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Doesn’t seem that amazing until you realize they’ve increased output 10,000 times since the 50’s. One more order of magnitude should do it.

As a safety engineer let me just say that a design where two transformers can go down and cut off access to power from both the primary AND backup is a failure. It’s 1 fault tolerant at best and possibly 0 fault tolerant if the same failure took down both transformers. There’s no reason it...

I enjoy some of the subtle anti-EV bias you can find in online media. Google fed me this article as one of their curated news links that pops up on their home page. https://www.hotcars.com/how-to-save-thousands-when-installing-an-ev-charger-at-home/ In the article they stated the following...

It’s interesting about the Permian extinction event which was potentially started by vulcanism. In an area known as the Siberian Traps a massive amount of magma erupted for several 100,000s years. It seems it burned through huge amounts of sediment a coal releasing massive amounts of...

Some small good news. A new commercial product - carbon negative concrete bricks. https://www.mcgilltribune.com/sci-tech/mcgill-alumni-create-worlds-first-carbon-negative-concrete-20092022/ The novel cement-free process will help remove 330 lbs (150 kgs) of Co2 for every ton of concrete produced.

Just to provide a scale for the amount of heat the oceans have absorbed: That’s about 3.7x10^23 joules of energy over the last 50 years in the upper 2000m of the worlds oceans. Equivalent to: ~ 200 Hiroshima sized A-bombs exploding every minute over the last 50 years. Enough energy to run...

I’m a big fan of low birth rates stemming from 1st world lifestyles. Climate impact can be viewed as carbon intensity per person. While 1st world lifestyles have increased carbon use they also reduce population growth. Do poverty reduction, then people have fewer kids. Then the people who are...

This is a another standard fallacy. The problem isn’t with the grid. The grid can support charging a 50/50 mix of EVs/ICE today without much of any change. Don’t believe me? Follow along We’ll use Texas’s crappy grid as an example. Here’s a standard summer day for Texas’s grid: Demand at...

Space based solar power is limited for a number of reasons. The biggest is up mass. The largest solar arrays ever flown are on the ISS. Each set of two arrays came up as an integrated truss which contained all the equipment to deploy 2 sets of arrays, provide 2 axis pointing, battery storage...

It’s blatantly obvious SCOTUS is playing Calvinball with the law. They have a desired partisan result and pick the argument or even outright make up the facts to reach that result.

That’s a good point. Without doing a thermal analysis I’m not sure how it all balances out.

It’s negligible because it all* gets turned into heat eventually

Sorry bud but your appeal to ignorance is exceptionally wanting when compared to basic physics or my own experience. I have direct experience with heat and mass transfer, space based thermal systems, solar power systems, risk management, and systems engineering. I’ve looked at the climate...

How do you think we adapt? Since you don’t seem to have a background in how large scale engineering/design/ infrastructure projects occur let me fill you in. The first thing is to estimate or model the issue that requires you to do the project in the first place. An example, DOT comes out...

I always love it when climate “skeptics” pull the Al Gore card. Apparently you folks think because Al Gore spoke, or bought a house or flew in an airplane that the basic physics of heat transfer no longer function and carbon reduction solutions can’t work because markets don’t function...

I’m not exactly sure what point is being made by the comparing radiative power / kg of the sun and a person is? Why not W/m^2? A person radiates ~ 50W/m^2 while the sun radiates at 5.42x10^16 W/m^2. ITER if it works would be something like 20 W/kg Large thermal power plants are expensive...

So is my glovebox USB dead? (2021 M3 LR) Got the DashCam unavailable check USB message. Reformat and delete DashCam clips options were grayed out under safety. Using a USB C to A adapter I plugged the Tesla USB drive into the slot in the center console and the car recognized it. DashCam and...

I’ve got a creaking drivers door. Any idea what the fix was?

9.5K miles. Just over a year. Had to get the front bumper replaced due to idiocy on my part. (Clipped garage pulling in) Only other issue had to replace cabin air filters and use AC cleaner to get rid of the funky smell at 8 months.

Oooh I Know I Know! Is it the extra 3.5x10^23 joules of heat we’ve dumped into the oceans over the last 50 years? I mean it’s only 70% of the energy from the Chixulub impactor that killed the dinosaurs 65million years ago but it’s got to have some effect right?

Tropical storms and Hurricanes routinely end in boil notices and loss of power during freezes ends up doing the same. Enough pipes freeze and rupture in houses that water pressure across the system drops enough to allow ground water to containment the system. After the freeze last year on a...

Uh Texas for most of that. I didn’t just install a backup generator and get a gravity fed water filter for the hell of it.

Sure but it’s a numbers game. How many of the 10,000s of customers have something wrong with their gas systems. How many left burners on when the gas went off and didn’t remember to shut them off. Just takes a couple before somebody’s house explodes.

It seems YOU have almost no idea how climate changes/work. Luckily that’s an easily fixable problem unlike climate change. To get you started learn how the climate works here: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience.html Then to understand long term cyclic changes in climate watch...

Sorry just saw this. It’s piped in. Loss of NG is a concern but during the freeze the direction from the powers that be were residential use would be the last customer cut off from NG. Apparently stopping residential NG is highly dangerous. Pilot lights go out and residential users don’t...

We added a natural gas whole home generator for the time being. It’s been great for the few brief power outages we had. It’s not just batteries that are in short supply. Generators are hard to come by as well. It took 6 months to get ours in. The backlog is now 9 months. An additional issue we...

So you don’t believe in conservation of energy? Interesting. What evidence do you have to overturn basic physics? Not sure what I’m talking about? here’s a chart of Ocean Heat Content in the top 2000M of the ocean over the last ~60 years. ENSO, La Niña etc are the oceans moving heat around...

No answer to my question?

Since you keep claiming global temperatures were warmer in the 1930’s please link us the ocean heat content from then. NOAA only has data starting in 1957. Currently we are up about 3.5X10^23 joules from 1969 to now (The equivalent energy to 70% of the Chixulub meteor impact) Since it was...

Certain seaweeds can be used in cattle feed (~1% by weight if I recall) and it cuts methane emissions by over 60%.

Climate deniers spend a lot of time cherry-picking mainstream science predictions but not a lot looking at their own So how have the climate deniers predictions gone over the years? Unsurprisingly not well...

That was quite the post he made. I thought I’d heard it all, but fossil fuels being naturally created and pushed up by geological forces is a new one.

I’ve got a 150A service in my 15 year old house. I sacrificed the unused breakers to our cooktop and had them install a NEMA 14-50. The cooktop is gas and with the issues we have with the electrical grid here I’m never going electric for cooking.

Well I’m not. Since I have to live with the crappy infrastructure (lack of thermal plant winterization included) we are installing a whole house generator for the next time we lose power. Feels like living in the third world.

Here’s an overview of wind turbine winterization. (From 2014!) https://www.powermag.com/prepare-your-renewable-plant-for-cold-weather-operations/ It’s basically the same steps as a thermal plant. Insulation and heaters. For the wind turbines it takes electricity and runs heaters along the...

So here’s what a Texas plant repair engineer is saying. engineer Since this is the second time we’ve lost power due to cold weather and nothing was done in the decade since the first time we are having a whole home generator installed this week. When my roof needs to be replaced in a...

Good points. On the first point, I live on the Gulf Coast and somehow or another my mortgage lender gets notified everytime my windstorm insurance comes up for renewal at which point they threaten me with buying their own coverage and charging me. I may have erroneously assumed there was a...

So I see a number of issues here: Guy managed to accidentally drop comprehensive coverage - large portion of the responsibility is on the leasee here. Tesla didin't know the guy managed to drop coverage on their car - that's on Tesla - they have a hole somewhere in their process that opens them...

Shouldn't quoting wattsupwiththat.com have this moved to the climate denial thread? Renewables are rising exponentially and coal is falling. The three cheapest types of power are wind, solar, and natural gas with the renewables starting to be cheaper than gas. Market forces are making other...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/pacific-northwest-heatwave-virtually-impossible-without-climate-change/ Attribution study shows about a 1 in 1000 chance of the heatwave occuring with todays climate but only a 1 in 150,000 chance with the preindustrial climate. It's basically not...

There's really no difference between the end state of a libertarian utopia and a communist utopia. It'll always end up with a few with everything and most with nothing because they rely on ideal people not real ones.

Over a century ago they knew…..

God damn did I call it. Thanks for proving my point! At any rate you are saying incorrectly that your buddy at UAH is saying a fraction of a fraction of global warming has stopped. Exactly No. That’s the straw man you keep beating. We have however mentioned the suns output is slightly...

Exactly. As I’ve posted before the denialist position is one of the following depending on the argument: - The climate is not changing: Do Nothing - Fine the climate is changing but it’s actually good!: Do Nothing - Ok it’s changing and it’s bad but it’s natural: So there’s nothing we can do -...

More irrefutable evidence of warming. Satellite measurements of the energy imbalance coupled with increasing ocean heat content shows the planets energy imbalance doubled over the last several years. https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-noaa-scientists-earths-energy-imbalance-has-doubled/

~$1750. Expensive lesson but less than it could have been. Took them 8 days but they were delayed two days due to power outages from storms. (yay Texas) There's a lot of hardware integrated to the bumper so you end up getting new fog lights and I think sensors. So it's not just the bumper...

So after doing this: By scrapping it on the of the garage I had to get the front bumper replaced. Here it is after repair by the Tesla Service Center: It might be colored slightly differently but to be frank I normally can’t tell and neither has anyone else said anything.

Thanks for the information. I may try and leave it plugged in more often, however my charging situation isn't perfect. My garage setup means I have to run the cable between the rear of the car and the garage door. I run the risk that one of the kids may get it caught on the garage door going...