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.
Child Marketing UPF in Colorful Boxes & Bags with Humanized Animal Mascot Graphics that Seem Cool to Children & Adults
Pollution the #1 mass killer of people via diseases, disorders & death premature caused by exposure to commonly emitted air & water pollution created by burning carbon fuels that release air pollution, acid rain, climate change acceleration and worse.
When renewable energy & nuclear fission energy advocates are talking about the urgent global need to decarbonize energy, that literally means we have a global moral imperative to stop emitting pollution, since much of the electricity generated worldwide results in pollution because of coal power, the dirties and most toxic way to make electricity, coal power exists today because coal abundant and cheap as the input fuel to coal thermal plants. The problem with coal combustion stems from the inclusion of heavy, toxic and radioactive elements in the coal that are released into the world when the coal is burned to make heat energy used to steam water to force past power generation turbines at coal thermal powerplants common around the world today.
What does carbon energy have to do with UPF marketing to children? Well firstly, children and elderly people are more sensitive or more easily harmed by pollution exposure. But eating UPF like eating pollution because UPF contain up to 10,000 different chemical additives, added to block a sense of feeling full when eating, such that people are able to eat 40% more calories if they drink HFCS sweetened soda while eating a meal. People can easily scarf down multiple bags of UPF bliss point engineered flavor chips or potato chips, which are actually often made of GMO Soy & Corn, not potatoes, like Dorito chips.
UPF Examples
If you tried to make a blog of Fruit Loops at home the same way they come in the box from the store, such would require hundreds of special ingredients, many of which would be unrecognized chemicals that only jargon chemists even understand how to say the name of, and you would need thousands of dollars of special processing equipment that would easily fill your kitchen entirely. That means a UPF contains more than 20 ingredients, very hard to make the same way at home with common cooking or baking methods or kitchen tools you already have. Candy bars are flavored with 60 different essential oils in tiny amounts to make the Snickers bar taste super bliss point delicious, though the GMO peanuts soaked in RoundUp tend to make a spice chemical taste in peoples mouths now after the eat the latest versions of Snickers made this way.
I often throw Oreo Cookies under the bus as a prime example of an unhealthy UPF that sells really well and widely consumed to the detriment of public health, harming and hurting the people that eat this garbage the same way that smoking cigarettes harms health or abusing alcohol harms health, but nearly everyone now knows that smoking and heavy drinking are unhealthy while few people really understand what a UPF is or why eating UPF so harmful to public health. In large part because they make UPF seem child safe with PG graphics that draw the eyes of children towards the brightly colored graphics of the UPF box or bag place on shelve of grocery stores at the eye level of children who are walking along side their parents grocery shopping with a big metal cart.
Now to be transparent, I few times per year smoke an organic all natural cigarette made by American Spirits in the light blue box. I also drink beer or spirits in moderation though Meg & I are taking a break from alcohol for a Dry December 2024. I also sometimes buy and eat Oreo Cookies, Fruit Loops, and other unhealthy throwbacks to my childhood in America. Meg mentioned Candy Cigarettes that were designed to warm children up to the idea of cigarettes being good or ok, so they would be more likely to try real cigarettes as young adults able to legally buy tobacco, a cleaver insidious strategy that lost its gusto in 1994 landmark legislation banning Big Tobacco from marketing their products to children. Thus Joe Camel & the Marlboro Man disappeared and boxes of cigarettes at Dennys in vending machines went from $1.50 to $6.75, then $8.25, then the cigarette vending machines disappeared, like phone booths with coin operated phone on landlines, which also disappeared, like many magazines and newspapers, something known as legacy medium, though radio one of the oldest forms of information news still around on AM & FM worldwide, perhaps in part because that was the first way to share information before TV and now internet took the reigns.
I share the toxic effects of UPF because I have a moral duty to help protect other people who don't understand the way I do, since I have done years of research to learn how to undo type 2 diabetes which I previously cured, and how to reverse high blood pressure, which I also cured, mostly by removing UPF from my diet or not eating any UPF regularly.
Iodine deficiency affects nearly 2 billion people, which means their thyroid glands cannot produce enough T3 & T4 hormones that have broadly important biological effects in the human body in terms of promoting homeostasis or overall health.
Magnesium deficiency also very common. This has broadly negative effects as well. Micronutrients are super important to support all the cellular processes of the human bodies cells, essential for human health.
Industrial agriculture failed to protect soil from nutrient depletion, so foods grown on industrial farms in America for example are less nutrient dense now, such that eating spinach in 2024 provides less nutrition that eating the same kind of spinach grown in the 1920's. There are areas in the midwest of America where the farm soil levels are 30 ft lower than they were in the 1960's, because of wasteful runoff promoting spray irrigation for example. Commercial farms fail to integrate compost into the soil, they never rotate crops for nitrogen fixation, and use petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides, all practices that make the resulting foods widely available much less nutritious now.
UPF are created with GMO corn, GMO soy and GMO wheat, first turned into desiccated or perfectly dry tasteless powders, used as neutral base materials in the creation of complicated UPF chips for example, which are fried in GMO rape seed oil itself a UPF, then coated in hundreds of synthetic chemicals, colors and flavors, in what is known in the UPF industry as Bliss Point Engineering in industrial food processing. That means that common well selling chips or crips are not actually a real food in any normal sense of the meaning of the word Food.
UPF foods have more in common with car paint or industrial lubricants like synthetic engine oil or commercial aviation fuel, also made with ultra processing at oil refineries using equipment that costs tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in todays weaker fiat USD $ money that lost 97% of its value since 1913 due to progressive continual inflation, especially in 1974 when the US dollar was taken off the Gold Standard, before which it was a representative currency, after which it became a fiat currency and can fail just like the fiat currency failed from hyperinflation in Germany after WWI or World War One. Every fiat currency in history has ended up failing from hyperinflation and the current US dollar can also fail from hyperinflation if the sleazy jerks at the Federal Reserve fail to act to prevent hyperinflation of the USD2024 or Dollar of the United States of America.
Biomass & Sustainable Fuels For 1000+ Years
Fire allowed man to cook animals & plants he or she hunted or gathered. Cooking increases calorie density and digestibility, making it easier for early humans using fire to sustain themselves.
Coal, diesel, gasoline, natural gas, propane, butane, LNC, CNG, jet fuel, 100LL, there are many kinds or grades of hydrocarbon fuels made from crude oil or petroleum, and many kinds of natural gas from oil wells collected and sold, and many grades of coal burned to make heat, steam & power, that is electricity connected to power grids to distribute electricidal energy to utility customers loads, appliances, lights or bulbs, heaters, blower motors, vacuums, Wi-Fi routers, to charge EV's or portable electronics, like recharging smartphones or smartwatches, to power fridges & freezers, to energize gas pumps, water pumps, natural gas pumps, electrical energy to heat oil at oil refineries where oil is column distilled into many different streams of chemical gases, liquids and solids left behind like tar.
Making heat & power burning or combusting coal & crude oil produces a lot of toxic air, water & land pollutants & pollution emissions, not just huge amounts of CO2, but also CO, PM, NOX, particles, fumes HC, smoke, soot, just as crude wood fires are dirty burners, carbon and hydrocarbon energy have a emissions debacle as the pollution emitted this way causes more diseases and death than all other known causes.
In other words, pollutants emitted from burning fuels the world's most prolific mass murderer, because of how the emissions have toxic effects on human health but also poses existential problems like Peak Oil supply declining and cost increasing and economic effects thereof, or climate change acceleration which could doom life in the biosphere of Earth. For 100 years acid rain has been corroding infrastructure and making bodies of water with fish more acidic, causing trillions in losses of both biomass in waterbodies and rusting & corrosion of steel, rebar & masonry in infrastructure and vehicles.
Biofuels offer a renewable way to make cleaner fuels, and we can and will make gasoline from goal with Coal to Gasoline CTG and Natural Gas to Gasoline or NGG, to make synthetic gasoline & diesel sold at millions of commercial gas stations for at least 300 more years. We continue to increase efforts to collect waste gas from trash dumps and compost as an alternative to oil well natural gas, known as biogas recovery technology. Old tires, plastics, used motor oil, these are additional sources of alternative oil feedstock inputs for oil refineries to make synthetic lubricants & fuels.
3 trillion Trees & trillions of tons of Algae + Cellulosic Ethanol / Methanol to Gasoline & Diesel, we can make wood for buildings, furniture, & fuel for thousands of years, for cardboard boxes & paper production, for paper towels and toilet paper. We are never going to run out of trees to cut down or Algae to harvest from the oceans. Not especially because atmospheric CO2 increasing which helps increase Alge levels and fuels more prolific growth of plants & trees. Get your chainsaw ready, wood is going nowhere and will continue being a fuel for thousands of years. It seems those ancient cave man fires set an example that wood pellet stoves & furnaces today still derived their primary chemical input from :)
Broken Heart Drawn Towards That Which You Know Is Wrong
A blessing in many ways, but it also makes me want to scream loudly, I feel like I am exploding or coming undone & somehow like it, even though I hate it. This reminds of something that Paul talked about in the Bible without disclosing exactly what he was struggling with.
Something inside of me that feels normal, feels natural, could even be logically defensible, but that which I know is bad, wrong, probably illegal for time, a sin against God and my wife to even ponder such thinking, but I don't even know where it came from or why it bounces around in my head tormenting me.
I know it's not me, and don't like it, and hate it, but then again somehow it became part of my brain by protein synthesis, a powerful idea, a deep affective idea, hope for the future, an insanely intense collection of thoughts, something that pulls beneath the surface, there was a song about this, by Linkin Park. Its not evil, not from demons, not from Satan. It involves the appreciation of nature, natural beauty, but feels like a kind of idolatry because of how the aesthetic focus on supercars came out of nowhere.
There you have, super ultra-low volume rare expensive high performance composite cars with amazing drivetrain technology that cost a fortune to buy and even more to own and operate legally, not at all practical, possible the pinnacle of materialistic excess. So, I am just as bad as any arrogant billionaire who buys one and enjoys it, since such lives in my heart, to pursue excellence in automobiles. To this end the Lexus LFA the finest vehicle ever made!
There are aspects of my 2022 Corolla Hybrid that are superior as a daily road vehicle. I have to leave it at this, even though there is a entire other thought thread of want that is similar but unspeakable. Proving even as a man of God I am still a deeply flawed hypocrite sinner desperately in need of sanctification through repentance. I am deeply afraid that If I died in an accident in the near future God would say "Go away, I did not know you" because of how crooked I am on the inside. I told my pastors wife about this and she told me roughly what follows.
My pastor's wife Dana tells me "Aaron most people have off color or bad thoughts, and sometimes they even like those thoughts, like your saying, but you never have to give into acting them out, and besides by rejecting them as false imaginations, you become stronger at obedience to God and he recognizes the struggle you have and even understand your struggle more than anyone else for he understands everything, but rewards people who reject unclean thoughts, and it's probably such that you like so many other Christians will put into the outer darkness, but not sent to hell, because you proclaim Christ Jesus as your Lord and Savior will like them achieve Salvation and who choose to try best to Love God in heart, such that God knows this, and will just put you on the sidelines when Christ returns with all the Saints and those who did his will to rule over the Earth for a thousand years" see the book of Revelation in the Bible for the reference. That quotation is an expansion and adaptation of what was actually said since I am unable to quote her from memory exactly, so, in my long form description I tried to communicate the main ideas she said in my own words.
Ok so I also get hit on by women that are 25 to 33 years old, who are single mothers because the husband left randomly, and they notice I am "Cute, smart, friendly, and interesting" after hearing me talk with other faculty and staff members, then I hear through the grape vine so & so was wondering if you wanted to hang out or going a date or she can cook you dinner or something like that. I tell all these ladies who show interest in me about my lovely wife would take deep offense to a home wrecker trying to win over my affection to cause me to file divorce with my wife, which I will never do, since no one is able to offer me anything that would cause me to give up on Meg who has repeatedly saved my life & to whom I have been luck enough to save her life multiple times & I know she needs me around to have a happy life & I would never betray her. Now, if Meg leaves me or chooses to divorce me for some reason, and I ended up single, then maybe, I might, probably not, ever data woman with children. That would be totally unfair to me since I do not & have never had children. Meg & I are DINKS as in dual income and no kids, only a kitty or house cat, which Meg' treats like a special needs child by being incredibly supportive of our elderly kitty.
Finding a high-quality wife where I live in Washington State, USA, King County, as in intelligent, loyal, honest, fair, reasonable, not materialistic, not vain, not silly or wasteful, who loves animals, who loves me, who is generous and kind and loving, who wants a traditional Christian family order at home according to Biblical teaching about proper family order. This list of attributes so extensive that I did even believe such a person exited in King County like this, but that is because Meg is from central Oregon where real Americans not these deranged woke liberal nut cases, happen to be into guns, God, family & real loving inclusivity of all people, not woke hate speech censorship and one party government control idea of the radical woke left extremists. Smaller, smarter, relatively fit not fluffy also, able to hike me with or bike with me, almost athletic, into healthy home cooked meals, who does not eat UPF items, who is into staying hydrated with a healthy sleep schedule. I am married to a miracle, a amazing beautiful, lovely loyal practical artistic frugal fantastic helper who constantly shows me loving kindness in all sorts of ways, making coming home to her a real joy and something I actually crave with fondness in her absence, looking forward to seeing her again, for with Meg I can be truly comfortable or myself & feel at ease. It takes me months of daily exposure and interaction with a new person to develop even a base level of comfort being my real self in private. That made dating a horrible mess for years before I met Meg when I was 27. My earlier 20's was a blur of drugs & crazy high speed dating that ended so many trial runs that I burned out and stopped trying to find anyone to be with, and that is about the same time that my former friend Jae tricked Meg & I into meeting at his place. I thought I was going over to make beer but Meg answered the door and the first out of her mouth was "Hey, have you heard of Kombucha?" causing a flashback to a PCC visit where I had first looked upon such a strange beverage wondering what kind of weird hippie chick would be into drink tea with fungus growing in it / lol but that proved that she was possible as bizarre and strange as me, around 6:30PM, we leave Jae's house and go to a "Bible Study" and Stuart & Mary Pennington's former home, but drove there in my car only to sit outside and end up talking all night. We actually saw people coming and going in the background though the front window but were so engrossed in a back-and-forth discussion that we both lost track of time, and the bible study had ended when we looked at the clock, 2 am, lol and we both had to work then next day. We stared dating officially in 2010, on June 16th, it was a hike to Rattle Snake Ridge, and apparently, I ranted and raved about political and technological issues with society, typical. One year later we went to this park in Seattle, and it was National Dump the Pump Day as in alternatives to driving vehicles that burn fuel sold at gas stations. We even got "Un driver's Licenses. We kept dating for 3 years and got married in 2013. At first we were more almost passive former Christians who had been burned by people from churches nearby and were not keen on reading the bible and watched Netflix and played video games during our downtime, at first in this tiny Studio Apartment on 112th in Downtown Bellevue, called Xcaliber that's painted green and purple. I had a proto liberal libertarian scientist skeptic worldview and Meg also bucked being brain washed by mainstream media because both of her father's told her in different ways when she was growing up how the government and media are a giant cluster of corruption and fake news & much worse. We are both highly skeptical of any news coverage since mega media has big corporate big budget woke NGU strings attached to promote the GLTBQ ...or 620 different personal identifiers. /
It can be hard to find good employees or loyal partners, as many people today are hopelessly selfish and have no interest in marriage or a godly order at home or morality and ethics, who habitually sin in different ways and who have a cold heart towards God and other people and animals and nature, who care only about money, status, comfort and fancy things, can you say glib zip code envy greedy & materialistic. Snobs and people who value money & gold above God & other people, who are guilt of idolatry & who are completely unfit to be a partner in love with me or Meg. We need a high-quality person to be with, for long term companionship, to grow old together with, and most people are not even close to the caliber that either of us would be compatible with.
They have to be pro-gun, pro God, prolife, pro real loving kindness, and literally do what the Word says in the Bible about proper Christian Conduct, an increasingly rare set of personality traits. I am a college educated cold blooded assassin trained and perfected in a USAP, warrior & defender of America, sworn by oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign or domestic.
Do you think Americans will be safer during World War Three WWIII if fewer are armed because of increasing left gun control laws enacted? If you do, your wrong. Criminals do not follow gun laws and procure guns illegally, in grey or black markets, paying with cash, including automatic with silencers, ghost guns made from parts or other.
No laws can make parents love their children or make children love their parents. Where did all the high-quality people go? Where did real men go? Why did we start trading with the CCP, the most unethical government in the world, why is currency inflation of the US dollar out of control and why is the US Federal National Debt climbing towards $37 trillion soon? How about more artificial flavors and colors in your food so you get cancer faster? How about more air pollution to subsidize the carbon energy industries profits by sacrificing public health to pay for it, did you know that pollution emissions are the biggest mass murderer in all of human history, that pollution is emitted on a grand and increasing scale today in ways that sicken and kill more people with preventable diseases and death than all other causes combined. Pollution is the world's most prolific mass murderer.
Peak Experiences Can be Very Dangerous if they are Chemical
Smoking Crack Cocaine or Methamphetamine Crystals, shooting liquid opioids directly into a vein, cooking codeine in gasoline, there are many chemical shortcuts to temporary bliss, but none of them are sustainable even for one human life & tend to be highly damaging to a person's life & health.
Be careful with your brain, you can't buy another one yet!
They are called hard drugs or narcotics because Fentanyl can easily cause fatal respiratory depression, so the use of fentanyl literally suffocates to death unable to breathe, like holding film over your mouth & nose so you can't breathe, it's a really unnerving panic feeling that no one wants & dying like that is horrible. It's an icky cringy feeling of physical panic when plastic film blocks your ability to take another breath in.
In my middle twenties I took many MDMA pills and was rolling while at music festivals, doing acts I will not speak of, but even being touched was outrageously stimulating and pleasurable. Holding someone's hand and sliding the fingers gently around & against produce what felt like a stream or orgasms, but that peak experience cannot be replicated and afterwards left me feeling depressed and sad, since I chemically hijacked my brain serotonin signaling system by taking pills of MDMA of varying purity produced on the black market and purchased with cash, one the only reasons cash is still around. Most patrons of sex worker and illegal drugs don't want charges for such on the debt or credit card accounts to keep such activities anonymous, for privacy reasons. I am not here to judge anyone but living in habitual sin a pathway to self-destruction with things as cringy as hepatitis or herpes or HIV or worse. Now I drink coffee and that seems to work :)
Well-adjusted people do not have to murder other people to get enough stimulation to enjoy life. Serial killers have a dopamine signaling deficiency disorder where they have to engage in highly dangerous illegal harmful sick activities harming other people unto death or worse, to get a sense of enjoyable stimulation from life. Common drugs of abuse like heroin and cocaine also exploit the brains dopamine signaling system, causing neuron death in the brains reward centers that making going pee enjoyable, so we continue to go pee, and similar for pooping, fun drugs released by the brain for the brain when we poo in order to motivate future pooping. In other words, everyone's brain is getting high on its own supply of internally made brain fun drugs that the brain makes for itself and uses for itself, the same brain that names itself & coordinates all human activities, good or bad, worldwide.
Meg says that demonic influences cause people to have evil thoughts, and while most people reject such thoughts, some people go along with the voices in their head and do evil sick acts to other people, usually causing harm, injury, or even death, in acts of murder. When interviews such people say 'Voices in my head told me to do it" almost confirming what Meg' speculates to be true based on her understanding of the Bible or the Holy Word of God as written in the Bible. I am sure this spiritual reality is true for the following reasons.
The visible spectrum that our eyes see is only as tiny slice of the entire electrodynamic spectrum. So human people are mostly unable to see most of what is actually happening, in all those other colors that our eyes are unable to detect. Now people working on technology developed microbolometer array or FLIR forward looking infrared which can pick up weak faint pink beyond red long wave IR emitted by all warm bodies as head phonons similar to visible light photons. Effectively FLIR means rows and columns of chip scale thermometers that measure tiny differences in phonon density or a measure of molecular vibration of distant objects, such that FLIR enables visual color imaging of invisible infrared heat energy, and is able to see through fog & rain, which why forward looking infrared camera are so common on military drones, space satellites and in some hunting scope applications, but also used by HVAC tech to trace hot wires or sources of heat in systems like HVAC or parts of such systems, by electricians and automotive tech to look at heat in power panels or engine bays, in aerospace to inspect the hot turbine engines during operation, to look for hot spots during early development to work out solutions to reduce hot spots that could burn up the carbon fiber epoxy shell covering of high bypass jet engines used on passenger aircraft like Boeing 787 or Airbus A321 Neo as examples.
Adding infrared like JWST or the James Web Space Telescope allows NASA to look deeper into history at very distant faint object emitting very weak phonon streams of very low energy level, which is why the JWST system has a multi-layer heat shield, since the ultra-sensitive IR imaging element cooled to cryogenic cold temperatures to make it even more sensitive to tiny variations in phonon heat packet density or give it superior low energy resolution able to distinguish very faint very distant objects or phenomena imaged by such superlative technology.
But there are many other colors that Visible or IR like X-ray band, or gamma band, even longer waves, the spectrum extends infinitely in both directions from increasingly higher energy on one side and increasingly lower energy on the other side. Effectively there are an almost unlimited number of ways to image reality in different spectral ranges with photons of different energy levels. Multi-spectral imaging systems are also common on military attack drones that shoot surface to air missiles at targets to destroy vehicles or similar, cell towers, power plants, roadways, manufacturing plants, to harm the economy by shutting down critical industry, taking out the power grid, and destroying important roadways to limit movement. The military industrial complex of America has fueled much technological innovation at NASA, at the DOE, for commercial Nuclear Fission Reactors based on earlier atomic bomb physics via the Atoms for Peace program for example. I have a little Seek Thermal dongle that plugs into my phone turning it into an IR imaging system, amazingly!
Piston Ring Miracle Technology in 2023 F1 Car Engines
Enginering contains word engine as in steam engines the first reciprocating piston engines that fueled with coal dust or external combustion steam fueled railroads & the first & second industrial revolutions before crude oil based gasoline & diesel fuels made from petroleum deep borehole pressure extraction mined from Earth's crust, the easy oil party ended in the middle of the 20th century, yet fossil fuels today represent about 98% of all transportation energy primary inputs. We are running on ancient sunlight people, plants that died millions of years ago, buried deep under heat & pressure closer to Earth's hot core, these plant biomolecules broke down into hydrocarbon chains, liquids, gases and solids like tar. Known as black gold, oil has created more wealth than any other thing in human history. With petrochemical agriculture, known as the Green Revolution, we enable human population to go from 2 billion people to almost 8 billion people at the same time today.
Watch this https://youtu.be/EFfyWbi3APk?si=5J1nVRqR55I8dlhs
Piston engines will remain as prime energy movers in vehicles of all kinds for hundreds of years because we already know how to convert coal and natural gas to gasoline, otherwise called synthetic fuels, biomass, renewable feedstock, waste oil, old tires, coal, natural gas, wood, dump gas recovery, trash waste gas recovery and compost gas recovery, there will continue to be ways to economically make feasible engine lubricating oils, gasoline & diesel fuel for at least 300 more years, mostly as synfuels or short for synthetic fuels. Add in biofuels 4th && 5th generation and cellulosic ethanol, and methanol to gasoline, and you have 500 more years of biofuels as drop-in replacements for unleaded gasoline or on road diesel.
During the next 200-years nuclear fission and fusion energy technology, including classified quantum energy technology will enable the 6th Industrial Revolution to transition all of societies energy to nuclear electric with more than 15 billion years' worth of radioactive fertile and fissile elements in the crust & oceans, we will never run out of new nuclear fuel rod making minerals. The Sun become a Red Giant and boil the oceans off of Earth before we run out of easily mined uranium or thorium taken from Earth's crust or the world's oceans by aqueous chemical polymer bead extraction. Even the ocean water can be converted to hydrogen gas & oxygen to enable more rocket fuels & even cleaner space launches.
10,000 Gs of acceleration, 1000 C temperature, 300 Bar or 4000+PSI of pressure, F1 engine achieve thermal efficiency greater than 50% with piston rings that are a technological material science miracle of applied knowledge.
Refined over more than 100 years of innovation across 4 major industrial revolutions, engines are not going anywhere, in thanks because of Toyota & Subaru who eschewed the battery electric hype in favor of better engines and hybrid synergy drive technology or hybrid & plug-in Prime Toyota Lexus vehicles. Big daddy of Automotive Toyota has been moping the floor of the global automotive landscape for more than 60 years, showing all the other automakers how it's done in superlative engines like the 2JZ inline 6 or vehicles like the Lexus LFA! Tens of millions of Toyota's Corollas (Little Crown) sold over 12 generations since the 1970's or the preeminent off-road all-weather OG SUV beast Toyota Landcruiser's since the 1970's. Prius Hybrid superstar for more than 20 years with 15 million sold worldwide! I believe that Toyota is keeping the Economy of Japan on life support and the most valuable company in Japan, along with Sony & Honda.
During the Steam Engine era, pistons were made of hardwood & sealed with leather rings or rings made of tar infused rope (note no plastics or polymers were commercially viable, other than latex early on, from latex trees, mostly made in fiber latex belts and tires for bicycles and cars. By the late 1800's it was cast iron pistons with cast iron piston rings for sealing.
Engines convert hot expanding gas into rotational energy!
That means gasoline burned in air creates hot expanding gas to shove the piston down
The pistons connecting rod translates the force of the hot gas shoved piston to the cranking of a shaft
The crankshaft kind of like the Pedal on Bicycle, while the fossil fueled piston is like the legs of the bicycle ride, that is both impacts down thrust on the pedals or pistons to spin the crank in order to turn the wheels and propel the vehicle forward with torque or power.
Engines suck in fuel & air, or a turbo or super charger compresses such into the intake, then the open intake valve closes by spring pressure & camshaft control. Now inside the cylinder a mixture of fuel & air compresses as the piston moves upward decreasing the volume inside the cylinder, which pressurized the fuel air mixture. Just after top dead center where the piston reaches the high point of compression and position, a spark plug emits a hot arch of electricity to ignite the fuel air mixture which undergoes a deflagration pressure and head generating chemical reaction to make water vapor & CO2 mostly, which combined shove the piston down imparting mechanical energy into the wrist pin & connecting rod onto the crankshaft which combines the piston power of many pistons to produce continual torque pulse output into the transmission or power split device, to shafts connected to the vehicles propulsion wheels, that is that the metal wheel covered in rubber tire translate the engine chemical energy from the fuel into forward motion that pulls or shoves the tire across road surfaces depending on drive configuration. A read drive shoves the tires across the road, while front wheel drive pulls the tires across the road, both are kinds of traction, which is why soft compliant fiber & steel wire reinforced rubber tires from the interface for concrete, asphalt or gravel or dirt roads. Vehicles, roads and tires have improved much since the 1960's. Much cleaner in terms of emissions today, the on-road passenger vehicle, car or SUV, has advanced emissions controls that cut tailpipe smog emitted by 95%.
Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow
Suck in fuel air, squeeze to compress it, bang it with spark, extract useful work, blow exhaust gas out, reset/ loop function. The Engine Control Unit or ECU takes many kinds of sensor data to precisely control the pulse width injection of fuel through the electronically controlled fuel injectors with MAF sensor intake & crank position and knock sensor in block, it mixes signals with DAC ADC mixed signal control, especially the fuzzy logic of the automatic transmission, analog circuits. Most ECU are computer, digital, with hard drive SSF storage and passive heatsink cooling. New 2025 automobiles have more than 150 chips, as in integrated circuits like the SOC in your smartphone. A full self-driving car also a rolling uploading big data center with lots of high-powered compute onboard. I just put a computer in my car's glove compartment, but I can hold the internet in my hand in iPhone or Android Samsung models over 4G LTE or 5G NR mobile broadband now. Can you say Apple Maps, Google Maps, Hey Google, Hey Siri, Hey Computer or Alexa. It's voice control now. Can you imagine when the cars become spiritual or self-aware? I am not even sure that such is possible, but the age of spiritual machines means that we use the math of our brain, DNA and Epigenetics to design machines that exhibit the same exquisite detail in form and function.
Early coal gas fueled, or coal dust fueled internal combustion atmospheric free piston and captured double action piston engines were only about 10% thermal efficiency, but the 4 Stroke Otto cycle compressed the air & fuel before spark ignition, raising thermal or fuel efficiency to 30%, 300% better than atmospheric engines. 300% better is an enormous and amazing improvement, or radical innovation. Imagine if we magically increased your income by 300%. With a compression ratio of 3.5 to 1, these low compression early engines also were fueled by low octane variable quality gasoline.
Out of Round piston rings become round when compressed as the piston inserted into the cylinder, and innovation from late 1860 that radically improved piston sealing internal combustion engines. Stacks of 3 or 4 or 5 or 7 rings help to keep the oil in the bottom of the engine, lubricating the crank bearings and piston rings and con rod bearings, while the hot gasoline air combustion gasses kept above the piston to extract useful work to spin the vehicles wheels for propulsion.
By 1880s splash oiling systems and compression rations of 6.5:1 meant commercial on road vehicle engines quickly adapted in an era when battery electric vehicles sold well. People at the time thought about horse drawn carriages, and when Henry Ford asked his customers what they wanted they said "better horses" when he wanted to sell the Model T. I know I jumped a few decades there, this is blogging not the encyclopedia.
In modern engines for 2025 onward model years, engines piston rings have to exhibit a carefully designed balance of contract pressure, ring height, area, tangential pressure, balancing sealing of combustion against fiction forces from the rings scraping the oil film on the cylinder wall. This desire to minimize friction in the engine to reduce tailpipe emissions and improve fuel economy, but if the ring is not tight or snug enough then blow by would cause oil dilution that has plagued the 1.5 L Earth dreams turbo engine of Honda for example. That means combustion gases squeak by the rings into the engine oil, along with some gasoline and vapors thereof, that foul or dilute the oil with contamination faster. Such engines are prone to early loss of compression and require more oil changes with special additive engine oil to seal the rings properly.
I think it would be ethical or moral for Honda to recall and repair such engines with appropriate solutions that result in longer engine life and long oil life between oil changes. Piston Ring Contact Pressure means the force that is exerted on the interface between the outer edge face of the piston ring and the inner wall surfaces of the cylinder coated in a thin film of oil by the pistons lower oil control ring. It's a careful engineering balancing act to design good piston ring sealing while also reducing friction, requiring extensive R&D and working well with the Toyota problem solving manufacturing ways. Radial Pressure Distribution means the force the piston ring exerts outwardly against the cylinder walls. Piston rings rectangular contact area also transfers more than half of the combustion heat into the cylinder wall, so that the water-cooling jacket filled with engine coolant can transfer heat away from the aluminum alloy block to the aluminum fan assisted front radiator to dump waste heat out of the engine and into the world.
Low pressure oil control rings help to keep the engine oil out of the hot gas combustion at the top, known as the lubricating bottom end of the engine, the oil control rings sit at the bottom of the piston and gently scrape oil back into the crankcase. Ring twisting in the 1920 offered yet more improvement to the balance between sealing hot gas above and oil bellow the piston. Keystone wedge rings with trapezoidal shape and different angles enabled a reduction in carbon deposits of turbo-diesel engines in heavy duty Class 8 on road truck engines, which prevented ring sticking in the compression rings of such engines.
Oil control rings helped to reduce oil consumption and cleaned up exhaust emission in early carburetor automotive engines by the 1930's and onward. 3-part oil control rings developed for aircraft engines in WWII made their way into automotive engines, made of graphite cast iron, then nodule cast iron, offering bear wear resistance and thermal conductivity. Annealed or heated to increase ductility, the modulus of elasticity increases making the rings longer lasting or more durable. Quench rapid cooling chrome steel to make rings enabled increasing of the microstructure strength in high performance engines. To enhance ring life the ring steel often nitride coated, as in dipped in a hot chemical bath to impart a wear resistant nitride coating which literally imparts nitrogen atoms into the steel that radically improve its wear resistance. Spring steel center control rings in 3 ring systems are also able to maintain their spring pressure at higher temperatures. Hard chrome coating piston ring materials made them last 3X longer still. Molybdenum coating rings in the 1960's flame or plasma sprayed. Physical or vapor deposition phosphate or copper coated rings emerged in the 2000's as on road vehicle development & tighter emissions control laws favored engine friction reduction technology.
Once more, I will say it again, engines will become vehicle mounted electricity generators, yes, I know they already are with the alternator & battery, but I mean operating at one specific most efficient RPM speed, as in peak thermal efficiency with lowest possible emissions. In other words, in range extended electric vehicles the engine acts as an onboard primary energy input generator converting gasoline into kWh or electricity to use in the axial flux propulsion motor drive system of the REEV or PHEV or as range extenders, like I3 REX model from BMW or that Prime RAV4 from Toyota. The Automotive Range Extender Engine Generator reminds me of an aircraft APU or auxiliary power supply turbine generator unit, that makes 400hz electricity on passenger aircraft like the Boeing 777 or Airbus A321 Neo as examples, or my personal favorite the Boeing 878 Dreamliner :)
I dream of blended wing aircraft carrying hundreds of passengers worldwide while using 70% less fuel and releasing 90% less noise near airports during takeoff when the engines are loudest. The inboard blended wing ducted fan high bypass engines of NASA designs that Airbus & Boeing can easily commercialize blend atmospheric air with hot turbine exhaust to minimize heat signature and noise emissions of such amazing novel aircraft designs, like that of the B2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, or blended wing passenger aircraft flying international routes between countries where the superior fuel economy translates not only to ultra-low emissions of heat, smog & sound, but also radically enhance flight endurance or range per unit of fuel or fuel economy in automotive terms.
With a titanium alloy expander and silicon carbide coated top & bottom ring in 3 ring piston rings of current F1 engines, the pinnacle of engineering technology applied to make superlative piston rings. Only 1 compression ring and 1 oil control ring, the 5-axis slow precise machined low mass F1 engine pistons are shape mass optimized so the engine can hit 15,000 RPM. These engines are so tight cold they have to heat them to 154 F in order to use the external starter motor to get the F1 engine started.
In 2022 onward road vehicles 0W-16 fully synthetic motor oil designed to work in concert with extensive friction reduction between the piston rings and cylinder wall while still maintaining good hot combustion gas sealing and oil scraping functions needed to ensure good engine life and longer intervals between oil changes. Such is the case with the 2ZR-FXE engine of our 2022 Corolla Hybrid. I has a spin on oil filter thank the Lord our God, vs that goofy VW inspired plastic filter cartridge noise of Meg's 2010 Prius III, that wastes more paper towels and gloves and not eco-friendly the way they claim. I take the old engine oil and filter to the local Autoparts store for recycling.
Lower quality automakers consider 1 quart of oil consumption every 1000 miles or 1 liter of oil consumption every 1600 km, normal. I am telling you and want you to comprehend that Toyota makes engines with superior thermal economy and radically less oil consumption using higher precision manufacturing of the engine parts and better QA: QC during assembly of the engine or the TMS Toyota Manufacturing System, producing cars of superior durability or long-life operation with basic maintenance. Long lasting high quality durable cars & SUV like Prius, Camry, Corolla, Tacoma, Tundra, Landcruiser, Toyota mops the floor of the automotive industry as the clear leader of superlative high-quality vehicle with legendary reliability, though a few examples of blunders in models that had bad engines or bad frames that rust out easily or carpets that get caught in the pedals or something like that. Not even Toyota has a perfect history as an automaker, and they are the best Automaker overall.
Emergency Backup Generator During Power Outage from Windstorm & Personal First Computer Build History
Emergency Backup Generators
Perhaps $800 to $1400 USD2024 for 2200 watts peak & 2000 watts nominal
Meg purchased a Honda EU2000 in December of 2017 from Home Depot in Tukwila, WA, USA for $899
I have kept it full of ethanol free gasoline with Sta-Bil fuel stabilizer added
I keep a logbook in the box with the rebuild reference & owner's manual & a pen to record use data
I pull open the box, remove the top box with the paperwork, spare spark plug & tool, then open the top of the giant plastic bag and fold the bag over the open box flaps. Inside the bag the generator is covered by the OEM silver polymer fabric HONDA cover which had a VELCRO flat that I open so that I can grab the top handle to pull the 25kg generator + 1 gallon of fuel in the tank, out of the box, then set it up outside. I close the choke, and turn the bottom handle to on, then turn the top of the fuel cap lever to on, then grip the pull handle and hold the generator with my left hand while I pull the cord with my right hand to start the engine. As soon as the engine runs after pull starting & turn the choke back off & let it warm up for about 30 seconds before plugging in an electrical load, typically a small electric space heater of 500 watts, 750 watts or 1500 watts to low, medium high test the ECO mode once its activated 3 minutes after the engine started. I then run the load and alternate modes and load level for 15 to 30 minutes, recording the data in the logbook with runtime or ODO time the engine had operated in minutes. Every 1400 minutes it gets an oil change with synthetic car oil that I have on hand for automotive oil changes DIY style at home. It holds 13.1 fluid ounces of engine oil and has a small white dip stick in the bottom left corner, once the single easy big black screw loosened to the service door which has insert hinges so it pivots when opening at the top so you can easily lift the door out of the way to service the carburetor or change the oil. Another smaller access door that pops free at the top near the generators handle enables access to the sparkplug.
Recently we had a power & internet outage due to a windstorm that hit the Pacific Northwest, at one point causing a power blackout that affected 3 million people. From Tuesday 11/19/2024 at 5:55 pm until Friday 11/22/2024 at 9:14 pm there was no grid power available at our home. Outside daily temperatures were between 40 and 56 F, right now its 34.5 F and falling outside, Happy Thanksgiving. Internet was out until 3am 11/24/2024 when the WiFi regained an Internet Connection.
We used a 12/3 extension cable to run the power through a gap in the downstairs slider, running the generator at the edge of the patio with exhaust blowing away to vent correctly, then used duct tape to cover the gap on the slider to keep cold air & exhaust smell gases from leaking in. I arranged patio bricks to make a crude exhaust diffuser to further reduce the sound emissions and also to direct the exhaust gas away from the patio. I had to refuel the generator with about 4 gallons of fuel.
I ran the generator from 6pm to 8:30pm 11/19, then 8:30am to 8:30pm 11/20, then 8:45am to 9pm 11/21, then 9am to 9:27pm 11/22. It had 999min ODO when I first started it to make electricity to help with the power outage. At 1400min ODO I did the first oil change, then when the power was restored, it was late, so I turned it off and went to bed. Next morning I woke up and changed the oil, refilled the fuel with stabilizer, then stored it all carefully in the box for active standby, ODO reached 2800 min in the log.
We used the 1600 watts to run our Fridge, electric space heaters, our Blu-ray Player and LED TV, a dehumidifier to dry the bathroom some. We never lost hot water because this home we rent space from has a natural gas water heater that works even when grid power is lost, something we tested on the first evening without power. I took my bicycle for a ride for the first time in a couple of years and Meg & I went and played tennis at the closest public park with tennis courts that were still slightly wet and gladded with tree debris because of the recent windstorm, with winds that peaked at 77 MPH. Without power or internet at home, we went for more walks, spent more time reading the bible, cooking over a tiny butane camping stove on our dinner table.
Normally our indoor home temperature peaks at about 70 during the day and dips to 65 at night, but during the power outage the natural gas furnace was not able to work without the blower motor energized or board logic control powered on, so the inside temperate dipped to 52 at night and with very method plausible including some sun assist on the day we played tennis, we were able to heat to a peak temp of 65. These are in imperial Fahrenheit temps America lol I really like metric too, it's so much easier to think in Metric numbers, especially doing math with metric measurements. Imperial units are bizarre and speak of the random nature of human cultural history or lack of applied international units' standards.
Weird not having internet for the first time since I first went online at 12 years of age in 1995 over a dial up connection to AOL using Netscape navigator in Windows 95 OS on am Intel desktop with AGP dedicated graphics card over the blue VGA cable to a Viewsonic Color CRT monitor that I purchased used from a computer recycling shop. I got the desktop parts, tower, power supply and cable, keyboard wired and wired mouse, from a computer shop in Kent Washington for $480 that I had saved from mowing my neighbors' lawns for a fee since age 10. My adoptive father thought it was a good idea to let my build a computer from parts, since I had a library book about how to home build a computer from parts that I had rented from the closest public library on Newport Way in South Bellevue. At this time a 10-speed white child bicycle was my primary vehicle, so my dad drove me to the computer shop perhaps 25 miles away, to get the computer parts. I build the computer on a Saturday during the school season that year 1995-96. It was a big gray heavy box. The monitor plastic was white, and all the cables were black. The keyboard and mouse were ivory warm white colored plastic. I think it featured a 100mb hard drive where I installed the OS over an IDE CDROM drive that a family friend who worked at Microsoft operating the Microsoft Store on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond gave me as a Christmas Present, both the OS install disk & CDROM drive.
Age Appropriate Gender Education
Parents of children in public elementary schools have taken their young children out of public school to private schools since the public schools are having transgender woke extremists come to assemblies to teach young children about gender fluidity or gender questioning or some other cultural terrorist level woke nonsense that offends and upsets most regular people worldwide.
99.999999% of Adult Humans are Heterosexual where XX women have sexual relations with XY men, fact check that, especially if you are a progressive liberal or part of the Woke movement.
That means the overwhelming vast majority of the general public around the world find WOKE offensive when it extends to allowing boys to compete with girls in athetics if the boys claim to identify as a girl. This results in many girls being injured by boys, and boys being faster & stronger also steals the number 1 spot on sport teams, girls sports teams, where the boy as the best player get the scholarship, stealing from the next best girl or female on the team.
That's immoral, unethical, unfair & unreasonable. If we allow boys & men to become women, that erases women & totally nullifies the idea of gender equity or women's rights, so that men & women have equal opportunities. Title 9 was to allow girls and women to have girl or women sports teams in schools, including colleges. Men born XY male should never be allowed to compete on teams of women or girls boy XX female #science #biology #history #womensrights #morality #ethics #fairness #equality What kind of deranged sicko wants boys to compete on a girls sports team? Most people think the idea of this is rediculous or outragous & reject and oppose & disagree with allowing an XY boy or man to join an XX girl of female sports team.