No fires allowed, fur babies are many, children are few, evenings are peaceful, mixed drinks are dirt cheap and neighbors are friendly. A visit with family first thing next morning brought the warning “do not release pets into the wild” effectively into our immediate field of vision. My ...
” mentality, it’s very comforting to know that you’re right next to me, doing one of two things: either telling me to calm down with one of those patented “oh, lighten up, Francis” utterances, or you’re joining in with a “you want a piece of...
Grid problems could be solved by and intelligent grid with local energy storage capacitor banks. Capacitors have the advantage of being cheap and their performance is not degrading as fast as batteries (a 100 year old airgap cap is as good as it was a 100 years ago). Michael Cerkowski I ...
I mean, come ON. We’ll even develop affection/attachments to things that aren’t even alive, but have the semblance of it. And I’m not talking just cute stuffed animals. How many of us were a little sad at that last message from the little robot on Mars as its batteries died? Ho...
Meanwhile, largely thanks to my partner, our original business morphed from being a handcrafted car conversion hobby, to a reseller of electric car batteries and other components. It became one of the larger businesses of this type in the country, grossing over $1 million a year. I had a ...
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While I will not go into detail on this post, we’ve been dealing variously with problems with the batteries, the engine, also the engine, the rudder post, the watermaker, and the wind generator. Though two of those were somewhat self inflicted. Yes, there is another blog post on broken...
We maintained our tranquil state for the drive out of the Park, pointing the car towards the National Geographic Visitor Center in town to watch the IMAX movie. Overly crowded with tour buses when we first entered town this morning, now the parking lot was near empty. It is worth the ...