Running Bear's August 2022 Coffee Shop

[Boris]

Sad to learn of Greg's passing. I'm sure the obit did not contain all of his accomplishments. R.I.P. Condolences to his Family and Friends.

 

[TLOC]

I was hoping he was just away from the internet for a while. Looks like that hope was in vain.

After he fell he said they were going to the cabin. The cabin has terrible internet. But when someone asked today I had the feeling

He was a good guy to me here on the forum and our personal emails outside the forum. We missed a few opportunities to meet up because of Covid and a surgery. I know MikeinHubcity met up with him at Strawberry Fest in June

 

[OBTC 1909]

Ken (IL)- Nice looking dog. What breed is he/her?

We think she's part pit bull and part husky, but we don't know for sure. Best dog ever. Gentle, quiet, doesn't bark and well behaved.

 

[OBTC 1909]

Very sad to hear of Greg's passing.

 

[santafewillie]

I am truly saddened after reading the post from Tom O, regarding Greg. We had many PM's over the years, as our backgrounds and future dreams overlapped to a great extent. I am sure that Cathy is devastated as they leaned on each other a great deal; as any couple of 47 years would.
One thought that crossed my mind was the disposal of his empire. If I was closer, I would certainly advise her. He had by his own admittance a wealth of stuff that he had never opened. If he did not leave prior instructions, she may not be aware of the value and could very possibly be taken advantage of. Hopefully not.
I pray for her in these trying times of great personal loss. I hope that all ends well for her.

RIP Greg. You have met your maker.

 

[santafewillie]

Really, all you do is pass electricity through water, and the two components separate.

I did that as a youngster with a "D" cell battery and a pair of wires.

 

[chadbag]

I thought breaking down water to obtain hydrogen was costly process.
George

There are more costly and less costly ways. When you have inexpensive, clean, and green nuclear power to drive the process it can be done in a relatively worthwhile way.

Overall less cost to the society than the solar and wind commercial installations, which are ecological nightmares.

 

[santafewillie]

Troy posted this quote from Wikipedia today:

"Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude[27] from Boston University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both international relations and economics"

This goes to show what a waste of money her degree was. She worked as a bartender for 8 years after that!

 

[chadbag]

Troy posted this quote from Wikipedia today:

This goes to show what a waste of money her degree was. She worked as a bartender for 8 years after that!

And you couldn't tell by anything she says that she has an iota of knowledge in either of the two subjects.

 

[chadbag]

I did that as a youngster with a "D" cell battery and a pair of wires.

We used lye and aluminum foil to make hydrogen. Filled up balloons and let them go. Glass soda bottle. Out.some lye in, and small wads of aluminum foil and the stretch balloons across the mouth.

 

[NYC_George]

There are more costly and less costly ways. When you have inexpensive, clean, and green nuclear power to drive the process it can be done in a relatively worthwhile way.

Overall less cost to the society than the solar and wind commercial installations, which are ecological nightmares.

The “Hydrogen economy” seemed like a good idea 50 years ago. But battery technology overtook hydrogen and now it is simply a niche product. It will remain that way until someone comes up with new materials and processes that make production and storage of hydrogen cheaper.

 

[chadbag]

Thursday I had my brother in law and his son in law (nephew in law I guess) come down to help.me a d my son take down bracing and get it up over the wall and out. Also unscrew all sorts of wood supports and bracing. And tale all the scaffolding planks out.

And last Saturday the brother in law came down himself to help.

Today my son and I took the last dozen or so pieces of bracing down, last scaffolding planks out, lots of 2x4 put, etc.

Still have the s all pieces of the scaffolding to take out. The goal was.to get everything out where the plumber needs to do his rough-in. He was supposed to have guys by this week but they didn't get done with their other jobs.

The plumber is coming Monday to mark it all and I will rent a mini excavator and get a crane to bring it in to the hole and my son and I will.do the rough digging. The plumber guys can do any fine work and stuff like going under the footings but I want to keep going and not wasting time waiting for them to get free.

I bought out the scaffolding planks so I don't have to pay more pickup and delivery charges and rental fees for the future phases of the construction. I should have just bought the planks up front as it would have been much cheaper but I didn't know I would be so slow and needing them so long. At least from here on out my scaffolding costs are fixed no matter what.

This is where we are at as of today.

 

[chadbag]

The “Hydrogen economy” seemed like a good idea 50 years ago. But battery technology overtook hydrogen and now it is simply a niche product. It will remain that way until someone comes up with new materials and processes that make production and storage of hydrogen cheaper.

Nope. Battery technology is a intermediate step while we get the infrastructure and tech to make hydrogen scale.

The things they are doing now with hydrogen om direct combustion engines is amazing. Fuel cells as well.

The battery economy can't support the modern technological society fully. Not enough rare earth's and other pieces needed at full scale. Not enough generating and transmission capacity or capability either.

And the environmental damage and costs for battery technology are high. It is an intermediate step.

 

[Boris]

I wish to thank everyone for their Likes, and favorable comments concerning my photo back drop. Obviously, they won't work everywhere, so I will have to blend in my creativity and the advice of others.

It's beginning to look like I will need the other knee replaced, sooner, than later.

 

[Texas Hobo]

Condolences to Greg's family. One of the good guys

 

[Boris]

The battery vs. Hydrogen vs. Nuke is extremely interesting, and critical. I vividly remember the horror and hype surrounding Three Mile Island. Not to mention that what is currently known as the NS Royalton Branch, passed about 100 yards from the main gate. OTOH, there is one less than 25 miles from where I'm sitting now, it works, its been here for my whole time and no one pays attention to it, unless they are having some kind of drill. So it is a viable technology, if we ignore the fright mongers. Each alternative has their own unique issues, as does gas fired generation, but we don't have to look any further than the EU, for how not to do it. We truly need to think this out, and that doesn't happen within a TV News sound bite.

 

[NYC_George]

Nope. Battery technology is a intermediate step while we get the infrastructure and tech to make hydrogen scale.

I think you should call the White House so they can change direction.
George

 

[TLOC]

Good Afternoon All!
61F in Libby with sun.
100F in Covington VA and partly.

So for my burning question. First a little background. I have designed in 2 Branch lines to different locations, one on lower level that goes to upper, the other on upper level back down to lower. Branch lines will cross each other at grade somewhere. Question: have any of you designed a branch to main crossing intentionally to slow things up? Either of the branches can cross the main ( at grade ) so that has not been decided yet which. Main currently is about 140ft per level with unknown transition footage as I need to curve fit.

Later

I moved away from main-line operations because things moved to fast and I found out I like switching operations more

I don’t believe the crossings would cause much slow down. The thing that slowed mainline operations on layouts I operated on was sitting on a siding waiting for a superior train to pass.

I hope you get some helpful answers Todd

 

[JeffH]

More progress on the pier for my riverfront scene. I painted the pilings. I'm going to start weathering the deck soon.

 

[PNKFLOYD]

Please note that AOC has a degree in economics.

And she still owes $30,000.00 on that degree she bought?