Electricity Requirements for 100% Electric Vehicles

In 2021, more than 60% of the nation’s electricity was generated by fossil fuels. While this ratio has fallen since 2010, when the total was 70%, it means powering EVs can still produce emissions. SOURCE: USA FACT


Electricity is also produced from renewable sources such as wind, hydropower, solar power, biomass, and geothermal. Together, renewable energy sources generated about 20% of the country's electricity in 2020. SOURCE: Energy.gov

What you need to understand is that wind, water, and solar farms are not going to provide enough electricity to power 100% electric vehicles in the USA...  We are currently at 20% with a majority of our electricity provided by fossil fuels....

Even if we stopped the production of gasoline for our vehicles, we would still need fossil fuels to generate electricity...

If were at 100% electric vehicles, we would need fossil fuels for commercial and military aircraft as well as military vessels and cruise ship vessels unless we decided to go nuclear power...  which in and of itself is dangerous.

Until we find a better way to generate electricity, we are going to be reliant upon fossil fuels for the next several decades.

HOWEVER...

Hydrogen powered vehicles do not require electricity or fossil fuels...  all they required is WATER and a conversion process...

It makes more sense to go hydrogen than electric and there will not be all this silly investment into solar, wind, and hydro to generate electricity...  except for maybe a home or a business.

We need to think through some of our ideas before we jump up and say this is the only way to go...  doing that makes us look stupid and foolish...  

WHO WANTS TO FOLLOW SOMEONE WHO IS STUPID AND FOOLISH???

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Strange Matter Observed

Jefferson Lab’s CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer in Experimental Hall B. 

Credit: DOE’s Jefferson Lab

New findings from Jefferson Laboratory shed light on the process of forming strange matter from ordinary matter.

Nuclear physicists have made a groundbreaking discovery through their unique analysis of experimental data. For the first time ever, they have observed the production of lambda particles, also known as “strange matter,” through a process called semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS). 

The data obtained also suggests that the building blocks of protons, quarks, and gluons can sometimes march through the nucleus of an atom in pairs referred to as diquarks. The experiment was carried out at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, which is run by the U.S. Department of Energy.

This achievement has been the culmination of many years of hard work. The data that was used in this study was originally gathered in 2004. Lamiaa El Fassi, who is currently serving as an associate professor of physics at Mississippi State University and is the lead researcher of this project, initially analyzed these data while she was working on her thesis project to obtain her graduate degree on a different topic.


Nearly a decade after completing her initial research with these data, El Fassi revisited the dataset and led her group through a careful analysis to yield these unprecedented measurements. The dataset comes from experiments in Jefferson Lab’s Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), a DOE user facility. 

In the experiment, nuclear physicists tracked what happened when electrons from CEBAF scatter off the target nucleus and probe the confined quarks inside protons and neutrons. The results were recently published in Physical Review Letters.


“These studies help build a story, analogous to a motion picture, of how the struck quark turns into hadrons. In a new paper, we report first-ever observations of such a study for the lambda baryon in the forward and backward fragmentation regions,” El Fassi said.

In like a lambda, out like a pion
Like the more familiar protons and neutrons, each lambda is made up of three quarks.  READ MORE...

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Turning Solar Power Into Hydrogen Fuel

 

• Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology broke through the 1-kilowatt ceiling of green hydrogen generation using solar energy.
• The system turns solar power into hydrogen, oxygen, and heat.
• The lab wants to find new ways to use solar to create useful energy sources.

Researchers in Switzerland took a promising lab experiment and scaled it into a real-world example of how we could use solar energy to produce green hydrogen. Their system broke the coveted 1-kilowatt ceiling for green hydrogen production, and offers a new commercialization opportunity.

This efficient convertor of solar energy to fuel functions as an efficient artificial photosynthesis system, according to a new study by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) published in Nature Energy. It also produces useful byproducts of oxygen and heat.

“This is the first system-level demonstration of solar hydrogen generation,” Sophia Haussener, head of the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering at EPFL, says in a news release. 

“Unlike typical lab-scale demonstrations, it includes all auxiliary devices and components, so it gives us a better idea of the energy efficiency you can expect once you consider the complete system, and not just the device itself.”

To make it all happen, a system that looks like a satellite dish has been engineered to act like a tree. The 23-foot-diameter dish concentrates the sun’s radiation power nearly 1,000 times. 

When water is piped into the system, a connected reactor uses photoelectrochemical cells powered by that concentrated solar radiation to split the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. 

The process—dubbed artificial photosynthesis—also generates heat, which can move through a heat exchanger to reach a useful finished state.  READ MORE...

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It's Your Government

 We have a 4 party system here in the US of A...

• Democrats
• Republicans
• Independents
• Socialists

Our two major parties are:

• Democrats
• Republicans

Democrats basically believe in the following:

1. More government control
2. Social Welfare and other programs
3. Higher Taxes (especially the wealthy)
4. Weak Military

Republicans basically believe in the opposite:

1. Less government control
2. Less social welfare
3. Lower taxes
4. Strong Military

The Independents usually like a little bit of both sides and typically vote for the candidate not the party

The Socialists want everything controlled and regulated by the government so there is really no private ownership of anything...  It all belongs to the people

There is a movement in the Democratic party called the Progressive movement and their political philosophy is closer to socialism than it is toward a Democratic Republic which is what we have now.

Most socialistic countries FAIL economically but there are some that have survived and their residents are blessed with a lot of free programs but they have very weak militaries and national security...  usually if there is a conflict somewhere in the world, they remain NEUTRAL in the hopes that no country will invade them and take them over.

It is hard to believe that this might happen to the US of A...  but, anything and everything is possible...

Just as soon as the US Congress passes a bill for FREE COLLEGE EDUCATION...  advanced education will no longer be important because AI/Robots are going to replace most jobs.  College education has been so watered down so that stupid people can receive college degrees that employers will stop trusting the benefits of college...   OR, they will hire graduates who got their education outside of the US of A.  

There are some damn fine schools outside of the US of A like IIT in India which some say offers a better education than our MIT...

You must decide for yourself which way you think that the US of A should be heading, rather than look at how much your government can give to you.  The more you think our government should give to its citizens, the weaker our country becomes...  But, if you do not believe that, then you should try and get your government to give you as much as it can...

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Space Time - Quantum Magic

Maybe quantum chaos will lead to a better theory of gravity.

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All the world’s a stage and the stage itself is space-time where all the laws of physics are merely players. But maybe space-time is not the fundamental aspect that it is believed to be. A team of researchers from Japan’s RIKEN suggests that space-time could emerge from quantum properties, and one in particular that is involved in it is called quantum magic.

That is not something out of a Marvel movie despite sounding like it. It is actually a mathematical measure of how difficult is to simulate a quantum state on a regular (read that as non-quantum) computer. It turns out that apart from the simplest quantum states, anything with a bit of chaos will end up being maximally magical, which is a wonderful mathematical euphemism for we can’t model them.

How does that relate to space-time? Well, there is a quantum theory that needed an extra ingredient and that particular flavor might be quantum magic. The theory is called bulk quantum gravity and it was proposed in the 1990s to try to reconcile gravitational and quantum theories. A requirement is that space-time is something that emerges from the theory, not something that is assumed a priori.

“Physicists have long been fascinated about the possibility that space and time are not fundamental, but rather are derived from something deeper,” lead author Kanato Goto of the RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, said in a statement.  READ MORE...

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Biblical Timeline of Earth's Existence

Question proposed by Stephen Ball, PhD

Concerning the age of the Earth, the Bible’s genealogical records combined with the Genesis 1 account of creation are used to estimate an age for the Earth and universe of about 6000 years, with a bit of uncertainty on the completeness of the genealogical records, allowing for a few thousand years more. This young age is repeatedly confirmed by numerous studies done by proponents of 4 Creation Science. Yet the vast majority of the scientific community claims there is abundant scientific evidence that points to an age of 4.6 billion years for the Earth and about 14 billion years for the entire universe. Who is right?

This biblical timeline has always bothered ever since my first Science class where I learned how old the universe was based upon verified scientific evidence...  not heresay or speculation or what was written in a book.

All of my talks with ministers, pastors, priests, or members of the clergy have all tried to explain that this discrepancy should be taken with a grain of salt and if God thought it was important, that he would have explained it...   

That answer was always unsatisfactory to me.

The other issue that has always bother is that the Bible says God is perfect and therefore does not make mistakes...

If God is perfect why didn't HE explain or use the real number of years in how old the universe was/is instead of his 6,000 years?  That omission sounds like a mistake to me.  Surely God is smart enough to have realized that someday science would discovery the true age of the universe and prove the Bible wrong.

However, the Bible does not really talk about the age of the universe directly.  In order to get the 6,000 years, one has to add together the geneological records of the Bible with the Genesis account of creation.  Therefore, the 6,000 is not really from the word of God and must have another explanation.

To that I say BS.

The Bible was put together by man...  and when it was put together, no one was really concerned about the age of the universe. 

Does God's omission keep him from making a mistake?

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Human Brain Detects Signal

Scientists have recently identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that's not been seen before.  Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized.


Back in 2020, researchers from institutes in Germany and Greece reported a mechanism in the brain's outer cortical cells that produces a novel 'graded' signal all on its own, one that could provide individual neurons with another way to carry out their logical functions.


By measuring the electrical activity in sections of tissue removed during surgery on epileptic patients and analyzing their structure using fluorescent microscopy, the neurologists found individual cells in the cortex used not just the usual sodium ions to 'fire', but calcium as well.


This combination of positively charged ions kicked off waves of voltage that had never been seen before, referred to as a calcium-mediated dendritic action potentials, or dCaAPs.


Brains – especially those of the human variety – are often compared to computers. The analogy has its limits, but on some levels they perform tasks in similar ways.


Both use the power of an electrical voltage to carry out various operations. In computers it's in the form of a rather simple flow of electrons through intersections called transistors.


In neurons, the signal is in the form of a wave of opening and closing channels that exchange charged particles such as sodium, chloride, and potassium. This pulse of flowing ions is called an action potential.  READ MORE...

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Trans Athletes

 I really don't give a rat's ass whether males want to be females or females want to be male...  nor, do I give a rat's ass if males want to have sex with other males or females want to have sex with other females...  nor, do I give a rat's ass if males want to marry males or females want to marry females...  

The USA is a country where freedoms prevail and life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is guaranteed under the US Constitution...

However, don't come knocking on my front door as I will slam in door in your face quicker than stink on shit...  if ya catch my drift.

Have of my career has been spent dealing with females who want to be treated equally with males in the areas of physical work and equal pay.  I strongly believe that if a female can work like a man, then she should get paid like a man...  and, if a man wants to work like a female, then he should get paid equal to that of a female.

Males who dress like females and have their penis cut off and take female hormones will still never be able to physically give birth.  Females, who have their breasts removed and take male hormones will never grow a penis...   although, I am sure they will have no problems wearing strapon dildos...  hopefully, that will make them feel like a man.

HOWEVER, from a phyical point of view and a logical point of view, a man's body is different from a female's body...   if you believe in God then blame him for that difference...   but, no matter how much you piss and moan, the two bodies will never be the same...  maybe similar but not physically identical.  THEREFORE, biological males that have transitioned to females, should NEVER BE ALLOWED TO PLAY FEMALE SPORTS...  under any circumstances.

If you are a fan of EQUITY, then females are not receiving any EQUITY when this happens...  and, the day that a biological male joins a female sports team, then the rest of the biological females should quit because, none of you will ever win again.  Your team may win but you will never win.

AND...   the day that trans althletes compete in the OLYMPICS will be that the OLYMPICS turn into an athletic JOKE...

I cannot imagine biological females athletes wanting to show with biological male trans females...  but, I could be wrong.

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China & France

HONG KONG — Derided by concerned observers from Washington to Brussels, French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent trip to China did not go down well with allies. But he left his hosts feeling delighted.

Hundreds of cheering people were waiting to greet Macron when he arrived in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou this month, part of a high-profile state visit.


“He saw us and came right up to us and shook our hands who stood in the front row,” said Qiao Jiabao, a financial journalism student at Sun Yat-sen University, where Macron gave a speech. “I felt he was very gracious and proactive, even though we didn’t speak the same language,” Qiao told NBC News.


He said he and his friends joked that Macron, who has faced mass protests in France over his unpopular plan to raise the retirement age, had been treated so well in China that he might not want to go home.


When Macron returned to France, he faced another storm of criticism, this time over an interview in which he suggested that Europe should resist being drawn into a conflict over Taiwan and focus on “strategic autonomy” independent from both the United States and China.  READ MORE...

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Deferring to Liberals - AIN'T SMART

 Liberals usually have their heads so far up their asses they need glass belly buttons to see out of...   And yes...  this is one of my favorite expressions.  I doubt many liberals are interested in what I have to say but one day they will realize that most of the policies they support are ass-backwards as is their thinking.

Defund the police is one of those FAILED POLICIES...  in almost every major city where the police have been demonized and defunded...  there has been a mass exodus of residents to other locations outside of those cities and in many cases outside of those states.  Consequently, the local and state governments have less taxes to collect and less money to spend...  NOT SMART

Allowing our southern borders to be completely open will, in time, create another set of problems that will not just be targeting the south.  While immigrants will be taking many jobs that AMERICAN refuse to take, other issues will begin to surface like:

1. an increasing number of slums
2. an increasing number of crimes
3. an increasing number of health issues since NO IMMIGRANTS are required to have shots
4. a reduction of hospital supplies
5. an increase in welfare expense
6. an increase in illegal drugs
7. an increase in child abuse and rape
8. an increase in drivers without insurance
9. an increase in immigrants going to public schools that don't speak English
10. an increase in violence in K-12 between immigrants and Americans

NOT SMART

Liberals want to move from a Democratic Republic form of government to a Socialistic form of government where the conservative view points are censored from the public.  Without two points of view government, then the USA will gravitate down towards a dictatorship type of government and/or communistic like North Korea, Russia, and China where MOST FREEDOMS ARE NON EXISTENT.  If the liberal care anything at all about this country, they will soon realize that ALL OF OUR LEGAL IMMIGRANTS came to the USA to get away from the type of governments that the liberal want to create...    NOT SMART

Going Green, Fighting Climate Change, and Ending Fossil Fuels is just plain ridiculous and reckless.  The main countries in the world like: Russia, China, India, Africa, the Middle East, and Central and South American ARE NOT GIVING UP FOSSIL FUELS...  it does not take a brain surgeon to see and realize what these other countries are doing.  But, the liberal don't believe that and have convinced themselves that the world will follow their example...  ANYBODY WHO BELIEVES THAT DESERVES TO GET THE BIG CHILI UP THE BROWN EYE...  NOT SMART

The Liberals believe that all these social programs are going to be paid for by the WEALTHY...  like George Soros, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, etc.  Well...  let me tell you something about that plan.  Those wealthy people, first of all are not STUPID...  so they have most of their taxable income hidden in off shore bank accounts in the Caymans.  So, who do you think is going to pay all those taxes?  That was a rhetorical question.   If we don't get it from taxes, we either print up more money (diluting the value of the US Dollar and increasing inflation) or we borrow it from foreign countries...  also will have negative consequences on our economy...   NOT SMART