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Random / Re: Vision Pro
« Last post by Beasho on March 01, 2024, 02:47:30 PM »
Before we count out OIL here is a worldwide perspective.

Solar is barely visible.

Consider this.  1 Barrel of oil contains the energy equivalent of 25,000 man hours of labor.  That works out to 0.3 cents per hour, or 13 cents per man week.

$80 a barrel for 12 1/2 man years of labor.  You can't get cheaper than that and its why 'we' are addicted to oil.  This is the single greatest contributor to our quality of life in the United States, and the world.  It is why humans stopped enslaving animals for transportation and farming.

Then there is this:  Ammonia production (the Haber-Bosch process) consumes ~ 10% fossil fuel energy in the United States (alone).  90% of this Ammonia is used as fertilizer to grow the food that we eat.  It is estimated* that these fertilizers are used to double the food produced on earth.  Meaning that 4 billion of the 8 billion people on the planet consume food made from fossil fuels, and otherwise would starve.  From another perspective 50% of the molecules in every person were created from and powered by fossil fuels.
 
*From Michu Kaiko Quantum Supremacy 

Energy Mix: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix
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Random / Re: Vision Pro
« Last post by Beasho on March 01, 2024, 02:25:29 PM »
I'm all in favor of renewables, for electricity, but digging a little deeper shows this graphic.

I suspect Hydro Power in the US has been pretty static, Solar was non-existent 20 years ago but only represents 3.9%.  It looks like wind has contributed to the growth of renewables the most, since it too is likely a new entrant.
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Classifieds / F-One Rocket foil board 90 liter with board bag and straps $750
« Last post by Caribsurf on March 01, 2024, 12:24:17 PM »
Below is my Facebook Marketplace listing for this F-One Rocket 5'4" x 27" 90 liters A condition. Comes with all hardware, MFC Boardbag, brand new F-One footstraps and F-One installed rail tape.  I own 2 of this same board and only used this on a handful of times.  Great board, plenty stable, very durable. Really nice and comfortable deck pad.  $750 for everything... Vero Beach , FL


https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1057899795321777/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3Aa7b7abdd-418c-4a5a-98c1-b553fe6edab9

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Random / Re: Vision Pro
« Last post by PonoBill on March 01, 2024, 09:16:49 AM »
Oil is dead, coal is dying fast (could it be any faster??), Nuclear is flatlined and just got surpassed by renewables, the only growth is natural gas and renewables, and natural gas looks like it might be a spike because the cost of even combined cycle gas turbines is rising while PV cost is plummeting. How weird is this?? Who knew?? All the dipshits saying "your EV is powered by coal" are talking out of their ass even more than I thought. This isn't government mandate-driven, it's cost-driven. And it's not cheap Chinese PV because those are tariffed out. Though it's a big deal on a global scale because china produced 50 percent more PV this year than the market wants. Africa and any part of the third world that China wants to influence is gonna get paved with panels. We're going to start being able to see PV installations from space.

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Random / Re: Vision Pro
« Last post by PonoBill on March 01, 2024, 12:25:25 AM »
The apple car will be absolutely amazing IF it ever arrives.  That's the thing.  Apple would never launch it unless it is - that's core to the engineering culture there.  They've been screwing around with the project for 10 years now and I bet we'll never see it.  But if we do, I'm confident it will be jaw-dropping

Apple killed its EV project. I suspect they realized, as I recently did, that there are good reasons to expect small, sub 200-mile range EV cars to be extremely cheap soon. It's going to be extremely hard for late movers to make money, and even Tesla might actually be fucked depending on how the politics shake out of keeping Asian cars (like BYD) out of the US and Europe. It's also getting extremely cheap to do alternate energy projects. Fairly weird for a nuclear geek like me to contemplate. The weirdest part is that there are good reasons to build large PV arrays with small-ish storage batteries. Completely counterintuitive, but the math is clear. I've been planning the opposite project for my shop--150KW of battery (two Tesla Model Y salvaged batteries) and 30KW of panels, but when I did the calculations I'm better off with 30 to 70KW of battery and 80 KW (or more) of PV. Even in the cloudy Pacific Northwest it works out.

All this stuff happened while I was distracted with other stuff--and I pay attention to this kind of thing. While no one was watching the US became energy independent and renewable energy went from negligible to exponential growth. WTF??
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Foil SUP / Re: Traveling with DW foilboard?
« Last post by spindrift on February 27, 2024, 12:28:20 PM »
One not so great aspect of living in a non airline hub town is that you often must take a small plane to connect to the big plane that actually takes you to your destination. So the limiting factor is the board length the small plane can accommodate and that is usually a shortboard. I have been known to drive my longboard to Seattle and leave my car at relatives when staying in the islands or Mexico long enough to make it worth while.
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SUP General / Re: Broke the Leverlock paddle's handle. Retire or replace part?
« Last post by oceanAddict on February 26, 2024, 08:57:58 PM »
Werner Paddles is also conducting Kialoa's business these days, and I've bought nice handles from them. (I like Kialoa's Tahition style.) But Werner's are normal hybrid palm style. Anyway, a potential resource for you.   
Thank you DP! Yeah I'm familiar with Werners as I have two 3-piece Nitros made by them. One was tad too short so I got a bigger one and I don't like it, - too heavy, the shaft is too thick and stiff. Was thinking to sell it as I still take a smaller one when travel. 

Any hollow shaft, including a glued one, can take on water. The paddle heats up in the sun, increasing pressure inside so the air escapes from even a pinhole, and then you stick it in water which cools the gas inside and creates a low pressure that sucks water in. You have to periodically empty it unless it's been perfectly glued. One of the many reasons we used hot glue to assemble Ke Nalu paddles. Unfortunately, the parts need to be designed for hot gluing for it to work optimally, but even if it's not perfect, it's better than epoxy.
And levellock literally has an opening in the handle where water freely travels inside as soon as the handle/paddle goes in the water (aka me falling off lol).

Full disclosure: I have a Kialoa (Axel I think? ) with tapered shaft that i never got around to cut down. Bought it locally some time ago barely used, so I think it's time came lol. 
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Foil SUP / Re: Traveling with DW foilboard?
« Last post by Dusk Patrol on February 26, 2024, 02:53:38 PM »
Some carriers use the linear measurment approach Jondrums describes. I think others have a length limit (e.g. 9'5).

Check with your carrier and see what its policy is in the event the board does exceed their size limit... It might be a matter of just paying for the oversize luggage. It could be $50 well spent, AND get you out of the all or nothing scenario of having the board rejected completely.  Chances are with a foil board it will slide through. We're not talking egregious 10' sups.

This made me remember something I wrote years ago, as it says, in excrutiating detail:   

https://www.standupzone.com/forum/index.php/topic,33688.msg380846.html#msg380846
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SUP General / Re: Broke the Leverlock paddle's handle. Retire or replace part?
« Last post by Dusk Patrol on February 26, 2024, 02:30:21 PM »
Werner Paddles is also conducting Kialoa's business these days, and I've bought nice handles from them. (I like Kialoa's Tahition style.) But Werner's are normal hybrid palm style. Anyway, a potential resource for you.   
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SUP General / Re: Broke the Leverlock paddle's handle. Retire or replace part?
« Last post by PonoBill on February 26, 2024, 01:21:01 PM »
Any hollow shaft, including a glued one, can take on water. The paddle heats up in the sun, increasing pressure inside so the air escapes from even a pinhole, and then you stick it in water which cools the gas inside and creates a low pressure that sucks water in. You have to periodically empty it unless it's been perfectly glued. One of the many reasons we used hot glue to assemble Ke Nalu paddles. Unfortunately, the parts need to be designed for hot gluing for it to work optimally, but even if it's not perfect, it's better than epoxy.
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