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  1. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    On combatting drones: This may sound 1950 trash scifi-ish and perhaps it is, but aren’t drones inherently vulnerable to electromagnetic interference? Some kind of pulsed Zzzzzaapppp emanating from, perhaps, a capacitor-based discharger, or a klystron (Poll: how many of you ever have heard of...
  2. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Further evidence refineries are bad for workers’ health.
  3. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    I’m looking for a used one, too. Thank you for the support.
  4. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    On the Loyal Shareholder CT incentive: One general and one specific question/comment. First, what does “receive it early” mean? I am in a time crunch at present and if I don’t receive it before the end of April it doesn’t make sense - or logistical reason - to want it before summer’s end….and...
  5. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Well, I do now. SOME of us do have built-in filters regarding useless information. So-called celebrity (¿what are they celebrating?) “news” gets blocked by the coarsest screen. Anyway, who is/was Paul Walker? No, I truly do not wish to find out.
  6. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Thank you. I suppose I had been envisioning one A-50 covering only an active battle site - let's say, Avdiivka - rather than considering the big picture of patrolling the entire Ukrainian border.
  7. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    "The A-50 fleet has been rendered mostly ineffective at this point. The Russians have lost enough of them that they can't do the job full time anymore." How so? Is one A-50 by itself not capable of performing its functions as a control center and early warning detector? I do not believe these...
  8. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    re the Swiss Senate’s action: The referenced article makes clear that, although the lower chamber earlier had approved this action, it is not a done deal: “For the time being, the ruling only allows the government to find a way in international law to allow the Swiss assets of the aggressor...
  9. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    My graduate degree in microbiology was funded by UnicornBurpsRUs, so take this with other such lachrymal eructations, but..... ...I wonder if the fact that algae are quite productively able to grow many cells deep in water - ie, have a third dimension of existence whereas a photovoltaic cell...
  10. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Both Alaska and California host Russian Rivers. But that’s peanuts. Moscow has infiltrated throughout even the remotest parts of the country: And with that shark-jumping silliness, let’s end this.
  11. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Back ON topic, everyone.
  12. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Pressurized "In" ≠ Pressurized "Out" :eek:
  13. AudubonB

    Supercharger - Ester, AK

    Ah, yes: the State Fire Marshal. He (there never has been a She) wields outsized power in less-than-organized parts of Alaska.
  14. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Have I posted this before, on this platform? I believe not. Leaving aside any discussion of the continuity of claims spanning the gap between Imperial and Soviet Russia - a revolution’s erasure of past shackles also erases asset claims as well (and there weren’t any such vis-a-vis Alaska)…...
  15. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    I’ve been contemplating the idea of IceStationZebra^99th in recent weeks. My conclusion is that the utter vulnerability of any platform - military or resource-extractive - on the polar ice cap is so fantastically high to even the lowest-cost/highest-effect attack as to make any such a...
  16. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    That’s the reason the Russian version is called an Anti-Personnel Carrier.
  17. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Vindictiveness is fine and dandy, but all that just to make me not happy?
  18. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    All this talk of buying Rivian seems to be ignoring Amazon, which already owns 158 million shares, or over 16%, of the company.
  19. AudubonB

    The Resource Angle

    There is increased activity noise regarding the presence of Cobalt and Nickel in my backyard. I have exactly zero financial interest in any of the companies involved - I haven't even sold them short. I do admit the last time there was an exploration company making a big splash here, I vocally...
  20. AudubonB

    Supercharger - Ester, AK

    Honorary Esteroid here: Please call it Ester. We, every resident of the city of Fairbanks, every resident of the Fairbanks-North Star Borough, almost every resident of Alaska and even some residents of Anchorage know what and where Ester is and the difference between it and the Big Smoke 5...
  21. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    The Long View One of the reasons I was an attractive catch for Wall St investment firms in the 1980s was, together with other attributes, my fluency in Japanese - a rarity back then. My very last trip ever so far to Japan was, however, in December, 1989. The unstoppable Japanese stock market...
  22. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    It's not such a great deal for NZ. Every time an Australian immigrates into Kiwilandia, the average IQ drops in both countries.
  23. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Spectacular! This post must remain up as topical so the non-elemental geeks have the chance to learn more about "rare earth" elements. PS 'tho I cannot figure a way to make it OnT, the 2d best version of The Elements is that regarding those known in Aristotelian times, to wit, in full...
  24. AudubonB

    Supercharger - Girdwood, AK

    I figgered my statement would make some do their homework:)
  25. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Who's Next?* or, Tesla in Latin America Mexico came first, but that's okay NAFTA demands it be that way Puerto Rico was next, but some do think They're state 51 or some such thing Who's next? Then Chile got the nod, but don't you grieve 'Cuz lithium's there, I do believe Who's next? Costa...
  26. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    FUD! "Driving a Tesla is hazardous to your health."
  27. AudubonB

    Supercharger - Girdwood, AK

    Girdwood's 3-phase runs almost certainly only along the main road straight up to the mountain as the only "real" consumer of juice in the village is Alyeska Mt. and the Lodge itself (I can guarantee you its laundry machines run on 3Ø, and almost certainly its chiller rooms). Chugach Elec. would...
  28. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Thank you.
  29. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    I've seen multitudinous reference to 'astronomical losses by Russia at Avdviivka', and while I am sure that was the case, can someone here write for the record what the best current estimate of that number was, please?
  30. AudubonB

    Supercharger - Ester, AK

    I commented on the Trapper Ck. thread about these locations. For here: as I used to live outside Ester (hard by right next to Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn, for those of you who know your Alaskana 🤣 ), anything that happens in Ester is A Good Thing. But more to the point: Ester (or Gold Hill, much...
  31. AudubonB

    Supercharger - Trapper Creek, AK

    Of those mentioned here, all strung along the Parks Hwy, Trapper Creek is in the Mat-Su Borough, Cantwell - Denali Borough, Ester - Fairbanks North Star. Only Nenana is in Unorganized Territory (like us! If you want a permit, just ask me!), so it’s the Borough HQs that handle such paperwork…. I...
  32. AudubonB

    Supercharger - Girdwood, AK

    Progress! Slow, and in the wrong direction (sez I), but progress. And weighing in on one of the more inane tiffs ever anywhere on TMC, I am pretty sure that zero Russian settlement ever existed where Alyeska sits. Not even a Kievan Rus one🤪.
  33. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    And as I did almost fifteen years ago at 63ºN. The massive battery bank is, unquestionably, the keystone of any such system. Solar, obviously, is negligible 20 or so weeks out of the year but all in all, our payback also was nigh-instantaneous.
  34. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Mick Jagger? Small stuff. Our Iceland rental was enhanced Kardashiana-style:
  35. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    A delete is a delete is a delete. Your call.
  36. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Weekend Macroeconomic Foray Part 3/3 In my hand were two pennies. And a 1917S Buffalo Nickel. That famously most beautiful design of all US coins, with a bison on the reverse and a spectacular Native American cameo head on the obverse. Now, even though what I held is 106+ years old...
  37. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Weekend Macroeconomic Foray Part 2/3 Yesterday I had to shop at Lowes. Last of the Big Spenders that I am, I needed to make a big purchase: a $0.85 item; although with tax it came to $0.93. Not wishing to burden its beleaguered cashiers with such a transaction, I went to the Self Checkout...
  38. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Weekend Macroeconomic Foray Part 1/3 One of the most potent anti-inflationary means available to an economy is to reduce the supply of money. Reducing the growth of supply is, in fact, a normal function of the Fed. But on occasion, it is possible truly to reduce not just the growth but the...
  39. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    New rule, all. And woe to he who somehow forgets to read and heed Moderator dicta. In an effort to keep discussion at a reasoned, dispassionate, and - yes - adult level, there will be no more overt ridiculing of others by changing their names. This applies not just to persons but to...
  40. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Those who are philologists never will nor ever should get over those in power using or misusing poor, sloppy, ambiguous, misleading or lopsidedly unfair language. Whether or not it is true that “NHTSA is legally allowed to issue safety recalls” is not the point. What is the point is that as an...
  41. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Devious minds think alike. On the other hand, it gives Tallinn a terrific out: "Out of an overabundance of caution, we removed the temptation of provoking Moscow as had happened in 2020". Devious minds redux.
  42. AudubonB

    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    ....just musing about how the Kremlin might have responded were the Estonians merely to have swung that tank to have the barrel pointing toward Moscow....:eek:
  43. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Q: The material states each PW3 can receive from up to 6 PV lines. To me "lines" suggests separate arrays - does this also mean that each PW3 has six separate or somehow effectively separate inverters? And if one acquires 4 PW3s (apparently the maximum per unit), then one has the ability to...
  44. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Are some of you conflating "time and energy" (my words) with being present ("presenteesim)? Are you referring to the same Mr Musk as I am?
  45. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Anecdotum of one: My Kiwi sister has had one of the first Teslas, a Model S, on the South Island. She has been quite happy with proselytizing the cause and the brand, despite a chip on her shoulder regarding the paucity of SIsland SpCs vs the fine distribution of them in the North (nothing like...
  46. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    We must have learned logic from different sources 😁
  47. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    On topic but without extensive elaboration. I not only cannot come up with any good reason to vote for any action that would provide Mr Musk a 25% control - either by owning outright one-quarter of its outstanding shares or by possessing by any other means that number of votes….except by the...
  48. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    My long-suffering patience has ended. Further posts that do not give even the pretense of being about Tesla are not tolerated; The latest in a large # of OT entries is gone. I’m not going to crawl through the many prior pages containing scores of similar ones…but I’ll not object if another Mod...
  49. AudubonB

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    I am considering allowing use of a poll of this thread’s participants to learn who here uses ChatGPT. Age and educational levels of contributors might be appropriate subsets as well. Full disclosure: I am alarmed at your statement about its use amongst your ken.