Hydrogen car

[Pat Riot]

3 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

 

 

Yep people from the east go to Arizona and want a green lawn like we have here. 
It’s a desert for Gods sakes! I’d have ricks and cacti if I lived there! 

I was a finalist for a job in Phoenix back in ‘04.

I promised my wife a gravel yard in any color she liked. The look she gave me was priceless. 
After I explained she said “What if I want a pink gravel yard?”

I said “As long as it’s hot pink.”

Our neighbors would have loved that. 
 

I bailed out of the running when a guy posted the photos of his new Chevy S10 ZR2 on a forum I used to belong to. It literally melted in direct sunlight when he was on vacation for 3 weeks.  The whole dash drooped 2-3 inches.  
 

Screw that noise. 

 

 

[bgavin]

My buddy has a solution:
Build nuclear desalinization plants in Mexico.
We buy the power and water, they keep the nuclear waste.

 

 

Edited August 8 by bgavin

[Sedalia Dave]

15 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

 

 

Yep people from the east go to Arizona and want a green lawn like we have here. 
It’s a desert for Gods sakes! I’d have rocks and cacti if I lived there! 

 

YEP. 

 

When I was living in Ridgecrest CA, I put down 2 layers of weed block cloth in the front yard, installed drip irrigation for the trees and cacti, then covered it with 11 yards of gravel.  Kept a small area of grass in the back yard and left the rest bare.  Saved a good chunk of change on the water bill by doing so.

 

 

Edited August 9 by Sedalia Dave

[bgavin]

For the San Diego house, I pulled all the plants and grass.
Replaced with decomposed granite with an Indian Hawthorne plant perimeter on a drip system.
My idiot gardener tinkered with the controller, and cause a $700 water bill which I had to eat.
Drip is now discontinued, and said idiot hand waters.
Indian Hawthorne thrives in San Diego, and without much water at all.

The front yard became a concrete patio for tourist watching.
To break it up, I installed a 15x20 patch of top quality fake grass.
Looks great, but hotter than the hinges of hell in the sun.

Water bill dropped like a rock.
Every utility in San Diego is very expensive.

[J.D. Daily]

On 8/7/2024 at 7:14 PM, Sedalia Dave said:

The unintended consequence of switching to hydrogen is the water vapor will make cities even more humid than they already are.

 

Cities got this way as the unintended consequence using sprinklers to attain those immaculate green lawns. 

Hydrocarbon fuels produce large quantities of water vapor.  The lowest molecular weight hydrocarbon is methane, CH4 produces two water molecules & one carbon dioxide molecule.