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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that." Martin Luther King Jr.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
news unfit for weak stomached republicans
It's been a wild few days of shocks to the system, especially if your system is Republican.
*Socialist Pope's synod has come out with the question for catholics, shouldn't we make nice with gays? They aren't going to do weddings, but it's a step forward in cutting off the hatred, and the step is too far for many on the right.
*Sept. was the hottest September ever globally. Using the thousands of daily readings around the world. Yea I know it was cool a few days where you live so your not convinced.
*Tesla's new model D is drag strip ready, 155mph, 0 - 60 3.2 seconds. 691 HP with a motor driving the front and another driving the rear. Range is further too, 275 miles. Extra range is due to 2 motors working in harmony adjusted every mili-second takes less power than one motor, even with the extra weight, it goes faster and farther. I have a state house senator who owns a car dealership, he hates Tesla, this for sure made him puke, again. Porsche, Viper, Shelby, Mustang, none of them beat this time. Electric cars were up till now seen as a lady like car, an old persons car, a nerds car, now it is THE muscle car. OH go on, Puke some more. In fairness one Porsche 918 Spyder can beat it, but it costs $887,000, for one car, the Tesla is less than 10% of that.
*China announced last week a $6 a ton tax on imported coal. They are suffering so much pollution they have to make changes. These higher prices they say will force increased efficiency and cut waste in industry and residential use. They also re-affirmed last months statement the rapid increase in building coal plants is coming to an end in a couple of years at which time they will accelerate the closing of old plants, dirtiest first and so on. So much for the plan to export hugh amounts of coal to China. Wind and solar are growing fast too in China.
*India has decided instead of building an electric grid infrastructure into un-electrified regions they will get power to 400 million by small wind and solar farms. Local distributed power near the customers. This announcement killed several planned coal fired power plants. Ouch GE, ouch Becktel, no smokestacks or boilers needed.
*Socialist Pope's synod has come out with the question for catholics, shouldn't we make nice with gays? They aren't going to do weddings, but it's a step forward in cutting off the hatred, and the step is too far for many on the right.
*Sept. was the hottest September ever globally. Using the thousands of daily readings around the world. Yea I know it was cool a few days where you live so your not convinced.
*Tesla's new model D is drag strip ready, 155mph, 0 - 60 3.2 seconds. 691 HP with a motor driving the front and another driving the rear. Range is further too, 275 miles. Extra range is due to 2 motors working in harmony adjusted every mili-second takes less power than one motor, even with the extra weight, it goes faster and farther. I have a state house senator who owns a car dealership, he hates Tesla, this for sure made him puke, again. Porsche, Viper, Shelby, Mustang, none of them beat this time. Electric cars were up till now seen as a lady like car, an old persons car, a nerds car, now it is THE muscle car. OH go on, Puke some more. In fairness one Porsche 918 Spyder can beat it, but it costs $887,000, for one car, the Tesla is less than 10% of that.
*China announced last week a $6 a ton tax on imported coal. They are suffering so much pollution they have to make changes. These higher prices they say will force increased efficiency and cut waste in industry and residential use. They also re-affirmed last months statement the rapid increase in building coal plants is coming to an end in a couple of years at which time they will accelerate the closing of old plants, dirtiest first and so on. So much for the plan to export hugh amounts of coal to China. Wind and solar are growing fast too in China.
*India has decided instead of building an electric grid infrastructure into un-electrified regions they will get power to 400 million by small wind and solar farms. Local distributed power near the customers. This announcement killed several planned coal fired power plants. Ouch GE, ouch Becktel, no smokestacks or boilers needed.
Friday, October 10, 2014
Did BP drive up cost of seafood?
Well, I doubt it, I think all these fish are just better at hiding than they were before the gulf was covered in oil tar and fire. Also I thing gulf fishermen are drunks now and don't fish much. I bet the truth is there are more fish than ever now, yea that's it, those "-" signs were suppose to be "+'s". Yea that's it, oil helps em hide so drunk fishermen can't find them.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
The EV's are coming, the EV's are coming.
Last year I noticed there was a Chevy Volt in a garage a couple blocks away. Now another Electric Vehicle, a Nissan Leaf is near by too. Twice last month I saw a red Tesla model S gliding quietly through the area and onto the 4 lane arterial to the east. I don't know the owners, but I met the guy living next to the Volt. He said the women that has it ask if gas can go bad. Volt has a gas engine that runs if the 40 mile range batteries are depleted. She told him in the 6 months she had it she never used the gas engine, the tank still full from the day she bought it. All her trips around town gets her home on stored power. He told her she should use the gas engine and refill the tank every few months to be safe.
People don't drive as far as they think, most trips to work, school, shop, church, or bar are less than 40. All the builders are working on, and will in a year or so have cars in the 100+, even 200+ range.
You don't need Paul Revere to tell you EV's are coming, the Kochs and others are fighting it, they see it coming, it means less gas sold. The question is will we let them slow it down in states with laws that inhibit EV sales with higher taxes on EV's and hybrids or keeping Tesla out of some states. Well, Ford has partnered with KB Homes, the largest house and apartment builder in the nation. KBH will now wire all their homes to be ready for adding an EV charger, so the buyer if they later buy an EV can just plug in the charger that plugs to the EV, you need not pull any wires or hire an electrician. Tesla give buyers of the "S" free recharges for life. Today Honda and Solar City announced $50+ million program for Honda EV customers, lowering their costs if they add solar panels to charge the new EV. Even if you or I can't get in on these programs now, they solve some of the problems for the buyer, pushing up sales, lowering prices, reducing pollution. Thats good for all of us. We might be able to afford an EV sooner than we thought.
You need to let your state house rep and senator know you oppose adding taxes to these cars, and you oppose the trend of making net metering* less attractive with more taxes, charges, regulations, limits. The sun that falls on your house is yours, if you invest to turn it into energy, then bugger-off Mr. Utility, bugger-off ALEC, AFP, Chamber, Kochs. It's your sunshine, protect it or the Koch's will make it so expensive you won't be able to use it.
*Net Metering, the meter than runs both directions, when you generate your own watts, if you have excess it credits you, lowering your utility bill. Some states are now doing the utilites and Koch's work to the detriment of homeowners and small businesses.
People don't drive as far as they think, most trips to work, school, shop, church, or bar are less than 40. All the builders are working on, and will in a year or so have cars in the 100+, even 200+ range.
You don't need Paul Revere to tell you EV's are coming, the Kochs and others are fighting it, they see it coming, it means less gas sold. The question is will we let them slow it down in states with laws that inhibit EV sales with higher taxes on EV's and hybrids or keeping Tesla out of some states. Well, Ford has partnered with KB Homes, the largest house and apartment builder in the nation. KBH will now wire all their homes to be ready for adding an EV charger, so the buyer if they later buy an EV can just plug in the charger that plugs to the EV, you need not pull any wires or hire an electrician. Tesla give buyers of the "S" free recharges for life. Today Honda and Solar City announced $50+ million program for Honda EV customers, lowering their costs if they add solar panels to charge the new EV. Even if you or I can't get in on these programs now, they solve some of the problems for the buyer, pushing up sales, lowering prices, reducing pollution. Thats good for all of us. We might be able to afford an EV sooner than we thought.
You need to let your state house rep and senator know you oppose adding taxes to these cars, and you oppose the trend of making net metering* less attractive with more taxes, charges, regulations, limits. The sun that falls on your house is yours, if you invest to turn it into energy, then bugger-off Mr. Utility, bugger-off ALEC, AFP, Chamber, Kochs. It's your sunshine, protect it or the Koch's will make it so expensive you won't be able to use it.
*Net Metering, the meter than runs both directions, when you generate your own watts, if you have excess it credits you, lowering your utility bill. Some states are now doing the utilites and Koch's work to the detriment of homeowners and small businesses.
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