Quote I like from Tom Ligon from the talk Poywell forum

Regarding profit, here's the really neat thing. Yes, the reason power companies want to produce power is to sell it and make a profit. The bean-counters have job security, and the engineering economists can calculate the depreciation on capital investment and life cycle costs and all that, enabling the power companies to extract a viable margin.

But that's not the real profit, and we all know it, and it is why we're all concerned about energy. The profit is that the electricity made is worth far more than it sells for. If we cannot get it by other means, we'll spend the money on solar to get it because it will be worth it.

The profit is what you can do with energy, especially abundant energy with fewer negatives involved in getting it, and what the fruits of those expenditures are. Energy, with raw materials and human talent, are the basis for our economy, and so is priceless.

The economics will shake out the most economical way to produce the power we need, but they don't set the value of the power to civilization.

sweet hybrid bus

From 1905!
link

Not sure if this is real...

Russian Women's prison..... has a beauty pagent.
http://www.webpark.ru/comment/52940



Is this real or the plot for a bad porno from 1982?

All the tools are moved

Got everything moved. Likely not organized for a month. Ack.

Totally Knackered

Had a busy weekend. I irresponsibly purchased two lathes, a drill press, a metal saw, and a lifetime supply of bits of metal. We moved the last (and larger) lathe yesterday with the help of good friend John. This guy's strength never ceases to amaze me.

"No, don't worry. I can totally lift it."

Also did a bunch of wiring at my parents cabin. My hands are very sore from bending 4 gauge teck in electrical panels.

Little to no progress on electric car as I simply have been ignoring it as I walk most places these days.

Soon I'll get back to it.

Lawful Access

Please listen to this podcast.

I did, and sent the following letter to Minister Van Loan.

You have not struck the right balance. You have listened too much to the Police. You say you have consulted with industry. Which industries? Rogers? Bell? Telus? they are not innovators. They are not the new economy. Please talk to internet entrepreneurs. They are much more in touch with reality.

Your party was elected to protect individuals, not centralize government authority and power.

I listened to your interview on search engine. It is clear you are woefully out of touch with reality. If I could offer you a bit of advice, fire the staffer that briefed you for that interview. Even if you have no idea what you are talking about, you need to be able to fake it.

Jake Gray

Update

So I've been crazy busy and haven't had a lot of time lately to work on the project. I have figured out the IGBT driving though.

I've built the circuit in bread board and it seems to work. I've designed a PCB and I'm going to try my hand at etching. woot!