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vtmtct t1_ja3m4fj wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Winter warming by Working-Office-7215

I’m not defensive at all. I’m just responding to you. But actually I do have data to back up what I said. I linked to it.

Just think about this for a second. If it was actually warmer and melting snow faster you would also expect more rain events and thus less snowfall. That’s not what we see. For the record climate change is real, but many of the narratives are not. Many are purely anecdotal- a mirage.

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Generic_Commenter-X t1_ja3iuqn wrote

Reply to comment by vtmtct in Winter warming by Working-Office-7215

Right, but the issue isn't necessarily how much snowfall we've gotten, but how long it sticks around. Fat good a foot of snow does us if it melts the next day (which is exactly what happened earlier last month). In the source you provided, I don't notice anything pertaining to that. This is the first winter I can remember when nearly all our snow had melted by mid-January.

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vtmtct t1_ja3fdl2 wrote

Reply to Winter warming by Working-Office-7215

Contrary to popular belief, there has not been a statistically significant difference in the amount of snow received in Vermont in recent years. Here is the source. As you can see, some areas have received more snow, some areas less, and some are unchanged. People are suffering from a mirage created by the over saturation of climate change “predictions”. The narrative is simply not born out in the data. Towards the bottom of the link there is a summary of findings.

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Legitimate_Proof OP t1_ja3evf9 wrote

Reply to comment by builtforcameron in A gallon of gasoline has more energy than a month's manual labor! by Legitimate_Proof

You could look at it this way. It would be a mess to use horses for the amount of transportation we do today. The way we do it today doesn't have less impact than doing it with horses would, but our way hides the impact. Hides it in places like "Cancer Alley" where oil refining and other factories cause the cancer rate to be 50x higher than normal. Hides it in climate change.

Hides it in deaths and injuries from crashes, in which we often blame the victim, and view as unavoidable. Hides it in obesity and the other health problems related to our lack of exercise. Using cars for all trips is related to several of the top causes of death in the US. I'm not saying we should walk everywhere instead (or ride horses) but some walking is helpful. Part of why Europeans are healthier is because they walk a few blocks to and from transit daily, whereas we only walk a few steps to get into and out our cars.

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Legitimate_Proof OP t1_ja3dfzj wrote

Reply to comment by BilliamBaggins in A gallon of gasoline has more energy than a month's manual labor! by Legitimate_Proof

>Are you from 100 years ago and trying to sell me on the promise of this new mechanical horse?

No.

>Trying to convince me that a gallon of gas could beat me up?

Not my intent, but yes it could.

> Is there some inside joke on this sub I'm not getting?

Not that I know of.

>What's happening?

Humans are destroying the world. I'm trying to provide different points of comparison than the usual debate.

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Reply to comment by VTtree in A gallon of gasoline has more energy than a month's manual labor! by Legitimate_Proof

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Curious_Buffalo_1206 t1_ja38fa0 wrote

Reply to comment by Sea-Election-9168 in Kelley Stand is not plowed! No charging stations either! by SVTer

Because it’s a really bad and impractical idea, honestly. Most gas generators don’t produce “clean” enough electricity to charge a car, unless it’s an expensive inverter. Forgive the oversimplification, I forget the proper electrical engineering terminology, but a regular gas generator will fry sensitive electronics. EV chargers will refuse to pull current from such a power source.

Gas generators run for hours on half a gallon of gas because you’re usually running a fridge, a furnace blower, and some lights off it. Average load of 100W or so? The Model X has a 100kWh battery.

There’s no free lunch here. A Tesla is only going to get 20 mpg or so when you account for the inherent inefficiencies to this process. You’re also carrying a lot of weight and volume for something that isn’t going to happen unless you’re an idiot. I don’t carry around a jerry can of gas in the winter. I just don’t go below half a tank. Same principle applies here.

The reverse process, where you use your car battery in a power outage as energy storage, is much more sensible.

If you insist on this, they have PHEVs that basically have a built in gas generator. And they’re usually cheaper, as they can get away with using a much smaller battery. Most driving is done for shorter trips, after all.

TLDR: the math doesn’t check out.

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RamaSchneider OP t1_ja383by wrote

Reply to comment by BillBikesInCleveland in And more on those Becca Balint did something wrong re FTX stories ... by RamaSchneider

You ARE finding out the details.

I have seen ZERO evidence that Balint acted or would have acted in any way corrupt regardless the exposure of the FTX cash.

Your statements of fact if asked as questions would make fair questions that demand answers. You gratuitous assertion of fact regard Balint and her motivations truly demand you go back and find answers to the questions.

But that's just my opinion.

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