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- Hmmmm, David ... that 12V fan is an absolute winner!
We've carried one in our RV for at least 10 years. Using it is sure a lot more Earth-Friendly than our stick house's heat pump - which I think has a 4 ton capacity. - Yes we are all doomed,,/S
Ford electric truck
https://insideevs.com/news/361751/video-electric-trucks-future-reality-gimmick/
Tesla powerplant reduces electricity rate by 20%
https://electrek.co/2019/07/26/tesla-virtual-power-plant-australia-savinigs-phase-3/
Wind bests coal in Texas
https://electrek.co/2019/07/26/egeb-wind-coal-texas/ - Yep and I asked a cellular shop if the battery in an S7 is replaceable.
Yes
It requires skill and special small tools. The cost for everything is 700 pesos about $38.00 US Dollars. They reseal the case with some kind of sealer glue marked with Japanese calligraphy. A new SIMS card is $2
But a new glass is 35 dollars then the labor.
My landlady dropped by today to admire the new flowers.
"My God!" she gasped "Do you realize it must be 40c in here?"
"Yes," I replied. "It feels like home" Overcast skies humidity somewhere in the low eighties.
I had a sweatband tied around my forehead and beach towels stretched across the bed. A Fantastic Endless Breeze Fan set on "1" sat six feet away. 12 watts.
I noticed I had put 41 miles on the car in July. Almost 2 gallons of gasoline.
I must have an infant's sizr, carbon footprint. - Mex,
I agree things need to be repairable. I hate that my most recent Samsung phone has a sealed case. That means no easy way to replace the battery. STUPID MOVE from my point of view as I keep such items a lot longer than many folks.
As a result I'm trying to operate the Samsung with no lower than 50% and nor more than 90% charged. That should help with longevity--even it it is a bit annoying. - Don, making things non-repairable is a sin. ignorance at it's best. Democrats even screw up lying. Republicans sit back a smirk.
- Or grow a lot more hemp--which can replace many (but not all) plastics, and many (but not all) fabrics.
Conserve where you can. Reduce where you can. Generate in the most efficient manner possible.
I paid huge dollars for the ability to have a triple minisplit air conditioner at my Condo. I will NEVER recoup the cost of doing so. But I do have a wonderfully efficient, quiet unit. Hells bells the condenser fan doesn't even run for several hours. It is considerably quieter than the fridge.
I hope to live at the Condo until it is pine box time. Hence it is fully wheel chair accessible with sliding barn doors. - The GREENHOUSE EFFECT has been triggered too many times to be counted. They are still probing glaciers to get the faintest idea of reality. I asked for a trial test of polycarbonate cubes to be created and used as test media for phytoplankton testing to be conducted. There comes a point at which the plankton can not reasonably revert CO2 into original components. Follow? Is it 2%, 3%, 5% ???
I don't want carbon dioxide buildup. No one wants to talk about reforestation attempts in the tropics. About penalties against countries who destroy (not just harvest) rainforests. Massive replanting of rainforests and tropical savannah would plunge CO2 levels. Even if it took billions of tons of nitrogen to get the process initiated.
The insanity of having China create 150% more CO2 to save half that amount in this hemisphere needs a rhino dart gun and a good load of Thorazine. No one is THINKING this through. For the Democrats, it's all about regulation and taxes. For Republicans, it's all about wealth, and exclusivity.
I worry not -- there is a pathogen patiently awaiting maturity probably in China, that will end up eradicating 50% of the world's population. Study the 1917, 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. What saved us was the rapidity of its mutation. But you actually have to read the words. Try researching it online in Wikipedia.
I am guessing the coming event to be avian based.
Meanwhile, electric cars will be free for the taking.
Want another ice age? Try spreading a hundred thousand tons of nanoparticles of ferrous material in the otherwise sterile south Pacific ocean. A bloom will result. that reverts CO2 into carbon and O2 about a hundred times the efficacy of land-based flora. Presto! It's a Wooly Mammoth time. Fur returns to fashion.
But what is and what isn't being done to avert CO2 is being politically operated fear-driven tool. Taxes and control by fear. Tell the Chinese to shut down their eleven thousand coal-fired plants. The ones that power solar panel manufacturing. Instead of hand-wringing plant a hundred thousand weeping willow trees on California's Sacramento river levees. Ending the floods because the roots of the willows strengthen the levees over a thousand percent.
Ooooooooooooom. Where's the rolling papers?
Monkeys Running The Zoo isn't descriptive enough. Planet of the apes running the Sanatarium is more appropriate. fj12ryder wrote:
Gdetrailer wrote:
Wow, talk about a whole lot of Bovine Stuff.pnichols wrote:
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
I didn't want to bring up depopulation. It's too real and too depressing. 300 to 1 my bet is on a pneumovirus. Something like the never before or after seen 1918 Spanish Flu.
Nature abhors but nevertheless cures excesses. Automatically and ruthlessly.
China is right in the X-ring for the next pandemic.
Simply crippling the pharmaceutical chain would depopulate the US by eighty million.
Invest in a retirement property will crops will grow and convert your RV into a crewed turret. A MORTAR MOTORHOME anyone?
Now you see why I avoided this.
David ... as clarification, in no way am I a fan of what the dark side of "depopulation" may mean. What I think we need is a much smaller Earth population going forward through enforced birth control on a world scale ... starting as soon as possible. ;)
In the meantime while the above is taking affect over time - we need a full court press on solar farms, wind farms, ocean wave farms, energy storage reservoirs, natural hydro-electric plants, much more buried grid wiring, better vehicle battery technologies, and if ever possible ... the Holy Grail of earth-bound nuclear fusion.
Total "Bovine Stuff".
The earth's people population would take much less space than you think..
HERE is a good explanation..
"If we stood side by side, about 3 feet apart, 7 billion people would form a line 21 billion feet apart. This is about a 4 million miles long. The distance to the Moon is about 240,000 miles, so we’d go way past the Moon.
Let’s put everyone into a square giving each per a square yard of space. The population is over 7 billion, so we’d need 7 billion square yards which is under 7000 square miles. So we’d all fit into a square that was less than 100 miles by 100 miles. This is about one-fifth of the area of Maine.
Estimates are that there are 15 billion acres on the Earth that are habitable. So there is about 2 acres of land per person."
Now I know that does not address all of the sky is falling "green advocates" concerns about greenhouse gasses killing the earth..
Those are also recycled total Bovine stuff..
The earth is self cleaning and self recycling, we do not and cannot "add" to what there is not.. Neither can we "take away" stuff from the earth.
WE as humans ARE made up of CARBON, we NEED CARBON to live, OUR BODIES USE CARBON in order to live.
Plants USE CARBON to flourish, without they would DIE, plants like trees, flowers, grass take in carbon, they DEPEND on carbon IN THE AIR, without is they would no longer be. Scrub all of the carbon out of the air and not only will the plants die, WE will die to..
Yes, their is carbon "sequestered" deep inside the earth, but if we (us humans) do not release some of that carbon (natural gas and oil), the EARTH WILL EVENTUALLY RELEASE IT as part of it's own natural cycles (earth quakes, volcanos and even natural oil tar pits and so on).
I am not saying that we should go nuts with waste of natural resources, we should use it wisely to our advantage but that we do not have to be overbearing to the point of not "multiplying human population"..
Take a good hard look at China, they have for many years have had forced population limits even down to taking unborn lives.. It didn't work, it will never work.
Nor do we or should be so gosh darn worried about forcing supposed "green" ways of life on people, in most ways the green ways are not so green if you start really breaking down the real science behind it, studying all of potentially harmful processes and chemicals involved in making those supposed "green" ways (not the hyped science by the likes of Gore and friends).
Do some research on what it takes just to make a solar CELL, it is a very similar processes to making any semiconductor. Uses a lot of highly toxic materials, chemicals and energy and creates more left over hazardous waste than what you started out with..
Man only flatters himself to believe that he can make or destroy this Earth..
Hmmm .... where does the Bovine come from - MEXICOWANDERER, or pnichols, or Gdetrailer, or two of the three, or all three? ;)
Here's some comments:
1. So ... is the CO2 up there at high levels or not? If levels are indeed high, then the greenhouse effect is going to increase. Of course experts can measure the levels - and their data shows that they're high. Hence weather is going to get more and more screwed up. Does it matter where the high levels of CO2 came from ... well yes -> if it came from fossil fuels and you're portfolio depends upon them continuing to be used.
2. How many people can get squeezed together on the Earth is a strange angle to come from for justification of "bring em' on -> the more people consuming and throwing away stuff the better". Watch "Soylent Green" if you think humans living squeezed together all over the world would be OK!
3. Chinese population control through control of births was an early attempt on their part ... good for them to at least try it. However, it needs to be done with a lot of fining tuning well beyond how the Chinese tried it - and it needs to be done on a world scale. Holding the world's population at some wisely and benignly determined self-sustaining level will insure our future generations can continue to live in a wonderful environment that remains that way until the sun becomes a red giant.
4. Man can indeed "destroy the Earth". Study what happened in Europe and the "real reasons" they found it necessary to find new places on the planet to expand into and get resources from. Now imagine the whole Earth eventually getting to the point Europe was at but with no place for the whole Earth to expand into and get resources from (science fiction space movies notwithstanding).
5. It's a pipe dream that 15/20/30/etc. billion future people on the Earth could live as many people in the U.S. and other developed nations live today. It would take several Earths for that to be possible.- Mex there are many indicators that show the climate is changing. Change it enough and there won't be any mankind.
I'm glad to be 71. I'll most likely not see many of these problems, yet I do notice that some grocery items have become scarce. Like you, almost everything I buy now, comes with a life time guarantee.
We have had the illusion of freedom and that we are no longer serfs.
My family line comes to an end with my daughter who has chosen to not procreate. She also chose to not learn to drive because she believed, at the tender age of 15, that cars were bad for the environment.
For all sorts of reasons I'm glad she made those decisions. Gdetrailer wrote:
Wow, talk about a whole lot of Bovine Stuff.pnichols wrote:
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
I didn't want to bring up depopulation. It's too real and too depressing. 300 to 1 my bet is on a pneumovirus. Something like the never before or after seen 1918 Spanish Flu.
Nature abhors but nevertheless cures excesses. Automatically and ruthlessly.
China is right in the X-ring for the next pandemic.
Simply crippling the pharmaceutical chain would depopulate the US by eighty million.
Invest in a retirement property will crops will grow and convert your RV into a crewed turret. A MORTAR MOTORHOME anyone?
Now you see why I avoided this.
David ... as clarification, in no way am I a fan of what the dark side of "depopulation" may mean. What I think we need is a much smaller Earth population going forward through enforced birth control on a world scale ... starting as soon as possible. ;)
In the meantime while the above is taking affect over time - we need a full court press on solar farms, wind farms, ocean wave farms, energy storage reservoirs, natural hydro-electric plants, much more buried grid wiring, better vehicle battery technologies, and if ever possible ... the Holy Grail of earth-bound nuclear fusion.
Total "Bovine Stuff".
The earth's people population would take much less space than you think..
HERE is a good explanation..
"If we stood side by side, about 3 feet apart, 7 billion people would form a line 21 billion feet apart. This is about a 4 million miles long. The distance to the Moon is about 240,000 miles, so we’d go way past the Moon.
Let’s put everyone into a square giving each per a square yard of space. The population is over 7 billion, so we’d need 7 billion square yards which is under 7000 square miles. So we’d all fit into a square that was less than 100 miles by 100 miles. This is about one-fifth of the area of Maine.
Estimates are that there are 15 billion acres on the Earth that are habitable. So there is about 2 acres of land per person."
Now I know that does not address all of the sky is falling "green advocates" concerns about greenhouse gasses killing the earth..
Those are also recycled total Bovine stuff..
The earth is self cleaning and self recycling, we do not and cannot "add" to what there is not.. Neither can we "take away" stuff from the earth.
WE as humans ARE made up of CARBON, we NEED CARBON to live, OUR BODIES USE CARBON in order to live.
Plants USE CARBON to flourish, without they would DIE, plants like trees, flowers, grass take in carbon, they DEPEND on carbon IN THE AIR, without is they would no longer be. Scrub all of the carbon out of the air and not only will the plants die, WE will die to..
Yes, their is carbon "sequestered" deep inside the earth, but if we (us humans) do not release some of that carbon (natural gas and oil), the EARTH WILL EVENTUALLY RELEASE IT as part of it's own natural cycles (earth quakes, volcanos and even natural oil tar pits and so on).
I am not saying that we should go nuts with waste of natural resources, we should use it wisely to our advantage but that we do not have to be overbearing to the point of not "multiplying human population"..
Take a good hard look at China, they have for many years have had forced population limits even down to taking unborn lives.. It didn't work, it will never work.
Nor do we or should be so gosh darn worried about forcing supposed "green" ways of life on people, in most ways the green ways are not so green if you start really breaking down the real science behind it, studying all of potentially harmful processes and chemicals involved in making those supposed "green" ways (not the hyped science by the likes of Gore and friends).
Do some research on what it takes just to make a solar CELL, it is a very similar processes to making any semiconductor. Uses a lot of highly toxic materials, chemicals and energy and creates more left over hazardous waste than what you started out with..
Man only flatters himself to believe that he can make or destroy this Earth..
