OT - Who is your favorite climate scientist?

Gulfcoastguy

I am going to have to let this go until tomorrow . I am about to get busy releasing some carbon dioxide and particulate emissions. Which is less apple wood or pecan. your comment

TEXASBGE2018

Gulfcoastguy said:

I am going to have to let this go until tomorrow . I am about to get busy releasing some carbon dioxide and particulate emissions. Which is less apple wood or pecan. your comment

Apple def Apple.

SaintJohnsEgger

TEXASBGE2018 said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

I am going to have to let this go until tomorrow . I am about to get busy releasing some carbon dioxide and particulate emissions. Which is less apple wood or pecan. your comment

Apple def Apple.

What about Cherry? Its one of those three for my Christmas Eve ribs.

Gulfcoastguy

No cherry and I couldn’t find the Apple. Pecan it is. A pepper jack/shrimp/chorizo queso. Recipe by Lampke or who ever came up with it first.

nolaegghead

we have a 6 KVA solar system with net metering.  I installed a 14 SEER central AC 11 years ago with a 95% efficient furnace and I put 2 heat pump units in recently (shop and bedroom) that are 22 SEER in A C mode.  Not sure about heat.  Insulated the attic.  Work from home when I can.  Live in small house 

GATraveller

What is the cost of adding panels to an average home? 

bgebrent

nolaegghead said:

we have a 6 KVA solar system with net metering.  I installed a 14 SEER central AC 11 years ago with a 95% efficient furnace and I put 2 heat pump units in recently (shop and bedroom) that are 22 SEER in A C mode.  Not sure about heat.  Insulated the attic.  Work from home when I can.  Live in small house 

When I’m not driving my truck I drive a .....

nolaegghead

nolaegghead

nolaegghead

bgebrent said:

nolaegghead said:

we have a 6 KVA solar system with net metering.  I installed a 14 SEER central AC 11 years ago with a 95% efficient furnace and I put 2 heat pump units in recently (shop and bedroom) that are 22 SEER in A C mode.  Not sure about heat.  Insulated the attic.  Work from home when I can.  Live in small house 

When I’m not driving my truck I drive a .....

...tiny light 2 seater car that gets 10 mpg more than the truck!  

Gulfcoastguy

Good, now who’s at bat?

YukonRon

Gulfcoastguy said:

YukonRon said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

Again what are you, as in the individual people of this forum, doing to personally cut carbon dioxide emissions. Not how you vote. Not what the other guy should do.

Anything I can. Have done it, and will continue to do it. 

I develop products that have a much lower VOC limit than required by law. I develop product that requires less energy to use.

Personally, for My Beautiful Wife and I, at the home front,  Our energy usage has dropped significantly over the years, as we have modified our residence to be more effecient.

In Europe, you pay an additional tax on the energy you use. Do you think that will happen in the USA?

Actually we already do. It is often bundled into the bill in less than obvious ways.

Actually, we don't. There are municipal taxes and add ons, but there is no federal government direct tax for amount used.
It is additional, not hidden.

Gulfcoastguy

Actually I thought that there was a significant Federal tax on gasoline and diesel per gallon. But let's not exclude the State's. Then there is business tax, drilling lease, income tax, various regulations whose impact is passed along with the price.

Eoin

Petrol here is currently £1.20 per litre. That equates to around $5.50 for a US size gallon. A lot of that is tax (fuel duty plus VAT at 20%).

SaintJohnsEgger

Eoin said:

Petrol here is currently £1.20 per litre. That equates to around $5.50 for a US size gallon. A lot of that is tax (fuel duty plus VAT at 20%).

@Eoin where is "here"?

nolaegghead

Eoin said:

Petrol here is currently £1.20 per litre. That equates to around $5.50 for a US size gallon. A lot of that is tax (fuel duty plus VAT at 20%).

Gasoline was around a buck a liter, I think, back in the 70s when I lived in Germany.  Granted, I was too young to drive, but I remember my parents would buy gas coupons from the US government, which subsidized our gas to mainland prices.

GIs would buy their allocation, many didn't have vehicles, and sell them on the black market.

I just looked and German gas prices are round $1.70 a liter, which is around what we're paying a gallon right now (prices are unusually low) for low grade 87 octane. 

Our main 2 vehicles burn premium, which costs about 20% more.

Our gas taxes are relatively low.  Subsequently our roads and infrastructure sucks.  I suppose that subsidizes the tyre and suspension repair business.

Eoin

SaintJohnsEgger said:

Eoin said:

Petrol here is currently £1.20 per litre. That equates to around $5.50 for a US size gallon. A lot of that is tax (fuel duty plus VAT at 20%).

@Eoin where is "here"?

UK

nolaegghead

GATraveller said:

What is the cost of adding panels to an average home? 

I would estimate around 20k.

We had some of the best subsidies which made the ROI around 5 years.  Otherwise it would have been 20 years.

Off-grid systems cost much more.  We sell our excess electricity back to the grid which results in basically running our meter backwards.  But we use much more than we generate so we always have a bill.  I have a friend a few houses down that generates more than he uses.

nolaegghead

The current administration through the EPA is challenging California's CARB standards.  This is totally crazy-balls.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/07/how-trump-is-targeting-californias-car-pollution-standards/566300/

nolaegghead

In full disclosure, I am a Chemist turned IT engineer that has worked in the environmental testing industry for over 30 years.  28 with current firm.

JohnInCarolina

Gulfcoastguy said:

Actually I thought that there was a significant Federal tax on gasoline and diesel per gallon. But let's not exclude the State's. Then there is business tax, drilling lease, income tax, various regulations whose impact is passed along with the price.

We don’t pay anywhere near the price for gas here in the US compared to other countries.  Otherwise, SUVs wouldn’t be anywhere near as popular as they are.

SaintJohnsEgger

@nolaegghead

I was in Germany in the early '80s. My job was to stop GIs from doing stuff like you described. I was a German Linguist and MP Customs Investigator doing plain clothes and undercover investigations into blackmarket activities. Cigarettes, liquor, coffee and sugar were also big commodities on the blackmarket. German Customs officers were some real Bad@sses and not to be messed with.  

nolaegghead

We really need to put an additional buck a gallon fed tax on fuel with a progressive rebate for adjusted poverty rate folks and take that money and fix our damn roads.

I have a mental map of all the potholes and bumps on my regular routes for when I'm driving my car, which has 1.5" of sidewall and 4" of ground clearance.  I've literally scraped the bottom of my chassis trying to drive around town.

GrillSgt

I hate it when a good political thread goes all scientific. 

JohnInCarolina

GrillSgt said:

I hate it when a good political thread goes all scientific. 

It’s funny because I feel just the opposite.

nolaegghead

SaintJohnsEgger said:

@nolaegghead

I was in Germany in the early '80s. My job was to stop GIs from doing stuff like you described. I was a German Linguist and MP Customs Investigator doing plain clothes and undercover investigations into blackmarket activities. Cigarettes, liquor, coffee and sugar were also big commodities on the blackmarket. German Customs officers were some real Bad@sses and not to be messed with.  

I left in 81.  You probably did some good work.  That money comes right out of the pockets of the American Taxpayer.

When we lived there there was a lot of extremist home-grown German terrorist activity.  My dad's office was blown up and killed 3 people, for example.  German police guarding high profile locations would carry uzi-like automatic weapons on slings.

GrillSgt

JohnInCarolina said:

GrillSgt said:

I hate it when a good political thread goes all scientific. 

It’s funny because I feel just the opposite.

When we get our new mods maybe they can get us a sarcasm font. 

nolaegghead

GrillSgt said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GrillSgt said:

I hate it when a good political thread goes all scientific. 

It’s funny because I feel just the opposite.

When we get our new mods maybe they can get us a sarcasm font. 

Reverse italics

SaintJohnsEgger

nolaegghead said:

GrillSgt said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GrillSgt said:

I hate it when a good political thread goes all scientific. 

It’s funny because I feel just the opposite.

When we get our new mods maybe they can get us a sarcasm font. 

Reverse italics

is that for left leaning liberals?

SaintJohnsEgger

nolaegghead said:

SaintJohnsEgger said:

@nolaegghead

I was in Germany in the early '80s. My job was to stop GIs from doing stuff like you described. I was a German Linguist and MP Customs Investigator doing plain clothes and undercover investigations into blackmarket activities. Cigarettes, liquor, coffee and sugar were also big commodities on the blackmarket. German Customs officers were some real Bad@sses and not to be messed with.  

I left in 81.  You probably did some good work.  That money comes right out of the pockets of the American Taxpayer.

When we lived there there was a lot of extremist home-grown German terrorist activity.  My dad's office was blown up and killed 3 people, for example.  German police guarding high profile locations would carry uzi-like automatic weapons on slings.

I know what you mean at the time anything within 25k of the border was a "toll zone" and german Customs could stop you without probable cause and search your vehicle. Worked numerous checkpoints in conjunction with them and they would always have someone about 50 yards past the checkpoint with an H&K fully auto machine gun.  I asked about that and was told they would shoot anyone who ran through the checkpoint. I never saw it happen so maybe people were afraid to try. I do know that the Customs guys all lived in a gated and guarded compound with their families for protection.

But to be honest our American tax-free items could have ruined their economy if they were freely available for the German citizens to purchase. Also just possession was a crime. If your german landlord drove you to the PX or commissary to shop and you put the items in their car then went back inside to get something else it was a crime.

I busted a German national once for having a head of lettuce and a bag of onions from the commissary. Got him on theft of U.S. Government property as the commissary is (or was) a government owned entity. I'm not proud of that moment but I was bored and just doing my job. Which was to enforce the laws not make them.

Back then Germany was way different from our free enterprise that we all grew up in.