Politics

[Pondoro]

On a press conferance today in Beijing, Lavrov said that Russia will sell more oil to China if sale from Iran is blocked..

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I'm sure I'll get shit for this, but you can dispose of wind turbine blades by incinerating them too. They are primarily fiberglass, resin, polyester, and CF. And no, I dont mean opening burning. They can be used as a feedstock for cement kilns instead of fossil fuels too. Although the ash would need to be put in a MSW landfill or Coal ash landfill versus a C&D, so that would be more expensive, but much lower quantities.

Have you ever witnessed polystyrene burning? I have I spent 10 years in the fibreglass boat industry before becoming a commercial fisherman. Polystyrene burns every bit as black as a tire does and puts of nausea inducing fumes now I’m no scientist or west coast hippy so I don’t have all the answers but seems to me anyone truly concerned with the environment wouldn’t be advocating the burning of polystyrene. On top of that when you burn fibreglass structures the mat and woven glass fibres themselves do not burn only resin does so you are left with a just as much glass to deal with it is just harder to handle as it is no longer ridged and won’t hold its form.

 

[deewayne2003]

I'm sure I'll get shit for this, but you can dispose of wind turbine blades by incinerating them too. They are primarily fiberglass, resin, polyester, and CF. And no, I dont mean opening burning. They can be used as a feedstock for cement kilns instead of fossil fuels too. Although the ash would need to be put in a MSW landfill or Coal ash landfill versus a C&D, so that would be more expensive, but much lower quantities.

So burn more fuel to remove and transport, then burn more fuel to burn to create hazardous waste……So clean

So how many more how government subsidies will that consume?

 

[Altitude sickness]

Urban Liberals are pretty good at demanding Rural peasants look at wind and solar parks. Look what Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard did when they were proposed offshore. NIMBY at its best. The same rabid liberals that threw out illegal aliens when they were dropped in their neighborhoods.

Cover urban parking lots and buildings with them .

What I find odd is Greenies are more concerned with fossil fuels. which there are plenty reserves of and new technology to burn them cleanly. Than the dry western U.S. and usable water crisis.

If Greenies need a cause. Why not focus on capturing the rain and flood water in the east and pipe it west. The usual pushback is the cost and mountains. There are plenty of viable pathways to pipe water west. the I-10 corridor would be suitable.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Urban Liberals are pretty good at demanding Rural peasants look at wind and solar parks. Look what Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard did when they were proposed offshore. NIMBY at its best. The same rabid liberals that threw out illegal aliens when they were dropped in their neighborhoods.

Cover urban parking lots and buildings with them .

What I find odd is Greenies are more concerned with fossil fuels. which there are plenty reserves of and new technology to burn them cleanly. Than the dry western U.S. and usable water crisis.

If Greenies need a cause. Why not focus on capturing the rain and flood water in the east and pipe it west. The usual pushback is the cost and mountains. There are plenty of viable pathways to pipe water west. the I-10 corridor would be suitable.

They purposed off shore wind farms here in Nova Scotia as well generally speaking the pushback from fisherman at least isn’t that the turbines are unsightly it’s the exclusion zone around each base is a mile in any direction. Not saying that is what happened on the east coast but it would not surprise me if it did not cause the same issues there.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Yeah, it’s not that I disagree with not putting them in the ocean. It’s that the rich Martha’s Vineyard liberals don’t want to look at them after demanding everybody else look at them.
We all have economic and ecological reasons we can put forward. Farmland is similar to commercial fishing grounds in that regard.

Full disclosure. It may sound hypocritical. I have been paid for a Solar project and am now in talks with a wind project company.
Everyone around me had signed. If it gets full approval. I would be looking at them anyway. So my logic is. I may as well take their money.

Both projects offer initial payment for signing up. Then they go away to get all state and local governmental approval. If it’s approved I get another one time construction payment for the Solar project.

For the wind i get a smaller up front payment. But get annual payments during construction and a percentage of the revenue.

I actually hope they don’t get approval and I get the sign up money for nothing, and then don’t have to look at them. But again, all the larger land owners around me signed up so I was going be looking at them anyway.

 

[Russ16]

Urban Liberals are pretty good at demanding Rural peasants look at wind and solar parks. Look what Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard did when they were proposed offshore. NIMBY at its best. The same rabid liberals that threw out illegal aliens when they were dropped in their neighborhoods.

Cover urban parking lots and buildings with them .

What I find odd is Greenies are more concerned with fossil fuels. which there are plenty reserves of and new technology to burn them cleanly. Than the dry western U.S. and usable water crisis.

If Greenies need a cause. Why not focus on capturing the rain and flood water in the east and pipe it west. The usual pushback is the cost and mountains. There are plenty of viable pathways to pipe water west. the I-10 corridor would be suitable.

I think turbines on buildings makes a ton of sense. When I was a kid in west Texas almost every house had a wind generator in the yard or in the barn. Many sail yachts have them as supplement to their solar to reduce time needed to run the generator.

I’ve often wondered why we don’t have one on every house. They aren’t expensive and would be a good supplement.

My thought is energy diversification is good. There is no reason not to have a small wind generator in houses and larger on buildings. Same with solar panels on roof tops and building tops especially in certain parts of the country. It wouldn’t replace big power places but would cumulatively add to the grid.

I see the biggest problem with the conversation around energy as a focus in a single solution. It’s alway get rid of natural gas and tune the whole Midwest into a wind and solar farm. Or build tons of nuclear plants and only use those. Or drill more gas and oil but nothing else.

I think if energy needs as a bucket and you can fill the bucket from a variety of sources. There is benefit in thinking about the small less disruptive ways of contributing which will cumulatively make a material contribution.

But that would require policy makers to deal in nuance and cooperation which very few of them are willing to do these days.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Yeah, it’s not that I disagree with not putting them in the ocean. It’s that the rich Martha’s Vineyard liberals don’t want to look at them after demanding everybody else look at them.
We all have economic and ecological reasons we can put forward. Farmland is similar to commercial fishing grounds in that regard.

Full disclosure. It may sound hypocritical. I have been paid for a Solar project and am now in talks with a wind project company.
Everyone around me had signed. If it gets full approval. I would be looking at them anyway. So my logic is. I may as well take their money.

Both projects offer initial payment for signing up. Then they go away to get all state and local governmental approval. If it’s approved I get another one time construction payment for the Solar project.

For the wind i get a smaller up front payment. But get annual payments during construction and a percentage of the revenue.

I actually hope they don’t get approval and I get the sign up money for nothing, and then don’t have to look at them. But again, all the larger land owners around me signed up so I was going be looking at them anyway.

Logging company tried that approach here a few years ago to try and back door there way into getting the timber off my woodlot, they made offers on all the adjoining woodlots contingent on also being able to secure the rights to log fathers piece. Woodlot owners got together and had a meeting tried to guilt and pressure my father into selling or selling the timber rights. Father thanked them for the cup of tea he was drinking and the proceeded to tell the works of them to go - - - - themselves.

Hopefully that works out for you it’s not often a man gets to have his cake and eat it too. I hope you being the holdout got a bigger payment out of it?

 

[mdwest]

I’ve often wondered why we don’t have one on every house. They aren’t expensive and would be a good supplement.

Because Karen and the HOA would lose their minds…

Wind is wonderful for everyone ELSE… but don’t bring that to Karen’s neighborhood.. it might drop her property value because it’s unsightly..

 

[Altitude sickness]

I hope to not receive the larger payment. That’s means neither project got approved.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Back to the Iran negotiations.

I saw another post by Hillary and other key Obama team members that were involved in the JCPOA again complaining that we have amateurs negotiating. Not career “professionals”.

Then I thought of the often used tactic that car dealers use. or really any organized, systematic sales process.

They look for people that invest a lot of time. are easily lead around. The sales team intentionally delays to get the buyer invested. Typically the more time a buyer has invested. The less likely they are to walk away. (Sales 101). The type of buyer that allows the sales team to dictate small things. Is a buyer they love.

The buyer that walks in and lays down what they’re looking for and quickly walks out if there are delays or they are not given what they asked for is not what a seller wants.

Hillary bragging that Iran dragged out the deal for 5 years tells me. The Persians knew they had the type of buyer that sellers love. Willing to be slowed down and delayed.

The U.S. under Obama was the buyer the seller loves and they didn’t know they were getting sold.

 

[KJE81]

Back to the Iran negotiations.

I saw another post by Hillary and other key Obama team members that were involved in the JCPOA again complaining that we have amateurs negotiating. Not career “professionals”.

Then I thought of the often used tactic that car dealers use. or really any organized, systematic sales process.

They look for people that invest a lot of time. are easily lead around. The sales team intentionally delays to get the buyer invested. Typically the more time a buyer has invested. The less likely they are to walk away. (Sales 101). The type of buyer that allows the sales team to dictate small things. Is a buyer they love.

The buyer that walks in and lays down what they’re looking for and quickly walks out if there are delays or they are not given what they asked for is not what a seller wants.

Hillary bragging that Iran dragged out the deal for 5 years tells me. The Persians knew they had the type of buyer that sellers love. Willing to be slowed down and delayed.

The U.S. under Obama was the buyer the seller loves and they didn’t know they were getting sold.

I read somewhere that Rubio would handle the next round of negotiations, I have a feeling that he might do a better job then Vance.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Because Karen and the HOA would lose their minds…

Wind is wonderful for everyone ELSE… but don’t bring that to Karen’s neighborhood.. it might drop her property value because it’s unsightly..

How did homeowners associations get such a foot hold in the first place? I’ve never had any experience personally with one but from my reading and the opinions expressed on here they sound like something best avoided at all costs.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Vance did exactly what he should have done. To be fair getting up and walking away from the table is all they understand. If you sit there and let them play you then you deserve to get played.
Now with the blockade, they have China in their ear, telling them to make a deal.

This teaches Iran every time the U.S. gets up and walks away. Iran is getting a worse deal.

 

[mdwest]

How did homeowners associations get such a foot hold in the first place? I’ve never had any experience personally with one but from my reading and the opinions expressed on here they sound like something best avoided at all costs.

I honestly don’t know… they were something of a rarity when I was growing up.. these days it seems almost every suburban neighborhood has one regardless of the income level…

There are even businesses out there that “manage” HOA now… they collect all the dues, enforce all the rules, etc.., they aren’t actual home owners in the neighborhood.. the association hires them and pays them out of the homeowners dues to do all the work other than host the monthly meeting where the Karen’s all gather to determine what new rules they want to impose…

They can serve a useful purpose if properly managed.. you won’t have a neighbor raising chickens in his back yard and have a rooster crowing 10 feet from your bedroom window… and you won’t have some neo hippy painting their house in purple and orange hues when every other house in the neighborhood is painted in traditional earth tones, etc…

But… as an example of the PIA of dealing with an HOA.. we had a storm come through about 2 years ago that destroyed my fence… I’ve got dogs.. I needed the fence repaired quickly…

It took me almost 3 weeks to get the HOA to approve me building a new fence that was going to be identical to the fence I lost…

After waiting a full week for a response I basically told them to kiss my ass, I was moving forward without them..

So I received a nastygram from some HOA officer declaring that I was building the fence at risk and that if they didn’t approve it after it was built they’d force me to take it down, rebuild another at cost, etc..

To which I replied they’d have to sue.. so go on and ask the members if they’re prepared to have their dues increased to cover legal fees due to the incompetence of the HOA and its inability to approve a necessary, emergency project in a timely manner… and to prepare for the counter suit…

Never heard another word out of them other that getting a letter in the mail 2 weeks later approving the fence to be built..

Sadly that’s not an uncommon interaction with an HOA..

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

If there would of been another round of air strikes it would also of taught Iran that getting up from the table means your getting bombed again…

 

[mdwest]

I read somewhere that Rubio would handle the next round of negotiations, I have a feeling that he might do a better job than Vance.

Not sure where you’re reading that… it sounds like speculation to me…

As of this morning JD Vance is still listed as the official lead negotiator, and there has been nothing from the white house that says he is replaced or will be replaced..

 

[Altitude sickness]

Israel and some select U.S. assets will remain inside Iran long after the deal is made this week.
Dirty Deeds done very expensively !

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I honestly don’t know… they were something of a rarity when I was growing up.. these days it seems almost every suburban neighborhood has one regardless of the income level…

There are even businesses out there that “manage” HOA now… they collect all the dues, enforce all the rules, etc.., they aren’t actual home owners in the neighborhood.. the association hires them and pays them out of the homeowners dues to do all the work other than host the monthly meeting where the Karen’s all gather to determine what new rules they want to impose…

They can serve a useful purpose if properly managed.. you won’t have a neighbor raising chickens in his back yard and have a rooster crowing 10 feed from your bedroom window… and you won’t have some neo hippy painting their house in purple and orange hues when every other house in the neighborhood is painted in traditional earth tones, etc…

But… as an example of the PIA of dealing with an HOA.. we had a storm come through about 2 years ago that destroyed my fence… I’ve got dogs.. I needed the fence repaired quickly…

It took me almost 3 weeks to get the HOA to approve me building a new fence that was going to be identical to the fence I lost…

After waiting a full week for a response I basically told them to kiss my ass, I was moving forward without them..

So I received a nastygram from some HOA declaring that I was building the fence at risk and that if they didn’t approve it after it was built they’d force me to take it down, rebuild another at cost, etc..

To which I replied they’d have to sue.. so go on and ask the members if they’re prepared to have their dues increased to cover legal fees due to the incompetence of the HOA and its inability to approve a necessary, emergency project in a timely manner… and to prepare for the counter suit…

Never heard another word out of them other that getting a letter in the mail 2 weeks later approving the fence to be built..

Sadly that’s not an uncommon interaction with an HOA..

See that’s the problem I have with the whole idea of hoas, nobody not owning or paying taxes on a piece of land should be able to the owner what he can or cannot do as long as it is within the confines of the law.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Israel and some select U.S. assets will remain inside Iran long after the deal is made this week.
Dirty Deeds done very expensively !