Yellowtail

Are the painted now?

She needs a sticker on it saying it is actually a black car...

Still waiting for a link to one of the "press releases" you claim big oil puts out daily..... Unless you were lying, which of course I am sure you were not. I don't doubt for a moment those links are forthcoming, as I can't imagine someone as well informed as you would have to resort to making stuff up...

I know a lot of places have them free, but that can't last as they start loading up...

Thanks, I'll contact them.

Per the "scientists", the new technology batteries will incorporate upsidaisium in the construction, actually making them lighter than air. This technology will actually provide additional lift, reducing the total amount of energy used. Unfortunately this is still in the "dream" phase, and desperately needs additional federal funding to advance to the pre-planning phase...

Assuming it's the same yellow booklet I got when I got travel vaccinations I think any hospital that does the vaccination should be able to give you the book. I got mine and BKK hospital, and Bumrungrad updated it a few years ago with my boosters and shingles vaccine.

Any moment now....the "scientists" have almost completed the dream phase and are moving into the pre-planning phase, but those pesky engineers are insisting they include the size and weight of the batteries into the calculations. They have reached something of a compromise wherein the "scientists" can keep the swimming pool, but they can't use the solar panels on the engineers car-park to heat it. They are very close, but the only thing they all really agree on is that they need more federal funding....

How long does it take to charge at a station, and how much does it cost?

So solar is really only cheaper if you do not include the capital investment required to produce it. I think it fair to say that most everyone would agree that sunlight is cheaper than oil. That's like saying it cheaper to drive a Tesla than it is to take the bus. It's true, as long as you don't have to pay for the Tesla...

Yeah, virtually no one in a condo has that much roof area. So what is the total cost of the installation? I have 120m^2 of roof and about 100 of that I think I can use. Inverters are great, but don't undersize them. I have 7 air conditioners and my bill is about 7K a month. I'm sure my kid is half that....he's in uni now, but home and online now due to covid....

That's what I thought, thanks.

I think the ROI you have quoted is for DIY installations that also use grid power at night. I am planning just such an installation. In any event, I agree that solar is great, but you have to enough area to support it. Most people do not. I would bet that not 5% of the population of Bangkok proper have enough area to provide even enough power to get through the day, much less charge batteries for overnight.

Another well thought out, fact filled response from the left... Still waiting for that link. No doubt there are just too many for you to come up with one.

Apparently Elon Musk is moving his headquarters to Texas. No doubt he'll have a great facility with negative carbon footprint that will have all his worshipers salivating. Too bad he can't do that in California. Incidentally, Texas does not collect state income taxes, so he and his other million/billionaire officers and board members will get to keep another 13% of their money, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence....

Yes, as long as someone else pays for it, solar energy is cheaper.

Yes, currently (pun intended) Americans do not seem willing to desecrate their own environment competing with China in the manufacture of solar panels. Fortunately, there are enough illegal aliens flooding across the border that a lot of rich CEOs can get even richer paying minimum wages to do the installations the American taxpayers will have to subsidize.

Too bad you have to burn oil to charge it. Incidentally, when are you going to post a link to one of these press-releases you claimed the oil companies are putting out every day?

This was an interesting video, but I do not think the biggest problem with EVs is disposing of the old batteries, but rather that batteries have to be charged. We will still have to burn fossil fuel to generate the electricity to charge the batteries. Renewables may work in rural areas, but not in urban areas where the bulk of the load is. The video asked if recycling batteries will ultimately eliminate mining raw materials. I believe there is no way recycling can possibly eliminate or even greatly reduce mining, until significantly more old batteries are being recycled, than there are new batteries being produced. Apparently none of the recycling processes are economically viable enough to process even pre-consumer scrap, which means that recycled batteries will cost significantly more than batteries made from raw materials. Given that, I believe it safe to assume the "plan" will be to mandate all cars be EV, then mandate all batteries be produced using recycled materials, which will make the batteries so expensive that only the rich people that push for the mandates will be able to afford them. Perfect!

Thanks, but I need to strip paint and neither the vapor nor the pressure washer will work. Are you re-building the out-drives? I believe powder-coating is getting pretty popular for marine applications, at least in the US.

So you don't have one. How many have you driven for more than an hour? I've had four Isuzu pickups in the last twenty years.

I've been looking off and on for a sandblasting service or a caustic as well, please update the thread if you find one. I have an old tool chest I want to have blasted or dipped and I'd like to get a brick/concrete building blasted.

How long have you had yours?