I’m glad to hear that Pres. Elect Biden will keep sanctions by Trump. There are too many countries who have had it too easy with the US. https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSKBN28Q1CV
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2020-12-16 Grace Capacity – Battery University
This Battery University website gives numerous tutorials for batteries and EVs. The following one is about grace capacity and how a lithium ion rechargeable battery gets ‘used up’. https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/bu_1003a_battery_aging_in_an_electric_vehicle_ev I started thinking about how a regular car engine gets used up in a similar way. The engine slowly wears out and as it does you
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2020-12-15 Rectennas
Using antennas that rectify the very short wavelengths to DC power. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectenna The following article is about using carbon nanotubes to capture and rectify the longer wavelengths of sunlight to make DC electricity. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/11/23/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-90-efficient-solar-panel/
2020-12-15 False Advertising For Sterilizing UV LED Lights
From my comment to al-Ghaili post https://www.facebook.com/ScienceNaturePage/videos/223929302517497/?app=fbl The flaw is that the UV must be UV-C light about 265 to 285 nm wavelength. This wavelength is not emitted by almost all UV LEDs. The plastic lenses in cheap LEDs do not allow UV-C to pass through. The LED window must be glass that passes UV-C.
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2020-12-15 Incentivizing Vaccinations
FB comment on al-Ghaili post George Elliott The fools who have been “intimidated” for getting vaccinated or have been given FUD from other antivaxxers are the problem. They’re “on the fence”, undecided and will stay that way until they either survive infection or die. The situation they are trying to prevent is achieving herd immunity
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2020-12-13 Coordinating Delivery Companies To Cut Mileage
Also comment on long video of Dave Lee interview with Rob Maurer. I’ve been sitting on my front porch and I see *so much* wasted delivery vehicles right now before xmas. Like I saw the Amazon sprinter van, the UPS brown truck and the USPS package delivery all at the same time on a Sunday!
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2020-12-11 Facebook – My Hiatus
On July 1, 2020 I deleted the FB app from my cellphone and I didn’t do FB until Oct 10, and for those 3 months I really didn’t miss it. The reason why I put it back on was because I wanted to find out what the others were fighting about before the elections. Then
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2020-12-09 Heimlich Maneuver, Hillbilly Style
Time for some levity. << Two hillbillies are having lunch when a woman seated nearby begins to choke. Hillbilly asks her,”kin ya swallar?” The woman shakes her head no. Hillbilly asks her “kin ya breathe?” Woman shakes her head no. Hillbilly walks over, lifts up her dress, yanks down britches and licks her butt cheek.
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2020-12-09 Killefer School AKA ALC History
Bill Anderson Thanks for telling us that. I started working for SAC in ’80 so I didn’t know how long we had been there before I came on board. Now I know that SAC was occupying the ALC aka Killefer School since at least ’72. The front of the original school is on Olive but
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