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Politics / Re: The Trump Arrest Thread!
« Last post by WLJ on Today at 05:44:44 PM »
Don't question a questionable election
Don't question a questionable trial

Biden says questioning Trump’s guilty verdicts is ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’
https://www.wave3.com/2024/05/31/biden-says-questioning-trumps-guilty-verdicts-is-dangerous-irresponsible/
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Politics / Re: The Trump Arrest Thread!
« Last post by Brad Johnson on Today at 05:41:07 PM »
When CNN's legal analyst says there's multiple serious problems with the prosecution's case, well... damn.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-legal-guru-says-new-york-trump-prosecutors-contorted-law-case-unjustified-mess

I can only hope his sentiment is prophetic

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Honig said the case should be dubbed the "Frankenstein Case" because it was "cobbled together with ill-fitting parts into an ugly, awkward, but more-or-less functioning contraption that just might ultimately turn on its creator."

Brad
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Politics / Re: The Trump Arrest Thread!
« Last post by Angel Eyes on Today at 05:29:38 PM »
Man who donated $300K to Trump's campaign after the verdict explains why:

https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1796293774794268747
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The Roundtable / Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Last post by Angel Eyes on Today at 05:17:05 PM »
"Peace has cost you your strength.  Victory has defeated you."
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Politics / Re: Israel Under Attack
« Last post by Hawkmoon on Today at 04:25:35 PM »
Quote from: K Frame on Today at 06:48:22 AM
That's me, Mr. Caring.

 :rofl:   :rofl:   :rofl:   :rofl:   :rofl:
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Politics / Re: War in Eastern Europe, what's it good for ....
« Last post by Ben on Today at 04:05:39 PM »
Quote from: Angel Eyes on Today at 02:31:58 PM
Note to self: check supply of iodine tablets.

Plus There's a few ammo sales going on right now in case you want to combine this with the Trump arrest thread.  =D
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The Roundtable / Re: More on the EV boondoggle
« Last post by Northwoods on Today at 03:38:14 PM »
No capacity factors needed there.  Going all BEV would consume at least half the annual electricity production in the USA, just to charge the batteries so our economy could continue to function.

There is no rationalizing use of off-peak hours or anything else that will get around the need to massively expand our electricity generating capacity to meet that level of demand increase.

The people in power that are pushing BEVs are simultaneously restricting power plant capacity expansion.

As I said before, the goal is to make the average person unable to own a vehicle at all.  If you (zahc) can't see that you are willfully blind.
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The Roundtable / Re: More on the EV boondoggle
« Last post by Northwoods on Today at 03:32:06 PM »
Converting a large fraction of the passenger car fleet to BEV will consume a similar amount of power production.  282mil cars, average 15,000 miles per year, 4 miles per kwh (optimistic) is a little over 1 trillion kwh.  Out of a little over 4 trillion kwh production.
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The Roundtable / Re: More on the EV boondoggle
« Last post by Northwoods on Today at 03:16:27 PM »
When I was still working for a trucking OEM I ran the numbers on converting all Class 8 trucks to pure BEV.  Depending on the assumptions made it worked out to 1/4 to 1/3 of the total terrawatt-hours produced in 2022 to keep those trucks driving the same miles.  Bear in mind you'd probably need more miles because weight limits will necessarily reduce payloads in a BEV truck.
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The Roundtable / Re: More on the EV boondoggle
« Last post by dogmush on Today at 02:59:22 PM »
I've done similar calculations with average miles driven and average miles/kW.  The numbers don't get any better. 

Sure, it's a simplistic calculation to just sum them up, but it's an easy estimate and still indicative of the real problem.  If I were being super accurate we'd have to add in all the Tesla, Electrify America, and other private chargers coming on line outside the NEVI program too. And being brutally honest, it's not like the numbers are close enough that they can squeak by anyway.

I'm a big fan of people converting to EV's in the use cases EV's work with, of which there are many, but without the generating capacity that we don't seem to be building the whole thing will fall on it's face.
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