[Off Topic] New Hardware
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 1:57:38 PM
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My first car was a 1972 FORD CAPRI, dark green…. Dug it out of a neighbors snow pile that I affectionately called the ICE CAR.
My grandfather- WA2JVU had a massive DC Variable power supply that we cranked up to 18V to free up the frozen starter motor. These were imports at the time, mine was from Germany if I remember correctly.. Inline 4 – 122cu in
First Radio I install in it was a MOTOROLA mobile radio with a tube in the final…on VHF
Tom – K2TC
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 10:43 AM
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Looks great
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 9:57 AM Simon Brown <simon@...> wrote:
haha.. I had a black one of those back in
89-91 !!
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And here is mine complete with the late Mrs Crosbie, who I’m pleased to say outlived the car by some decades!
Jean is covering a large patch of missing paint!
After I pranged it into the towbar of a transit, I sold it to someone who made the necessary repairs and resprayed it red and gave it a black vinyl roof.
Looked great
Tom
Sent: 22 March 2023 18:58
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haha.. I had a black one of those back in 89-91 !!
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On 22/03/2023 13:57, Simon Brown wrote:
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i had a granada 2.3l gls (with a 5.5m milwhip and autotunerat the base)
dg9bfc sigi
haha.. I had a black one of those back in 89-91 !!
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On 22/03/2023 13:57, Simon Brown wrote:
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Ford Capri set for return after electric makeoverI think I must be getting old (what am I talking about..... I AM old!) but I get more excited these days about thinking how to implement a battery to run my house then having a battery in my car.
Of course that may also be something to do with not wanting to leave the house much these days due to all the half-wits we are forced to share the road with!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65008705
How do they do it?!!
Max
Batteries in cars are going to start killing people in severe winter storms noticeably more than gasoline powered vehicles. You can carry an extra couple gallons of gasoline in the trunk for emergencies. With batteries - you are stuck and you do not move until towed out. (And where on Earth will all that electricity come from. The grid here in California is already on the edge.)
{^_^}
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 01:57 PM, Simon Brown wrote:
Ford Capri set for return after electric makeoverI think I must be getting old (what am I talking about..... I AM old!) but I get more excited these days about thinking how to implement a battery to run my house then having a battery in my car.
Of course that may also be something to do with not wanting to leave the house much these days due to all the half-wits we are forced to share the road with!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65008705
How do they do it?!!
Max
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 01:57 PM, Simon Brown wrote:
Ford Capri set for return after electric makeoverI think I must be getting old (what am I talking about..... I AM old!) but I get more excited these days about thinking how to implement a battery to run my house then having a battery in my car.
Of course that may also be something to do with not wanting to leave the house much these days due to all the half-wits we are forced to share the road with!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65008705
How do they do it?!!
Max
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 10:11 PM
To: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io <main@SDR-Radio.groups.io>
Subject: Re: [SDR-Radio] [Off Topic] New Hardware
Batteries in cars are going to start killing people in severe winter storms noticeably more than gasoline powered vehicles. You can carry an extra couple gallons of gasoline in the trunk for emergencies. With batteries - you are stuck and you do not move until towed out. (And where on Earth will all that electricity come from. The grid here in California is already on the edge.)
{^_^}
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 01:57 PM, Simon Brown wrote:
Ford Capri set for return after electric makeoverI think I must be getting old (what am I talking about..... I AM old!) but I get more excited these days about thinking how to implement a battery to run my house then having a battery in my car.
Of course that may also be something to do with not wanting to leave the house much these days due to all the half-wits we are forced to share the road with!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65008705
How do they do it?!!
Max
Volvo has shown its new electric excavators and construction site trucks. They are wonderful. But, I've no idea how the owner is going to do the equivalent of taking his F150 with a large fuel tank in the bed to the site to fuel his electric vehicles.
{o.o}
Aman Sister!it's like the old saying "don't worry about the mule going blind, just load the wagon". Us poor folks in California will holding the bag to pay for that new gird to recharge all of them E-Cars!
From: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io <main@SDR-Radio.groups.io> on behalf of jdow <jdow@...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 10:11 PM
To: main@SDR-Radio.groups.io <main@SDR-Radio.groups.io>
Subject: Re: [SDR-Radio] [Off Topic] New HardwareBatteries in cars are going to start killing people in severe winter storms noticeably more than gasoline powered vehicles. You can carry an extra couple gallons of gasoline in the trunk for emergencies. With batteries - you are stuck and you do not move until towed out. (And where on Earth will all that electricity come from. The grid here in California is already on the edge.)
{^_^}
On 20230322 15:52:56, Max wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 01:57 PM, Simon Brown wrote:
Ford Capri set for return after electric makeoverI think I must be getting old (what am I talking about..... I AM old!) but I get more excited these days about thinking how to implement a battery to run my house then having a battery in my car.
Of course that may also be something to do with not wanting to leave the house much these days due to all the half-wits we are forced to share the road with!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65008705
How do they do it?!!
Max
You guys know how to handle it. We manage to have hundred car
pile-ups that take a surprising amount of time to clean up. With
the gasoline vehicles that run out of gas while waiting and trying
to stay alive filling the tank lets the car drive itself home. Do
you have a suitable mobile fast charger station? (The pile-ups
happen in areas where people are not as used to driving in snow,
usually.)
{o.o}
jdow,
your view on danger is challenged by everyday driving in the world's no. 1 EV country - which is also icy cold in winter. But it's a common misconception, I'll give you that.
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I don't understand the problem. If there is a pile-up EVs only use power for cabin heating, and it will last literally for days in modern cars. An ICE car needs to run on idle for heating, and during a proper snow storm there's also the risk of clogging the exhaust pipe which of course will kill anyone in the car from carbon monoxide. Has happened.
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arcticdx.blogspot.com
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It's nonsense as to what will eventually become hybrids, a 1970 etc uk housing estate simply could not handle all electric. WPD now national grid told government this.Gains from smart meters and energy reduction, do not compensate for decades of under investment in nuclear power. Which the most dangerous place in uk is Sellafield.Then we have a poll tax situation where poor can't afford electric cars.I drive a £1500 diesel and pence per mile it is cheap, there is no way I plan to buy a new depreciating asset for £50-70k plus.Uk global emissions are maybe 2% and you can bet third world want modern convenience.The real way to fix this is third world investment and first world oversight on that investment to avoid corruption.On Fri, 24 Mar 2023, 06:27 Bjarne Mjelde, <bjarne.mjelde@...> wrote:I don't understand the problem. If there is a pile-up EVs only use power for cabin heating, and it will last literally for days in modern cars. An ICE car needs to run on idle for heating, and during a proper snow storm there's also the risk of clogging the exhaust pipe which of course will kill anyone in the car from carbon monoxide. Has happened.
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arcticdx.blogspot.com
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That is a good points, thanks. It still bothers me. But, not as much. Let me riff a moment.
Here in California many people have cardboard shades cut to fit the shape of their front windows. They are used to minimize the heat load on the interior when the car is parked. (Utter digression related to typo I just made and corrected. I wonder if the Dutch typo "het" as "eht" or something like that. /digression) A nice set of such window shades would be nice when the car is stuck in the snow (or a city take over by angry protestors in Portland Oregon.) From a ham radio angle I hope the electric cars do not create a whole lot of EMI. And I really hope they do not go do something crazy when a ham with a 1kW on 75 meters is beside you at a stoplight and speaks into his microphone. For some strange reason that seems to blow out some of the very large after market sound systems some idiots install around here.
And I am still bemused at the image of a large excavator needing to find a charging station at night so it's ready to work the next day.
{^_^}
I don't understand the problem. If there is a pile-up EVs only use power for cabin heating, and it will last literally for days in modern cars. An ICE car needs to run on idle for heating, and during a proper snow storm there's also the risk of clogging the exhaust pipe which of course will kill anyone in the car from carbon monoxide. Has happened.
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Bjarne Mjelde
arcticdx.blogspot.com
Mastodon: @Bjarne@...
That is the big warming fallacy. There is little to nothing we in
the West can do to mitigate the problem while China's contribution
grows far faster than we can reduce ours. We absolutely must
figure out how to cope. Higher efficiency is very important.
Capturing and using incoming energy is critical rather than
introducing new energy into the world's energy budget. Humans are
already making just about the same contribution as the Earth
without human contributions has. Doubling the heat load on a room
rather warms it up. Much the same can be said for the world as a
whole. At our wast heat radiation wavelengths the atmosphere is
opaque, trapping it in here with us. The real way out appears to
be the rather iffy concept of catching incoming energy before it
becomes useless (ground reflection, for example) and converting
its wavelength to "useless" in service to our energy needs. I love
the idea of nuclear power. Unfortunately that adds to our energy
contribution rather than uses incoming energy that would otherwise
be wasted. Nor can I say I am sure even that plus massive
efficiency improvements would save our bacon from the frying pan.
Learning to cope is a very broad spectrum problem with a bunch of
highly untenable solutions that probably would fail anyway.
{o.o}
It's nonsense as to what will eventually become hybrids, a 1970 etc uk housing estate simply could not handle all electric. WPD now national grid told government this.
Gains from smart meters and energy reduction, do not compensate for decades of under investment in nuclear power. Which the most dangerous place in uk is Sellafield.
Then we have a poll tax situation where poor can't afford electric cars.
I drive a £1500 diesel and pence per mile it is cheap, there is no way I plan to buy a new depreciating asset for £50-70k plus.
Uk global emissions are maybe 2% and you can bet third world want modern convenience.The real way to fix this is third world investment and first world oversight on that investment to avoid corruption.
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023, 06:27 Bjarne Mjelde, <bjarne.mjelde@...> wrote:
I don't understand the problem. If there is a pile-up EVs only use power for cabin heating, and it will last literally for days in modern cars. An ICE car needs to run on idle for heating, and during a proper snow storm there's also the risk of clogging the exhaust pipe which of course will kill anyone in the car from carbon monoxide. Has happened.
--
Bjarne Mjelde
arcticdx.blogspot.com
Mastodon: @Bjarne@...
That is the big warming fallacy. There is little to nothing we in
the West can do to mitigate the problem while China's contribution
grows far faster than we can reduce ours. We absolutely must
figure out how to cope. Higher efficiency is very important.
Capturing and using incoming energy is critical rather than
introducing new energy into the world's energy budget. Humans are
already making just about the same contribution as the Earth
without human contributions has. Doubling the heat load on a room
rather warms it up. Much the same can be said for the world as a
whole. At our wast heat radiation wavelengths the atmosphere is
opaque, trapping it in here with us. The real way out appears to
be the rather iffy concept of catching incoming energy before it
becomes useless (ground reflection, for example) and converting
its wavelength to "useless" in service to our energy needs. I love
the idea of nuclear power. Unfortunately that adds to our energy
contribution rather than uses incoming energy that would otherwise
be wasted. Nor can I say I am sure even that plus massive
efficiency improvements would save our bacon from the frying pan.
Learning to cope is a very broad spectrum problem with a bunch of
highly untenable solutions that probably would fail anyway.
{o.o}
It's nonsense as to what will eventually become hybrids, a 1970 etc uk housing estate simply could not handle all electric. WPD now national grid told government this.
Gains from smart meters and energy reduction, do not compensate for decades of under investment in nuclear power. Which the most dangerous place in uk is Sellafield.
Then we have a poll tax situation where poor can't afford electric cars.
I drive a £1500 diesel and pence per mile it is cheap, there is no way I plan to buy a new depreciating asset for £50-70k plus.
Uk global emissions are maybe 2% and you can bet third world want modern convenience.The real way to fix this is third world investment and first world oversight on that investment to avoid corruption.
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023, 06:27 Bjarne Mjelde, <bjarne.mjelde@...> wrote:
I don't understand the problem. If there is a pile-up EVs only use power for cabin heating, and it will last literally for days in modern cars. An ICE car needs to run on idle for heating, and during a proper snow storm there's also the risk of clogging the exhaust pipe which of course will kill anyone in the car from carbon monoxide. Has happened.
--
Bjarne Mjelde
arcticdx.blogspot.com
Mastodon: @Bjarne@...