With respect to the Vegas situation ( exploding Tesla in front of Trump's hotel)

Video joined in progress,

Get a load of this...

This is either a hoax ( not by Bongino ), but someone else; or we're in some deep doo-doo. I suspect a hoax. Such a means of propulsion would be so far advanced, that I'd say it was extra-terrestrial in origin. Our science has not progressed to this point, unless I am mistaken.

An Elon Hit Piece

But I'll embed it anyway...

Killing off your offspring is a decidedly leftist idea..., they are straining themselves here. Why post it? I'll look at developments critically. I don't think anyone should be raised up on a pedestal.

Elon's IQ Shredder by Johann Kurtz

Our immigration strategy accelerates Idiocracy (& we can't colonize Mars with idiots)

Read on Substack

Behold the future

There's no stopping this

Superfast diamond-laced computer chips now much closer to reality thanks to 'quantum breakthrough' https://t.co/mXZMalUHvT

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) January 6, 2025

Wile E. Coyote vs. Gravity

It's analogous to artifical intelligence and virtual reality, but can you tell the difference?

If you depend too much upon computers, we will all become like Wile E. Coyote. Chasing an illusive goal and always failing because the rules will get changed up on you right in the middle of whatever you're doing. Don't think so? Why else would Big Tech invent it! That is to say, they'll fool ya in order to screw ya.

 

 

Forget about H1-b taking jobs

AI is the culprit; computers doing the code writing and more

This was being warned about over 40 years ago ( in a class I was taking). Just thought I'd throw that one in.

Even the best Computer Science graduates with a 4.0 GPA can't get a job in tech pic.twitter.com/9sqzJznEV7

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) January 2, 2025

 

Obligatory, 1/5/25

Posting is light

Scanning the webs, and...

Nothing appeals to me today. The tank is still dry. That was a Mark Twain reference, in case you were wondering. The tank goes dry, and you have to wait till it fills up again. So the old tank needs filling. Fill 'er up.

 

Elon is doing a good deed here

Who exactly are these sniveling cowards? Look closely enough, you'll know who they are.

The sniveling cowards who allowed the mass rape of little girls in Britain are still in power … for now https://t.co/sALWF3mTjU

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 4, 2025

 

What does it mean?

Judge Merchan Schedules Trump Sentencing

 

Powerline blog

Comment:

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.

New tech 2024 ( already obsolete, hah hah)

 

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.

 

 

 

Spain is Living in 2050? Revolutionary 1 Stroke INNengine Analyzed

1/3/25:

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.

Update of Jul 16th post:

What if you were to pair this lightweight engine with the lightweight electric engine in a hybrid design?



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.

Comment:

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.

An interesting concept... So here's the video...

Old ICE engine designs analyzed

Plus a comparison with another interesting engine

Here's another interesting engine: Citroen 2CV engine

These vehicles were very light weight.

Seventh Starship/Superheavy test launch now targeting January 10, 2025

Behind the Black Blog

Could the incoming administration's reaction to regulatory over-reach, and the court's recent ruling lead to a massive restructuring of the bureaucracy?

Quote

"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."

Comment:

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.)

Good luck with that one

Rate the odds if you wish; I'd say it's better than 50-50 chance of the latter than the former. 

 

https://t.co/TQyEJk11dv --- From your lips to God's ears. If not, then when elephants fly. It's feasible, but this is DC we're talking about.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) January 2, 2025

Btw, I saw this on Free Republic. 

The Ongoing Soft Coup Circus

1/1/25:

Happy New Jeer Main:

Anyhoo, I read that they're gonna try this sheet again. Only this time, it will be a real coup. If the left disregards the election, they will have overthrown the election. Isn't that what they claimed that Trump was trying to do? These guys aren't even challenging that Trump won. At least Trump said he won. In other words, what the people think doesn't matter, despite all their words about democracy and such. But since it is a circus, it's probably just a show, which is meant to divert attention from the real deal ( whatever that is).

7/22/24:



3:18 PM, 7/22/24:

https://t.co/jZsQdXSjLZ Comment: The soft coup circus is not just my opinion... Here's someone else saying it.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) July 22, 2024

But if you want to save our freedoms, reading a book won't cut it. We're past that point already. He seems to discount the voting process. It's not time to give up on that yet, in my opinion. But it is getting more and more clear that the powers-that-be care NOTHING for what "we the people" think.

5:18 AM 7/22/24:

The Constitution is the sovereign. In order for this to NOT be a coup, the Constitution must be obeyed. These people do NOT honor the Constitution. They are attempting to overthrow it. Before this plays out to its final conclusion, if these people are successful, the Constitution will be nothing but a piece of paper.

Everyone who serves under the Constitution must swear an oath to it. That's what makes it the sovereign. The Constitution has a preamble that begins with "We The People". The people responsible for this coup do NOT honor elections, even though they go to great lengths to pretend that they do. This latest circus is getting more and more intense, because the deception must be more and more intense in order to pull off the coup.

This coup isn't about "rule of law" or about Democracy. It is about the clique who are attempting to destroy those very things. It is Orwellian doublethink. Totalitarianism is freedom. Lies are truth. All of what these plotters and usurpers say is a massive lie. The public cannot be fooled into giving up its freedom unless the same public participates in the deception.

Democrats ‘Rigged‘ Primary for Biden Only to Push Him Out https://t.co/0tRAqqDW0J via @BreitbartNews Comment: It's a soft-coup circus. The Orwellian Clown Show runs this circus. How are they going to fool the public this time?

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) July 22, 2024

7.21.24

Free Republic post and comments

The connection with Ukraine is very interesting. All those connections, in fact.

So let me see if I have this Crowdstrike story straight….

When Hillary Clinton was Sec. of State, she was illegally funneling sophisticated weapons through Libya to terrorists in the MidEast in an effort to take out Assad in Syria for Israel. When the weapons transfer went…

— Harrison H. Smith ✞ (@HarrisonHSmith) July 21, 2024

7/20/24:

Well, this is a name from the past, eh?!

Circus indeed. Just read that the email hack story was false, or at the very least, that Crowdstrike couldn't prove it. But there's really no need to get knee deep into this bull-poo... If you've got them figured, then this is clearly some sort of diversion for something else.

9/22/21: Update:

Technofog mentions Crowdstrike in connection to the indictment of Sussman.

There are several posts about Crowdstrike on this blog.  I chose this one to update in connection to what Technofog is writing about.

There is other stuff out there that Bongino mentioned yesterday.

The original post of Feb 2019 follows

Comment

If you look at this as a concept, and as a principle, the concept is that everything is a circus.  The principle is constant and unrelenting falsehood...

First principles always...  The first thing to remember is that---- the only crime that anybody has cited in relation to an actual collusion case with Russia with respect to the 2016 election---was an alleged hack into the emails of the DNC.

The only confirmation of this is from an organization hired by the DNC, "Crowdstrike" I believe the name was, that is in effect an employee of the DNC.

This is like claiming a break in at your residence, and you're hiring a private investigator to confirm what you claim, and expecting the police to stand down on any investigation of your premises.  Yes, that much, and more... The police takes the PI's word for it in toto....

What kind of police department would accept that as evidence or as probable cause?  At best there is probable cause for investigating the premises, but that is it.  Unless that investigation of the crime scene takes place, then there should be no further investigation, because there is no probable cause.

Everybody seems to avoid this fundamental principle, which suggests to me unrelenting falsehood.  The unrelenting falsehood is driving the concept of these circuses, which are to distract and confuse the population.

7/20/24:  Quick update:  This tweet was mine.  I canceled out of Twitter.  That tweet no longer exists but the story came from CTH.

President Trump Tweets Interesting Response to McCabe's Soft Coup Diatribe... https://t.co/oNm4uzSP9N via @thelastrefuge2

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) February 19, 2019

65 VW Beetle restoration playlist

Can't believe I watched the whole thing

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.

Here's the first video in the series, and a playlist for all 48 videos. Heck, I'll throw in the embed just for grins.

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.