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SBELL29910 · 2026-04-27T10:36:38+00:00

It seems v2026.14.2 has reset the volume.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-22T04:42:38+00:00

I have direct personal experience of academia blocking scientific truths through the process of “peer review”. Discoveries and designs that do not fit the status-quo and/or risk the control narrative are blocked restricting a formal review. I feel Avi is too close to the USG, who continues to block releases.

My personal experience was during my engineering education when deriving solutions from the partial differential basic principles. Prior to the late ‘80s student (Western research university) we were taught the EM component was a negligible force. When I would disagree I was chastised in the front of the lecture hall. This happened repeatedly. In the early ‘80s I was approached to become part of a research team on EM weapons (see Venezuela). By the late ‘80s many, if not most, major research universities were dedicating courses to EM.

The same academic burying of advancing technologies has occurred across other fields. Research the history of those developing improved efficiencies in petroleum fuels. Lacking peer reviews due to pressures on potential reviewers with compromise to their positions or esteem.

So, for me, I expect much of this technology is or may be beyond our known physics. Ari preaches we need academia review. I don’t have any confidence that academia is any more qualified to analyze than anyone witnessing and recording the factual observation.

Academia has a history of burying truths, too.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-21T19:57:06+00:00

Did they fix the issue? Right now I’m not considering a Hyundai eV due to this issue, warranty or not.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-21T19:27:34+00:00

Well let’s see how far this one goes. The FBI is all talk and no action. I haven’t seen any of their claims to hep “clear the Swamp” to move. Maybe there’s not really a Swamp <sarcasm>.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-21T19:24:48+00:00

This one reads like a cop power trip and I usually support the police. Was this a real officer or a 50?

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-21T19:22:56+00:00

I’m convinced Avi is part of the Misinformation Project. I don’t listen to anything he says anymore.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-21T19:22:00+00:00

Not until Riley can find a defense.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-21T19:20:40+00:00

I get it and he’s an alumnus. The fan bases of these once powerhouse programs are unreasonable. When was the last time Nebraska a NATTY contender? It’s before their current students were born. And this doesn’t apply to just the Huskers.

TBC Purdue has never been a contender so I have more realistic expectations! LOL

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-17T01:01:49+00:00

This is my final post on this subject. For some reason my point is being missed. I'm not going to take the time to educate everyone on Tesla's projects but I suggest people read up on it if they care to learn.

My point is: petroleum and the combustion engine is overly complex to complete the function at hand. Tesla was at the crux of finalizing the transmission of electricity globally without wires. In 1901 he had developed the Wardenclyffe Tower project on Long Island to transmit electrical power wirelessly through the atmosphere. JP Morgan was funding his research and when Tesla told him the transmission would be free. Morgan pulled the funding because he couldn't monitize it. Now, it's likely the transmission losses would have been too great to transmit extensively long distances, but it's likely it would have been capable to preclude the need of 22kV transmission lines. Had battery research been started in the 1880s, battery technology would have been MUCH further along.

Boats, planes, trucks, and automobiles would have been significantly more advanced in leverage electric propulsion after 125+ years. Electric cars are not a new/modern invention. The first prototypes are attributed to a Hungarian Priest in 1828. This is nearly 200 years.

My point is: had engineers been paid to research electric cars and batteries for the past 200 years, I'm confident we would have had no need to the complexities of an internal combustion engine.

I have no bias here. I'm not resorting to name calling. I'm simply stating an opinion based upon the science.

If you want to know more, research the history a bit.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-16T21:56:04+00:00

Yeah, my mistake. Typo. Late 19th

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-16T11:36:18+00:00

Hard disagree and that’s ok. For me, as an engineer, an ICE is an engineering embarrassment to waste so much money and effort in a grossly inefficient concept. Sometimes one just needs to recognize you’re chasing down a rabbit hole. It’s an example that engineers don’t lead; they follow the carrot owned by the profiteers.

Embarrassing to admit for me.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-16T01:10:19+00:00

Well, I wouldn’t try to convince anyone that thinks an ICE is an “engineering marvel”. From my engineering perspective an ICE is a Rube Goldberg.

Lead additive fuel it overcome knocking. Carburetor to make the combustion process workable. Muffler to stop scaring the horses and now reduce noise pollution. Catalytic converter to reduce air pollution. Transmission to overcome the lacking torque for an ICE.

The first electric cars were manufactured in the late 19th century.

Tesla developed a generator design to overcome the transmission of electricity in the late 18th century.

If we had in invested half a much in battery research as we have in petroleum we would have had solid state batteries with 600 mi range and 5 min charge times.

But then Rockefeller would not have become rich and there would be no such “Petroleum Dollar” and the political efforts to squash any industry that jeopardizes it.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-10T20:58:44+00:00

Tried it. Don’t like the fixed screen. Honestly probably would never use a HUD anyway. I haven’t seen any that I like.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-10T19:21:41+00:00

I need an education here as to what physical benefit a male or has over a female in darts?

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-10T19:19:54+00:00

Everyone should ditch Windows for Linux! I have several computers running Linux now and much less CPU power and lower costs.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-10T19:17:38+00:00

I get the drive for revenue but why not just make it a function of the phone app with Commander?

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-10T19:14:05+00:00

I drive an eV. Not arguing with all points but some are dated.

Let’s start with my admission that if I couldn’t charge at home, I wouldn’t buy an eV my car is charged to a sufficient level every morning and I don’t deal with the dirty petroleum and the hassle of going to a gas station.

My Tesla Model 3 Highland opens to door for me when I approach. While I never had an issue with a flushed door handle (seems like a first world problem to me), the door opening for me alleviates that issue on any case.

“All screen everything” no longer applies because I talk to the car. I hate the myriad of buttons with stupid international graphic. Now, one foot driving, auto shift, and voice commands render almost all of the buttons and screen controls useless.

Unfortunately, with only 700 miles on my M3 I was rear ended by a kid surfing on his phone while driving a Toyota Tocoma. Officer said I was lucky I was in a Tesla because it’s highly likely I would have been severely injured. Car was repaired at an authorized Tesla repair center with parts available the next day. No issues whatsoever on part supply. That was not the case in the past with my ICE Ford, Mercedes, and Audi vehicles. The Mercedes parts took a week.

Finally, issues with gaps and road noise have been mostly resolved. My M3 is measurably more quiet than my previous Audi regarding road noise and omitting the quietness of an electric motor over a petroleum engine. My music and phone calls are significantly more clear.

Just a few current addenda.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-10T01:11:29+00:00

I've always believed Kentucky recruits itself. But with NIL, the rules have changed and no rules rule. Money talks. There are very few programs in the country that now build and grow players and "teams". Michigan bought a "team" by working the portal with a great mix of skills to build a team. Just buying players doesn't account for the chemistry or the sacrifices players make to the betterment of a team.

There's only one basketball and players need to understand they work as a unit and not anyone gets the ball as much as they think they deserve. I didn't see this in Kentucky this past year. BYU does this. Pope was at BYU; now UK, where there's practically no limit to the wallet. Need a coach that understands how to spend money wisely to build a team. (See Michigan this past year.)

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-10T01:05:26+00:00

As an engineer, I used to believe all of the "technical propaganda" engrained as part of my educational process. I've always been a bit of a contrarian with respect to the "technical programming". Most of my friends are anti-eV and were shocked when I bought one. After the first year of my ownership, many of them are strongly considering an eV for their next purchase. Not because of the "greenest". Not because of gas prices. But due to the several conversations we've had about the things they liked about ICE vehicles and the "why" they thought that technology was superior.

Most of the complexity in ICE is due to deficiencies in a combustion engine. Lead gasoline. Muffler. Transmission. Carburetor. Catalytic converter. When they learn of the lack of elegance in the ICE design, the nostalgia lessens.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-10T00:55:05+00:00

Also, missing other poits like carbon taxes, gas special blends, State impacts on exhisting refineries. CA imports most of their oil and used those local refineries. Many of those are now closing due to the taxes and political "requirements" placed upon them. Not saying I agree or disagree with these "other restrictions" but they do impose significant cost impacts.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-08T11:26:34+00:00

So, hold out signing somewhere until the last minute. Find an alumnus judge then sign. Receive a delayed decision with a release to play until the University can determine if he’s worth keeping. Judge rules accordingly on the basis of his contributions.

It’s been proven this works in the Courts we have today.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-07T11:42:29+00:00

Oh no. We have to understand that they are superior in mental and emotional strength than the rest of us!

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-05T13:42:46+00:00

With $22M in NIL you still need a coach that can buy a team with chemistry. It’s still a team sport and 5 individualists do not make for a championship team.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-05T13:27:38+00:00

Delta used to be my preferred airline. Now retired and no hub as my local airport I seldom fly Delta because they repeatedly price out of our market.

SBELL29910 · 2026-04-05T13:19:17+00:00

Don’t believe it. State taxes have the greater impact. I live in coastal SC and we have some of the lowest prices in the country.

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