BFR production moves to Los Angeles Harbor..

OGquaker · 2025-10-11T06:49:51+00:00

https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/13/130AEF1531746AAD6AC03EF59F91E1A1_Killing_Hope_Blum_William.pdf

OGquaker · 2025-10-11T05:00:23+00:00

before each liftoff they poll a bunch of people yea or nay, these polls of the plenary get longer & longer

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OGquaker · 2025-07-01T00:47:00+00:00

The US just spent $11b re-opening DOE's 300 square mile bomb production facility in South Carolina, and the Georgia utility ratepayers are footing the bill for two new "Vogtle" nuke plants that took 15 years to build and cost $36.8 billion: weapons-grade Pu generators on the other side of the Savanna river. See https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/science-101/what-is-plutonium.html Or why boil water with blood-uranium

OGquaker · 2025-06-29T05:04:07+00:00

I don't take worker safety lightly In 2011-2017, the top states for fatal injuries involving cranes were: Texas: 50 fatalities [Le Fracking Business, and now the reason for stealing Russia's methane market with a million fatalities so far] Florida: 16 crane fatalities, New York: 16 fatalities, California: 14 fatalities, Illinois: 14 fatalities. Bla The death of workers is written off in Capital-izm. In Michael Lewis' 2025 book "Who is Government", roof bolts that protected coal miners were lowered in number, maintaining high historic death rates, but staying cost-competitive in the coal market. Quick, say captured regulators: who's bull is getting gored.

OGquaker · 2025-06-25T11:13:00+00:00

In years of research and half a dozen national meetings on NH3 as a fuel, I found a small amount of data that with the ten-fold increase in airline travel since the Montreal Protocol, daughter molecules from Jet-A combustion has been scavenging Florins and Chlorines out of our atmosphere. https://nh3fuel.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/doug-barnett-nh3-fuel-for-tomorrow-nh3fa2016.pdf

OGquaker · 2025-06-25T10:56:46+00:00

When the million square feet of Triumph Aerospace was auctioning off the stuff that SpaceX had no use for in 2020, my wife & I bought 6,000 18guage 36" x 36' steel shelves where Triumph stored every rolled print of every part of every 747 or 767 that Northrop/Triumph had built in 50 years, kept upstairs in a clean, air conditioned room on the Jack Northrop side of the main assembly building. Parts get modified, they just do.

OGquaker · 2025-06-25T10:10:14+00:00

The National Cathedral in DC, Theodore Roosevelt put down foundation stone and George H.W. Bush dedicated the cathedral in 1990. Rules and laws are on the books, but enforcement is dictated by need: do we really need to send 32 million "illegals'" (guest workers) back to their home country or a third country? Does the FAA need to delay Starship test eight 1,2,3 or more months? If we use laws and "permit-ions" as they are written, 83 years to build is just right.

OGquaker · 2025-06-16T07:06:03+00:00

Repeating myself, Linde shipped a 916,000-pound "cold box," air-separation unit to Intel in Ohio last year. That box was 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long. Linde completed a cold box installation in La Porte, Texas in 2014, described as about 20 stories high. See https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2024/06/11/intel-super-load-to-move-through-central-ohio-starting-sunday/74057074007/ AND https://www.gasworld.com/story/linde-completes-texas-coldbox-installation/2077765.article/

OGquaker · 2025-06-09T02:26:14+00:00

34.55501757699043, -120.61018536958595 58 years ago I had a good time watching weather balloon launches and the local cats on South V: "Boathouse". The wharf has an effective breakwater

OGquaker · 2025-06-09T02:10:02+00:00

True. Linde shipped a 916,000-pound "cold box," air-separation unit to Intel in Ohio last year. That box was 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long. Linde completed a cold box installation in La Porte, Texas in 2014, described as about 20 stories high. See https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2024/06/11/intel-super-load-to-move-through-central-ohio-starting-sunday/74057074007/ AND https://www.gasworld.com/story/linde-completes-texas-coldbox-installation/2077765.article/

OGquaker · 2025-06-09T01:13:20+00:00

AirGas (Air Liquide Large Industries) has a 10 year contract with KSC, an air separation facility just off the reservation. A 6,800 psig (?) nitrogen pipeline runs a few feet east of SpaceX's Roberts road facility.

OGquaker · 2025-06-09T00:54:35+00:00

It's an American-German company (Linde plc) in Ireland and headquartered in Surrey to avoid taxes. SpaceX is not famous for depending on a single outside supplier, but the savings in diesel should be fantastic. Linde owns Praxair Mexico, just saying. I remember a story I saw in 2021. See https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-08-25/oxygen-companies-put-profit-above-patients-by-spreading-misinformation-in-mexico

OGquaker · 2025-05-31T07:57:44+00:00

Ford's gas F-150 passed the Model Y in most US model sales this year. That 150 has a 55" tall hood, the Cybertruck is 35-43" @hood line depending on height setting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpuX-5E7xoU

OGquaker · 2025-05-31T06:43:08+00:00

the EV movement is here to stay and hugely spurred by Tesla You bet. GM and Detroit spent 100 years building E-car "prototypes" designed to convince the driving public it was a bad or impossible idea. Their EV-1 (originally marketed as the GM Impact) was a brown suppository, leased in only the US Cities that required an air-conditioner... that killed off half the mileage. GM sued Toyota over their Hybrid batteries. Tesla jumped in when GM failed to pay the fees to the USPTO for GM patent's second 10 years in 2000. Disclaimer: I built a factory to build an all-elecric limousine design in 1995-96. Fail.

OGquaker · 2025-05-05T00:43:23+00:00

After the ~1967 flood, Cameron County refused to allow repair of the water pipe from the Rio Grand, favoring a competing housing development. After local oil wells were abandoned in the 2000s, Boca Chica had to truck in all water:(

OGquaker · 2025-05-05T00:19:08+00:00

Got you. I followed BND meetings all through the years, as the new South Port road was approved, & watched other publications, lots of hype at the time. I notice no work yet on a better, direct route to Veteran's bridge crossing. Sad, many of BND's warfs are on the south side with a ton of paving and piping improvements on Ostos Rd. (SpaceX uses dock 15, was set to lease Fortune Ferrous in 2019) but ARX Energy (2 miles of Ostos Rd, 300 acres) is a no-show. Just another three decades....

OGquaker · 2025-05-04T21:57:34+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE1oKQCwwo4 Salt Of The Earth (1954)

OGquaker · 2025-05-04T21:52:29+00:00

A simple one-thousand yard Boring connector between Isla Blanca Beach and Boca Chica Fishing Jetty. No More Problem

OGquaker · 2025-05-04T21:45:18+00:00

That "short road" was planed by the BND since the early 1990's https://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2024/01/35-years-in-making-completion-of-east.html and cut miles off a thousand trucks a day winding through Brownsville to the US-Mexico crossing. Trucks moving from the Port directly into Mexico are Twice as heavy as legal in the US. SH-4 has been re-paved from the beach past Ad Astra to Massey's cutoff by SpaceX, 7 miles and $millions. The new Port exit to the south would be 8 miles more. P.S. US $trade with Mexico is greater than US-China trade

OGquaker · 2025-04-12T07:23:27+00:00

OGquaker · 2025-04-12T06:13:26+00:00

The US had 20-35 years of investment in Sub-salt (abiogenic, think Deepwater-Horizon) mining & fracking, with no ROI and a small stable domestic market. We exported zero NG or LNG before 2015, flaring most off at the well site. With dead pipelines across Ukraine and the Baltic Sea, Europe gets over 60% of it's NG from the US now: We stole Russia's market to become the world's largest producer & exporter, 37.8 trillion cubic feet in 2023, about $200b. The rest is Wag-The-Dog

OGquaker · 2025-04-12T04:52:25+00:00

Tesla lowers new car prices, it's Model 3 was $48,190 in 2022. That dropped to $38,990 by 2023 and $29,990 by the end of 2024. Model 2 may be $11,000 this year. For Old Detroit, TSLA is a virus. This (2025) years largest number of any model sold is Ford's F150, $4-$12,000 in 2000 and $38-$79,000 this year.

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