building cost increases

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

Being a thief should hurt. They use to use axe handles, or worse, on people who did stuff like that. 
 

Years ago my neighbor caught some of the local town kids stealing fuel from him. He was probably in his 50’s at the time. There were three of them and they thought they were tough. He was a hot headed, hard man. The first crashing blow to the side of the first guys head with an axe handle and the other ones didn’t know what to do. He beat all of them quite severely and hauled them to their respective houses and told their parents to pick their kids up, he just unloaded them out of his pickup bed into the front yard. Problem solved. 

[Dasnake]

15 minutes ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said:

Being a thief should hurt. They use to use axe handles, or worse, on people who did stuff like that. 
 

Years ago my neighbor caught some of the local town kids stealing fuel from him. He was probably in his 50’s at the time. There were three of them and they thought they were tough. He was a hot headed, hard man. The first crashing blow to the side of the first guys head with an axe handle and the other ones didn’t know what to do. He beat all of them quite severely and hauled them to their respective houses and told their parents to pick their kids up, he just unloaded them out of his pickup bed into the front yard. Problem solved. 

Aww, so mean to poor misunderstood kidz.

Years ago I got home from a bad night at work and crawled into bed, I hear a noise out back and see a punk going through the empties, looking out front his buddy is lookout on the sidewalk, I go out front and motion shhh to the buddy and pickup a 4x4 laying on the ground and stand in the walkway waiting for shiitrat one, he comes around the corner loaded with stuff, and to say he was surprised would be and understatement, all I said was ya better put all that stuff back or I'll drive you into next week, he did and they left, a few minutes later I hear a loud. "DUCK YOU" from a block away, I laffed and laffed, living in the city on a main street I have a bagfull of these stories. I aint no tuff guy or fighter but don't duck with my family or my stuff, junior grew up learning the same thing, and he was a scrapper, now with little Charlie growing up we can teach him.

 

[sandhiller]

40 minutes ago, Dasnake said:

Thats one of a bunch of ways that cost a few hundred bucks and make it a stoppable crime, its pricing out to around a grand to get a new one reinstalled and labor cost on that, the one thing I don't know is computer damage effects from running with an enclosed exhaust.

Cats get pretty hot. 

One of the reasons I hate them, start many grass fires. 

The effects of this shield + or - have no idea. 

My 99 Cummins at a ton dually did not come from factory with a cat so easy to just straight pipe the muffler.

23 years and 345K still original exhaust pipe from exh manifold to tip. 

[cjf711]

7 hours ago, Mudfly said:

No worries, I re-read my post as well and it came off way harsher than I anticipated (sorry about that).  I was just trying to point out that the electrons don't know what is pushing them down the line.

All is good.

Actually, electrons dont really go down the line.  They drift  verrrrry slowly over time,  but the energy moves through fields     Its all about the Poynting vector!

[Ihfan4life]

8 hours ago, 766 Man said:

  If you are working down at Walmart or the local mom and pop auto garage you most likely are not prepared  for an inflation shock.  This describes most working Americans.  Even if you are prepared this will have the effect of shifting discretionary income which will effect the livelihood of many businesses.  This is going to go very bad for many people whether they are prepared or not.  We will see the effects of crime escalating including theft and domestic abuse in the short term.

We are already seeing an escalation in crime. aka defund police policies and peaceful protests. Wait until people need food….

[searcyfarms]

keep ur powder dry men 

[Ihfan4life]

9 hours ago, iowaboy1965 said:

Smoke and mirrors to make the uninformed feel good. "See look what we did for you. No don't look over there, look at what we did for you."

A lot of hype had been given to the minimum wage hike… 

[cjf711]

1 hour ago, searcyfarms said:

keep ur powder dry men 

You a Cardinals fan by chance?   That is a Bill Dewitt quote every time free agents are available

[Mudfly]

2 hours ago, cjf711 said:

Actually, electrons dont really go down the line.  They drift  verrrrry slowly over time,  but the energy moves through fields     Its all about the Poynting vector!

Yeah with AC it’s a slow migration at best.  Not a direct correlation between AC and fluid systems, but that is a good way to visualize it to some extent.  Voltage being the pressure and Amps being flow.  Generator being a pump.  Resistance in the wire is head loss.  It’s not perfect, but it gets the general concept across until you get to transformers/inductors.  Not many good corollaries in fluid systems to those.

[Steve C.]

6 hours ago, Ihfan4life said:

A lot of hype had been given to the minimum wage hike… 

"We  know we broke your leg, but here's a set of crutches.  Just remember that if it weren't for what we give you, you wouldn't be able to walk."

[brewcrew]

Someone recently told me it costs 200-250 per square foot to build a house right now. My house is just over 10 years old and was under 100 per. If the numbers I was given are even close, I’m under insured!!

[jimw]

Sledgehammer is not entirely wrong. I think he is referring to VARs , Volt-amp reactive. I can’t really explain it well but on generators you can adjust it . I believe we would run about -6 on the generators. After the windmills came we would run -15 or -17 if I recall to balance out the smaller wind generators . I was told electric motors run more efficient and last longer at that -5 or - 6 . For some reason the 1 to 3 mw can’t regulate them as well as 70 or 600 mw unit. Sorry I’m a little vague but the power companies were and are struggling with this

[Steve C.]

1 hour ago, jimw said:

Sledgehammer is not entirely wrong. I think he is referring to VARs , Volt-amp reactive. I can’t really explain it well but on generators you can adjust it . I believe we would run about -6 on the generators. After the windmills came we would run -15 or -17 if I recall to balance out the smaller wind generators . I was told electric motors run more efficient and last longer at that -5 or - 6 . For some reason the 1 to 3 mw can’t regulate them as well as 70 or 600 mw unit. Sorry I’m a little vague but the power companies were and are struggling with this

Many years ago I was attending a training class put on by Square D to explain their Powerlogic monitoring system.  They had a good old boy teaching it who'd been with the company for many years, and knew his stuff inside and out.  At one point, he said (I'm paraphrasing) "you know, we really don't understand how electricity works.  Sure, we know enough to be able to do things with it, but we really don't fully understand how and why it works."

That statement stuck with me.

[Missouri Mule]

On 4/18/2022 at 9:10 PM, 1586 Jeff said:

I have been having a conversation with Todd about this.

MY GUESS is that the fellow that he got this from was referring to how Wind Generation and Solar Generation both need something like Internal Combustion Generation to overcome the Peak Loads that Wind Generation and Solar Generation cannot “Ramp Up” for.  Internal Combustion Generation is more easily started and stopped to meet power grid requirements.  Again this is just MY GUESS based upon what Todd and I talked about.

There are presumably (AND HOPEFULLY!!!!) more knowledgeable people out there than myself.

Wrong. What Todd is referring to is a VAR. We have to follow a voltage schedule and increase or decrease our VAR's depending. While solar and wind are a nice option they cannot produce such a thing. We are forced to increase our VARS on these days. The shear size and inertia of our massive spinning reserve they like to call it. If we were to all fall out of our voltage regulated compliance it would cause massive blackouts. Theres alot of literature about it already online. We dont like to push out vars because we are not paid for them. Money wasted. That's how its explained to me. 

I should also add I have read once they can motor windmills to help correct this issue but it doesnt fix it. 

While I cant explain 100% what a VAR actually is, I've yet to meet an engineer who can 100% put it down into layman's terms. I can 100% tell you theres a whole lot of difference between wind/solar and a spinning reserve. I know this because I sat in the seat myself and answered the phone. When i would try to push the unit to make money it was not my friend. 

[Missouri Mule]

5 hours ago, jimw said:

Sledgehammer is not entirely wrong. I think he is referring to VARs , Volt-amp reactive. I can’t really explain it well but on generators you can adjust it . I believe we would run about -6 on the generators. After the windmills came we would run -15 or -17 if I recall to balance out the smaller wind generators . I was told electric motors run more efficient and last longer at that -5 or - 6 . For some reason the 1 to 3 mw can’t regulate them as well as 70 or 600 mw unit. Sorry I’m a little vague but the power companies were and are struggling with this

I didn't catch this before I posted. Yes. It's a real struggle. I can assure you the power plants dont want to push any more than they are required. Bottom line. 

[ray54]

For prospective one the first big solar panel generators was built near here in the late 80's. Had 160 acres more or less covered. They where on poles, panels turned to face the sun all da. Each pole had 2 to 4  cross arms with panels. Pull them to vertical for wind events and at night. They had Detroit Diesel 12-71 powered generator on site to move the panels and such. On a tur of the faculty they admitted the generator could make as much power as all the panels.

The old Arco oil company end up buying the whole thing. And soon Arco was bought up in the corporate merger mana of the 90's. At which point the whole experiment ended and all was scraped.   I think current panels put out more than then, but not that much.