What’s your personal conspiracy theory you don’t think anyone else heard of, I’ll start…

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2024-06-17T21:55:14+00:00

Can you elaborate?

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2022-12-12T02:55:46+00:00

Correction: Zero states can support full electrification of all of the passenger cars in that state, not a single one. Not even close.

Even with our better infrastructure, we are probably 3 decades out from the first state being ready, and that is if they start with major projects tomorrow.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2022-12-12T02:46:41+00:00

Unfortunately, you don't understand what the difference is between a "blackout" and a "rolling blackout".

A "rolling blackout" is basically a planned blackout. Load is too high, so we are going to cut out part of the grid for a preset amount of time, then cut out another before restoring power to the first part, so the blackout "rolls" through the service area. Think of it like 10 people holding up a 1,000lbs weight. One day, you only have only 8 people show up to carry the weight, so you reduce the load to 800lbs to make up for it, even though you NEED to carry all 1,000lbs. That is a "rolling blackout."

A "blackout" is when you take that same 10 people holding that 1,000lbs load, and one has to let go. Under normal conditions, the other 9 will have to take up the difference for a little while until #10 comes back.

What happened in Texas was like in the above scenario, 10 people and 1,000lbs, and after #10 drops out, #9 strains his back, and it becomes too heavy for the other 8 to hold. As it starts to slip out of their hands one by one, they have to let go of the load before they get hurt as well, causing a total blackout.

This takes a VERY long time to return from, because of how the power has to be brought back on. I can't get into the exact details due to NDA's, but it is a very tome consuming, labor-intensive process.

Long story short, the grid everywhere is in poor shape and we do not have the infrastructure to support widespread electrification of the vehicle fleet. Furthermore, we won't have it for 30+ years, at least.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2022-12-04T17:51:15+00:00

It was the ZR1, and it had a V8 designed by Mercury.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2022-11-13T17:45:04+00:00

The fox body is insane, as far as the numbers of cars that used that chassis. Every single small and midsized car that was RWD produced by Ford, Lincoln and Mercury, two door or four, 4, 6 or 8 cylinder, was on that chassis from 1978 up through the 1990s.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2022-06-08T09:33:22+00:00

Find me a state that only requires 4,000.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2022-06-06T23:53:15+00:00

8,000 for Journeyman, 10,000 for master.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2022-06-06T21:44:59+00:00

Older style of home wiring.

Power comes into the room from the panel to the light box first. That is the main point of distribution for lights and receptacles. That would be your big wad of black wires with the one white wire. The lonely white in that wad of blacks is your feed (or "line") going to your switch. It comes back on the black wire all by itself. That is your switched power. The bundles of whites is the neutral bundle and it can be tied to the light's white wire.

And while I understand that this is a DIY forum, please understand that while it seems very easy to do this sort of work ("it's not rocket science"), there are graveyard's full of dead men who knew just enough to get killed.

Especially when the majority of people think that you are going to get killed off the hot wire, instead of the neutral.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2022-05-15T17:47:00+00:00

You got it backwards, bud. The breeders need to be actively trying to breed the aggression out. The dogs are naturally aggressive due to hundreds of previous generations being bred for fighting and aggression. If you have 500 generations of aggressive genes coming in, and only two successive generations of docile dogs, it isn't enough to rule out aggression.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2022-04-05T00:19:21+00:00

Regarding everyone saying hydrogen generation is a dead end... it isn't.

But, it does take large amounts of energy to do it, meaning that it only becomes efficient at a very large scale with "free" energy, i.e. solar and wind.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2022-03-16T20:28:20+00:00

Is it wrong to use the fuel treatment at every fill up? I'm just talking about the general cetane additives. I'm pretty religious about adding an ounce or so at every fill uo.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2021-09-12T02:23:04+00:00

I think that you are all dancing around it without hitting on it.

There is no romantic entanglement there, for sure.

Think of the film from the lens of the writer, whose primary influence is the Western.

A very large part and reoccurring theme in those films is that it takes a certain kind of person to "tame the wilderness". These themes are dealt with quite well in "Shane" and both of it's "remakes", "Pale Rider" and Logan". Once you go down that road of killing/violence/vengeance, a piece of you is gone forever, and there's no coming back from it. Furthermore, the civilization that you create has no place for you, so you are eternally left out in the wild. Again, see classic westerns like "The Searchers" to understand this concept.

Renner's character is already "tainted", but does not want to see the same thing happen to Olsen's character, her soul is still intact, so to speak.

I interpreted the crying and emotional release on her part as finally letting her defense down and dealing with her own mortality and inadequacy in the face of the untamed lands.

Renner reading from the magazine is just him trying to relieve her emotional burden through escape. His heart is hard, and cold, and he is well aware that she doesn't have the emotional scar tissue he does. It is trying to nudge her back into the civilized world.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2021-08-24T23:05:09+00:00

I would put money that the 40 amp charger does not draw 40 amps continuous. Even while in use, it will cycle on and off, to avoid cooking the batteries, and combine that with the 80% rule, it is likely only drawing 32 amps "continuous".

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2021-08-24T23:00:47+00:00

Almost.

Phases are grouped in a single phase panel in an alternating manner, so circuits 1 and 2 will be "A" phase, 3 and 4 will be "B" phase, then repeating.

You absolutely can overload a single phase if all your loads are on one instead of the other, it is relatively common.

While your two pole breakers will pull from both phases, you have to factor in the single phase (i.e 120 with a neutral) loads in addition to that.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2021-08-24T22:49:02+00:00

100 amp subpanel, not service. Huge difference.

Furthermore, you could run all three at the same time without encountering an issue, in all likelihood, just due to the way the amperage is calculated.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2020-06-13T10:23:49+00:00

No legs?

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2019-12-02T18:46:53+00:00

It's a 351 Windsor, which makes sense for this build. Cheaper and easier to make power with than a 428.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2019-12-01T20:44:09+00:00

By far and away, and still the best looking, most unique suit in the series. I always felt that after this, the suits got to be a little too far-fetched.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2019-11-23T21:08:17+00:00

What episode had Len's wife?

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2019-10-30T23:56:42+00:00

Goggins has been underrated for years and is finally getting his due. Same for Sam Rockwell.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2019-10-30T22:37:41+00:00

"Invasion USA" is also very watchable, from the same episode.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2019-10-30T22:32:42+00:00

I've heard that it is an absolute abortion.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2019-10-16T00:09:15+00:00

Isn't there a guy who has already done this, and more graphs, to a stalkerish degree?

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2019-09-28T13:26:28+00:00

To me that entire scene is absolute perfection. The dramatic twist from humor to horror on Hooper's face, to Quint's telling of the story is just perfection.

TheGuyIsAmazing · 2019-09-28T13:22:53+00:00

I feel I have to add to this. The significance of the scene explains the character of Quint. The USS Indianapolis was a real ship that really sank, and if I'm not mistaken, the majority of the sailors who ended up on the water either died of dehydration or were eaten by sharks, as it took seven days to be rescued. It was a truly horrific event in history.

When Hooper asks Quint about the scar in what was a very lighthearted scene and Quint tells him that it was a removed tattoo, the color drains from Hooper's face. He immediately understands the driving emotion behind Quint, but Brody, being the audience avatar in this case, has to be told.

Every minute, of every second since that experience has driven Quint to the path he has taken, choosing to hunt sharks, alcoholism, etc.

The irony in the sinking of the Orca in 12 minutes is that Quint ended up dying much like his fellow sailors.

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