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In rural TX, people have switched from hating "damned Yankees " to hating "damned Californians" who "ruined their own state, ran away, and are now trying to ruin our Great State".

Every time our neighbors go to La Grange or Brenham they come back with stories about annoying man-bun wearing electric car drivers...

Bd6r says

In rural TX, people have switched from hating "damned Yankees " to hating "damned Californians" who "ruined their own state, ran away, and are now trying to ruin our Great State".

Every time our neighbors go to La Grange or Brenham they come back with stories about annoying man-bun wearing electric car drivers...

That's why I left TX. The level of Californication got too much for me to stand - Austin & surroundings in particular.

stereotomy says

Austin & surroundings in particular

Austin has become completely insufferable aka California East with a crappy climate, and California disease is now spreading into neighboring counties (Hays etc). We should build a wall around Austin limits and let them stew inside. Further away, even in Fayette or Washington counties which are popular with transplants the level of Californication is still low.

TX Governor has made mistake with tunnel vision of economic development at any cost without considering other things (Californians) that come with it.

Hindooo terror groups in west spreading hatred against Sikhs.
Genocide 2.0 preparations in full swing.

https://twitter.com/HinduHate/status/1519256374592425984
Bhindranwale billboard was seen in Melbourne, Aus. Amar Singh of Turban 4 Australia, a Khalistani group, was awarded Citizen of the Year, Federal MP Alex Hawke tweeted in support of Khalistanis. GOI should make this an issue before any FTA's are signed.
@DrSJaishankar
@MEAIndia

DooDahMan says

Today’s corporate dictators are like no others, with unparalleled wealth towering over that held by Rockefeller and Carnegie (adjusted for inflation).

Not even close. Rockefeller's wealth was as high a 2% of the US economy. By the way, you left out JP Morgan, who was rich enough to bail out the Federal debt.

If they can defame a prominent volunteer, They can defame any Sikh.
Hiondooo cult is out of control.

Sikhs has been living in west for 100s of years without trouble and as soon as these cow piss drinkers & dick worshipers arrived the trouble has started.
Massive deportation is needed.

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/sikh-volunteer-amar-singh-honoured-with-citizen-of-the-year-award
Sikh volunteer Amar Singh honoured with Citizen of the Year award

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Homes in Virginia are surprisingly reasonably priced.

I loved it there. If I was to leave Florida I would move back to Linden, VA and on Blue Mountain. There is Linden Vineyards and other vineyards nearby, the Appalachian Trail and Winchester has a lot going for it like a lot of sports and cultural events at Shenandoah University. In no traffic, downtown DC is only about 60 minutes away.

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This is one of the least efficient forms of energy storage if I remember correctly. Round trip sucks on it due to air pumping thermodynamics.

Also, we think it’s a great idea to super pressurize the ground beneath us and not worry about bad things happening?

Bd6r says

Austin has become completely insufferable aka California East with a crappy climate,

It's been that way for a while. My first visit was about 2005 for work. Went 3 times a year for about 5-7 years for conferences. It's Nashville south which I've been to just as much.

Both try the hipster vibe, but it's all large companies that own all these "hipster" bars. You gotta get off the main strips in those two cities specifically. Vegas owns selling its soul to big corps. Nashville and Austin try to hide it. They are very similar cities outside of Nashville having NFL and an NHL franchise there. Austin would be better in the winter though. Moot point though, done with cities beside using their airports.

yep left wing propaganda. its sad, left gets really brainwashed by things easily proven false, but ignores reality.

murders happen in every country, they happened before guns even existed and will continue after. while left will circle jerk to onion articles thinking gun control will make murder disappear.

Get some other nations set up with divisions of the FBI and they can start enjoying mass shootings on a regular basis as well.

Want to prevent this? Prosecute the people in the intelligence agencies that keep setting this shit up.

Yeah, not a good way to store energy. There's the Carnot cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle

Basically, when you compress a gas, it heats up and you cannot possibly recover all the energy from the compression when you release it.

There was the MDI AirCar which promised to be able to move a vehicle something like 100 km on a single charge of compressed air. The most they ever got (to my knowledge) was 10 KM (which is still somewhat impressive), but not feasible. MDI AirCar was a scam, they were warned many times about the in-feasibility of their design. Their graft was to sell exclusive licenses to have the vehicle built, knowing full well it would never be built. Every year they would promise that their design was almost complete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Development_International

The scam might be still ongoing.

richwicks says

Basically, when you compress a gas, it heats up and you cannot possibly recover all the energy from the compression when you release it.

Correct. In fact, it pulls heat out of the air when it decompresses. This is generally how refrigeration and AC work.

DooDahMan says

That is exactly why small earthquakes are happening at record levels where ever fracking is taking place but what the heck - as long as someone makes $$$ - who cares.

Or as long as someone has a job is the way I look at it. I don't care if the company makes billions or trillions if they're employing people. There will be a mass event in the future that wipes out most of humans. Enjoy life. Don't fear death. If that involves using oil, so be it. If you're worried about the future, and have kids, you shouldn't have had them.

Live in the now and not the past or create future drama. Especially future planning. You can talk about the past, but don't dwell on it. Do what you can do in this moment to make yourself happy. Bitching about someone making money that puts food on the table of potentially thousands of people is silly. So the CEO makes $5M a year and the grunts in the fracking field get $80k a year. Both are likely happy. No one stopped the grunts from owning the company either.....

DooDahMan says

Cost, complexity, number of new electrical generating stations required to move the water, existing water use agreements on the Great Lakes that include Canada and so much more.

Canada can fuck itself. They have plenty of Lakes too and fresh water. Lake Michigan theoretically doesn't border Canada. Take it from there. The amount of oil and gas pipelines across this country is staggering. 3-4 water pipelines to CA isn't doable? People pay $2 for a bottle of water....

Like I said, build a small nuke plant to run the pumps. Either way you could dam up plenty of water in CA for electric and water supply. So a pipeline isn't necessary anyway. The solutions are there, but environmentalists make it impossible. At some point when is human life and sustainability more important? This food chain and circle of life stuff is bull shit. Species have been going extinct for millions of years. But this time it's different?

As a professor of engineering with a specialty in thermodynamics, I've seen many concepts that never should have been funded; they were doomed from the start.

Cannot cycle is an ideal heat engine. It's sets the ceiling for the maximum possible efficiency of a system. Second law being what it is, there is always an entropy tax to be paid. From friction to heat loss to system inefficiency no system is ideal, however some processes approach it reasonably well.

Engineering improvements, mostly in material innovations, have allowed for most of these gains, but at the end of the day you can't violate the laws of thermodynamics. You can't extract more energy than you put in, and some is always lost to the environment. It's just the way the universe works.

As an aside, this is why they won't let you patent a perpetual motion machine.

GreaterNYCDude says

As a professor of engineering with a specialty in thermodynamics, I've seen many concepts that never should have been funded; they were doomed from the start.

@GreaterNYCDude



That's a Solyndra photovoltaic collector. It's solar collectors in pipes, so they can collect photons from direct sunlight and photons that are bounced off from the white below them.

What do you see that is immediately wrong with it?

Looks more like a solar thermal panel for heat generation (an underrated technology IMHO) than a solar electric cell.

I remember Solyndra they were the company up in Mass that Obama gave silly money too, only to see then go bankrupt. Complete con job as I recall. China was somehow involved as well, if I'm not mistaken.

The black surface will absorb heat, but I don't see any photons "bouncing off" the white surfaces being subsequently absorbed to any great extent. They will scatter. (Depends on angle of incidence, etc.)

Not to mention these are typically installed on a dark roof rather than a reflective surface as shown in the photo (unless they install a special reflective matting underneath) and being offset only a few inches, there's no direct sunlight comming in from underneath (or the sides) only direct sunlight from above.

There may be more that youe seeing that I'm not, but that's my initial assesment. A semicircular trough to concentrate sunlight (similar to the Solyndra project out in the Mojave dessert) would have had more potential, IMHO.

Whatever energy makes it through the "slats" (the white gaps) is all but lost to the environment. Plus the black "cells don't have much surface area and in solar eltric lanles its all about surface area. W/m2 and all that good stuff.

I used to design solar systems on the side and have assisted on a couple of installs over the years. But that was over a decade ago now.

What's rarely discussed is the metal health crisis.
It's not a popular opinion but bring back the asylum.
Too often we write a script , deem the problem solved and let them on their way.

Clearly the FBI can't (or won't) track every nutjob. And perhaps they shouldn't, given we still have presumed innocence and free speech. I said alot of dumb stuff at 16 to 18. Still do even today. But I've also never threatened to shoot anyone based on my perceived grivances with them.

If this guy made credible threats in the past how should we as a society deal with that? There are no easy awnsers as a broad brush solution most likley abridges freedoms for all.

GreaterNYCDude says

Clearly the FBI can't (or won't) track every nutjob.

Haven't you ever noticed that EVERY SINGLE MASS SHOOTER was previously known by the FIB before the shooting?

How did this guy pass a background check in order to buy a gun legally?

The FIB CREATES these shootings. I know that sounds crazy, until you realize EVERY ONE OF THESE people were known by the FIB before it happened. You saw what happened in the Whitmer kidnapping case. You witnessed Ray Epps encouraging people to go break into the Capital, you saw police letting them in.

Do I mean the government encourages and sets it up such that innocent people can be killed to further a political agenda?



Yes, that's exactly what I mean.

GreaterNYCDude says

Whatever energy makes it through the "slats" (the white gaps) is all but lost to the environment. Plus the black "cells don't have much surface area and in solar eltric lanles its all about surface area. W/m2 and all that good stuff.

It's the fact it's not entirely black.

These are TUBES of solar cells. The goofy thinking is that they can capture photons at any angle. ENGINEERS WORKED ON THIS.

So, and because they are TUBES, they are hard to manufacture, and the there's more silicon used than what would be used if it was just a flat panel.

This was called "a scam" by many people, they got 1/2 billion in funding from the Obozo administration.

Yeah, and I think solar water heating is under-rated. Anybody living in the country should have a large tank of water, and some solar heaters. The only problem would be draining it when winter hit. Free hot water through all of summer.

richwicks says

Haven't you ever noticed that EVERY SINGLE MASS SHOOTER was previously known by the FIB before the shooting?

How did this guy pass a background check in order to buy a gun legally?

The FIB CREATES these shootings. I know that sounds crazy, until you realize EVERY ONE OF THESE people were known by the FIB before it happened. You saw what happened in the Whitmer kidnapping case. You witnessed Ray Epps encouraging people to go break into the Capital, you saw police letting them in.

Do I mean the government encourages and sets it up such that innocent people can be killed to further a political agenda?

Quoted for Troof.

How many times do we need to go through this - "Racist/Right Wing/etc." shooter spawns a media and political shitstorm, only to find, in the end that:

The FBI/CIA/Deepstate needed a patsy to further advance the deep state political agenda.

@richwicks has far more patience than I do to confront the zombies/brainwashed of the deep state. I hope only that it is not just our generation that sees the evil for what it is. Who will carry the torch once Gen X is sidelined?

The only problem would be draining it when winter hit. Free hot water through all of summer.

Glycol and a plate and frame loquid : liquid heat exchanger. Some efficiency losses, but you never have to drain and / or worry about freeing.

stereotomy says

@richwicks has far more patience than I do to confront the zombies/brainwashed of the deep state. I hope only that it is not just our generation that sees the evil for what it is. Who will carry the torch once Gen X is sidelined?

First of all, the the brainwashed are potential allies. They just don't understand what the "Big Lie" is, and how it works. Tell an ENORMOUS lie and people react with "well, they wouldn't say that if they were lying!" - like lying about mass shootings, terrorist attacks, weapons of mass destruction, Assad gassing his own people, Trump being in league with Putin. When they are caught in the lie, it has to be a mistake, and even when they are caught, people won't listen to the information.

Second, the boomer generation is mostly impossible to reach. X is easier, Y is easier, and so it goes. I know people think "oh this next generation is a bunch of brainwashed zombies" - well who wasn't at 20? Counter culture today is "conservative" and not Bush Neocon conservative, Ron Paul, Ludwig von Mises, Donald Trump "conservative".

GreaterNYCDude says

The only problem would be draining it when winter hit. Free hot water through all of summer.

Glycol and a plate and frame loquid : liquid heat exchanger. Some efficiency losses, but you never have to drain and / or worry about freeing.

As long as the water tank is inside your house. I think it's better to have it outside, because as it cools even through good insulation, it warms your home up during the summer, you don't want that.

I'd say just drain it.

GreaterNYCDude says

As a professor of engineering with a specialty in thermodynamics, I've seen many concepts that never should have been funded; they were doomed from the start.

Cannot cycle is an ideal heat engine. It's sets the ceiling for the maximum possible efficiency of a system. Second law being what it is, there is always an entropy tax to be paid. From friction to heat loss to system inefficiency no system is ideal, however some processes approach it reasonably well.

Engineering improvements, mostly in material innovations, have allowed for most of these gains, but at the end of the day you can't violate the laws of thermodynamics. You can't extract more energy than you put in, and some is always lost to the environment. It's just the way the universe works.

As an aside, this is why they won't let you patent a perpetual motion machine.

They do a similar thing in NorCal: dam with a forebay. At peak times in the day, when the utilities can sell for the HIGHEST PRICE, water is let thru the dam into the lower level forebay, powering hydro turbines. At night, water is pumped (with CHEAP low demand time electricity) from the forebay back up into the dam's lake. So power is surely lost, but profit is made.

Nuke plants would fix all this crazy shit.

richwicks says

the boomer generation is mostly impossible to reach. X is easier, Y is easier, and so it goes. I know people think "oh this next generation is a bunch of brainwashed zombies" - well who wasn't at 20? Counter culture today is "conservative" and not Bush Neocon conservative, Ron Paul, Ludwig von Mises, Donald Trump "conservative".

I guess that answers my question somewhat. Gen-X is so small, and we know that morality/politics/etc. is predominantly peer pressure. My greatest fear is that we x'rs will have nothing to teach that can be accepted by the next generation, since culture is effectively peer-presure. Gen-y will roll over us like bison or lemmings, unless they are are as "special" as their boomer parents have claimed.

John Oliver had an interesting piece on how utilities make money building new plants, irrespective of the validity or need for said infrastructure.

https://youtu.be/C-YRSqaPtMg

Case in point the flop that was carbon sequestration. Another "green" idea gone horribly wrong.

My money is on them fracturing the salt and allowing water to seep in and contaminate the ground water, further adding to China's water woes.
Never underestimate people who can walk past shit on the street, and consider themselves a progressive species for tolerating it.

Hindooo cult hatred for minorities.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EIA0BqlSdD4

The answer to those mass-shooting incidents is Constitutional Carry! Regardless whether the shooters are genuine lone-wolf nutjobs or alphabet-soup plants, Constitutional Carry by a significant percentage of the population in all public places will quickly turn them away. We need Jury Nullification in cases of unconstitutional prosecution against gun owners..

If you don’t like how much CEOs are paid and think it doesn’t matter, put your money where your mouth is and only invest in companies where CEO pay is no more then 10x or whatever x your commie heart prefers.

That’s the beauty of capitalism, people can freely spend their money how they like.

What about all the companies blackstone invested in that didn’t IPO and they lost money on? Where’s the article about those?

stereotomy says

I guess that answers my question somewhat. Gen-X is so small, and we know that morality/politics/etc. is predominantly peer pressure. My greatest fear is that we x'rs will have nothing to teach that can be accepted by the next generation, since culture is effectively peer-presure. Gen-y will roll over us like bison or lemmings, unless they are are as "special" as their boomer parents have claimed.

I have no worry about this. Truth wins out. It can take time but it always does.

Our fucking government thinks people can be brainwashed forever, they are realizing this isn't true, this is why they are attacking the 1st amendment and trying to install a Ministry of Truth. The Internet was made to be a decentralized communication system. They will fail.

Remember the fun and excitement of finding a TOTALLY new site, which was unique and different? That's coming back, but not within Google or Duckduckgo. We'll build an underground of a sorts. We already have it the ScArY DARK WEB - it's just non indexed content. We'll make the next level completely opaque. The whole point of making this system was unfettered communication and by fucking god, we'll accomplish that.

I started on the net in 1989. I'm about 15 years ahead of most people, meaning, I had exposure to ideas and concepts long before the mainstream did, and I'm over it, I'm what a typical 35 year old will be when they are 50 now. I saw attempts at censorship in the 1990s. It will not be tolerated.

pudil says

If you don’t like how much CEOs are paid and think it doesn’t matter, put your money where your mouth is and only invest in companies where CEO pay is no more then 10x or whatever x your commie heart prefers.

That’s the beauty of capitalism, people can freely spend their money how they like.

This would work if companies didn't receive massive infusions of money from the government...

Do you think Twitter censors discourse because they "believe" in their bullshit, or they are paid to believe? Google used to be the best fucking search engine on the planet, but https://www.yandex.com/ which is Russian is better for political discourse AND technical information to me now. Who is paying them to make them irrelevant and push a political agenda?

IF social media companies made money by VIEWS and not from bribes, they would want as much discourse and fighting as possible - but they quell it. They remove users. In reality, Facebook would welcome KKK assholes and Antifa thugs equally - because that would cause more people to spend more time fighting and more views and more ads, but they don't.

I live and work here. I live in Silly Con Valley, I am TELLING you the truth, they are purchased by the government. They exist to push a political agenda, they don't make money selling ads. They make money by producing propaganda.

Good fucking LORD, believe me. It's an open secret here. These are arms of our own government.

Nobody believes the engineers that did this shit. Nobody believes us. It's so fucking frustrating.

You want to know what the real threat is? That racists will realize they shouldn't be racists, that bigots will realize they shouldn't be bigots, the warmongers will realize they shouldn't be warmongers, but they all have a similar enemy, and that's the people that continually claim racism is a problem, that bigotry is a problem and that we don't support war enough - our enemy is the government. Our enemy has always sought to divide us.

Here comes the anti-Musk/anti-Tesla propaganda via the Media.

Amazon.com has gotten 'dumber' too. That is, the algo is deliberately re-engineered to push people to Amazon's Chinese "Basics" and "Essentials" subcontractors. And, word is Amazon tracks sales of new products, then sends the best to CHYna subcontractors to build at lower cost, quality.

You'd think the greatest Retail Site(tm) would have long figured out how to search for clothes sizes like "34x30" and omit results where those were out of stock.

DooDahMan says

In the hours following a violent rampage in upstate New York in which a lone attacker killed 10 individuals and injured three others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place.

India has about 20 wedding massacres a year, where a pissed off family member or jilted woman, poisons the whole wedding party.
Every Muslim country has public stoning to death of women, let's not forget Israel with constant cafe bombings, they have quit reporting them, because the Jews are bad now.
Mexico has armed men roll up on a Cafeteria and shots everyone inside to get the Mayor or police chief, they hang rivals on over passes, and mail heads to the police to intimidator them.