Things that please me - Part 4

[Gough]

What’s Going On at 50: Marvin Gaye’s masterpiece is still so true to life

The unresolved, discordant elements make this album truly timeless – that, and the fact that too few of its concerns have been addressed since 1971

www.theguardian.com

What's Going On at 50.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Long weekend here. I took today (Friday) off to make it an extra long one. We somewhat have restrictions to trying to make the most of it. Nice sunny day. Walked the kids to school, just had a 1-hour massage, will go out for lunch with wife and meet mates for beers at a local brewery a bit later.

 

[troybe]

Sounds like a brilliant day, what were you restricted in doing?


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[Catfish Alley]

Sounds like a brilliant day, what were you restricted in doing?


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Not too much really. Can’t dine in anywhere and not really supposed to leave the Greater Vancouver area.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Science

Australian company Lavo has developed a spunky cabinet that could be placed at any corner of your house so that excess energy could be stored as hydrogen.
This works when connected to a hybrid solar inverter and a purified main water source.
The cabinet then utilizes extra energy to electrolyzer the water, which releases oxygen and stores the hydrogen in a metal hydride sponge to 30 bars of pressure; this makes it 435 in psi unit.

It can contain energy up to 40 kilowatt-hours, making it three times more than Tesla’s famous Powerwall 2 and sufficient to run a house for about two days

The price of the new power cabinet by Lavo is marked at US$26,900. However, it is expected to drop in the last quarter of 2022, after which it will come down to US$22,800.

Lavo said that its life is a lot longer than a traditional battery system.
A lithium battery lasts for about 15 years, whereas the Lavo would last for almost three decades.
It doesn’t have any toxic chemicals and would cause no harm to the environment when disposed of.

This Hydrogen Battery Can Store 3 Times The Energy Of A Powerwall 2

To have an electricity connection without being connected to the grid, you need to generate energy in the daytime and store it at night. Conventionall

wonderfulengineering.com

 

[Kram]

Long term dole bludger on another board calling franking credits welfare, hadn't laughed that much in ages.

 

[Gough]

Long term dole bludger on another board calling franking credits welfare, hadn't laughed that much in ages.

What else would you call free money from the government?

 

[Gough]

This funny.

Spoiler: Language warning

 

[the_interloper]

Missus and kid out today, few beers watching the footy and races, I could do this every day ha ha

 

[Kram]

Actually got some long time put off work completed at home today, 3 power points done in 3 hours.

 

[Pistol Night]

Missus and kid out today, few beers watching the footy and races, I could do this every day ha ha

Heaven

 

[Paul66]

Coming home from hospital

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[Over The Post]

Walked the kids to school, just had a 1-hour massage, will go out for lunch with wife and meet mates for beers at a local brewery a bit later.

Posted at 4:03am... oh, Vancouver timezone manipulation.

 

[HairyO]

Science

Australian company Lavo has developed a spunky cabinet that could be placed at any corner of your house so that excess energy could be stored as hydrogen.
This works when connected to a hybrid solar inverter and a purified main water source.
The cabinet then utilizes extra energy to electrolyzer the water, which releases oxygen and stores the hydrogen in a metal hydride sponge to 30 bars of pressure; this makes it 435 in psi unit.

It can contain energy up to 40 kilowatt-hours, making it three times more than Tesla’s famous Powerwall 2 and sufficient to run a house for about two days

The price of the new power cabinet by Lavo is marked at US$26,900. However, it is expected to drop in the last quarter of 2022, after which it will come down to US$22,800.

Lavo said that its life is a lot longer than a traditional battery system.
A lithium battery lasts for about 15 years, whereas the Lavo would last for almost three decades.
It doesn’t have any toxic chemicals and would cause no harm to the environment when disposed of.

This Hydrogen Battery Can Store 3 Times The Energy Of A Powerwall 2

To have an electricity connection without being connected to the grid, you need to generate energy in the daytime and store it at night. Conventionall

wonderfulengineering.com

Its not toxic... but it is a giant bomb in the corner of your house...

 

[Hawk Dork]

Its not toxic... but it is a giant bomb in the corner of your house...

Yet still safer than a gas stove or a coal fired power plant

 

[HairyO]

Yet still safer than a gas stove or a coal fired power plant

Im lucky I dont have a coal fired power plant in my garage.

 

[Over The Post]

Its not toxic... but it is a giant bomb in the corner of your house...

No it isn't. It's stored in a very fine metal sponge. If the outer shell is pierced and you toss a match, there will be a quick flash and a small invisible flame as the hydrogen comes out of the pores. Of course if you put a hole in it and sit back for an hour while the hydrogen escapes there could be a layer on the ceiling which would cause windows to blow out if you throw a match at it. The chances of achieving a stoichiometric concentration are fairly low.

The technology has been proven for 100+ years, acetylene (as in oxy-acetylene welding and cutting) is explosive in liquid form. Acetylene gas bottles are filled with balsa wood which is like a sponge to negate this.

 

[Gough]

Im lucky I dont have a coal fired power plant in my garage.

Peasant, I have a nuclear reactor in my front room.

 

[HairyO]

Peasant, I have a nuclear reactor in my front room.

 

[Over The Post]

Im lucky I dont have a coal fired power plant in my garage.

Or a hydrogen bomb.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Im lucky I dont have a coal fired power plant in my garage.

we used to have a briquette heater in our laundry

 

[exe ex machina]

Browsing my local gaming store i came across this and bought it....

 

[PT Bar None]

Walking home from the shops and I spy a couple of rich flogs taking advantage of the beautiful Autumn day to take their toys for a leisurely drive through the beachside suburbs. A black ferrari convertible and a black lamborghini.
Trouble is, everyone else in their regular jalopies had the same idea so the roads are gridlocked.
So the supercars seemed like they were getting a bit hot under the collar and the drivers tried to duck down a side street for relief. Sadly for our harder working heroes, the side street is narrow and also gridlocked, so they are stuck. And even when they manage to clear, they still have to combat the greatest natural enemy of the supercar, the speed bump! (Or safety bump as I'm sure they're now called.)

Now watching this heartwarming story play out has given me fuel to update my manifesto. I've long had a Porsche Cayenne Turbo clause, but I think looking at recent events we can expand it a bit.

So we know some state governments are looking at introducing electric car surcharges to make up for expected short fallings in petrol excise revenue. Victoria being one. Which does seem a little short sighted.

My idea - don't do that. It's stupid.

Instead - make up the short falling on registration of supercars. Fezza 430 or better. Any Lambo. Audi R8. Porsche Cayenne Turbo. You want to register one of those? - $50,000 thanks. It's not like the flogs can't afford it. Don't care if it's a "company car" which I assume they all are. Be vicious if they try to do the Road Freight scam and register everything interstate.
Don't care if it causes rich flogs to not buy them anymore. Just move onto the next rich flog status symbol and tax the shit out of that. Don't care if Fezza and Lambo make less money.
And who knows, the rich flogs will find something else to spend their hard earned spare cash on - like homelessness charities maybe?

 

[Gough]

New cars suck, I like anything that was advertised in the cars under $1000 circa 1990. My weed dude has just bought a 1970s Torana in really good nick which is a lovely old beast.

 

[Off The Couch]

Browsing my local gaming store i came across this and bought it....

but why?
why do we have to mess with everything