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A lithium battery fire that erupted at a Moss Landing power plant continues to smolder and Monterey County residents are asking public officials and the facility's leaders what health risks they now face. The fire erupted around 3 p.m. on Thursday at the Moss Landing Power Plant. The facility is a natural gas-powered electricity generation plant operated by Texas-based Vistra Energy. The facility also has two battery storage stations owned by PG&E and Vistra. On Friday morning, Monterey County officials and Vistra Energy executives, who operate the power plant, gave an update on the fire at a press conference. Supervisor Glenn Church said the incident could “best be described as a worse case scenario.” He went on to say that the “disaster” is more than just a fire. “This is a wake-up call for this industry,” he said. “If we’re going to be moving ahead with sustainable energy, we need to have a safe battery system in place.”Sounds really nasty. You would think that this idea would have occurred to someone earlier.
Even now, the homeless LA gliteratti, who soon may be allowed to sift through the ashes of their homes in hopes of finding the gold coins that looters haven't dug up yet, wonder how they could have been so gullible. They bought Newsom's climate change diktats hook, line, and gas can, and now their electric car doesn't work. Their beloved Tesla and their neighbor's Nissan Leaf are charred carbon hulks considered by the environment police to be portable toxic waste dumps. I'm sorry, sir, and you can't move it until we've studied the environmental externalities of your charred car. Grab a number. And no mocking these poor folks, America, because this Caltastrophe may have bought more time for the rest of the country to shout down the climate cultists in state houses across the country. California's proof of concept showed that climate nirvana doesn't protect the environment for humans. Indeed, though less important, it's now dawning on Angelenos, more than a week after the fires started, that they're witnessing the incineration of all the "greenhouse emissions reductions" promised in Newsom's 2035 gas car ban.Even without the fires, the ban looks pretty dumb to people suffering through normal power outages due to weather, road blockages and gridlock, etc.
Rebellion: The Beach Boys - Still Cruisin' (1989)
Governor Gavin Newsom and the state legislature have focused on less pressing but more politically useful topics.
. . . Floods and wildfire have defined this state since time immemorial. Climate change might be worsening these disasters, but the real “perfect storm” involves public policy. Instead of creating a resilient system that handles whatever Mother Nature throws our way, California’s progressive leaders have insisted on pursuing multiple costly policies designed to change the trajectory of the Earth’s weather patterns—heedless of the fact that California’s CO2 emissions make up less than 1 percent of world emissions, or that 2020’s wildfires added nearly double the CO2 emissions that the state had eliminated over the previous 16 years, per University of Chicago research. A substantial way to build resilience is to establish a functioning property-insurance market, which is vital for protecting property ownership and the economy. Instead, Governor Gavin Newsom has prioritized symbolic policymaking, like measures to battle so-called price-gouging and to “Trump-proof” the state, over fixing the insurance market. While state officials have finally introduced some modest but sensible insurance reforms, these won’t mean much in the face of a potential $150 billion in damages. It’s not as if California’s leaders didn’t know what was coming. . .They must "Trump-proof the state". They focused on this even after the fires began and Newsom started blathering about how Trump was going to help him create a new California dream for the Olympics.
Gavin Newsom: We’ve got a Marshall plan to rebuild Los Angeles 2.0
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) January 12, 2025
NBC: Tell us about that Marshall plan
Gavin Newsom: (puts up hands defensively) We’re just starting to lay it out. We are still fighting these firespic.twitter.com/ftM5AOteFQ
Floods and wildfire have defined this state since time immemorial. Climate change might be worsening these disasters, but the real “perfect storm” involves public policy. The 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act enshrines state regulatory authority over insurance. This system has worked relatively well over 80 years. But some states have done a better job of managing their markets than others. California and Florida provide an illustrative contrast. Democratic insurance commissioners in the Golden State have for years suppressed rates. Until recently, California was the only state that prohibited carriers from using catastrophe models to project disaster risk and pricing reinsurance costs into their premiums. Wildfires—exacerbated by the state’s poor land mismanagement—have swelled insurer claims and liabilities. Insurers are paying out $1.09 in expenses and claims for every $1 they collect in premiums. They’ve curbed their exposure in part by dropping policy holders in high-risk areas and leaving the market.
Unable to raise rates, many insurers have increased deductibles and capped maximum payments. That means insurers might not cover all of the fire damage, and some homeowners will face hefty rebuilding costs. Lucky for them the Federal Emergency Management Agency covers losses if homeowners are “under-insured.” This means taxpayers in Houston and Little Rock may pay for rebuilding multi-million-dollar homes in California. If FAIR becomes insolvent, all insurers in California—meaning their customers—are on the hook for its claims. Homeowners could see rates rise by thousands of dollars a year.It's all because of greedy insurance executives, you know.
Only two more days until we put Joe Biden’s rear end in our rearview mirror. Nature is healing already (except in California): Daniel Penny is back riding New York subways; DEI and climate madness are in retreat; Greenland rather likes the idea of manifest destiny. Settle in with an extra-large coffee—this is a super-epic inauguration special TWiP.
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Firstl!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:19 AM (0fHLt)
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I was 17 and $200 away from buying a MGB. The dude wouldn't budge and I didn't have the extra $200.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:20 AM (W/lyH)
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Nice Tom!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:22 AM (W/lyH)
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Mike Johnson tells a wild story about how Biden had no idea he paused LNG exports to Europe.
"He obviously has not been in charge for some time."
https://x.com/TheMaineWire/status/1880620672478847346
"He obviously has not been in charge for some time."
https://x.com/TheMaineWire/status/1880620672478847346
Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2025 11:22 AM (GITLP)
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My tweet is a banger, my dudes. Over 300, it's better than my bowling, and better than Leonidas's bodyguards.
https://x.com/BourbnChicken/status/1880429819957318002
https://x.com/BourbnChicken/status/1880429819957318002
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2025 11:22 AM (lhenN)
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“This is a wake-up call for this industry,”
Fire after fire after fire was not the wake-up call. But this one is.
Fire after fire after fire was not the wake-up call. But this one is.
Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2025 11:22 AM (xjAvD)
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Not many people, even in California, understand the consequences and ramifications of that battery storage facility. Solar only makes any sense on a large scale if you have large electrical storage facilities that charge during the day and supply power at night; that’s not only what this was, it was the largest such facility in the world. Not only was it completely destroyed, it will take many months just to deal with the smoldering, toxic wreckage covering the site now.
SoCal’s electric grid just took a huge hit and there’s no quick or easy fix in sight. The only thing on the plus side for them is that now, 30,000 structures that were using electricity don’t exist anymore.
SoCal’s electric grid just took a huge hit and there’s no quick or easy fix in sight. The only thing on the plus side for them is that now, 30,000 structures that were using electricity don’t exist anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:25 AM (0fHLt)
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Gavin Newsom: We’ve got a Marshall plan to rebuild Los Angeles 2.0
Step 1: raze a bunch of land. Forbid rebuilding, buy it cheap.
Step 1: raze a bunch of land. Forbid rebuilding, buy it cheap.
Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2025 11:25 AM (KtPtl)
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Rebuilding will require an underground water tank with 1000 gallons. To "Gavin-proof" a home is to make it a pretty good place in whatever year Fallout games are happening.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2025 11:26 AM (lhenN)
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Hmm...BMW has built a battery mfg plant about a mile from my house...wonder if that'll affect my insurance?
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 11:27 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: KT at January 18, 2025 11:27 AM (xekrU)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2025 11:29 AM (u1uWe)
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Recalled Oakland Dem Mayor Indicted by the FBI After Corruption Probe
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What part of "Oakland Dem Mayor" don't you understand?
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What part of "Oakland Dem Mayor" don't you understand?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 11:29 AM (L/fGl)
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Beach Boys fund raiser!
Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 11:29 AM (jgmnb)
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Good morning KT
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 11:30 AM (fwDg9)
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The facility burned completely to the ground, the site is toxic, people within a mile were being warned to stay indoors and try not to breathe the fumes, and chances of rebuilding look like a pipe dream right know. Yogi Berra could have said this:
“Supervisor Glenn Church said the incident could “best be described as a worse case scenario.”
Ya think?
“Supervisor Glenn Church said the incident could “best be described as a worse case scenario.”
Ya think?
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:30 AM (0fHLt)
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I was 17 and $200 away from buying a MGB. The dude wouldn't budge and I didn't have the extra $200.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:20 AM (W/lyH)
Lucky you.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:20 AM (W/lyH)
Lucky you.
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 11:30 AM (Yj6Os)
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I was watching an interview with a Palisades homeowner that lost everything. He said the insurance would pay $2.5 million. Then I saw there is an onslaught of groups looking to buy the burned out lots. My advice to the homeowner would be take the money and don't look back. $2.5 million plus what they would pay for a lot would buy some pretty nice digs elsewhere. Even if the guy was stuck in the area due to business or employment he could rebuild or buy something nice with a commute involved. Just not Palisades. If he wasn't tied down, it could be a great adventure.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 11:31 AM (gm9Sb)
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In Powerline week in pictures thought the Presidential chart was spot on
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 11:32 AM (fwDg9)
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>>A lithium battery fire that erupted ... and Monterey County residents are asking public officials and the facility's leaders what health risks they now face
Ask San Diego:
5/20/24 Otay Mesa battery facility fire could take weeks to put out entirely
A stubborn fire at a battery storage site in Otay Mesa is burning for a sixth day. Fire officials are preparing for it to potentially take weeks to put out. . .
“You have to put water on it to keep the fire confined, but that water damages the batteries also allowing them to arc starting another fire. We’re just trying to keep the public safe and keep the fire contained to the building,” he said.
The chain reaction can happen when a lithium-ion battery creates heat faster than it can dissipate. That rapid increase of temperature can then turn to fire.
Ask San Diego:
5/20/24 Otay Mesa battery facility fire could take weeks to put out entirely
A stubborn fire at a battery storage site in Otay Mesa is burning for a sixth day. Fire officials are preparing for it to potentially take weeks to put out. . .
“You have to put water on it to keep the fire confined, but that water damages the batteries also allowing them to arc starting another fire. We’re just trying to keep the public safe and keep the fire contained to the building,” he said.
The chain reaction can happen when a lithium-ion battery creates heat faster than it can dissipate. That rapid increase of temperature can then turn to fire.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2025 11:33 AM (u1uWe)
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>>>“This is a wake-up call for this industry,” he said. “If we’re going to be moving ahead with sustainable energy, we need to have a safe battery system in place.”
Sounds really nasty. You would think that this idea would have occurred to someone earlier
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Sounds like someone blaming poor installation on the other guy.
Sounds really nasty. You would think that this idea would have occurred to someone earlier
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Sounds like someone blaming poor installation on the other guy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 11:33 AM (rhmc0)
Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2025 11:33 AM (GITLP)
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Best Beach Boys video is when Dan Akroyd and John Belushi went to that fat tub of goo Brian Wilson's house and drug his pasty, flabby ass down to the beach to surf. Lying fat bastard was not a surfer. I think it was the first time he was ever on a board.
Posted by: Surfer Joe at January 18, 2025 11:34 AM (R/m4+)
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I suspect many houses that did survive, if not by grace of God or just pure luck had some way to fight fire on hand, like a pool to use.
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 11:34 AM (fwDg9)
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My trip to Ghana was a working educational seminar.
Accra Fire and Rescue gave a nice instructional presentation on how Fire Hydrants work. I've now taken this information back to LA with me so we can get a similar system going.
Accra Fire and Rescue gave a nice instructional presentation on how Fire Hydrants work. I've now taken this information back to LA with me so we can get a similar system going.
Posted by: KAREN BASS at January 18, 2025 11:34 AM (QxEBj)
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The lithium battery facility fire sounds like that boro in PA with the never ending coal mine fire. Or the Springfield tire fire on the Simpsons.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 11:35 AM (gm9Sb)
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SoCal’s electric grid just took a huge hit and there’s no quick or easy fix in sight. The only thing on the plus side for them is that now, 30,000 structures that were using electricity don’t exist anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:25 AM (0fHLt)
I predict the electrical rates of the citizens of Washington State and Oregon will double by this time next year.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:25 AM (0fHLt)
I predict the electrical rates of the citizens of Washington State and Oregon will double by this time next year.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:35 AM (W/lyH)
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“This is a wake-up call for this industry,” he said. “If we’re going to be moving ahead with sustainable energy, we need to have a safe battery system in place.”
like, maybe a controlled nuclear chain reaction?
like, maybe a controlled nuclear chain reaction?
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 11:37 AM (Yj6Os)
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"What do you want to bet that Gavin Newsom's ideas for California 2.0 don't include room for a lot of the dreams of ordinary people?"
I guess he didn't quite say the quiet part out loud just yet: affordable housing and apartment buildings in the Pacific Palisades.
I guess he didn't quite say the quiet part out loud just yet: affordable housing and apartment buildings in the Pacific Palisades.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 18, 2025 11:37 AM (yxcap)
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22 Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:25 AM
Have they finished closing Diablo Canyon yet ?
Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2025 11:33 AM (GITLP)
If you can believe this - suddenly Gavin is trying to keep it online as long as possible without doing any of the scheduled maintenance necessary to keep it going as long as possible.
Have they finished closing Diablo Canyon yet ?
Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2025 11:33 AM (GITLP)
If you can believe this - suddenly Gavin is trying to keep it online as long as possible without doing any of the scheduled maintenance necessary to keep it going as long as possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:38 AM (0fHLt)
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>>You have to put water on it to keep the fire confined, but that water damages the batteries also allowing them to arc starting another fire. We’re just trying to keep the public safe and keep the fire contained to the building,” he said.
In a state where water is already scarce, they have introduced -- pushed -- cars that require significantly more water to extinguish. The amount of water used to "contain" a battery warehouse fire must be unbelievable.
In a state where water is already scarce, they have introduced -- pushed -- cars that require significantly more water to extinguish. The amount of water used to "contain" a battery warehouse fire must be unbelievable.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2025 11:38 AM (u1uWe)
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I predict the electrical rates of the citizens of Washington State and Oregon will double by this time next year.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:35 AM (W/lyH)
I predict my bill is gonna' double this month.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:35 AM (W/lyH)
I predict my bill is gonna' double this month.
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 11:38 AM (Yj6Os)
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“You have to put water on it to keep the fire confined, but that water damages the batteries also allowing them to arc starting another fire.
So, you acknowledge that your firefighting technique causes more fires? That's interesting. The LAFD is looking for a new fire chief. Give them a call.
So, you acknowledge that your firefighting technique causes more fires? That's interesting. The LAFD is looking for a new fire chief. Give them a call.
Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2025 11:39 AM (4Nep/)
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I was 17 and $200 away from buying a MGB. The dude wouldn't budge and I didn't have the extra $200.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:20 AM (W/lyH)
Lucky you.
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 11:30 AM (Yj6Os)
***
I know.
My BNL bought a new one when he got back from VietNam. He sold it two years later.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:20 AM (W/lyH)
Lucky you.
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 11:30 AM (Yj6Os)
***
I know.
My BNL bought a new one when he got back from VietNam. He sold it two years later.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:40 AM (W/lyH)
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Where's that 'It Begins' Guy?
@disclosetv 14s
NEW - First case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in Georgia; emergency officials suspend all in-state poultry sales — Bloomberg
@disclosetv 14s
NEW - First case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in Georgia; emergency officials suspend all in-state poultry sales — Bloomberg
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 11:41 AM (mlg/3)
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I've about had a belly full of California. In fact, CA was trash before the fire. Actually, the fire illuminated how feckless CA was to a nation of voters who had been led by the nose because of CA's policy trend setting. 'As CA goes so goes the nation' via manufacturers (here's looking at you Big 3 for example) submitting. They fucked it they can fix it; Otherwise declare it a failed state and institute martial law.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 11:42 AM (rhmc0)
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@disclosetv 14s
NEW - First case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in Georgia; emergency officials suspend all in-state poultry sales — Bloomberg
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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If those birds are chicken fried are they still pathogenic?
NEW - First case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in Georgia; emergency officials suspend all in-state poultry sales — Bloomberg
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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If those birds are chicken fried are they still pathogenic?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 11:43 AM (rhmc0)
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>>The lithium battery facility fire sounds like that boro in PA with the never ending coal mine fire.
In Marshall, CO there have been underground coal fires for 100+ years. When a huge wildfire broke out in 2021, and destroyed 1000+ buildings/homes, they eventually blamed it on. . . the local electric company.
In Marshall, CO there have been underground coal fires for 100+ years. When a huge wildfire broke out in 2021, and destroyed 1000+ buildings/homes, they eventually blamed it on. . . the local electric company.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2025 11:45 AM (u1uWe)
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Moss Landing... I wonder if Phil's Seafood Market is still there? I used to drive up from Monterey about every other month and stock up.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 11:45 AM (Q4IgG)
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30 22 Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:25 AM
Have they finished closing Diablo Canyon yet ?
Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2025 11:33 AM (GITLP)
If you can believe this - suddenly Gavin is trying to keep it online as long as possible without doing any of the scheduled maintenance necessary to keep it going as long as possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:38 AM (0fHLt
We should build more nuke plants. They work.
Have they finished closing Diablo Canyon yet ?
Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2025 11:33 AM (GITLP)
If you can believe this - suddenly Gavin is trying to keep it online as long as possible without doing any of the scheduled maintenance necessary to keep it going as long as possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:38 AM (0fHLt
We should build more nuke plants. They work.
Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 11:46 AM (jgmnb)
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If those birds are chicken fried are they still pathogenic?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 11:43 AM (rhmc0)
Better hurry to Bojangles/KFC
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 11:43 AM (rhmc0)
Better hurry to Bojangles/KFC
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 11:46 AM (Yj6Os)
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In a state where water is already scarce, they have introduced -- pushed -- cars that require significantly more water to extinguish. The amount of water used to "contain" a battery warehouse fire must be unbelievable.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2025 11:38 AM (u1uWe)
I should find one of the videos of the fire. Imagine those you’ve seen of an EV car fire times 1,000. Any firefighter that even tried to approach it had to be in a full hazmat suit because the fumes were so toxic.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2025 11:38 AM (u1uWe)
I should find one of the videos of the fire. Imagine those you’ve seen of an EV car fire times 1,000. Any firefighter that even tried to approach it had to be in a full hazmat suit because the fumes were so toxic.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:47 AM (0fHLt)
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Wonder how many $150 tickets have been handed out in CA over the years for parking in front of dry hydrants.
Posted by: Under Pressure at January 18, 2025 11:47 AM (G5+As)
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5 My tweet is a banger, my dudes. Over 300, it's better than my bowling, and better than Leonidas's bodyguards.
https://x.com/BourbnChicken/status/1880429819957318002
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2025 11:22 AM (lhenN)
Have it your way. I like your cooking.
https://x.com/BourbnChicken/status/1880429819957318002
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2025 11:22 AM (lhenN)
Have it your way. I like your cooking.
Posted by: Winslow, spillin his beans at January 18, 2025 11:47 AM (ybSPO)
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24 I suspect many houses that did survive, if not by grace of God or just pure luck had some way to fight fire on hand, like a pool to use.
Posted by: Skip
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They'll get fined. It's against the law to have gasoline powered water pumps.
Posted by: Skip
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They'll get fined. It's against the law to have gasoline powered water pumps.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 11:47 AM (rhmc0)
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35 Where's that 'It Begins' Guy?
@disclosetv 14s
NEW - First case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in Georgia; emergency officials suspend all in-state poultry sales — Bloomberg
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 11:41 AM (mlg/3)
Covid 2.0. Deny the will of the people.
@disclosetv 14s
NEW - First case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in Georgia; emergency officials suspend all in-state poultry sales — Bloomberg
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 11:41 AM (mlg/3)
Covid 2.0. Deny the will of the people.
Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 11:48 AM (jgmnb)
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>>>Sounds really nasty. You would think that this idea would have occurred to someone earlier.
>Nobody listens to me. I think the DOT should have checkpoints for EVs and inspections and permitting before crossing state lines.
Those fucking novelties are hazard waste on wheels.
>Nobody listens to me. I think the DOT should have checkpoints for EVs and inspections and permitting before crossing state lines.
Those fucking novelties are hazard waste on wheels.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 11:50 AM (hXQfZ)
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Back in the wagon train days a fisherman thought it would be a good idea to plant striped bass from the Chesapeake Bay to the San Pablo Bay. So he put barrels of the critters on wagons and pulled them all the way across America to dump the survivors into San Pablo Bay.
Striped Bass are a carnivorous fish and the fish that the bass out West preferred to eat was the smelt.
It's very very illegal but if you really want to catch one of those 35 pound beauties for a beer battered feast first catch a steelhead trout and bait him up for the bass. There's a whole getup you need to be regularly successful fishing for them. It's been many years since I fished so don't be looking at me.
Striped Bass are a carnivorous fish and the fish that the bass out West preferred to eat was the smelt.
It's very very illegal but if you really want to catch one of those 35 pound beauties for a beer battered feast first catch a steelhead trout and bait him up for the bass. There's a whole getup you need to be regularly successful fishing for them. It's been many years since I fished so don't be looking at me.
Posted by: torabora at January 18, 2025 11:51 AM (Ar52Y)
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Man..K. T.....hatin' on California this morning..? (Laughing!)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 11:51 AM (QGaXH)
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Thx K T. Everything is falling apart in Cali at once. Fires in LA, battery storage facility destroyed, illegals overrunning the state, and Trump is being sworn in. Newsom is having a real bad year. Cue Nelson Muntz
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 18, 2025 11:52 AM (fTvka)
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Planning to buy my wife an MGB for our 25th anniversary, and had found a nice restored one in NJ and had put down the deposit.
Five days before heading down to get it she wakes up dead.
Guy was nice enough to cancel the sale, but I regret no having bought it. Timing just wasn't right.
Five days before heading down to get it she wakes up dead.
Guy was nice enough to cancel the sale, but I regret no having bought it. Timing just wasn't right.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 11:52 AM (4780s)
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Nobody listens to me. I think the DOT should have checkpoints for EVs and inspections and permitting before crossing state lines.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 11:50 AM (hXQfZ)
They could piggyback 'em w/the agricultural check points.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 11:50 AM (hXQfZ)
They could piggyback 'em w/the agricultural check points.
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 11:53 AM (Yj6Os)
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No matter how much Trump accomplishes, the end of the Dem dark era is immeasurably beneficial to the world.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at January 18, 2025 11:53 AM (xA5g+)
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@disclosetv 14s
NEW - First case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in Georgia; emergency officials suspend all in-state poultry sales
A pathogen so highly pathogenic that we just found it via a test that we happened to prepare for this moment. It appeared out of thin air, folks, nothing we could do!
NEW - First case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in Georgia; emergency officials suspend all in-state poultry sales
A pathogen so highly pathogenic that we just found it via a test that we happened to prepare for this moment. It appeared out of thin air, folks, nothing we could do!
Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2025 11:55 AM (CFrOc)
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The Three-Mile Island incident basically put a moratorium on nuclear power in America, stoking fears of an apocalyptic wasteland like Chernobyl (which was the epitomy of Russian intelligence and design).
Meanwhile, we're having all these Li-Ion fires that, when ignited, basically cause a chain-meltdown - both in the battery itself, in the device it is stored (usually an electric vehicle), and in nearby devices (electric vehicles parked nearby). These fires are sustained, as dumping water on it does little but suck up a bit of the thermal energy, quickly replaced by the molten core of the battery fire.
Not to mention the fallout after these fires, with various chemicals becoming airborne and dispersed, as well as others that get into the ground. Toxic chemicals from the batteries themselves, from the melting of the EVs and similar objects, as well as any other nasty things that manage to be created from the Vulcan forge of a Li-Ion fire.
Yet the Watermelons (green outside, red inside) push these dangerous things; probably the progeny and students of the same useful idiots that worked against nuclear energy technology.
Meanwhile, we're having all these Li-Ion fires that, when ignited, basically cause a chain-meltdown - both in the battery itself, in the device it is stored (usually an electric vehicle), and in nearby devices (electric vehicles parked nearby). These fires are sustained, as dumping water on it does little but suck up a bit of the thermal energy, quickly replaced by the molten core of the battery fire.
Not to mention the fallout after these fires, with various chemicals becoming airborne and dispersed, as well as others that get into the ground. Toxic chemicals from the batteries themselves, from the melting of the EVs and similar objects, as well as any other nasty things that manage to be created from the Vulcan forge of a Li-Ion fire.
Yet the Watermelons (green outside, red inside) push these dangerous things; probably the progeny and students of the same useful idiots that worked against nuclear energy technology.
Posted by: Another Anon at January 18, 2025 11:56 AM (QNMaY)
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2 I was 17 and $200 away from buying a MGB. The dude wouldn't budge and I didn't have the extra $200.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:20 AM (W/lyH)
I had one sitting at my In-laws place in Berry Creek CA. Never got it running and it burned up in the fire.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 11:20 AM (W/lyH)
I had one sitting at my In-laws place in Berry Creek CA. Never got it running and it burned up in the fire.
Posted by: Reforger at January 18, 2025 11:57 AM (xcIvR)
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>>>They could piggyback 'em w/the agricultural check points.
Posted by: BignJames
>It makes sense. And if the Federal Government is really gungho about alternative green bullshit, they can build and maintain charging stations at the same location, and put our money where their mouth is.
Or put their mouth on my sustainable cock.
Posted by: BignJames
>It makes sense. And if the Federal Government is really gungho about alternative green bullshit, they can build and maintain charging stations at the same location, and put our money where their mouth is.
Or put their mouth on my sustainable cock.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 11:59 AM (hXQfZ)
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>>A pathogen so highly pathogenic that we just found it via a test that we happened to prepare for this moment. It appeared out of thin air, folks, nothing we could do!
. . . and days before Trump is sworn in!
It's like a 'pandemic to-go' order was just delivered.
. . . and days before Trump is sworn in!
It's like a 'pandemic to-go' order was just delivered.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2025 12:00 PM (u1uWe)
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> The Three-Mile Island incident basically put a moratorium on nuclear power in America, stoking fears of an apocalyptic wasteland like Chernobyl (which was the epitomy of Russian intelligence and design).
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I think the movie "The China Syndrome" was created to foster fear in nuclear power and kill it. I watched it a couple years ago and it just comes across as anti-nuke and it'll kill you.
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I think the movie "The China Syndrome" was created to foster fear in nuclear power and kill it. I watched it a couple years ago and it just comes across as anti-nuke and it'll kill you.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 12:00 PM (Q4IgG)
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55 The Three-Mile Island incident basically put a moratorium on nuclear power in America, stoking fears of an apocalyptic wasteland like Chernobyl (which was the epitomy of Russian intelligence and design).
Yet the Watermelons (green outside, red inside) push these dangerous things; probably the progeny and students of the same useful idiots that worked against nuclear energy technology.
Posted by: Another Anon at January 18, 2025 11:56 AM (QNMaY
I remember Three Mile Island well. I remember my father stating '...well since they got Vietnam ended Joan Baez and her friends didn't have anything to do...then this came along and gave their lives meaning once again....'
Yet the Watermelons (green outside, red inside) push these dangerous things; probably the progeny and students of the same useful idiots that worked against nuclear energy technology.
Posted by: Another Anon at January 18, 2025 11:56 AM (QNMaY
I remember Three Mile Island well. I remember my father stating '...well since they got Vietnam ended Joan Baez and her friends didn't have anything to do...then this came along and gave their lives meaning once again....'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 12:00 PM (QGaXH)
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Looks like I have a hawk on the ground in my backyard. May have caught one of the grackles eating the cat food.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:01 PM (NQtI0)
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. . . and days before Trump is sworn in!
It's like a 'pandemic to-go' order was just delivered.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2025 12:00 PM (u1uWe)
Now the streets will be littered with little tiny blue paper masks shaped like a beak.
It's like a 'pandemic to-go' order was just delivered.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2025 12:00 PM (u1uWe)
Now the streets will be littered with little tiny blue paper masks shaped like a beak.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2025 12:01 PM (+iIV1)
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Holy Toledo, that sidebar video of the "legless" "leg-challenged" firefighter is comedy gold!
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2025 12:02 PM (qBdHI)
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51 "...Timing just wasn't right."
Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 11:52 AM (4780s)
Understatement of the year!
Condolences for your loss...
Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 11:52 AM (4780s)
Understatement of the year!
Condolences for your loss...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 12:02 PM (QGaXH)
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Didja hear that Gubnor Gavin was near the burning front of the fire and some flying embers nearly fell on his hair?
California had a near brush with disaster -- that slick hair would have gone up like the Kuwaiti oil fields back when Saddam's forces retreated to Iraq in the Gulf War and they torched the works.
Didja hear that Gubnor Gavin was near the burning front of the fire and some flying embers nearly fell on his hair?
California had a near brush with disaster -- that slick hair would have gone up like the Kuwaiti oil fields back when Saddam's forces retreated to Iraq in the Gulf War and they torched the works.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 18, 2025 12:02 PM (CE2fs)
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:02 PM (fwDg9)
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There ought to be a formal swearing out ceremony, too.
Maybe something involving feathers, riding backwards on a donkey, that sort of thing.
Maybe something involving feathers, riding backwards on a donkey, that sort of thing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2025 12:04 PM (+iIV1)
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@disclosetv 14s
NEW - First case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in Georgia; emergency officials suspend all in-state
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At Publix 2 days ago, the entire egg case was empty, save for the $10/dozen Vital Farms eggs. Employee said it was from bird flu. Get your eggs while you can. Luckily for me, we have a farm lady down the road with chickens and we get ours straight from the farm.
NEW - First case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in Georgia; emergency officials suspend all in-state
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At Publix 2 days ago, the entire egg case was empty, save for the $10/dozen Vital Farms eggs. Employee said it was from bird flu. Get your eggs while you can. Luckily for me, we have a farm lady down the road with chickens and we get ours straight from the farm.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2025 12:05 PM (qBdHI)
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42 In a state where water is already scarce, they have introduced -- pushed -- cars that require significantly more water to extinguish. The amount of water used to "contain" a battery warehouse fire must be unbelievable.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2025 11:38 AM (u1uWe)
I should find one of the videos of the fire. Imagine those you’ve seen of an EV car fire times 1,000. Any firefighter that even tried to approach it had to be in a full hazmat suit because the fumes were so toxic.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:47 AM (0fHLt)
We need common sense EV control......
More practically - there is a huge opportunity for someone who can come up with an effective EV fire suppressant system...
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2025 11:38 AM (u1uWe)
I should find one of the videos of the fire. Imagine those you’ve seen of an EV car fire times 1,000. Any firefighter that even tried to approach it had to be in a full hazmat suit because the fumes were so toxic.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 11:47 AM (0fHLt)
We need common sense EV control......
More practically - there is a huge opportunity for someone who can come up with an effective EV fire suppressant system...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 12:05 PM (QGaXH)
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San Francisco Settles With Judicial Watch, Will End Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Guaranteed Income Program
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Not the Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Guaranteed Income Program!
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Not the Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Guaranteed Income Program!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 12:05 PM (L/fGl)
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On the "Joseph Lucas made the best gas valves, and never even saw a light switch" front, I'll just report that my sister had an MGB for years, thoroughly enjoyed it, and never had any trouble other than long waits for scheduled service at the dealer. She traded it in on something that had more cargo space. Second dog.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 18, 2025 12:06 PM (zdLoL)
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>>>Didja hear that Gubnor Gavin was near the burning front of the fire and some flying embers nearly fell on his hair?
California had a near brush with disaster -- that slick hair would have gone up like the Kuwaiti oil fields back when Saddam's forces retreated to Iraq in the Gulf War and they torched the works.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)
>I saw that dork wearing a ball cap when he was posing for the cameras.
I've never looked at the MSDS for Brylcreem but I can imagine the flashpoint may be of some concern.
California had a near brush with disaster -- that slick hair would have gone up like the Kuwaiti oil fields back when Saddam's forces retreated to Iraq in the Gulf War and they torched the works.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)
>I saw that dork wearing a ball cap when he was posing for the cameras.
I've never looked at the MSDS for Brylcreem but I can imagine the flashpoint may be of some concern.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 12:06 PM (hXQfZ)
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Birdflu is spread by wild birds. Killing chickns won't stop that.
My stepdad had an MGB, MGA and a Porsche. He was a jerk and the marriage didn't last, but I got to ride in them.
My stepdad had an MGB, MGA and a Porsche. He was a jerk and the marriage didn't last, but I got to ride in them.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:06 PM (NQtI0)
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Not really having to do with anything (except smelt, looked up cooking instructions) Steak and Shake is going back to beef tallow for fries and all things deep fried.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:06 PM (gm9Sb)
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It's so simple.
Just dunk a burning EV in a big vat of water, and use the steam to spin a turbine. Bury what's left in a shitty mountain in the middle of nowhere. Power for days.
Just dunk a burning EV in a big vat of water, and use the steam to spin a turbine. Bury what's left in a shitty mountain in the middle of nowhere. Power for days.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2025 12:06 PM (+iIV1)
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The lithium battery facility fire sounds like that boro in PA with the never ending coal mine fire
Centralia. The minister of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that sponsors our scout troop hails from there.
The lithium battery facility fire sounds like that boro in PA with the never ending coal mine fire
Centralia. The minister of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that sponsors our scout troop hails from there.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 18, 2025 12:09 PM (CE2fs)
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🎶🎸
Stopped into a church… I passed along the way…
Well, I got down on my knees… and I began to pray…
The preacher's hair was purple… pretty sure she's gay…
California burnin'…
Stopped into a church… I passed along the way…
Well, I got down on my knees… and I began to pray…
The preacher's hair was purple… pretty sure she's gay…
California burnin'…
Posted by: mindful webworker - parody parity at January 18, 2025 12:09 PM (Mud1j)
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We need common sense EV control......
They have those diamond hazard placards and controls and restrictions on trucks. We could put them on EV's, too. Perhaps a monthly hazardous materials permit?
They have those diamond hazard placards and controls and restrictions on trucks. We could put them on EV's, too. Perhaps a monthly hazardous materials permit?
Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2025 12:09 PM (CFrOc)
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And Dennis Wilson was the surfer, not Brian.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:10 PM (NQtI0)
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It can be lunch time
Oh wait I am home so anytime can be lunch time
Oh wait I am home so anytime can be lunch time
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:10 PM (fwDg9)
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They have those diamond hazard placards and controls and restrictions on trucks. We could put them on EV's, too. Perhaps a monthly hazardous materials permit?
Posted by: t-bird
Definitely this. Let the swells who own them face the discomfort that comes from driving a portable fire ignition source.
They have those diamond hazard placards and controls and restrictions on trucks. We could put them on EV's, too. Perhaps a monthly hazardous materials permit?
Posted by: t-bird
Definitely this. Let the swells who own them face the discomfort that comes from driving a portable fire ignition source.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 18, 2025 12:12 PM (CE2fs)
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Vistra Energy wants to put a huge lithium battery storage in Morro Bay and no one wants it except the politicians and I assume the people making money.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 18, 2025 12:12 PM (CMcGo)
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Had that MGB above in orange. Wow. Handled like a GoKart on those curvy NY country roads...when it started. It usually didn't start on the summer days when i could put the top down.
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:13 PM (Ii0B5)
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You'd think with the left's fear of most things tech that improve life they'd be anti-Lithium batteries due to their toxicity.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 12:13 PM (Q4IgG)
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79 And Dennis Wilson was the surfer, not Brian.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:10 PM (NQtI0)
There are approximately zero black black metal singers.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:10 PM (NQtI0)
There are approximately zero black black metal singers.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 18, 2025 12:14 PM (+iIV1)
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Birdflu is spread by wild birds. Killing chickns won't stop that.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
How about we put bird meat in cat food so we can wipe out cat ladies' cats?
(true story)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
How about we put bird meat in cat food so we can wipe out cat ladies' cats?
(true story)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:14 PM (VrrwH)
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Beach Boys were a pretty good cover band, when they chose to be. "Dreamin' " is not theirs, it's by the awful Mamas'n'Papas Phillips. Really, at 'our age' there's no reason not to be dumping on Stan Kenton or Gene Krupa instead.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 18, 2025 12:16 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - birds are an op at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (XLQLg)
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https://tinyurl.com/4dhxu6kw
CTH on the 'crats at justice. "These people are not willingly
going to leave their offices. They are going to have to be forcibly terminated with extreme prejudice."
CTH on the 'crats at justice. "These people are not willingly
going to leave their offices. They are going to have to be forcibly terminated with extreme prejudice."
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (MDBTH)
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My stepdad had an MGB, MGA and a Porsche. He was a jerk and the marriage didn't last, but I got to ride in them.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:06 PM (NQtI0)
Sweet. MGA was cool. Do you remember what year Porsche?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:06 PM (NQtI0)
Sweet. MGA was cool. Do you remember what year Porsche?
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (Ii0B5)
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83 Opels. Opel Kadet. Opel Rally Kadet. Opel GT. Any Opel. Makes you wish for a MGB. Or any Lucas cursed British Motors so called car.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (gm9Sb)
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I guess that I will be eating oatmeal for breakfast after I run out of eggs.
Posted by: No one of any consequence at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (ZmEVT)
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We have a LI battery recycling place called Redwood Industries over in our industrial complex.
I went in to apply when I thought it was a facility to process burnt trees. Found out what it is and left.
No way am I going to work in a firebomb waiting to go off.
I went in to apply when I thought it was a facility to process burnt trees. Found out what it is and left.
No way am I going to work in a firebomb waiting to go off.
Posted by: Reforger at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (xcIvR)
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Here is an article that has a study says a battery storage fire wouldn't be harmful at all.
https://tinyurl.com/yc3kmfwm
https://tinyurl.com/yc3kmfwm
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 18, 2025 12:18 PM (CMcGo)
Posted by: No one of any consequence at January 18, 2025 12:19 PM (ZmEVT)
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Population of China Falls for Third Straight Year
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Maybe they could use some wet backs. Fill a few container freighter . . .
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Maybe they could use some wet backs. Fill a few container freighter . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 12:19 PM (L/fGl)
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I don't because I don't remember important car details. I believe from the 50s because they were married in the mid 60s. It was the very curvy one that looked like it smiled.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:19 PM (NQtI0)
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Thx K T. Everything is falling apart in Cali at once. Fires in LA, battery storage facility destroyed, illegals overrunning the state, and Trump is being sworn in. Newsom is having a real bad year. Cue Nelson Muntz
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 18, 2025 11:52 AM (fTvka)
These are the times when people in authority need extra security. I'd say that's impossible in America, but then California isn't really American.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 18, 2025 11:52 AM (fTvka)
These are the times when people in authority need extra security. I'd say that's impossible in America, but then California isn't really American.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 12:19 PM (W/lyH)
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Opels. Opel Kadet. Opel Rally Kadet. Opel GT. Any Opel. Makes you wish for a MGB. Or any Lucas cursed British Motors so called car.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (gm9Sb)
Should have bought the Datsun 240Z instead of the MGB. They seemed bullet proof.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (gm9Sb)
Should have bought the Datsun 240Z instead of the MGB. They seemed bullet proof.
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:20 PM (Ii0B5)
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95 "Redwood Industries?"
Hell should rename itself Heavenly Haven.
Posted by: No one of any consequence at January 18, 2025 12:19 PM (ZmEVT)
So you can see why I was a bit confused as to what they do.
Hell should rename itself Heavenly Haven.
Posted by: No one of any consequence at January 18, 2025 12:19 PM (ZmEVT)
So you can see why I was a bit confused as to what they do.
Posted by: Reforger at January 18, 2025 12:21 PM (xcIvR)
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Condolences for your loss...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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Years ago now. Most here well aware of it. Think of her every day, no regrets, just grateful. People disappear if you don't mention them, won't let that happen.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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Years ago now. Most here well aware of it. Think of her every day, no regrets, just grateful. People disappear if you don't mention them, won't let that happen.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 12:21 PM (4780s)
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NEW - First case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) detected in Georgia
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Wasn't the "bird flu" thing run late last year? What's the deal with running it again?
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Wasn't the "bird flu" thing run late last year? What's the deal with running it again?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 12:21 PM (Q4IgG)
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they were married in the mid 60s. It was the very curvy one that looked like it smiled.
The wife?
The wife?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 18, 2025 12:21 PM (OEjZ1)
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97 I don't because I don't remember important car details. I believe from the 50s because they were married in the mid 60s. It was the very curvy one that looked like it smiled.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:19 PM (NQtI0)
I know the one. Very cool. Worth a fortune now.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:19 PM (NQtI0)
I know the one. Very cool. Worth a fortune now.
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:21 PM (Ii0B5)
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I had a 1952 BRG MG TD as my high school ride.
There was (and might still be) a Moss Motors in Goleta CA when I was growing up.
Moss Motor took a whole bunch of my money for parts.
I'd love to have another MG TD; but, I'd only be able to drive it in the Winter here.
There was (and might still be) a Moss Motors in Goleta CA when I was growing up.
Moss Motor took a whole bunch of my money for parts.
I'd love to have another MG TD; but, I'd only be able to drive it in the Winter here.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:21 PM (VrrwH)
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Sounds really nasty. You would think that this idea would have occurred to someone earlier
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You know what we should do? Build an engine out of Magnesium metal and cool it with gasoline, it will be great since the gasoline is right there in the engine, and it preheats it for more efficient burning!
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You know what we should do? Build an engine out of Magnesium metal and cool it with gasoline, it will be great since the gasoline is right there in the engine, and it preheats it for more efficient burning!
Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 12:23 PM (D7oie)
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Smelt run in SW Washington State begins in about a month.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 12:23 PM (W/lyH)
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Tesla was quick to define the situation: the big battery fire does not include any of their installations. "Don't look at us!"
I wonder why you'd use natural gas generators to charge a battery back-up station. Natural gas "peakers" are used in the rest of the country to provide power on call when other sources reach their limits. NG is such a useful component in other processes that it seems wasteful to burn it up just for electricity. In a stationary unit, you can get low-grade oil or coal to burn almost as clean. We've become wastrels in this regard.
I wonder why you'd use natural gas generators to charge a battery back-up station. Natural gas "peakers" are used in the rest of the country to provide power on call when other sources reach their limits. NG is such a useful component in other processes that it seems wasteful to burn it up just for electricity. In a stationary unit, you can get low-grade oil or coal to burn almost as clean. We've become wastrels in this regard.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 18, 2025 12:23 PM (zdLoL)
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“This is a wake-up call for this industry,” he said. “If we’re going to be moving ahead with sustainable energy, we need to have a safe battery system in place.”
Sounds really nasty. You would think that this idea would have occurred to someone earlier
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Sounds like someone blaming poor installation on the other guy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 11:33 AM (rhmc0)
Lead-acid batteries don't burn. If badly shorted, they might boil over, arc, and melt, but damage would be mostly confined to the site. There is no particular benefit for batteries in a fixed storage facility to be compact or light weight. And lead-acid batteries, once worn out, are 100% recyclable with existing technology.
Sounds really nasty. You would think that this idea would have occurred to someone earlier
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Sounds like someone blaming poor installation on the other guy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 11:33 AM (rhmc0)
Lead-acid batteries don't burn. If badly shorted, they might boil over, arc, and melt, but damage would be mostly confined to the site. There is no particular benefit for batteries in a fixed storage facility to be compact or light weight. And lead-acid batteries, once worn out, are 100% recyclable with existing technology.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:24 PM (8zz6B)
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And the thing is, it was beautifully restored, and a good price, about $10k in 1985.
One of those guys it was all in the restoration work, little further interest when done. He drove an old van.
One of those guys it was all in the restoration work, little further interest when done. He drove an old van.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 12:24 PM (4780s)
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I had a 1952 BRG MG TD as my high school ride.
There was (and might still be) a Moss Motors in Goleta CA when I was growing up.
Moss Motor took a whole bunch of my money for parts.
I'd love to have another MG TD; but, I'd only be able to drive it in the Winter here.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:21 PM (VrrwH)
Nice. My dream car was (is) a TR 6.
There was (and might still be) a Moss Motors in Goleta CA when I was growing up.
Moss Motor took a whole bunch of my money for parts.
I'd love to have another MG TD; but, I'd only be able to drive it in the Winter here.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:21 PM (VrrwH)
Nice. My dream car was (is) a TR 6.
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:24 PM (Ii0B5)
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91 83 Opels. Opel Kadet. Opel Rally Kadet. Opel GT. Any Opel. Makes you wish for a MGB. Or any Lucas cursed British Motors so called car.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (gm9Sb)
Friend who had several classic (50's, 60's) Mini-Coopers used to refer to their electrical system as the 'Lucas Prince-of-Darkness electrical system.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (gm9Sb)
Friend who had several classic (50's, 60's) Mini-Coopers used to refer to their electrical system as the 'Lucas Prince-of-Darkness electrical system.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 12:24 PM (QGaXH)
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Should have bought the Datsun 240Z instead of the MGB. They seemed bullet proof.
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:20 PM (Ii0B5)
I could have had one on the pier at the end of last deployment for around $3500 in 1970 when I got out of the Navy. But was talked out of it. One is parked on the street couple miles from my house.
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:20 PM (Ii0B5)
I could have had one on the pier at the end of last deployment for around $3500 in 1970 when I got out of the Navy. But was talked out of it. One is parked on the street couple miles from my house.
Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 12:26 PM (jgmnb)
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99 We had a dealership in my home town that was an "official dealership" of many brands. Back then, you order one car, get a couple hundred bucks in parts in the parts department, and they give you a sign. We had one of those that hustled stuff like Morris Minors (the one on the showroom floor), Triumph Heralds (the one on the showroom floor) or an Austin America (you get it). Place was kinda fun, the salesmen all had part time jobs, the mechs back in service spoke in really weird accents.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:26 PM (gm9Sb)
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Friend who had several classic (50's, 60's) Mini-Coopers used to refer to their electrical system as the 'Lucas Prince-of-Darkness electrical system.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 12:24 PM (QGaXH)[/]
"The only reason Lucas never made a computer is because they could never figure out how to make them leak"
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 12:24 PM (QGaXH)[/]
"The only reason Lucas never made a computer is because they could never figure out how to make them leak"
Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 12:26 PM (D7oie)
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Aaron Rodgers Rips L.A. Wildfire Arsonists – Questions “Humanity in General”
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Yeah, those humanity bastards suck!
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Yeah, those humanity bastards suck!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)
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Struck me with the Camp fire that burned most of the town of Paradise to the ground in 2018. All the extra regulations to limit pollution were negated in a day when all those houses full of plastic appliances, household chemeicals, and so on went up in flames because they couldn't use bulldozers to clear out the brush under the power lines because it might take out some bushes that some endangered bugs nested in.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 18, 2025 12:28 PM (34pOu)
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They'll get fined. It's against the law to have gasoline powered water pumps.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 11:47 AM (rhmc0)
To have one, or to sell them in California? Wouldn't the old ones be grandfathered?
Fool the bastards! Get a steam pump fueled by coal.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 11:47 AM (rhmc0)
To have one, or to sell them in California? Wouldn't the old ones be grandfathered?
Fool the bastards! Get a steam pump fueled by coal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:29 PM (8zz6B)
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Wow, starting Saturday with 2 of my favorites old bands ever, the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas (as sung by the Beach Boys!).
Wow, starting Saturday with 2 of my favorites old bands ever, the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas (as sung by the Beach Boys!).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 18, 2025 12:29 PM (lCaJd)
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those regulations were never intended to make the world better or safer, they were intended to force people to jump through hoops and pay the government lots of money to evade them.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2025 12:30 PM (D7oie)
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Leftism usually is one step convoluted thinking
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:31 PM (fwDg9)
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Chiefs Heiress Gracie Hunt Boldly Credits Taylor Swift for a 40% Surge in Chiefs Fanbase
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So she's like a mascot?
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So she's like a mascot?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 12:32 PM (L/fGl)
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These are the times when people in authority need extra security. I'd say that's impossible in America, but then California isn't really American.
Posted by: Diogenes
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It's close to martial law time. Restore basic necessities: order, electricity, water, health and civil services (law and fire). None of these items are functioning properly or to American standard in CA. Their civil authorities are incompetent and dysfunctional. It is a result of a faulty and corrupt electoral system.
Martial law should be instituted to restore CA to a functional level equal to the norm of the rest of America.
These are the times when people in authority need extra security. I'd say that's impossible in America, but then California isn't really American.
Posted by: Diogenes
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It's close to martial law time. Restore basic necessities: order, electricity, water, health and civil services (law and fire). None of these items are functioning properly or to American standard in CA. Their civil authorities are incompetent and dysfunctional. It is a result of a faulty and corrupt electoral system.
Martial law should be instituted to restore CA to a functional level equal to the norm of the rest of America.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 12:32 PM (rhmc0)
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There was (and might still be) a Moss Motors in Goleta CA
They were merged by a holding company last year, but continue in the same places under the same name.
Build an engine out of Magnesium metal and cool it with gasoline, it will be great I see what you did there. The B-29's cost more than the atomic bomb -- and blew up almost as good.
They were merged by a holding company last year, but continue in the same places under the same name.
Build an engine out of Magnesium metal and cool it with gasoline, it will be great I see what you did there. The B-29's cost more than the atomic bomb -- and blew up almost as good.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 18, 2025 12:33 PM (zdLoL)
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Favorite old bands. The Fifth Dimension. Great voices all, and Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis are among the finest human beings you can find.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:34 PM (gm9Sb)
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My stepdad had an MGB, MGA and a Porsche. He was a jerk and the marriage didn't last, but I got to ride in them.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:06 PM (NQtI0)
Of those three, the MGA is the prettiest, in my estimation, and the Porsche likely the most reliable.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:06 PM (NQtI0)
Of those three, the MGA is the prettiest, in my estimation, and the Porsche likely the most reliable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:35 PM (8zz6B)
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AZ dep, I had a high school friend worked for a Boston Symphony Orchestra guy restoring MGTDs back in sixties, would go to England scouring for parts each summer.
You might have dealt with them.
You might have dealt with them.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 12:35 PM (4780s)
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One of the problems nuclear power has is that it's main coolant, water, is reduced (?) by the core's main components: the uranium fuel, the zirconium cladding of the fuel and the graphite used to moderate the reaction. I don't understand why using sodium to cool the reaction is better than water at hugh temperatures.
Posted by: Accomack at January 18, 2025 12:35 PM (4zk5T)
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Datsun B210. Like a BMW 2002. Saw a lot of them at Laguna Seca raceway.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 18, 2025 12:35 PM (OEjZ1)
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105 I had a 1952 BRG MG TD as my high school ride.
There was (and might still be) a Moss Motors in Goleta CA when I was growing up.
Moss Motor took a whole bunch of my money for parts.
I'd love to have another MG TD; but, I'd only be able to drive it in the Winter here.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:21 PM (VrrwH)
There's a Moss Auto Group in Moron (Moreno) Valley, Ca (Inland Empire - East of Riverside)
There was (and might still be) a Moss Motors in Goleta CA when I was growing up.
Moss Motor took a whole bunch of my money for parts.
I'd love to have another MG TD; but, I'd only be able to drive it in the Winter here.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:21 PM (VrrwH)
There's a Moss Auto Group in Moron (Moreno) Valley, Ca (Inland Empire - East of Riverside)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 12:36 PM (QGaXH)
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How about we put bird meat in cat food so we can wipe out cat ladies' cats?
(true story)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:14 PM (VrrwH)
AZ Deplorable! Are you and your wife going to come to the Inauguration Party at Lochiel Brewery on Monday? Starts at 4:00 P.M.
(true story)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:14 PM (VrrwH)
AZ Deplorable! Are you and your wife going to come to the Inauguration Party at Lochiel Brewery on Monday? Starts at 4:00 P.M.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:38 PM (8zz6B)
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For sustainable energy and work, it's time we put more focus into the Stirling Engine.
Thermodynamics is like heat treating, - it's a Black Art we know very little about and we need to become less ignorant.
Thermodynamics is like heat treating, - it's a Black Art we know very little about and we need to become less ignorant.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 12:38 PM (hXQfZ)
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We certainly need a car thread, Cobs.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:38 PM (gm9Sb)
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Hmm...BMW has built a battery mfg plant about a mile from my house...wonder if that'll affect my insurance?
Posted by: BignJames
Howdy neighbor.
Posted by: BignJames
Howdy neighbor.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 18, 2025 12:39 PM (dR6yv)
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The Beach Boys had so many good, upbeat songs that are impossible to reconcile with the psychoses and perversions that consumed the private lives of the band members. At least Frank Zappa's art was as twisted as his private life.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 18, 2025 12:40 PM (ogTiX)
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Nice. My dream car was (is) a TR 6.
Posted by: Sasquatch
Those were pretty and a blast on curvy roads.
Nice. My dream car was (is) a TR 6.
Posted by: Sasquatch
Those were pretty and a blast on curvy roads.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:40 PM (WS0K3)
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136 Datsun Fairlady.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:41 PM (gm9Sb)
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83 Opels. Opel Kadet. Opel Rally Kadet. Opel GT. Any Opel. Makes you wish for a MGB. Or any Lucas cursed British Motors so called car.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (gm9Sb)
Having owned my share of Brit cars, yes, the Lucas electrics were troublesome. But, once you learned the drill, also quite easy to fix. The points burned in the fuel pumps. But you could buy new points quite cheap, and install a set in 15 minutes. It was a different design philosophy. Components themselves were serviceable. Try buying internal parts for any fuel pump, now.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:17 PM (gm9Sb)
Having owned my share of Brit cars, yes, the Lucas electrics were troublesome. But, once you learned the drill, also quite easy to fix. The points burned in the fuel pumps. But you could buy new points quite cheap, and install a set in 15 minutes. It was a different design philosophy. Components themselves were serviceable. Try buying internal parts for any fuel pump, now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:42 PM (8zz6B)
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>>>NG is such a useful component in other processes that it seems wasteful to burn it up just for electricity. In a stationary unit, you can get low-grade oil or coal to burn almost as clean. We've become wastrels in this regard.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver
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I think the idea is to survive as a business. Numb Nutz wants to shut down all carbon fuel. Having a battery bank along with your NatGas gives you profit and future potential when the fad withers.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver
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I think the idea is to survive as a business. Numb Nutz wants to shut down all carbon fuel. Having a battery bank along with your NatGas gives you profit and future potential when the fad withers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 12:43 PM (rhmc0)
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These are the times when people in authority need extra security. I'd say that's impossible in America, but then California isn't really American.
Posted by: Diogenes
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It's close to martial law time. Restore basic necessities: order, electricity, water, health and civil services (law and fire). None of these items are functioning properly or to American standard in CA. Their civil authorities are incompetent and dysfunctional. It is a result of a faulty and corrupt electoral system.
Martial law should be instituted to restore CA to a functional level equal to the norm of the rest of America.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 12:32 PM (rhmc0)
I have to respectfully disagree with some of your comment. I live here (Calif). For 99% of us, life goes on just fine. The Palisades and Eaton fires affected less than 1% of the land area in the City of L.A.
I know the media likes to portray it like there's anarchy here, but for the vast majority of us, our homeowners insurance will probably increase - but that's about it.
These are the times when people in authority need extra security. I'd say that's impossible in America, but then California isn't really American.
Posted by: Diogenes
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It's close to martial law time. Restore basic necessities: order, electricity, water, health and civil services (law and fire). None of these items are functioning properly or to American standard in CA. Their civil authorities are incompetent and dysfunctional. It is a result of a faulty and corrupt electoral system.
Martial law should be instituted to restore CA to a functional level equal to the norm of the rest of America.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 12:32 PM (rhmc0)
I have to respectfully disagree with some of your comment. I live here (Calif). For 99% of us, life goes on just fine. The Palisades and Eaton fires affected less than 1% of the land area in the City of L.A.
I know the media likes to portray it like there's anarchy here, but for the vast majority of us, our homeowners insurance will probably increase - but that's about it.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 12:43 PM (QGaXH)
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Fool the bastards! Get a steam pump fueled by coal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
You'd use in a fire, use an external heat engine!
Fool the bastards! Get a steam pump fueled by coal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
You'd use in a fire, use an external heat engine!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:43 PM (WS0K3)
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Should have bought the Datsun 240Z instead of the MGB. They seemed bullet proof.
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:20 PM (Ii0B5)
They were even yummier than the MGB's.
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:20 PM (Ii0B5)
They were even yummier than the MGB's.
Posted by: Rust worms at January 18, 2025 12:44 PM (8zz6B)
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Leftism is the real opiate of the people. No matter how obvious the danger, no matter how many hundreds of object lessons from history, there will always be a significant chunk of humanity drawn to the political hypodermic needle.
Posted by: Paco at January 18, 2025 12:44 PM (mADJX)
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When Union Carbide shut down in Fremont Ohio, it really hurt the city, but in the aftermath of Bhopal a lot of people said at least we won't have a damn hazardous battery plant around anymore.
Now every town in the tri-state region is bidding to get one.
My little city's Dems are striving hard to force in a "data center" to replace our dumb old farms and wetland. Its advantage is that it will recommission the abandoned-in-place coal plant that's right on the scenic shoreline. They're the ones who campaigned to force its closure. Plus la change.
Now every town in the tri-state region is bidding to get one.
My little city's Dems are striving hard to force in a "data center" to replace our dumb old farms and wetland. Its advantage is that it will recommission the abandoned-in-place coal plant that's right on the scenic shoreline. They're the ones who campaigned to force its closure. Plus la change.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 18, 2025 12:45 PM (zdLoL)
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I wanted to learn to drive a stick shift.
But I couldn't find a manual.
But I couldn't find a manual.
Posted by: Car punz? at January 18, 2025 12:45 PM (dg+HA)
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AZ Deplorable! Are you and your wife going to come to the Inauguration Party at Lochiel Brewery on Monday? Starts at 4:00 P.M.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
We will be there now!
Thanks for the heads up!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
We will be there now!
Thanks for the heads up!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:45 PM (WS0K3)
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The Beach Boys 1971 album "Surf's Up" is a wonderful gem. Some of the prettiest songs and harmonies anywhere. Very underrated and mostly forgotten.
Posted by: Disney Girls at January 18, 2025 12:46 PM (G5+As)
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Thanks for the round up of good links and info, K.T.
Posted by: scampydog at January 18, 2025 12:47 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 12:47 PM (L/fGl)
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I remember that version of 'California Dreaming' playing on the jukebox at the Philly Pizza Company when my girlfiend and I ordered some hot tea. The waitress said 'well no, we only have it iced' so we jumped up on the table and shouted anarchy. Fun times were had by all.
Posted by: Sassy Fred at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (RMjVS)
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Datsun B210. Like a BMW 2002. Saw a lot of them at Laguna Seca raceway.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 18, 2025 12:35 PM (OEjZ1)
My cousin had one. Drove it all over NM. Put 200K miles on it, and it was still running well when he sold it.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 18, 2025 12:35 PM (OEjZ1)
My cousin had one. Drove it all over NM. Put 200K miles on it, and it was still running well when he sold it.
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (Ii0B5)
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When in high school wanted a TR-6, never got one
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (fwDg9)
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My sister has owned an MGB exactly like the one pictured since 1970; keeping it running and restoring it has cost a lot more than the purchase price.
Speaking of sisters, are Michelle Obama and Kamala just wasted all the time now and not bothering to conceal it?
My sister has owned an MGB exactly like the one pictured since 1970; keeping it running and restoring it has cost a lot more than the purchase price.
Speaking of sisters, are Michelle Obama and Kamala just wasted all the time now and not bothering to conceal it?
Posted by: Auspex at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (j4U/Z)
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KT, I did note that you managed to sneak in a Merced picture in honor of your area!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (WS0K3)
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Hey, you're talking about my momma there! Yes, both porsche and mom were curvy and smiled. He did that rally stuff, where you race around on a track. The MGs were convertibles, the porsche not
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (NQtI0)
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I know the media likes to portray it like there's anarchy here, but for the vast majority of us, our homeowners insurance will probably increase - but that's about it.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 12:43 PM (QGaXH)
That is a good reminder...as I told Mrs D. People 5 blocks away from the fire's edge in Pasadena are going to work every day.
But...the fires have had the effect of pulling the scab off and exposing the system rot of the city/county/state governance. Add to that thousands of illegals, and the pending (in my opinion) legal hassles of rebuilding, and it is not a good time to be a government bureaucrat.
Or maybe I've lived in too many foreign countries.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 12:43 PM (QGaXH)
That is a good reminder...as I told Mrs D. People 5 blocks away from the fire's edge in Pasadena are going to work every day.
But...the fires have had the effect of pulling the scab off and exposing the system rot of the city/county/state governance. Add to that thousands of illegals, and the pending (in my opinion) legal hassles of rebuilding, and it is not a good time to be a government bureaucrat.
Or maybe I've lived in too many foreign countries.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (W/lyH)
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Opels. Opel Kadet. Opel Rally Kadet. Opel GT. Any Opel.
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Ugh. My dad had an Opel Kadet in the mid-70s. Pale blue. We drove out west to Montana in it. I will never forget him telling us kids we may have to get out and walk while we were trying to get to the top of a mountainous winding road. The car was barely making it. As a young teenager, I was mortified.
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Ugh. My dad had an Opel Kadet in the mid-70s. Pale blue. We drove out west to Montana in it. I will never forget him telling us kids we may have to get out and walk while we were trying to get to the top of a mountainous winding road. The car was barely making it. As a young teenager, I was mortified.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2025 12:49 PM (qBdHI)
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When in high school wanted a TR-6, never got one
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (fwDg9)
Yep. I still look at them online and lust after a maroon one.
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (fwDg9)
Yep. I still look at them online and lust after a maroon one.
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:50 PM (Ii0B5)
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When in high school wanted a TR-6, never got one
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (fwDg9)
My high school French Teacher (I've described her before in these spaces) ((YUM!!!)) had a TR-250. Beautiful car. It's lines were are awesome as her curves.
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (fwDg9)
My high school French Teacher (I've described her before in these spaces) ((YUM!!!)) had a TR-250. Beautiful car. It's lines were are awesome as her curves.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 12:51 PM (W/lyH)
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When in high school wanted a TR-6, never got one
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (fwDg9)
Shoulda' shot for the "budget" Triumph....Spitfire.
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (fwDg9)
Shoulda' shot for the "budget" Triumph....Spitfire.
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 12:51 PM (Yj6Os)
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POLITICO@politico
Democrats look to inject fresh energy into the LGBTQ+ movement
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The bull dykes have worked out so well in the LA Fire Department.
Democrats look to inject fresh energy into the LGBTQ+ movement
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The bull dykes have worked out so well in the LA Fire Department.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 12:51 PM (L/fGl)
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For sustainable energy and work, it's time we put more focus into the Stirling Engine.
Thermodynamics is like heat treating, - it's a Black Art we know very little about and we need to become less ignorant.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 12:38 PM (hXQfZ)
We know enough about thermodynamics to know that any hot-air engine can never be as efficient as an internal-combustion engine. Nifty toys, but not at all practical as a source of mass power.
Thermodynamics is like heat treating, - it's a Black Art we know very little about and we need to become less ignorant.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 12:38 PM (hXQfZ)
We know enough about thermodynamics to know that any hot-air engine can never be as efficient as an internal-combustion engine. Nifty toys, but not at all practical as a source of mass power.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:52 PM (8zz6B)
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The Beach Boys 1971 album "Surf's Up" is a wonderful gem. Some of the prettiest songs and harmonies anywhere. Very underrated and mostly forgotten.
Posted by: Disney Girls at January 18, 2025 12:46 P
that album also has Student Demonstration Time, the mostest un-"Beach Boys" Beach Boys song ever
The Beach Boys 1971 album "Surf's Up" is a wonderful gem. Some of the prettiest songs and harmonies anywhere. Very underrated and mostly forgotten.
Posted by: Disney Girls at January 18, 2025 12:46 P
that album also has Student Demonstration Time, the mostest un-"Beach Boys" Beach Boys song ever
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 18, 2025 12:52 PM (tljrc)
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I seems patently obvious to me that Newsom is formulating a land grab by crony developers. Every piece of "legislation" he instituted post fire has been a way to delay recovery. He even mandated that residents can't sell their property for an undervalue price (which he has no authority to do).
Just watch over the next few months. Lumber will be hard to acquire, contractors will be in short supply, finances will be toyed with and held back....then the City swoops in and starts to condemn properties due to safety concerns.
The contractors hired by the city will over charge. These costs get tacked onto the property taxes of the lot owner. They won't be able to pay, and the city will institute a lien. Auctions will be held, and low and behold, the crony developers show up and purchase big land pieces for their apartments and condos.
Just watch over the next few months. Lumber will be hard to acquire, contractors will be in short supply, finances will be toyed with and held back....then the City swoops in and starts to condemn properties due to safety concerns.
The contractors hired by the city will over charge. These costs get tacked onto the property taxes of the lot owner. They won't be able to pay, and the city will institute a lien. Auctions will be held, and low and behold, the crony developers show up and purchase big land pieces for their apartments and condos.
Posted by: Orson at January 18, 2025 12:53 PM (dIske)
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128 One of the problems nuclear power has is that it's main coolant, water, is reduced (?) by the core's main components: the uranium fuel, the zirconium cladding of the fuel and the graphite used to moderate the reaction. I don't understand why using sodium to cool the reaction is better than water at hugh temperatures.
Posted by: Accomack at January 18, 2025 12:35 PM (4zk5T)
Chernobyl.
Posted by: Accomack at January 18, 2025 12:35 PM (4zk5T)
Chernobyl.
Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 12:53 PM (jgmnb)
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They generate their own heat and combustion internally. From what understand, once they get going they would burn in a vacuum. Dropping them into the ocean might be the only thing, since that could absorb all the heat and kill it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 12:54 PM (wyMQY)
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162 For sustainable energy and work, it's time we put more focus into the Stirling Engine.
Thermodynamics is like heat treating, - it's a Black Art we know very little about and we need to become less ignorant.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 12:38 PM (hXQfZ)
We know enough about thermodynamics to know that any hot-air engine can never be as efficient as an internal-combustion engine. Nifty toys, but not at all practical as a source of mass power.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:52 PM (8zz6B)
I actually know a little bit about heat treating - mostly alloy steels and 2000/7000 series aluminums.
Thermodynamics is like heat treating, - it's a Black Art we know very little about and we need to become less ignorant.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 12:38 PM (hXQfZ)
We know enough about thermodynamics to know that any hot-air engine can never be as efficient as an internal-combustion engine. Nifty toys, but not at all practical as a source of mass power.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:52 PM (8zz6B)
I actually know a little bit about heat treating - mostly alloy steels and 2000/7000 series aluminums.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 12:54 PM (QGaXH)
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128 One of the problems nuclear power has is that it's main coolant, water, is reduced (?) by the core's main components: the uranium fuel, the zirconium cladding of the fuel and the graphite used to moderate the reaction. I don't understand why using sodium to cool the reaction is better than water at hugh temperatures.
Posted by: Accomack at January 18, 2025 12:35 PM (4zk5T)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor
Posted by: Accomack at January 18, 2025 12:35 PM (4zk5T)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor
Posted by: Gref at January 18, 2025 12:55 PM (aBgBM)
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When in high school wanted a TR-6, never got one
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (fwDg9)
Someone there (Triumph) lost their mind and gave us the TR-7
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 12:48 PM (fwDg9)
Someone there (Triumph) lost their mind and gave us the TR-7
Posted by: BignJames at January 18, 2025 12:55 PM (Yj6Os)
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> Datsun B210. Like a BMW 2002. Saw a lot of them at Laguna Seca raceway.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats
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I would go over there for the SCCA races... free to get in and you could walk all over the paddock and chat with the drivers and mechanics.
In the early days of the Monterey Historics the entrance fee was pretty reasonable and access was pretty lax. Have some really cool photos of both events. Even got on track once or twice.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats
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I would go over there for the SCCA races... free to get in and you could walk all over the paddock and chat with the drivers and mechanics.
In the early days of the Monterey Historics the entrance fee was pretty reasonable and access was pretty lax. Have some really cool photos of both events. Even got on track once or twice.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 12:55 PM (Q4IgG)
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It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at January 18, 2025 12:56 PM (dg+HA)
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In other news, apparently Eric Braeden (Victor Newman on Young and the Restless) and Jennifer Gareis (Big Tit Donna on Bold and the Beautiful) had their homes burn down.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 18, 2025 12:56 PM (ufFY8)
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You'd use in a fire, use an external heat engine!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:43 PM (WS0K3)
Well, sarc really. But fire engines used to have steam pumps on them. Before internal-combustion engines became reliable, horse-drawn wagons with big vertical boilers spouting smoke and sparks were what a "fire engine" was.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:43 PM (WS0K3)
Well, sarc really. But fire engines used to have steam pumps on them. Before internal-combustion engines became reliable, horse-drawn wagons with big vertical boilers spouting smoke and sparks were what a "fire engine" was.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:56 PM (8zz6B)
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My high school French Teacher (I've described her before in these spaces) ((YUM!!!)) had a TR-250. Beautiful car. It's lines were are awesome as her curves.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 12:51 PM (W/lyH)
LOL. Yum for both is right.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 12:51 PM (W/lyH)
LOL. Yum for both is right.
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 12:56 PM (Ii0B5)
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We will be there now!
Thanks for the heads up!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:45 PM (WS0K3)
See you there!
Thanks for the heads up!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:45 PM (WS0K3)
See you there!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:57 PM (8zz6B)
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My advice to the homeowner would be take the money and don't look back. $2.5 million plus what they would pay for a lot would buy some pretty nice digs elsewhere.
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Please do not encourage them. We have any number of locusts who have done just such. They show up with what we call 'California Money' and proceed to poison the landscape, the politics, and the culture.
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Please do not encourage them. We have any number of locusts who have done just such. They show up with what we call 'California Money' and proceed to poison the landscape, the politics, and the culture.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 12:59 PM (XeU6L)
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The National Archives needs help transcribing 300 million records because reading cursive is now a "superpower"
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I watched an old movie last night, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), in which at one point an important plot point is revealed as the camera focuses on a note written in cursive. I thought, in olden days it was just assumed the audience could read cursive but I wonder what percentage could read it today.
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I watched an old movie last night, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), in which at one point an important plot point is revealed as the camera focuses on a note written in cursive. I thought, in olden days it was just assumed the audience could read cursive but I wonder what percentage could read it today.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 01:00 PM (L/fGl)
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173 You'd use in a fire, use an external heat engine!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:43 PM (WS0K3)
Well, sarc really. But fire engines used to have steam pumps on them. Before internal-combustion engines became reliable, horse-drawn wagons with big vertical boilers spouting smoke and sparks were what a "fire engine" was.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:56 PM (8zz6B)
I think you should consider putting your considerable knowledge and mechanical expertise to developing a practical EV fire suppression system.
You'd make a fortune!!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 18, 2025 12:43 PM (WS0K3)
Well, sarc really. But fire engines used to have steam pumps on them. Before internal-combustion engines became reliable, horse-drawn wagons with big vertical boilers spouting smoke and sparks were what a "fire engine" was.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 12:56 PM (8zz6B)
I think you should consider putting your considerable knowledge and mechanical expertise to developing a practical EV fire suppression system.
You'd make a fortune!!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 01:00 PM (QGaXH)
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172 In other news, apparently Eric Braeden (Victor Newman on Young and the Restless) and Jennifer Gareis (Big Tit Donna on Bold and the Beautiful) had their homes burn down.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 18, 2025 12:56 PM (ufFY
My wife watches Y&R (as she calls it) every day and confirms the news about Victor's house.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 18, 2025 12:56 PM (ufFY
My wife watches Y&R (as she calls it) every day and confirms the news about Victor's house.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 01:01 PM (QGaXH)
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The People's March is drawing in the hundreds. A few vagina hats. Must be moldy by now
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 18, 2025 01:02 PM (fTvka)
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Preach, sister! It is obvious that California will not be successful with its 100% EV mandate. Now I'm just looking forward to its politicos having to address that reality.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 18, 2025 01:02 PM (d9Cw3)
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Please do not encourage them. We have any number of locusts who have done just such. They show up with what we call 'California Money' and proceed to poison the landscape, the politics, and the culture.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 12:59 PM (XeU6L)
Agreed. Let these progressive freaks stew in their own mess.
We had at least one idiot from Oakland move to our increasingly less super conservative West Michigan and bring in political money from CA and DC to recall (successfully, sadly) a county commissioner last summer.
These types are not welcome, as far as I am concerned.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 12:59 PM (XeU6L)
Agreed. Let these progressive freaks stew in their own mess.
We had at least one idiot from Oakland move to our increasingly less super conservative West Michigan and bring in political money from CA and DC to recall (successfully, sadly) a county commissioner last summer.
These types are not welcome, as far as I am concerned.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 18, 2025 01:03 PM (ufFY8)
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176 My advice to the homeowner would be take the money and don't look back. $2.5 million plus what they would pay for a lot would buy some pretty nice digs elsewhere.
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Please do not encourage them. We have any number of locusts who have done just such. They show up with what we call 'California Money' and proceed to poison the landscape, the politics, and the culture.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 12:59 PM (XeU6L)
We're considering relocating temporarily out of California but keeping the California house so wouldn't have too much 'California monay'.
Thinking of being 'snowbirds...'
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Please do not encourage them. We have any number of locusts who have done just such. They show up with what we call 'California Money' and proceed to poison the landscape, the politics, and the culture.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 12:59 PM (XeU6L)
We're considering relocating temporarily out of California but keeping the California house so wouldn't have too much 'California monay'.
Thinking of being 'snowbirds...'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 01:04 PM (QGaXH)
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Datsun B210. Like a BMW 2002.
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Pul-eeeze. Datsun 510. People may haved raced B210's, but it would have been a very dull race.
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Pul-eeeze. Datsun 510. People may haved raced B210's, but it would have been a very dull race.
Posted by: John Morton at January 18, 2025 01:04 PM (XeU6L)
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I thought, in olden days it was just assumed the audience could read cursive but I wonder what percentage could read it today.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 01:00 PM (L/fGl)
That's retarded Sir!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 01:00 PM (L/fGl)
That's retarded Sir!
Posted by: Rachel Jeantel, Fake Witness Against Creepy Crackas at January 18, 2025 01:04 PM (R/m4+)
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The Beach Boys 1971 album "Surf's Up" is a wonderful gem. Some of the prettiest songs and harmonies anywhere. Very underrated and mostly forgotten.
Posted by: Disney Girls at January 18, 2025 12:46 P
Caroline No is a perfect song for nostalgia and a bit of melancholy.
Posted by: Disney Girls at January 18, 2025 12:46 P
Caroline No is a perfect song for nostalgia and a bit of melancholy.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 01:05 PM (W/lyH)
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The People's March is drawing in the hundreds. A few vagina hats. Must be moldy by now
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 18, 2025 01:02 PM (fTvka)
On it!!
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 18, 2025 01:02 PM (fTvka)
On it!!
Posted by: Zombie Pinochet at January 18, 2025 01:05 PM (Ii0B5)
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183 We're considering relocating temporarily out of California but keeping the California house so wouldn't have too much 'California monay'.
Thinking of being 'snowbirds...'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 01:04 PM (QGaXH)
Oops - a little typo snuck in.
money...not 'monay' nor did I mean 'mo-nay' - LOL!
Thinking of being 'snowbirds...'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 01:04 PM (QGaXH)
Oops - a little typo snuck in.
money...not 'monay' nor did I mean 'mo-nay' - LOL!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 01:05 PM (QGaXH)
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My wife watches Y&R (as she calls it) every day and confirms the news about Victor's house.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 01:01 PM (QGaXH)
LOL.
When is Sharon ever going to escape from that basement dungeon she is in? She can keep wearing that black dress, though.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 01:01 PM (QGaXH)
LOL.
When is Sharon ever going to escape from that basement dungeon she is in? She can keep wearing that black dress, though.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 18, 2025 01:05 PM (ufFY8)
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>>>We know enough about thermodynamics to know that any hot-air engine can never be as efficient as an internal-combustion engine. Nifty toys, but not at all practical as a source of mass power.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
>Practicality and application is always debatable. Sensible application is not something that should be dismissed.
Those "Green Fucks" running around don't need "fossil fuels" to go from 0 to 60 in 2.3 seconds, they should just settle for 0 to 30 in 30 seconds for all practical purposes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
>Practicality and application is always debatable. Sensible application is not something that should be dismissed.
Those "Green Fucks" running around don't need "fossil fuels" to go from 0 to 60 in 2.3 seconds, they should just settle for 0 to 30 in 30 seconds for all practical purposes.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 01:07 PM (hXQfZ)
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> Datsun 510
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Paul Newman raced one. Then moved over to the 240Z.
Saw him and his little protégé Tom Cruise at Summit Point Raceway, WV back in the early-mid 80's.
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Paul Newman raced one. Then moved over to the 240Z.
Saw him and his little protégé Tom Cruise at Summit Point Raceway, WV back in the early-mid 80's.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 01:07 PM (Q4IgG)
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I think you should consider putting your considerable knowledge and mechanical expertise to developing a practical EV fire suppression system.
You'd make a fortune!!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 01:00 PM (QGaXH)
The Euros have already done it. Open-top tank on trailer, a forklift, and water tanker trucks. Pick up burning EV with forklift. Drop into (steel) tank. Pump in water from tankers until it is submerged. Haul slowly to disposal site, where it can safely burn out.
Any city could put this in effect within days. Hire contractors; put them on a retainer to make the necessary equipment available on call, 24/7
You'd make a fortune!!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2025 01:00 PM (QGaXH)
The Euros have already done it. Open-top tank on trailer, a forklift, and water tanker trucks. Pick up burning EV with forklift. Drop into (steel) tank. Pump in water from tankers until it is submerged. Haul slowly to disposal site, where it can safely burn out.
Any city could put this in effect within days. Hire contractors; put them on a retainer to make the necessary equipment available on call, 24/7
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 01:09 PM (8zz6B)
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Before internal-combustion engines became reliable, horse-drawn wagons with big vertical boilers spouting smoke and sparks were what a "fire engine" was.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Horse-drawn, with the mandatory Dalmation aboard.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Horse-drawn, with the mandatory Dalmation aboard.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 01:09 PM (XeU6L)
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184 Datsun B210. Like a BMW 2002.
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Pul-eeeze. Datsun 510. People may haved raced B210's, but it would have been a very dull race.
Posted by: John Morton at January 18, 2025 01:04 PM (XeU6L
Sister and b n l had a wagon. Had over 500k on it when parked.
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Pul-eeeze. Datsun 510. People may haved raced B210's, but it would have been a very dull race.
Posted by: John Morton at January 18, 2025 01:04 PM (XeU6L
Sister and b n l had a wagon. Had over 500k on it when parked.
Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 01:10 PM (jgmnb)
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It used to be free to fill up your car tires with air, now it costs $1.25 You know why?
Inflation.
Inflation.
Posted by: Groan at January 18, 2025 01:12 PM (dg+HA)
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Datsun 510
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Paul Newman raced one. Then moved over to the 240Z.
Saw him and his little protégé Tom Cruise at Summit Point Raceway, WV back in the early-mid 80's.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025
01:07 PM (Q4IgG)
Saw him at a North NY raceway. Glens Falls? He spun out on a curve I was standing at, and got out. Brush with greatness.
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Paul Newman raced one. Then moved over to the 240Z.
Saw him and his little protégé Tom Cruise at Summit Point Raceway, WV back in the early-mid 80's.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025
01:07 PM (Q4IgG)
Saw him at a North NY raceway. Glens Falls? He spun out on a curve I was standing at, and got out. Brush with greatness.
Posted by: Zombie Pinochet at January 18, 2025 01:12 PM (Ii0B5)
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 01:13 PM (Ii0B5)
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>Practicality and application is always debatable. Sensible application is not something that should be dismissed.
Those "Green Fucks" running around don't need "fossil fuels" to go from 0 to 60 in 2.3 seconds, they should just settle for 0 to 30 in 30 seconds for all practical purposes.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 01:07 PM (hXQfZ)
Stirling engines do not throttle very well at all. Run best at constant speed. Have them drive a generator to charge batteries to run electric motor to move your car. You would get better acceleration for less money by shredding dollar bills, mixing the shred with saltpeter, and making rocket motors to run your car.
Those "Green Fucks" running around don't need "fossil fuels" to go from 0 to 60 in 2.3 seconds, they should just settle for 0 to 30 in 30 seconds for all practical purposes.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 01:07 PM (hXQfZ)
Stirling engines do not throttle very well at all. Run best at constant speed. Have them drive a generator to charge batteries to run electric motor to move your car. You would get better acceleration for less money by shredding dollar bills, mixing the shred with saltpeter, and making rocket motors to run your car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 01:13 PM (8zz6B)
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It used to be free to fill up your car tires with air, now it costs $1.25 You know why?
Inflation.
Posted by: Groan at January 18, 2025 01:12 PM (dg+HA)
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Scientists have discovered a food that will cause a lifetime of annoyance and heartburn.
wedding cake.
Inflation.
Posted by: Groan at January 18, 2025 01:12 PM (dg+HA)
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Scientists have discovered a food that will cause a lifetime of annoyance and heartburn.
wedding cake.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 01:14 PM (W/lyH)
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Two things to look out for if you pay attention to the Fallout Prophecies. Canada is annexed, and China invades Alaska.
Posted by: Shady Sands Junk Merchant at January 18, 2025 01:14 PM (Ybyk2)
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Horse-drawn, with the mandatory Dalmation aboard.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 01:09 PM (XeU6L)
That's how they were spotted, before red paint was invented.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 01:09 PM (XeU6L)
That's how they were spotted, before red paint was invented.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 01:15 PM (8zz6B)
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Sorry about Dr. Forbin's house burning down. Took 50 years and maturing A.I. but it looks like Colossus finally caught up with him.
Sorry about Dr. Forbin's house burning down. Took 50 years and maturing A.I. but it looks like Colossus finally caught up with him.
Posted by: Auspex at January 18, 2025 01:16 PM (j4U/Z)
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Pul-eeeze. Datsun 510. People may haved raced B210's, but it would have been a very dull race.
Posted by: John Morton at January 18, 2025 01:04 PM (XeU6L
Sister and b n l had a wagon. Had over 500k on it when parked.
Posted by: Eromero
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510 sedan was my daily driver for 18 years. It was not stock. 9:1 pistons, header, two two-throat side-draft Mikuni carbs, Nissan Competition suspension, Koni adjustable shocks, Autocrossed periodically. I enjoyed embarassing BMW 2002 drivers.
Pul-eeeze. Datsun 510. People may haved raced B210's, but it would have been a very dull race.
Posted by: John Morton at January 18, 2025 01:04 PM (XeU6L
Sister and b n l had a wagon. Had over 500k on it when parked.
Posted by: Eromero
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510 sedan was my daily driver for 18 years. It was not stock. 9:1 pistons, header, two two-throat side-draft Mikuni carbs, Nissan Competition suspension, Koni adjustable shocks, Autocrossed periodically. I enjoyed embarassing BMW 2002 drivers.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 01:18 PM (XeU6L)
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https://x.com/TheMaineWire/status/1880620672478847346
Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2025 11:22 AM (GITLP)
So brave of Mike Johnson to be mentioning this now, when it’s too late to matter.
Posted by: SMOD at January 18, 2025 11:22 AM (GITLP)
So brave of Mike Johnson to be mentioning this now, when it’s too late to matter.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 18, 2025 01:19 PM (FC8SQ)
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>>>Stirling engines do not throttle very well at all. Run best at constant speed. Have them drive a generator to charge batteries to run electric motor to move your car. You would get better acceleration for less money by shredding dollar bills, mixing the shred with saltpeter, and making rocket motors to run your car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I would never consider placing a Stirling engine in any kind of rolling stock or vehicle, unless it was possibly, a leisure-time trolley.
There are other suitable, sustainable applications that would be ideal for the development and refinement of this rudimentary technology, given today's advances in material science.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I would never consider placing a Stirling engine in any kind of rolling stock or vehicle, unless it was possibly, a leisure-time trolley.
There are other suitable, sustainable applications that would be ideal for the development and refinement of this rudimentary technology, given today's advances in material science.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 01:19 PM (hXQfZ)
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Paul Newman:
Saw him and his little protégé Tom Cruise at Summit Point Raceway, WV back in the early-mid 80's.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Spotted him at Grattan Raceway outside Grand Rapids in about the same time period.
Saw him and his little protégé Tom Cruise at Summit Point Raceway, WV back in the early-mid 80's.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Spotted him at Grattan Raceway outside Grand Rapids in about the same time period.
Posted by: Auspex at January 18, 2025 01:21 PM (j4U/Z)
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California represented peak America not very long ago. The socialists I'm sure targeted California because of this. Now it resembles most an even more idiotic Western Europe in its leadership, and ever growing areas are third world.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 18, 2025 01:22 PM (fs1hN)
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I love that version of California Dreamin’ (though not as much as the original). Such a fun song to play on guitar. Though I wish they wouldn’t have li-synced the video.
And it is one of those weird time things, where it was nearly 40 years ago that they did a remake of a 21 year old “oldie,”
And it is one of those weird time things, where it was nearly 40 years ago that they did a remake of a 21 year old “oldie,”
Posted by: Eternity Matters at January 18, 2025 01:23 PM (yT7Wa)
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Sorry about Dr. Forbin's house burning down. Took 50 years and maturing A.I. but it looks like Colossus finally caught up with him.
Posted by: Auspex
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Fun fact, Eric Braeden is one of those foreigners who is way pro-America and has no use for anti-American Americans.
Sorry about Dr. Forbin's house burning down. Took 50 years and maturing A.I. but it looks like Colossus finally caught up with him.
Posted by: Auspex
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Fun fact, Eric Braeden is one of those foreigners who is way pro-America and has no use for anti-American Americans.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 18, 2025 01:24 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 01:24 PM (XeU6L)
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SCCA racing used to be pretty accessible. Cheap tickets, free access to the paddock (not the pits) and a full weekend of racing.
There was this series I saw called the "Renault Cup." Every car was the same spec Renault LeCar. It the turns they'd sometimes get up on 3 wheels. Totally bonkers... like bumper cars.
There was this series I saw called the "Renault Cup." Every car was the same spec Renault LeCar. It the turns they'd sometimes get up on 3 wheels. Totally bonkers... like bumper cars.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 01:25 PM (Q4IgG)
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San Francisco Settles With Judicial Watch, Will End Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Guaranteed Income Program
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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I'm almost sorry to hear this. I wish it could be in place for the Vance vs Newsom 2028 election.
San Francisco Settles With Judicial Watch, Will End Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Guaranteed Income Program
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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I'm almost sorry to hear this. I wish it could be in place for the Vance vs Newsom 2028 election.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 18, 2025 01:26 PM (lCaJd)
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I saw B210s race against Gremlins and Rabbits and such in the late 70s at Mid-Ohio. There would be a gaggle of 40 or so of those little econoboxes zipping around and it was pretty exciting racing.
I saw Newman there too, in his 240. I saw lots of famous drivers there, like Al Unser Jr in a Formula 5000 car.
I saw Newman there too, in his 240. I saw lots of famous drivers there, like Al Unser Jr in a Formula 5000 car.
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 01:30 PM (vFG9F)
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Smelt is a wonderful fish.
Posted by: Billy Crystal at January 18, 2025 01:31 PM (aD39U)
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>>>That is a good reminder...as I told Mrs D. People 5 blocks away from the fire's edge in Pasadena are going to work every day.
But...the fires have had the effect of pulling the scab off and exposing the system rot of the city/county/state governance. Add to that thousands of illegals, and the pending (in my opinion) legal hassles of rebuilding, and it is not a good time to be a government bureaucrat.
Or maybe I've lived in too many foreign countries.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Thanks, that's what I was getting at. The rot and civic decay is systemic. See the failure of the universities. Read Hanson's chronologue of the demise of his farm and the others. Two months ago there were 15 dairy farms, many had been there over 100 years. Newsome has shut down 11 and the rest are on the chopping block.
California is in chronic failure.
But...the fires have had the effect of pulling the scab off and exposing the system rot of the city/county/state governance. Add to that thousands of illegals, and the pending (in my opinion) legal hassles of rebuilding, and it is not a good time to be a government bureaucrat.
Or maybe I've lived in too many foreign countries.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Thanks, that's what I was getting at. The rot and civic decay is systemic. See the failure of the universities. Read Hanson's chronologue of the demise of his farm and the others. Two months ago there were 15 dairy farms, many had been there over 100 years. Newsome has shut down 11 and the rest are on the chopping block.
California is in chronic failure.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 01:33 PM (rhmc0)
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People may haved raced B210's, but it would have been a very dull race.
I drove an Atomic Roach at one point. It didn't accelerate so much as slowly gain momentum, and the driver's door fell off, in the winter.
I drove an Atomic Roach at one point. It didn't accelerate so much as slowly gain momentum, and the driver's door fell off, in the winter.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 18, 2025 01:33 PM (aD39U)
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Fwiw, available domestic systems:
https://www.stirlingengine.com/generators
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 01:24 PM (XeU6L)
Went to that site. The number that are actually available appears to be zero. Leastwise no links to sellers of such.
https://www.stirlingengine.com/generators
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2025 01:24 PM (XeU6L)
Went to that site. The number that are actually available appears to be zero. Leastwise no links to sellers of such.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2025 01:33 PM (8zz6B)
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214 Smelt is a wonderful fish.
Posted by: Billy Crystal at January 18, 2025 01:31 PM (aD39U)
Is that how the saying "whoever smelt it, dealt it" came about?
Posted by: Billy Crystal at January 18, 2025 01:31 PM (aD39U)
Is that how the saying "whoever smelt it, dealt it" came about?
Posted by: Sasquatch at January 18, 2025 01:34 PM (Ii0B5)
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GARDEN THREAD IS BLOOMING
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 01:35 PM (fwDg9)
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It is a result of a faulty and corrupt electoral system.
Martial law should be instituted to restore CA to a functional level equal to the norm of the rest of America.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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It's not a faulty and corrupt electoral system. It's a faulty and corrupt collective nervous system. I've been on Nextdoor in 2 California beach communities and holy fvk. It might be fixable through education, but lefties have seen to that, too.
I think the only way out is for the trend of fed-up Hispanics to continue.
It is a result of a faulty and corrupt electoral system.
Martial law should be instituted to restore CA to a functional level equal to the norm of the rest of America.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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It's not a faulty and corrupt electoral system. It's a faulty and corrupt collective nervous system. I've been on Nextdoor in 2 California beach communities and holy fvk. It might be fixable through education, but lefties have seen to that, too.
I think the only way out is for the trend of fed-up Hispanics to continue.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 18, 2025 01:35 PM (lCaJd)
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There's a guy just around the corner from here with a bunch of old cars. He had a 510 setup for racing but sold it a few years back. Currently, he's got a Austin Seven sitting in his front yard for sale.
I succumbed to him last year and took a Spitfire off his hands. What I really want is his black Graduate edition Alfa.
I succumbed to him last year and took a Spitfire off his hands. What I really want is his black Graduate edition Alfa.
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2025 01:36 PM (vFG9F)
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Not really having to do with anything (except smelt, looked up cooking instructions) Steak and Shake is going back to beef tallow for fries and all things deep fried.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:06 PM (gm9Sb)
Only until some law firm finds a Hindu dude to eat there and then sue saying that his religious rites were violated. Like they did to McDonald's a couple of decades ago. Their fries were never the same.
Did I say "Fuck all lawyers?" If I didn't I'm saying it now.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 18, 2025 12:06 PM (gm9Sb)
Only until some law firm finds a Hindu dude to eat there and then sue saying that his religious rites were violated. Like they did to McDonald's a couple of decades ago. Their fries were never the same.
Did I say "Fuck all lawyers?" If I didn't I'm saying it now.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 18, 2025 01:37 PM (F5Hzk)
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Scientists have discovered a food that will cause a lifetime of annoyance and heartburn.
wedding cake.
Eating brussell sprouts or Belgian waffles makes me Flemish. I start coughing and hacking up stuff.
wedding cake.
Eating brussell sprouts or Belgian waffles makes me Flemish. I start coughing and hacking up stuff.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 18, 2025 01:43 PM (F5Hzk)
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>>>I drove an Atomic Roach at one point. It didn't accelerate so much as slowly gain momentum, and the driver's door fell off, in the winter.
Posted by: Grump928(C)
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Road trip pulling a travel trailer with a Suburban (big mirrors), going through an unknown town, stopped at a red light, checked the right side mirror only to see it fall to the ground. The whole thing, huge frame and all, crash.
Posted by: Grump928(C)
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Road trip pulling a travel trailer with a Suburban (big mirrors), going through an unknown town, stopped at a red light, checked the right side mirror only to see it fall to the ground. The whole thing, huge frame and all, crash.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 01:57 PM (rhmc0)
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So brave of Mike Johnson to be mentioning this now, when it’s too late to matter.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Schmuckie Tumor also is now saying yeah, boy, that Biden! Crazy as he'll!
https://is.gd/RhG6n3
And the NYT.
https://is.gd/RwnyGm
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Schmuckie Tumor also is now saying yeah, boy, that Biden! Crazy as he'll!
https://is.gd/RhG6n3
And the NYT.
https://is.gd/RwnyGm
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 02:05 PM (L/fGl)
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So, just hear me out on this: You set up certain certified fire departments in each region equipped with big fireproof boxes. Whenever a battery car goes critical, they just crane it into the box, then move it to a power station, where a whole row of super-efficient Stirlings generate fresh electricity out of every BTU of that waste heat. Eventually the heat dies down, and you go and crash another EV.
Dollars to donuts, the federal government will underwrite the selling price of the electricity, just like Hawaiian solar cells.
I've seen a shitload of Datsun B210's raced. They handled OK -- there was "something you had to do to the motor." And every swingin' one had the Bumblebee paint scheme. Could have started out lavender, but they all ended up Bumblebee'd.
Dollars to donuts, the federal government will underwrite the selling price of the electricity, just like Hawaiian solar cells.
I've seen a shitload of Datsun B210's raced. They handled OK -- there was "something you had to do to the motor." And every swingin' one had the Bumblebee paint scheme. Could have started out lavender, but they all ended up Bumblebee'd.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 18, 2025 02:10 PM (zdLoL)
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161 POLITICO@politico
Democrats look to inject fresh energy into the LGBTQ+ movement
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The bull dykes have worked out so well in the LA Fire Department.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 12:51 PM (L/fGl)
Huh, they're doubling down. Who could've possible seen this coming.
Democrats look to inject fresh energy into the LGBTQ+ movement
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The bull dykes have worked out so well in the LA Fire Department.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 12:51 PM (L/fGl)
Huh, they're doubling down. Who could've possible seen this coming.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 18, 2025 02:16 PM (DTX3h)
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So the smelly parade has started.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 18, 2025 03:07 PM (dR6yv)
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