 🪫 are recycled, leaving what remains to poison the environment (same issue with solar)
“mining fossil fuels”
Mining carbon fuels merely re-expose carbon that was formerly in the biosphere, back into it, where it is naturally recycled ♻️ by the carbon cycle.
“Scrutinize”
Poking a hole 🕳️ and slurping up carbon fuels, which will just leak into the biosphere at some point, anyway, is a huge benefit since leaking methane is less of a warming agent than CO2, and the normal carbon cycle will recycle ♻️ it as plant 🌱 food.
Also, some carbon fuel is abiotic, from radioactive decay, and harvested methane for combustion is better for the environment than leaked methane.
“Oil wells”
They are not going away, since wind 💨 & solar ☀️ don’t produce plastics, flooring, roof shingling, vinyl siding, asphalt roads, etc.
“Comfortably ahead”
Battery 🔋 electric ⚡️ vehicles 🚗, consuming energy in West Virginia, produce more carbon than gasoline ⛽️ hybrid vehicles (not even taking into consideration the carbon & energy in recycling batteries!) Just thinks about the results in the 3rd world!
This being said, H2 seems to be the cleanest alternative, since H2O exists nearly everywhere, salt water 💦 is a ready electrolyte, and consumption of H2 is naturally recycled ♻️ in the water cycle.
Of every possible option, batteries 🪫 are the worst, poisoning the water & land & air
Carbon based fuel ⛽️ is recycled ♻️ naturally, as plant 🌱 food, which our food 🍱 eats
H2, produced by wind 💨 energy cracking salt water 💦, appears to be the least risky to the environment, taking the least amount of energy to recycle ♻️ things.
Humans don’t recycle ♻️ well, except for lead acid batteries 🔋, and lead acid batteries🔋 are too heavy for 100% electric vehicles, besides golf cart sized vehicles 🚗
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@karlmiller5009 - yes, agreed.
The hydrocarbons will never go away, we will only be forced to recycle carbon, better.
Today, CO2 in the atmosphere is the greatest universal reservoir for carbon, to be used.
Every plant creates sugar from water & CO2, plants eat sugar, animals eat plants for sugar.
We synthetically produce hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2, it is just a high cost. Once catalysts are commoditized, hydrocarbon drilling & mining will no longer be required, anyone can get it anywhere.
Migrating the economy now, from hydrocarbons, just delays the inevitable, of nearly freely available / decentralized energy carriers and decentralized manufacturing.
Printing fabrics & food are an amazing future.
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@user-jt3dw6vv4x - “so all…”
No, refugees & immigrants.
Few refugees are Christians, now a days— The West typically does not rescue them.
Many students are from Syria, Iraq, Egypt.
They have a variety of religious backgrounds.
In their countries, people who do wicked behavior are thrown from buildings & stoned. These are not Christian commandments.
You should be more aware of immigrant cultures and less bigoted against Western faith traditions which built Western Civilization (but now requires refugees & immigrants to survive.)
They will grow up in The West, bring an alternative less wicked culture with them, and bring some other aspects which the modern West no longer considers acceptable.
But that is ok, because the modern west is killing themselves through their own wicked behavior, and fewer will exist in the next generation, except proselytizing (like the Christians before them.)
Ironically, The East is more appealing to refugees & immigrants, in many ways, because The West alienates them through destructive wicked behavior.
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@MostlyPennyCat - ‘ types we would generally refer to as “Conservative” ‘
Conservatives, as their type presupposes, “conserve” things.
A 100% recyclable solution, like h2, o2, h20 being moved between the various molecular form, is very clean, and something conservatives are very interested in!
Other so called “clean” energy solutions are less than recyclable, far more dirty, and conservatives don’t feel they adequately conserve the environment.
(One of the reasons hydrocarbons are so nice is that they are naturally recyclable, consumption creates plant 🌱 food… and some hydrocarbon production is abiotic, meaning they would just seep into the biosphere, if not harvested & consumed.)
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@ticthak - “what happens when lithium chemistry gets replaced”
Same thing that happened when NiCd & NiMH got replaced… people throw out everything, when junk still works, because they can’t find the replacement batteries 🪫
I train young people to bring their battery 🪫 packs back to Home Depot to recycle ♻️, but there is nowhere to bring spent 2nd life EV battery 🪫 packs… so, they will likely get used in second hand installations until they spontaneously combust & spread lithium contaminants everywhere to further increase cases of autism.
“MANY millions of batteries each year”
Yep 👍🏼 and close to 95% of lithium batteries world wide are not recycled ♻️ and continuing to poison ☠️ the environment.
“THIS solution… has nothing to do with idiots moving their car into their house”
People have attached indoor garages, all over the world.
But the problem is real with these second hand used EV batteries 🪫… shipping containers of batteries 🪫 only needs one bad actor cell to spontaneously combust fire 🔥 and the battery🪫 modules all go up in smoke, reducing the need to properly dispose & recycle ♻️ them, poisoning ☠️ the surrounding region with lithium contaminants, and increasing autism rates among the young.
“Dendrite growth is possible to minimize”
But some guy 👦 who has their car sitting outdoors in Canada 🍁 in the winter ❄️ will have more dendrites than the girl 👧 who drives her car in Arizona, and that one reused Canadian ♻️ battery 🪫 may take out a shipping container of perfectly good 2nd life batteries 🪫 from Arizona.
Hopefully, new chemistries will be much safer, but radically expanding the usage of Li-Ion is not the best plan, from an environmental or safety perspective.
I’ve had lead acid vent, NiMH catch fire, Lithium expand & vent. Over the past 7 years, I had to replace Li-Ion batteries 🪫 3x on 2 laptops, before they vented or spontaneously combusted.
Most people don’t know what they are signing up for, with lithium batteries 🔋— great technology for light weight needs, particularly for small needs, a little dangerous for massive groups of significant cells since one bad actor can make a big disaster.
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@JohnR31415 - “you’re talking about cheap small batteries”
At least they can be recycled ♻️
“Not larger batteries with a decent BMS built in”
My 8.6 KWh batteries 🔋 that I recycled from Ford Mach-E’s did not come with a BMS, and there will not be a place to recycle ♻️ them at end of use, once I bought them.
I purchased my 4th one now, they are pretty decent sized modules, without a BMS.
“less likely to catch fire”
A lithium battery 🪫 can catch fire 🔥, all by itself, without an ignition source, even without oxygen with piercing the shell… pierce the shell and Li-Ion gives a nice reaction! 🔥
A tank of gas or petrol will not catch fire 🔥, all by itself, without an ignition source, after denting a tank, even with piercing the tank & exposing to extra oxygen.
“Can’t cope with being on the wrong side of history”
Maybe I should not be on the wrong side of history, recycling EV batteries 🪫 for second use… but recycling EV batteries 🪫 for second use makes me keenly aware of the risks & rewards of the various chemistry.
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“Why is corn used when there are better options?”
Corn is also used for cereals like corn flakes, feed for animals like cattle, basic long term stored foods like canned corn, flour to make breads for people who are gluten intolerant, etc.
When farm equipment & land can be used to create food or energy, it becomes a buffer where a single growing season can be applied to positively energy energy production, for example if a war breaks out (ie Russia invading Ukraine, Iraq invading Kuwait, oil embargo of 1970’s, etc.)
Extremely high density liquid energy carriers like alcohol based fuel can be domestically harvested to keep economies of scale operating during difficult times. This is partially a national security issue.
Renewable Wind & Solar energy, which is not easily stored & transported, should be applied to make alcohol based fuels, to create a naturally Recyclable energy solution. Batteries are created from strip mining of Africa, will be buried in waste landfills of the US, heavy metals will leech & poison the water systems, while alcohol is created by domestic land use, and those strip mines will deplete elements quickly, while CO2 in the atmosphere will be recycled to make new soil base from plant roots.
Would switch grass be better?
Sure, but then the question is, can existing farm equipment be used? Can switch grass harvesting equipment be “dual use” for which food stocks? How long will that farm equipment be usable if it remains idle, while switching to a good stock?
Corn is a lot like Oil, it is domestic, it is flexible.
We can not replace oil with ethanol, not enough land to replace all oil consumed, but it is a carrier to make portable high density energy, that does not result in raping the third world, destroying their environment, making us less dependent upon the racist destruction of Africa, destroy our environment by poisoning our land and water in later years, etc.
There is additional value of ethanol in making more portable energy, with fewer very long term consequences & 100% natural recycling which is not dependent upon additional energy & human consumption to perform the recycling.
Ethanol is not a panacea, but it is not as ridiculous as the author of this video suggests through his unprofessional mocking and not reviewing the other clear benefits.
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@maritaschweizer1117 - “for America it is better to have 30 small countries to negotiate with”
No, this is actually more difficult, having to maintain separate treaties & rules for every nation.
In some ways, the EU’s bureaucracy does make it more difficult for other nations to create arrangements with them… multi-hundred or multi-thousand page documents to comply with, on a national level, for foreign nations.
The EU bureaucracy kept the UK from negotiating simple arrangements with their former Common Wealth nations… and US. The UK making arrangements with peer nations, where government structures are historically similar, can simplify things.
The UK, with emancipation of the Common Wealth, created stable peer nations. Those stable peer nations were Balkanized when the UK joined the EU.
Many European nations did not have such durable & substantial international relationships post WW2.
Had the UK & EU been able to negotiate special conditions where nations could form agreements with former & historic associated states, it could have benefitted the entire EU.
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@delvon86 - “Europeans who took Palestine”
Europeans created Palestine by committed genocide of Jews in 70 A.D. The Muslims allowed Jews to return. There had been Jews in diaspora for over 1000 years, and once the Jews living there got a state, they could invite their long lost family members back.
LOL!!!
The Arabs took Palestine, when Palestinians refused to stand up a state and Palestinians hosted Fascist WW2 loser allies of Hitler from the Balkans as fighters, paid for by the surrounding Arab Nations, to keep Israel from standing up… and then Jordan annexed The West Bank while Egypt annexed Gaza!!!
ROTFL!!!
It is time for people to leave their racist ideologies behind, Palestine to cease being belligerent to Israel (ending military hostilities to a recognized UN state is a pre-requisite to being formally recognized according to the UN charter), and decide to stand up their own state.
It is up to Palestine, not anyone else.
The only reason it has not happened is because of corruption in the Palestinian warlords, who want their cut of the war money, at the hands of dead Palestinian children. It is a shame.
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Animals eating grass, which is grown from CO2 taken from the air, requires no factories, and is a 100% organic & recyclable process.
Animals walking around means they don’t have to be transported by trains, planes, or automobiles. It is a 100% organic process to move them.
Animals staying alive, by living in a field, keeps the meat fresh until it is needed. There is no refrigerator needed, nor energy to keep it cool. It is a 100% organic process to keep the meat supply.
I am very skeptical that less human harvested energy is consumed in manufactured meat than organically existing & walking around meat. The cost of land for animals to live on is artificial, due to taxation by governments, much the same way the cost of transportation into a city is artificial, due to taxation by governments.
In effect, governments produce the problems where living things are seen as a problem, and not a benefit or solution.
At the core is heartlessness — humans are trained to not want to interact with living things, except in limited ways, which sterilize them into such a way where our lives resemble a shallow movie plot & not real life. It is a pale existence, resembling more of 2D image rather than the real 3D existence.
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Hi @bzuidgeest -
“recycling a combustion engine”
We have not even talked about the recycling of electric motors! ROTFL!
The batteries are the equivalent of recycling a gasoline/diesel tank, much easier to recycle a gas tank, and a gas tank lasts the life of a car, while an EV battery does not last the life of a car.
“life of a car these days? 10 years?”
I wrecked my last car at 19 years,
virtually no maintenance except tires & oil… it’s replacement is now on 6 years. I was getting 30+ MPG (city & highway for our usage.) Over 200k.
My wife’s car is a 2001, now going on 22 years… tires, oil, and a radiator. Once again, 4 door sedan, 30+ MPG (city & highway for our usage.) Over 200k.
“Battery will last the life of the car”
Nope. The battery costs about the price of my last car… I bought a used car, 1 year old, $15k, to replace my 19 year old wrecked vehicle, 4 door sedan, leather interior, automatic everything, from an expensive dealer… ROTFL!
An average Tesla battery costs $13k-$14k
Basically, throw out the vehicle when the battery gets old. Maybe you are right, the battery lasts the life of the car, because we’ll throw out the car when the battery dies with it’s 100k warranty.
The EV batteries suffer calendar aging, as well as usage aging, aging from being charged in cold weather, and [self-combusting] shorts can develop from charging in freezing temperatures.
Batteries must be respected.
All energy is dirty & dangerous.
(Stick a bunch of keys in your front pocket & place a 9v battery in your pocket with the connectors facing down… or swallow a button cell… even the smallest batteries with the least power can be lethally dangerous.)
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Hi @bzuidgeest -
“old cars… atmosphere”
Emissions are a problem for EV’s, as well.
The emissions required to produce an EV battery is immense. Mining rare earths in Africa or South America or Australia, transport across an ocean for battery manufacturing, manufacturing of the battery itself is incredibly energy intensive, shipping to EV manufacturing location… one may drive an EV for 40k until an EV just breaks even, compared to a regular car, as far as emissions difference. Then, the electricity is largely produced by burning various carbon fuels, since people are often charging their cars at home, after they get home at night, when solar panels are not producing electricity. If someone lives in a U.S. state like West Virginia… an EV will actually produce more emissions than a hybrid car will, since the electricity is so dirty! LOL!
“most cars are wrecked earlier”
If an EV is wrecked earlier, then the emissions produced in manufacturing an EV may never be recovered, in comparison to an ICE vehicle.
“dangers… battery… gasoline”
Yep… As I said, all energy is dangerous & dirty. This stuff has been bubbling out of the ground, for as long as written history existed, from the days of Noah sealing the ark.
“defend driving ICE cars”
The amount of energy stored in an tank is far superior to the amount of energy stored in a battery. The energy transmission / transportation requirements are independent of electric lines, offering redundancy in case of a down power line, storms, or war… offering people a way to survive if there is a failure. I have lived long enough & in enough places to appreciate diversity in energy infrastructure. A passive gas fireplace still heats a home when power is out. An ICE engine in my car, with an inverter, can power half my house with a power outage. A power outage does not bother me, for a week or so, when I can drive my car[s], with the energy stored up. Evacuating a peninsula or coastal area during a hurricane with an ICE vehicle is far more realistic than with an EV.
H2 from renewables, like wind & hydro, is a better solution. Provides energy diversity, that carbon based fuels have. H2 fixes the problem with non-portable electrical energy, to become portable. H2 derived from water, which is readily available in all inhabitable areas. H2 emissions are less than tradition carbon based fuels. H2 is done today. H2 can be used in both ICE & Fuel Cell, to reduce barriers to entry & constraints in supply chain (to force competition to drive down costs & offer consumers alternatives when a constraint appears.)
“to be”come relics, just like the people driving them”
Honestly, EV is a nice idea for many use cases, just poor thinking as a “one size fits all” use case. Maybe a nice spare car, for a rich family for commuting, who has an ICE vehicle for longer trips… but EV’s are a poor choice for a poor family in an apartment where they will be left to die in a catastrophic weather event, or where they will need to use fast charging stations, where fast charge electricity costs as much as cheap gas, and the cost of vehicle replacement is exorbitant for a low budget.
Honestly, compelled EV is just another way for the bourgeoisie to create a serf class, binding the poor to the local land, so they have their slave class to do the local work, and the workers have no method of emancipation. An expensive [ev] car is basically no car, for the poor.
We need to emancipate people, with clean & widely available & robust energy sources for transportation… not constrain people.
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Hi @bzuidgeest -
“ice car overtakes ev in pollution once in use”
Unless you are using hybrids or plug in hybrids and your electricity is produced using coal or oil… which is most of the world and even large areas of the first world. Electricity made with natural gas is a lot better (but much of the third world has already transitioned mobile transportation to natural gas, as well as first world cities like mine.)
Studies evaluating pollution [you didn’t cite] normally don’t even take into consideration the energy / pollution required to recycle EV batteries.
“Mandating EV… not allowing murder”
This is a false analogy, a logical fallacy. Pricing people out of the personal mobility is not like telling people to not murder.
Since the advent of ICE engines, life expectancies rose & slavery was able to be abolished, since ICE engines made slavery uneconomical.
“Being backwards again”
Yeah… I’ll go back to my solar panels & lithium ion batteries, while hoping for a sustainable mobile solution, and enjoy emancipation of slaves. Pretty backwards, for the progressives I suppose.
Legally mandating the poor to become relatively immobile, by forcing an expensive & unsustainable mobility solution like EV, is immoral, both economically, societally, and environmentally.
You can go back to the slaving world, without ICE engines, or an appropriately widely available sustainable replacement.
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@Dirt-Diggler - “a normal generator would be cheaper to run?”
Depends on the vehicle.
For your van, maybe not.
For a subcompact? Hybrid which turns itself on/off? Plug-in hybrid? (Plug-in hybrid is the perfect use case for such a system.)
Also, many benefits, may not apply universally:
- generator is very loud, ICE car is quiet
- generator & ICE car both need maintenance (better to maintain & test just one ICE, ICE car is likely to get more use/maintenance than a generator)
- in an emergency, an ICE car may have better maintenance previously executed than a generator (filters, oil, gasoline, etc.)
- Large generator less efficient than sub-compact ICE car engine (sure, smaller & more expensive generators may improve efficiency, larger ICE may be less efficient & more expensive.)
- large generators have more emissions than sub-compact ICE car (a lot of effort goes into emissions on ICE cars.)
- ICE components of generator are redundant to car
- generator requires constant refueling (x hours), while car ICE tank is huge (x days)
- larger generator requires separate storage or hauling around, vs ICE car which already has storage area & likely with you when you need it
- separate generators with fuel are likely heavier than inverters for a ICE car, making handling easier for older people
- generator fuel requires changing or stabilizer once too old, ICE car fuel is more likely regularly used and does not run into this problem
- 3000w generator ~$600-$900 US$ without external Bluetooth performance metrics to phone vs cost of a 3000w / 6000w peak inverter for a car is less than $300 US$, with Bluetooth performance metrics to phone… full sine wave inverter is a little more
The benefits of having an inverter with your ICE car means all kinds of things can be safely run, without having a pickup truck for the generator or a trailer hauling around a generator, not to mention canisters of gasoline… like using sound equipment at a site, run a bounce house, outdoor lighting while at a camp site, projectors for camp songs with youth (try singing over a generator), refrigerators for medications while camping for younger & older people in remote areas, running popcorn makers for groups during outdoor camping events is a bonus!!! … the benefit of running your house, or an elderly friend’s home who is having an outage when they have serious needs like oxygen generators, in a pinch, is always a nice benefit!
“Alternator”
Yes, my car has a big alternator, I can run half my house, but it can not run my whole house Air Conditioning compressor load.
If it is something I would need to do often, I would add a separate parallel 12v battery, sit that battery next to my inverter, with a trickle charger on it… so I could just add my ICE car to it whenever needed (ie US East Coast during hurricane season.)
“Van… efficient”
For a larger vehicle, the efficiency may not be a great deal… but for once a year events, I think it may be worth it for some people, even with larger vehicles.
“Small car if you can’t fit the inverter inside”
Can’t fit under front hood. Can fit in rear trunk.
Depends on how much power you need to pull… to run my whole house heat & whole house fan, with 2 full refrigerators/freezers, I need a lot of power… and I like to go to sleep at night during a power outage. There is not enough room under the hood of my car, which would be close to the battery & alternator.
I would need to have significant 2 AWG cable from my battery to my trunk & the inverter makes some heat when under load… if I need to leave the car idling for days, the trunk should be closed, to avoid impacts from condensation or rain. I prefer to have airflow around the inverter for long uses, so long term use in the rear trunk is not a great idea.
“Better to run A/C on a longer lead than D/C”
It is cheaper & parts more accessible for me, to use 6’ 2 AWG cables from battery to the garage vs 12’ cables from the battery to the trunk… the A/C lead, as you said, is better & extends nicely!
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