Recent content by CityGuy

If one needs the extras, yes, I'd agree.

Could be. What about all the open pit mines required? What did I read about X tons of earth needing to be moved for one car battery? Can't remember. Don't know if was true. But what if it is shipping container vs. bread box?

I accept your premise about pilots. I'm mulling its application to surface vehicle drivers. Sudden death from myocarditis? Strokes from clots? Hmm. Could be.

The issue is whether massive lithium mining or fossil fuel emission s would be worse for the envornment. Factor in millions of dead and discarded (wrecked vehicles) lithium batteries.

Zackly why I stll use a flip phone. That and how my wife is starting to live her life with her nose stuck in her smartphone. Texting is destroying our language. Cursive writing is not only no longer taught, a fat percentage of youth can't even read it. Direct human interaction is shrinking...

Accepted. Can that mine and others produce enough lithium for the batteries for all the cars, trucks, RVs, fork lifts, cranes, trains, mining equipment, etc. in the US?

I understand, but I don't get. I'm sure you're not implying all drivers should have routine PR interval tests to maintain their licenses.

Out in the country I once got the direction that where I wanted to go was about "five sees" down the road. I had to ask. 'Wahll, y'go to whar as far as ya kin see is, and then ya go ta as fur as ya ken see --"

Lithium mining is worse for the environment than drilling for oil. Imagine the countryside if all vehicles ran on lithium batteries. How much do we have vs. how much we'd need and how much we'd have to buy from our enemies? I don't know the answer to that one but "they" need to take it into...

Mardi Gras started in Mobile. New Orleans can do it more flamboyantly. In Mobile by the 1920s and thereafter it was for The Two Hundred (the old-power families that ran the city like a fiefdom) to get drunk, put on masks, get on floats, and act the fool for people they wouldn't let near their...

I wouldn't use wire nuts. I'd use this instead: COMPACT PUSHWIRE® splicing connector (2773-404) | WAGO USA

The same, I can't carry a tune in a butterfly net but I could recognize 9 of the second 10.

Zackly. Smaller than a Leatherman, charges from a USB port, has a cell phone plug.

Is the BBQ ethanol-free? Pardon the smartass -- I'm congenital. We have a Buckees 35 miles away on I-10, always a preferred stop in the car but their one RV+TOWD island is still difficult to get to, requiring a max-tight U-turn against the flow on oncoming customers. ED usually has to get out...

If you're right you've got an awfully good eye. I stared. There could be a sixth cylinder hidden under the log. However if the engine came from the body in the background, it's considerably newer. The fenders have a rounded edge. That didn't appear on cars until about the early 1960s.