zugmann Shadow the Cats owner This is a plant we take cryobags into from time to time and have to deal with this BULLCRAP from hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFWjAHXv75g Hope your drivers deal with it better than that one in the video that tried to commit murder. Whether you agree with a protest or not, no excuse for that behavior.
Shadow the Cats owner This is a plant we take cryobags into from time to time and have to deal with this BULLCRAP from hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFWjAHXv75g
Hope your drivers deal with it better than that one in the video that tried to commit murder.
Whether you agree with a protest or not, no excuse for that behavior.
After that one the city agreed that the protesters where being way to agressive in their attempts to stop and also the idiots that were putting their hands into the trailers where actually putting paint on the pigs in an attempt to prevent the loads from be accepted. Smithfield threatened to shut down the plant and the loss of close to 500 jobs got the cities attention. So the protestors are now banned from the road into and out of the plant property and restricted to across the road. The driver never even got a ticket for his actions.
No, this is a Provine fact...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QN_C0dOUpk
seppburgh2Provine fact. Tomorrow morning the sun will rise in the East. The earth will warm. The sun sets in the West, night comes and the earth cools.
Shadow the Cats ownerThis is a plant we take cryobags into from time to time and have to deal with this BULLCRAP from hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFWjAHXv75g
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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This is a plant we take cryobags into from time to time and have to deal with this BULLCRAP from hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFWjAHXv75g
zardoz BaltACD Where is another Krakatoa eruption when you need to cool things off! Be careful what you wish for...
BaltACD Where is another Krakatoa eruption when you need to cool things off!
Where is another Krakatoa eruption when you need to cool things off!
Be careful what you wish for...
Unfortunately we can't help you on that one. Lady Firestorm borrowed the switch-box key from Pele the Volcano Goddess and lost it.
It didn't help when Ginger the Attack Basset slobbered on Pele's muumuu either.
They haven't spoken since.
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BaltACD I don't have the details on what is required to create carbon fiber that is used in 'making things'! What I do know from my association with carbon fiber products from my racing. Carbon Fiber anything is multiple times more expensive than the 'same object' manufactured from other materials. Lighter but more expensive.
I don't have the details on what is required to create carbon fiber that is used in 'making things'! What I do know from my association with carbon fiber products from my racing. Carbon Fiber anything is multiple times more expensive than the 'same object' manufactured from other materials. Lighter but more expensive.
I have seen carbon fiber being made. Process starts with spools of polyacetylnitrile (PAN) in the form for the fiber end product. The PAN is baked in an oven to get rid of the hydrogen and nitrogen in the PAN, giving off HCN (cyanide gas) in the process. To make use of the fiber, it is usually necessary to impregnate the fiber with a resin (pre-preg). While the carbon fiber composite doesn't rust, it is vulnerable to UV, ozone and some other chemicals.
I suspect the amount of energy needed to make a given stuctural element with carbon fiber is probably similar to a structural element with the same rating made with steel. For a vehicle, the lighter weight may lead to fuel savings.
And there is snow in Chicago & Milwaukee
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GERALD L MCFARLANE JRSo, instead of thinking up new ways to use the carbon we produce, they'd rather just create more CO2 on their own. What I'm surprised the most about is that so far no industry has tried to create more items from carbon fiber, such as shoe shanks, replacing the steel shanks in shoes with carbon fiber ones would create huge demand for carbon fiber, much more so than is used now. I think even enough demand that it would be plausible for an electric utility to explore capturing the output of coal fired power plants, separating the carbon from the CO2, releasing the pure oxygen into the atmosphere...manufacture carbon fiber and still have a negative carbon footprint even with all the additional manufacturing operations, but what do I know, I'm only a normal civilian.
So, instead of thinking up new ways to use the carbon we produce, they'd rather just create more CO2 on their own. What I'm surprised the most about is that so far no industry has tried to create more items from carbon fiber, such as shoe shanks, replacing the steel shanks in shoes with carbon fiber ones would create huge demand for carbon fiber, much more so than is used now. I think even enough demand that it would be plausible for an electric utility to explore capturing the output of coal fired power plants, separating the carbon from the CO2, releasing the pure oxygen into the atmosphere...manufacture carbon fiber and still have a negative carbon footprint even with all the additional manufacturing operations, but what do I know, I'm only a normal civilian.
Wasn't it a chilly, wet summer after Mt. St. Helens erupted? I notice that the protesters glued themselves to the top of Docklands Light Railway cars. The DLR is all 3rd rail, so no chance of electrocution, especially for the first responders who have to deal with those idiots. I think climate change is real but protesting at an electric railway is totally stupid. They should have glued themselves to some diesel-burning HGVs (heavy goods vehicles which is the limey term for an 18-wheeler.)
As long as the 'Ring of Fire' keeps on keeping on - all things are possible - good, bad or indifferent. If the Earth ever stops 'quakeing' we will be in BIG TROUBLE.
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Chris30 Whether or not you agree with the protesters, you certainly have to admire the effort. Seemed like a good idea, gluing ourselves to the top of te train, until we encountered that low tunnel...
Whether or not you agree with the protesters, you certainly have to admire the effort. Seemed like a good idea, gluing ourselves to the top of te train, until we encountered that low tunnel...
...fortunately the protesters haven't tried gluing themselves to the roofs of trains where there are 25,000 volt OHLE cables about ('Extinction Rebellion' would certainly apply in that case!)
Climate change is very real, but the cause is still in question. If we are not the cause, or the primary cause, there is likely little we can do as a cure.
Meanwhile the alarmists and extremists would have us undo civilization "just in case"?
What exactly would we be saving if we undo all we have accomplished to stop climate change?
If you believe in God, then you believe he has a plan. If you don't, then we are just really smart animals who may come and go like any other life form on this planet.
In either case it is likely out of our control.
My view, protesters don't have any right to interfere with peoples daily lives. If they do, they get whatever they get - injured, in jail, whatever.
Sheldon
tree68 Flintlock76 The problem now is the loons get all the press, seemingly to the exclusion of the more rational, and all that does is encourage more lunacy. Perhaps it's something of a corrollary of "if it bleeds, it leads..."
Flintlock76 The problem now is the loons get all the press, seemingly to the exclusion of the more rational, and all that does is encourage more lunacy.
Perhaps it's something of a corrollary of "if it bleeds, it leads..."
That's it brother. It may not be good journalism, but it's good television, if you know what I mean.
Hey, I even see it with those dopey "click-bait" headlines that have nothing to do with the substance of the story.
Deggesty rrnut282 Degg, I don't think I would use the word smart in any form in that sentence. She thought she was smart. Often people who think they are smart in what they are doing show that they are not as bright as they thought they were, and often making great mistakes--as this woman found out.
rrnut282 Degg, I don't think I would use the word smart in any form in that sentence.
Degg, I don't think I would use the word smart in any form in that sentence.
She thought she was smart. Often people who think they are smart in what they are doing show that they are not as bright as they thought they were, and often making great mistakes--as this woman found out.
It is better to protest behind the yellow line and be thought a fool, instead of sticking yourself to the train and proving it to everyone!
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Flintlock76The problem now is the loons get all the press, seemingly to the exclusion of the more rational, and all that does is encourage more lunacy.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Well folks, a long, long time ago Teddy Roosevelt said that any organization, cause, or field of endevour is going to have it's "lunatic fringe."
And that was over 100 years ago. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The problem now is the loons get all the press, seemingly to the exclusion of the more rational, and all that does is encourage more lunacy.
Johnny
Shadow the Cats ownerThese morons have nothing on the Vegan protestors....
The woman who chained herself to a backhoe certainly outsmated herself.
mudchicken Overmod mudchicken Southern Pacific handled those nuts in the great granola bowl with the appropriate response. But what's the modern equivalent now that heating steam is no longer available? The SP guys had encountered kooks at Pittsburgh, CA that had chained themselves to the track. To protect the chain and frustrate the local authorities, they did this under a giant box with EarthFirst plastered all over it with the rails passing through notches on the sides of the box.. SP track forces showed up with a track panel and a boom truck. Square cut the closest joints outside the box, the boom truck lifted the panel - box/people inside and all, dropped-in new panel. After the panel with the box was set aside, the sheriff waited for the thwarted contents of the box to get out. Problem solved.
Overmod mudchicken Southern Pacific handled those nuts in the great granola bowl with the appropriate response. But what's the modern equivalent now that heating steam is no longer available?
mudchicken Southern Pacific handled those nuts in the great granola bowl with the appropriate response.
But what's the modern equivalent now that heating steam is no longer available?
The SP guys had encountered kooks at Pittsburgh, CA that had chained themselves to the track. To protect the chain and frustrate the local authorities, they did this under a giant box with EarthFirst plastered all over it with the rails passing through notches on the sides of the box.. SP track forces showed up with a track panel and a boom truck. Square cut the closest joints outside the box, the boom truck lifted the panel - box/people inside and all, dropped-in new panel. After the panel with the box was set aside, the sheriff waited for the thwarted contents of the box to get out. Problem solved.
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