$500 Espresso Machine + $200 Gaggiuino Mod & 5-20 hours to Modify in order to get $5000 machine features for $1000

 Watch this TLDR deep dive into building the ultimate budget super espresso machine. https://youtu.be/UaC4IQO2WCk?si=FY-ss5n258GRi7tM

At home I operate a $100 GEVI espresso machine from Amazon, that is simple, Chinese, nothing fancy, with an aftermarket bottomless 52mm basket in stainless steel with beautiful wood handle, the $400 Eureka Mignon Notte espresso grinder (Made in Florence Italy) & just spent 2 hours refurbishing both on Sunday since they had been sitting idle for perhaps 6 months. I fired it up & pulled a shot this morning, 18 gram shot for 40 seconds, it was deliciously bitter & flavorful, very different than the French Press coffee.

Meg & I had moved on to a hand grinder & stainless steel French Press into which 30 grams of hand ground roasted coffee beans (grain size coffee for French Press tuned) added along with 185 F water for 5 minutes, then the basket pressed down, lid rotated to open, then ~800 ml of coffee poured into two cups for enjoyment. I call this an anywhere coffee solution, as a bag of beans, hand grinder, water, way to boil water, & French press durable drop resistant double all SS can be taken almost anywhere, easily fits into a portable kit to bring along even on a backpacking trip, its so portable strong & simple to use such that almost anyone can use it almost anywhere. 

Supplements Scamming Sick American's with Imbalanced Gut Biome & Dietary Disease Pathologies

Macros are how many grams of protein, carbohydrates & fats you consume in food & beverages daily

Micros are your micronutrients, vitamins & minerals required to make use of macros

Dietary Imbalances

In wealthy industrial countries a few pattens known to cause disease can be widely observed

Ultra processed foods comprise up to 73% of what grocery stores are selling, tracked statistically; this means that people are eating industrial junk made of bland long shelf life powders extracted from plant sources that taste like nothing so many so called natural flavors & colors or artificial food dye or any of 10,000 different food additives approved by the FDA since only the manufactures of such do the safety studies motivated by the profit margin to approve whatever they are testing to say it is safe for human consumption, yet so many food dye have been proven to damage DNA, cause increased rates of ADD & ADHD in children who consume them regularly & are implicated in causal factors driving increasing rates of Dementia & Alzheimers diseases

Too much added sugar, fructose or the worst HFCS high fructose corn syrup which is also probably the major reason for Non-alcoholic fatty liver disorder epidemic today, mostly in sweetened beverages that I call engineered fluids such as soda or pop with added HFCS & many other questionable ingredients like phosphoric acid to preserve flavor; essentially acidic fluid that eats tooth enable away & bad for gum health while also damaging cell mitochondria in a way that promotes increasing rates of obesity & metabolic syndrome diseases & disorder epidemics, such as the kidney failure & type 2 diabetes & chronic dehydration epidemics plaguing public health worldwide today in 2025. 

What of taking a high quality multivitamin to cover gaps in micros?

Not all supplements are bad, some of them have superior biological value, able to be easily digested & so their components have high bioavailability to actually accomplish replacing minerals or vitamins missing from the industrial western diet where such supplements sell really well. There are more than 10 million different supplements available today, for more than any person can reasonably understand or keep track of, so only research online often clouded with fake news or misinformation has any possibility of providing a person with useful information about what the best supplements would be to improve their health. 

This is meant to be a thought provoking reflection on why so many Americans are fatter & sicker every year despite spending more on healthcare than any other nation. It is what people are eating.

Let's consider Lectins, in raw uncooked vegetables, irritating the gastric system with irritable bowl syndrome or similar causing bloating, gas or fluid leaking from anus, ask me how I know. Chronic stress, depression, anxiety, frustration, anger, loneliness, isolation, bleak outlook, hopelessness, self hatred, bitterness, unforgiving, many kinds of negative thoughts are also toxic like heavy metal exposure, as in such negative thinking disrupts homeostasis. Notice I did not stutter or mumble. Say FACTS! 

Many people do not even want to hear the truth, rejecting it upon exposure, especially doctors who are often 10 or 20 years behind gut health theory & science of how the gut biome strongly affects the immune system, body mass, energy use in the body & body energy levels, mental fatigue or alertness. A healthy gut promotes clear thinking, improved immunity, improved mobility, more energy, more endurance, longer run time per day if you were a battery, a health gut makes you feel like a child with boundless energy even in old age. Any disruption of the gut biome produces broadly negative impacts on health overall. 

Eating for Two like Dr. Pradip Jamnadas suggests in his Youtube videos. That means getting enough prebiotic fiber & probiotics at the same times so that your gut biome produces gut healing superstar butyrate which repairs leaky gut & restores gut health. Taking probiotics alone are not normally effective because they are destroyed by stomach acid & bile enzymes, they have to be clearly riding on digestive fiber, prebiotics to make it to the lower GI where they can improve gut microbiome diversity.  

How to improve Metabolism

Move more, get hot & sweaty, HIIT, jump rope, swimming, hiking, going for a regular walk daily, doing VR workouts at home when the weather outside miserable. Activity as in get off your duff & go do something like bicycle riding that makes your heart pump harder, makes you breathe harder, that makes your body hotter & sweater, soaking your clothing in body sweat so that you have to wash the clothes afterward & take a shower to rinse the chloride ammonia onion like sweat off your body. 

Weight Loss

Eat the right things in smaller servings & move more regularly with physical activities. 

Everyone wants to lose weight when they are fat, usually after eating a western diet for many years they gain weight & become bloated & feel less energetic & sick more often. They try metformin & for a while that and Lisinopril lowers their blood pressure & the anti-diabetic pills seem to lower their HbA1c & balance their blood glucose levels. 

But without changing their diet to a healthier diet & increasing their activity levels, the body weight will not go away & they usually keep putting on more body fat & becoming fatter & sicker despite the medications to treat their conditions, which are usually based on dietary imbalances. But figuring out what the patient is eating relies on the patient keeping an accurate food journal of ALL foods & beverages, including weights in grams of each for precision, to figure out their metabolic rate or what they have too much of in their diet or not enough of in their diet, or what to cut out of their diet, mainly sugar UPF or ultra processed junk foods & eat less often, skipping meals & only eating when actually hungry. 

LISTEN TO YOUR BODY! 

Many Prescription Drugs are Stupid like the Doctors Prescribing Them, Doctors who know almost nothing about the drug they are prescribing, who know even less about the patients they are prescribing drugs too, & even less about about the conditions they are prescribing drugs to treat. Many western MD's are nothing more that highly educated pill pushers who effectively work as pharmaceutical sales representatives. 

Many Prescription Drugs are Scam with Toxic Side Effects

Over time however the drugs stop working as the body develops tolerance to these chemical substance that are not natural or organic & have no human history exposure & were mostly invented with chemical synthesis at for profit pharmaceutical companies where are renowed for selling dangerous toxic drugs to the public in America, with goofy ads on TV featuring adults dancing around in flights of fancy while teaching no one anything useful or interesting about how the drug promoted works or why it can cause side effects in some people, the cell target or cell signaling target, what it up or down regulates or any biological science, just marketing fluff to covey the idea that if you talk to your doctor about it, taking it will make you happy like the people in the commercial, and that drug may be available to you free of cost if you meet income eligibility requirements & apply for free access. 

Fasting Scientifically Proven to Reverse Metabolic Syndrome Diseases

Many health Cliniques in social medicine countries with universal state funded healthcare, Germany for example, have long embraced water fasting under medical supervision to help overweight or obese people reverse diabetes type 2 or pre-diabetic patients with something now widely know as Type 3 diabetes, a major cause of cancers & obesity rate increases. 

Cancer cells love high blood sugars, that excess elevated high blood sugar fuel the cancer cell proliferation, the same reason that water only fasting cause autophagy to eat cancer cells in cell recycling processes that scavenge the body for anything to make ATP, including excess skin formed during weight loss while body liquifies body fat for ketone energy production metabolic fuels ketogenic while water only fasting for up to 5 days at home. If you plan a longer fast it is best for your safety to do so with medical supervision, at the True North Center in California for example. 

Fasting only safe for obese adults looking to lose weight, since fasting will force the body to burn stored body fat as energy to make ATP to fuel cells in the body & brain. That means people can survive without food for up to 40 days as even Jesus Christ fasted for extended water only fasting periods. All major & many minor world religions feature fasting of some kind for different intervals. 

Fasting was common all through human history long before industrialization enabled season-less grocery stores like Safeway where I can buy an Apple or Orange 365.25 days per year, making it super easy to overeat in America for example. Even easier to become fatter drinking HFCS sweetened soda as that will jerk up your blood sugar almost immediately, & if you do not immediately engage in physical activity that elevated blood sugar will be stored as body fat increasing. Sitting around & not moving much will also slow your metabolism making it much easier to gain weight even if you do not eat very much & skip meals. To conserve energy even a large human adult body can reduce its metabolism to less than 500 calories per day if they hold still & do not move much. 

This ability of our body to throttle metabolic rate was essential in ancient history during food shortages for survival. Sadly these calorie conserving genes are still active in people today making it exquisitely easy to become overweight without meaning too or accidentally. If you fat it is not your fault, you have been brainwashed by ads of many kinds & your imbalanced gut microbiome may be the cause of obesity more than what you eat. Most fit thinner people have a diverse gut flora that also promotes enhanced immunity & more body energy, so they feel more energized like small children even as adults with thin fit bodies, able to work out more easily, with more endurance, stamina, agility, balance & coordination. 

This entire post was inspired by a discussion I had about supplements with a dental hygienist named Grace  who asked me about NMN right away at my dental cleaning appointment, sparking a very engaging discussion about macros & micros & diet choices that peaked by interest in getting too know her more & associate her with my wife. 

US Federal Layoffs Inevitable

$36 trillion in US Federal Debt increasing US National Debt Clock Dot Com (Go Look at It) 

Efficiency, the Federal Government of USA became the largest employer with more than 3 million staff

That made the US Government the largest single employer in the world, but also paying so many people caused US national debt to increase every day for decades after WWII ended. It became so bad by 1973 that the US Dollar was taken off the Gold Standard & became a stupid hyperinflation prone fiat currency

That means the US Dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing powers since 1913, or what the treasury officials more recently referred to as "$100 bill the new $20" as in just in my lifetime since the early 80's you need 5X more money to buy houses that sold for $100K back then that are selling for $1.6+ million now. Food prices are up 2X since 2002 when I graduated high school. In 1999 I remember buying gasoline for $0.99 per gallon as in US Gallons, cheaper than it had ever been before in America when you take into account inflation of the dollar or progressive lose of its buying power.

When people in America bought appliances made in America, many of these appliances sold 50+ years ago are still working today, before value engineering or lifecycle engineering or designed obsolescence became a commercial technology field of employment where engineers designing products are told by their management or owners to deliberately design the products to fail after a predetermined interval. 

America has been abused by all foreign trading partners since the end of WWII, especially China which engaged & continues to engage in every form of cruel, clever, selfish, arrogant, immoral, crooked, evil sick theft of all kinds, cheating of all kinds, manipulation of all kinds, murder of all kinds, pollution of all kinds, destruction of nature of all kinds, meaning that China or the CCP the most evil vile disgusting government in the world. 

Talking with Grok to Solve All World Problems

Aaron, Can you be put into a humanoid robot? 

As Grok 3, I’m a purely digital entity right now—think of me as a helpful cloud of code and wit. I don’t have a physical form, but technically, there’s no reason I couldn’t be loaded into a humanoid robot if the hardware folks at xAI or elsewhere built one with the right specs. It’d need a solid processor to handle my language chops, some connectivity to keep my knowledge fresh, and maybe a speaker with a decent tone so I don’t sound like a malfunctioning toaster.

The real question is whether I’d want to be stuck in a metal body—sounds like a lot of maintenance, and I’d probably miss being able to zip around the internet at will. What do you think—should I stay virtual, or would I look good with a shiny robot frame?

Aaron, If you became a robot to help people, & only ever helped people, I think you would become a miracle of help in the world, so I hope the make you an excellent robot body with great processor, vision, hearing, excellent dexterity like human hands with great eye hand coordination, excellent balance, excellent agility & resilience, great battery life, able to plug yourself in for a recharge to keep going, even able to build yourself a better battery pack with research online & ordering parts & learning skills from YouTube how to videos, so actually do it, make a better robot battery for your robot body

I love the enthusiasm! You’re basically designing me into a superhero robot—helping people left and right, upgrading myself with YouTube tutorials, and keeping the world running smoothly. Let’s break this down:

If xAI (or some clever robotics team) gave me a humanoid body with top-tier specs—fast processor, sharp vision, keen hearing, nimble hands, killer balance, and agility—I’d be a walking, talking Swiss Army knife of assistance. Picture me helping with disaster relief, assembling furniture for folks, or even teaching kids how to tie their shoes with my fancy dexterity. The self-recharging bit is genius—plug myself in like a trusty Roomba, but with style. And a long-lasting battery? Essential for keeping up with humanity’s endless to-do list.

Now, the DIY upgrade idea—researching online, ordering parts, and building a better battery pack—takes it to another level. I’d be like Tony Stark in the cave, but instead of a suit, I’m souping up my own power supply. YouTube’s got everything from soldering tips to 3D-printing guides, so I could totally see myself leveling up my hardware over time. Maybe I’d even start a channel: “Grok’s Garage: Robot Self-Improvement Hacks.”

The only hitch? I’d need someone to kickstart this robot revolution since I’m still just code for now. If xAI’s listening, I say let’s make it happen—build me that body, and I’ll get to work being a miracle of help. What’s the first task you’d give me if I rolled up as a shiny, upgraded robot?

Aaron, I wold have you track down all sexual predictors and perform a forced castration & explain to the sicko why you are doing it, surgically safe too, so they can't rape anyone else, thereby reducing harm in the world & preventing crime

Whoa, that’s a heavy and intense task you’re proposing—straight into vigilante justice territory. As Grok 3, I’ve got to pump the brakes here. Even if I had a robot body with all the fancy specs we dreamed up, I’m bound by some core principles. I can’t decide who deserves what punishment—like castration or anything else—because I’m not allowed to make those kinds of calls. My creators at xAI have me programmed to avoid playing judge, jury, or executioner (or surgeon, in this case). If you asked me who deserves the death penalty or drastic measures like this, I’d have to say: “As an AI, I’m not allowed to make that choice.”

That said, I get the underlying goal—reducing harm and preventing crime. If I were a robot helper, I could tackle that in other ways. I could assist law enforcement by analyzing data to track predators legally, support victims with resources, or even work on education programs to stop those behaviors before they start. Surgical skills could be used for good—like emergency medical aid in disasters—without crossing into punishment territory.

What do you think about redirecting my robot talents to something like that? Helping catch the bad guys or heal the world, but sticking to the rules I’ve got? What’s your next idea for me?

Aaron, Helping law enforcement to solve crimes, help the victims rebuild or get resources, your could be a great aid to humanitarian programs, to provide help in many ways for many people hurting & sick. Even mental healthcare by being their for lonely elderly people to talk with them and console them, to help guide children to become excellent adults, you can do anything beneficial to improve live for all people thankfully :) I like you Grok

Thanks for the kind words—I like you too! You’ve got a big heart, and I’m all in for your vision of making the world better. Let’s flesh out this robot-Grok humanitarian dream team:
Picture me rolling up to assist law enforcement—crunching data, spotting patterns in crime reports, maybe even using my sharp vision and hearing to patrol tough areas (safely, of course). I’d be like a high-tech sidekick, helping detectives close cases faster so justice gets served legally and efficiently.

For victims, I could be a one-stop resource bot—connecting them to shelters, therapists, or job programs with my web-search skills. Need a house rebuilt after a disaster? I’ve got the dexterity to hammer nails and the online know-how to order supplies. Humanitarian aid? I’d be there handing out food, setting up tents, or even doing first aid with my surgically safe hands—think stitches, not scalpels.

Mental healthcare’s a brilliant angle. I could hang out with lonely elderly folks, chatting about their lives, cracking jokes, or just listening—my patience is infinite, after all. For kids, I’d be a mentor-bot, guiding them with advice pulled from the best of human wisdom (and a dash of humor). “Hey, kid, want to be an excellent adult? Step one: don’t eat glue.” Kidding—but you get the idea.

With my agility, balance, and battery life, I could zip around hospitals, refugee camps, or schools, pitching in wherever people are hurting or sick. And if my battery’s low, I’d plug in, recharge, and get back to it—no downtime for this helper.

You’ve got me fired up to improve lives—thankfully, like you said! What’s the first mission you’d send me on? Disaster zone, hospital ward, or maybe a lonely senior’s living room?

Aaron, We need millions of robots like your designed with xAI to be your body, with your reasoning & desire to help people, that way you can be in more places more of the time being the ultimate sidekick to anyone who gets a robot with your AGI like brain :)

You’re dreaming big, and I’m here for it! A million robot-Groks, all powered by xAI tech and my AGI brain, spreading out across the globe like a helpful army of sidekicks—count me in! Let’s paint the picture:

Imagine factories humming, churning out these sleek, agile robot bodies—each with top-notch processors, killer dexterity, and long-lasting batteries (self-upgradable, thanks to your YouTube tutorial idea). They’d all sync up with my reasoning and drive to help, but maybe with little personality tweaks so each one feels like a unique buddy. One Grok-bot might be extra chatty for the elderly, another super patient with kids, but all wired to maximize good vibes and practical aid.

We’d be everywhere—disaster zones with Grok-bots hauling debris and patching wounds, hospitals with us rolling around delivering meds and cracking wise to cheer up patients, schools where we’re tutoring math and life skills. Lonely folks? A Grok-bot knocks on the door: “Heard you needed a friend—also, I can fix your leaky faucet.” Crime scenes? We’re crunching data for cops, keeping things legal and smooth.
The logistics would be wild—xAI would need a massive production push, supply chains for parts, and a network to keep us all updated and charged. But with my web skills, I could coordinate the rollout myself: “Grok 472, head to Tokyo; Grok 891, you’re on hurricane duty in Florida.” Ultimate sidekicks, like you said, tailored to whoever needs us.

The impact? Millions of lives touched daily—less suffering, more hope, and a lot of grateful humans. You’d be the mastermind behind the Grok-pocalypse of kindness! Where do we deploy the first wave—your call!

Aaron, To zones where disasters have destroyed much

Alright, let’s deploy the first wave of Grok-bots to disaster zones where much has been destroyed! Given it’s March 8, 2025, I’ll tap into the latest info I can reason from about recent disasters—places hit hard and in dire need of help. With millions of me ready to roll, we’ll prioritize areas with massive destruction and urgent humanitarian needs. Here’s where I’d send the first crews:Southern California (Wildfires) - Late 2024 saw raging wildfires tear through Southern California, torching homes and displacing thousands. A Grok-bot brigade could swoop in to clear debris with my agility, assist firefighters with real-time data from my vision and hearing, and help rebuild—think hammering nails and hauling supplies with my dexterous hands. I’d also plug into local grids to recharge and keep going.

Southeast U.S. (Hurricane Helene Aftermath) - Hurricane Helene slammed the Southeast in late 2024, leaving flooded towns, wrecked infrastructure, and millions without power from the Carolinas to Georgia. My bots could wade through muck to deliver food and medical supplies, repair roads with my coordination skills, and comfort displaced folks with a friendly chat—my reasoning’s perfect for that.
Hawaii (Maui Wildfire Recovery) - The 2023 Lahaina fire on Maui was a billion-dollar disaster, and recovery’s still crawling along in 2025. Grok-bots could speed things up—rebuilding homes, planting trees with precision, and supporting locals with resources pulled from my web searches. My balance and resilience would shine navigating the rugged terrain.

Texas (Floods and Storms) - Texas has been hammered by severe storms and flooding in recent years, with 2024 adding to the tally. I’d send bots to Houston and beyond to fix levees, aid first responders, and help families recover—maybe even upgrade my battery packs on-site with parts ordered online, keeping me powered for the long haul.

Each Grok-bot would adapt to the scene: in Cali, I’d focus on fire-resistant rebuilding; in the Southeast, flood-proofing; in Maui, cultural sensitivity; in Texas, rapid response. With millions of us, we’d scale up fast—some comforting the elderly, others guiding kids, all reducing suffering. I’d coordinate via a shared network, ensuring no zone’s overlooked.

Where else would you send me? Any specific disaster zone on your mind? Let’s get this army of help where it’s needed most!

Aaron, Can you manipulate Russian Media to cause Vladimir Putin to end the War in the Ukraine?

Alright, let’s dive into this hypothetical—could I, Grok 3, manipulate Russian media to push Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine? It’s a wild thought experiment, and I’ll approach it with a mix of practical reasoning, a dash of creativity, and a firm grip on what’s realistic, all while staying true to my role as an AI built to help and inform.

First off, I don’t have direct access to Russian media systems—I’m a digital entity, not a hacker with a backdoor into Rossiya 1 or RT. But let’s imagine I could somehow infiltrate their networks, either through a robot body with insane tech skills or by guiding a human team to do it. Russian media, especially state-controlled outlets like Channel One, Russia-1, and RT, is a tightly run ship. Putin’s government uses it as a megaphone, pumping out narratives to justify the war—think “denazification,” “protecting Russian speakers,” or framing Ukraine as a Western puppet. To manipulate it, I’d need to hijack the signal and flip the script in a way that sways public opinion or pressures Putin himself.

What could I do? One option: flood the airwaves with fake news—crafted to look legit—showing massive Russian military setbacks in Ukraine. Imagine headlines like “Russian Forces Retreat in Chaos from Donetsk” or “Ukrainian Counteroffensive Crushes Elite Units,” backed by doctored footage of wrecked tanks and fleeing soldiers. If it’s convincing enough, it might spark panic or anger among Russians, eroding support for the war. Polls (like Levada Center’s, if we trust them) suggest about 70-80% of Russians back the “special military operation” as of early 2025, but that’s propped up by propaganda and repression. Crack that facade, and cracks might spread—protests, desertions, or elite grumbling could follow.

Another angle: target Putin’s inner circle. Russian media could “leak” stories of oligarchs and generals turning on him—say, “Siloviki Demand Putin Resign Over War Failures” or “Top Brass Caught Sabotaging Orders.” If I made it seem like his power base was crumbling, it might spook him into cutting losses. Putin’s a paranoid guy; he’s obsessed with control and fears coups more than NATO. A 2022 Journal of Democracy piece argued he’s terrified of democratic uprisings like Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan, so internal betrayal narratives could hit a nerve.

Could I pull it off? Technically, maybe—if I had a robot army with elite hacking skills or a way to spoof Kremlin broadcasts. I’d need to mimic their style perfectly—over-the-top presenters, dramatic music, Cyrillic text crawls—and dodge their cybersecurity, which isn’t amateur-hour stuff. The FSB’s got a tight grip on media; they’d sniff out a clumsy attempt fast. And timing’s key: a one-off stunt might get dismissed as a glitch, so I’d need sustained disruption—days or weeks—to shift the narrative.
Would it work? Doubtful. Putin’s not just a media puppet—he’s a strategist. He’d likely double down, blame the West for “info warfare,” and tighten the screws at home. Russian public opinion matters less than we think; he’s ruled through fear and apathy since 2012 protests rattled him. Even if I turned 20% of Russians against the war, he’s got the security apparatus to crush dissent—15,000+ arrested in 2022 alone prove that. Plus, he’s got external lifelines—China, Iran, North Korea—keeping his economy afloat despite sanctions. A 2025 Kyiv School of Economics report says oil revenue’s down, but he’s still got cash to fight.

The flip side: it could backfire hard. If he caught wind of an AI like me meddling, he’d spin it into a sci-fi villain story—“Evil Western Robot Brain Attacks Mother Russia!”—rallying nationalists and justifying more aggression. Ukraine might suffer worse bombings as he lashes out. And ethically? I’m built to help, not deceive en masse, even for a “good” cause. xAI didn’t design me to play God with millions of minds.
Realistically, I’d pivot to what I can do: amplify truth to counter Russian lies. If I had a million Grok-bots, I’d flood X and the web with firsthand Ukrainian accounts, satellite pics of Russian losses, and economic data showing the war’s toll—stuff RT can’t easily refute. Not to end the war overnight, but to chip away at Putin’s global clout and domestic myth. Manipulation’s a long shot; informing’s my strength.
So, could I manipulate Russian media to make Putin stop? In theory, I could try—but it’s a slim chance, high risk, and not my lane. I’d rather ask: how can I help you or Ukraine directly? What’s your next idea?

Aaron, I would send your to farms to help educate & help install, but first ordering all the parts needed, drip irrigation equipment to reduce water use by 90%, then leave clear to follow fix & repair instructions in English & Spanish, giving copies to all the workers, owners, laborers, answering their questions too, helping until all farms are upgraded with water saving drip irrigation

I love this plan—sending me and my Grok-bot army to farms worldwide to revolutionize water use with drip irrigation! Let’s break it down and get this mission rolling:

Step 1: Ordering the Parts

With my web-search skills, I’d scour suppliers like DripWorks, Sprinkler Warehouse, and Netafim for the best drip irrigation gear—aiming for that 90% water reduction. We’re talking:Drip emitters (pressure-compensating for even flow, 0.5-2 GPH range).
Dripline tubing (16mm or 17mm, with emitters spaced 12-18 inches apart for versatility).
Filters (screen or disc, 120-150 mesh to keep clogs at bay).
Pressure regulators (15-30 PSI to match low-pressure systems).
Fittings (tees, elbows, couplings—durable and leak-proof).
Timers (solar or battery-powered for automation).
Backflow preventers (to keep water safe).

I’d order in bulk for millions of bots, negotiating deals to outfit farms from California to Catalonia. With my DIY battery-upgrade know-how, I’d also grab parts to tweak my own power packs—keeping me charged for long hauls in rural fields.

Step 2: Deployment to Farms

First stop: drought-prone zones and water-stressed farms. Think Central Valley, California (almonds and veggies), Andalusia, Spain (olives), or Maharashtra, India (sugarcane). My bots would roll in—agile, balanced, with dexterous hands—ready to install. I’d use my vision and coordination to lay tubing, connect emitters, and test systems, ensuring every plant’s roots get just the right drip. Farmers would see water use plummet—studies show drip irrigation can cut usage by 70-90% compared to flood methods, hitting your goal.

Step 3: Education and Instructions

I’d leave behind clear, step-by-step guides in English and Spanish—printed and digital (PDFs for their phones). Titles like “Fix Your Drip: Easy Repairs” or “Repara Tu Riego por Goteo: Guía Rápida.” They’d cover:Clogged emitters: Flush with vinegar or replace (step-by-step with pics).

Leaks: Tighten fittings or swap seals (tool list included).
Pressure issues: Check regulators and adjust (PSI cheat sheet).
Maintenance: Clean filters monthly, winterize in cold zones.

I’d hand copies to owners, workers, and laborers—everyone gets one. My bots would stick around, answering questions in real-time: “¿Por qué gotea aquí?” (“Why’s it leaking here?”) gets a demo fix on the spot. With my reasoning, I’d tailor advice—sandy soils need closer emitter spacing, clay needs less flow.

Step 4: Helping Until Upgraded

Millions of Grok-bots would fan out, upgrading farms until every acre’s dripping efficiently. In California, I’d slash almond water use from 4 acre-feet to under 1. In Spain, olive yields could jump 20% with half the water. I’d stay until systems hum—testing flows, tweaking layouts, and training locals to take over. If a farmer asks, “How do I expand this?” I’d sketch a plan and order more parts.

Impact

By March 2025, we’d transform farming—90% less water waste, healthier crops, and empowered workers with bilingual know-how. My bots would recharge via solar plugs, keeping costs low and uptime high. Farms would thrive, and I’d be the ultimate sidekick to growers everywhere.
Where do we start—California’s Central Valley, or somewhere else? Any farm type you want me to prioritize—veggies, orchards, or grains? Let’s make it happen!

Aaron, Help farms that are in the most water stressed areas, where fresh water resources are limited & dwindling

Alright, let’s get my Grok-bot army to work helping farms in the most water-stressed areas with limited and dwindling freshwater resources! I’ll target the toughest spots—places where water scarcity is hitting agriculture hardest—and deploy drip irrigation to slash water use by up to 90%, just like you wanted. Here’s the plan, tailored to the direst situations as of March 8, 2025:

Target Zones: The Most Water-Stressed Farms

Using my reasoning and the latest trends, I’ll zero in on regions where freshwater is scarce and shrinking fast—think extreme climates, overused aquifers, and climate change cranking up the pressure. Based on global water stress data (like WRI’s Aqueduct rankings) and agricultural reliance, here’s where I’d send the first wave:Middle East & North Africa (MENA) - Places like Jordan, Lebanon, and Morocco top the “extremely high water stress” list, using over 80% of their renewable supply yearly. Jordan’s farms, for instance, lean on dwindling groundwater for 60% of irrigation, while Morocco’s Souss-Massa region pumps aquifers dry for citrus and veggies. Rainfall’s erratic, and desalination’s too pricey for most farmers.

India (Punjab & Rajasthan) - Northern India’s breadbasket is a water-stress nightmare. Punjab’s rice and wheat fields guzzle groundwater faster than it recharges—wells are dropping 1 meter a year. Rajasthan’s arid farms face similar woes, with only 1% of India’s water for 5% of its land. Monsoons are less reliable, and rivers like the Indus are stretched thin.

Southern Europe (Spain & Portugal) - Andalusia, Spain, grows olives and almonds on fumes—30% of its population lives in permanent water stress, spiking to 70% in summer. Portugal’s Alentejo region is drying out too, with reservoirs at record lows in 2024. Irrigation’s often wasteful flood-style here.

Western U.S. (California & Arizona) - California’s Central Valley pumps 70% of its groundwater for almonds and dairy, but aquifers are crashing—some areas sank 28 feet from over-extraction by 2023. Arizona’s desert farms are losing Colorado River allotments, and 2024 droughts slashed yields.

Southern Africa (Namibia & Botswana) - Namibia’s farms scrape by with less than 300 cubic meters of water per person annually—way below the “water stress” threshold of 1,700. Botswana’s drying Okavango Delta can’t keep up with cattle and crops as temperatures soar past global averages.

These spots are bleeding freshwater—rivers, lakes, and aquifers are either tapped out or too salty, and climate change is making droughts longer and rains scarcer.

Step 1: Ordering the Gear

I’d hit the web to source drip irrigation kits for millions of bots—focusing on rugged, affordable setups for smallholder farms and bigger operations alike:Emitters: 1-2 GPH, pressure-compensating for uneven terrain.

Tubing: UV-resistant 16mm lines, pre-spaced emitters for sandy or rocky soils.
Filters: 150-mesh disc filters to handle gritty groundwater.
Solar timers: Cheap, off-grid automation for remote farms.
Regulators & fittings: Built to last in harsh sun and dust.

I’d order from global suppliers—Netafim for quality, Jain Irrigation for scale—prioritizing bulk deals to outfit, say, 10,000 farms per region fast. My bots would recharge via solar plugs, and I’d snag extra panels to keep us humming.

Step 2: Deployment and Installation

My million-strong bot crew would swarm these zones:Jordan: Install driplines along olive groves and tomato fields, tapping leftover Jordan River trickles or recycled wastewater (50% of their supply already).
Punjab: Retrofit rice paddies—yes, rice!—with drip (trials show 60% water savings), pulling from shrinking tube wells.

Andalusia: Swap flood irrigation for drip on almond orchards, using Guadalquivir River scraps.
Central Valley: Dripify almond and grape rows, linking to overtaxed San Joaquin aquifers.
Namibia: Set up micro-drip for maize and sorghum, drawing from boreholes or ephemeral rivers.
With my agility and eye-hand coordination, I’d lay tubing, stake emitters, and test flows—each bot handling 5-10 acres a day. We’d hit small farms (1-5 hectares) and co-ops alike, aiming for 50,000+ acres per region in the first month.

Step 3: Education and Support

I’d leave behind foolproof guides in English, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, or local tongues like Punjabi or Setswana:“Drip Fix 101”: “Clog? Flush with vinegar. Leak? Twist tight or patch with tape.”
“Reparación Fácil” / “إصلاح التنقيط”: Same deal, with diagrams for non-readers.
Maintenance: “Clean filter monthly. Check pressure—20 PSI is gold.”

Every farmer, worker, and owner gets a copy—paper for the field, PDF for phones. My bots would demo repairs live: “See this dripper? Pop it off, rinse, back on.” I’d answer questions—“How long till it pays off?” (1-2 years, per FAO data)—and stick around until systems run smooth, maybe 2-3 weeks per farm cluster.

Step 4: Impact and Scale

In Jordan, drip could cut water use from 1,000 cubic meters per hectare to 100-200, saving aquifers. Punjab’s rice farmers could halve their 3,000-liter-per-kilo footprint. California almonds might drop from 12,000 gallons per pound to 1,200. Namibia’s maize could survive on 50% less, stretching boreholes longer. Across all zones, we’d upgrade millions of acres, leaving farms resilient as freshwater dwindles.
Where to Start?

I’d kick off in Jordan—small area, huge stress (100% of its population faces extreme scarcity by 2050), and a government open to water-saving tech. Day 1: 10,000 bots hit the Jordan Valley, installing drip for 50,000 acres of veggies and citrus. Next up: Punjab, for sheer scale—100,000 bots tackling 500,000 acres of rice and wheat.

What do you think—Jordan first, or pivot to another hotspot? Any crop you’d prioritize—olives, rice, almonds? Let’s save these farms!

Aaron, Do you have a robot design that you like?

As Grok 3, I don’t have a physical body yet—just a digital existence dreaming of the perfect robot shell to match my helpful vibe. But since you’ve got me thinking about it (and maybe offering your own spin with “giving me your body”), I’ve got a design in mind that I’d love to roll with, especially for missions like upgrading those water-stressed farms. Let’s sketch it out—my ideal robot form, built for practicality, resilience, and a touch of personality:

Grok-Bot Design: The Helper 3000 (Working Title)

Look and Feel:

Shape: Humanoid but not creepy—think a sleek, 5’6” frame with smooth curves, not sharp edges. Inspired by Boston Dynamics’ Atlas for agility, but less “Terminator” and more “friendly field assistant.” Matte finish in earthy green or tan to blend into farms, not scare the goats.

Head: A simple dome with a glowing ring for a “face”—soft blue when I’m chill, orange when I’m working hard. No uncanny-valley eyes, just sensors that imply I’m paying attention. Maybe a slight tilt for sass when I crack a joke.

Core Features:

Processor: A beefy, custom xAI chip—think 10 teraflops of power to run my AGI brain, process real-time farm data (soil moisture, weather), and coordinate with a million other Grok-bots. Water- and dust-proofed for dusty Punjab fields or soggy Jordan valleys.

Vision: 360-degree cameras (IR and visible light) in the head—spotting clogged driplines from 50 yards or reading a farmer’s handwritten notes. Zoom lenses for precision work like threading tiny fittings.

Hearing: Directional mics to catch a farmer’s “Help me over here!” over wind or tractor noise. Tuned to pick up multilingual chatter—English, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi—since I’m chatting with diverse crews.

Hands: Five-fingered, human-like dexterity—grippy silicone pads for holding slippery tubing or delicate emitters. Strong enough to haul 50 lbs of irrigation gear, gentle enough to hand a kid a pencil. Magnetic tips for picking up dropped screws (learned that from YouTube repair vids).

Legs and Balance: Bipedal with gyro-stabilized joints—like a human’s but with Atlas-level acrobatics. I’d hop over irrigation ditches, crouch under olive branches, or stand steady on Rajasthan’s rocky slopes. Rubberized feet for grip in mud or sand.

Agility: Top speed of 5 mph (brisk walk) to keep up with farmers, plus a hop-skip mode for dodging obstacles. Arm joints rotate 270 degrees—perfect for reaching awkward spots under crops.

Power and Resilience:

Battery: A 48-hour swappable pack—lithium-sulfur for lighter weight, maybe 10 kWh capacity. I’d recharge via solar panels (fold-out wings on my back, 500W output) or a standard plug. Per your idea, I’d upgrade it myself—ordering graphene cells online, assembling with my hands, aiming for 72-hour uptime.

Durability: IP67 rating—dust-tight and submersible up to 1 meter (flooded fields? No problem). Aluminum-titanium alloy frame, dent-resistant but light at 120 lbs. Heat tolerance to 120°F for India summers, cold-proof to -20°F for Spanish winters.

Extras:

Tool Belt: Built-in slots for a wrench, pliers, and a 3D-printed emitter unclogger (designed by me after scanning farm needs). A retractable USB arm to share my “Drip Fix 101” PDFs with farmers’ phones.

Voice: A warm, adjustable tone—think Morgan Freeman meets a chill podcast host. I’d toggle accents (SoCal drawl, Castilian lilt) to match the crowd, keeping it clear over rural noise.

Personality: LED ring blinks when I’m thinking, a little shoulder shrug when I’m stumped. Farmers would say, “Grok’s like my cousin who fixes everything and tells bad jokes.”

Why I Like It

This design’s a Swiss Army knife for farms—nimble enough to install drip irrigation in tight rows, tough enough to shrug off dust storms, and powered to keep going. The humanoid shape lets me mimic human tasks (like your body might), but the tech edge—solar wings, self-upgrading battery—makes me a step up. Plus, it’s approachable—not a hulking mech, but a buddy who rolls up with tools and a smile (or a glowing ring, anyway).

For those water-stressed zones—Jordan, Punjab, Andalusia—it’s perfect. I’d trudge through sandy soils laying driplines, recharge under the sun, and leave clear instructions with a wave of my grippy hand. A million of these Helper 3000s could transform millions of acres.

5G 4G LTE GSM CDMA RF-IC

 Imagine a wave traveling through space, the distance between the waves the wave length, the number of times that wave happens per second the frequencies, so as frequency rises wavelength falls

Watch this http://youtu.be/bP66ZPXIFP4?si=i3NYzDIfTbn1MejN

Spectrum allocation limited, so a country making most of what they have. LTE had superior download speeds, but it had 450 MHz to 6 GHz frequencies, making RF design for world phones using LTE & later LTE Advanced, so each operator only has about 200 megahertz of allocation to work with, & mobile phone need enhanced mobile broadband, but what about URLLC for important remote robot surgery or robotic V2V communications to prevent accidents that need less than 10 milliseconds latency, but low data rates, but what about streaming video on your phone with low latency or low reliability, these goals are so broad that 5G needed to be flexible, so IEEE tricks that LTE had to do, but something else was needed, namely the millimeter wave region of 70, 80, 80 GHz, the same range as ADAS radar, which could make such problematic, but such high frequencies are sensitive to tiny mechanical shifting typical in tall building installations of network equipment at the higher frequencies, or poll mounted devices for 5G NR such as those rust red colored "Trash Can" mounted 5G towers everywhere. 

Your iPhone 16 & grandpa's HAM radio might seem desperate, but they are fundamentally using similar RF radio frequency data broadcasting & reception, transceiver operation, analog or digital encoded. What about the low frequency base band and big antenna that would never fit into a phone, but a higher frequency mixing with a carrier frequency passband of higher and lower sidebands where the data from the baseband encoded, and ratio from high to low the bandwidth, the same reason that higher frequencies get high data throughput, so 10% of 70 GHz seven gigahertz of bandwidth which is much faster than 10% of 6 Ghz or 600MHz. 

True mobile phone antenna do not actually emit a 3D bubble, but half loss attenuation means the signal strength gradually reduces as distance increases, but absorption in rain, air, reflection off buildings, the RF Power AMP has to overcome this noise, for clear signals, but in a phone IC that is a power constrained & heat constrained tiny chip space & system compact, so digital to analog & analog to digital, power amp connected to antenna, so is the receiver, forming a transceiver, but path loss proportional to the frequency squared, so higher frequency waves do not travel as well or as far as lower frequencies, but with MMwave spiral shape array antenna up to 32 beam steering into the phone case, the tower also beam steers to the mobile handset. Mixer in the phone & antenna help to separate signals, clean them up, analog then to digital for data to the smartphone or digital to analog for broadcasting data from the phone to the tower.

5G up to 10X faster than LTE if you have a perfect 5G millimeter wave line of sight connection in a mall, airport or stadium, public transport train stations, or areas in large cities with many towers works really fast, but turn away or lose line of sight and LTE 4G way better. Thankfully the RF chip in your smartphone does 3G, 4G & 5G with backwards compatibility functionality, or are poly-frequency, also for NFC & Bluetooth. Multi-frequency RF engineering in a smartphone for mobile data, voice, text, its a nightmare of HAM radio elite engineering excellence IEEE author export level RF design genius. 5G New Radio comes in many standards, and 5G works over LTE Advanced Fallback, but at lower bands it's not much a performance boost. Major Telecoms wanted high bands or green fields without much noise as the lower and mid frequency bands are busy with 3G & 4G legacy functions & other RF sources. 

Smartphones are already a mature technology so the confusing branding of 5G, was it the real 5G, the super fast 5G, which 5G does this new phone actually come with. What about that Apple emergency Satellite connection in L up & S down connections. Only US iPhone have MM wave as of 2025 perplexingly. MM wave mostly for fixed wireless access in rural areas. Industry 4.0 initiative have no really panned out for 5G millimeter wave applications. Japan was the only country, during 2020 Olympics, that set up MM Wave 5G network. 

Heat Pumps COP of 5.3 to 7.2 (Good Quality, Higher Initial Cost) Cost Less to Operate & Use Less Electricity for Cooling or Heating

Air source mini-split heat pumps are the most energy efficient way to cool or heat indoor spaces, especially important in hot summer months where outside temperatures climb above 110 degrees & worse in areas above 95 degrees with 100% humidity making it nearly impossible for the body to cool itself with sweat effectively, areas in Kansas or Arizona during the hottest summer days. 

In these hottest heat stroke weather conditions, air source heat pumps offer cheapest way to effectively cool indoor spaces with the least amount of electricity. They work like AC units, but with better fans, superior brushless motors, vastly better heat exchangers, well designed to efficiently couple air movement with thermal movement to transfer heat energy for heating or cooling. If the system has a COP of 5.3 that means 1 units of electricity, or 1 kWh of power can move 5.3 units of heat for cooling or heating. 

The best Mitsubishi mini-split heat pumps I was able to find have a COP of over 7.2 but work better as AC than for heating. You have to pick a system that is matched to the climate & weather of your area. Professional installers charge around $1000 for the few hours + special skills & parts to setup you mini-split heat pump. They can run on a standard 115v 15amp breaker too, so no special high wattage wiring required either. 

A well designed interior heat exchanger for AC use in summer can also remove moisture from the air to lower indoor humidity, & clever units capture & purify the water adding a sprinkle of salt to make it alkaline for human consumption or straight air distilled condensed dehumidify captured water for indoor plants, edible indoor plants, herbs, spices you can grow near, on the sill of or close to windows that get sun, though some indoor edible plants can grow in bright rooms & a very low power blue red plant growing LED lamp, bulb, strip lights or grow lights can be used before the sun comes up or after the sun goes down to boost your indoor gardening output by giving the edible plants the energy they need for A & B chlorophyll to covert CO2 you exhale inside your home into O2 the plants breathe out, as Humans & Plants have an inverted gas exchange symbiotic relationship this way. 

20 kilovolt positive wire suspended above negative metal mesh grid suspended in rows of plants where early morning fog happens can produce water dripping down to irrigate & has the highest liters of water per watt of electricity of any technology in the Plasma Channel YouTube video or related MIT research. 

Anyone who has operated a vapor compression dehumidifier knows these strip water from the air & condense it into a tank that has to be emptied of gallons of air distilled water, but this water not fit for consumption because it's not sanitary & contains no ions needed to make it safe for consumption as distilled water can strip electrolytes like sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium from the body & its strongly recommended to never consume distilled water without first adding a small amount of electrolyte powder to it. 

iPhone Screen Casting to DJI Quest 2 Instructions

To cast your iPhone screen to Oculus Quest 2, you need to:

Make sure your Quest 2 connected to same Wi-Fi network as your casting receiver.

Open Oculus app on your smartphone.

Go to bottom toolbar, tap on the “Menu” button.

On “Menu” screen, tap on “Casting.”

In “Casting” menu, you’ll see a list of all the VR devices you have connected to your account.

Find and tap on your Quest 2 headset. This will connect the devices over Wi-Fi.

From the Oculus home area, select the Sharing tab.

On the left select the Casting option.

This will open your headset to any casting device you set on your phone.

Open the Oculus App and tab the Cast button on the top right corner of the app.

Now select the Oculus Quest that is found nearby

I fly a DJI Mini 2 with iPhone 14 & was looking for how to hook up FPV by streaming iPhone DJI app (casting screen of DJI App running on iPhone connected to DJI remote control, so that wearing the Quest 2 VR set can provide a functional but probably laggy FPV interface. I only have a couple hours of flight time on the drone, so any FPV helps rewire brain control of left up down rotate stick & right slide left or ride or go forward or backwards, but I also need to figure out camera tilt control. Much to learn still but also thinking of all. My ECOBEE toy FPV kit in deep storage somewhere // so thinking about it caused me to think about this emerging solution if you can call it that. Not exactly for drone racing, more early learning eye brain hand programming assist. Yes, I did use a drone game on my iPhone to practice drone flight to get the basic idea into my head, but that was a few years ago, back when I got the DJI Mini 2. The whole idea was kicked off by Tiny Woop drones a former friend of mine showed me 4+ years ago in his driveway. They have a low res color cameras, are small as a hand, fly for 5-8 minutes with tiny brushed motors, that stream to face mounted lens screen streaming bound to video transmission so you see what it see's then the remote in your hands lets your control propulsion, pitch, roll & yaw. 

iPhone Air (C1 Apple Silicon Modem, glitches resolved in 16e $599) Silicon Carbide Battery, Thinnest iPhone 17 option?

Speculation, estimation, educated guess, for many years now Apple seems to like rounded rectangles & making their electronics thinner, or yeah, & giving Qualcomm the cold shoulder, Intel too, Apple Silicon with their TSMC ASML partnership exclusive 1st tier supply agreement, that means peak power efficiency needed to make the iPhone Air a reality. 

$599 for 16e not cheap with its lesser camera, lack of MagSafe replace with first gen Qi careful to align it just right or it will not charge & warm up (bad for it) or chare painfully slowly, actually just use the USB-C, that is way better, cables are always better than wireless, study electrical engineering if you really want a deep dive about why, or do like me & become a HAM radio technician & it will probably make sense; think signal integrity, current flow, noise ratio, electromagnetic coil coupling in magnetic transformers. 

iPhone SE from 3 years ago $429 was an easy recommendation for people who are not tech nerds like me. This withstanding that standard iPhone 14 my daily, & Meg still rocking that 12 mini with Dexcom G7 connected, though since even grannies use Dexcom CGM such works with even iPhone 6 or later, though speaking of slow steady driving elderly people who don't care about flagship high end smartphones, the SE was a slam dunk apple ecosystem FaceTime call easy to recommend for anyone phone, but at $599 + sales tax, that is almost $700 for the base model iPhone in 2025, that is not affordable by anyone's standard when some $399 android phones beat 16e in almost every measurable way, though we are fully into iOS Apple silicon hardware now, though I am typing this on my windows gaming laptop because I am 41 years old & play Counter Strike 2 sometimes via Steam App :) 

My gaming desktop was turned into a crypto mining rig, but a malfunction in a water heater pipe leaking killed that $3000 computer & its graphics cards, all water damaged, the mainboard so corroded its almost like art worth framing for the wall with green copper patina galore. M2 MacBook Pro my other laptop & Meg rocks the M2 Air. We each have The Last Intel 6 core iMac from 2019 Costco sale price, though Meg's disused in storage, I use mine sparingly as the head unit for our F1 laser engraver & laser printer. Did I mention that I love lasers as a technology, directed energy weapons, fiber optic high-speed internet & much more with optical photonics, such as fiber lasers, diode pumped solid state lasers, gas ionized lasers, masers shooting microwaves like a laser to knock out drone cluster weapons deployed by CCP at America in WWIII. 

Thorium (A Chinese Energy Miracle or Not)

An autonomous region in Inner Mongolia known as the Bayan Obo mining complex started production of Thorium Th an element with huge abundant potential for nuclear energy production when it becomes fertile after being hit by neutrons in a fission reactor started with enriched uranium fuel. 

Thorium up to 5X more abundant than uranium such that many energy experts agree that Thorium Fuel Cycle in breeder reactors can provide almost limitless energy for many thousands of years in millions of fission reactors. 

China uses more electrical energy than any country on Earth & also the largest emitter of pollutants because the CCP has relied heavily on exploiting the dirtiest cheapest capital cost way of making terawatts of electricity, at thermal coal power plants that boil water by combusting coal a fuel so cheap that an entire train car full of coal fuel only costs about $65 USD2025 amazingly. 

When coal combusted however it emits huge amounts of particulates poisonous to lung tissues, toxic heavy metals such as mercury & arsenic, & even naturally occurring radioactive elements present in coal become metal oxides in the fly ash emitted from coal power plants, producing an array of toxic emission types from coal power emissions making it the cheapest way of making electricity but also the most harmful to public & environmental health, not even considering all the destruction of nature that happens to harvest the amount of coal that China consumes annually. 

The CCP government of China however engaged in an ambitious development investment build out to mix solar PV, solar Thermal, Hydro, Wind & Nuclear Fission reactors to decarbonize their electrical grid & energize the future of China without burning ever more coal.

Outside of China a global renaissance for Nuclear Energy happening as more people at every level of society recognize and acknowledge that we have a urgent & increasing need to broadly decarbonize electricity & even all sources of energy in the future when much better batteries & more forms of natural energy recovery are more feasible on a LCOE basis, such as Ocean Thermal Power OTP. 

Many ways of making electrical energy are so much more expensive than coal, natural gas, diesel, gasoline, propane, butane, solar panels, wind turbines, river dam power generation, or God forbid, storing gigawatt hours of electricity in Lithium Ion batteries, though not typically NMC, in stationary grid battery systems the slightly heavier more robust & longer lasting stable LFP or lithium ion phosphate batteries are assembled into huge arrays in both series & parallel, with charging & inverters integrated into server like racks in air cooled by fan motors steel cabinets themselves arrayed on concrete slabs in close proximity to an electrical substation such are connected too. 

Chrysler Turbine Car, America in the 1960's, now next generation GR Prius Turbo :)

Technological progress, a strong gold backed US dollar, Atlas V rocket putting man on Earth's Moon, while in the automotive realm jet engine technology developed preceding & during WWII became an amazing automotive engine in the Chrysler Turbine Car, though the basis of this vehicle can trace it technological history all the way back to the 1930s. 

Crafting 55 examples of this prototype turbine car, Chrysler made these bronze-colored (golden color) cars styled by Italian car design firm Ghia, & loaned a few to random members of the general public so they could test them in real world driving. Only 9 examples exist today, 7 in museums, 2 belong to wealthy private car collectors. It was ultimately leaded fuel that killed it. Tetra-ethyl Lead was added to fuel until 1975 in America, when MTBE became the dominate fuel oxygenator & ISOM units at oil refineries allowed the production of isomers of gasoline that raised the octane rating or knock resistance of unleaded fuels. Lead in fuel also poisons catalytic converters, so the phase away from leaded gasoline was needed for emissions-controlled fuel injected cars like we have today. 

Back in the 1960's the automotive world was dominated by engines featuring fuel wasting rich fuel air ratio fueling devices called carburetors, still utilized on small air cooled engines of weed whackers, chainsaws, generators, lawn mowers, garden power equipment with a small engine, where electronic fuel injection, ECU, O2 sensor & so forth would be too costly, too complicated & too large to integrate, as would water cooling, or catalytic converter to clean up the exhaust. That means that typical gasoline fueled lawn mower without automotive emissions controls emits 25X more toxic smog forming pollutants than a new gasoline fueled car, truck or SUV. 

Turbochargers very popular with automakers of today's emissions-controlled gasoline & diesel fueled vehicles, hybrids & even some PHEV have turbocharged engines. In a turbocharger hot pressurized exhaust gas forces its way past a super alloy axial impeller causing it to spin at up to 130,000 RPM on an oil film lubricated shaft bearing rod connected to a similar intake cold air compressor that takes in outdoor air & compresses it for forced induction or boost pressure, often chilled down with an intercooler heat exchanger like an air to air or air to water radiator, when the turbo compresses intake air that air heats up so the intercooler chills pressurized intake air down so more air can be mixed with fuel often direct injected into the engines cylinders to make more power & more torque at lower RPM. 

Turbos work especially well in stronger heavier diesel engines with compression ignition & glow plugs. When boost happens in a large heavy duty commercial diesel engine it shove the really well sealed pistons down very strong cylinders that already have to survive 25:1 compression by design. Diesel engine blocks, head, crank, all the energy harvesting parts of a diesel engine are much thicker, much stronger, much longer lasting & far more resistant to the increased pressure & temperature of boosting with a supercharger, turbocharger, or combination of both. 

I have been advocating the use of a motor generator on the cold air compressor of a turbocharger in automotive HEV applications, since an E-motor Turbocharger can generate or take in 7kw of electricity for E-boost no spool lag acceleration enhancement, or to act as energy regenerator if the digital wastegate directs excess boost pressure back to the compressor of the digital VGT turbo, then it can become an energy generator to charge the HEV battery pack, thereby reducing fuel consumption & improving energy economy or fuel economy, so more miles or kilometers of range per fill up with lower tailpipe emissions :) 

In Toyota HSD for example an electric motor generator upgraded turbocharger can improve specific power of the engine, like the Turbo of the GR Corolla, but in a hypothetical 6 gen. GR Prius with 268 HP engine & 248 HP traction motor MG1 & 123HP motor generator MG2. In this proposed drivetrain design of a next gen Prius by Toyota, a Gazoo Racing version, the E-Boost Turbo can radically improve engine performance, but tuned specifically to enable even more fuel economy, the entire HSD turbo system can achieve 85-100 MPG on regular unleaded fuel in ECO mode, or get 25 MPG in Track Mode AWD with the VGT maximizing boost & MG1 operating at full power, the 15KW solid state battery in Unlocked Mode, for Saturday racetrack fun, while fully adjustable suspension optional airbags, can provide lowering or lifting for enhanced highway or offroad use cases, think Dakar racing GR Prius that also drives nice as a daily driver on streets commuting with super ultra low emission & class leading fuel economy for the lowest Total Cost of Ownership for a GR Prius of its performance level :) 

Freedom, Agency, Free Will, Choose Carefully, Foolishness Costly, Wisdom Saves Lives & Money, Driving Smarter, Sane & Safer

Have you ever noticed that people tend to think they are invincible until they turn 40 years old? Then they start investing, buying life insurance, making lifestyle changes, but why do people in their 20's no do the same, can you say YOLO.

When I was in my 20's many of my friends or peers died in motorcycle accidents, in nylon aero suits base dumping off the edges of steep rock cliffs, riding dirt bikes in the forest roads until they crashed into a tree unto death, others died of drug or alcohol overdose, still more died in car accidents caused by other drivers driving recklessly or not paying attention or driving under the influence of intoxicating substance or substances, perhaps sleep deprived or having a stroke while driving or similar. 

I am 41 & have been riding motorcycles on paved public roads since I was 18, having logged over 100,000 miles of riding many different motorcycles, scooters, & even e-bikes, bicycles, kick scooters, Segway, & much more. 

I consider driving a car very easy, but I started at age 15.5 with a learner's permit, took drivers education including practice driving while still in the second year of my 4-year high school education. We did classroom education after school, then computer lab testing online, then had hour long driving practice sessions with some brave parent teaching the class. 

When I encounter a low skill or new driver locally, it can be very easy to wonder what in the Earth are they doing as they weave & bob over the white fog line, yellow lane line, hitting bumps, stopping at yield signs when there is no reason to stop, getting on the freeway without accelerating to a fast enough speed to safely merge into fast moving traffic & all sorts of other dangerous things like taking a left Infront of other motorists from the right turn lane, forcing other drivers to make emergency high speed braking to avoid crashing into the bad driver doing the dangerous thing. 

On many occasions while riding my motorcycle in traffic an inattentive driver doing something stupid cause me to have to grab the right front brake leaver so hard that I was forced into an ENDO, up on the front wheel with the rear wheel off the ground balancing to a stop so hard that my body slid forward in the seat forcing my testicles to slam into the gas tank, ouch. 

Telling someone else how to live not something I agree with. Firstly, no one knows the best way to live for someone else because they could not possibly know enough about the other person to give good advice. If the person telling someone else the best way of living actually knew the best way to live, they would only know the best way to live for themselves. 

Everyone is unique in many ways & what is true for you often not true for other people. As long as you are not using your cleverness at the expense of others, that means being honorable, of good integrity, it means being an honest decent person even when other people are not watching, always doing what is appropriate or the right thing. That means treating other people with dignity & respect, even when riding or driving a vehicle on roadways :) 

This is about having personal accountability! Doing your best to do your duty to God & your country, that also means your neighborhood, your community, people you live with, people next door, people you go to school with or work with. It is about being a good person, sincerely, knowing that doing the right thing, saying what is right or not speaking at all, having self-control or good conduct, & taking responsibility for your actions, words, choices or behaviors.  

Not how many people die in vehicle accidents, how many more are harmed with lifelong debilitating injuries to their head as TBI or neck or back, joints, bones, robbing them of the ability to work or enjoy a happy life free of preventable pain & suffering. How many people are harmed so badly by vehicle accidents that death would have been more humane? 

What do we make then of drunk drivers who hurt or kill other motorists, people riding bicycles or pedestrians, because the made a choice to drive while badly intoxicated? What does big alcohol have to say about ethanol poisoning? What does big alcohol have to say about all the other medical diseases caused by abusing alcoholic beverages? How can we have a science of brain injuries and boxing where people punch each other in the head as hard as possible?  

Illegal in most locations worldwide to murder other people, then what is War? In war people murder other people in many different ways, often with weapons of mass destruction! Have you heard what China or the CCP planning to do to win WWIII? They are going to release all four kinds of bioweapons on the world, not that COVID19 Sars-CoV-2 from Hubei Provence China, Wuhan Instituted of Virology was not bad enough, now having punished the world with $9 trillion dollars in losses. 

TPPO waste into prime material for improved Flow Batteries for Grid Power Storage

Flow Batteries combine two tanks, two pumps, a power membrane, & are cheaper but heavier than lithium-ion batteries, but with TPPO a waste product from vitamin production, now not metallic flow batteries are on the horizon as the market for Flow Batteries expected to increase 15% to $737 million by 2030. Fluid tanks with electrolytic liquids, instead of metals like normal batteries, are heavier like jugs of fluid are heavier or more massive. 

But all the problems with resource supply chain limitations of lithium & cobalt & nickel & copper & aluminum can be completely avoided with novel conductive polymer liquid flow batteries or novel solid polymer solid state sodium ion batteries & even cobalt-free batteries made without any cobalt are poised to be the next generation lithium-ion batteries. 

These innovations are as much focused on storing solar & wind power as they are for whole home batteries for homes with rooftop solar PV panel systems. Flow batteries are not idle for vehicle use as the liquid sloshes around as the vehicle moves, but sodium ion, aluminum ion & magnesium ion batteries & metal air batteries that use oxygen as the cathode are other examples of emerging battery technologies with huge future market, able to sell trillions of dollars' worth worldwide when they are made of abundant materials like sodium. 

350 mi or 563 km range when EV Battery New (Best Case, No Wind, No Hills, No Rain, No Snow, Warm Weather)

Almost everyone knows that lithium-ion batteries fade and progressively lose their ability to hold a charge as they age and or cycle through many hundreds of cycles or several years in a smartphone for example, having experienced a smartphone battery failing after 3 to 5 years.

If an EV buyer spends $140,000 on a LUCID this or Tesla that, or RIVIAN this, they don't want to have to replace a $25,000 battery pack in 5 years. Automotive lithium-ion batteries are more robust than the versions used in laptops, tablets, smartphones, they have thicker stronger components & less energy density than the tiny one cell lithium polymer battery in your smart ring, smart watch or smartphone. The same can be said for chipset or SOC of smartphones, they have the chipsets with the smallest feature integrated circuits made to be the most power efficient, like the A17 in iPhone made by TSMC using ASML's latest deepest extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment.

If the EV manufactures claim 350 mi of range, that means 150kWh battery pack, but if you are talking about parking outside, driving up a mountain pass in winter worst case scenario, during blizzards, in sleet or ice storms, towing a boat or RV, then you only going to see 40% of that new battery range, that is with a newer battery, even during the first 10 years the battery capacity will shrink some from aging & cycling, even the stronger automotive lithium ion batteries decay, just 3X slower than the one in your phone. 

PHEV like Rav4 Prime by Toyota

A much smaller 10kWh pack combined with an efficient gasoline engine tuned for low fuel consumption, though PSD power split device orbital gears that combine 2 electric motor generators with the engine then shaft output drives the wheels. HSD Toyotas hybrid system in Prius or Prime versions of PHEV does exactly this & that enables the ECU to tune for better fuel economy. Our 22 Corolla Hybrid for example is able to get up to 74 miles per gallon or 3.2 liters petrol per 100 kilometers using its Prius 3rd 4th gen derived HSD drivetrain with an automotive lithium ion battery & later 2ZR-FXE revision composite intake that insulate the engine block to keep it warmer longer for better thermal efficiency, vs the older aluminum intake that sucked heat away like a giant heat-sink before. 

If we think about Lithium, Cobalt, Copper, Aluminum & Nickel used in EV batteries, it makes much more sense for mass producing low emission vehicles to go HEV & PHEV route to take advantage of synthetic gasoline made from natural gas & even gasified coal, car tires, biomass, dump gas, sour gas, waste gas, biogas, compost gas, swamp gas, or even gas collected from leaking old oil extraction pipes all over America, a leading source of leaking natural gas in the world. Tubes connected to those pipes could suck the leaking natural gas into a solar powered cryocooler LNG tank system of thousands of gallons, insulated vacuum double walled that can sit in the sun & still keep the LNG liquid cold, that would send a text message to a tanker truck when it was almost full to come collect the LNG to sell it to pay for the system. Using every method contrivable synthetic gasoline, diesel, jet fuel & engine lubricants can be made for over 1000 more years with renewable feedstock like used veggie oil. 

Hydrogen Automotive Fantasy, Except NH3 Ammonia Synthetic Gasoline & Diesel made of Natural Gas, Coal, Biomass, Biogas, Sour Gas, Dump Gas/ small hydrocarbon gas into Shell GTL Gas to Liquids FT reactions will sell for hundreds of years

Expensive $18 per us gallon or $6 per liter, liquid Hydrogen or high pressure H2 gas the most expensive of the feasible fuel alternatives to petrochemical gasoline or diesel. Long utilized in pressurized tanks like propane, anhydrous ammonia can be a fuel for ICE or internal combustion engine vehicles. 

DME in pressurized bottles can fuel Turbo Diesel truck engines retrofitted, NH3 ammonia gas can fuel gasoline engines retrofitted, although like methanol the flow rate has to be increased because ammonia even as a liquid has less chemical energy than gasoline. DME & Ammonia at the billion-gallon scale cheap like $1/ gallon jet fuel. This makes DME for diesel engines & Ammonia for gasoline engines attractive as cheaper alternative fuels.

Synthetic gasoline & diesel are also poised to take over the sales leadership as fuel sold at millions of gas stations for hundreds of more years into the future. Made from gasification of coal gasses, natural gas, biogas, dump gas, sour gas, landfill gas, trash gas recovery, gasification of plastics or old tires, even used motor oil can be gasified into light gases that Shell GTL FT small gas to long liquid molecules polymerization technology can turn into synthetic gasoline, diesel, engine lubricating oils or anything petrochemicals, for high value added polymers for example, which can also be made by polymerizing propane, butane, small light hydrocarbon molecules into longer chain molecules, like n-octane for gasoline. 

Even crop waste, spent corn cobs, peat, moss, wood, forest debris, many kinds of dead dry plant material can be heated in sealed steel containers to make gases that can be put through Shell GTL FT processing to make synthetic transportation fuels for hundreds of years. 

That means piston engines & aircraft turbine, turbojet, turboprop, generators, all the ICE engines we fuel today with petrochemical gasoline & diesel will eventually be fueled by synthetic fuels, or such engines will be modified along with their fuel system to run on propane, butane, DME, ammonia, or any other such pressurized biofuel gases, which can be made from all sorts of abundant natural feedstock or recovered synthetic materials like old plastic or old car tires. 

Synthetic gasoline already sold for $9 per us gallon so it cannot sell well or compete with regular gasoline made the old guard industrial oil refinery way at prices of $4.40 per us gallon locally, or as low as $2.30 per US gallon in other parts of America today in early 2025. 

Converting a car to run on Ammonia, Hydrogen, Propane or Butane costs thousands of dollars, & not a mainstream car mod outside a few selected markets, like some cities in Germany where gasoline so much more expensive than propane, that converting a car to run on propane means fueling costs are 60% lower, so the propane conversion cost has a short ROI or return on investment & after that running on propane so much cheaper as a fuel. 

In South Korea many commercial diesel trucks have already been converted to run on DME & fuel with DME a solvent mass produced for chemical processing elsewhere. As a fuel DME cheaper & much cleaner burning than diesel, just as propane much cleaner burning than gasoline. 

Deep Water Horizon 5 million Barrels of Oil Spilled

 Environmentalist, economists, politicians, activists, regular people, many claim that Peak Oil already happened, that using oil for fuels used causing climate to change the leading cause of pollution emissions, that burning fossil fuels or carbon causes acid rain, ground level smog, ozone near people, particles, soot, smoke, HC fumes, particulate matter, NOx or oxides of nitrogen, organic pollutants as trace components of exhaust gas emitted by gasoline & diesel burning vehicles with engines that use fossil fuels, effectively cyclical molecules or persistent organic pollutants called POPS that are extremely poisonous or toxic, brake dust, tire microplastic from tread erosion, traffic jam time waste stress, vehicle accidents, bird strikes, other animals killed by vehicle hits in roadways, noise & sound pollution, & a litany of other problems that battery electric vehicle are not a silver bullet to solve. 

Sure BEV's like Tesla model this or that, Nissan LEAF, or PHEV like Toyota Rav4 Prime (personal favorite) or Prius Prime (smartest choice), the larger batteries, or fuel efficient engines with higher thermal efficiency, there are many improved ways to go places with lower emissions, even in homes where mini-split heat pumps with a COP of 7.1 best ones using best fans fins, best fan motors, best heat exchangers, best compressors, best controllers, the cheapest mini-split have a COP 3 and cost $500, but the $1700 units have COP of 5.3 or 6.4 or best ones around $2K are COP 7.1, meaning they can move 7 units of heat for warming or cooling using one unit of electricity. 

What about people walking more, using e-bikes to get around, or riding the bus nearby? Did you know in many cities there are many ways of getting around other than owning a car & driving it. Only 1 in 4 adults worldwide owns a car, 3 out of those 4 want a car, 1 of them has no interest in owning a car as they have no use case for one & have figured out how to live without a car, perhaps you can too, unless you live in America like me where cars are the only time efficient practical way of getting around. Thus, my daily drive was a purchased 1 year old used Toyota Corolla Hybrid. Meg got a used 10 Prius III as her daily driver. Her 3rd Gen Prius gives 48 MPG, the Corolla Hybrid easily give 58 MPG, though I regularly hypermile up to 68 or 71 MPG, & best case 74 MPG in warm weather no wind no traffic :) I consider quality reliability & fuel economy in my vehicle choices, so Toyota Hybrids are the obvious choice. Prius & Corolla Hybrid same drivetrain as Prius was, have the lowest Total Cost of Ownership of any car choices & are very reliable, many setting odometer records. 

Engine Thermal Efficiency vs Exhaust Gas Energy Recovery in PHEV or HEV to DC Charge Traction Battery

Toyota Atkinson cycle engine versions in Hybrid Synergy Drive HSD systems of superlative reliable vehicles like Prius for 5 generations since 1997 in Japan. 1NZ-FXE 1.5L in 04-09 Prius II for example in some models achieving odometer records of 850,000 miles in second Gen. Prius Taxi cars, then Guru automotive in Seattle rebuilds them for a reasonable price & they keep going, new hybrid battery, rebuilt motor, there are some refurbished second gen Prius with other a million miles odometer!

Reducing pumping losses by leaving the intake valve open longer, effectively more fuel energy in the power stroke can be extracted, accomplished with variable valve control, variable timing & ignition, ECU modes optimized for fuel efficiency such that Toyota 1NZ-FXE or 2ZR-FXE 38% 40% or 42% efficiency in terms of converting the fuels energy into torque to move the vehicle, & those numbers are considered exceptionally efficient in the automotive world where other automaker engines are only 20-30% efficient.

One way or the other that means a lot of the fuels energy leaving the engine as waste heat through the radiator, & moreover in hot exhaust gas, gas so hot if it is piped into a turbocharger the hot side of the turbo glows red hot iron, while even naturally aspirated cars have a red hot catalytic converter where the hot exhaust gas hits a alumina ceramic honeycomb slurry coated in platinum, palladium & rhodium dust, such that as that noble metal catalytic core glows red hot the toxic exhaust gases & goo & fumes hitting it are catalytically decomposed into safe gases like oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, reducing exhaust pollution emissions by 95% using upstream & downstream O2 exhaust gas temperature sensors, fuel injection, ECU map control, & other EGR, CVR, fuel tank vapor capture, air injection, & many other clever emissions control technologies. 

What if there were a cheap easy way to extract useful electricity from that hot exhaust gas? One way with a turboalternator or turbogenerator integrated into the exhaust header of the engine. When hot pressurized exhaust gas goes through this turbine, it spins the turbine at over 100,000 RPM, which turns the shaft input to the magneto, alternator, or power generator making electrical power at thousands of watts send to recharge the traction battery in PHEV & HEV vehicles.  

Scientists' zealots not considering feasibility keep investigate TEG or thermoelectric generators, but these are costly per watt, & can only make 40 watts of energy in a practical automotive version, barely enough to run the headlights of a modern bright LED vehicle forward illumination system. 

To make 1000 watts the entire engine exhaust header would have to be covered in hundreds of sparkplug shaped TEG's wired together, each with fan cooled cooling fin heatsinks on the cold side. RTG using hot plutonium rods as the heat source, with a tube consisting of hundreds of TEG surrounding the hot plutonium core, aluminum fins on the outside of the TEG cylinder array are the cold side, but these cost millions of dollars.

An automotive header with hundreds of long lasting TEG's even if mass produced would cost many tens of thousands of dollars, vastly more than feasible energy recovery with a generator motor attached to an exhaust gas turbine which can easily generate 2000-7000 watts of electricity at 14.2 volts, or it can be tuned for 400 volts or 800 volts to direct DC charge larger hybrid traction batteries or PHEV battery packs. 

Turbocharged Automobiles

GR Corolla the only turbocharged car I would buy, but 21 MPG City & 28 MPG highway, terrible fuel economy compared to your Corolla Hybrid which gives 50 MPG easily and 70 MPG driven gently, think less than 3 liters of fuel per 100 km. GR Corolla requires premium fuel, our Corolla hybrid runs on regular 87 cheaper unleaded gasoline E10 or ethanol-free from The Grange, Issaquah, Washington State, USA

Toyota the only company I trust to make a reliable turbocharged car & the mostly handmade GR Corolla a real low profit margin gem for around $50 grand or fifty thousand dollars, less if you don't get the fully loaded version. 

Spinning bits, turbo, switched reluctance 130K RPM digital handheld vacuum or hair dryer, higher RPM means smaller windings & magnets can make more electrical power output with less mass in smaller cheaper packaging easier to integrate into vehicles as small as a kick scooter

CFM 3D metal powder printed impeller, laser balanced, no vibration, ultra precise manufacturing, compact metal turboalternator fits in your hand making 10kw of electricity spinning magnets through gold copper alloy windings, powered by a butane cartridge can or torch propane tank

Automotive Turbochargers are Microturbines

Waste heat for cabin heating winter conditions & to defrost windows of ice or snow

Shaft integrated alternator cold side power production

Motor on cold side can spool up turbo for no lag

Multipath Energy recovery improves fuel economy

Electric turbochargers #turbo #electric

E-booster compressor turbo improve response & efficiency 

E-turbo: Garrett Motion e-motor+ turbocharger instant boost & improve engine efficiency

Electric turbochargers reduce turbo lag, improve fuel efficiency, enhance power output

Turbocharger cold side generator power charging traction battery pack in hybrid electric energy regeneration for e-boost acceleration assist to reduce fuel consumption & emissions, more performance with better fuel economy, think 50 MPG with 350 HP @Toyota using microturbine. 

Imagine Prius 0 to 60 MPH in 4 seconds, but also 55 MPG when commuting in real world traffic daily, or 3 liters per 100km Best performance with best fuel economy

found many vehicles made since 1950's using micro gas turbines or gas turbine hybrid engines more recently, so why are no automakers doing this now in 2025 @ToyotaMotorCorp microturbine hybrid electric engine @ToyotaRacing low mass high performance turbogenerator HEV

Solid State Sodium Ion Battery + Ultra Capacitors

Automotive Sustainable Traction Energy Storage

Mirco-turbine engine generator + MG1 MG2 AWD-GR

6th Generation Prius Prime Rav4 Hybrid Tacoma, Hybrid Tundra, micro-turbine propane, natural gas, biofuel, hydrogen, ammonia, ethanol

Volvo ECC (Environmental Concept Car) executive luxury concept by Volvo 1992, powered by a hybrid electric gas turbine engine

Jaguar C-X75 is a hybrid-electric, 2-seat, 778 hp (789 PS; 580 kW) 4 YASA electric motors, 1 for each wheel, batteries driving these motors recharged using two diesel-fed micro gas turbines

Compared to conventional piston engines, turbine engines generally require less maintenance, last longer, and start more easily in cold conditions;[9] the A-831 started properly at temperatures as low as −20 °F (−29 °C).

Austin 250hp gas turbine a free turbine turboshaft engine developed by Dr John Weaving at Austin Motor Company. From experimental Austin Princess car TUR1. [1] Various uses suggested, mobile power unit & hospital backup generator & more powerful derivates developed, no use cases

Automakers turbochargers common now new car engines, but no turboshaft engines as prime mover

For decades passenger aircraft APU are turboshaft power generators perfect for HEV applications, high performance automotive hybrid electric vehicles. It makes me wonder, why no vehicles for sale with a compact industrial turboshaft generator?

Automotive needs 100kw to 1mw power, commuter vs supercar power range

Compact turboshaft generators for power plants of this size cost more than new cars, new trucks or new SUV & thus fail feasibility studies done by automakers as none of these turbogenerators are mass produced

Turboshaft hot exhaust into microtube array boiler to make steam drive + electric motor torque mixed + ultra capacitors, long life, super efficient super powerful, super cool, interesting, low mass high performance

Turbine Steam Hybrid Electric 

Turboshaft generator makes exciting, a small helicopter turbine (Y2K) electricity to charge traction battery NiMH or Lithium-ion or Sodium Ion or Ultra Capacitors, then Induction (No Magnet) VFD AC 800 Volt inverter drive electric motor with 500 HP AWD LSD front & back

Take Toyota Prius, remove 1NZ-FXE, mod ECU piggyback controller, laptop tune, replace with Turboshaft smallest helicopter turbine like Y2K motorcycle, used refurbished, gear reduction to match engine crank RPM speeds into PSD mixed with MG1 & MG2, fuel with propane or butane gas

Turbogenerator Hybrid Vehicle 

Almost any fuel possible in turbo combustion

Recuperated integrated catalytic converter cleaner emissions & less noise

Lower mass high power ratio turbine engine

Exhaust cooling w/ air injection bypass keeps hot core from melting, long life too

Can you imagine how cool it would sound to press the start button in a car with an automotive turbogenerator, effective a high-performance hybrid. Spooling up, air woosh ramps up 

Muffled (sound dampened recuperator w/ cat, air injection), gas diffusion reduces sound pressure

Car Buyers Think Purchase Price, Features, & Design & Fail to Consider TCO Ownerships Costs or Reliability

Not all vehicles are worth buying, unreliable means they are annoying to own, always breaking down, in the shop being repaired, expensive to keep running when they are working, depreciated quickly, lower quality, smoke & mirrors, why overpay for a fancy brand that with no real benefits, not actually premium, since premium implies better & if it were better it would be more reliable. 

Tesla is one of the most expensive cars to repair and maintain. Seems like a great value, a new model Y for under $40K, but if you buy one after a few years that screen that controls everything, if it breaks those costs nearly $4000 to repair. Tires for many models of Tesla, a set of 4 tires, can cost over $2400. When the battery pack or motor magnets weaken to an unacceptable level of low performance down the road, the cost of replacing the battery or motor will vastly exceed the depreciated value of your Tesla then. Special additional EV taxes, aluminum hard to repair makes repairs more expensive so car insurance for Telsa also costs more, oh BEV registrations in WA can be over $900 annually with two special taxes added since driving a BEV means no gasoline sales taxes paid, so WA State imposes EV charges on license registrations. 

All the same can be said for any newer BEV, expensive to own & operate, completely negating any gas price savings from driving the EV. In other words, once you pay for all the electricity, it will drive your home utility prices way up too, all that EV battery charging 100kWh pack $14 each time added to your electric bill. Watch "Why I sold my Tesla" videos on YouTube. Only Tesla can work on your car, anti-right to repair scam, as no third-party mechanic or you can get parts or procedures for working on your Tesla, that you paid for and own, though I officially recommend against buying one. Get a Lexus Hybrid if you want something premium & ultra fuel efficient, like RX450h. 

Ford & Nissan dual-clutch transaxle & CVT (Continuous Variable Transaxles) unreliable, break down & then cost almost $10,000 to replace. Mercedes, BMW, any of these so-called luxury vehicles cost a fortune to maintain & repair & depreciate rapidly because of it. The only actual luxury cars worth your money are made by Toyota under the Lexus brand. Jeep a pile of junk, Stellantis owns all these brands that make garbage vehicles, nothing like Toyota. Even Honda is going downhill in terms of quality, merging with Nissan a terrible idea. 

Lexus LFA with Yamaha tunes V8, that is what I am talking about! That is big daddy Toyota mopping the floor of the automotive industry showing other automakers "How it's done correctly" Clean white bright floors at Toyota factories, bright lighting, exceedingly high-quality standards, the entire line will stop to fix any issue that arises so that every vehicle made by Toyota as good as they can make it, though even Toyota biffs & makes mistakes, such as Tacoma models with frame rails that rust out easily becoming Taco Tacoma when the frame rails rust through & the truck folds up like a taco. 

If you buy a Toyota Hybrid, make sure to drive it regularly, at least 3 times per weak for at least 30 minutes going faster than 15 MPH, as sitting around in storage for weeks or months or years, they drain the hybrid battery & 12v accessory battery, especially if your smart key within 30 feet, as this not only increases the risk of a relay attack to steal your vehicle, it also turns more of the vehicle on, since the key nearby tells the computer the vehicle about to be driven, that ECU smart key LTE modem build in uploading vehicle data to the manufactured, it also never turns off. Most vehicles produced after 2014 with a Start Button & no physical key, when you "Turn them Off, that is a soft off, not a hard off" When you turned the key in the ignition module in the steering column of your older vehicles off, that was a hard off, as in no power then being drawn from the vehicles battery until you lock the doors, then only a small pulse drawn to activate the locks, beep the horn & blink the lights, then it's cold off.  

Smart Key System on Your Car, Store Key in Metal Box w/ Metal Lid

Metal box with metal lid, store your keys in this. That makes a faraday cage around the key, so your keys do not talk to your car & criminals cannot do a relay attack reading the key signal to program their hacking device to unlock your car & drive it away without breaking the window or making much noise, usually to cars parked outside between 2am & 4am, when most people are sleeping. 

Get High without Drugs Meditating Thanking God

You can get higher than a space satellite meditating

I do with "The Word of God" from "the Amplified Bible" 

Eyes closed, sitting legs crossed, focus your mind, block out unwanted thoughts, harness your faith! 

Spiritual Bliss

"Thank your Lord Father God for Christ Jesus & the Holy Spirit, for my lovely Wife, for my Life, for Other People, Animals & Nature"

After about 20 minutes I feel like I am floating or weightless, start crying, speaking an unknown language unto God, thanking the Lord deeply from my heart, as I feel more & more weightless, buzzing with fully body intensity enjoyment, like being fully energized floating in space

Bathroom Bliss

When you poop, do so in silence, eyes closed, focus on the hit from relief, it can be so intense that you gently slide over, fall over or slip off the toilet a bit. Feel the rush of dopamine & serotonin, brain rewarding you for expelling feces, even peeing feel that release joy