DownshiftAndFloorIt

I wouldnt bother with canned gas for any 4 stroke engine. Use ethanol free gas and 1oz per 5 gallons TCW3 marine engine 2 stroke oil for all my carbureted engines. It lasts as long as canned gas as far as I can tell.

We planted ours by hand. We win. Thats our rock.

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They’re certified to take off at max takeoff weight, lose an engine, and fly safely

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I think he was asking about losing an engine after its too late to hit the brakes. Can it still take off at max weight minus an engine?

Dont use a magnet mount. Terrible idea for lots of reasons.

If you insist on having a mounted handgun, use a safariland ALS holster and a QD fork mount. Its dramatically safer and more secure.

Being inside that plane with those people is far more terrifying a thought than the engine failure.

Id have full faith in the pilots getting me on the ground in one piece on a single engine being it pooped after liftoff. Id have far lower faith in the cargo maintaining some semblance of sanity and not going into full mass hysteria with a visible engine fire.

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This has been done by large industrial sites for a long time.

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The existing self-powered industrial sites I've been on are on the order of 20MW or so, many of them were using waste heat or byproduct to run the plant as well. The data centers I've seen it explored for are over 100MW and projected future projects are over a GW :ahh:

Over a million horsepower. To put that into perspective, the Gerald Ford is somewhere around 350,000 hp. That's two small nukes.

I can't speak to this in particular, but I do know quite a few small independent farmers and they regularly get financial help from the government for various things. It usually doesn't amount to much, but I couldn't pass the red face test saying small farms don't get any help. I don't know any "corporate" farmers of anything.

Based on the way acreage is being used these days it sure looks like the big guys are winning and the little guys are losing. Just go try to get yourself into farming these days. The costs are staggering and I don't see how any young person can break into that business these days without already owning the land.

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suddenly you’re an anti-capitalist commie.

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Yep and the reality is, nobody wants any gigantic industrial shite in their back yard except people who currently have zero means to earn a pay check right now.

I don't want it in my back yard, and I also do not want it destroying the planet.

That makes me a pinko commie anti capitalist blue haired sky screamer these days

But, I voted for Trump 3 times

So that makes me a MAGA earth destroying meanie poopie pants

Moral of the story - I'm finding out that I'm apolitical. I don't give a shite who "wins." I want my children to be a rung higher on the social ladder than I am, and I want them to have a green earth full of wildlife for them to hunt and fish, clean water to drink, clean air to breathe, a ripping arse economy, in a country with the unquestioned ability to militarily inflict its will on anyone in the world at any time. Is that too much to ask of America?

This really highlights the need for a new centralist political party.

The bulk of the reasonable and intelligent people in this country cannot align with either side anymore.

You can't be both a capitalist and an environmentalist anymore. For people who are largely single-issue voters it doesn't matter. I want economic opportunity and protection of natural resources. Where do I fall on the political spectrum? I don't agree with any of them.

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Who's gonna tell him?

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That we're going to accelerate the melting of the ice caps???

I know what you were getting at, but I feel like the ice caps is a more funner discussion to have.

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Well let's just say this, water doesn't magically disappear from earth.

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It certainly does not magically re-deposit into the aquifer either.

The whole "water cycle" argument is ridiculous.