Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "Is There Really a Climate Emergency? | 5 Minute Video" video.

I am big on green energy, because I cannot afford $5 a gallon gasoline, the power grid where I live is very unreliable (the longest I have gone without an interruption in the 15 years I have lived here was 6 weeks), and the more energy I can produce myself the less money I have to spend on it. Energy is my biggest expense, and when you're on a fixed income like I am, not having to spend as much money on energy makes a huge difference. So I am not big on fossil fuels, yet I see this climate change alarmism for what it is. Its fear mongering to get us all to accept the marxist system being pushed by these people. They want to be in control of us, and marxism does that. Its puts the inept, capricious, and ruthless in control, allowing them to become wealthy at the expense of everyone else. In other words, it does what it claims to fight against... The more you learn about history and the effects of marxism in all its various forms, the more you will realize everything negative they accuse others of, is what they are doing themselves.
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Al Gore said by 2012 there would be no snow in north America.. the 150 to 300 inches of snow we get here in Michigan's upper peninsula proves not only was he full of shit, but he was horribly optimistic and massively inaccurate. Its funny how the same people who claim correlation is not causation will see the correlation of CO2 and temp, and assume the CO2 is causing the rise in temp. They tried to erase all the information on the medieval warming period F. Puttroff referred to, which is the time Greenland had vineyards, which will not grow there now. All the predictions they make are incorrect, not just in what will happen, but the effect they postulate as well. I am not big on fossil fuels, I like to run my vehicles on tree sap vodka, aka ethanol, as its cheap to make, produces more power, burns clean, and runs cooler. All the claimed negative effects like destroying engines and fuel system parts have not happened to my vehicles in the last 15 years of running E85 nor the E100 I produce. Got started making ethanol in 2007 when gasoline was $5 a gallon here. I can produce my electricity too, but that is because the grid here is very unreliable. So I am not on the kill more dinosaurs bandwagon, but I do not see the drastic changes they are claiming. I see it for what it is, alarmism, trying to make us afraid so we will accept their marxist system where they profit off our labor, as we live in poverty.
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@craxd1 exactly right, but wait there's more! William Randolph Hearst did the same thing with cannabis, in an effort to get hemp removed as his competition for paper, and the same lies, tactics, and misinformation were used in hemp prohibition as is used in keeping people from running ethanol. Tobacco used the same tactics and lawyers as gasoline producers.. telling people its good for them despite the fact it causes cancer and other deadly issues. Propaganda and misinformation has been used extensively, and includes the horribly skewed and massively flawed Pimental 'study' that shows ethanol as being negative on EROEI (energy return on energy invested for the new to this people), and the constant claims that ethanol degrades or destroys fuel systems and engines, which it does not. It is blamed for any problem, much like shark attack and car accident victims dying of charlie one niner. Know why we use corn to make ethanol? Its easy to grow, we produce billions of tons of it, easy to transport and store, and humans do not actually eat that corn. We can feed all the livestock a better feed if we use the corn to make ethanol first. DDG (distillers dried grains) is a superior livestock feed as the fermentation process removes the part of the kernel that animals can't digest or have a difficult time digesting, leaving the best parts to eat. Humans can eat DDG as well. We can make fuel from any starch or sugar. Cattails dwarf corn for gallon yield per acre, plus they remediate water (cleaning it) which makes them grow profusely and much larger.. so your water filter can produce 2x to 10x the amount of fuel corn does. Stale bread, candy waste, cardboard, paper, coffee grounds, spoiled produce like potatoes... can all be used to produce fuel. I have a friend who uses cardboard and waste paper to make fuel for his farm trucks. He owns a cranberry farm, and could use the berries but the juice is vastly more valuable than the ethanol. The one thing where negative ethanol info is true is with fuel mileage.. but its not for the reasons claimed, e.g. BTU content. The British Thermal Unit merely measures how long it takes a given fuel to heat one pound of water one degree. Internal combustion engines are not for heating water, they for are producing torque to do work. If we were steam powered, then yeah ethanol is not as good as coal, candle wax, or firewood. There is a lot more to it than how well a fuel heats water. You lose mileage for two reasons, the first is ethanol has more oxygen in it than gasoline does, so you have to add fuel to get it rich enough because it compounds as you add it. That extra O2 produces more power though, which is why ethanol is not allowed in some racing classes. The other reason is the fuel is not being 'worked hard enough' due to gasoline requiring low compression ratios. Gasoline likes to ignite with heat and pressure, or a glowing piece of carbon stuck to the combustion chamber surface, and if it goes off too soon, it breaks engine parts. Raise the compression by shoving a larger volume into a smaller space and you get more torque from the same amount of fuel. As it happens, ethanol does not like to ignite unless it has a spark, so you can really crank up the compression to race car levels and drive it around like a normal vehicle. That means you can run very high compression ratios, the fuel has more O2 in it, and both of those mean more power. More power in the low and mid RPM range will yield better mileage, because you are working the fuel harder and it has more oxygen. Not to mention how ethanol cools the intake charge drastically, far better than gasoline can, and a cooler denser intake charge will make more power. Supercharged and turbocharged engines respond VERY well to ethanol fuel. Lets say we take a small engine, like the GM 3800 V6, give it 16:1 compression, and add the supercharger, running it on straight denatured ethanol. On gasoline it will break the first or second time you go WOT, (wide open throttle) but on ethanol that engine will not only live and make a lot more power than the gasoline version, it will get better mileage as well as last longer than a gasoline fueled engine. How does it last longer? Well, ethanol does not leave black carbon deposits in the engine, it burns clean and an engine that runs on ethanol, or hydrogen its entire life, will have zero carbon built up in it. The oil does not come out black on ethanol. All that carbon acts like sandpaper inside an engine, wearing bearing surfaces and fouling the oil. In Brazil the taxis run on 100%hydrous ethanol, and at 500k miles they have zero noticeable wear in the engine, after a million miles there is barely any wear. There are so many things we can do to improve efficiency with ethanol that are simply not feasible or possible with gasoline. Heating the fuel in the EFI rails so it vaporizes instantly when it hits the vacuum of the intake port is one option that increases mileage considerably. Now imagine all the medians and ditches along highways in the USA are landscaped to support cattails and easy harvest of them. Corn does 500 gallons of fuel per acre if its irrigated and has a good year. Cattails do 1000 gallons per acre easily, many more if raw sewage is passed through them with waste water. We could have the roads producing our fuel, the cattails soak up CO2 emitted by the vehicles which are powered by high compression lightweight engines that do not require as much cooling capacity. The engines have a lot more power, and last a long time while using less fuel than a gasoline engine making the same power would. No need to transport fuel with pipelines or trucks/trains, because you can produce it where you use it. Oil is only found in certain places, then you need to refine it, so you need to move it where you are using it but aren't producing it. You can make ethanol anywhere on earth. The higher the altitude the easier it is to distil it. Ethanol doesn't have to fit the oil infrastructure or distribution method, the paradigm if you will. You can produce it locally with ease, even if you can't grow corn, because there are other things to make it.. like Kudzu, an invasive species in the south that is smothering trees, grows a foot per day with only sunlight, and its very difficult to kill. We might as well go cut it off the trees and make fuel with it. The problem is, the 'wrong people' will make money from ethanol, and there is no planned obsolescence if the engine in your vehicle lasts longer than you do. Anyone can produce ethanol with minimal equipment. That gives you personal independence, because you don't have to rely on the oil supply, the market price which can be manipulated, and would be easy to produce even in the zombie apocalypse. I am not a tree hugger, I am a gearhead/drag racer, I want to go fast. Ethanol lets me go fast for cheap, and all my parts and stuff last longer on it. 15 years and counting with zero issues on a 1970 GTO with its original tank, 12 years on a 98 Formula Firebird and its EFI 300hp 5.7L V8. Four years in the 1965 GTO with a frame off rebuild that was completed in 2016. I run it in other vehicles as well, and next year every vehicle I own will run on home made vodka... because lets go Brandon.
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@craxd1 want to hear my darker side of why they want us to go electric? People who live in a city are dependent upon the system to bring them everything they need to live, they cannot produce anything themselves, all they can do is busy work and then buy what they need after it is delivered to the city. Electric cars are expensive, and will remain so, because copper, lithium, and cobalt are finite resources that need to be mined and that is expensive. Its not produced locally... so it has transportation costs factored in. You can't travel far with an electric, unless it costs as much as a Ferrari. The cost alone will keep most people from buying one. So living in BFE like I do will not be feasible as the bus only runs twice a day, requiring an overnight stay to go shopping in town... so you have to produce everything you need at home. Hard to grow oranges near Lake Superior. Then you have longer recharge times, corrosion problems which cause fires.. not fires like we have with liquid fuels or biomass, but like the arc of a welder. Not much left of you after a PEV fire. We have had three in the last two years in my area, all passengers died. So only the wealthy will have vehicles again. The poor will be kept poor and live in cities where they are dependent. If you step out of line and dissent, they shut off your power, food, and water. Thus making you chattel, a slave to them, because you cannot survive without what they provide to you. Whereas ethanol empowers you, gives you the ability to travel at will, that is freedom and independence. Its hard to control someone who can produce all their food, fuel, and electrical power. The only way to do it is either by force, with threats of bodily harm, or via fear such as pandemics, catastrophe, wrath of god, etc. Maple trees have between 2% and 5% sugar in the sap, you can increase that to 10% for bakers yeast, or 20% for turbo yeast, by pulling ice out of it when it freezes overnight. Once you have enough sugar in it, you can add the yeast and ferment it. If you are only using it for fuel, not party time or disinfectant/antiseptic, you can distil ethanol with a PVC column, making it very easy to build. The boiler can be made from metal, but as long as you can connect the boiler to the column without the high boiler heat reaching the column, only the 173D-212F which is in the range of PVC, it will work. You can run a plate column or a packed one. With a 6" still only your boiler capacity is limiting you. Since I will be using tree sap, I will do the fermentation in the square 250 gallon tanks with cages around them, got a bunch of them cheap. The boiler can be any metal, because I won't be reusing anything from the previous run. Old fuel oil tanks that are everywhere around here will be my boilers. It also limits my need for more fresh water, the sap is its own medium. I built a 35 gallon fermenter/boiler with a roll of copper flashing, you could get two that size from a single roll. Also built a pair of 2" packed reflux columns out of copper tubing. I did that for test runs, and to distil water for various uses. For heat, I am going to produce and compress methane into propane tanks, and use a turkey fryer to heat the mash. Been using firewood, but I would rather cook with the wood as it tastes great. You can also go electric with water heater elements and an industrial dimmer switch. Far less fire hazard that way, and you can use old water heaters around the boiler as a heating jacket. I have collected two years worth of coffee grounds, I like to drink coffee, and am going to convert that with amylase and ferment it as a test run. See what kind of yield I can get with various yeasts and how much coffee. I will probably make a video series of that, and how to build a small still with hardware supplies. The last 8 years I have been rebuilding my life after a divorce, that meant my house, a shop, vehicles, and storage space all had to be built. With the events since last November, I am getting the fuel project going in earnest again. I will do videos on production, vehicle conversion, and how to improve efficiency along with adding more power. I figure my 76 C10 can be the ethanol mule now, the 70 GTO was for a long time, and the 65 GTO has been for the last 4 years. The C10 is getting a 6.0L LS based V8, because the fuel system I will be using lends itself well to heating the fuel before it goes in the fails and out the injector. Might do a Pontiac powered Firebird and Opel GT test mule as well. They have better aero than the 65 GTO and any truck. I have some videos on this already, mostly short ones because I have been busy all summer. Things slow down in winter and I have more time to make video, and once the sap starts running next spring its going to get crazy around here. I want to make 1000 gallons of fuel next year... and show people how to do it.
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With any program or system, if you put shit in, you will get shit out. If your inputs are flawed, your output will be as well. Thus you can make your output appear to say whatever you want it to say with a computer model, because there are lots of guesstimations, assertions, and wild ass guesses with something so complex.
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