AndreasHG

I've been finding myself more and more in tune with Trump lately.

Interesting comment!

I am very late to this post. I apologize. Non inverter compressors run at two speeds only, one of which is the maximum speed, and the second one is off. It's either they run at full capacity, or they shut off. It's therefore no surprising that they achieve a lower temperature faster. They start from the very beginning running at full speed. Inverter units on the other hand modulate among a wide range of rpms. Usually, they start from a low rpm and they ramp up gradually as the pressure builds up in the refrigerant circuits. This prevents water hammer and thermal shocks. When they achieve the temperature set point, inverter units slow down and try to keep it as constant as possible. This greatly improves efficiency and comfort. But this is true especially for good quality inverters, having a wide modulation range, i.e. the capability of running at very low and very high rpm. There is plenty of cheap inverters in the market place which have a very narrow modulation field and seldom deserve more than one EGAT star. Non-inverter units, a.k.a. fixed-speed units, on the other hand cannot adjust their output to the thermal load. Either they run at full speed or they shut off. Therefore, when the temperature set point is achieved, they start cycling between OFF and ON. This is inefficient and particularly annoying when the unit is greatly oversized compared to the thermal load of the room in which it is installed. It is worst during cool days or during the nights, less so on very warm days. Every time the compressor starts pushing at full rpm, the refrigerant circuit suffer a water hammer and thermal shocks. And it wastes a lot of energy too, since the start up is the phase during which energy is consumed without any significant benefit in terms of comfort. If we compare compressors to a vehicle engine the fix-speed compressor would in essence be an engine running always at full speed with no accelerator. The only way to limit the speed is to shut the engine off, and then fire it up again when the speed falls below a certain threshold. The inverter compressor on the other hand is equipped with an "accelerator" controlling its rpm and adjusting it according to the desired temperature. Now you can chose between inverter and fixed-speed.

Hey genius, maybe it's because they voted for a president and a party that they assumed would reduce the debt. Don't you think so? Where do you think the 77,302,580 popular votes came from? Do you really believe they were all rednecks?

I don’t know how Democrats may be voting for Musk. He is seen as a right-wing extremist, which is not surprising given his white South African upbringing, at the time when apartheid went into crisis. I also don’t see many MAGA supporters voting for Musk. The most hardcore MAGA supporters never liked him and are still furious about his support for the H-1B immigration visa (Steve Bannon, for example). Tesla, however, is one of the most widely held stocks by retail investors and Elon Musk has an almost cult following. I assume he will take it from there, and from the "Proud Boys", from the "Oath Keepers" and from other neo-nazis groups like them. Those groups are always in search for a messianic leader to kill and die for and Musk fits the bill perfectly.

All of Elon Musk’s ventures depend on public funding to stay afloat. Back in 2024 and until weeks ago, Musk believed he had bought the Republican Party with $250 million in campaign contributions and secured many more years of EV tax regulatory credits for Tesla, plus a friendly boss at NASA and favorable contracts with the Pentagon. But he was mistaken. He mistook the United States of America for South Africa. $250 million in the United States is just pennies and not enough to buy anything in politics. In an article published today by WaPo, Maegan Vazquez lists 6 challenges that the new party will have to face to become a significant political force in the United States and break the back of the Republican Party. And let's make this clear from the beginning: money is not one of them. 1. Institutional barriers and ballot rules 2. Historical headwinds and recent challenges 3. Scope and strategy 4. Divisions among his potential audience 5. Garnering political allies 6. Patience You can read more following this link to the WaPo: 6 of the biggest challenges facing Musk’s new political party - The Washington Post

Maybe a little less than a crash, but still a significant depreciation. This is what happened during Trump's presidency. The dollar was indexed to 100 at the beginning of his presidency. Only the pound of Brexit Britain, which was led in quick succession by Theresa “Brexit means Brexit” May, BoJo “oven ready deal” Johnson, Liz "Lettuce" Truss and, finally, the best of them all Rishi Sunak, did worse.

Today on the "failed" NYT.

This is the dollar performance during the Biden presidency. Not that this makes of him a good president. He wasn't and I am glad he was sent to a retirement house. But good for the dollar he was.

I'm sorry: I'm not so much old to remember those distant times. But I'm glad you made it this far.

There are people who are aware of the times they live in. And then there are those living in Lala Land. To each his own. Today FT first page.

The dollar continues its run to new lows. Just five months into the Trump II administration, the U.S. dollar has already lost against major foreign currencies as much as it lost in four years during the Trump I administration. Fortunately for our American friends living in Thailand, the Thai baht is going through a bit of a weakness. That’s why the dollar’s depreciation against the Thai baht since the start of the Trump II administration is relatively small: just 5.1%. But with 3.5 years left, Trump II is well on his way to achieving his MAPA (Make Americans Poor Again) goal, beating his remarkable first term feat, when the US dollar depreciated 16.8% against the Thai Baht.

LOL. This post did not age well! What Trump's "mistake" highlighted is how China and especially Russia are powerless in face of America's might. Russia literally threw Iran under the bus and then went to hide. If anything good comes out of President Trump's resolve, it will be the end Iran's trust in its "Axis of Upheaval" friends.