No More Gasoline Cars

[Erni]

I?m keeping my 50cc 2t motorcycle. Push comes to shove I?ll figure out how to run it on moonshine. Even behind the iron curtain moonshine was plentiful.

[BushMasterBoy]

Yeah, just like Dumb & Dumber, we can all ride a mini bike! Defenestration is the answer!

[theGinsue]

And just wait until the dollar is replaced with a digital dollar, then every transaction you make will be monitored in real time (and can be shut down in milliseconds for whatever BS PC reasons they want).

That could never, ever happe.... <glances at what happened to Russian financial accounts around the world>
Nevermind

[BushMasterBoy]

Seriously though, why not just plant trees to sequester the carbon dioxide? NASA article suggests huge impact to slow down global warming by planting trees. Everywhere I go seems to be deforestation. Old neighborhood in the UK, all the trees were gone. I go up in the mountains around old mining areas and it is all denuded of trees. I never been to the Amazon, but all I hear about is the rain forests being cut down. I love being in a forest. You never hear a politician say lets plant some trees.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2927/e...2025%20percent.

[JohnnyDrama]

Seriously though, why not just plant trees to sequester the carbon dioxide? NASA article suggests huge impact to slow down global warming by planting trees. Everywhere I go seems to be deforestation. Old neighborhood in the UK, all the trees were gone. I go up in the mountains around old mining areas and it is all denuded of trees. I never been to the Amazon, but all I hear about is the rain forests being cut down. I love being in a forest. You never hear a politician say lets plant some trees.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2927/e...2025%20percent.

Not today. President Theodore Roosevelt began a silviculture program in the early 20th century. There are only a handful of "forests" that still survive today. One is located between Meeker and Craig. He incentivized private citizens to go out and plant trees. Another president was his cousin, Franklin Roosevelt. Under the CCC millions of trees were planted. People seem to forget that trees are living things with a life cycle. If they are not cut down, they get old and die. Politicians today would rather delegate replacing forests to a bureaucrat in the USDA to "manage."

[BushMasterBoy]

State says the are not taking any orders for trees. The website says they are in sad shape, due to COVID etc. The thought of all state prison inmates sitting in A/C waiting for next meal and not out planting trees burns my ass. I'm gonna go buy some seedlings and learn how to grow trees. I am really good at growing tumbleweeds.

https://csfs.colostate.edu/seedling-tree-nursery/

[Singlestack]

What I'm wondering is if there is some way to hook up the "smart" thermostat to nothing (maybe using the control module from another ac/furnace or build something with an Arduino or something that "spoofs" an HVAC control unit) but Xcel would think its hooked to a furnace/ac and then put an analog thermostat on your actual furnace/ac.

As a EE, I guarantee this is possible. Only question is what, if any, info Xcel receives from the thermostat. My guess is what it receives back is the thermostat state rather than the furnace/AC state. But for this control operation it is also possible that it receives nothing back and simply issues commands. The thermostat info would include the current temp at the thermostat and what the thermostat thinks it is telling the furnace/AC to do. The furnace/AC state is what the furnace/AC is actually doing. I don't recall if typical house furnace/AC control wiring supports those type of signals to the thermostat, or not.

[MED]

I just need to finish my last 3.5 years before I retire and leave CO. I plan to be totally off grid by 2027, and drop a large chunk of money on power generation and storage; the days of relying on service companies are over. The electric grid is going to be a mess. So much investment was made in gas fired turbines and gas fired heat in homes; the costs of changing everything on Americans is going to be extreme. I can see the use of an electric vehicle charging on my own system for short trips, but I'm definitely not going to run out and get one anytime soon. I don't how this mess and transition will impact travel especially with large trailers and campers. Making biofuel isn't that hard; I'll probably invest in the equipment so I can run my collector vehicles if necessary. The next twenty-five years are going to be a total shit show for sure. The government and damn activists inflicting pain to force change is total BS. I can see the benefits with advancement is technology, but forcing things to the detriment of the people is BS.

[Zundfolge]

As a EE, I guarantee this is possible. Only question is what, if any, info Xcel receives from the thermostat. My guess is what it receives back is the thermostat state rather than the furnace/AC state. But for this control operation it is also possible that it receives nothing back and simply issues commands. The thermostat info would include the current temp at the thermostat and what the thermostat thinks it is telling the furnace/AC to do. The furnace/AC state is what the furnace/AC is actually doing. I don't recall if typical house furnace/AC control wiring supports those type of signals to the thermostat, or not.

Or there's this low-tech solution (that just made me LOL).
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/393816544

Plastic box + electronic hand warmer = AC

[Gman]

Seriously though, why not just plant trees to sequester the carbon dioxide? NASA article suggests huge impact to slow down global warming by planting trees. Everywhere I go seems to be deforestation. Old neighborhood in the UK, all the trees were gone. I go up in the mountains around old mining areas and it is all denuded of trees. I never been to the Amazon, but all I hear about is the rain forests being cut down. I love being in a forest. You never hear a politician say lets plant some trees.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2927/e...2025%20percent.

I was talking about that over the weekend. The greenies should be clamoring for more products made from wood, since it's essentially sequestering carbon. They're a renewable resource.

There's more forested land in the US now than there was when the Pilgrims landed.