Anybody with an engineering background should love technology.michaelf » 29 Jun 2023, 2:41 pm » wrote: ↑ I and many others I know are definitely "MAGA" but none fit your description. I for example have an engineering background. Do you really think I have something against technology. I love technology. I just hate democrats, especially idiot Joe Biden.
And when I left work today and switched on npr it was more queer ****. It's like they've taken on pushing deviant sex almost full time.
Bruce » 29 Jun 2023, 3:26 pm » wrote: ↑ Anybody with an engineering background should love technology.
I don’t love Uncle Joe, but he’s not a bad old man.
What I’ve noticed about Republicans is individually they are nice people. But if you get more than three in a room they’ll start up all that right wing **** they get fed from somewhere.
I truly believe, Fox News has ruined more good men than whiskey ever did.
What I do like about Joe, is that old man, in spite of all his enemies and detractors, is that if he falls getting on an airplane the old guy keeps right on climbing the stairs.michaelf » 29 Jun 2023, 3:39 pm » wrote: ↑ fox is no worse than npr. Msnbc or cnn and, unlike most. I keep an eye on all of them.
And Biden is crook, a plagiarist and (at the risk of being redundant) a liar. He is the quintessential example of what is wrong with our government.
Bruce » 29 Jun 2023, 4:10 pm » wrote: ↑ What I do like about Joe, is that old man, in spite of all his enemies and detractors, is that if he falls getting on an airplane the old guy keeps right on climbing the stairs.
Wherever he’s at right now, he’s on our side, not your side and not my side, but our side.
For example, last year Joe ended a twenty year war in Afghanistan. He pulled out our troops and took them home, with even his friends criticizing him.
Raise your hand if you’d like to re invade Afghanistan.
We’ll miss him, after he’s gone,
Joe blows with the wind which bellows from the mouths of radical leftists. He's a proper game piece. They move him where they wish.Bruce » 29 Jun 2023, 4:10 pm » wrote: ↑ What I do like about Joe, is that old man, in spite of all his enemies and detractors, is that if he falls getting on an airplane the old guy keeps right on climbing the stairs.
Wherever he’s at right now, he’s on our side, not your side and not my side, but our side.
For example, last year Joe ended a twenty year war in Afghanistan. He pulled out our troops and took them home, with even his friends criticizing him.
Raise your hand if you’d like to re invade Afghanistan.
We’ll miss him, after he’s gone,
By the way, the reason all the Bruces are almost all in graveyards, is all the Lois Geraldines stopped naming their sons Bruce during the fifties, preferring Robert instead. No need to add, to the boy’s burden.DeplorablePatriot » 29 Jun 2023, 9:23 pm » wrote: ↑ Joe blows with the wind which bellows from the mouths of radical leftists. He's a proper game piece. They move him where they wish.
BTW, Bruce is a common *** name.
Sounds a lot like high efficiency furnaces...RedheadedStranger » 29 Jun 2023, 6:56 am » wrote: ↑ When I was researching what unit to by to fill our needs, there wasn't a whole lot of fuss over the actual performance of the new units with the secondary burn system, but more that people with the older non compliant systems would eventually be required to update before they needed to
Ours doesn't have the catalytic unit for the secondary burn... just the air tubes and a capture system that returns the initial gasses through a chamber to be burned again. It only really works as intended above a certain temp range too, so if the fire is too cool, it isn't as efficient.
The ideal scenario is the air intake just barely cracked open feeding a super hot bed of coals with just a glint of fire riding across the top of the chamber where the secondary burn is taking place. The fireplace "blaze" is pretty to look at, but once I get the coals and the air tubes working right, it will stay nice and toasty without having to tend it much for hours.
You got links claptrapper?Bruce » 29 Jun 2023, 1:10 pm » wrote: ↑ Fifty years ago in high school, our teachers were teaching us about solar and wind and nuclear energy.
What blind sided the futurists of 1973 was the Obama administration approving gas fracking that in just a few years made the USA a net exporter of oil and gas, and lowered the cost of natural gas power generation to where coal, is a dead tech walking.
I can remember fifty years ago our teachers expecting solar to be dominant over wind energy.
That photo of those busted panels is one reason solar isn’t winning. That field also is useless except for power generation.
There were wind turbine farms fifty years ago, that look about like wind farms today.
The do gooders complain they kill birds, which they do, and the right wingers make up all kinds of bull **** about wind turbines causing cancer, which they don’t.
—-In Montana, wind energy is cost-competitive with fossil fuels, especially coal. In fact, wind energy is less much less expensive than coal for customers of NorthWestern Energy – the state’s largest utility.The graph below comes from data from the Montana Public Service Commission and it compares the costs of various resources in NorthWestern’s portfolio. The Judith Gap wind facility is about $32.11 per megawatt-hour (or 3.1 cents per kilowatt-hour) while the coal-fired Colstrip Unit 4 is about $64.55 per megawatt-hour or (6.4 cents per kilowatt hour).
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Even those numbers are about ten years out of date.
New build wind plants make juice for two cents an hour.
And before you pity the farmers who endure looking at the wind turbines, they are praying their farm is selected. They’ll get a royalty check for a thousand a month for each turbine, and still have use of the land.
Man, those things sucked...have that on was like riding the brakes...DeplorablePatriot » 29 Jun 2023, 1:37 pm » wrote: ↑ That's used on liberals to extract information.![]()
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I was a firm believer in generating power as a kid!
spot on...bruce is a typical libtardo...makes specious comments, posts unverifiable data and never supplies a link to back anything up...michaelf » 29 Jun 2023, 2:41 pm » wrote: ↑ I and many others I know are definitely "MAGA" but none fit your description. I for example have an engineering background. Do you really think I have something against technology. I love technology. I just hate democrats, especially idiot Joe Biden.
And when I left work today and switched on npr it was more queer ****. It's like they've taken on pushing deviant sex almost full time.
It's amazing how dependent we've become...it's hard to find **** to do that doesn't involve power...sootedupCyndi » 29 Jun 2023, 11:52 am » wrote: ↑ Does it work? i luv my crank radio- it has a great sound. But tons of cranks and it shuts off in a half an hour.
But?
I did see a small generator on a prepper site. You charge it solar- or charge ahead plugging it into the wall. They said it can handle two small devices. thinking laptop.
dont mind sitting around with no power- but when the beast goes down- I get very upset.
yea. We have a brand new generator. 900 bucks. Generac. out in the garage. Changed the oil- by the book.. never started again. Been You Tube-ing it.ROG62 » 30 Jun 2023, 6:53 am » wrote: ↑ It's amazing how dependent we've become...it's hard to find **** to do that doesn't involve power...
The only smoke I really get out of the stack is at the initial fire up... after that it's pretty clean. There isn't even much odor in the house to speak of when it's running right.
Contact generac support...sootedupCyndi » 30 Jun 2023, 7:12 am » wrote: ↑ yea. We have a brand new generator. 900 bucks. Generac. out in the garage. Changed the oil- by the book.. never started again. Been You Tube-ing it.
so now for the first time in 25 years... the house has a non functioning generator. I am very upset over that.
we sit here all the time with no power. Thats why I am always on the prepper stuff.
Hey thats a good idea!!!!. we bought ours at tractor supply- but that doesnt mean a thing these days.ROG62 » 30 Jun 2023, 7:58 am » wrote: ↑ Contact generac support...
my niece and hubby purchased a 13kw (Chinese made) for 2k thru Amazon. Uncrated, got it to start, but it wouldn't stay running. Called tech support and spent 30 minutes trying a number of things to no avail. The person stated the ones sold on Amazon were problematic for some reason and would send them a new replacement unit...
here's the kicker, they didn't want the old one back! They had a generator savvy friend come over and discovered a wire was never hooked up...it ran perfect...they sold it for a little less than they paid for it...basically getting a $2k generator for free...SMH
I would contact generac directly...sootedupCyndi » 30 Jun 2023, 8:04 am » wrote: ↑ Hey thats a good idea!!!!. we bought ours at tractor supply- but that doesnt mean a thing these days.
I looked it up already_-good idea.
Tesla announced record setting production of closing on a half million units in fhe first quarter of 2023.