Gavin Longmuir: “‘You just need to buy electric trucks and be able to connect them to the grid — that’s the whole cost,’ he said.” That may be the whole cost of the apple, but that apple is in no way comparable to the orange of the power generated by a hydro-electric installation — not unless the electric trucks can carry as much water in a day as the pipeline to a power plant. That sounds like a lot of heavy trucks, which will require a lot of road improvements &...
Isegoria: The argument for it is not that it’s a perpetual-motion machine: To start with, electric truck hydropower can be much less expensive than the alternatives. “You just need to buy electric trucks and be able to connect them to the grid — that’s the whole cost,” he said. “But for hydropower plants you need huge dams, tunnels, turbines, and lots of other different components that have very high investment costs.” Depending on conditions, the water-carrying electric trucks could also be deployed to...
Bob Sykes: One notes that the shale is LIFTED up out of the mine to the top of the ropeway. It’s a very clever device, designed back when the average UK IQ was about 10 points higher. But the First Law still applies.
JBP: Hahaha. What a load. The truck generates more energy going down because it weighs twice as much going down. So this scheme only works when loads are going downhill. In open pit mining this would not work at all. BUT, as long as it is not subsidized by taxpayers, go for it.
VXXC: Separation: Geography is merciless. Ask the Irish, the Balkans, The Middle East. American Geography mandates Ocean to Ocean, there will be only one. No competent government, people or faction will settle for anything less. There will be no separation ultimately, however if you need to or like to you can grab a piece. We have to start somewhere and live somewhere eh? If you entertain any delusions that separation is but to establish a base of operations for the wars of reunification you are utterly...
VXXC: Most revolutions end up being a version of the government and elites they replaced, with different titles and most importantly different people. The New Deal Revolution was and is no different in this respect — except — where we had before a Constitutional Federation that was formalized, legal, legitimate and open we now have informal, unconstitutional and so illegal, illegitimate except by obscure rulings and statutes and largely hidden in a hall of mirrors and clouds of smoke...
VXXC: The question begged: will centralization work? History’s answer is NO. All of History’s answers to governance in North America were Federations. The Iroquois Confederacy, the Articles of Confederation, the Federalist Republic, the Confederacy. Until now and not even successfully yet no one tried to have a central government, we are in fact witnessing a power struggle of centralization in DC, with the elites, with the Democratic Party as the standard bearer of Centralization but in...
James James: https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Material_ropeway
James James: https://youtu.be/6RiYXI1 Tfu4 The UK’s last aerial ropeway uses no power, moves 300 tonnes
Jim: >CTRL-f "nuclear": zero results. It’s always the same with these hecking people.
Bruce: “About as cost-effective as (other green energy scams)” sounds accurate.
Wang Wei Lin: Also known as perpetual motion. The king is not wearing any clothes.
David Foster: Freight trains powered by electricity from an overhead line — and returning power to the line when going downhill — were a thing in mountainous districts in the 1920s. Not exactly a new, “high tech” idea. Concerning the use of water trucks to generate power: if you have water at a high elevation, why not just build a conduit running downhill and run it through a turbine? What do the trucks add, except a perpetual expense stream to replace tires, etc?
York: So the Great and Lauded Oxford Don transcribed pot boiler fiction? The Great One’s feet must surely have had Amahaggerian clay. Really loving the idea that Tolkien was reading the academic equivalent of penny dreadfuls and making them his own. Haggard never got the recognition from the Academy for his own works, yet Tolkien padded out his stories and became an intellectual darling, and deservedly so. Just waiting for the ultimate and darkest of secrets…That Tolkien had a subscription to...
Jim: For a moment, I thought that Tolkien had been meaningfully literarily influenced by a woman. Then, of course, I snapped back to reality.
Jim: bruce: “Chevalier, I would not have told Lee that avenging his father made him a Yankee.” Ice. Fucking. Cold.
Faze: “She” and “King Solomon’s Mines” are crazy good, fast-moving narratives – bloody and violent as hell – and blunt about race in the way of their time. Haggard could really tell a tale.
bruce: Chevalier, I would not have told Lee that avenging his father made him a Yankee.
Adar: Secession of itself is not such a bad thing, if done by negotiations in an amicably agreed upon manner with a framework for secession amicably agreed upon. In the case of the American Civil War, this was not the case.