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How Do You Charge an Electric Car When the Power is Out? It's Simple! If you have Solar Panels on Your House, You Can Charge The Car's Battery from Your Own System when the Power Company Fails.

There are Power Outages All the Time! Hurricanes in Florida... Terrorists Shooting Power Company Distribution Installations... Tornadoes... Freezing Temperatures in Texas... Rolling Blackouts... Wildfires... 6.4 Earthquake in Humboldt County California - 70,000 People Without Power... 
Solar Car with built in Charging panels on the roof and hood. - Illustration by gvan42

If you run a Gas Powered Car with the Heater On... you can avoid freezing to Death... Internal Combustion Engines CREATE HEAT... and That's Really Important when the Temperature is Less that 32 Degrees Fahrenheit... 

Years ago it was Fashionable to Buy a Tesla... Proof that You Were "With It", "Groovy" and Totally "Up to the Minute" - WELL, Now With Elon Musk revealing Himself to be an Asshole... If You Own a Tesla Car, You are Considered to be a "Sucker" or "Pathetic Dupe" - Just Like the QAnon Shaman... 
QAnon Shaman - Now serving time in Prison for being a Pathetic Dupe... LOSER! - meme by gvan42

Not Everything Elon Musk Makes is Absurd... I Like the Home Batteries for Solar Panels on the Roof of a House... The Panels Generate Electricity during the Day and Release it At Night when People Want to Run Lights, Electric Heaters, TV Sets... Makes perfect sense!

Solar Power Parking Lot Shades. Keep the Car Cool in the Summer and Charge the Batteries


Solar Power Parking Lot Shades. Keep the Car Cool in the Summer and Charge the Batteries...
These have a SHORT Distance between the Creation of Electricity and the Use of Electricity... 

A Centralized Power Plant (Like PG&E, SMUD or SoCal Edison) Creates Power and the Distributes it Using Long Wires to Their Customers... and those Wires CAUSE Wildfires... When wind blows the wires into Leaves of a Tree... Sparking FIRE... 

Sure, That Design Made sense Long Ago BUT... Having Solar Panels on the Roof of the House eliminates the need of wires from the Power Companies Generator... Mostly... 

Solar Powered Streetlights - commercially available NOW
Replacing Streetlights Connected to The Grid using wires with Solar Panel Powered Streetlights using LEDs Could Dramatically Reduce the Need for Power Plants in the USA... and Here in Sacramento I See LED Streetlights All Over the Place... SOMEONE in the Government WOKE UP and Realized they Could Save a LOT of Money by replacing Sodium Vapor Lights with LEDs... 

Good Job! Waking Up is an Excellent Plan! 
Wake UP meme by gvan42


 

Adobe Houses are Very Energy Efficient and Quiet. Thick Mud Walls stay Cool in the Summer, Warm in the Winter. AND THEY RESIST FOREST FIRES... Tile Roofs Do Not Burn when a Spark Lands on Them...

When we rebuild Paradise and Santa Rosa, California it might be an Opportunity to Use Smart Design Ideas. I remember going inside the Mission Santa Clara on a Hot Summer Day... Built over 200 years ago, it has withstood Earthquakes.

Adobe Walls and a Tile Roof - RESISTS FOREST FIRES - MEME - gvan42
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"Let's Build the Space Mirror and Fix Global Warming." Click Here to Read More About NASA Project Starshade.

Space Mirror illustration - FIX Global Warming - Climate Change - gvan42


The Basic Idea Was Written by Arthur C. Clarke  
in his Book SUNSTORM. 

Dimming the sun to cool the planet is a desperate idea, yet we're inching toward it. The scientists who study solar geoengineering don't want anyone to try it. But climate inaction is making it more likely.

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Gavin Newsom for President 2024. Joe Biden Can't Win a Second Term Due to Failures, Rejection by Voters and Old Age... and We MUST Beat The CULT of TRUMP...

 We NEED A SMART President... It'll be Like Camelot 2.0

First Family 2024 - Gavin Newsom for President MEME
First Family 2024
READ MORE:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/09/gavin-newsom-for-president-2024-joe.html

The Vast Majority of Jobs Nuclear Power Creates are For Newspaper Writers That Say: "It's Great!" - IN REALITY: Vogtle, Georgia is the Only New Power Plant in the USA in the Last 30 Years and It's $16 Billion Dollars Over Budget and 6 Years Behind Schedule. AWAKEN! Fission is a Failure!

It's a Classic Example of Unemployed People That Can't Get a Job Designing or Building Nuclear Power Plants... So In a Frantic Search They Become Cheerleaders! Making Youtube Videos, Magazine Articles and Blogs... all about How Wonderful Nukes Are Going to BE! No Carbon Air Pollution!

However, they Usually Fail to Mention the Solid Radioactive Waste that NO ONE Has Figured Out What To Do With... Except Store it for 10,000 Years... and GUARD IT to Prevent Terrorist from Creating a Dirty Bomb... A Madman Could Simply Place a Normal Bomb under a Cask... and Kablooeeeee! Fallout For Hundreds of Miles Downwind... 

In Fact, there are Many Jobs Decomissioning Closed Nuclear Power Plants. A Group of Skilled Workers Take Apart The Abandoned Power Plant and Store the Dangerous Parts Safely. I Personally Watched People Dismantle The PG&E Humboldt Bay Power Plant for Years... and Drive North with Truckloads of Radioactive Material... Finally They are Done and they Left Behind SIX Casks of Atomic Waste... and the Employees all travel on to the NEXT Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant... In This Case, San Onofre... in Southern California... While Security Guards Watch the Atomic Waste for 10,000 Years... That's Steady Employment!

meme - Nuclear Power is Wonderful - except for the Radioactive Waste

and Every Year there are Fewer and Fewer Nuclear Power Plants because the Executives that Actually Make Decisions at Power Companies CHOOSE SOLAR, WIND And HYDRO. PG&E Plans to Shut Down Diablo Canyon in California... It's a Doomed Industry. EXCEPT IN CHINA! They Keep On Building Nuclear Power Plants... WHY? 

Here in the USA, Cost Overruns at Vogtle, Georgia Caused Westinghouse to Go Bankrupt... That was a Famous Old American Company... So Sad to See Them Fail... 

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Six Way Heart Kaleidoscope B&W by gvan42

Eight Way Kali - with a 180 Degree Whoosh by gvan42

mostly white spiral by gvan42
mostly white spiral by gvan42

I'm NOT a Fan of Electric Cars. How do you charge them when the Power is Out? Eureka, CA Just had a 6.4 Earthquake and 70,000 customers lost power... Including my ex-wife... She is safe and our house was not damaged but... She was in the dark for a couple of days... Thankfully if it got too damn cold... she could go sit in her car and run the heater and listen to the radio... you can't run the heater in an electric car... with a gas powered engine the explosion of the fuel in the engine creates heat... and fans blow that heat into the passenger compartment... in an electric car... the heat is provided by coils of wire that function just like a plug in space heater at home... and those things use a LOT of POWER... from the Electric car's batteries... reducing the potential distance the car can travel...

and what if you want to travel a thousand miles? We went from San Jose to Seattle for Christmas Often... because we had family there... and... we just got up earl in the morning... got on highway #5 and drove 80 or 90 mph for hours... and we were there! You can't do that in an electric car... 

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another problem with electric cars... The Electricity is often Generated by burning COAL or Natural Gas... In Eureka, CA the PG&E Power Plant burns Natural Gas... It used to Have a Nuclear Power Plant there but That was Closed Many Years Ago... 

Here in Orangevale, we have SMUD... and Most of the Electricity is Hydroelectric... Generated in Many Dams on the American River... WONDERFUL... Except when there is a Drought and the rain stops falling... 

The Federal Government Just Spent ONE BILLION DOLLARS to Keep the PG&E Nuclear Power Plant at Diablo Canyon Running for another five years... REASON? Solar and Wind have not replaced Nukes... SO FAR... 

Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants and Distributed Using WIRES. That's WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE WILDFIRES.



USA at Night - a waste of Electricity - meme

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID... 

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!

Commercial Solar LED Street Lighting: THERE ARE MANY MANUFACTURERS...   HERE IS ONE...

https://www.sepco-solarlighting.com/solar-street-lighting
and Here are another DOZEN...
https://cleanenergysummit.org/best-solar-street-lights/
solar powered street lights
solar powered street lights

Bakken Oil Field - USA at Night Photo from Space

and WHAT is that White Spot Halfway between Seattle and Chicago? That's the Flaring of Waste Natural Gas by Oil Companies... They Just Burn it! Really! 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/07/burning-natural-gas-at-oil-rigs-in.html

Photo from Space of the Bakken Oil Field... Burning Natural Gas at Oil Rigs in North Dakota is visible from space at night. Fracking... It looks as bright as a city but it's burning waste fuel... Polluting the World, Causing Global Warming.


A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark...


What we have here is an immense and startlingly new oil and gas field — nighttime evidence of an oil boom created by a technology called fracking. Those lights are rigs, hundreds of them, lit at night, or fiery flares of natural gas. One hundred fifty oil companies, big ones, little ones, wildcatters, have flooded this region, drilling up to eight new wells every day on what is called the Bakken formation. Altogether, they are now producing 660,000 barrels a day — double the output two years ago — so that in no time at all, North Dakota is now the second-largest oil producing state in America. Only Texas produces more, and those lights are a sign that this region is now on fire ... to a disturbing degree. Literally.

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One thing I Noticed in the news was that THE ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION WIRES from Oregon to California Melted in a fire 7/12/2021... Vast Amounts of Power flow thru those lines... 

The Concept of Generating power in a Central Location and Distributing it using wires is a FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED SYSTEM... It was Power lines that started the Fire that Burned Paradise, CA...

Why Not Generate Power at the House and Unplug Everyone from the Grid?
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CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO ELECTRICITY With an Exercise Bicycle Power Generator. ZERO POLLUTION. Simply Use the Bicycle to Drive an Automobile Alternator with a Belt... Store Electricity in a Car Battery...

Hundreds of Thousands of exercise Bicycles
ALREADY EXIST and they Create ZERO Electricity...
Let's All Email PELOTON and ask them to
Build USEFUL Power Generator Bicycles!
Bicycle power generator. HSU CCAT
detail of Bicycle Power Generator showing the Belt Driven Alternator... and MY SHADOW

What if we installed electric power generators on every 
exercise bicycle nationwide... We could replace coal burning 
power plants and help reverse global warming/climate change. These bicycles let a person spin an automobile 
alternator using pedal power. Built by CCAT at Humboldt 
State University


12 volt bicycle generator built by Bart Orlando od the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology Humboldt State University Arcata CA
What if EVERY health club had these? What if Rowing Machines, Treadmills, Weight Lifting Universal Gyms and Stair Steppers had Generators? Imagine Pumping Iron and When the Weights Move Down they Spin an Alternator... We Have the Technology... 
There are Thousands of Health Clubs That COULD BE Generating Electricity but DO NOT... I Emailed PELATON Exercise Bicycle Company but they Ignored Me,,, 

Designed by Humboldt State University Campus Center for Appropriate Technology. 




The MEOW... Mobile Energy Operations Wagon. A Six Bicycle Electricity Generator... HSU CCAT... CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO POWER...
https://www.appropedia.org/Pedal_Power_MEOW


Bicycle Powered Electric Power Generator HSU CCAT
Bicycle Powered Electric Power Generator HSU CCAT

https://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_pedal_powered_TV

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Build-A-Bicycle-Generator/

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/how-to/a10245/pedal-power-how-to-build-a-bike-generator-16627209/


https://www.facebook.com/campuscenterforappropriatetechnology/photos_stream

http://kjcoop.com/~bart/galleries/pedalpower/index.htm


Shredded Rainbow Spiral Business Cards For Sale.

https://www.zazzle.com/shredded_rainbow_spiral_business_card-256163553649539936 <--- Click on the Link!

Shredded Rainbow Spiral Art for sale as Business Cards on Zazzle gregvan

Link to Spiral Art Painted on Bling: 

Link to Rainbow Art Painted on Bling:

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CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO ELECTRICITY. Simply Use the Bicycle to Drive an Automobile Alternator with a Belt... Store Electricity in a Car Battery... Zero Pollution! Email Peloton: Ask 'em to Build Electric Power Generator Stationary Bikes.

www.onepeloton.com/company/contact

Bicycle power generator. HSU CCAT
detail of Bicycle Power Generator showing the Belt Driven Alternator... and MY SHADOW

What if we installed electric power generators on every exercise bicycle nationwide... We could replace coal burning power plants and help reverse global warming/climate change. These bicycles let a person spin an automobile alternator using pedal power. Built by CCAT at Humboldt State University


12 volt bicycle generator built by Bart Orlando od the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology Humboldt State University Arcata CA

What if EVERY health club had these? What if Rowing Machines, Treadmills, Weight Lifting Universal Gyms and Stair Steppers had Generators? Imagine Pumping Iron and When the Weights Move Down they Spin an Alternator... We Have the Technology... 

There are Thousands of Health Clubs That COULD BE Generating Electricity but DO NOT... I Emailed PELOTON Exercise Bicycle Company but they Ignored Me,,, 

Designed by Humboldt State University Campus Center for Appropriate Technology. 




The MEOW... Mobile Energy Operations Wagon. A Six Bicycle Electricity Generator... HSU CCAT... CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO POWER...
https://www.appropedia.org/Pedal_Power_MEOW


Bicycle Powered Electric Power Generator HSU CCAT
Bicycle Powered Electric Power Generator HSU CCAT


https://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_pedal_powered_TV

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Build-A-Bicycle-Generator/

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/how-to/a10245/pedal-power-how-to-build-a-bike-generator-16627209/


https://www.facebook.com/campuscenterforappropriatetechnology/photos_stream

http://kjcoop.com/~bart/galleries/pedalpower/index.htm

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Massive #ArrestTrump Movement on Social Media. Millions of Americans are Demanding That The DOJ "Lock Him UP!" Read More at:

Click Here to Help Defend Democracy! Post Your Own Memes, Videos and Rants! or Like and Share Mine...

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From blockages to weekly protests, environmental campaigners in Germany are angry at the continued extraction of coal. Euronews' Hans von der Brelie heads to one of the world’s largest opencast pits, Garzweiler II, to witness for himself the battle to close the country's lignite mines.

I arrive at sunrise, overwhelmed by the beauty of the industrial landscape, which stretches as far as the eye can see. An abstract pattern of earth and lignite layers bathed in the early morning light.

But it’s a deadly beauty: if all those hundreds of millions of tonnes of coal actually do get excavated and burnt, Germany can say goodbye to its climate targets. In recent years the country has started waking up to what climate catastrophe might actually look like: blisteringly hot summers and apocalyptic rainfall that has the ability to sweep both towns and lives away.

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Ahead of the international climate change conference COP26 in Glasgow, German climate activists have been pressuring Berlin to exit coal earlier than scheduled.

At the Garzweiler opencast lignite pit, they took things a step further, blocking the movement of giant bucketwheel excavators.

Also at a nearby forest, they built tree houses to try to stop the expansion of the pit.

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Germany portrays itself as a climate leader. But it’s still razing villages for coal mines... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/23/germany-coal-climate-cop26/
LÜTZERATH, Germany — The yawning black-brown scar in the earth that is Germany’s Garzweiler coal mine has already swallowed more than a dozen villages.Centuries-old churches and family homes have been razed and the land they were built on torn away. Farmland has disappeared, graveyards have been emptied.

“All destroyed for coal,” said Eckhardt Heukamp, surveying the vast pit that drops away from the edge of his fields, 20 miles west of Cologne.

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LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — Hundreds of anti-coal activists staged protesters in and around a mine in western Germany on Saturday, demonstrating against the continued extraction and use of fossil fuels in Europe’s biggest economy.

Environmental groups oppose the German government’s decision to allow the mining and burning of coal in the country until 2038, a deadline the activists say is too late to effectively tackle climate change.

Activists, dressed in colored overalls and braving wind and rain, were also protesting the planned destruction of several villages to make way for the expansion of the Garzweiler strip mine, west of Cologne.


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MADE IN AMERICA GOODS Are Not Floating in a Boat Off the Coast of California. REFUSE to Buy Chinese Junk!

I have an Online Store Called Zazzle/Gregvan That Sells Merchandise Made in Fremont, California and Reno, Nevada...  My Original Artwork is Printed on T-ShirtsButtonsStickers etc etc etc - I Also Sell a LOT of Political Slogans... Embroidered on Hats or Printed on Bumper Stickers! All My Royalties Donated to Charity!

If you want a Custom Design Printed on a Product... EMAIL ME... and If It Doesn't Violate Copyright, I'll Do It! gregvan(at)yahoo(dot)com...


Here is an Art Show of My Original Designs...
Including Peace Signs!
Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

and even More Peace Signs!

SAVE MONEY by NOT BUYING CHINESE JUNK! Thrift Store Treasures are "What's Happenin'" Now!

I See in the News That There is Trouble Unloading Cargo Ships from Overseas... Well, SO Freaking WHAT? 

I Already Have Everything I Want... The Secret Trick is NOT Wanting Much! That Way It's Easy to Get Everything I Want.

http://www.eurekarescuemission.org/Thrift_Store/Thrift_Shop.html Link to The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop on Highway 101 in Eureka, CA... I Bet with a Little Research You Could find a Similar Store in Your Town! Goodwill, Saint Vincent de Paul, Volunteers of America... 


Remember! Buying Used is 
Ecologically Friendly! 

Refuse to buy Chinese Junk - meme

I won't be Buying any of This...

boats waiting to unload cargo

When You Buy a New Product, the Corporation Has to Replace It. Their Computers Automatically Order another Product to Keep the Shelves Stocked... 

They Mine Raw Materials, grow plants (like cotton) using pesticides and herbicides, Log Forests, Employ Slave Laborers in the Orient, Burn Gasoline Shipping the Plastic Crap Here From China... and on and on and on... Used Products ALREADY EXIST and so Buying Stuff at The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop (my local store) does NOT Harm the Planet. Actually, They Hire Local People to Work as Clerks and Do Delivery. We Bought ALL our Living Room Furniture there. Three Chairs and a Sofa... and Men Delivered It Upstairs in Our Home. NO WAY could I Move those Heavy Objects Up That Staircase... I Tipped those Guys $10 Each... and they were really Thankful. Yes, I Could Have Spent a Fortune at Sears or KMART but... I Prefer to Keep The Money IN MY WALLET. I Like Employing Guys That Live At The Rescue Mission. The Mission Does Good Work Here in Eureka and I've Met a LOT of Real People That They Help. I did buy new Beds at Sears. Somehow, those were just too Personal to Buy Used... also, I Do Not Buy Used Underwear... BUT, Clothes? YES! It's actually fun to find thrift stores in Super Rich Neighborhoods and Live Like the TV Show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous..." A Great Place to Shop is North Shore Lake Tahoe... Snow Bunnies often Donate Extra Stuff When the Season is Over... and There is Also DUMPSTER DIVING in College Towns at the End of the School Year... FREE STUFF! 

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On the Other Hand... You Can Buy Stuff that's Already Made in the USA... For Example: Zazzle/Gregvan offers Gifts that are Made in Reno, Nevada... and The Corporation Headquarters is Located in Fremont, CA... 




A Cosmic Button...

Link to ALL my Buttons:

and Remember...
 
All my Royalties are Donated to Charity... 
No CEOs Addicted to Corporate Greed Here... 

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