Perhaps a truism in a way, but the priceless things in life cannot be purchased or sold. True love for example not for sale. In the same way law makers cannot pass laws to force parents to love each other or to love their children. On the same token, no law can make children love their parents. A true friend cannot only be connected by organic natural means, as money itself cannot make true friends, especially not lifelong best friends. What we look like makes a difference for several micro-seconds, after that personality & character makes the majority of difference. Let's examine this in the context of extreme Islamic Terrorists in the Palestinian territories.
The Taliban, ISIL, ISIS, Hamas, and other radical Islamic extremist terrorists
~ They hate western countries, especially America, & the personal freedom & liberal ideology of western government, thinking, culture, and other aspects of wealthy capitalist & socialist democracies in the west.
~ They spend most of their money on AK-47's & 7.62mm ammo, rocket propelled grenades, motors, surface to air missiles, IED explosives, & other tactical military weapons to harm, hurt, kill & destroy.
~ They want to destroy Israel, ruin the moral of the Israeli people, harm, hurt, kill & destroy Israeli people, homes, buildings, power plants, water plants, infrastructure, airports & military assets.
~ They do not read the Koran, & have no knowledge of the Truth that Muhammad wrote about
~ They follow foolish war lords & illegitimate terrorist leaders who lead them to death without a legitimate cause, causing only fallout, harm, resentment, chaos, entropy & more, which gives rise to counter military campaigns that are very deadly to the Palestinian people. For every 1 Israeli person killed by terrorist weapons fired by Islamic extremists, many dozens to hundreds of Arabic Palestinians will die from the counter measures fired back by the IDF that has superior weaponry.
~ The result of spiritual forces, for we do not wrestle with flesh & blood, but with principalities of darkness in high places, that use, manipulate, abuse & torment those who follow the kingdom of hell & its petty childish immature leader Lucifer or Satan who knowns he & the anti-Christ will be destroyed by Christ Jesus & God & the Holy Spirit. His time is almost up, so he is amping up his efforts to kill, harm & steal from people in anyway because the Devil hates people since people were created by God, the same God who kicked Lucifer & all the deceived angels that followed him, out of heaven, for blatant disobedience, arrogance, greed, selfishness, and narcissism.
Yes, all human people belong to God for God created people & all that is seen & unseen.
Noting also that much of what happens in life does not meet our eyes. One because we only observe small percentages of what can be observed; two because it is impossible to know everything, and three because much of what actually happens does not create light in the visible spectrum or interact with it, but might be able to be observed with infrared or ultraviolet or multi-spectral imaging technologies that see many more frequencies of light photons or phonons that the human eye & brain can observe.
You don't know what you don't know till you know it, and there is more that you cannot know that you can. Even during an entire human life an induvial person can only capture a small amount of information about reality & how things work, and that even depends on where they were born, where they life, who they interact with, their education, the time in history, the availability of information technology & internet access or access to running water & sanitation & electricity in power outlets in electrified homes & businesses.
Equal access to these basic utilities is not ubiquitous for all human peoples alive today for example, even though it's been widely known for a long time how governments can use existing pipes & technology & wiring to give their citizens utilities that enable advanced economies to function. America so dependent on Grid Electricity or Electrical Energy that if an advanced Solar Flare or Coronal Mass Ejection or CME shoots off the Sun & hits the Earth, it will create an electrical storm that will destroy almost all electrical systems, computers, vehicles, appliances, power plants, power wire distribution, the internet, telecom, satellites, everything electrical in the path of the CME will be destroyed by the intense radiation, heat & energy.
Without electricity most ovens, toasters, microwaves, fridges, freezers, vacuum cleaners, dish & clothing washers & dryers, heat pumps, gas stations, banks, credit cards, debit cards, all of these things do not work if the power is out for prolonged periods. After 2 weeks of no electrical power, advanced society falls apart. After 2 months without electricity, violent chaos erupts as armed gangs go roving for resources to survive- willing to kill off anyone that gets in their way. After 6 months more than 80% of the human population will be dead from starvation or crime.
This is why electricity & energy are the most important topic. Fuel as energy essential for the machines of war to function. This is why the west won WWII, better fuel supply chain logistics, or continually well fueled. This is why many wars are actually about money, power, oil, fuel, or energy, control of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, kerosine, propane, butane, hydrogen. Daniel Yergin's "The Prize, An Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power" a great primer on this subject, as is the 13-part Amazon Prime video series adapted from it in 1994, which is also narrated by Donald Sutherland.
Let's consider why petroleum-based fuels are so potent. Energy density of gasoline 12,000 watt hours per kilogram & it's a liquid at room temperatures, easily able to be pumped from a gas pump handle or poured from a gas can into a gas tank for a vehicles engine to burn in the piston cylinders where fuel & air are mixed to make a hot expanding gas pressure that shoves the piston down, turning the crank, which spins the shafts connected eventually to the wheel to accelerate the vehicle.
Propane in standardized barbeque tanks hold around 4.6 gallons of propane as a pressurized gas liquid at about 150 PSI in grey or white painted steel tanks with brass fill & connection valve up top. Propane cheaper than gasoline, so some gasoline vehicles are retrofitted with propane tanks & propane engine fueling gear, such that the vehicle now uses propane as fuel & no longer uses gasoline. In Germany this propane vehicle conversion popular because it is reducing fuel operating costs by 50% or more vs the higher cost gasoline available locally.
Propane also much cleaner burning than gasoline, but the pressurized tanks to store it onboard the vehicle take up more volume & weight more than the original gasoline tank, and generally result in less total range per fill-up. The now propane fueled engine performance often reduced due to slower throttling, less torque, & less max power. For commuting at legal speeds this is rarely a problem, and as a result many trash trucks locally in Puget Sound, King County, Wa, USA are fueled by CNG or compressed natural gas, which is chemically & energetically similar to propane or butane & stored in similar pressurized tanks.
Like CNG stations, Propane refueling stations have slower more complicated fill-ups & are generally not as widely accessible as common gasoline stations that sell unleaded regular, plus & premium grades of gasoline. This means that a CNG or Propane vehicle fuel conversion not feasible or practical in all locals. In South Korea, many turbo-diesel trucks have been retrofitted with DME fueling systems, as DME much cheaper & much cleaner burning than diesel fuel.
DME also increases the performance of the engines, reduces emissions, and makes the oil last a lot longer, just like oil life in the CX Honda Civic Natural Gas version lasts 15,000 mi & comes out clean looking during the service. DME, CNG, Propane, Butane, Ethanol, Methanol, there are many fuels that burn cleaner than gasoline & cost less as well. You might think that if these cleaner burning fuels are also cheaper, then why are more vehicles not sold with alternative fueling technology?
The answer, most automakers are stupid, ignorant, lazy, greedy & confused. They keep selling the same old cheap establish technology over & over as if nothing new had been invented, and many new cars sold today barely get above 27 MPG average in the real world, even though Toyota can get the 1.6L turbo engine of the GR corolla to make 300 HP with class leading thermal efficiency.
GDI or gasoline direct injection, turbo charging & engine displacement reduction did not even start happening until the 2.0 L turbo engine became the prime mover powerplant in more than 700 different models of cars & SUV's or automobiles on sale today worldwide. In the more niche market in low volumes we see some really extreme engineering take form :) This is my cup of tea, the TFG from Koenigsegg.
Engineering Explained Jason explains the Koenigsegg TGF https://youtu.be/WwlNqaz9q_0?si=ovVP4J6HHxOxYdDl
The Koenigsegg Tiny Friendly Giant 2L Turbo engine with cam-less free-valve system, achieves 15-25% higher fuel efficiency, while cold start emissions are 60% less. A small turbo for one set of valves, a larger turbo for the other; made of low mass (whole engine only 154lbs or 70 kg) via in part its magnesium alloy block & head. The TGF makes 600 hp (450kW @ 7500 RPM, with 443-ft-lbF (601 N*M) torque at 2000 RPM & 295 ft-lbF (400 N*M) torque @1700 RPM. WRX, GR Yaris, and GR Corolla, means that Subaru (Fuji) and Toyota Gazoo Racing have some engineering competition to aspire towards. TFG at 29 PSI boost shoves 3X more air into the 3 big cylinders than the Honda S2000 engine. ** Though this not exactly widely available even though Christian himself talked about Freevalve in 2015 & the Gemera featuring the TFG mated with 3 electric motors & an 800v 16kWh battery, slated originally for 2020 MY not entering production until 2024 now.
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