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Technically, you are correct. Trump has not been convicted of any crimes - yet. However, being fined $88 million by two juries of his peers in succession for defamation, and $360 million by a judge for fraud, is just the tip of the iceberg. You need to pay attention. If Trump were innocent, he would want all his criminal trials expedited. It's delay, delay, delay, the strategy of his lawyers is obvious to anyone with a few brain cells. Trump knows if he does not win in November, he is going to jail. As Bill Barr said, he's toast. Hence the political election interference BS, which only deranged Trumpers believe. Part of the kool-aid they swallow daily.

Pit bulls are genetically selected and bred to be aggressive. The weaker ones get weeded out in the pits where they fight, hence the name PIT bull. It should come as no surprise they occasionally attack an owner, family friend or complete stranger. It's what they are bred for, and trained to do. IMO anyone who owns a pit bull, owns a lethal weapon. They should get the same penalties under the law as anyone wielding a gun.

My father worked for 40 years in a job he hated, to provide for his family. He was also cheated out of a substantial inheritance by an elder brother, whom he never spoke to again. The most valuable lessons he taught me were to avoid debt like the plague, and don't try to impress people with your possessions. If I wanted something, I had to earn it myself. My observations of his gambling on horses convinced me it was not something I could succeed at. He feared doctors like death itself, a fear that eventually killed him when he ignored symptoms. I feel sorry for him, he never got to do what he said he would have enjoyed. Perhaps that influenced me to find a career I did enjoy. As a role model, I could have had a lot worse, as evidenced by some of the posts on this thread.

When you say " some other hydrocarbon" it's a bit like a report that a body was discovered in the forest by a tramp in a state of advanced decomposition. One has to feel sorry for the tramp. A syntax error. You are probably correct about pickups, although Tesla's Cybertruck is a dismal failure.

Apparently there are quite clear IQ distinctions between imbeciles, idiots, and morons. i don't know where the French cretin fits in.

Who is the President?

Trump started up Truth Social to put his side of the story, after FB and Twitter banned him for various reasons. Musk bought Twitter, rebranded it as X, welcomed Trump back. Truth Social and X are both losing money hand over fist. Musk's investment in X is valued at one-third of what he paid. Google, FB and YouTube are all profitable. What does that tell you, or is it another conspiracy to you?

Well spotted, I can see one has to be careful what they post with your eagle eye on watch.

"Some other"? Ammonia is not a hydrocarbon. Have pity on a organic chemist, please. IMO ammonia would be a horrible choice for aircraft fuel - much more difficult to ignite, extremely hazardous in the event of an accident, spraying NOx all over the shop. Imagine LAX airport with all the smog that would generate, as if it does not have enough already. I think jets are going to need refined fossil fuels for quite a while still. Trucks could be a different story.

You know this how?

Ah yes, IIRC you're one of the fish with buckshot in it.

Might have confused you with another poster.

You think NY will become a ghost town of abandoned skyscrapers because of Trump's conviction? Nature abhors a vacuum, there will be others coming forward to invest. They will simply be more circumspect than Trump was.

I disagree, because IMO it is not a race. If you only have enough raw material resources to supply 20 - 30% of new car demand, and you want to get to zero CO2 emissions, hydrogen is the natural choice. Of course, if new batteries can be developed which use readily available raw materials, that changes the landscape.

Analysis is telling me Dolf has made a total of 85 posts since becoming a member, and 75 of them are on this thread alone. IMO that shrieks Trump troll, a waste of time even responding to him.

I notice we both got two sad icons, what's the bet on who they are from?

I don't care about what membership ranking I have. With my background, I do care about ridiculous anomalies. How's the guitar going?

I'm interested in the confused icons I occasionally get, I like to think my posts are cogent. Trumpers are like shooting fish in a barrel. I doubt any of them got to a tertiary education.

I have to lie flat to get relief from back pain. Chronic osteoarthritis of the lower spine, caused by years of hauling and chainsawing firewood. I sleep lying on either side, can't sleep when lying flat on my back. I occasionally nod off if I am getting a massage in that position. Spare a thought for the people who shear sheep. The warm jacket or pullover you wear came at the cost of their backs. It's the most crippling of any profession in that respect. Pretty good odds they lie flat as much as they can.

Correct. I have to suffer scientific illiteracy in ASEAN on a regular basis. Another common mistake of journalists is confusing nitrate with nitrite, when the two have entirely different chemistry.

I recently noticed what I think is an anomaly in membership rankings. There are Star Members, Ruby Members, etc. How these rankings are allocated is shrouded in mystery. I am an Advanced Member. Over the years, I have made more than 23,000 posts. The positive responses to those posts are about 14,000 above that. There is another Advanced Member. I can only describe him/her/it as the village idiot. They have made 673 posts, mostly trolling garbage. Not that I care. However, excuse me for thinking the membership ranking system is ridiculous.

I have to lie flat to get relief from back pain. Chronic osteoarthritis of the lower spine, caused by years of hauling and chainsawing firewood. I sleep lying on either side, can't sleep when lying flat on my back. I occasionally nod off if I am getting a massage in that position. Spare a thought for the people who shear sheep. The warm jacket or pullover you wear came at the cost of their backs. It's the most crippling of any profession in that respect. Pretty good odds they lie flat as much as they can.

The purpose of converting hydrogen to ammonia is to enable transport in bulk. Shipping hydrogen would either require high pressure cylinders, or tonnes of metal hydrides, neither of which are practical. Burning ammonia in an ICE sounds to me like a recipe for jumping from the frying pan into the fire environmentally, due to NOx emissions. A fuel leak could gas the occupants of a sedan, I sure as hell would not be buying one. I don't know how releasing nitrogen into the atmosphere leads to more ammonia and ozone production, given our atmosphere is already 78% nitrogen.

During COVID, Trump held rallies. He also avoided masks because they spoiled his makeup. He downplayed the pandemic, take a look at the Woodward interview. He sidelined Fauci, an acknowledged expert in the field. All these circumstances facilitated the spread of COVID. You think it's an accident the red states had a higher death rate from COVID than the blue states during the pandemic? Given your post, I can only conclude injecting bleach has killed off the few brain cells you may have had.

Apparently there are membrane technologies at pilot plant stage for conversion of hydrogen to ammonia, and subsequent reformation to hydrogen and nitrogen. The Haber process may be on the way out. Most of the research is being done by CSIRO in Australia. The strategy is to manufacture hydrogen from seawater in Australia, which is one of the best sites for renewable energy. Solar, wind and tidal power are all in the mix. Convert to ammonia, ship to China, reconstitute as hydrogen. Understandably, the Chinese are very interested. It remains to be seen how much capital goes into development. Ammonia is non-flammable, which is more than can be said for refined petroleum products which are shipped all over the world. It's also less toxic than liquid chlorine, phenol and formaldehyde, which humans have been transporting in bulk for decades. AFAIK stainless steel tankers can handle ammonia quite comfortably. OTOH, it chews through copper and its alloys quite rapidly.