G**DAMN RED CAR DEAD AGAIN.

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CLEAR, COLD, 43 DEGREES GOING FOR 57.

WENT TO GO OVER EARLY AND GET HAIR CUT, JONAH CAR DEAD AS A HAMMER. PICKED IT UP SUNDAY AFTERNOON, STARTED AND RAN FINE, PUT IT IN THE BARN ON BATT MAINTAINER, YESTERDAY AFTERNOON MOVED IT TO THE GARAGE, STARTED AND RAN FINE, PUT IT ON BATT MAINTAINER, THIS MORNING DEAD. BATTERY IS BRAND NEW.

ANYBODY WANT TO BUY A '95 'VERT CHEAP? I'M SICK OF THE DRAMA!

I feel your pain... the electric car is a neat idea, but the infrastructure isn't ready for it.

I feel the system should be going after 2-stroke lawncare equipment... weed eaters, blowers, even chainsaws and such. For the average home owner, the new battery stuff is up to the job. And might even work for the average gardener.

This leaves gas stuff for tree trimmers and those that REALLY need it. I would not cry to lose that stench when the gardeners are using their blowers and weed eaters.

In due time, lawn mowers can be targeted. There is even enough tech there to make that viable.

At the same time, leave my gas appliances alone.

In short, our grid cannot support all of this electrification. Thanks to WWII, much of Western Europe and Japan are much more modern and can handle the loads.

Here in SoCal, we have supply issues when this stuff would be needed the most. 4PM to 9PM are the peak hours of electric consumption. Add in all the newly ordained electric ranges, dryers and heaters, that peak consumption is now a year round problem and not just a peak summer problem.

Charging cars over night is logical... but that is with the current volume. It has fail written all over it.

Also, battery recycling is a mess...

Lets toss in another tech. Synthetic gas. Aramco, Shell and others are using carbon from the atmosphere and trash, plus hydrogen from various sources, to create gasoline. It does work but it is still expensive. About $40 a litre right now. But, think of it this way... it creates a carbon negative footprint. To provide enough gas, it would require an inventory, say, 90-days. That, on a global level, would be a lot of free carbon that is currently in the air, to be stored in liquid form and then recycled into gas again. A closed loop, so to speak. The impact could be nuts.

Now, if only politicians, environmentalists and corporations and come together and create a rational solution and stop this all or nothing crap, we might get some progress.

speaking of which I'm working on sustainable or regenerative farming practices for our Potato growers who sell to Frito-Lay or their parent company Pepsico......

innovation is coming in Ag but we have to have real solutions not the we have to go back to horse drawn equip and manure to feed the world.... the old adage it takes energy to make energy is true and that was the beauty of Nuclear power that was to be running all our electricity needs now and in the future...... where did that go?

It takes decades to change farming practices and the invention of new power sources like the synth fuels...

sun is out and warmer weather on the way..... yay...

There is nothing like a nice electric riding lawnmower at only 2 1/2 times the price of a gas one. Such a deal. We do have an electric/ battery powered weed eater though.

Went to help Sue for an hour at the nursery this morning. Turned into 6 hours. Go figure.

Hey guys, up early and off to the 'city' to see our new dentist. No work, just a recon mission to see what needs to be done... Luckily, just cleanings for now.

Back home and off to install the stained glass panels at church. and got a few pieces of trim, I'll go back tomorrow to finish up the trim on the north side windows.

It was downright cold when we headed over to the 'city' (19) but warmed into the upper 50s. Tomorrow upper 60s and then a string of 70 degree days ahead.