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This retard thinks he will get the bill signed? It would be vetoed so fast his head will spin. There is no way they ha’ve 2/3 in both houses so it’s a dead letter. Nice gaslight though. More theatre from the butthurt commies.

“Nobody in America is going to try and kill them.”

Go to X there are dozens of ferals here calling for and threatening to kill them. So yeah they better get some perm rez cards which allow firearm ownership

L3Harris has already said they are to going to rip out all the wires and comm systems and put in EMP hardened fiber optics, they also said they will be adding the classified defensive systems and air to air ports. Difference is they say they can do it on 9 months not a decade. Amazing what you can do when you don’t grift and want to compete for future contracts. The airframe are the same as the new AF1 which means they just need to install already made systems. L3Harris is in Florida a red state they will get the job done on time an on budget.

Yes Texas has 3 AC-DC/DC-AC ties ERCOT is not in phase synchronous with the other two North American grids. We have two to the north one east and a tie to Mexico via a mechanical VF transformer basically a huge hydro turbine type generator wired back to back with another motor how you vary the phase angle of the machines determines which way power flows it’s all AC though.

Texas has 3 existing HVDC ties and a variable frequency AC transformer to Mexico. We are adding 3000 megawatts of bidirectional transfer to Louisiana and Mississippi via east Texas to Garland DFW one of the largest power consumers in the state. When finished the nukes at Comanche peak and the HVDC link to LA/MS could power all of North Texas with room to spare again we good. The real reason is we have so much cheap wind power routinely under $15 per megawatt hour the power co wants to sell it for huge profits to LA / MS we hardly will import if at all.

https://patternenergy.com/projects/southern-spirit-transmission/

We also real time and forecast inertia.

https://www.esig.energy/implementation-of-inertia-monitoring-in-ercot-whats-it-all-about/

This is the bread and butter for us power professionals

https://www.esig.energy/inertia-trends-in-ercot/

https://globalpst.org/wp-content/uploads/ERCOT-Inertia-Analysis-in-Planning-and-Operations.pdf

We good, hatersq gonna hate it’s what they do.

You should look at the wind field data now, 300 miles if coastline is getting 25+ mph winds at surface level they are stronger at 100 meters.

https://zoom.earth/maps/wind-speed/#view=28.085,-96.289,6z/model=icon

West Texas is getting 20+ mph too right now. Wind is throttled down because solar has priority on the grid right now, and the gas turbines spinning are doing so for inertia not because they are cheaper than wind. I can see real time ERCOT data with my LLC grade login.

I should point out inertia is not just rotating generators it also is all the rotating synchronous motors attached to the system that’s why you have so much inertia as those motors also spin down to the new grid frequency they push power back too the grid using their kinetic to do so for a few seconds to a minute just like power turbines.

“Across the U.S., we’re replaying the same mistakes. Texas, through the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), now gets more than 35 percent of its energy from wind and solar—spiking past 80 percent on the right day. But ERCOT is a grid on an island; it can’t import help or borrow stability. “

Calm down Francis...

This is ERCOT right now.

Frequency
Current Frequency 59.976
Instantaneous Time Error -1.678
Consecutive BAAL Clock-Minute Exceedances (min) 0
Real-Time Data
Actual System Demand 73426
Average Net Load 34604
Total System Capacity (not including Ancillary Services) 91998
Total Wind Output 16560
Total PVGR Output 21608
Current System Inertia 284272. <<<< you see this that’s 284+ gigawatts of inertia simmer down Francis.

“Is it time to max out the credit cards and not worry about paying the bill?”

There is according to the world astronomy community only a 2.7% chance Asteroid 99942 Apophis will impact earth in 2029...but given the way every government on earth has been spending like drunken sailors never expecting to pay off the debts coupled with the trillions missing in finds that went to continuance of government spending the probability is lively much higher. Of course the global governance would never tell the plebs an impact is expected they would just well spend like drunken sailors and build bunkers for themselves. Just saying.

Mexico will issue federal level drivers licences to its citizens even if they are expats. They also have state level licences. Mexico does everything they can for its citizen’s abroad,about the only thing it does well. This girl was brought here at 4 years old so she would’ve needed to apply for a Mexico federal level DL, they would have granted it then she could have gotten a IDP with that.

Here is what they look like and yes you can use one of these to get an IDP and drive here or any of the other 140 countries that participate in the IDP program.

https://cdn.ymaws.com/ncnla.com/resource/resmgr/documents/Mexican_LFC_Schematic_Revise.pdf

You cannot get a IDP workout providing proof of a valid licence in a country that is part of the IDP process. She would have submitted her Mexico drivers licence to the IDP board. Mexico will issue DLs to its citizens abroad or she had ID theft and sent someone elses DL for the IDP not likely given if you have a stolen USA DL why even bother with the IDP as it is for foreign DLs to drive in a participating country.

I keep an IDP to drive in the EU and the UK they are good for 365 days it is a translation of your already valid US state issued licence to international recognized standards nothing more nothing less. Mine shoes I have a valid Texas DL in the class C and M classes. This tells the EU that I can operate up to a class C1E commercial heavy vehicle with a MAM ( maximum allowable mass) of 12,000 kilograms. Well above their normal 3500Kg limits. Basically everything smaller than a articulated lorry.

“They are only good for 6 months”

No IDP are good for 365 days I keep one for world travels up to date ever 365 days.

You can rent a vehicle with a IDP and your foreign DL, you also can state register a vehicle using a LLC or S Corp incorporated either here with foreign ownership or incorporated in a foreign country. I have two vehicles registered and plated in WY to a LLC out of Wyoming because Texas won’t title or plate then but Texas must recognize WY plates due to reciprocity. I am about to go to Mexico and get a BYD register it in that same LLC ,plate it in Mexico and drive it across the border it’s a corporate vehicle then ,and Texas cannot via NAFTA say it can’t be here.

There are ways for her to have a vehicle registered, she could have had Mexican plates as well as Mexico will issue its citizens driver’s license and plates even if they are here Mexico enables expats in every way they can.

“Her family’s technically: per the article (after the excerpt), she entered the country illegally with her family in 2010, when she was 4.

(Which, granted, makes you wonder why she has an International Driver’s Permit at all...)”

IDP are only issued when you present a valid foreign drivers license to the issuing board. So she must have had a Mexico DL. Georgia doesn’t issue foreign nationals drivers license, however Mexico will issue a DL to one of its citizens living in the USA or any other country. The 30 day residence requirement does not apply to foreign nationals and the IDP is valid for 366 days. The crime was being illegally present in the USA. She is a DACA kid having been brought here as a minor she had no choice in the matter. The responsibility falls to her parents she doesn’t have a home in Mexico he has only.lived here since she was 4. It’s up to Mexico to provide for her when she is repatriated.

I routinely renew my IDP you need it to rent a vehicle anywhere in the EU or the UK. Fun fact Texas Class C DLs are considered commercial operators licences in the EU and you can drive C class and up to C1E with trailer limit is 12,000Kg. Regular EU class B is max 3500Kg and 750Kg trailer that’s smaller than a Ford Ranger and the smallest class 1 hitch. You must test for, and work for a commercial operations to hold amy thing above a B in the EU so you have to be a commercial operator drive even a F150 class truck or up. They all are commercial large goods class. This fact is why every time I go to the UK my hosts who do not have class C licences always ask me to rent a LGV so they can have me use it with them to move or tow things. It’s hard to get and hold a operators licence.

Basque / Canary Isleños / Comanche , family been ranching south of the presideo de Bexar that since 1731 here. No one hates the mojados more than real colonial Spaniards. We didn’t cross a border we made the border having fought against Santa Anna and won.

Lithium chloride will pull water out of single digit humidity levels in it’s salt form, go to a chemical supply store ask for some lithium chloride. Dump it in a glass dish and set it in the shade where you are in not much time you will have a bowl of brine liquid bank on it. Even in the Sahara you could do this and still end up with a bowl of brine. The trick is how to get the water out it’s too concentrate for reverse osmosis, you can calcinate the salt with heat and condense the vapors but you need hundreds of degrees C it can be done but your really have to want that water. This takes the incredible water absorbing properties of lithium chloride and makes it use less than 50C in heat to drive the water out. If you are willing to take low rates even 10% or user still will eventually saturate LiCl.

Does distilled water have any metal ions in it? No why? Because the process of turning water into HiP vapor leaves metals and all other ions behind. Some volatile organics that have vapor pressures lower than H2O can volatilize lithium salts are not one of them. This is a distillation process once the water is captured by a alkaline salt nothing more nothing less. You could even put a hydrophobic membrane between the evaporator and the condenser to ensure only H2O vapor and nothing else crosses that membrane it has nanometer sized pores that only vapor molecules can pass metals, VOC, virus,bacteria cannot pass it. This is exactly how you get analytically zero ppm.distilled water so pure you couldn’t drink it as it would leech minerals from your teeth and bones you have to add some ppm in metals calcium and magnesium if you want to keep your teeth and bones. So no you won’t ever get lithium in any form in the distilled product side. This is a well known process they just immobilized the salt in a porous cellulose material that’s all that is new and it’s genius.

“It would seem that a start sequence burns the richest mixture of fuel/ air resulting in more Mother Earth killing pollutants. ;=)”

modern direct injected gasoline engines once at operating temp do not use fuel enrichment at start up and even cold due to the 3000+ psi fuel injection pressure even cold fuel is a fine micron sized mist as soon as it is injected directly into the cylinder. Only the first few hundred rpm have fuel enrichment maps once the engine is at high idle speed it goes open loop stoichiometric using either a mass airflow sensor or absolute manifold pressure sensor. This is easy to check using a ECU connected diagnostic cable and a laptop or tablet,now you can even use Bluetooth right from the OBDII port to see in real time down to the individual injection event if you have the tech savvy to do it.

Once at operating temps the engine will start in a single revolution of the crank because the ECU has already ok shut down knows which cylinder was in the compression part of the cycle it gets a direct injection of a 14:1 proper mix and the plug fires it off just past TDC that single event is enough to kick the motor over for the next cylinder and the one after to get injected and fired off. In less than 300 milliseconds the engine is at 700+ rpm the starter only has to spin the motor at most a quarter turn to hit that preselected cylinder to just past TDC. So the wear is minimal on the starter, modern cars also have anti-drain back silicon check valves in the oil system which keeps all the journals and channels full of oil even on shut down oil is in incompressable the instant the pump puts pressure on the system every part upstream of the check valve is at full pressure too this is basic hydraulic physics. A lot of newer cars have electric oil pumps too those kick on before a start event but even mechanical one start moving oil on the first rpm of rotation. That and a warm engine has oil film all through it a few tens of seconds or a minute sitting off at a stop in no way could drain that oil film away. This is easy to check turn your motor off then immediately pull your dipstick it will be lower than full. Then come back in an hour it will be higher but not totally full it takes hours to get the level back to full.

It’s boomer fud a few seconds off hurts a motor. We get it bro it’s annoying but save the FUD it does no real harm and engineers will confirm this on modern motors time and time again.

As for savings vmmy Saab and both Volvos had start stops systems that worked just as described above they took under 300 milliseconds to be at running speed faster than you could move your foot from the brake pedal to the accelerator. By the time your foot hit the accelerator it was not only running but it knew to be at high idle 1800rpm already giving you a FASTER pull away vs sitting at idle the 750rpm normal set point.

My S60 got 5 mpg better mileage with it on in Houston traffic and DFW. I was putting 36,000 miles a year on it. In traffic with it off ones setting 23-25 mpg at best , so th it on 28-29 that’s 5 mpg. That’s 279 gallons difference over a single year at $3.25 a gallon back then it was worth $906 per yesr. Yeah I’ll take the cut out for nearly a grant a year less fuel cost but hey freedom and merica spend your money how you want too. In reality it is not doing a lick of damage my S40 went 180,000+ miles the S60 close to that as well they were multi city’s commuter cars.

Almost assuredly a gas leak. This is why there is no gas in any of my homes plural. Heat pumps are more efficient even in single digit temps with modern Mitsubishi units.

Induction cooktops heat faster with more precise temp control (single degree F) with Bluetooth probes most importantly with no radon,carbon monoxide or nitrous oxides. As a former professional back of house in NYC no less while at University. I would and so choose induction over gas any day every day with two exceptions both only outside kitchen use. 250,000 BTU wok burner which doubles as the 100 quart crawfish boiler burner. The other exemption is 1800 degree gas salamander for dry aged steaks like every high end steakhouse uses. Peter Luger and Delmonico’s both gas salamander their steaks having been personally in both those kitchens can confirm. There is no need in modern times to have flammable gas inside the home. Added benefit is with solar panels you can go off grid entirely, the gas grid is still a grid and as Texans painfully found out in Feb 21 it can collapse with little warning.

Always remember it was the gas grid collapse that brought down the Texas electric grid there are no less than 4 reports to our legislator confirming and reconfirming that. Has the gas operators winterized their operations nope single digit temps in Midland basin will tank the well heads again for sure, along with the poly surface lines, the gas separators full of water too.

Forgot the EROI for wind.

https://www.vestas.com/en/sustainability/environment/energy-payback

Yeah under 6 months. As a species this is good for us. Nukes are the best on EROI especially fast reactors, with full fuel reprocessing. Problem is wind and solar can hit prices under what even a nuke can and still make profits as in sub $20 per megawatt hour.

What really needs to happen is moving to a supply based grid. They grid op says this is how much we have and puts it to a bidding process like the stock market in real time then let the market decide who gets what at what costs. Wind,solar and Power storage ops set the floor, gas turbines set the peak prices with power storage ops getting in on the peaks as well.