Can that be a good thing?
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It’s raining here right now. Probably had a inch or so the last week. Didn’t shovel a drop of it. I have standing water in low spots on my road. I’m not sure how they determine drought anyway.
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Determine Drought? I just saw on the internet map and we know those maps must be right. And it is easy to up date it at anytime quickly so it stays correct at all times.
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Yep, it can help with all kinds of chores.
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“THEY” do not have to track down and prosecute everyone who strips off the EPA certified emissions systems on small engine generators systems to convert to woodgas. Or convert to charcoal gas.
Here in the USofA with a percentage a year growing population base. And more and more of that population base wanting to have at least on hands back up power . . . Hurricanes! Tornadoes! Wildfires! Oh! My! Then add floods, ice & snow storm blizzards. Oh crap. Earthquakes . . . a minor 2.x something recently, stopped our pendulum grandfather clock.
All’s “They” have to do is choke off the new supply of woodgas capable engine generators:
A new bootlegging money making oppertunity - across border smuggling in engine generators remarked as manufactured before January 2024.
And at least three other US states and multiple cities now endorsing as accepting pioneer California’s small engine forced changing over to all battery electric outdoor equipment.
Bound now to be almost immediate price gouging by manufacturers and distribution suppliers of battery electric equipments.
Same-same happened back in the mid-2000’s when the Obama Fed EPA pushed into effect Tier4 diesel engine regulations. Sending out actual letters of Cease and Desist importation. Enforcement officers to follow.
No more affordable new supply of Chinese Changfa-clone cast iron water cooled single cylinder engines.
No more affordable new supply of India ListerCS cast iron water cooled single cylinder engines.
I once had one of each.
And some of you thought I was smoking bad dope with my screaming out about, “The War Against The Internal Combustion Engines”.
Least my head is not up in the New-Tech Savior-man clouds. Them over-selling hope. You having to Hope they are right.
1960’s ‘Nuclear power so cheap it will not even be worth metering.’ Splat!
S.U.
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But is it really that cheap? Thinking about disasters. I saw on TV Story channel the other day that the Chernobyl reactor will have to be contained in it’s concrete thingy for the next 30K years. Yes, I said thirty thousand years. How can that be cheap?!!!
Rindert
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No. that is why it ISN’T cheap. It is why we were basically abandoning it until the morons in the Biden administration…
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France is drafting legislation to streamline bureaucracy around nuclear power projects and aims to start construction of its first next-generation EPR2 reactor before May 2027. President Emmanuel Macron has put nuclear power at the heart of his country’s drive for carbon neutrality by 2050, with plans to build at least six new reactors.0 The construction of the first new large reactor should start in 2028, with commissioning targeted in 2035, and the first prototype of small modular reactor is forecasted for 2030. Macron announced his optimistic intention to extend the lifetime beyond 50 years of all the country’s existing reactors and to build 6 to 14 new large reactors as well as some small modular reactors (additional 25 GW by 2050). The first large reactor should be operational by 2035, and the first prototype of small modular reactor is forecasted for 2030.
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We are at almost 2800 hours on one of the Predator 9500’s we have. This is the one we wood gassed the crap out of too. Ive been slacking the last 8 months on oil changes. This one is now starting to smoke on start up but clears out after a bit. Still has compression.
The other one I was running one day and it just stopped. I rolled it over and just free wheeled. Pulled it into the shop but have not done anything with it since. I need to tear into it yet to see whats going on with it. But that one had 2200 or 2400 hours on it the last time I checked last fall.
The 8750’s I dont ever think they ever made it past 2000 hours but we never changed the oil very often on those. When I had to shell out the big money on these we were pretty good changing the oil out monthly.
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Here is a follow up viewpoint from one of the three major cordless tool using groups. Him an admittedly with Grid on-site Remodeling Contractor.
In comparison to existing gasoline engined and plug-in equipments as he says: 1) Power Capability; 2) Capacity (meaning useable hours); and 3) Price. To purchase. Maintneces including battery replacements! Energy use availability and the true price of that energy.
Get to the ending and he will sum up that any wanting to across the board right now convert change should instead step-by-step ease into it.
This is WHY California and others date dictating complete changing over are so-so short sighted wrong-wrong:
Again. My concern is not so much hand-held power tools.
It is the beliefs that IC engine electrical generators are Carbon Emminting Bad and can be needs replaced with lithium ion battery packs. These being now labeled as “generators”. Nope, they do not generate. They store pre-existing made energy from an outside charging source.
Tonight. 200,000 from wind-storm/snow-storm down in my previous home county are sitting without Grid power now. My family members still down there each either have a small IC engine-generator I gifted out to them. Or have upgraded from my ~$200. all-up minimal units to larger IC engine generator units.
Once California’s small IC engine outdoor equipment ban spreads up here as planned there will be no more new available $200. home units.
No more in the three Left Coast states new 400-1000cc engine-generators to be wood/charcoal gas converted.
Steve unruh
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Those solar generators are nothing but a scam and are nothing more than solar system that is integrated.
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If I didn’t know that the fiat dollar was circling the drain and that there will be no way to pay the minions to enforce any regulations then I would be more worried.
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Hi Guys ahead of this afternoon starting freezing rain I made a choice for battery portable for expected brought downed limbs, branches and tops cutting-clearing away:
A Milwaukee one hand M18 Fuel Hackzall.
It matches my existing XC 5.0 batteries.
Did all of this on one battery charge. With still power left.
They claim an anti-vibertion system. Seems true. Only my been broken before thumbs tiring stopped me from cutting more off of the tracked toter.
A lot more sawn dust/chips cleaner than if I’d used either the Stilh gasoline saw, or the green Poulan plug-in chainsaw. Plus with no top teeth worries I was able to get in close and tight to the toters metals.
And hey! Needed no bar oil!
I have already five chainsaws; but only one old now two handed reciprocating corded sawzall
I used a DIABLO brand 11" for-pruning blade. 3 TPI
This Milwaukee is the model #2719-20 commercial level. They say thier own consumer one-hander is slower less effective.
Other brands? Maybe the high line Bosch by stroke inches per minute.
Really great how this on-hander can cut well close to the shoe or right out near the tip end. Ease cut down into flat stock. Cleave through even 4" green wood limbs.
Ha! See another: today just may be better than yesterday in some ways. I was thinking as in port fuel injection versus carburated systems for woodgas converting.
Steve unruh
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Above I was intentionally hard working this Millwaukee on-handed Hackzall. Into hoped for overheating of itself or the lithium battery self-shut down.
Nope. It was just too damn cold out in that shop.
So cold that taken in the charger would not battery recharge until the battery was warmed for an hour by the wood stove. Lithium batteries can just be so weird to us mid-20th Century lead-acid old-timers. We cut teeth as wrist watch stem twisters. As young adults had to new-learn two, then three, then four button wrist watches. Ha! Was a near twenty year gap of guys and gals asking wrist-what?? As the world turns now back to on-wrists info-systems.
I have to wait most of a year to do good cold weather testing of my equipment’s, tools and techniques.
The 5-50 Castroil synthetic oil in the B&S wood splitter has been hand pull cranking over and starting up O.K. now down to 15F/-10C with just two pulls. Any lower . . .I’d have to change out to a thinner 0W-somrthing.
S.U.
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People in Illinois cannot use their Teslas. The cold has shut down the batteries. They are being hauled to the Tesla dealer with diesel tow trucks to get them warm enough to function. I’m sure it’s the same story all over the areas hit by the arctic blast. I’m just dicky enough to enjoy the thought of it.
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Seriously? I hadn’t heard that. They would be about the last group I would expect to not work. Most EVs have heaters in the battery packs to warm them up as well as cool them. The exception to the rule is Leaf which used air cooling for the battery packs to avoid the cost and weight of the cooling/heating system. However, it wouldn’t surprise me if people had let them run down and they finally ran out of juice trying to keep the battery warm. I saw two Tesla’s on the road in the past two days.
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https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=tesla's+in+chicago
My wife told me about it. Maybe it’s just the charging stations.
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If it’s the cars, then the BMS is detecting too low of a temperature to safely charge the battery, and not enough residual charge to self heat the packs.
If it’s the charger, it’s a similar problem and is likely some safety parameter. Either way it’s a tens of thousands of dollars disappointment.
Edit: If I had an EV, I’d likely keep it in a garage with my own charger. Slow charging is better for the lifespan of the cells anyways. I’d only use one as a commuter.
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It looks like they are dying in line waiting for the charger. They don’t charge fast enough to get high enough throughput through the stations, and of course everyone wants to charge to full, and the last 10% takes as long as the middle 60%… and they have to precondition the battery to get it warmed up to take the charge.
Right now, I think that is the way to go. They just don’t charge fast enough at the stations, it takes like 40-60 minutes to charge which is way too long. Supposedly the Tesla plug is capable of delivering 1mwh of juice but the batteries can’t take that much right now nor do the chargers support it yet.
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Yes Tom, a battery worst enemy is freezing cold. And it does not seem to matter what kind of batteries they are. Much reduced mileage but cause the batteries need heat not cooling in the winter cold months. I love the remote charging stations being run on diesel generation, it make since doesn’t it. What a fantastic feasibility design some one came up there. EV People now complaining it is cheaper to run your gas/diesel vehicles when traveling out of town because of the high over priced charging stations compared to their own home charging station prices per kwh.
Bend over the globalist merchants have gotcha $$$$$$.
And now the new taxes they will charge for driving a EV. Bend over again. $$$$$$$$$$$$$.
I thank The YEHOVAH God will straighten this mess out in the end. The 1000 year reigning of His Word the Son Yeshua (Salvation) is looking better and better every day.
Makes me wonder what kind of non polluting modes of transformation is going to be used. DOW?
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