jerryc41 wrote:
Boy, there is a lot of bad news online about EVs. Fires are a real problem because they can start spontaneously. One house was destroyed when a Mercedes burned. The car was a loaner from the dealer while her own Mercedes was being serviced. Another house was severely damaged when a Tesla burst into flames. Water is useless for putting out lithium fires. Fire departments use special blankets costing $3k - $5k to smother the fire. They then haul the car away in a procession with police and fire engines. They leave the blanket on for a day or more to keep oxygen from letting the fire restart.
Sales are tanking, with dealers having EVs sit on their lots. Charging away from home typically costs more than filling the tank with gas. When many cars are charging from the same station, the amount of charge going to each car is reduced proportionally. A reported rented an EV to do a story on it. During a long trip, she said she spent more time charging the car than sleeping. The car got more "recharging" than she did. Replacing the battery can cost more than the car - $60,000 for a $55,000 Hyundai. Car makers are starting to produce their own batteries so they won't be at the mercy of battery makers. Still, with a limited supply of lithium, prices will continue rise. Reliability is an issue because the car is basically running on software, and you know how reliable that can be. Repairs can be ridiculously expensive.
I never had any interest in buying an EV, but now I'm dead set against them. Give me gas any day. (Enter a humorous comment here.)
A friend had an EV, but he sold it and bought a pickup truck. He didn't go into details.
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Go back a little over a 100 years and the same was being said of gasoline powered vehicles. It is still early in the development and implementation of electric. Electric offers the advantage of not being tied to only one form of power like gasoline. Electric power can be made using various forms of power, from coal to wind so easier not be under the control of other nations. Like now, the middle east problems threaten our supply of oil, the only source of gasoline. As long as we feed on the oil tit, we are giving money to our enemies and funding our own downfall.
Thanks for posting the great shots. It is one of my bucket list trips.
srt101fan wrote:
Right on! Atheism is just another form of religion....
Not in any way, shape or form. Science is not a religion just like science is not magic.
I don’t believe in magic words being the creation of the Universe. It is not an answer because what created the creator. Today’s Gods are tomorrow’s myths.
Man use to think God was on Mount Olympus, but we climbed it and found none, man believed God was in the Heavan, but we have climbed to the Heavens and found no God. But the science that got us there and beyond has the answers, you don’t need to believe, just accept the laws of physics.
Beautiful, I want to hike right into the picture.
Both mirror and mirror less have the same size sensor so the lens are going to be the same size. The adapter I use on my old SLR lenses add length to the lens when I use it on my FF mirrorless. Now the lenses I have that are made for the crop sensor mirrorless are smaller.
spot meter off the flower, the back ground won't change, black is black unless you blow out your subject, the flower.
Fortunately when I was just getting started, a photo magazine printed a night photograph calculator that has served me well over the years. One of those things I’m glad I went trough the trouble of cutting out and putting together. Will be very bummed if anything ever happens to it
You can but it is not "canning" level of preservation, it is Tupperware level preservation,
Scouser wrote:
They do indeed come in handy, Jerry. I have a collection of old tools, mostly because I'm old. These wrenches from yesteryear could well be pre-cursors to the Stillson wrench, in as much as they are adjustable gripping tools.
I find that the Stillson wrench is most often referred to as 'the Stillies'. Strangely, they attract a plural identity in much the same way as scissors or trousers, when in fact they are singular items. Nobody says 'pass me the scissor', or 'where is my trouser'. So to me at least, they are Stillies. I guess it's an English thing.
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I'm loving these, the locking adj. is great and I want one, and the V wrench is interesting.
Stopped at one once, because of all the hype, will not stop at one again. When I'm traveling cross country and want gas, I want three or four things, one, gas, two, to clean my windows as I have a flat windowed Jeep, three, a bathroom, and four maybe a quick snack. Buc-cee's had gas, the Buc-cee's I stopped at had nothing for window cleaning, the pumps were too far from the bathrooms, and like the bathrooms, a quick snack would of taken a hike or getting in my vehicle and parking at the "store".
I'm jealous, one of my "bucket list" items I want to see. We've had some sightings in Indiana but not as far south as Bloomington.
Sony, they have the biggest selection cameras and the biggest selection of some of the best lenses ever made between the G-series and Zeiss. They are the leader in sensors.