The post that gets me banned?
We’ll see.
Lets start this ball rolling by reminding my readers of a fact about me. I’m an INTJ on the Myer Briggs personality indicator. One thing about INTJs is emotions, or seeming LACK of. We despise public emotiinal displays. We have them, feelings, emotions, and usually quite strongly, but choose to rein them in and keep our heads and wits about us. When another ‘vents’ emotionally in our presence, (and I speak from my own standpoint, other INTJs may have variations of this) its the psychic equivalent of someone puking all over us.
So lets kick off this little shindig and see if WordPress decides I’m unfit for their servers.
Race, breeds, species, etc.
Words, right?
Mere words, but words are the weapon of the left as documented by George Orwell so eloquently in 1984. Twist the meaning, enforce the new one through ‘social shaming’ and the sheep will enforce your edicts with no fight.
Break it down: I AM a racist! I think the human race is at the peak of current evolution on this planet. I like being a human, a thinker, tool user, mover of mountains and manipulator of atoms. I may not be those last two specifically, but the human RACE is. Now like all species/races, there are breeds within the basket. In Canines, you have wolves, coyotes, rottweilers, labradors and terriers, etc. Ask any dog breeder which can interbreed and they will say “all of ’em”.
Same applies to the Human race. Black, White, Brown, Yellow, Red: Doesn’t matter, we can interbreed. And given time, can create new breeds within the species.(and here we are 1000000+ years since Lucy passed on, with many many breeds running amok.)
So yeah, I’m racist. You are too unless you’re doing unspeakable acts to sheep or something. (We won’t take that thought any further though: Ick!!!)
See, until somewhere in the beginning of the 20th century, “Race” meant “Species” but that shifted around the time of a certain social justice movement that had good intentions but has become the loose cannon under the decks busting holes in the hull during storm seas.
What brought all of this out in me was a post by a friend. It was a meme stating that Doctors are the equivalent of the police against black women. It all came down to a link to a CDC doc stating that Black women in the US have a higher infant mortality rate per capita than white women. There were other breeds mentioned (people really hate that term since it seemingly makes us ‘animals’. Uh, yeah, guess what? WE ARE!!!) Like Inuit and others. I’m gonna touch on the Inuit first. Ever been to Alaska? Hint. IT’S BIG!!!. Lots and lots of open areas with few clumps of ‘city’. Medical care, especially out on the fringes may be non-existent. Higher infant mortality is likely to go hand and hand with that.
But back to article and the black side of it. In the US, there are more Black single mothers on welfare, by percentage of breed, than White. They have access to medical facilities, access that costs them little or nothing, and they have a higher infant mortality rate than whites do.
I’m betting that if you took only low income Whites on welfare, into the count, those numbers would likely get much closer to equal.
Why?
Lifestyle. Diet. Mental stability even.
I don’t see many Blacks in the area I live in. Of those I do see, THEY AREN’T ON WELFARE. But there are plenty of white families that are. If I go grocery shopping at the beginning of the month, I can spot the ones on welfare, not by appearance, but by food choices, and quantity. Crap, lots of processed, boxed meals, junkfood, and moonpies: usually covering 2 carts stacked to overflowing. One of those carts may be soda-pop only; over-loaded so much, you can hear the bearings starting to gall. As for personal appearance; usually pasty-skinned, grossly obese, and often quite odorous.
I’m not saying welfare is a bad thing, but I am saying generational welfare is. Many have been ‘hooked’ into easy money. And our welfare system has become a free-for-all that caters to failure. Dropped out of school because it was ‘too hard’ and can’t get a job because you completely lack any skill: sign up for the dole, Gubmints gonna hep ya out. Get busted for felonious assault and do 5 years in the Pen, can’t get a job ’cause of your record; same thing, gubmints gonna do ya right (till ya end up back in said pen)
So my question becomes this: you are being supported by the state, provided food, housing, medical care, etc; and infant mortality is the Doctors fault?
I cry Bull!!!
All of this, to me, is yet another symptom of the underlying disease that is eating the corpse of this country apart. This symptom is lack of personal responsibility, lack of accepting the consequences of personal decisions. No one holds a gun to your head when you’re scarfing down that crap food, or destroying your stomach lining by inhaling liter after liter of ‘pop’ (and I have been guilty of that in the past so I know where I am coming from)
It isn’t racism thats causing this, its poor decision making.
We may have a prejudice issue within these states, but that is a human nature condition, hardwired into us for survival and adapted by social conditions. For example. A gentleman just came into my shop asking if he could get some apples off the tree at the end of the driveway. Even offered to pay for ’em. No one around here pays for those apples and I wasn’t going to make him the exception. I even gave him a bag to put them in. BTW, he’s a Black man. Had on farmer john overalls°, I could smell soap when he stood near me talking, didn’t act like a thug and was polite (more polite than many white people I know!!!). His skin color had NOTHING to do with ANY PART OF OUR CONVERSATION and I assumed nothing about him based on said skin color. His overt politeness was likely due to past prejudiced conflicts, and I can fully understand that as I do know what this country has been like for decades.
But he found a friendly person in this Buckra. (Look it up. Its a real word)
Prejudicial treatment can be an issue, but then, if you look like a thug, walk like a thug and carry a bad attitude, why shouldn’t someone else assume you are a thug????
A duck is a duck is a duck, and no one can ever say its a dog. (Well, ya can but people are gonna give you funny looks)
And its not ONLY lack of personal responsibility; again, just a symptom IMO. That symptom is encouraged by the welfare state: why should you accept responsibility when the remainder of an entire society is picking up the tab to keep allowing you to suck air? Screw up with Johnny Law and do a small stint with three hots and a cot, then back out for more fun n games. Screw up and get pregnant? Well who cares who the daddy is if the state cuts a check and gives you a place to raise the kid. Why not do it again and double your income? Notice I am not pointing at whites or blacks or any one group in particular; I am blaming the SYSTEM!!!!!! There is a saying in politics “tax what you don’t want, subsidize what you do want”. So if they keep subsidizing failure, then they WANT people to fail. People stuck on the teat don’t strive, and that lack of ambition is the goal IMO.
So when People are whining about SYSTEMIC RACISM, they are whining about a system they continue to support, and likely because they are part of the system in some way.
Question EVERYTHING. The whole thing is a game and the rules are not ever in your favor. There is no free lunch; someone is paying for it, and it is NEVER the politicians that do.
° And to any yahoo that says ‘you saw those farmer johns and thought ‘he was being a good blackman”; you can kiss my hairy white ass. You’re thinking that shows your “racism”. Farmerjohn coveralls are common wear to many older southern rural people, white, black, or brown. And if you live north of the Tennessee/Kentucky zone, you probably have ZERO clue how little southerners have ‘racial’ issues. Especially amongst the older people (40+) and out away from the cities.
Be careful what you wish for,,,
I’ve been watching feeds over at fakebook and keep seeing huge amounts of both pro and anti Trump dogma. The pro-Trump side tends to focus on how out of bounds our country has become. Talking about the good things that are being done and more specifically TRIED but stonewalled by court appeals and media slander campaigns
The Anti-Trump side tends to run more of a mud-slinging campaign. One I saw gives two options: that we believe all the media and 13 or so agencies of the government are conspiring to slander Trump, or Trump is a crook.
Ummm, since 2001, nineteen years now, I have seen all of the above lie l, obfuscate, and sleight of hand the general public so, yeah I’ll choose option one that there is a very real presence of hatred in the media and deep state for a president that is trying to fulfill his promise of “draining the swamp”.
I see outright blame laid on Trump for bending the laws, but never do I hear how the left has been doing this for decades (do as I say, not as I do) Dig into this one ‘Fast and Furious’. That one was Obamas. What about HRCs authorizing the sale of Uranium to the Russians? Against all kinds of rules, some of which had her name on them to pass. “What does it matter?!?!”
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. I don’t like Trump. I think he’s an arrogant ego inflated jerk. BUT, I also think he is a successful businessman (proven) and does have the best interest in getting this country out of the mess its in, IF he could get Radical left intent on destroying the country out of power. With his screw-up in CoVidiocy, IMO he stepped into a trap and trusted people he shouldnt have. Proof positive in my eyes is how the CDC has backwalked everything over the last few weeks and yet the media still plays as if it were still active like in March.
Realistically, that isnt going to happen. In that link,the WaPo is convinced that Trump won’t concede if Sloe Joe wins. I personally feel the only way Joe CAN win is by fraudulent means enacted by the DNC. And I do know I am not alone in that thinking. The Radical Left is entrenched in Media, Education and all levels of Government; have been for years.
Nope, not goin’way, not easily anywhoos.
So, whats gonna happen? Kamala will swear in behind closed doors in January, while Sloe Joe stands on the balcony and dies from an aneurism or heart attack, in full view of the public so that no one can say he was assassinated. Hell, thats just one possiblity. The country going full-tilt boogie left vs right/ Red vs Blue? Possible! Full secession as I outlined in my book? Possibly, but may be too peaceful inlight of current events.
History tells us things will get weird for a short time then a ‘leader’ will rise up. Usually said leader is far worse than the disease, and while things appear better at first, they get far worse. Then will come a reset.
This time around though, we have some uncharted territory: currency baskets. As in the US Dollar is still, currently, the main trade unit between a majority of countries. That puts a different spin on things. (And opens up a debatee as to how and why it seems there is an active race to destroy the dollar, but I digress. Besides, IMO its been inflated to bursting for years.)
I dunno.
What I do know, we aint seen nuthin yet.
Be careful what you wish for,,,
I’ve been watching feeds over at fakebook and keep seeing huge amounts of both pro and anti Trump dogma. The pro-Trump side tends to focus on how out of bounds our country has become. Talking about the good things that are being done and more specifically TRIED but stonewalled by court appeals and media slander campaigns
The Anti-Trump side tends to run more of a mud-slinging campaign. One I saw gives two options: that we believe all the media and 13 or so agencies of the government are conspiring to slander Trump, or Trump is a crook.
Ummm, since 2001, nineteen years now, I have seen all of the above lie l, obfuscate, and sleight of hand the general public so, yeah I’ll choose option one that there is a very real presence of hatred in the media and deep state for a president that is trying to fulfill his promise of “draining the swamp”.
I see outright blame laid on Trump for bending the laws, but never do I hear how the left has been doing this for decades (do as I say, not as I do) Dig into this one ‘Fast and Furious’. That one was Obamas. What about HRCs authorizing the sale of Uranium to the Russians? Against all kinds of rules, some of which had her name on them to pass. “What does it matter?!?!”
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. I don’t like Trump. I think he’s an arrogant ego inflated jerk. BUT, I also think he is a successful businessman (proven) and does have the best interest in getting this country out of the mess its in, IF he could get Radical left intent on destroying the country out of power. With his screw-up in CoVidiocy, IMO he stepped into a trap and trusted people he shouldnt have. Proof positive in my eyes is how the CDC has backwalked everything over the last few weeks and yet the media still plays as if it were still active like in March.
Realistically, that isnt going to happen. In that link,the WaPo is convinced that Trump won’t concede if Sloe Joe wins. I personally feel the only way Joe CAN win is by fraudulent means enacted by the DNC. And I do know I am not alone in that thinking. The Radical Left is entrenched in Media, Education and all levels of Government; have been for years.
Nope, not goin’way, not easily anywhoos.
So, whats gonna happen? Kamala will swear in behind closed doors in January, while Sloe Joe stands on the balcony and dies from an aneurism or heart attack, in full view of the public so that no one can say he was assassinated. Hell, thats just one possiblity. The country going full-tilt boogie left vs right/ Red vs Blue? Possible! Full secession as I outlined in my book? Possibly, but may be too peaceful inlight of current events.
History tells us things will get weird for a short time then a ‘leader’ will rise up. Usually said leader is far worse than the disease, and while things appear better at first, they get far worse. Then will come a reset.
This time around though, we have some uncharted territory: currency baskets. As in the US Dollar is still, currently, the main trade unit between a majority of countries. That puts a different spin on things. (And opens up a debatee as to how and why it seems there is an active race to destroy the dollar, but I digress. Besides, IMO its been inflated to bursting for years.)
I dunno.
What I do know, we aint seen nuthin yet.
Value
How does business happen? Value.
You have a product, service, idea, that others VALUE, and you will make income.
Its that damned simple.
So, what’s so wrong with Capitalism? You give, you receive, and if the product or service is lacking, the life of said business will soon evolve or expire. Others offer same or better and Competition ‘improves the breed’. As long as there is competition, things will improve. Remove that, and it all stagnates and regresses or in the longer term, rot from the inside.
What I love about TRUE capitalism is how it follows rules just like evolution does. Environment determines course and growth, and yes, both can be manipulated, but in the long run, the rules will prevail.
What we are seeing now is backlash from ‘natural rules’ against years (decades?) Of manipulation. Economists call these times “corrections”, and I find that term quite fitting. Yup! It’s likely gonna be a painful ride and as long as the corrections are allowed to happen, eveything will improve in the long run. The ‘other option’ is to allow full control by outside influences but that means surrendering ALL of your choices about how you earn, receive, and use your lucre.
No thanks, that, to me, rings of slavery.
Slight lean into the turn here,,,,
I was belittled by an ‘educator’ on.my use of the term ‘Socialism ‘. He swore that we have a freely capitalist country, the freest on the planet.
Umkay!!! Sure. Sell me that bridge outside of Phoenix, the one that used to reside over the Thames in London. (Google it, I ain’t kiddin’)
I don’t think I need to go to extremes in showing examples of where he is wrong, but what we do have is, IS Socialism Lite. One third of our country (may be a bit more now) works for Government or some form of enforcement arm for G. Another quarter are on some form of welfare or Social security. Blue collar is a very small percentage with small business sharing rougly a similar rate. Large business has downsized and outsourced to maximize margins, and investors are mixed throughout all of the above. Roughly 1/3-2/5thss support the remainder; how is this NOT socialism?
Oh, maybe its their use of a dictionary published in 2019, while I use one that was first written in 1790,
And that’s another reason we will see a correction. Trying to hide the truth by manipulation of meanings has similar consequences for backlash. One will be monetary, the other in social reality.
I get it, I really do. I understand the Siren’s song of Socialism. Hell, everything is a business model, Right? What’s not to like about getting a better return of investment for mediocrity. We have an entire group of people in this country that make serious bank on it. I call them politicians.
But I digress…
I’ll give you a short example of what free market ideals can do using an analog comparison
Insurance. (And Heinlein fans already know where this one is headed, LOL)
Say ya want health insurance or Life insurance in a truly free market (no regulations and no guarantees) who do you talk to?
The Bookies. The guys that set the odds at the gaming tables, sporting events etc. That is all insurance really is, some one setting the odds, taking the anty, and taking the chance of losing. If you want a better ‘rate’ you sample several bookies and make your choice. It may cost you (think Lloyds of London costs. And guess what, that is Exactly how Lloyds operates. They’ll give you odds on your flippin VOICE and sell you a package.) But you have your ‘insurance. The disreputable ones won’t last a month and the honest ones will charge and payout as they should. As for taking them to court (have you tried that with ‘modern’ insurance agencies?) Well, in a free market world, there would be no real courts system in place, but you could hire arbitration. Both sides would cover the hire, and pledge to honor the decision no matter how it fell out. The dishonest would try to ‘settle out of court’ to keep things hush-hush. (Gee, sounds DAMNED familiar, doesn’t it?)
Provide Value, be honest, be accountable,
Things we see everyday, but oh so rarely from those on high now.
Weekend is a finally arrived
And I thought I bring a little levity along to start it right.
I’ll post up, mehbe, Sunday.
Y’all has a good’un. I’ll do the same.
R&d
Back at the R&D for a short time. Spent a few hours in Google Sketch up playing around with a thought or two. Then I took advantage of a piece of equipment we have at work. I didn’t utilize it to its full extent, but damned if that thing doesn’t impress the hell out of me. It’s a rather large water jet table of which my little project didn’t even cover 10% of its size. This thing is monstrous for cutting down large sheets of steel.
Anywhoos, here is a pic if what we cut out.
Brought it home and checked it on balance and it’s dead flat. Spun it up just for giggles and it spun there for quite a while with no wobble other than the typical gyro yaw precession. I used a leaf blower to spin it up faster and it impressed me further. ROFL, I am such a big kid when it comes to stuff like this.
So, yeah, it’s a hub for five blades, only this one is for a VAWT not a HAWT. I am cutting the blades from a section of sewer pipe I have left from putting in my septic system and am fabricating some struts to attach them into place. The genset is my old genny, now modified with a new stator and neodymium magnet. (Essentially a Delco stator with a permanent magnet instead coils ) .
I haven’t finished every thing yet, still cutting and balancing blades, but when completed, I plan on testing it for awhile before going whole hog and installing it. I still have the old tower base and tower sections I can use for testing and since it is a vertical unit, turbulence is less of an issue for it. (Granted, it’s still an issue,,,) I also plan on making a testing station to mount into the bed of the truck to take to the MTR strip job so I can get some serious clean winds on a mountain top.
A few points I am considering
- Blade count
- Blade width
- Blade length
- Diameter of finished unit.
Going by some of what I have learned with the HAWT units, all of these are factors; looking at the design in 3d I see that 5 blades gets the most surface area into the wind with the least amount of resistance. At least visually it seems so. Two blades will be fully catching the wind, two will be tacking while the fifth will be oposing it. So, for now, 5 seems to be the best for a small unit, but plans may change when exposed to real world conditions. Blade width is at 4″ right now because that is 1/3rd the circumference of the pipe I have. I am thinking that will give as close to a wing shape as I can hope for without heating and bending plastic. I am looking at getting some 12ga aluminium sheet and bending it for a permanent install, but for now, plastic will suffice for testing. Admittedly, 6″ would catch more wind, and that is what the original design called for, bur 4″ is what I have.(I hate to waste money). Even so, there is just as much surface area on this 4″ blade as the is on the wind grabbers on my current rig in the air. I should see some activity even if it’s not sufficient for my needs.
But that is why we have R&D, right?
I will post more as this progresses.
Wind, revisited.
A few of my readers have contacted me for further details about my alt-energy setup. One of those points is something I felt rather needed sharing. The blades.
I have looked around at several sites for aftermarket blades and almost every one of the dealers has stated the same thing or similar. I won’t go into too much detail but the statement is this, “perfectly balanced “.
Gotta say, Caveat Emptor, let the buyer beware. Only one set I bought was even close to balanced correctly. But, this article isn’t to slam any dealer/manufacturer, it’s to instruct you in how to balance your blade set, bought or made.
Moat small turbine systems keep the swept area under 6’diameter. There is a reason to this, and that reason is speed. Larger blade sets turn slower even though they generate more torque. The smaller gen sets don’t need oodles of torque, but do need the speed. Higher speeds tend to show balance issues in much more dramatic ways: think unbalanced tire at greater than highway speeds.
You are going to need some tools right off the bat
- A scale, accurate to 100th ounce or in grains,, and it needs to be able to handle the weight of one of your blades. Mine can handle 1Kg or 2.2#.
- A lawnmower blade balancer. I found mine for $4 at a Do-it-best hardware store.
- Wheel weights . A strip of 1/4 Oz stick on type cost me $2.50 at Napa.
Now, weigh each blade and note it down. I write it on each blade as well as note it on paper. If they are within a 1/4oz of each other, you are almost done. If not, work is about to get under your skin.
Blade construction at this point can save you or grind you. If the blades are polymer or ABS, you can “trim” them to match each other. I use a deburring tool and scrape LIGHTLY along the trailing edge to trim down weight. Go slow, you can’t put back on! A couple of passes, weigh it, note difference and repeat as needed. Using this, I as able to get my raptor blades within 1/100th of an ounce of each other. A problem you may hit is the scraper/deburring tool gets some chatter in it, and the cut ends up ragged. Stop, get a fine flat file, and smooth that area out. It may not hurt anything, but then, it may make a butt-ton of noise. Why chance it.
Now, if your blades are aluminum, you are going to go about it a similar fashion, but you really need to focus your material removal to the trailing edge as far out from the hub end as possible. You don’t want to take too much either so only do this if they are pretty close. If they are wildly different, contact the seller and raise hell.
Now, balancing things. First word od caution: do this indoors with no air movement. The balancer is VERY sensitive and a minor breeze will screw you up a lot. With the raptor style blades, it was pretty straight forward. Mount the blades to hub, set hub on balancer, watch for any tilt. If you see it, lay a 1/4oz weight opposing the tilt (uphill side) but do not attach it,yet. You are going to have to shift things around until your are satisfied.
The aluminum blades are a bit different. The way they are bent, they are top heavy and will skew all attempts at proper balance. Here’s the trick, on paper, lay out where you are going to put what blade on the hub. Subtract the weights on adjacent blades and note it down. You will cut a weight to that difference for each pair. Three blades, three weights, etc. Now, with the blades facing up (wind side up) put it on the balancer. It’s going to try and tilt no matter what you do, so be patient. Now place each of the three weights on the blade near the hub where the blade and hub meet; the weight will go on the lighter of the pair noted. (IE:if blade 1+2 have a 1/4oz difference, the 1/4oz weight will go on the lightest blade, next is the 2-3 pair, then the 3-1 pair. ) . Observe any changes. If it steadies down without wobbling crazy, mark your position with the sharpie. If not, move the weights around a bit at a time, one at a time and observe. You nearly need the patience of Job for this part.
Ok, so you finally get the thing to settle down and you marked where the weights were at that time. Take the weights off, flip the hub wind side down (you may need to use a can or bucket to raise the balancer up) and watch. Now it is likely leaning all tilted so place your weights on the blades oposite your marks. It should go dead flat at this point.if it does not, no worries, shift your weights one blade counter clockwise. Observe. Repeat as needed until satisfied. You may even find removing one weight will improve things. A little trial and error is in order here.
Now, it may sound like I am jerking your leg on this, but when you mount the weights, DO NOT place them where you made your marks, on either side. They will be subjected to far too much centrepital force and will fly off. You will mount them on the blade nearest the hub and preferably between a set of bolts as reinforcment. The difference in the adjustment is so minor, it won’t hurt a thing.
The reason you want to balance your gear should be obvious, as in longevity of your investment, but also in performance. An unbalanced blade set will actually self brake before it really starts to work. It may not be seen at first, but sit observing an unbalanced unit while metering it’s output, and the problem will stand out glaringly. You’ll see the voltage climbing and then just stop, if not reverse. At the same time, you may even see the guy lines shaking if not the whole tower. Due to the fact that the genny is being powered by the wind, it will never climb past that state, unlike in a wheel on a car that shimmies at one speed, but settles down above or below it. The genny just can’t accelerate past that point. And an unbalanced unit WILL fail at some point, and usually by sending the blades flying off willy nilly.
Hope this helps someone else in solving an issue, or better yet, in avoiding one. If you buy your blades, check ’em anyway, no matter what claims are made by the dealer. If you make your own, you should be doing this as a routine anyway.
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