During the depression, people couldn’t afford to buy gasoline. The US government produced a document on how to run your car using wood as fuel. This was done by burning wood in an oxygen starved container so that it produced carbon monoxide, which could be piped to the carburetor and used to run the engine.
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In 2015 Seattle adopted an innovative small donor system for funding its local campaigns. Seattle gave four $25.00 democracy vouchers for every registered voter that could be donated to candidates who pledged to accept only cash donations under $250.00, among other stipulations. The program faced its first major test in 2019, when Amazon poured $1.5
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It’s the evening news time the day after the election. The Trumpsters are whining about the election counting is unfair. They are demanding a recount in Wisconsin and they’re trying to get the vote counting halted in Michigan because the Biden votes are gaining on Trump’s initial lead. The votes that are left to be
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It’s the morning after the elections and there are still a lot of races too close to call. Newsmedia are milking the event for as much as they can, but you can’t hurry up the system. Remember that the real (electoral) votes don’t come until December. Years ago I watched an episode on PBS about
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It’s Nov. 3, Election day. The news talked about how the Texas Repub’s are going to court the try to stop 127 thousand drive-thru votes from being counted. Apparently this is an attempt at voter suppression. The Texas State Supreme Court threw out the case because the Repub’s didn’t have the right. The Repub’s then
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Its not hard to make a signal tracer from an old AM radio. You need 60 mm of red and black flexible twisted pair, a 0.22 uF, 100V capacitor, a small black alligator clip, a 50 mm length of shrink tubing that will fit over the following probe, and a thin 100 mm long piece
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Please, for the sake of the whole world, do something! https://phys.org/news/2017-07-effective-individual-tackle-climate-discussed.html
