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The sentencing is not likely to hold up in an appeal. If the idea is to be able to say that he is the only convicted felon to be sworn in as President, it will soon have to be stricken because the conviction will be thrown out. Unless they have something else up their sleeves. That would imply a conspiracy. Hey, if the commies are anything, they are a conspiracy in motion.
Maybe they'll assassinate him, then the appeal would be moot. That way, he'll always be listed in the heestwa books as the only convicted felon to ever be sworn in.
If you think this is madness, then maybe you should check out the commies a bit further. Insanity is their business.
Forgot to mention this one. Could this be another one of these flash in the pan type deals? At least the VW and Citroen engines are tried and true. Still, the oldies are much more complex than these new fangled engines. There's always a fly in the ointment.
It is an intriguing idea to mate a light weight advanced engine design to a light weight vehicle design.
The previous post link said that the Citroen was a 1000 lb car. The less weight, the better. That is, when it comes to battery/hybrid designs. That's because it needs less battery, which is what weighs so much. Keeping the battery size down is what the ICE motor is for. It gives the vehicle longer range, while keeping good performance over a wide range of driving conditions.
Since this would be adding additional hardware, keeping the total weight down to 1000 lbs might be a bridge too far. But the weight could be a lot less than you'd might expect for an electric car. People do conversions of these old cars to electric, but I haven't seen any hybrid conversions. Interesting to think about, anyway.
A lot of torque and horsepower isn't needed in a basic car. Acceptable performance would be sufficient if the result
could be an affordable and sensible automobile.
Good things might be possible in small packages. Let's say that you reduced the battery capacity to minimize the weight
of the batteries. True, it would necessitate frequent use of the range extender, but who cares?
The idea would be efficiency. Electric engines can start on a load, whereas an internal combustion engine cannot. It
only takes 20 horsepower or thereabouts to cruise at highway speed. Most of the time, you just don't need all that
much horsepower. If you had an engine that could produce a lot for short periods, that would be ideal. Especially if
it didn't weigh much.
The upper range of today's batteries would yield a kwh for every 8.3 lbs of battery. If the battery is limited to
5 kwh, that would weigh less than 50 lbs for the battery. You could put together a decent drive train for a modest
amount of weight. Add a generator and an ultracapacitor. Surely you could put it all together with decent performance
for not that much weight. A sub compact internal combustion engine type car could be about a ton. Perhaps you could
do it this way for about that much.
Less weight means less fuel expenditure, too.
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There's a lot of nerdy stuff here...
Bottom line seems to be that to get sufficient torque, a supercharger is needed. That's because of low-end torque.
An idea popped into my head while watching this. What if you were to use this engine as a range extender for a
battery pack? Batteries are way too heavy. If you were to include this small, lightweight engine to a generator,
then it could recharge the battery pack on the fly. Shoot, you may be able to downsize this engine even more than that is. In order to cruise at highway speed, it is only necessary to have 20 or so horsepower.
The most power needed is to get moving. To keep moving doesn't need nearly as much power. That's why it could be
useful for range extension. If the thing were small enough, it would presumably need not that much power to generate
the necessary power to recharge the battery pack, or to take over electrical generation, or both.
The light weight design would save weight from all those batteries. It would need some support mechanisms, such as
a generator. Also, a tank for fuel needs to be included. Again, these may be small enough to keep some weight savings,
so the replacement of batteries doesn't get you back to a too-heavy vehicle. A little further on the video reveals that there
is a 125 CC engine of this type. It generates 28 horsepower. Cool!
Advantages: Simplicity, low-weight, and compact design.
Could the incoming administration's reaction to regulatory over-reach, and the court's recent ruling lead to a massive restructuring of the bureaucracy?
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"Based on a recent Supreme Court ruling, the company likely has grounds to sue and win, correctly claiming that Congress never gave it such power over so many things, and that its regulatory oversight is unconstitutional."
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Elon Musk, in combination with the Supreme Court, could slash the role of government rather drastically with this DOGE commission. Huge swaths of government over-reach could be declared unconstitutional, and that could be how it all goes down in one fell swoop. (Just my theory. The Behind the Black article only mentions it in terms of how the FAA regulates SpaceX. What if that single government entity becomes rather generalized to the entire bureaucracy? Then you might have the needed mechanism by which DOGE could reach its goals.)
This series covers the pickup of the vehicle, up to the test drive ( 48 videos in all according to this)
. I watched parts of most of them, and all of some of them. This took hours of watching the videos.
Why bother? I've seen my brother do work like this. It is interesting to compare how some folks operate, I suppose. My brother wouldn't have worked on this one. If he cannot make money on it, he won't mess with it. On the other hand, this guy just does it for the challenge.
By the way, this playlist does not have the final product. When he's "done", he has a basic vehicle, but it isn't a complete vehicle. For example, it has no windshield.
Drum roll please... Check out the young men for clues...
As soon as I saw "young men under 30", as I am marking here, I remembered what I had hypothesized before. Young men are the tip of the spear. It is always true. As the young men go, so goes the nation. So it did. Young men went for Trump. In 1932, young men went for FDR. Probably for the same reasons. In 1932, the Great Depression meant no work for the young men. Today is much the same, even though there's not a Great Depression, the young men are left out of it. There's no place for the young men, so they move on to something new. Trump would be wise to remember that.
It is also well to remember that young women tend to vote for the status quo. Young women voted for Herbert Hoover in 1932. But women tend to be "more conservative" in the stick-in-the-mud sort of way. That's true even if the status quo is leftist. Watch and see if this continues to develop that way.
When "stow it Flo" is back in the news. Plus, Jimmah Cartuh is dayed. The broken record hits keep on comin'. The Democrats want to charge Trump with 'insurrection'.
Did you ever have a song that just popped up in your head? Well, this one just did. But why? Ah, that's a question to be answered. So I thought about it, and it makes a certain amount of sense. I had a dream last night, and it didn't make sense. I dropped it for the entire morning, and this song pops up, and it is the answer.
Joseph interpreted dreams for Pharoah. Daniel interpreted dreams for Nebuchanezzar. Can you interpret a dream? Normally, I cannot. Perhaps it has to be interpreted the same way it came. Through the subconcious. Some might say it is God talking to ya. Others would say that it is merely the sum total of your experiences being juggled around and this is what your brain will come up with. But I don't know.
What I do know is that everybody is being watched these days. Private eyes are everywhere watching your every move. Just like the song says. The song is about something personal. But it can be universal too.
Private eyes really are watching you. That's what I got out of it. What someone else would say would be different. Maybe they'll just say it's being paranoid. But even paranoids have real enemies. ha, ha
