Electric Propulsion Reality Check

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
It's upon blocks 2177 road miles from here. I only learned digital imagery after I departed. I have been seeing medical specialists for a few years and had to stop commuting to Las Penas once transportation became insanely expensive. The polished Budd Wheels (6) and Micheline are removed and stored inside now. And Pele has been in charge of soaping the connoly leather and oiling the teak inside. The rig is covered with a trucker's tarp for the four 50 watts Kyocera solar panels right in front. Jesus removes the tarp and 2" thick styrofoam blocks and washes everything down twice a year. The imron over hot galvanizing hassle paid off.

I am going in for eye surgery next week then next month neurosurgery so I can walk again. Yeah, I have been wheelchair-bound. Degenerative spinal disease. WAIT! There's MORE! Then comes several hours of surgery on my left hand and wrist. A tendon was hyper-extended beneath my wrist the first surgery and knuckle movement was restricted.

Scripps Medical Center. IMSS cannot touch this level of technology. Not even in Mexico City. The spinal surgeon is being imported from Johns Hopkins, then the hand surgeon from Chicago.

So my medical hangout has become a second home. But I've acquired literally a ton of gear that needs to be shipped south. I've also lost 88 pounds, had my heart synchronicity fixed (timing between atrial and ventricular beating), and will get my shoulders fixed. When I got my heart fixed my systolic blood pressure dropped from 180 to 126 and I do not need any medication now.

Hope you get fit and healthy amigo
Sorry if I was bit harsh sometime in the past..

Hi Mex,

I hope all these procedures work wonderfully well for you.

It's upon blocks 2177 road miles from here. I only learned digital imagery after I departed. I have been seeing medical specialists for a few years and had to stop commuting to Las Penas once transportation became insanely expensive. The polished Budd Wheels (6) and Micheline are removed and stored inside now. And Pele has been in charge of soaping the connoly leather and oiling the teak inside. The rig is covered with a trucker's tarp for the four 50 watts Kyocera solar panels right in front. Jesus removes the tarp and 2" thick styrofoam blocks and washes everything down twice a year. The imron over hot galvanizing hassle paid off.

I am going in for eye surgery next week then next month neurosurgery so I can walk again. Yeah, I have been wheelchair-bound. Degenerative spinal disease. WAIT! There's MORE! Then comes several hours of surgery on my left hand and wrist. A tendon was hyper-extended beneath my wrist the first surgery and knuckle movement was restricted.

Scripps Medical Center. IMSS cannot touch this level of technology. Not even in Mexico City. The spinal surgeon is being imported from Johns Hopkins, then the hand surgeon from Chicago.

So my medical hangout has become a second home. But I've acquired literally a ton of gear that needs to be shipped south. I've also lost 88 pounds, had my heart synchronicity fixed (timing between atrial and ventricular beating), and will get my shoulders fixed. When I got my heart fixed my systolic blood pressure dropped from 180 to 126 and I do not need any medication now.

IIRC Mex has a Crown highway coach motorhome conversion.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Which makes of pickup trucks use 6-speed manual or automatic transmissions?

Quicksilver has a 10/5/13 and splits about 200 RPM

The engine, of course, is an NT PT 400 horsepower at 2150 RPM and 1300 pounds-feet of torque at 1390 RPM.

The reason I ask is that for an average weight of 11 - 13 tons on level ground towing a 4-ton flatbed I get 16-18 mpg.

And a regular high powered diesel pickup cannot touch it for power or for economy.

The 2-4-6 Jake brake will drastically reduce speed even on a 12 percent downgrade.

It isn't all gravy. The thing consumes 44 quarts of oil per change and simple stuff like adjusting the clutch brake or adjusting the s-cam brakes is beyond my ability.

David ... please post a picture of your Quicksilver if you can.

The only Quicksilver I'm aware of is the 2-cycle Mercury outboard that powered my Dad's water ski boat back in the 50's. ;)

Which makes of pickup trucks use 6-speed manual or automatic transmissions?

Quicksilver has a 10/5/13 and splits about 200 RPM

The engine, of course, is an NT PT 400 horsepower at 2150 RPM and 1300 pounds-feet of torque at 1390 RPM.

The reason I ask is that for an average weight of 11 - 13 tons on level ground towing a 4-ton flatbed I get 16-18 mpg.

And a regular high powered diesel pickup cannot touch it for power or for economy.

The 2-4-6 Jake brake will drastically reduce speed even on a 12 percent downgrade.

It isn't all gravy. The thing consumes 44 quarts of oil per change and simple stuff like adjusting the clutch brake or adjusting the s-cam brakes is beyond my ability.

pianotuna wrote:
It's possible that at least some of the uranium used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Saskatchewan, but no one knows for sure.

Hiroshima was a uranium bomb, Nagasaki was a plutonium bomb. Sometimes I just can't help picking nits.

I'm trying to keep this RV oriented as the percentage of RV hating legislators is nearing self-combustion. Once they get that leverage to say hello to bone-crushing legislation and wild taxes that tear at the fabric of reality. And don't say it cannot happen...

Society building micromanagers will create so many laws and taxes against RVs their budgets will pad their lush expense accounts for lavish congressional fact-finding expeditions to Mallorca, Hawaii, and other destinations "In desperate need of intense and prolonged examination."

I do not need facial recognition and chassis teardowns at the border. Quicksilver is never ever again going to come north. California's Navin Gruesome crowd is trying to pad fees for drivers over 70 so they have to take seventy dollar driver license tests every third year. This is a state that has NO law or test for marijuana intoxication.

I can see by example why the NRA is so inflexible about gun ownership. Give the anti-gun lobby the power and only criminals will have guns. Are they stupid? About the only thing not on the black market is plutonium. I utterly believe in the right to deer hunting rifles and handguns for home protection.

White liberals live in economic exclusion zones where minorities and criminals cannot afford to live. Ya think a carload of gang-bangers wouldn't be swarmed by police in Beverly Hills, or Rolling Hills estates? White liberals have 150K salaries and to them, a Tesla is a popular novelty. They're living in a dream world. Go ahead and let them, their dreams are set on million-dollar sailboats not trailer-trash that blocks their freedom to drive their 7 series BMWs on the open highway. They have reservations at 500 dollars per night resorts, not a trailer-court.

Mex I failed to answer your bedrock question.

This used to be a lake bottom--so the "foundation" is potash. Lots and lots of it. Farther north where almost no one lives there is bedrock. It's possible that at least some of the uranium used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Saskatchewan, but no one knows for sure.

Hi Mex,

The Province is a shining example of the "red neck right".

Among their agendas are the desire to shut down the "crown" corporations, selling them off to the highest bidder, and introducing a 2 tier medicare system where those with big bucks can "jump the ques".

An example of this is that the Provincial electrical power crown does not own even one of the wind power systems. So the corporation is forced to buy power from these entities instead of producing the power directly.

They also do not directly own any solar panel systems.

Estevan SK is the only large scale carbon sequestration plant (150 megawatts). It had a cost over run of 50% and it consumes 1/3 of its output to try to scrub the co2. But that require a catalyst. Not much of a problem--except the fly ash keeps contaminating the catalyst--and it has to be replaced a few times per month.

They are also under contract to provide co2 for pressurizing oil fields in North Dakota--but since the system keeps breaking--they have to pay fines to ND for non delivery.

The Canadian Federal government wants to shut down ALL coal fired plants in Canada with the single exception of the above (broken) system by 2030.

The power grid between Provinces to the east and west is pitifully inadequate.

There are no plans for large energy storage faculties and ten years is a tiny window of opportunity to build such devices.

I have NO idea where Saskatchewan will get the power to replace the plants.

I'm 71--so it may not matter to me.