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Computers don’t produce heat high enough to be useful. You want the output temperature the computer cooling to feel like a warm room. That isn’t hot enough to boil water. It isn’t enough hot enough to do anything useful with.

Detroit is not cold in summer. And places that are cold year round are running into issues from global warming and permafrost (I don’t understand the issue, but they exist) without adding local heat.

Sorry, I got lost in my reply. Electric brakes done well are not noticed. Surge brakes you can feel the trailer push against the truck before they kick in, and oscillate - it isn’t much but you feel it. Surge brakes mean you cannot back up - the trailer brakes turn on when you are in reverse.

Electric brakes also meant that when the brakes failed on my truck went out I was able to stop safely and limp to a place where I was able to get a repair done. This is kind of a niche, but still one I’m glad I had.

Those “surge brakes” suck. They suck on a car, and they will be even worse on a bike. There is a reason most trailers have electric brakes and require the towing car to tell it how much brake force to use - it works much better. (air brakes might be even more common for trailers, but that only applies to large semis - I don’t know enough about air brakes to comment but they need to be acknowledged) The only advantage of surge brakes is you don’t have to ask if the towing vehicle had the right controls to support them, which is why rental trailers mostly have them. However for every other purpose electric brakes are better.

They will only do this in context of a company. Get a lawyer to setup a llc. They do sometimes give money this way - see angel investors, but you need a company for legal reasons.

Thanks. I’ll probably never make one but I’m convinced I could

Fix them up then join a local collector orginization and show them off. I know tons of interesting people, some with a lot of money in their toys, from the groups I’m it.

Can someone draw this up - I want to build one… though I guess by the time I’m 2000 years old and finally get around to it cad will be able to draw it from a picture, maybe I should wait to ask.

Some is lost as heat, but most is returned. If you are not comparing like sized engines you won’t really be able to tell much. RPMs going up to 3000 is a sign this is working - the more RPM the more resistance.

That was Einstein’s probosal to fdr in 1938. nobody was interested. When the English checked the numbers they realized it was airplane size and encouraged the us to build on. Airplane bomb bays are small, a row boat could haul little boy around ( though it is likely to capsize if the seas are not perfect calm)

You need to refinish them on every pad change, and that is the same cost as a new rotor. You can sometimes get by with putting pads on, but if you measure the rotors they are likely out of spec. (not many home shops have a proper micrometer to measure with)

That is not expected - while a diesel has more compression, that compression matters zero (other than friction losses - which might be what you are feeling) since all the energy lost in compression is returned in the next part of the cycle when the energy is returned. Unless you have a “jake brakes” which opens the exhaust valve at the top of the compression stroke thus venting the energy to the atmosphere instead of returning it to the power stroke.

A gas engine has a throttle plate which means when the engine is coasting very little air goes into the cylinder and so on the power stroke the low pressure in the cylinder is fighting against the higher air pressure in the engine.

I agree manual transmissions are best, but I’m a minority (I live in the US, other parts of the world prefer manuals) and so I can rarely find them. That said, an automatic in low gear gives plenty of engine braking.

Again, I’m not an expert on Washington forests. However you and the link did not refute anything I said. You might be right, but right now you are just someone on the internet who has given no indication of knowing anything about the topic. You bold section doesn’t say low severity fires didn’t happen - since it only talked about high severity fires. At best it is implied that there were none, but there was enough other discussion to question if that was intended.

All your link said about low severity fires is some proposed them for western Washington, but the state requires all fires to be suppressed quickly and so it isn’t an option worth pursuing. It is implied that tribes were burning the western forests prior to the arrival of white man - but the short page on this topic gives too little detail to state with any confidence that was the historical norm around low intensity fires.

I have always maintained that forests need to be maintained by foresters who are experts in the forest in question. We should not be preventing them from using the proper tools to manage their forests. I am waiting to see input from someone who is such an expert.

Major fire is what happens when there are not regular minor fires. your article discusses this at least briefly, it is near bedtime so I won’t be able to read it in full anytime soon.

The foresters I know tell me that a yearly small fire will not harm established trees and they made the forest much healthier. I don’t know any who are experts in washington forests but I question if you have really talked to any or are just passing an uneducated guess off as fact.

John deere has some nice tours. The best tours cost half a million or more - but they let you take one home. (If you know a farmer who buys new tractors ask - many farmers have seen it and so won’t use their tour , so you can get their ticket). Then there is the free tours that anyone can take - but these are limited numbers and tour bus companies reserve all the spots when they open up knowing they can then sell the whole tour (if you don’t live near the factory this is the way to go since the factories are generally a boring drive away and the tour drivers know how to spice it up and where to eat). As an employee I’ve only got the engineers tour - that is when everyone staring at you knows it is your fault they are getting paid to do nothing - I do not recommend these even though they were paying me.

Even a gas engine doesiengine breaking pretty good. Not as controllable as a electric but still a major difference. Diesels don’t do much though (unless you have a ‘jake break’ - which I’ve never seen in less than a semi)

pressure on China might help - russia doesn’t care, but china is supplying russia with important drone parts and china cares about europe.

Just don’t allow an ai on the jury. If you are on a jury tell tpe judge you want the prosecuting lawyers disbarred for wasting your time.

I do live in such a place. That may well be a factor.