This Brooks& Capehart piece on PBS Newshour says some very important things about voting.
2022-01-06 MASS PSYCHOSIS – How An Entire Population Becomes Mentally Ill
This animated story is very appropriate for today, Jan 6. It’s sad…
2022-01-06 Election Subversion, Partisan Election Officials
This Guardian article paints a dire picture of what may happen with partisan subversion of elections.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/14/trump-president-2024-election-coup-republicans
Trump and his cult followers keep propagating The Big Lie. But life is a two-way street and what works for Trump could be used against him. I think that if Trump can claim that he won, then the rest of this country should fabricate a counterclaim. That simply is that Trump won the 2016 election by fraudulent means. The Russians helped him by interfering in the 2016 election, therefore he was an illegitimate president. And proof of that was that he lost by more than 7 million popular votes. Therefore we as a nation should hold a special election with a single question: should the presidency of Donald J. Trump be declared illegitimate and his presidency be declared null and void, and should both impeachment charges be reinstated and certified? And if the majority of the voters vote yes, then Trump would be declared an illegitimate president who usurped power from the Democratic candidate, H.R.C., and any and all charges in both impeachments be acted on by the DOJ.
2022-01-05 AG Garland Addresses Prosecuting Everyone Involved In The Jan 6 Uprising
In the last half of the video Attorney general Garland stated that
2022-01-05 What Sea Level Rise Will Do To Cities
If the ice melts, the damage will be severe.
https://www.upworthy.com/amp/what-earth-looks-like-if-all-ice-melts-2637340438
2022-01-05 Electric Dryer And 240 VAC Line
From my reply in FB group I Take Pictures…
Steve Spence
Said, “your electric stove, water heater, and dryer use the full 240.”
I don’t *have* any of those appliances; they’re all natural gas.
My coworker asked me to fix her electric dryer that she had just had installed. She said the dryer ran but didn’t get hot. I checked the line voltage and the outlet had 120 VAC from the two lines to neutral, but had zero VAC from line to line. I informed her that the electrician had wired up the outlet incorrectly. A competent electrician would have checked for that and it should never have “slipped through the cracks.”
2022-01-04 Will Tesla Ever Come Out With Affordable EV?
Reply to questions about a more affordable EV from Tesla on FB group:
Wait for the so-called ‘model 2’ that is supposed to cost $25k before rebates. Or else buy a Hyundai or KIA or BYD or Xpeng or any other $25k or less EV.
Realistically, Tesla may never choose to become a commodity EV company. Tesla has developed a superb reputation as not just the best EV, but the best car overall. It may be very difficult for Tesla to give up this reputation to become the low price EV — the sacrifices may be too great.
The way to cut the raw materials costs of a low cost EV is to eliminate the steering, pedals, even the driver seat, and make everything level 5 autonomous EV. Basically almost everything done with software. Even the frills like infotainment will not be included; you can use your smartphone for that. It’s just a matter of time until this happens.
2022-01-03 Periscopes Replaced By Video Cameras
I’m sitting on the grass in the back yard and it’s chilly, but the sunlight feels really good on my back. I can hear some birds up in the trees, I’m waiting to see if they’ll come down and eat some birdseed. I started thinking about a way to watch them up there. What I need is a periscope, so they wouldn’t get scared and fly away. But that would have all sorts of complicated prisms and optics and lenses. Instead, I could just put a video cam up on a stick, and watch it down here 10 ft below on a flat screen. I wonder if all the submarines have done that? They don’t need to have all those big periscopes with binocular lenses and stuff. All they have to do is put a thin rod up high, and put two tiny cameras for stereoscopic vision on the end of the rod, and have it pan and tilt so it can see all around. Hey there’s another million dollar idea! But I think they probably already know about this, and have already done it. Does anybody know if the submarines have this kind of thing now?
Instead, I’m going to put an FM microphone over there by the bird seed, and see if I can pick up the birds chirping in the house with my radio. I’m going to use a solar cell as the power for the microphone. I think if I put a few hundred farad super capacitor in parallel with the solar cell, it should run the microphone for a few hours after the sunlight goes dim. But by that time the birds have already gone to roost in the trees.
What I need to do is work on making a battery pack for my big GE SuperRadio. It uses D cells which cost way too much, so it has always been used with the AC line cord. Instead, I need to connect several Ni-MH rechargeable batteries together so they’ll fit inside the battery compartment and clip the wires onto the battery contacts. The rechargeable cells are slightly bigger than AA cells and are in 5 cell packs that add up to 6 VDC. The radio needs more than 6 volts so I’ll have to use more than one pack.
2022-01-02 Dunning-Kruger Theory
I would have to disagree with the meme. Many of our elected officials are no more educated than the village idiots, and they think they are better informed and can make decisions better than the college graduates. And these decisions are made without the knowledge or wisdom of better informed people. This is the basis of the Dunning-Kruger theory.
2022-01-01 Enapter EL 2.1 AEM Electrolyser For Residential Use
This hydrogen electrolyzer produces about 1 kg a day. They also have systems for utility scale.
