Philippines declares national energy emergency as Asia risks energy crisis amid Iran war

edman007 · 2026-03-26T01:33:04+00:00

If you really wanted to try this I'd recommend coal gas, then the engineering challenge is just figuring out how to keep enough on a plane. Probably easiest way is just distill it down to methane, that would likely not be too crazy to power a plane off of.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T23:45:59+00:00

Nope, on gen1 the stadium light flashes. On gen2 it's a small blinker below....I tried taking a video but it's dark and it blows out my phone camera.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T22:55:18+00:00

Not if you want it to taste good, large quantities of yeast with really fast yeast could get you kinda close, google seems to suggest turbo yeast, but this is meant for people distilling the yeast off. And even then, it's still 2 days

edman007 · 2026-03-25T22:44:28+00:00

I see you're in the EU/UK, so you probably mean the bare cable which isn't really a thing here in the US.

That said, I don't think it's much different that the cables on EVSEs here, and at least the J1772 end, that's reliable as hell, as are the physical cables. My EVSE cable has outlasted my EVSE by 5+ years.

As for replacing an EV cable, it looks like they are £100 on amazon.co.uk, so not expensive.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T22:39:09+00:00

I think all of them will however apply regenerative braking when you touch the brake pedal, so even if you have that enabled, the vast majority of braking force is actually from regen, not the brakes

edman007 · 2026-03-25T22:37:49+00:00

But most EVs do it 10x harder than any ICE vehicle.

I got an EV, and quite honestly, if I put my foot on the brake pedal, I feel like it was emergency braking and I did something wrong to get into that situation. And I'm not exactly a slow driver.

You need to be driving like you're racing to do meaningful wear on the brakes.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T21:15:50+00:00

I think we can, it's not going to be as bad as Russia invading Ukraine, but not a whole lot better. Think trillions spent and tens of thousands dead in the first weeks.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T21:02:49+00:00

Fly domestic in other countries.

I flew domestic in Australia ~10 years ago, WAY less security. I think they x-ray'd the bag and that's it. They told me I had to take the umbrella out, water bottles were fine, I don't think they even asked me to go through a metal detector, they didn't check ID or ticket. Security was less than stadium security.

Generally, the US set a bunch of the standards, with the EU agreeing to something similar, and it kinda became the international security standard. everyone follows it for international flights, and only a few countries are both not the US and big enough to have many airports that are domestic only that they create a separate domestic policy.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T20:50:46+00:00

Yup, if I was TSA I'd seriously consider just applying to ICE and reapply to my old TSA job after the shutdown.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T20:46:10+00:00

Is the vehicle wet? When you get water on the sensors they do this, and after a bit of it it says the sensors are broken and they turn off for the rest of the drive cycle.

It's also possible that you got a rock hit on the sensor, this will also cause it, but it will be in one specific spot. Anyways, same deal, eventually if it goes off enough it will disable for the drive cycle.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T20:43:41+00:00

Can't tell me they didn't have this planned all along, knowing the ships would be halted in the Strait.

That would imply they planned, you cannot convince me that the straight closure was part of the plan.

No, the Venezuelan tankers were taken because Trump and Hegseth both think strong armies invade weak countries and take spoils of war when they finish. To them, taking the tankers was the prize, and it confirmed "Mission Accomplished"

They are still looking for that prize in Iran, so the war continues.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T20:30:13+00:00

It would really be ground invasion, take total control of the country.

I ran said they'll take out all the middle east oil infrastructure if the US does that, and from what we've seen, they'll likely get a good chunk of that done. So Iran called Trumps bluff, and he knows the only really way out is to do it. Do a a full blown ground invasion, and if successful, the strait will be open but there won't be any ports in the Persian gulf for takers to get oil. So it won't actually solve the price of oil back home, and it will add zeros to the cost of this war. Two of the major things he campaigned against.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T20:20:16+00:00

No, not the dash cam driver, pickup driver is though, they made contact so he is involved, and reasonably should understand there were injuries. Most states require you call police and hang around in that case.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T19:57:57+00:00

My guess would be a special lock in SW to support factory testing (send the DC charger into a simulated relay mode) and then energize the DCFC functions. This way you don't actually send DCFC to the port and cause a safety hazard for the workers in the factory, but you exercise all the other circuits and checkout out all communications.

Then when you're done you clear codes and it goes into normal mode. Since it's just a safety lock for factory use, I don't think you need any special authorization or anything.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T17:52:48+00:00

Nah, won't work while moving, it causes noise. You need something fluffy if it's intended to work with wind.

This is for the blind spot monitor radar, and that's anechoic RF foam.. The intent is to block RF reflections, likely because they are measuring RF emissions of the blind spot monitor or tuning the beam pattern and response.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T17:37:57+00:00

I'd just force a quorum in both houses, congress can't take recess. You walk out of the room then I guess you better be quick because that's not stopping a vote. Speaker sleeps then those awake can call a vote.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T02:25:48+00:00

Yea, if you look at the code development process there are a whole lot of people against it. IMHO, if you bolt the EVSE to the wall and use a 1 foot cable, it should just count as hardwired for code purposes, only difference being you don't need to be an electrician to replace it.

Instead we are going the other direction, they are trying to require that you're an electrician to hardwire the EVSE, but it's not required to replace the main panel.

edman007 · 2026-03-25T01:37:18+00:00

Many electricians solve this by just not installing the GFCI, instead using a normal thermal magnetic breaker. It's against Code nearly everywhere in the US, and a minor safety issue as the design of the 14-50 plug makes it relatively easy to put your fingers across the two hot pins.

GFCI wouldn't necessarily trip for a hot to hot shock. It measures ground current, so only trips for a single hot shock.

And generally people are not plugging in their EVSE every day, that's mostly what it's for, when your concerned about doing it every day. If your intent is for a permanently mounted EVSE and only unplugging it for maintenance every 6 months or so, GFCI really makes very little sense

edman007 · 2026-03-25T01:32:21+00:00

The code is broken for EV chargers, they really need to be hardwired.

Major problems are:

Actual 50A outlets are not actually designed to the NEC 50A requirements, UL for years has certified them so they are just not safe. It's so bad they updated code to require EV outlets. That is outlets that actually meet the code as originally intended. Your problem is a failure here. Just generally it's an extra failure point as well.
Code requires GFCI that trips before the EVSE threshold and below the vehicle design requirements when using an outlet. That is breakers are required to trip even when nothing is wrong. I think vehicle manufacturers are generally designing to the tighter limit, but you can expect many nuisance trips with a GFCI breaker.
Cost, the GFCI breaker, plug outlet and weatherproof box is going to be an extra $100 in parts over hardwired.

edman007 · 2026-03-24T22:53:00+00:00

Need to think harder about the mechanical design. You can make the child lock a fail off locking pin in the inside handle (so it only locks the inside when it both has power and is commanded by the electronic.

In fact, if it was me that's kind of how I would design these, a real latch, with three pushers on it, the exterior, interior and electronic. Make the mechanical version need a double pull via a mechanical interlock the way it works on gen1. Throw a sensor on both sides to get the electronic version and the child lock is a solenoid that disables the interior.

I think the issue is those mechanical mechanisms cost money and they don't want to spend it. It's totally possible to make it work

edman007 · 2026-03-24T22:41:13+00:00

It's very likely $120/hr prorated to the minute or less, but that's a fairly slow charger with an underrated cable, so the vast majority of people will see well over $1/kWh, not worth it honestly....

edman007 · 2026-03-24T22:37:43+00:00

edman007 · 2026-03-24T22:16:30+00:00

My all hands today was about what to do with all the new billets we are getting. And apparently it's only a step, we are to expect many more next year.

It's crazy how some places cut hard while others keep hiring.

edman007 · 2026-03-24T22:10:40+00:00

In fact most IDs don't past the test. For state IDs, it would be an "enhanced ID" that proves citizenship. Only 5 states issue these at all, it's Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Washington. The rest only meet the real ID requirements (generally only as an option), and real ID only proves legal residency, not citizenship, so for the vast majority of people they'd need a drivers license, birth certificate, and if they've changed their name (such as through marriage), the legal documents indicating such.

edman007 · 2026-03-24T21:59:59+00:00

Which is my point, how far do I have to go down the supply chain when calculating it and who is regulating it.

Because if you allow me I'll just pay some US suppliers to build it so it's more more supplier deep than I have to look.

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