The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

[Lord Ratner]

On 9/5/2022 at 6:13 PM, busdriver said:

I'm watching Aptera as well.  I actually think their manufacturing techniques/ideas are more interesting than the car.

Honestly: Elon.  He made electric vehicles cool and up-market.  Everything previously was an over priced econo-box.

I suspect the weight/cost penalty doesn't work out well.  A single train car carries something like 4 semi-trailers worth of stuff.  You can amortize a lot when you're carrying that much, and weight is effectively irrelevant on a train.

I'm confident that the battery tech will be much better in the not-too distant future.  There's a shit load of money to be made in that sector.  What gives me pause is the energy levels needed to charge an electric semi.  Megawatt level charging, for one truck, is insane.  Now multiply that by however many charging stations at a truck-stop, and they'll have to hang out for 30 minutes while charging.  

I keep coming back to the electricity demand increase if our species dropped all fossil fuels, and I can't wrap my head around it without nuclear power.

Exactly. Invest in nuclear before everyone else realizes there was only ever one answer.

 

[disgruntledemployee]

On 9/5/2022 at 8:46 PM, Prozac said:

Yeah, this is key. Everybody’s going to have to come to terms with the fact that we NEED new reactors. A lot of progress has been made over the past 40 years and it’s my understanding that smaller, regional level plants are probably the way to go. We should start a massive PR campaign to get people on board & start building the things ASAP.

TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) reactors are small and I can see them modified for power generation.  I hear they're safer safe compared to the bigguns (different fuel).  For example, the Mechanical Engineering building at UW Madison houses a 1 MW TRIGA.  The building occupies a block and one wouldn't know there's a reactor in the building when passing by.  Anyway, just shows that many small power plants could work, just add a steam generator system. 

Oh, and I know nothin about this stuff, so....

https://reactor.engr.wisc.edu/

Edited September 7, 2022 by disgruntledemployee

[Guest LumberjackAxe]

The Bill Gates documentary on netflix (maybe hulu?) had an episode on his venture into nuclear power. It looked really awesome, with passive safety (the opposite of Fukushima: when it loses power, it can't help but shut off and avoid a meltdown), but the big problem they ran into was the Trump admin enacting rules that prevented them from working with China to actually develop it, as they are the only country with the means to make such a risky investment in such small prototype. Whether or not that was worth it, the point still stands that nuclear really needs to be the backbone of our power grid, complemented with solar/wind when available, especially to power the desalination plants that southern California is going to need when Lake Mead dries up.

[BashiChuni]

yeah cause we want the chinese to be embedded at the core of any nuclear power generation in the US...good move on the Trump admin's part.

[BashiChuni]

Woke until if affects your city…then OOPS!

[Scooter14]

Now about this instead?

That looks like a lot of drag to me…

[Lord Ratner]

2 hours ago, BashiChuni said:

Woke until if affects your city…then OOPS!

Yeah the lack of self awareness or shame is pretty impressive

[ATIS]

10 hours ago, BashiChuni said:

Woke until if affects your city…then OOPS!

She is very much disliked in these parts…surprisingly even by those on the left. 

Same messaging can be applied to the rest of the DC council & Mayor….all for “sanctuary”…until it drives up to your doorstep. 

ATIS 

[Majestik Møøse]

On 9/5/2022 at 7:14 AM, FourFans130 said:

It's call KERS...and it's been around for a minute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system.  It's rather heavy for the small payback you get though.

Regenerative braking on road cars turns one of the electric motors in reverse, using it as a generator to charge the battery when coasting. Nothing is connected to the brakes themselves.

[Biff_T]

 

 

 

[FourFans]

10 hours ago, Biff_T said:

UPS 6.  RIP

[FLEA]

Saw this on Reddit this evening and spit my jack out. Do you think the Chinese-Italian-Irish-Americans have beef with the Chinese-Irish-Italian-Americans? 

Edited September 10, 2022 by FLEA

[Scooter14]

UPS 6.  RIP

My thoughts exactly. Nightmare scenario on an airplane.

[ClearedHot]

 

[brabus]

What an embarrassment for the human race. Glad that POS didn’t get on the city council.  

[tac airlifter]

6 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

 

Wow, those police have the patience of Job, my hat is off to them for their composure.  

[Prozac]

32 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:

Wow, those police have the patience of Job, my hat is off to them for their composure.  

Agreed. Great job by the police. 

[Biff_T]

- "Your passenger headlight is out." 

- "That's not a reason to pull me over."  

[Biff_T]

When does the statute of limitations for my "ancestors were slaves" run out?   I hope our country does not have to listen to this crap for the next 1000 years.  

[Sim]

 

 

[Biff_T]

23 minutes ago, Sim said:

 

It's a historical fact that hurricanes don't like black people.  Its science.  

[ClearedHot]

The sickness that is Woke Liberalism on full display.

In the picture below is Steve Adler the mayor of Austin Texas, a "Defund the Police" zealot who as Mayor cut 1/3 of the police budget.   Here we see him sleeping at the memorial for Officer Anthony Martin who died in the line of duty last month. 

[Biff_T]

^ 

He's got better places to be.   That's what a lump of excrement in human form looks like.  

[Biff_T]

https://www.foxnews.com/media/pentagon-30-days-review-diversity-chief-accused-anti-white-social-media-posts

More of that you can't be racist if you're black nonsense.   She is the problem.   I like her shirt referencing her ancestors as well.  I'm sure they are proud of her work to take credit for their (her ancestors') suffering. Couldn't be more of a c u n t.  Someone decided that this lady is good for the military.   She is saying things a drunk Klan member would say about minorities.  But she's not racist because she's black.   Lol.   She's a Black Klansman.  

Where are my woke airmen (airlings for the woke) at? Please explain this lady to me.  What excuse can you give me as to why she's right?  

Edited October 4, 2022 by Biff_T
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[BashiChuni]

it's time to stand up and mock DEI.

not the time to simply roll eyes at the ridiculous global DEI email that pops in your inbox. it's time to mock it. openly.

if you're in position of power it's time to choose between your career over what is right.

Edited October 4, 2022 by BashiChuni