"If manufacturers must limit themselves to open, standardized interfaces they will be slower in achieving greater emissions and fuel efficiency."
As an experienced mechanic, I consider that statement imbecilic. You haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about. Please kill yourself and quit wasting oxygen if you care about the planet (and the gene pool).
There are ALREADY some standard diagnostic interfaces, which facilitate diagnosis with common auto store "code readers". Open the rest, particularly those used to troubleshoot NON-ENGINE onboard systems, and the consumer benefits from the removal of VENDOR LOCK.
"To prevent you from having a "right to repair" the auto manufacturers must simply stop manufacturing automobiles in the USA. Then they can be imported by a licensed distributor and licensed to you to operate. That way you never own your vehicle, and you have no right to tamper (read: repair) with it."
Not a profitable business model. Won't happen. Even dumbfuck car owners who can't turn a lug wrench would come unglued.
I'm a mechanic and strongly agree with your post. Hot rodders have already gotten very comfortable with modern systems.
I CAN adjust breaker points (I don't mind it on my Harley and BMW motorcycles) and carbs, but I don't LIKE fucking with them on cars because it's inconvenient and I grew up with that old tech.
DIY fuel injection and other options can replace old systems with improved gear.
What is REALLY needed is to replace "equipment inspections" with "sniffer tests". The Feds have no business giving a fuck what's under the hood, just how much pollution comes out the exhaust and evaporative emission control systems!
Due to back and shoulder problems my right arm may be near useless when I'm about seventy....BUT....technology may make "amputate and replace with appropriate rewiring" a DESIRABLE option by then.
Some injured G.I.s already opt to have their damaged limbs removed then move on (literally) using prosthetics.
What is hit once will be hit again. Locate accordingly, and have an evac plan if you don't have the option of an intelligently chosen facility location.
Nature doesn't care what you want. It does what it will.
"Totaled does not mean not working. It means worthless."
No. "Totalled" means "beyond what the insurance company considers a cost-effective repair". It is possible to "total" many vehicles with damage which is EASY to repair if you have access to parts.
For example, you can have a car with fired airbags, cracked windshield, and enough damage to easily-removed front end parts such as hood, fenders, bumper cover, etc that the company cuts the owner a check for its value. That car goes to auction, and a buyer with a similar car with REAR end damage picks it up to make one sound car of two. It's even easier with pickup trucks. Been there, done the work, driven the results. No problem.
That said, a SALT WATER bath (think "storm surge") is a death sentence due to corrosion. A scrap car like that would go to the shredder for a few hundred bucks.
If you are involved in improving systems after the recovery, consider using pumps driven by hydrostatic (hydraulic) drive which would allow you to place pump drive motors well above flood zones. No electric motors below water level means nothing to short out. Hydraulic driven fuel pumps are often located IN aircraft fuel tanks, and it may be an aircraft pump or pumps would solve your problem. They move a LOT of fuel. The parts would be easy to get (tough hydrostatic pumps and motors have been standard farm equipment products for decades) and hydraulic drives mean the pumps could be located where most effective. Pumps are most efficient when pushing fluid.
Dunno if they have enough horsepower to elevate fuel to your desired height, but aircraft refuel trucks have adjustable output pressure and their pumps are driven by the truck engine. If you have the proper fitting for their hose and connect it to your fuel plumbing, you may be able to pump direct to the roof using the refuel truck pump. Basically roll up, unreel the hose, connect it, open the appropriate building valve and you could feed the roof tank or the storage tank as you wish.
Diesel engines will run on jet fuel, which is basically diesel with different additives. (USAF diesel trucks etc are required to run on JP-8). If all you have is a jet fuel tanker available because all others are busy, it might save the day.
Every able adult can learn about and plan for disasters.
If their priorities were different, sorry but "tough shit". Don't live in storm surge areas or be rich enough to walk away. Have at least a "bug out bag" of enough food and other supplies to feed you for a few days. Take proper shelter during storms and stay there.
New York is valuable, and has the resources to promptly recover.
Those who thought putting data centers in BASEMENTS asked for what they got. A broken water main (common enough) could have fucked them just as hard.
In NOLA, only the container port is necessary, while slums BELOW, repeat BELOW, repeat REQUIRE LEVEE PROTECTION because they are BELOW sea level (NYC is NOT below seal level) are not.
The __founders__ of NOLA didn't build below sea level, which is why the French Quarter wasn't destroyed by Katrina.
There are plenty of assets which don't require calling in incompetent civilians.
If any State governor wants to call his National Guard to respond, he can do so. They in turn can request military assets if they don't have sufficient.
"Fukushima showed all you need to lose are the diesel generator building and the high-tension wires into the plant site, and it's all over melty like s'mores and Seascape and Chernobyl."
Unlike Japan, the US has ample military assets to move generators into place, and the military and commercial gensets themselves. (So many they are even available on Ebay.) Skycrane an ISO container genset or several into position with a crew and have at it.
Equipment is available throughout the US, and as "far away" as an order to load an airlifter, fly it to an airport, then load it on whatever you wish to transport to site. All major military bases have gas masks and NBC suits on hand ready to use. All servicefolk are trained in NBC ops and decontamination.
I have no idea why the Japanese weren't ready to deploy power units, but that's their epic fuckup.
"If there's a storm surge on the Eastern seaboard big enough to damage a nuclear power station, millions of people are going to be having a REALLY bad day before they start worrying about the nuclear plant."
Storm surges hardly kill anyone, (ignore that little one which just hit Japan) but RADIATION is TERRIFYING.
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Splatter this with all the specific info over every VW forum you can find and encourage VW owners to make their feelings known to the company.
"If manufacturers must limit themselves to open, standardized interfaces they will be slower in achieving greater emissions and fuel efficiency."
As an experienced mechanic, I consider that statement imbecilic. You haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about. Please kill yourself and quit wasting oxygen if you care about the planet (and the gene pool).
There are ALREADY some standard diagnostic interfaces, which facilitate diagnosis with common auto store "code readers". Open the rest, particularly those used to troubleshoot NON-ENGINE onboard systems, and the consumer benefits from the removal of VENDOR LOCK.
"To prevent you from having a "right to repair" the auto manufacturers must simply stop manufacturing automobiles in the USA. Then they can be imported by a licensed distributor and licensed to you to operate. That way you never own your vehicle, and you have no right to tamper (read: repair) with it."
Not a profitable business model. Won't happen. Even dumbfuck car owners who can't turn a lug wrench would come unglued.
I'm a mechanic and strongly agree with your post. Hot rodders have already gotten very comfortable with modern systems.
I CAN adjust breaker points (I don't mind it on my Harley and BMW motorcycles) and carbs, but I don't LIKE fucking with them on cars because it's inconvenient and I grew up with that old tech.
DIY fuel injection and other options can replace old systems with improved gear.
What is REALLY needed is to replace "equipment inspections" with "sniffer tests". The Feds have no business giving a fuck what's under the hood, just how much pollution comes out the exhaust and evaporative emission control systems!
Due to back and shoulder problems my right arm may be near useless when I'm about seventy....BUT....technology may make "amputate and replace with appropriate rewiring" a DESIRABLE option by then.
Some injured G.I.s already opt to have their damaged limbs removed then move on (literally) using prosthetics.
Because porn should survive an Apocalypse!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
No, you should be UNhappy about the defective LAW and advocate it be changed.
THE LAW is defective. An action is legal, or not.
If there is a problem, FIX THE LAW. Then the field is level.
"Lesson: Trust no one."
Lesson, remove your hard drive before repairs.
What is hit once will be hit again. Locate accordingly, and have an evac plan if you don't have the option of an intelligently chosen facility location.
Nature doesn't care what you want. It does what it will.
We don't have a counter-example of FRESH water dunked Fiskars.
Salt water is a great conductor. Fresh water, not so much.
"Totaled does not mean not working. It means worthless."
No.
"Totalled" means "beyond what the insurance company considers a cost-effective repair". It is possible to "total" many vehicles with damage which is EASY to repair if you have access to parts.
For example, you can have a car with fired airbags, cracked windshield, and enough damage to easily-removed front end parts such as hood, fenders, bumper cover, etc that the company cuts the owner a check for its value. That car goes to auction, and a buyer with a similar car with REAR end damage picks it up to make one sound car of two. It's even easier with pickup trucks. Been there, done the work, driven the results. No problem.
That said, a SALT WATER bath (think "storm surge") is a death sentence due to corrosion. A scrap car like that would go to the shredder for a few hundred bucks.
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your (hand written) newsletter.
If you are involved in improving systems after the recovery, consider using pumps driven by hydrostatic (hydraulic) drive which would allow you to place pump drive motors well above flood zones. No electric motors below water level means nothing to short out. Hydraulic driven fuel pumps are often located IN aircraft fuel tanks, and it may be an aircraft pump or pumps would solve your problem. They move a LOT of fuel. The parts would be easy to get (tough hydrostatic pumps and motors have been standard farm equipment products for decades) and hydraulic drives mean the pumps could be located where most effective. Pumps are most efficient when pushing fluid.
Dunno if they have enough horsepower to elevate fuel to your desired height, but aircraft refuel trucks have adjustable output pressure and their pumps are driven by the truck engine. If you have the proper fitting for their hose and connect it to your fuel plumbing, you may be able to pump direct to the roof using the refuel truck pump. Basically
roll up, unreel the hose, connect it, open the appropriate building valve and you could feed the roof tank or the storage tank as you wish.
Diesel engines will run on jet fuel, which is basically diesel with different additives. (USAF diesel trucks etc are required to run on JP-8). If all you have is a jet fuel tanker available because all others are busy, it might save the day.
Every able adult can learn about and plan for disasters.
If their priorities were different, sorry but "tough shit". Don't live in storm surge areas or be rich enough to walk away. Have at least a "bug out bag" of enough food and other supplies to feed you for a few days. Take proper shelter during storms and stay there.
New York is valuable, and has the resources to promptly recover.
Those who thought putting data centers in BASEMENTS asked for what they got. A broken water main (common enough) could have fucked them just as hard.
In NOLA, only the container port is necessary, while slums BELOW, repeat BELOW, repeat REQUIRE LEVEE PROTECTION because they are BELOW sea level (NYC is NOT below seal level) are not.
The __founders__ of NOLA didn't build below sea level, which is why the French Quarter wasn't destroyed by Katrina.
Who said anything about FEMA? Not I.
There are plenty of assets which don't require calling in incompetent civilians.
If any State governor wants to call his National Guard to respond, he can do so. They in turn can request military assets if they don't have sufficient.
"Fukushima showed all you need to lose are the diesel generator building and the high-tension wires into the plant site, and it's all over melty like s'mores and Seascape and Chernobyl."
Unlike Japan, the US has ample military assets to move generators into place, and the military and commercial gensets themselves. (So many they are even available on Ebay.) Skycrane an ISO container genset or several into position with a crew and have at it.
Equipment is available throughout the US, and as "far away" as an order to load an airlifter, fly it to an airport, then load it on whatever you wish to transport to site. All major military bases have gas masks and NBC suits on hand ready to use. All servicefolk are trained in NBC ops and decontamination.
I have no idea why the Japanese weren't ready to deploy power units, but that's their epic fuckup.
"If there's a storm surge on the Eastern seaboard big enough to damage a nuclear power station, millions of people are going to be having a REALLY bad day before they start worrying about the nuclear plant."
Storm surges hardly kill anyone, (ignore that little one which just hit Japan) but RADIATION is TERRIFYING.
Why does religion deserve respect more than any OTHER ideology?
Despite the great evils it has done?
Nice try. Fuck off.
"The fundamental assertion you're making is that there exist people who are incapable of reevaluating their views."
Many are precisely that. "Deus Vult" and "Allahu Akbar" ring any bells.
"It casts off some people as literally inferior to others."
They CHOOSE to support that for which there is no evidence. That makes them intellectually inferior by choice.
" Whether or not any particular religious person is "delusional" is not something I want to judge."
Why? They've had thousands of years to prove their Sky Fairie exists, and have failed.
Nonsense does not deserve respect.
You don't try to catch flies, you EXPOSE them to others. For that, ridicule is fine.