Hot and humid, of course. Because HOUSTON. FTW! The map for the whole country looks wet for the next couple of days. Houston will have rain. Somewhere. I got wet enough working outdoors that I could have been out in the rain. Then I did it again at my secondary location. And in between I went to lowes, and stopped at my rent house to drop off a replacement CO monitor and talk about drainage issues.
I managed to pack up another bin, went to my storage unit and packed 3 more. Dropped those off at the auction, then went to my secondary, grabbed some more stuff, and took that to the auctioneer. And you can hardly tell that all that stuff left. Jeez.
But it did leave, and there will be more leaving-both to my non-prepping hobby swap meet, and more to the auction.
I need the space and I need the time. I’ve got stuff I want to do, and having room in the garage would be nice. Getting the patio back would be nice. Getting the driveway back would be nice, even if I just fill it with tubs to grow veggies and potatoes. Because Chaka, when the rains come. Or something. The money, if there is any at the end of the day will be a bonus. Part of my prepping philosophy is ‘nothing irrevocable’. Getting rid of this stuff at whatever I can get feels a little irrevocable, in that I feel like I should have worked harder at it, and now I can’t, because it’s gone. But I really believe time is getting short and to continue as I have been won’t work.
Any time now, we could have a weekend like the one in 2008, when the financial apocalypse was upon us, and only the heroic work of the smartest guys in the room, and the coercive power of government could save the day. *cough* Whatever the real story is, we DIDN’T collapse the economy then. I’m not so sanguine about the next time.
There will be a next time, and we’ve already pulled all the rabbits out of all the hats. It happened in Cyprus, it happened in Ukraine, it happened in Venezuela, it happened in Argentina, and Zimbabwe, and countless other places as well. It’s happening right now, and we won’t see the result until it ‘comes out of nowhere’ to bite us on the @rse.
We’ll get through it. Most, some, or all of us, but it won’t be easy. Prepping provides us with options, alternatives, choices. There will be opportunities too, if you are ready to act. Resources will be required. In big stacks. So stack it up.
nick
Thanks for your adumbrations.
The “Cringely” iteration — there were many, including Dr. Pournelle over the years — who runs cringely.com merits skepticism. I don’t think it is exaggeration of his role as a pundit to lay pieces of Internet Bubble 1.0 at his feet. Certainly, if you go back into the history of the people involved, he is one of the key figures in Excite’s rise and whatever other wreckage the CEO, Joe Krauss, and some of the key technical people have left in their wake.
Long before “The Legend of Jeff”, there was “The Legend of Architext”.
If Mark Stevens’ Cringely is shilling something, look at it carefully.
OTOH, Stevens did get incredible interviews, the most interesting to me being the one with Sandy Lerner bemoaning being kicked out of Cisco with only $1 billion while sitting on a chair in the front yard of her house … her house at the time being Jane Austen’s country estate, complete with town.
@Lynn
Sounds like you’re doing more applied chemical engineering than most degree holders.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1781541
@JimB
The Einstein-Szilard refrigerator has a lower cop (coefficient of performance) than compressed gas types, BUT if you can operate it from waste heat, the cost of operation more than compensates. In remote it could provide refrigeration without electricity.
The design is also amenable to extreme long life.
The best article is January 1997 Scientific American, which is paywalled. IIRC, the general opinion is than the design could be refined considerably.
If Mark Stevens’ Cringely is shilling something, look at it carefully.
Of course, to be fair, a book is a lot lower financial risk than Excite.com was for my former corporate masters.
Joe Kraus could sure p*ss away money. IIRC, Excite@Home HQ had a slide, but I only saw it from the outside during the brief time AT&T owned Comcast/Excite.
They definitely had the obligatory Valley basketball hoop, but even Atari had one of those … which was still standing the last time I saw that building in 2004.
Squirrels, huh?
“Shoppers are beginning to have flashbacks of last summer, being in lockdown and not having enough household supplies,” says Holly Pavlika, an Inmar senior vice president. “This behavior has created a new shopper segment dubbed ‘The Squirrels’ — those who will always have an established stockpile in their homes.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-toilet-paper-again-shoppers-235000819.html
Squirrels, huh?
Definitely an apt description for some I see individuals running around Austin, but I smell paid Costco PR. I imagine that Issaquah has a lot of TP and water to move.
My favorite squirrels are Karens and Bernie Sanders-looking men driving around in their cars alone wearing the mask.
The three Laws of Thermodynamics:
1. You can’t win
2. You can’t break even
3. You can’t get out of the game.
Thermo was one of the more enjoyable courses I took for my BA.
Another deep dive into the Israel data on COVID breakthroughs.
https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-efficacy-vs-severe-disease-be-strong-when-60-of-hospitalized-are-vaccinated
The TL,DR:
My conclusion: When it comes to the press, I quote Barbie: “Math is hard.”
And the car is usually a Subaru Outback. true?
Or a Prius.
“Bernie Sanders-looking men driving around in their cars alone wearing the mask.”
And the car is usually a Subaru Outback. true?
Ford Fusion was the last one.
This isn’t Portland, where the Outback is the state car of Oregon.
“Bernie Sanders-looking men driving around in their cars alone wearing the mask.”
And the car is usually a Subaru Outback. true?
Didn’t Bernie get the jet last year?
Does anyone know? GIII or GIV?
https://www.cringely.com/2021/08/20/einsteins-fridge-who-knew-the-history-of-thermodynamics-was-so-much-like-high-school/
Who directed Einstein to waste his time studying Thermodynamics instead of CRT?
Personally, I did a lot of thermodynamics work on the Delta II Launch Vehicle putting the GPS satellites in orbit. If the GPS in your car and other devices works, I made no fatal mistakes.
” I made no fatal mistakes. ”
–nottsofast!!! Just means if you made one someone else caught it!
You didn’t build that, after all….
n
;-P
Whew, hot today after all. 100f in the sun. Lots of sun. Lots of shade in the front yard. My week to cut the grass, yea! Not.
n
–that’s an expensive learning curve.
n
– hey the author put a “!” to make it humorous!! Does NO ONE remember identifying tattoos on arms?
n
n
I made no fatal mistakes that were unnoticed and not corrected.
In reality, I was instructed to investigate mistakes of others that had been discovered. I was asked to determine YES or NO to launch the vehicles with those items still installed.
Does NO ONE remember identifying tattoos on arms?
Isn’t that the point? I just looked at the picture, and was instantly reminded.
And… That is not a bar code. It is a QR code. Or maybe I am reading a different DM site.
I still remember the first time I saw one of those forearm serial number tattoos. Chilling.
“It’s now asking owners of the Bolt, which sell new for about $33,000, to set their vehicle to a 90 percent state of charge limitation. The fix will cost the company about $1billion.”
–that’s an expensive learning curve.
GM isn’t a serious car company anymore. The Volt kinda-sorta worked, but it was a hybrid and didn’t fit the orthodoxy.
Honda decided to let GM take the hit to design the “skateboard” under their first generation of EVs.
“No, that’s ok. We’ll keep building dirty, nasty, gas-powered Civics.”
Scan here! Italian student, 22, tattoos barcode of his Covid certificate on his arm
– hey the author put a “!” to make it humorous!! Does NO ONE remember identifying tattoos on arms?
History doesn’t repeat; it rhymes. The threat of spreading disease was the reason given for the ghettos and visible identifiers 90 years ago.
Tyler Durden cowardice. The old habits die hard in Deutzchland. Big smile!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/germanys-largest-amusement-park-segregates-vaxxd-unvaxxd-colored-wristbands
“Ja. Today’s color for ze ‘not vaccinated’ is yellow … Vhat? … Doh!”
Of course, the camps will open here not long after FDA approval of Pfizer, possibly as early as Monday.
Didn’t realize the iterations of our GPS satellites…
The GPS Block IIIA set of satellites — the seventh set of GPS satellites, and the first set of the third generation — is manufactured by Lockheed Martin. The block was originally supposed to start launching in 2014. However, technical delays pushed the first projected launch to May 2018. The series is expected to launch 10 satellites, with the last one scheduled for the second quarter of 2023.
https://www.space.com/19794-navstar.html
This was interesting regarding Toyota’s EV thinking:
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/41790/toyota-bet-against-against-electric-cars-now-its-stacking-the-deck-against-them
“Hydrogen just wants to be free” h/t @lynn
Slim, any good war stories on this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_aHEit-SqA
A landmark study about honesty was based on fabricated data
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/08/20/a-landmark-study-about-honesty-was-based-on-fabricated-data-n410485
” Well, four of the original authors have said they had nothing to do with gathering the specific data involved. That leaves one author, Dan Ariely, who admits he handled the data but claims what was presented in the Excel spreadsheet is exactly what he received from the insurance company. ”
Fascinating. None of these pointy-hairs were ever taught that graphing data is the first step to understanding it.
An anomaly caused the launch vehicle to return to the pad….
n
WRT ignorant tattoo boy, and the actual launch of vax “passports” (which go FAR beyond limiting internal movement and should be flat out illegal on those grounds) aesop had this to say-
n
Slowly, then all at once. It never STARTS with camps and mass graves, it starts with stuff that sounds a bit out there, but still reasonable, given the ‘extraordinary’ circumstances.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9911267/Second-World-War-Nazi-execution-site-500-people-Polands-Death-Valley.html
Only ~75 years ago. Not the dark ages or lost in the mists of time.
n
–can anyone think of parallels to the “paramilitary groups called the ‘Selbstchutz’, made up of German nationals living in Poland”?? ‘cuz I’m pretty sure we have HUGE populations of foreigners imported over the last decade, and in pretty much every area. The OTMs are only one group. Chinese grad students are another. Somalis. Anywhere there is a mosque and halal grocery… there will be plenty of people willing to do the work for a share of the spoils.
My neighbor had a tattoo on her arm. It was absolutely chilling to see it.
n
If you ever wondered if you, your family, or your neighbors would have helped the Jews, homosexuals, and simpletons, or would have informed on them and gotten them arrested, now you know.
“young adults under 40 ”
-=- so now 40 is a young adult? and a pandemic of the young means 30yos?
“‘pandemic of the young’ while noting an increase in hospitalizations among people in their 30s.”
That is some twisted language.
Meanwhile, two weeks ago the hype machine cranked up, and by their own admission, “Doctors say they were treating two or three kids a day only 14 days ago”
Why the manipulation if their case is compelling?
n
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/actual-la-times-headline-larry-elder-black-face-white-supremacy-warned/
n
“I can’t understand how Nazi Germany happened.”
If you ever wondered if you, your family, or your neighbors would have helped the Jews, homosexuals, and simpletons, or would have informed on them and gotten them arrested, now you know.
Live in an HOA in Florida and you’ll understand pretty quickly. Ironically the wannabe Hitlers running the boards are often ex-military, defenders of freedom but dreaming of tenbagger gold or, in the case of old school South Florida condos, Jewish oldsters with stories of fairly close relatives being gassed in the Nazi camps *but you better keep your St. Augustine grass pristine*.
How far do things go? An ex IBM exec in Tampa runs a DNA database and analysis lab for dog poo. When the HOA has a frequent scofflaw who fails to curb their dog, the neighborhood watch sends the evidence in for cataloging and correlation with other samples and witness statements. FS 720 requires the resident to pay all the costs if they are caught and lose in court.
Big business. And Big Smile!
On a lighter, more tech/entertainment note, I noticed that the “Diablo II Resurrected” Open Beta is available to anyone with a PC and a BattleNet account. There goes my productivity for the weekend.
This was interesting regarding Toyota’s EV thinking:
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/41790/toyota-bet-against-against-electric-cars-now-its-stacking-the-deck-against-them
I noted that a few weeks ago. The story struck me as a paid hit piece from Dearborn. Kinda petty, but leadership at the Blue Oval has been back in the family’s hands for the last decade, regardless of who is CEO.
50% of new car sales coming via EVs by 2030 is a fantasy, only achievable if new car sales are an order of magnitude smaller than current numbers.
Plus Ford has to be concerned about the Tundra Hybrid that Toyota could announce any day, part of a 20 year plan the Japanese have been methodically following to make a run at the F150’s sales crown.
Who really believes that Toyota couldn’t produce an EV quickly if they wanted to do it.
Toyota built The Real Life Tony Stark (TM)’s US factory and trained the workforce in Fremont.
*GM* made an EV. Sure, they were all recalled, but GM’s gas powered vehicles aren’t much better as of late.
Crankshaft: The Amazon Experience
https://www.comicskingdom.com/crankshaft/2021-08-21
Welcome to the indie bookstore experience.
“Ken Hoffman uncovers the surprising story behind the Jason Isbell Houston concert drama”
https://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/08-16-21-jason-isbell-cynthia-woods-mitchell-pavillion-cancelled-jerry-macdonald-live-nation/
” A change is coming to the way live entertainment is presented in the U.S. from now on.
Country-rock star Isbell was supposed to perform Wednesday August 11 at the outdoor venue in The Woodlands. However the concert was canceled the day before the show in an exchange of sharply worded accusations between the performer and venue over COVID safety measures insisted on by Isbell, but not implemented by the pavilion.
Isbell says that his agent contacted the promoter Live Nation on July 31 with explicit instructions that all concert attendees would have to present a vaccination card or proof of a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours of the concert.”
I predict that a lot of fake vaccination cards will be produced at the concerts. I wonder how the concert people will determine what is real and what is fake ? Especially as people show them a pictures of their cards on their phone.
I heard an estimate from the owner of another venue that checking for vax cards or tattoos would take 5x the amount of time.
I won’t bother to try to find out who Jason Isbell is, was, or thinks he is/was.
I predict that a lot of fake vaccination cards will be produced at the concerts.
I doubt the vaccination requirements for concerts will last. Regardless of the politics involved, the promoters going along with the requirement are offering an out for people who want a refund on tickets purchased months ago who may need the money more than they need to see the show at this point in time.
Who needs Craigslist or a reseller? I’m unvaccinated and need a refund.
If I was annoyed at Kevin Smith over “Masters of the Universe” as many people are right now, you better believe I would have been on the phone looking for a refund on Monday morning looking to get my money back from the Paramount theater for the show in November following their mandatory vaccination/testing announcement last weekend.
Random stuff….
Looking at small pick-up trucks, the Chevy Colorado looks good. 4WD and a v6. Can drag about 6000 pounds. The Ford Ranger has only a inline 4 turbo across the board. Max towing is a couple of thousand pounds. So scratch the Ford, I don’t want to worry about a turbo.
I may never need the towing capacity but Boy Scout and all that.
A friend looked at the Colorado. Hated it. Said it’s almost a full sized truck. Special orders? They don’t want any. It’s sticker plus six grand and a 3 or 4 month wait. Er, no.
For the money, I’d as soon get a new Dodge. Without the 20 inch wheels. But that’s me.
Talking to other friends, it looks like the choice is between a Ford Ranger and a Toyota something for a small truck. I don’t have a problem with Toyota. So, maybe. I’m not in a rush, blue truck runs well enough for feed store runs. I just have to carry a couple of gallons of water.
I just want a little truck. Like an S-10 or a Cherokee pick-up . With a/c. I don’t care about the sound system or power locks and windows. I’m cool with stirring the gears.
I have a brisket in the spare fridge thawing. After three days it’s starting to be flexible. A few more days.
The hummingbirds seem to have moved on about a month later than the last couple of years.
I’ve had a fuzzy black spider in the laundry room for several days. “Texas Jumping Spider” or whatever. They seem to watch you. Pretty cool creatures. I caught it a while ago and put it outside.
It’s now time for dog cookies. Silly dogs.
@Lynn
Sounds like you’re doing more applied chemical engineering than most degree holders.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1781541
I live, eat, and breathe thermodynamics every day of the week. Somedays I even understand what I am doing.
https://www.winsim.com/
We allow mixtures of up to 1,000 pure components at any temperature from 1 K (2 R) to 3,000 K (5,000 R) and any pressure from 0.1 psia to 50,000 psia. We separate those mixtures into up to four phases: vapor, hydrocarbon liquid, aqueous liquid, and solids. It is impossible to simulate all of those mixture combinations perfectly but we do our best. It is a continual battle.
I note that the Einstein refrigeration patent does not state the ratios of the three fluids in the refrigerator. Nor the amount of heat. Looks like a lot of details to be ironed out in the various implementations.
@JimB
The Einstein-Szilard refrigerator has a lower cop (coefficient of performance) than compressed gas types, BUT if you can operate it from waste heat, the cost of operation more than compensates. In remote it could provide refrigeration without electricity.
The design is also amenable to extreme long life.
The best article is January 1997 Scientific American, which is paywalled. IIRC, the general opinion is than the design could be refined considerably.
My paternal grandparents had a Kenmore refrigerator that they bought in the 1950s and used until the late 1990s. I would say that was a fairly long life.
Building stuff to use waste heat is tricky. We have customers trying to do this all the time. One of things that we try to remind them is that startup on these devices can be tricky, especially if the process providing the waste heat is not running at the time.
@Paul:
Also occasionally think about getting a truck. The new (not-yet-released) Ford Maverick truck is getting some good press. Base price of $20K, I think, but you’d probably want to get a higher trim model. Smaller than the Ranger, I think. Most of the Ford pix are a bit perspective-heavy, making the truck look bigger than it is. But there is a Ford Maverick Truck forum site that you can peruse: https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/forum/threads/hot-pepper-red-maverick-vs-rapid-red-f-150-colors-and-size-comparison-look.783/ . That site has a size comparison graphic that might be helpful. Hybrid or gas available. Towing is only 2K or 4K, though.
Google Android aka “Narc in a box”
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/19/google-geofence-warrants/
Re long life refrigerators, I have a 1955-ish GE refrigerator that still runs fine. I looked it up once a long time ago, but didn’t record its exact birth date. I think I paid a friend $25 for it when he delivered it to me around 1982, and he let me keep the very heavy duty moving dolly for a couple of years. I used that dolly to move and store an engine for a project. That’s the way friends do things here (and a lot of other places.)
Anyhow, that refrigerator is in the basement near my office, and is practically silent. I have to stand close to it to hear it running. No fans, just a big serpentine condenser on its back and a compressor in a can about eight inches in diameter and a foot long underneath. Some of you will remember these old war horses.
It is normally used just for beer and some overflow items as needed, and I felt guilty about its energy use. Almost twenty years ago, I bought my first Kill A Watt, a little watt-hour meter. I used it to measure the energy used by lots of things, including that refrigerator. Based on a one week measurement average, it uses 198 kWh per year, an almost insignificant amount that is equivalent to only a couple dollars a month. I attribute this to the fact that it does not self defrost. Since it is only opened about once or twice a week, I only have to defrost it about every five years. I just empty it and turn it off for a few hours, and clean the inside after the frost melts.
I also pressed it into service when a freezer failed almost four years ago. I took out the usual stuff, packed it solid with the frozen food, and turned the thermostat so it ran continuously for a couple weeks. I was surprised to learn that everything inside stayed frozen, and the temperature actually reached well below freezing. This, with the old rather poor insulation from the era. I worried that I might kill the compressor, but nope. After that, I defrosted it and put it back in service as the spare it always was.
All together: they don’t make them like they used to. 🙂
“Slim, any good war stories on this one?”
Our Propulsion Group was divided into 2 subgroups: Liquid and Solid. I was in the Liquid and was not involved the the Solid Motors. That failure was a solid moter casing.
“The Year of the Flood (The MaddAddam Trilogy)” by Margaret Atwood
https://www.amazon.com/Year-Flood-MaddAddam-Trilogy/dp/0307455475/?tag=ttgnet-20
Book number two of a three book apocalyptic science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Anchor Books (Random House) in 2009. I am reading the third book now.
This book should really be called The Quarter Century of the Waterless Flood. The USA government failed around the year 2100 and the various Corporation security forces took charge ending up in “he who has the gold makes the rules”. For safety reasons, the Corporations had already built their areas into walled enclaves of peace and safety, they just extended their influence into the general populace.
The 22nd century is a wild and crazy place. The gene splicers are running rampant in the center of civilization and at the edges. Many different animals have been spliced together or modified for different reasons. A religious cult had a liobam built from a lion and lamb and then set them to roam free. A drug manufacturer built the pigoon, a pig with significant human DNA for growing human hearts and kidneys, up to ten at a time. But the human DNA made the pigoon a predator and a team builder.
Crake was the best of the gene splicers. He bioengineered enhancements for humans to extend life and make people younger. And then he built his children, a new human with less violent tendencies and able to live from eating grass. And then Crake built a virus, a horrible virus that killed off 99+% of the human race around the globe in a year. Except, those few people that Crake gave the vaccine to or managed to quarantine themselves away from the populace.
And there are the eco-terrorists. They created a microbe to eat the tar out of asphalt roads, leaving only the gravel. They created targeted viruses to kill people they did not like. And many other reprehensible creatures and acts.
The one fault of the two books so far is that it is difficult at times to tell when the chapter is set. The time for each chapter keeps on running back into the past twenty-five years and the “present”. There is a time identifier at the beginning of each chapter but one must consciously read it and relate it to the book as it is not an absolute value.
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,742 reviews)
@Paul
Why not look at Chevy ca 1998-2001 S-10’s?
Tons of them out thee, fixable, tons of fix-it parts, and reliable without being over electronified.
Locally it looks like $5-6k will buy a good looking example with 100-120k miles.
And it will play CD’s.
The three Laws of Thermodynamics:
1. You can’t win
2. You can’t break even
3. You can’t get out of the game.
Thermo was one of the more enjoyable courses I took for my BA.
I have never seen that. It is hilarious. Thanks for the dose of humor; I will put it in my archives. Thermo was my most memorable class in electrical engineering. It was taught by a semi-retired former dean of the Engineering College, who was enjoying himself. Besides covering all the required material, he had many fun stories. He made learning easy, and normally for me it wasn’t.
@Lynn
Again, going from memory, but one developer was working on a model that would run 24 hours after the campfire shut down.
Recycling waste heat is generally only successful when there is a sub-process downstream of the generating process that uses lower grade heat. The most successful applications that I’ve encountered simply generate low-pressure steam for use elsewhere, but as you point out, they either only operate when waste heat is available, or have their own boiler.
@Paul, Why not look at Chevy ca 1998-2001 S-10’s?
I second that but reinforce what I said some days ago: get one in excellent condition. The small extra money will more than compensate. I love my 1994 Dodge Ram 1500 with the 360 and only ~72k miles. I paid a little over market, and did some minor work, but it looks like new and can go anywhere. Can’t play CDs, however. Cassette tapes, anyone? Has the Infinity system, which was killer for its time. I want to install a Bluetooth add-on so I can play music from my phone, but I only spend a few hours a year driving it. Later.
1. You can’t win
2. You can’t break even
3. You can’t even get out the game.
is generally attributed to Allan Ginsburg without the thermo reference.
Some quote it as “quit the game”.
For anyone interested in collections of such, I recommend Paul Dickson’s “The Official Rules”.
@Paul
Yeah, what @JimB said.
And one thing I forgot: it has to have the 4.3-liter Vortec engine.
And a contractor topper.
https://www.ammoland.com/2021/08/breaking-biden-administration-bans-importation-of-russian-guns-and-ammo/#axzz74DkM6sUI
The best little truck we ever had was a Nissan, circa 1990ish, following my dad’s great service from a 1980s Nissan little truck. We drove it and drove it, all the boys drove it until they bought their own cars, later we gave it to one of them for a work truck when it had 280,000 miles. He sold it later and it is probably still going strong somewhere.
Don’t know anything about more recent models, but if I found one for sale cheap, I might buy it just to have available. The only reason we don’t have one now is because we went through some years when we needed bigger vehicles to carry grandchildren in.
GM recalls ALL 152K Chevy Bolts it has ever manufactured over fears electric cars’ batteries could burst into flames
It’s now asking owners of the Bolt, which sell new for about $33,000, to set their vehicle to a 90 percent state of charge limitation. The fix will cost the company about $1billion.
–that’s an expensive learning curve.
n
The total cost of the GM Bolt recall is now $1.8 billion.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/08/21/gm-recall-of-chevy-bolts-will-cost-1-8bn/
Who had the http://www.lenderfi.com home refinance ? Are you still happy ?
They are offering 1.99% 15 year home refinances right now.
Golly. I paid off my first home with payments on a 15 year mortgage at 8.75%, and 15% down. In fact, I think all my mortgages have been in the 8% range. Haven’t taken one in 20 years, though.
@Lynn
Building stuff to use waste heat is tricky. We have customers trying to do this all the time. One of things that we try to remind them is that startup on these devices can be tricky, especially if the process providing the waste heat is not running at the time.
Again, going from memory, but one developer was working on a model that would run 24 hours after the campfire shut down.
Recycling waste heat is generally only successful when there is a sub-process downstream of the generating process that uses lower grade heat. The most successful applications that I’ve encountered simply generate low-pressure steam for use elsewhere, but as you point out, they either only operate when waste heat is available, or have their own boiler.
My point that I forgot to add, was that I tell people to add a couple of burners in those waste heat boilers. They may never use them but, they have them there as a backup. Just in case. And it is a lot easier to get permits for burners at the beginning of the process than 20 years down the road.
Hurricane Henri cone, looks like Long Island is going to get wet.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT08/refresh/AL082021_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/204056_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png
Hat tip to:
http://drudgereport.com/
“Ford F-150’s Generator Keeps Saving People From Power Outages”
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/42062/ford-f-150s-generator-keeps-saving-people-from-power-outages
“When the lights go out, it turns out having a capable generator built in to your pickup truck really comes in handy.”
“It highlights how useful it can be to have a capable generator sitting in the back of your truck, ready to go at a moment’s notice. Also, unlike a standalone generator, it doesn’t require its own fuel. The generator can run silently when using the hybrid battery for power. When the battery gets low, and the engine switches on, it’s still likely that an F-150 idling is quieter than most campsite generators around.”
“It’s a feature that has become closely linked with Ford’s pickups ever since, particularly the top-of-the-line 7.2kW generator. However, the company isn’t resting on its laurels. Ford claims that the new F-150 Lightning electric pickup will be able to power a house for up to three days from its battery pack alone.”
I have to admit the F-150 hybrid with the Pro Power option is looking pretty good. Maybe in a year the price will go down.
And why do I suspect that the Ford F-150 Lightning will be trackable by local goobermints?
I pulled up next to the new ford ranger and my Expy was sitting at the same level. It’s a big small truck… at least from the lane over…
Got the grass cut. Got a couple of additional items prepped for sale. Found a piece I’d bought at the reStore for $2 iirc, a leatherman Crunch, still in the package, and I was going to just hand it to my wife. Then I scanned it, and they are selling for $200 on ebay. $90 for USED. It has a vise-grip like arrangement for the pliers. That one is going on ebay, sorry honey. Checked a monitor before use and it’s blinking. I only paid $2 but I’ll take a look at it. LG and pretty big so worth a half hour of troubleshooting.
Speaking of which, the Dell curved monitor I got at auction was replaced under warranty. But about a week ago I got a note from Dell saying the warranty couldn’t be transferred to me. No further info, nothing about the exchanged monitor. I’ll wait a bit more in case they try to bill me for it. I’ll tell them to come get it and that I want my old one back.
Noticed some rat debris under the shelf where I have my MH Freezedrieds. Uh oh. The box is empty. Totally eaten out from the back. I set 3 more traps in there. Didn’t pull out the other boxes, as I didn’t want to mask and glove. It’s hot in the garage. I expect there is more depredation on the other shelves. Maybe tomorrow. Did a bit of cleanup in the garage too. Not much, but some.
Two loads of laundry yesterday. I’ve been busy avoiding the pile of stuff by the front door.
Did one craft project. It got 2 different things out of the pile, so I could squint and say I was making progress. Came out well. Wife didn’t like it, so it’ll go somewhere…
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A billion here, a billion there, it’s like Monopoly money to them.
Hopefully no GM shareholders here.
–sick enough to be hospitalized. In fact every hospital seems to have lots of patients that are vaccinated but still sick enough to be hospitalized.
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Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, 79, and his wife Jacqueline, 77, are hospitalized with COVID in Chicago: Both are fully vaccinated
–sick enough to be hospitalized. In fact every hospital seems to have lots of patients that are vaccinated but still sick enough to be hospitalized.
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Just wait until the omega variant comes out.
That was me. Still happy, and the easiest refinance I’ve ever done. Ok, so I’ve only done 3 refi’s, but it was the easiest.
If Jackson dies after being vaccinated it will more than balance all the efforts to convince his co-racials.
Fantasy author John C. Wright published this essay on January 12, 2010:
http://www.scifiwright.com/2010/01/the-crazy-years-and-their-empty-moral-vocabulary/
I would make two observations:
the curve has become a hockey stick
this ain’t no accident
That was a long article, but well thought out and well presented. Even more, it held up for 11 years. We are so F’d.
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