Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[buckeyefarmer]

Nuke plants should be built in urban areas like DC, Chicago, Detroit, NYC. Why ruin good farm land.

 

[Citydude]

Lol, is there poor people in Wyoming? What kind of nuke?

Next-Gen Nuclear Plant and Jobs Are Coming to Wyoming

TerraPower's decision to build its advanced reactor in Wyoming expected to create jobs and clean energy opportunities for the state.

www.energy.gov

And yes we have poor people.

 

[Citydude]

Nuke plants should be built in urban areas like DC, Chicago, Detroit, NYC. Why ruin good farm land.

You forgot LA

 

[cqaigy2]

Next-Gen Nuclear Plant and Jobs Are Coming to Wyoming

TerraPower's decision to build its advanced reactor in Wyoming expected to create jobs and clean energy opportunities for the state.

www.energy.gov

And yes we have poor people.

Nice!

 

[Torvy]

Dude, I live 5 miles from BNSF HQ. We get a ton of coal, oil and mixed use cars through on a regular basis. Coal cars are no worse that the others, they are all noisy and block traffic in cities.

 

[Citydude]

Dude, I live 5 miles from BNSF HQ. We get a ton of coal, oil and mixed use cars through on a regular basis. Coal cars are no worse that the others, they are all noisy and block traffic in cities.

That BNSF dispatching department were nothing short of wizards managing the Wyoming powder river coal trains. Imagine having to route trains in and out of the mines to the tune of 360 million tons a year.

 

[MossRoad]

Nonsense.
I live near tracks where even more dangerous liquified petroleum gas is shipped and it’s wealthy as heck where I live. I can barely afford to live here and 50 tanker cars roll by multiple times a day. They roll right past Biden’s house down the road from me, too.

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We had a derailment months ago right next to this mansion. Luckily nothing leaked (that we know of). One of the main family members of the DuPont Chemical company lives there.
Don’t look like no slum to me lol

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Those are oil cars in that photo.

LNG isn't currently allowed to be transported by rail in the U.S. except by very limited special permits, and, as far as I can tell, in Alaska since 2015, and, lucky you, by issue of a special permit in 2019 from eastern PA to New Jersey. As far as I can find, that special permit needed a study done first, which isn't expected to be finished until mid 2022. Also, they had to build a terminal in New Jersey to receive the LNG, to be loaded onto ships, to be sent to the Caribbean where it will be burned in power plants. Full testing of cars capable of withstanding impact hasn't been completed yet, either.

So I don't think LNG is moving much by rail in the U.S. as of yet.

 

[Citydude]

Our cat 797's were retrofitted to run off of LNG.

https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/Caterpillar/CM20190306-07955-11034

 

[Larry Caldwell]

That's funny, i didn't know they were out of business.

The 2 best things about my hillbillies 24/7/365 free tv channel is......within minutes of turning it on, granny is screaming for her gun or her jug and.....especially in the older episodes, miss jane drives the coolest mopar ragtops, different almost every time. 64 plymouth yesterday......red!

Even though we were raised Pontiac people, i've always loved mid 60s mopars

I mentioned that nobody noticed. Their assets and dealer network got picked off by foreign money, and the brand name is still out there. It's like Motorola; the company has been dead for years, but they are still selling Motorola stuff. Seely mattresses are another example. The company is long gone, but consumers don't care as long as they can still buy stuff.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I grew up 10 miles from a coal fired plant built in 1973-74. 100 miles from anything that would be considered a city. I toured the plant on field trips and never has there been an issue with smell or ash. The 'smoke' most people think they see is steam...that's water vapor for those of you in Rio Linda.

No reason we cannot keep using the coal and resume development on nukes at the same time.

"It was a sunny day,
Not a cloud was in the sky,
Not a negative word was heard
From the people passing by."

You got snowed by the PR people. Run them through, blow smoke up their a**, and thank them for being suckers on the way out.

Toxic Ash Pond Collapses in Tennessee

Despite industry efforts to promote clean coal, answers to the problems of coal ash are lacking

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[Citydude]

"It was a sunny day,
Not a cloud was in the sky,
Not a negative word was heard
From the people passing by."

You got snowed by the PR people. Run them through, blow smoke up their a**, and thank them for being suckers on the way out.

Toxic Ash Pond Collapses in Tennessee

Despite industry efforts to promote clean coal, answers to the problems of coal ash are lacking

www.scientificamerican.com

Ah, no. You ever worked in a coal fired plant Larry?

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Ah, no. You ever worked in a coal fired plant Larry?

You ever drink out of that contaminated water table, Bubba?

 

[Citydude]

You ever drink out of that contaminated water table, Bubba?

Here in Wyoming, no. Your grasping at straws made up of what you read. Again, have you worked in a power plant?

 

[3930dave]

I often find satan in the details (mostly I'm referring to my OCD....), and did today.

I pulled into a parking lot behind a Model X. I'd never noticed before, that they use the same single LED strip for brake and signal function.

Turns yellow when signalling, so you only have the other "brake" light showing red. (Not counting hi-mount).

Can't say I've seen rear lighting set up like that on anything else, but chances are there's other EVs @ same configuration......

Rgds, D.

 

[drssg]

I often find satan in the details (mostly I'm referring to my OCD....), and did today.

I pulled into a parking lot behind a Model X. I'd never noticed before, that they use the same single LED strip for brake and signal function.

Turns yellow when signalling, so you only have the other "brake" light showing red. (Not counting hi-mount).

Can't say I've seen rear lighting set up like that on anything else, but chances are there's other EVs @ same configuration......

Rgds, D.

I've never noticed this on taillights, but I've seen where a front headlight will turn off when the corresponding turn signal is active. This was during the daytime, so the driver didn't need the headlight to see where he's going. I assumed it was to provide more contrast for the turn signal and make it more visible.

Are you sure that what you saw wasn't two LEDs place closely together? It seems like it would be more complicated to make one light change color than to put in a second light strip.

 

[3930dave]

I've never noticed this on taillights, but I've seen where a front headlight will turn off when the corresponding turn signal is active. This was during the daytime, so the driver didn't need the headlight to see where he's going. I assumed it was to provide more contrast for the turn signal and make it more visible.

Are you sure that what you saw wasn't two LEDs place closely together? It seems like it would be more complicated to make one light change color than to put in a second light strip.

Well, eyesight may not be quite as sharp as younger daze , but it's still pretty good.

Bi-colour LEDs have been around quite some time. Now It's got to the point where a young lad working in the last shop I was at put some programmable LED headlights into his ride..... you could actually program in colours that would likely get you into a lot of trouble (not his intent, just had the output and other features he wanted).

Adding parts adds cost. So that's one reason to keep the parts count down. Esp. in an EV, you want to keep all electrical loads to a minimum - another reason for just one strip of LEDs.

My first reaction - DOT legal ? When I thought of 60's/70's American cars - Turn signal and brake were often the same element, but were red lensed. Euro and Japanese cars started with rear separate turn signals, often dedicated amber units.

Somebody with an X in their driveway may post a vid proving me wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was just one single thin LED strip changed to yellow when signalling.....

Over the next few weeks, I'll likely notice abc other model examples (insert cognitive trigger term I don't know here...) for that rear LED singularity I think I saw, but today was the first time I noticed it....

Front signalling standards got relaxed/modified some time back. IMO, manufacturers wanted the compact module benefit (production-line-wise) of not having a separate turnsig/parking light assembly to install. Haven't looked it up, but I hope there is an SAE standard for minimum life-cycle on what is doing the headlight switching - but today that type of switching is relatively low cost and should be reliable.

I know why they do it (wouldn't see front TS otherwise), but for non-urban driving, it's the one reason I would stop using turn signals at night..... in the middle of nowhere, less light doesn't do it for me, esp. when turning a corner. Progress ?

Rgds, D.

 

[Cat385B]

Light deactivation for a turn signal is only daytime running lights, not a headlight.

 

[Hay Dude]

Those are oil cars in that photo.

LNG isn't currently allowed to be transported by rail in the U.S. except by very limited special permits, and, as far as I can tell, in Alaska since 2015, and, lucky you, by issue of a special permit in 2019 from eastern PA to New Jersey. As far as I can find, that special permit needed a study done first, which isn't expected to be finished until mid 2022. Also, they had to build a terminal in New Jersey to receive the LNG, to be loaded onto ships, to be sent to the Caribbean where it will be burned in power plants. Full testing of cars capable of withstanding impact hasn't been completed yet, either.

So I don't think LNG is moving much by rail in the U.S. as of yet.

They say “liquified petroleum gas” on them. Hundreds of them here on sidings.
Eastern PA and NJ are heavily populated with everything from ghettos to mansions for presidents, and I’d consider their contents MUCH more explosive and hazardous than coal nuggets

 

[3930dave]

Light deactivation for a turn signal is only daytime running lights, not a headlight.

I'm pretty sure I've seen that at night, but I'll have to pay more attention.....

Given the # of people with modern cars (all digital dash) here that can't figure out how to turn on the full lighting system, well past dusk, maybe the oncoming ones I noticed were only running DRL.

If that is the case, then there is an example where front-facing lighting sytems circa 1970 outperform what we have now (re. signalling).

Rgds, D.

 

[Torvy]

I've seen quite a few people driving at night with only the running lights on. That may account for seeing the blinker thing.