DaveinOlyWA
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Thanks for that. It is now on my list.
Unfortunately, I didn't have any. I'd looked into buying some but I recall seeing some not getting great reviews (e.g. ineffective, flattened/distorted by a car moving).LeftieBiker said:What about wheel blocks for extra security?
WetEV said:Oilpan4 said:They're more worried about the spotted owl.
Responsible forestry isn't letting it grow wild.
The useful idiot fake environmentalists have stopped forestry just outside of Albuquerque with in the last few weeks using the same bs they pull in California.
Wonder why there were forests before "Responsible forestry".
I wonder if managed forestry and sustainable logging is not a better solution than fires.danrjones said:WetEV said:Oilpan4 said:They're more worried about the spotted owl.
Responsible forestry isn't letting it grow wild.
The useful idiot fake environmentalists have stopped forestry just outside of Albuquerque with in the last few weeks using the same bs they pull in California.
Wonder why there were forests before "Responsible forestry".
One big mistake we did in regards to forestry is that we put fires out. Fires are needed to keep the forest thinned and healthy. But we spent a century almost putting every fire out. So now you get conditions in regards to down, dead, dense and Beatle infestations that are far worse. We mismanaged fires for a century and now add in climate change and obviously a poor electric grid and you get conditions for fire storms.
One answer to why there were forests before we "managed" them is because nature burned them. So did the native Americans from some sources I've read. Sadly trying to let them burn now is difficult with the droughts, urban interface creeping into them, and fuel loads.
SageBrush said:I wonder if managed forestry and sustainable logging is not a better solution than fires.danrjones said:WetEV said:Wonder why there were forests before "Responsible forestry".
One big mistake we did in regards to forestry is that we put fires out. Fires are needed to keep the forest thinned and healthy. But we spent a century almost putting every fire out. So now you get conditions in regards to down, dead, dense and Beatle infestations that are far worse. We mismanaged fires for a century and now add in climate change and obviously a poor electric grid and you get conditions for fire storms.
One answer to why there were forests before we "managed" them is because nature burned them. So did the native Americans from some sources I've read. Sadly trying to let them burn now is difficult with the droughts, urban interface creeping into them, and fuel loads.
SageBrush said:I wonder if managed forestry and sustainable logging is not a better solution than fires.
cwerdna said:Unfortunately, I didn't have any. I'd looked into buying some but I recall seeing some not getting great reviews (e.g. ineffective, flattened/distorted by a car moving). ...LeftieBiker said:What about wheel blocks for extra security?
My wheel chocks are a pair of cheap-ass slippery plastic ones I purchased from JC Whitney, when I was ordering from them......35 years ago :shock: so even back then standards were out the window :lol:LeftieBiker said:My father drag-raced Volvos, and he had cast aluminum wheel blocks that never deformed a millimeter. I suppose that like everything now made in China, those standards are out the window...
danrjones said:I'm not sure it would make any difference to the fire danger, but I've often wondered if life would be better if we were all using DC instead of AC. Not far from me are some high voltage transmission lines, and sure enough some of the biggest of them are DC not AC. Turns out for very long distances at high voltages, DC is more efficient, enough MORE that its cost effective to convert the AC to DC and back again. You can spot DC transmission because it has only two large wires, or two pairs of two, aka no 3 phases of transmission.
Not sure how accurate it is, but a movie on the AC-DC war is suppose to be coming out soon.
Nubo said:danrjones said:I'm not sure it would make any difference to the fire danger, but I've often wondered if life would be better if we were all using DC instead of AC. Not far from me are some high voltage transmission lines, and sure enough some of the biggest of them are DC not AC. Turns out for very long distances at high voltages, DC is more efficient, enough MORE that its cost effective to convert the AC to DC and back again. You can spot DC transmission because it has only two large wires, or two pairs of two, aka no 3 phases of transmission.
Not sure how accurate it is, but a movie on the AC-DC war is suppose to be coming out soon.
As I understand it, extremely high voltage DC can be the way to go for long-distance, but at residential voltages even a typical distance to the substation is too far for DC.
.DaveinOlyWA said:Nubo said:danrjones said:I'm not sure it would make any difference to the fire danger, but I've often wondered if life would be better if we were all using DC instead of AC. Not far from me are some high voltage transmission lines, and sure enough some of the biggest of them are DC not AC. Turns out for very long distances at high voltages, DC is more efficient, enough MORE that its cost effective to convert the AC to DC and back again. You can spot DC transmission because it has only two large wires, or two pairs of two, aka no 3 phases of transmission.
Not sure how accurate it is, but a movie on the AC-DC war is suppose to be coming out soon.
As I understand it, extremely high voltage DC can be the way to go for long-distance, but at residential voltages even a typical distance to the substation is too far for DC.
That is "reverse chicken/egg" theory. If DC had been the choice, I am sure we wouldn't be using AC voltage standards...
.danrjones said:Not sure how accurate it is, but a movie on the AC-DC war is suppose to be coming out soon.
DaveinOlyWA said:Nubo said:danrjones said:I'm not sure it would make any difference to the fire danger, but I've often wondered if life would be better if we were all using DC instead of AC. Not far from me are some high voltage transmission lines, and sure enough some of the biggest of them are DC not AC. Turns out for very long distances at high voltages, DC is more efficient, enough MORE that its cost effective to convert the AC to DC and back again. You can spot DC transmission because it has only two large wires, or two pairs of two, aka no 3 phases of transmission.
Not sure how accurate it is, but a movie on the AC-DC war is suppose to be coming out soon.
As I understand it, extremely high voltage DC can be the way to go for long-distance, but at residential voltages even a typical distance to the substation is too far for DC.
That is "reverse chicken/egg" theory. If DC had been the choice, I am sure we wouldn't be using AC voltage standards...
DaveinOlyWA said:Nubo said:danrjones said:I'm not sure it would make any difference to the fire danger, but I've often wondered if life would be better if we were all using DC instead of AC. Not far from me are some high voltage transmission lines, and sure enough some of the biggest of them are DC not AC. Turns out for very long distances at high voltages, DC is more efficient, enough MORE that its cost effective to convert the AC to DC and back again. You can spot DC transmission because it has only two large wires, or two pairs of two, aka no 3 phases of transmission.
Not sure how accurate it is, but a movie on the AC-DC war is suppose to be coming out soon.
As I understand it, extremely high voltage DC can be the way to go for long-distance, but at residential voltages even a typical distance to the substation is too far for DC.
That is "reverse chicken/egg" theory. If DC had been the choice, I am sure we wouldn't be using AC voltage standards...
danrjones said:DaveinOlyWA said:Nubo said:As I understand it, extremely high voltage DC can be the way to go for long-distance, but at residential voltages even a typical distance to the substation is too far for DC.
That is "reverse chicken/egg" theory. If DC had been the choice, I am sure we wouldn't be using AC voltage standards...
Plus just imagine the train set you could have had, no puny 12-18 vDC, you could have had a HO scale train running at hundreds of volts DC.
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