Chilly in the morning getting hot in the afternoon, with cooler temps in the evening.
It was pretty darn chilly when the contractor got here yesterday. Might have been 58F? Felt cooler after they started working too. It did get pretty hot in the sun. I took a break and did some fishing, and I might have even got some sunburn on my neck. Didn’t catch anything, although lots of fish were out eating. The minnow were schooling and following my lure, and a turtle followed it all the way to the dock. I could have let him catch it if I slowed a little bit. Between the minnows and the turtle, I think the bait is convincing, the fish must just not have been biting.
The work crew got all the holes dug, and the house is ready for jacking… which might not happen until next week. They are awaiting a deliver so they can use their new machine. Everybody seems to be waiting for deliveries. In any case I get to sleep in today.
Then it will be working the list. I think I may go into town for some plumbing pipe. The supply line cut off valve will need to be replaced, and a new service entry for water installed. It was buried and it’s rotten. The foundation guys are also licensed plumbers so I asked them to quote me for the work. They will also need to fix the transition from the house’s iron sewer pipe to plastic that feeds into the septic tank. The current joint is broken and leaking. We didn’t see it during the septic work because it was under the sidewalk, and buried.
We also discovered that there aren’t any repair piers along one wall where we expected them to be. Since the fill dirt level is only a couple of inches to a foot, the plan was to just ‘tune up’ those piers. But they aren’t there at all, which would explain the foundation sinking there… there will be additional charges for new (traditional) remediation piers along that wall. The other piers are mostly bearing on sand. Not sharp, compact-able sand. Soft sand. Or should I say, NOT bearing, as they are sinking through the sand. Shoddy work. All going to be replaced. Just as soon as the part comes in.
So supply chain issues continue to plague industry. Grab it if you need it, there might not be any for a while…
Stack it high.
nick
My house was built in 1929, and the difference between building standards then, and now, was brought into stark relief when we had a kitchen extension built. The kitchen is galley-style (long and narrow) and we extended it by probably half its length. This brought the end wall out to level with the end of the conservatory (also an addition by us). The builder had to dig foundation trenches to a metre below any roots for the new blockwork to comply with current regulations, while the house itself stands on walls buried no more than a foot to 18 inches.
I wondered to myself if there would be any consequences to this over time, and was right. The house moved a few millimetres away from the kitchen extension (I think. Anyway, the wall of the kitchen cracked a little at the join between old and new). Luckily, that was all the settlement we saw, so all appears well now. The crack was dealt with by coating the exterior walls with a proprietary resin-based compound, which seems to have stabilised everything, despite the recent drought.
The house is built on London Clay, which appears to be a good foundation, although it does dry out and shrink.
G.
Here, the issue is often frost. Any foundations have to extend below the deepest possible frost line, which means about 3 feet.
The big apartment building behind us was built in the early 1980s by…adventurers. So adventurous that the main guy had to flee the country to avoid jail. One wall of their parking garage is right on our property boundary (which is not allowed). We can almost see the foundation sticking out of the ground (frost danger, see above). What the builders did was was pile up dirt against the wall. That pile of dirt wasn’t enough to provide insulation, but it hid the problem. We removed the dirt when we built, so now the problem is obvious. Some apartment owners want to blame us, but all we did was expose the issue (literally).
That’s just one of a long list of things the building needs to deal with, due to its adventurous past. For example, their driveway goes across someone else’s property. When that was a cow field, no one cared. It’s no longer a cow field, and the owner wants the problem solved. They’re pretty open to ideas, but any solution is going to cost money.
Since we bought a studio apartment in the building, I let myself get put on the committee that’s going to have to deal with all this fun stuff. Which is a fun exercise in meatspace: who knew there would be vicious politics between people living in the building, and people who own vacation apartments and are there only a few weeks a year.
My home server was a grand total of $200, but I’ve seen surplus i7 Mac Minis for around that price since Apple went ARM and gutted the value of Intel Mac platforms, making Catalina the last OS for a lot of hardware still with decent service life left.
Not much left of DOJ/FBI credibility:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/04/with-new-documents-the-biden-administrations-targeting-of-a-pro-life-dad-just-got-crazier/
Notice to electric bicycle owners:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/exploding-electric-bicycles.php
How many Tesla’s went under on the Florida Gulf Coast?
AAR for Hurricane Ian may be interesting.
people are starting to notice the Electric Emperor’s Noodity:
Yeah, I remember my great uncle telling how the goobermint stepped up with assistance in the 1920’s when he and his brother were putting in the fillin’ station on the highway outside of town–not.
How about a big line item for “Special Infrastructure Assessment for Electric Charging” on the annual licensing?
Hertz HQ in Fort Myers would have taken a direct hit. That building is in the evac zone.
Still, Miami is just two hours due east driving out of Naples and it emerged relatively unscathed by the storm. Any EVs in the fleet would have been evacuated there.
Otherwise, Fort Myers does not have the demo who go all in for EVs. Tampa would have been a better case study.
Even the barrier islands, which have serious quiet money, were not big into EVs the last time I was there. A trip into Fort Myers from the far end of Sanibel or Captiva takes an hour due to a combination of speed limits and distance.
65F and sunny. Another beautiful fall day. Some of the more tender trees have already dropped their leaves.
Some are showing stress from the drought, but for some it’s just Fall.
Sitting down to my breakfast, sausages, egg, and the last of the fresh tomato from the neighbor.
Then it’s stretch the back and get to work.
n
and I’ve got a dozen mosquito bites on my forehead. I guess I missed one last night.
@brad, when you said “adventurers” I started picturing an Alpine youth hostel… then I got it.
There is definitely a difference between the ‘year rounders’ and the weekenders here. And in Florida that played out in my folks trailer park between the seasonals and the locals…
I’m betting that back in the day, the caretakers felt more entitled to the castle than the Baron, who only visited once a year.
Good luck with the Board.
n
Weird, I have seen a number of ebay sales of the same item, a staple for me. It sells in spurts, going months without a sale, then selling 6 or a dozen lots. It can be useful if there is a hurricane or flood so this week’s sales make sense, except that they aren’t shipping to Florida. This last sale ships to Michigan.
That suggests to me that the ebay search and promotion algorithm might be featuring my listings because it’s a hot item, but that other people outside the flooding are looking for it too. And normally they don’t see my listings because the algorithm punishes you if you don’t list new items every day.In many ways the search and promotion algorithms are a black box, especially to end users. And whether an ebay seller or a youtube creator, the algorithm has a lot to do with your success.
n
Right now I’m back to about $5.80 from just below $5 a week ago. Welcome to Brando/Gavin town.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11283503/Biden-OPEC-oil-production-gas-prices.html
Recall also the stories from the start of the dempanic, in which vacation home owners were blocked from going from the city to their secondary/vacation/bugout property. The local officials wouldn’t let them come in. I looked but haven’t seen anything about lawsuit results for takings, deprivation of property, and such.
I just paid a $100 gas bill, about triple what September has run in this house for eight years.
A low guesstimated reading for August was part of the problem, but subtracting that additional usage carried over only cuts the bill to double a normal September. And keep in mind that $30 of my bill is fixed “customer fee” and other such nonsense, up from about $20 last year.
Wait until the LNG shipments to Europe really start rocking in a month or so.
Premium gas was down to $3.80 yesterday here in North AL.
I also stopped at Wal-Mart and my preferred coffee was down $2 a bag to $7.59. That’s still $2 more than before the pandemic, but headed in the right direction, I don’t expect it to ever get back to $5.59 a bag.
I remember DeSantis briefly closing the Florida border at I95 and I10 to discourage the New York and California wealthy from descending on the state en masse in a panic when the lockdowns started, but the checkpoints weren’t on the minor roads or I75 IIRC.
Anyone who has driven I75 on Thanksgiving weekend knows what a challenge sealing the border there would have been.
It was pretty darn chilly when the contractor got here yesterday. Might have been 58F? Felt cooler after they started working too. It did get pretty hot in the sun. I took a break and did some fishing, and I might have even got some sunburn on my neck. Didn’t catch anything, although lots of fish were out eating. The minnow were schooling and following my lure, and a turtle followed it all the way to the dock. I could have let him catch it if I slowed a little bit. Between the minnows and the turtle, I think the bait is convincing, the fish must just not have been biting.
You may be fished out. Both of my ponds at the office have been cleaned out by alligators, large birds (herons up to 4.5 feet tall stop by fairly regularly plus a cormorant or two), and turtles. I’ve got hundreds of turtles with the big ones a foot across.
I keep on meaning to buy some more perch and catfish from these guys. They go all over the south on a regular basis.
https://www.stockmypond.com/
That’s just one of a long list of things the building needs to deal with, due to its adventurous past. For example, their driveway goes across someone else’s property. When that was a cow field, no one cared. It’s no longer a cow field, and the owner wants the problem solved. They’re pretty open to ideas, but any solution is going to cost money.
Texas law is very unclear about landlocked properties. The state constitution says tough tookie and the legislature says that the encompassing landowner must provide ingress and egress. It is a nasty problem that I am dealing with right now with the landlocked property behind me. My alma mater has even written a pamphlet on the matter.
https://assets.recenter.tamu.edu/documents/articles/422.pdf
“Nuclear fusion plant to be built at West Burton A power station”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-63119465
Just 20 years away !
I’m trying a different heating method for the chickens this winter.
I want the coop to give them respite from the cold. I do not want the coop so comfortable that they hang out inside constantly. That way lies disease, respiratory problems, and way too much poop in too small a space.
In years past I had a 6’x6’x6’ coop and provided heat by a heat lamp. Heat lamps are fine if you keep them clean and the livestock can’t crash into them or break them. post move our coop is 4’x4’x4’, significantLu smaller. I used a heat lamp last year. Chicken raves broke the bulb twice, not shattered but dislodged and dangerous. I check daily still it was a fire waiting to happen.
Folks post often on my chicken groups about the wonders of a device made by Cozy Products called the Cozy Coop. They are a flat panel radiant heater that may be wall mounted or sit in a floor stand. Their UL information says they are zero-clearance certified. I bought two of the 18”x12” size.
https://www.cozyproducts.com/collections/all/products/cozy-coop
I assembled one and its powered on its highest setting, mounted in a floor stand on my kitchen table at one end. I laid out marks for 0”, 12”, 24” from the device. Took air temp reading, and now have a thermometer sitting in a glass 12” from the panel.
I noted the time, water temp, air temp. I’ll take readings through the day. it would be a better test if I put the device outside I suppose, but that’s more effort than I feel obliged to make. I should also connect the device to power through a Wyze outlet so I know the power draw.
My possibly flawed understanding is radiant heats objects not air. I -think- my testing will give me some useful data on where to mount the panels and some inkling of whether two are sufficient for three hens in a 64 cubic foot space. The Wyze outlet will help me decide if it’s comparable in power costs to the heat lamp.
Ah chickens. Organic eggs from the store are cheaper than our home flock, but not nearly as much fun.
xkcd: Battery Life
https://xkcd.com/2680/
Yeah, at some point getting a bigger battery really sucks. I do have two of the laptop batteries in cell phone chargers for conventions. They work ok and hold about 4X the power of a regular cell phone battery.
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2680:_Battery_Life
In years past I had a 6’x6’x6’ coop and provided heat by a heat lamp. Heat lamps are fine if you keep them clean and the livestock can’t crash into them or break them. post move our coop is 4’x4’x4’, significantLu smaller. I used a heat lamp last year. Chicken raves broke the bulb twice, not shattered but dislodged and dangerous. I check daily still it was a fire waiting to happen.
The chicken rave sounds crazy. I’ve seen them go after each other in a coop, I don’t want to be in there.
That is either the last remaining coal power station in Britain or one of the last. I’ve seen other stories about the site recently.
Winter is coming in more ways than one for Europe.
My possibly flawed understanding is radiant heats objects not air. I -think- my testing will give me some useful data on where to mount the panels and some inkling of whether two are sufficient for three hens in a 64 cubic foot space. The Wyze outlet will help me decide if it’s comparable in power costs to the heat lamp.
Yup, infrared heat rays heat objects instead of heating the common medium, air.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiant_heating_and_cooling
@jenny, I’m not a thermodynamacist, that would be CowboySlim, but my understanding is that radiant heats objects not air, just as you believe.
Another option for you might be a dog pad heater. They provide gentle heat for older dogs. Given their usage they must be safe for contact.
Depending on your past lifestyle and how much junk you have, you might have a waterbed heater pad somewhere…..
Keeping mini dinosaurs sounds like a lot of work!
n
Just finished a 2 hour “survey the AO” or “get the lay of the land” drive. If I call it that it sounds way more tacticool and prepper than “I drove around looking for hardware stores, google sent me on a wild goose chase, and I spent $300 supporting the local economy….”
Checked out a different hardware store/lumberyard. I hope it’s a better lumber yard than hardware store. Pickings were slim. THey are Ace affiliated. The other one that I’ve been to before has a TON more stuff and is DoIT Center affiliated. Both have limited stock, but try to cover most of the bases for repair, “shoot, I forgot xxx” and small projects.
Found the local airport.
Found out there isn’t much in the other nearby small town. Watermelon wholesalers, and dollar marts mainly.
We need to start checking out some of the local restaurants too. The thing about small businesses is that if you want them to be there later, you need to support them now.
n
Right now I’m back to about $5.80 from just below $5 a week ago. Welcome to Brando/Gavin town.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11283503/Biden-OPEC-oil-production-gas-prices.html
Let me tell you a secret. OPEC lies. They do not do what they say and they produce the amount of oil that they feel like producing. They commonly sell oil on side secretly to their friends and enemies both. And nobody gets to look at their production records.
Why did I say that ? Because every single oil field in the world outside the shale oil plays in the USA is in decline. The USA is now producing about 20% of the world’s oil and Slow Joe has put stops in place to keep it that way.
Slow Joe and his folk are not nice people and if you freeze this winter, oh well, too bad. Europe is going to freeze this winter and nobody can do a single thing about it. The USA cannot come to Europe’s rescue since we do not have the thousands of LNG tankers and LNG necessary to keep Europe warm and the lights on. The USA produces about 36 LNG tanker loads every week and those are dedicated to paying customers, some of whom are in Europe but mostly Asia.
“Micron to Build a $100 Billion Chip ‘Megafab’ in New York”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/micron-to-build-a-100-billion-chip-megafab-in-new-york
“When finished, the megafab’s cleanroom space will be the size of 40 US football fields.”
I would not build anything in New York State. Too controlling.
$5.5 billion in incentives.
Plus, if you are making lots of chips, you need the infrastructure and skills in place. Isn’t Global Foundries up there running that old DEC plant that produced the Alpha?
My neighbor who is in tech and been around Austin for a long time claimed that Apple’s presence here was pretty limited until Steve Jobs died because Jobs had a vendetta against this area for having nurtured Power Computing, the first and only licensed third party Macs which, back in the day, were arguably better designed machines. Nothing Austin offered made any difference to Jobs.
Interestingly, the new campus is carefully laid out to make the roads the responsibility of the city while the campus sits outside the taxing jurisdiction. Tim is more reasonable than Jobs, lacking the vendetta, but not much when it comes to the bottom line.
I thought you had to go to the post office to sign for Certified letters?
Anyway. One showed up today. 10/5. Mailed on 9/23 from McAllen. Seems pretty slow. Long story short, dude wants to buy Mom’s house. The house is being sold “as is”. He says he has financing but that involves inspections and surveys and blah blah blah so he wants to do an Owner Finance deal. Pay it off in 15 years.
Smells like a scam.
Nope. I’m hitting 65 on the 30th and I do not want to be messing with this house when I’m 80.
Gimme all the money now so I have time to have fun wasting it on hookers and blow before I go to the nursing home.
I worked for DEC in St. Louis for 9 years, and I resented like hell the coastal attitude that anything technical had to be done in New England or maybe California, and we flyovers were just filling chairs and finding prospects for the coastals.
And yet it was those same Vice Presidents who ran the company into the ground.
On two occasions, we had multi-million dollar sales in the bag, but they wouldn’t let us close without supervision from sales specialists in Maynard. The specialists flew in and screwed us and the customer over. No sale.
I disbelieve that infrastructure and skills only exist in big blue high-tax states.
Dumb question here.
If almost everyone has a Smartypants Phone, why do the entities calling me from numbers not in my contacts not have the sense to send a text message when I don’t answer?
They may be leaving voice mail but I’ve managed to screw up my password for that. Standing around the Verizon store for 45 minutes for “your turn” (yes, stand or sit on the floor) to have that fixed is pretty much at the very bottom of my s#!t to do list.
“Poland asks US to host nuclear weapons amid growing fears of Putin’s threats”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/05/poland-us-nuclear-wars-russia-putin-ukraine
“Poland says it has asked to have US nuclear weapons based on its territory, amid growing fears that Vladimir Putin could resort to using nuclear arms in Ukraine to stave off a rout of his invading army.”
People are getting nervous, real nervous about Russia’s nukes.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
An optimistic view:
https://youtu.be/YiM2QICwGnk
Certified Mail and Registered Mail (R is the most secure) require a signature, but they can bring it to your door.
May I suggest a password app or just a notebook. For geezers.
plugs is the absolute worse:
“No one f*cks with a Biden”
I only post to compare when tRump was roasted for saying naughty stuff. plugs will get “he’s so tuff and a real man” from the LameStreamMedia.
Fat Jong Un launches another missile towards Japan:
North Korea fires ANOTHER ballistic missile towards Japan
He senses weakness in the FUSA.
Are the images of the Governor and President a preview of Inauguration Day 2025? Time will tell.
Fortunately, DeSantis isn’t a hugger … unlike Charlie Crist who destroyed his political future in the Republican Party of Florida hugging Obama after touring the damage from another storm.
Update: It wasn’t a storm event, but it *was* Fort Myers.
https://time.com/4608/the-hug-that-killed-my-republican-career/
Geesh, Charlie is a weasel.
Think the Japanese don’t have a nuke?
Greg:
I’m fairly sure that Japan does not presently have a nuclear weapon. I’m even MORE certain that they could assemble one in 3 days if they really wanted to.
Think the Japanese don’t have a nuke?
If anyone has a few stashed away, the Japanese and the Taiwanese do. The Japanese have the exhausted fuel for 50 years from 57 nuclear reactors. If they have a secret centrifuge base the size of 100 football fields, they could do it.
Greg:
I’m fairly sure that Japan does not presently have a nuclear weapon. I’m even MORE certain that they could assemble one in 3 days if they really wanted to.
Japan is going to need more than one nuke for crazy boy. And then what do they do when China retaliates for the 50 nukes they just dropped on Nork ?
I wonder if Russia would sell a few nuclear missiles to Japan for gold ? If only Japan and Russia had a really long border with each other that they could secretly exchange stuff across (they do !).
Japanese nuclear weapons: I suspect that they have the component parts for dozens, perhaps hundreds, of nuclear weapons, and could put them together on an assembly line if they thought they needed to.
That’s probably true for Taiwan as well.
And while I’m unaware that either nation has tested any IRBMs, I believe them perfectly capable of building them in a hurry.
And while I’m unaware that either nation has tested any IRBMs, I believe them perfectly capable of building them in a hurry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-range_ballistic_missile
I had to look it up as I was not sure what an IRBM was.
I wonder if Japan has the five gallon bucket on a monument somewhere, along with the correctly sized two gallon bucket, for showing what happens when you get in a hurry with nuclear materials.
For those who may not know, Japan has a breeder reactor (or two), and the correct size of the product transfer is a two gallon bucket. One day, somebody used a five gallon bucket and achieved critical mass in the bucket. Apparently they and a couple of other guys got radiated and died.
The Taiwanese had an active nuclear program into the first Bush administration. Crazy theories abound about how far long they were and who was helping in exchange for a finished product, the Afrikaaner SA government at the top of the list.
I’ve met a few Afrikaaner SA expats here in Austin, one of whom does high end AR-15 customization. Really serious people. I don’t write off the possibility that they have a nuke as an insurance policy against genocide. They don’t stick out because their English doesn’t have an accent like on “Lethal Weapon 2”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwC_IaY3BmY
Still the last time a sequel worked better than the original.
“Russian launches to space from US, 1st time in 20 years”
https://apnews.com/article/space-launches-russia-ukraine-spacex-exploration-science-8e2ba8ddc6438bf5f978a357caf77aff
“Elon Musk’s SpaceX has now launched eight crews since 2020: six for NASA and two private groups. Boeing, NASA’s other contracted taxi service, plans to make its first astronaut flight early next yea r, after delays to fix software and other issues that cropped up on test flights.”
Well that was fun. After my area recon, I put the pieces to work and started doing plumbing projects. Shut off the water at the newly discovered outdoor valve. It was buried in the yard. And when the previous one failed, he just left it in line, because it had the flare connection to the house,and added a gate valve upstream. Well, the neighbor dropped by, so I put him to work watching the lines I’d capped off in the bathroom while I turned the water back on…….. well, I turned the handle. And turned and turned until it came off in my hand. The water didn’t come back on.
This was at dusk.
So I dumped out all the buckets of fittings, made a plan, got my headlamp and went to work. Cut out the failed valve, and glued in new pipe and fittings. Gave the glue 20 minutes to set ( was using ‘medium’ so it sets pretty much instantly, but better safe, etc.) turned the water on at the street, and everything held. I’ve got water again.
Unexpected project, so I’m just getting my dinner ready.
Did the quick and dirty bypass of the valve because the foundation guys are going to redo the service entrance and remove those valves anyway. I had valves but one trade size down. Probably could have made it work, but why when it’s all scheduled to be replace in a week anyway?
Preps- in the form of several buckets of plumbing parts (the same ones that saved the day for my neighbors after the big freeze) and in the form of me knowing what to do, saved the day.
And my other repairs and modifications all held…
more plumbing tomorrow, and some electrical.
n
Gave the glue 20 minutes to set ( was using ‘medium’ so it sets pretty much instantly, but better safe, etc.) turned the water on at the street, and everything held. I’ve got water again.
I’ve glued PVC pipes together while the water was running out backwards from the house. Worked perfectly. Takes a while to drain a house.
For the second time since the start of the year, my primary Linux partition on my main desktop has gone Tango Uniform.
Linux Mint 20 and 21, but I’ve noticed strangeness from other Ubuntu installs or variants like Pop OS on my other machines. All of the weird behavior seems related to snaps.
The home server and road laptop run Fedora.
Speaking of plumbing . . .
Did I miss some news? Flags are at half staff in town…
n
Loretta Lynn?
They fly flags at half staff for too many reasons in violation of the flag code.
Process optimization.
Mr. Ray, is the mo ill hotspot you’ve been testing the Nighthawk M6? It’s up for preorder.
Crisis averted with Linux Mint 21 … for now.
The OS disables snaps by default. The problem was related to Wine.
I’m still seeing weirdness with snaps on the other Ubuntu flavors in the house.
Nice night. Very still and quiet. 40M booming, and shortwave all over the dial below 12Mhz coming in well. Lot of light in the sky from the moon but still saw a couple of shooting stars.
Plumbing repairs still holding…
Now for a shower and bed.
n
Like most gardening. My wife grows lots of stuff, and it’s nice having fresh produce all the time. But you can’t compete on cost with the grocery store.
I understand why snaps exist, but I still don’t like them. Having two parallel install systems is – at best – confusing.
My self-induced server problems were exacerbated by the fact that LXD moved from apt to snap. The migration process failed, and there was no way to skip it let the rest of the upgrade proceed. Reading notes from the developers, it seems that they deliberately fail the migration process, because they didn’t know how to migrate cleanly. Thanks, guys, can I have my weekend back?
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Thinking ahead to retirement, I talked to a local trade school yesterday. They’re in a pickle, having just had a lot of teachers leave all at once (retirement, pregnancy, unrelated causes). Could I somehow take over a couple of courses, like, yesterday?
Dunno if I want to add to my current workload, but it looks like a nice place to be semi-retired at. I’ll probably do it. Need to talk to my wife, first, because she’ll have to live with overworked me…
>> So having fast charging infrastructure is very important so that people can quickly charge and go to a shelter during the migrations.”
From 10-20% to 80% is still now at least 20-25 minutes. Not gonna cut it during a (panicked) evacuation.
This is an interesting approach that is being deployed by Nio in China. Approximately 500 “stations” and 20K swaps per day. And I believe 13 packs in the unit. For now it’s built by Nio and only supports their EVs. Of course, in China ‘standards’ across EV manufacturers may be more easily enforced. Also, the video didn’t talk about how long, in a worst case scenario (13 changes in (13 * 6) 78 minutes), how long to recharge all 13 batteries. But if Tony can support a dozen or more Superchargers in one location I guess theoretically they could recharge all 13 in parallel in 30(?) minutes. It also says the charged batteries are stored at 20 degrees (Celsius?). Would be interesting to see something like this in the US.
>>“Nuclear fusion plant to be built at West Burton A power station”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-63119465
Just 20 years away !
But you forgot to factor in that they move the goalposts every year…
>> Yup, infrared heat rays heat objects instead of heating the common medium, air.
A common example is radiant heat, either electric resistance or circulated water, under the tile floor in a bathroom (or elsewhere in the house). Have seen it in a couple of higher-end hotels (and This Old House).
>> “Micron to Build a $100 Billion Chip ‘Megafab’ in New York”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/micron-to-build-a-100-billion-chip-megafab-in-new-york
“When finished, the megafab’s cleanroom space will be the size of 40 US football fields.”
I would not build anything in New York State. Too controlling.
Speaking of football fields, just follow the example of the “New York” Jets and “New York” Giants. Call it the “New York” Megafab but build it in Jersey.
>> I thought you had to go to the post office to sign for Certified letters?
@paul, only when the ‘Return Receipt’ option is added. It’s the green postcard stuck to the back of the mailpiece that you have to sign which then gets mailed back to the sender.
>> I’m fairly sure that Japan does not presently have a nuclear weapon. I’m even MORE certain that they could assemble one in 3 days if they really wanted to.
And a guy with some 80% lowers presently has no gubs. Now about that milling machine in the basement…
“It’s the green postcard stuck to the back of the mailpiece that you have to sign which then gets mailed back to the sender.”
I just checked. No sign of the postcard. So why pay $4.60 to mail a letter w/o a way to know if it was received?
A tracking number was issued. A person going to the USPS website can get confirmation of delivery, just not to whom the item was delivered.