Emergency Backup Generators
Fukushima flooded nuclear power reactor meltdown was because TEPCO failed to follow GE's advice to put the diesel backup generators on the roofs of the reactor complex buildings. The reactors were built in an area on the coast of Japan that had been regularly & repeatedly hit with tsunamis for the last 6000 years according to the Natural History of Japan Museum Records. So why in the holy name of God would they not take that into consideration, especially when GE told them to mount them to the roof, not mount them to the ground where the backup generators needed to keep the core cooled could be easily flooded by an easily anticipated highly probable future tsunami.
I have posted before that Meg purchased a Honda EU2000 small 1600-watt inverter generator that I have been actively maintaining in ready to roll status, filled & regularly exercised & tested, since 2017, with a logbook & manual for all repairs, spare parts & similar. I got the idea from the Pentagon many years ago. Though they would have 3 of each, one in active offline & two unopened in the box & a case of replacement wear part times to keep the system going & lots of fuel cans of stabilized gasoline, but I don't have their budget & can't legally print money or dept spend like the US Government for such.
When I was growing up, every winter, there were local news stories on TV about Asian families living in Apartment complexes that ended up dying of carbon monoxide poisoning by running an emergency backup generator inside their unit during winter power outages. What I find astonishing, is the foul smell of the emissions from even our relatively small EU2000 made the patio outside reek with fumes that smell poisonous. What kind of confused person would not notice the horrendous stink emitted by such long before CO poisoning would become possible? Also, nearly all emergency backup generators are covered in CO warning stickers printed in 5 most common languages. Must Be Used Outdoors. Do Not Use Inside in an Enclosed Space. Warning CO emissions are Deadly, Only Use in Well Ventilated Area & similar. With graphics showing people choking on exhaust fumes with symbols of death & danger & hazard in ISO symbol graphics that transcend language barriers. I thought these people sounded brain dead or stupid when I was 5 years old. Now I understand that many people in developing countries cook over coal bricks in crude stoves without good exhaust control such that the indoor air quality gets worse as more coal is burned to make heat for cooking. Similar crude simple wood stoves burning sticks making sooty exhaust are used in crude housing where the fumes and smoke are not vented outside, such that indoor air quality gets worse as the fire burns, so such people when they move to clean air America might not notice the smelly exhaust as much, being used to smelling coal and wood fire fumes where they came from originally. So perhaps these people are actually more intelligent than I thought as a young child watching these local news stories of people who suffered CO poisoning by running backup generators inside their apartment, in nearly every case, the victims of generator CO emissions poisoning had recently moved to America from a developing country.
You might have $400 to $1200 of stuff in your fridge, including temperature sensitive HRT or Insulin or similar that must stay cooler than your indoor temps, so having a backup generator that can run your fridge for 4 or 5 days during a winter power outage can be really helpful to save your stuff. You can also cook over a propane or butane stove, using pots & pans, like camping, on your deck or patio, during power outages, taking out frozen meat or fish or chicken or stuff from your fridge to cook like eggs. This way you can stay well fed during power outages. When the fridge not running, you can use the same generator to run a small 1500-watt space heater to keep your indoor space warmer when its really cold outside. If you have to run the 12-3 extension cord through a cracked window or patio door, cover the gap with waterproof duct tape you can get at a local hardware store for under $10 to keep the cold air out. You can cover both sides if you are careful. Foam packing wrap works great to put a layer of insulation over the tape & tape it into place. Use fuel stabilizer in the gas can & in the generators tank to extend the gasolines shelf life before oxidation from 3 months untreated to up to 2 years treated with fuel stabilizer. I also recommend running the generator for 15 min every 2 months to keep fresh gasoline running through the fuel lines, fuel filter and carburetor, or drain the entire system to dry, including the tank, fuel lines, fuel filter & carburetor to store it dry. I also recommend taking the spark plug out & putting a few ML of synthetic motor oil into the top of the cylinder to keep it lubricated while in dry storage mode if you do it like that. I prefer to keep mine fully loaded with fuel, fresh gas added ever time with fuel stabilizer added, run the generator every couple of months for 15-45 minutes with regular oil changes to keep fresh oil & freshen up your memory of how to do it. Keep a space spark plug & tools for changing it. Keep a 12-3 twenty-five-foot extension cord with outlet splitter so you can take power from your generator outside & use the cord to bring the power inside to run your fridge or space heater or water boiling kettle or whatever.
Why a Honda Portable Generator
Premium, highly reliable, sterling reputation for reliability. Honda small, air-cooled carburetor fueled piston engines have a long history of stellar reliable operation. The EU 2000 highly portable, not very loud, has an ECO mode to vary the engine speed & power output to match loads, low noise regulated IGBT inverter with stable power & low noise sinewave output with excellent voltage regulation able to run sensitive electronics, and sips gasoline. During a recent 4 days power outage, we ran it from 8 am to 8 pm, or about 12 hours per day, and use about 1 gallon per day incredibly. I keep about 7.3 gallons of fuel on hand + 1.1 in the generator, so enough for about 8 days like this. Worse case we could use it a lot less, but even fired up our TV, 48-inch Vizio edge lit LED, and Blu-ray player (Sony BDP-360) to watch optical disc DVD & Blu-ray disc movies, run lamps, space heaters, run the fridge freezer & boil water. I just unplugged one thing & ran no more than 1500 watts on it at a time, since its nominal output max of 1600w can peak to 2000watts for 1 minute to get that Fridge compressor motor started :) At under 50 lbs. it is similar to lifting a typical 12 volt automative SLI battery, SLI means starting lighting & ignition, you know those heave lead acid batteries that power the engines starter motor to crank the engine over during cold start when you first turn the car on, before the alternator has a chance to put out its full output of power generator once the engine is running to recharge the 12v battery and power all the vehicle electrical loads.
Don't Ask Don't Tell / Nearly Everything Slowly Improving Thankfully
Many people claim that today is worse than the past because of expensive housing or currency inflation or more expensive gasoline & food, but we accept gay & lesbian & transgender people now & no one hunts down people with darker skin colors, at least not at a systemic level, sure there are some warped law enforcement officers who trigger the BLM or Black Lives Matter movement. My late adoptive father told me that "Gay men" were drug behind trucks by rope over concrete in the 1960's, so times back then were much worse for gay people who were forced to "stay in the closet"
Meg & I watched Synchronic about a bath salt that takes you back in time for 7 minutes & the protagonist an African American man, went back to the civil war times & several other past times when it was not safe to have very dark skin color in America, when slavery was still a big thing & legal. So in many ways, because of Affirmative Action, people of color have many more opportunities today than they did 50 or 100 years ago, at least in America. I can say for sure that the world in general has changed more in the last 50 years than it did in the previous 50,000 years.
Be assured of this, there were fewer people alive at the same time even 50 years ago & it was much harder to live for most people back then. We made the world a lot more fair for more people in more places, with democratizing technology like the internet & smartphones worldwide, with a renewed & increasing interest trending now for more nuclear power & renewables as there is an urgent & growing need to decarbonize all electricity, & social pressure broadly applied by the public on law makers worldwide are making climate change a political and economic reality with increasingly stringent emissions control laws for automobiles for example, with Euro 6 for example, so automakers are required to use every technical trick under the sun to clean up the engines emissions, since tailpipe fumes are emitted at the ground level where most people are living & breathing the increasingly polluted biosphere or ground level atmospheric gasses polluted by ozone, carbon monoxides, particulate matter or PM, soot, smoke, hydrocarbon fumes, tire tread dust, brake dust, leaking engine oil, oxides of nitrogen fumes toxic & many other kinds of pollutants that are poisonous & continually leaked into environments worldwide by gasoline & diesel fueled & battery electric vehicles.
So be thankful to be alive today, it's much easier to live, even though more expensive, than it was in the past with greater degrees of social equity thanks to progressive SJW's forcing changes into policy, but also the morals & ethics of God being more widely embraced with real genuine inclusivity that prevent all kinds of racism, even that against Christians by Atheists, which was reverse racism against white people & men & similar for a long time, but has fades as the woke movement loses popularity & replaced by genuine loving ethics & morality inspired by the Holy Word of God in the Bible & similar works from other religions that espouse showing everyone loving kindness as a primary life goal.
We are seeing UPF fading to organic, whole natural & traditional diets, as more people recognize that industrial junk food and snack food is making more people fatter and sicker worldwide. We are also embracing biofuels, more recycling, lower emissions cars, cleaning up factories, many people are out capturing plastic from the oceans, making wood from used chop sticks, there are more types & kinds of novel upcycling in profitable business. Even fast fashion and big carpet are using recycled feedstocks now. More soy ink is replacing petrochemical ink in packaging, and biological glue in cardboard replaces petrochemical glue.
There is a renewed interest for water conservation and soil improvement even at American industrial farms owned & operated by Monsanto amazingly. We are even seeing space trash being addressed by SpaceX! There is a lot improving & tons to be happy about. Think about how the FBI nailed Jeffry Epstein, Harvey Weinstein & Puff Daddy lately. I love seeing justice served & there are more dash cams & door cams catching bad actors, crooks & liars in the act, so the honest decent people are made whole or not cheated in the end. Our Toyota Corolla Hybrid get over 60 mpg, so even though gasoline cost 4X more than it did when I graduated high school, my car also uses 5X less fuel, so it is actually cheaper to operate incredibly.
European Car Sales Slowing as Profits at VW & Others Dry Up
Hailed as a savior of the automotive industry emission debacles, battery electric vehicles were thought of as a carbon free when powered by nuclear & renewables to offer a way to decarbonize transportation, but market forces meant not everyone drank the EV cool aid as market saturation of early generation lithium ion NCR & LFP EV's gave rise to slowing sales in combination with expiring government purchase price offset incentives meant in the early 2010's to stimulate market adoption of next generation automobiles,.
Deals like the Cash for Clunkers or fuel wasting dirty emissions SUV's were traded in for hybrid vehicles from Toyota like tens of millions of 5 generations of Prius sold now, which amazingly get more than 40 miles per gallon & in some cases more than 50 miles per gallon & up to 60 MPG + with hypermiling or energy efficient safety focused predictive driving tricks & techniques designed to improve the fuel economy of any vehicle or energy economy by up to 40% by driving smoother & steady & trying to keep speed & predict light changes with slow approaches so less fuel required to speed back up again.
In motorsports & automotive culture there is a saying that you as the driver are the most important nut to tighten in the vehicle. Also, it can be a lot more fun to drive a slower less powerful vehicle fast than it is to drive a powerful fast vehicle slowly, and in the real-world traffic congestion means that using that supercar not always feasible or practical or possible, in stop & go driving conditions.
Nuclear Fission the safest possible way to make electricity 24/7, a scientific fact with mountains of supporting evidence, irrefutable & beyond debate, as flaky intermittent renewables like Wind Power & Solar Power do not make 24/7 Firm Baseload Power & to make such produce 24/7 requires renewables with incredibly expensive energy storage systems that make such vastly more costly per unit of electricity generated than even less efficient older nuclear fission reactors. New SMR reactor clusters are so cost effective & fuel efficient, that even private power utility companies can afford to install an SMR array.
What is the point of having a BEV if you cannot recharge it during a power outage from a natural disaster or winter storm outages. Also BEV range significantly less as the battery ages & if you're going 70 MPH up an mountain pass in sub-freezing conditions, using the HVAC & heat to highest settings, meaning only about 50-60% of the fair weather range before the battery charge depleted requiring slow recharging that takes 500% longer or more than adding 350-700 miles of gasoline energy to ICE vehicle fuel tank at any of millions of gas stations open to everyone around the USA. In these ways BEV's are not a miracle solution, & the instant torque of the electric motor also shreds tire tread away up to 6X faster, resulting in more tire tread microplastic dust emissions, which are by no means eco-friendly, as the leading source of microplastic emissions worldwide.
In most European cities the public transportation system exceptional in most regards. Most of Europe was developed long before automobiles became a popular well selling product, back when people walked or rode horses pulling carriages. For many decades recently, small turbo diesel sub compact cars able to fit on the smaller streets & in smaller parking space sold well in many western European countries. But tighter emissions controls laws & similar cultural trends towards cleaner technology favors the use of bicycles, enclosed bicycles, scooters, motorcycles, & cleaner at the ground level where people are breathing gasoline powered cars. There are also many incentives for European people to not own a car & rely on their relatively good public transportation systems. In these ways we can clearly see why the automotive market for European automotive sales declining now, & similarly why the profits of so many European automakers drying up or disappearing, which should give rise to jobs cut from VW & similar cutbacks & cost cutting measures to shore up the financial health of European Automakers in the face of increasing sales declines.
Italy’s youth emerging obesity via pizza, pasta, protein, potatoes, & pane "bread"
Obesity primary cause from dietary excess of sugars, starches & carbohydrates eaten in servings that are too large too many times per day compared to the persons activity level or how much or how often the exercise hard enough to become hot & sweaty like I do when I do Les Mill's Body Combat Meta 2 VR workouts for 10-20 minutes hitting virtual targets as they fly at me synchronized to music.
Many inactive formerly diabetic sedentary adults found a cure to pre-diabetes or Type 3 diabetes & others via adding in more walking & a healthier diet were able to reverse T2D or Type 2 diabetes & high blood pressure or hypertension like me :)
Diet or what you eat or drink not just about what, but also how much & how often you eat. Many people overeat large servings of food that are vastly excessive compared with their metabolism & activity levels, in terms of movement, standing, walking, steps, heart rate, breathing rate.
Athletes ages 16 to 64 who are regularly physically active can eat more without penalty because their metabolic rate much higher from all the fitness exercises, they use to improve muscle strength & endurance to give them a competitive edge in sporting competitions or to simply perform at their best in the Olympics by regularly training. Body builders, very large men who lift weights or do weight training can also eat more protein & fat & carbs without a high blood sugar obesity issue.
High blood sugars resulting from eating carbs, starches & sugars become fat cell inflammation as insulin released to lower blood sugar levels causing the glucose to enter cells, eventually causes body fat to increase if no physical activity movements burn up that glucose and fat naturally.
It is excess sugars, excess starches & excess carbohydrates that are making people fatter & sicker worldwide. A trending term online on social media known as SAD or the Standard American Diet which contains up to 73% of its total calories from UPF or ultra processed foods made with industrial chemistry & up to 10,000 different unregulated by the FDA chemical food additives artificial & synthetic that are more similar to car paint or cigarette smoke components than they are of any real natural food whole organic or what people have been eating for thousands of years.
I usually bash UPF or ultra processed foods because of all the artificial unregulated chemical additives that look like pesticides in terms of molecular configurations or analogs of drugs like cocaine or like hydrocarbons from crude oil, as many artificial colors are made using industrial chemical processes from coal tar or the gooey thick fluid released when coal is gently heated. Those brightly colored candy contains carcinogenic substances that are proven with evidence-based science to cause cancers. This is why Norway outlawed artificial colors in food back in 2011.
I also bash UPF because so many snack foods are over sweetened, and made in ways using industrial processing techniques & additives to increase shelf life with unhealthy ingredients that no one has in their home kitchen, in ways that would be almost impossible to make at home the same way without expensive special equipment regularly employed by UPF manufacturing of such snack foods sweetened with GMO HFCS industrial corn syrup from genetically modified corn so that it makes more fructose, the major causal basis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disorders since HFCS added to so many highly processed foods that are effectively empty calories like sugary soda or pop, and proven when consumed in excess to caused obesity and all the diseases associated with obesity.
Eat Less, Eat Less Often & Move More
Start going for walks more regularly & gently increase the amount of time you walk as your fitness improves over the next few years. Drink more water and consider skipping breakfast or dinner & eating a large nutritious lunch :) Learn about Water-only fasting where you only drink water for 3 days. Learn about Intermittent Fasting or IF or Calories Restriction with Adequate Nutrition. Watch "The Science of Fasting" video on YouTube and "How to Reverse Diabetes with Diet" on YouTube.
No snacking either, as that would keep your blood sugar & insulin levels elevated all day. Its chronically elevated insulin that results in insulin resistances that becomes Type 2 diabetes or T2D, usually also obesity or morbid obesity, because as a person has to abuse food like drugs for many years to become chronically inflamed or overweight. People as a adults have a finite number of fat cells, so to gain weight those fat cells have to swell up or become inflamed. Morbid obesity causes chronic inflammation which also causes heart disease.
Chronically elevated blood sugars also cause neuropathy by damaging capillaries & cancer cells proliferate more effectively in a high blood sugar environment, so if you have cancer & eat more sugars, starches or carbs, that will fuel the cancer cell proliferation & result in earlier death or not surviving. Water fasting for 5 days by only drinking water for example lowers blood sugar & promotes fat burning, while Ketosis at first then Autophagy hunts down broken damaged and cancer cells to break them down for amino acids for cell repairs, as autophagy is a cleanup and repair mechanism activated by water fasting.
Water fasting also increases BDNF making your brain & memory faster so you can think more easily to make healthy lifestyle diet & exercise changes that you have been hungry for in order to lose weight for many years :) There are tons of videos that explain what happens in the body when we water only fast for 1 or 3 or 5 days. I take vitamins & minerals with my water when water fasting, so I get the micronutrients needed for my fit body to make use of its limited body fat effectively.
Water Fasting Not Cure All
It can even be dangerous for some older people who are taking medications that cannot be stopped instantly without slowly reducing dosing with supervision & guidance from a doctor or nurse that you regularly consult about turning down the dose & what its doing in order to get ready to fast.
Water fasting for 3 days is also not extreme & many adults going in for a colonoscopy are required to drink a gallon or more of electrolytes for up to 3 days with no food prior to the procedure & many surgeries also require that the patient not eat anything & only drink electrolyte fluid for 3 days before the surgery to reduce complications.
Taking zero calorie electrolytes with extra water while water-only fasting for 3 days the same reason I take my multivitamins & mineral supplement with my water in the morning while fasting & drinking my coffee black with nothing added, or tea the same way. Many fasting doctors will tell you to take pinches of pink salt throughout the days of fasting with extra water.
In antiquity, since I make many foods reference to traditional diets, water was dangerous to drink because of water-borne pathogens, like fecal coliform from wild animals like birds pooping in watershed wild forest areas or similar freshwater lakes or streams used for domestic water.
Fasting helps people undo Pre-diabetes or Type 3, water-only fasting for 3 days for example can almost completely undo pre-diabetes. With Type 2 diabetes, intermittent fasting by skipping breakfast or dinner, so a long window daily without eating, can gradually reduce blood sugar & blood pressure. If you have been interval or intermittent fasting for more than 3 months it might be time to consider a 3 day water-only fast to maximize autophagy and if you are obese you can extend to 5 days, but beyond 5 days you have to work with a nurse or doctor to take regular blood & urine tests, blood pressure & blood glucose tests to make sure you safe during a prolonged weight loss oriented water only fasting with vitamins & minerals or electrolytes added to some of the water to avoid electrolyte depletion. If you go more than 5 days, it can make the start of eating again very complicated with refeeding syndrome if you eat a large meal after not eating for 5 days. Stary with a small snack or small easy to digest meal, then wait 5 hours and one more, then call it a day. Gradually over weeks reintroduce more complex foods, using knowledge you gained about the scientifically accurate nutrition while you were fasting & studying nutrition & water fasting & fasting & health.
When an adult human stops eating, it take about 3-4 hours for digestive processes to break down the food into a liquid for nutrient absorption by the small intestine & then transit through the portal vein into the liver or filtering detoxification organ, then to the lower intestine where fluid extracted that then goes to the kidneys for filtering so sodium & magnesium & potassium & calcium can be conserved, thus generating urine for the bladder to store before someone goes pee or urinates, the color of urine, its acidity, sugar content, & many other aspects all indicators of kidney & overall health, that is to say that you pee & poop can tell a doctor a lot about your overall health status.
Fasting & Starvation are the same thing, except starvation unintentionally encountered where fasting is a deliberate choice to stop eating & drinking anything except water, though I highly advocate & advise anyone water-only fasting to take a high-quality multi-vitamin & mineral supplement or electrolytes with some of their water daily while fasting. Caution, if you fast for more than 5 days, eat a small meal as your first meal of something very easy to digest, like veggie soupe, perhaps 250-300 calories worth. Wait at least 5 hours before eating a 400-500 calories meal. The following day you can increase to an 800-1000 calorie meal, and perhaps one 1400 to 2000 calorie lunch is enough for your body energy needs if you are sedentary or inactive & never workout or are very old. Eating too much too often makes people fat & sick with all kinds of diseases & disorders. What you eat is also important, but many people fail to understand serving sizes & also fail to chew up their food enough, which causes indigestion, gas & bloating. When we chew food with saliva enzymes in the saliva begin to break down what we are chewing up with our teeth of false teeth. When we swallow chewed up food it should be almost a paste, nothing solid, so the acid & bile in our stomach can react to further break down the food into a liquid for proper digestion.
Water Fasting Revisited 2024
Fasting Correction Data #fasting #log Started 8:30am breakfast last meal 12/4/2024 or 2 days, 23 hours ago after watching this video The Science of Fasting HD <- click blue hyperlink to YouTube video
Watch this video about Finding the Perfect Human Diet based on History Research <click link
It is my deepest hope to help cure people by sharing this powerful virtually unknown #science of #Fasting I see dietary excess in America making so many people fatter & sicker every year, who know nothing about fasting or health natural indigenous or traditional diets & eat UPF. Water Fasting #Cancer water fasting starves cancer cells, cutting off their glucose. Cancer cells become immortal by losing death instruction, becoming tumors or metastatic spreading
Fasting Ended Saturday 12/7/2024 at 12:30pm or 71 hours after starting
When you eat & breathe, oxygen from breathing in your blood stream & energy from food that you eat gives cells glucose to make ATP from ADP actively 24/7, but after 12 hours of not eating, AMP starts being produced in a low energy state, since no food glucose available, so the AMP produced increases release of AMPK which as an enzyme breaks down body fat to make cell energy. At 24 hours after no food your body ketogenic or in nutritional ketosis, making up to 96% of all body energy by using up stored body fat, while 4% comes from proteins in your biggest muscles. A typical adult person can survive without food for 40 days, but needs adequate water daily, especially more water while fasting, for without water death within 4 days possible.
See What Happens when You Stop Eating for 5 Days <click link
Both HGH & BNDF Levels Increase
HGH human growth hormone
BDNF brain derived neurotrophic factor (brain fertilizer)
DNA repair increases
Inflammation decreases
Ketones from burning body fat are hormone like & an energy source
Cytogenesis & Neurogenesis Wonderful
Cancer Cells Consumed with Autophagy or body eating itself, it also eats prions or bent proteins, which is why mentally ill people, elderly people with dementia & Alzheimer's show remarkable improvement in their symptoms or improved executive function or overall mental & physical health. Most of these benefits are achieves at 72 hours of water fasting or after day 3, and effects peak by day 5, after that, its not wise to continue without medical support or supervision by a nurse or doctor taking urine, blood, & similar tests to keep track of your body status.